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After uncertainty, new start for Syrian family in Germany

Leaders of a warming Earth rethink global energy in Paris


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Bale, Ronaldo score in Madrid’s 2-0 win at Eibar

“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2” held on to its first-place spot in its second weekend in theaters, earning $51.6 million to top “The Good Dinosaur” and “Creed,” which both debuted Wednesday, according to Rentrak estimates on Sunday.

The fourth and final installment in Lionsgate’s highly successful series has grossed $198.3 million to date.

Audiences had their pick of genres over the crowded Thanksgiving week-end. Disney and Pixar’s animated dino-saur movie took second place, bringing in $39.2 million Friday through Sun-day, while “Creed,” a new entry into the Rocky Balboa canon, came in third with $30.1 million.

Families accounted for 79 percent of “The Good Dinosaur’s” audience. The film, which cost a reported $175 million to $200 million to produce, grossed $55.6 million in its first five days in theaters.

“This Pixar group has just been so consistent with high-quality storytell-ing that appeals to all audiences. This weekend’s result is another testament to the way they do things,” said Dave Hollis, executive vice president of distribution for Disney. “We are off and running in a great way and also set up for a very, very long run.”

“Creed,” meanwhile, came out swinging. The critically acclaimed Ryan Coogler-directed film focuses on the character of Apollo Creed’s son, Adonis (Michael B. Jordan) who wants his own shot in the ring with the help of Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone). The film cost $35 million to make and has earned $42.6 million over five days.

Its audience has been largely male and over age 25, according to exit polls.

“This is a movie that played broadly everywhere. You expect it to do well in the big markets and even the medium-size markets, but the small markets were just fantastic,” said Jeffrey Goldstein, executive vice president of domestic distribution for Warner Bros. “The boxing element really resonates.”

Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Rentrak, said the indie sen-sibilities, critical response and stellar cast has made “Creed” the movie to see right now.

“This is a movie that’s going to go the distance,” Dergarabedian said.

James Bond film “Spectre,” with $12.8 million, and “The Peanuts Movie,” with $9.7 million, rounded out the top five. (ap)

DUBLIN - Troubled Irish singer Sinead O’Connor appeared to have attempted suicide on Sunday, after a statement on her Facebook page said she had taken an overdose.

The post, whose authenticity could not immediately be verified, expresses hurt that O’Connor had been cut off from her family by events described as “a horrific set of betrayals”.

“I have taken an overdose,” the statement read.

“There is no other way to get respect. I am not at home, I’m at a hotel, somewhere in Ireland, under another name.”

“If I wasn’t posting this, my kids and family wouldn’t even find out. I could have been dead here for weeks already and they’d never have known.”

A public relations company

linked to O’Connor was not imme-diately available for comment.

A spokesman for the Irish police refused to comment, but a police source said O’Connor had been “located safe”.

Media reports said she was re-ceiving medical treatment.

Earlier this year the outspoken singer cancelled a number of con-certs because she said her son was suffering from a “life-threatening

medical condition”.She also had a hysterectomy in

August, which she detailed on her social media accounts.

In another post on Facebook on Saturday, O’Connor said she was finished with the music industry.

“Music is over for me. Music did this. Rendered me invisible even unto my children. Murdered my soul. I’m never going back to music.”

The singer, known for her strong views on issues including women’s rights and abuses of the Roman Catholic Church, has spoken pub-licly about her battle with depres-sion through the years.

O’Connor won critical acclaim with her 1987 debut album, “The Lion and the Cobra,” but her cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” catapulted her to international fame. (afp)

Singer Sinead O’Connor ‘threatens suicide’ in Facebook post

‘Hunger Games’ beats ‘Good Dinosaur,’ ‘Creed’ at box office

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This photo provided by Lionsgate shows Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in the film, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2.” The movie opens in U.S. theaters on Nov. 20, 2015.

LOS ANGELES — Despite some mighty competition, Katniss and her crew dominated the box office once again.

DENPASAR - The Bali provincial administration is optimistic that nine Balinese traditional dances to recognized by UNESCO as part of the World non-object Cultural Heritage during a meeting on December 1 and 2.

“The nine dances have been entered into UNESCO’s list. The chance of them being accepted is 98 percent,” the Head of Culture Office, Dewa Putu Beratha, said.

The nine Balinese dances are Barong Ket, Joged, Legong Kraton, Wayang Wong Drama Dance, Gambuh Drama Dance, Topeng Sidakarya, Baris Upacara, Sanghyang De-dari and Rejang.

“UNESCO will convene on December 1 and 2,” he added.

A Balinese cultural humanist Prof. I Made Bandem is also optimistic that the nine dances will be recognized by UNESCO.

“The Ministry of Education and Culture has set the nine dances as the national non-objects of Cultural Heritage,” he said.

This is a guarantee for UNESCO that the proposed dances will be maintained by the government and community.

“I am optimistic we can get fund-ing to preserve the dances. It will con-vince UNESCO to give recognition to the nine traditional dances,” Made said. (ant)

THE CONSER-VATION of Bali’s lontar (palm-leaf manuscripts) is increasingly im-

portant in this era of globalization, in

which the local wis-dom of many countries is being erased, especially given that many of Bali’s palm-leaf manuscripts contain solu-tions for the problems we are facing today. The vast store of knowledge found in these writings include infor-

mation about leadership, governance, ecological systems, social systems, nature conservation, yoga and many other matters that could be of great contribution to the nation’s ‘mental revolution’.

Arik Wira Putra, a palm-leaf manuscript conservationist, says that Bali’s social system based on the banjar and it’s economic system that is agriculturally based has meant the Balinese people were always very good at sustaining natural systems, specifically safeguarding

rivers, mountains, lakes and the sea through certain rituals that are based on knowledge of these systems.

This knowledge is in part carried out through rituals, the meaning of which is contained in Bali’s palm-leaf manuscripts. “These rituals take the tattva (philosophy), found in the manuscripts as a reference point and can be very helpful in addressing the ecological problems we are facing today,” said Putra.

Bali’s lontar are written in a language that is both explicit and

implicit and therefor the wisdom found in them often requires theo-retical knowledge to be understood. “Many manuscripts for example speak of the importance of main-taining the flow of rivers as the source of life”, he said. Tirta gangga is a term that refers to the Ayung and other rivers in Bali, where temple shrines must be maintained. The same is true of lakes and beaches. This is why Hindusim in Bali was nicknamed magama tirta, meaning ‘water religion’”.

As Putra said: “temples shrines were placed at water sources, river sides and on lakes and beaches in order to preserve these natural sys-tems”. Lately the nickname “water religion” has started to loose its meaning as many sources of water on the island are being neglected. “For example, the rivers in Den-pasar filthy, despite government attempts to clean them up,” he explained.

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Dancers practiced a dance that will be performed in Unesco convention. The Bali provincial admin-

istration is optimistic that nine Balinese traditional dances to recognized by UNESCO as part of the

World non-object Cultural Heritage during a meet-ing on December 1 and 2.

Bali optimistic nine dances to recognized by UNESCO

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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 considered 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 some-times 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, car-rying 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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Palm-leaf manuscripts, he said should be consulted not only by people in literary studies, but also by people from the wide range of disciplines that are referred to in the lontars. “Palm-leaf manuscripts that talk about agriculture for example, should be consulted by those who are concerned with agriculture,” said Putra.

“The palm-leaf manuscript know as Darma Pemacul speaks of the obligation of farmers and temple main-tenance. This manuscript speaks of Pura Sakenan as the ruler of rice bugs and Pura Masceti as the ruler of jero ketut (rats). It is important for the lives of Balinese people to learn these things,” he added.

Lontars also carry great philosophical wisdom much of which is based on agricultural life as the origin of Balinese culture. In terms of rituals, this wisdom is symbolized by gebogan oblations that contain jaja uli (sweets) and begina cake. These cakes represent the abundance of food stuffs as they are made from sticky rice and indicate that the Balinese community is prosperous.

“However, what we see today is that gebogan con-tain various different kinds of sweet things that do not necessarily represent this philosophy and therefore miss the intended point of the the gebongan offer-ing. The original meaning of the form vanishes when people start making their gebogan with food stuffs from other cultures such as that of India or China or others, whereas the origin of Bali’s’ prosperity is based on local agrarian practices,” explained Putra.

There are many more palm-leaf manuscripts that contain local knowledge that could be used to save Bali from various different problems. There is a palm leaf manuscript that contains knowledge of yoga, the Carcan Gunung lontar speaks of Balinese perspective on nature and the Kama Artus speaks of the principles of masculinity of example. These are but a few of many other examples. (kmb34)

It is estimated that there are some 10,000 plus palm-leaf manuscripts still in existence. Gedong Kertya has a collection of some 2,000 lontars (palm-leaf manuscripts), UPT Perpustakaan Lontar has 950, the Documentation Center of Bali’s Culture Office has a collection of somewhere between 3,000-4,000 stored at Dwijendra University and at the Hindu University of Indonesia.

However: “many manuscripts remain undocumented as they are found in griya (houses of higher priests) and in royal palaces,” said

Chief of UPT Perpustakaan Lontar (palm-leaf manuscript library), I Gde Nala Antara.

Not all Balinese families are in possession of palm-leaf manu-scripts. Some families, especially in villages, have puranas (mythology) and inscriptions. “It’s our tasks as academics to work with our depart-ments, to try to keep a record of the palm-leaf manuscripts that are still in the hands of the community. We often do this with students as a form of training,” explained Antara.

Unfortunately, sometimes people are not open to having their manu-

scripts recorded and will not allow the students to read them as they are considered sacred. “We need to educate people about appreciating these palm-leaf manuscripts as a cultural heritage that their families owns,” he added.

Other palm-leaf manuscripts were carried away by Balinese people who joined the transmigra-tion program, and some of these lontar have been tracked. The University of Indonesia, Sono Bu-doyo Museum, Jogjakarta, the Solo Palace, Radya Pustaka Museum and the Museum of NTB Lombok all have lontar collections, as does the Univeristy of Leiden in the Neth-erlands, as results of their colonial connection to Indonesia, explained Antara.

In an attempt to preserve the lontar that are still in Bali, UPT Perpustakaan Lontar conducts field work to disseminate information about the importance of this cultural treasure and also helps to conserve manuscripts that are still in the pos-session of local people.

Every time they conduct such field work, they sic over large numbers of lontar. “At Griya Ban-jarangkan alone, we found hun-dreds of palm leaf manuscripts, for example,” he said. According to Antara who is also Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Humanities at Udayana Uni-versity: “building Bali’s cultural capital starts with learning about the contents of its’ palm-leaf manuscripts”.

But, he said that it is still some-times hard to conduct data collec-tion in the community and so he is calling on people who are in pos-session of palm leaf manuscripts but who are unable to maintain them in good condition, to deposit with UPT Lontar, where they will be officially reported and conserved in a public place. “We will main-tain these manuscripts in a good condition while the property rights remain in the hands of those who deposited them. Rather than bee-ing poorly maintained at home, it is better that they be stored here. We hope that in this way, Balinese lontar (palm-leaf manuscripts) can be protected from foreign parties that are aggressively collecting them.” (kmb42)

Need to conserve Bali’s palm-leaf manuscripts in local institutions

BALI has an extremely large amount of local knowledge written on palm-leaf manuscripts. Many of these manuscripts are stored in local institutions but many more are in Balinese peoples’ homes and in homes and institutions abroad.

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Arik Wira Putra, a palm-leaf manuscript conservation practitioner.

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Celebrate Christmas on the cliffs of Uluwatu

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14 InternationalScienceTuesday, December 1, 2015 3International Bali News Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Some differences can be measured: de-grees on a thermometer, trillions of tons of melting ice, a rise in sea level of a couple of inches. Epic weather disasters, including punishing droughts, killer heat waves and monster storms, have plagued Earth.

As a result, climate change is seen as a more urgent and concrete problem than it was last time.

“At the time of Kyoto, if someone talked about climate change, they were talking about something that was abstract in the fu-ture,” said Marcia McNutt, the former U.S. Geological Survey director who was picked to run the National Academies of Sciences. “Now, we’re talking about changing climate, something that’s happening now. You can point to event after event that is happening in the here and now that is a direct result of changing climate.”

Other, nonphysical changes since 1997 have made many experts more optimistic than in previous climate negotiations.

For one, improved technology is point-ing to the possibility of a world weaned from fossil fuels, which emit heat-trapping gases. Businesses and countries are more

serious about doing something, in the face of evidence that some of science’s worst-case scenarios are coming to pass.

“I am quite stunned by how much the Earth has changed since 1997,” Princeton University’s Bill Anderegg said in an email. “In many cases (e.g. Arctic sea ice loss, forest die-off due to drought), the speed of climate change is proceeding even faster than we thought it would two decades ago.”

Eighteen years ago, the discussion was far more about average temperatures, not the freakish extremes. Now, scientists and others realize it is in the more frequent extremes that people are truly experiencing climate change.

Witness the “large downpours, floods, mudslides, the deeper and longer droughts, rising sea levels from the melting ice, forest fires,” former Vice President Al Gore, who helped negotiate the 1997 agreement, told The Associated Press. “There’s a long list of events that people can see and feel viscer-ally right now. Every night in the television news is like a nature hike through the Book of Revelation.”

Studies have shown that man-made climate

change contributed in a number of recent weather disasters. Among those that climate scientists highlight as most significant: the 2003 European heat wave that killed 70,000 people in the deadliest such disaster in a century; Hurricane Sandy, worsened by sea level rise, which caused more than $67 billion in damage and claimed 159 lives; the 2010 Russian heat wave that left more than 55,000 dead; the drought still gripping California; and Typhoon Haiyan, which killed more than 6,000 in the Philippines in 2013.

Still, “while the Earth is a lot more dan-gerous on one side, the technologies are a lot better than they were,” said Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Solar and wind have come down tremendously in price, so much so that a Texas utility gives away wind-generated electricity at night.

U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres said there’s far less foot-dragging in ne-gotiations: “There is not a single country that tells me they don’t want a good Paris agreement.”

Figueres said that while the Kyoto agree-ment dictated to individual nations how much they must cut, what comes out of Paris will be based on what the more than 150 countries say they can do. That tends to work better, she said.

It has to, Figueres said. “The urgency is much clearer now than it used to be.” (ap)

Some of the cold numbers on global warming

since 1997:— The West Antarctic and Green-

land ice sheets have lost 5.5 trillion tons of ice, or 5 trillion metric tons, according to Andrew Shepherd at the University of Leeds, who used NASA and European satellite data.

— The five-year average surface global temperature for January to October has risen by nearly two-thirds of a degree Fahrenheit, or 0.36 degrees Celsius, between 1993-97 and 2011-15, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In 1997, Earth set a record for the hottest year, but it didn’t last. Records were set in 1998, 2005, 2010 and 2014, and it is sure to happen again in 2015 when the results are in from the year, according to NOAA.

— The average glacier has lost about 39 feet, or 12 meters, of ice thickness since 1997, according to Samuel Nussbaumer at the World Glacier Monitoring Service in Swit-zerland.

— With 1.2 billion more people in the world, carbon dioxide emis-sions from the burning of fossil fuels climbed nearly 50 percent between 1997 and 2013, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The world is spewing more than 100 million tons of carbon dioxide a day now.

— The seas have risen nearly 2 1/2 inches, or 6.2 centimeters, on average since 1997, according to calculations by the University of Colorado.

— At its low point during the sum-mer, the Arctic sea ice is on average 820,000 square miles smaller than it was 18 years ago, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. That’s a loss equal in area to Texas, California, Montana, New Mexico and Arizona combined.

— The five deadliest heat waves of the past century — in Europe in 2003, Russia in 2010, India and Pakistan this year, Western Europe in 2006 and southern Asia in 1998 — have come in the past 18 years, according to the International Disaster Database run by the Centre for Research on the Epide-miology of Disaster in Belgium.

— The number of weather and climate disasters worldwide has increased 42 percent, though deaths are down 58 percent. From 1993 to 1997, the world averaged 221 weather disasters that killed 3,248 people a year. From 2010 to 2014, the yearly average of weather disasters was up to 313, while deaths dropped to 1,364, according to the disaster database.

AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File

In this July 19, 2011 file photo, pools of melted ice form atop Jakobshavn Glacier, near the edge of the vast Greenland ice sheet. Since 1997, the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets have lost 5.5 trillion tons of ice (5 trillion metric tons), according to Andrew Shepherd at the University of Leeds, who used NASA and European satellite data.

Earth is a wilder, warmer place since

last climate deal madePARIS — This time, it’s a hotter, waterier, wilder Earth that world leaders

are trying to save. The last time that the nations of the world struck a binding agreement to fight global warming was 1997, in Kyoto, Japan. As leaders gather for a conference in Paris on Monday to try to do more, it’s clear things have changed dramatically over the past 18 years.

Lapan’s spokesperson Jasyanto said that the forum is entitled, “Sharing solutions through synergy in space.”

“This meeting is an attempt to solve socio-economic problems in Asia Pacific by applying space

technology,” he stated.He explained that during an

annual meeting, stakeholders will exchange information and explore cooperation in the field of space.

“Through cooperation among its members, this forum will aim to create a solution for social and economic problems in order to im-

prove the quality of life of people in the Asia Pacific region,” Jasyanto remarked.

The forum will feature four dis-cussion sessions on space applica-tions, space technology, the environ-ment and space education.

An educational program related to space technology, which will be held

during the forum, is a water rocket event, or a water rocket competition, for students aged 12 to 16 years and who are from a number of countries in the Asia Pacific region.

“The forum will also hold an exhibition on the latest development in space science and technology,” Jasyanto said. (ant)

AMLAPURA - Up to June 2015, the people living with HIV/AIDS in Karangasem reached 435. Seeing the number, the syndrome patients whose medication has not been found yet showed an increase of 25 people, from 410 people in 2014.

The Head of the Karangasem Health Agency, IGM Tirtayana, delivered it on Friday (Nov. 27) in Amlapura. He said though it was detected to show an increase of 25 patients Karangasem is still

ranked seventh in Bali in the matter of people living with HIV/AIDS. “The number of people living with HIV/AIDS increases, but we are still ranked seventh. Apparently there is an increase in all the dis-tricts and municipality in Bali, so that we are still ranked seventh,” he said.

The people are known to have HIV/AIDS from those that have voluntarily checked or have un-dergone blood test on Voluntary Counseling Test (VCT) clinic which

specifically caters to blood test such as the VCT clinic at the Karan-gasem Hospital. Similar services can now be obtained at all health centers in Karangasem.

From the past, the HIV/AIDS has always been referred to as the phenomenon of iceberg, where the detected one seems small because it is only based on a voluntary blood test by those suspecting themselves of becoming sufferer due to their sexual behavior. But the undetected sufferers are estimated to be much

more.Related to the World AIDS Day

falling on December 1, the Karan-gasem AIDS Commission (KPAID) holds various activities, such as the distribution of brochures about how to anticipate and avoid HIV/AIDS. It is made in cooperation with the Student Group Caring for HIV/AIDS (KSPA) of the SMA PGRI Amlapura. Besides, it is also coupled with the installation of ban-ners that essentially carry how to avoid HIV/AIDS and make healthy

behavior at all the health centers in Karangasem.

Tirtayana said that these are the activities that can be carried out with a limited budget. As the infor-mation obtained, the people living with HIV/AIDS in Karangasem are quite alarming. Sufferers eventu-ally isolate themselves because the others do not dare to approach. A number of elementary school students have even suffered HIV/AIDS alleged to be transmitted by their parents. (013)

DENPASAR - Based on information concerning the possible threat of members of ISIS attempting to enter Indonesia ahead of Christmas and New Years celebrations, police and the Indo-nesian military are tightening security. The Denpasar-Gianyar border line on Jalan Bypass I.B. Mantra, for example was the target of a road block conducted by the East Denpasar Police and the East Denpasar Military, on Saturday (Nov. 28).

Chief of the East Denpasar Police, Gede Redastra led the road block that started at 21:00, and involved 5 soldiers and 30 police personnel. “We were seeking to prevent people suspected of terrorism and/or members of ISIS from entering Denpasar. We searched vehicles for explosive materials and weapons,” said Redastra.

All passing cars and motorcycles were stopped and searched carefully and thoroughly by the Police and soldiers who were working co-jointly. “The result of the searches was nil. Hope-fully, Denpasar and Bali in general will always be safe and peaceful. Residents are nonetheless being requested to remain vigilant and monitor the situation in their respective areas,” he said.

Chief of the South Denpasar Police, Nana Prihasmoko, said that they held a similar road block on Saturday afternoon in front of a slaughter house on Jalan Diponegoro, Pesanggaran. “This activity was carried following the Paris incident that was allegedly committed by members of ISIS. The police and the Indonesian military are carrying out large-scale raids and inspections of migrants in order to prevent a similar incident from occurring here. We are working together with the South Denpasar Region Military,” said Nana.

The South Denpasar road block also yielded no findings of explosive materials, people suspected of being the ISIS members nor sharp weapons. However a suspected drug dealer identified as domiciling in Mumbul, Nusa Dua was apprehended after police found evidence that included crystal meth and and related paraphanelia, on the suspect and in his motorcycle. “We regularly hold this kind of operation as well as searches of migrants to Bali in an endeavour to prevent extremists such as ISIS members from operating here,” said the Chief of the South Denpasar Police. (kmb36)

In Karangasem, HIV/AIDS detected to increase 25 people

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Following up the development of information about the entry of ISIS to Indonesia and ahead of Christmas and New Year 2016 celebration, police and the Indonesian military has tightened the security.

Bali to host Asia Pacific Aeronautics Forum 2015

DENPASAR - The Indonesian National Aeronautics and Space Agency (Lapan) will host the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF-22) from December 1 to 4, in Kuta, Bali, where it will discuss space technology as a solution for solving socio-economic problems.

Intruders from ISISEntrance to Denpasar strictly guarded

Bali News International4 Tuesday, December 1, 2015 Tuesday, December 1, 2015 13International

The Syrian woman hastily woke her children, stuffed their belong-ings into plastic bags, and took them out into the cold to wait — worried about what was coming next after weeks of heartbreak being shunted from one squalid refugee center to another.

“Will it be better, will it be worse?” Reem Habashieh, the family’s eldest daughter, recalled thinking. “Every time we get moved to a new, unknown place we have this twisted pain in our stomachs because we don’t know what’s go-ing to happen.”

The Habashiehs — 44-year-old mother Khawla Kareem; 19-year-old Reem; sons Mohammed, 18, and Yaman, 15; and 11-year-old daughter Raghad — fled the war in Syria in August when fighting hit their neighborhood in Damascus. The journey took them across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded dinghy to Greece, on a grueling trek north across the Balkans with hundreds of thousands of other migrants, and finally a last leg in a trafficker’s minibus to the promised land of Germany’s capital.

Berlin dazzled them with its cosmopolitan splendor but the elation didn’t last: Soon they were sent to the underdeveloped east, where racism and neo-Nazi activity remain rife.

The Habashiehs are among an unprecedented wave of asylum seekers — about 950,000 so far which means there will probably be more than 1 million by year’s end — who have come to this rich coun-try seeking a fresh start. Cities and towns across Germany are strug-gling to keep up with the massive demand for accommodation, and officials have been working over-time to handle the huge backlogs of asylum applications. It doesn’t always run so smoothly.

Since their initial arrival in Germany, the Habashiehs have been put up in four temporary housing facilities throughout eastern Germany. Far-right thugs have spewed hatred at them. Their days have been filled with squalor in overcrowded asy-lum centers, and soul-sapping boredom as days of indolence blend one into the other. The Paris attacks now raise fears of a backlash against Syrian migrants, even though, Reem said, she and other refugees thought of the per-petrators as “sick terrorists using their fake Islam as cover.”

The family’s rushed departure last month from the town of He-idenau did not have an auspicious beginning. The taxi took them to yet another temporary shelter in the gritty eastern city of Chemnitz — it

was a former prison.Still, they were happy because

they got a room of their own again and didn’t have to sleep in a big hall with hundreds of other migrants. Last week, the family was told they would be transferred once more — again with no information.

The Habashiehs ended up in Zwickau, a small city of 90,000 near the Czech border in eastern Germany, where they were brought to a neighborhood of endless com-munist-era, prefabricated concrete apartment buildings.

It looked grim, but things sud-denly got a lot brighter: A friendly social worker gave them the keys to their own apartment, explaining how to separate the garbage into three different bins. He cautioned them to keep the sound down be-tween 1 and 3 p.m. in the afternoon — post-lunch nap time — and after 10 p.m., in line with German noise regulations. The Habashiehs had a new home.

The best news of all was that the two youngest kids would be able to start school, while Khawla Kareem, Reem and Mohammed would enroll in a daily intensive language class at the city’s community college.

Even Yaman, the 15-year-old boy, who had been withdrawn and quiet since their arrival in Germany, suddenly cheered up.

“I’m happy ... We’re indepen-dent again,” the teenager said, as he carefully straightened out blue-checkered blankets on the metal beds in the room he shares with his brother. (ap)

BANGKOK — Soldiers and police in military-run Thailand detained two top leaders of the anti-government Red Shirt movement Monday as they were set to visit a park celebrating past Thai kings that’s at the center of a corruption scandal linked to the army.

Thai television channels showed video of Nattawut Saikua and Jatuporn Prompan being taken into a van after being seized while talking to reporters in a suburb of Bangkok about their planned trip to Rajabhakti Park, near the sea-side town of Hua Hin. An assistant to Nattawut, who witnessed the incident but declined to give his name for fear of harassment from the authorities, said the men were taken away with no word on where they were going.

The military, which seized pow-er in a May 2014 coup, has denied financial wrongdoing related to the park, built under its auspices on army land and featuring giant statues of seven past Thai kings.

Two senior officers have been accused of wrongdoing, including kickbacks and the diversion of

funds contributed to the project, which has been described as costing 1 billion baht ($28 million).

Junta spokesman Col. Winthai Suvaree said the military viewed the two men’s plans to visit the park as “an obvious political movement which started to stir up the public and could lead to turmoil.”

Maj. Gen. Kongcheep Tan-trawanich, a Defense Ministry spokesman, said the two men had “only been invited for a talk,” because the authorities feared there could be a clash at the park between Red Shirt supporters and opponents. He declined to specify where they were being held or how long they would be detained for.

The ruling junta often calls in its public critics for what it calls “at-titude adjustment,” which can last for several hours or several days. It is usually carried out at military bases, with the detainees’ locations kept secret.

The park affair has been a public relations disaster for the military government, for which cleaning up corruption has been one of its major rationales for holding power. (ap)

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Red Shirt leader Nattawut Saikua, center, is taken to a van by Thai soldiers in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand, Monday, Nov. 30, 2015.

Thai opposition figures detained ahead of scandal

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In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015, Syrian refugee Reem Habashieh goes shopping in a Arabian shop in Zwickau, eastern Germany.

ZWICKAU, Germany — Just before dawn, a worker shook the matriarch of the refugee family out of sleep at their asylum center in a depressed German town. “Get up and pack your belongings,” the woman said curtly. “A taxi will come in an hour and take you away.”

SEMARAPURA - The day after Saraswati, knob as Banyu Pinaruh saw a number of ports in Nusa Penida thronged with people crossing back over to Kusamba, Klungkung and Sanur. The crowds of people were composed of Nusa Penidians who had returned to their native island for Saraswati celebrations which also coincided with the piodalan (temple anniversaries) for their calm or vil-lage temples.

Thousands of native Nusa Penidians live in Denpasar and surrounding areas, in fact half of Nusa Penida’s locals live outside the island. and thus return home for temple celebrations, as they did last Sunday (Nov. 29).

Ganga Express manager I Nyoman Landep, when met at the Sampalan tradi-tional port on Sunday, said that the surge in passengers that occurred on Saraswati day was more than o the occasion of the pioda-lan for Pura Penataran Ped. “From early in the morning, people were already lining up to make a reservation, The number of pas-sengers was more than during the piodalan at Pura Penataran or even during Galungan festivities,” said Landep who added that his boat company provided 12 trips that day, compared to the usual 3 per day.

According to one passenger from Karang hamlet, Pejukutan, named I Wayan Jana, half of all of Nusa Penida’s family, clan or vil-lage temple piodalan celebrations coincided with Saraswati Day. So all the native Nusa Penidians returned home to celebrate. “Even though I got here early, I was only able to get a seat not eh 11th boat crossing. But it is quite alright, the important this is that I can cross over to Nusa Penida,” he explained.

Other fleets of boats also felt the impact of the surge in passengers. For example, Sekar Jaya Marine and Mola-Mola Express, that serve different points of departure (Sanur and Tribuana respectively), added three extra crossings each. (dwa)

BANGLI - On the occasion of Banyupinaruh, thousands of pilgrims flocked from all all over Bali flocked to Tirata Sudamala in Sedi Hamlet, Bebalang on Sunday (Nov. 29), to do a melukat (water purification rite). Chief of the Tu-nas Mekar customary youth club of Sedit hamlet, Kadek Sukma Pigata, said that people not only form Bangli but from other areas as well, starting coming to Tirta Suda-mala to perform the banyupinaruh melukat rite starting at 4 o’clock in the morning.

Admittedly, he said that the increase in the number of visitors on Banyupinaruh is very dramatic when compared to normal days. In

response to the overflow of visitors, almost all the members of the youth club as well as the local pecalang (customary security guards) had to do parking lot duty to direct people to park in the village once the main paroling lot was full” he said. As in previous years the pilgrims continued to arrive until the late afternoon.

Tirta Sudamala has becom-ing more and more popular with Balines people over the last few years. There are several springs here that are channels into “shower heads” that pilgrims bath in as a way to eliminate negativity from their aura and are particularly sought after during holidays like

Banyupinaruh.There are a total of nine “show-

er heads” at Tirta Sudamala that represent the Dewata Nawa Sanga or deities of the nine directions. There are also two other “shower heads” who water drops about 2 meters, that are believed to be the purification showers of the angels. These two showers are intended for people that have just completed their tooth filling ceremony.

Apart from serving as a place rid ones aura of negative energy, Tirta Sudamala is also appreciated for the natural massage therapy that the falling water provides while people do their melukat. (kmb40)

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The crowded people are seen on Nusa Penida harbor

Masses of people cross over to Bali on Banyu Pinaruh

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BUSINESS

Soon after taking office nearly three years ago, Abe launched a three-pronged recovery strategy focused on reviving the world’s No. 3 economy through strong public spending, massive monetary easing and sweeping reforms of a post-war industrial structure that is not deliv-ering the growth and productivity gains seen in the past.

The so-called “Abenomics” poli-cies have weakened the yen, help-ing to fatten corporate earnings and share prices and have made some headway in countering deflation.

With the economy in its second recession since Abe took office, the appeals to big business to share more of its wealth have gained urgency.

“This issue comes down to a chicken and egg situation,” Kuroda told business leaders Monday in Nagoya, the heart of Japan’s thriv-ing auto industry.

“Taking actions now is a pre-requisite for firms to be among the winners in the future,” said BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda, arguing that companies could afford to weather a slight downturn given their recent “extremely high” profits.

Katsunobu Kato, an Abe ally who recently was appointed to head his campaign to counter the falling birth rate, voiced a similar appeal.

“There is a limit to what govern-ment can do. We are expecting the private sector to help,” said Kato, who is tasked with ensuring the country’s population does not fall

below 100 million, from the current 126 million.

Kato also acknowledged that the ambitious reforms Abe has proposed will take “a fair amount of time.”

In the meantime, he urged com-panies to raise wages faster, in-crease permanent hiring of tem-porary workers, and invest more at home rather than in foreign factories and acquisitions, to ensure a “positive economic cycle led by private-sector demand.”

China’s slowdown has reverber-ated in Japan, contributing to a 0.8 percent contraction in GDP in the July-September quarter.

The government said last week it will draft a supplementary bud-get and provide cash handouts to pensioners to help spur consumer spending.

Data released Monday, although weaker than hoped, suggest Japan may be emerging from recession.

Factory output fell 1.4 percent in October from a year earlier as pro-duction of chemicals, nonferrous metals and telecoms equipment dropped. But production rose from the month before for the second straight month.

Kuroda, in assessing the econo-my, repeatedly pointed to China as a persisting risk. But he remained up-beat, saying the recovery was intact and reassuring his listeners that the BOJ will adapt its monetary policy to ensure Japan moves toward 2 percent inflation. (ap)

TOKYO - The euro headed south on Monday as traders bet that the European Central Bank will open up the monetary stimulus taps, while key US jobs data were also in focus.

A solid reading for the employ-ment figures on Friday would likely add to already strong expectations that the Federal Reserve will go

ahead with raising near-zero inter-est rates.

As policymakers from the US central bank get ready for a rate hike, the ECB appears set to move in the opposite direction with extra stimulus to boost growth in the struggling eurozone economy.

The measures could be unveiled as early as Thursday when it holds

its latest policy meeting.“After last week’s doldrums, this

week’s agenda will come as a shock to the system,” Raiko Shareef, currency strategist at the Bank of New Zealand, said in an email to clients.

“Front of mind will be the ECB’s policy decision. The US employ-ment reports will garner interest,

but only a disastrous result would likely derail the (Fed policy board) from raising rates next month.”

The euro weakened to $1.0584 in Tokyo on Monday from $1.0595 Friday in New York, fuelling specu-lation it could fall toward parity with the US unit for the first time since 2002.

The 19-nation single currency

also eased to 129.90 yen from 130.14 yen in US trade.

“Euro selling will see its climax going into the ECB meeting, with a knee-jerk reaction to the outcome possibly sending it to new lows for the year close to $1.03,” Daisuke Karakama, chief market economist at Mizuho Bank, told Bloomberg News. (afp)

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In this Nov. 29, 2014 photo, a factory near the tracks of freight trains is seen at night in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo. Japan’s central bank governor and other officials are stepping up appeals to cash-rich corporations to do more to boost the country’s faltering economic recovery.

Euro weak ahead of hotly-anticipated ECB meeting

Japan leaders in SOS to cash cow companies as recovery lags

TOKYO — Japan’s central bank governor and other officials are stepping up appeals to cash-rich corporations to do more to boost the country’s faltering economic recovery. The flurry of comments aimed squarely at business leaders coincide with a push by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to attack broader trends slowing Japan’s growth: a shrinking and aging population and a corporate culture light on work-life balance and heavy on overwork.

Chief Executive of the Karan-gasem Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), Ida Ketut Arimbawa, said that based on information from the national weather service (BMKG) Denpasar, the peak of rainy season will be preceded by initial rainy season in the second ten days of November this year. However, the early rain occurred unevenly because it only occurred in some regions.

Particularly in Karangasem, it does not rain at all. Other than Karangasem, a number of areas in Bali such as Jembrana, Southern Tabanan and Northern Badung are also mentioned by the BMKG to face delay of rainy season up to 50 days. Actually, it must have rained in these regions on the first ten days of October. However, it is estimated to rain at the end of this November.

On that account, the anticipation against the impacts of droughts and

the beginning of rainy season has been made by the BPBD Karan-gasem. To anticipate the impact of drought, the delivery of clean water to the areas facing water crisis re-main to be done every week. To an-ticipate the impact of rainy season, his agency has issued a circular to every agency up to the village level in Karangasem.

I.B. Ketut Arimbawa added that based on the letter issued by the BMKG Denpasar dated November 12 forwarded to the BPBD, as the anticipation against the transition of this season, the BMKG reminded to watch out for sporadic strong winds, lightning and heavy rain. In addition, high waves as the impact of strong winds must be alerted. The BPBD is also asked to anticipate landslides, floods and fallen trees with garden arrangement and prun-ing of trees. Then, for anticipation of lightning disturbance on house-

hold appliance, should there be a dark cloud people are suggested to immediately disconnect the external television antenna if the lightning protection system is not ascertained to run well.

To note, the disaster-prone index of Karangasem is relatively high in Bali. Karangasem is ranked second in Bali after Buleleng. Buleleng is ranked 72nd out of 494 districts based on the monitoring of the Na-tional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) in Indonesia, while Karan-gasem is ranked 91st. Karangasem with the majority of its territory in the form of hills, 67 percent of the area is prone to landslides. These conditions make the BPBD Karan-gasem fully alert ahead of rainy season to anticipate the occurrence of natural disasters like landslides, flooding and fallen trees.

Potential of landslides is scat-tered throughout all the subdistricts. However, Sidemen subdistrict (10 villages) and Selat (8 villages) become the most vulnerable areas. The data of the BPBD Karangasem indicate that all villages in both sub-districts are potentially threatened by landslides. (kmb31)NEGARA - After being dormant

for some periods, the makepung lampit or buffalo race in wet paddy field and drawing farming tool begins to be encouraged by the community as in the event held on Sunday (Nov. 29) at Subak Peh Kangin, Kaliakah. Now, the buffalo attraction in paddy fields ahead of planting season has been endorsed by local government as makepung. However, the attraction also fknown as makepung betenan and previously intended for the beauty of movement in the mud only is now contested. At least 18 pairs of buffaloes from around the location showed off their capabili-ties.

Though it has been long prac-ticed, this makepung lampit is still overshadowed by makepung held in ordinary circuit. So far, only particular travelers like photogra-phers are looking for the moment of shooting when the buffaloes are moving over the mud.

Buffalo Race Coordinator of West Ijogading, Made Mara, said that the makepung lampit remains under the coordination of the makepung in general. However, the member has not been as many as that of makepung in land circuit that has existed for many years and has made two blocks, namely the West Ijogading and East Ijogading. “We

expect the members will increase and the makepung lampit can also go international,” he said while being accompanied by Chief of Makepung Lampit, Ketut Nuraga.

Mara added that so far the ordi-nary makepung has 300-400 par-ticipants with a number of circuits in several subdistricts. Mara also hoped that makepung lampit can also grow and has a permanent circuit anyway. Moreover, this kind of attraction cannot be found any-where. Preferably, this makepung lampit is also made an annual event, so that the schedule of the attraction is definite.

Regional Secretary of Jem-brana, I Gede Gunadnya, stated that makepung lampit that has become so popular within the past few years will be put into special agenda. If necessary, it will be equipped with infrastructure and supporting facili-ties to shore up this native tourism potential to Jembrana.

Adverse weather condition will not become a problem to transform paddy field into the arena of makepung. Very dry paddy field can be transformed into an arena full of water with the help of water from artesian well. The arena covering an area of approximately 3,000 square meters was thronged by specta-tors around it. (kmb26)

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Makepung lampit put into agenda

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The drought which happen in Karangasem make the residents difficult to find water.

Peak of rainy season lasts in January-February 2016

AMLAPURA - The rain predicted to fall in the end of No-vember seems incorrect. Karangasem with 92 percent of dry territory is increasingly made barren by prolonged dry season until the end of November. Moreover, the dry season may last longer because the peak of rainy season is predicted to occur in January-February next year.

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Ferry operator Batamfast called out two other ferries that rescued all 90 passengers and seven crew and took them back to the Nongsapura ferry terminal in Batam, Singa-

pore’s Maritime and Port Authority said in an emailed statement.

The authority said early on Monday it had received a report of the incident on the ‘Sea Prince’

at 9:45 p.m. on Sunday (1345 GMT).

A passenger, Chella Ho, said the ferry started sinking slowly in deep water and passengers were loaded into two inflatable boats but those boats also sank because they were overloaded, TV news network Channel News Asia re-ported. (rtr)

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A worker puts the final touch to a 33-metre tall mock Christmas tree decorated with hun-dreds of cakes in a Jakarta shopping mall in this November 28, 2008 file photo. Indonesia is expected to release inflation numbers this week.

BANJARMASIN - General Manager of state-owned airport operator PT Angkasa Pura I of Ban-jarmasin branch Handy said tender for the expansion of the Sjamsudin Noor airport of Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, could be held in De-cember.

“Hopefully, it could be a reality that work could start immediately to expand and modernize the airport,” Handy told the regional legislator in

a working meeting on Monday. The airport project leader

Taochid said construction could start only in February 2016 as the process of tender could take 40 days before the winner is an-nounced. Taochid said expansion of the airport into an international class airport would be divided into two packages - first package for passenger terminal and package II for supporting infrastructure to cost

trillions of rupiahs.“Considering the situation and

condition, it is likely that work would start with the second pack-age,” he said.

Earlier, acting secretary of the city administration H Said Abdullah said there was no more problem in land clearing for the airport project.

Therefore, PT Angkasa Pura I could start work to expand the air-port, Said Abdullah said. (ant)

SURABAYA - Vice President Jusuf Kalla has instructed the mem-bers of the Indonesian Civil Servants Corps (KORPRI) to improve efficiency of the bureaucratic process.

“Accelerate bureaucratic reforms at all levels. Initiate bureau-cratic reforms with no strings attached, and look for breakthroughs and new ways to avoid the ‘business as usual’,” Kalla stated in a speech to mark the 44th anniversary of KORPRI in Surabaya, East Java, on Monday.

According to the vice president, bureaucracy should be improved from upstream to downstream with regard to the outlook of person-nel, institutional and management institutions.

The vice president called for improvements to create an effective and efficient bureaucracy and to serve the society better.

In his speech, Kalla highlighted the need for the bureaucratic ap-paratus to build a positive mindset, integrity, and a spirit of mutual cooperation.

All institutions need to prepare themselves to make the bureaucra-cy dynamic, innovative, and responsive at all times, he affirmed.

“Remove all bureaucratic complexities, and ensure that the people receive the best service with high quality,” he noted.

In addition, the vice president urged to change the working mechanism of bureaucracy into a system of electronic government, or e-government. (ant)

Korpri should improve efficiency of bureaucratic process

Indonesia ferry hits trouble on way to

Singapore, 97 rescuedSINGAPORE - Almost 100 people were rescued when a ferry

sailing towards Singapore from the Indonesian island of Batam hit a floating object and reportedly started to sink, authorities in the city-state said.

Tender for expansion of Banjarmasin Airport expected next month

HELSINKI — Officials say that more than 35,000 people were without electricity in Sweden on Monday after a storm battered southern Scandinavia, damaging buildings, toppling trees, cancel-ing trains and closing bridge links between Denmark and Sweden.

Danish meteorologist John Cap-

pelen said the storm had wind speeds of up to 130 kilometers per hour (80 mph) with gusts reach-ing 165 kph. It hit Denmark late Sunday and blew over the region in about four hours, narrowly avoid-ing Norway.

Swedish utilities said that up to 75,000 customers were without

power during the storm. There were no early reports of casualties.

Cappelen said the storm weak-ened slightly as it headed northeast toward Finland and Estonia, where ferries were canceled. High winds disrupted cargo and passenger ships in Lithuania and blew off roofs in Latvia. (ap)

The gathering of 151 heads of state and government comes at a somber time for France, two weeks after militants linked to the Islamic State group killed 130 people around Paris. Fears of more attacks have prompted extra-high security and a crackdown on environmental protests — and threaten to eclipse longer-term concerns about rising seas and

increasingly extreme weather linked to man-made global warming.

“The challenge of an international meeting has never been so great be-cause it’s the future of the planet, the future of life,” French President Fran-cois Hollande said after a moment of silence for attack victims in France, Lebanon, Iraq, Tunisia and Mali.

“There are two big global chal-

lenges that we must face,” he added, urging leaders to create a world free from both environmental destruction and extremist violence.

Many of the leaders paid their respects at sites linked to the attacks on their way to the conference. President Barack Obama, in a late-night visit, placed a single flower outside the concert hall where dozens were killed, and bowed his head in silence.

“We stand with Paris,” said U.N. climate change agency chief Chris-tina Figueres said at talks near Le Bourget airfield, just north of the city. “The city of light, now more

than ever, is a beacon of hope for the world.”

On Sunday, hundreds of thousands of people rallied around the world, calling on the leaders to make real progress at the talks. Violence erupted after one peaceful demonstration in Paris, and hundreds of people were arrested. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon took note of the protests in his opening remarks.

“The future of the people of the world, the future of our planet, is in your hands,” Ban told negotia-tors. “We cannot afford indecision, half measures or merely gradual approaches. Our goal must be a transformation.”

Ban, Hollande and other leaders called for a binding agreement and emphasized the role of private industry and money in solving what Hollande called “the climate crisis.” They said the world must keep future warming to no more than another degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) from now, and if possible half that to spare island nations threatened by rising seas.

The world has already warmed nearly 1 degree Celsius since the beginning of the industrial age, and 181 nations have made pledges to combat man-made carbon dioxide pollution. The negotiators are tasked with building a global treaty by the end of next week.

“We just have 11 short days before us,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said as he took over as presi-dent of the negotiations. “Success is not yet assured, but it is within our grasp... The eyes of the world are upon us and there are great hopes.”

Added the outgoing president, Pe-ruvian Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal: “We can show to the world that we can work together against climate change and against global terrorism.”

Wide Paris-area highways usu-ally packed with commuters were cordoned off to clear the way for

all the VIPs. Riot police vans and plainclothes officers were stationed around the capital and by the national stadium, one of the targets of the Nov. 13 attacks that is near the climate conference venue. The conference is aimed at the most far-reaching deal ever to tackle global warming. The last major agreement, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, required only rich countries to cut emissions, and the U.S. never signed on.

Among several sticking points is money — how much rich countries should invest to help poor countries cope with climate change, how much should be invested in renewable energy, and how much traditional oil and gas producers stand to lose if countries agree to forever reduce emissions.

With that in mind, at least 19 governments and 28 leading world investors were announcing billions of dollars in investments to research and develop clean energy technology, with the goal of making it cheaper. Backers include Obama, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, billion-aires George Soros and Saudi Prince Alaweed bin Talal, and Jack Ma of China’s Alibaba.

Under the initiative, 19 countries pledge to double their spending on low- or no-carbon energy over the next five years. They currently spend about $10 billion a year, about half of that from the U.S., Brian Deese, senior adviser to Obama on climate and energy issues, told reporters in Washington.

Gates, the “intellectual architect” of the effort, committed $1 billion of his own money, U.S. Energy Secre-tary Ernest Moniz said.

“We’ll work to mobilize support to help the most vulnerable countries expand clean energy and adapt to the effects of climate change we can no longer avoid,” Obama wrote on his Facebook page. (ap)

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A house destroyed by high winds in Helsingborg, southern Sweden Monday, Nov. 30, 2015.

Storm damages buildings, cancels transport in Sweden, Denmark,

heading for Baltics, Finland

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U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and French President Francois Hollande pay their respect at the Bataclan concert hall, one of the recent deadly Paris attack sites, after Obama arrived in the French capital to attend the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21), Monday, Nov. 30, 2015.

Leaders of a warming Earth rethink global energy in ParisLE BOURGET, France — Addressing the twin threats of

global warming and extremist violence, the largest group of world leaders ever to stand together kicked off two weeks of high-stakes climate talks outside Paris on Monday, saying that by striking an ambitious deal to cut emissions they can show terrorists what countries can achieve when they are united.

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Nowadays, at this Jungutbatu village has even been formed a group that provide services for mangrove boat tour. Like a public transport, 34 members coalesced into the group also have a queue number when being in operation. “We recruit all the seaweed farm-ers because they have a sampan. Initially we did not use a queue, but

we then try to negotiate about our future. From the idea, we establish a well-organized group,” said the Mangrove Tour Management As-sistant, Gede Adnyana.

Currently, each community has the initiative to promote mangrove tour to travelers. Now, the mangrove tours continue to grow in line with the rapid development of tourism at

Lembongan. At this moment more travelers are escorted by freelance tour guides than supplied by dive cruise dropping in on the island. “Ev-ery day at least 10 to 25 sampans take mangrove tour. During high season, we are definitely overwhelmed,” said Adnyana. He said that during June-July, this featured object is much visited by domestic travelers, while in August is dominated by foreign trav-elers. Rates are subject to a minimum of IDR 100,000 per sampan with a maximum of four passengers.

Conservation activities in the mangrove area of Jungutbatu are done seriously. Each group members

is routinely required to clean up the mangrove area and make the area look like ever before. On the other hand, the groups or surrounding communities also never cleared the mangrove to make the tour path. In other words, these routes are still natural because it looks like ever be-fore. “If they do not join the cleanup, they will be imposed with a fine of IDR 5,000,” said Adnyana.

Group members seem to have understood about the mangrove conservation. Nyoman Sudiaya, for example, clearly mentions some benefits of the mangrove forests. Actually, the owner of the line num-

ber 31 has now been half a century old. “It functions to prevent tsunami and high waves because high waves once occurred here. Besides, it also becomes the native home to fish and crabs,” said Sudiaya doubling as a seaweed farmer. Considering the vital function of the mangrove, Sudiaya and local residents finally comply with the government rules that prohibit the clearing of man-groves for firewood. “Now, people are not allowed to take firewood here, to prevent waves. Anybody taking the firewood here can be imposed with a fine of IDR 100 million,” he continued. (kmb)

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Mangrove tour at Jungutbatu VillageSEMARAPURA - Since the year 2000 Jungutbatu village

community on the Island of Nusa Lembongan, Klungkung of-fers a mangrove tour to travelers. Foreign and domestic travel-ers are taken around to mangrove forest by riding a sampan. This destination can be reached from Sanur and Benoa Harbor by a cruise ship or fast boat.

DUcATI never really recovered from its 2015 MotoGP bike hit-ting the track later than its rivals, reckons general manager Gigi Dall’Igna.

While Honda and Yamaha’s 2015 bikes were testing from the summer of ‘14, Ducati’s decision to go for a bike Dall’Igna described as “95 per cent different” to its GP14 meant its GP15 Desmosedici did not appear until the Sepang tests in February this year.

Although Ducati then got off to a very strong start - fighting for victory in the season-opening Qatar Grand Prix and taking six podiums in the first six races, its subsequent struggles were a consequence of its hurried winter, Dall’Igna believes.

“We arrived quite late with the new bike, so we had a lot of mate-rial to test,” he said. “We did it during the race weekends and not during the tests, so it was not easy to understand very well which were the best solutions. “Sometimes we lost our way.”

Dall’Igna believes an inconsis-

tent 2015 - which picked up again in the closing races - was a price worth paying as Ducati tried to lift itself out of a long-running slump. The team has not won a MotoGP race since Casey Stoner’s triumph in the 2010 Australian GP.

The two-time MotoGP cham-pion will rejoin the team next year as a test rider to support Andrea Dovizioso and Andrea Iannone.

“Frankly speaking, we came back in a reasonable way so we didn’t lose a lot of time, but we cre-ated some problems for ourselves during the first part of the season,” he said. “The others made a step, above all Yamaha, but I don’t think that was the main reason [that Ducati fell back].

“When we were in trouble, we were working quite hard to try to catch our competition, and I think it’s quite normal that when you do this you cannot be consistent.

“In some races you can fight, some other races you have some problems. “I think this is normal during the development you have to do.” (rtr) IBP/ist

Late start to programme costly, Ducati admits

Bryant announced Sunday that he will retire after this season, ending a landmark 20-year NBA career spent entirely with Los Angeles. He was serenaded with cheers throughout the struggling Lakers’ 107-103 loss to Indi-ana, beginning his farewell tour through the league with a clear mind and a burgeoning curiosity about his next chapter.

“I had to just accept the fact that I don’t want to do this any-more, and I’m OK with that,” the dry-eyed, smiling Bryant said after the game. The 37-year-old Bryant made the long-anticipated declaration in a post on The Play-ers’ Tribune on Sunday, writing a poem titled “Dear Basketball.”

“My heart can take the pound-ing. My mind can handle the grind. But my body knows it’s time to say goodbye,” wrote Bryant, the third-leading scorer in NBA history. “And that’s OK. I’m ready to let you go. I want you to know now. So we both can savor every moment we have left together. The good and the bad. We have given each other all that we have.”

When the Lakers hosted the Indiana Pacers on Sunday night, fans expecting an unremarkable

regular-season game for the struggling home team instead received a letter from Bryant in a black envelope embossed with gold. “What you’ve done for me is far greater than anything I’ve done for you,” Bryant wrote. “I knew that each minute of each game I wore purple and gold.”

The theatricality of Bryant’s announcement fit a dramatic ca-reer that has included five cham-pionship rings and 17 All-Star selections during two decades with the Lakers, giving him the longest tenure with one team in NBA history.

Bryant went straight from high school in suburban Philadelphia to his favorite childhood team in 1996. He became the top scorer in Lakers history with offensive creativity and resourceful athleti-cism that inspired the generation of fans and players who missed Michael Jordan’s peak, but grew up on the dynamic exploits of the Lakers’ latest superstar.

“Kobe was my Jordan,” said Southern California native Paul George, who scored 39 points for Indiana to beat the Lakers after Bryant missed a late 3-pointer to tie it. “Watching him win champi-onships when I was growing up,

that’s who I idolized. That was the standard.”

But Bryant’s last three seasons have ended early due to injuries, and he played in only 41 games over the previous two years. He has struggled mightily in the first 16 games of this season with mostly young teammates on a rebuilding roster, making a career-worst 32 percent of his shots and dealing with pain and exhaustion every day. Yet to Bry-ant, the current state of his game is no tragedy.

“There’s so much beauty in the pain of this thing,” Bryant said. “It sounds really weird to say that, but I appreciate the really, really tough times as much as I appreciate the great times. It’s important to go through that pro-gression, because I think that’s where you really learn about the self.”

In recent months, Bryant re-peatedly said he didn’t know whether he would play another season, clearly hoping for a rebound in his health and the Lakers’ fortunes. Neither has happened, and the ever-impatient Bryant didn’t wait any longer to decide his future.

“Kobe Bryant is one of the greatest players in the history of our game,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said. “Whether com-peting in the Finals or hoisting jump shots after midnight in an empty gym, Kobe has an uncondi-tional love for the game.” (ap)

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Indiana Pacers guard George Hill, center, embraces Los An-geles Lakers forward Kobe Bryant, right, after defeating the Lakers during an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, Sun-day, Nov. 29, 2015. Bryant announced before the game that he would retire at the end of the season.

Kobe Bryant says he will retire at end of seasonLOS ANGELES — After 20 years in a Lakers uniform and

a lifetime in basketball, Kobe Bryant determined that his aching body and his passion for the game had both grown weaker than his excitement about the future. That’s when Kobe decided he could only wait a few more months to begin his life after the Lakers.

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Bale headed in Luka Modric’s cross two minutes before halftime, and Ronaldo converted a spot kick in the 82nd after a penalty was awarded when substitute Lucas Vazquez went down after slight contact with Dani Garcia.

Madrid’s win at Ipurua Stadium came after the team was heavily criticized for a loss at Sevilla and last weekend’s 4-0 defeat to Bar-celona. Madrid remained in third place, six points behind leader Barcelona and two points behind

Atletico Madrid after they both won on Saturday.

“We arrived here after going through some difficult moments, and we are all aware that we have to improve,” said Madrid goalkeeper Keylor Navas. “These are three important points that keep us in the title race.”

Ronaldo, who hadn’t escaped criticism from Madrid’s fans for the loss to Barcelona, spent most of

the game lamenting missed chances before he got his ninth league goal of the season from the spot.

Until the Portugal forward put the result beyond doubt, the hosts had matched Madrid’s talent with effort and constantly appeared threatening.

Eibar, which was missing in-jured top scorer Borja “Baston” Gonzalez and suspended forward Sergio “Keko” Gontan, slipped two spots into eighth place after only its third loss in 13 rounds.

“We played a good game in de-fense, but we needed to show more fire going forward,” said Eibar manager Jose Mendilibar.

While under-fire Madrid coach Rafa Benitez got some breathing room, Valencia manager Nuno Es-pirito Santo is set to step down after his team finished with nine-men in a 1-0 loss at Sevilla.

Espirito Santo said after the match that it “has been an honor” to coach Valencia and that he would meet with the club on Monday to finalize a decision that he said he had already discussed with owner Peter Lim.

Valencia captain Dani Parejo later said on Canal Plus television that Espirito Santo told his players that he was “resigning.”

Sevilla’s Sergio Escudero scored the winner in his debut, while Va-lencia self-destructed as it lost both Joao Cancelo in the first half and Javi Fuego in the second — both for two yellow cards.

Also, Aritz Aduriz scored a hat trick to lead Athletic Bilbao to a 3-0 rout at Rayo Vallecano, moving the Basque visitors up to seventh. With 10 goals this season, Aduriz

is third on the highest scorers list behind Barcelona duo Neymar (14) and Luis Suarez (12).

Elsewhere in the capital, Angel Lafita scored one goal and set up Alvaro Vazquez for another as Getafe beat sixth-place Villarreal 2-0 to move away from the relega-tion zone. At Eibar, Madrid was without injured defenders Marcelo, Sergio Ramos and Raphael Varane, and Benitez shifted Danilo over from his position on the right side to play at left back.

Eibar opted to pressure instead of sitting back and defending its area, producing an attractive, flow-ing match.

“We knew they were playing well, that they are an intense and aggressive team. That’s why the victory has more merit,” said Ben-itez. “We are in November. We have had injuries and the games are getting tougher. (But) we have a great team and we are going to keep fighting until the end.”

Eibar striker Sergi Enrich had the first scoring chance before Ronaldo’s chipped shot was saved by goalkeeper Asier Riesgo in the 15th. Eibar forced Modric into several ineffec-tive passes early. But when the Croatia midfielder had time to consider his cross after taking a corner kick, he curled in a pass to the near post for Bale to glance past Riesgo.

That was Bale’s first goal for Madrid since Aug. 29, when he scored his only other two goals this season in a 5-0 win over Real Betis in the second round. Bale had scored twice for Wales during his drought for the Spanish club. (ap)

ROME — Five days after a hu-miliating 6-1 rout by Barcelona in the Champions League, Roma’s de-fensive deficiencies were highlighted again in an alarming 2-0 loss at home to Atalanta in Serie A on Sunday.

Alejandro Gomez intercepted a poor pass from Roma defender Lu-cas Digne to score from outside the area before halftime. Then substitute fullback Maicon was sent off for trip-ping Gomez to set up a penalty for German Denis eight minutes from the end.

Roma remained fourth, wasting a chance to pull level with leader Inter Milan, which visits second-place Napoli on Monday. Four-time defending champion Juventus won 3-0 at Palermo for its fourth straight victory and moved into fifth, three points behind Roma.

Mario Mandzukic scored with a decisive header early in the second half to follow up another key goal in Juve’s 1-0 win over Manchester City in the Champions League. Paulo Dybala, facing his former squad for the first time after a 32 million euro ($34 million) transfer, provided the cross for Mandzukic’s goal.

Stefano Sturaro sealed it for Juventus from the edge of the area after being set up by Paul Pogba in the 89th and substitute Simone Zaza added another in stoppage time. Roma has scored a league-best 29 goals but has conceded 17 — more than twice as many as both Inter and Napoli.

Defense was also a problem in a 3-2 loss at BATE Borisov and a 4-4 draw with Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League — results that have put the status of coach Rudi Garcia in question.

“I’m not giving up. I’m disap-pointed and angry but I’m not used to giving up,” Garcia said. “We’re all responsible, me above all. ... It’s been an ugly week but I’m sure that behind the clouds the sky is blue.”

Elsewhere, Empoli beat Lazio 1-0 with an early goal from Lorenzo Tonelli. Miroslav Klose had several late chances but Lazio was handed its sixth loss in seven away matches.

Cyril Thereau scored twice, in-cluding an 81st-minute winner, as Udinese won 3-2 at Chievo Verona; and Carpi came from behind for a 2-1 victory at 10-man Genoa with Marco Borriello scoring one goal and setting up another for former Italy international Cristian Zaccardo.

Also, Hellas Verona remained winless after a 3-2 loss at Frosinone after goalkeeper Rafael was sent off near the start for elbowing an oppo-nent’s head. Matteo Ciofani scored twice for Frosinone, which moved

one point above the drop zone.There has been speculation that

Sassuolo’s Eusebio Di Francesco, who played on the Roma side that won Serie A in 2001, has already been lined up as a possible successor for Garcia. But Roma sporting direc-tor Walter Sabatini confirmed before Sunday’s match that the club plans to stick with Garcia long-term.

“Roma is not a failure, because it’s a construction project that is still being built,” Sabatini told Mediaset Premium. “We respect (Di Fran-cesco) but nobody has contacted him and nobody will because our manager is Garcia.”

While Roma’s attack has been unmatched in Italy, the squad is cur-rently without several key forwards

with Mohamed Salah, Gervinho and Francesco Totti all injured.

In defense, Kostas Manolas has often had to fend off attackers by himself with fellow center back An-tonio Rudiger struggling match after match. Leandro Castan, who is still regaining his form after brain surgery last year, replaced Rudiger in the starting lineup against Atalanta.

But it was the fullbacks who caused the biggest problems, with Digne gifting Atalanta’s first goal and Maicon’s penalty leading to the second. Roma ended with 10 men and Atalanta finished with only nine after Guglielmo Stendardo and Alberto Grassi were sent off near the end, as Giallorossi fans filled the Sta-dio Olimpico with whistles. (ap)

LONDON — It’s a sign of how dismal Chelsea’s Premier League title defense has been that Jose Mourinho called a draw at Tottenham the best performance of the season. A draw for Arsenal on Sunday at Norwich, though, left Arsene Wenger experiencing the same old frustrations.

Yet it is Arsenal sitting fourth in the Premier League — only two points behind front-runners Manchester City and Leicester — and Chelsea is 12 points further back in 14th place.

With Diego Costa dropped to the bench and Eden Hazard deployed as a false nine in the striker’s place, Chelsea left White Hart Lane with a 0-0 draw that at least gave the west London club three consecutive clean sheets in all competitions.

“We were the most dangerous team and we had the best chances,” said Mourinho, the Chelsea man-ager. “When we play as a team and when, especially, we defend as a team, the team is much bet-ter. Playing the way we played, I wouldn’t be surprised if in the next 10 matches we don’t lose one.”

Arsenal avoided defeat in drawing 1-1 at Norwich but missed a chance to join City and Leicester at the top having col-lected only two points from its last three games.

Arsenal was in a good posi-tion on the half-hour after Alexis Sanchez sent Mesut Ozil through to clip the ball into the net. But Lewis Grabban leveled before half time after easily brush-ing off Gabriel Paulista’s chal-

lenge in meeting Robbie Brady’s throughball.

“It was a naive goal maybe,” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said. “(Norwich) wanted it and they fought from the first to the final minute.”

And Arsenal’s injury list only lengthened. Defender Laurent Koscielny was replaced by Ga-briel barely 10 minutes into the game. Forward Alexis Sanchez was forced off on the hour with a thigh injury. Midfielder Santi Cazorla has a knee injury and “played on one leg in the final part of the second half,” accord-ing to Wenger.

“Overall we are frustrated,” Wenger said. “I think we were a bit jaded physically. You could see the penetration in the final third was no sharp enough, not incisive.”

Liverpool moved within four points of Arsenal as Juergen Klopp earned his first league win at Anfield since replacing Brendan Rodgers as manager in early October. James Milner’s second-half penalty secured the 1-0 victory over Swansea follow-ing Neil Taylor’s handball.

In east London, former Liver-pool striker came off the bench at West Ham and took only five minutes to score to give West Bromwich Albion a 1-1 draw. The shot, which deflected off defender Winston Reid, canceled out a free kick from Mauro Zarate.

West Ham is eighth and West Brom is 13th — three points ahead of Chelsea. (ap)

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Chelsea’s Diego Costa looks across the pitch before the English Premier League soccer match between Totten-ham Hotspur and Chelsea at White Hart Lane in London, Sunday Nov. 29, 2015.

Draws for both Arsenal, Chelsea but only

1 team is satisfied

Roma struggles defensively again; Juve wins 4th straight

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Roma’s Juan Iturbe, right, is challenged by Atalanta’s Luca Cig-arini during a Serie A soccer match between Roma and Atalanta, at Rome’s Olympic stadium, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2015.

PARIS — Defender Damien Da Silva scored twice as surprise package Caen climbed to second place in the French league with a 4-1 rout of Bordeaux on Sunday. Another defender scored another brace in Sunday’s late game, with Monaco right-back Almamy Toure finding the net twice in a 3-3 draw at Marseille.

Off to its best start ever in the first division, Caen made the most of Lyon’s 4-2 home loss to Montpellier on Friday to move two points clear off third-place Angers. Facing little competition this sea-

son on the domestic scene, Paris Saint-Germain has already built a 13-point lead after 15 rounds.

Caen exposed Bordeaux’s de-fensive frailties from the start, with defender Syam Ben Youssef putting the visitors ahead from the rebound following Ronny Rodelin’s volley in the 6th minute.

Da Silva then scored twice in the space of four minutes — 57th and 61st — before Andy Delort made it 4-0 on the counterattack.

Some dejected Bordeaux fans left the stadium after Gabonese midfielder Andre Biyogo Poko was

sent off for a second yellow card in the 80th and missed seeing Enzo Crivelli pull one back for the hosts in the 90th.

In Marseille, Monaco defender Fabio Coentrao — on loan from Real Madrid — gave the visi-tors a 3-2 lead with a header past goalkeeper Steve Mandanda but Georges-Kevin Nkoudou leveled with eight minutes left to play, connecting with a fluffed shot from Lucas Ocampos at the far post.

Romain Alessandrini had put the hosts in front after a scramble in the box and Michy Batshuayi

canceled Toure’s goals. Monaco is seventh with 24 points, five more than Marseille.

Earlier, Saint-Etienne carried its European form into the domestic league with a 3-0 win over Gu-ingamp and moved level on points with fourth-place Lyon.

After a tense first half marred by fouls from both sides, Romain Hamouma opened the scoring in the 52nd with a clean finish although Neal Maupay was in an offside position at the start of the move.

Valentin Eysseric sealed Saint-

Etienne’s first league win in three games three minutes from time from the penalty spot and Nolan Roux added one in injury time. Saint-Etienne, which advanced to the knockout phase of the Europa League midweek with a 1-1 draw at Rosenborg, has 25 points but a worse goal difference than bitter rival Lyon.

“We struggled in the first half because it was difficult to find space in Guingamp’s well-organized defensive lines,” Eysseric said. “It was easier after we scored our first goal.” (ap)

Caen climbs to 2nd in French league

AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos

Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale of Wales, right, fights for the ball with SD Eibar’s Ander Capa dur-ing their Spanish La Liga soccer match, at Ipurua stadium in Eibar, northern Spain, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2015. Real Madrid won the match 2-0.


BARCELONA — Gareth Bale scored his first goal in three months for Real Madrid before Cristiano Ronaldo added a penalty to secure a 2-0 win at Eibar on Sunday and end its two-game losing run in the Spanish league.

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Bale headed in Luka Modric’s cross two minutes before halftime, and Ronaldo converted a spot kick in the 82nd after a penalty was awarded when substitute Lucas Vazquez went down after slight contact with Dani Garcia.

Madrid’s win at Ipurua Stadium came after the team was heavily criticized for a loss at Sevilla and last weekend’s 4-0 defeat to Bar-celona. Madrid remained in third place, six points behind leader Barcelona and two points behind

Atletico Madrid after they both won on Saturday.

“We arrived here after going through some difficult moments, and we are all aware that we have to improve,” said Madrid goalkeeper Keylor Navas. “These are three important points that keep us in the title race.”

Ronaldo, who hadn’t escaped criticism from Madrid’s fans for the loss to Barcelona, spent most of

the game lamenting missed chances before he got his ninth league goal of the season from the spot.

Until the Portugal forward put the result beyond doubt, the hosts had matched Madrid’s talent with effort and constantly appeared threatening.

Eibar, which was missing in-jured top scorer Borja “Baston” Gonzalez and suspended forward Sergio “Keko” Gontan, slipped two spots into eighth place after only its third loss in 13 rounds.

“We played a good game in de-fense, but we needed to show more fire going forward,” said Eibar manager Jose Mendilibar.

While under-fire Madrid coach Rafa Benitez got some breathing room, Valencia manager Nuno Es-pirito Santo is set to step down after his team finished with nine-men in a 1-0 loss at Sevilla.

Espirito Santo said after the match that it “has been an honor” to coach Valencia and that he would meet with the club on Monday to finalize a decision that he said he had already discussed with owner Peter Lim.

Valencia captain Dani Parejo later said on Canal Plus television that Espirito Santo told his players that he was “resigning.”

Sevilla’s Sergio Escudero scored the winner in his debut, while Va-lencia self-destructed as it lost both Joao Cancelo in the first half and Javi Fuego in the second — both for two yellow cards.

Also, Aritz Aduriz scored a hat trick to lead Athletic Bilbao to a 3-0 rout at Rayo Vallecano, moving the Basque visitors up to seventh. With 10 goals this season, Aduriz

is third on the highest scorers list behind Barcelona duo Neymar (14) and Luis Suarez (12).

Elsewhere in the capital, Angel Lafita scored one goal and set up Alvaro Vazquez for another as Getafe beat sixth-place Villarreal 2-0 to move away from the relega-tion zone. At Eibar, Madrid was without injured defenders Marcelo, Sergio Ramos and Raphael Varane, and Benitez shifted Danilo over from his position on the right side to play at left back.

Eibar opted to pressure instead of sitting back and defending its area, producing an attractive, flow-ing match.

“We knew they were playing well, that they are an intense and aggressive team. That’s why the victory has more merit,” said Ben-itez. “We are in November. We have had injuries and the games are getting tougher. (But) we have a great team and we are going to keep fighting until the end.”

Eibar striker Sergi Enrich had the first scoring chance before Ronaldo’s chipped shot was saved by goalkeeper Asier Riesgo in the 15th. Eibar forced Modric into several ineffec-tive passes early. But when the Croatia midfielder had time to consider his cross after taking a corner kick, he curled in a pass to the near post for Bale to glance past Riesgo.

That was Bale’s first goal for Madrid since Aug. 29, when he scored his only other two goals this season in a 5-0 win over Real Betis in the second round. Bale had scored twice for Wales during his drought for the Spanish club. (ap)

ROME — Five days after a hu-miliating 6-1 rout by Barcelona in the Champions League, Roma’s de-fensive deficiencies were highlighted again in an alarming 2-0 loss at home to Atalanta in Serie A on Sunday.

Alejandro Gomez intercepted a poor pass from Roma defender Lu-cas Digne to score from outside the area before halftime. Then substitute fullback Maicon was sent off for trip-ping Gomez to set up a penalty for German Denis eight minutes from the end.

Roma remained fourth, wasting a chance to pull level with leader Inter Milan, which visits second-place Napoli on Monday. Four-time defending champion Juventus won 3-0 at Palermo for its fourth straight victory and moved into fifth, three points behind Roma.

Mario Mandzukic scored with a decisive header early in the second half to follow up another key goal in Juve’s 1-0 win over Manchester City in the Champions League. Paulo Dybala, facing his former squad for the first time after a 32 million euro ($34 million) transfer, provided the cross for Mandzukic’s goal.

Stefano Sturaro sealed it for Juventus from the edge of the area after being set up by Paul Pogba in the 89th and substitute Simone Zaza added another in stoppage time. Roma has scored a league-best 29 goals but has conceded 17 — more than twice as many as both Inter and Napoli.

Defense was also a problem in a 3-2 loss at BATE Borisov and a 4-4 draw with Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League — results that have put the status of coach Rudi Garcia in question.

“I’m not giving up. I’m disap-pointed and angry but I’m not used to giving up,” Garcia said. “We’re all responsible, me above all. ... It’s been an ugly week but I’m sure that behind the clouds the sky is blue.”

Elsewhere, Empoli beat Lazio 1-0 with an early goal from Lorenzo Tonelli. Miroslav Klose had several late chances but Lazio was handed its sixth loss in seven away matches.

Cyril Thereau scored twice, in-cluding an 81st-minute winner, as Udinese won 3-2 at Chievo Verona; and Carpi came from behind for a 2-1 victory at 10-man Genoa with Marco Borriello scoring one goal and setting up another for former Italy international Cristian Zaccardo.

Also, Hellas Verona remained winless after a 3-2 loss at Frosinone after goalkeeper Rafael was sent off near the start for elbowing an oppo-nent’s head. Matteo Ciofani scored twice for Frosinone, which moved

one point above the drop zone.There has been speculation that

Sassuolo’s Eusebio Di Francesco, who played on the Roma side that won Serie A in 2001, has already been lined up as a possible successor for Garcia. But Roma sporting direc-tor Walter Sabatini confirmed before Sunday’s match that the club plans to stick with Garcia long-term.

“Roma is not a failure, because it’s a construction project that is still being built,” Sabatini told Mediaset Premium. “We respect (Di Fran-cesco) but nobody has contacted him and nobody will because our manager is Garcia.”

While Roma’s attack has been unmatched in Italy, the squad is cur-rently without several key forwards

with Mohamed Salah, Gervinho and Francesco Totti all injured.

In defense, Kostas Manolas has often had to fend off attackers by himself with fellow center back An-tonio Rudiger struggling match after match. Leandro Castan, who is still regaining his form after brain surgery last year, replaced Rudiger in the starting lineup against Atalanta.

But it was the fullbacks who caused the biggest problems, with Digne gifting Atalanta’s first goal and Maicon’s penalty leading to the second. Roma ended with 10 men and Atalanta finished with only nine after Guglielmo Stendardo and Alberto Grassi were sent off near the end, as Giallorossi fans filled the Sta-dio Olimpico with whistles. (ap)

LONDON — It’s a sign of how dismal Chelsea’s Premier League title defense has been that Jose Mourinho called a draw at Tottenham the best performance of the season. A draw for Arsenal on Sunday at Norwich, though, left Arsene Wenger experiencing the same old frustrations.

Yet it is Arsenal sitting fourth in the Premier League — only two points behind front-runners Manchester City and Leicester — and Chelsea is 12 points further back in 14th place.

With Diego Costa dropped to the bench and Eden Hazard deployed as a false nine in the striker’s place, Chelsea left White Hart Lane with a 0-0 draw that at least gave the west London club three consecutive clean sheets in all competitions.

“We were the most dangerous team and we had the best chances,” said Mourinho, the Chelsea man-ager. “When we play as a team and when, especially, we defend as a team, the team is much bet-ter. Playing the way we played, I wouldn’t be surprised if in the next 10 matches we don’t lose one.”

Arsenal avoided defeat in drawing 1-1 at Norwich but missed a chance to join City and Leicester at the top having col-lected only two points from its last three games.

Arsenal was in a good posi-tion on the half-hour after Alexis Sanchez sent Mesut Ozil through to clip the ball into the net. But Lewis Grabban leveled before half time after easily brush-ing off Gabriel Paulista’s chal-

lenge in meeting Robbie Brady’s throughball.

“It was a naive goal maybe,” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said. “(Norwich) wanted it and they fought from the first to the final minute.”

And Arsenal’s injury list only lengthened. Defender Laurent Koscielny was replaced by Ga-briel barely 10 minutes into the game. Forward Alexis Sanchez was forced off on the hour with a thigh injury. Midfielder Santi Cazorla has a knee injury and “played on one leg in the final part of the second half,” accord-ing to Wenger.

“Overall we are frustrated,” Wenger said. “I think we were a bit jaded physically. You could see the penetration in the final third was no sharp enough, not incisive.”

Liverpool moved within four points of Arsenal as Juergen Klopp earned his first league win at Anfield since replacing Brendan Rodgers as manager in early October. James Milner’s second-half penalty secured the 1-0 victory over Swansea follow-ing Neil Taylor’s handball.

In east London, former Liver-pool striker came off the bench at West Ham and took only five minutes to score to give West Bromwich Albion a 1-1 draw. The shot, which deflected off defender Winston Reid, canceled out a free kick from Mauro Zarate.

West Ham is eighth and West Brom is 13th — three points ahead of Chelsea. (ap)

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Chelsea’s Diego Costa looks across the pitch before the English Premier League soccer match between Totten-ham Hotspur and Chelsea at White Hart Lane in London, Sunday Nov. 29, 2015.

Draws for both Arsenal, Chelsea but only

1 team is satisfied

Roma struggles defensively again; Juve wins 4th straight

AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca

Roma’s Juan Iturbe, right, is challenged by Atalanta’s Luca Cig-arini during a Serie A soccer match between Roma and Atalanta, at Rome’s Olympic stadium, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2015.

PARIS — Defender Damien Da Silva scored twice as surprise package Caen climbed to second place in the French league with a 4-1 rout of Bordeaux on Sunday. Another defender scored another brace in Sunday’s late game, with Monaco right-back Almamy Toure finding the net twice in a 3-3 draw at Marseille.

Off to its best start ever in the first division, Caen made the most of Lyon’s 4-2 home loss to Montpellier on Friday to move two points clear off third-place Angers. Facing little competition this sea-

son on the domestic scene, Paris Saint-Germain has already built a 13-point lead after 15 rounds.

Caen exposed Bordeaux’s de-fensive frailties from the start, with defender Syam Ben Youssef putting the visitors ahead from the rebound following Ronny Rodelin’s volley in the 6th minute.

Da Silva then scored twice in the space of four minutes — 57th and 61st — before Andy Delort made it 4-0 on the counterattack.

Some dejected Bordeaux fans left the stadium after Gabonese midfielder Andre Biyogo Poko was

sent off for a second yellow card in the 80th and missed seeing Enzo Crivelli pull one back for the hosts in the 90th.

In Marseille, Monaco defender Fabio Coentrao — on loan from Real Madrid — gave the visi-tors a 3-2 lead with a header past goalkeeper Steve Mandanda but Georges-Kevin Nkoudou leveled with eight minutes left to play, connecting with a fluffed shot from Lucas Ocampos at the far post.

Romain Alessandrini had put the hosts in front after a scramble in the box and Michy Batshuayi

canceled Toure’s goals. Monaco is seventh with 24 points, five more than Marseille.

Earlier, Saint-Etienne carried its European form into the domestic league with a 3-0 win over Gu-ingamp and moved level on points with fourth-place Lyon.

After a tense first half marred by fouls from both sides, Romain Hamouma opened the scoring in the 52nd with a clean finish although Neal Maupay was in an offside position at the start of the move.

Valentin Eysseric sealed Saint-

Etienne’s first league win in three games three minutes from time from the penalty spot and Nolan Roux added one in injury time. Saint-Etienne, which advanced to the knockout phase of the Europa League midweek with a 1-1 draw at Rosenborg, has 25 points but a worse goal difference than bitter rival Lyon.

“We struggled in the first half because it was difficult to find space in Guingamp’s well-organized defensive lines,” Eysseric said. “It was easier after we scored our first goal.” (ap)

Caen climbs to 2nd in French league

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Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale of Wales, right, fights for the ball with SD Eibar’s Ander Capa dur-ing their Spanish La Liga soccer match, at Ipurua stadium in Eibar, northern Spain, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2015. Real Madrid won the match 2-0.


BARCELONA — Gareth Bale scored his first goal in three months for Real Madrid before Cristiano Ronaldo added a penalty to secure a 2-0 win at Eibar on Sunday and end its two-game losing run in the Spanish league.

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Nowadays, at this Jungutbatu village has even been formed a group that provide services for mangrove boat tour. Like a public transport, 34 members coalesced into the group also have a queue number when being in operation. “We recruit all the seaweed farm-ers because they have a sampan. Initially we did not use a queue, but

we then try to negotiate about our future. From the idea, we establish a well-organized group,” said the Mangrove Tour Management As-sistant, Gede Adnyana.

Currently, each community has the initiative to promote mangrove tour to travelers. Now, the mangrove tours continue to grow in line with the rapid development of tourism at

Lembongan. At this moment more travelers are escorted by freelance tour guides than supplied by dive cruise dropping in on the island. “Ev-ery day at least 10 to 25 sampans take mangrove tour. During high season, we are definitely overwhelmed,” said Adnyana. He said that during June-July, this featured object is much visited by domestic travelers, while in August is dominated by foreign trav-elers. Rates are subject to a minimum of IDR 100,000 per sampan with a maximum of four passengers.

Conservation activities in the mangrove area of Jungutbatu are done seriously. Each group members

is routinely required to clean up the mangrove area and make the area look like ever before. On the other hand, the groups or surrounding communities also never cleared the mangrove to make the tour path. In other words, these routes are still natural because it looks like ever be-fore. “If they do not join the cleanup, they will be imposed with a fine of IDR 5,000,” said Adnyana.

Group members seem to have understood about the mangrove conservation. Nyoman Sudiaya, for example, clearly mentions some benefits of the mangrove forests. Actually, the owner of the line num-

ber 31 has now been half a century old. “It functions to prevent tsunami and high waves because high waves once occurred here. Besides, it also becomes the native home to fish and crabs,” said Sudiaya doubling as a seaweed farmer. Considering the vital function of the mangrove, Sudiaya and local residents finally comply with the government rules that prohibit the clearing of man-groves for firewood. “Now, people are not allowed to take firewood here, to prevent waves. Anybody taking the firewood here can be imposed with a fine of IDR 100 million,” he continued. (kmb)

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Mangrove tour at Jungutbatu VillageSEMARAPURA - Since the year 2000 Jungutbatu village

community on the Island of Nusa Lembongan, Klungkung of-fers a mangrove tour to travelers. Foreign and domestic travel-ers are taken around to mangrove forest by riding a sampan. This destination can be reached from Sanur and Benoa Harbor by a cruise ship or fast boat.

DUcATI never really recovered from its 2015 MotoGP bike hit-ting the track later than its rivals, reckons general manager Gigi Dall’Igna.

While Honda and Yamaha’s 2015 bikes were testing from the summer of ‘14, Ducati’s decision to go for a bike Dall’Igna described as “95 per cent different” to its GP14 meant its GP15 Desmosedici did not appear until the Sepang tests in February this year.

Although Ducati then got off to a very strong start - fighting for victory in the season-opening Qatar Grand Prix and taking six podiums in the first six races, its subsequent struggles were a consequence of its hurried winter, Dall’Igna believes.

“We arrived quite late with the new bike, so we had a lot of mate-rial to test,” he said. “We did it during the race weekends and not during the tests, so it was not easy to understand very well which were the best solutions. “Sometimes we lost our way.”

Dall’Igna believes an inconsis-

tent 2015 - which picked up again in the closing races - was a price worth paying as Ducati tried to lift itself out of a long-running slump. The team has not won a MotoGP race since Casey Stoner’s triumph in the 2010 Australian GP.

The two-time MotoGP cham-pion will rejoin the team next year as a test rider to support Andrea Dovizioso and Andrea Iannone.

“Frankly speaking, we came back in a reasonable way so we didn’t lose a lot of time, but we cre-ated some problems for ourselves during the first part of the season,” he said. “The others made a step, above all Yamaha, but I don’t think that was the main reason [that Ducati fell back].

“When we were in trouble, we were working quite hard to try to catch our competition, and I think it’s quite normal that when you do this you cannot be consistent.

“In some races you can fight, some other races you have some problems. “I think this is normal during the development you have to do.” (rtr) IBP/ist

Late start to programme costly, Ducati admits

Bryant announced Sunday that he will retire after this season, ending a landmark 20-year NBA career spent entirely with Los Angeles. He was serenaded with cheers throughout the struggling Lakers’ 107-103 loss to Indi-ana, beginning his farewell tour through the league with a clear mind and a burgeoning curiosity about his next chapter.

“I had to just accept the fact that I don’t want to do this any-more, and I’m OK with that,” the dry-eyed, smiling Bryant said after the game. The 37-year-old Bryant made the long-anticipated declaration in a post on The Play-ers’ Tribune on Sunday, writing a poem titled “Dear Basketball.”

“My heart can take the pound-ing. My mind can handle the grind. But my body knows it’s time to say goodbye,” wrote Bryant, the third-leading scorer in NBA history. “And that’s OK. I’m ready to let you go. I want you to know now. So we both can savor every moment we have left together. The good and the bad. We have given each other all that we have.”

When the Lakers hosted the Indiana Pacers on Sunday night, fans expecting an unremarkable

regular-season game for the struggling home team instead received a letter from Bryant in a black envelope embossed with gold. “What you’ve done for me is far greater than anything I’ve done for you,” Bryant wrote. “I knew that each minute of each game I wore purple and gold.”

The theatricality of Bryant’s announcement fit a dramatic ca-reer that has included five cham-pionship rings and 17 All-Star selections during two decades with the Lakers, giving him the longest tenure with one team in NBA history.

Bryant went straight from high school in suburban Philadelphia to his favorite childhood team in 1996. He became the top scorer in Lakers history with offensive creativity and resourceful athleti-cism that inspired the generation of fans and players who missed Michael Jordan’s peak, but grew up on the dynamic exploits of the Lakers’ latest superstar.

“Kobe was my Jordan,” said Southern California native Paul George, who scored 39 points for Indiana to beat the Lakers after Bryant missed a late 3-pointer to tie it. “Watching him win champi-onships when I was growing up,

that’s who I idolized. That was the standard.”

But Bryant’s last three seasons have ended early due to injuries, and he played in only 41 games over the previous two years. He has struggled mightily in the first 16 games of this season with mostly young teammates on a rebuilding roster, making a career-worst 32 percent of his shots and dealing with pain and exhaustion every day. Yet to Bry-ant, the current state of his game is no tragedy.

“There’s so much beauty in the pain of this thing,” Bryant said. “It sounds really weird to say that, but I appreciate the really, really tough times as much as I appreciate the great times. It’s important to go through that pro-gression, because I think that’s where you really learn about the self.”

In recent months, Bryant re-peatedly said he didn’t know whether he would play another season, clearly hoping for a rebound in his health and the Lakers’ fortunes. Neither has happened, and the ever-impatient Bryant didn’t wait any longer to decide his future.

“Kobe Bryant is one of the greatest players in the history of our game,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said. “Whether com-peting in the Finals or hoisting jump shots after midnight in an empty gym, Kobe has an uncondi-tional love for the game.” (ap)

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Indiana Pacers guard George Hill, center, embraces Los An-geles Lakers forward Kobe Bryant, right, after defeating the Lakers during an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, Sun-day, Nov. 29, 2015. Bryant announced before the game that he would retire at the end of the season.

Kobe Bryant says he will retire at end of seasonLOS ANGELES — After 20 years in a Lakers uniform and

a lifetime in basketball, Kobe Bryant determined that his aching body and his passion for the game had both grown weaker than his excitement about the future. That’s when Kobe decided he could only wait a few more months to begin his life after the Lakers.

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Ferry operator Batamfast called out two other ferries that rescued all 90 passengers and seven crew and took them back to the Nongsapura ferry terminal in Batam, Singa-

pore’s Maritime and Port Authority said in an emailed statement.

The authority said early on Monday it had received a report of the incident on the ‘Sea Prince’

at 9:45 p.m. on Sunday (1345 GMT).

A passenger, Chella Ho, said the ferry started sinking slowly in deep water and passengers were loaded into two inflatable boats but those boats also sank because they were overloaded, TV news network Channel News Asia re-ported. (rtr)

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A worker puts the final touch to a 33-metre tall mock Christmas tree decorated with hun-dreds of cakes in a Jakarta shopping mall in this November 28, 2008 file photo. Indonesia is expected to release inflation numbers this week.

BANJARMASIN - General Manager of state-owned airport operator PT Angkasa Pura I of Ban-jarmasin branch Handy said tender for the expansion of the Sjamsudin Noor airport of Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, could be held in De-cember.

“Hopefully, it could be a reality that work could start immediately to expand and modernize the airport,” Handy told the regional legislator in

a working meeting on Monday. The airport project leader

Taochid said construction could start only in February 2016 as the process of tender could take 40 days before the winner is an-nounced. Taochid said expansion of the airport into an international class airport would be divided into two packages - first package for passenger terminal and package II for supporting infrastructure to cost

trillions of rupiahs.“Considering the situation and

condition, it is likely that work would start with the second pack-age,” he said.

Earlier, acting secretary of the city administration H Said Abdullah said there was no more problem in land clearing for the airport project.

Therefore, PT Angkasa Pura I could start work to expand the air-port, Said Abdullah said. (ant)

SURABAYA - Vice President Jusuf Kalla has instructed the mem-bers of the Indonesian Civil Servants Corps (KORPRI) to improve efficiency of the bureaucratic process.

“Accelerate bureaucratic reforms at all levels. Initiate bureau-cratic reforms with no strings attached, and look for breakthroughs and new ways to avoid the ‘business as usual’,” Kalla stated in a speech to mark the 44th anniversary of KORPRI in Surabaya, East Java, on Monday.

According to the vice president, bureaucracy should be improved from upstream to downstream with regard to the outlook of person-nel, institutional and management institutions.

The vice president called for improvements to create an effective and efficient bureaucracy and to serve the society better.

In his speech, Kalla highlighted the need for the bureaucratic ap-paratus to build a positive mindset, integrity, and a spirit of mutual cooperation.

All institutions need to prepare themselves to make the bureaucra-cy dynamic, innovative, and responsive at all times, he affirmed.

“Remove all bureaucratic complexities, and ensure that the people receive the best service with high quality,” he noted.

In addition, the vice president urged to change the working mechanism of bureaucracy into a system of electronic government, or e-government. (ant)

Korpri should improve efficiency of bureaucratic process

Indonesia ferry hits trouble on way to

Singapore, 97 rescuedSINGAPORE - Almost 100 people were rescued when a ferry

sailing towards Singapore from the Indonesian island of Batam hit a floating object and reportedly started to sink, authorities in the city-state said.

Tender for expansion of Banjarmasin Airport expected next month

HELSINKI — Officials say that more than 35,000 people were without electricity in Sweden on Monday after a storm battered southern Scandinavia, damaging buildings, toppling trees, cancel-ing trains and closing bridge links between Denmark and Sweden.

Danish meteorologist John Cap-

pelen said the storm had wind speeds of up to 130 kilometers per hour (80 mph) with gusts reach-ing 165 kph. It hit Denmark late Sunday and blew over the region in about four hours, narrowly avoid-ing Norway.

Swedish utilities said that up to 75,000 customers were without

power during the storm. There were no early reports of casualties.

Cappelen said the storm weak-ened slightly as it headed northeast toward Finland and Estonia, where ferries were canceled. High winds disrupted cargo and passenger ships in Lithuania and blew off roofs in Latvia. (ap)

The gathering of 151 heads of state and government comes at a somber time for France, two weeks after militants linked to the Islamic State group killed 130 people around Paris. Fears of more attacks have prompted extra-high security and a crackdown on environmental protests — and threaten to eclipse longer-term concerns about rising seas and

increasingly extreme weather linked to man-made global warming.

“The challenge of an international meeting has never been so great be-cause it’s the future of the planet, the future of life,” French President Fran-cois Hollande said after a moment of silence for attack victims in France, Lebanon, Iraq, Tunisia and Mali.

“There are two big global chal-

lenges that we must face,” he added, urging leaders to create a world free from both environmental destruction and extremist violence.

Many of the leaders paid their respects at sites linked to the attacks on their way to the conference. President Barack Obama, in a late-night visit, placed a single flower outside the concert hall where dozens were killed, and bowed his head in silence.

“We stand with Paris,” said U.N. climate change agency chief Chris-tina Figueres said at talks near Le Bourget airfield, just north of the city. “The city of light, now more

than ever, is a beacon of hope for the world.”

On Sunday, hundreds of thousands of people rallied around the world, calling on the leaders to make real progress at the talks. Violence erupted after one peaceful demonstration in Paris, and hundreds of people were arrested. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon took note of the protests in his opening remarks.

“The future of the people of the world, the future of our planet, is in your hands,” Ban told negotia-tors. “We cannot afford indecision, half measures or merely gradual approaches. Our goal must be a transformation.”

Ban, Hollande and other leaders called for a binding agreement and emphasized the role of private industry and money in solving what Hollande called “the climate crisis.” They said the world must keep future warming to no more than another degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) from now, and if possible half that to spare island nations threatened by rising seas.

The world has already warmed nearly 1 degree Celsius since the beginning of the industrial age, and 181 nations have made pledges to combat man-made carbon dioxide pollution. The negotiators are tasked with building a global treaty by the end of next week.

“We just have 11 short days before us,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said as he took over as presi-dent of the negotiations. “Success is not yet assured, but it is within our grasp... The eyes of the world are upon us and there are great hopes.”

Added the outgoing president, Pe-ruvian Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal: “We can show to the world that we can work together against climate change and against global terrorism.”

Wide Paris-area highways usu-ally packed with commuters were cordoned off to clear the way for

all the VIPs. Riot police vans and plainclothes officers were stationed around the capital and by the national stadium, one of the targets of the Nov. 13 attacks that is near the climate conference venue. The conference is aimed at the most far-reaching deal ever to tackle global warming. The last major agreement, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, required only rich countries to cut emissions, and the U.S. never signed on.

Among several sticking points is money — how much rich countries should invest to help poor countries cope with climate change, how much should be invested in renewable energy, and how much traditional oil and gas producers stand to lose if countries agree to forever reduce emissions.

With that in mind, at least 19 governments and 28 leading world investors were announcing billions of dollars in investments to research and develop clean energy technology, with the goal of making it cheaper. Backers include Obama, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, billion-aires George Soros and Saudi Prince Alaweed bin Talal, and Jack Ma of China’s Alibaba.

Under the initiative, 19 countries pledge to double their spending on low- or no-carbon energy over the next five years. They currently spend about $10 billion a year, about half of that from the U.S., Brian Deese, senior adviser to Obama on climate and energy issues, told reporters in Washington.

Gates, the “intellectual architect” of the effort, committed $1 billion of his own money, U.S. Energy Secre-tary Ernest Moniz said.

“We’ll work to mobilize support to help the most vulnerable countries expand clean energy and adapt to the effects of climate change we can no longer avoid,” Obama wrote on his Facebook page. (ap)

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A house destroyed by high winds in Helsingborg, southern Sweden Monday, Nov. 30, 2015.

Storm damages buildings, cancels transport in Sweden, Denmark,

heading for Baltics, Finland

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U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and French President Francois Hollande pay their respect at the Bataclan concert hall, one of the recent deadly Paris attack sites, after Obama arrived in the French capital to attend the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21), Monday, Nov. 30, 2015.

Leaders of a warming Earth rethink global energy in ParisLE BOURGET, France — Addressing the twin threats of

global warming and extremist violence, the largest group of world leaders ever to stand together kicked off two weeks of high-stakes climate talks outside Paris on Monday, saying that by striking an ambitious deal to cut emissions they can show terrorists what countries can achieve when they are united.

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Soon after taking office nearly three years ago, Abe launched a three-pronged recovery strategy focused on reviving the world’s No. 3 economy through strong public spending, massive monetary easing and sweeping reforms of a post-war industrial structure that is not deliv-ering the growth and productivity gains seen in the past.

The so-called “Abenomics” poli-cies have weakened the yen, help-ing to fatten corporate earnings and share prices and have made some headway in countering deflation.

With the economy in its second recession since Abe took office, the appeals to big business to share more of its wealth have gained urgency.

“This issue comes down to a chicken and egg situation,” Kuroda told business leaders Monday in Nagoya, the heart of Japan’s thriv-ing auto industry.

“Taking actions now is a pre-requisite for firms to be among the winners in the future,” said BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda, arguing that companies could afford to weather a slight downturn given their recent “extremely high” profits.

Katsunobu Kato, an Abe ally who recently was appointed to head his campaign to counter the falling birth rate, voiced a similar appeal.

“There is a limit to what govern-ment can do. We are expecting the private sector to help,” said Kato, who is tasked with ensuring the country’s population does not fall

below 100 million, from the current 126 million.

Kato also acknowledged that the ambitious reforms Abe has proposed will take “a fair amount of time.”

In the meantime, he urged com-panies to raise wages faster, in-crease permanent hiring of tem-porary workers, and invest more at home rather than in foreign factories and acquisitions, to ensure a “positive economic cycle led by private-sector demand.”

China’s slowdown has reverber-ated in Japan, contributing to a 0.8 percent contraction in GDP in the July-September quarter.

The government said last week it will draft a supplementary bud-get and provide cash handouts to pensioners to help spur consumer spending.

Data released Monday, although weaker than hoped, suggest Japan may be emerging from recession.

Factory output fell 1.4 percent in October from a year earlier as pro-duction of chemicals, nonferrous metals and telecoms equipment dropped. But production rose from the month before for the second straight month.

Kuroda, in assessing the econo-my, repeatedly pointed to China as a persisting risk. But he remained up-beat, saying the recovery was intact and reassuring his listeners that the BOJ will adapt its monetary policy to ensure Japan moves toward 2 percent inflation. (ap)

TOKYO - The euro headed south on Monday as traders bet that the European Central Bank will open up the monetary stimulus taps, while key US jobs data were also in focus.

A solid reading for the employ-ment figures on Friday would likely add to already strong expectations that the Federal Reserve will go

ahead with raising near-zero inter-est rates.

As policymakers from the US central bank get ready for a rate hike, the ECB appears set to move in the opposite direction with extra stimulus to boost growth in the struggling eurozone economy.

The measures could be unveiled as early as Thursday when it holds

its latest policy meeting.“After last week’s doldrums, this

week’s agenda will come as a shock to the system,” Raiko Shareef, currency strategist at the Bank of New Zealand, said in an email to clients.

“Front of mind will be the ECB’s policy decision. The US employ-ment reports will garner interest,

but only a disastrous result would likely derail the (Fed policy board) from raising rates next month.”

The euro weakened to $1.0584 in Tokyo on Monday from $1.0595 Friday in New York, fuelling specu-lation it could fall toward parity with the US unit for the first time since 2002.

The 19-nation single currency

also eased to 129.90 yen from 130.14 yen in US trade.

“Euro selling will see its climax going into the ECB meeting, with a knee-jerk reaction to the outcome possibly sending it to new lows for the year close to $1.03,” Daisuke Karakama, chief market economist at Mizuho Bank, told Bloomberg News. (afp)

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In this Nov. 29, 2014 photo, a factory near the tracks of freight trains is seen at night in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo. Japan’s central bank governor and other officials are stepping up appeals to cash-rich corporations to do more to boost the country’s faltering economic recovery.

Euro weak ahead of hotly-anticipated ECB meeting

Japan leaders in SOS to cash cow companies as recovery lags

TOKYO — Japan’s central bank governor and other officials are stepping up appeals to cash-rich corporations to do more to boost the country’s faltering economic recovery. The flurry of comments aimed squarely at business leaders coincide with a push by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to attack broader trends slowing Japan’s growth: a shrinking and aging population and a corporate culture light on work-life balance and heavy on overwork.

Chief Executive of the Karan-gasem Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), Ida Ketut Arimbawa, said that based on information from the national weather service (BMKG) Denpasar, the peak of rainy season will be preceded by initial rainy season in the second ten days of November this year. However, the early rain occurred unevenly because it only occurred in some regions.

Particularly in Karangasem, it does not rain at all. Other than Karangasem, a number of areas in Bali such as Jembrana, Southern Tabanan and Northern Badung are also mentioned by the BMKG to face delay of rainy season up to 50 days. Actually, it must have rained in these regions on the first ten days of October. However, it is estimated to rain at the end of this November.

On that account, the anticipation against the impacts of droughts and

the beginning of rainy season has been made by the BPBD Karan-gasem. To anticipate the impact of drought, the delivery of clean water to the areas facing water crisis re-main to be done every week. To an-ticipate the impact of rainy season, his agency has issued a circular to every agency up to the village level in Karangasem.

I.B. Ketut Arimbawa added that based on the letter issued by the BMKG Denpasar dated November 12 forwarded to the BPBD, as the anticipation against the transition of this season, the BMKG reminded to watch out for sporadic strong winds, lightning and heavy rain. In addition, high waves as the impact of strong winds must be alerted. The BPBD is also asked to anticipate landslides, floods and fallen trees with garden arrangement and prun-ing of trees. Then, for anticipation of lightning disturbance on house-

hold appliance, should there be a dark cloud people are suggested to immediately disconnect the external television antenna if the lightning protection system is not ascertained to run well.

To note, the disaster-prone index of Karangasem is relatively high in Bali. Karangasem is ranked second in Bali after Buleleng. Buleleng is ranked 72nd out of 494 districts based on the monitoring of the Na-tional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) in Indonesia, while Karan-gasem is ranked 91st. Karangasem with the majority of its territory in the form of hills, 67 percent of the area is prone to landslides. These conditions make the BPBD Karan-gasem fully alert ahead of rainy season to anticipate the occurrence of natural disasters like landslides, flooding and fallen trees.

Potential of landslides is scat-tered throughout all the subdistricts. However, Sidemen subdistrict (10 villages) and Selat (8 villages) become the most vulnerable areas. The data of the BPBD Karangasem indicate that all villages in both sub-districts are potentially threatened by landslides. (kmb31)NEGARA - After being dormant

for some periods, the makepung lampit or buffalo race in wet paddy field and drawing farming tool begins to be encouraged by the community as in the event held on Sunday (Nov. 29) at Subak Peh Kangin, Kaliakah. Now, the buffalo attraction in paddy fields ahead of planting season has been endorsed by local government as makepung. However, the attraction also fknown as makepung betenan and previously intended for the beauty of movement in the mud only is now contested. At least 18 pairs of buffaloes from around the location showed off their capabili-ties.

Though it has been long prac-ticed, this makepung lampit is still overshadowed by makepung held in ordinary circuit. So far, only particular travelers like photogra-phers are looking for the moment of shooting when the buffaloes are moving over the mud.

Buffalo Race Coordinator of West Ijogading, Made Mara, said that the makepung lampit remains under the coordination of the makepung in general. However, the member has not been as many as that of makepung in land circuit that has existed for many years and has made two blocks, namely the West Ijogading and East Ijogading. “We

expect the members will increase and the makepung lampit can also go international,” he said while being accompanied by Chief of Makepung Lampit, Ketut Nuraga.

Mara added that so far the ordi-nary makepung has 300-400 par-ticipants with a number of circuits in several subdistricts. Mara also hoped that makepung lampit can also grow and has a permanent circuit anyway. Moreover, this kind of attraction cannot be found any-where. Preferably, this makepung lampit is also made an annual event, so that the schedule of the attraction is definite.

Regional Secretary of Jem-brana, I Gede Gunadnya, stated that makepung lampit that has become so popular within the past few years will be put into special agenda. If necessary, it will be equipped with infrastructure and supporting facili-ties to shore up this native tourism potential to Jembrana.

Adverse weather condition will not become a problem to transform paddy field into the arena of makepung. Very dry paddy field can be transformed into an arena full of water with the help of water from artesian well. The arena covering an area of approximately 3,000 square meters was thronged by specta-tors around it. (kmb26)

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Makepung lampit put into agenda

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The drought which happen in Karangasem make the residents difficult to find water.

Peak of rainy season lasts in January-February 2016

AMLAPURA - The rain predicted to fall in the end of No-vember seems incorrect. Karangasem with 92 percent of dry territory is increasingly made barren by prolonged dry season until the end of November. Moreover, the dry season may last longer because the peak of rainy season is predicted to occur in January-February next year.

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The Syrian woman hastily woke her children, stuffed their belong-ings into plastic bags, and took them out into the cold to wait — worried about what was coming next after weeks of heartbreak being shunted from one squalid refugee center to another.

“Will it be better, will it be worse?” Reem Habashieh, the family’s eldest daughter, recalled thinking. “Every time we get moved to a new, unknown place we have this twisted pain in our stomachs because we don’t know what’s go-ing to happen.”

The Habashiehs — 44-year-old mother Khawla Kareem; 19-year-old Reem; sons Mohammed, 18, and Yaman, 15; and 11-year-old daughter Raghad — fled the war in Syria in August when fighting hit their neighborhood in Damascus. The journey took them across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded dinghy to Greece, on a grueling trek north across the Balkans with hundreds of thousands of other migrants, and finally a last leg in a trafficker’s minibus to the promised land of Germany’s capital.

Berlin dazzled them with its cosmopolitan splendor but the elation didn’t last: Soon they were sent to the underdeveloped east, where racism and neo-Nazi activity remain rife.

The Habashiehs are among an unprecedented wave of asylum seekers — about 950,000 so far which means there will probably be more than 1 million by year’s end — who have come to this rich coun-try seeking a fresh start. Cities and towns across Germany are strug-gling to keep up with the massive demand for accommodation, and officials have been working over-time to handle the huge backlogs of asylum applications. It doesn’t always run so smoothly.

Since their initial arrival in Germany, the Habashiehs have been put up in four temporary housing facilities throughout eastern Germany. Far-right thugs have spewed hatred at them. Their days have been filled with squalor in overcrowded asy-lum centers, and soul-sapping boredom as days of indolence blend one into the other. The Paris attacks now raise fears of a backlash against Syrian migrants, even though, Reem said, she and other refugees thought of the per-petrators as “sick terrorists using their fake Islam as cover.”

The family’s rushed departure last month from the town of He-idenau did not have an auspicious beginning. The taxi took them to yet another temporary shelter in the gritty eastern city of Chemnitz — it

was a former prison.Still, they were happy because

they got a room of their own again and didn’t have to sleep in a big hall with hundreds of other migrants. Last week, the family was told they would be transferred once more — again with no information.

The Habashiehs ended up in Zwickau, a small city of 90,000 near the Czech border in eastern Germany, where they were brought to a neighborhood of endless com-munist-era, prefabricated concrete apartment buildings.

It looked grim, but things sud-denly got a lot brighter: A friendly social worker gave them the keys to their own apartment, explaining how to separate the garbage into three different bins. He cautioned them to keep the sound down be-tween 1 and 3 p.m. in the afternoon — post-lunch nap time — and after 10 p.m., in line with German noise regulations. The Habashiehs had a new home.

The best news of all was that the two youngest kids would be able to start school, while Khawla Kareem, Reem and Mohammed would enroll in a daily intensive language class at the city’s community college.

Even Yaman, the 15-year-old boy, who had been withdrawn and quiet since their arrival in Germany, suddenly cheered up.

“I’m happy ... We’re indepen-dent again,” the teenager said, as he carefully straightened out blue-checkered blankets on the metal beds in the room he shares with his brother. (ap)

BANGKOK — Soldiers and police in military-run Thailand detained two top leaders of the anti-government Red Shirt movement Monday as they were set to visit a park celebrating past Thai kings that’s at the center of a corruption scandal linked to the army.

Thai television channels showed video of Nattawut Saikua and Jatuporn Prompan being taken into a van after being seized while talking to reporters in a suburb of Bangkok about their planned trip to Rajabhakti Park, near the sea-side town of Hua Hin. An assistant to Nattawut, who witnessed the incident but declined to give his name for fear of harassment from the authorities, said the men were taken away with no word on where they were going.

The military, which seized pow-er in a May 2014 coup, has denied financial wrongdoing related to the park, built under its auspices on army land and featuring giant statues of seven past Thai kings.

Two senior officers have been accused of wrongdoing, including kickbacks and the diversion of

funds contributed to the project, which has been described as costing 1 billion baht ($28 million).

Junta spokesman Col. Winthai Suvaree said the military viewed the two men’s plans to visit the park as “an obvious political movement which started to stir up the public and could lead to turmoil.”

Maj. Gen. Kongcheep Tan-trawanich, a Defense Ministry spokesman, said the two men had “only been invited for a talk,” because the authorities feared there could be a clash at the park between Red Shirt supporters and opponents. He declined to specify where they were being held or how long they would be detained for.

The ruling junta often calls in its public critics for what it calls “at-titude adjustment,” which can last for several hours or several days. It is usually carried out at military bases, with the detainees’ locations kept secret.

The park affair has been a public relations disaster for the military government, for which cleaning up corruption has been one of its major rationales for holding power. (ap)

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Red Shirt leader Nattawut Saikua, center, is taken to a van by Thai soldiers in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand, Monday, Nov. 30, 2015.

Thai opposition figures detained ahead of scandal

park visit


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In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015, Syrian refugee Reem Habashieh goes shopping in a Arabian shop in Zwickau, eastern Germany.

ZWICKAU, Germany — Just before dawn, a worker shook the matriarch of the refugee family out of sleep at their asylum center in a depressed German town. “Get up and pack your belongings,” the woman said curtly. “A taxi will come in an hour and take you away.”

SEMARAPURA - The day after Saraswati, knob as Banyu Pinaruh saw a number of ports in Nusa Penida thronged with people crossing back over to Kusamba, Klungkung and Sanur. The crowds of people were composed of Nusa Penidians who had returned to their native island for Saraswati celebrations which also coincided with the piodalan (temple anniversaries) for their calm or vil-lage temples.

Thousands of native Nusa Penidians live in Denpasar and surrounding areas, in fact half of Nusa Penida’s locals live outside the island. and thus return home for temple celebrations, as they did last Sunday (Nov. 29).

Ganga Express manager I Nyoman Landep, when met at the Sampalan tradi-tional port on Sunday, said that the surge in passengers that occurred on Saraswati day was more than o the occasion of the pioda-lan for Pura Penataran Ped. “From early in the morning, people were already lining up to make a reservation, The number of pas-sengers was more than during the piodalan at Pura Penataran or even during Galungan festivities,” said Landep who added that his boat company provided 12 trips that day, compared to the usual 3 per day.

According to one passenger from Karang hamlet, Pejukutan, named I Wayan Jana, half of all of Nusa Penida’s family, clan or vil-lage temple piodalan celebrations coincided with Saraswati Day. So all the native Nusa Penidians returned home to celebrate. “Even though I got here early, I was only able to get a seat not eh 11th boat crossing. But it is quite alright, the important this is that I can cross over to Nusa Penida,” he explained.

Other fleets of boats also felt the impact of the surge in passengers. For example, Sekar Jaya Marine and Mola-Mola Express, that serve different points of departure (Sanur and Tribuana respectively), added three extra crossings each. (dwa)

BANGLI - On the occasion of Banyupinaruh, thousands of pilgrims flocked from all all over Bali flocked to Tirata Sudamala in Sedi Hamlet, Bebalang on Sunday (Nov. 29), to do a melukat (water purification rite). Chief of the Tu-nas Mekar customary youth club of Sedit hamlet, Kadek Sukma Pigata, said that people not only form Bangli but from other areas as well, starting coming to Tirta Suda-mala to perform the banyupinaruh melukat rite starting at 4 o’clock in the morning.

Admittedly, he said that the increase in the number of visitors on Banyupinaruh is very dramatic when compared to normal days. In

response to the overflow of visitors, almost all the members of the youth club as well as the local pecalang (customary security guards) had to do parking lot duty to direct people to park in the village once the main paroling lot was full” he said. As in previous years the pilgrims continued to arrive until the late afternoon.

Tirta Sudamala has becom-ing more and more popular with Balines people over the last few years. There are several springs here that are channels into “shower heads” that pilgrims bath in as a way to eliminate negativity from their aura and are particularly sought after during holidays like

Banyupinaruh.There are a total of nine “show-

er heads” at Tirta Sudamala that represent the Dewata Nawa Sanga or deities of the nine directions. There are also two other “shower heads” who water drops about 2 meters, that are believed to be the purification showers of the angels. These two showers are intended for people that have just completed their tooth filling ceremony.

Apart from serving as a place rid ones aura of negative energy, Tirta Sudamala is also appreciated for the natural massage therapy that the falling water provides while people do their melukat. (kmb40)

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M<any people come to Tirta Sudamala for Melukat Ritual

Thousands of pilgrims go to Tirta SudamalaIBP/Dewa Farend

The crowded people are seen on Nusa Penida harbor

Masses of people cross over to Bali on Banyu Pinaruh

14 InternationalScienceTuesday, December 1, 2015 3International Bali News Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Some differences can be measured: de-grees on a thermometer, trillions of tons of melting ice, a rise in sea level of a couple of inches. Epic weather disasters, including punishing droughts, killer heat waves and monster storms, have plagued Earth.

As a result, climate change is seen as a more urgent and concrete problem than it was last time.

“At the time of Kyoto, if someone talked about climate change, they were talking about something that was abstract in the fu-ture,” said Marcia McNutt, the former U.S. Geological Survey director who was picked to run the National Academies of Sciences. “Now, we’re talking about changing climate, something that’s happening now. You can point to event after event that is happening in the here and now that is a direct result of changing climate.”

Other, nonphysical changes since 1997 have made many experts more optimistic than in previous climate negotiations.

For one, improved technology is point-ing to the possibility of a world weaned from fossil fuels, which emit heat-trapping gases. Businesses and countries are more

serious about doing something, in the face of evidence that some of science’s worst-case scenarios are coming to pass.

“I am quite stunned by how much the Earth has changed since 1997,” Princeton University’s Bill Anderegg said in an email. “In many cases (e.g. Arctic sea ice loss, forest die-off due to drought), the speed of climate change is proceeding even faster than we thought it would two decades ago.”

Eighteen years ago, the discussion was far more about average temperatures, not the freakish extremes. Now, scientists and others realize it is in the more frequent extremes that people are truly experiencing climate change.

Witness the “large downpours, floods, mudslides, the deeper and longer droughts, rising sea levels from the melting ice, forest fires,” former Vice President Al Gore, who helped negotiate the 1997 agreement, told The Associated Press. “There’s a long list of events that people can see and feel viscer-ally right now. Every night in the television news is like a nature hike through the Book of Revelation.”

Studies have shown that man-made climate

change contributed in a number of recent weather disasters. Among those that climate scientists highlight as most significant: the 2003 European heat wave that killed 70,000 people in the deadliest such disaster in a century; Hurricane Sandy, worsened by sea level rise, which caused more than $67 billion in damage and claimed 159 lives; the 2010 Russian heat wave that left more than 55,000 dead; the drought still gripping California; and Typhoon Haiyan, which killed more than 6,000 in the Philippines in 2013.

Still, “while the Earth is a lot more dan-gerous on one side, the technologies are a lot better than they were,” said Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Solar and wind have come down tremendously in price, so much so that a Texas utility gives away wind-generated electricity at night.

U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres said there’s far less foot-dragging in ne-gotiations: “There is not a single country that tells me they don’t want a good Paris agreement.”

Figueres said that while the Kyoto agree-ment dictated to individual nations how much they must cut, what comes out of Paris will be based on what the more than 150 countries say they can do. That tends to work better, she said.

It has to, Figueres said. “The urgency is much clearer now than it used to be.” (ap)

Some of the cold numbers on global warming

since 1997:— The West Antarctic and Green-

land ice sheets have lost 5.5 trillion tons of ice, or 5 trillion metric tons, according to Andrew Shepherd at the University of Leeds, who used NASA and European satellite data.

— The five-year average surface global temperature for January to October has risen by nearly two-thirds of a degree Fahrenheit, or 0.36 degrees Celsius, between 1993-97 and 2011-15, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In 1997, Earth set a record for the hottest year, but it didn’t last. Records were set in 1998, 2005, 2010 and 2014, and it is sure to happen again in 2015 when the results are in from the year, according to NOAA.

— The average glacier has lost about 39 feet, or 12 meters, of ice thickness since 1997, according to Samuel Nussbaumer at the World Glacier Monitoring Service in Swit-zerland.

— With 1.2 billion more people in the world, carbon dioxide emis-sions from the burning of fossil fuels climbed nearly 50 percent between 1997 and 2013, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The world is spewing more than 100 million tons of carbon dioxide a day now.

— The seas have risen nearly 2 1/2 inches, or 6.2 centimeters, on average since 1997, according to calculations by the University of Colorado.

— At its low point during the sum-mer, the Arctic sea ice is on average 820,000 square miles smaller than it was 18 years ago, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. That’s a loss equal in area to Texas, California, Montana, New Mexico and Arizona combined.

— The five deadliest heat waves of the past century — in Europe in 2003, Russia in 2010, India and Pakistan this year, Western Europe in 2006 and southern Asia in 1998 — have come in the past 18 years, according to the International Disaster Database run by the Centre for Research on the Epide-miology of Disaster in Belgium.

— The number of weather and climate disasters worldwide has increased 42 percent, though deaths are down 58 percent. From 1993 to 1997, the world averaged 221 weather disasters that killed 3,248 people a year. From 2010 to 2014, the yearly average of weather disasters was up to 313, while deaths dropped to 1,364, according to the disaster database.

AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File

In this July 19, 2011 file photo, pools of melted ice form atop Jakobshavn Glacier, near the edge of the vast Greenland ice sheet. Since 1997, the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets have lost 5.5 trillion tons of ice (5 trillion metric tons), according to Andrew Shepherd at the University of Leeds, who used NASA and European satellite data.

Earth is a wilder, warmer place since

last climate deal madePARIS — This time, it’s a hotter, waterier, wilder Earth that world leaders

are trying to save. The last time that the nations of the world struck a binding agreement to fight global warming was 1997, in Kyoto, Japan. As leaders gather for a conference in Paris on Monday to try to do more, it’s clear things have changed dramatically over the past 18 years.

Lapan’s spokesperson Jasyanto said that the forum is entitled, “Sharing solutions through synergy in space.”

“This meeting is an attempt to solve socio-economic problems in Asia Pacific by applying space

technology,” he stated.He explained that during an

annual meeting, stakeholders will exchange information and explore cooperation in the field of space.

“Through cooperation among its members, this forum will aim to create a solution for social and economic problems in order to im-

prove the quality of life of people in the Asia Pacific region,” Jasyanto remarked.

The forum will feature four dis-cussion sessions on space applica-tions, space technology, the environ-ment and space education.

An educational program related to space technology, which will be held

during the forum, is a water rocket event, or a water rocket competition, for students aged 12 to 16 years and who are from a number of countries in the Asia Pacific region.

“The forum will also hold an exhibition on the latest development in space science and technology,” Jasyanto said. (ant)

AMLAPURA - Up to June 2015, the people living with HIV/AIDS in Karangasem reached 435. Seeing the number, the syndrome patients whose medication has not been found yet showed an increase of 25 people, from 410 people in 2014.

The Head of the Karangasem Health Agency, IGM Tirtayana, delivered it on Friday (Nov. 27) in Amlapura. He said though it was detected to show an increase of 25 patients Karangasem is still

ranked seventh in Bali in the matter of people living with HIV/AIDS. “The number of people living with HIV/AIDS increases, but we are still ranked seventh. Apparently there is an increase in all the dis-tricts and municipality in Bali, so that we are still ranked seventh,” he said.

The people are known to have HIV/AIDS from those that have voluntarily checked or have un-dergone blood test on Voluntary Counseling Test (VCT) clinic which

specifically caters to blood test such as the VCT clinic at the Karan-gasem Hospital. Similar services can now be obtained at all health centers in Karangasem.

From the past, the HIV/AIDS has always been referred to as the phenomenon of iceberg, where the detected one seems small because it is only based on a voluntary blood test by those suspecting themselves of becoming sufferer due to their sexual behavior. But the undetected sufferers are estimated to be much

more.Related to the World AIDS Day

falling on December 1, the Karan-gasem AIDS Commission (KPAID) holds various activities, such as the distribution of brochures about how to anticipate and avoid HIV/AIDS. It is made in cooperation with the Student Group Caring for HIV/AIDS (KSPA) of the SMA PGRI Amlapura. Besides, it is also coupled with the installation of ban-ners that essentially carry how to avoid HIV/AIDS and make healthy

behavior at all the health centers in Karangasem.

Tirtayana said that these are the activities that can be carried out with a limited budget. As the infor-mation obtained, the people living with HIV/AIDS in Karangasem are quite alarming. Sufferers eventu-ally isolate themselves because the others do not dare to approach. A number of elementary school students have even suffered HIV/AIDS alleged to be transmitted by their parents. (013)

DENPASAR - Based on information concerning the possible threat of members of ISIS attempting to enter Indonesia ahead of Christmas and New Years celebrations, police and the Indo-nesian military are tightening security. The Denpasar-Gianyar border line on Jalan Bypass I.B. Mantra, for example was the target of a road block conducted by the East Denpasar Police and the East Denpasar Military, on Saturday (Nov. 28).

Chief of the East Denpasar Police, Gede Redastra led the road block that started at 21:00, and involved 5 soldiers and 30 police personnel. “We were seeking to prevent people suspected of terrorism and/or members of ISIS from entering Denpasar. We searched vehicles for explosive materials and weapons,” said Redastra.

All passing cars and motorcycles were stopped and searched carefully and thoroughly by the Police and soldiers who were working co-jointly. “The result of the searches was nil. Hope-fully, Denpasar and Bali in general will always be safe and peaceful. Residents are nonetheless being requested to remain vigilant and monitor the situation in their respective areas,” he said.

Chief of the South Denpasar Police, Nana Prihasmoko, said that they held a similar road block on Saturday afternoon in front of a slaughter house on Jalan Diponegoro, Pesanggaran. “This activity was carried following the Paris incident that was allegedly committed by members of ISIS. The police and the Indonesian military are carrying out large-scale raids and inspections of migrants in order to prevent a similar incident from occurring here. We are working together with the South Denpasar Region Military,” said Nana.

The South Denpasar road block also yielded no findings of explosive materials, people suspected of being the ISIS members nor sharp weapons. However a suspected drug dealer identified as domiciling in Mumbul, Nusa Dua was apprehended after police found evidence that included crystal meth and and related paraphanelia, on the suspect and in his motorcycle. “We regularly hold this kind of operation as well as searches of migrants to Bali in an endeavour to prevent extremists such as ISIS members from operating here,” said the Chief of the South Denpasar Police. (kmb36)

In Karangasem, HIV/AIDS detected to increase 25 people

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Following up the development of information about the entry of ISIS to Indonesia and ahead of Christmas and New Year 2016 celebration, police and the Indonesian military has tightened the security.

Bali to host Asia Pacific Aeronautics Forum 2015

DENPASAR - The Indonesian National Aeronautics and Space Agency (Lapan) will host the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF-22) from December 1 to 4, in Kuta, Bali, where it will discuss space technology as a solution for solving socio-economic problems.

Intruders from ISISEntrance to Denpasar strictly guarded

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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 considered 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 some-times 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, car-rying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Palm-leaf manuscripts, he said should be consulted not only by people in literary studies, but also by people from the wide range of disciplines that are referred to in the lontars. “Palm-leaf manuscripts that talk about agriculture for example, should be consulted by those who are concerned with agriculture,” said Putra.

“The palm-leaf manuscript know as Darma Pemacul speaks of the obligation of farmers and temple main-tenance. This manuscript speaks of Pura Sakenan as the ruler of rice bugs and Pura Masceti as the ruler of jero ketut (rats). It is important for the lives of Balinese people to learn these things,” he added.

Lontars also carry great philosophical wisdom much of which is based on agricultural life as the origin of Balinese culture. In terms of rituals, this wisdom is symbolized by gebogan oblations that contain jaja uli (sweets) and begina cake. These cakes represent the abundance of food stuffs as they are made from sticky rice and indicate that the Balinese community is prosperous.

“However, what we see today is that gebogan con-tain various different kinds of sweet things that do not necessarily represent this philosophy and therefore miss the intended point of the the gebongan offer-ing. The original meaning of the form vanishes when people start making their gebogan with food stuffs from other cultures such as that of India or China or others, whereas the origin of Bali’s’ prosperity is based on local agrarian practices,” explained Putra.

There are many more palm-leaf manuscripts that contain local knowledge that could be used to save Bali from various different problems. There is a palm leaf manuscript that contains knowledge of yoga, the Carcan Gunung lontar speaks of Balinese perspective on nature and the Kama Artus speaks of the principles of masculinity of example. These are but a few of many other examples. (kmb34)

It is estimated that there are some 10,000 plus palm-leaf manuscripts still in existence. Gedong Kertya has a collection of some 2,000 lontars (palm-leaf manuscripts), UPT Perpustakaan Lontar has 950, the Documentation Center of Bali’s Culture Office has a collection of somewhere between 3,000-4,000 stored at Dwijendra University and at the Hindu University of Indonesia.

However: “many manuscripts remain undocumented as they are found in griya (houses of higher priests) and in royal palaces,” said

Chief of UPT Perpustakaan Lontar (palm-leaf manuscript library), I Gde Nala Antara.

Not all Balinese families are in possession of palm-leaf manu-scripts. Some families, especially in villages, have puranas (mythology) and inscriptions. “It’s our tasks as academics to work with our depart-ments, to try to keep a record of the palm-leaf manuscripts that are still in the hands of the community. We often do this with students as a form of training,” explained Antara.

Unfortunately, sometimes people are not open to having their manu-

scripts recorded and will not allow the students to read them as they are considered sacred. “We need to educate people about appreciating these palm-leaf manuscripts as a cultural heritage that their families owns,” he added.

Other palm-leaf manuscripts were carried away by Balinese people who joined the transmigra-tion program, and some of these lontar have been tracked. The University of Indonesia, Sono Bu-doyo Museum, Jogjakarta, the Solo Palace, Radya Pustaka Museum and the Museum of NTB Lombok all have lontar collections, as does the Univeristy of Leiden in the Neth-erlands, as results of their colonial connection to Indonesia, explained Antara.

In an attempt to preserve the lontar that are still in Bali, UPT Perpustakaan Lontar conducts field work to disseminate information about the importance of this cultural treasure and also helps to conserve manuscripts that are still in the pos-session of local people.

Every time they conduct such field work, they sic over large numbers of lontar. “At Griya Ban-jarangkan alone, we found hun-dreds of palm leaf manuscripts, for example,” he said. According to Antara who is also Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Humanities at Udayana Uni-versity: “building Bali’s cultural capital starts with learning about the contents of its’ palm-leaf manuscripts”.

But, he said that it is still some-times hard to conduct data collec-tion in the community and so he is calling on people who are in pos-session of palm leaf manuscripts but who are unable to maintain them in good condition, to deposit with UPT Lontar, where they will be officially reported and conserved in a public place. “We will main-tain these manuscripts in a good condition while the property rights remain in the hands of those who deposited them. Rather than bee-ing poorly maintained at home, it is better that they be stored here. We hope that in this way, Balinese lontar (palm-leaf manuscripts) can be protected from foreign parties that are aggressively collecting them.” (kmb42)

Need to conserve Bali’s palm-leaf manuscripts in local institutions

BALI has an extremely large amount of local knowledge written on palm-leaf manuscripts. Many of these manuscripts are stored in local institutions but many more are in Balinese peoples’ homes and in homes and institutions abroad.

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Arik Wira Putra, a palm-leaf manuscript conservation practitioner.

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For families and groups the resort is offering a peak season bonus offer for its 3, 4, 5 & 10 bedroom villas where guests who stay five nights will only pay for four. Valid for stays from December 26 to January 5 for a five bedroom villa accom-modating up to 10 people.

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“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2” held on to its first-place spot in its second weekend in theaters, earning $51.6 million to top “The Good Dinosaur” and “Creed,” which both debuted Wednesday, according to Rentrak estimates on Sunday.

The fourth and final installment in Lionsgate’s highly successful series has grossed $198.3 million to date.

Audiences had their pick of genres over the crowded Thanksgiving week-end. Disney and Pixar’s animated dino-saur movie took second place, bringing in $39.2 million Friday through Sun-day, while “Creed,” a new entry into the Rocky Balboa canon, came in third with $30.1 million.

Families accounted for 79 percent of “The Good Dinosaur’s” audience. The film, which cost a reported $175 million to $200 million to produce, grossed $55.6 million in its first five days in theaters.

“This Pixar group has just been so consistent with high-quality storytell-ing that appeals to all audiences. This weekend’s result is another testament to the way they do things,” said Dave Hollis, executive vice president of distribution for Disney. “We are off and running in a great way and also set up for a very, very long run.”

“Creed,” meanwhile, came out swinging. The critically acclaimed Ryan Coogler-directed film focuses on the character of Apollo Creed’s son, Adonis (Michael B. Jordan) who wants his own shot in the ring with the help of Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone). The film cost $35 million to make and has earned $42.6 million over five days.

Its audience has been largely male and over age 25, according to exit polls.

“This is a movie that played broadly everywhere. You expect it to do well in the big markets and even the medium-size markets, but the small markets were just fantastic,” said Jeffrey Goldstein, executive vice president of domestic distribution for Warner Bros. “The boxing element really resonates.”

Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Rentrak, said the indie sen-sibilities, critical response and stellar cast has made “Creed” the movie to see right now.

“This is a movie that’s going to go the distance,” Dergarabedian said.

James Bond film “Spectre,” with $12.8 million, and “The Peanuts Movie,” with $9.7 million, rounded out the top five. (ap)

DUBLIN - Troubled Irish singer Sinead O’Connor appeared to have attempted suicide on Sunday, after a statement on her Facebook page said she had taken an overdose.

The post, whose authenticity could not immediately be verified, expresses hurt that O’Connor had been cut off from her family by events described as “a horrific set of betrayals”.

“I have taken an overdose,” the statement read.

“There is no other way to get respect. I am not at home, I’m at a hotel, somewhere in Ireland, under another name.”

“If I wasn’t posting this, my kids and family wouldn’t even find out. I could have been dead here for weeks already and they’d never have known.”

A public relations company

linked to O’Connor was not imme-diately available for comment.

A spokesman for the Irish police refused to comment, but a police source said O’Connor had been “located safe”.

Media reports said she was re-ceiving medical treatment.

Earlier this year the outspoken singer cancelled a number of con-certs because she said her son was suffering from a “life-threatening

medical condition”.She also had a hysterectomy in

August, which she detailed on her social media accounts.

In another post on Facebook on Saturday, O’Connor said she was finished with the music industry.

“Music is over for me. Music did this. Rendered me invisible even unto my children. Murdered my soul. I’m never going back to music.”

The singer, known for her strong views on issues including women’s rights and abuses of the Roman Catholic Church, has spoken pub-licly about her battle with depres-sion through the years.

O’Connor won critical acclaim with her 1987 debut album, “The Lion and the Cobra,” but her cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” catapulted her to international fame. (afp)

Singer Sinead O’Connor ‘threatens suicide’ in Facebook post

‘Hunger Games’ beats ‘Good Dinosaur,’ ‘Creed’ at box office

Murray Close/Lionsgate via AP

This photo provided by Lionsgate shows Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in the film, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2.” The movie opens in U.S. theaters on Nov. 20, 2015.

LOS ANGELES — Despite some mighty competition, Katniss and her crew dominated the box office once again.

DENPASAR - The Bali provincial administration is optimistic that nine Balinese traditional dances to recognized by UNESCO as part of the World non-object Cultural Heritage during a meeting on December 1 and 2.

“The nine dances have been entered into UNESCO’s list. The chance of them being accepted is 98 percent,” the Head of Culture Office, Dewa Putu Beratha, said.

The nine Balinese dances are Barong Ket, Joged, Legong Kraton, Wayang Wong Drama Dance, Gambuh Drama Dance, Topeng Sidakarya, Baris Upacara, Sanghyang De-dari and Rejang.

“UNESCO will convene on December 1 and 2,” he added.

A Balinese cultural humanist Prof. I Made Bandem is also optimistic that the nine dances will be recognized by UNESCO.

“The Ministry of Education and Culture has set the nine dances as the national non-objects of Cultural Heritage,” he said.

This is a guarantee for UNESCO that the proposed dances will be maintained by the government and community.

“I am optimistic we can get fund-ing to preserve the dances. It will con-vince UNESCO to give recognition to the nine traditional dances,” Made said. (ant)

THE CONSER-VATION of Bali’s lontar (palm-leaf manuscripts) is increasingly im-

portant in this era of globalization, in

which the local wis-dom of many countries is being erased, especially given that many of Bali’s palm-leaf manuscripts contain solu-tions for the problems we are facing today. The vast store of knowledge found in these writings include infor-

mation about leadership, governance, ecological systems, social systems, nature conservation, yoga and many other matters that could be of great contribution to the nation’s ‘mental revolution’.

Arik Wira Putra, a palm-leaf manuscript conservationist, says that Bali’s social system based on the banjar and it’s economic system that is agriculturally based has meant the Balinese people were always very good at sustaining natural systems, specifically safeguarding

rivers, mountains, lakes and the sea through certain rituals that are based on knowledge of these systems.

This knowledge is in part carried out through rituals, the meaning of which is contained in Bali’s palm-leaf manuscripts. “These rituals take the tattva (philosophy), found in the manuscripts as a reference point and can be very helpful in addressing the ecological problems we are facing today,” said Putra.

Bali’s lontar are written in a language that is both explicit and

implicit and therefor the wisdom found in them often requires theo-retical knowledge to be understood. “Many manuscripts for example speak of the importance of main-taining the flow of rivers as the source of life”, he said. Tirta gangga is a term that refers to the Ayung and other rivers in Bali, where temple shrines must be maintained. The same is true of lakes and beaches. This is why Hindusim in Bali was nicknamed magama tirta, meaning ‘water religion’”.

As Putra said: “temples shrines were placed at water sources, river sides and on lakes and beaches in order to preserve these natural sys-tems”. Lately the nickname “water religion” has started to loose its meaning as many sources of water on the island are being neglected. “For example, the rivers in Den-pasar filthy, despite government attempts to clean them up,” he explained.

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Dancers practiced a dance that will be performed in Unesco convention. The Bali provincial admin-

istration is optimistic that nine Balinese traditional dances to recognized by UNESCO as part of the

World non-object Cultural Heritage during a meet-ing on December 1 and 2.

Bali optimistic nine dances to recognized by UNESCO

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