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Taylor Swift queen of MTV awards

LOS ANGELES - Taylor Swift was crowned queen of the MTV Video Music Awards as rapper Kanye West announced an improbable run for president in 2020 and Miley Cyrus released her new album for free.

Pop superstar Swift, still only 25 years old, won four of her whopping 10 nominations, including Video of the Year for “Bad Blood” with Kendrick Lamar and Best Pop Video for “Blank Space.”

She buried the hatchet with rapper Nicki Minaj, embracing her former foe on stage during a

brief rendition of “Bad Blood” dressed in a red tassled mini-dress and presented West with a career achievement award.

Cheered by his biggest fan, pregnant wife and reality star Kim Kardashian in a lace-up dress that left little to the imagination, West appeared moved -- but not humbled

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Miley Cyrus, right, performs at the MTV Video Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015, in Los Angeles.

-- by an extended standing ovation.

Winning MTV’s Video Vanguard lifetime achievement award was a significant milestone for West, previously given to greats such as Madonna, Michael Jackson and Beyonce.

“I have decided in 2020 to run for president,” he announced at the end of a rambling address in which he also appeared to confess to smoking marijuana before taking the stage.

“I will die for the art, for what I believe in and I ain’t always gonna be polite,” he said. “I rolled up a little something. I got the answer,” he said. “We’re the millenials bro.”

The 38-year-old boundarypushing rapper also won best Video With a Social Message for “One Man Can Change the World” with Big Sean and John Legend.

Host was shock pop diva Cyrus, who lived up to her reputation by flashing her left breast and nipple, letting a curtain drop backstage at an opportune moment.

She closed out the Los Angeles show with a performance that saw a firework set off from her crotch and announcing that her new album, Miley Cyrus and her Dead Petz, was out for free online.

The website promptly crashed and on twitter she directed her 22 million followers to her regular

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form you that Wes Craven passed,” a family statement read. “Craven was surrounded by love, in the presence of his family.”

Craven directed 1984’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” whose terrifying scarred villain Freddy Krueger left a defining imprint on the horror genre of that decade and was reprised in a string of sequels

and a 2010 remake.

Krueger, who wore a scruffy fedora and had a glove with razor blades attached to the fingers, would visit his victims in their dreams and slash them to death. The first film in the franchise included a character played by a thenunknown Johnny Depp.

“He made nightmares seem real, the things that scare you in your

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plussed Cyrus, who stayed civil.

“We’re all in the industry, we all do interviews, and we all know how they manipulate.”

The surprise start to the show was Swift joining a resplendent Minaj, festooned in a red tribal-style headdress, in an opening set.

They hit the headlines last month when Minaj’s “Anaconda” was passed over for a Video of the Year nomination. Minaj blamed the slight on bias against full-figured black women, saying the music industry preferred “very slim” women.

The very slim Swift responded by telling Minaj “I’ve done nothing but love and support you” and invited her to share the stage.

Nearly two days later, Swift apologized. Minaj said she wished that Swift had spoken out on portrayals of African American women.(afp)

subconscious can harm you, get to you,” said Richard Potter, a movie writer and producer who worked with Craven on the “Scream” franchise.

Craven’s eye for young talent also saw him cast Sharon Stone and Bruce Willis in their first major roles, in the 1981 horror flick “Deadly Blessing” and a 1985

episode of “The Twilight Zone” respectively. Craven, who was known also for his writing and television work, directed several episodes of “The Twilight Zone” revival in the 1980s.

During the 1990s he made three films in the hugely popular “Scream” series, with a fourth in 2011. (afp)

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Dark corruptors and investors conspire to create misguided policies

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website, where the music was available. Cyrus made MTV award history two years ago by twerking on stage with Robin Thicke in a flesh-colored bikini and cavorting around with a foam finger.

On Sunday, she wore a revolving door of outfits for the broadcast, but walked the red carpet in an outfit so revealing that the New York Daily News named it a “crotch chandelier.”

But if Minaj hugged and made up with Swift, she went into battle with Cyrus for telling The New York Times in a recent interview that Minaj was “not too kind” and “not very polite.”

“This bitch that had a lot to say about me the other day in the press, Miley,” said the rapper, after thanking her pastor and winning Best Hip Hop Video for “Anaconda.”

The camera panned to a non-

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Taylor Swift, left, and Nicki Minaj perform at the MTV Video Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015, in Los Angeles.

Legendary horror director Wes Craven dead at 76

LOS ANGELES - Wes Craven, a master of cinematic horror whose legendary directorial credits include “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Scream”, died Sunday aged 76, his family said.

Craven had been suffering from brain cancer and passed away at his home in Los Angeles.

“It is with deep sadness we in-

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A Malaysian boy smiles during the 58th National Day celebrations at the Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Monday, Aug. 31, 2015.

Black investors and dark rulers are conspiring to accelerate the destruction of Bali. The behaviours and interests of both of these groups have made Bali into a nest for corruptive predators and disconnections between words and actions have led Bali into a bleak period of its history. These were some of the views expressed during a discussion entitled “Sustainable Bali” held by the Tabanan Palace last week.

The discussion attended by the Sira Arya Kenceng brotherhood also highlighted the process of destruction that has been targeting the four main pillars that support Bali. Ida Cokorda Anglurah Tabanan urged all Balinese people to do some introspection and take immediate action to save Bali.

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Malaysia PM reasserts command with National Day parade

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia’s government reclaimed the streets of the capital Monday after massive weekend protests demanding the premier’s ouster, staging its own show of force with National Day celebrations attended by thousands.

With Prime Minister Najib Razak presiding, masses of flagwaving spectators cheered a colourful parade of soldiers, police and civil servants through the city centre, symbolically underlining the government’s clout despite pressure for change.

Organisers of the peaceful weekend demonstrations said more than

200,000 people came out to demand the embattled Najib’s removal over a financial scandal.

“Well, we gave it our best shot and now it’s their turn again,” said Simon Tam, a lawyer who attended the demonstrations on both days.

“Getting Najib to step down is not easy, and maybe there is not

much hope at all. But can we stand by and say nothing?”

Najib has been under pressure since the Wall Street Journal last month published Malaysian documents showing nearly $700 million had been deposited into his personal bank accounts, beginning in 2013.

His cabinet ministers now admit the transfers happened, describing them as “political donations” from unidentified Middle Eastern sources but refusing to explain further.

Influential ex-leader Mahathir

Mohamad, who calls Najib corrupt and a poor leader and has pressed for his ouster for more than a year, caused a stir by attending the rally on Sunday.

The 90-year-old, who squelched civil disobedience during his 19812003 rule, evoked the 1986 Philippine “people power” revolt in calling for Najib to be toppled.

“If the government ignores the law, we have to demonstrate.

If you look at (former president Ferdinand) Marcos, when he was ruling the Philippines they had to

overthrow him through demonstrations,” he said.

But the chances of a “people power” revolt in Malaysia are remote. (afp) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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Formal institutions must participate in implementing a Sustainable Bali

TABANAN - The weaker economic resilience of Balinese people opens the doors for the destruction of Bali. This condition is even more alarming when the flow of urbanization and incoming investments to Bali is not controlled. Public officials have facilitated the domination of Bali’s economy by capital driven forces and has greatly contributed to the marginalisation of Balinese people. Slowly and surely, this is leading to a very threat to the next generation in terms of the continuation of Balinese culture and the preservation of Balinese land. Echoing spirit of Sustainable Bali amid the concern is also expected to become a spirit to preserve Bali.

Concern about the fate of Bali has inspired the leading figures of the Tabanan Palace to create concrete measures to save Bali. At the very least they seek to maintain communication with various components of Balinese society so as to encourage the constant implemention of the principle of the Tri Hita Karana (three causes of happiness). The Tabanan Palace reiterated their full support of a sustainable Bali.

According to Gusti Bagus Suryadi, plans for a Sustainable Balimust be be immediately rolled out so as enter the implementation phase a soon as possible. The participation of formal institutions in supporting the cultural inheritance of Bali and Balinese traditions inspired by Hinduism should be clear. “The concept of Sustainable Bali as an idea and strategy for preserving Bali is already widespread amongst Balinese people. What is needed now

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to transform the spirit of Sustainable Bali into concrete action,” he said.

Suryadi as member of the Tabanan Grand Palace Brotherhood said that the Tabanan Palace has consistently positioned itself as a primary supporters of of Sustainable Bali through its daily actions and contributes to maintaining harmonious social relations. members of the Royal Palace are even active in coordinating and uniting with the people in the context of rituals serving as a complement to existing practices. “We hope this meeting in the Tabanan Palace will be the beginning of the revival of the move towards implementing the principles of a Sustainable Bali,” he said.

To accommodate this, Suryadi said that he deeply hopes for the participation of government and formal institutions. “Do not let the people of Bali face the challenges of globalization without support. Balinese people need to be stregthened in order to support and maintain Balinese culture,” he said.

In regards to the matter of implementing the concept of a Sustainable Bali, former Deputy Regent of Tabanan, I Gusti Wirasana, said that he expects the implementation of sustainability to start from us, adding that pretty much every person in Bali has contributed to the shift in lifestyle and spacial arrangement of the island. “In the future, Balinese people must be educated about how to engage in self-control and how to be selective in managing external forces. He added that the economic resilience of Balinese people should be strengthened first,” he said.

Wirasana also reminded the people of Bali that they should remain engaged in the agriculture sector. He believes that this is a strategic sector of the economy as evidenced by the large number of people from outside of Bali who seek employment as fair labourers in Bali.

Another thought related to the implementation of Sustainable Bali was also outlined by a number of Tabanan royal brotherhood members, including Gusti Made Anom, Gusti Made Sudarsana and a number of other royal figures. In essence, these royal leaders hope that all components of Balinese society will take action to contribute to the preservation of Bali. Balinese people must be wise in managIBP/Parwata ing existing job opportunities, so that they will not be squeezed out by the competition. (dir)

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This responsibility he said, must be borne by everyone in implementing their respective duties. Connections between the leaders and the people of Bali need to be based on sincerity and a commitment to doing devotional works, in order to preserve Bali. “I have been consistently implementing measures for a sustainable Bali. Although I do not talk much, these measures have been implemented in my everyday life,” he said.

According to Ida Cokorda Anglurah Tabanan, protecting Bali is part of one’s duty as a Balinese person. We cannot simply call ourselves Balinese and then engage in behaviour that moves us away from ancestral guidelines know as bhisama. “Rather than turning Bali into a space that is only for gaining profits, Bali must be guarded with the spirit of ngayah (devotional work),” he said.

Cokorda Anglurah explained that ties between the palace and the subak organizations have running harmoniously all this time. He added however that this harmony is often put to the test in various ways that seek to delegitimize the role of the royal palace in safeguarding a ‘Sustainable Bali’.

Architect and humanist Dr. I Gusti Made Putra expressed similar view of Bali’s situation.

Putra who has become a public figure of Timpag Palace said that in order to reach a sustainable Bali, four main pillars; humans, nature, culture and the economy of Bali must all be strengthened.

“As Balinese people, we have to uphold Balinese culture. We must not let Balinese people themselves contribute to the destruction of Bali,” he advised.

He reminded the leaders of Bali of the urgent need to immediately map out the carrying capacity of Bali. Balinese culture is also under threat from the massive influx of people into Bali’s urban centers. The fact that the growth of the population is dominated by migrants, indicates a weakness in one of the sustaining pillars of Bali namely, Balinese people. If the younger generation of Balinese people are not able to grow up and develop naturally in Bali, it will only be a matter of time

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before, those who support Hinduism inspired Balinese culture are relegated to the annals of history. Without a strong culture, the natural environment of Bali will also be under threat and thus weaken another one of the pillars of Sustainable Bali - namely Bali’s nature as a living space for Balinese people.

Artist, poet and world traveller I Gusti Putu Bawa Samar Gantang, spoke out about such conditions saying that they are a disgrace to the universe. The current condition of Bali’s natural environment is really alarming he said, adding that this has occurred because of many people’s ambitions to exploit Bali for the sole purpose of making as much money as possible at the expense of Bali. Corruptive predators are making Bali gray.

He explained that corruptors and dark investors frequently influence one another in creating misguided policies. “They are all too familiar with talking about Bali, but fail to take any concrete action to save Bali. They speak with much eloquence about the rules, while their actions violate these same rules,” he criticized.

As evidence, many such figures have spoken about the need to preserve Bali on TV talk shows but finally they are sent to jail for to corruption. This proves that the words of these dark rulers are often not in line with their behaviour. For this reason, Gantang hopes that those in positions of authority will listen to the people.

If the authorities turn their backs on their own people, destruction is certain: “The Soul and the body of government management must be line with each other. People are the soul of the rule itself, while the ruler stands as the body. If these two elements do not work together, Bali will move towards the path of destruction,” he warned.

Gantang also pointed out that there has been far too much denial about the behaviour of the dark rulers and black investors, these corruptive predators, he said are only money- oriented.

On the contrary, Balinese people have the simple hope that there be peace and harmony as they live their lives on the island of Bali. (dir)

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tional Balinese philosophy “Tri Hita Karana”; living in harmony between human with human, human with environment and human

“Dinner under the Stars” at 7th Clov3r

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of H Sovereign Bali, 7th Clov3r has a big space with an incredible view including swimming pool to feel the sky on the night. Enjoy your favourite drinks accompanied with live acoustic performance to complete your Friday night.

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with spiritual sense.” said Wayan Duartha, S.S, M.Par President Director of Puri Management -Puri Resorts Bali.

While corporate Director of Sales & Marketing Puri Resorts Management I Ketut Budi Setiawan stressed that, “BeingSattvaa has a tropical Balinese garden full of lush green foliage and natural landscapes. There are three things that make it a Balinese garden: tropical plants, Balinese style of lanterns that are throughout the garden, and the pavilions that are situated at the edge of the garden.”

BeingSattvaa retreat is offering 9 (nine) unique Suite Room overlooking to lush tropical garden and forest, 3 (three) Duplex Pavilion Two Bed Room, 2 (two) unit One Bed Room Joglo (Javanese traditional house) style and 1 (one) Three Bed Room Villa overlooking to the nature of rice paddies and natural tropical garden and forest with dining room and kitchen, entertainment lounge with flat screen television and IPod Doc. As added value of this Resort is Kidney-Shaped Overflow Swimming Pool. A beautiful undulating kidney-shaped overflow pool, the Spa, Maya, has two luxurious treatment rooms, each with two spa beds, overlooking the rainforest, where treatments and remedies, based on highly respected traditional treatments a mix of Balinese and ayurvedic treatments for complete rejuvenation done.

All the exotic aromas of spices and fragrant blooms and the gentle sound of music will bathe your senses and lull you into a totally relaxed state, Ida Yulia, BeingSattvaa Operation Manager noted.

September 12, 7 PM, Opening “111” exhibition by Aboedt Art September 14, 8 PM, Movie screening of Old Bali’s movie by Aboedt Art September 17, 8 PM, Movie screening entitled “Nga ben Dulu dan Sekarang” by Aboedt Art September 19, 7.30 PM, Nusantara live music September 22, 7 PM, Human is Alien video projections on Bamboo installation with live music by Planet Bamboo September 24, Movie screening entitled “Bali Sehar ian, Dulu dan Sekarang” by Aboedt Art September 26, Movie screening entitled “Upacara Yadnya Bali, Dulu dan Sekarang” by Aboedt Art Sunday, September 27, Opening of Painting and Artwork

Interior 2015 Exhibition with culinary bazaar.

Monday, September 28, Sketches painting and interior product exhibition Tuesday, September 29, Talkshow guided by Wayan Suardika (Bali Arts) followed by sketches demo Wednesday, September 30, Sketches painting by Budiana and

interior painting exhibition Thursday, October 1, Sketches painting and interior painting exhibition Friday, October 2, Sketches painting and interior painting exhibition Saturday, October 3, Closing ceremony of Sketches painting

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Balinese Temple Ceremony

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 sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

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

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Global warming carving changes into Alaska in fire and ice

Fairbanks. “The changes are definitely happening and we’re out in front of the rest of the country.”

And what happens in Alaska isn’t staying in Alaska, because weather changes in the Arctic trigger changes in the jet stream and reverberate down south, including the dreaded polar vortex escape that has brought sub-freezing temperatures to great expanses of North America in recent winters, said Martin Jeffries, an Arctic scientist for the U.S. Office of Naval Research.

Warming’s effects seem to be speeding up. From 1959 to 1993, Alaska’s glaciers lost 57 billion tons of ice a year, but that jumped to almost 83 billion tons a year since 1994, according to Anthony Arendt, who co-authored a study on the subject this July.

And while there may be many factors involved in glacier melt, all but about five of Alaska’s 25,000 glaciers are shrinking, said University of Alaska Fairbanks glacier expert Regine Hock. She’s adamant: “That’s related to climate change.”

On the ocean, sea ice in the Arctic in the summer has shrunk by about one-third over three decades, leading to a loss of habitat for walrus and a threatened species listing for polar bears and their main prey, ringed seals. But in Alaska, what really hits hard is the loss of sea ice that’s connected to the coast. That’s the ice that protects villages from the worst of storms and allows both people and animals to hunt more at sea. But that type of ice is disappearing two weeks earlier in the summer and returns two weeks later when compared to the 1970s, said geophysicist Andy Mahoney at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Meanwhile, Alaska’s wildfires are “more frequent, they’re hotter and they’re more severe,” said Glenn Juday, a professor emeritus of forest ecology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Rapid and sustained warming has led to new patterns of insect outbreaks and new pest species affecting trees, he said. One of the chief problems is the spruce bark beetle, which thrive under warmer conditions. By 2006, aerial surveys had found spruce bark beetles had killed mature white spruce trees on 4.4 million acres (1.8 million hectares) following mild winters and hot summers.

The acreage has increased since then, though not dramatically.

Wildlife has changed, too. George Divoky and others have been tracking how early the black guillemot bird lays its first egg on the far north Cooper Islands. In the 1970s they used to lay their eggs around June 25. The last five years, the average has been June 15 and this year it was June 8.

The U.S. Geological Survey has found a host of other animals changing their habits with warmer weather, including pink salmon, trumpeter swans, and caribou. It’s a problem because sometimes the plants and animals don’t quite match up — caribou, for example, born before the plants they eat, according to the USGS. The record warmth this spring has “turned the state into a melting pot, almost literally,” said Jake Weltzin, who runs the USGS program tracking changes in plant and animal timing. “It’s an enormous experiment.” (ap)

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House miniature coveted by travelers BANGLI - The large number of tourists who visit Penglipuran customary village not only enjoy culinary delights such as cemcem (herbal drink) sold by the villagers but recently visitors have shown great interest in buying miniature customary houses made by local resident I Ketut Cedung.

Cedung explained that was ready to try his fortune at developing a handicraft business, making miniature customary houses as a natural offshoot of his hobby of building customary homes. He admitted that the making miniature houses is quite difficult, but he has not been discouraged by the challenge. “It is quite hard to make these houses, so nobody wants to to get involved in such a business,” he said.

His miniaturesnare exactly the same as life sized Penglipuran customary houses which have lured so many foreign travelers.

Cendung not only makes the walls of the mini houses but he includes complete interiors as well and

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Global warming is carving measurable changes into Alaska, and President Barack Obama is about to see it. Obama leaves Monday for a three-day visit to the 49th state in which he will speak at a State Department climate change conference and become the first president to visit the Alaska Arctic. There, and in the sub-Arctic part of the state, he will see the damage caused by warming — damage that has been evident to scientists for years.

More than 3.5 trillion tons of water have melted off of Alaska’s glaciers since 1959, when Alaska first became a state, studies show — enough to fill more than 1 billion Olympicsized pools.

The crucial, coast-hugging sea ice that protects villages from storms and makes hunting easier is dwindling in summer and is now absent each year a month longer than it was in the 1970s, other studies find. The Army Corps of Engineers identified 26 villages where erosion linked to sea ice loss threatens the communities’ Matt Snyder/Alaska Division of Forestry via AP, File very existence.

Permafrost is thawing more often as the ground warms, so as the ground oozes, roads, pipelines and houses’ foundations tilt and shift — sometimes enough to cause homes to be abandoned. In far northern Barrow, the upper part of the ground is 7 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius) warmer than it was in the late 1950s and getting closer to the melt point in the summer, data shows. And scientists fear the thawing permafrost will unleash large amounts of trapped greenhouse gases and speed up worldwide warming.

So far this year, more than 5.1 million acres (2.06 million hectares) in Alaska — an area the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined — have burned in wildfires. In the first 10 years of statehood, Alaska averaged barely a quarter million acres (100,000 hectares) of wildfires yearly.

The last 10 years have averaged 1.2 million acres (490.000 hectares).

AP Photo/Mark Thiessen “The state is changing and changing rapidly,” said Fran Ulmer, chairwoman of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission and Alaska’s former lieutenant governor.

And scientists say those things are happening — at least partly and probably mostly — because of another thing they can measure: Alaska’s temperature. Alaska’s yearly average temperature has jumped 3.3 degrees F since 1959 and the winter average has spiked 5 degrees F (3 degrees C) since statehood, according to federal records.

Last year was the hottest on record and so far this year Alaska is a full degree warmer than last year.

Alaska “is sort of a bellwether,” said John Walsh, chief scientist of the International Arctic Research Center M. Scott Moon/Peninsula Clarion via AP, File at the University of Alaska

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these small houses have certainly drawn the interest of both foreign and domestic visitors who buy the miniatures as souvenirs for about IDR 300,000.

Cedung added that the miniatures takes him about one week to make and that he only uses bamboo to make them. “Very little material is required to make these little homes, thug I do use glue to hold them together,” he said.

Manager of the Penglipuran tourism village, I Nengah Moneng, said that he thinks that miniature house craft business is very good, not only because it is a community based business that contributes to improving the economy but also because it is a way to introduce Penglipuran to a wider market.

Typically, visitors only visit the houses in the village, but now with these miniatures, they can better remember Penglipuran village. “The miniature houses can become a keepsake for travelers” he concluded. (kmb45)

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The number of foreign tourists visiting the Indonesian resort island of Bali in the first seven months of 2015 rose 10.09 percent to 2,299,995 from the same period last year.

Tourist arrivals to Bali up 10 percent

DENPASAR - The number of foreign tourists visiting the Indonesian resort island of Bali in the first seven months of 2015 rose 10.09 percent to 2,299,995 from the same period last year.

“I believe 95 percent of foreign tourists who have expressed intention to visit Bali again will enable tourist arrivals in Bali to exceed the government-set target of four million for 2015,” tourism observer Dewa Nyoman Putraman

said on Monday.

Despite the global economic slowdown, the number of foreign tourists visiting Bali via Ngurah Rai Airport remained stable in the January-July 2015 period, he said.

This means that the number of tourist arrivals in Bali over the period reached 2.2 million, he said.

The international community still see Bali as a favorite tourist destination, he said. (ant)

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The large number of tourists who visit Penglipuran customary village not only enjoy culinary delights such as cemcem (herbal drink) sold by the villagers but recently visitors have shown great interest in buying miniature customary houses made by local resident I Ketut Cedung.

President Jokowi distributes thousands of “magic” cards GIANYAR - President Joko Widodo paid an official visit to Tulikup village, Gianyar, on Sunday (Aug. 30). During the visit, Jokowi accompanied by First Lady Mrs. Iriana Joko Widodo, distributed Healthy Indonesia Cards (KIS), Smart Indonesia Cards (KIP) and Safe Family Cards (KKS) to thousands of poor people in the local village.

A total of 1,565 health cards, 393 smart cards and 376 welfare cards were distributed to Tulikup villagers.

Jokowi also gave out Social Assistance

Cards to a number of residents with disabilities.

While symbolically handing over the cards at Tulikup Stadium, Jokowi did not give a special speech about the event. However, each time cards were handed out Jokowi told the receiver that the aid being given to the community should be used appropriately and that otherwise, the cards will be revoked. “This card must be used for useful things,” he said.

The President also asked that the government assistance provided

through the smart cards be used by the recipients to meet their school needs.

“The money should be used to buy uniforms, books and shoes. It may not be used to purchase mobile phone top ups,” he said.

Jokowi explained that the smart cards obtained by students contained different amounts depending on what grease the students are in; elementary school students were given IDR 450,000 per year, junior high school students, IDR 750,000 per year, and high school and vocational school

students get IDR 1 million per year.

After the President’s visit, The Regent of Gianyar, Anak Agung Bharata, said that it is an honor for Gianyar County to be part of the launch of the”magic” card program instituted by the President. According to the regent, it will provide psychological motivation for people to keep fighting against poverty. Bharata also stated that President Jokowi’s flagship program contributes to alleviating the burden of members of Gianyar’s society.

Bharata explained that Gianyar

will receive a total of 132,067 “magic” cards and that Tulikup village is the first village in Gianyar to enjoy this assistance. The distribution of “magic” cards will be gradually carried out in other areas in Gianyar.

In the meantime, Wayan Kastina, one of the residents receiving the direct assistance from the president admitted to be very happy. He also appreciated the government’s attention to poor people. “This assistance is very valuable for us,” he said. (kmb25)

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Souvenir market at Tanah Lot eroded by large-scale souvenir operators

TABANAN - Tanah Lot tourist attraction seems to consistently attract both foreign and domestic visitors throughout the year and has become the pride of the community of Tabanan. Unfortunately, the ever increasing number of tourists who visits the site does not always mean a lot of business for souvenir vendors. As witnessed on Sunday (Aug. 30), a number of stalls looked quiet with only a handful of visitors stopping.

Lately, there the issue of collusion between travel agencies and the owners of particular souvenir markets has emerged, wherein groups of traveler are directed to shop in these premises. Though such conspiratorial behaviour is compensated with a commission or gratuity, it is rarely revealed.

A souvenir trader at Tanah Lot refused to reveal his full name, Wayan, claimed that many large-scale souvenir markets have become stiff competitors for him. As a result, the business he started a long time ago gradually dims. “They are mostly in Denpasar, but the effect is quite noticeable to small vendors,” he said.

This resident of Beraban initially thought positive of the emergence of souvenir markets owned by large-capital entrepreneurs. But over time, the souvenir business he opened in a 9 meter square stall at Tanah Lot has become barely able to survive. Some days he does not sell anything at all -especially during the low season. “I believe that fortune spreads everywhere. But in the long run it seems to be getting more difficult,” he complained.

Wayan started selling souvenirs seven years ago, although eh had never sold souvenirs before he was no stranger to the tourism industry as he had previously worked as a free lance travel driver. “I have heard that the large souvenir markets cooperate with tour guides or travel agencies so that their guests only shopp there. Whether or not this is true, I cannot say for sure, but based on my experience as a freelance driver, such modes of operation do exist,” he said.

“In terms of tourist arrival, indeed it shows an increase, but yes... they are just passing. Moreover, if there are guests shopping, they are just a few,” he said.

Assistant Manager of the Tanah Lot tourist attraction, Wayan Sudiana, said there are at least 400 souvenir stalls in the area of Tanah Lot. Sudiana admitted that business has been sluggish in general but added that it is up to each vendor to find innovative ways of to attract customers to their stall. “I see that some vendors cooperate with travel agencies. Actually it is important to come up with creative ways of attracting visitors, otherwise, business will stagnate as seism to be now,” he said.

Sudiana explained that in terms of price and quality , there is little to no difference between the products of bigger or smaller stalls. “Creativity is essential in the marketing of their products,” he concluded. (kmb28)

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Dozens of Venezuelan shot by police amid crime crackdown MARACAY, Venezuela — Workers in the industrial complex had been hiding in bathrooms and closets for hours when the shooting stopped. The last of the four suspected thieves, a slightly built man in yellow rain boots, surrendered on the roof, crying out, “Jesus saves!”

Traditional market is one of the economics center of Bali.

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Bali should get special attention

DENPASAR - Economic observer, Viraguna Bagoes Oka, said that Bali has become an icon of Indonesia. On that account, Bali should be getting special attention from the president. Oka also said that the development of tourism results in other impacts. The destruction of the space of the island and economic disparity are currently on the rise. Bali’s current tourism growth rate of 60% is enjoyed by those from outside the island.

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Banking data shows that thirdparty funds reach nearly IDR 68 trillion, and that almost 60 to 70 percent of that amount leaves Bali and only 10 percent goes to SMEs. “Such conditions make it difficult for Bali keep its locally-based economy growing” he explained.

Council of Layman Chairman of the Hindu Dharma Parishad of Indonesia (central PHDI), Putu Wirata Dwikora, also reminded the president to participate in preserving sacred areas in Bali. Sacred areas are the spirit and breath of the Hindus. As such, the Minister

of Tourism should exclude Besakih area from the KSPN through existing mechanisms. If this is ignored, it will be considered as a lack of attention to the aspirations of the Hindus.

WIrata said that President Joko Widodo in his nomination campaign as a presidential candidate, met with 600 high priests and priests in Denpasar in 2014 and said that he would support the aspirations of the people to maintain Besakih Temple and the surroundings areas as a sacred area. There was not the slightest indication that -then candidate, Joko Widodo would go against the wishes of Balinese Hid-

nus to have Besakih remain a sacred area. President Jokowi is now being reminded of his promise.

Prof. Dr. Putu Rumawan Salain holds a smilier view to that of Purut WIrata, Prof. Salain, hopes that central government will listen to the aspirations of the Hindus.

“If this has touched on the issue of faith, please let those outside of Bali understood that it is up to Balinese people to design Bali, not people in Jakarta or anywhere else.

Let’s respect the attitudes and the rights of Hindu practicing Balinese people to declare their attitude” he said. (dir)

Police put him into a truck and started to drive away. But then witnesses watched, confused, as the truck circled back.

A video secretly recorded that rainy day in early August showed that police officers took the man to a concrete alley in the complex where his three companions already lay dead, held him in place, and then shot him point blank. The video does not show the deaths of the others, but two witnesses told The Associated Press they saw the trio lined up against a wall earlier in the morning, police pointing guns at their chests.

The slayings raised new concerns about a crime-fighting initiative launched this summer that aims to take back neighborhoods overrun by gangs. The program, officially rolled out in July as Operation Liberate the People, has already seen police shoot and kill more than 80 suspected criminals, according to an AP tally based on officials’ statements to the media. There have been no reports of police injuries or

deaths during the blitzkrieg-style operations.

Human rights groups are accusing security forces of carrying out summary executions. But many here also say the government is right to take a more militarized approach to fighting crime. Venezuelans broadly support iron fist policing. And it’s the poor— those most likely to be caught in the crossfire— who most want to see an increased use of force, according to national polls.

In the case of the four killings, officials initially said that the men died during a shootout after they were caught stealing from a metalworking shop in the city of Maracay, outside Caracas. But after the video was leaked to the Miami-based Spanish-language newspaper El Nuevo Herald, eight officers were arrested and charged with homicide. The AP has not independently verified the authenticity of the video, but witnesses corroborated what it shows, and officials acted im-

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FILE - In this Monday, July 6, 2015, file photo, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, left, and National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello gesture with their fists during a session at the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela.

mediately after its release, apparently in reaction to what it revealed.

“The police and the thugs are one and the same here,” said Willy Contreras, a young man who works beside the courtyard where the men

were killed. “Neither side cares about human rights. And we can’t, either. Killing the criminals is the only way to make sure they won’t just go free.”

President Nicolas Maduro has not addressed the case. National

Assembly speaker Diosdado Cabello addressed the issue of human rights concerns about police killings generally in July, saying opposition groups were trying to score points by undermining what he said was an effective approach. (ap)

Singapore softens ban on HIV-positive visitors

SINGAPORE — Singapore said Monday it has lifted a two-decade ban on HIV-infected people from entering the country, but will limit their stay to a maximum of three months.

The Health Ministry said the ban was lifted on April 1, “given the current context with more than 5,000 Singapore residents living

with HIV and the availability of effective treatment for the disease.”

The three-month restriction is apparently aimed at preventing long-term residence by foreigners, such as those looking to work in the island-nation or looking to accompany a child studying here.

“The policy on the repatriation and permanent blacklisting of

HIV-positive foreigners was recommended in the late 1980s when the disease was new, fatal and no effective treatment was available,” a ministry spokesman said in an email reply to The Associated Press.

The spokesman cannot be identified under Singapore government rules.

While a short-term visit “poses

The skyline of Singapore’s financial district and Marina Bay August 9, 2015.

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very low additional risk of HIV transmission to the local population,” the ban on a long-term one remains as “the public health risk posed by long-stayers is not insignificant,” the spokesman said.

Countries such as Australia and New Zealand have similar restrictions on long-term visitors with HIV. Short-term visitors to Singapore have to obtain a Social Visit Pass that is valid for two to four weeks, and may subsequently be renewed for up to three months. Pass holders are not allowed to work in the city-state.

HIV, or the human immunodeficiency virus, attacks the immune system, making it harder for the body to fight infections. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is the end stage of a HIV infection.

While there is no cure, treatments such as anti-retroviral therapy have helped individuals improve their immune systems, delaying the spread of the virus.

Roy Chan, the president of local

voluntary group Action for Aids, said his organization welcomed the move as a step toward a greater understanding and acceptance of HIV-infected persons.

“While things have improved slightly, we cannot forget that many are still being asked to leave their jobs and are ostracized by friends and family because of HIV infection. Many still suffer alone, and have trouble securing jobs and health insurance,” said Chan.

“We need a supportive environment that does not discriminate a person because he or she is HIV infected. The repeal of the shortterm entry ban is one such example of what we need to do,” he told the AP. According to latest health ministry figures, there were 6,685 HIV-infected Singapore residents in 2014, in a population of 5.3 million, of whom 1,737 have died.

HIV can be transmitted through blood, pregnancy, and sexual intercourse with an infected partner. It cannot be spread by social contact. (ap)

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BUSINESS In this Aug. 24, 2015 file photo, Chinese investors monitor stock prices at a brokerage house in Beijing. A series of bungled decisions have escalated doubts about Beijing’s economic stewardship.

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Doubts about China’s economic leadership sap confidence WASHINGTON — The fear that gripped financial markets this month is a stark one: That China’s economy might be slipping into a decline that could persist for years.

But the world’s second-largest economy isn’t collapsing — certainly not yet, anyway.

What’s really in freefall is confidence in its leaders, once seen as wielding near-mythic power to keep their economy growing at a propulsive pace. Global stock markets have sunk — and gyrated — as investors have wrestled with their doubts. The Dow Jones industrial average has lost nearly 1,000 points since China’s surprise move to devalue its currency Aug. 11. That step, in part an effort to align the yuan with market forces, was also seen by investors as a desperate bid to fuel exports in a faltering economy.

“The incredible faith in the Chinese policymakers has been shaken,” says Ruchir Sharma, head of Morgan Stanley’s emerging markets equity team.

For all its woes, China still outruns every other major economy. For 2015, while the nearly healthy U.S. economy will expand perhaps 2.5 percent, even most pessimistic analysts predict that China’s will grow at least 5 percent. Yet its growth has decelerated for

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Oil prices dip in Asia after huge rally

SINGAPORE - Oil prices fell in Asia Monday, coming under pressure as dealers took profits from huge gains in the previous session and tried to gauge the outlook for the US economy and its taste for crude.

US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for October delivery eased 61 cents to $44.61 while Brent crude for October fell 74 cents to $49.31 in afternoon trade.

WTI jumped $2.66 (6.3 percent) on Friday capping its strongest weekly increase in four and a half years, while Brent surged $2.49 (5.2 percent), after prices plunged on concerns about China’s faltering economy.

Dealers said the rebound was largely due to news the US economy grew at an annual rate of 3.7 percent in the second quarter, up from a previous estimate of 2.3 percent, stoking hopes of a pickup in demand from the world’s top oil consumer.

“Better-than-expected US GDP numbers and the strong rally of global stock market were some of the contributing factors for the recovery in the price of crude,” said Sanjeev Gupta, head of the Asia-Pacific oil and gas practice at consultancy EY. Oil has been on a roller-coaster ride in recent weeks over fears of a harderthan-expected slowdown in China, the world’s top energy importer, at a time when world markets are awash with supplies. Signs of rising demand in the US have dragged prices up from six-and-a-half year lows, however, and “key manufacturing and unemployment data from the US and ongoing developments in Yemen will set the tone for prices in the coming weeks,” Gupta said.

Dealers are closely monitoring after fresh Saudi-led air raids in Yemen against Shiite Huthi rebels on Sunday, amid fears that the crisis in the country could threaten key crude producers in the Middle East.

Yemen has been gripped by growing turmoil since the Shiite rebels launched a power takeover in Sanaa in February. It borders major oil producer Saudi Arabia.

Daniel Ang, investment analyst at Phillip Futures in Singapore, said investors “remain wary of a volatile week ahead”.

“We believe that bearishness is still in play, and thus, aim a support at $44.00 for WTI and $48.50 for Brent,” he said. (afp)

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four straight years.

And a series of bungled decisions have escalated doubts about Beijing’s economic stewardship. The skepticism is rising just as China is pursuing one of the most daunting transitions in modern economic history — from overheated growth, driven by exports and often-wasteful investment, toward slower and sturdier growth fueled by spending from an emerging middle class.

The leadership’s miscues have multiplied, starting with its handling of the stock market.

To try to cushion the pain from a slower economy, the government deployed state-run media to promote stocks for inexperienced individual investors. The hope was that Chinese companies could issue shares into a rising market and use the proceeds to finance growth and shrink their heavy debt levels.

Untethered from economic reality, Chinese stocks took wing. The Shanghai Composite Index rocketed 150 percent in the year through mid-June, propelled in part by individuals who poured money in, often on borrowed funds, confident that their government wouldn’t steer them wrong.

Beijing suddenly looked like something less than omnipotent.

Then, on Aug. 11, China devalued the yuan. The government said the move was a

nod to reality: Investors were signaling that the currency was overvalued. And the United States and the International Monetary Fund had long urged China to let market forces play a bigger role in the yuan’s exchange rate.

Yet the decision surprised investors and aroused suspicions that it was a bid to drive up exports, which tumbled more than 8 percent in July from a year earlier. (A lower-valued yuan gives Chinese goods a competitive edge overseas.) And Beijing has since sent confusing signals, sometimes intervening to keep the yuan from falling too fast.

The episode led investors to take a more skeptical look at the Chinese economy.

China’s economic statistics have always been dubious. Premier Li Keqiang once acknowledged that its growth figures were “man-made” and unreliable.

Still, compared with other major economies, that’s a brisk pace. And there’s some evidence that China has managed to begin transitioning toward growth based on consumption and services. Retail sales, for example, rose 10.5 percent in July from a year earlier despite the economy’s overall deceleration. And from January through March, U.S. services exports to China rose 8 percent even as manufacturing exports fell 9 percent. (ap)

Local residents only employed as blue-collar workers

SINGARAJA - A total of 90 percent of the workers at Celukan Bawang power plant are foreign workers from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Head of the Community Empowerment Agency (LPM) of Celukan Bawang village, Mohammad Sadli, said that he was asked to recruit local workers.

Indeed, before the Celukan Bawang power plant was opened, there were about 500 local workers set to be employed there. They were residents of Celukan Bawang, Tinga-Tinga, Tukad Sumaga and Pengulon village. Unfortunately, they were all employed as unskilled laborers with a salary of IDR 1.1 million per month. Besides, they work every day of the week without a day off.

“Local residents are only employed as blue-collar workers and are not given days off even on official holidays. They work full time, but the salary that they receive is not adequate. In terms of their status, some are contracted while others are daily workers. This September their contract will expire. After that, there are will longer be any local workers at the plant,” said Sadli.

There are approximately 125 people from four villages in Gerokgak who were recruited by the Celukan Bawang power plant.

However, they were all hired as

laborers. It is not much different from the construction phase. “Other laborers are employed in waste disposal site and as cleaning service,” he explained.

The government through the Manpower and Transmigration still refers to Ministerial Regulation No. 16/2015 where the foreign worker employment plan (RPTKA) and ownership of foreign worker employment permit (IMTA) must still be referred to by Celukan Bawang power plant. The request to accommodate local workers has been filed since its establishment.

“It includes the provision of opportunities for local manpower in the competence of technicians and machinery expertise. We are waiting for the Ministry of Manpower at the center. In reality, only ten percent of the local workforce is employed and all as blue-collar workers. It’s alarming, and yes we will inspecting the power plant again,” said Ni Made Dwi Putri Priyanti Koriawan. (kmb34)

The Celukan Bawang power plant during the project a few months ago.

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File incomplete, detention period of Agus Tay remains a week

DENPASAR - Police investigators have met a number of instructions on the advice of researching attorney in the case of the allegation of Engeline murder with the suspect Augustinus Tay Hamda May. As a result, the key to the case now lies in the hands of Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office. Based on calculation, his detention period for 90 days will soon end. So, the Prosecutor’s Office is urged to immediately provide instructions or stated if the file has been complete.

Legal counsel of Agus Tay, Haposan Sihombing, when asked for his confirmation about the progress on Sunday (Aug. 30) said that to his knowledge the detention period of his client will end on September 10 because the detention period of 60 days extended for 30 days will come

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The suspect of Angeline’s murder Agus Tay shows the police the process of burying the victim.

to an end. “Actually, it has been extremely clear. According to us and based on the testimony of Agus to us and the investigator, the role of Agus is clear. He was helping Mrs. MM (Margriet—Ed) remove and bury the body of Engeline on May 16,” said Haposan via phone.

As a result, he said, the prosecutor’s office and police authority just need to submit the file and suspect.

“Obviously, it is already complete because his detention has been more than 60 days and extended for 30 days. In other words, his detention period only remains a week,” he said.

He added that researching prosecutors have received the file nearing two weeks. On that account, he asked the researching prosecutor that it is time to take a stand, whether it is complete or handed back to the investigators.

But if it is handed back, surely there should be a detention extension for 30 days. “If this happens, is the extended detention period needed

again? Where is the constraint?” asked Haposan seriously.

Previously, the investigator of the Denpasar Police has returned the file of Engeline murder case with the suspect Augustinus Tay Hamda May. Now, prosecutors are still examining the file to further study whether it is complete or given instructions to be delivered to police investigators.

General Crime Section Head of the Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office, Ketut Maha Agung, previously said that prosecutor will not address the file sent by police in a hurry, but still gives priority to thorough research, so that the instruction will be valid and directed in accordance with the facts in the field. Thus, the elements in the Law on Child Protection should be fixed. On that account, the strength of evidence becomes the main thing.

“We are going to defend all the propositions in court. Therefore, it is very important to carry out the file research maximally,” he said. (kmb37)

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Security officers stand watch as a visitor makes an offering for Phra Phrom, the Thai interpretation of the Hindu god Brahma, at the Erawan Shrine, the scene of the Aug. 17 bombing, in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Aug. 31, 2015.

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Last Titanic lunch menu, saved by survivor, going to auction NEW YORK — The Titanic’s last lunch menu — saved by a passenger who climbed aboard the so-called “Money Boat” before the ocean liner went down — is going to auction, where it’s estimated it will bring $50,000 to $70,000.

The online New York auctioneer Lion Heart Autographs is offering the menu and two other previously unknown artifacts from Lifeboat 1 on Sept. 30. The auction marks the 30th anniversary of the wreckage’s discovery at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Abraham Lincoln Salomon was one of a handful of first-class passengers who boarded the lifeboat — dubbed the “Money Boat” or “Millionaire’s Boat” by the press because of unfounded rumors one of them bribed seven crew members to quickly row the boat away from the sinking ship rather than rescue others.

The menu, which listed corned beef, dumplings and other savory items, is signed on the back in pencil by another first-class passenger, Isaac Gerald Frauenthal, who escaped on another lifeboat. It’s believed the two men lunched together that fateful day in 1912.

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Turkish baths, which recorded a person’s weight when seated in a specially designed upholstered lounge chair. It bears the names of three of the five other first-class passengers with him on Lifeboat 1. One of four weighing-chair tickets known to exist, it’s estimated it will bring $7,500 to $10,000.

The third artifact is a letter written

by Mabel Francatelli to Salomon on New York’s Plaza Hotel stationery six months after the disaster. She had climbed into the No. 1 lifeboat with her employer, aristocratic fashion designer Lucy Duff-Gordon and her Scottish husband Lord Cosmo DuffGordon, who it was alleged bribed the crew to row them to safety in the boat that had a capacity of 40.

The Duff-Gordons, who were the only passengers to testify about the disaster, were cleared by the British Wreck Commissioner’s inquiry, which determined that they did not deter the crew from attempting to rescue other people but that others might have been saved if the boat had turned around.

A letter by Lady Duff-Gordon grumbling about the “disgraceful” treatment they received from the press and public upon their return to England sold at an auction in Boston earlier this year for nearly $12,000. (ap)

in a police sketch with short brown hair and a light beard and mustache, is believed to have lived in the apartment, said Prawuth, adding that his nationality was not known.

Arrest warrants were issued for both the woman and man on charges of possessing unauthorized explosives, Prawuth said.

Saturday’s arrest marked the first possible breakthrough in the investigation into the Aug. 17 blast at the Erawan Shrine, which killed 20 people, more than half of whom were foreigners, and injured more than 120 others.

Much remains unknown about the suspect, including his nationality, his motive, his relationship to the alleged bombing network or if he was plotting an attack, Prawuth said, adding that another attack was “possible” because police found 10 detonators.

“We still have to work out the details,” he said. “But we are very certain he’s part of the network” that carried out the bombing.

On Sunday, Prawuth said police were working with “a number of embassies” and interpreters to try to establish the man’s nationality, adding that he did not speak Thai but spoke some English.

Authorities have dodged questions

about whether the suspect is believed to be Turkish, saying that he was traveling on a fake passport. Images circulated online after his arrest of a fake Turkish passport with the apparent suspect’s picture.

The Turkish Embassy in Bangkok could not immediately be reached for comment. A Turkish government spokesman contacted over the weekend in Istanbul said he had no information on the suspect or any possible Turkish link to the attack.

The blast at the Erawan Shrine was unprecedented in the Thai capital, where smaller bombs have been employed in domestic political violence over the past decade, but not in an effort to cause large-scale casualties. No one has claimed responsibility for the blast, sparking a variety of theories into who might be behind it.

Possible suspects include parties seeking to avenge Thailand’s forced repatriation of ethnic Uighurs to China. Uighurs are related to Turks, and Turkey is home to a large Uighur community.

Other theories included Muslim separatists from southern Thailand, opponents of Thailand’s military government and feuding factions within the security services. (ap)

IMF denies Lagarde’s visit is to extend a loan

JAKARTA - Senior Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Indonesia Ben Bingham has denied claims that the agenda of IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde’s visit to Indonesia is to offer a loan.

BANGKOK — Thai police issued two new arrest warrants and released images Monday of more suspects, a Thai woman and a foreign man of unknown nationality, in the widening investigation into Bangkok’s deadly bombing two weeks ago.

During a televised statement, police broadcast a photograph of the woman’s Thai identification card showing a young woman in a black headscarf and a sketch of the man whose nationality was unknown.

The development came after police arrested a man from an apartment in Bangkok’s outskirts on Saturday and seized bomb-making equipment that included detonators, ball bearings and a metal pipe believed to be a bomb casing.

More bomb-making materials were discovered in a second apartment during a raid Sunday in a nearby neighborhood, national police spokesman Prawuth Thavornsiri said Monday. He said the second apartment, in a neighborhood known as Min Buri, was rented by the Thai woman identified as Wanna Suansun and 26 years old.

Prawuth described what police found as “important bomb-making materials such as gunpowder, ureabased fertilizer which can be used as explosive powder when mixed with other substances, a remote-controlled car with its controller which can be used as a detonator, nuts and bolts, small light bulbs and digital watches,” among other things.

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Bingham noted that speculation has been rife in the media about the purpose of Managing Director Lagarde’s visit to Indonesia.

“I can confirm the following.

The managing director is visiting Indonesia to participate in a long-planned high-level BI-IMF conference on the Future of Asia’s Finance,” he noted.

“Speculation that the managing director may be in Indonesia to discuss an IMF program with the government has no foundation,” he emphasized.

The speculation, however, arose due to the agenda of the visit, according to which Lagarde is scheduled to meet President Joko Widodo, Vice President Jusuf Kalla, and senior officials, including BI’s Governor Agus Martowardojo, Coordinating

Minister of Economic Affairs Darmin Nasution, and Minister of Finance Bambang Brodjonegoro.

Moreover, the visit is being viewed as a coincidence, taking into account Indonesia’s current economic and financial situation, wherein the rupiah currency has touched Rp14 thousand per US dollar, or nearly the same rate reached during the 1998 crisis.

Earlier, Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law and Security Luhut Pandjaitan had also denied claims that Lagarde’s visit was related to offering a loan.

Pandjaitan said that the IMF had put forth a request to hold a meeting between Managing Director Lagarde and President Widodo, when he was still head of presidential staff.

According to the IMF’s press

projects of 35,000 capacity power plants, the government learns from the experience in the implementation of the first and second FTP. The previous government launched two programs called FTP I and II building power plants with a total capacity of 30,000 MW in 10 years.

Completion of the programs have been delayed a number of years mainly on difficulty in land clearing, finance.

Sudirman said the government would continue to go ahead with its program and to reach the target.

“The president has said the target would be revised down. The duty of the ministers are to find a solution to any problem in order to reach the target,” he said.

Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Rizal Ramli has raised controversy when he said that the target was too high and should be revised down. (ant)

Minister for Energy and Mineral Resources Sudirman Said expressed optimism to reach the target of developing new power plants with a total capacity of 35,000 megawatts until 2019.

statement, the high-level regional conference in Jakarta on the Future of Asia’s Finance: Financing for Development 2015, will discuss new financing modalities for the region’s dynamic emerging market economies.

Some of the central banks in Asian countries such as Cambodia, India, Japan, Laos, and Sri Lanka had confirmed their participation in the conference.

Lagarde will also meet parliamentarians as well as representatives of other sections of the society, including women leaders and university students.

Moreover, during her stay, Lagarde will have a town hall meeting with university students in the Jakarta area.

This will be Lagarde’s second visit to Indonesia after her first visit in July 2012. (ant)

Minister optimistic to reach power development target

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This undated photo provided by Lion Heart Autographs shows the Titanic’s last lunch menu, which is going to auction and is estimated to bring $50,000 to $70,000.

JAKARTA - Minister for Energy and Mineral Resources Sudirman Said expressed optimism to reach the target of developing new power plants with a total capacity of 35,000 megawatts until 2019.

“Seeing the progress in preparation, make us optimistic, so is in finance. I have not seen any problem until today,” Sudirman said on Sunday.

He said contracts would be signed for development of new power plant with capacity of least 10,000 MW with Independent Power Producer (IPP).

Power purchase agreements would be signed by the IPPs and the national utility company PLN, which would buy the power to be generated by the IPP. In addition the capacity of some of the existing power plants would be expanded such as the Cirebon, Tanjung Jati and Cilacap power plants.

Soon a power plant with a capacity of 1,000 MW would be built, the minister said , adding the ground breaking ceremony would take place to mark the construction of 2x650 MW power plant in South Sumatra and another in Cilacap, Central Java.

Sudirman said currently construction has been 20 percent completed both for the generating facilities and the transmission system.

He said more than 70 percent of the remaining projects under the Fast Track Program (FTP) has been more than 80 percent completed.

“This makes me optimistic.

The condition in the field convinces me that the target would be reached,” he said.

In the coming months there would be more groundbreakings and power purchase agreements would signed, he said.

He said in carrying out the

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Marquez declares MotoGP title bid over after British GP crash

Marc Marquez has declared his bid for a third straight MotoGP world championship over following his crash in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. The Honda rider had edged back into contention with back-to-back wins at the Sachsenring and Indianapolis, raising hopes of a three-way title fight with Yamaha duo Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo.

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Tanah Lot Temple TABANAN - This temple was founded in the fifteenth century AD by Pedanda Bawu Rawuh or Danghyang Nirartha from Majapahit Kingdom, East Java. The Tanah Lot Temple is located at sea or separated from the mainland. Around the temple, there

are also several small and big temples such as the Pekendungan Temple. Below and in the west, there are sources of fresh water becoming the holy water to the Hindus. Tanah Lot Temple is situated at Beraban Village, Kediri Subdistrict, approximately 13 km

from the town of Tabanan. This destination has been completed with adequate parking lot. During the low tide, visitors can directly get to the court of the temple to pray. Below the temple lie several caves where some black-white sea snakes live. These snakes

Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi of Italy takes a corner ahead of Honda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of Spain during the British Grand Prix at the Silverstone Race Circuit, Britain August 30, 2015.

are very tame and may not be disturbed. If the tide goes up, this temple will look like a floating boat in the water. At Tanah Lot, we can witness the emergence of full moon at night and sunset on the west horizon. Both equally offer amazing attraction to see.

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But a crash when running a close second behind Rossi at a wet Silverstone on Sunday has left him 77 points off the lead with only six races remaining.

“We’ve lost our hope of the championship, but we will try to win many, many races - as many as possible from now to the end of the season,” said Marquez. Asked if that meant he would take a win-or-nothing approach to the rest of 2015, Marquez joked: “Not win or zero, though that’s more or less my style...”

But he added that he had been riding at the absolute limit in recent races anyway to try to regain ground on the Yamahas following a messy start to the season in which he had appeared on the podium just twice in the opening seven rounds. “I will try to win but when it’s not possible I will try to finish second or third,” he said. “It won’t change my level a lot because I was already taking a lot of risks in these last races.”

Rossi and Lorenzo had previously been unwilling to discount Marquez as a title threat even when he was falling behind in the early part of the season.

But following the British GP both admit the title race has become a two-way fight. “He’s almost out of the championship, definitely,” said Lorenzo of Marquez.

Rossi, who leads the standings by 12 points after Lorenzo struggled for comfort in the wet and finished only fourth, said gaining a much bigger cushion over Marquez was the biggest success of his day.

“I don’t want to say it’s closed [for Marquez], but now he’s very far behind,” Rossi said. “It’s very important to have a big advantage on Marquez.” (net)

Nadal hopes to make new memories vs Coric as US Open begins

NEW YORK — Rafael Nadal’s memories of his lone match against Borna Coric are a bit fuzzy, which is understandable.

When the two met in the Swiss Indoors last October, Nadal had just decided to undergo season-ending appendix surgery once his run in the tournament ended. That would come against Coric, a gifted teen from Croatia who won that day in straight sets against a sluggish Nadal.

“It was a tough moment of the year for me,” the 14-time Grand Slam champion recalled Saturday.

“I don’t remember it very well, but I think I played very bad,” Nadal added, laughing.

The two men face off for the second time Monday, and for good reason, U.S. Open organizers believe it could be a compelling match. It closes out the night session at Arthur Ashe Stadium as the year’s final Grand Slam tournament begins.

Coric just missed out on a seed

with a ranking of 35th, making the 18-year-old a particularly difficult first-round matchup for a top player.

“He’s one of the players that is the future of our sport, so it’s a tough one,” Nadal said. “But I’m playing well.”

That Nadal would need to insist he is in good form is telling. The appendix surgery was just the latest health problem at the time for Nadal, who was unable to defend his U.S. Open title last year because of a right wrist injury.

The 29-year-old Spaniard is seeded just eighth and was upset in the second round at Wimbledon by 102nd-ranked qualifier Dustin Brown. This month, Nadal failed to make it past the quarterfinals in two hard-court warmups.

But he keeps saying he is now playing better than those results show, and he’ll get a chance to prove that right away against an opponent of Coric’s caliber.

Some other things to watch as the U.S. Open begins: SERENA

STARTS SEEKING SLAM: Threetime defending champion Serena Williams plays the first match of the night session on Ashe, seeking the first of the seven victories she’ll need to complete the first Grand Slam since Steff Graf in 1988. The top-ranked American carries a 21match U.S. Open winning streak — and 28-match major winning streak — into her meeting with Vitalia Diatchenko.

The 86th-ranked Russian is 2-6 in Grand Slam matches, with both victories coming on clay at the French Open. The first was way back in 2009, when she faced thenNo. 1 Dinara Safina in the second round —and lost 6-1, 6-1.

Venus Williams plays on Ashe earlier in the day, facing Monica Puig. MARIA MISSING: No. 38ranked Daria Gavrilova, making her U.S. Open main-draw debut, now has a very different first-round matchup. She was originally supposed to face five-time major champion Maria Sharapova on Monday.

But after the third-seeded Sharapova withdrew Sunday because of a lingering right leg injury, Gavrilova will meet another Daria from Russia: 133rd-ranked “lucky loser”

Daria Kasatkina. Fan favorite Gael Monfils’ opening match was moved to Louis Armstrong Stadium, the Open’s second-largest venue, to replace Sharapova’s. (ap)

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FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2015, file photo, sweat pours off the face of Rafael Nadal of Spain as he plays Kei Nishikori of Japan during the quarterfinals at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament in Montreal.

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Atletico Madrid beats Sevilla 3-0 to stay in front in Spain

MADRID — Jorge “Koke” Resurreccion, Gabi Fernandez and substitute forward Jackson Martinez scored a goal each as Atletico Madrid defeated Sevilla 3-0 on Sunday to win its second game in a row and keep pace with Barcelona atop the Spanish league. Atletico and Barcelona are among the only four teams to have won both matches to start the season, along with Celta Vigo and surprising Basque club Eibar.

Celta and Eibar finished the second round atop the standings with six points and the same goal difference. Each team scored five goals and conceded one. Celta defeated Rayo Vallecano 3-0 on Saturday, while Eibar beat Athletic Bilbao 2-0 in its home opener on Sunday.

Real Madrid rebounded from a scoreless draw against newly promoted Sporting Gijon with a 5-0 rout of Real Betis in its first match at the Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday, while Barcelona edged Malaga 1-0 at the Camp Nou on Sunday. After struggling in its opener at home, Atletico picked up a convincing win at the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan Stadium in Sevilla, showing that it has the strength to be considered an early contender for the title.

“We are improving little by little,” Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone said. “Possibly this was one of the best matches we’ve played in a very long time.”

Koke opened the scoring with a strike from near the penalty spot in the 35th minute, Gabi added to the lead with a shot that deflected off the back of a defender in the 78th and Martinez came off the bench to seal the win with a well-placed left-footed shot from the top of the area in the 85th. It was the first

Spanish league goal for the Colombian forward who transferred from FC Porto. “We are thrilled to win in such a difficult environment,” Koke said. “Sevilla is one of our main rivals.”

Atletico Madrid did just enough to defeat Las Palmas 1-0 at home last weekend. The surprise league winner in 2014 has a difficult stretch ahead as it will host Barcelona in the third league round before starting its Champions League campaign. The only bad news for Simeone on Sunday was that Koke had to be replaced because of an injury in the 64th.

Celta Vigo stayed ahead after beating 10-man Rayo Vallecano on Saturday, and Eibar remained perfect thanks to a 2-0 home win over Athletic Bilbao. Saul Berjon gave the modest Basque club the lead by converting a 34th-minute penalty kick, and Adrian Gonzalez sealed the victory with a goal in the 64th.

Real Madrid finally showed its prowess on Saturday, routing Real Betis to pick up its first win after opening with a disappointing draw at Sporting Gijon. Gareth Bale and James Rodriguez scored a pair of goals each, and Karim Benzema netted the other. Both Rodriguez’s goals were superb, one coming from a free kick and another off a

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RIO DE JANEIRO — Corinthians won 3-1 at Chapecoense on Sunday match to maintain a four-point lead atop the Brazilian league.

Jadson, Elias and Vanger Love scored for Corinthians, while Chapecoense’s lone goal came from Bruno Rangel. It was Ran-

gel’s seventh in league play and put him in the top five in the scoring race.

Sao Paulo-based Corinthians has 46 points, four ahead of Atletico-MG and an eight over Gremio.

Palmeiras is 12 off the lead in fourth place.

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They can have no complaints about Sunday’s defeat either as last year’s runners-up struck through Miralem Pjanic and Edin Dzeko before Paulo Dybala scored late on for Juventus who finished with 10 men having had Patrice Evra sent off. Roma were on top throughout and unlucky not to be ahead at halftime after Pjanic hit a post.

The Bosnian’s radar was better calibrated after the hour when he curled home an excellent free kick. Juventus then had defender

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successor to Peter Schmeichel.

Sorensen said he was attracted to Melbourne by City’s ambition to reach the top of Australian football. He said “we obviously want to win a championship and a cup and that’s one of the reasons why I wanted to come. Hopefully I can use my experience to get the club where it wants to go.” Sorensen fills the last of City’s five spots for international signings. (ap)

chances to score his first goal but remained scoreless after the first two matches.

Defending champion Barcelona struggled for the second game in a row but again found a way to win, edging Malaga with a goal

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opener. Malaga had upset Barcelona the last time the teams had faced at the Camp Nou. In other games Sunday, Valencia drew Deportivo La Coruna 1-1 at home, Granada won 2-1 at Getafe and Las Palmas drew visiting Levante 0-0. (ap)

Croatia forward Perisic swaps Wolfsburg for Inter

BERLIN - Inter Milan have boosted their frontline after signing Croatia forward Ivan Perisic from VfL Wolfsburg on a five-year deal, the German club said on Monday.

The two clubs did not provide any further details of the transfer but the move was reportedly worth 20 million euros ($22.48 million) after months of negotiations.

“I had a good and successful time in Wolfsburg. I would like to that Wolfsburg

officials for making my move to Italy possible,” Perisic said in a Wolfsburg statement. The 26-year-old joined the Wolves in 2013, netting 18 times in 70 Bundesliga matches.

Wolfsburg have also sold attacking midfielder Kevin De Bruyne to Manchester City for a reported Bundesliga record of about 75 million euros and are seen as close to signing talented 21-year-old Germany international Julian Draxler from Schalke. (rtr)

was: Gremio 0, Coritiba 0; Avai 3, Inter 0; Palmeiras 3, Joinville 2; Fluminense 1, Atletico-MG 2; Sport 0, Flamengo 1; Cruzeiro 0, Santos 1; Atletico-PR 3, Goias 0.

Atletico-MG won 2-1 over Fluminense at Rio’s Maracana Stadium with goals from Giovanni Augusto and Patric. Wellington Paulista

scored for the Rio de Janeiro club.

Gabriel Jesus scored twice and Dudu had the other in Palmeiras’ 3-2 victory over Joinville.

Sao Paulo, in fifth place and level with Palmeiras with 34 points, defeated Ponte 3-0 on Saturday with goals from Michel Bastos, Ganso and Wilder.

In Saturday’s other match, Figueirense defeated Vasco 1-0.

Ricardo Oliveira of Santos leads the league scorers with 12 goals, followed by Lucas Pratto of AtleticoMG and Jadson of Corinthians, both with nine. Alexandre Pato of Sao Paulo has eight and Bruno Rangel of Chapecoense has seven. (ap)

Roma hand Juve second successive league defeat

Atletico Madrid Koke (2nd L) celebrates with Antoine Griezmann (L) after scoring against Sevilla during their Spanish first division soccer match at Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Seville, southern Spain, August 30, 2015. bicycle kick.

The victory came as relief for new coach Rafa Benitez, who would face increased criticism had the team endured another setback after entering the season filled with high expectations.

Cristiano Ronaldo had a few good

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Corinthians stay on top in Brazil with 3-1 victory

MILAN - Italian champions Juventus have lost their first two league games of the season for the first time after they were outplayed and had a man sent off in a 2-1 defeat at AS Roma on Sunday. Not since Bologna in 1941 have the title holders begun the defence of their crown with successive defeats and Juve, beaten 1-0 at home by Udinese last week after losing only three games all last season, have never previously suffered such a start.

Denmark’s Thomas Sorensen joins Melbourne City

MELBOURNE, Australia — Former Aston Villa and Denmark goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen has signed a two-year deal to play for Melbourne City in Australian football’s A-League.

The 39-year-old Sorensen played for Sunderland from 1998 to 2003, Aston Villa from 2003 to 2008 and for Stoke City from 2008 until earlier this year.

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AS Roma’s Edin Dzeko celebrates after scoring against Juventus during their Serie A soccer match at Olympic stadium in Rome, Italy, August 30, 2015.

Evra dismissed for a second booking before another Bosnian Dzeko, newly arrived on a season-long loan from Manchester City, rose well to head the second.

Dybala pulled one back three minutes from time to set up a frantic finale but Juve, who earlier had reserve goalkeeper Rubinho red carded for dissent while on the bench, could not find the equaliser and remain without a point. “I’m not worried about our zero points in the league, that’s something that can happen in football,” said Juve coach Massimiliano Allegri.

“Yes, we have to catch up, but we’ve got all the time and quality to do so. We need to remain calm, clear headed and run through what didn’t work for us.”

Juventus, missing some key players through injury, will be grateful for a weekend off due to the international fixtures next week.

“When we come back we’ll have Claudio Marchisio ready and Sami Khedira won’t be far off,” Allegri said. “(Alvaro) Morata will be in better shape, while (Juan) Cuadrado, (Mario) Mandzukic and Dybala will be more in tune with our way of working.” Roma’s Daniele Di Rossi was also anxious not to write off the champions so early in the season.

“Even when they were down to 10 men, they still found a way back into a game that looked dead and buried. I believe Juventus will be fighting for top spot throughout the campaign,” he told Roma’s website.

“Coaches and players come and go but the mentality is always the same. I’m sure they’ll be competing right the way through the season and we need to do likewise.”

While Juve have yet to register a point and Roma are on four, Chievo Verona have had a flying start, thrashing Lazio 4-0 to make it two wins out of two and seven goals scored. Torino, Inter Milan, Sassuolo and Palermo are also on six points after collecting secondweek wins. (rtr)

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Swansea manager Garry Monk

‘Unbelievable’ Swansea becoming Premier League force, says Monk

LONDON - Swansea City are becoming a force in the Premier League after maintaining their unbeaten start with am impressive come-frombehind 2-1 victory over Manchester United, manager Garry Monk said.

Sunday’s win was Swansea’s third in a row against United and extended an excellent start to the season which began with an opening-day draw at champions Chelsea.

“We’re a good team,” Monk told Sky Sports. “We’re a force in this league and when we’re on it and playing our best football we can be unbelievable. “When we weren’t playing our best we can do the other side and that’s the key to being a good team.”

The Welsh club were promoted to the Premier League in 2011 and consolidated their top-flight status under first Brendan Rodgers then Michael Laudrup. They won the 2013 League Cup, their first major silverware, but Laudrup was dismissed and replaced by inexperienced Monk in 2014 -- his first managerial role.

Monk, however, defied the odds by finishing eighth last season with a club record 56 points and Swansea have started this campaign in eyecatching form.

“It’s just the way that we work and the stuff I try put in place with he players on the field and off the field we work a lot on our mentality and

the way we approach games,” said Monk, who has continued the club’s recent tradition of possession-based, neat-passing football.

“Today you saw character and the technical side of it. You’ve seen in the games already this season we’ve performed unbelievably well and in different ways and shown every side of us. That’s what a good club should be doing.” Fundamental to the victory over United was their ability to adapt.

Monk started the game playing 4-23-1 with limited success but reverted to a diamond formation and turned the game round with two quick goals through Andre Ayew and Bafetimbi Gomis.

“We thought they were overloading us a bit in the middle so we went to the diamond for 10 minutes in that second half,” Monk added.

“I think that helped us get two quickfire goals and at the end we just made a couple of little changes and saw the game out really well.”

Monk’s counterpart Louis van Gaal said his side’s inability to adapt to Swansea’s formation change lost them the game.

“They had a shape which they started with and that was 4-2-3-1 and after 1-0 they changed the shape. We couldn’t cope with that and that’s not good,” the Dutchman said. (rtr)

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Atletico Madrid beats Sevilla 3-0 to stay in front in Spain

MADRID — Jorge “Koke” Resurreccion, Gabi Fernandez and substitute forward Jackson Martinez scored a goal each as Atletico Madrid defeated Sevilla 3-0 on Sunday to win its second game in a row and keep pace with Barcelona atop the Spanish league. Atletico and Barcelona are among the only four teams to have won both matches to start the season, along with Celta Vigo and surprising Basque club Eibar.

Celta and Eibar finished the second round atop the standings with six points and the same goal difference. Each team scored five goals and conceded one. Celta defeated Rayo Vallecano 3-0 on Saturday, while Eibar beat Athletic Bilbao 2-0 in its home opener on Sunday.

Real Madrid rebounded from a scoreless draw against newly promoted Sporting Gijon with a 5-0 rout of Real Betis in its first match at the Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday, while Barcelona edged Malaga 1-0 at the Camp Nou on Sunday. After struggling in its opener at home, Atletico picked up a convincing win at the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan Stadium in Sevilla, showing that it has the strength to be considered an early contender for the title.

“We are improving little by little,” Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone said. “Possibly this was one of the best matches we’ve played in a very long time.”

Koke opened the scoring with a strike from near the penalty spot in the 35th minute, Gabi added to the lead with a shot that deflected off the back of a defender in the 78th and Martinez came off the bench to seal the win with a well-placed left-footed shot from the top of the area in the 85th. It was the first

Spanish league goal for the Colombian forward who transferred from FC Porto. “We are thrilled to win in such a difficult environment,” Koke said. “Sevilla is one of our main rivals.”

Atletico Madrid did just enough to defeat Las Palmas 1-0 at home last weekend. The surprise league winner in 2014 has a difficult stretch ahead as it will host Barcelona in the third league round before starting its Champions League campaign. The only bad news for Simeone on Sunday was that Koke had to be replaced because of an injury in the 64th.

Celta Vigo stayed ahead after beating 10-man Rayo Vallecano on Saturday, and Eibar remained perfect thanks to a 2-0 home win over Athletic Bilbao. Saul Berjon gave the modest Basque club the lead by converting a 34th-minute penalty kick, and Adrian Gonzalez sealed the victory with a goal in the 64th.

Real Madrid finally showed its prowess on Saturday, routing Real Betis to pick up its first win after opening with a disappointing draw at Sporting Gijon. Gareth Bale and James Rodriguez scored a pair of goals each, and Karim Benzema netted the other. Both Rodriguez’s goals were superb, one coming from a free kick and another off a

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RIO DE JANEIRO — Corinthians won 3-1 at Chapecoense on Sunday match to maintain a four-point lead atop the Brazilian league.

Jadson, Elias and Vanger Love scored for Corinthians, while Chapecoense’s lone goal came from Bruno Rangel. It was Ran-

gel’s seventh in league play and put him in the top five in the scoring race.

Sao Paulo-based Corinthians has 46 points, four ahead of Atletico-MG and an eight over Gremio.

Palmeiras is 12 off the lead in fourth place.

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They can have no complaints about Sunday’s defeat either as last year’s runners-up struck through Miralem Pjanic and Edin Dzeko before Paulo Dybala scored late on for Juventus who finished with 10 men having had Patrice Evra sent off. Roma were on top throughout and unlucky not to be ahead at halftime after Pjanic hit a post.

The Bosnian’s radar was better calibrated after the hour when he curled home an excellent free kick. Juventus then had defender

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successor to Peter Schmeichel.

Sorensen said he was attracted to Melbourne by City’s ambition to reach the top of Australian football. He said “we obviously want to win a championship and a cup and that’s one of the reasons why I wanted to come. Hopefully I can use my experience to get the club where it wants to go.” Sorensen fills the last of City’s five spots for international signings. (ap)

chances to score his first goal but remained scoreless after the first two matches.

Defending champion Barcelona struggled for the second game in a row but again found a way to win, edging Malaga with a goal

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opener. Malaga had upset Barcelona the last time the teams had faced at the Camp Nou. In other games Sunday, Valencia drew Deportivo La Coruna 1-1 at home, Granada won 2-1 at Getafe and Las Palmas drew visiting Levante 0-0. (ap)

Croatia forward Perisic swaps Wolfsburg for Inter

BERLIN - Inter Milan have boosted their frontline after signing Croatia forward Ivan Perisic from VfL Wolfsburg on a five-year deal, the German club said on Monday.

The two clubs did not provide any further details of the transfer but the move was reportedly worth 20 million euros ($22.48 million) after months of negotiations.

“I had a good and successful time in Wolfsburg. I would like to that Wolfsburg

officials for making my move to Italy possible,” Perisic said in a Wolfsburg statement. The 26-year-old joined the Wolves in 2013, netting 18 times in 70 Bundesliga matches.

Wolfsburg have also sold attacking midfielder Kevin De Bruyne to Manchester City for a reported Bundesliga record of about 75 million euros and are seen as close to signing talented 21-year-old Germany international Julian Draxler from Schalke. (rtr)

was: Gremio 0, Coritiba 0; Avai 3, Inter 0; Palmeiras 3, Joinville 2; Fluminense 1, Atletico-MG 2; Sport 0, Flamengo 1; Cruzeiro 0, Santos 1; Atletico-PR 3, Goias 0.

Atletico-MG won 2-1 over Fluminense at Rio’s Maracana Stadium with goals from Giovanni Augusto and Patric. Wellington Paulista

scored for the Rio de Janeiro club.

Gabriel Jesus scored twice and Dudu had the other in Palmeiras’ 3-2 victory over Joinville.

Sao Paulo, in fifth place and level with Palmeiras with 34 points, defeated Ponte 3-0 on Saturday with goals from Michel Bastos, Ganso and Wilder.

In Saturday’s other match, Figueirense defeated Vasco 1-0.

Ricardo Oliveira of Santos leads the league scorers with 12 goals, followed by Lucas Pratto of AtleticoMG and Jadson of Corinthians, both with nine. Alexandre Pato of Sao Paulo has eight and Bruno Rangel of Chapecoense has seven. (ap)

Roma hand Juve second successive league defeat

Atletico Madrid Koke (2nd L) celebrates with Antoine Griezmann (L) after scoring against Sevilla during their Spanish first division soccer match at Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Seville, southern Spain, August 30, 2015. bicycle kick.

The victory came as relief for new coach Rafa Benitez, who would face increased criticism had the team endured another setback after entering the season filled with high expectations.

Cristiano Ronaldo had a few good

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MILAN - Italian champions Juventus have lost their first two league games of the season for the first time after they were outplayed and had a man sent off in a 2-1 defeat at AS Roma on Sunday. Not since Bologna in 1941 have the title holders begun the defence of their crown with successive defeats and Juve, beaten 1-0 at home by Udinese last week after losing only three games all last season, have never previously suffered such a start.

Denmark’s Thomas Sorensen joins Melbourne City

MELBOURNE, Australia — Former Aston Villa and Denmark goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen has signed a two-year deal to play for Melbourne City in Australian football’s A-League.

The 39-year-old Sorensen played for Sunderland from 1998 to 2003, Aston Villa from 2003 to 2008 and for Stoke City from 2008 until earlier this year.

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AS Roma’s Edin Dzeko celebrates after scoring against Juventus during their Serie A soccer match at Olympic stadium in Rome, Italy, August 30, 2015.

Evra dismissed for a second booking before another Bosnian Dzeko, newly arrived on a season-long loan from Manchester City, rose well to head the second.

Dybala pulled one back three minutes from time to set up a frantic finale but Juve, who earlier had reserve goalkeeper Rubinho red carded for dissent while on the bench, could not find the equaliser and remain without a point. “I’m not worried about our zero points in the league, that’s something that can happen in football,” said Juve coach Massimiliano Allegri.

“Yes, we have to catch up, but we’ve got all the time and quality to do so. We need to remain calm, clear headed and run through what didn’t work for us.”

Juventus, missing some key players through injury, will be grateful for a weekend off due to the international fixtures next week.

“When we come back we’ll have Claudio Marchisio ready and Sami Khedira won’t be far off,” Allegri said. “(Alvaro) Morata will be in better shape, while (Juan) Cuadrado, (Mario) Mandzukic and Dybala will be more in tune with our way of working.” Roma’s Daniele Di Rossi was also anxious not to write off the champions so early in the season.

“Even when they were down to 10 men, they still found a way back into a game that looked dead and buried. I believe Juventus will be fighting for top spot throughout the campaign,” he told Roma’s website.

“Coaches and players come and go but the mentality is always the same. I’m sure they’ll be competing right the way through the season and we need to do likewise.”

While Juve have yet to register a point and Roma are on four, Chievo Verona have had a flying start, thrashing Lazio 4-0 to make it two wins out of two and seven goals scored. Torino, Inter Milan, Sassuolo and Palermo are also on six points after collecting secondweek wins. (rtr)

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Swansea manager Garry Monk

‘Unbelievable’ Swansea becoming Premier League force, says Monk

LONDON - Swansea City are becoming a force in the Premier League after maintaining their unbeaten start with am impressive come-frombehind 2-1 victory over Manchester United, manager Garry Monk said.

Sunday’s win was Swansea’s third in a row against United and extended an excellent start to the season which began with an opening-day draw at champions Chelsea.

“We’re a good team,” Monk told Sky Sports. “We’re a force in this league and when we’re on it and playing our best football we can be unbelievable. “When we weren’t playing our best we can do the other side and that’s the key to being a good team.”

The Welsh club were promoted to the Premier League in 2011 and consolidated their top-flight status under first Brendan Rodgers then Michael Laudrup. They won the 2013 League Cup, their first major silverware, but Laudrup was dismissed and replaced by inexperienced Monk in 2014 -- his first managerial role.

Monk, however, defied the odds by finishing eighth last season with a club record 56 points and Swansea have started this campaign in eyecatching form.

“It’s just the way that we work and the stuff I try put in place with he players on the field and off the field we work a lot on our mentality and

the way we approach games,” said Monk, who has continued the club’s recent tradition of possession-based, neat-passing football.

“Today you saw character and the technical side of it. You’ve seen in the games already this season we’ve performed unbelievably well and in different ways and shown every side of us. That’s what a good club should be doing.” Fundamental to the victory over United was their ability to adapt.

Monk started the game playing 4-23-1 with limited success but reverted to a diamond formation and turned the game round with two quick goals through Andre Ayew and Bafetimbi Gomis.

“We thought they were overloading us a bit in the middle so we went to the diamond for 10 minutes in that second half,” Monk added.

“I think that helped us get two quickfire goals and at the end we just made a couple of little changes and saw the game out really well.”

Monk’s counterpart Louis van Gaal said his side’s inability to adapt to Swansea’s formation change lost them the game.

“They had a shape which they started with and that was 4-2-3-1 and after 1-0 they changed the shape. We couldn’t cope with that and that’s not good,” the Dutchman said. (rtr)

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Marquez declares MotoGP title bid over after British GP crash

Marc Marquez has declared his bid for a third straight MotoGP world championship over following his crash in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. The Honda rider had edged back into contention with back-to-back wins at the Sachsenring and Indianapolis, raising hopes of a three-way title fight with Yamaha duo Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo.

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Tanah Lot Temple TABANAN - This temple was founded in the fifteenth century AD by Pedanda Bawu Rawuh or Danghyang Nirartha from Majapahit Kingdom, East Java. The Tanah Lot Temple is located at sea or separated from the mainland. Around the temple, there

are also several small and big temples such as the Pekendungan Temple. Below and in the west, there are sources of fresh water becoming the holy water to the Hindus. Tanah Lot Temple is situated at Beraban Village, Kediri Subdistrict, approximately 13 km

from the town of Tabanan. This destination has been completed with adequate parking lot. During the low tide, visitors can directly get to the court of the temple to pray. Below the temple lie several caves where some black-white sea snakes live. These snakes

Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi of Italy takes a corner ahead of Honda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of Spain during the British Grand Prix at the Silverstone Race Circuit, Britain August 30, 2015.

are very tame and may not be disturbed. If the tide goes up, this temple will look like a floating boat in the water. At Tanah Lot, we can witness the emergence of full moon at night and sunset on the west horizon. Both equally offer amazing attraction to see.

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But a crash when running a close second behind Rossi at a wet Silverstone on Sunday has left him 77 points off the lead with only six races remaining.

“We’ve lost our hope of the championship, but we will try to win many, many races - as many as possible from now to the end of the season,” said Marquez. Asked if that meant he would take a win-or-nothing approach to the rest of 2015, Marquez joked: “Not win or zero, though that’s more or less my style...”

But he added that he had been riding at the absolute limit in recent races anyway to try to regain ground on the Yamahas following a messy start to the season in which he had appeared on the podium just twice in the opening seven rounds. “I will try to win but when it’s not possible I will try to finish second or third,” he said. “It won’t change my level a lot because I was already taking a lot of risks in these last races.”

Rossi and Lorenzo had previously been unwilling to discount Marquez as a title threat even when he was falling behind in the early part of the season.

But following the British GP both admit the title race has become a two-way fight. “He’s almost out of the championship, definitely,” said Lorenzo of Marquez.

Rossi, who leads the standings by 12 points after Lorenzo struggled for comfort in the wet and finished only fourth, said gaining a much bigger cushion over Marquez was the biggest success of his day.

“I don’t want to say it’s closed [for Marquez], but now he’s very far behind,” Rossi said. “It’s very important to have a big advantage on Marquez.” (net)

Nadal hopes to make new memories vs Coric as US Open begins

NEW YORK — Rafael Nadal’s memories of his lone match against Borna Coric are a bit fuzzy, which is understandable.

When the two met in the Swiss Indoors last October, Nadal had just decided to undergo season-ending appendix surgery once his run in the tournament ended. That would come against Coric, a gifted teen from Croatia who won that day in straight sets against a sluggish Nadal.

“It was a tough moment of the year for me,” the 14-time Grand Slam champion recalled Saturday.

“I don’t remember it very well, but I think I played very bad,” Nadal added, laughing.

The two men face off for the second time Monday, and for good reason, U.S. Open organizers believe it could be a compelling match. It closes out the night session at Arthur Ashe Stadium as the year’s final Grand Slam tournament begins.

Coric just missed out on a seed

with a ranking of 35th, making the 18-year-old a particularly difficult first-round matchup for a top player.

“He’s one of the players that is the future of our sport, so it’s a tough one,” Nadal said. “But I’m playing well.”

That Nadal would need to insist he is in good form is telling. The appendix surgery was just the latest health problem at the time for Nadal, who was unable to defend his U.S. Open title last year because of a right wrist injury.

The 29-year-old Spaniard is seeded just eighth and was upset in the second round at Wimbledon by 102nd-ranked qualifier Dustin Brown. This month, Nadal failed to make it past the quarterfinals in two hard-court warmups.

But he keeps saying he is now playing better than those results show, and he’ll get a chance to prove that right away against an opponent of Coric’s caliber.

Some other things to watch as the U.S. Open begins: SERENA

STARTS SEEKING SLAM: Threetime defending champion Serena Williams plays the first match of the night session on Ashe, seeking the first of the seven victories she’ll need to complete the first Grand Slam since Steff Graf in 1988. The top-ranked American carries a 21match U.S. Open winning streak — and 28-match major winning streak — into her meeting with Vitalia Diatchenko.

The 86th-ranked Russian is 2-6 in Grand Slam matches, with both victories coming on clay at the French Open. The first was way back in 2009, when she faced thenNo. 1 Dinara Safina in the second round —and lost 6-1, 6-1.

Venus Williams plays on Ashe earlier in the day, facing Monica Puig. MARIA MISSING: No. 38ranked Daria Gavrilova, making her U.S. Open main-draw debut, now has a very different first-round matchup. She was originally supposed to face five-time major champion Maria Sharapova on Monday.

But after the third-seeded Sharapova withdrew Sunday because of a lingering right leg injury, Gavrilova will meet another Daria from Russia: 133rd-ranked “lucky loser”

Daria Kasatkina. Fan favorite Gael Monfils’ opening match was moved to Louis Armstrong Stadium, the Open’s second-largest venue, to replace Sharapova’s. (ap)

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FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2015, file photo, sweat pours off the face of Rafael Nadal of Spain as he plays Kei Nishikori of Japan during the quarterfinals at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament in Montreal.

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Security officers stand watch as a visitor makes an offering for Phra Phrom, the Thai interpretation of the Hindu god Brahma, at the Erawan Shrine, the scene of the Aug. 17 bombing, in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Aug. 31, 2015.

Thai police seek 2 new suspects in Bangkok bombing probe

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Last Titanic lunch menu, saved by survivor, going to auction NEW YORK — The Titanic’s last lunch menu — saved by a passenger who climbed aboard the so-called “Money Boat” before the ocean liner went down — is going to auction, where it’s estimated it will bring $50,000 to $70,000.

The online New York auctioneer Lion Heart Autographs is offering the menu and two other previously unknown artifacts from Lifeboat 1 on Sept. 30. The auction marks the 30th anniversary of the wreckage’s discovery at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Abraham Lincoln Salomon was one of a handful of first-class passengers who boarded the lifeboat — dubbed the “Money Boat” or “Millionaire’s Boat” by the press because of unfounded rumors one of them bribed seven crew members to quickly row the boat away from the sinking ship rather than rescue others.

The menu, which listed corned beef, dumplings and other savory items, is signed on the back in pencil by another first-class passenger, Isaac Gerald Frauenthal, who escaped on another lifeboat. It’s believed the two men lunched together that fateful day in 1912.

Salomon also took away a printed ticket from the Titanic’s opulent

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Turkish baths, which recorded a person’s weight when seated in a specially designed upholstered lounge chair. It bears the names of three of the five other first-class passengers with him on Lifeboat 1. One of four weighing-chair tickets known to exist, it’s estimated it will bring $7,500 to $10,000.

The third artifact is a letter written

by Mabel Francatelli to Salomon on New York’s Plaza Hotel stationery six months after the disaster. She had climbed into the No. 1 lifeboat with her employer, aristocratic fashion designer Lucy Duff-Gordon and her Scottish husband Lord Cosmo DuffGordon, who it was alleged bribed the crew to row them to safety in the boat that had a capacity of 40.

The Duff-Gordons, who were the only passengers to testify about the disaster, were cleared by the British Wreck Commissioner’s inquiry, which determined that they did not deter the crew from attempting to rescue other people but that others might have been saved if the boat had turned around.

A letter by Lady Duff-Gordon grumbling about the “disgraceful” treatment they received from the press and public upon their return to England sold at an auction in Boston earlier this year for nearly $12,000. (ap)

in a police sketch with short brown hair and a light beard and mustache, is believed to have lived in the apartment, said Prawuth, adding that his nationality was not known.

Arrest warrants were issued for both the woman and man on charges of possessing unauthorized explosives, Prawuth said.

Saturday’s arrest marked the first possible breakthrough in the investigation into the Aug. 17 blast at the Erawan Shrine, which killed 20 people, more than half of whom were foreigners, and injured more than 120 others.

Much remains unknown about the suspect, including his nationality, his motive, his relationship to the alleged bombing network or if he was plotting an attack, Prawuth said, adding that another attack was “possible” because police found 10 detonators.

“We still have to work out the details,” he said. “But we are very certain he’s part of the network” that carried out the bombing.

On Sunday, Prawuth said police were working with “a number of embassies” and interpreters to try to establish the man’s nationality, adding that he did not speak Thai but spoke some English.

Authorities have dodged questions

about whether the suspect is believed to be Turkish, saying that he was traveling on a fake passport. Images circulated online after his arrest of a fake Turkish passport with the apparent suspect’s picture.

The Turkish Embassy in Bangkok could not immediately be reached for comment. A Turkish government spokesman contacted over the weekend in Istanbul said he had no information on the suspect or any possible Turkish link to the attack.

The blast at the Erawan Shrine was unprecedented in the Thai capital, where smaller bombs have been employed in domestic political violence over the past decade, but not in an effort to cause large-scale casualties. No one has claimed responsibility for the blast, sparking a variety of theories into who might be behind it.

Possible suspects include parties seeking to avenge Thailand’s forced repatriation of ethnic Uighurs to China. Uighurs are related to Turks, and Turkey is home to a large Uighur community.

Other theories included Muslim separatists from southern Thailand, opponents of Thailand’s military government and feuding factions within the security services. (ap)

IMF denies Lagarde’s visit is to extend a loan

JAKARTA - Senior Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Indonesia Ben Bingham has denied claims that the agenda of IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde’s visit to Indonesia is to offer a loan.

BANGKOK — Thai police issued two new arrest warrants and released images Monday of more suspects, a Thai woman and a foreign man of unknown nationality, in the widening investigation into Bangkok’s deadly bombing two weeks ago.

During a televised statement, police broadcast a photograph of the woman’s Thai identification card showing a young woman in a black headscarf and a sketch of the man whose nationality was unknown.

The development came after police arrested a man from an apartment in Bangkok’s outskirts on Saturday and seized bomb-making equipment that included detonators, ball bearings and a metal pipe believed to be a bomb casing.

More bomb-making materials were discovered in a second apartment during a raid Sunday in a nearby neighborhood, national police spokesman Prawuth Thavornsiri said Monday. He said the second apartment, in a neighborhood known as Min Buri, was rented by the Thai woman identified as Wanna Suansun and 26 years old.

Prawuth described what police found as “important bomb-making materials such as gunpowder, ureabased fertilizer which can be used as explosive powder when mixed with other substances, a remote-controlled car with its controller which can be used as a detonator, nuts and bolts, small light bulbs and digital watches,” among other things.

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Bingham noted that speculation has been rife in the media about the purpose of Managing Director Lagarde’s visit to Indonesia.

“I can confirm the following.

The managing director is visiting Indonesia to participate in a long-planned high-level BI-IMF conference on the Future of Asia’s Finance,” he noted.

“Speculation that the managing director may be in Indonesia to discuss an IMF program with the government has no foundation,” he emphasized.

The speculation, however, arose due to the agenda of the visit, according to which Lagarde is scheduled to meet President Joko Widodo, Vice President Jusuf Kalla, and senior officials, including BI’s Governor Agus Martowardojo, Coordinating

Minister of Economic Affairs Darmin Nasution, and Minister of Finance Bambang Brodjonegoro.

Moreover, the visit is being viewed as a coincidence, taking into account Indonesia’s current economic and financial situation, wherein the rupiah currency has touched Rp14 thousand per US dollar, or nearly the same rate reached during the 1998 crisis.

Earlier, Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law and Security Luhut Pandjaitan had also denied claims that Lagarde’s visit was related to offering a loan.

Pandjaitan said that the IMF had put forth a request to hold a meeting between Managing Director Lagarde and President Widodo, when he was still head of presidential staff.

According to the IMF’s press

projects of 35,000 capacity power plants, the government learns from the experience in the implementation of the first and second FTP. The previous government launched two programs called FTP I and II building power plants with a total capacity of 30,000 MW in 10 years.

Completion of the programs have been delayed a number of years mainly on difficulty in land clearing, finance.

Sudirman said the government would continue to go ahead with its program and to reach the target.

“The president has said the target would be revised down. The duty of the ministers are to find a solution to any problem in order to reach the target,” he said.

Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Rizal Ramli has raised controversy when he said that the target was too high and should be revised down. (ant)

Minister for Energy and Mineral Resources Sudirman Said expressed optimism to reach the target of developing new power plants with a total capacity of 35,000 megawatts until 2019.

statement, the high-level regional conference in Jakarta on the Future of Asia’s Finance: Financing for Development 2015, will discuss new financing modalities for the region’s dynamic emerging market economies.

Some of the central banks in Asian countries such as Cambodia, India, Japan, Laos, and Sri Lanka had confirmed their participation in the conference.

Lagarde will also meet parliamentarians as well as representatives of other sections of the society, including women leaders and university students.

Moreover, during her stay, Lagarde will have a town hall meeting with university students in the Jakarta area.

This will be Lagarde’s second visit to Indonesia after her first visit in July 2012. (ant)

Minister optimistic to reach power development target

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This undated photo provided by Lion Heart Autographs shows the Titanic’s last lunch menu, which is going to auction and is estimated to bring $50,000 to $70,000.

JAKARTA - Minister for Energy and Mineral Resources Sudirman Said expressed optimism to reach the target of developing new power plants with a total capacity of 35,000 megawatts until 2019.

“Seeing the progress in preparation, make us optimistic, so is in finance. I have not seen any problem until today,” Sudirman said on Sunday.

He said contracts would be signed for development of new power plant with capacity of least 10,000 MW with Independent Power Producer (IPP).

Power purchase agreements would be signed by the IPPs and the national utility company PLN, which would buy the power to be generated by the IPP. In addition the capacity of some of the existing power plants would be expanded such as the Cirebon, Tanjung Jati and Cilacap power plants.

Soon a power plant with a capacity of 1,000 MW would be built, the minister said , adding the ground breaking ceremony would take place to mark the construction of 2x650 MW power plant in South Sumatra and another in Cilacap, Central Java.

Sudirman said currently construction has been 20 percent completed both for the generating facilities and the transmission system.

He said more than 70 percent of the remaining projects under the Fast Track Program (FTP) has been more than 80 percent completed.

“This makes me optimistic.

The condition in the field convinces me that the target would be reached,” he said.

In the coming months there would be more groundbreakings and power purchase agreements would signed, he said.

He said in carrying out the

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BUSINESS In this Aug. 24, 2015 file photo, Chinese investors monitor stock prices at a brokerage house in Beijing. A series of bungled decisions have escalated doubts about Beijing’s economic stewardship.

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Doubts about China’s economic leadership sap confidence WASHINGTON — The fear that gripped financial markets this month is a stark one: That China’s economy might be slipping into a decline that could persist for years.

But the world’s second-largest economy isn’t collapsing — certainly not yet, anyway.

What’s really in freefall is confidence in its leaders, once seen as wielding near-mythic power to keep their economy growing at a propulsive pace. Global stock markets have sunk — and gyrated — as investors have wrestled with their doubts. The Dow Jones industrial average has lost nearly 1,000 points since China’s surprise move to devalue its currency Aug. 11. That step, in part an effort to align the yuan with market forces, was also seen by investors as a desperate bid to fuel exports in a faltering economy.

“The incredible faith in the Chinese policymakers has been shaken,” says Ruchir Sharma, head of Morgan Stanley’s emerging markets equity team.

For all its woes, China still outruns every other major economy. For 2015, while the nearly healthy U.S. economy will expand perhaps 2.5 percent, even most pessimistic analysts predict that China’s will grow at least 5 percent. Yet its growth has decelerated for

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Oil prices dip in Asia after huge rally

SINGAPORE - Oil prices fell in Asia Monday, coming under pressure as dealers took profits from huge gains in the previous session and tried to gauge the outlook for the US economy and its taste for crude.

US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for October delivery eased 61 cents to $44.61 while Brent crude for October fell 74 cents to $49.31 in afternoon trade.

WTI jumped $2.66 (6.3 percent) on Friday capping its strongest weekly increase in four and a half years, while Brent surged $2.49 (5.2 percent), after prices plunged on concerns about China’s faltering economy.

Dealers said the rebound was largely due to news the US economy grew at an annual rate of 3.7 percent in the second quarter, up from a previous estimate of 2.3 percent, stoking hopes of a pickup in demand from the world’s top oil consumer.

“Better-than-expected US GDP numbers and the strong rally of global stock market were some of the contributing factors for the recovery in the price of crude,” said Sanjeev Gupta, head of the Asia-Pacific oil and gas practice at consultancy EY. Oil has been on a roller-coaster ride in recent weeks over fears of a harderthan-expected slowdown in China, the world’s top energy importer, at a time when world markets are awash with supplies. Signs of rising demand in the US have dragged prices up from six-and-a-half year lows, however, and “key manufacturing and unemployment data from the US and ongoing developments in Yemen will set the tone for prices in the coming weeks,” Gupta said.

Dealers are closely monitoring after fresh Saudi-led air raids in Yemen against Shiite Huthi rebels on Sunday, amid fears that the crisis in the country could threaten key crude producers in the Middle East.

Yemen has been gripped by growing turmoil since the Shiite rebels launched a power takeover in Sanaa in February. It borders major oil producer Saudi Arabia.

Daniel Ang, investment analyst at Phillip Futures in Singapore, said investors “remain wary of a volatile week ahead”.

“We believe that bearishness is still in play, and thus, aim a support at $44.00 for WTI and $48.50 for Brent,” he said. (afp)

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four straight years.

And a series of bungled decisions have escalated doubts about Beijing’s economic stewardship. The skepticism is rising just as China is pursuing one of the most daunting transitions in modern economic history — from overheated growth, driven by exports and often-wasteful investment, toward slower and sturdier growth fueled by spending from an emerging middle class.

The leadership’s miscues have multiplied, starting with its handling of the stock market.

To try to cushion the pain from a slower economy, the government deployed state-run media to promote stocks for inexperienced individual investors. The hope was that Chinese companies could issue shares into a rising market and use the proceeds to finance growth and shrink their heavy debt levels.

Untethered from economic reality, Chinese stocks took wing. The Shanghai Composite Index rocketed 150 percent in the year through mid-June, propelled in part by individuals who poured money in, often on borrowed funds, confident that their government wouldn’t steer them wrong.

Beijing suddenly looked like something less than omnipotent.

Then, on Aug. 11, China devalued the yuan. The government said the move was a

nod to reality: Investors were signaling that the currency was overvalued. And the United States and the International Monetary Fund had long urged China to let market forces play a bigger role in the yuan’s exchange rate.

Yet the decision surprised investors and aroused suspicions that it was a bid to drive up exports, which tumbled more than 8 percent in July from a year earlier. (A lower-valued yuan gives Chinese goods a competitive edge overseas.) And Beijing has since sent confusing signals, sometimes intervening to keep the yuan from falling too fast.

The episode led investors to take a more skeptical look at the Chinese economy.

China’s economic statistics have always been dubious. Premier Li Keqiang once acknowledged that its growth figures were “man-made” and unreliable.

Still, compared with other major economies, that’s a brisk pace. And there’s some evidence that China has managed to begin transitioning toward growth based on consumption and services. Retail sales, for example, rose 10.5 percent in July from a year earlier despite the economy’s overall deceleration. And from January through March, U.S. services exports to China rose 8 percent even as manufacturing exports fell 9 percent. (ap)

Local residents only employed as blue-collar workers

SINGARAJA - A total of 90 percent of the workers at Celukan Bawang power plant are foreign workers from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Head of the Community Empowerment Agency (LPM) of Celukan Bawang village, Mohammad Sadli, said that he was asked to recruit local workers.

Indeed, before the Celukan Bawang power plant was opened, there were about 500 local workers set to be employed there. They were residents of Celukan Bawang, Tinga-Tinga, Tukad Sumaga and Pengulon village. Unfortunately, they were all employed as unskilled laborers with a salary of IDR 1.1 million per month. Besides, they work every day of the week without a day off.

“Local residents are only employed as blue-collar workers and are not given days off even on official holidays. They work full time, but the salary that they receive is not adequate. In terms of their status, some are contracted while others are daily workers. This September their contract will expire. After that, there are will longer be any local workers at the plant,” said Sadli.

There are approximately 125 people from four villages in Gerokgak who were recruited by the Celukan Bawang power plant.

However, they were all hired as

laborers. It is not much different from the construction phase. “Other laborers are employed in waste disposal site and as cleaning service,” he explained.

The government through the Manpower and Transmigration still refers to Ministerial Regulation No. 16/2015 where the foreign worker employment plan (RPTKA) and ownership of foreign worker employment permit (IMTA) must still be referred to by Celukan Bawang power plant. The request to accommodate local workers has been filed since its establishment.

“It includes the provision of opportunities for local manpower in the competence of technicians and machinery expertise. We are waiting for the Ministry of Manpower at the center. In reality, only ten percent of the local workforce is employed and all as blue-collar workers. It’s alarming, and yes we will inspecting the power plant again,” said Ni Made Dwi Putri Priyanti Koriawan. (kmb34)

The Celukan Bawang power plant during the project a few months ago.

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File incomplete, detention period of Agus Tay remains a week

DENPASAR - Police investigators have met a number of instructions on the advice of researching attorney in the case of the allegation of Engeline murder with the suspect Augustinus Tay Hamda May. As a result, the key to the case now lies in the hands of Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office. Based on calculation, his detention period for 90 days will soon end. So, the Prosecutor’s Office is urged to immediately provide instructions or stated if the file has been complete.

Legal counsel of Agus Tay, Haposan Sihombing, when asked for his confirmation about the progress on Sunday (Aug. 30) said that to his knowledge the detention period of his client will end on September 10 because the detention period of 60 days extended for 30 days will come

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The suspect of Angeline’s murder Agus Tay shows the police the process of burying the victim.

to an end. “Actually, it has been extremely clear. According to us and based on the testimony of Agus to us and the investigator, the role of Agus is clear. He was helping Mrs. MM (Margriet—Ed) remove and bury the body of Engeline on May 16,” said Haposan via phone.

As a result, he said, the prosecutor’s office and police authority just need to submit the file and suspect.

“Obviously, it is already complete because his detention has been more than 60 days and extended for 30 days. In other words, his detention period only remains a week,” he said.

He added that researching prosecutors have received the file nearing two weeks. On that account, he asked the researching prosecutor that it is time to take a stand, whether it is complete or handed back to the investigators.

But if it is handed back, surely there should be a detention extension for 30 days. “If this happens, is the extended detention period needed

again? Where is the constraint?” asked Haposan seriously.

Previously, the investigator of the Denpasar Police has returned the file of Engeline murder case with the suspect Augustinus Tay Hamda May. Now, prosecutors are still examining the file to further study whether it is complete or given instructions to be delivered to police investigators.

General Crime Section Head of the Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office, Ketut Maha Agung, previously said that prosecutor will not address the file sent by police in a hurry, but still gives priority to thorough research, so that the instruction will be valid and directed in accordance with the facts in the field. Thus, the elements in the Law on Child Protection should be fixed. On that account, the strength of evidence becomes the main thing.

“We are going to defend all the propositions in court. Therefore, it is very important to carry out the file research maximally,” he said. (kmb37)

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Souvenir market at Tanah Lot eroded by large-scale souvenir operators

TABANAN - Tanah Lot tourist attraction seems to consistently attract both foreign and domestic visitors throughout the year and has become the pride of the community of Tabanan. Unfortunately, the ever increasing number of tourists who visits the site does not always mean a lot of business for souvenir vendors. As witnessed on Sunday (Aug. 30), a number of stalls looked quiet with only a handful of visitors stopping.

Lately, there the issue of collusion between travel agencies and the owners of particular souvenir markets has emerged, wherein groups of traveler are directed to shop in these premises. Though such conspiratorial behaviour is compensated with a commission or gratuity, it is rarely revealed.

A souvenir trader at Tanah Lot refused to reveal his full name, Wayan, claimed that many large-scale souvenir markets have become stiff competitors for him. As a result, the business he started a long time ago gradually dims. “They are mostly in Denpasar, but the effect is quite noticeable to small vendors,” he said.

This resident of Beraban initially thought positive of the emergence of souvenir markets owned by large-capital entrepreneurs. But over time, the souvenir business he opened in a 9 meter square stall at Tanah Lot has become barely able to survive. Some days he does not sell anything at all -especially during the low season. “I believe that fortune spreads everywhere. But in the long run it seems to be getting more difficult,” he complained.

Wayan started selling souvenirs seven years ago, although eh had never sold souvenirs before he was no stranger to the tourism industry as he had previously worked as a free lance travel driver. “I have heard that the large souvenir markets cooperate with tour guides or travel agencies so that their guests only shopp there. Whether or not this is true, I cannot say for sure, but based on my experience as a freelance driver, such modes of operation do exist,” he said.

“In terms of tourist arrival, indeed it shows an increase, but yes... they are just passing. Moreover, if there are guests shopping, they are just a few,” he said.

Assistant Manager of the Tanah Lot tourist attraction, Wayan Sudiana, said there are at least 400 souvenir stalls in the area of Tanah Lot. Sudiana admitted that business has been sluggish in general but added that it is up to each vendor to find innovative ways of to attract customers to their stall. “I see that some vendors cooperate with travel agencies. Actually it is important to come up with creative ways of attracting visitors, otherwise, business will stagnate as seism to be now,” he said.

Sudiana explained that in terms of price and quality , there is little to no difference between the products of bigger or smaller stalls. “Creativity is essential in the marketing of their products,” he concluded. (kmb28)

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Dozens of Venezuelan shot by police amid crime crackdown MARACAY, Venezuela — Workers in the industrial complex had been hiding in bathrooms and closets for hours when the shooting stopped. The last of the four suspected thieves, a slightly built man in yellow rain boots, surrendered on the roof, crying out, “Jesus saves!”

Traditional market is one of the economics center of Bali.

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Bali should get special attention

DENPASAR - Economic observer, Viraguna Bagoes Oka, said that Bali has become an icon of Indonesia. On that account, Bali should be getting special attention from the president. Oka also said that the development of tourism results in other impacts. The destruction of the space of the island and economic disparity are currently on the rise. Bali’s current tourism growth rate of 60% is enjoyed by those from outside the island.

The souvernir sellers in Tanah Lot are seen in the picture.

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Banking data shows that thirdparty funds reach nearly IDR 68 trillion, and that almost 60 to 70 percent of that amount leaves Bali and only 10 percent goes to SMEs. “Such conditions make it difficult for Bali keep its locally-based economy growing” he explained.

Council of Layman Chairman of the Hindu Dharma Parishad of Indonesia (central PHDI), Putu Wirata Dwikora, also reminded the president to participate in preserving sacred areas in Bali. Sacred areas are the spirit and breath of the Hindus. As such, the Minister

of Tourism should exclude Besakih area from the KSPN through existing mechanisms. If this is ignored, it will be considered as a lack of attention to the aspirations of the Hindus.

WIrata said that President Joko Widodo in his nomination campaign as a presidential candidate, met with 600 high priests and priests in Denpasar in 2014 and said that he would support the aspirations of the people to maintain Besakih Temple and the surroundings areas as a sacred area. There was not the slightest indication that -then candidate, Joko Widodo would go against the wishes of Balinese Hid-

nus to have Besakih remain a sacred area. President Jokowi is now being reminded of his promise.

Prof. Dr. Putu Rumawan Salain holds a smilier view to that of Purut WIrata, Prof. Salain, hopes that central government will listen to the aspirations of the Hindus.

“If this has touched on the issue of faith, please let those outside of Bali understood that it is up to Balinese people to design Bali, not people in Jakarta or anywhere else.

Let’s respect the attitudes and the rights of Hindu practicing Balinese people to declare their attitude” he said. (dir)

Police put him into a truck and started to drive away. But then witnesses watched, confused, as the truck circled back.

A video secretly recorded that rainy day in early August showed that police officers took the man to a concrete alley in the complex where his three companions already lay dead, held him in place, and then shot him point blank. The video does not show the deaths of the others, but two witnesses told The Associated Press they saw the trio lined up against a wall earlier in the morning, police pointing guns at their chests.

The slayings raised new concerns about a crime-fighting initiative launched this summer that aims to take back neighborhoods overrun by gangs. The program, officially rolled out in July as Operation Liberate the People, has already seen police shoot and kill more than 80 suspected criminals, according to an AP tally based on officials’ statements to the media. There have been no reports of police injuries or

deaths during the blitzkrieg-style operations.

Human rights groups are accusing security forces of carrying out summary executions. But many here also say the government is right to take a more militarized approach to fighting crime. Venezuelans broadly support iron fist policing. And it’s the poor— those most likely to be caught in the crossfire— who most want to see an increased use of force, according to national polls.

In the case of the four killings, officials initially said that the men died during a shootout after they were caught stealing from a metalworking shop in the city of Maracay, outside Caracas. But after the video was leaked to the Miami-based Spanish-language newspaper El Nuevo Herald, eight officers were arrested and charged with homicide. The AP has not independently verified the authenticity of the video, but witnesses corroborated what it shows, and officials acted im-

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FILE - In this Monday, July 6, 2015, file photo, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, left, and National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello gesture with their fists during a session at the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela.

mediately after its release, apparently in reaction to what it revealed.

“The police and the thugs are one and the same here,” said Willy Contreras, a young man who works beside the courtyard where the men

were killed. “Neither side cares about human rights. And we can’t, either. Killing the criminals is the only way to make sure they won’t just go free.”

President Nicolas Maduro has not addressed the case. National

Assembly speaker Diosdado Cabello addressed the issue of human rights concerns about police killings generally in July, saying opposition groups were trying to score points by undermining what he said was an effective approach. (ap)

Singapore softens ban on HIV-positive visitors

SINGAPORE — Singapore said Monday it has lifted a two-decade ban on HIV-infected people from entering the country, but will limit their stay to a maximum of three months.

The Health Ministry said the ban was lifted on April 1, “given the current context with more than 5,000 Singapore residents living

with HIV and the availability of effective treatment for the disease.”

The three-month restriction is apparently aimed at preventing long-term residence by foreigners, such as those looking to work in the island-nation or looking to accompany a child studying here.

“The policy on the repatriation and permanent blacklisting of

HIV-positive foreigners was recommended in the late 1980s when the disease was new, fatal and no effective treatment was available,” a ministry spokesman said in an email reply to The Associated Press.

The spokesman cannot be identified under Singapore government rules.

While a short-term visit “poses

The skyline of Singapore’s financial district and Marina Bay August 9, 2015.

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very low additional risk of HIV transmission to the local population,” the ban on a long-term one remains as “the public health risk posed by long-stayers is not insignificant,” the spokesman said.

Countries such as Australia and New Zealand have similar restrictions on long-term visitors with HIV. Short-term visitors to Singapore have to obtain a Social Visit Pass that is valid for two to four weeks, and may subsequently be renewed for up to three months. Pass holders are not allowed to work in the city-state.

HIV, or the human immunodeficiency virus, attacks the immune system, making it harder for the body to fight infections. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is the end stage of a HIV infection.

While there is no cure, treatments such as anti-retroviral therapy have helped individuals improve their immune systems, delaying the spread of the virus.

Roy Chan, the president of local

voluntary group Action for Aids, said his organization welcomed the move as a step toward a greater understanding and acceptance of HIV-infected persons.

“While things have improved slightly, we cannot forget that many are still being asked to leave their jobs and are ostracized by friends and family because of HIV infection. Many still suffer alone, and have trouble securing jobs and health insurance,” said Chan.

“We need a supportive environment that does not discriminate a person because he or she is HIV infected. The repeal of the shortterm entry ban is one such example of what we need to do,” he told the AP. According to latest health ministry figures, there were 6,685 HIV-infected Singapore residents in 2014, in a population of 5.3 million, of whom 1,737 have died.

HIV can be transmitted through blood, pregnancy, and sexual intercourse with an infected partner. It cannot be spread by social contact. (ap)

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Global warming carving changes into Alaska in fire and ice

Fairbanks. “The changes are definitely happening and we’re out in front of the rest of the country.”

And what happens in Alaska isn’t staying in Alaska, because weather changes in the Arctic trigger changes in the jet stream and reverberate down south, including the dreaded polar vortex escape that has brought sub-freezing temperatures to great expanses of North America in recent winters, said Martin Jeffries, an Arctic scientist for the U.S. Office of Naval Research.

Warming’s effects seem to be speeding up. From 1959 to 1993, Alaska’s glaciers lost 57 billion tons of ice a year, but that jumped to almost 83 billion tons a year since 1994, according to Anthony Arendt, who co-authored a study on the subject this July.

And while there may be many factors involved in glacier melt, all but about five of Alaska’s 25,000 glaciers are shrinking, said University of Alaska Fairbanks glacier expert Regine Hock. She’s adamant: “That’s related to climate change.”

On the ocean, sea ice in the Arctic in the summer has shrunk by about one-third over three decades, leading to a loss of habitat for walrus and a threatened species listing for polar bears and their main prey, ringed seals. But in Alaska, what really hits hard is the loss of sea ice that’s connected to the coast. That’s the ice that protects villages from the worst of storms and allows both people and animals to hunt more at sea. But that type of ice is disappearing two weeks earlier in the summer and returns two weeks later when compared to the 1970s, said geophysicist Andy Mahoney at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Meanwhile, Alaska’s wildfires are “more frequent, they’re hotter and they’re more severe,” said Glenn Juday, a professor emeritus of forest ecology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Rapid and sustained warming has led to new patterns of insect outbreaks and new pest species affecting trees, he said. One of the chief problems is the spruce bark beetle, which thrive under warmer conditions. By 2006, aerial surveys had found spruce bark beetles had killed mature white spruce trees on 4.4 million acres (1.8 million hectares) following mild winters and hot summers.

The acreage has increased since then, though not dramatically.

Wildlife has changed, too. George Divoky and others have been tracking how early the black guillemot bird lays its first egg on the far north Cooper Islands. In the 1970s they used to lay their eggs around June 25. The last five years, the average has been June 15 and this year it was June 8.

The U.S. Geological Survey has found a host of other animals changing their habits with warmer weather, including pink salmon, trumpeter swans, and caribou. It’s a problem because sometimes the plants and animals don’t quite match up — caribou, for example, born before the plants they eat, according to the USGS. The record warmth this spring has “turned the state into a melting pot, almost literally,” said Jake Weltzin, who runs the USGS program tracking changes in plant and animal timing. “It’s an enormous experiment.” (ap)

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House miniature coveted by travelers BANGLI - The large number of tourists who visit Penglipuran customary village not only enjoy culinary delights such as cemcem (herbal drink) sold by the villagers but recently visitors have shown great interest in buying miniature customary houses made by local resident I Ketut Cedung.

Cedung explained that was ready to try his fortune at developing a handicraft business, making miniature customary houses as a natural offshoot of his hobby of building customary homes. He admitted that the making miniature houses is quite difficult, but he has not been discouraged by the challenge. “It is quite hard to make these houses, so nobody wants to to get involved in such a business,” he said.

His miniaturesnare exactly the same as life sized Penglipuran customary houses which have lured so many foreign travelers.

Cendung not only makes the walls of the mini houses but he includes complete interiors as well and

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Global warming is carving measurable changes into Alaska, and President Barack Obama is about to see it. Obama leaves Monday for a three-day visit to the 49th state in which he will speak at a State Department climate change conference and become the first president to visit the Alaska Arctic. There, and in the sub-Arctic part of the state, he will see the damage caused by warming — damage that has been evident to scientists for years.

More than 3.5 trillion tons of water have melted off of Alaska’s glaciers since 1959, when Alaska first became a state, studies show — enough to fill more than 1 billion Olympicsized pools.

The crucial, coast-hugging sea ice that protects villages from storms and makes hunting easier is dwindling in summer and is now absent each year a month longer than it was in the 1970s, other studies find. The Army Corps of Engineers identified 26 villages where erosion linked to sea ice loss threatens the communities’ Matt Snyder/Alaska Division of Forestry via AP, File very existence.

Permafrost is thawing more often as the ground warms, so as the ground oozes, roads, pipelines and houses’ foundations tilt and shift — sometimes enough to cause homes to be abandoned. In far northern Barrow, the upper part of the ground is 7 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius) warmer than it was in the late 1950s and getting closer to the melt point in the summer, data shows. And scientists fear the thawing permafrost will unleash large amounts of trapped greenhouse gases and speed up worldwide warming.

So far this year, more than 5.1 million acres (2.06 million hectares) in Alaska — an area the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined — have burned in wildfires. In the first 10 years of statehood, Alaska averaged barely a quarter million acres (100,000 hectares) of wildfires yearly.

The last 10 years have averaged 1.2 million acres (490.000 hectares).

AP Photo/Mark Thiessen “The state is changing and changing rapidly,” said Fran Ulmer, chairwoman of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission and Alaska’s former lieutenant governor.

And scientists say those things are happening — at least partly and probably mostly — because of another thing they can measure: Alaska’s temperature. Alaska’s yearly average temperature has jumped 3.3 degrees F since 1959 and the winter average has spiked 5 degrees F (3 degrees C) since statehood, according to federal records.

Last year was the hottest on record and so far this year Alaska is a full degree warmer than last year.

Alaska “is sort of a bellwether,” said John Walsh, chief scientist of the International Arctic Research Center M. Scott Moon/Peninsula Clarion via AP, File at the University of Alaska

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these small houses have certainly drawn the interest of both foreign and domestic visitors who buy the miniatures as souvenirs for about IDR 300,000.

Cedung added that the miniatures takes him about one week to make and that he only uses bamboo to make them. “Very little material is required to make these little homes, thug I do use glue to hold them together,” he said.

Manager of the Penglipuran tourism village, I Nengah Moneng, said that he thinks that miniature house craft business is very good, not only because it is a community based business that contributes to improving the economy but also because it is a way to introduce Penglipuran to a wider market.

Typically, visitors only visit the houses in the village, but now with these miniatures, they can better remember Penglipuran village. “The miniature houses can become a keepsake for travelers” he concluded. (kmb45)

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The number of foreign tourists visiting the Indonesian resort island of Bali in the first seven months of 2015 rose 10.09 percent to 2,299,995 from the same period last year.

Tourist arrivals to Bali up 10 percent

DENPASAR - The number of foreign tourists visiting the Indonesian resort island of Bali in the first seven months of 2015 rose 10.09 percent to 2,299,995 from the same period last year.

“I believe 95 percent of foreign tourists who have expressed intention to visit Bali again will enable tourist arrivals in Bali to exceed the government-set target of four million for 2015,” tourism observer Dewa Nyoman Putraman

said on Monday.

Despite the global economic slowdown, the number of foreign tourists visiting Bali via Ngurah Rai Airport remained stable in the January-July 2015 period, he said.

This means that the number of tourist arrivals in Bali over the period reached 2.2 million, he said.

The international community still see Bali as a favorite tourist destination, he said. (ant)

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The large number of tourists who visit Penglipuran customary village not only enjoy culinary delights such as cemcem (herbal drink) sold by the villagers but recently visitors have shown great interest in buying miniature customary houses made by local resident I Ketut Cedung.

President Jokowi distributes thousands of “magic” cards GIANYAR - President Joko Widodo paid an official visit to Tulikup village, Gianyar, on Sunday (Aug. 30). During the visit, Jokowi accompanied by First Lady Mrs. Iriana Joko Widodo, distributed Healthy Indonesia Cards (KIS), Smart Indonesia Cards (KIP) and Safe Family Cards (KKS) to thousands of poor people in the local village.

A total of 1,565 health cards, 393 smart cards and 376 welfare cards were distributed to Tulikup villagers.

Jokowi also gave out Social Assistance

Cards to a number of residents with disabilities.

While symbolically handing over the cards at Tulikup Stadium, Jokowi did not give a special speech about the event. However, each time cards were handed out Jokowi told the receiver that the aid being given to the community should be used appropriately and that otherwise, the cards will be revoked. “This card must be used for useful things,” he said.

The President also asked that the government assistance provided

through the smart cards be used by the recipients to meet their school needs.

“The money should be used to buy uniforms, books and shoes. It may not be used to purchase mobile phone top ups,” he said.

Jokowi explained that the smart cards obtained by students contained different amounts depending on what grease the students are in; elementary school students were given IDR 450,000 per year, junior high school students, IDR 750,000 per year, and high school and vocational school

students get IDR 1 million per year.

After the President’s visit, The Regent of Gianyar, Anak Agung Bharata, said that it is an honor for Gianyar County to be part of the launch of the”magic” card program instituted by the President. According to the regent, it will provide psychological motivation for people to keep fighting against poverty. Bharata also stated that President Jokowi’s flagship program contributes to alleviating the burden of members of Gianyar’s society.

Bharata explained that Gianyar

will receive a total of 132,067 “magic” cards and that Tulikup village is the first village in Gianyar to enjoy this assistance. The distribution of “magic” cards will be gradually carried out in other areas in Gianyar.

In the meantime, Wayan Kastina, one of the residents receiving the direct assistance from the president admitted to be very happy. He also appreciated the government’s attention to poor people. “This assistance is very valuable for us,” he said. (kmb25)

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Formal institutions must participate in implementing a Sustainable Bali

TABANAN - The weaker economic resilience of Balinese people opens the doors for the destruction of Bali. This condition is even more alarming when the flow of urbanization and incoming investments to Bali is not controlled. Public officials have facilitated the domination of Bali’s economy by capital driven forces and has greatly contributed to the marginalisation of Balinese people. Slowly and surely, this is leading to a very threat to the next generation in terms of the continuation of Balinese culture and the preservation of Balinese land. Echoing spirit of Sustainable Bali amid the concern is also expected to become a spirit to preserve Bali.

Concern about the fate of Bali has inspired the leading figures of the Tabanan Palace to create concrete measures to save Bali. At the very least they seek to maintain communication with various components of Balinese society so as to encourage the constant implemention of the principle of the Tri Hita Karana (three causes of happiness). The Tabanan Palace reiterated their full support of a sustainable Bali.

According to Gusti Bagus Suryadi, plans for a Sustainable Balimust be be immediately rolled out so as enter the implementation phase a soon as possible. The participation of formal institutions in supporting the cultural inheritance of Bali and Balinese traditions inspired by Hinduism should be clear. “The concept of Sustainable Bali as an idea and strategy for preserving Bali is already widespread amongst Balinese people. What is needed now

Gusti Bagus Suryadi

to transform the spirit of Sustainable Bali into concrete action,” he said.

Suryadi as member of the Tabanan Grand Palace Brotherhood said that the Tabanan Palace has consistently positioned itself as a primary supporters of of Sustainable Bali through its daily actions and contributes to maintaining harmonious social relations. members of the Royal Palace are even active in coordinating and uniting with the people in the context of rituals serving as a complement to existing practices. “We hope this meeting in the Tabanan Palace will be the beginning of the revival of the move towards implementing the principles of a Sustainable Bali,” he said.

To accommodate this, Suryadi said that he deeply hopes for the participation of government and formal institutions. “Do not let the people of Bali face the challenges of globalization without support. Balinese people need to be stregthened in order to support and maintain Balinese culture,” he said.

In regards to the matter of implementing the concept of a Sustainable Bali, former Deputy Regent of Tabanan, I Gusti Wirasana, said that he expects the implementation of sustainability to start from us, adding that pretty much every person in Bali has contributed to the shift in lifestyle and spacial arrangement of the island. “In the future, Balinese people must be educated about how to engage in self-control and how to be selective in managing external forces. He added that the economic resilience of Balinese people should be strengthened first,” he said.

Wirasana also reminded the people of Bali that they should remain engaged in the agriculture sector. He believes that this is a strategic sector of the economy as evidenced by the large number of people from outside of Bali who seek employment as fair labourers in Bali.

Another thought related to the implementation of Sustainable Bali was also outlined by a number of Tabanan royal brotherhood members, including Gusti Made Anom, Gusti Made Sudarsana and a number of other royal figures. In essence, these royal leaders hope that all components of Balinese society will take action to contribute to the preservation of Bali. Balinese people must be wise in managIBP/Parwata ing existing job opportunities, so that they will not be squeezed out by the competition. (dir)

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This responsibility he said, must be borne by everyone in implementing their respective duties. Connections between the leaders and the people of Bali need to be based on sincerity and a commitment to doing devotional works, in order to preserve Bali. “I have been consistently implementing measures for a sustainable Bali. Although I do not talk much, these measures have been implemented in my everyday life,” he said.

According to Ida Cokorda Anglurah Tabanan, protecting Bali is part of one’s duty as a Balinese person. We cannot simply call ourselves Balinese and then engage in behaviour that moves us away from ancestral guidelines know as bhisama. “Rather than turning Bali into a space that is only for gaining profits, Bali must be guarded with the spirit of ngayah (devotional work),” he said.

Cokorda Anglurah explained that ties between the palace and the subak organizations have running harmoniously all this time. He added however that this harmony is often put to the test in various ways that seek to delegitimize the role of the royal palace in safeguarding a ‘Sustainable Bali’.

Architect and humanist Dr. I Gusti Made Putra expressed similar view of Bali’s situation.

Putra who has become a public figure of Timpag Palace said that in order to reach a sustainable Bali, four main pillars; humans, nature, culture and the economy of Bali must all be strengthened.

“As Balinese people, we have to uphold Balinese culture. We must not let Balinese people themselves contribute to the destruction of Bali,” he advised.

He reminded the leaders of Bali of the urgent need to immediately map out the carrying capacity of Bali. Balinese culture is also under threat from the massive influx of people into Bali’s urban centers. The fact that the growth of the population is dominated by migrants, indicates a weakness in one of the sustaining pillars of Bali namely, Balinese people. If the younger generation of Balinese people are not able to grow up and develop naturally in Bali, it will only be a matter of time

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before, those who support Hinduism inspired Balinese culture are relegated to the annals of history. Without a strong culture, the natural environment of Bali will also be under threat and thus weaken another one of the pillars of Sustainable Bali - namely Bali’s nature as a living space for Balinese people.

Artist, poet and world traveller I Gusti Putu Bawa Samar Gantang, spoke out about such conditions saying that they are a disgrace to the universe. The current condition of Bali’s natural environment is really alarming he said, adding that this has occurred because of many people’s ambitions to exploit Bali for the sole purpose of making as much money as possible at the expense of Bali. Corruptive predators are making Bali gray.

He explained that corruptors and dark investors frequently influence one another in creating misguided policies. “They are all too familiar with talking about Bali, but fail to take any concrete action to save Bali. They speak with much eloquence about the rules, while their actions violate these same rules,” he criticized.

As evidence, many such figures have spoken about the need to preserve Bali on TV talk shows but finally they are sent to jail for to corruption. This proves that the words of these dark rulers are often not in line with their behaviour. For this reason, Gantang hopes that those in positions of authority will listen to the people.

If the authorities turn their backs on their own people, destruction is certain: “The Soul and the body of government management must be line with each other. People are the soul of the rule itself, while the ruler stands as the body. If these two elements do not work together, Bali will move towards the path of destruction,” he warned.

Gantang also pointed out that there has been far too much denial about the behaviour of the dark rulers and black investors, these corruptive predators, he said are only money- oriented.

On the contrary, Balinese people have the simple hope that there be peace and harmony as they live their lives on the island of Bali. (dir)

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September 12, 7 PM, Opening “111” exhibition by Aboedt Art September 14, 8 PM, Movie screening of Old Bali’s movie by Aboedt Art September 17, 8 PM, Movie screening entitled “Nga ben Dulu dan Sekarang” by Aboedt Art September 19, 7.30 PM, Nusantara live music September 22, 7 PM, Human is Alien video projections on Bamboo installation with live music by Planet Bamboo September 24, Movie screening entitled “Bali Sehar ian, Dulu dan Sekarang” by Aboedt Art September 26, Movie screening entitled “Upacara Yadnya Bali, Dulu dan Sekarang” by Aboedt Art Sunday, September 27, Opening of Painting and Artwork

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Monday, September 28, Sketches painting and interior product exhibition Tuesday, September 29, Talkshow guided by Wayan Suardika (Bali Arts) followed by sketches demo Wednesday, September 30, Sketches painting by Budiana and

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Balinese Temple Ceremony

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 sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

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

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Taylor Swift queen of MTV awards

LOS ANGELES - Taylor Swift was crowned queen of the MTV Video Music Awards as rapper Kanye West announced an improbable run for president in 2020 and Miley Cyrus released her new album for free.

Pop superstar Swift, still only 25 years old, won four of her whopping 10 nominations, including Video of the Year for “Bad Blood” with Kendrick Lamar and Best Pop Video for “Blank Space.”

She buried the hatchet with rapper Nicki Minaj, embracing her former foe on stage during a

brief rendition of “Bad Blood” dressed in a red tassled mini-dress and presented West with a career achievement award.

Cheered by his biggest fan, pregnant wife and reality star Kim Kardashian in a lace-up dress that left little to the imagination, West appeared moved -- but not humbled

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Miley Cyrus, right, performs at the MTV Video Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015, in Los Angeles.

-- by an extended standing ovation.

Winning MTV’s Video Vanguard lifetime achievement award was a significant milestone for West, previously given to greats such as Madonna, Michael Jackson and Beyonce.

“I have decided in 2020 to run for president,” he announced at the end of a rambling address in which he also appeared to confess to smoking marijuana before taking the stage.

“I will die for the art, for what I believe in and I ain’t always gonna be polite,” he said. “I rolled up a little something. I got the answer,” he said. “We’re the millenials bro.”

The 38-year-old boundarypushing rapper also won best Video With a Social Message for “One Man Can Change the World” with Big Sean and John Legend.

Host was shock pop diva Cyrus, who lived up to her reputation by flashing her left breast and nipple, letting a curtain drop backstage at an opportune moment.

She closed out the Los Angeles show with a performance that saw a firework set off from her crotch and announcing that her new album, Miley Cyrus and her Dead Petz, was out for free online.

The website promptly crashed and on twitter she directed her 22 million followers to her regular

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form you that Wes Craven passed,” a family statement read. “Craven was surrounded by love, in the presence of his family.”

Craven directed 1984’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” whose terrifying scarred villain Freddy Krueger left a defining imprint on the horror genre of that decade and was reprised in a string of sequels

and a 2010 remake.

Krueger, who wore a scruffy fedora and had a glove with razor blades attached to the fingers, would visit his victims in their dreams and slash them to death. The first film in the franchise included a character played by a thenunknown Johnny Depp.

“He made nightmares seem real, the things that scare you in your

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plussed Cyrus, who stayed civil.

“We’re all in the industry, we all do interviews, and we all know how they manipulate.”

The surprise start to the show was Swift joining a resplendent Minaj, festooned in a red tribal-style headdress, in an opening set.

They hit the headlines last month when Minaj’s “Anaconda” was passed over for a Video of the Year nomination. Minaj blamed the slight on bias against full-figured black women, saying the music industry preferred “very slim” women.

The very slim Swift responded by telling Minaj “I’ve done nothing but love and support you” and invited her to share the stage.

Nearly two days later, Swift apologized. Minaj said she wished that Swift had spoken out on portrayals of African American women.(afp)

subconscious can harm you, get to you,” said Richard Potter, a movie writer and producer who worked with Craven on the “Scream” franchise.

Craven’s eye for young talent also saw him cast Sharon Stone and Bruce Willis in their first major roles, in the 1981 horror flick “Deadly Blessing” and a 1985

episode of “The Twilight Zone” respectively. Craven, who was known also for his writing and television work, directed several episodes of “The Twilight Zone” revival in the 1980s.

During the 1990s he made three films in the hugely popular “Scream” series, with a fourth in 2011. (afp)

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Dark corruptors and investors conspire to create misguided policies

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website, where the music was available. Cyrus made MTV award history two years ago by twerking on stage with Robin Thicke in a flesh-colored bikini and cavorting around with a foam finger.

On Sunday, she wore a revolving door of outfits for the broadcast, but walked the red carpet in an outfit so revealing that the New York Daily News named it a “crotch chandelier.”

But if Minaj hugged and made up with Swift, she went into battle with Cyrus for telling The New York Times in a recent interview that Minaj was “not too kind” and “not very polite.”

“This bitch that had a lot to say about me the other day in the press, Miley,” said the rapper, after thanking her pastor and winning Best Hip Hop Video for “Anaconda.”

The camera panned to a non-

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Taylor Swift, left, and Nicki Minaj perform at the MTV Video Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015, in Los Angeles.

Legendary horror director Wes Craven dead at 76

LOS ANGELES - Wes Craven, a master of cinematic horror whose legendary directorial credits include “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Scream”, died Sunday aged 76, his family said.

Craven had been suffering from brain cancer and passed away at his home in Los Angeles.

“It is with deep sadness we in-

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A Malaysian boy smiles during the 58th National Day celebrations at the Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Monday, Aug. 31, 2015.

Black investors and dark rulers are conspiring to accelerate the destruction of Bali. The behaviours and interests of both of these groups have made Bali into a nest for corruptive predators and disconnections between words and actions have led Bali into a bleak period of its history. These were some of the views expressed during a discussion entitled “Sustainable Bali” held by the Tabanan Palace last week.

The discussion attended by the Sira Arya Kenceng brotherhood also highlighted the process of destruction that has been targeting the four main pillars that support Bali. Ida Cokorda Anglurah Tabanan urged all Balinese people to do some introspection and take immediate action to save Bali.

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Malaysia PM reasserts command with National Day parade

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia’s government reclaimed the streets of the capital Monday after massive weekend protests demanding the premier’s ouster, staging its own show of force with National Day celebrations attended by thousands.

With Prime Minister Najib Razak presiding, masses of flagwaving spectators cheered a colourful parade of soldiers, police and civil servants through the city centre, symbolically underlining the government’s clout despite pressure for change.

Organisers of the peaceful weekend demonstrations said more than

200,000 people came out to demand the embattled Najib’s removal over a financial scandal.

“Well, we gave it our best shot and now it’s their turn again,” said Simon Tam, a lawyer who attended the demonstrations on both days.

“Getting Najib to step down is not easy, and maybe there is not

much hope at all. But can we stand by and say nothing?”

Najib has been under pressure since the Wall Street Journal last month published Malaysian documents showing nearly $700 million had been deposited into his personal bank accounts, beginning in 2013.

His cabinet ministers now admit the transfers happened, describing them as “political donations” from unidentified Middle Eastern sources but refusing to explain further.

Influential ex-leader Mahathir

Mohamad, who calls Najib corrupt and a poor leader and has pressed for his ouster for more than a year, caused a stir by attending the rally on Sunday.

The 90-year-old, who squelched civil disobedience during his 19812003 rule, evoked the 1986 Philippine “people power” revolt in calling for Najib to be toppled.

“If the government ignores the law, we have to demonstrate.

If you look at (former president Ferdinand) Marcos, when he was ruling the Philippines they had to

overthrow him through demonstrations,” he said.

But the chances of a “people power” revolt in Malaysia are remote. (afp) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.