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Jodie Whittaker on Doctor Who: ‘A woman as an alien gender’s not the weird bit’ LOS ANGELES - For a show about an alien able to change every DNA molecule and physical characteristic of its body, there was an awful lot of fuss about the lead character’s regeneration into a woman.

When the 13th Doctor was confirmed as actress Jodie Whittaker some Whovians proclaimed the franchise “ruined” and vowed not to watch the new series.

Former Doctor Peter Davison even suggested the casting of a woman would deprive boys of a vital role model.

However, Broadchurch actress Whittaker is much more upbeat about the phenomenon of a woman taking over the role.

Speaking on the Doctor Who red carpet, the actress told Sky News: “It’s a celebration and a long time coming.

“It’s not that shocking, a woman playing an alien - that’s not the weird bit!

“We are the other half of the population so we’re not that alien!”

She admits it will be welcome when the choice of a woman in the lead role isn’t “a moment” and doesn’t garner such attention.

On the subject of role models, she looked back on her experiences as a child: “For me, with children, it’s knowing that you’re a little boy or little girl and that the people you look up to don’t always have to look like you.

“I always looked up to guys and creatures in films or mystical characters because I could see myself portrayed in many different ways.

“And to suggest that you can only look up to someone because you look similar is a shame.”

Despite this, Whittaker admits the casting of Doctor Who is a special case: “Fans have this epic journey with someone, and then the rug is pulled and it’s somebody else,” she said.

“For some people it can only ever have happened once because they’ve fallen in love with the show with that Doctor and it’s never happened before.” (IBP/net)

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Argento recalls sexual encounter with Jimmy Bennett

ROME - Italian actress Asia Argento, who became a leading figure in the #MeToo movement after accusing powerful Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of rape, admitted she had sex with young actor Jimmy Bennett, who claimed she sexually assaulted him as a teenager.

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Jodie Whittaker is set to appear on our screens as the first female Dr Who.

During a television show in Italy on Sunday Argento, who had initially denied having sex with Bennett, recounted her relationship with the actor. Argento, who played his troubled mother in the 2004 film “The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things,” saw him again in May 2013, when he was 17 and she was 37.

According to Bennett’s account of the encounter he gave in a September 24 interview on Italian television, Argento kissed him for a long time. “It turned into her placing her hands on me and following that was when she pushed me onto the bed and took my pants off,” said the actor, now 22.

Asked whether it was a “complete” relationship, Bennett said

it was, implying they had sex, but declined to go into detail.

The actor and rock musician was 17 years old at the time of the alleged assault. The legal age of consent in California is 18.

Argento strongly denied his version of events, saying the young man had asked her to help him prepare for an audition, as she did when he was a child.

“He started kissing me and touching me, but not as a mother and child as I saw him, but as a boy with raging hormones ... And that froze me,” she recounted.

“He literally jumped on me (...)

He was on me, and he came. Me, I didn’t feel anything, I didn’t react because for me it was unthinkable,”

added the actress.

“He told me it was a fantasy he’d had since the age of 12. For him, I was a hunting trophy,” she said.

In the following months, Argento said she had received intimate videos of him via Snapchat.

She said she did not break ties with Bennett because he was “troubled”. But this winter the young actor asked for $3.5 million to keep quiet. During the interview, Argento shared messages exchanged with her late boyfriend, celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, who would have paid for peace.

Bourdain reportedly paid him $250,000. Following Bourdain’s suicide in June, Argento suspended the payments. (afp)

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Earthquake survivors search for useable items among the debris in Palu, Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi on October 1, 2018, after an earthquake and tsunami hit the area on September 28. The death toll from the Indonesian quake-tsunami nearly doubled to 832 but was expected to rise further after a disaster that has left the island of Sulawesi reeling.

Homes ‘drift away’, soil turns liquid in quake-hit Indonesian suburb

Lots of places on the beleaguered Indonesian island of Sulawesi were hit hard by Friday’s deadly earthquake-tsunami disaster. But perhaps nowhere quite as badly as Petobo. For four days, rescue workers and government officials have struggled to reach this suburb on the outskirts of the devastated city of Palu.

Traversing roads crisscrossed with cracks several metres wide, it is easy to see why access was so difficult. Here the 7.5-magnitude earthquake’s power is in full view.

It wiped out homes, schools and roads and created massive rifts in the earth that obliterated everything around them. For as far as the eye can see, there is a patchwork of twisted roofing, downed power

lines and rubble, endless rubble.

There was no tsunami here -- Petobo is too far inland -- but the earth itself liquefied under the power of the jolt.

It is a phenomenon called liquefaction, often observed by seismologists. Quakes sometimes hit the soil with such force that its particles come loose and -- saturated with water -- the ground itself starts behaving like a liquid, according

to the United States Geological Survey. In places, the ground has risen several metres, swallowing homes and flipping cars onto their roofs. Muzair, 34, salvaged what he could from his home, which had been literally swept away. He then clung to a piece of timber and rode out the quake.

“My house shifted many metres from up there to down here,” he told AFP, pointing at the collapsed

buildings behind him. “My neighbours’ houses have been piled on top of each other,” he told AFP on the scene. When the first earthquake hit it cracked the ground, he said. And when the second struck, the soil started to spin. There have been more than 170 aftershocks since then.

“The soil was churning and then suddenly rose up,” he said. “The soil somehow just rose and buried the houses.” “One house rose up, while the other houses sunk and became much lower.”

Five of his family members are still missing. Other places

have been inundated with water released from the huge cracks in the ground.

“I haven’t seen my friend since the earthquake hit three days ago,” said another man, wandering through the ruins as he searched for signs of the living. (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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Passing down traditional Batuan style painting to the digital generation The village of Batuan has long been known for its exceptionally talented artists in all disciplines with particular attention from the global arts scene for its painters. The distinct Batuan style of painting in fact goes back many hundreds of years -if not more. The village temple that was established in 1022 ad, houses texts that refer to an artist’s guild, which quite likely predates the temple. Indeed a prehistoric archeological site was unearthed right next to Batuan temple that revealed many stone works of exceptional artistic merit. How far back the artistic traditions of Batuan date remains to be officially established but is doubtless very old and has clearly been passed down with remarkable assiduity.

Batuan became know to the wider public in the 1960’s when painters and sculptors here started including elements of contemporary life in their works which, nonetheless remained well within the aesthetic norms of the Batuan style.

The number of truly awe inspiring works that have been produced in this small village over the last few decades is nothing short of mindboggling and stand as a testament to the ability of Balinese tradition to adopt new elements without being diluted by them.

What has become a concern for some is the continuity of this long standing traditional of artistic expression. Since the turn of the millennia, with the advent of digital technologies available to ever-growing numbers of people, less and less people have the patience to create the masterful works of the Batuan style. Changes in lifestyle and attitude brought about by the increasingly widespread influence of consumer culture left many of the master painters of Batuan worried that the next generation would not carry on this the tradition of art creation as their ancestors have done for countless generations before them. Traditional Batuan Style Painting is about to be officially recognized as one of Indonesia’s intangible heritages, but this does not guaranteed continuity.

Painters coalesced into the Baturulangun Batuan painters group, led by I Ketut Sadia painters decided to take matters into their own hands. Whereas in the past these techniques were passed down from artist to pupil informally and often within a same family, given the current context, Sadia and friends decided that a new approach was needed. So in 2015, they approached the village government and started offering traditional drawing classes to elementary school children at the town hall.

Although there was initially a lot of interest, after a year, they found that very few students were not sticking with it.

So, they decided to team up with local elementary schools to make traditional Batuan painting part of the school curriculum, giving classes in the schools on Saturdays and at the town hall on Sundays. By having the students graded for their efforts and taking part in monthly competitions, the youngsters not only stuck with it but more and more children started attending the Sunday classes. After a year of this success, the works of these enthusiastic youngsters were brought together for an exhibition at the Bali Arts Festival and later in a gallery in Ubud both of which were

extremely successful.

Since then youngsters from areas outside of Batuan have also started attending the Sunday classes and the artist’s group has a plan in the works to open classes for junior high school students next year, so that those who have been studying this traditional technique can continue learning after elementary school.

The success of this simple endeavour can be seen not only in the enthusiasm of the young students to persevere in learning this rather challenging technique, but also in the exceptional works they have been producing.

Nearly everyone who sees their works blurt out something to the effect of :”were these really produced by children?”. The answer is a resounding yes.

The youngsters are guided step-by-step through the learning process, from practicing drawing simple lines and shapes in order to develop their dexterity. They are then encouraged to create their own compositions.

Here there is no particular guidance offered, though the youngsters are exposed to the large number of works from their village as inspiration. Once they have drawn the outline of their picture in pencil, they go over the lines in felt pen. Then the first layer of ink is added to create shading. This is where the real challenge begins.

Batuan style painting has a particular method for creating layers of lights and dark to create shading that involve spreading ink with one brush and water with another. Sometimes, the teachers will apply the first layer of ink to encourage the youngsters. Once they have a hang of the initial inking process the children start applying the subsequent layers.

The paintings they have produced thus far are not only remarkable in the clear lines and beautiful shapes that these very young students master with staggering ability but also in the amazingly well balanced compositions they produce, depicting a wide range of scenes.

One cannot help but wonder if there is either a genetic element at play or if there is something in the drinking water of Batuan than makes for such talented artists – even at this tender age.

Sadia and his colleagues have succeeded in taking the first very important steps in assuring that their ancestral legacy is passed on to the next generation. (kmb)

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TED BAKER REVEALS HIS PICK OF THE BUNCH: A NEW ACCESSORIES STAND AT BEACHWALK SHOPPING CENTER Continuing the wonderful world of Ted’s pop-up stores, Ted is proud to announce his new store at Beachwalk Shopping Center in Bali. This time, Ted shows off his accessories counter as ‘Pick of the Bunch’, a fresh selection comprising only Ted’s very best picks for the island.

While the Sweet Shoppe popup at Central department store in Grand Indonesia, Jakarta, features candy shopinspired shelves full of wonderful goodies, Ted’s ‘Pick of the Bunch’ at Beachwalk Shopping Center in Bali adopts more greens and floral elements to recreate a floral playground in the middle of

the beach-and-outdoor concept.

This new outlet also carries a wide selection of styles from shoppers, totes, clutches, bracelets, cardholders, and make-up bags, to jotters and iPhone cases for both men and women. Not to forget, TED’s ‘sweet feet’ jelly ballet pumps are served in a range of juicy shades. Ted’s unique accessories selection is on the ground floor, Beachwalk Shopping Center, Jl. Pantai Kuta, Bali 80361 About Ted Baker From the beginning, Ted has had a very clear, unswerving fo-

cus on quality, attention to detail and a quirky sense of humour, so much so that the first stores used to provide a laundry service for every shirt purchased – something that gained the quickly growing brand the title of ‘No Ordinary Designer Label’. Everything produced under the Ted Baker name has his personality woven into its very heart. For loaning purposes and further information, please contact: Ted Baker Indonesia/Tel: +62 21 2295 8136 / +62 812 1975 5264/ Fax: +62 21 2295 8137/ Email: putri.yunida@navya.co.id/www. tedbaker.com

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The Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico has been used for decades in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) but has barely made a dent in the space to be searched, new calculations suggest.

We may not have found aliens yet because we’ve barely begun looking

WITH no luck so far in a six-decade search for signals from aliens, you’d be forgiven for thinking, “Where is everyone?”

A new calculation shows that if space is an ocean, we’ve barely dipped in a toe. The volume of observable space combed so far for E.T. is comparable to searching the volume of a large hot tub for evidence of fish in Earth’s oceans, astronomer Jason Wright at Penn State and colleagues say in a paper posted online September 19 at

arXiv.org.

“If you looked at a random hot tub’s worth of water in the ocean, you wouldn’t always expect a fish,” Wright says.

Still, that’s far more space searched than calculated in 2010 for the 50th anniversary of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. In that work, SETI pioneer Jill Tarter and

colleagues imagined a “cosmic haystack” of naturally occurring radio waves she could sift through for the proverbial needle of an artificial, alien beacon. Her haystack went beyond physical space to include factors such as a possible signal’s duration, frequency, variations and strength, as well as the sensitivity of radio telescopes on Earth that would

presumably detect a signal.

She concluded that searches had covered about a drinking glass’s worth of seawater — hardly enough to conclude the ocean is fishless.

Wright and colleagues Shubham Kanodia and Emily Lubar updated Tarter ’s calculation by devising a slightly different haystack, including factors like the frequency and bandwidth aliens might broadcast in. It also included more recent SETI

searches such as the Breakthrough Listen project.

Converting the volume to liters for the sake of analogy, the researchers concluded that SETI has covered the equivalent of 7,700 liters out of 1.335 billion trillion liters of water in Earth’s oceans.

“We’re finally getting to the point today … that we have a chance of finding something, depending on how much there is to find,” Wright says. (IBP/net)

Hints of weird particles from space may defy physicists’ standard model

ANTARCTICA - Dangling from a balloon high above Antarctica, a particle detector has spotted something that standard physics is at a loss to explain.

Two unusual signals seen by the detector, known as the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna, or ANITA, can’t be attributed to any known particles, a team of physicists at Penn State reports online September 25 at arXiv.org. The result hints at the possibility of new particles beyond those cataloged in the standard model, the theory that describes the various elementary particles that make up matter.

Like the old man in the Pixar movie Up, ANITA floats on a helium balloon, at an altitude of 37 kilometers for about a month at a time. It searches for the signals of high-energy particles from space, including lightweight, ghostly particles called neutrinos. Those neutrinos can interact within Antarctica’s ice, producing radio waves that are picked up by ANITA’s antennas.

The two puzzling signals appear to be from extremely energetic neutrinos shooting skyward from within the Earth.

A neutrino coming up from below isn’t inherently surprising: Low-energy neutrinos interact with matter so weakly that they can zip through the entire planet. But high-energy neutrinos can’t pass through as much material as lower-energy neutrinos can. So although high-energy neutrinos can skim the edges of the planet, they won’t survive a pass straight through.

The steep angle of the particles’ paths suggests that the neutrinos traveled through several thousands of kilometers of Earth — too much for a high-energy neutrino to make it out the other side. That’s according to computer simulations in the new study, by researchers who are not members of the ANITA collaboration. ANITA researchers have been looking for a way to explain the signals with neutrinos, says Derek Fox, a coauthor of the study. But according to Fox and colleagues’ simulations, “those attempts must fail.”

A high-energy particle could make such a long trek through the Earth only if it were even more reticent to interact with matter than neutrinos are. A hypothetical heavy particle called a stau, proposed in a theory called supersymmetry, could fit the bill, Fox and colleagues say. After being created on the other side of the planet by a high-energy neutrino slamming into the Earth, a stau could make it through unscathed before decaying into lighter particles that would eventually result in the signals detected by ANITA. But don’t cancel your membership in the standard model fan club just yet. “It’s still possible that there is a very mundane reason that we are seeing these events in ANITA,” says ANITA physicist Stephanie Wissel of Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Other spacefaring particles called cosmic rays, which rain down from above, produce similar signatures in ANITA. A basic misunderstanding of the physics behind cosmic rays’

signatures could explain the observations, Wissel says.

Backing up their claim, Fox and colleagues also identify three events in another Antarctic neutrino detector, called IceCube, that they say have some similarly puzzling properties.

But the leader of that experiment, physicist Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, isn’t convinced. “These events are of course worth paying attention to,” he says, but he doesn’t see any evidence that they require a new explanation.

What’s needed is more data, physicists say. The ANITA team plans to send the detector up for another Antarctic balloon ride, says ANITA physicist Amy Connolly of Ohio State University in Columbus. “My view is that we should keep trying to find a mundane explanation for these events.”

The standard model has been confirmed time and again, so physicists are loathe to abandon it without overwhelming evidence. “The case that ANITA is seeing something weird is strong,” says astrophysicist John Beacom, also of Ohio State. But “I always bet for the standard model.”

Still, these events have such extreme energies that they are reaching into realms not accessible at particle colliders like the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Beacom says. “There’s a lot we just don’t know about how physics works at these high energies.” (IBP/net)

IMF-WB Annual Meeting

Kamasan puppet painting and endek become an allure

KAMASAN puppet painting and endel fabric are two of arts that have become known to the people Bali as having their home in the district of Klungkung. The kamasan puppet painting with their rich stories and philosophical values will be featured at the IMF-WB Annual Meeting in Nusa Dua next month along with endek fabrics from Klungkung.

Head of the Klungkung Cooperative, SMEs and Trade Agency, I Wayan Ardiasa, stated on Friday (Sep. 28) that both of these products will likely be popular with the delegates as both have unique characteristics. “We want to expand the promotion of these products from Klungkung”, he explained.

The provincial government of Bali, he explained asked Klungkung to provide local products for the meeting in Nusa Dua which he was glad to accommodate. “We have already made arrangements and just need to appoint particular artisans”, he said.

Klungkung’s district govern-

ment has already facilitated artisans in participating in a number of exhibitions at the regional and national level. Artisans themselves have been using the internet to promote their products. “Having people see the products in person is a great way to prmote these crafts that have such high value”, he added.

Endek sellers at the Semarapura Art Market have been eagerly awaiting the event involving so many international delegates. Putu Mayuni for example has been getting some products ready. “Hopefully the delegates will come and shop here”, she said adding that so far it is mostly locals who buy this cloth, though sometimes foreign tourists will also shop there.

Kamasan puppet painter, Jero Mangku Muriati Mura, also strongly supports the promotional opportu-

DENPASAR — Heart disease now attacks people of the increasingly younger age. In 2008, the mortality rate due to heart disease amounted to 17.3 million and more than 3 million deaths occurred at the age of less than 60 years.

Chairman of the Indonesia Cardiovascular Specialist Association (PERKI) of Bali Branch, Dr. I Made Junior Rina Artha, revealed that based on the data of 2013 Basic Health Research, the number of coronary heart disease was 883,447 and the heart failure was 229,696.

The Indonesia ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction or ISTEMI’s data

at Sanglah Hospital indicate that in 2017 the patients coming due to heart attack amounted to 587 people, where 45.5 percent of them needed administration of fibrinolytic drugs (blood clot destroyers) or ring installation as soon as possible to save patients.

Meanwhile, in 2018 up to August the number of patients coming to emergency room due to heart attack reached 477 people.

The increased incidence of heart attacks at young age is associated with the risk of smoking, lack of physical activities and unhealthy diet patterns.

Until now, heart disease is the leading cause of death, number one killer in conditions of non-communicable

diseases and predicted to occur until 2030. Previously, the heart disease attacked people of 50 years old and over.

With the changes in the age of the heart disease, the technology of handling heart disease is also progressing.

“Now, the installation of stents or heart rings is increasingly routine, but it is accompanied with better quality stents and installation techniques,” he said.

Other technologies such as electrophysiology measures and the installation of devices or pacemakers have now begun to develop in Indonesia.

With this device, the results are quite promising in arrhythmia patients.

Other supporting examinations such as echocardiography, Holter monitor, treadmill and CT Angio that will facilitate the diagnosis of heart disease are also acknowledged to have been easier to find.

He continued that heart disease can be congenital and incidental. Congenital heart disease is structural and functional abnormalities of the heart carried since the birth. Meanwhile, incidental heart disease happens due to an unhealthy lifestyle or secondary causes (infection, trauma) like hypertension, coronary heart disease, arrhythmias, rheumatic heart disease and heart failure.

Risk factors causing people to ex-

nity especially amidst the currently sluggish market. “Last year sales were quite slow. Having this promotion is very good”, she said on the sidelines of a painting demonstration at Kertha Gosa recently.

This woman from Siku hamlet, Kamasan, admitted that the district government that provided materials for painters but promotion is done independently. “Like me for example, I have been looking for networks overseas myself”, she said. (sos)

perience a heart disease (modified) are diabetes mellitus (DM), dyslipidemia, lacking of physical activity, unhealthy diet and stress. In the meantime, the risk factors that cannot be modified are family history, age, sex, and obesity.

Considering the magnitude of the lifestyle’s influence on the causes of heart disease, he encouraged the community to prevent heart disease by choosing foods high in fiber, low in fat and low in sugar. Besides, it must be supported with sport and regular physical exercise for 3-5 times a week and with a minimum of 30 minutes for moderate-high intensity and avoid psychological stress. (kmb42)

Be careful, heart disease attacks younger age

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Quick dryer prepared for iodized salt production

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SEMARAPURA - Iodized salt production at Kusamba village, Dawan, denoting one of the prominent programs in economic field of the Klungkung district government is stagnant after a trial.

The current salt production cannot be maximized.

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The Head of the Klungkung Industry and Manpower Agency, I Gede Kusumajaya, stated that in the 2018 Amendment Budget, a fund had been set up to procure a dryer so the salt production can continue. “As planned, this amendment budget has allocated fund for the purchase of the dryer,” he said on Friday (Sep. 28).

This official from Selisihan village, Klungkung, said this device is very important. Without the device, the current salt production cannot be maximized. “Now, the salt water content is not yet appropriate. So, such device is needed,” he said.

Regent of Klungkung, I Nyoman Suwirta, emphasized the program initiated at the end of 2017 must really run. Relevant agencies handling it are immediately asked to follow up and be more serious. “It’s a team, but they still mutually claim to have no responsibility for it,” he said.

He stressed that he is also going to come down directly despite taking care of technical matters. “Later on, I will immediately resolve this problem because I see the response of the agency remains slow,” he said.

The program was criticized by the circle of legislator since it has not been maximized. A member of the Klungkung House of Representatives, I Wayan Sugati, hoped the shortage of device touted to be the cause must be immediately followed up. This program should not give impression to waste budget because it does not bring in maximum results. “Don’t just ask for budgeting but the results are not optimal,” he affirmed.

This PDI-P politician considered this breakthrough is very brilliant. Moreover, this agricultural program is integrated with tourism sector. It is considered to be able to boost farmers’ income and can run sustainably. (kmb45)

To overcome fish price uncertainty

Fishermen look for export quality fish and open food stall FISHERMEN’s life in Karangasem is like a wave in the ocean.

It is determined by the weather and the surrounding natural conditions.

When there are lots of catches, suddenly the price drops. When the price of fish starts to rise, the catch is not much. Some fishermen having faced such situations for decades choose other ways to still be able to enjoy the activities in the sea.

Pageh, a fisherman from Bugbug village, now prefers fishing to netting to the sea. He goes to sea with the target of obtaining certain fish with high selling price or even having export quality. For instance, he targeted red fish which is quite abundant around the sea of Bugbug village to Nusa Penida and Lombok.

According to Pageh, his friends often go to sea together. “Sometimes due to being late night, I often overnight at fisherman’s house in Lombok or in Nusa Penida. It’s a commonplace,” said Pageh.

He was reluctant to mention the

selling price of this type of fish. He just stressed that foreign markets are very fond of this fish. So, the order of red fish is quite high so far. The catch by fishing rod is then put together in a box filled with ice cubes as a refrigerant. After being packed neatly, the fish is dispatched. By catching such fish, he is now getting more enthusiastic in fishing. Besides, this is also in line with his hobby in the sea, especially fishing, by using traditional boat or jukung.

Meanwhile, when getting other types of fish, it is not sold carelessly but offered to Bukit Asah attraction.

At the location, he has a small food stall where he processed sea fish into a number of seafood specialties. Actually this becomes a special attraction to visitors to Bukit Asah. Surely, the processed fish of Pageh becomes an appealing cuisine.

For visitors particularly those that like camping on Bukit Asah may not worry about the difficulty to get food.

They can order at his food stall and

tasty seafood will be prepared by this fisherman. It will include soup with fish meatball, pepes, satay and various drinks. The price is very affordable namely at IDR 250,000 and it is enough for consumption of six people.

Aside from serving individual visitors, Pageh and his family are also ready to receive orders in large quantities. In accordance with his previous experience, there are many communities frequently camping at the campground and order large quantities of fish-based food. “As usual, visitors will order first via telephone so that we can prepare food before coming here,” he said.

With such activity, Pageh admitted to never get dizzy any longer related to the ups and down of fish catch price. The red fish with export quality remains to have high price. Likewise, the other types of sea fish used as food ingredients at his stall are in line with the increasingly crowded tourist visits where they mostly have a camping agenda on the Bukit Asah. (gik)

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A figure, in the shape of a hand with the colours of the China national flag for fingernails and a ‘23’ on its palm, is carried by protesters at a National Day rally in Hong Kong on October 1, 2018.

Thousands protest in Hong Kong over China suppression

HONG KONG - Several thousand marched in Hong Kong Monday against suppression by Beijing as fears grow that freedoms in the semi-autonomous city are seriously under threat.

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Fishermen’s life in Karangasem is like a wave in the ocean. It is determined by the weather and the surrounding natural conditions.

The pro-democracy protest comes a week after Hong Kong banned a pro-independence party on the grounds it was a threat to national security, the first time a political party has been prohibited since the city was handed back to China by Britain in 1997.

The emergence of an independence movement calling for Hong Kong to split from China has incensed Beijing as it emphasises the importance of territorial integrity and has led to a crackdown on political expression.

Leading pro-democracy campaigner Joshua Wong said he feared his party, Demosisto, could be next because it promotes selfdetermination for Hong Kong.

One high-profile Demosisto candidate was already barred from a recent by-election.

“We need to protect and defend the freedom of association in Hong Kong,” Wong, 21, told AFP at the rally. The pro-democracy protest is held every October 1, China’s National Day, which marks the communist party’s establishment of the People’s Republic of China.

Hong Kong enjoys rights unseen on the mainland including freedom of speech but there are growing fears those are being eroded.

There are also concerns that the city will introduce a controversial anti-subversion law designed to protect China’s national security and potentially put freedoms at further risk.

- ‘Totalitarian agenda’ “They talk about national security, but what about our security?

They don’t care about that,” said a 50-year-old office worker who gave her name as Miss Hau. “Today they say we can’t talk about A, but tomorrow they might say we can’t talk about B, and in the end we won’t be able to talk about anything,” she told AFP. Other protesters criticised the government’s “totalitarian agenda”.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam, appointed by a pro-Beijing committee, said in an official address Monday that Hong Kong must “firmly uphold China’s sovereignty, security and development interests”.

Critics say Hong Kong is being subsumed into mainland China via perks and infrastructure projects designed to blur boundaries.

Last month saw the opening of a multi-billion-dollar high-speed rail link to the mainland, with part of the Hong Kong station coming under Chinese law.

A long-delayed mega-bridge between Hong Kong and southern China is set to open later this month. But despite many residents’ dissatisfaction with China’s growing influence, the numbers attending the city’s traditional street protests have shrunk since massive 2014 pro-democracy rallies failed to win reform.

Yuet Wong, a 21-year-old student, said there was a sense of powerlessness among young people, particularly after the disqualification of elected pro-democracy legislators, but said she was still motivated to come out.

“Even if we can’t achieve anything immediately, we want to show the government we won’t be compromised and won’t be silent,” she told AFP. (afp)

TEHRAN - Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Monday they launched a missile strike against a “terrorist” headquarters in Syria in retaliation for an attack that killed 24 people in the Iranian city of Ahvaz.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had vowed a “crushing” response to last month’s assault -- claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group -- on a military parade commemorating the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

“The headquarters of those responsible for the terrorist crime in Ahvaz was attacked a few minutes ago east of the Euphrates by several ballistic missiles fired by the aerospace branch of the Revolutionary Guards,” the Guards said on their website.

“Based on preliminary reports, many takfiri terrorists and the leaders responsible for the terrorist crime in Ahvaz have been killed or wounded in this missile attack,” they added. The term “takfiri” refers to Sunni Muslim extremists.

The Guards released pictures of what appeared to be missiles lighting up the night sky, leaving trails of smoke as they soared above a desert region with a rugged mountain in the background.

Iran’s Fars news agency said the Guards fired “a number of mediumrange” Zolfaghar and Qiam missiles, with a range of 750 kilometres and 800 kilometres (465 and 500 miles), respectively. The agency said the missiles hit the Syrian desert border town of Albu Kamal on the west of the Euphrates River, in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor.

“On at least one of the missiles was written ‘death to America’, ‘death to Israel’ and ‘death to Al Saud’,” it said, a reference to the ruling family in Saudi Arabia, Iran’s regional rival.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britainbased war monitor, “heavy explosions took place at dawn (Monday) in the last pocket under IS control near Albu

Kamal”. Albu Kamal itself, located on the border with Iraq, is held by regime forces and allied regional militiamen who seized it from IS in 2007.

- ‘Jihadist separatists’ Twenty-four people were shot dead in the attack by five gunmen on a military parade in the mainly ethnic Arab city of Ahvaz in southwestern Iran on September 22.

Ahvaz is the provincial capital of Khuzestan, a border region which was a major battleground of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, and which also saw ethnic unrest in 2005 and 2011.

Iranian officials initially blamed Arab separatists backed by Gulf Arab allies of the United States for the attack.

But on Monday supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appeared to link the perpetrators to jihadists operating in Iraq and Syria, where IS once had major strongholds.

“This cowardly act was the work of those very individuals who are rescued by the Americans whenever they are in trouble in Iraq and Syria and who are funded by the Saudis and the (United) Arab Emirates,” Khamenei was quoted by his official website as saying.

The next day Iran’s intelligence ministry published photos of five men it said carried out the Ahvaz assault, identifying them as “jihadist separatists”.

IS, a Sunni Muslim extremist group which Iran and its Damascus allies are fighting in Syria, has claimed responsibility for the attack and said all five assailants were Iranian, including four from Ahvaz.

It also threatened to carry out new attacks in Iran.

IS had already claimed responsibility for twin attacks in June 2017 on the parliament and the tomb of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran that killed 17 people.(afp)

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This handout photo provided by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard official website via SEPAH News shows missiles being launched from an undisclosed location to target militants in eastern Syria early on October 1, 2018.

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BUSINESS Japan’s ‘tankan’ economic survey shows decline in sentiment

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Buleleng district government is now awaiting the decision for determination of the proposal of the Truna Jaya Dance and Nyakan Diwang (roadside cooking) into an intangible cultural heritage by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Culture Organization (UNESCO).

The dance composed by the late prominent choreographer Gde Manik is proposed because it was already staged massively at the Buleleng Festival (Bulfest) a few years earlier. Truna Jaya itself is a dance performed by a dancer, but when performed in the Bulfest arena, the dancers and gamelan players were able to appear and amaze the audience. For this performance, the district government is asked to propose to the UNESCO so as to be designated into an intangible cultural heritage.

In the meantime, the Nyakan Diwang is ancestral tradition at several villages in Banjar subdistrict. Of the many villages in the region, the residents of Banjar, Banyuwati, Kayu Putih and other villages never violate and regularly carry it out on the day of Ngembak Geni (a day after the Nyepi— Ed). Based on the stories of predecessors and references, the Nyakan Diwang tends to be a manifestation of social interaction and friendship among residents after a full day of solemn implementation of the bratha penyepian or the four abstinences

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In this April 2, 2018, file photo, people enter the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo. A key quarterly economic survey by the Bank of Japan shows sentiment among large manufacturers dipped two points to 19, as worries grow about global trade tensions. The “tankan” survey, released Monday, Oct. 1, marked the third straight quarter of decline.

China manufacturing weakens amid US tariff battle

BEIJING - China’s export orders shrank in September as a tariff battle with Washington over technology escalated, adding to downward pressure on the world’s No. 2 economy, two surveys showed Sunday.

The reports add to signs Chinese trade, which had held up despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff hikes, might be weakening. That adds to pressure on an economy that already was forecast to cool due to slowing global consumer demand and lending controls imposed to rein in a debt boom.

The official China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing’s monthly measure of new export orders fell to 48 from August’s 49.4 on a 100-point scale on which numbers below 50 show activity shrinking.

A separate index by a business magazine, Caixin, showed new export orders fell at the fastest rate in more than two years. The maga-

zine said companies blamed “trade frictions” and tariffs.

Overall, the federation’s monthly purchasing managers index showed manufacturing activity decelerated to 50.8 from August’s 51.3. Caixin said its index fell to 50 from 50.6.

“Downward pressure on China’s economy was significant,” economist Zhengsheng Zhong said in Caixin’s report.

The resiliency of China’s $12 trillion-a-year economy until now has allowed President Xi Jinping’s government to reject pressure for changes in initiatives such as “Made in China 2025” that call for state-led creation of champions in robotics and other technologies.

Washington, Europe and other trading partners say those violate Beijing’s market-opening obligations.

The International Monetary Fund and other forecasters expect

this year’s economic growth to fall to about 6.5 percent from 2017’s 6.8 percent. But that slowdown is due mostly to the ruling Communist Party’s long-term efforts to steer China to self-sustaining growth based on consumer spending instead of trade and investment.

Last week, Trump stepped up pressure by raising tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods. Beijing retaliated with penalties on $60 billion of American imports. Both sides already had raised duties on $50 billion of each other’s goods.

The two sides have announced no plans for negotiations. China accused Trump in a report last week of bullying other countries.

A deputy commerce minister said negotiations were impossible while Washington “holds a knife” of tariff hikes to Beijing’s throat.

With no settlement in sight, forecasters say the conflict could trim global economic growth by

0.5 percent through 2020.

Sunday’s reports gave no details on September orders from the United States, China’s biggest national export market.

Sales to the United States have held up so far, rising by more than 13 percent in August. But analysts said that strength might have been due partly to Chinese suppliers rushing to beat increases in import taxes. American officials complain Beijing steals or pressures companies to hand over technology. They worry Chinese technology initiatives might erode U.S. industrial leadership.

Communist leaders have tried to stick to long-term reform plans the ruling party says will make the state-dominated economy more competitive and productive.

Beijing has cut import tariffs and announced plans to open auto manufacturing and some other industries wider to foreign competitors.

But none of their changes address the U.S. technology complaints.

Last week, Beijing announced tariff cuts, effective, Nov. 1, on 1,585 types of goods including construction equipment.

Chinese leaders should act quickly to “expand domestic demand and resolve the short-term downward pressure,” economist Zhang Liqun said in the logistics federation’s report.

Trade’s importance to China has shrunk but it still supports millions of well-paid jobs. The United States is the destination for the highestvalue Chinese exports including smartphones, industrial machinery and medical technology.

The logistics federation’s employment index fell 1.1 points to 48.3, indicating workforces were shrinking.

“The employment situation worsened further,” Zhong said in Caixin’s report. (ap)

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Truna Jaya Dance and “Nyakan Diwang” Tradition, Proposed to Be Intangible Cultural Heritage to UNESCO

TOKYO - A key quarterly economic survey by the Bank of Japan shows sentiment among large manufacturers dipped two points to 19, as worries grow about global trade tensions.

The “tankan” survey, released Monday, marked the third straight quarter of decline.

The survey, long seen as an important indicator of the state of the world’s third largest economy, looks at the difference between companies surveyed that have a “favorable” outlook and those with an “unfavorable” outlook.

The latest results show optimists outnumber pessimists but the gap is shrinking.

The manufacturers surveyed include automakers and electronics companies that are mainstays of Japan’s economy.

Some analysts had expected a rebound in sentiment.

Japan’s growth is dependent on exports and any slowdown in pan-Pacific trade would hurt sentiment. Uncertainty over trade friction with the U.S. also would discourage investment as manufacturers hold back waiting to see if their sales or profits might be affected by newly imposed tariffs or other policies inspired by President Donald Trump’s “America first” stance on trade. (ap)

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related to Nyepi celebration.

Head of the Buleleng Culture Agency, Gede Komang, said the proposal to UNESCO is just waiting for the determination from the official having the authority. Proposing process lasts quite long because it does not only complete the administrative document, but the government is also obliged to include a description containing the history of the proposed tradition. Besides, the staging or performance documents must be made in the form of videos.

He added there is information if the proposal of Truna Jaya Dance and Nyakan Diwang traditional heritage has been nominated. He said the recognition by the UNESCO to Balinese art and cultural heritage is important to ‘protect’ the work so that it will not be claimed or recognized by other regions. With this recognition, the local government has ‘capital’ to lobby the higher levels of government to get the attention both in the form of programs or financial support to preserve and develop cultural heritage. (kmb)

Munduk Temu Offers a Cool Selfie Place

Munduk Temu village is one of the villages in Tabanan developing a tourism village. The environment with plantation, farming area and beautiful view becomes added value to the village in Pupuan subdistrict. The new location under development to attract visitors is a beautiful place to take selfie.

Superiority of this selfie location lies in the beautiful scenery of the nature. Headman of the Munduk Temu, I Nyoman Wintara, said that Munduk Temu sits at an altitude of approximately 1,500 meters above sea level. It is beautiful because displays a landscape of green plantations. Not a few tourists have relatively long lived here. Meanwhile, some others just pass to perpetuate the beauty of the nature.

At the selfie location has been made a stage sizing 3×4 meter and winged boat ornament. In addition, the ornament resembles a cage that can be used to take pictures.

Visitors coming here can also enjoy the local coffee brand of Munduk Temu, namely the Leak Coffee and local fruit such as mangosteen and sugar snakefruit.

Most visitors coming here, said Wiantara, are teenagers. Commonly they throng on weekends whose number can reach 200 people. In order to be able to take pictures at the location, visitors must give donation as much as IDR 5,000 per person. “Many visitors usually come here on weekends primarily at sunrise or sunset. They are mostly teenagers deliberately come here just to take selfie,” said Wintara.

Later on, this selfie location will be submitted by the tourism awareness group of local village or Pokdarwis given the task as the party to manage the area. “Later on, around the selfie location the village plans to develop a guest house that involves community participation,” added Wintara.

Prior to becoming a tourism village, Munduk Temu has also implemented organic and in-organic waste sorting. Other than sorting garbage, it also maintains environmental cleanliness. Munduk Temu village has applied a fine to those who throw garbage carelessly as of March 2018.

For Munduk Temu customary village, the penalty is IDR 250,000 while Kebon Jero customary village worth IDR 100,000. In the

meantime, the administrative village imposes stricter sanctions, where it does not only impose fine but also social sanction. Photo of

the perpetrators who throw garbage carelessly will be uploaded to social media owned by the village. (kmb)

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Pro-independence protesters in Catalonia block roads, railway line BARCELONA - Pro-independence protesters obstructed major roads and a high-speed railway line in Spain’s Catalonia region on Monday, one year after a banned referendum on secession that was marred by police violence.

Hundreds of activists, many covering their faces with scarves, occupied high-speed railway tracks in Girona, north of the Catalan capital of Barcelona.

Central streets in Barcelona and Lleida were blocked, as was the AP-7 motorway which leads to the French border, and A2 linking Barcelona to Madrid, images on Catalan TV showed.

The high-speed rail service linking Figueres, Girona and Barcelona “was interrupted” since the “tracks in Girona are occupied,” Spanish state-owned rail operator Renfe said on Twitter.

The protests were called online by a grassroots group calling itself the Committees for the Defence of the Republic (CDRs), founded to help stage last year’s banned referendum and now demanding a clean break with the Spanish state.

The group tweeted a picture of a red, yellow and blue Catalan separatist flag on the track of the station in Girona as protesters stood around it.

Twenty-four people were injured and six detained on Saturday during a rally -- and a counter demonstration -- in Barcelona by police paying tribute to colleagues deployed to prevent the 2017 Catalan independence referendum.

The Catalan government, then led by Carles Puigdemont, on October 1, 2017, pushed ahead with a referendum on independence for the region despite it having been deemed illegal by the Spanish courts. The vote was marred by a violent police crackdown on polling stations.

Even if it was illegal and therefore non-binding, 2.3 million people cast their ballots out of 5.5 million eligible voters, 90 percent of whom voted to break from Spain. Opponents of independence largely boycotted the vote.

After the Catalan government declared independence on October 27, Madrid swiftly sacked the Catalan government, prompting several key figures to flee abroad, including Puigdemont. Others were jailed. (afp)

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Warning system might have saved lives in Indonesian tsunami

MAKASSAR — An early warning system that might have prevented some deaths in the tsunami that hit an Indonesian island on Friday has been stalled in the testing phase for years.

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This combination created on October 1, 2018 of a file picture taken on September 18, 2014 in Taipeh shows Tasuku Honjo (L) of Japan and James P Allison (R) of the US. James P Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for research that has revolutionised the treatment of cancer, the jury said on October 1, 2018.

US, Japanese pair win Nobel Medicine Prize for cancer therapy

STOCKHOLM - Two immunologists, James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan, won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for research that has revolutionised the treatment of cancer, the jury said on Monday.

A woman holds a Catalan pro-independence ‘Estelada’ flag during a demonstration in Girona on October 1, 2018 called by a grassroots group calling itself the Committees for the Defence of the Republic (CDRs) to commemorate the anniversary of a banned referendum on secession that was marred by police violence.

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The pair were honoured “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation,” the Nobel Assembly said.

Immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy targets proteins made by some immune system cells, as well as some cancer cells.

The proteins can stop the body’s natural defences from killing cancer cells. The therapy is designed to remove this protein “brake” and allow the immune system to more quickly get to work fighting the cancer.

Allison, a professor at the University of Texas, and Honjo, a professor at Kyoto University, in 2014 won the Tang Prize, touted

as Asia’s version of the Nobels, for their research.

The duo will share the Nobel prize sum of nine million Swedish kronor (about $1.01 million or 870,000 euros).

They will receive their prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on December 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of Alfred Nobel who created the prizes in his last will and testament.

Last year, US geneticists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young were awarded the medicine prize for their research on the role of genes in setting the “circadian clock” which regu-

lates sleep and eating patterns, hormones and body temperature.

The winners of this year ’s physics prize will be announced on Tuesday, followed by the chemistry prize on Wednesday. The peace prize will be announced on Friday, and the economics prize will wrap up the Nobel season on Monday, October 8.

For the first time since 1949, the Swedish Academy has postponed the announcement of the 2018 Nobel Literature Prize until next year, amid a #MeToo scandal and bitter internal dispute that has prevented it from functioning properly. (afp)

The high-tech system of seafloor sensors, data-laden sound waves and fiber-optic cable was meant to replace a system set up after an earthquake and tsunami killed nearly 250,000 people in the region in 2004.

But inter-agency wrangling and delays in getting just 1 billion rupiah ($69,000) to complete the project mean the system hasn’t moved beyond a prototype developed with $3 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation.

It is too late for central Sulawesi, where walls of water up to 6 meters (20 feet) high and a magnitude 7.5 earthquake killed at least 832 people in the cities of Palu and Donggala, tragically highlighting the weaknesses of the existing warning system and low public awareness about how to respond to warnings.

“To me this is a tragedy for science, even more so a tragedy for the Indonesian people as the residents of Sulawesi are discovering right now,” said Louise Comfort, a University of Pittsburgh expert in disaster management who has led the U.S. side of the project, which also involves engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and Indonesian scientists and disaster experts.

“It’s a heartbreak to watch when there is a well-designed sensor network that could provide critical information,” she said.

After a 2004 tsunami killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries, more than half of them in the Indonesian province

of Aceh, a concerted international effort was launched to improve tsunami warning capabilities, particularly in the Indian Ocean and for Indonesia, one of world’s most earthquake and tsunamiprone countries.

Part of that drive, using funding from Germany and elsewhere, included deploying a network of 22 buoys connected to seafloor sensors to transmit advance warnings.

A sizeable earthquake off Sumatra island in 2016 that caused panic in the coastal city of Padang revealed that none of the buoys costing hundreds of thousands of dollars each were working. They’d been disabled by vandalism or theft or just stopped working due to a lack of funds for maintenance.

The backbone of Indonesia’s tsunami warning system today is a network of 134 tidal gauge stations augmented by land-based seismographs, sirens in about 55 locations and a system to disseminate warnings by text message.

When the 7.5 quake hit just after 6 p.m. Friday, the meteorology and geophysics agency issued a tsunami alert, warning of potential for waves of 0.5 to 3 meters (2 to 10 feet). It ended the warning at 6:36 p.m. That drew harsh online criticism, but the agency’s head said the warning was lifted after the tsunami hit. It’s unclear exactly what time tsunami waves rushed into the narrow bay that Palu is built around.

“The tide gauges are operating, but they are limited in providing any advance warning. None of the 22 buoys are functioning,” Comfort said.

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People survey damage outside the shopping mall following earthquakes and tsunami in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018. Rescuers try to reach trapped victims in collapsed buildings after hundreds of people are confirmed dead in a tsunami that hit two central Indonesian cities, sweeping away buildings with massive waves.

“In the Sulawesi incident, BMKG (the meteorology and geophysics agency) canceled the tsunami warning too soon, because it did not have data from Palu.

This is the data the tsunami detection system could provide.”

Adam Switzer, a tsunami expert at the Earth Observatory of Singapore, said it’s a “little unfair” to say the agency got it wrong.

“What it shows is that the tsunami models we have now are too simplistic,” he said. “They don’t take into account multiple events, multiple quakes within a short period of time. They don’t take into account submarine landslides.”

Whatever system is in use, he said, the priority after an earthquake in a coastal area should be to get to higher ground and stay there for a couple of hours. Power outages after the earthquake struck meant that sirens meant to warn residents to evacuate did not work, said Harkunti P. Rahayu, an expert at the Institute of Technology in Bandung.

“Most people were shocked by the earthquake and did not pay any thought that a tsunami will come,” she said.

Experts say the prototype system deployed offshore from Padang — a city extremely vulnerable to tsunamis because it faces a major undersea fault overdue for a massive quake — can provide authoritative information about a tsunami threat within 1 to 3 minutes.

That compares with 5 to 45 minutes from the now defunct buoys and the limited information provided by tidal gauges.

The system’s undersea seismometers and pressure sensors send dataladen sound waves to warm surface waters. From there they refract back into the depths, traveling 20 to 30 kilometers (12 to 20 miles) to the next node in the network and so on.

The Padang network’s final undersea point needs just a few more kilometers of fiber optic cable to connect it to a station on an offshore island where the cascades of data would be transmitted by satellite to the geophysics agency, which issues tsunami warnings, and to disaster officials.

The Associated Press first reported on the system in January 2017, when the project was awaiting Indonesian funding to lay the cables. Since then, agencies involved have suffered budget cuts and the project bounced back and forth between them.(ap)

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Taman Ayun Temple

MENGWI - Taman Ayun Temple is a landmark in the village of Mengwi, Badung regency, located 17km northwest of Denpasar. This temple complex boasts magnificent traditional architectural features throughout its courtyards and enclosures as well as expansive garden landscapes comprised of lotus and fish ponds. The temple was built circa 1634 by the then ruler of the Mengwi kingdom, Tjokerda Sakti Blambangan, with Chinese architectural inspirations, and underwent a significant restoration project in 1937. Towering tiers from the temple shrines make up most of the profile of Taman Ayun and are a gesture of the people of Mengwi’s reverence to their deified noble ancestors, for the temple complex is considered the ‘mother temple’ of Mengwi. The Taman Ayun Temple was to serve as a main site of worship among the Mengwi people who need not travel too far to the main large temples, the likes of the Besakih ‘mother temple’ in Karangasem, Batukaru Temple in Tabanan, or Batur Temple in Kintamani. It also served as a unifying symbol among the Mengwi royalty

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Hightlights The fourth and last court is considered the most sacred, thus ranks the highest. It is referred to as the Utama Mandala. The intricately ornate central gate is open only during ceremonies, as the entryway for consecrated heirlooms and other ceremonial paraphernalia. Another gate at its east is for daily access.

Several tiers of different outlines and sizes rise up into the temple’s skyline. The temple’s three grounds denote the three cosmological levels known to Balinese Hinduism, namely the world of man, the realm of gods and deities, and the topmost divine level. As recounted in the ancient texts of the ‘Adhiparwa’, the whole complex of the Taman Ayun Temple represents Mount Mahameru in the so-called ‘churning of the sea of milk’ or the cosmic formation of the world. The name

‘Taman Ayun’ translates as ‘beautiful garden’. The vast encircling pools were once royal recreational places for the palace maids who would sail small canoes. Now the pools and ponds are fenced and visitors are denied entrance.

Good to Know Entrance fee to the Taman Ayun Temple is a modest Rp. 3,0004,000. The temple shares the same anniversary day of the cliff-perched Uluwatu Temple on the island’s southern Bukit peninsula, which is celebrated on the 210-day Balinese Pawukon calendar system or on every ‘Kliwon Medangsia’ Tuesday.

The ‘piodalan’ temple anniversary celebrations see pilgrims flock to the temple complex, day and night.

A trip to the Taman Ayun Temple complex is usually an included itinerary for long journeys up to the central or northern Bali regions. It is particularly a frequent stopover for visitors who opt to spend time up in Bedugul, as the site is con-

veniently en route from southern Bali. It is a great place to marvel at the early and traditional Balinese architectural features that prevail on the island. Although the pools are far from what can be imagined during its days of glory in the distant past, the moss-lined walls and jade algae-filled water add to the rustic charm of the whole scenery of this over three centuries-old temple site. North of the bell tower is a pavilion called Bale Loji. In old times, this was where priests and ceremonial attendants would make preparations and take a break.

Nowadays, artists can be seen here busy at their art-in-the-making.

Paintings are also available here for purchase. Museum Manusa Yadnya is located just across the road from the temple site. The museum showcases Balinese Hinduism rituals and human rites of passage, throughout their stages of life. It is an often convenient and additional highlight on each visit to Taman Ayun. (IBP/net)

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Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde celebrates as he wins the Men’s Elite road race of the 2018 UCI Road World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria on September 30, 2018.

Rainbow jersey dream becomes reality for evergreen Valverde

TOKYO - Local hero Kei Nishikori began his quest for a third Japan Open title by thrashing countryman Yuichi Sugita 6-4, 6-1 to reach the last 16 on Monday.

Third seed Nishikori failed to hit the heights that took him to the US Open semi-finals last month but still dominated his Japanese Davis Cup teammate, completing a one-sided victory with a fizzing backhand down the line after 81 minutes.

“I hoped I wouldn’t have to play a Japanese player,” said Nishikori, who last faced Sugita when they were juniors.

“It’s a relief to win. It took me a while to get into it,” added the world number 12, who won the last of his 11 career titles in Memphis two years ago.

“I made a few too many mistakes at the start. But I tweaked what I needed to and enjoyed the second set a bit more. Hopefully I can go deep into the tournament.

“Of course, the aim is to try to win it.”

Earlier, three-time Tokyo finalist Milos Raonic crushed last year’s runner-up Adrian Mannarino, the sixth seed taking a little over an hour to beat the Frenchman 6-3, 6-4.

The big-hitting Canadian, who has slipped from number three in the world to his current ranking of 20th after a poor run of form, fired 17 aces in a dominant display.

Canada’s Denis Shapovalov, who last year made unwanted headlines after smashing a ball at an umpire and fracturing his eye socket in a Davis Cup tie, bundled out seventh seed Chung Hyeon of South Korea 6-3, 3-6, 6-2.

Elsewhere, France’s Benoit Paire beat Chile’s Nicolas Jarry 6-4, 7-6 (7/4) while Japanese qualifier Yosuke Watanuki upset Dutchman Robin Haase 6-7 (7/9), 6-4, 6-1.

World number six Marin Cilic heads the field at the Tokyo tournament, whose list of previous winners include Roger Federer, Pete Sampras, John McEnroe and Ken Rosewall. (afp)

INNSBRUCK - Veteran Spaniard Alejandro Valverde ended years of frustration to fulfil his “dream” of winning the world championships road race crown on Sunday after outpacing France’s Romain Bardet and Canada’s Michael Woods in a thrilling sprint for the finish line.

The trio had boosted their victory chances after crossing the summit of the notoriously difficult Hottinger hill ‘Hell’ climb, featuring one steep section at a whopping 29 percent gradient, to leave key rivals in their wake as raucous fans rang bells and screamed encouragement.

And despite being joined with a little over one kilometre to go

by Dutchman Tom Dumoulin, the 38-year-old Valverde held his nerve inside the final metres to race unchallenged to the finish line, where he beat Bardet by a bike length.

A breathless Valverde, who finished runner-up in 2003, broke down with the emotion of finally securing the rainbow jersey -- arguably the most prestigious prize in the sport.

“This is my most emotional victory ever,” said Valverde.

“I had two dreams, one was to win the Tour de France but it was not to be, the second dream however is now mine, I have the gold medal and the (rainbow) jersey.

“It’s incredible, after all these years, struggling for the world title and to finally get it.

“Words can’t describe how grateful I am for the effort of the whole Spain team,” said the champion in reference to the fact that no race radios were allowed.

“There was a great vibe in the team and we kept track of each other and always knew where the guys were.”

-- lost without the radio -This was not the case with runner-up Bardet, who was gracious in defeat.

“Racing is far better without the radios, but I was quite lost there for

a while as there were no bikes or cars and I only really knew for sure we were the lead group when Tom (Dumoulin) joined us,” he said.

As soon as the quartet came into the final kilometre the Spaniard had looked the most likely to win. Both Bardet and Woods are stronger climbers while all-rounder Dumoulin also lacks Valverde’s top-end finishing speed.

“I should have attacked on the hill. It’s easy to say what you should have done afterwards, but what’s done is done,” Bardet said.

“When you are on the flat with a guy like Valverde you have to expect him to win.”

Pre-race favourite, Julian Alaphilippe of France, Briton Adam Yates and Italy’s Vincenzo Nibali and the last of the Colombians were dropped on the steep gradients of the final climb. (afp)

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Japanese tennis player Kei Nishikori returns a ball to German tennis player Matthias Bachinger during their ATP Moselle semi-final tennis match on September 22, 2018 in Metz, eastern France.

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Misfiring Bayern with point to prove at home to Ajax

Bayern Munich host Ajax in the Champions League on Tuesday with Niko Kovac needing to fix a leaking defence and lack of finishing after yielding top spot in the Bundesliga. The clash at Munich’s Allianz Arena could well decide Group E after Bayern claimed a 2-0 win at Benfica in the opening round a fortnight ago while Ajax won 3-0 at Greek side AEK. Dauntingly for Ajax, Bayern have won the last 12 matches at home in the Champions League’s group stages.

However, the five-time European champions finished the weekend second in the German league after crashing to a shock 2-0 defeat at Hertha Berlin on Friday after being outplayed in the capital.

“It is an important game against Ajax. A win would make things easier for us going into our next four games,” said Bayern head coach Kovac. “Many people said we wouldn’t lose a game in the (Bundesliga) this season, but now it has happened in no time at all,” he added.

Uncharacteristically for Bayern, they leaked a late equaliser in a 1-1 league draw with Augsburg last Tuesday, which was followed by the defeat in Berlin, but Kovac remains unfazed.

“You have to differentiate, one is not directly linked to the other,” he insisted. “You could also say we won seven out of nine games.”

However, the Bayern boss will be troubled by the ease with which Pal Dardai’s Hertha unpicked the lock of the Bayern defence.

He will seek a tighter perfor-

mance against Ajax, who are second in the Dutch league after a 2-0 win at Fortuna Sittard on Saturday.

Ajax coach Erik ten Hag will have taken note of how Bayern’s defence was shaken in the first half

by Berlin.

Jerome Boateng needlessly gave away penalty by fouling Salomon Kalou which Vedad Ibisevic converted for the opening goal. Niklas Suele, Bayern’s other centre-back, was out of position when Hertha’s Ondrej Duda, the league’s current top-scorer with five goals in six games, smashed home a closerange cross.

Bayern’s star-studded attack also has a point to prove against Ajax after just having just one Arjen Robben goal, in the draw with Augsburg, to show for 40 shots on goal in their last two games.

Even the likes of James Rodriguez, Franck Ribery, Robben and Robert Lewandowski could not breach Berlin’s defence despite 25 shots.

Kovac is concerned by a lack of precision after his team “were not clinical” and more mistakes in defence “will be punished” against the Dutch.

Nevertheless, a win over Ajax

would boost confidence before Saturday’s home league match against Borussia Moenchengladbach when they can aim to make up the one-point gap behind new Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dortmund.

Historically, there is nothing separating Bayern and Ajax, who have three wins each, plus two draws, in their previous eight meetings.(afp)

has appeared in Russia,” he added.

“We must believe in our youth and support them.”

At the World Cup, Akinfeev played every minute of Russia’s matches as they confounded pretournament predictions by reaching the last eight, where they were beaten by eventual finalists Croatia in a penalty shoot-out.

Akinfeev saved a penalty from Iago Aspas in the last-16 shoot-out against Spain that secured Russia a place in the quarter-finals. He made his debut for Russia in 2004. He was a member of the national squad which reached the last four of Euro 2008 and played for Russia at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Zenit’s Andrey Lunev played in last month’s games against Turkey and the Czech Republic and now looks set to have the chance to

Bayern Munich’s German midfielder Joshua Kimmich controls the ball during the German first division Bundesliga football match Hertha Berlin v Bayern Munich at the Olympic stadium in Berlin on September 28, 2018.

establish himself as Russia’s firstchoice goalkeeper.

Anton Shunin of Dynamo Moscow and the Brazilian-born Guilherme Marinato are also in the squad for this month’s Nations League games against Turkey and Sweden.

Alexander Golovin of Monaco and Alan Dzagoev of CSKA are also in a 25-man squad after recovering from injuries. Russia take on Sweden on October 11 in Kaliningrad and then face Turkey in the Black Sea resort of Sochi three days later.

Russia squad Goalkeepers: Guilherme Marinato (Lokomotiv Moscow), Andrey Lunev (Zenit St Petersburg), Anton Shunin (Dynamo Moscow) Defenders: Georgy Dzhikia

Aguero can beat Premier League goals record, says Bernardo Silva Sergio Aguero could beat Alan Shearer’s record of 260 goals to become the Premier League’s greatest ever marksman, according to Manchester City teammate Bernardo Silva. The Argentine forward scored the 148th goal of his Premier League career for City in Saturday’s 2-0 victory over Brighton, equalling Shearer’s tally for Newcastle.

The pair are joint third in the list of highest goalscorers for a single club behind Thierry Henry for Arsenal (175) and Wayne Rooney for Manchester United (183).

Both of those marks should be well within reach for Aguero, potentially even this season, but to threaten Shearer’s overall mark of 260 he would almost certainly need to further extend his contract at the Etihad,

which runs until 2021.

“Sergio is the best scorer in Manchester City’s history,” said midfielder Silva. “He’s a legend not only for Manchester City but also for the Premier League, if not the best striker in the world then one of the best.

“It’s great to have him with us.

Every season he scores 30 goals or more. To have a player like him it helps us so much.”

“Everyone hopes he stays,” he added. “If he reaches that level it will be even better because everyone knows how important Alan Shearer was for English football and for the Premier League.

“I think he can reach it (the record).

He’s got the potential. Every season he keeps scoring more and more. We hope he can keep helping us win more

titles here in Manchester.”

City returned to the top of the table on goal difference thanks to their victory against Brighton while Liverpool dropped their first points in a 1-1 draw with Chelsea. The top two teams -both undefeated -- meet next Sunday at Anfield.(afp)

Manchester City’s Argentinian striker Sergio Aguero takes a shot during the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Brighton and Hove Albion at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, on September 29, 2018.

Africa backs Infantino for FIFA re-election next year

Akinfeev calls time on his international career CSKA Moscow goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev, Russia’s World Cup captain, announced Monday he was retiring from international football after playing 111 times for his country.Akinfeev, 32, said after 15 years with the national side he had decided to give way to his younger colleagues and to focus completely on his club duties.

“Every story has its beginning and its end. So, my story with the national team has come to its logical conclusion,” he said in a statement on CSKA’s website.

“It was a great honour for me to captain Russia’s national side at a home World Cup. I hadn’t even dreamt it could happen. But it has happened and it was probably the peak of my career.”I leave with a clear conscience. A young and promising generation (of players)

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(Spartak Moscow), Fyodor Kudryashov, Yegor Sorokin (both Rubin Kazan), Elmir Nabiullin, Igor Smolnikov (both Zenit St Petersburg), Roman Neustadter (Fenerbahce/TUR), Konstantin Rausch (Dynamo Moscow), Andrei Semyonov (Akhmat Grozny), Mario Fernandes (CSKA Moscow) Midfielders: Yury Gazinsky (Krasnodar), Alexander Golovin (Monaco/FRA), Alan Dzagoev (CSKA Moscow), Roman Zobnin (Spartak Moscow), Alexander Erokhin, Daler Kuzyaev (both Zenit St Petersburg), Alexei Ionov (Rostov), Ruslan Kambolov (Rubin Kazan), Alexei Miranchuk (Lokomotiv Moscow), Denis Cheryshev (Valencia/ESP) Forwards: Artem Dzyuba, Anton Zabolotny (both Zenit St Petersburg), Dmitry Poloz (Rubin Kazan)

SHARM EL SHEIKH — FIFA voters in Africa have backed Gianni Infantino to be re-elected as president, and also Sunday chose an official from Malawi to represent them on the world soccer body’s ruling council.

The decisions were made by 54 African soccer federations — more than one-quarter of the FIFA membership — at a special election meeting provoked by the resignation of a Ghanaian official who was implicated in taking cash bribes.

The disgraced former FIFA Council member, Kwesi Nyantakyi, was replaced by Walter Nyamilandu, a former international player and longtime president of Malawi’s soccer federation.

Nyamilandu won a 35-18 vote in a runoff against Danny Jordaan of South Africa, the head organizer of the 2010 World Cup, to fill Africa’s seventh and final seat on the 37-member FIFA strategic panel chaired by Infantino. Its next meeting is in Africa, on Oct. 26 in Kigali, Rwanda.

Infantino was at the Confederation of African Football (CAF) election in Sharm El Sheikh and earlier won support from the continent’s soccer leaders for his own expected re-election to lead FIFA on June 5 in Paris. The deadline

for opponents to enter the contest is Feb. 5.

“Thanks for the support because it means a lot to me,” Infantino said addressing the congress.

One of his supporters, Nigeria soccer president Amaju Pinnick, said all 54 CAF members had individually backed Infantino.

“It is going to be unfair for anybody to stand up against Gianni Infantino,” Pinnick told The Associated Press in an interview, citing the success of the 2018 World Cup in Russia which “defined football.”

Revenue from that tournament lets FIFA pay at least $6 million to each member federation over the next four years.

“He has been able to bridge the gap between Africa and the rest of the world,” said Pinnick, also pointing to recent praise for Infantino’s FIFA from U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “These are two of the most powerful presidents in the world.”

Infantino’s efforts to present FIFA as reformed since his 2016 election were helped Sunday.

Nyamilandu, a relative unknown in soccer politics, beat the head of South Africa’s World Cup bid which has been implicated in bribery by the U.S. Department of

Justice’s sweeping investigation of corruption linked to FIFA. The special election was needed after Ghana’s Nyantakyi was filmed in an undercover sting and accused of taking a prohibited cash gift of $65,000. He is being investigated

by FIFA’s ethics committee.

Jordaan and veteran Tanzanian soccer official Leodegar Tenga lost out. Tenga was eliminated in the first round of voting.

“It has always been my dream to serve at the top of football administration, which is FIFA,” Nyamilandu told the AP. “I am excited to be elected on the FIFA Council because it has always been my wish.”

Nyamilandu was considered an outsider against Jordaan and Tenga, who are both members of CAF’s executive committee. Jordaan was even the preferred candidate of the southern African region ahead of Nyamilandu.

Jordaan previously lost in a vote for the then-FIFA executive committee in 2011 and withdrew from an election for a council seat last year.

“I am very disappointed that I failed to win the election,” said Jordaan, who is president of South Africa’s soccer federation.

Nyamilandu was a defender

in Malawi’s national team in the 1990s, and head of the soccer federation since 2004 but has a fairly low profile internationally.

Speculation grew in the buildup

to the vote that he gained support across Africa’s member countries, reportedly with the backing of CAF president Ahmad who Infantino helped to power last year.(ap)

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Misfiring Bayern with point to prove at home to Ajax

Bayern Munich host Ajax in the Champions League on Tuesday with Niko Kovac needing to fix a leaking defence and lack of finishing after yielding top spot in the Bundesliga. The clash at Munich’s Allianz Arena could well decide Group E after Bayern claimed a 2-0 win at Benfica in the opening round a fortnight ago while Ajax won 3-0 at Greek side AEK. Dauntingly for Ajax, Bayern have won the last 12 matches at home in the Champions League’s group stages.

However, the five-time European champions finished the weekend second in the German league after crashing to a shock 2-0 defeat at Hertha Berlin on Friday after being outplayed in the capital.

“It is an important game against Ajax. A win would make things easier for us going into our next four games,” said Bayern head coach Kovac. “Many people said we wouldn’t lose a game in the (Bundesliga) this season, but now it has happened in no time at all,” he added.

Uncharacteristically for Bayern, they leaked a late equaliser in a 1-1 league draw with Augsburg last Tuesday, which was followed by the defeat in Berlin, but Kovac remains unfazed.

“You have to differentiate, one is not directly linked to the other,” he insisted. “You could also say we won seven out of nine games.”

However, the Bayern boss will be troubled by the ease with which Pal Dardai’s Hertha unpicked the lock of the Bayern defence.

He will seek a tighter perfor-

mance against Ajax, who are second in the Dutch league after a 2-0 win at Fortuna Sittard on Saturday.

Ajax coach Erik ten Hag will have taken note of how Bayern’s defence was shaken in the first half

by Berlin.

Jerome Boateng needlessly gave away penalty by fouling Salomon Kalou which Vedad Ibisevic converted for the opening goal. Niklas Suele, Bayern’s other centre-back, was out of position when Hertha’s Ondrej Duda, the league’s current top-scorer with five goals in six games, smashed home a closerange cross.

Bayern’s star-studded attack also has a point to prove against Ajax after just having just one Arjen Robben goal, in the draw with Augsburg, to show for 40 shots on goal in their last two games.

Even the likes of James Rodriguez, Franck Ribery, Robben and Robert Lewandowski could not breach Berlin’s defence despite 25 shots.

Kovac is concerned by a lack of precision after his team “were not clinical” and more mistakes in defence “will be punished” against the Dutch.

Nevertheless, a win over Ajax

would boost confidence before Saturday’s home league match against Borussia Moenchengladbach when they can aim to make up the one-point gap behind new Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dortmund.

Historically, there is nothing separating Bayern and Ajax, who have three wins each, plus two draws, in their previous eight meetings.(afp)

has appeared in Russia,” he added.

“We must believe in our youth and support them.”

At the World Cup, Akinfeev played every minute of Russia’s matches as they confounded pretournament predictions by reaching the last eight, where they were beaten by eventual finalists Croatia in a penalty shoot-out.

Akinfeev saved a penalty from Iago Aspas in the last-16 shoot-out against Spain that secured Russia a place in the quarter-finals. He made his debut for Russia in 2004. He was a member of the national squad which reached the last four of Euro 2008 and played for Russia at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Zenit’s Andrey Lunev played in last month’s games against Turkey and the Czech Republic and now looks set to have the chance to

Bayern Munich’s German midfielder Joshua Kimmich controls the ball during the German first division Bundesliga football match Hertha Berlin v Bayern Munich at the Olympic stadium in Berlin on September 28, 2018.

establish himself as Russia’s firstchoice goalkeeper.

Anton Shunin of Dynamo Moscow and the Brazilian-born Guilherme Marinato are also in the squad for this month’s Nations League games against Turkey and Sweden.

Alexander Golovin of Monaco and Alan Dzagoev of CSKA are also in a 25-man squad after recovering from injuries. Russia take on Sweden on October 11 in Kaliningrad and then face Turkey in the Black Sea resort of Sochi three days later.

Russia squad Goalkeepers: Guilherme Marinato (Lokomotiv Moscow), Andrey Lunev (Zenit St Petersburg), Anton Shunin (Dynamo Moscow) Defenders: Georgy Dzhikia

Aguero can beat Premier League goals record, says Bernardo Silva Sergio Aguero could beat Alan Shearer’s record of 260 goals to become the Premier League’s greatest ever marksman, according to Manchester City teammate Bernardo Silva. The Argentine forward scored the 148th goal of his Premier League career for City in Saturday’s 2-0 victory over Brighton, equalling Shearer’s tally for Newcastle.

The pair are joint third in the list of highest goalscorers for a single club behind Thierry Henry for Arsenal (175) and Wayne Rooney for Manchester United (183).

Both of those marks should be well within reach for Aguero, potentially even this season, but to threaten Shearer’s overall mark of 260 he would almost certainly need to further extend his contract at the Etihad,

which runs until 2021.

“Sergio is the best scorer in Manchester City’s history,” said midfielder Silva. “He’s a legend not only for Manchester City but also for the Premier League, if not the best striker in the world then one of the best.

“It’s great to have him with us.

Every season he scores 30 goals or more. To have a player like him it helps us so much.”

“Everyone hopes he stays,” he added. “If he reaches that level it will be even better because everyone knows how important Alan Shearer was for English football and for the Premier League.

“I think he can reach it (the record).

He’s got the potential. Every season he keeps scoring more and more. We hope he can keep helping us win more

titles here in Manchester.”

City returned to the top of the table on goal difference thanks to their victory against Brighton while Liverpool dropped their first points in a 1-1 draw with Chelsea. The top two teams -both undefeated -- meet next Sunday at Anfield.(afp)

Manchester City’s Argentinian striker Sergio Aguero takes a shot during the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Brighton and Hove Albion at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, on September 29, 2018.

Africa backs Infantino for FIFA re-election next year

Akinfeev calls time on his international career CSKA Moscow goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev, Russia’s World Cup captain, announced Monday he was retiring from international football after playing 111 times for his country.Akinfeev, 32, said after 15 years with the national side he had decided to give way to his younger colleagues and to focus completely on his club duties.

“Every story has its beginning and its end. So, my story with the national team has come to its logical conclusion,” he said in a statement on CSKA’s website.

“It was a great honour for me to captain Russia’s national side at a home World Cup. I hadn’t even dreamt it could happen. But it has happened and it was probably the peak of my career.”I leave with a clear conscience. A young and promising generation (of players)

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(Spartak Moscow), Fyodor Kudryashov, Yegor Sorokin (both Rubin Kazan), Elmir Nabiullin, Igor Smolnikov (both Zenit St Petersburg), Roman Neustadter (Fenerbahce/TUR), Konstantin Rausch (Dynamo Moscow), Andrei Semyonov (Akhmat Grozny), Mario Fernandes (CSKA Moscow) Midfielders: Yury Gazinsky (Krasnodar), Alexander Golovin (Monaco/FRA), Alan Dzagoev (CSKA Moscow), Roman Zobnin (Spartak Moscow), Alexander Erokhin, Daler Kuzyaev (both Zenit St Petersburg), Alexei Ionov (Rostov), Ruslan Kambolov (Rubin Kazan), Alexei Miranchuk (Lokomotiv Moscow), Denis Cheryshev (Valencia/ESP) Forwards: Artem Dzyuba, Anton Zabolotny (both Zenit St Petersburg), Dmitry Poloz (Rubin Kazan)

SHARM EL SHEIKH — FIFA voters in Africa have backed Gianni Infantino to be re-elected as president, and also Sunday chose an official from Malawi to represent them on the world soccer body’s ruling council.

The decisions were made by 54 African soccer federations — more than one-quarter of the FIFA membership — at a special election meeting provoked by the resignation of a Ghanaian official who was implicated in taking cash bribes.

The disgraced former FIFA Council member, Kwesi Nyantakyi, was replaced by Walter Nyamilandu, a former international player and longtime president of Malawi’s soccer federation.

Nyamilandu won a 35-18 vote in a runoff against Danny Jordaan of South Africa, the head organizer of the 2010 World Cup, to fill Africa’s seventh and final seat on the 37-member FIFA strategic panel chaired by Infantino. Its next meeting is in Africa, on Oct. 26 in Kigali, Rwanda.

Infantino was at the Confederation of African Football (CAF) election in Sharm El Sheikh and earlier won support from the continent’s soccer leaders for his own expected re-election to lead FIFA on June 5 in Paris. The deadline

for opponents to enter the contest is Feb. 5.

“Thanks for the support because it means a lot to me,” Infantino said addressing the congress.

One of his supporters, Nigeria soccer president Amaju Pinnick, said all 54 CAF members had individually backed Infantino.

“It is going to be unfair for anybody to stand up against Gianni Infantino,” Pinnick told The Associated Press in an interview, citing the success of the 2018 World Cup in Russia which “defined football.”

Revenue from that tournament lets FIFA pay at least $6 million to each member federation over the next four years.

“He has been able to bridge the gap between Africa and the rest of the world,” said Pinnick, also pointing to recent praise for Infantino’s FIFA from U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “These are two of the most powerful presidents in the world.”

Infantino’s efforts to present FIFA as reformed since his 2016 election were helped Sunday.

Nyamilandu, a relative unknown in soccer politics, beat the head of South Africa’s World Cup bid which has been implicated in bribery by the U.S. Department of

Justice’s sweeping investigation of corruption linked to FIFA. The special election was needed after Ghana’s Nyantakyi was filmed in an undercover sting and accused of taking a prohibited cash gift of $65,000. He is being investigated

by FIFA’s ethics committee.

Jordaan and veteran Tanzanian soccer official Leodegar Tenga lost out. Tenga was eliminated in the first round of voting.

“It has always been my dream to serve at the top of football administration, which is FIFA,” Nyamilandu told the AP. “I am excited to be elected on the FIFA Council because it has always been my wish.”

Nyamilandu was considered an outsider against Jordaan and Tenga, who are both members of CAF’s executive committee. Jordaan was even the preferred candidate of the southern African region ahead of Nyamilandu.

Jordaan previously lost in a vote for the then-FIFA executive committee in 2011 and withdrew from an election for a council seat last year.

“I am very disappointed that I failed to win the election,” said Jordaan, who is president of South Africa’s soccer federation.

Nyamilandu was a defender

in Malawi’s national team in the 1990s, and head of the soccer federation since 2004 but has a fairly low profile internationally.

Speculation grew in the buildup

to the vote that he gained support across Africa’s member countries, reportedly with the backing of CAF president Ahmad who Infantino helped to power last year.(ap)

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Taman Ayun Temple

MENGWI - Taman Ayun Temple is a landmark in the village of Mengwi, Badung regency, located 17km northwest of Denpasar. This temple complex boasts magnificent traditional architectural features throughout its courtyards and enclosures as well as expansive garden landscapes comprised of lotus and fish ponds. The temple was built circa 1634 by the then ruler of the Mengwi kingdom, Tjokerda Sakti Blambangan, with Chinese architectural inspirations, and underwent a significant restoration project in 1937. Towering tiers from the temple shrines make up most of the profile of Taman Ayun and are a gesture of the people of Mengwi’s reverence to their deified noble ancestors, for the temple complex is considered the ‘mother temple’ of Mengwi. The Taman Ayun Temple was to serve as a main site of worship among the Mengwi people who need not travel too far to the main large temples, the likes of the Besakih ‘mother temple’ in Karangasem, Batukaru Temple in Tabanan, or Batur Temple in Kintamani. It also served as a unifying symbol among the Mengwi royalty

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Hightlights The fourth and last court is considered the most sacred, thus ranks the highest. It is referred to as the Utama Mandala. The intricately ornate central gate is open only during ceremonies, as the entryway for consecrated heirlooms and other ceremonial paraphernalia. Another gate at its east is for daily access.

Several tiers of different outlines and sizes rise up into the temple’s skyline. The temple’s three grounds denote the three cosmological levels known to Balinese Hinduism, namely the world of man, the realm of gods and deities, and the topmost divine level. As recounted in the ancient texts of the ‘Adhiparwa’, the whole complex of the Taman Ayun Temple represents Mount Mahameru in the so-called ‘churning of the sea of milk’ or the cosmic formation of the world. The name

‘Taman Ayun’ translates as ‘beautiful garden’. The vast encircling pools were once royal recreational places for the palace maids who would sail small canoes. Now the pools and ponds are fenced and visitors are denied entrance.

Good to Know Entrance fee to the Taman Ayun Temple is a modest Rp. 3,0004,000. The temple shares the same anniversary day of the cliff-perched Uluwatu Temple on the island’s southern Bukit peninsula, which is celebrated on the 210-day Balinese Pawukon calendar system or on every ‘Kliwon Medangsia’ Tuesday.

The ‘piodalan’ temple anniversary celebrations see pilgrims flock to the temple complex, day and night.

A trip to the Taman Ayun Temple complex is usually an included itinerary for long journeys up to the central or northern Bali regions. It is particularly a frequent stopover for visitors who opt to spend time up in Bedugul, as the site is con-

veniently en route from southern Bali. It is a great place to marvel at the early and traditional Balinese architectural features that prevail on the island. Although the pools are far from what can be imagined during its days of glory in the distant past, the moss-lined walls and jade algae-filled water add to the rustic charm of the whole scenery of this over three centuries-old temple site. North of the bell tower is a pavilion called Bale Loji. In old times, this was where priests and ceremonial attendants would make preparations and take a break.

Nowadays, artists can be seen here busy at their art-in-the-making.

Paintings are also available here for purchase. Museum Manusa Yadnya is located just across the road from the temple site. The museum showcases Balinese Hinduism rituals and human rites of passage, throughout their stages of life. It is an often convenient and additional highlight on each visit to Taman Ayun. (IBP/net)

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Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde celebrates as he wins the Men’s Elite road race of the 2018 UCI Road World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria on September 30, 2018.

Rainbow jersey dream becomes reality for evergreen Valverde

TOKYO - Local hero Kei Nishikori began his quest for a third Japan Open title by thrashing countryman Yuichi Sugita 6-4, 6-1 to reach the last 16 on Monday.

Third seed Nishikori failed to hit the heights that took him to the US Open semi-finals last month but still dominated his Japanese Davis Cup teammate, completing a one-sided victory with a fizzing backhand down the line after 81 minutes.

“I hoped I wouldn’t have to play a Japanese player,” said Nishikori, who last faced Sugita when they were juniors.

“It’s a relief to win. It took me a while to get into it,” added the world number 12, who won the last of his 11 career titles in Memphis two years ago.

“I made a few too many mistakes at the start. But I tweaked what I needed to and enjoyed the second set a bit more. Hopefully I can go deep into the tournament.

“Of course, the aim is to try to win it.”

Earlier, three-time Tokyo finalist Milos Raonic crushed last year’s runner-up Adrian Mannarino, the sixth seed taking a little over an hour to beat the Frenchman 6-3, 6-4.

The big-hitting Canadian, who has slipped from number three in the world to his current ranking of 20th after a poor run of form, fired 17 aces in a dominant display.

Canada’s Denis Shapovalov, who last year made unwanted headlines after smashing a ball at an umpire and fracturing his eye socket in a Davis Cup tie, bundled out seventh seed Chung Hyeon of South Korea 6-3, 3-6, 6-2.

Elsewhere, France’s Benoit Paire beat Chile’s Nicolas Jarry 6-4, 7-6 (7/4) while Japanese qualifier Yosuke Watanuki upset Dutchman Robin Haase 6-7 (7/9), 6-4, 6-1.

World number six Marin Cilic heads the field at the Tokyo tournament, whose list of previous winners include Roger Federer, Pete Sampras, John McEnroe and Ken Rosewall. (afp)

INNSBRUCK - Veteran Spaniard Alejandro Valverde ended years of frustration to fulfil his “dream” of winning the world championships road race crown on Sunday after outpacing France’s Romain Bardet and Canada’s Michael Woods in a thrilling sprint for the finish line.

The trio had boosted their victory chances after crossing the summit of the notoriously difficult Hottinger hill ‘Hell’ climb, featuring one steep section at a whopping 29 percent gradient, to leave key rivals in their wake as raucous fans rang bells and screamed encouragement.

And despite being joined with a little over one kilometre to go

by Dutchman Tom Dumoulin, the 38-year-old Valverde held his nerve inside the final metres to race unchallenged to the finish line, where he beat Bardet by a bike length.

A breathless Valverde, who finished runner-up in 2003, broke down with the emotion of finally securing the rainbow jersey -- arguably the most prestigious prize in the sport.

“This is my most emotional victory ever,” said Valverde.

“I had two dreams, one was to win the Tour de France but it was not to be, the second dream however is now mine, I have the gold medal and the (rainbow) jersey.

“It’s incredible, after all these years, struggling for the world title and to finally get it.

“Words can’t describe how grateful I am for the effort of the whole Spain team,” said the champion in reference to the fact that no race radios were allowed.

“There was a great vibe in the team and we kept track of each other and always knew where the guys were.”

-- lost without the radio -This was not the case with runner-up Bardet, who was gracious in defeat.

“Racing is far better without the radios, but I was quite lost there for

a while as there were no bikes or cars and I only really knew for sure we were the lead group when Tom (Dumoulin) joined us,” he said.

As soon as the quartet came into the final kilometre the Spaniard had looked the most likely to win. Both Bardet and Woods are stronger climbers while all-rounder Dumoulin also lacks Valverde’s top-end finishing speed.

“I should have attacked on the hill. It’s easy to say what you should have done afterwards, but what’s done is done,” Bardet said.

“When you are on the flat with a guy like Valverde you have to expect him to win.”

Pre-race favourite, Julian Alaphilippe of France, Briton Adam Yates and Italy’s Vincenzo Nibali and the last of the Colombians were dropped on the steep gradients of the final climb. (afp)

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Japanese tennis player Kei Nishikori returns a ball to German tennis player Matthias Bachinger during their ATP Moselle semi-final tennis match on September 22, 2018 in Metz, eastern France.

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Pro-independence protesters in Catalonia block roads, railway line BARCELONA - Pro-independence protesters obstructed major roads and a high-speed railway line in Spain’s Catalonia region on Monday, one year after a banned referendum on secession that was marred by police violence.

Hundreds of activists, many covering their faces with scarves, occupied high-speed railway tracks in Girona, north of the Catalan capital of Barcelona.

Central streets in Barcelona and Lleida were blocked, as was the AP-7 motorway which leads to the French border, and A2 linking Barcelona to Madrid, images on Catalan TV showed.

The high-speed rail service linking Figueres, Girona and Barcelona “was interrupted” since the “tracks in Girona are occupied,” Spanish state-owned rail operator Renfe said on Twitter.

The protests were called online by a grassroots group calling itself the Committees for the Defence of the Republic (CDRs), founded to help stage last year’s banned referendum and now demanding a clean break with the Spanish state.

The group tweeted a picture of a red, yellow and blue Catalan separatist flag on the track of the station in Girona as protesters stood around it.

Twenty-four people were injured and six detained on Saturday during a rally -- and a counter demonstration -- in Barcelona by police paying tribute to colleagues deployed to prevent the 2017 Catalan independence referendum.

The Catalan government, then led by Carles Puigdemont, on October 1, 2017, pushed ahead with a referendum on independence for the region despite it having been deemed illegal by the Spanish courts. The vote was marred by a violent police crackdown on polling stations.

Even if it was illegal and therefore non-binding, 2.3 million people cast their ballots out of 5.5 million eligible voters, 90 percent of whom voted to break from Spain. Opponents of independence largely boycotted the vote.

After the Catalan government declared independence on October 27, Madrid swiftly sacked the Catalan government, prompting several key figures to flee abroad, including Puigdemont. Others were jailed. (afp)

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Warning system might have saved lives in Indonesian tsunami

MAKASSAR — An early warning system that might have prevented some deaths in the tsunami that hit an Indonesian island on Friday has been stalled in the testing phase for years.

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This combination created on October 1, 2018 of a file picture taken on September 18, 2014 in Taipeh shows Tasuku Honjo (L) of Japan and James P Allison (R) of the US. James P Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for research that has revolutionised the treatment of cancer, the jury said on October 1, 2018.

US, Japanese pair win Nobel Medicine Prize for cancer therapy

STOCKHOLM - Two immunologists, James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan, won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for research that has revolutionised the treatment of cancer, the jury said on Monday.

A woman holds a Catalan pro-independence ‘Estelada’ flag during a demonstration in Girona on October 1, 2018 called by a grassroots group calling itself the Committees for the Defence of the Republic (CDRs) to commemorate the anniversary of a banned referendum on secession that was marred by police violence.

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The pair were honoured “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation,” the Nobel Assembly said.

Immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy targets proteins made by some immune system cells, as well as some cancer cells.

The proteins can stop the body’s natural defences from killing cancer cells. The therapy is designed to remove this protein “brake” and allow the immune system to more quickly get to work fighting the cancer.

Allison, a professor at the University of Texas, and Honjo, a professor at Kyoto University, in 2014 won the Tang Prize, touted

as Asia’s version of the Nobels, for their research.

The duo will share the Nobel prize sum of nine million Swedish kronor (about $1.01 million or 870,000 euros).

They will receive their prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on December 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of Alfred Nobel who created the prizes in his last will and testament.

Last year, US geneticists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young were awarded the medicine prize for their research on the role of genes in setting the “circadian clock” which regu-

lates sleep and eating patterns, hormones and body temperature.

The winners of this year ’s physics prize will be announced on Tuesday, followed by the chemistry prize on Wednesday. The peace prize will be announced on Friday, and the economics prize will wrap up the Nobel season on Monday, October 8.

For the first time since 1949, the Swedish Academy has postponed the announcement of the 2018 Nobel Literature Prize until next year, amid a #MeToo scandal and bitter internal dispute that has prevented it from functioning properly. (afp)

The high-tech system of seafloor sensors, data-laden sound waves and fiber-optic cable was meant to replace a system set up after an earthquake and tsunami killed nearly 250,000 people in the region in 2004.

But inter-agency wrangling and delays in getting just 1 billion rupiah ($69,000) to complete the project mean the system hasn’t moved beyond a prototype developed with $3 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation.

It is too late for central Sulawesi, where walls of water up to 6 meters (20 feet) high and a magnitude 7.5 earthquake killed at least 832 people in the cities of Palu and Donggala, tragically highlighting the weaknesses of the existing warning system and low public awareness about how to respond to warnings.

“To me this is a tragedy for science, even more so a tragedy for the Indonesian people as the residents of Sulawesi are discovering right now,” said Louise Comfort, a University of Pittsburgh expert in disaster management who has led the U.S. side of the project, which also involves engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and Indonesian scientists and disaster experts.

“It’s a heartbreak to watch when there is a well-designed sensor network that could provide critical information,” she said.

After a 2004 tsunami killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries, more than half of them in the Indonesian province

of Aceh, a concerted international effort was launched to improve tsunami warning capabilities, particularly in the Indian Ocean and for Indonesia, one of world’s most earthquake and tsunamiprone countries.

Part of that drive, using funding from Germany and elsewhere, included deploying a network of 22 buoys connected to seafloor sensors to transmit advance warnings.

A sizeable earthquake off Sumatra island in 2016 that caused panic in the coastal city of Padang revealed that none of the buoys costing hundreds of thousands of dollars each were working. They’d been disabled by vandalism or theft or just stopped working due to a lack of funds for maintenance.

The backbone of Indonesia’s tsunami warning system today is a network of 134 tidal gauge stations augmented by land-based seismographs, sirens in about 55 locations and a system to disseminate warnings by text message.

When the 7.5 quake hit just after 6 p.m. Friday, the meteorology and geophysics agency issued a tsunami alert, warning of potential for waves of 0.5 to 3 meters (2 to 10 feet). It ended the warning at 6:36 p.m. That drew harsh online criticism, but the agency’s head said the warning was lifted after the tsunami hit. It’s unclear exactly what time tsunami waves rushed into the narrow bay that Palu is built around.

“The tide gauges are operating, but they are limited in providing any advance warning. None of the 22 buoys are functioning,” Comfort said.

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People survey damage outside the shopping mall following earthquakes and tsunami in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018. Rescuers try to reach trapped victims in collapsed buildings after hundreds of people are confirmed dead in a tsunami that hit two central Indonesian cities, sweeping away buildings with massive waves.

“In the Sulawesi incident, BMKG (the meteorology and geophysics agency) canceled the tsunami warning too soon, because it did not have data from Palu.

This is the data the tsunami detection system could provide.”

Adam Switzer, a tsunami expert at the Earth Observatory of Singapore, said it’s a “little unfair” to say the agency got it wrong.

“What it shows is that the tsunami models we have now are too simplistic,” he said. “They don’t take into account multiple events, multiple quakes within a short period of time. They don’t take into account submarine landslides.”

Whatever system is in use, he said, the priority after an earthquake in a coastal area should be to get to higher ground and stay there for a couple of hours. Power outages after the earthquake struck meant that sirens meant to warn residents to evacuate did not work, said Harkunti P. Rahayu, an expert at the Institute of Technology in Bandung.

“Most people were shocked by the earthquake and did not pay any thought that a tsunami will come,” she said.

Experts say the prototype system deployed offshore from Padang — a city extremely vulnerable to tsunamis because it faces a major undersea fault overdue for a massive quake — can provide authoritative information about a tsunami threat within 1 to 3 minutes.

That compares with 5 to 45 minutes from the now defunct buoys and the limited information provided by tidal gauges.

The system’s undersea seismometers and pressure sensors send dataladen sound waves to warm surface waters. From there they refract back into the depths, traveling 20 to 30 kilometers (12 to 20 miles) to the next node in the network and so on.

The Padang network’s final undersea point needs just a few more kilometers of fiber optic cable to connect it to a station on an offshore island where the cascades of data would be transmitted by satellite to the geophysics agency, which issues tsunami warnings, and to disaster officials.

The Associated Press first reported on the system in January 2017, when the project was awaiting Indonesian funding to lay the cables. Since then, agencies involved have suffered budget cuts and the project bounced back and forth between them.(ap)

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Buleleng district government is now awaiting the decision for determination of the proposal of the Truna Jaya Dance and Nyakan Diwang (roadside cooking) into an intangible cultural heritage by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Culture Organization (UNESCO).

The dance composed by the late prominent choreographer Gde Manik is proposed because it was already staged massively at the Buleleng Festival (Bulfest) a few years earlier. Truna Jaya itself is a dance performed by a dancer, but when performed in the Bulfest arena, the dancers and gamelan players were able to appear and amaze the audience. For this performance, the district government is asked to propose to the UNESCO so as to be designated into an intangible cultural heritage.

In the meantime, the Nyakan Diwang is ancestral tradition at several villages in Banjar subdistrict. Of the many villages in the region, the residents of Banjar, Banyuwati, Kayu Putih and other villages never violate and regularly carry it out on the day of Ngembak Geni (a day after the Nyepi— Ed). Based on the stories of predecessors and references, the Nyakan Diwang tends to be a manifestation of social interaction and friendship among residents after a full day of solemn implementation of the bratha penyepian or the four abstinences

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In this April 2, 2018, file photo, people enter the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo. A key quarterly economic survey by the Bank of Japan shows sentiment among large manufacturers dipped two points to 19, as worries grow about global trade tensions. The “tankan” survey, released Monday, Oct. 1, marked the third straight quarter of decline.

China manufacturing weakens amid US tariff battle

BEIJING - China’s export orders shrank in September as a tariff battle with Washington over technology escalated, adding to downward pressure on the world’s No. 2 economy, two surveys showed Sunday.

The reports add to signs Chinese trade, which had held up despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff hikes, might be weakening. That adds to pressure on an economy that already was forecast to cool due to slowing global consumer demand and lending controls imposed to rein in a debt boom.

The official China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing’s monthly measure of new export orders fell to 48 from August’s 49.4 on a 100-point scale on which numbers below 50 show activity shrinking.

A separate index by a business magazine, Caixin, showed new export orders fell at the fastest rate in more than two years. The maga-

zine said companies blamed “trade frictions” and tariffs.

Overall, the federation’s monthly purchasing managers index showed manufacturing activity decelerated to 50.8 from August’s 51.3. Caixin said its index fell to 50 from 50.6.

“Downward pressure on China’s economy was significant,” economist Zhengsheng Zhong said in Caixin’s report.

The resiliency of China’s $12 trillion-a-year economy until now has allowed President Xi Jinping’s government to reject pressure for changes in initiatives such as “Made in China 2025” that call for state-led creation of champions in robotics and other technologies.

Washington, Europe and other trading partners say those violate Beijing’s market-opening obligations.

The International Monetary Fund and other forecasters expect

this year’s economic growth to fall to about 6.5 percent from 2017’s 6.8 percent. But that slowdown is due mostly to the ruling Communist Party’s long-term efforts to steer China to self-sustaining growth based on consumer spending instead of trade and investment.

Last week, Trump stepped up pressure by raising tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods. Beijing retaliated with penalties on $60 billion of American imports. Both sides already had raised duties on $50 billion of each other’s goods.

The two sides have announced no plans for negotiations. China accused Trump in a report last week of bullying other countries.

A deputy commerce minister said negotiations were impossible while Washington “holds a knife” of tariff hikes to Beijing’s throat.

With no settlement in sight, forecasters say the conflict could trim global economic growth by

0.5 percent through 2020.

Sunday’s reports gave no details on September orders from the United States, China’s biggest national export market.

Sales to the United States have held up so far, rising by more than 13 percent in August. But analysts said that strength might have been due partly to Chinese suppliers rushing to beat increases in import taxes. American officials complain Beijing steals or pressures companies to hand over technology. They worry Chinese technology initiatives might erode U.S. industrial leadership.

Communist leaders have tried to stick to long-term reform plans the ruling party says will make the state-dominated economy more competitive and productive.

Beijing has cut import tariffs and announced plans to open auto manufacturing and some other industries wider to foreign competitors.

But none of their changes address the U.S. technology complaints.

Last week, Beijing announced tariff cuts, effective, Nov. 1, on 1,585 types of goods including construction equipment.

Chinese leaders should act quickly to “expand domestic demand and resolve the short-term downward pressure,” economist Zhang Liqun said in the logistics federation’s report.

Trade’s importance to China has shrunk but it still supports millions of well-paid jobs. The United States is the destination for the highestvalue Chinese exports including smartphones, industrial machinery and medical technology.

The logistics federation’s employment index fell 1.1 points to 48.3, indicating workforces were shrinking.

“The employment situation worsened further,” Zhong said in Caixin’s report. (ap)

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Truna Jaya Dance and “Nyakan Diwang” Tradition, Proposed to Be Intangible Cultural Heritage to UNESCO

TOKYO - A key quarterly economic survey by the Bank of Japan shows sentiment among large manufacturers dipped two points to 19, as worries grow about global trade tensions.

The “tankan” survey, released Monday, marked the third straight quarter of decline.

The survey, long seen as an important indicator of the state of the world’s third largest economy, looks at the difference between companies surveyed that have a “favorable” outlook and those with an “unfavorable” outlook.

The latest results show optimists outnumber pessimists but the gap is shrinking.

The manufacturers surveyed include automakers and electronics companies that are mainstays of Japan’s economy.

Some analysts had expected a rebound in sentiment.

Japan’s growth is dependent on exports and any slowdown in pan-Pacific trade would hurt sentiment. Uncertainty over trade friction with the U.S. also would discourage investment as manufacturers hold back waiting to see if their sales or profits might be affected by newly imposed tariffs or other policies inspired by President Donald Trump’s “America first” stance on trade. (ap)

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related to Nyepi celebration.

Head of the Buleleng Culture Agency, Gede Komang, said the proposal to UNESCO is just waiting for the determination from the official having the authority. Proposing process lasts quite long because it does not only complete the administrative document, but the government is also obliged to include a description containing the history of the proposed tradition. Besides, the staging or performance documents must be made in the form of videos.

He added there is information if the proposal of Truna Jaya Dance and Nyakan Diwang traditional heritage has been nominated. He said the recognition by the UNESCO to Balinese art and cultural heritage is important to ‘protect’ the work so that it will not be claimed or recognized by other regions. With this recognition, the local government has ‘capital’ to lobby the higher levels of government to get the attention both in the form of programs or financial support to preserve and develop cultural heritage. (kmb)

Munduk Temu Offers a Cool Selfie Place

Munduk Temu village is one of the villages in Tabanan developing a tourism village. The environment with plantation, farming area and beautiful view becomes added value to the village in Pupuan subdistrict. The new location under development to attract visitors is a beautiful place to take selfie.

Superiority of this selfie location lies in the beautiful scenery of the nature. Headman of the Munduk Temu, I Nyoman Wintara, said that Munduk Temu sits at an altitude of approximately 1,500 meters above sea level. It is beautiful because displays a landscape of green plantations. Not a few tourists have relatively long lived here. Meanwhile, some others just pass to perpetuate the beauty of the nature.

At the selfie location has been made a stage sizing 3×4 meter and winged boat ornament. In addition, the ornament resembles a cage that can be used to take pictures.

Visitors coming here can also enjoy the local coffee brand of Munduk Temu, namely the Leak Coffee and local fruit such as mangosteen and sugar snakefruit.

Most visitors coming here, said Wiantara, are teenagers. Commonly they throng on weekends whose number can reach 200 people. In order to be able to take pictures at the location, visitors must give donation as much as IDR 5,000 per person. “Many visitors usually come here on weekends primarily at sunrise or sunset. They are mostly teenagers deliberately come here just to take selfie,” said Wintara.

Later on, this selfie location will be submitted by the tourism awareness group of local village or Pokdarwis given the task as the party to manage the area. “Later on, around the selfie location the village plans to develop a guest house that involves community participation,” added Wintara.

Prior to becoming a tourism village, Munduk Temu has also implemented organic and in-organic waste sorting. Other than sorting garbage, it also maintains environmental cleanliness. Munduk Temu village has applied a fine to those who throw garbage carelessly as of March 2018.

For Munduk Temu customary village, the penalty is IDR 250,000 while Kebon Jero customary village worth IDR 100,000. In the

meantime, the administrative village imposes stricter sanctions, where it does not only impose fine but also social sanction. Photo of

the perpetrators who throw garbage carelessly will be uploaded to social media owned by the village. (kmb)

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Quick dryer prepared for iodized salt production

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SEMARAPURA - Iodized salt production at Kusamba village, Dawan, denoting one of the prominent programs in economic field of the Klungkung district government is stagnant after a trial.

The current salt production cannot be maximized.

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The Head of the Klungkung Industry and Manpower Agency, I Gede Kusumajaya, stated that in the 2018 Amendment Budget, a fund had been set up to procure a dryer so the salt production can continue. “As planned, this amendment budget has allocated fund for the purchase of the dryer,” he said on Friday (Sep. 28).

This official from Selisihan village, Klungkung, said this device is very important. Without the device, the current salt production cannot be maximized. “Now, the salt water content is not yet appropriate. So, such device is needed,” he said.

Regent of Klungkung, I Nyoman Suwirta, emphasized the program initiated at the end of 2017 must really run. Relevant agencies handling it are immediately asked to follow up and be more serious. “It’s a team, but they still mutually claim to have no responsibility for it,” he said.

He stressed that he is also going to come down directly despite taking care of technical matters. “Later on, I will immediately resolve this problem because I see the response of the agency remains slow,” he said.

The program was criticized by the circle of legislator since it has not been maximized. A member of the Klungkung House of Representatives, I Wayan Sugati, hoped the shortage of device touted to be the cause must be immediately followed up. This program should not give impression to waste budget because it does not bring in maximum results. “Don’t just ask for budgeting but the results are not optimal,” he affirmed.

This PDI-P politician considered this breakthrough is very brilliant. Moreover, this agricultural program is integrated with tourism sector. It is considered to be able to boost farmers’ income and can run sustainably. (kmb45)

To overcome fish price uncertainty

Fishermen look for export quality fish and open food stall FISHERMEN’s life in Karangasem is like a wave in the ocean.

It is determined by the weather and the surrounding natural conditions.

When there are lots of catches, suddenly the price drops. When the price of fish starts to rise, the catch is not much. Some fishermen having faced such situations for decades choose other ways to still be able to enjoy the activities in the sea.

Pageh, a fisherman from Bugbug village, now prefers fishing to netting to the sea. He goes to sea with the target of obtaining certain fish with high selling price or even having export quality. For instance, he targeted red fish which is quite abundant around the sea of Bugbug village to Nusa Penida and Lombok.

According to Pageh, his friends often go to sea together. “Sometimes due to being late night, I often overnight at fisherman’s house in Lombok or in Nusa Penida. It’s a commonplace,” said Pageh.

He was reluctant to mention the

selling price of this type of fish. He just stressed that foreign markets are very fond of this fish. So, the order of red fish is quite high so far. The catch by fishing rod is then put together in a box filled with ice cubes as a refrigerant. After being packed neatly, the fish is dispatched. By catching such fish, he is now getting more enthusiastic in fishing. Besides, this is also in line with his hobby in the sea, especially fishing, by using traditional boat or jukung.

Meanwhile, when getting other types of fish, it is not sold carelessly but offered to Bukit Asah attraction.

At the location, he has a small food stall where he processed sea fish into a number of seafood specialties. Actually this becomes a special attraction to visitors to Bukit Asah. Surely, the processed fish of Pageh becomes an appealing cuisine.

For visitors particularly those that like camping on Bukit Asah may not worry about the difficulty to get food.

They can order at his food stall and

tasty seafood will be prepared by this fisherman. It will include soup with fish meatball, pepes, satay and various drinks. The price is very affordable namely at IDR 250,000 and it is enough for consumption of six people.

Aside from serving individual visitors, Pageh and his family are also ready to receive orders in large quantities. In accordance with his previous experience, there are many communities frequently camping at the campground and order large quantities of fish-based food. “As usual, visitors will order first via telephone so that we can prepare food before coming here,” he said.

With such activity, Pageh admitted to never get dizzy any longer related to the ups and down of fish catch price. The red fish with export quality remains to have high price. Likewise, the other types of sea fish used as food ingredients at his stall are in line with the increasingly crowded tourist visits where they mostly have a camping agenda on the Bukit Asah. (gik)

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A figure, in the shape of a hand with the colours of the China national flag for fingernails and a ‘23’ on its palm, is carried by protesters at a National Day rally in Hong Kong on October 1, 2018.

Thousands protest in Hong Kong over China suppression

HONG KONG - Several thousand marched in Hong Kong Monday against suppression by Beijing as fears grow that freedoms in the semi-autonomous city are seriously under threat.

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Fishermen’s life in Karangasem is like a wave in the ocean. It is determined by the weather and the surrounding natural conditions.

The pro-democracy protest comes a week after Hong Kong banned a pro-independence party on the grounds it was a threat to national security, the first time a political party has been prohibited since the city was handed back to China by Britain in 1997.

The emergence of an independence movement calling for Hong Kong to split from China has incensed Beijing as it emphasises the importance of territorial integrity and has led to a crackdown on political expression.

Leading pro-democracy campaigner Joshua Wong said he feared his party, Demosisto, could be next because it promotes selfdetermination for Hong Kong.

One high-profile Demosisto candidate was already barred from a recent by-election.

“We need to protect and defend the freedom of association in Hong Kong,” Wong, 21, told AFP at the rally. The pro-democracy protest is held every October 1, China’s National Day, which marks the communist party’s establishment of the People’s Republic of China.

Hong Kong enjoys rights unseen on the mainland including freedom of speech but there are growing fears those are being eroded.

There are also concerns that the city will introduce a controversial anti-subversion law designed to protect China’s national security and potentially put freedoms at further risk.

- ‘Totalitarian agenda’ “They talk about national security, but what about our security?

They don’t care about that,” said a 50-year-old office worker who gave her name as Miss Hau. “Today they say we can’t talk about A, but tomorrow they might say we can’t talk about B, and in the end we won’t be able to talk about anything,” she told AFP. Other protesters criticised the government’s “totalitarian agenda”.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam, appointed by a pro-Beijing committee, said in an official address Monday that Hong Kong must “firmly uphold China’s sovereignty, security and development interests”.

Critics say Hong Kong is being subsumed into mainland China via perks and infrastructure projects designed to blur boundaries.

Last month saw the opening of a multi-billion-dollar high-speed rail link to the mainland, with part of the Hong Kong station coming under Chinese law.

A long-delayed mega-bridge between Hong Kong and southern China is set to open later this month. But despite many residents’ dissatisfaction with China’s growing influence, the numbers attending the city’s traditional street protests have shrunk since massive 2014 pro-democracy rallies failed to win reform.

Yuet Wong, a 21-year-old student, said there was a sense of powerlessness among young people, particularly after the disqualification of elected pro-democracy legislators, but said she was still motivated to come out.

“Even if we can’t achieve anything immediately, we want to show the government we won’t be compromised and won’t be silent,” she told AFP. (afp)

TEHRAN - Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Monday they launched a missile strike against a “terrorist” headquarters in Syria in retaliation for an attack that killed 24 people in the Iranian city of Ahvaz.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had vowed a “crushing” response to last month’s assault -- claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group -- on a military parade commemorating the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

“The headquarters of those responsible for the terrorist crime in Ahvaz was attacked a few minutes ago east of the Euphrates by several ballistic missiles fired by the aerospace branch of the Revolutionary Guards,” the Guards said on their website.

“Based on preliminary reports, many takfiri terrorists and the leaders responsible for the terrorist crime in Ahvaz have been killed or wounded in this missile attack,” they added. The term “takfiri” refers to Sunni Muslim extremists.

The Guards released pictures of what appeared to be missiles lighting up the night sky, leaving trails of smoke as they soared above a desert region with a rugged mountain in the background.

Iran’s Fars news agency said the Guards fired “a number of mediumrange” Zolfaghar and Qiam missiles, with a range of 750 kilometres and 800 kilometres (465 and 500 miles), respectively. The agency said the missiles hit the Syrian desert border town of Albu Kamal on the west of the Euphrates River, in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor.

“On at least one of the missiles was written ‘death to America’, ‘death to Israel’ and ‘death to Al Saud’,” it said, a reference to the ruling family in Saudi Arabia, Iran’s regional rival.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britainbased war monitor, “heavy explosions took place at dawn (Monday) in the last pocket under IS control near Albu

Kamal”. Albu Kamal itself, located on the border with Iraq, is held by regime forces and allied regional militiamen who seized it from IS in 2007.

- ‘Jihadist separatists’ Twenty-four people were shot dead in the attack by five gunmen on a military parade in the mainly ethnic Arab city of Ahvaz in southwestern Iran on September 22.

Ahvaz is the provincial capital of Khuzestan, a border region which was a major battleground of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, and which also saw ethnic unrest in 2005 and 2011.

Iranian officials initially blamed Arab separatists backed by Gulf Arab allies of the United States for the attack.

But on Monday supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appeared to link the perpetrators to jihadists operating in Iraq and Syria, where IS once had major strongholds.

“This cowardly act was the work of those very individuals who are rescued by the Americans whenever they are in trouble in Iraq and Syria and who are funded by the Saudis and the (United) Arab Emirates,” Khamenei was quoted by his official website as saying.

The next day Iran’s intelligence ministry published photos of five men it said carried out the Ahvaz assault, identifying them as “jihadist separatists”.

IS, a Sunni Muslim extremist group which Iran and its Damascus allies are fighting in Syria, has claimed responsibility for the attack and said all five assailants were Iranian, including four from Ahvaz.

It also threatened to carry out new attacks in Iran.

IS had already claimed responsibility for twin attacks in June 2017 on the parliament and the tomb of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran that killed 17 people.(afp)

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This handout photo provided by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard official website via SEPAH News shows missiles being launched from an undisclosed location to target militants in eastern Syria early on October 1, 2018.

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The Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico has been used for decades in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) but has barely made a dent in the space to be searched, new calculations suggest.

We may not have found aliens yet because we’ve barely begun looking

WITH no luck so far in a six-decade search for signals from aliens, you’d be forgiven for thinking, “Where is everyone?”

A new calculation shows that if space is an ocean, we’ve barely dipped in a toe. The volume of observable space combed so far for E.T. is comparable to searching the volume of a large hot tub for evidence of fish in Earth’s oceans, astronomer Jason Wright at Penn State and colleagues say in a paper posted online September 19 at

arXiv.org.

“If you looked at a random hot tub’s worth of water in the ocean, you wouldn’t always expect a fish,” Wright says.

Still, that’s far more space searched than calculated in 2010 for the 50th anniversary of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. In that work, SETI pioneer Jill Tarter and

colleagues imagined a “cosmic haystack” of naturally occurring radio waves she could sift through for the proverbial needle of an artificial, alien beacon. Her haystack went beyond physical space to include factors such as a possible signal’s duration, frequency, variations and strength, as well as the sensitivity of radio telescopes on Earth that would

presumably detect a signal.

She concluded that searches had covered about a drinking glass’s worth of seawater — hardly enough to conclude the ocean is fishless.

Wright and colleagues Shubham Kanodia and Emily Lubar updated Tarter ’s calculation by devising a slightly different haystack, including factors like the frequency and bandwidth aliens might broadcast in. It also included more recent SETI

searches such as the Breakthrough Listen project.

Converting the volume to liters for the sake of analogy, the researchers concluded that SETI has covered the equivalent of 7,700 liters out of 1.335 billion trillion liters of water in Earth’s oceans.

“We’re finally getting to the point today … that we have a chance of finding something, depending on how much there is to find,” Wright says. (IBP/net)

Hints of weird particles from space may defy physicists’ standard model

ANTARCTICA - Dangling from a balloon high above Antarctica, a particle detector has spotted something that standard physics is at a loss to explain.

Two unusual signals seen by the detector, known as the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna, or ANITA, can’t be attributed to any known particles, a team of physicists at Penn State reports online September 25 at arXiv.org. The result hints at the possibility of new particles beyond those cataloged in the standard model, the theory that describes the various elementary particles that make up matter.

Like the old man in the Pixar movie Up, ANITA floats on a helium balloon, at an altitude of 37 kilometers for about a month at a time. It searches for the signals of high-energy particles from space, including lightweight, ghostly particles called neutrinos. Those neutrinos can interact within Antarctica’s ice, producing radio waves that are picked up by ANITA’s antennas.

The two puzzling signals appear to be from extremely energetic neutrinos shooting skyward from within the Earth.

A neutrino coming up from below isn’t inherently surprising: Low-energy neutrinos interact with matter so weakly that they can zip through the entire planet. But high-energy neutrinos can’t pass through as much material as lower-energy neutrinos can. So although high-energy neutrinos can skim the edges of the planet, they won’t survive a pass straight through.

The steep angle of the particles’ paths suggests that the neutrinos traveled through several thousands of kilometers of Earth — too much for a high-energy neutrino to make it out the other side. That’s according to computer simulations in the new study, by researchers who are not members of the ANITA collaboration. ANITA researchers have been looking for a way to explain the signals with neutrinos, says Derek Fox, a coauthor of the study. But according to Fox and colleagues’ simulations, “those attempts must fail.”

A high-energy particle could make such a long trek through the Earth only if it were even more reticent to interact with matter than neutrinos are. A hypothetical heavy particle called a stau, proposed in a theory called supersymmetry, could fit the bill, Fox and colleagues say. After being created on the other side of the planet by a high-energy neutrino slamming into the Earth, a stau could make it through unscathed before decaying into lighter particles that would eventually result in the signals detected by ANITA. But don’t cancel your membership in the standard model fan club just yet. “It’s still possible that there is a very mundane reason that we are seeing these events in ANITA,” says ANITA physicist Stephanie Wissel of Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Other spacefaring particles called cosmic rays, which rain down from above, produce similar signatures in ANITA. A basic misunderstanding of the physics behind cosmic rays’

signatures could explain the observations, Wissel says.

Backing up their claim, Fox and colleagues also identify three events in another Antarctic neutrino detector, called IceCube, that they say have some similarly puzzling properties.

But the leader of that experiment, physicist Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, isn’t convinced. “These events are of course worth paying attention to,” he says, but he doesn’t see any evidence that they require a new explanation.

What’s needed is more data, physicists say. The ANITA team plans to send the detector up for another Antarctic balloon ride, says ANITA physicist Amy Connolly of Ohio State University in Columbus. “My view is that we should keep trying to find a mundane explanation for these events.”

The standard model has been confirmed time and again, so physicists are loathe to abandon it without overwhelming evidence. “The case that ANITA is seeing something weird is strong,” says astrophysicist John Beacom, also of Ohio State. But “I always bet for the standard model.”

Still, these events have such extreme energies that they are reaching into realms not accessible at particle colliders like the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Beacom says. “There’s a lot we just don’t know about how physics works at these high energies.” (IBP/net)

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Kamasan puppet painting and endek become an allure

KAMASAN puppet painting and endel fabric are two of arts that have become known to the people Bali as having their home in the district of Klungkung. The kamasan puppet painting with their rich stories and philosophical values will be featured at the IMF-WB Annual Meeting in Nusa Dua next month along with endek fabrics from Klungkung.

Head of the Klungkung Cooperative, SMEs and Trade Agency, I Wayan Ardiasa, stated on Friday (Sep. 28) that both of these products will likely be popular with the delegates as both have unique characteristics. “We want to expand the promotion of these products from Klungkung”, he explained.

The provincial government of Bali, he explained asked Klungkung to provide local products for the meeting in Nusa Dua which he was glad to accommodate. “We have already made arrangements and just need to appoint particular artisans”, he said.

Klungkung’s district govern-

ment has already facilitated artisans in participating in a number of exhibitions at the regional and national level. Artisans themselves have been using the internet to promote their products. “Having people see the products in person is a great way to prmote these crafts that have such high value”, he added.

Endek sellers at the Semarapura Art Market have been eagerly awaiting the event involving so many international delegates. Putu Mayuni for example has been getting some products ready. “Hopefully the delegates will come and shop here”, she said adding that so far it is mostly locals who buy this cloth, though sometimes foreign tourists will also shop there.

Kamasan puppet painter, Jero Mangku Muriati Mura, also strongly supports the promotional opportu-

DENPASAR — Heart disease now attacks people of the increasingly younger age. In 2008, the mortality rate due to heart disease amounted to 17.3 million and more than 3 million deaths occurred at the age of less than 60 years.

Chairman of the Indonesia Cardiovascular Specialist Association (PERKI) of Bali Branch, Dr. I Made Junior Rina Artha, revealed that based on the data of 2013 Basic Health Research, the number of coronary heart disease was 883,447 and the heart failure was 229,696.

The Indonesia ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction or ISTEMI’s data

at Sanglah Hospital indicate that in 2017 the patients coming due to heart attack amounted to 587 people, where 45.5 percent of them needed administration of fibrinolytic drugs (blood clot destroyers) or ring installation as soon as possible to save patients.

Meanwhile, in 2018 up to August the number of patients coming to emergency room due to heart attack reached 477 people.

The increased incidence of heart attacks at young age is associated with the risk of smoking, lack of physical activities and unhealthy diet patterns.

Until now, heart disease is the leading cause of death, number one killer in conditions of non-communicable

diseases and predicted to occur until 2030. Previously, the heart disease attacked people of 50 years old and over.

With the changes in the age of the heart disease, the technology of handling heart disease is also progressing.

“Now, the installation of stents or heart rings is increasingly routine, but it is accompanied with better quality stents and installation techniques,” he said.

Other technologies such as electrophysiology measures and the installation of devices or pacemakers have now begun to develop in Indonesia.

With this device, the results are quite promising in arrhythmia patients.

Other supporting examinations such as echocardiography, Holter monitor, treadmill and CT Angio that will facilitate the diagnosis of heart disease are also acknowledged to have been easier to find.

He continued that heart disease can be congenital and incidental. Congenital heart disease is structural and functional abnormalities of the heart carried since the birth. Meanwhile, incidental heart disease happens due to an unhealthy lifestyle or secondary causes (infection, trauma) like hypertension, coronary heart disease, arrhythmias, rheumatic heart disease and heart failure.

Risk factors causing people to ex-

nity especially amidst the currently sluggish market. “Last year sales were quite slow. Having this promotion is very good”, she said on the sidelines of a painting demonstration at Kertha Gosa recently.

This woman from Siku hamlet, Kamasan, admitted that the district government that provided materials for painters but promotion is done independently. “Like me for example, I have been looking for networks overseas myself”, she said. (sos)

perience a heart disease (modified) are diabetes mellitus (DM), dyslipidemia, lacking of physical activity, unhealthy diet and stress. In the meantime, the risk factors that cannot be modified are family history, age, sex, and obesity.

Considering the magnitude of the lifestyle’s influence on the causes of heart disease, he encouraged the community to prevent heart disease by choosing foods high in fiber, low in fat and low in sugar. Besides, it must be supported with sport and regular physical exercise for 3-5 times a week and with a minimum of 30 minutes for moderate-high intensity and avoid psychological stress. (kmb42)

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Passing down traditional Batuan style painting to the digital generation The village of Batuan has long been known for its exceptionally talented artists in all disciplines with particular attention from the global arts scene for its painters. The distinct Batuan style of painting in fact goes back many hundreds of years -if not more. The village temple that was established in 1022 ad, houses texts that refer to an artist’s guild, which quite likely predates the temple. Indeed a prehistoric archeological site was unearthed right next to Batuan temple that revealed many stone works of exceptional artistic merit. How far back the artistic traditions of Batuan date remains to be officially established but is doubtless very old and has clearly been passed down with remarkable assiduity.

Batuan became know to the wider public in the 1960’s when painters and sculptors here started including elements of contemporary life in their works which, nonetheless remained well within the aesthetic norms of the Batuan style.

The number of truly awe inspiring works that have been produced in this small village over the last few decades is nothing short of mindboggling and stand as a testament to the ability of Balinese tradition to adopt new elements without being diluted by them.

What has become a concern for some is the continuity of this long standing traditional of artistic expression. Since the turn of the millennia, with the advent of digital technologies available to ever-growing numbers of people, less and less people have the patience to create the masterful works of the Batuan style. Changes in lifestyle and attitude brought about by the increasingly widespread influence of consumer culture left many of the master painters of Batuan worried that the next generation would not carry on this the tradition of art creation as their ancestors have done for countless generations before them. Traditional Batuan Style Painting is about to be officially recognized as one of Indonesia’s intangible heritages, but this does not guaranteed continuity.

Painters coalesced into the Baturulangun Batuan painters group, led by I Ketut Sadia painters decided to take matters into their own hands. Whereas in the past these techniques were passed down from artist to pupil informally and often within a same family, given the current context, Sadia and friends decided that a new approach was needed. So in 2015, they approached the village government and started offering traditional drawing classes to elementary school children at the town hall.

Although there was initially a lot of interest, after a year, they found that very few students were not sticking with it.

So, they decided to team up with local elementary schools to make traditional Batuan painting part of the school curriculum, giving classes in the schools on Saturdays and at the town hall on Sundays. By having the students graded for their efforts and taking part in monthly competitions, the youngsters not only stuck with it but more and more children started attending the Sunday classes. After a year of this success, the works of these enthusiastic youngsters were brought together for an exhibition at the Bali Arts Festival and later in a gallery in Ubud both of which were

extremely successful.

Since then youngsters from areas outside of Batuan have also started attending the Sunday classes and the artist’s group has a plan in the works to open classes for junior high school students next year, so that those who have been studying this traditional technique can continue learning after elementary school.

The success of this simple endeavour can be seen not only in the enthusiasm of the young students to persevere in learning this rather challenging technique, but also in the exceptional works they have been producing.

Nearly everyone who sees their works blurt out something to the effect of :”were these really produced by children?”. The answer is a resounding yes.

The youngsters are guided step-by-step through the learning process, from practicing drawing simple lines and shapes in order to develop their dexterity. They are then encouraged to create their own compositions.

Here there is no particular guidance offered, though the youngsters are exposed to the large number of works from their village as inspiration. Once they have drawn the outline of their picture in pencil, they go over the lines in felt pen. Then the first layer of ink is added to create shading. This is where the real challenge begins.

Batuan style painting has a particular method for creating layers of lights and dark to create shading that involve spreading ink with one brush and water with another. Sometimes, the teachers will apply the first layer of ink to encourage the youngsters. Once they have a hang of the initial inking process the children start applying the subsequent layers.

The paintings they have produced thus far are not only remarkable in the clear lines and beautiful shapes that these very young students master with staggering ability but also in the amazingly well balanced compositions they produce, depicting a wide range of scenes.

One cannot help but wonder if there is either a genetic element at play or if there is something in the drinking water of Batuan than makes for such talented artists – even at this tender age.

Sadia and his colleagues have succeeded in taking the first very important steps in assuring that their ancestral legacy is passed on to the next generation. (kmb)

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TED BAKER REVEALS HIS PICK OF THE BUNCH: A NEW ACCESSORIES STAND AT BEACHWALK SHOPPING CENTER Continuing the wonderful world of Ted’s pop-up stores, Ted is proud to announce his new store at Beachwalk Shopping Center in Bali. This time, Ted shows off his accessories counter as ‘Pick of the Bunch’, a fresh selection comprising only Ted’s very best picks for the island.

While the Sweet Shoppe popup at Central department store in Grand Indonesia, Jakarta, features candy shopinspired shelves full of wonderful goodies, Ted’s ‘Pick of the Bunch’ at Beachwalk Shopping Center in Bali adopts more greens and floral elements to recreate a floral playground in the middle of

the beach-and-outdoor concept.

This new outlet also carries a wide selection of styles from shoppers, totes, clutches, bracelets, cardholders, and make-up bags, to jotters and iPhone cases for both men and women. Not to forget, TED’s ‘sweet feet’ jelly ballet pumps are served in a range of juicy shades. Ted’s unique accessories selection is on the ground floor, Beachwalk Shopping Center, Jl. Pantai Kuta, Bali 80361 About Ted Baker From the beginning, Ted has had a very clear, unswerving fo-

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Jodie Whittaker on Doctor Who: ‘A woman as an alien gender’s not the weird bit’ LOS ANGELES - For a show about an alien able to change every DNA molecule and physical characteristic of its body, there was an awful lot of fuss about the lead character’s regeneration into a woman.

When the 13th Doctor was confirmed as actress Jodie Whittaker some Whovians proclaimed the franchise “ruined” and vowed not to watch the new series.

Former Doctor Peter Davison even suggested the casting of a woman would deprive boys of a vital role model.

However, Broadchurch actress Whittaker is much more upbeat about the phenomenon of a woman taking over the role.

Speaking on the Doctor Who red carpet, the actress told Sky News: “It’s a celebration and a long time coming.

“It’s not that shocking, a woman playing an alien - that’s not the weird bit!

“We are the other half of the population so we’re not that alien!”

She admits it will be welcome when the choice of a woman in the lead role isn’t “a moment” and doesn’t garner such attention.

On the subject of role models, she looked back on her experiences as a child: “For me, with children, it’s knowing that you’re a little boy or little girl and that the people you look up to don’t always have to look like you.

“I always looked up to guys and creatures in films or mystical characters because I could see myself portrayed in many different ways.

“And to suggest that you can only look up to someone because you look similar is a shame.”

Despite this, Whittaker admits the casting of Doctor Who is a special case: “Fans have this epic journey with someone, and then the rug is pulled and it’s somebody else,” she said.

“For some people it can only ever have happened once because they’ve fallen in love with the show with that Doctor and it’s never happened before.” (IBP/net)

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Argento recalls sexual encounter with Jimmy Bennett

ROME - Italian actress Asia Argento, who became a leading figure in the #MeToo movement after accusing powerful Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of rape, admitted she had sex with young actor Jimmy Bennett, who claimed she sexually assaulted him as a teenager.

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Jodie Whittaker is set to appear on our screens as the first female Dr Who.

During a television show in Italy on Sunday Argento, who had initially denied having sex with Bennett, recounted her relationship with the actor. Argento, who played his troubled mother in the 2004 film “The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things,” saw him again in May 2013, when he was 17 and she was 37.

According to Bennett’s account of the encounter he gave in a September 24 interview on Italian television, Argento kissed him for a long time. “It turned into her placing her hands on me and following that was when she pushed me onto the bed and took my pants off,” said the actor, now 22.

Asked whether it was a “complete” relationship, Bennett said

it was, implying they had sex, but declined to go into detail.

The actor and rock musician was 17 years old at the time of the alleged assault. The legal age of consent in California is 18.

Argento strongly denied his version of events, saying the young man had asked her to help him prepare for an audition, as she did when he was a child.

“He started kissing me and touching me, but not as a mother and child as I saw him, but as a boy with raging hormones ... And that froze me,” she recounted.

“He literally jumped on me (...)

He was on me, and he came. Me, I didn’t feel anything, I didn’t react because for me it was unthinkable,”

added the actress.

“He told me it was a fantasy he’d had since the age of 12. For him, I was a hunting trophy,” she said.

In the following months, Argento said she had received intimate videos of him via Snapchat.

She said she did not break ties with Bennett because he was “troubled”. But this winter the young actor asked for $3.5 million to keep quiet. During the interview, Argento shared messages exchanged with her late boyfriend, celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, who would have paid for peace.

Bourdain reportedly paid him $250,000. Following Bourdain’s suicide in June, Argento suspended the payments. (afp)

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Earthquake survivors search for useable items among the debris in Palu, Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi on October 1, 2018, after an earthquake and tsunami hit the area on September 28. The death toll from the Indonesian quake-tsunami nearly doubled to 832 but was expected to rise further after a disaster that has left the island of Sulawesi reeling.

Homes ‘drift away’, soil turns liquid in quake-hit Indonesian suburb

Lots of places on the beleaguered Indonesian island of Sulawesi were hit hard by Friday’s deadly earthquake-tsunami disaster. But perhaps nowhere quite as badly as Petobo. For four days, rescue workers and government officials have struggled to reach this suburb on the outskirts of the devastated city of Palu.

Traversing roads crisscrossed with cracks several metres wide, it is easy to see why access was so difficult. Here the 7.5-magnitude earthquake’s power is in full view.

It wiped out homes, schools and roads and created massive rifts in the earth that obliterated everything around them. For as far as the eye can see, there is a patchwork of twisted roofing, downed power

lines and rubble, endless rubble.

There was no tsunami here -- Petobo is too far inland -- but the earth itself liquefied under the power of the jolt.

It is a phenomenon called liquefaction, often observed by seismologists. Quakes sometimes hit the soil with such force that its particles come loose and -- saturated with water -- the ground itself starts behaving like a liquid, according

to the United States Geological Survey. In places, the ground has risen several metres, swallowing homes and flipping cars onto their roofs. Muzair, 34, salvaged what he could from his home, which had been literally swept away. He then clung to a piece of timber and rode out the quake.

“My house shifted many metres from up there to down here,” he told AFP, pointing at the collapsed

buildings behind him. “My neighbours’ houses have been piled on top of each other,” he told AFP on the scene. When the first earthquake hit it cracked the ground, he said. And when the second struck, the soil started to spin. There have been more than 170 aftershocks since then.

“The soil was churning and then suddenly rose up,” he said. “The soil somehow just rose and buried the houses.” “One house rose up, while the other houses sunk and became much lower.”

Five of his family members are still missing. Other places

have been inundated with water released from the huge cracks in the ground.

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