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Hello Kitty’s 40 years of cuteness and cool Associated Press

TOKYO — When she came to life in 1974, she was a kitty without a name, sitting sideways in blue overalls and a big red bow, on a coin purse for Japanese girls. On Saturday, fans around the world celebrate the 40th anniversary of this global icon of “cute-cool.” That is, Hello Kitty.

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Hello Kitty waves during an event to celebrate her 40th birthday at Sanrio Puroland theme park in Tokyo November 1, 2014.

Only a handful of characters last so long, especially in Japan, where thousands come and go in a highly competitive market. Hello Kitty has the looks, and more.

“Characters must have certain qualities, like an oversized round face, short limbs and plump body,” said economist Takuro Morinaga, an expert on popular culture.

“Kitty follows the basics, yet she has a strong personality.”

Innovative design and clever marketing also helped expand her fan base around the world, said Christine Yano, anthropologist and author of “Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific.”

Hello Kitty’s company, Sanrio Co., which specializes in designing and making a wide range of products in the booming “cute” business, created her as a character 40 years

ago.

According to Sanrio, her real name is Kitty White, born Nov. 1 — no year is given — in the London suburbs. The birthday date was chosen because it is the birthday of her original designer, Yuko Shimizu.

Sanrio strives to keep Hello Kitty ahead of the curve, factoring in social and fashion trends and collaborating with other popular characters and fashion brands. Her basic appearance hasn’t changed much, but just about everything else constantly is. Yano said the philosophy of not resting is part of the character’s success.

“That makes things very fresh, very new,” she said in a telephone interview from Boston. “She is always the same but always different.”

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Real Madrid top after Barca lose at home

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As US Election Day nears, Obama takes center stage

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Bali allocates Rp9 billion to eradicate Rabies IBP

DENPASAR - The Bali administration allocated an average of Rp9 Billion every year to finance rabies eradication program in the province, Chief of the Bali Health Office Ketut Suarjaya said on Sunday. “The amount of money is used to buy vaccines and finance other activities related to our effort to eradicate rabies in Bali,” said Ketut.

Downey, Watson, Dench honored by British Academy Associated Press

BEVERLY HILLS — There was a bit of a British invasion at the Beverly Hills Hilton hotel, as BAFTA Los Angeles hosted its annual Britannia Awards, honoring film and television talent from both sides of the pond, including director Mike Leigh and actors Dame Judi Dench, Emma Watson, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Robert Downey Jr. But most of the attendees Thursday night were Brits -- no surprise, given the party was thrown by the L.A. branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Downey received the Stanley Kubrick Award for Excellence in Film, named after the legendary director of such films as “2001: A Space Odyssey” “(The award) means a heck of a lot to me,” said Downey. “I love British filmmakers, and they have

such a great talent pool.”

Oscar-winning actress Dench was honored with Albert R. (“Cubby”) Broccoli Award for Worldwide Contribution in Entertainment, named after one of the original producers of the James Bond films.

Noted Dench, “Well, I’m rather overwhelmed by (the award), because I didn’t ever expect to have a film career at all. I never knew Cubby Broccoli, although I know, of course, (Albert’s daughter) Barbara Broccoli and (Barbara’s half-brother and Bond-series producer) Michael Wilson very well.

And I’ve had 17 years of doing Bond, which has been just wonderful. So, I’m very, very proud that I shall have something that is named after Cubby.”

Dench and fellow honoree Watson posed together for photographers on the arrivals line.

Watson, named Britannia British Artist of the Year, said Dench

is “just all soul and all grace and strength and beauty, and she really, for me, she’s an iconic British actor. She’s what you aspire to be.”

The 79-year-old Dench is currently on a box-office roll, with her 2012 releases “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” and “Skyfall” and her Oscar-nominated 2013 “Philomena” all boasting worldwide grosses of more than $100 million each. Dench’s next film is the sequel “The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” hitting cinemas in February.

Dench said, “People like to say, ‘When are you retiring?’

Or ‘When are you going to slow down?’ That’s all very rude in my family. We don’t say any of that. I think if I stop, it’ll be like a car: I shall run out of petrol and fall over. So, I plan not to that, if possible.”

Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP The BAFTA Los Angeles Jag- Honorees Robert Downey Jr., from left, Emma Watson and Judi Dench apuar Britannia Awards are set to air pear on stage at the BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards at the Beverly on BBC America 2 November.

Hilton Hotel on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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The Bali administration allocated an average of Rp9 Billion every year to finance rabies eradication program in the province.

According to him the Bali province has prepared 25,000 packages of vaccines which are estimated to last until the end of 2014.

However Ketut emphasized that people’s active participation were needed to make the program of eradicating rabies in Bali succeed. He called on the local people to give vaccine to their pet dogs and never let loose dogs which were diagnosed of having rabies.

Earlier on Friday (Oct 31) a patient, suspectedly being infected with rabies, had died at Denpasar’s Sanglah hospital.

The identity of the deceased was not revealed but according to report he or she showed the symptoms similar to rabies sufferer.

Rabies turns rampant on these last two month. Recently vaccination team of the Tabanan Livestock Agency conducted a search in the area of Delod Peken Tabanan after receiving a report of rabies positive dog biting three residents for two consecutive days in the area. As a result of the search, the team could vaccinate 52 dogs that had not been vaccinated previously.

It was revealed by the Division Head of Animal Health, the Tabanan Livestock Agency, Ayu Ratningsih, representing the Head of Tabanan Livestock Agency.

She added that the vaccine for the vaccination was taken from emergency vaccine stock. A 3.5-month-old puppy being positive to rabies, according to Ayu, was taken by the owner from Kerambitan last August. Allegedly, the puppy was infected by rabies in the area of Delod Peken.

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Geredeg questions illegal parking at Besakih Amlapura (Bali Post)—

Boyscout, one of the creative activities for the students

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To minimize pregnancy rates among students

Schools obliged to encourage creative culture Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Undeniably extramarital pregnancy cases among students are occurring more frequently in certain regions recently. By all means, the current teenage dating-patterns that tends to lead to premarital sex has some people concerned. As a result of premarital sex, many teenage students have to quit school and get married. Being unready both physically and mentally and being obliged to get married, tends to foster stress, anger and quarreling for the couple To counter the phenomenon of today’s teen dating tendencies, Chairman of the Tabanan Education Council encourages schools to work hard on enhancing the culture of creativity. In other words, schools are required to provide activities outside of the official school hours. “This time can be filled with additional lessons or extracurricular activities. This effort is expected to reduce the opportunity for student to commit negative acts,” he said, Saturday (Nov 01).

The Chairman said that culture of creativity would run optimally with the encouragement of parents and the active role of teachers on duty. “Do not let the students, leave their parents for afternoon lessons, only to find they are simply hanging out. Here, the role of teachers on duty must be reactivated. If necessary, please cross-check the absence of students with their parents,” he

explained.

His party also feels disappointed when students have to quit school due to extramarital pregnancy, which usually happen by accident.

“It is unfortunate and unexpected.

We must attend to these youths and give them an understanding and approach to life, because they are at an unstable age. We must also supervise them to prevent them from watching inappropriate shows,” he said.

On the topic of extramarital pregnancy amongst students, the Head of the Tabanan Education Agency, Putu Santika, at a separate location said that based on Government Regulation No.17/2010 concerning the management of educational systems, schools were given the authority to set a code of conduct including prohibitions.

One of which was dismissing students found to have violated the

rules due to extramarital pregnancy. However, if the students wished to continue their education, they could still have the opportunity to join the Kejar Paket or equality program.

The rules set forth by schools also contained the sanctions for those in violation, including the dismissal of students. Moreover, the rules and sanctions, he said, had been disseminated to students and parents. “Meanwhile, college still has tolerance for pregnant students,” he explained.

Any accident such as extramarital pregnancy, according to him, should get the attention from other students so that they could keep away from negative influences. “In every coordination meeting, we always warn that the character building education must also be continuously stimulated,” he said. (bit)

Rampant unofficial parking spaces in the area of Besakih, Karangasem, was highlighted by Regent I Wayan Geredeg in the plenary session. This echoing the viewpoint of other factions and expressed in the discussions of the Karangasem regional budget draft of 2015. Such rampant illegal parking spaces cause the revenue of official ones to be minimal. The cause of the problem was blamed on communities who re-plot the official parking areas.

Regent Geredeg stated that the revenue from parking charges, especially in the Besakih area was very minimal.

The largest temple in Bali is in fact visited by many people, who go there to say prayers or to sightsee. According to the regent, the lack of parking fees collected is due to some local communities who illegally charge people to park.

The levy of parking fees is much smaller in Besakih than what it is in other counties. According to Geredeg, the levy could support the revenue of Karangasem from the tourism sector.

“Please compare these levies to other regions. Tabanan County, for example, receives incredible amount of parking revenue,” he said.

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To resolve the problem, Regent Geredeg invited all members of society to work together in development activities. More specifically, stakeholders should play a role in changing people’s mindset.

On this occasion, he also responded to the viewpoint of the Bhinneka Faction previously submitted by I Nyoman Ade related to the road infrastructure in the area of Besakih, Rendang. The twotenure regent said that the road matter in the area of Besakih was generally a provincial road whose handling should go through the province.

According to Geredeg, the government of Karangasem had coordinated with the provincial government for a follow-up. In general, Karangasem is pretty good at building roads.

Compared to Singaraja, Karangasem had 820 kilometers of county roads, far above that of Buleleng that only has 600 kilometers. Actually in terms of land area, Buleleng is more extensive than Karangasem. “Most of our local roads were laid using hot mix asphalt.

Meanwhile, the macadam penetration had been out of date because it only lasts for two to three years. Besides, the land contour in Karangasem also allows for the application of hot mix,” he concluded. (dwa)

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SEMINYAK - Adding an exclusive address to their portfolio of limited service hotels in Bali, Archipelago International announced the opening its third Hotel NEO in Bali, this time in the swanky Seminyak area.

Just north of buzzing Legian, Seminyak is the upmarket cousin to Bali’s famed tourist area, where luxury accommodation and fashionable high-end restaurants and bars scatter the main Petitenget strip. The atmosphere is much more sophisticated and laid-back and the beach in particular is quieter during the day, with high-end spas, boutique shopping and award-winning restaurants at every turn, making it a hotspot for Bali’s younger,

fashionable travelers.

Located at the heart of the trendy area and set to become one of the only select service hotels in this otherwise exclusive district, Hotel NEO Petitenget will be a designer budget hotel with a non smoking concept throughout. It is ideally situated amidst Petitenget’s myriad of shopping, dining and entertainment options, and it offers a trendy yet friendly atmosphere, cheerful

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yet professional service and a range of facilities in line with Hotel NEO’s credo that good and well-designed hotels do not need to be expensive.

Each of the 101 air-conditioned rooms and suites at Hotel NEO Petitenget include mini bars and safes, beds with Select Comfort mattresses, complimentary wireless high-speed internet access and 32-inch LED TVs equipped with cable channels. All accommodations provide desks and phones and, in the bathrooms, guests will find bathrobes, slippers and designer toiletries. In-room refrigerators, coffee/tea makers and complimentary bottled water are also provided.

The new NEO concept which was launched by Archipelago International in February 2011 opens the door to a whole new world of wellbeing and sensation.

Designed in a modern contemporary style befitting the new trends in hotel design, NEO Hotels offer uncluttered open spaces that create an atmosphere of relaxation and revitalization in trendy but reasonably priced new build hotels and resorts.

“More frequently, today’s modern consumers regard an economy class but well designed, interesting hotel as an acceptable, preferred alternative to a larger and more expensive 4 or 5 star hotel. With this in mind, Hotel NEO Petitenget will be a perfect match for Seminyak’s upmarket Petitenget area, where budget hotels are rarely seen but are in high demand from today’s savvy travelers.” Said Mr. John Flood – President & CEO of Archipelago International.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Calendar Event for October 24 through November 6, 2014

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Hotel Neo opens in Seminyak

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The Hindus are coming to Besakih to pray. the increasing number of people coming to the temple make parking space is very limited

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Temple Festival at : Pr. Penataran Tangkas-Tebuwana, Sukawati Pr. Dalem Langan-Bebalang, Bangli Pr. Peseh, Lembeng Ketewel, Sukawati Pr. Pasek Gelgel Penulisan.

Kerambitan, Tabanan Pr. Gaduh-Sading Pr. Dalem Gandamayu-Klungkung Pr. Sanghyang Tegal-Taro Kaja, Tegalalang Pr. Penataran Agung/Odalan Ida Ratu Mas MagelungBesakih Mr. Dadia Dalem

Tarukan-Kubu, Bangli November 2nd Buda Kliwon Tolu, Temple Festival at: Pr. Alas HarumTegal Kepuh,Kaba-Kaba, Kediri,Tabanan

Pr. Batu Madeg- Besakih Pr. Paibon Tangkas Kori AgungCeningan Kanginan, Nusa Penida Pr. Penataran Agung PenatihBr. Sabha, Penatih Pr . Penataran Sanggem- Sidemen, Karangasem 5th Buda Pon Tolu,

3rd Coma Umanis Tolu

Temple Festival at:

Temple Festival at: Pr. Puseh Bale Agung Ubung Kupang- Panebel,Tabanan, Pr. Kawitan Sekula Gotra Pasung Gerigih- Kaba-Kaba, Kediri,Tabanan Pr. Bhujangga Resi- Tumbak Banyuh,

Pr. Catur BhuwanaSanding, Tampaksiring.

6th Wraspati Wage Tolu Temple Festival at: Pr. Paninjoan-Besakih Pr. Dalem Tenggaling- Ds. Blahbatuh, Gianyar.

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Traveling

In this photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, skulls and bones are stacked at the Catacombs in Paris, France. The subterranean tunnels, stretching 2 kilometers (1.24 miles), cradle the bones of some 6 million Parisians from centuries past and once gave refuge to smugglers. The site used to close at 5 p.m., but is now staying open until 8 p.m.

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Seizing its chance, Iran seeks tourism revival Agence France-Presse

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Paris’ Catacombs still entice visitors

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PARIS - A place of fear, legend, inspiration and exploration, Paris’s skull and bone-lined Catacombs still draw thousands of visitors each year, many of whom queue for hours to explore the ghoulish burial site. “Stop! This is the empire of the dead”, reads a sign greeting visitors at the entrance to the two-kilometre (1.2-mile) long tunnels filled with the bones of approximately six million Parisians -- although that figure is still debated.

The transfer of human remains from Parisian cemeteries to the tunnels began towards the end of the 18th century when authorities realised that the decomposition of bodies in the city’s cemeteries was not particularly good for public health.

“It was said that the wine was turning bad and the milk was curdling,” said Sylvie Robin, the site’s curator.

So the city decided to move the skeletal remains to abandoned underground quarries.

And never short of a money-spinning idea to attract tourists, the city of light opened up its darkest corners to visitors shortly afterwards.

At the entrance of the site at Denfert-Rochereau in the south of Paris is a panel warning in three languages that the visit “is likely to upset especially sensitive people and children”, not surprising considering that 800 metres of the journey is a walk between walls lined entirely with bones.

Among the stacked bones are also galleries with pictures and quotes that would give anyone pause to reflect on their own mortality -- “Think in the morning that you might not survive until the evening, and in the evening that you might survive until the morning.”

“All of these tibias piled in such a decorative manner pose the question

(of mortality) ... there’s a visual proof that everyone is equal in death that is quite philosophical,” said Valerie Guillaume, museum director.

Tourist Antonina Bodak said it was a place like no other. “It’s mysterious, exciting, strange. It has no equal,” said Bodak, who was visiting from Belarus. “I’ve always wanted to see this place.”

Only a small portion of the tunnels is open to visitors. The entire length is more than 200 kilometres, and extends beneath a large part of the city.

“The term ‘Catacombs’, borrowed from the Roman Catacombs, can be confusing,” said Robin, because it refers to all 800 hectares (nearly 2,000 acres) of quarries and not, contrary to popular belief, one massive cemetery.

Robin said the tunnels were originally used by people who wanted to avoid tolls when entering the city, and by smugglers and criminals who wanted to evade authorities.

Today, modern-day daredevils, known as “cataphiles”, take exploration into their own hands, and nose around in the off-limits sections of the network of tunnels.

Some have gone as far as to hold secret parties deep below the pulsating city or even organise clandestine movie screenings.

Exploring the unofficial Catacombs

has been against the law since 1955, and a special police squadron was set up in the 1990s to track down the “cataphiles,” resulting in a macabre game of cat-and-mouse among the bones.

Those nabbed roaming the Catacombs without permission are fined a relatively light 40 euros ($50).

But the dark, dank passageways came into their own during a heatwave in 2003, with tourists and locals alike scrambling down there to enjoy the relative cool.

Authorities were forced to turn desperate people away seeking to escape record high temperatures for the relief of the Catacombs with their mean daily temperature of 15 degrees C (59 degrees F).

The Catacombs still exert a powerful influence on popular culture and have given rise to many urban legends, including tales of Masonic meetings, black masses, Nazi gatherings, gang fights, and serial killers.

It’s no coincidence that writers like Victor Hugo, Gaston Leroux and Anne Rice all drew inspiration from the famous underground tunnels. And for the visitor, if walking through miles of bone filled halls wasn’t frightening enough already, the museum recently extended its hours from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm, allowing people to visit the tunnels after sunset.

PERSEPOLIS - At the foot of Persepolis, busloads of foreign tourists gaze in awe at the ancient mud-brick ceremonial capital that Iran hopes will be part of a rebirth of its tourism industry. Although decades of sanctions mean the hotels and infrastructure are not five star, a tentative political thaw with the West is drawing visitors to Iranian attractions steeped in myth and rumour.

Persepolis, a jewel of the first Persian empire whose palace and terraces took more than 100 years to build, starting under Darius the Great in 518 BC, is one of the highlights.

“Before coming to Iran I knew the vision of this country from the outside was very dark,” says Piotr Chwalba, from Poland, finally looking at Persepolis after thinking for years of visiting.

“A place like Iran has two sides -- the one created by the media and the other version, the truth, where everyone helps you when you travel and everyone smiles at you. It’s great.”

Sincere as such testimony is, a rise in visitors has more to do with politics than praise. The prospects for tour operators were bleak until recently.

The election last year of President Hassan Rouhani and his decision to restart negotiations with the United States and other leading nations about Iran’s nuclear programme has been a catalyst.

While seeking to play host to international visitors it also helps that his speeches do not tend to excoriate the West in the same manner that his predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s did.

“Mr Rouhani’s demeanour, his smile, his positive interaction with the world has created a new sense of ease,” says Ibrahim Pourfaraj, president of Iran’s tour operators association.

Thomas, an engineer from Stuttgart, says the nuclear issue is the only thing he hears about Iran in the news back home.

“What we see is totally different than what we hear from the outside,” the 29-year-old German says. “The Iranians are very hospitable and very curious.”

Shiite pilgrims from Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon and Pakistan currently make up 60 percent of Iran’s visitors.

But the government’s main push is to recapture the spending power of Europe, Asia and America.

For Iran -- whose currency, the rial, has been severely depressed by rampant inflation -- tourism offers a foreign exchange windfall.

The cities of Isfahan, Shiraz and Yazd, all steeped in culture, are considered Iran’s top attractions, but sites such as Kish Island with its beaches on the Gulf have sought to create a more relaxed holiday.

People are coming back. Official figures show that at the end of March, tourist numbers were up 35 percent year-on-year to 4.5 million, bringing in $6 billion.

Iran, with 17 UNESCO-listed World Heritage sites, wants 20 million visitors within a decade.

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SAR team searches for missing German tourist Antara

The Search and Rescue Team of Denpasar, Bali, has been looking for 71-yearold German tourist, Bernhard Manfred Erich Lubke, who went missing while snorkeling at Nusa Dua Beach.

DENPASAR - The Search and Rescue Team of Denpasar, Bali, has been looking for 71year-old German tourist, Bernhard Manfred Erich Lubke, who went missing while snorkeling at Nusa Dua Beach.

“The victim’s wife reported that he went missing while snorkeling at the Nusa Dua Beach,” spokesperson of the SAR Office at Denpasar, Rama, said on Friday.

In their efforts to find the missing tourist, the SAR team was assisted by personnel from the Water Police and the Balawisata of Nusa Dua. Lubke reportedly went missing at 6 p. m. local time.

The victim’s wife notified the security officer of the Nusa Dua Beach Hotel immediately, after which security personnel combed areas a few hundred meters from the shoreline in front of the five-star hotel.

However, as the whereabouts of the tourist, whose passport number is C795WVPJC, remained unknown, the hotel security reported the incident to the local police.

The missing German national went snorkeling at 4.30 p. m. local time. It is being assumed that he was dragged away by a strong current despite the waters being calm.

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In Buleleng

HIV/AIDS sufferer reaches 2,173 cases

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SINGARAJA - The increasing number of people living with HIV/AIDS in Buleleng is now dominated by productive teenagers. This risky disease becomes a problem that should be resolved together because the target is not just the elderly. However, the youth is no longer awkward to have sex freely and this becomes one of the transmission media of this hazardous diseases.

Based on data of the Buleleng Health Agency, the percentage of people living with HIV/ AIDS reached 47 percent with the age range of 19-29 years. According to Counselor of the Voluntary Counseling Test (VCT) from the Citra Usadha Indonesia Foundation (YCUI), Ricko

Wibawa, the increase in HIV/AIDS case in Buleleng was very alarming for teenage groups. Of the four VCT clinics in Buleleng, about 20 to 25 new cases were found each month.

The people living with HIV/AIDS based on the record of the Buleleng Health Agency as of September 2014

amounted to 2,173 cases.

“Sexual intercourse case at young age begins to emerge at the age range of 13-15 years. Such risky relationships do not only occur at cafés or prostitution house, but also boarding houses or the transaction with commercial sex workers is made via

SMS,” he said.

Actually the government could help the role of volunteers and activists who cared about the future of the young generation of Buleleng and keep them away from the risk of contagious HIV/AIDS disease.

To that end, it was required a policy and the firmness of government to take action against the existence of a dimly lit cafés, including making a regular socialization to schools in Buleleng. “Not all of the cafés function as prostitute house. We do not want to mention that all the

Other than missing, apprentice almost sued at IDR 1 billion Bali Post

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An Iranian couple sit overlooking the city of Tehran, in this October 19, 2006 file photo. Although decades of sanctions mean the hotels and infrastructure are not five star, a tentative political thaw with the West is drawing visitors to Iranian attractions steeped in myth and rumour.

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AMLAPURA - An apprenticeship participant in Japan on behalf of Gorsi from Bukit village, Karangasem disappeared about three weeks ago. Allegedly she escaped from her workplace because she was working illegally. Allegedly she was recruited by mafia. In addition, another apprentice from Karangasem was almost sued at IDR 1 billion by his boss.

It happened, said the Regent of Karangasem, I Wayan Geredeg, Friday (Oct 31) in Karangasem, because the business premises where the victim worked was on fire.

Even, the room of the worker was also on fire. Then, the apprentice from Karangasem was about to be sued as much as IDR 1 billion.

However, said Geredeg, his party conducted an investigation and a joint approach with the Indonesian Embassy in Japan. Finally, it was known if the fault was not on our apprentice. But, the business owner had made mistake. It was said the electrical installation had been old enough and should have been previously replaced. But it was not replaced. “After we knew the real condition and informed it, finally the employer who recruited

the apprentice apologized. So, the employer failed to sue our worker at IDR 1 billion,” he said.

Related to the disappearance of the apprentice from Bukit, Gorsi, said Geredeg, his staff from the Karangasem Labor and Resettlement Agency had approached by parents of Gorsi at Bukit. However, the parents admitted not to know anything about the matter. Apparently, the escape of their child was hidden or dissimulated. “We have informed that the parents did not speak frankly. They claimed not to know. When investigated and processed pursuant to the prevailing

law by Japanese police, they should not regret it,” said Geredeg.

He said that Karangasem government attempted to maintain the image of Karangasem apprentices in the country. It was meant to avoid if the workers were claimed to be lazy and undisciplined, then they were ultimately blacklisted as happened to the apprentices from other county in Bali. Related to the disappearance of Gorsi, his party remained to investigate including asking for the assistance to the Indonesian Embassy. If necessary, his party would ask for help to Japan’s Interpol. (013)

cafés become the sources of HIV transmission. But the condition in the field is like that. Nowadays, we just focus on providing assistance for people declared to be positive to HIV/AIDS,” he said. (kmb34)

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Dry season, Residents of Suci hamlet in Tejakula using water of cisterns Singaraja (Bali Post)—

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purchase water 5 Kilometres away form the village cistern for a cost of IDR 5,000 per liter “We cannot predict whether the water from the springs will remain available at the cistern. If the water in the cistern has totally run out, we have to buy water from Tejakula with a donation of IDR 85,000 and the water is then distributed to residents” he said.

One of the surrounding residents, Nyoman Artha, explained that the water from the springs at Bukit Kutuh approximately 50 kilometers from the village was collected in a cistern. Given that droughts regularly occur in the area, residents should anticipate, a lack of water and always using it sparingly. “During the rainy season, we also often face water crisis, what’s more in the dry season when there is absolutely no water.

Rainwater is often used because of the restrictedness of water in our village,” he said.

Due to the limited water in the field, the Head of Karangasem Pub-

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Republicans offered clashing views about America’s trajectory in the final weekend before an election in which control of Congress and 36 governorships will be at stake. Obama emphasized economic growth during his tenure while Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell depicted events he says seem to be spinning out the White House’s control.

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The residents of Suci hamlet in Tejakula subdistrict in Buleleng are queueing for water due to the dry season.

lic Works, Nyoman Gede Suryawan, explained that his party hoped to get the assistance of a Solar Power Plant previously promised by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM).

The solar power was expected to bring water from the springs at Yeh

Sanih, Bukti village, Kubutambahan subdistrict to the highland area of Tejakula subdistrict. The water charge reaches hundreds of liters per second because it had not been utilized maximally. Most of the water runs seaward and is wasted.

“Flowing water upstream requires a

lot of electric power. The assistance of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources in building a solar powered system is still expected.

The operating costs of using a pump would be even higher. If we can use solar power, we can deliver water to other villages,” he said. (kmb34)

Bangli govt struggles to fix damaged public facilities at Penelokan Bangli (Bali Post)—

The damage condition of the road in Penelokan, Bangli

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The prolonged dry season is still adversely affecting several villages in Buleleng including residents at Suci hamlet in Tejakula subdistrict who have been facing a water crisis for a few months now. Such conditions mean that the residents can only use water from their cistern.

To meet their daily needs, residents use the water in the cistern and bring it home by using buckets or jerry cans. Afterward, they use the water for cooking, bathing and washing clothes. One of the local residents, Ni Wayan Sumerta, admitted that he fetches water from the cistern almost every day.

To get water, he has to wait for almost an hour to fill in her five buckets. “Water discharge here is very low. I have to wait for about an hour to fill up a few buckets.

Residents often fetch their water here. When there are many people queued up, I only take two buckets of water. Since all we have is this cistern, we frequently share with neighbors,” she said, Saturday (Nov 1).

Sumerta said that the cistern was established by the government, nearly 10 years ago, and residents have greatly benefited from it.

When there is a prolonged dry season, the water in the cistern totally runs out. In this case, people have to

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Though the condition of paving block and public facilities at Penelokan tourist attraction, Kintamani is severly damaged, the Bangli government remains unable make repairs. The County government argues that the authority to repair the damage is still in the hands of the Provincial government and has yet to be handed over to Bangli government. “It is still the provincial jurisdiction. We have been asking for the authority to be conduct repairs to be handed over Bangli but it hasn’t happened yet.” said the Head of Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Adnyana, when contacted on Friday (Oct 31).

Adnyana acknowledges that the conditions of the paving block and other public facilities such as guardrails and the garden at Penelokan were damaged. To be able to repair them, his party has repeatedly tried to request cooperation of the government of Bali. However, this hasn’t happened.

“Yesterday, I got in touch with the general affairs related to the submission to see whether there has been an agreement or not. But, I was told that there were still some things needing to be arranged,” he explained.

According to this former Head of the Bangli Licensing Office, if authorization had been given to the Bangli County, his

party would repair the damaged public facilities as soon as possible. However, these much-needed repairs would still be tailored according to the existing budget.

Meanwhile, the Division Head of General Affairs of the Bangli Regional Secretariat, AA Trisna Wijaya, when asked for his confirmation said that the handover, required for the repair to the public facilities at Penelokan, was still under process.

He acknowledged that the provincial government already handed it over to Bangli government. However, since the official report was not in accordance with the damage condition in the field, the county government therefore asked the provincial government to revise the minutes, and include photographs which reflected the real conditions in the field. “The Bali Government Tourism Office has agreed to the revision,” he explained.

As reported over the years, the condition of the Penelokan tourist area is increasingly alarming. Other than the slumy conditions caused by the roadside market, the tourist attraction which saw its glory in the 1990s has been degrading due to the conditions of the damaged public facilities. Many paving blocks have been damaged and are coming off. In addition, some guardrails installed on the edge of the cliff have become porous and could threaten the safety of visitors. (ina)

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President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event for U.S. Senate candidate Gary Peters and gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer at Wayne State University, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014 in Detroit, Mich.

Republicans were hoping to gain the six Senate seats needed to come away with the biggest prize in Tuesday’s election — control of both chambers of Congress during Obama’s final two years in office, which would give them more power to thwart his legislative agenda and block key nominations. The party is all but certain to hold its majority and even gain seats in the House of Representatives.

Democrats are at a disadvantage in the Senate contest because they have to defend seats in a number of states carried by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012, including Montana, West Virginia, South Dakota, Arkansas, Alaska and North Carolina.

But with just three days remaining before Tuesday’s election, an unusually high number of Senate races remain too close to call — with polls showing 10 states in which the candidates are separated by 5 percentage points or less. Georgia and Louisiana both require runoffs if no candidate receives at least 50 percent of the vote, raising the possibility that the Senate majority might not be decided for weeks.

The partisan sparring heading into Tuesday’s voting underscored the prominent role that Obama has taken in the elections at the midpoint of his second term even though he is not on the ballot.

Republicans have tried to make the election about the president, especially in states carried by Romney where Obama’s unpopularity runs deeper than in the country as a whole.

While many Democratic candidates have sought to distance themselves from the president by criti-

cizing his leadership and avoiding appearing with him, Obama has been enlisted to mobilize core Democratic voters either through campaign rallies over the last week or less overtly through targeted radio ads, mail and Internet messages.

Obama made a rare campaign appearance with a Democratic Senate candidate Saturday evening. The president headlined a rally that drew about 6,000 people on the campus of Detroit’s Wayne State University for Senate candidate Gary Peters and Mark Schauer, the party’s nominee for governor. Obama and McConnell, in their parties’ weekly radio and Internet addresses, did find some common ground.

They agreed that many Americans’ wages are still falling behind. But Obama blamed Congress for not acting on measures such as raising the minimum wage, and McConnell faulted Obama for policies he said have failed.

“We’ve got to harness this momentum and make the right choices so that everyone who works hard can get ahead,” Obama said. He stressed the need for policies that make the economy friendlier to women. Democrats need to energize female voters and get them to the polls if they want to overcome Republican advantages in several states.

McConnell, who is locked in a tight Senate race with Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes, said that “in difficult times, the American people expect real leadership from Washington.”

“What they don’t need are more unworkable ideas that often make the problem worse,” McConnell said.

Bangladesh power back on after nationwide blackout Associated Press

DHAKA — Power was back on across Bangladesh on Sunday, a day after the impoverished, energy-starved nation was plunged into a nationwide blackout when the transmission line from neighboring India failed, officials said.

The country’s energy grid was fully restored, and any further problems that may arise would be for “local reasons,” Junior Power Minister Nasrul Hamid told reporters.

The blackout was Bangladesh’s most severe since a 2007 cyclone knocked out the national grid for several hours, and once again exposed inefficient and dated infrastructure that has held back development in the South Asian nation.

Hamid would not say what exactly had caused the blackout, which hit the country around noon Saturday after what some power officials described as a “technical glitch” in the transmission line that caused a cascade of failures throughout the national power grid, with power plants and substations shutting down automatically. For a power grid to work, electricity must be supplied constantly at a rate

equal to demand. “An investigation has been ordered. It could be misleading to talk before getting the findings,” Hamid said.

Government officials offered some possible causes. One suggested a Bangladesh substation link to the Indian transmission line may have failed. Two others said there was an unexpected dip in the Indian supply, which at the time accounted for nearly 10 percent of the grid’s 5,000-megawatt load. The three spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

“It was really worrying. The government should find out soon what happened, why it happened,” Dhaka schoolteacher Rukhsana Begum said. “Our inefficiency? Bad network?

Whatever, it should be unearthed to avoid future disaster.”

After an evening spent in the dark, most residents of the capital, Dhaka — a city of more than 10 million people — got electricity back by 1 a.m. Sunday, said Mohammad Nasir Uddin, a control room official for the Dhaka Power Distribution Co. Power was fully restored to all parts of Dhaka and the rest of the country by noon.

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Bangladeshis move past a dimly lit street during a blackout in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014. Bangladesh was struggling to restore power late Saturday, hours after being hit with a nationwide blackout that started when a transmission line bringing electricity from neighboring India failed, officials said.

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BUSINESS BoJ shocks markets with more easing as inflation slows Reuters

TOKYO - The Bank of Japan shocked global financial markets on Friday by expanding its massive stimulus spending in a stark admission that economic growth and inflation have not picked up as much as expected after a sales tax hike in April.

BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda portrayed the board’s tightly-split decision to buy more assets as a preemptive strike to keep policy on track, rather than an admission that his plan to reflate the long moribund-economy had derailed.

But some economists wondered if pushing even more money into the financial system would be effective as long as consumer confidence continues to worsen and demand remains weak.

“It’s clearly a big surprise given Kuroda’s repeated insistence that policy was on track and assorted politicians have been warning about the negative side of a weak yen currency,” said Sean Callow, a currency strategist at Westpac.

“We salute the BoJ for admitting that they weren’t going to reach their goals on inflation or GDP, though we do note that the new policy equates to about $60 billion

of quantitative easing per month.

This perspective does raise the question of just how much impact monetary policy is having.”

The jolt from the BOJ, which had been expected to maintain its level of asset purchases, came as the government signalled its readiness to ramp up spending to boost the economy and as the government pension fund, the world’s largest, was set to increase purchases of domestic and foreign stocks.

“We decided to expand the quantitative and qualitative easing to ensure the early achievement of our price target,” Kuroda told a news conference, reaffirming the BOJ’s goal of pushing consumer price inflation to 2 percent next year.

“Now is a critical moment for Japan to emerge from deflation.

Today’s step shows our unwavering determination to end deflation.”

Kuroda said the BOJ’s easing

was unrelated to major portfolio changes by the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) also announced on Friday, but the effect of the day’s two major decisions means that the central bank will step up its buying of Japanese government bonds, offsetting the giant pension fund’s increased sales of them.

The BOJ’s move stands in marked contrast with the Federal Reserve, which on Wednesday ended its own “quantitative easing,” judging that the U.S. economy had recovered enough to dispense with the emergency flood of cash into its financial system.

In a rare split decision, the BOJ’s board voted 5-4 to accelerate purchases of Japanese government bonds so that its holdings increase at an annual pace of 80 trillion yen ($723.4 billion), up by 30 trillion yen.

The central bank also said it would triple its purchases of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and real-estate investment trusts (REITs) and buy longer-dated debt, sending Tokyo shares soaring and prompting a sharp sell-off in the

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After collapsing last year, SDN 3 Songan repaired

Bali Post

BANGLI - Local government finally began to repair the SDN 3 Songan elementary school, Kintamani that collapsed due to heavy rain in September last year. The repair process starting last October 16 was targeted to complete at the end of this December. From the next second semester, hundreds of students of the local elementary school that temporarily borrowed the building of the SMPN 4 Kintamani junior high school will be certainly able to come back to learn at their own school.

Secretary of the Bangli Education Agency, Made Sudiarsa, accompanied by the Elementary Education Division Head, Danta Haryana, said on Friday (Oct 31) that the repair to the building of the SDN 3 Songan had been started to be worked on. With the special allocation fund (DAK) 2014 worth IDR 329,106,042, the renovation was made to some parts of the damaged building. “The renovation is made to the roof as well as the

damaged walls,” he explained.

A total of eight rooms were renovated at the school, where they consisted of six classrooms and two rooms for teachers and principal. Since the installation of roof and wall renovation at the school would not take a long time, or as the agreement of workmanship lasted for 90 days, then in the upcoming second semester the students were ascertained to be able to learn back

at their own school building. “Hopefully, in the next second semester the students are able to learn back at their own school,” he said.

As reported previously, the SDN 3 Songan Kintamani collapsed due to heavy rain in September last year.

After the incident, hundreds of students of the local elementary school were forced to temporarily study in the building of the SMPN 4 Kintamani. Even, the learning process could only be effectively carried out after the junior high school students left school around 2:00 p.m. In order the students did not go home late, the school was forced to end the class no later than 5:00 p.m. With a fairly short learning time, the school authority recognized that the teaching and learning process turned ineffective and quite disturbed. (ina)

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A shoe shop clerk cleans the merchandise in Tokyo, Friday, Oct. 31, 2014. Japan’s economic recovery remained in the doldrums in September, as household spending fell, inflation edged lower and unemployment ticked up.

yen.

Kuroda said that while the economy continues to recover, plunging oil prices, slowing global growth and weak household spending after the tax hike were weighing on price

growth.

“There was a risk that despite having made steady progress, we could face a delay in eradicating the public’s deflation mindset,” he said.

Satisfaction on the rise in emerging nations Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - Those who live in emerging economies are considerably more satisfied with their lives than they were seven years ago, according to a global public opinion survey published Thursday.

The surge in satisfaction was particularly strong in Asian nations such as China, Indonesia and Malaysia, the Washington-based Pew Research Center said.

Pollsters in 43 countries asked 47,643 people where they’d rank themselves on a 10-rung “ladder of life,” with 10 representing the best possible life and one the worst.

“Personal well-being changed little in most of the wealthier nations surveyed in both 2007 and 2014,” including the United States, Britain and Japan, Pew said, with about 54 percent of respondents from advanced economies ranking their lives at rung seven or higher.

AP Photo/Joshua Paul But in emerging economies, the percentMalaysian Muslim women chat as they shop at a mall in Petaling Jaya outside Kuala age of those who ranked themselves on the Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014. Those who live in emerging economies are top rungs rose from 33 percent in 2007 to 51 considerably more satisfied with their lives than they were seven years ago, according percent this year. to a global public opinion survey published Thursday.

An upward trend was also seen in develop-

ing countries like Ghana, Kenya and Uganda, where a quarter of poll respondents ranked themselves seven or higher, compared to 16 percent in 2007.

“National income continues to be closely linked to personal life satisfaction at the country level. Richer publics, on average, report being happier,” Pew said.

“However, the advantages of being in a rich nation tend to taper off among the wealthiest countries, suggesting that, after a certain point, increasing income does not make as much of a difference in life satisfaction.”

Thus, despite a wide gap between per capita gross domestic product (GDP) in Malaysia and Germany, those polled in the two countries expressed about the same levels of life satisfaction, Pew said.

Going forward, the survey found 68 percent of Asian respondents and 66 percent of Africans personally optimistic about where they will be in five years.

People in the Middle East were the least hopeful about the future, with half expressing optimism and a quarter declaring themselves pessimistic.

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Digital business grows significantly

Telkomsel’s subscribers grow 8.9 percent IBP DENPASAR - Cellular phone operator PT Telkomsel has registered an 8.9 percent increase in its number of subscribers, taking their number to 139.3 million, until the third quarter of 2014.

Telkomsel saw its digital business grow significantly by 32.5 percent year-on-year while mobile broadband business grew 32.9 percent and digital services jumped 28.4 percent year-onyear.

“The growth was across all business lines, both digital business (mobile broadband and digital services) and sound and electronic short message services (SMS),” Telkomsel President Director Alex J Sinaga said in a press statement released.

The growth has confirmed the company’s solid financial performance for the third year in a row and enabled it to maintain an income growth of 10 percent, he added.

Telkomsel has also managed to maintain its good profitability

rate in which the EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) margin has been consistent at above 55 percent and net income margin at above 28 percent, he noted.

Alex noted that the achievement was the fruit of confidence and support from customers and stakeholders who wanted Telkomsel to stay at the forefront of the national cellular telecommunication industry and contribute to the state’s revenue.

Data traffic also rose sharply by 146.1 percent from a year earlier, while sound services grew 7.2 percent and short message services rose 2.8 percent year-on-year.

“We will continue providing breakthrough market products and up-to-date technology services to customers. We have committed ourselves to provide mobile broadband services and will continue developing required infrastructure to achieve the Indonesian Digital Community as soon as possible,” he noted. (kmb18)

In Gianyar

Among thousands of units, only 110 uninhabitable houses renovated Bali Post

GIANYAR - In Gianyar County better known as the region of the art, there were still 2,634 units of uninhabitable house owned by poor families in 2013. However, in 2014 the Gianyar government can only renovate 110 houses spreading across seven subdistricts. Ironically, no physical process could be accomplished until the end of October 2014.

Pursuant to the existing data in 2013, in Gianyar there were totally 2,634 poor families having uninhabitable house. The highest number of poor families having no appropriate house occurred in Gianyar subdistrict, namely 527 houses, then it was followed by Payangan (533 houses), Tampaksiring (459 houses), Sukawati (450 houses), Tegallalang (337 houses), Blahbatuh (261 houses) and the least was in Ubud (77 houses).

Meanwhile, based on the regional budget 2014, Gianyar government could only renovate 110 uninhabitable houses in seven subdistricts. “Gianyar government made renovation based on proposal from each village. We’ve made selection to the field. Further, the renovation is tailored to the existing fund in the regional budget 2014,” said the Head of Gianyar Social Agency, Wayan Suardana.

He said that so far the 110 uninhabitable houses of poor families planned for renovation were underway. Although it only left two months before the end of the year 2014, Wayan Suardana was op-

timistic that the work could be completed on time.

“We have done our best for the people of Gianyar, but it indeed took a long process. For sure, this will be completed before the end of 2014,” he said.

He explained the renovation process to 110 uninhabitable houses of poor families was divided into seven packages. Five packages spread in Sukawati, Tampaksiring, Tegallalang, Payangan and Ubud subdistrict where the workmanship was directly appointed by the Gianyar Social Agency.

However, for the workmanship in Gianyar and Blahbatuh subdistrict was made through a tender.

“The workmanship in these two subdistricts is made through tender because of the budget in used exceeds IDR 200 million,” he said.

The Division Head of Gianyar Development Affairs, Ngakan Ngurah Adi, when asked for his confirmation separately could not ascertain about the progress of the renovation to 110 uninhabitable houses of poor families in Gianyar. It happened because the checking would just be done at the end of the year. “We will be checking it at the end of this year, namely in December 2014,” he said briefly. (nik) One of residents that get house rennovation from Gianyar Government. In Gianyar County better known as the region of the art, there were still 2,634 units of uninhabitable house owned by poor families in 2013.

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Ukrainian breakaway regions hold elections Associated Press

DONETSK — Residents of separatist-controlled regions of eastern Ukraine are voting to elect legislators and executives in polls that have been staunchly denounced by the international community. Voting in the main rebel city of Donetsk proceeded Sunday in the presence of gunmen inside three polling stations visited by the AP. Election organizers have cast it as a decisive development in the mainly Russian-speaking regions’ break from Ukrainian rule. Despite a cease-fire agreement being signed in September, fighting continues almost daily between government troops and rebel forces.

Russia supports the election, but the UN, EU and the United States say it violates Ukraine’s constitution and the terms of the cease-fire.

The eve of the vote saw an intensification of hostilities around Donetsk, but there was little sign of unrest Sunday.

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INDONESIA Land services to be opened on weekends Antara

JAKARTA - The Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister Ferry Mursyidan Baldan stated that starting from November land services will be opened on weekends.

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Wreckage lies near the site where a Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket, SpaceShipTwo, exploded and crashed in Mojave, Calif. Saturday, Nov 1, 2014. The explosion killed a pilot aboard and seriously injured another while scattering wreckage in Southern California’s Mojave Desert, witnesses and officials said.

Debris sign of spaceship breaking up

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MOJAVE, California — Investigators looking into what caused the crash of a Virgin Galactic prototype spacecraft that killed one of two test pilots said a 5-mile (8-kilometer) path of debris across the California desert indicates the aircraft broke up in flight. “When the wreckage is dispersed like that, it indicates the likelihood of inflight breakup,” National Transportation Safety Board Acting Chairman Christopher A. Hart said late Saturday.

Learning where aircraft parts fell will help investigators determine when and how the breakup occurred, he said. The crash almost certainly dashed founder Richard Branson’s goal of starting commercial suborbital flight next spring, but the mogul said that while he remained committed to civilian space travel “we are not going to push on blindly.”

In grim remarks at the Mojave Air and Space Port, where the craft known as SpaceShipTwo was under development, Branson gave no details of Friday’s accident and deferred to the NTSB, whose team began its first day of investigation Saturday. “We are determined to find out what went wrong,” he said, asserting that safety has always been the top priority of the program that envisions taking wealthy tourists six at a time to the edge of space for a brief experience of weightlessness and a view of Earth below.

“Yesterday, we fell short,” he said.

“We’ll now comprehensively assess

the results of the crash and are determined to learn from this and move forward.” He also criticized early speculation about crash causes. “To be honest, I find it slightly irresponsible that people who know nothing about what they’re saying can be saying things before the NTSB makes their comments.” The pilot killed in the test flight was identified Saturday as Michael Tyner Alsbury, 39, of nearby Tehachapi. The surviving pilot is Peter Siebold, 43, who parachuted to safety and was hospitalized.

Both worked for Scaled Composites, the company developing the spaceship for Virgin Galactic. Scaled Composite said Alsbury was the co-pilot for the test flight. Siebold, who was piloting SpaceShipTwo, “is alert and talking with his family and doctors,” the company said in a statement More than a dozen investigators in a range of specialties were forming teams to examine the crash site, collect data and interview witnesses, Hart said.

“This will be the first time we have

been in the lead of a space launch (accident) that involved persons onboard,” said Hart, noting that the NTSB did participate in investigations of the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters.

Hart said he did not immediately know the answers to such questions as whether the spaceship had flight recorders or the altitude of the accident, but noted that test flights are usually well-documented. Investigators will review video from multiple cameras that were on the spaceship, the mother ship, at nearby Edwards Air Force Base and a chase aircraft, he said. They also have six “nonvolatile” sources of information from the aircraft, and radar data to sift through.

Virgin Galactic — owned by Branson’s Virgin Group and Aabar Investments PJS of Abu Dhabi — plans to fly passengers to altitudes more than 62 miles (100 kilometers) above Earth. The company sells seats on each prospective journey for $250,000.

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Pro-Russian rebels stand guard at a polling station during supreme council and presidential elections in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014.

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“The rabies transmission at Delod Peken was possible to happen because there was a case of rabies positive dog previously,” said Ayu. A selective elimination would be coordinated further when any suspected case of rabies infecting dogs was found.

For prevention of rabies infection in dogs, Tabanan had performed dog mass vaccination completed last August and could vaccinated 40,500 dogs from an estimation of 45,000 heads. Meanwhile, the results of calculation indicated if the dog population growth in Tabanan increased by 14 percent annually. Thus, though mass vaccination had been done there would be always unvaccinated dogs due to the growth of new dogs.

Besides, public awareness to vaccinate their dogs on a regular basis was very important especially in 2015 because central government would no longer provide total assistance so that the vaccine supply would depend on the budget of each region. In addition to vaccination, the dog also needed impounding or tying because the dog letting go wild potentially interacted with the dogs transmitting rabies virus.

Rabies is still threatening some regions in Bali, including Jembrana. The Jembrana Agriculture, Livestock and Plantation Agency intensely performed mass vaccination of dogs at each village in Jembrana. A number of rabies dog bite incidents remained to happen and got serious attention from the agency.

The Head of Jembrana Agriculture, Livestock and Plantation Agency, Ketut Wiratma there were eight locations of dog bite occurred in March and April. They mostly happened in Mendoyo subdistrict. All the biting dogs were declared positive to rabies based on the results of laboratory test.

Currently, the agency was undertaking a mass vaccination program targeting 33,000 dogs. According to him, Jembrana was still vigilant to rabies.

He also hoped the low people’s awareness of vaccinating their dog could be increased.

Meanwhile, the Head of Jembrana Health Agency, Putu Suasta, said the threat of rabies in Jembrana could happen any time. The increasing incident of dog bite cases should be alerted even though the bite cases by dogs declared positive to rabies had decreased. Since the beginning of January to June, there had been 26 victims of bites by 11 dogs positively infected by rabies. (kmb24/kmb26/ant)

“Starting this month, land services on Saturday and Sunday are open. The National Land Agency (BPN) across the country will receive services,” Ferry Mursyidan Baldan said on Sunday.

However, Ferry warned that people must arrange correspondence by themselves.

“The BPN does not serve if the arrangement is still represented,” he emphasized.

He pointed out that the BPN officers who works on weekends can replace their off on weekdays.

“This is one of the efforts to improve land services. These services will be improved continuosly,” he remarked.

Ferry expected that the service can facilitate urban communities in the care of land correspondence.

Urban communities usually do not have time to arrange land correspondence on weekdays.

“Each office land in Greater Jakarta (Jabodetabek) and province can serve the community on the weekends,” he added.

NU backs subsidized fuel price hike Antara

JAKARTA - The central executive board of the Islamic organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) has expressed support to the government’s plan to raise the prices of subsidized fuel oils.

“Fuel oil subsidy has been burdensome to the State Budget. We had better divert the subsidy to productive activities,” NU General Chairman KH Said Aqil Siroj said after the conclusion of NU national congress and conference on Sunday.

The fuel subsidy which reaches an estimated Rp400 trillion per year should be used to finance activities which directly benefit the low-income people such as farmers and fishermen, he said.

Said Aqil stated that NU which is the country’s largest Islamic organization is highly aware that supporting subsidized fuel price hike is not as popular as the government’s decision to slash fuel subsidy.

But the organization must take the stand for the benefit of the people at large, he said.

“We must think maturely. We know how heavy the burden of the state budget is. The budget fund of Rp400 trillion is more useful to develop and empower the poor,” he said.

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Sofyan Djalil has hinted that the new government will increase subsidized fuel prices before January 2015.

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Two young boy’s dressed for Halloween prepare to trick-or-treat in a housing compound in South Jakarta district in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Oct. 31, 2014.

Child jockeys, big stakes on Indonesia’s horse-racing island Agence France-Presse

WAINGAPU - Umar Marampa is only 14, but he is already a veteran of horse races on an Indonesian island famed for its schoolboy jockeys who compete on sandy circuits with tiny steeds.

At a recent training session with a group of other riders in Sumba’s main city of Waingapu, he put his stocky little horse through its paces, galloping around a track at breakneck speed.

Marampa began racing aged nine and is now relatively old for a Sumba jockey -- some start as young as five. Some of the youngsters were clearly struggling as they sought to control the feisty animals, which stomped around angrily before racing.

“We start by climbing on horses in the hills. We learn by ourselves,” Marampa told AFP, highlighting that horse-riding is deeply ingrained in the local culture of the poor, central Indonesian island, and a source of pride for the young jockeys.

Sumba is famous throughout Indonesia for its child jockeys and ‘Sandel’ horses named after the sandalwood that was once exported from the island.

The small, fast animals are found

across the island, and are widely believed to be descended from steeds once ridden by the fierce Mongol warriors in war.

The influence of horses is everywhere -- one of the focal points of Waingapu is a statue showing boys riding horses, and ceremonial battles on horseback are played out every year, evoking ancient clashes between rival clans on the island.

Races are held frequently and are typically riotous affairs, with lots of illegal gambling and frequent fights when one punter’s horse loses. Children occasionally fall from their horses and break limbs, although deaths are rare.

Police sometimes have to step in and cancel events but it would be difficult to axe them all. Not only are horses and horse-racing woven into the fabric of the arid island’s local culture, large amounts of money are at stake.

Many local people have chosen to invest in racehorses, as cash prizes for important events are as much as 10 million rupiah (about $830) -- a huge amount in a country where many live on less than $2 a day.

As competition intensifies, larger horses, cross-breeds with Australian steeds, have started to appear. They tend

to be taller and stronger, and do better.

Child rights activists have long been calling for the practice of youngsters racing to be banned but realise they face an uphill battle against local traditions.

“The worst part of all of this is that it puts children in danger,” said Arist Merdeka Sirait, chairman of the national commission for child protection.

However local residents insist that precautions are taken to ensure the youngsters are well prepared before they start racing.

When jockeys reach their late teens, they generally retire, and some go on to train younger riders. The boys are slowly introduced to the race track, said Abraham Endruyan Wunu, a local teacher who assists with the training.

A ceremony based on local beliefs is also performed, which is aimed at ensuring they do not feel pain, he added.

However, most adults prefer being spectators to taking part. Civil servant Julianus Amahu said that, while he owns a racehorse himself, he would be reluctant to join a band of youngsters galloping with abandon round a track.

“I would be scared,” the 42-year-old admitted.

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Alas Kedaton Monkey Forest

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Alas Kedaton is a small forest with the width about 6-7 ha located in the middle of the rice field in Tabanan regency, west part of Bali.

The total size of this forest, temple and its supporter facility is about 12 ha. In this forest, there is a temple called Alas Kedaton Temple and owns the natural environments that is looked green with its fresh air

and create the calm, quite and holy atmosphere.

The monkeys in Alas Kedaton are very tame and free gallivanting in temple yard, so that the calm atmosphere is sometime solved by

noise voice of the monkey, which are playing around and scrambling of food. The monkeys who dwell in this forest, there are jump up and down in temple wall, take a bath in moat or there is also hang out in few leaves representing impression view.

The monkey like as custodian of temple, which are always ready to greet all visitor who are paying a visit to this place. Beside monkeys, in Kedaton forest also can be met the bats and some other animals. At least 24 types of grove plant have been identified in Alas Kedaton.

Alas Kedaton is located in Kukuh countryside, Marga Sub district, Tabanan Regency. The journey go to this place can be done easily by using motor vehicle follow the major roadway from Denpasar to Tabanan. On the way go to this tourist place, we will see the beautiful nature view where in front of us will meet the carpet of rice field and irrigation voice at the side of road to bear the impression/peaceful atmosphere.

Alas Kedaton Temple have three yard that are external yard, middle and center yard. In the center and middle yard are encircled by wall and the outside yard is representing a open yard. The interesting point of this temple is the inside yard representing holy yard, its situation lower than the middle yard. This thing is different compare with the general

temples in Bali that are more goes to inside the temple, the more higher the place will be. Beside of that another interesting point of this temple owns four entrances.

The temple ceremony in alas Kedaton temple is carried out every 210 days a year. It is on Anggarakasih Medangsia (Balinese Hindu Calendar) or on every Tuesday where on that time the society do the worship or pray to request the safety and prosperity. The unique in this ceremony is do not use the fire and do not hence Penjor and also finished before the sunset or before the night is come.

In growth of handling of this tourist destination, Alas Kedaton has several become a training location about tourism nature, environmental handling and agro tourism. Alas Kedaton is many visited by the tourist from local and foreign countries which are generally a lot of paying a visit on August, December until January, while the local tourist generally pay a visit on holiday season and feast day of Ramadan (Moslem holiday) and this place is good to be visited in the day time. In front of Alas Kedaton temple there are quite a lot small shops selling the handicraft as souvenir, for example clothes, pants and other handicrafts. Others, there are some shops booth selling food and beverage, toilet and park area which is wide enough.

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Thompson scores 41, Warriors beat Lakers 127-104 Associated Press

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Croatia’s Marin Cilic kisses his trophy after defeating Spain’s Roberto Bautista-Agut in the men’s singles final at the Kremlin cup tennis tournament in Moscow October 19, 2014.

Cilic cannot get enough of seeing his new friend Reuters

PARIS - Marin Cilic cannot get enough of pursuing his new number one hobby -- polishing the life-size replica U.S. Open trophy that now sits proudly on a mantelpiece in his Zagreb home. “I have to (polish it myself), it’s my friend now. I have to see it every day,” the 26-year-old Croatian told Reuters in an interview as he broke into laughter.

That trophy not only realised a dream that had been two decades in the making, it also brought joy to Cilic following a tumultuous 2013 when he served a four-month doping suspension after testing positive for a banned stimulant that had been present in some glucose powder he had ingested.

While doping authorities acknowledged the Croatian had ‘inadvertently ingested nikethamide and did not intend to enhance his performance in doing so’, the episode allowed Cilic to re-evaluate his life. “It changed me (as a person). At that time I found out who are my close friends, and those who pretend to be my friends... It made me more aware of what kind of people I have around me,” Cilic said as he stroked his dark beard.

“I was very surprised with Novak (Djokovic). He stepped up for me ... I think rarely you’ll see someone at the top of any sport expose themselves like he did. I’ll be very grateful to him for the rest of my life for the ... way he supported me. “It made me stronger inside and I don’t get stressed by some difficult times or some difficult days.”

Unsurprisingly, life on the tennis

tour is no longer as carefree as it used to be before for Cilic. “Even in the locker rooms I always carry my bottle around and if I don’t see it I always take a new one,” he said. “(Things like) massage creams, sun creams, I always check if it’s alright. I’ve become more careful with everything, if you burn yourself, that’s what happens.”

The fun times, however, are never far away, especially when Cilic hired a coach who had no problems admitting that he was a ‘Teletubbies’ fan despite being in his 30s.

Goran Ivanisevic not only passed on his grand slam-winning formula to his charge, the 2001 Wimbledon champion also made Cilic follow some of his other unconventional methods of success during his run to the Flushing Meadows title.

Little Bit Itchy “My physio, my fitness coach and Goran, they would go every morning to the same place to have same coffee, same breakfast, same muffin. On the off days we would go to the same restaurant, tried to pick the same practice court,

transportations at the same time.

It goes on and on,” laughed Cilic.

“Me and Goran did not shave since the beginning of the tournament and after the quarters it became a little bit itchy so I said I might shave and he goes ‘you’re near the end of the tournament you can survive another three days you might just leave that for after the tournament’.

“When the routine starts, you don’t wanna stop.” That routine not only helped him to achieve one of his ambitions of qualifying for the elite season-ending ATP Tour World Finals for the first time in his career, it has also turned him into a national hero in Croatia.

“Winning the U.S. Open... I felt Croatian people who are not so close to tennis, it changed their life a little bit, they were connected with this huge success that came into their lives, in their daily routine and it made them happy and made them proud to be Croatian,” Cilic said. He is now eager to carry on that form for one final title push this season.

A right-arm injury, which he described as “a small problem with the bones”, has prevented Cilic from playing competitively in the three weeks leading up to the London finale but despite that setback he is looking forward to his O2 adventure. “This season I played really, really well and my tennis level rose a couple steps and that gave me a lot of satisfaction,” he said.

OAKLAND, California — Klay Thompson scored a careerhigh 41 points in his first game since signing a contract extension, teaming with backcourt star Stephen Curry to lead the Golden State Warriors past the winless Los Angeles Lakers 127-104 on Saturday. Thompson, who inked a four-year maximum extension worth about $70 million Friday, shot 14 for 18 from the floor.

Curry added 31 points and 10 assists, and the Warriors withstood Kobe Bryant’s big plays to thrill a blue-shirt wearing sellout crowd of 19,596 in the team’s home opener.

Bryant scored 19 of his 28 points in the third quarter and nearly brought the depleted Lakers back. Instead, Los Angeles collapsed in the final quarter to lose its fourth game in five nights. Chandler Parsons scored 20 points as the Dallas Mavericks won their second straight game, 109-104 over the New Orleans Pelicans.

Dirk Nowitzki scored 17 despite foul trouble, making a 12foot fade over Anthony Davis that gave Dallas a 109-103 lead with 49 seconds left. Monta Ellis also scored 17 for Dallas. Parsons’ performance was highlighted by

a momentum-swinging 3-pointer from well behind the arc that gave Dallas a 101-96 lead in the middle of the fourth quarter.

Davis had 31 points, 15 rebounds and three blocks for New Orleans. Atlanta’s Jeff Teague scored 25 points and Al Horford added 20 in the Hawks’ 102-92 win in the home opener against the Indiana Pacers.

Indiana closed to 95-92 when Donald Sloan was fouled in the corner by Horford and knocked down all three free throws with 1:13 left. But Teague answered with a jumper, Sloan missed and Teague made a pair of free throws with 26.6 seconds left to clinch the victory. At Orlando, Florida, DeMar DeRozan scored 26 points and Kyle Lowry added 21 as the Toronto Raptors beat the Magic 108-95.

Evan Fournier scored 18 points for the Magic, who have lost three straight. Rookie point guard Elfrid Payton had 16 points and nine assists. Chris Bosh had 30 points and eight rebounds for the Miami Heat, which downed the Philadelphia 76ers 114-96 for their second straight win.

Mario Chalmers scored 18 points, and Dwyane Wade had nine points and 10 assists for Miami. Tony Wroten had 21 points and 10 assists for the Sixers.

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Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry drives the ball around Los Angeles Lakers’ Jeremy Lin (17) and Kobe Bryant, right, during the second half of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014, in Oakland, Calif. The Warriors won 127-104.

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Western Sydney wins Asian PSV maintain four-point Champions League final lead despite early red card

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RIYADH — The youngest of the Australian A-League clubs became the first to win the Asian Champions League title, with Western Sydney Wanderers holding Saudi powerhouse Al Hilal to a 0-0 draw in the second leg of the final for a 1-0 aggregate victory.

Western Sydney spent most of the game defending as Al Hilal poured forward in waves off attack in front of a frenetic home crowd, but goalkeeper Ante Covic made a string of saves to keep the two-time champions scoreless for a second straight game.

“The game was everything you expect from a final,” Wanderers coach Tony Popovic said. “They are a very good team, they had fantastic support, but we are an excellent

team and we showed over two legs how good we are.”

Western Sydney was playing in the continental competition for the first time, and was only founded in 2012. Now the Wanderers will represent Asia at the FIFA Club World Cup next month in Morocco.

“We are extremely honored to be able to do that and we will certainly do our confederation proud,” Popovic said. “We will go there to give it our very best, we will enjoy the experience, and it is a fantastic achievement for our club in such a short space of time.”

The Saudi team was frustrated against a defense intent on not conceding, the Wanderers relying on Tomi Juric’s goal in the 1-0 home win last weekend to hold up and deliver them the title.

Al Hilal appealed for a pen-

alty shortly before halftime when Nawaf Al Abed appeared to be brought down by Antony Golec in the area, and continued protesting when leaving the field for the break.

The hosts had late chances to level the aggregate score and force extra time, but Covic saved an effort by Yasser Al Qahtani with five minutes remaining, and then denied Nasser Al Shamrani moments later.

Al Hilal’s Romanian coach Laurentiu Reghecampf said his team played the better football and deserved a better outcome.

“We had bad luck and we had many chances. We were the best team over the two games,” he said.

“If you lose one game when you play bad, you can congratulate the other team. But when you play how we played and they play how they played, we feel very bad.

Reuters

/MSTERDAM - PSV Eindhoven retained their four-point lead over Ajax Amsterdam as the Dutch league leaders beat ADO Den Haag 1-0 at home on Saturday despite being hampered by an early red card for Jorrit Hendrix. Champions Ajax thrashed FC Dordrecht in a carefree 4-0 win but are still playing catch-up.

Despite being one man down for an hour, PSV always looked the likeliest to break the deadlock in a pulsating match and Memphis Depay rewarded their attacking intentions with his 49th-minute goal, helping PSV to a total of 27 points.

Hendrix had been dismissed for a second booking. Ajax did not have to get out of second gear at the Amsterdam ArenA against 17th-placed FC Dordrecht and could save their energy ahead of the Champions League visit

of Barcelona on Wednesday.

The hosts took the lead in the 21st minute as livewire forward Anwar El-Ghazi used his pace and physical strength to shake off his markers and send a low cross to Lasse Schone, who put the ball into the empty net.

Dordrecht’s Josimar Lima was sent off for his second booking in the 61st minute and Schone soon completed his double with a well-placed free kick, followed by goals by Joel Veltman and Lucas Andersen.

Feyenoord are third on 20 points from 11 games after a 2-0 home win over fifth-placed PEC Zwolle, courtesy of second-half goals by Sven van Beek and Jean-Paul Boetius.

Twente Enschede climbed to fourth after Rasmus Bengtsson and Youness Mokhtar provided the goals after the break in a 2-0 win over Heerenveen in Enschede.

Real Madrid top after Barca lose at home

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MADRID - Barcelona followed up last weekend’s 3-1 defeat at Real Madrid with another reverse on Saturday, squandering a host of chances to lose 1-0 at home to Celta Vigo and handing the lead in La Liga to their arch rivals. Barca forward Neymar hit the crossbar twice and team mate Lionel Messi did likewise once before hesitation in the defence let in Celta forward Joaquin Larrivey to score 10 minutes after halftime at the Nou Camp.

As the home side strove in vain for an equaliser, Messi, who remains one goal short of La Liga’s scoring record of 251, sent a free kick against the corner of the goal frame in the 80th minute. Luis Suarez, making his home debut, was then denied by a brilliant save from Sergio, one of a string of superb stops by the inspired Celta goalkeeper.

Barca’s second straight defeat is another blow for new coach Luis Enrique, who was in charge at Celta last season, and means Real take over at the top on 24 points from 10 matches thanks to a 4-0 win at Granada earlier on Saturday. James Rodriguez struck twice for the European champions, including a superb volley, and the prolific Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 17th goal in nine La Liga appearances this season.

Champions Atletico Madrid, 4-2 winners at home to Cordoba, are second on 23 points. Sevilla can overtake Real and Atletico with victory at Athletic Bilbao on Sunday while Celta are sixth on 19 points.

“I think we played a bad match and we weren’t comfortable,” Barca centre back Javier Mascherano told Canal Plus television. “Beyond creating chances we were unable to play our game and that is worrying,” added the Argentine international. With Wednesday’s trip to Ajax Amsterdam in the Champions League looming, Barca were looking for a morale-boosting win after the setback at Real.

It was not their night, however, as chance after chance went begging through a combination of poor shooting and bad luck and Larrivey clinically converted one of Celta’s few openings. “We showed a

Good Run

header four minutes later.

Mario Mandzukic nodded Atletico’s third in the 62nd minute before substitute Raul Garcia deflected Koke’s cross into the net nine minutes from time. Ghilas grabbed Cordoba’s second goal with three minutes left after some poor defending.

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Bayern beats Dortmund 2-1 in Bundesliga Associated Press

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Bayern’s Robert Lewandowski from Poland celebrates after scoring his side’s first goal during the German first division Bundesliga soccer match between FC Bayern and Borussia Dortmund in the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany, on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014.

BERLIN — Arjen Robben’s late penalty gave Bayern Munich a hard-fought 2-1 win over Borussia Dortmund to leave the visitors in the Bundesliga’s relegation zone on Saturday. Robben converted from the spot in the 85th minute, completing Bayern’s comeback 13 minutes after Robert Lewandowski scored the equalizer against his former side.

Marco Reus gave Dortmund a 31st-minute lead with a header from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s deep cross. “Of course we’re very happy. We played superbly in the second half. A huge compliment to the team,” Bayern coach Pep Guardiola said. Bayern, the defending champion, consolidated first place after maintaining its unbeaten start to the season, while Juergen Klopp’s Dortmund is in the relegation playoff place after its fifth defeat in a row.

“The defeat hurts. We didn’t have to lose here,” Klopp said.

Dortmund, the 2011 and 2012 champion, has made its worst start to a season after losing seven of the

opening 10 games.

Earlier, Rafael van der Vaart’s first-half penalty earned Hamburger SV a bad-tempered 1-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen to move out of the relegation zone. The Dutchman converted in the 26th minute, after Omer Toprak was penalized for a push on Marcell Jansen in the area.

Karim Bellarabi came agonizingly close to equalizing deep in injury time when he struck the right post after surging through the Hamburg defense.

Six Hamburg and three Leverkusen players were booked in a hard-fought game punctuated by strong tackles and rising tempers.

Both coaches had to be restrained as players, substitutes and coaching staff became embroiled at the end of the first half. “I never experienced such an intensive and aggressive 45 minutes,” Hamburg defender Heiko Westermann said. “The grass was on fire.”

Hamburg moved two points above Dortmund, which is level on seven points with Werder Bremen, which won 2-1 at Mainz in Viktor Skripnik’s first league game as coach. His predecessor, Robin

Dutt, was sacked with the side bottom last Saturday after failing to win any of its opening nine games.

“I’m thrilled for my guys,” said Skripnik, who won the double as a player with Bremen in 2004.

Also Saturday, Wolfsburg moved provisionally second with a 4-0 rout at Stuttgart, and Hannover beat Eintracht Frankfurt 1-0 thanks to the unfortunate Alexander Madlung’s own goal in the 88th minute. The late game got off to a frenetic start, with both Bayern and Dortmund creating chances.

Robben brought a good stop from Dortmund keeper Roman Weidenfeller, before Henrikh Mkhitaryan hit the post after a fine run at the other end. Reus, who is reportedly a transfer target for Bayern, opened the scoring after Thomas Mueller, Robben and Mehdi Benatia all went close for the home side.

Aubameyang played a one-two with Shinji Kagawa, burst through on the right and whipped the ball in over Jerome Boateng for the incoming Reus, who held off Benatia to head inside the left post. Bayern responded with a spell of incessant pressure only to find Weidenfeller

Juventus beats Empoli 2-0 to move 3 points clear Associated Press Writer

lot of mental strength to survive at the back and have enough oxygen to score the goal,” said Celta coach Eduardo Berizzo. “We have to be fair and admit that if Barca had scored first the outcome would have been very different,” added the Argentine.

Ronaldo set Real on their way in the second minute at Granada’s Nuevo Los Carmenes stadium when he clipped home a Karim Benzema centre. Rodriguez made it 2-0 for the European champions in the 31st minute when he crashed a superb, dipping volley into the top corner before Ronaldo’s clever backheel sent Benzema clear for a third in the 53rd.

Granada fluffed their few chances before Rodriguez followed up a scuffed Ronaldo effort to score the fourth with four minutes to go as Real eased to an 11th win in a row in all competitions.

“We played with focus and with a lot of work and sacrifice,” said Real coach Carlo Ancelotti. “If you fight everything comes off well,” added the Italian whose side host Liverpool in the Champions League on Tuesday. “We have to keep going in the same way to maintain our good run. We are playing well and winning.” Cordoba held out until two minutes before halftime at the Calderon stadium when Antoine Griezmann’s effort was deflected in for an own goal by Luso.

The visitors surprised Atletico nine minutes into the second half when Nabil Ghilas headed in at a corner before Griezmann made it 2-1 with another

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MILAN — Defending champion Juventus took advantage of Roma’s loss at Napoli to move three points clear at the top of Serie A with a 2-0 win at Empoli on Saturday.

Andrea Pirlo broke the deadlock with a trademark free kick on the hour mark and Alvaro Morata sealed the result on the day Juventus celebrated the 117th anniversary of its foundation.

It was the 35-year-old Pirlo’s first goal of the season following a spell on the sidelines with injury.

“I’m improving, I’m working hard during the week and I feel better every match,” Pirlo said. “It was a difficult match but we risked little, we grew in the second half and closed the match.” Empoli also had Lorenzo Tonelli sent off in stoppage time for bringing down Carlos Tevez as the Juventus striker was clear on goal.

Earlier, Gonz a l o

Higuain scored again to help Napoli beat title hopeful Roma 2-0 amid high tension at the Stadio San Paolo.

“I think that today everyone pushed hard to get this result, playing with a really high tempo,” Napoli coach Rafa Benitez said. “Today we could have done even better, but creating so many great chances against such a strong opponent shows that we really performed well. We still need to be a bit more clinical. It’s a question of time and confidence. This victory will certainly help.”

Higuain, who hadn’t scored in the opening seven rounds, netted his fifth goal in six days as Napoli got off to a blistering start. The Argentine turned provider to help Jose Callejon seal the result late on.

Napoli moved provisionally third ahead of the rest of the weekend’s fixtures.

“We went behind in the opening minutes and the deficit could have been worse at halftime,” Roma coach Rudi Garcia said. “We had very few chances after the break but that means Napoli was stronger than us in this match and the best team won.”

Elsewhere, Paolo De C e g l i e scored his first

career brace to hand bottom club Parma a surprise 2-0 win against Inter Milan, which will increase the pressure on Nerazzurri coach Walter Mazzarri. Parma had lost its previous six matches to equal its worst ever run in the top flight.

Juventus knew it had a chance to restore its three-point advantage after being caught by Roma midweek when it lost 1-0 at Genoa in its first defeat of the season. With that in mind, Juventus was surprisingly sluggish in the first half although Sebastian Giovinco — who spent a season on loan at Empoli — had two decent opportunities blocked in the opening 10 minutes.

Juventus stepped up a gear after the restart and had a series of chances before free kick specialist Pirlo broke the deadlock with a precise effort over the wall and into the bottom left corner. It was Pirlo’s 26th free-kick goal in Serie A and sees him close in on Sinisa Mihajlovic’s record of 27.

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Juventus’ Andrea Pirlo controls the ball during their Italian Serie A soccer match against Empoli at Castellani stadium in Empoli November 1, 2014.

in inspired form.

Dortmund defender Mats Hummels went off at halftime with a foot injury to be replaced by Neven Subotic, and Franck Ribery proved the difference after coming on with 20 minutes remaining. “If the fans are calling his name I have to bring him on,” joked Bayern coach Pep Guardiola. “He helped us a lot.” Ribery’s attempted pass for Robben was cleared by Subotic, but only as far as Lewandowski, who fired first time inside the right post.

“Dortmund are still a great team.

They’ll come back. I know that at the end of the season they’ll be in the Champions League places,” said Lewandowski, who joined Bayern in the offseason.

Ribery blocked another attempted clearance from Subotic, who attempted to make up for his mistake by pulling the Frenchman back. Ribery fell in the tussle and Robben stepped up to claim what was a deserved winner. “It was a good first half, clearly a less good second half. In the end we couldn’t hold off the pressure,” Klopp said.

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Western Sydney wins Asian PSV maintain four-point Champions League final lead despite early red card

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RIYADH — The youngest of the Australian A-League clubs became the first to win the Asian Champions League title, with Western Sydney Wanderers holding Saudi powerhouse Al Hilal to a 0-0 draw in the second leg of the final for a 1-0 aggregate victory.

Western Sydney spent most of the game defending as Al Hilal poured forward in waves off attack in front of a frenetic home crowd, but goalkeeper Ante Covic made a string of saves to keep the two-time champions scoreless for a second straight game.

“The game was everything you expect from a final,” Wanderers coach Tony Popovic said. “They are a very good team, they had fantastic support, but we are an excellent

team and we showed over two legs how good we are.”

Western Sydney was playing in the continental competition for the first time, and was only founded in 2012. Now the Wanderers will represent Asia at the FIFA Club World Cup next month in Morocco.

“We are extremely honored to be able to do that and we will certainly do our confederation proud,” Popovic said. “We will go there to give it our very best, we will enjoy the experience, and it is a fantastic achievement for our club in such a short space of time.”

The Saudi team was frustrated against a defense intent on not conceding, the Wanderers relying on Tomi Juric’s goal in the 1-0 home win last weekend to hold up and deliver them the title.

Al Hilal appealed for a pen-

alty shortly before halftime when Nawaf Al Abed appeared to be brought down by Antony Golec in the area, and continued protesting when leaving the field for the break.

The hosts had late chances to level the aggregate score and force extra time, but Covic saved an effort by Yasser Al Qahtani with five minutes remaining, and then denied Nasser Al Shamrani moments later.

Al Hilal’s Romanian coach Laurentiu Reghecampf said his team played the better football and deserved a better outcome.

“We had bad luck and we had many chances. We were the best team over the two games,” he said.

“If you lose one game when you play bad, you can congratulate the other team. But when you play how we played and they play how they played, we feel very bad.

Reuters

/MSTERDAM - PSV Eindhoven retained their four-point lead over Ajax Amsterdam as the Dutch league leaders beat ADO Den Haag 1-0 at home on Saturday despite being hampered by an early red card for Jorrit Hendrix. Champions Ajax thrashed FC Dordrecht in a carefree 4-0 win but are still playing catch-up.

Despite being one man down for an hour, PSV always looked the likeliest to break the deadlock in a pulsating match and Memphis Depay rewarded their attacking intentions with his 49th-minute goal, helping PSV to a total of 27 points.

Hendrix had been dismissed for a second booking. Ajax did not have to get out of second gear at the Amsterdam ArenA against 17th-placed FC Dordrecht and could save their energy ahead of the Champions League visit

of Barcelona on Wednesday.

The hosts took the lead in the 21st minute as livewire forward Anwar El-Ghazi used his pace and physical strength to shake off his markers and send a low cross to Lasse Schone, who put the ball into the empty net.

Dordrecht’s Josimar Lima was sent off for his second booking in the 61st minute and Schone soon completed his double with a well-placed free kick, followed by goals by Joel Veltman and Lucas Andersen.

Feyenoord are third on 20 points from 11 games after a 2-0 home win over fifth-placed PEC Zwolle, courtesy of second-half goals by Sven van Beek and Jean-Paul Boetius.

Twente Enschede climbed to fourth after Rasmus Bengtsson and Youness Mokhtar provided the goals after the break in a 2-0 win over Heerenveen in Enschede.

Real Madrid top after Barca lose at home

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MADRID - Barcelona followed up last weekend’s 3-1 defeat at Real Madrid with another reverse on Saturday, squandering a host of chances to lose 1-0 at home to Celta Vigo and handing the lead in La Liga to their arch rivals. Barca forward Neymar hit the crossbar twice and team mate Lionel Messi did likewise once before hesitation in the defence let in Celta forward Joaquin Larrivey to score 10 minutes after halftime at the Nou Camp.

As the home side strove in vain for an equaliser, Messi, who remains one goal short of La Liga’s scoring record of 251, sent a free kick against the corner of the goal frame in the 80th minute. Luis Suarez, making his home debut, was then denied by a brilliant save from Sergio, one of a string of superb stops by the inspired Celta goalkeeper.

Barca’s second straight defeat is another blow for new coach Luis Enrique, who was in charge at Celta last season, and means Real take over at the top on 24 points from 10 matches thanks to a 4-0 win at Granada earlier on Saturday. James Rodriguez struck twice for the European champions, including a superb volley, and the prolific Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 17th goal in nine La Liga appearances this season.

Champions Atletico Madrid, 4-2 winners at home to Cordoba, are second on 23 points. Sevilla can overtake Real and Atletico with victory at Athletic Bilbao on Sunday while Celta are sixth on 19 points.

“I think we played a bad match and we weren’t comfortable,” Barca centre back Javier Mascherano told Canal Plus television. “Beyond creating chances we were unable to play our game and that is worrying,” added the Argentine international. With Wednesday’s trip to Ajax Amsterdam in the Champions League looming, Barca were looking for a morale-boosting win after the setback at Real.

It was not their night, however, as chance after chance went begging through a combination of poor shooting and bad luck and Larrivey clinically converted one of Celta’s few openings. “We showed a

Good Run

header four minutes later.

Mario Mandzukic nodded Atletico’s third in the 62nd minute before substitute Raul Garcia deflected Koke’s cross into the net nine minutes from time. Ghilas grabbed Cordoba’s second goal with three minutes left after some poor defending.

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Bayern beats Dortmund 2-1 in Bundesliga Associated Press

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Bayern’s Robert Lewandowski from Poland celebrates after scoring his side’s first goal during the German first division Bundesliga soccer match between FC Bayern and Borussia Dortmund in the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany, on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014.

BERLIN — Arjen Robben’s late penalty gave Bayern Munich a hard-fought 2-1 win over Borussia Dortmund to leave the visitors in the Bundesliga’s relegation zone on Saturday. Robben converted from the spot in the 85th minute, completing Bayern’s comeback 13 minutes after Robert Lewandowski scored the equalizer against his former side.

Marco Reus gave Dortmund a 31st-minute lead with a header from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s deep cross. “Of course we’re very happy. We played superbly in the second half. A huge compliment to the team,” Bayern coach Pep Guardiola said. Bayern, the defending champion, consolidated first place after maintaining its unbeaten start to the season, while Juergen Klopp’s Dortmund is in the relegation playoff place after its fifth defeat in a row.

“The defeat hurts. We didn’t have to lose here,” Klopp said.

Dortmund, the 2011 and 2012 champion, has made its worst start to a season after losing seven of the

opening 10 games.

Earlier, Rafael van der Vaart’s first-half penalty earned Hamburger SV a bad-tempered 1-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen to move out of the relegation zone. The Dutchman converted in the 26th minute, after Omer Toprak was penalized for a push on Marcell Jansen in the area.

Karim Bellarabi came agonizingly close to equalizing deep in injury time when he struck the right post after surging through the Hamburg defense.

Six Hamburg and three Leverkusen players were booked in a hard-fought game punctuated by strong tackles and rising tempers.

Both coaches had to be restrained as players, substitutes and coaching staff became embroiled at the end of the first half. “I never experienced such an intensive and aggressive 45 minutes,” Hamburg defender Heiko Westermann said. “The grass was on fire.”

Hamburg moved two points above Dortmund, which is level on seven points with Werder Bremen, which won 2-1 at Mainz in Viktor Skripnik’s first league game as coach. His predecessor, Robin

Dutt, was sacked with the side bottom last Saturday after failing to win any of its opening nine games.

“I’m thrilled for my guys,” said Skripnik, who won the double as a player with Bremen in 2004.

Also Saturday, Wolfsburg moved provisionally second with a 4-0 rout at Stuttgart, and Hannover beat Eintracht Frankfurt 1-0 thanks to the unfortunate Alexander Madlung’s own goal in the 88th minute. The late game got off to a frenetic start, with both Bayern and Dortmund creating chances.

Robben brought a good stop from Dortmund keeper Roman Weidenfeller, before Henrikh Mkhitaryan hit the post after a fine run at the other end. Reus, who is reportedly a transfer target for Bayern, opened the scoring after Thomas Mueller, Robben and Mehdi Benatia all went close for the home side.

Aubameyang played a one-two with Shinji Kagawa, burst through on the right and whipped the ball in over Jerome Boateng for the incoming Reus, who held off Benatia to head inside the left post. Bayern responded with a spell of incessant pressure only to find Weidenfeller

Juventus beats Empoli 2-0 to move 3 points clear Associated Press Writer

lot of mental strength to survive at the back and have enough oxygen to score the goal,” said Celta coach Eduardo Berizzo. “We have to be fair and admit that if Barca had scored first the outcome would have been very different,” added the Argentine.

Ronaldo set Real on their way in the second minute at Granada’s Nuevo Los Carmenes stadium when he clipped home a Karim Benzema centre. Rodriguez made it 2-0 for the European champions in the 31st minute when he crashed a superb, dipping volley into the top corner before Ronaldo’s clever backheel sent Benzema clear for a third in the 53rd.

Granada fluffed their few chances before Rodriguez followed up a scuffed Ronaldo effort to score the fourth with four minutes to go as Real eased to an 11th win in a row in all competitions.

“We played with focus and with a lot of work and sacrifice,” said Real coach Carlo Ancelotti. “If you fight everything comes off well,” added the Italian whose side host Liverpool in the Champions League on Tuesday. “We have to keep going in the same way to maintain our good run. We are playing well and winning.” Cordoba held out until two minutes before halftime at the Calderon stadium when Antoine Griezmann’s effort was deflected in for an own goal by Luso.

The visitors surprised Atletico nine minutes into the second half when Nabil Ghilas headed in at a corner before Griezmann made it 2-1 with another

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MILAN — Defending champion Juventus took advantage of Roma’s loss at Napoli to move three points clear at the top of Serie A with a 2-0 win at Empoli on Saturday.

Andrea Pirlo broke the deadlock with a trademark free kick on the hour mark and Alvaro Morata sealed the result on the day Juventus celebrated the 117th anniversary of its foundation.

It was the 35-year-old Pirlo’s first goal of the season following a spell on the sidelines with injury.

“I’m improving, I’m working hard during the week and I feel better every match,” Pirlo said. “It was a difficult match but we risked little, we grew in the second half and closed the match.” Empoli also had Lorenzo Tonelli sent off in stoppage time for bringing down Carlos Tevez as the Juventus striker was clear on goal.

Earlier, Gonz a l o

Higuain scored again to help Napoli beat title hopeful Roma 2-0 amid high tension at the Stadio San Paolo.

“I think that today everyone pushed hard to get this result, playing with a really high tempo,” Napoli coach Rafa Benitez said. “Today we could have done even better, but creating so many great chances against such a strong opponent shows that we really performed well. We still need to be a bit more clinical. It’s a question of time and confidence. This victory will certainly help.”

Higuain, who hadn’t scored in the opening seven rounds, netted his fifth goal in six days as Napoli got off to a blistering start. The Argentine turned provider to help Jose Callejon seal the result late on.

Napoli moved provisionally third ahead of the rest of the weekend’s fixtures.

“We went behind in the opening minutes and the deficit could have been worse at halftime,” Roma coach Rudi Garcia said. “We had very few chances after the break but that means Napoli was stronger than us in this match and the best team won.”

Elsewhere, Paolo De C e g l i e scored his first

career brace to hand bottom club Parma a surprise 2-0 win against Inter Milan, which will increase the pressure on Nerazzurri coach Walter Mazzarri. Parma had lost its previous six matches to equal its worst ever run in the top flight.

Juventus knew it had a chance to restore its three-point advantage after being caught by Roma midweek when it lost 1-0 at Genoa in its first defeat of the season. With that in mind, Juventus was surprisingly sluggish in the first half although Sebastian Giovinco — who spent a season on loan at Empoli — had two decent opportunities blocked in the opening 10 minutes.

Juventus stepped up a gear after the restart and had a series of chances before free kick specialist Pirlo broke the deadlock with a precise effort over the wall and into the bottom left corner. It was Pirlo’s 26th free-kick goal in Serie A and sees him close in on Sinisa Mihajlovic’s record of 27.

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Juventus’ Andrea Pirlo controls the ball during their Italian Serie A soccer match against Empoli at Castellani stadium in Empoli November 1, 2014.

in inspired form.

Dortmund defender Mats Hummels went off at halftime with a foot injury to be replaced by Neven Subotic, and Franck Ribery proved the difference after coming on with 20 minutes remaining. “If the fans are calling his name I have to bring him on,” joked Bayern coach Pep Guardiola. “He helped us a lot.” Ribery’s attempted pass for Robben was cleared by Subotic, but only as far as Lewandowski, who fired first time inside the right post.

“Dortmund are still a great team.

They’ll come back. I know that at the end of the season they’ll be in the Champions League places,” said Lewandowski, who joined Bayern in the offseason.

Ribery blocked another attempted clearance from Subotic, who attempted to make up for his mistake by pulling the Frenchman back. Ribery fell in the tussle and Robben stepped up to claim what was a deserved winner. “It was a good first half, clearly a less good second half. In the end we couldn’t hold off the pressure,” Klopp said.

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Alas Kedaton Monkey Forest

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Alas Kedaton is a small forest with the width about 6-7 ha located in the middle of the rice field in Tabanan regency, west part of Bali.

The total size of this forest, temple and its supporter facility is about 12 ha. In this forest, there is a temple called Alas Kedaton Temple and owns the natural environments that is looked green with its fresh air

and create the calm, quite and holy atmosphere.

The monkeys in Alas Kedaton are very tame and free gallivanting in temple yard, so that the calm atmosphere is sometime solved by

noise voice of the monkey, which are playing around and scrambling of food. The monkeys who dwell in this forest, there are jump up and down in temple wall, take a bath in moat or there is also hang out in few leaves representing impression view.

The monkey like as custodian of temple, which are always ready to greet all visitor who are paying a visit to this place. Beside monkeys, in Kedaton forest also can be met the bats and some other animals. At least 24 types of grove plant have been identified in Alas Kedaton.

Alas Kedaton is located in Kukuh countryside, Marga Sub district, Tabanan Regency. The journey go to this place can be done easily by using motor vehicle follow the major roadway from Denpasar to Tabanan. On the way go to this tourist place, we will see the beautiful nature view where in front of us will meet the carpet of rice field and irrigation voice at the side of road to bear the impression/peaceful atmosphere.

Alas Kedaton Temple have three yard that are external yard, middle and center yard. In the center and middle yard are encircled by wall and the outside yard is representing a open yard. The interesting point of this temple is the inside yard representing holy yard, its situation lower than the middle yard. This thing is different compare with the general

temples in Bali that are more goes to inside the temple, the more higher the place will be. Beside of that another interesting point of this temple owns four entrances.

The temple ceremony in alas Kedaton temple is carried out every 210 days a year. It is on Anggarakasih Medangsia (Balinese Hindu Calendar) or on every Tuesday where on that time the society do the worship or pray to request the safety and prosperity. The unique in this ceremony is do not use the fire and do not hence Penjor and also finished before the sunset or before the night is come.

In growth of handling of this tourist destination, Alas Kedaton has several become a training location about tourism nature, environmental handling and agro tourism. Alas Kedaton is many visited by the tourist from local and foreign countries which are generally a lot of paying a visit on August, December until January, while the local tourist generally pay a visit on holiday season and feast day of Ramadan (Moslem holiday) and this place is good to be visited in the day time. In front of Alas Kedaton temple there are quite a lot small shops selling the handicraft as souvenir, for example clothes, pants and other handicrafts. Others, there are some shops booth selling food and beverage, toilet and park area which is wide enough.

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Thompson scores 41, Warriors beat Lakers 127-104 Associated Press

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Croatia’s Marin Cilic kisses his trophy after defeating Spain’s Roberto Bautista-Agut in the men’s singles final at the Kremlin cup tennis tournament in Moscow October 19, 2014.

Cilic cannot get enough of seeing his new friend Reuters

PARIS - Marin Cilic cannot get enough of pursuing his new number one hobby -- polishing the life-size replica U.S. Open trophy that now sits proudly on a mantelpiece in his Zagreb home. “I have to (polish it myself), it’s my friend now. I have to see it every day,” the 26-year-old Croatian told Reuters in an interview as he broke into laughter.

That trophy not only realised a dream that had been two decades in the making, it also brought joy to Cilic following a tumultuous 2013 when he served a four-month doping suspension after testing positive for a banned stimulant that had been present in some glucose powder he had ingested.

While doping authorities acknowledged the Croatian had ‘inadvertently ingested nikethamide and did not intend to enhance his performance in doing so’, the episode allowed Cilic to re-evaluate his life. “It changed me (as a person). At that time I found out who are my close friends, and those who pretend to be my friends... It made me more aware of what kind of people I have around me,” Cilic said as he stroked his dark beard.

“I was very surprised with Novak (Djokovic). He stepped up for me ... I think rarely you’ll see someone at the top of any sport expose themselves like he did. I’ll be very grateful to him for the rest of my life for the ... way he supported me. “It made me stronger inside and I don’t get stressed by some difficult times or some difficult days.”

Unsurprisingly, life on the tennis

tour is no longer as carefree as it used to be before for Cilic. “Even in the locker rooms I always carry my bottle around and if I don’t see it I always take a new one,” he said. “(Things like) massage creams, sun creams, I always check if it’s alright. I’ve become more careful with everything, if you burn yourself, that’s what happens.”

The fun times, however, are never far away, especially when Cilic hired a coach who had no problems admitting that he was a ‘Teletubbies’ fan despite being in his 30s.

Goran Ivanisevic not only passed on his grand slam-winning formula to his charge, the 2001 Wimbledon champion also made Cilic follow some of his other unconventional methods of success during his run to the Flushing Meadows title.

Little Bit Itchy “My physio, my fitness coach and Goran, they would go every morning to the same place to have same coffee, same breakfast, same muffin. On the off days we would go to the same restaurant, tried to pick the same practice court,

transportations at the same time.

It goes on and on,” laughed Cilic.

“Me and Goran did not shave since the beginning of the tournament and after the quarters it became a little bit itchy so I said I might shave and he goes ‘you’re near the end of the tournament you can survive another three days you might just leave that for after the tournament’.

“When the routine starts, you don’t wanna stop.” That routine not only helped him to achieve one of his ambitions of qualifying for the elite season-ending ATP Tour World Finals for the first time in his career, it has also turned him into a national hero in Croatia.

“Winning the U.S. Open... I felt Croatian people who are not so close to tennis, it changed their life a little bit, they were connected with this huge success that came into their lives, in their daily routine and it made them happy and made them proud to be Croatian,” Cilic said. He is now eager to carry on that form for one final title push this season.

A right-arm injury, which he described as “a small problem with the bones”, has prevented Cilic from playing competitively in the three weeks leading up to the London finale but despite that setback he is looking forward to his O2 adventure. “This season I played really, really well and my tennis level rose a couple steps and that gave me a lot of satisfaction,” he said.

OAKLAND, California — Klay Thompson scored a careerhigh 41 points in his first game since signing a contract extension, teaming with backcourt star Stephen Curry to lead the Golden State Warriors past the winless Los Angeles Lakers 127-104 on Saturday. Thompson, who inked a four-year maximum extension worth about $70 million Friday, shot 14 for 18 from the floor.

Curry added 31 points and 10 assists, and the Warriors withstood Kobe Bryant’s big plays to thrill a blue-shirt wearing sellout crowd of 19,596 in the team’s home opener.

Bryant scored 19 of his 28 points in the third quarter and nearly brought the depleted Lakers back. Instead, Los Angeles collapsed in the final quarter to lose its fourth game in five nights. Chandler Parsons scored 20 points as the Dallas Mavericks won their second straight game, 109-104 over the New Orleans Pelicans.

Dirk Nowitzki scored 17 despite foul trouble, making a 12foot fade over Anthony Davis that gave Dallas a 109-103 lead with 49 seconds left. Monta Ellis also scored 17 for Dallas. Parsons’ performance was highlighted by

a momentum-swinging 3-pointer from well behind the arc that gave Dallas a 101-96 lead in the middle of the fourth quarter.

Davis had 31 points, 15 rebounds and three blocks for New Orleans. Atlanta’s Jeff Teague scored 25 points and Al Horford added 20 in the Hawks’ 102-92 win in the home opener against the Indiana Pacers.

Indiana closed to 95-92 when Donald Sloan was fouled in the corner by Horford and knocked down all three free throws with 1:13 left. But Teague answered with a jumper, Sloan missed and Teague made a pair of free throws with 26.6 seconds left to clinch the victory. At Orlando, Florida, DeMar DeRozan scored 26 points and Kyle Lowry added 21 as the Toronto Raptors beat the Magic 108-95.

Evan Fournier scored 18 points for the Magic, who have lost three straight. Rookie point guard Elfrid Payton had 16 points and nine assists. Chris Bosh had 30 points and eight rebounds for the Miami Heat, which downed the Philadelphia 76ers 114-96 for their second straight win.

Mario Chalmers scored 18 points, and Dwyane Wade had nine points and 10 assists for Miami. Tony Wroten had 21 points and 10 assists for the Sixers.

AP Photo/Ben Margot

Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry drives the ball around Los Angeles Lakers’ Jeremy Lin (17) and Kobe Bryant, right, during the second half of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014, in Oakland, Calif. The Warriors won 127-104.

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Ukrainian breakaway regions hold elections Associated Press

DONETSK — Residents of separatist-controlled regions of eastern Ukraine are voting to elect legislators and executives in polls that have been staunchly denounced by the international community. Voting in the main rebel city of Donetsk proceeded Sunday in the presence of gunmen inside three polling stations visited by the AP. Election organizers have cast it as a decisive development in the mainly Russian-speaking regions’ break from Ukrainian rule. Despite a cease-fire agreement being signed in September, fighting continues almost daily between government troops and rebel forces.

Russia supports the election, but the UN, EU and the United States say it violates Ukraine’s constitution and the terms of the cease-fire.

The eve of the vote saw an intensification of hostilities around Donetsk, but there was little sign of unrest Sunday.

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INDONESIA Land services to be opened on weekends Antara

JAKARTA - The Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister Ferry Mursyidan Baldan stated that starting from November land services will be opened on weekends.

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Wreckage lies near the site where a Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket, SpaceShipTwo, exploded and crashed in Mojave, Calif. Saturday, Nov 1, 2014. The explosion killed a pilot aboard and seriously injured another while scattering wreckage in Southern California’s Mojave Desert, witnesses and officials said.

Debris sign of spaceship breaking up

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MOJAVE, California — Investigators looking into what caused the crash of a Virgin Galactic prototype spacecraft that killed one of two test pilots said a 5-mile (8-kilometer) path of debris across the California desert indicates the aircraft broke up in flight. “When the wreckage is dispersed like that, it indicates the likelihood of inflight breakup,” National Transportation Safety Board Acting Chairman Christopher A. Hart said late Saturday.

Learning where aircraft parts fell will help investigators determine when and how the breakup occurred, he said. The crash almost certainly dashed founder Richard Branson’s goal of starting commercial suborbital flight next spring, but the mogul said that while he remained committed to civilian space travel “we are not going to push on blindly.”

In grim remarks at the Mojave Air and Space Port, where the craft known as SpaceShipTwo was under development, Branson gave no details of Friday’s accident and deferred to the NTSB, whose team began its first day of investigation Saturday. “We are determined to find out what went wrong,” he said, asserting that safety has always been the top priority of the program that envisions taking wealthy tourists six at a time to the edge of space for a brief experience of weightlessness and a view of Earth below.

“Yesterday, we fell short,” he said.

“We’ll now comprehensively assess

the results of the crash and are determined to learn from this and move forward.” He also criticized early speculation about crash causes. “To be honest, I find it slightly irresponsible that people who know nothing about what they’re saying can be saying things before the NTSB makes their comments.” The pilot killed in the test flight was identified Saturday as Michael Tyner Alsbury, 39, of nearby Tehachapi. The surviving pilot is Peter Siebold, 43, who parachuted to safety and was hospitalized.

Both worked for Scaled Composites, the company developing the spaceship for Virgin Galactic. Scaled Composite said Alsbury was the co-pilot for the test flight. Siebold, who was piloting SpaceShipTwo, “is alert and talking with his family and doctors,” the company said in a statement More than a dozen investigators in a range of specialties were forming teams to examine the crash site, collect data and interview witnesses, Hart said.

“This will be the first time we have

been in the lead of a space launch (accident) that involved persons onboard,” said Hart, noting that the NTSB did participate in investigations of the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters.

Hart said he did not immediately know the answers to such questions as whether the spaceship had flight recorders or the altitude of the accident, but noted that test flights are usually well-documented. Investigators will review video from multiple cameras that were on the spaceship, the mother ship, at nearby Edwards Air Force Base and a chase aircraft, he said. They also have six “nonvolatile” sources of information from the aircraft, and radar data to sift through.

Virgin Galactic — owned by Branson’s Virgin Group and Aabar Investments PJS of Abu Dhabi — plans to fly passengers to altitudes more than 62 miles (100 kilometers) above Earth. The company sells seats on each prospective journey for $250,000.

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Pro-Russian rebels stand guard at a polling station during supreme council and presidential elections in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014.

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“The rabies transmission at Delod Peken was possible to happen because there was a case of rabies positive dog previously,” said Ayu. A selective elimination would be coordinated further when any suspected case of rabies infecting dogs was found.

For prevention of rabies infection in dogs, Tabanan had performed dog mass vaccination completed last August and could vaccinated 40,500 dogs from an estimation of 45,000 heads. Meanwhile, the results of calculation indicated if the dog population growth in Tabanan increased by 14 percent annually. Thus, though mass vaccination had been done there would be always unvaccinated dogs due to the growth of new dogs.

Besides, public awareness to vaccinate their dogs on a regular basis was very important especially in 2015 because central government would no longer provide total assistance so that the vaccine supply would depend on the budget of each region. In addition to vaccination, the dog also needed impounding or tying because the dog letting go wild potentially interacted with the dogs transmitting rabies virus.

Rabies is still threatening some regions in Bali, including Jembrana. The Jembrana Agriculture, Livestock and Plantation Agency intensely performed mass vaccination of dogs at each village in Jembrana. A number of rabies dog bite incidents remained to happen and got serious attention from the agency.

The Head of Jembrana Agriculture, Livestock and Plantation Agency, Ketut Wiratma there were eight locations of dog bite occurred in March and April. They mostly happened in Mendoyo subdistrict. All the biting dogs were declared positive to rabies based on the results of laboratory test.

Currently, the agency was undertaking a mass vaccination program targeting 33,000 dogs. According to him, Jembrana was still vigilant to rabies.

He also hoped the low people’s awareness of vaccinating their dog could be increased.

Meanwhile, the Head of Jembrana Health Agency, Putu Suasta, said the threat of rabies in Jembrana could happen any time. The increasing incident of dog bite cases should be alerted even though the bite cases by dogs declared positive to rabies had decreased. Since the beginning of January to June, there had been 26 victims of bites by 11 dogs positively infected by rabies. (kmb24/kmb26/ant)

“Starting this month, land services on Saturday and Sunday are open. The National Land Agency (BPN) across the country will receive services,” Ferry Mursyidan Baldan said on Sunday.

However, Ferry warned that people must arrange correspondence by themselves.

“The BPN does not serve if the arrangement is still represented,” he emphasized.

He pointed out that the BPN officers who works on weekends can replace their off on weekdays.

“This is one of the efforts to improve land services. These services will be improved continuosly,” he remarked.

Ferry expected that the service can facilitate urban communities in the care of land correspondence.

Urban communities usually do not have time to arrange land correspondence on weekdays.

“Each office land in Greater Jakarta (Jabodetabek) and province can serve the community on the weekends,” he added.

NU backs subsidized fuel price hike Antara

JAKARTA - The central executive board of the Islamic organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) has expressed support to the government’s plan to raise the prices of subsidized fuel oils.

“Fuel oil subsidy has been burdensome to the State Budget. We had better divert the subsidy to productive activities,” NU General Chairman KH Said Aqil Siroj said after the conclusion of NU national congress and conference on Sunday.

The fuel subsidy which reaches an estimated Rp400 trillion per year should be used to finance activities which directly benefit the low-income people such as farmers and fishermen, he said.

Said Aqil stated that NU which is the country’s largest Islamic organization is highly aware that supporting subsidized fuel price hike is not as popular as the government’s decision to slash fuel subsidy.

But the organization must take the stand for the benefit of the people at large, he said.

“We must think maturely. We know how heavy the burden of the state budget is. The budget fund of Rp400 trillion is more useful to develop and empower the poor,” he said.

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Sofyan Djalil has hinted that the new government will increase subsidized fuel prices before January 2015.

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Two young boy’s dressed for Halloween prepare to trick-or-treat in a housing compound in South Jakarta district in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Oct. 31, 2014.

Child jockeys, big stakes on Indonesia’s horse-racing island Agence France-Presse

WAINGAPU - Umar Marampa is only 14, but he is already a veteran of horse races on an Indonesian island famed for its schoolboy jockeys who compete on sandy circuits with tiny steeds.

At a recent training session with a group of other riders in Sumba’s main city of Waingapu, he put his stocky little horse through its paces, galloping around a track at breakneck speed.

Marampa began racing aged nine and is now relatively old for a Sumba jockey -- some start as young as five. Some of the youngsters were clearly struggling as they sought to control the feisty animals, which stomped around angrily before racing.

“We start by climbing on horses in the hills. We learn by ourselves,” Marampa told AFP, highlighting that horse-riding is deeply ingrained in the local culture of the poor, central Indonesian island, and a source of pride for the young jockeys.

Sumba is famous throughout Indonesia for its child jockeys and ‘Sandel’ horses named after the sandalwood that was once exported from the island.

The small, fast animals are found

across the island, and are widely believed to be descended from steeds once ridden by the fierce Mongol warriors in war.

The influence of horses is everywhere -- one of the focal points of Waingapu is a statue showing boys riding horses, and ceremonial battles on horseback are played out every year, evoking ancient clashes between rival clans on the island.

Races are held frequently and are typically riotous affairs, with lots of illegal gambling and frequent fights when one punter’s horse loses. Children occasionally fall from their horses and break limbs, although deaths are rare.

Police sometimes have to step in and cancel events but it would be difficult to axe them all. Not only are horses and horse-racing woven into the fabric of the arid island’s local culture, large amounts of money are at stake.

Many local people have chosen to invest in racehorses, as cash prizes for important events are as much as 10 million rupiah (about $830) -- a huge amount in a country where many live on less than $2 a day.

As competition intensifies, larger horses, cross-breeds with Australian steeds, have started to appear. They tend

to be taller and stronger, and do better.

Child rights activists have long been calling for the practice of youngsters racing to be banned but realise they face an uphill battle against local traditions.

“The worst part of all of this is that it puts children in danger,” said Arist Merdeka Sirait, chairman of the national commission for child protection.

However local residents insist that precautions are taken to ensure the youngsters are well prepared before they start racing.

When jockeys reach their late teens, they generally retire, and some go on to train younger riders. The boys are slowly introduced to the race track, said Abraham Endruyan Wunu, a local teacher who assists with the training.

A ceremony based on local beliefs is also performed, which is aimed at ensuring they do not feel pain, he added.

However, most adults prefer being spectators to taking part. Civil servant Julianus Amahu said that, while he owns a racehorse himself, he would be reluctant to join a band of youngsters galloping with abandon round a track.

“I would be scared,” the 42-year-old admitted.

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BUSINESS BoJ shocks markets with more easing as inflation slows Reuters

TOKYO - The Bank of Japan shocked global financial markets on Friday by expanding its massive stimulus spending in a stark admission that economic growth and inflation have not picked up as much as expected after a sales tax hike in April.

BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda portrayed the board’s tightly-split decision to buy more assets as a preemptive strike to keep policy on track, rather than an admission that his plan to reflate the long moribund-economy had derailed.

But some economists wondered if pushing even more money into the financial system would be effective as long as consumer confidence continues to worsen and demand remains weak.

“It’s clearly a big surprise given Kuroda’s repeated insistence that policy was on track and assorted politicians have been warning about the negative side of a weak yen currency,” said Sean Callow, a currency strategist at Westpac.

“We salute the BoJ for admitting that they weren’t going to reach their goals on inflation or GDP, though we do note that the new policy equates to about $60 billion

of quantitative easing per month.

This perspective does raise the question of just how much impact monetary policy is having.”

The jolt from the BOJ, which had been expected to maintain its level of asset purchases, came as the government signalled its readiness to ramp up spending to boost the economy and as the government pension fund, the world’s largest, was set to increase purchases of domestic and foreign stocks.

“We decided to expand the quantitative and qualitative easing to ensure the early achievement of our price target,” Kuroda told a news conference, reaffirming the BOJ’s goal of pushing consumer price inflation to 2 percent next year.

“Now is a critical moment for Japan to emerge from deflation.

Today’s step shows our unwavering determination to end deflation.”

Kuroda said the BOJ’s easing

was unrelated to major portfolio changes by the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) also announced on Friday, but the effect of the day’s two major decisions means that the central bank will step up its buying of Japanese government bonds, offsetting the giant pension fund’s increased sales of them.

The BOJ’s move stands in marked contrast with the Federal Reserve, which on Wednesday ended its own “quantitative easing,” judging that the U.S. economy had recovered enough to dispense with the emergency flood of cash into its financial system.

In a rare split decision, the BOJ’s board voted 5-4 to accelerate purchases of Japanese government bonds so that its holdings increase at an annual pace of 80 trillion yen ($723.4 billion), up by 30 trillion yen.

The central bank also said it would triple its purchases of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and real-estate investment trusts (REITs) and buy longer-dated debt, sending Tokyo shares soaring and prompting a sharp sell-off in the

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After collapsing last year, SDN 3 Songan repaired

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BANGLI - Local government finally began to repair the SDN 3 Songan elementary school, Kintamani that collapsed due to heavy rain in September last year. The repair process starting last October 16 was targeted to complete at the end of this December. From the next second semester, hundreds of students of the local elementary school that temporarily borrowed the building of the SMPN 4 Kintamani junior high school will be certainly able to come back to learn at their own school.

Secretary of the Bangli Education Agency, Made Sudiarsa, accompanied by the Elementary Education Division Head, Danta Haryana, said on Friday (Oct 31) that the repair to the building of the SDN 3 Songan had been started to be worked on. With the special allocation fund (DAK) 2014 worth IDR 329,106,042, the renovation was made to some parts of the damaged building. “The renovation is made to the roof as well as the

damaged walls,” he explained.

A total of eight rooms were renovated at the school, where they consisted of six classrooms and two rooms for teachers and principal. Since the installation of roof and wall renovation at the school would not take a long time, or as the agreement of workmanship lasted for 90 days, then in the upcoming second semester the students were ascertained to be able to learn back

at their own school building. “Hopefully, in the next second semester the students are able to learn back at their own school,” he said.

As reported previously, the SDN 3 Songan Kintamani collapsed due to heavy rain in September last year.

After the incident, hundreds of students of the local elementary school were forced to temporarily study in the building of the SMPN 4 Kintamani. Even, the learning process could only be effectively carried out after the junior high school students left school around 2:00 p.m. In order the students did not go home late, the school was forced to end the class no later than 5:00 p.m. With a fairly short learning time, the school authority recognized that the teaching and learning process turned ineffective and quite disturbed. (ina)

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A shoe shop clerk cleans the merchandise in Tokyo, Friday, Oct. 31, 2014. Japan’s economic recovery remained in the doldrums in September, as household spending fell, inflation edged lower and unemployment ticked up.

yen.

Kuroda said that while the economy continues to recover, plunging oil prices, slowing global growth and weak household spending after the tax hike were weighing on price

growth.

“There was a risk that despite having made steady progress, we could face a delay in eradicating the public’s deflation mindset,” he said.

Satisfaction on the rise in emerging nations Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - Those who live in emerging economies are considerably more satisfied with their lives than they were seven years ago, according to a global public opinion survey published Thursday.

The surge in satisfaction was particularly strong in Asian nations such as China, Indonesia and Malaysia, the Washington-based Pew Research Center said.

Pollsters in 43 countries asked 47,643 people where they’d rank themselves on a 10-rung “ladder of life,” with 10 representing the best possible life and one the worst.

“Personal well-being changed little in most of the wealthier nations surveyed in both 2007 and 2014,” including the United States, Britain and Japan, Pew said, with about 54 percent of respondents from advanced economies ranking their lives at rung seven or higher.

AP Photo/Joshua Paul But in emerging economies, the percentMalaysian Muslim women chat as they shop at a mall in Petaling Jaya outside Kuala age of those who ranked themselves on the Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014. Those who live in emerging economies are top rungs rose from 33 percent in 2007 to 51 considerably more satisfied with their lives than they were seven years ago, according percent this year. to a global public opinion survey published Thursday.

An upward trend was also seen in develop-

ing countries like Ghana, Kenya and Uganda, where a quarter of poll respondents ranked themselves seven or higher, compared to 16 percent in 2007.

“National income continues to be closely linked to personal life satisfaction at the country level. Richer publics, on average, report being happier,” Pew said.

“However, the advantages of being in a rich nation tend to taper off among the wealthiest countries, suggesting that, after a certain point, increasing income does not make as much of a difference in life satisfaction.”

Thus, despite a wide gap between per capita gross domestic product (GDP) in Malaysia and Germany, those polled in the two countries expressed about the same levels of life satisfaction, Pew said.

Going forward, the survey found 68 percent of Asian respondents and 66 percent of Africans personally optimistic about where they will be in five years.

People in the Middle East were the least hopeful about the future, with half expressing optimism and a quarter declaring themselves pessimistic.

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Digital business grows significantly

Telkomsel’s subscribers grow 8.9 percent IBP DENPASAR - Cellular phone operator PT Telkomsel has registered an 8.9 percent increase in its number of subscribers, taking their number to 139.3 million, until the third quarter of 2014.

Telkomsel saw its digital business grow significantly by 32.5 percent year-on-year while mobile broadband business grew 32.9 percent and digital services jumped 28.4 percent year-onyear.

“The growth was across all business lines, both digital business (mobile broadband and digital services) and sound and electronic short message services (SMS),” Telkomsel President Director Alex J Sinaga said in a press statement released.

The growth has confirmed the company’s solid financial performance for the third year in a row and enabled it to maintain an income growth of 10 percent, he added.

Telkomsel has also managed to maintain its good profitability

rate in which the EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) margin has been consistent at above 55 percent and net income margin at above 28 percent, he noted.

Alex noted that the achievement was the fruit of confidence and support from customers and stakeholders who wanted Telkomsel to stay at the forefront of the national cellular telecommunication industry and contribute to the state’s revenue.

Data traffic also rose sharply by 146.1 percent from a year earlier, while sound services grew 7.2 percent and short message services rose 2.8 percent year-on-year.

“We will continue providing breakthrough market products and up-to-date technology services to customers. We have committed ourselves to provide mobile broadband services and will continue developing required infrastructure to achieve the Indonesian Digital Community as soon as possible,” he noted. (kmb18)

In Gianyar

Among thousands of units, only 110 uninhabitable houses renovated Bali Post

GIANYAR - In Gianyar County better known as the region of the art, there were still 2,634 units of uninhabitable house owned by poor families in 2013. However, in 2014 the Gianyar government can only renovate 110 houses spreading across seven subdistricts. Ironically, no physical process could be accomplished until the end of October 2014.

Pursuant to the existing data in 2013, in Gianyar there were totally 2,634 poor families having uninhabitable house. The highest number of poor families having no appropriate house occurred in Gianyar subdistrict, namely 527 houses, then it was followed by Payangan (533 houses), Tampaksiring (459 houses), Sukawati (450 houses), Tegallalang (337 houses), Blahbatuh (261 houses) and the least was in Ubud (77 houses).

Meanwhile, based on the regional budget 2014, Gianyar government could only renovate 110 uninhabitable houses in seven subdistricts. “Gianyar government made renovation based on proposal from each village. We’ve made selection to the field. Further, the renovation is tailored to the existing fund in the regional budget 2014,” said the Head of Gianyar Social Agency, Wayan Suardana.

He said that so far the 110 uninhabitable houses of poor families planned for renovation were underway. Although it only left two months before the end of the year 2014, Wayan Suardana was op-

timistic that the work could be completed on time.

“We have done our best for the people of Gianyar, but it indeed took a long process. For sure, this will be completed before the end of 2014,” he said.

He explained the renovation process to 110 uninhabitable houses of poor families was divided into seven packages. Five packages spread in Sukawati, Tampaksiring, Tegallalang, Payangan and Ubud subdistrict where the workmanship was directly appointed by the Gianyar Social Agency.

However, for the workmanship in Gianyar and Blahbatuh subdistrict was made through a tender.

“The workmanship in these two subdistricts is made through tender because of the budget in used exceeds IDR 200 million,” he said.

The Division Head of Gianyar Development Affairs, Ngakan Ngurah Adi, when asked for his confirmation separately could not ascertain about the progress of the renovation to 110 uninhabitable houses of poor families in Gianyar. It happened because the checking would just be done at the end of the year. “We will be checking it at the end of this year, namely in December 2014,” he said briefly. (nik) One of residents that get house rennovation from Gianyar Government. In Gianyar County better known as the region of the art, there were still 2,634 units of uninhabitable house owned by poor families in 2013.

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Dry season, Residents of Suci hamlet in Tejakula using water of cisterns Singaraja (Bali Post)—

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purchase water 5 Kilometres away form the village cistern for a cost of IDR 5,000 per liter “We cannot predict whether the water from the springs will remain available at the cistern. If the water in the cistern has totally run out, we have to buy water from Tejakula with a donation of IDR 85,000 and the water is then distributed to residents” he said.

One of the surrounding residents, Nyoman Artha, explained that the water from the springs at Bukit Kutuh approximately 50 kilometers from the village was collected in a cistern. Given that droughts regularly occur in the area, residents should anticipate, a lack of water and always using it sparingly. “During the rainy season, we also often face water crisis, what’s more in the dry season when there is absolutely no water.

Rainwater is often used because of the restrictedness of water in our village,” he said.

Due to the limited water in the field, the Head of Karangasem Pub-

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Republicans offered clashing views about America’s trajectory in the final weekend before an election in which control of Congress and 36 governorships will be at stake. Obama emphasized economic growth during his tenure while Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell depicted events he says seem to be spinning out the White House’s control.

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The residents of Suci hamlet in Tejakula subdistrict in Buleleng are queueing for water due to the dry season.

lic Works, Nyoman Gede Suryawan, explained that his party hoped to get the assistance of a Solar Power Plant previously promised by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM).

The solar power was expected to bring water from the springs at Yeh

Sanih, Bukti village, Kubutambahan subdistrict to the highland area of Tejakula subdistrict. The water charge reaches hundreds of liters per second because it had not been utilized maximally. Most of the water runs seaward and is wasted.

“Flowing water upstream requires a

lot of electric power. The assistance of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources in building a solar powered system is still expected.

The operating costs of using a pump would be even higher. If we can use solar power, we can deliver water to other villages,” he said. (kmb34)

Bangli govt struggles to fix damaged public facilities at Penelokan Bangli (Bali Post)—

The damage condition of the road in Penelokan, Bangli

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As US Election Day nears, Obama takes center stage

The prolonged dry season is still adversely affecting several villages in Buleleng including residents at Suci hamlet in Tejakula subdistrict who have been facing a water crisis for a few months now. Such conditions mean that the residents can only use water from their cistern.

To meet their daily needs, residents use the water in the cistern and bring it home by using buckets or jerry cans. Afterward, they use the water for cooking, bathing and washing clothes. One of the local residents, Ni Wayan Sumerta, admitted that he fetches water from the cistern almost every day.

To get water, he has to wait for almost an hour to fill in her five buckets. “Water discharge here is very low. I have to wait for about an hour to fill up a few buckets.

Residents often fetch their water here. When there are many people queued up, I only take two buckets of water. Since all we have is this cistern, we frequently share with neighbors,” she said, Saturday (Nov 1).

Sumerta said that the cistern was established by the government, nearly 10 years ago, and residents have greatly benefited from it.

When there is a prolonged dry season, the water in the cistern totally runs out. In this case, people have to

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Though the condition of paving block and public facilities at Penelokan tourist attraction, Kintamani is severly damaged, the Bangli government remains unable make repairs. The County government argues that the authority to repair the damage is still in the hands of the Provincial government and has yet to be handed over to Bangli government. “It is still the provincial jurisdiction. We have been asking for the authority to be conduct repairs to be handed over Bangli but it hasn’t happened yet.” said the Head of Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Adnyana, when contacted on Friday (Oct 31).

Adnyana acknowledges that the conditions of the paving block and other public facilities such as guardrails and the garden at Penelokan were damaged. To be able to repair them, his party has repeatedly tried to request cooperation of the government of Bali. However, this hasn’t happened.

“Yesterday, I got in touch with the general affairs related to the submission to see whether there has been an agreement or not. But, I was told that there were still some things needing to be arranged,” he explained.

According to this former Head of the Bangli Licensing Office, if authorization had been given to the Bangli County, his

party would repair the damaged public facilities as soon as possible. However, these much-needed repairs would still be tailored according to the existing budget.

Meanwhile, the Division Head of General Affairs of the Bangli Regional Secretariat, AA Trisna Wijaya, when asked for his confirmation said that the handover, required for the repair to the public facilities at Penelokan, was still under process.

He acknowledged that the provincial government already handed it over to Bangli government. However, since the official report was not in accordance with the damage condition in the field, the county government therefore asked the provincial government to revise the minutes, and include photographs which reflected the real conditions in the field. “The Bali Government Tourism Office has agreed to the revision,” he explained.

As reported over the years, the condition of the Penelokan tourist area is increasingly alarming. Other than the slumy conditions caused by the roadside market, the tourist attraction which saw its glory in the 1990s has been degrading due to the conditions of the damaged public facilities. Many paving blocks have been damaged and are coming off. In addition, some guardrails installed on the edge of the cliff have become porous and could threaten the safety of visitors. (ina)

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President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event for U.S. Senate candidate Gary Peters and gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer at Wayne State University, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014 in Detroit, Mich.

Republicans were hoping to gain the six Senate seats needed to come away with the biggest prize in Tuesday’s election — control of both chambers of Congress during Obama’s final two years in office, which would give them more power to thwart his legislative agenda and block key nominations. The party is all but certain to hold its majority and even gain seats in the House of Representatives.

Democrats are at a disadvantage in the Senate contest because they have to defend seats in a number of states carried by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012, including Montana, West Virginia, South Dakota, Arkansas, Alaska and North Carolina.

But with just three days remaining before Tuesday’s election, an unusually high number of Senate races remain too close to call — with polls showing 10 states in which the candidates are separated by 5 percentage points or less. Georgia and Louisiana both require runoffs if no candidate receives at least 50 percent of the vote, raising the possibility that the Senate majority might not be decided for weeks.

The partisan sparring heading into Tuesday’s voting underscored the prominent role that Obama has taken in the elections at the midpoint of his second term even though he is not on the ballot.

Republicans have tried to make the election about the president, especially in states carried by Romney where Obama’s unpopularity runs deeper than in the country as a whole.

While many Democratic candidates have sought to distance themselves from the president by criti-

cizing his leadership and avoiding appearing with him, Obama has been enlisted to mobilize core Democratic voters either through campaign rallies over the last week or less overtly through targeted radio ads, mail and Internet messages.

Obama made a rare campaign appearance with a Democratic Senate candidate Saturday evening. The president headlined a rally that drew about 6,000 people on the campus of Detroit’s Wayne State University for Senate candidate Gary Peters and Mark Schauer, the party’s nominee for governor. Obama and McConnell, in their parties’ weekly radio and Internet addresses, did find some common ground.

They agreed that many Americans’ wages are still falling behind. But Obama blamed Congress for not acting on measures such as raising the minimum wage, and McConnell faulted Obama for policies he said have failed.

“We’ve got to harness this momentum and make the right choices so that everyone who works hard can get ahead,” Obama said. He stressed the need for policies that make the economy friendlier to women. Democrats need to energize female voters and get them to the polls if they want to overcome Republican advantages in several states.

McConnell, who is locked in a tight Senate race with Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes, said that “in difficult times, the American people expect real leadership from Washington.”

“What they don’t need are more unworkable ideas that often make the problem worse,” McConnell said.

Bangladesh power back on after nationwide blackout Associated Press

DHAKA — Power was back on across Bangladesh on Sunday, a day after the impoverished, energy-starved nation was plunged into a nationwide blackout when the transmission line from neighboring India failed, officials said.

The country’s energy grid was fully restored, and any further problems that may arise would be for “local reasons,” Junior Power Minister Nasrul Hamid told reporters.

The blackout was Bangladesh’s most severe since a 2007 cyclone knocked out the national grid for several hours, and once again exposed inefficient and dated infrastructure that has held back development in the South Asian nation.

Hamid would not say what exactly had caused the blackout, which hit the country around noon Saturday after what some power officials described as a “technical glitch” in the transmission line that caused a cascade of failures throughout the national power grid, with power plants and substations shutting down automatically. For a power grid to work, electricity must be supplied constantly at a rate

equal to demand. “An investigation has been ordered. It could be misleading to talk before getting the findings,” Hamid said.

Government officials offered some possible causes. One suggested a Bangladesh substation link to the Indian transmission line may have failed. Two others said there was an unexpected dip in the Indian supply, which at the time accounted for nearly 10 percent of the grid’s 5,000-megawatt load. The three spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

“It was really worrying. The government should find out soon what happened, why it happened,” Dhaka schoolteacher Rukhsana Begum said. “Our inefficiency? Bad network?

Whatever, it should be unearthed to avoid future disaster.”

After an evening spent in the dark, most residents of the capital, Dhaka — a city of more than 10 million people — got electricity back by 1 a.m. Sunday, said Mohammad Nasir Uddin, a control room official for the Dhaka Power Distribution Co. Power was fully restored to all parts of Dhaka and the rest of the country by noon.

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Bangladeshis move past a dimly lit street during a blackout in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014. Bangladesh was struggling to restore power late Saturday, hours after being hit with a nationwide blackout that started when a transmission line bringing electricity from neighboring India failed, officials said.

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Traveling

In this photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, skulls and bones are stacked at the Catacombs in Paris, France. The subterranean tunnels, stretching 2 kilometers (1.24 miles), cradle the bones of some 6 million Parisians from centuries past and once gave refuge to smugglers. The site used to close at 5 p.m., but is now staying open until 8 p.m.

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Seizing its chance, Iran seeks tourism revival Agence France-Presse

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Paris’ Catacombs still entice visitors

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PARIS - A place of fear, legend, inspiration and exploration, Paris’s skull and bone-lined Catacombs still draw thousands of visitors each year, many of whom queue for hours to explore the ghoulish burial site. “Stop! This is the empire of the dead”, reads a sign greeting visitors at the entrance to the two-kilometre (1.2-mile) long tunnels filled with the bones of approximately six million Parisians -- although that figure is still debated.

The transfer of human remains from Parisian cemeteries to the tunnels began towards the end of the 18th century when authorities realised that the decomposition of bodies in the city’s cemeteries was not particularly good for public health.

“It was said that the wine was turning bad and the milk was curdling,” said Sylvie Robin, the site’s curator.

So the city decided to move the skeletal remains to abandoned underground quarries.

And never short of a money-spinning idea to attract tourists, the city of light opened up its darkest corners to visitors shortly afterwards.

At the entrance of the site at Denfert-Rochereau in the south of Paris is a panel warning in three languages that the visit “is likely to upset especially sensitive people and children”, not surprising considering that 800 metres of the journey is a walk between walls lined entirely with bones.

Among the stacked bones are also galleries with pictures and quotes that would give anyone pause to reflect on their own mortality -- “Think in the morning that you might not survive until the evening, and in the evening that you might survive until the morning.”

“All of these tibias piled in such a decorative manner pose the question

(of mortality) ... there’s a visual proof that everyone is equal in death that is quite philosophical,” said Valerie Guillaume, museum director.

Tourist Antonina Bodak said it was a place like no other. “It’s mysterious, exciting, strange. It has no equal,” said Bodak, who was visiting from Belarus. “I’ve always wanted to see this place.”

Only a small portion of the tunnels is open to visitors. The entire length is more than 200 kilometres, and extends beneath a large part of the city.

“The term ‘Catacombs’, borrowed from the Roman Catacombs, can be confusing,” said Robin, because it refers to all 800 hectares (nearly 2,000 acres) of quarries and not, contrary to popular belief, one massive cemetery.

Robin said the tunnels were originally used by people who wanted to avoid tolls when entering the city, and by smugglers and criminals who wanted to evade authorities.

Today, modern-day daredevils, known as “cataphiles”, take exploration into their own hands, and nose around in the off-limits sections of the network of tunnels.

Some have gone as far as to hold secret parties deep below the pulsating city or even organise clandestine movie screenings.

Exploring the unofficial Catacombs

has been against the law since 1955, and a special police squadron was set up in the 1990s to track down the “cataphiles,” resulting in a macabre game of cat-and-mouse among the bones.

Those nabbed roaming the Catacombs without permission are fined a relatively light 40 euros ($50).

But the dark, dank passageways came into their own during a heatwave in 2003, with tourists and locals alike scrambling down there to enjoy the relative cool.

Authorities were forced to turn desperate people away seeking to escape record high temperatures for the relief of the Catacombs with their mean daily temperature of 15 degrees C (59 degrees F).

The Catacombs still exert a powerful influence on popular culture and have given rise to many urban legends, including tales of Masonic meetings, black masses, Nazi gatherings, gang fights, and serial killers.

It’s no coincidence that writers like Victor Hugo, Gaston Leroux and Anne Rice all drew inspiration from the famous underground tunnels. And for the visitor, if walking through miles of bone filled halls wasn’t frightening enough already, the museum recently extended its hours from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm, allowing people to visit the tunnels after sunset.

PERSEPOLIS - At the foot of Persepolis, busloads of foreign tourists gaze in awe at the ancient mud-brick ceremonial capital that Iran hopes will be part of a rebirth of its tourism industry. Although decades of sanctions mean the hotels and infrastructure are not five star, a tentative political thaw with the West is drawing visitors to Iranian attractions steeped in myth and rumour.

Persepolis, a jewel of the first Persian empire whose palace and terraces took more than 100 years to build, starting under Darius the Great in 518 BC, is one of the highlights.

“Before coming to Iran I knew the vision of this country from the outside was very dark,” says Piotr Chwalba, from Poland, finally looking at Persepolis after thinking for years of visiting.

“A place like Iran has two sides -- the one created by the media and the other version, the truth, where everyone helps you when you travel and everyone smiles at you. It’s great.”

Sincere as such testimony is, a rise in visitors has more to do with politics than praise. The prospects for tour operators were bleak until recently.

The election last year of President Hassan Rouhani and his decision to restart negotiations with the United States and other leading nations about Iran’s nuclear programme has been a catalyst.

While seeking to play host to international visitors it also helps that his speeches do not tend to excoriate the West in the same manner that his predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s did.

“Mr Rouhani’s demeanour, his smile, his positive interaction with the world has created a new sense of ease,” says Ibrahim Pourfaraj, president of Iran’s tour operators association.

Thomas, an engineer from Stuttgart, says the nuclear issue is the only thing he hears about Iran in the news back home.

“What we see is totally different than what we hear from the outside,” the 29-year-old German says. “The Iranians are very hospitable and very curious.”

Shiite pilgrims from Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon and Pakistan currently make up 60 percent of Iran’s visitors.

But the government’s main push is to recapture the spending power of Europe, Asia and America.

For Iran -- whose currency, the rial, has been severely depressed by rampant inflation -- tourism offers a foreign exchange windfall.

The cities of Isfahan, Shiraz and Yazd, all steeped in culture, are considered Iran’s top attractions, but sites such as Kish Island with its beaches on the Gulf have sought to create a more relaxed holiday.

People are coming back. Official figures show that at the end of March, tourist numbers were up 35 percent year-on-year to 4.5 million, bringing in $6 billion.

Iran, with 17 UNESCO-listed World Heritage sites, wants 20 million visitors within a decade.

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SAR team searches for missing German tourist Antara

The Search and Rescue Team of Denpasar, Bali, has been looking for 71-yearold German tourist, Bernhard Manfred Erich Lubke, who went missing while snorkeling at Nusa Dua Beach.

DENPASAR - The Search and Rescue Team of Denpasar, Bali, has been looking for 71year-old German tourist, Bernhard Manfred Erich Lubke, who went missing while snorkeling at Nusa Dua Beach.

“The victim’s wife reported that he went missing while snorkeling at the Nusa Dua Beach,” spokesperson of the SAR Office at Denpasar, Rama, said on Friday.

In their efforts to find the missing tourist, the SAR team was assisted by personnel from the Water Police and the Balawisata of Nusa Dua. Lubke reportedly went missing at 6 p. m. local time.

The victim’s wife notified the security officer of the Nusa Dua Beach Hotel immediately, after which security personnel combed areas a few hundred meters from the shoreline in front of the five-star hotel.

However, as the whereabouts of the tourist, whose passport number is C795WVPJC, remained unknown, the hotel security reported the incident to the local police.

The missing German national went snorkeling at 4.30 p. m. local time. It is being assumed that he was dragged away by a strong current despite the waters being calm.

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In Buleleng

HIV/AIDS sufferer reaches 2,173 cases

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SINGARAJA - The increasing number of people living with HIV/AIDS in Buleleng is now dominated by productive teenagers. This risky disease becomes a problem that should be resolved together because the target is not just the elderly. However, the youth is no longer awkward to have sex freely and this becomes one of the transmission media of this hazardous diseases.

Based on data of the Buleleng Health Agency, the percentage of people living with HIV/ AIDS reached 47 percent with the age range of 19-29 years. According to Counselor of the Voluntary Counseling Test (VCT) from the Citra Usadha Indonesia Foundation (YCUI), Ricko

Wibawa, the increase in HIV/AIDS case in Buleleng was very alarming for teenage groups. Of the four VCT clinics in Buleleng, about 20 to 25 new cases were found each month.

The people living with HIV/AIDS based on the record of the Buleleng Health Agency as of September 2014

amounted to 2,173 cases.

“Sexual intercourse case at young age begins to emerge at the age range of 13-15 years. Such risky relationships do not only occur at cafés or prostitution house, but also boarding houses or the transaction with commercial sex workers is made via

SMS,” he said.

Actually the government could help the role of volunteers and activists who cared about the future of the young generation of Buleleng and keep them away from the risk of contagious HIV/AIDS disease.

To that end, it was required a policy and the firmness of government to take action against the existence of a dimly lit cafés, including making a regular socialization to schools in Buleleng. “Not all of the cafés function as prostitute house. We do not want to mention that all the

Other than missing, apprentice almost sued at IDR 1 billion Bali Post

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An Iranian couple sit overlooking the city of Tehran, in this October 19, 2006 file photo. Although decades of sanctions mean the hotels and infrastructure are not five star, a tentative political thaw with the West is drawing visitors to Iranian attractions steeped in myth and rumour.

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AMLAPURA - An apprenticeship participant in Japan on behalf of Gorsi from Bukit village, Karangasem disappeared about three weeks ago. Allegedly she escaped from her workplace because she was working illegally. Allegedly she was recruited by mafia. In addition, another apprentice from Karangasem was almost sued at IDR 1 billion by his boss.

It happened, said the Regent of Karangasem, I Wayan Geredeg, Friday (Oct 31) in Karangasem, because the business premises where the victim worked was on fire.

Even, the room of the worker was also on fire. Then, the apprentice from Karangasem was about to be sued as much as IDR 1 billion.

However, said Geredeg, his party conducted an investigation and a joint approach with the Indonesian Embassy in Japan. Finally, it was known if the fault was not on our apprentice. But, the business owner had made mistake. It was said the electrical installation had been old enough and should have been previously replaced. But it was not replaced. “After we knew the real condition and informed it, finally the employer who recruited

the apprentice apologized. So, the employer failed to sue our worker at IDR 1 billion,” he said.

Related to the disappearance of the apprentice from Bukit, Gorsi, said Geredeg, his staff from the Karangasem Labor and Resettlement Agency had approached by parents of Gorsi at Bukit. However, the parents admitted not to know anything about the matter. Apparently, the escape of their child was hidden or dissimulated. “We have informed that the parents did not speak frankly. They claimed not to know. When investigated and processed pursuant to the prevailing

law by Japanese police, they should not regret it,” said Geredeg.

He said that Karangasem government attempted to maintain the image of Karangasem apprentices in the country. It was meant to avoid if the workers were claimed to be lazy and undisciplined, then they were ultimately blacklisted as happened to the apprentices from other county in Bali. Related to the disappearance of Gorsi, his party remained to investigate including asking for the assistance to the Indonesian Embassy. If necessary, his party would ask for help to Japan’s Interpol. (013)

cafés become the sources of HIV transmission. But the condition in the field is like that. Nowadays, we just focus on providing assistance for people declared to be positive to HIV/AIDS,” he said. (kmb34)

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Geredeg questions illegal parking at Besakih Amlapura (Bali Post)—

Boyscout, one of the creative activities for the students

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To minimize pregnancy rates among students

Schools obliged to encourage creative culture Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Undeniably extramarital pregnancy cases among students are occurring more frequently in certain regions recently. By all means, the current teenage dating-patterns that tends to lead to premarital sex has some people concerned. As a result of premarital sex, many teenage students have to quit school and get married. Being unready both physically and mentally and being obliged to get married, tends to foster stress, anger and quarreling for the couple To counter the phenomenon of today’s teen dating tendencies, Chairman of the Tabanan Education Council encourages schools to work hard on enhancing the culture of creativity. In other words, schools are required to provide activities outside of the official school hours. “This time can be filled with additional lessons or extracurricular activities. This effort is expected to reduce the opportunity for student to commit negative acts,” he said, Saturday (Nov 01).

The Chairman said that culture of creativity would run optimally with the encouragement of parents and the active role of teachers on duty. “Do not let the students, leave their parents for afternoon lessons, only to find they are simply hanging out. Here, the role of teachers on duty must be reactivated. If necessary, please cross-check the absence of students with their parents,” he

explained.

His party also feels disappointed when students have to quit school due to extramarital pregnancy, which usually happen by accident.

“It is unfortunate and unexpected.

We must attend to these youths and give them an understanding and approach to life, because they are at an unstable age. We must also supervise them to prevent them from watching inappropriate shows,” he said.

On the topic of extramarital pregnancy amongst students, the Head of the Tabanan Education Agency, Putu Santika, at a separate location said that based on Government Regulation No.17/2010 concerning the management of educational systems, schools were given the authority to set a code of conduct including prohibitions.

One of which was dismissing students found to have violated the

rules due to extramarital pregnancy. However, if the students wished to continue their education, they could still have the opportunity to join the Kejar Paket or equality program.

The rules set forth by schools also contained the sanctions for those in violation, including the dismissal of students. Moreover, the rules and sanctions, he said, had been disseminated to students and parents. “Meanwhile, college still has tolerance for pregnant students,” he explained.

Any accident such as extramarital pregnancy, according to him, should get the attention from other students so that they could keep away from negative influences. “In every coordination meeting, we always warn that the character building education must also be continuously stimulated,” he said. (bit)

Rampant unofficial parking spaces in the area of Besakih, Karangasem, was highlighted by Regent I Wayan Geredeg in the plenary session. This echoing the viewpoint of other factions and expressed in the discussions of the Karangasem regional budget draft of 2015. Such rampant illegal parking spaces cause the revenue of official ones to be minimal. The cause of the problem was blamed on communities who re-plot the official parking areas.

Regent Geredeg stated that the revenue from parking charges, especially in the Besakih area was very minimal.

The largest temple in Bali is in fact visited by many people, who go there to say prayers or to sightsee. According to the regent, the lack of parking fees collected is due to some local communities who illegally charge people to park.

The levy of parking fees is much smaller in Besakih than what it is in other counties. According to Geredeg, the levy could support the revenue of Karangasem from the tourism sector.

“Please compare these levies to other regions. Tabanan County, for example, receives incredible amount of parking revenue,” he said.

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To resolve the problem, Regent Geredeg invited all members of society to work together in development activities. More specifically, stakeholders should play a role in changing people’s mindset.

On this occasion, he also responded to the viewpoint of the Bhinneka Faction previously submitted by I Nyoman Ade related to the road infrastructure in the area of Besakih, Rendang. The twotenure regent said that the road matter in the area of Besakih was generally a provincial road whose handling should go through the province.

According to Geredeg, the government of Karangasem had coordinated with the provincial government for a follow-up. In general, Karangasem is pretty good at building roads.

Compared to Singaraja, Karangasem had 820 kilometers of county roads, far above that of Buleleng that only has 600 kilometers. Actually in terms of land area, Buleleng is more extensive than Karangasem. “Most of our local roads were laid using hot mix asphalt.

Meanwhile, the macadam penetration had been out of date because it only lasts for two to three years. Besides, the land contour in Karangasem also allows for the application of hot mix,” he concluded. (dwa)

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Balinese Temple Ceremony

Calendar Event for October 24 through November 6, 2014

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The Hindus are coming to Besakih to pray. the increasing number of people coming to the temple make parking space is very limited

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Temple Festival at : Pr. Penataran Tangkas-Tebuwana, Sukawati Pr. Dalem Langan-Bebalang, Bangli Pr. Peseh, Lembeng Ketewel, Sukawati Pr. Pasek Gelgel Penulisan.

Kerambitan, Tabanan Pr. Gaduh-Sading Pr. Dalem Gandamayu-Klungkung Pr. Sanghyang Tegal-Taro Kaja, Tegalalang Pr. Penataran Agung/Odalan Ida Ratu Mas MagelungBesakih Mr. Dadia Dalem

Tarukan-Kubu, Bangli November 2nd Buda Kliwon Tolu, Temple Festival at: Pr. Alas HarumTegal Kepuh,Kaba-Kaba, Kediri,Tabanan

Pr. Batu Madeg- Besakih Pr. Paibon Tangkas Kori AgungCeningan Kanginan, Nusa Penida Pr. Penataran Agung PenatihBr. Sabha, Penatih Pr . Penataran Sanggem- Sidemen, Karangasem 5th Buda Pon Tolu,

3rd Coma Umanis Tolu

Temple Festival at:

Temple Festival at: Pr. Puseh Bale Agung Ubung Kupang- Panebel,Tabanan, Pr. Kawitan Sekula Gotra Pasung Gerigih- Kaba-Kaba, Kediri,Tabanan Pr. Bhujangga Resi- Tumbak Banyuh,

Pr. Catur BhuwanaSanding, Tampaksiring.

6th Wraspati Wage Tolu Temple Festival at: Pr. Paninjoan-Besakih Pr. Dalem Tenggaling- Ds. Blahbatuh, Gianyar.

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Hello Kitty’s 40 years of cuteness and cool Associated Press

TOKYO — When she came to life in 1974, she was a kitty without a name, sitting sideways in blue overalls and a big red bow, on a coin purse for Japanese girls. On Saturday, fans around the world celebrate the 40th anniversary of this global icon of “cute-cool.” That is, Hello Kitty.

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Hello Kitty waves during an event to celebrate her 40th birthday at Sanrio Puroland theme park in Tokyo November 1, 2014.

Only a handful of characters last so long, especially in Japan, where thousands come and go in a highly competitive market. Hello Kitty has the looks, and more.

“Characters must have certain qualities, like an oversized round face, short limbs and plump body,” said economist Takuro Morinaga, an expert on popular culture.

“Kitty follows the basics, yet she has a strong personality.”

Innovative design and clever marketing also helped expand her fan base around the world, said Christine Yano, anthropologist and author of “Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific.”

Hello Kitty’s company, Sanrio Co., which specializes in designing and making a wide range of products in the booming “cute” business, created her as a character 40 years

ago.

According to Sanrio, her real name is Kitty White, born Nov. 1 — no year is given — in the London suburbs. The birthday date was chosen because it is the birthday of her original designer, Yuko Shimizu.

Sanrio strives to keep Hello Kitty ahead of the curve, factoring in social and fashion trends and collaborating with other popular characters and fashion brands. Her basic appearance hasn’t changed much, but just about everything else constantly is. Yano said the philosophy of not resting is part of the character’s success.

“That makes things very fresh, very new,” she said in a telephone interview from Boston. “She is always the same but always different.”

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Bali allocates Rp9 billion to eradicate Rabies IBP

DENPASAR - The Bali administration allocated an average of Rp9 Billion every year to finance rabies eradication program in the province, Chief of the Bali Health Office Ketut Suarjaya said on Sunday. “The amount of money is used to buy vaccines and finance other activities related to our effort to eradicate rabies in Bali,” said Ketut.

Downey, Watson, Dench honored by British Academy Associated Press

BEVERLY HILLS — There was a bit of a British invasion at the Beverly Hills Hilton hotel, as BAFTA Los Angeles hosted its annual Britannia Awards, honoring film and television talent from both sides of the pond, including director Mike Leigh and actors Dame Judi Dench, Emma Watson, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Robert Downey Jr. But most of the attendees Thursday night were Brits -- no surprise, given the party was thrown by the L.A. branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Downey received the Stanley Kubrick Award for Excellence in Film, named after the legendary director of such films as “2001: A Space Odyssey” “(The award) means a heck of a lot to me,” said Downey. “I love British filmmakers, and they have

such a great talent pool.”

Oscar-winning actress Dench was honored with Albert R. (“Cubby”) Broccoli Award for Worldwide Contribution in Entertainment, named after one of the original producers of the James Bond films.

Noted Dench, “Well, I’m rather overwhelmed by (the award), because I didn’t ever expect to have a film career at all. I never knew Cubby Broccoli, although I know, of course, (Albert’s daughter) Barbara Broccoli and (Barbara’s half-brother and Bond-series producer) Michael Wilson very well.

And I’ve had 17 years of doing Bond, which has been just wonderful. So, I’m very, very proud that I shall have something that is named after Cubby.”

Dench and fellow honoree Watson posed together for photographers on the arrivals line.

Watson, named Britannia British Artist of the Year, said Dench

is “just all soul and all grace and strength and beauty, and she really, for me, she’s an iconic British actor. She’s what you aspire to be.”

The 79-year-old Dench is currently on a box-office roll, with her 2012 releases “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” and “Skyfall” and her Oscar-nominated 2013 “Philomena” all boasting worldwide grosses of more than $100 million each. Dench’s next film is the sequel “The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” hitting cinemas in February.

Dench said, “People like to say, ‘When are you retiring?’

Or ‘When are you going to slow down?’ That’s all very rude in my family. We don’t say any of that. I think if I stop, it’ll be like a car: I shall run out of petrol and fall over. So, I plan not to that, if possible.”

Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP The BAFTA Los Angeles Jag- Honorees Robert Downey Jr., from left, Emma Watson and Judi Dench apuar Britannia Awards are set to air pear on stage at the BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards at the Beverly on BBC America 2 November.

Hilton Hotel on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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The Bali administration allocated an average of Rp9 Billion every year to finance rabies eradication program in the province.

According to him the Bali province has prepared 25,000 packages of vaccines which are estimated to last until the end of 2014.

However Ketut emphasized that people’s active participation were needed to make the program of eradicating rabies in Bali succeed. He called on the local people to give vaccine to their pet dogs and never let loose dogs which were diagnosed of having rabies.

Earlier on Friday (Oct 31) a patient, suspectedly being infected with rabies, had died at Denpasar’s Sanglah hospital.

The identity of the deceased was not revealed but according to report he or she showed the symptoms similar to rabies sufferer.

Rabies turns rampant on these last two month. Recently vaccination team of the Tabanan Livestock Agency conducted a search in the area of Delod Peken Tabanan after receiving a report of rabies positive dog biting three residents for two consecutive days in the area. As a result of the search, the team could vaccinate 52 dogs that had not been vaccinated previously.

It was revealed by the Division Head of Animal Health, the Tabanan Livestock Agency, Ayu Ratningsih, representing the Head of Tabanan Livestock Agency.

She added that the vaccine for the vaccination was taken from emergency vaccine stock. A 3.5-month-old puppy being positive to rabies, according to Ayu, was taken by the owner from Kerambitan last August. Allegedly, the puppy was infected by rabies in the area of Delod Peken.

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