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Gang used social media to plan burglaries on Rihanna and other stars, say LA police

China star Fan apologises for tax evasion after order to pay $129m

BEIJING - Chinese superstar Fan Bingbing took to social media for the first time in months Wednesday to apologise to fans and the Communist Party for tax evasion, shortly after news broke that authorities had ordered her to pay nearly $130 million in back taxes and fines.

T h e 3 6 - y e a r- o l d actress, model and producer had been a ubiquitous household name in China for years and tasted Hollywood success with a role in the 2014 blockbuster “X-Men: Days of Future Past.”

But she disappeared from the public eye and her once active social media presence went silent in May after allegations emerged that she had evaded taxes on a lucrative movie shoot, charges her studio called

LOS ANGELES - Four people have been arrested for allegedly using social media to plan burglaries on stars such as Rihanna and Christina Milian.

Three men, aged 18 and 19, have been detained by Los Angeles Police, as has the 34-year-old mother of one of the suspects.

The addresses of basketball superstar LeBron James and actor Matt Damon were also found on a list at one suspect’s house, police said. Detectives believe the suspects chose their victims based on social media posts that revealed when they were away from home.

They allegedly showed up in expensive cars to stake out the houses before the break-ins. Singer Rihanna’s Hollywood Hills mansion was broken into last week, with three people reportedly seen running away as an alarm went off.

Watches, jewellery and designer handbags that police believe were stolen were put on show at a news conference on Tuesday.

A stolen car, a gun and $50,000 (£44,400) in cash have also been recovered. The suspects were arrested following a burglary on Thursday at the home of LA Rams American football player Robert Woods. His property was broken into while he played against the Minnesota Vikings.

LAPD captain Lillian Carranza said police believe the suspects are part of a larger gang responsible for more than two dozen burglaries. She said they had targeted “actors, producers, musicians and professional athletes”.

“The victims’ homes had been selected based on social media postings and touring or travel schedules of the owners,” said Ms Carranza.

She said the thieves would first knock to make sure no one was home, before breaking in and heading to the master bedroom to grab valuables. (afp)

“slander”.

Her sudden absence from screens and advertisements across the country spurred rumors that she had been snatched by officials at a time when Beijing is cracking down on what it views as excesses in the film and television industry.

Chinese tax authorities have now laid at least part of the mystery to rest, ruling that both Fan and companies controlled by her failed to pay tens of millions of dollars in taxes, the official Xinhua news service reported on Wednesday.

The report said Fan would have to pay a total of 883 million yuan ($129 million) in owed taxes, fines and penalties, adding that she would avoid criminal prosecution as long as she met a repayment deadline.

At least one other person implicated in the probe has been detained for further investigation related to concealing and “deliberately destroying” accounting documents, Xinhua added without detailing that person’s identity. (afp)

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Time running out for survivors as Indonesia toll tops 1,400

The death toll in Indonesia’s twin quake-tsunami disaster passed 1,400 Wednesday, with time running out to rescue survivors and the UN warning of “vast” unmet needs. Authorities have set a tentative deadline of Friday to find anyone still trapped under rubble, at which point -- a week after this devastating double disaster on Sulawesi island -- the chances of finding survivors will dwindle to almost zero.

Military spokesman M. Thohir said the number of confirmed dead has risen to 1,411, while the disaster agency said 519 bodies have already been buried.

Government rescue workers seeking survivors are focusing on half a dozen key sites around the seaside city of Palu -- the Hotel Roa-Roa where up to 60 people are still believed buried, a shopping mall, a restaurant and the Balaroa area where the sheer force of the quake turned the earth temporarily to mush.

At least 150 people are unaccounted for beneath the rubble, officials said. According to the UN’s humanitarian office almost 200,000 people need urgent help, among them tens of thousands of children, with an estimated 66,000 homes destroyed or damaged by the 7.5-magnitude quake and the tsunami it spawned.

Despite the Indonesian government urging foreign rescue teams to “stand down” because the crisis was in hand, residents in hard-hit, remote villages like Wani in Donggala province say little help has arrived and hope is fading.

“Twelve people in this area haven’t yet been found,” Mohammad Thahir Talib told AFP. “In the area to the south, because there hasn’t been an evacuation we don’t know if there are bodies. It’s possible there are more,” the 39-year-old said. In Geneva, the United Nations expressed frustration at the slow pace of the response.

“There are still large areas of what might be the worst-affected areas that haven’t been properly reached, but the teams are pushing, they are doing what they can,” Jens Laerke, from the UN’s humanitarian office, told reporters late Tuesday.

The World Health Organization has estimated that across Donggala, some 310,000 people have been affected by the disaster.

Survivors are battling thirst and hunger, with food and clean water in short supply, and local hospitals are overwhelmed by the number of injured.

Officials on the ground said that while the government was now inviting offers of help, there is still no “mechanism for this to be implemented”.

Landing slots at Palu airport are snapped up by the Indonesian military, although it was expected to be open to commercial flights from 7:59am on Thursday. Palu’s port, a key transit point for aid, has been damaged.

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Poor family amid the Kerobokan Kelod tourism area

The officer is trying to put out the fire in Gunung Payang

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Bukit Payang tourism park returns to catch fire Suspected of being triggered by a cigarette butt

BANGLI - The area of the natural tourism park (TWA) of Mount Batur Bukit Payang, Kintamani, returned to catch fire. The fire on Sunday (Sep. 30) burned about one hectare of land overgrown with bushes. Allegedly, the fire was triggered by the presence of cigarette butts carelessly dumped in the tourism park area.

Head of the Regional Conservation Section II, Bali Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA), Sulistyo Widodo, when asked for his confirmation stated the location of the burned conservation area is under Pasar Agung Temple. As the report received, the fire occurred on Sunday around 11:00. The fire was successfully extinguished about an hour later by the BKSDA officers, the community and local tour guides. The extinguishing was carried out manually because the terrain is not accessible to fire truck.

Sulistyo claimed he did not know the exact cause of the fire

last Sunday. However, he suspected the fire was caused by human negligence. “The cause is still being investigated. Possibly it happened because someone may throw away cigarette butts,” he said. He added the last Sunday’s fire was the second time happening this year. On August 25, a fire had also occurred in the same area.

To prevent the fire incident in the forest area, Sulistyo said that the BKSDA had made a number of efforts ranging from dissemination and counseling for the community, tour guides and visitors, regular patrols into the tourism park area, to the making of firebreaks. The

making of this firebreak is carried out to limit the fire movement from quickly expanding when a fire broke out. Ahead of dry season, the coordination has also been intensified with military district command and local police, including the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Bangli to jointly deal with a fire.

“Similarly, we continue to provide guidance for groups of people that care about fire (MPA) established previously,” he explained.

To prevent the recurrence of such fire incident, his agency returned to appeal to all communities, tour guides and visitors to jointly protect the forest. (kmb40)

MANGUPURA - Badung tourism area is apparently not free from the poor like at Kerobokan Kelod. The area included in the North Kuta subdistrict is famous for Petitenget, Umalas, Bidadari, and Oberoi as one of the tourism areas in the Badung district.

It is the family of the late Wayan Suarnawa. His family is living at Taman Merthanadi hamlet, Kerobokan Kelod village, in a house that is not suitable for habitation, so that people are encouraged to help.

A North Kuta community figure, AAN Ketut Agus Nadi Putra, along with a number of community leaders at Kerobokan Kelod village immediately came down to the field on Monday (Oct. 1). “I know that one of the residents’ houses at Mertanadi hamlet when coming to the house of mourning of the late Wayan Suarnawa, and found his house is very uninhabitable,” he said.

Nevertheless, the man familiarly addressed as Gung Nadi stated the condition of the house began to be refurbished through an independent housing program. The program is carried out by a number of donors in North Kuta, but has not been roofed yet and not been finished. “We have asked to apply for home refurbishment. However, since the poverty rate at Kerobokan village is declared to have been zero, the family does not get home refurbishment assistance,” he said.

This Chairperson of Commission IV of the Badung House of Representatives explained that he had coordinated with community leaders in North Kuta and Kerobokan Kelod village to help the deceased’s family in order to get a decent house.

“I helped through the Panca Marga Cooperative Agency for IDR 50 million to carry out the house refurbishment and the rest will be endeavored by the community figures of Kerobokan Kelod,” he said.

He said to have conveyed to the Badung Social Agency in order that the family can get home refurbishment assistance. The agency has also conducted a survey. However, administratively he cannot be helped because the area is recorded to have zero poverty.

“We are so sad to see it. Hopefully, the government will do a cross-check in the future so that this kind of thing will no longer happen. Moreover, in developed countries there is no poverty up to zero percent and so is in Badung. On that account, it should not make the status of poverty into zero after reflecting from this finding,” he said.

Headman of Kerobokan Kelod, Made Wistwan, revealed that actually the assistance for the poor at Kerobokan Kelod village has been distributed, both house refurbishment and productive economic assistance for the targeted households, so that the household has been administratively overcome.

“When making data collection at other neighborhood, we did not find such a case. But for this case, it has actually been dealt with considering the rights of this citizen have been provided, so that it is feasible because it can fulfill the needs independently. Sometimes the data in the field are different.

Surely we need to deal with this by making cross-check in the future,” he concluded. (kmb27)

Luhut envisions Bali as marine tourism hub for eastern Indonesia KUTA - Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Panjaitan has a vision to make Bali a marine tourism hub after the expansion of the tourist port of Benoa.

“We should not serve as a feeder port for Singapore. We have to make Bali a hub between Mandalika, Labuan Bajo and

Banyuangi,” he said after commissioning a new underpass in the Ngurah Rai cross road in Kuta, Bali on Saturday.

The expansion of the Benoa Tourist Port of Bali has apparently conjured to the vision of Bali as marine tourism center especially for Eastern Indonesia.

Luhut said Bali, the country`s

largest tourism asset, is highly potential to become a marina tourism center that would help increase visits to other areas in Indonesia.

Currently, the state owned port operator Pelindo III is expanding the terminal for tourist boats to be completed by the end of September this year.

A tourist boat with a capacity

of carrying 3,000 tourists would be able to dock at the terminal, he said, adding,”Not only that, a special terminal for yacht is being built there.”

Foreign tourists could fly in to Bali and hire a yacht to continue to Mandalika in Lombok or Labuan Bajo, in Flores he said.

Labuan Bajo is important

as the main access to the Komodo Park the habitat of ancient dragon Komodo found only on the Komodo island just across Labuan Bajo in the western end of Florea.

Currently the expansion of the “Benoa Tourism Port” is in progress estimated to cost Rp600 billion. (ant)

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Why Do Researchers Want Tissue From Aborted Fetuses?

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ACTIVISTS who released a video they say shows a Planned Parenthood doctor discussing the sale of tissue from aborted fetuses have riled up abortion-rights opponents, with House Speaker John Boehner saying the case makes him want to “vomit” and Republican-controlled committees in Congress promising to investigate.

The political firestorm raises a question: Why would anyone use tissue from an aborted fetus?

It’s because some scientists hope they might provide cures for a range of diseases from Parkinson’s to crushed spinal cords.

A SOURCE OF STEM CELLS

Cells from embryos and very early fetuses have properties that fully developed cells do not. What most researchers are after if they use fetal tissue are the stem cells.

The term “stem cell” is confusing because it encompasses many different types of cells. There are the embryonic stem cells, which come from days-old embryos and which have the power to morph into any type of cell in the body – blood, brain, bone or organ. They can be difficult to direct and there’s a whole industry devoted to orchestrating the growth and development of these cells into desired tissue types.

Then there are adult stem cells, found in everyone’s body. These are the stem cells that are taken from the bone marrow, for example, to treat patients with cancer.

They’re already partially developed and they also can elicit an immune response if transplanted into another person’s body. That’s why clinics look so hard for someone who is a “match” for a bone marrow transplant.

Fetal stem cells fall somewhere in between. They grow well in lab dishes and can be kept alive and thriving for years. They’re not fully developed and so they don’t cause the life-threatening immune response that adult stem cells do when transplanted into somebody.

It’s not clear just how frequently these cells are gathered for research uses. Scientists grow batches of cells from many different sources and those that thrive are used for years and passed around. The book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” focuses on one batch that’s been used for decades, taken from a cervical cancer patient.

FROM VACCINES TO REGENERATIVE MEDICINE

Fetal cells were used to develop vaccines, including the measles and polio vaccines.

Companies such as NeuralStem Inc. have developed cells taken from aborted fetuses into possible therapies. They’re testing some now in people with crushed spinal cords who cannot walk, to see if the cells can grow over the injury and restore the nerve connections.

A team at Harvard Medical School’s McLean Hospital has been testing fetal stem cells in patients with Parkinson’s disease.

In Parkinson’s, the brain cells that produce an important messagecarrying chemical called dopamine are destroyed. The transplants aim to replace those cells and restore the dopamine.

They’ve had dramatic effects in some patients, not-so-dramatic effects in others.

There’s work developing stem cells from all three sources to treat type-1 or juvenile diabetes, which is caused when the body mistakenly destroys the pancreas cells that produce insulin. Cells from fetal liver or pancreas have been tested – either source might be well primed to develop into the desired cell type. (IBP/net)

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A microscopic view shows a colony of human embryonic stem cells (light blue) growing on fibroblasts (dark blue) in this handout photo released to Reuters by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, on March 9, 2009.

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The Neco Robo Knights at a robotics competition at Regis University in Denver on Feb. 2. The competition engages students in Grades 7-12 in science, technology, engineering and math.

Study finds boys are not better at math GIRLS get better grades than boys do at all ages, including in math and science, researchers reported Tuesday.

A big analysis of grades covering 1.6 million elementary, high school and university students shows that girls outperform boys at all ages. This includes science, technology, engineering and math subjects, the Australian researchers said.

Their analysis also challenges one prevailing theory about why boys tend to excel in STEM fields: that there are more male “geniuses” who get perfect grades in those subjects, the team at the University of New South Wales in Sydney said.

One difference they did find was that the female advantage is narrower in STEM subjects, especially as students get older and more advanced. But it was still there, Rose O’Dea, who studies biology and applied statistics, and colleagues reported.

They used a new technique for meta-analysis — a study of studies that crunched the numbers in a novel way. They analyzed the results of more than 200 different studies done around the world but mostly in the U.S. “Overall, girls had significantly higher grades than boys by 6.3 percent,” they wrote in their report, published in the journal Nature Communications.

“Simulations of these differences suggest the top 10 percent of a class contains equal numbers of girls and boys in STEM, but more girls in non-STEM subjects,” they added.

Some experts had put forward a theory that boys do better in STEM fields than girls do because there are more males who perform at the

extremely high end of the scale in STEM subjects. According to the theory, boys and girls average out the same, but that is because there are also more boys at the low end.

O’Dea’s team did not find that.

“We definitely did find gender differences,” O’Dea told NBC News. “The differences are quite small. They are particularly small in STEM.” STEM fields are dominated by men, and for decades educators, medical professionals and the general public believed that males were somehow more adept at math, science and similar subjects. Teachers tend to gauge white girls’ math abilities lower than those of white male students, even when the girls’ grades and test scores are comparable to those of boys.

Debate over the theory peaked when then-Harvard University President Lawrence Summers made comments suggesting that women had different biological capabilities. He resigned the next year.

O’Dea has her own theories about why women might steer clear of STEM fields. One is culture.

“Women in male-dominated pursuits, including STEM, face a paradox: If they conform to gender stereotypes, they might be perceived as less competent, but if they defy gender stereotypes and perform ‘like a man,’ then their progress can be halted by ‘backlash’ from both men and women,” she and colleagues wrote.

It is possible that since women have a bigger advantage over men in non-STEM subjects, they tend to gravitate toward those studies in school and college, O’Dea said.

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KLUNGKUNG district does not only have potential in the tourism sector. However, many of its citizens are involved in small and medium enterprises (MSEs) and handicrafts like endek fabrics and Kamasan puppet paintings. Both are going to participate in gracing the IMF-WB Annual Meeting taking place in Nusa Dua next October.

Endek fabrics of Klungkung have its own characteristics. It offers diverse design and colors. It is quite elegant to be seen or transformed into clothing. This traditionally woven fabric remains to be produced and sold in the Semarapura Art Market located in the east of Kertha Gosa tourist attraction. Quite a lot of people are eyeing to make it into the collections of local residents and foreign tourists. The price depends on the design and type, starting from hundreds of thousands per sheet.

Merchants really hoped the IMFWB Annual Meeting can give an impact on their sales as well as wider promotion. This hope was revealed by one of the merchants, Putu Mayuni.

“Hopefully, it will have an impact on our sales,” she said, recently.

Similarly, she began to prepare a variety of typical products that can be possibly sold easily. “Now, our products are mostly purchased by local residents. Sometimes there are also foreign tourists,” he said.

Kamasan puppet painters also await similar blessing. One of them is Jero Mangku Muriati Mura. She supported if the event can be used as a promotional event for her works in the midst of sluggish sales lately.

“Moreover, last year the sales were very quiet. If there is a promotion, it is very good,” he said when he was met on the sidelines of a painting

demonstration at Kertha Gosa.

This woman from Siku hamlet admitted that all this time the district government has made a medium for painters. However, in terms of the promotion of art work, it remains to be done independently. “For instance, I have to look for networks overseas alone,” he added This painting is no longer stranger to Balinese people. It is the work of art having long been a wealth of Klungkung district. It is not just an art but also retaining puppetry stories such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata epics with high philosophies. The selling price varies, depending on the size and complexity.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Klungkung Cooperative, SME and Trade Agency, I Wayan Ardiasa, assessed the endek fabric and the painting are the most likely to be seen by delegates as souvenirs because of their distinctive characteristics in contrast to other regions. “Both are the prominent products of Klungkung.

We want to expand the promotion,” he explained.

Further, he conveyed if the participation in the exhibition is also instruction from the provincial government. His agency welcomed warmly because it can open market opportunities. “We just need to appoint the representing craftsmen. And this has been coordinated,” he said.

At present, the district government has facilitated with promotion through a number of exhibitions, both in the region and at the national level. This has also been carried out by craftsmen, through information technology.

“With direct promotion, people will be able to see the products visually and it’s more convincing,” added this official from Jembrana. (sos)

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Endek surface design of Jehem weavers made into gift of IMF delegates

BANGLI — The IMF-WB Annual Meeting scheduled to take place in Bali next October does not only bring in blessings to the world of tourism but also to a number of craftsmen in Bali. One of them is A.A. Tirta Rai, an endek weaver from Jehem Kelod, Jehem village, Tembuku. Ahead of the IMF event, this 61-year-old weaver got the order in the form of 500 pieces of endek clothes in combination with gold leaf.

His product named the endek surface design will be used as a souvenir for the IMF delegates from a number of countries.

When met at his home on Sunday (Sep. 30), Agung Tirta said the order of endek surface design products had been completed last August. Moreover, the homemade products have been handed over to the IMF committee to be used as souvenirs for delegates.

He added there are at least 20 best designs applied in the making of the 500 pieces of endek surface design.

Likewise, the gold leaf material applied to decorate the endek woven fabrics is more than one type, namely the pearl and glitter.

In the workmanship, he involved quite a lot of craftsmen. Especially for the workmanship of the endek woven fabric, he involved some craftsmen in the Sukawati, Gianyar and Klungkung region. As for decorating process with gold leaf, he employed around ten people from the family and the local community around his house.

This artisan who is also a lecturer in the ISI Denpasar revealed that selection of the endek products by the IMF committee as souvenir was due to his frequent involvement in a number of exhibitions at the provincial and national levels. At the national level, his products have been exhibited at the State Palace on the Dekranasda’s Anniversary some time ago.

All this time, his endek surface design product is

admitted to have received a lot of recognition from consumers because the quality is durable and the designs are beautiful and diverse. He claimed that to create the endek surface design product, he always makes innovations and has the principle that his weaving product is not only convenient to use, but also beautiful to look at and lasts longer.

“Maybe these are the reason for choosing our product into souvenir for the IMF delegates. It is inseparable from the role of Bank Indonesia (BI) having helped foster and promote our products,” he explained.

He also claimed to be very proud and grateful because the endek surface design product having been developed since 2015 is chosen as a souvenir in the IMF event held next October. “We are certainly very proud and grateful because our product is used in this world class event,” said the man having been working on endek crafts since 1978. (kmb40)

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There are at least 20 best designs applied in the making of the 500 pieces of endek surface design.

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Bali’s economic growth targeted to reach at least 7 percent

DENPASAR — So far, the figures as indicator of the development in Bali have always been better than the national average. Among other things, the poverty rate of Bali is only 4.14 percent or below the national rate at 9.81 percent, unemployment is 0.86 percent while the national rate is 5.15 percent, the gini index is 0.18 percent compared to the national index reaching 0.38 percent, and te HDI reaches 73.4 percent or higher than the national at 70.8 percent.

“This achievement is the work of the previous governor. I indeed read the data of economic development in Bali. Almost all indicators are better than the national average,” said Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster, amid the Regional Financial Management Coordination Meeting at the Wiswas-

abha Utama Office of the Governor of Bali on Monday (Oct. 1).

Other than these indicators, continued Koster, Bali’s economic growth also always exceeds the national average. Currently, for instance, it grows by 5.68 percent compared to national economic growth at 5.27 percent. Meanwhile, the average economic growth of Bali has always been above 6 percent. It only dropped in 2017 to 5.59 percent due to the eruption of Mount Agung. He hoped there will be no more natural disaster in the future that will disturb Bali’s economic growth.

“I see a huge potential gap that can still be further boosted. I have targeted the economic growth of Bali to reach at least 7 percent in the next 5 years. Of course, we cannot do it in

a hurry. Everything must be prepared with a concept, strategy, order and so on,” he explained.

Koster sees the agricultural sector has great potential to boost Bali’s economic growth. Currently, contribution of the GRDP is still dominated by tourism sector reaching 65 percent. Therefore, the agricultural sector still under-managed so far will be more balanced with tourism sector.

It will include craft industry whose development will be encouraged.

Thus, the average economic growth of at least 7 percent can be achieved.

“With the presence of the IMFWorld Bank Annual Meeting, Bappenas calculated (Bali’s economic growth) to reach 6.54 percent. The impact of the IMF will continue to roll out because the infrastructure

has been built. Then, the economic growth centers will appear. So, I think an average of 7 percent until the end of my office can hopefully be achieved,” he explained.

The next challenge, continued Koster, is to reduce the Gini Ratio index in order to narrow the inequality so that it is even getting more fairly and evenly. That is why the development agenda formerly dominated by South Bali will be shifted by developing economic centers in North, East and West Bali. Likewise, the poverty rate alleviation to at least 2 percent is attempted to be achieved within the next 5 years.

“Now, the unemployment rate is already very good, the challenging target is if it can be made into 0 percent or even under 0. We will run it as

well as possible with the development agenda having been comprehensively stated in the vision and mission to the details of every sector and all districts / municipality in accordance with their potential,” he said.

A member IV of the Supreme Audit Board of the RI, Harry Azhar Azis, called Bali as one of the best provinces in Indonesia. Indicators of the development in Bali are not only far better than national development indicators, but the local provincial government also won an unqualified opinion (WTP) from the Supreme Audit Board for 5 times in a row. Since 2016, the provincial and district / municipal governments in Bali have even entirely succeeded in reaching the predicate of unqualified opinion. (kmb32)

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Farmers of Subak Gede Tembuku presents Krisik waterfall

‘Jewel of Roman Empire’ faces Libya dangers

BANGLI - The community of Tembuku village continues to explore the existing natural potential to be developed into an attractive tourist destination. After successfully featuring a tourist destination named the Tukad Cepung Waterfall, now the village community has another attraction named the Krisik Waterfall. The new tourist object is presented and managed by farmers of Subak Tembuku Kelod.

Krisik Waterfall is located at Tembuku Kelod hamlet. To reach the location of waterfall, visitors must go through an overlay of farmers’ paddy fields and irrigation channels with very clear water. After going through the fields, visitors still have to explore short pathway. Prior to arriving at the location of waterfall, visitors need to pass a very beautiful stone wall with lovely texture.

Chief of Subak Gede Tembuku Kelod, I Wayan Sumada, when met on Sunday (Sep. 30) stated the waterfall has begun to be arranged by the members of Subak Tembuku Kelod since last March. They develops the potential of the Krisik waterfall as a tourist attraction started by the visit of a number of tourists getting interested in seeing the local agriculture after visiting the Tukad Cepung tourist attraction. Seeing the potential, farmers then tried to arrange the potential like the waterfall into a tourist destination. Hopefully, it can develop and prosper the people of Tembuku village.

Sumada said even though it was just arranged and opened, so far there are enough tourists coming to enjoy the natural atmosphere of Krisik waterfall. “We present this Krisik waterfall as additional attraction. Our main feature is trekking activity crossing the paddy fields remaining to be cultivated traditionally as well as natural scenery of Mount Agung,” he explained accompanied by the treasurer of Subak Tembuku Kelod,

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Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, arrives at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) in Putrajaya on September 26, 2018.

Wife of ex-Malaysian PM arrested by anti-graft agency

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Krisik Waterfall I Wayan Pintu.

He explained the waterfall named Krisik (Balinese word) because the waterfall sounds to gurgle. The name has also been used by local people since a long time ago to call the location. According to ancestral stories, the water falling among the rocks has never dried

up, despite facing a long dry season.

Since it remains relatively new, Sumada admitted that many things must still be arranged to attract more tourist visit to the Krisik Waterfall. While operating, his management will continue to organize and develop the Krisik Waterfall so that it can

be known by many tourists as other tourist attractions in Bangli. First thing first done in arranging it is to make the Krisik Waterfall was to make it free from plastic waste. “In the future, we are going to establish a tourismaware group (Pokdarwis) to manage the tourism objects,” he said. (kmb40)

Water crisis faced by Bunga Mekar inhibits tourism development

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Dry season hitting Klungkung area, especially Nusa Penida subdistrict.

SEMARAPURA - Dry season hitting Klungkung area, especially Nusa Penida subdistrict, caused the residents of Bunga Mekar village to face clean water difficulties. To meet the consumption needs as well as bathing, washing and toilet (MCK), some residents should buy at quite high prices. The condition happening regularly every year also becomes one of the obstacles to the development of tourism sector.

Headman of Bunga Mekar, I Wayan Yasa, stated that currently his residents buy water at IDR 300,000 for 2,200 liters. It is only enough to meet the needs for about

one week. For the underprivileged, this condition is certainly burdensome. “Some underprivileged people are still using rainwater they’ve collected. They should be economical so they don’t buy much,” he explained on Monday (Oct. 1).

He further conveyed that pipeline network of the Municipality Waterworks (PDAM) has reached his territory. However, so far it has just reached Pundukan Kaja and half in the Pundukan Kelod and cannot be used yet. Meanwhile, the other hamlets, namely the Pikat, Sebuluh Kawan, Batugae,

Karangdawa, Penangkidan and Sompang have not been touched at all. “This water difficulty has been happening for a long time so the handling is very much awaited.

This problem has been conveyed to district government repeatedly,” he said.

The handling is also considered urgent to support the tourism sector having a large potential. “If water can reach these areas, tourism can run smoothly. Now, the water remains a problem and still hampers.

Indeed, some roads are damaged but can still be passed through,” he concluded. (kmb45)

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KUALA LUMPUR - Rosmah Mansor, the flamboyant wife of Malaysia’s former prime minister, was arrested Wednesday by the country’s anti-graft agency over a multi-billion-dollar scandal that helped to bring down the last government.

Investigations into the alleged looting of state fund 1MDB by an audacious international fraud ring have already seen her husband Najib Razak hit with more than two dozen charges including corruption and money laundering.

He is out on bail following his spectacular fall from power in May elections, at the hands of a reformist alliance headed by Mahathir Mohamad.

“Rosmah has been arrested,” her lawyer K. Kumaraendran told AFP after she was questioned for hours at the Malaysian AntiCorruption Commission (MACC) on Wednesday.

The MACC in a statement said it arrested Rosmah, 66, in relation to money laundering investigations after getting approval from state prosecutors.

“Following this, Rosmah will face a number of charges,” it said, adding she will be brought to court early on Thursday to be charged.

An MACC official said Rosmah could face up to 15 years in jail if convicted on each charge.

She is expected to spend the night at the MACC headquarters

located in the administrative capital Putrajaya outside Kuala Lumpur.

Rosmah, widely reviled in Malaysia due to her profligate spending and imperious manner while her husband was in power, arrived at the MACC headquarters in a two-car convoy late Wednesday morning. At the same time, her husband was also being questioned by police in a separate location in relation to the scandal.

Najib, 65, has denied any wrongdoing despite revelations that hundreds of millions of dollars ended up in his personal bank accounts.

- Cash, jewellery and handbags Rosmah, wearing a light green dress with matching headscarf, was met by her lawyers and escorted by anti-corruption officers into the agency’s building.

She smiled as she walked past journalists but did not make any comment. In Rosmah’s last appearance a week ago, she was questioned for 13 hours.

Wednesday was the third occasion on which Rosmah had been questioned, but the first time she had been arrested, since her hus-

band’s coalition was dramatically ousted from office after six decades in power. A central issue in the campaign was the allegation that Najib, his family and his cronies looted billions of dollars from 1MDB in a fraud ring that stretched from Singapore to Switzerland.

Rosmah’s love of costly overseas shopping trips, designer handbags and jewellery made her a lightning rod for public anger, and fuelled suspicions that she benefited from the plundering of 1MDB. After the election loss, a stash of cash, jewellery and hundreds of designer handbags worth as much as $273 million was seized from properties linked to the couple in raids around Kuala Lumpur.

Rosmah is often compared to Imelda Marcos, who left behind more than a thousand pairs of shoes after her husband, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, was ousted in a popular uprising in 1986.

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, 93, who came back from retirement to challenge Najib, has launched a crackdown against corruption involving people in the previous government. (afp)

SABRATHA - Perched on the edge of Libya’s Mediterranean coast, the ancient city of Sabratha remains an awe-inspiring spectacle, the pink columns of its amphitheatre towering above turquoise waters.

But the world heritage site is classed as “endangered” by UNESCO, its majestic structures pockmarked by mortar and small arms fire. Shell casings and bullets still litter the surrounding earth, a year after clashes between rival armed groups.

Locals say snipers positioned themselves at the top of the amphitheatre, once a jewel of the Roman Empire.

Bringing bloodshed back to the gladiatorial arena some 18 centuries after it was built, 39 people were killed and 300 wounded in the fighting.

Today, the site around 70 kilometres (45 miles) from the capital lies eerily abandoned, encircled by parched grass and weeds.

Since the toppling and killing of Libya’s dictator Moamer Kadhafi in a 2011 uprising, Sabratha has become a key departure point for illegal migration.

Smugglers and militias have profited amply from a chronic security vacuum.

It is from the long and deserted shores a few kilometres (miles) from ancient Sabratha that most migrants start their perilous boat journeys towards Europe.

- ‘Permanent danger’ UNESCO declared Sabratha to be at risk in July 2016, along with four other Libyan sites on its World Heritage list.

The UN’s cultural organisation based its decision on two factors -- “damage already caused” and

vulnerability to future destruction.

It noted that “armed groups are present on these sites or in their immediate proximity”.

Experts fear worse is to come for the country’s historic sites, as armed groups continue to vie for ascendancy.

Libya’s archaeological heritage is at great risk, warns Mohamad al-Chakchouki, head of the North African country’s department of antiquities.

The “entrenchment of armed groups inside archaeological sites and the battles which have unfolded near the sites, including Sabratha, pose a permanent danger”, he told AFP. The conservation of sites was once entrusted to Western teams.

But these experts have not travelled to Libya “for four years, because of the chaos and insecurity”, said Chakchouki.

Spread out over 90 hectares (220 acres), including a part engulfed by the sea, Sabratha is one of three former cities that constituted Roman Tripolitania.

The others are Oea -- modernday Tripoli -- and Leptis Magna in western Libya that was one of the sites classed as endangered by UNESCO two years ago.

At the mercy of the scorching summer sun and the salty sea breeze, Sabratha suffers from stone erosion and degradation, said Mohamad Abu Ajela, an official at the city’s office of antiquities.

But the “damage caused by man is a greater fear”, he said.

A Spanish archaeological mission recently visited Sabratha and signed an agreement to restore some areas, including the theatre.

But completion of the work “depends on the security situation”, Ajela said. (afp)

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A picture taken on September 1, 2018 shows a portion of the site of the ancient Roman city of Sabratha, around 70 kilometres (45 miles) from the Libyan capital Tripoli.

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BUSINESS US factories grew at slower pace in September

WASHINGTON - U.S. factories grew at a slower pace in September as manufacturers continued to cope with supply disruptions stemming from trade disputes with China, Europe, Mexico and Canada.

The disruptions forced manufacturers to make a larger draw on their inventories.

Overall the country’s industry continues to show strength, the Institute for Supply Management reported Monday. The trade group of purchasing managers said its manufacturing index fell last month to 59.8 from 61.3 in August. Anything over 50 signals growth, and U.S. manufacturing is on a 25-month winning streak.

Fifteen of 18 manufacturing industries expanded in September, led by makers of textiles, plastics and rubber products, and computers and electronics.

Growth in new orders slowed in September, but production and hiring grew faster.

Uncertainty over U.S. trade policy and tariffs continues to dominate industry concerns, with executives responding to the survey citing chaotic market conditions.

U.S. tariffs on imported steel and aluminum are raising costs for many manufacturers.

Labor shortages also continue to crimp manufacturers.

Last week, the U.S.-China battle escalated as President Donald Trump went ahead with a tax hike on $200 billion of Chinese imports. Beijing retaliated by imposing penalties on $60 billion of U.S. products.

For supply managers, “I would call every day a chaotic event,” Timothy Fiore, chair of ISM’s manufacturing survey committee, said in a telephone interview. He is chief procurement officer at transportation company Ryder System Inc. Canada reached a new deal late Sunday that puts it back in a revamped North American free trade pact with the U.S. and Mexico after weeks of bitter, high-pressure negotiations. It replaces the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, which Trump had called a jobkilling disaster.

The new agreement gives U.S. farmers greater access to the Canadian dairy market.

But it keeps a NAFTA dispute-resolution process that the U.S. wanted to toss out, and offers Canada protection if Trump goes ahead with plans to impose tariffs on cars, trucks and auto parts imported into the U.S. While the deal provides some certainty, Fiore said, “The big disappointment is that steel and aluminum won’t be included.”

The overall economic backdrop for the U.S. remains healthy. The economy, fueled in part by tax cuts enacted in December, expanded in the April-June quarter at a 4.2 percent annual pace, the best in nearly four years.

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Italy digs in on spending, jolting markets and worrying EU

MILAN - Italy’s leaders refused to budge from new spending plans that have been spooking investors, pushing the eurozone’s third-largest economy on a collision course with its EU partners.

Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said Tuesday that the government “will not back up one millimeter” from spending that will increase the country’s deficit to 2.4 percent of annual GDP, beyond previous commitments.

The government’s plans and subsequent clashes with EU technocrats have jolted investors, who are now charging Italy more to borrow in bond markets. On Tuesday, the yield on Italy’s 10-year bond was up 0.10 percentage point at 3.40 percent, and that’s increased the difference between the Italian benchmark and the sturdy German benchmark to 3 percentage points, the highest level this year.

“This verbal toing and froing between Italy and Brussels is likely to keep investors a little cautious of piling back into Italian assets,” said Michael Hewson of CMC Markets.

On Monday, Economic Minister Giovanni Tria’s was warned by his counterparts in the 19-country eurozone that Italy’s plans break the rules of the single currency bloc. The EU’s economy commissioner, Pierre Moscovici, said the plans represent “a very significant deviation from the commitment which had been taken.”

That claim drew an angry response from Di Maio, who accused Moscovici of “creating terrorism with the markets.” Tria insisted the government’s plans would promote growth in Italy of 1.6 percent next year, which would keep public finances in control.

But political analyst Wolfango Piccoli of Teneo Intelligence called the growth target optimistic, with growth trending around 1.1 percent. Italy’s economy has been a laggard for years, with growth well below that of many other countries in the eurozone. Unemployment also remains relatively high at 9.7 percent.

Tria skipped Tuesday’s wider meeting of the EU’s 28 finance chiefs to return to Rome to work on the budget, which must be submitted to Brussels by mid-October.

In Luxembourg, European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis kept up the pressure on Italy on the sidelines of the finance ministers’ meeting, noting that Italy has been a chief beneficiary of rules for more flexibility.

“Discussions about draft budget plan seem to be heading into a direction which goes substantially beyond this flexibility,” Dombrovskis said. “It is a fact that Italy has the second highest debt-to-GDP ratio in the EU, second after Greece and the highest debt servicing costs

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Omed-Omedan Tradition, Originally Held on Nyepi Day

Every celebration of Ngembak Geni, the day after Nyepi, Kaja hamlet, Sesetan, always organizes omed-omedan tradition. This tradition has been held since the kingdom era and remains to be maintained until now. However, there are some changes in the implementation compared to the omed-omedan in the past. What are the changes?

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French Economy, Finance Trade Minister Bruno Le Maire (L) talks with Italian Minister of Economy and Finance Giovanni Tria during an Eurogroup meeting at the EU headquarters in Luxembourg on October 1, 2018. in the EU. It’s important that Italy sticks with responsible fiscal and macroeconomic policy also to maintain interest rates at acceptably low levels,” he said.

Italy’s government announced last week it would increase spending next year to push through promises made during this year’s election. The government’s plan sees the country’s budget deficit rising to 2.4 percent of GDP despite pledges to keep it under 2 percent. While still within the 3-percent limit set by EU rules, the higher limit will increase the country’s stubbornly high public debt.

It remains unclear what action the EU might take. The EU had placed France in an “excessive deficit procedure” for almost a decade without fining it. And Germany has in the past broken the EU deficit limit, also without fines.

Piccoli said that Italy’s deficit target “is generally not worth the paper it is printed on,” noting that the planned deficit of 1.8 percent of GDP in the 2013-16 period actually ranged between 2.5 percent and 3 percent.

The higher spending in the new plan is aimed at satisfying election promises by the 5-Star Movement for a basic income for job seekers, while its partner in government, the League, pledged to reduce taxes. Both want to repeal an unpopular pension reform.

The government hasn’t given details on how the increased spending would be paid for, but 5-Star leader Di Maio defended the budget targets, saying on RTL radio that he “hopes’” the plans would raise GDP by 2 percent in 2019, significantly above forecasts by Tria, who is not aligned to any party. (ap)

One of the descendants of Oka Palace of Kaja hamlet, Sesetan, I Gusti Ngurah Oka Putra, said the omed-omedan tradition was started approximately in the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries originating from his ancestor (Batara Kompyang) denoting a senior figure of Sesetan village at that time. Ahead of Nyepi Day, his ancestor named Anak Agung Made Raka suffered a severe illness.

“He was difficult to stand, let alone walk. He also forbade his citizens to visit him. However, when Nyepi arrived, residents of Kaja hamlet, Sesetan, were sad and disappointed because they were prohibited from visiting and serving him at that time. Amid the sadness and disappointment, they gathered and held tug-of-war known as omed-omedan. This is the embryo of the tradition,” said Oka Putra to Bali Post, not long ago.

As a result of the incident, said this man familiarly addressed as Turah Bima, his ancestor who was sick became angry and ordered his family to take him to the front of royal palace. Perhaps, he wanted to yell and chase away his servants as making commotion in front of the royal palace. However, when arriving at the front of royal palace, his sickness had completely gone.

Immediately, he undid his intention to ban the crowds, even wanted to do in the contrary. Starting that day,

the omed-omedan was held every year on Nyepi Day. At that time, people have not known the existence of catur brata penyepian (four abstinences) so that omed-omedan was still held on Nyepi Day. Oka Putra added that in line with the development of understanding on religion and interpretation of the Nyepi Day with the catur brata penyepian echoed by the government and Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI), the timing of the tradition was changed. Then, it was moved to the following day right on Ngembak Geni instead of on Nyepi Day. “This happened around the 1980s because in the past people were only abstaining from lighting fire on Nyepi,” he said.

Over time, this tradition got negative assessment from outsiders.

People judged the tradition of omedomedan is synonymous with mass kissing. Due to being angry with the judgment, Ngurah Oka as the heir of the originator of the tradition had banned the implementation of the omed-omedan tradition around the 1984s. “I rejected the false accusation disparaging our residents.

Friction of the young people in the omed-omedan may happen, but the point is not the kissing,” he said.

At that time, at the location of the omed-omedan tradition was posted the announcement if the omed-omedan was abolished.

Despite the publication of such

announcement, people and audiences kept coming and gathering to meet at the usual venue of the omed-omedan tradition. Surprisingly, there were actually two pigs fighting to be getting bloody and then disappeared somewhere.

After such strange incident, I Gusti Ngurah Oka Putra along with hamlet leaders and community leaders deliberated at the venue to discuss the incident and analyzed what would happen after the incident. “Immediately, following the decision of the deliberation, the hamlet apparatuses summoned the youth club members of Kaja hamlet, Sesetan, to prepare and carry out the omed-omedan tradition at that time as in previous years and would continue every year,” he said.

According to Oka Putra, at first the tradition was directly coordinated by his family commenced with ngelawar at his royal palace. Later in the afternoon, the lawar food was given to the teenagers participating in the omed-omedan tradition. After three periods, the tradition was later taken over by sekaa taruna or customary village youth club until now. “In the past, the participants were not just teenagers, but also married people. Moreover, a couple was given a chance at the opening session. But today it is only carried out by sekaa taruna members,” he concluded. (kmb)

The Hindu community in Bali which always preserves its ancestral culture has various unique and delicious traditional cakes or jaje.

There is jaje purely the result of creative process of the community, while the others are the result of acculturation with other regional cultures or even that of other countries.

Whatever the cake is, it remains to be preserved amidst of Balinese society until now. Even, its existence is always associated with ceremonial activities and Hindu ritual on the Island of the Gods.

For example, one of them is jaje cerorot. Optionally, it is often named the jaje blukbuk, usually served when the Hindu community is carrying out a wedding ceremony in the process of proposing. Jaje cerorot is accompanied with a pillow-like cake.

In Bali, this cake belongs to snack made from local (Balinese) rice flour combined with brown sugar and salt. On that account, it has a brownish red color. Cerorot is shaped with young coconut leaf wrap resembling a cone. For children, this cake is often referred to as the trumpet cake because the wrap is like a trumpet.

There is a special technique for eating this cake. If people do not know, they will open the pin (bamboo pin to button the wrap) and then eat the soft and creamy cake. For those who already know the technique of eating it will push on the tip at the lower end of the young coconut leaf pointing to the top, so that the content of the cake appears. Just press and adjust how long we are able to chew it.

If you eat a little, then push it a little too, and if you can eat at once, then push it full. Once again, to take out the content fully, push the pointed end of the wrapper so that

the content comes out. There is no need to open the curd of the wrap when eating the cake.

Lately, this cake is usually used for refreshment served for guests to accompany the drinks like coffee or tea. It is usually easy to get as widely sold in traditional markets and cake shops. Unlike before, if there was no wedding ceremony, this was not made. Unfortunately, this sweet tasting cake can only last for one day.

The ingredients used to make the jaje cerorot are local rice, brown sugar and salt (to taste). First of all, the rice is washed clean, and then soaked overnight. After that, resume and make it into flour. In the past, the making of flour in the traditional way was pounded with pestle in the mortar. Then, sieve the flour. This traditionally made flour makes the cake taste better when compared to flour made by factory.

Brown sugar is then liquefied with hot water and then filtered as well. Next, add flour into the cold brown sugar liquid with the addition of enough salt. To prepare the wrap, make the packaging from young coconut leaf. Remove the stick of the leaf, fold at one of the ends and then twist circularly resembling a cone. After the coconut leaf wrap has been made, the mixture is poured into the wrapper.

Be careful, do not let it be full because when steamed it can melt and fall.

Finally, steam them until cooked (for approximately 20 minutes). To check whether the cake is already cooked, insert a palm stick into the steamed dough. If the dough is not sticky when being pulled, it means the cake is already cooked. If it has been cooked, take out the cake and it is ready to be served. (kmb)

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Trio win Nobel Chemistry Prize for research harnessing evolution

STOCKHOLM - US scientists Frances Arnold and George Smith and British researcher Gregory Winter won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for applying the principles of evolution to develop enzymes used to make everything from biofuels to pharmaceuticals, the jury said.

Arnold, just the fifth woman to win the Nobel Chemistry Prize, won one half of the nine million Swedish kronor (about $1.01 million or 870,000 euros) award, while Smith and Winter shared the other half.

“The 2018 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry have taken control of evolution and used it for purposes that bring the greatest benefit to humankind,” the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences said.

The trio used the same principles of evolution -- genetic change and selection -- to develop proteins used in a range of fields.

“They have applied the principles of Darwin in test tubes. They have used the molecular understanding we have of the evolutionary process and recreated the process in their labs,” the head of the Academy’s Nobel Chemistry committee, Claes Gustafsson, told reporters.

“They have been able to make evolution many 1000s of times faster and redirect it to create new proteins.”

Arnold, 62, is a professor of chemical engineering at the California Institute of Technology. Her work has made it possible to solve problems such as replacing toxic chemicals like fossil fuels.

Her method of creating new proteins with desired properties is being used to convert renewable resources like sugar cane into biofuels, and to make more environmentally friendly chemical substances, improving everyday products such as laundry and dishwashing detergents to enhance their performance in cold temperatures.

Smith, of the University of Missouri, and Winter, 67, of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge, meanwhile developed an “elegant method” known as phage display, where a bacteriophage -- a virus that infects bacteria -- can be used to evolve new proteins, the jury said.

Jonas EKSTROMER / TT News Agency / AFP Pharmaceuticals for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and inflamA screen displays portraits of Frances H Arnold of the United States, George P Smith of the United matory bowel diseases have resulted from their research, as well States and Gregory P Winter of Great Britain during the announcement of the winners of the 2018 No- as anti-bodies that can neutralise toxins, counteract autoimmune bel Prize in Chemestry at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on October 3, 2018 in Stockholm. diseases and cure metastatic cancer. (afp)

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Signs of desperation are growing, with police officers forced to fire warning shots and teargas to ward off people ransacking shops.

Six of the Indonesian social affairs ministry’s trucks laden with supplies were reportedly looted enroute to Palu and on one route out of the city, an AFP journalist saw youths blocking the road and asking for “donations”.

On the outskirts of the city, hundreds of people sifted through the ruins of a collapsed factory, salvaging food, drinks

and construction materials.

Indonesia President Joko Widodo, who faces reelection next year, insisted the military and the police were in full control. “There is no such thing as looting,” he said on a visit to Palu.

- Body bag shortage As survivors pick through the shattered remains of their neighbourhoods, the death toll continues to rise.

The Indonesia-based ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance said that more body bags were “urgently” needed as fears grow that decomposing corpses could

provide a breeding ground for deadly diseases.

Rescue efforts have been hampered by a lack of heavy machinery, severed transport links and the scale of the damage.

In yet another reminder of Indonesia’s vulnerability to natural disasters, the Soputan Volcano in Sulawesi erupted Wednesday, spewing volcanic ash up to 4,000 metres above the crater.

The state disaster agency warned people to stay at least four kilometres (two and a half miles) away, but said there was no need to evacuate for the time being.

International aid offers have picked up since Jakarta’s belated

request for help, with the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund announcing late Tuesday that it was releasing $15 million in aid.

On Wednesday, Australia said it was sending a medical team to the disaster zone and providing an additional $5 million in aid.

- ‘There’s no toilet’ With power returning to parts of Palu late Tuesday and phone networks back up and running, there were some signs of things getting back to normal. But for most, daily life has changed beyond all recognition.

Palu residents crowded around daisy-chained power

strips at the few buildings with electricity, or queued for water, cash or petrol being brought in via armed police convoy.

Queues to get a few litres of petrol lasted more than 24 hours in some places. Sanitation is also a growing problem.

“People everywhere want to go to the toilet but there’s no toilet. So we do it along the road at night,” said 50-year-old Armawati Yarmin.

Indonesia sits along the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, the world’s most tectonically active region, and its 260 million people remain hugely vulnerable to earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. (afp)

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Volcano erupts on same Indonesian island as earlier quake JAKARTA — A volcano erupted Wednesday on the same central Indonesian island struck last week by a powerful earthquake and tsunami, and authorities warned planes about volcanic ash in the air.

Mount Soputan on Sulawesi island spewed a massive column of ash more than 6,000 meters (19,700 feet) into the sky. No evacuations were immediately ordered.

A government volcanologist said it’s possible the eruption was accelerated by the magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck on Friday.

“It could be that this earthquake triggered the eruption, but we have seen an increase in volcanic activity since July and this began surging on Monday. Yet we can’t say there a direct link, as the mountain is quite far away,” Kasbani, the head of Indonesia’s Volcanology and Geology Disaster Mitigation Agency, said on local television.

Kasbani, who uses one name, said planes have been warned to avoid the area.

Nazli Ismail, a geophysicist at the University of Syiah Kuala in Banda Aceh on Sumatra island stressed there was no concrete evidence to show the two incidents are linked.

“People talk about the butterfly effect. The concept is that when a butterfly flaps its wings, it can cause a catastrophe,” he said. “So it is possible for the earthquake to trigger the volcano eruption, but it’s not conclusive. This needs to be further investigated.”

Danny Hillman Natawidjaja, a geologist with Indonesia’s Institute of Science, echoed the views, saying there was not enough data to make a link.

“In principle, the seismic waves from the earthquake could increase pressure in the volcano’s magma chamber and could cause an eruption. We don’t know for sure,” he said. He cited the example of the eruption of Mount Talang volcano in Indonesia’s Sumatra province in April 2005, which geologists have said was connected to the devastating December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.

Ismail said the Soputan volcano eruption isn’t surprising as Indonesia sits on the seismically active Pacific “Ring of Fire,” and Soputan is one of the most active volcanoes on the island.

Soputan’s eruption status was raised from an alert to standby 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from the summit and up to 6.5 kilometers to

the west-southwest. Standby status means the public should avoid the area nearest the volcano and have masks available in the event of ash fall.

Planes were warned of the ash clouds because volcanic ash is hazardous for their engines.

National disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho dismissed concerns that the volcano’s eruption could affect planes transporting aid and supplies to the quake disaster areas. The earthquake set off a tsunami and devastated several communities, with the official death toll rising Wednesday to 1,407 and expected to increase further. Thousands of others are injured and more than 70,000 have been displaced from their homes.

Nugroho said volcanic ash is not

heading to the city of Palu, where most of the victims from the quake and tsunami are from, as the wind is blowing in another direction. He said it hasn’t disrupted plane services or affected any evacuations from the disaster areas.

Nugroho denounced videos that had appeared on social media allegedly showing villagers fleeing from billowing black smoke from the volcano and a long smoldering lava river as a hoax. He said so far no lava has spewed out from Soputan. No injuries or deaths have been reported and there is no need for any evacuation at the moment, he added.

Indonesia is an archipelago of more than 250 million people and government seismologists monitor more than 120 active volcanoes.(ap)

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A giant plume of volcanic ash rises from Mount Soputan, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, in the town of Tomohon, Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. The volcano erupted Wednesday morning on the same central Indonesian island as an earlier earthquake and authorities warned planes about volcanic ash in the air.

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Thursday, October 4, 2018

International

LeBron gets ovation in Staples Center debut

LOS ANGELES - LeBron James received a rapturous reception in his home debut for the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday but was unable to prevent his new team from slipping to a second pre-season defeat to the Denver Nuggets.

James, who joined the Lakers in July from the Cleveland Cavaliers on a four-year deal, was given a rousing standing ovation by the Staples Center crowd as he arrived on court.

The 33-year-old delighted the crowd with some silky touches during 15 first-half minutes.

He finished with 13 points, three assists, three rebounds, two steals and four turnovers during

Batuan Temple

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Kei Nishikori of Japan hits the return during his men’s singles second round match against France’s Benoit Paire at the Japan Open tennis championships in Tokyo on October 3, 2018.

Old Balinese Temple near Ubud GIANYAR - Batuan Temple is a local Balinese Hindu temple looked after by the local resident of Batuan countryside. The temple is designed very beautiful with full of Balinese ornaments and the roof temple building is made from the fiber of chromatic black palm tree.

It is strategically located beside of the main road from Denpasar to Ubud. For over a thousand years, Batuan has been a village of artists and craftsmen, old legends and mysterious tales.

Batuan Temple is not only emitting a high spiritual vibration, but also representing the historical values. You can look inside there are many stunning ancient relics from prehistoric times. How the influence of Hindu culture in Bali made of natural stones in this temple

become a place of worship, both to their ancestors and worshiped Hindu Deities. You will amaze in finding some ancient and unique statues there. Based on a number of statues found in this Puseh Temple, it can be grouped into several types.

They are Dwarapala Statue, Embodiment Statue, Animal Statues, The Status Figure of Holding the Chicken, Phallus, Demons (Time), and many more.

Batuan Temple, referred to locally as ‘Pura Puseh lan Pura Desa Adat Batuan’, is a focal landmark in the namesake village of Batuan, well-known for its traditional Balinese arts and paintings. Within only a 10km transfer south from Ubud central, the site features a grand complex of shrines laid out within its 0.65Ha complex. Well preserved sandstone bas motifs

and well-preserved traditional Balinese temple architecture are its main draws. This 11th century temple faces a separate large communal hall from where most visitors start their visit. When there’s no major temple ceremony on, which otherwise occupies this space with towering fruit and flower offerings, it is filled with local artists and craftsmen displaying their latest work, from batiks to framed paintings and statuettes.

With a compulsory sash and cloth around your waist, you can cross over the road to enter the main temple grounds.

Up the five-tiered ‘candi bentar’ gate of Batuan Temple, you’ll come across various reliefs depicting mythical Balinese figures and floral themes, as well as statues depicting the Hindu trinity, Brahma, Vishnu

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15 minutes on court in the first half before sitting out all of the second half.

The game ended in a 113-111 win for Denver, who had also beaten the Lakers in San Diego on Sunday in James’ first game with his new club.

Earlier Tuesday, James told reporters he was still adjusting to his new environment, and once again cautioned that the new-look Lakers squad would take time to gel.

“We’ve got a new group. We’re not at the level that a lot of the teams are in terms of cohesiveness and chemistry,” James said following morning practice.

“Every day is another opportunity for us to get better.” (afp)

and Shiva further inside. A series of multi-tiered thatched-roof shrines within the temple’s inner courtyard are set in a layout that is typical of all large temple complexes in Bali. The temple pavilion’s wooden beams and ceilings are heavily engraved and gold gilded. A visit to any temple in Bali is best during

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Nishikori squashes Paire to reach Tokyo quarters

TOKYO - Local hero Kei Nishikori put down a marker in his quest for a third Japan Open title as he outgunned France’s Benoit Paire on Wednesday to reach the last eight.

The third seed, who lifted the trophy in 2012 and 2014, completed a 6-3, 7-5 victory despite late resistance from Paire to avenge a semi-final defeat inflicted by the hulking Frenchman in Tokyo three years ago.

Meanwhile, former champion Nick Kyrgios flickered into life for just long enough to dispatch Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka 7-5, 7-6 (7/3) in the first round.

Nishikori tore out of the blocks, winning the first five games before Paire finally got on the scoreboard.

Paire tugged at his beard in despair after Nishikori snaffled the opening set but raced to a 3-0 lead in the second set before the Japanese number one rattled off five straight games.

An increasingly prickly Paire pulled off an outrageous betweenthe-legs volley and subsequently levelled with a backhand rocket, letting out a guttural roar as Nishikori shook his head in disbelief.

But the world number 12 almost took Paire’s head off to break again for 6-5, further irritating the Frenchman, who flirted with a penalty point after kicking his racquet into his chair.

Nishikori, who won the last of his 11 career titles in Memphis two years ago, closed out the match with a ferocious cross-court forehand that Paire battered wide.

“I had a few dangerous moments but I stuck to my game,” said Nishikori.

“It was important to stay with him and dig in. I’m in the quarterfinals now and hopefully I can kick on from here.”

- Different animal Kyrgios appeared a little distracted at times but the controversial Aussie became a different animal after Nishioka, who won his first ATP tour title at last week’s Shenzhen Open, forced a tiebreak in the second set.

Roused into action, Kyrgios unleashed a string of monstrous shots to steam through the breaker.

The 23-year-old, who has complained that playing the late season tour in Asia makes him feel depressed and lonely, fired 20 aces and sealed victory with a flamboyant backhand overhead after 73 minutes to book a place in the last 16.

Kyrgios has been fined for “tanking” matches in Shanghai the past two years but captured one of his four career titles at the 2016 Japan Open.

He faces eighth seed Richard Gasquet for a place in the quarterfinals.

Meanwhile, Wimbledon finalist Kevin Anderson survived a scare against Australian Matthew Ebden, the second seed coming through 4-6, 7-6 (7/1) to reach the last 16. The South African plays American Frances Tiafoe in the last 16. (afp)

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LeBron James #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers shoots the ball at practice at UCLA Health Training Center on September 25, 2018 in El Segundo, California.

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Thursday, October 4, 2018

Mourinho and Manchester United longing for past glories

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho again pointed the finger at his players’ failings rather than his own shortcomings after a 0-0 Champions League draw with Valencia that did little to lift spirits at Old Trafford.

Mourinho has now failed to win in four consecutive home matches for the first time in his career following defeat to Tottenham, a draw against newly promoted Wolves and a League Cup exit on penalties to second division Derby.

Already nine points adrift of Premier League leaders Manchester City and Liverpool, it now appears a question of when and not if Mourinho goes, with an unhappy

squad now mirrored by disgruntled fans and outspoken former players.

The home faithful implored their side to “attack, attack, attack” in the second half of Tuesday’s stalemate.

But unlike the old days under Alex Ferguson, there was no late onslaught on the Valencia goal as the Spaniards, who have won just one game in nine themselves this season, comfortably held out for a point.

“We don’t have the technical quality to build from the back,” said Mourinho of United’s often route one football.

“We knew we wouldn’t create 20 chances. Our attacking players aren’t in their best moments of confidence and individual level.”

As some of Ferguson’s most famous pupils watched on, it was another 90 minutes that showed how far United have fallen since the class of ‘92 made their mark by going for the throat of Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Juventus among others on thrilling European nights at Old Trafford.

- ‘Embarrassing the club’ -

Lindsey PARNABY / AFP

Manchester United’s Portuguese manager Jose Mourinho shouts instructions to his players from the touchline during the Champions League group H football match between Manchester United and Valencia at Old Trafford in Manchester, north west England, on October 2, 2018.

David Beckham, Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville and Nicky Butt were in attendance, while Paul Scholes was scathing of Mourinho even before the match started following a dire 3-1 defeat at West Ham on Saturday.

“I think his mouth is probably out of control and I think he’s embarrassing the club,” said Scholes, who also expressed his surprise that Mourinho is still in charge.

For how much longer will depend on how long the club’s executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward is willing to let his bet on the Portuguese run before cutting his losses.

A failure to qualify for the Champions League is what forced Woodward’s hand in the past in firing David Moyes and Louis van Gaal. Mourinho’s contract with United runs until 2020, meaning sacking the Portuguese would mean a significant payout.

United already sit five points off the top four after seven games and have daunting trips to Chelsea and Manchester City to come in two of their next five Premier League games as well as two Champions League clashes with Juventus.

Mourinho has at least got the three-time European champions back on the Champions League stage by winning the Europa League in his first campaign and finishing second to City in the Premier League last season. (afp)

In this Aug. 25, 2018 file photo Juventus’ Cristiano Ronaldo looks to the sky as he reacts during the Serie A soccer match between Juventus and Lazio at the Allianz Stadium in Turin, Italy.

AP Photo/Luca Bruno, file

Soccer star Ronaldo sued, accused of rape

by Nevada woman

Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo is being sued by a Nevada woman who said he raped her in the penthouse suite of a Las Vegas hotel in 2009 and then dispatched a team of “fixers” to obstruct the criminal investigation and trick her into keeping quiet for $375,000.

The suit says the woman asked police last month to reopen the criminal case; Las Vegas police confirmed to The Associated Press on Monday that they have reopened a sexual assault case from 2009 brought by the woman named in the lawsuit. The AP does not identify those who say they have been sexually assaulted.

Ronaldo’s attorney, Christian Schertz, did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. But after a report on the case in Der Spiegel last week, he threatened to sue the German magazine, saying: “It violates the personal rights of our client Cristiano Ronaldo in an exceptionally serious way.”

In a smiling Instagram video posted hours after the suit was filed, Ronaldo appears to deny the allegations.

“Fake. Fake news,” said the five-time world player of the year, who moved to Juventus from Real Madrid this summer. “You want to promote by my name. It’s normal.

They want to be famous, to say my name. But it is part of the job. I am a happy man and all good.”

The woman’s attorneys did not immediately respond to a telephone message seeking comment.

The lawsuit claims that the woman, who was then 24, went with a friend to the Rain nightclub at the Palms Hotel and Casino on the night of June 12, 2009, and met Ronaldo there. It says he invited a group of people up to his suite “to enjoy the view of the Las Vegas strip” and then into the hot tub; according to the suit, he then barged in on her as she was changing, exposed himself and asked her for oral sex.

When she refused, the lawsuit

claims, he raped her.

According to the lawsuit, and confirmed by police spokesman Aden OcampoGomez to the AP, the woman named in the suit reported the attack to police the same day.

OcampoGomez said she also asked for a “sexual assault test,” which was performed at the University Medical Center.

The woman refused to tell police where the assault took place or assist with identifying a suspect other than to say he was a European soccer player, the spokesman said.

A Portuguese citizen, Ronaldo was transferred from Manchester United to Real Madrid in the summer of 2009 for a then-record sum of 94 million euros, or about $130 million.

“As of now this is an ongoing investigation and no further details are being released at this time,” OcampoGomez said.

The lawsuit claims that the woman’s family arranged for a lawyer “who only had several years of legal experience.” Negotiations left her with “intrusive thoughts, an increased sense of extreme anxiety and fearfulness, complete helplessness and passivity,” the lawsuit says.

“The psychological trauma of the sexual assault, the fear of public humiliation and retaliation and the reiteration of those fears by law enforcement and medical providers left plaintiff terrified and unable to act or advocate for herself,” the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit also accuses Ronaldo or those working for him of battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, coercion and fraud, abuse of a vulnerable person, racketeering and civil conspiracy, defamation, abuse of process, breach of contract, and negligence for allowing details of the confidential settlement to leak out.

It asks for general damages, special damages, punitive damages and special relief, each in excess of $50,000, along with interest, attorney fees and court costs.(ap)

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Goal-shy Madrid leave Lopetegui with more questions than answers The last time Real Madrid went three games without a goal was in January 2007 and at the end of the season Fabio Capello was sacked.

Few deficiencies irk the fans at the Santiago Bernabeu more than shyness in attack and after an encouraging start under Julen Lopetegui, Madrid have drifted off course.

Their 1-0 defeat by CSKA Moscow on Tuesday left them three games without a win, even if none of those were straight-forward, the previous two coming away to Sevilla and at home to Atletico Madrid.

“The atmosphere in the dressing room is not good,” Luka Modric said. “When you do not score in three consecutive games, it is a bit of a worry.”

In terms of position, the dip has

barely made a scratch, with Madrid still level on points at the top of La Liga with the equally out of form Barcelona.

In the Champions League, they sit third in Group G, behind CSKA and Roma, but with a pair of games against the weakest side, Viktoria Plzen, coming up next. As they have proven in the last two seasons, group stage stumbles are easily corrected.

But there is concern about the team’s bluntness up front, a complaint that instantly references Cristiano Ronaldo, the decision to sell and the failure to sign an elite replacement. “Sindrome Cristiano,” El Pais called it on Wednesday.

Madrid have scored four fewer goals than in their first two group games than last season, coinciden-

tally the number Ronaldo had by then.”We cannot do anything, he decided to leave and we have to respect that,” Nacho said.

“Cristiano set the bar very high,” Keylor Navas added. “You cannot cover the sun with your finger.”

Any team would miss Ronaldo’s sheer weight of goals - after all, he hit 30 for nine consecutive seasons - but it was only a fortnight ago his departure was being hailed as a boost to balance, unity, not to mention Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale.

Bale was left at home on Tuesday night, to shake off a thigh strain, but Benzema started, and was supposed to assume the mantle.

He was captain too, as if to emphasise the point.

Instead, the Frenchman deliv-

Mladen ANTONOV / AFP

Real Madrid’s Croatian midfielder Luka Modric gestures after the UEFA Champions League group G football match between PFC CSKA Moscow and Real Madrid CF at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow on October 2, 2018.

ered the sort of performance that has become all-too familiar in recent years, high on effort, low on precision, and rushing those chances that fell to him.

“We didn’t have that bit of luck you need,” Lopetegui said. Madrid did hit the woodwork three times.

There is a wave of fan support behind Mariano Diaz, the striker Real Madrid re-signed from Lyon in the summer, who began his career in the club’s C team. Mariano came off the bench and when he hit the post with a late header, it was not lost on some that he had leapt higher than Benzema, hoisting himself on and above his teammate’s back.

After a bright start under Lopetegui, that included four goals in his first three league games, Benzema has gone six without any.

“We have full confidence in him, strikers go in streaks,” Lopetegui said. “Scoring is not the responsibility only of Benzema, it is for the

whole team.”

In that sense, Benzema was not offered the best of support.

Lopetegui fielded a weakened line-up, with Bale allowed to recuperate, Sergio Ramos left at home and Modric starting on the bench. Isco and Marcelo, who also add attacking impetus, were missing injured.

Madrid have three games before facing Barcelona at the Camp Nou on October 28, a match that is shaping up to be a battle of the beleaguered, although much could change before then.

Alaves await on Saturday, when Bale could return, before winnable matches at home to Levante and Plzen, for which Isco and Marcelo may both be back.

Lopetegui will be hoping for some relief, and goals. “Ten days ago we played a magnificent game against Roma,” he said. “We were not invincible then and we are not terrible now.” (afp)

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Thursday, October 4, 2018

Mourinho and Manchester United longing for past glories

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho again pointed the finger at his players’ failings rather than his own shortcomings after a 0-0 Champions League draw with Valencia that did little to lift spirits at Old Trafford.

Mourinho has now failed to win in four consecutive home matches for the first time in his career following defeat to Tottenham, a draw against newly promoted Wolves and a League Cup exit on penalties to second division Derby.

Already nine points adrift of Premier League leaders Manchester City and Liverpool, it now appears a question of when and not if Mourinho goes, with an unhappy

squad now mirrored by disgruntled fans and outspoken former players.

The home faithful implored their side to “attack, attack, attack” in the second half of Tuesday’s stalemate.

But unlike the old days under Alex Ferguson, there was no late onslaught on the Valencia goal as the Spaniards, who have won just one game in nine themselves this season, comfortably held out for a point.

“We don’t have the technical quality to build from the back,” said Mourinho of United’s often route one football.

“We knew we wouldn’t create 20 chances. Our attacking players aren’t in their best moments of confidence and individual level.”

As some of Ferguson’s most famous pupils watched on, it was another 90 minutes that showed how far United have fallen since the class of ‘92 made their mark by going for the throat of Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Juventus among others on thrilling European nights at Old Trafford.

- ‘Embarrassing the club’ -

Lindsey PARNABY / AFP

Manchester United’s Portuguese manager Jose Mourinho shouts instructions to his players from the touchline during the Champions League group H football match between Manchester United and Valencia at Old Trafford in Manchester, north west England, on October 2, 2018.

David Beckham, Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville and Nicky Butt were in attendance, while Paul Scholes was scathing of Mourinho even before the match started following a dire 3-1 defeat at West Ham on Saturday.

“I think his mouth is probably out of control and I think he’s embarrassing the club,” said Scholes, who also expressed his surprise that Mourinho is still in charge.

For how much longer will depend on how long the club’s executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward is willing to let his bet on the Portuguese run before cutting his losses.

A failure to qualify for the Champions League is what forced Woodward’s hand in the past in firing David Moyes and Louis van Gaal. Mourinho’s contract with United runs until 2020, meaning sacking the Portuguese would mean a significant payout.

United already sit five points off the top four after seven games and have daunting trips to Chelsea and Manchester City to come in two of their next five Premier League games as well as two Champions League clashes with Juventus.

Mourinho has at least got the three-time European champions back on the Champions League stage by winning the Europa League in his first campaign and finishing second to City in the Premier League last season. (afp)

In this Aug. 25, 2018 file photo Juventus’ Cristiano Ronaldo looks to the sky as he reacts during the Serie A soccer match between Juventus and Lazio at the Allianz Stadium in Turin, Italy.

AP Photo/Luca Bruno, file

Soccer star Ronaldo sued, accused of rape

by Nevada woman

Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo is being sued by a Nevada woman who said he raped her in the penthouse suite of a Las Vegas hotel in 2009 and then dispatched a team of “fixers” to obstruct the criminal investigation and trick her into keeping quiet for $375,000.

The suit says the woman asked police last month to reopen the criminal case; Las Vegas police confirmed to The Associated Press on Monday that they have reopened a sexual assault case from 2009 brought by the woman named in the lawsuit. The AP does not identify those who say they have been sexually assaulted.

Ronaldo’s attorney, Christian Schertz, did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. But after a report on the case in Der Spiegel last week, he threatened to sue the German magazine, saying: “It violates the personal rights of our client Cristiano Ronaldo in an exceptionally serious way.”

In a smiling Instagram video posted hours after the suit was filed, Ronaldo appears to deny the allegations.

“Fake. Fake news,” said the five-time world player of the year, who moved to Juventus from Real Madrid this summer. “You want to promote by my name. It’s normal.

They want to be famous, to say my name. But it is part of the job. I am a happy man and all good.”

The woman’s attorneys did not immediately respond to a telephone message seeking comment.

The lawsuit claims that the woman, who was then 24, went with a friend to the Rain nightclub at the Palms Hotel and Casino on the night of June 12, 2009, and met Ronaldo there. It says he invited a group of people up to his suite “to enjoy the view of the Las Vegas strip” and then into the hot tub; according to the suit, he then barged in on her as she was changing, exposed himself and asked her for oral sex.

When she refused, the lawsuit

claims, he raped her.

According to the lawsuit, and confirmed by police spokesman Aden OcampoGomez to the AP, the woman named in the suit reported the attack to police the same day.

OcampoGomez said she also asked for a “sexual assault test,” which was performed at the University Medical Center.

The woman refused to tell police where the assault took place or assist with identifying a suspect other than to say he was a European soccer player, the spokesman said.

A Portuguese citizen, Ronaldo was transferred from Manchester United to Real Madrid in the summer of 2009 for a then-record sum of 94 million euros, or about $130 million.

“As of now this is an ongoing investigation and no further details are being released at this time,” OcampoGomez said.

The lawsuit claims that the woman’s family arranged for a lawyer “who only had several years of legal experience.” Negotiations left her with “intrusive thoughts, an increased sense of extreme anxiety and fearfulness, complete helplessness and passivity,” the lawsuit says.

“The psychological trauma of the sexual assault, the fear of public humiliation and retaliation and the reiteration of those fears by law enforcement and medical providers left plaintiff terrified and unable to act or advocate for herself,” the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit also accuses Ronaldo or those working for him of battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, coercion and fraud, abuse of a vulnerable person, racketeering and civil conspiracy, defamation, abuse of process, breach of contract, and negligence for allowing details of the confidential settlement to leak out.

It asks for general damages, special damages, punitive damages and special relief, each in excess of $50,000, along with interest, attorney fees and court costs.(ap)

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Goal-shy Madrid leave Lopetegui with more questions than answers The last time Real Madrid went three games without a goal was in January 2007 and at the end of the season Fabio Capello was sacked.

Few deficiencies irk the fans at the Santiago Bernabeu more than shyness in attack and after an encouraging start under Julen Lopetegui, Madrid have drifted off course.

Their 1-0 defeat by CSKA Moscow on Tuesday left them three games without a win, even if none of those were straight-forward, the previous two coming away to Sevilla and at home to Atletico Madrid.

“The atmosphere in the dressing room is not good,” Luka Modric said. “When you do not score in three consecutive games, it is a bit of a worry.”

In terms of position, the dip has

barely made a scratch, with Madrid still level on points at the top of La Liga with the equally out of form Barcelona.

In the Champions League, they sit third in Group G, behind CSKA and Roma, but with a pair of games against the weakest side, Viktoria Plzen, coming up next. As they have proven in the last two seasons, group stage stumbles are easily corrected.

But there is concern about the team’s bluntness up front, a complaint that instantly references Cristiano Ronaldo, the decision to sell and the failure to sign an elite replacement. “Sindrome Cristiano,” El Pais called it on Wednesday.

Madrid have scored four fewer goals than in their first two group games than last season, coinciden-

tally the number Ronaldo had by then.”We cannot do anything, he decided to leave and we have to respect that,” Nacho said.

“Cristiano set the bar very high,” Keylor Navas added. “You cannot cover the sun with your finger.”

Any team would miss Ronaldo’s sheer weight of goals - after all, he hit 30 for nine consecutive seasons - but it was only a fortnight ago his departure was being hailed as a boost to balance, unity, not to mention Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale.

Bale was left at home on Tuesday night, to shake off a thigh strain, but Benzema started, and was supposed to assume the mantle.

He was captain too, as if to emphasise the point.

Instead, the Frenchman deliv-

Mladen ANTONOV / AFP

Real Madrid’s Croatian midfielder Luka Modric gestures after the UEFA Champions League group G football match between PFC CSKA Moscow and Real Madrid CF at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow on October 2, 2018.

ered the sort of performance that has become all-too familiar in recent years, high on effort, low on precision, and rushing those chances that fell to him.

“We didn’t have that bit of luck you need,” Lopetegui said. Madrid did hit the woodwork three times.

There is a wave of fan support behind Mariano Diaz, the striker Real Madrid re-signed from Lyon in the summer, who began his career in the club’s C team. Mariano came off the bench and when he hit the post with a late header, it was not lost on some that he had leapt higher than Benzema, hoisting himself on and above his teammate’s back.

After a bright start under Lopetegui, that included four goals in his first three league games, Benzema has gone six without any.

“We have full confidence in him, strikers go in streaks,” Lopetegui said. “Scoring is not the responsibility only of Benzema, it is for the

whole team.”

In that sense, Benzema was not offered the best of support.

Lopetegui fielded a weakened line-up, with Bale allowed to recuperate, Sergio Ramos left at home and Modric starting on the bench. Isco and Marcelo, who also add attacking impetus, were missing injured.

Madrid have three games before facing Barcelona at the Camp Nou on October 28, a match that is shaping up to be a battle of the beleaguered, although much could change before then.

Alaves await on Saturday, when Bale could return, before winnable matches at home to Levante and Plzen, for which Isco and Marcelo may both be back.

Lopetegui will be hoping for some relief, and goals. “Ten days ago we played a magnificent game against Roma,” he said. “We were not invincible then and we are not terrible now.” (afp)

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International

Thursday, October 4, 2018

International

LeBron gets ovation in Staples Center debut

LOS ANGELES - LeBron James received a rapturous reception in his home debut for the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday but was unable to prevent his new team from slipping to a second pre-season defeat to the Denver Nuggets.

James, who joined the Lakers in July from the Cleveland Cavaliers on a four-year deal, was given a rousing standing ovation by the Staples Center crowd as he arrived on court.

The 33-year-old delighted the crowd with some silky touches during 15 first-half minutes.

He finished with 13 points, three assists, three rebounds, two steals and four turnovers during

Batuan Temple

TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA / AFP

Kei Nishikori of Japan hits the return during his men’s singles second round match against France’s Benoit Paire at the Japan Open tennis championships in Tokyo on October 3, 2018.

Old Balinese Temple near Ubud GIANYAR - Batuan Temple is a local Balinese Hindu temple looked after by the local resident of Batuan countryside. The temple is designed very beautiful with full of Balinese ornaments and the roof temple building is made from the fiber of chromatic black palm tree.

It is strategically located beside of the main road from Denpasar to Ubud. For over a thousand years, Batuan has been a village of artists and craftsmen, old legends and mysterious tales.

Batuan Temple is not only emitting a high spiritual vibration, but also representing the historical values. You can look inside there are many stunning ancient relics from prehistoric times. How the influence of Hindu culture in Bali made of natural stones in this temple

become a place of worship, both to their ancestors and worshiped Hindu Deities. You will amaze in finding some ancient and unique statues there. Based on a number of statues found in this Puseh Temple, it can be grouped into several types.

They are Dwarapala Statue, Embodiment Statue, Animal Statues, The Status Figure of Holding the Chicken, Phallus, Demons (Time), and many more.

Batuan Temple, referred to locally as ‘Pura Puseh lan Pura Desa Adat Batuan’, is a focal landmark in the namesake village of Batuan, well-known for its traditional Balinese arts and paintings. Within only a 10km transfer south from Ubud central, the site features a grand complex of shrines laid out within its 0.65Ha complex. Well preserved sandstone bas motifs

and well-preserved traditional Balinese temple architecture are its main draws. This 11th century temple faces a separate large communal hall from where most visitors start their visit. When there’s no major temple ceremony on, which otherwise occupies this space with towering fruit and flower offerings, it is filled with local artists and craftsmen displaying their latest work, from batiks to framed paintings and statuettes.

With a compulsory sash and cloth around your waist, you can cross over the road to enter the main temple grounds.

Up the five-tiered ‘candi bentar’ gate of Batuan Temple, you’ll come across various reliefs depicting mythical Balinese figures and floral themes, as well as statues depicting the Hindu trinity, Brahma, Vishnu

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15 minutes on court in the first half before sitting out all of the second half.

The game ended in a 113-111 win for Denver, who had also beaten the Lakers in San Diego on Sunday in James’ first game with his new club.

Earlier Tuesday, James told reporters he was still adjusting to his new environment, and once again cautioned that the new-look Lakers squad would take time to gel.

“We’ve got a new group. We’re not at the level that a lot of the teams are in terms of cohesiveness and chemistry,” James said following morning practice.

“Every day is another opportunity for us to get better.” (afp)

and Shiva further inside. A series of multi-tiered thatched-roof shrines within the temple’s inner courtyard are set in a layout that is typical of all large temple complexes in Bali. The temple pavilion’s wooden beams and ceilings are heavily engraved and gold gilded. A visit to any temple in Bali is best during

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Nishikori squashes Paire to reach Tokyo quarters

TOKYO - Local hero Kei Nishikori put down a marker in his quest for a third Japan Open title as he outgunned France’s Benoit Paire on Wednesday to reach the last eight.

The third seed, who lifted the trophy in 2012 and 2014, completed a 6-3, 7-5 victory despite late resistance from Paire to avenge a semi-final defeat inflicted by the hulking Frenchman in Tokyo three years ago.

Meanwhile, former champion Nick Kyrgios flickered into life for just long enough to dispatch Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka 7-5, 7-6 (7/3) in the first round.

Nishikori tore out of the blocks, winning the first five games before Paire finally got on the scoreboard.

Paire tugged at his beard in despair after Nishikori snaffled the opening set but raced to a 3-0 lead in the second set before the Japanese number one rattled off five straight games.

An increasingly prickly Paire pulled off an outrageous betweenthe-legs volley and subsequently levelled with a backhand rocket, letting out a guttural roar as Nishikori shook his head in disbelief.

But the world number 12 almost took Paire’s head off to break again for 6-5, further irritating the Frenchman, who flirted with a penalty point after kicking his racquet into his chair.

Nishikori, who won the last of his 11 career titles in Memphis two years ago, closed out the match with a ferocious cross-court forehand that Paire battered wide.

“I had a few dangerous moments but I stuck to my game,” said Nishikori.

“It was important to stay with him and dig in. I’m in the quarterfinals now and hopefully I can kick on from here.”

- Different animal Kyrgios appeared a little distracted at times but the controversial Aussie became a different animal after Nishioka, who won his first ATP tour title at last week’s Shenzhen Open, forced a tiebreak in the second set.

Roused into action, Kyrgios unleashed a string of monstrous shots to steam through the breaker.

The 23-year-old, who has complained that playing the late season tour in Asia makes him feel depressed and lonely, fired 20 aces and sealed victory with a flamboyant backhand overhead after 73 minutes to book a place in the last 16.

Kyrgios has been fined for “tanking” matches in Shanghai the past two years but captured one of his four career titles at the 2016 Japan Open.

He faces eighth seed Richard Gasquet for a place in the quarterfinals.

Meanwhile, Wimbledon finalist Kevin Anderson survived a scare against Australian Matthew Ebden, the second seed coming through 4-6, 7-6 (7/1) to reach the last 16. The South African plays American Frances Tiafoe in the last 16. (afp)

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LeBron James #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers shoots the ball at practice at UCLA Health Training Center on September 25, 2018 in El Segundo, California.

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Trio win Nobel Chemistry Prize for research harnessing evolution

STOCKHOLM - US scientists Frances Arnold and George Smith and British researcher Gregory Winter won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for applying the principles of evolution to develop enzymes used to make everything from biofuels to pharmaceuticals, the jury said.

Arnold, just the fifth woman to win the Nobel Chemistry Prize, won one half of the nine million Swedish kronor (about $1.01 million or 870,000 euros) award, while Smith and Winter shared the other half.

“The 2018 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry have taken control of evolution and used it for purposes that bring the greatest benefit to humankind,” the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences said.

The trio used the same principles of evolution -- genetic change and selection -- to develop proteins used in a range of fields.

“They have applied the principles of Darwin in test tubes. They have used the molecular understanding we have of the evolutionary process and recreated the process in their labs,” the head of the Academy’s Nobel Chemistry committee, Claes Gustafsson, told reporters.

“They have been able to make evolution many 1000s of times faster and redirect it to create new proteins.”

Arnold, 62, is a professor of chemical engineering at the California Institute of Technology. Her work has made it possible to solve problems such as replacing toxic chemicals like fossil fuels.

Her method of creating new proteins with desired properties is being used to convert renewable resources like sugar cane into biofuels, and to make more environmentally friendly chemical substances, improving everyday products such as laundry and dishwashing detergents to enhance their performance in cold temperatures.

Smith, of the University of Missouri, and Winter, 67, of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge, meanwhile developed an “elegant method” known as phage display, where a bacteriophage -- a virus that infects bacteria -- can be used to evolve new proteins, the jury said.

Jonas EKSTROMER / TT News Agency / AFP Pharmaceuticals for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and inflamA screen displays portraits of Frances H Arnold of the United States, George P Smith of the United matory bowel diseases have resulted from their research, as well States and Gregory P Winter of Great Britain during the announcement of the winners of the 2018 No- as anti-bodies that can neutralise toxins, counteract autoimmune bel Prize in Chemestry at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on October 3, 2018 in Stockholm. diseases and cure metastatic cancer. (afp)

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Signs of desperation are growing, with police officers forced to fire warning shots and teargas to ward off people ransacking shops.

Six of the Indonesian social affairs ministry’s trucks laden with supplies were reportedly looted enroute to Palu and on one route out of the city, an AFP journalist saw youths blocking the road and asking for “donations”.

On the outskirts of the city, hundreds of people sifted through the ruins of a collapsed factory, salvaging food, drinks

and construction materials.

Indonesia President Joko Widodo, who faces reelection next year, insisted the military and the police were in full control. “There is no such thing as looting,” he said on a visit to Palu.

- Body bag shortage As survivors pick through the shattered remains of their neighbourhoods, the death toll continues to rise.

The Indonesia-based ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance said that more body bags were “urgently” needed as fears grow that decomposing corpses could

provide a breeding ground for deadly diseases.

Rescue efforts have been hampered by a lack of heavy machinery, severed transport links and the scale of the damage.

In yet another reminder of Indonesia’s vulnerability to natural disasters, the Soputan Volcano in Sulawesi erupted Wednesday, spewing volcanic ash up to 4,000 metres above the crater.

The state disaster agency warned people to stay at least four kilometres (two and a half miles) away, but said there was no need to evacuate for the time being.

International aid offers have picked up since Jakarta’s belated

request for help, with the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund announcing late Tuesday that it was releasing $15 million in aid.

On Wednesday, Australia said it was sending a medical team to the disaster zone and providing an additional $5 million in aid.

- ‘There’s no toilet’ With power returning to parts of Palu late Tuesday and phone networks back up and running, there were some signs of things getting back to normal. But for most, daily life has changed beyond all recognition.

Palu residents crowded around daisy-chained power

strips at the few buildings with electricity, or queued for water, cash or petrol being brought in via armed police convoy.

Queues to get a few litres of petrol lasted more than 24 hours in some places. Sanitation is also a growing problem.

“People everywhere want to go to the toilet but there’s no toilet. So we do it along the road at night,” said 50-year-old Armawati Yarmin.

Indonesia sits along the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, the world’s most tectonically active region, and its 260 million people remain hugely vulnerable to earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. (afp)

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Volcano erupts on same Indonesian island as earlier quake JAKARTA — A volcano erupted Wednesday on the same central Indonesian island struck last week by a powerful earthquake and tsunami, and authorities warned planes about volcanic ash in the air.

Mount Soputan on Sulawesi island spewed a massive column of ash more than 6,000 meters (19,700 feet) into the sky. No evacuations were immediately ordered.

A government volcanologist said it’s possible the eruption was accelerated by the magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck on Friday.

“It could be that this earthquake triggered the eruption, but we have seen an increase in volcanic activity since July and this began surging on Monday. Yet we can’t say there a direct link, as the mountain is quite far away,” Kasbani, the head of Indonesia’s Volcanology and Geology Disaster Mitigation Agency, said on local television.

Kasbani, who uses one name, said planes have been warned to avoid the area.

Nazli Ismail, a geophysicist at the University of Syiah Kuala in Banda Aceh on Sumatra island stressed there was no concrete evidence to show the two incidents are linked.

“People talk about the butterfly effect. The concept is that when a butterfly flaps its wings, it can cause a catastrophe,” he said. “So it is possible for the earthquake to trigger the volcano eruption, but it’s not conclusive. This needs to be further investigated.”

Danny Hillman Natawidjaja, a geologist with Indonesia’s Institute of Science, echoed the views, saying there was not enough data to make a link.

“In principle, the seismic waves from the earthquake could increase pressure in the volcano’s magma chamber and could cause an eruption. We don’t know for sure,” he said. He cited the example of the eruption of Mount Talang volcano in Indonesia’s Sumatra province in April 2005, which geologists have said was connected to the devastating December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.

Ismail said the Soputan volcano eruption isn’t surprising as Indonesia sits on the seismically active Pacific “Ring of Fire,” and Soputan is one of the most active volcanoes on the island.

Soputan’s eruption status was raised from an alert to standby 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from the summit and up to 6.5 kilometers to

the west-southwest. Standby status means the public should avoid the area nearest the volcano and have masks available in the event of ash fall.

Planes were warned of the ash clouds because volcanic ash is hazardous for their engines.

National disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho dismissed concerns that the volcano’s eruption could affect planes transporting aid and supplies to the quake disaster areas. The earthquake set off a tsunami and devastated several communities, with the official death toll rising Wednesday to 1,407 and expected to increase further. Thousands of others are injured and more than 70,000 have been displaced from their homes.

Nugroho said volcanic ash is not

heading to the city of Palu, where most of the victims from the quake and tsunami are from, as the wind is blowing in another direction. He said it hasn’t disrupted plane services or affected any evacuations from the disaster areas.

Nugroho denounced videos that had appeared on social media allegedly showing villagers fleeing from billowing black smoke from the volcano and a long smoldering lava river as a hoax. He said so far no lava has spewed out from Soputan. No injuries or deaths have been reported and there is no need for any evacuation at the moment, he added.

Indonesia is an archipelago of more than 250 million people and government seismologists monitor more than 120 active volcanoes.(ap)

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A giant plume of volcanic ash rises from Mount Soputan, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, in the town of Tomohon, Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. The volcano erupted Wednesday morning on the same central Indonesian island as an earlier earthquake and authorities warned planes about volcanic ash in the air.

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BUSINESS US factories grew at slower pace in September

WASHINGTON - U.S. factories grew at a slower pace in September as manufacturers continued to cope with supply disruptions stemming from trade disputes with China, Europe, Mexico and Canada.

The disruptions forced manufacturers to make a larger draw on their inventories.

Overall the country’s industry continues to show strength, the Institute for Supply Management reported Monday. The trade group of purchasing managers said its manufacturing index fell last month to 59.8 from 61.3 in August. Anything over 50 signals growth, and U.S. manufacturing is on a 25-month winning streak.

Fifteen of 18 manufacturing industries expanded in September, led by makers of textiles, plastics and rubber products, and computers and electronics.

Growth in new orders slowed in September, but production and hiring grew faster.

Uncertainty over U.S. trade policy and tariffs continues to dominate industry concerns, with executives responding to the survey citing chaotic market conditions.

U.S. tariffs on imported steel and aluminum are raising costs for many manufacturers.

Labor shortages also continue to crimp manufacturers.

Last week, the U.S.-China battle escalated as President Donald Trump went ahead with a tax hike on $200 billion of Chinese imports. Beijing retaliated by imposing penalties on $60 billion of U.S. products.

For supply managers, “I would call every day a chaotic event,” Timothy Fiore, chair of ISM’s manufacturing survey committee, said in a telephone interview. He is chief procurement officer at transportation company Ryder System Inc. Canada reached a new deal late Sunday that puts it back in a revamped North American free trade pact with the U.S. and Mexico after weeks of bitter, high-pressure negotiations. It replaces the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, which Trump had called a jobkilling disaster.

The new agreement gives U.S. farmers greater access to the Canadian dairy market.

But it keeps a NAFTA dispute-resolution process that the U.S. wanted to toss out, and offers Canada protection if Trump goes ahead with plans to impose tariffs on cars, trucks and auto parts imported into the U.S. While the deal provides some certainty, Fiore said, “The big disappointment is that steel and aluminum won’t be included.”

The overall economic backdrop for the U.S. remains healthy. The economy, fueled in part by tax cuts enacted in December, expanded in the April-June quarter at a 4.2 percent annual pace, the best in nearly four years.

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Italy digs in on spending, jolting markets and worrying EU

MILAN - Italy’s leaders refused to budge from new spending plans that have been spooking investors, pushing the eurozone’s third-largest economy on a collision course with its EU partners.

Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said Tuesday that the government “will not back up one millimeter” from spending that will increase the country’s deficit to 2.4 percent of annual GDP, beyond previous commitments.

The government’s plans and subsequent clashes with EU technocrats have jolted investors, who are now charging Italy more to borrow in bond markets. On Tuesday, the yield on Italy’s 10-year bond was up 0.10 percentage point at 3.40 percent, and that’s increased the difference between the Italian benchmark and the sturdy German benchmark to 3 percentage points, the highest level this year.

“This verbal toing and froing between Italy and Brussels is likely to keep investors a little cautious of piling back into Italian assets,” said Michael Hewson of CMC Markets.

On Monday, Economic Minister Giovanni Tria’s was warned by his counterparts in the 19-country eurozone that Italy’s plans break the rules of the single currency bloc. The EU’s economy commissioner, Pierre Moscovici, said the plans represent “a very significant deviation from the commitment which had been taken.”

That claim drew an angry response from Di Maio, who accused Moscovici of “creating terrorism with the markets.” Tria insisted the government’s plans would promote growth in Italy of 1.6 percent next year, which would keep public finances in control.

But political analyst Wolfango Piccoli of Teneo Intelligence called the growth target optimistic, with growth trending around 1.1 percent. Italy’s economy has been a laggard for years, with growth well below that of many other countries in the eurozone. Unemployment also remains relatively high at 9.7 percent.

Tria skipped Tuesday’s wider meeting of the EU’s 28 finance chiefs to return to Rome to work on the budget, which must be submitted to Brussels by mid-October.

In Luxembourg, European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis kept up the pressure on Italy on the sidelines of the finance ministers’ meeting, noting that Italy has been a chief beneficiary of rules for more flexibility.

“Discussions about draft budget plan seem to be heading into a direction which goes substantially beyond this flexibility,” Dombrovskis said. “It is a fact that Italy has the second highest debt-to-GDP ratio in the EU, second after Greece and the highest debt servicing costs

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Omed-Omedan Tradition, Originally Held on Nyepi Day

Every celebration of Ngembak Geni, the day after Nyepi, Kaja hamlet, Sesetan, always organizes omed-omedan tradition. This tradition has been held since the kingdom era and remains to be maintained until now. However, there are some changes in the implementation compared to the omed-omedan in the past. What are the changes?

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French Economy, Finance Trade Minister Bruno Le Maire (L) talks with Italian Minister of Economy and Finance Giovanni Tria during an Eurogroup meeting at the EU headquarters in Luxembourg on October 1, 2018. in the EU. It’s important that Italy sticks with responsible fiscal and macroeconomic policy also to maintain interest rates at acceptably low levels,” he said.

Italy’s government announced last week it would increase spending next year to push through promises made during this year’s election. The government’s plan sees the country’s budget deficit rising to 2.4 percent of GDP despite pledges to keep it under 2 percent. While still within the 3-percent limit set by EU rules, the higher limit will increase the country’s stubbornly high public debt.

It remains unclear what action the EU might take. The EU had placed France in an “excessive deficit procedure” for almost a decade without fining it. And Germany has in the past broken the EU deficit limit, also without fines.

Piccoli said that Italy’s deficit target “is generally not worth the paper it is printed on,” noting that the planned deficit of 1.8 percent of GDP in the 2013-16 period actually ranged between 2.5 percent and 3 percent.

The higher spending in the new plan is aimed at satisfying election promises by the 5-Star Movement for a basic income for job seekers, while its partner in government, the League, pledged to reduce taxes. Both want to repeal an unpopular pension reform.

The government hasn’t given details on how the increased spending would be paid for, but 5-Star leader Di Maio defended the budget targets, saying on RTL radio that he “hopes’” the plans would raise GDP by 2 percent in 2019, significantly above forecasts by Tria, who is not aligned to any party. (ap)

One of the descendants of Oka Palace of Kaja hamlet, Sesetan, I Gusti Ngurah Oka Putra, said the omed-omedan tradition was started approximately in the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries originating from his ancestor (Batara Kompyang) denoting a senior figure of Sesetan village at that time. Ahead of Nyepi Day, his ancestor named Anak Agung Made Raka suffered a severe illness.

“He was difficult to stand, let alone walk. He also forbade his citizens to visit him. However, when Nyepi arrived, residents of Kaja hamlet, Sesetan, were sad and disappointed because they were prohibited from visiting and serving him at that time. Amid the sadness and disappointment, they gathered and held tug-of-war known as omed-omedan. This is the embryo of the tradition,” said Oka Putra to Bali Post, not long ago.

As a result of the incident, said this man familiarly addressed as Turah Bima, his ancestor who was sick became angry and ordered his family to take him to the front of royal palace. Perhaps, he wanted to yell and chase away his servants as making commotion in front of the royal palace. However, when arriving at the front of royal palace, his sickness had completely gone.

Immediately, he undid his intention to ban the crowds, even wanted to do in the contrary. Starting that day,

the omed-omedan was held every year on Nyepi Day. At that time, people have not known the existence of catur brata penyepian (four abstinences) so that omed-omedan was still held on Nyepi Day. Oka Putra added that in line with the development of understanding on religion and interpretation of the Nyepi Day with the catur brata penyepian echoed by the government and Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI), the timing of the tradition was changed. Then, it was moved to the following day right on Ngembak Geni instead of on Nyepi Day. “This happened around the 1980s because in the past people were only abstaining from lighting fire on Nyepi,” he said.

Over time, this tradition got negative assessment from outsiders.

People judged the tradition of omedomedan is synonymous with mass kissing. Due to being angry with the judgment, Ngurah Oka as the heir of the originator of the tradition had banned the implementation of the omed-omedan tradition around the 1984s. “I rejected the false accusation disparaging our residents.

Friction of the young people in the omed-omedan may happen, but the point is not the kissing,” he said.

At that time, at the location of the omed-omedan tradition was posted the announcement if the omed-omedan was abolished.

Despite the publication of such

announcement, people and audiences kept coming and gathering to meet at the usual venue of the omed-omedan tradition. Surprisingly, there were actually two pigs fighting to be getting bloody and then disappeared somewhere.

After such strange incident, I Gusti Ngurah Oka Putra along with hamlet leaders and community leaders deliberated at the venue to discuss the incident and analyzed what would happen after the incident. “Immediately, following the decision of the deliberation, the hamlet apparatuses summoned the youth club members of Kaja hamlet, Sesetan, to prepare and carry out the omed-omedan tradition at that time as in previous years and would continue every year,” he said.

According to Oka Putra, at first the tradition was directly coordinated by his family commenced with ngelawar at his royal palace. Later in the afternoon, the lawar food was given to the teenagers participating in the omed-omedan tradition. After three periods, the tradition was later taken over by sekaa taruna or customary village youth club until now. “In the past, the participants were not just teenagers, but also married people. Moreover, a couple was given a chance at the opening session. But today it is only carried out by sekaa taruna members,” he concluded. (kmb)

The Hindu community in Bali which always preserves its ancestral culture has various unique and delicious traditional cakes or jaje.

There is jaje purely the result of creative process of the community, while the others are the result of acculturation with other regional cultures or even that of other countries.

Whatever the cake is, it remains to be preserved amidst of Balinese society until now. Even, its existence is always associated with ceremonial activities and Hindu ritual on the Island of the Gods.

For example, one of them is jaje cerorot. Optionally, it is often named the jaje blukbuk, usually served when the Hindu community is carrying out a wedding ceremony in the process of proposing. Jaje cerorot is accompanied with a pillow-like cake.

In Bali, this cake belongs to snack made from local (Balinese) rice flour combined with brown sugar and salt. On that account, it has a brownish red color. Cerorot is shaped with young coconut leaf wrap resembling a cone. For children, this cake is often referred to as the trumpet cake because the wrap is like a trumpet.

There is a special technique for eating this cake. If people do not know, they will open the pin (bamboo pin to button the wrap) and then eat the soft and creamy cake. For those who already know the technique of eating it will push on the tip at the lower end of the young coconut leaf pointing to the top, so that the content of the cake appears. Just press and adjust how long we are able to chew it.

If you eat a little, then push it a little too, and if you can eat at once, then push it full. Once again, to take out the content fully, push the pointed end of the wrapper so that

the content comes out. There is no need to open the curd of the wrap when eating the cake.

Lately, this cake is usually used for refreshment served for guests to accompany the drinks like coffee or tea. It is usually easy to get as widely sold in traditional markets and cake shops. Unlike before, if there was no wedding ceremony, this was not made. Unfortunately, this sweet tasting cake can only last for one day.

The ingredients used to make the jaje cerorot are local rice, brown sugar and salt (to taste). First of all, the rice is washed clean, and then soaked overnight. After that, resume and make it into flour. In the past, the making of flour in the traditional way was pounded with pestle in the mortar. Then, sieve the flour. This traditionally made flour makes the cake taste better when compared to flour made by factory.

Brown sugar is then liquefied with hot water and then filtered as well. Next, add flour into the cold brown sugar liquid with the addition of enough salt. To prepare the wrap, make the packaging from young coconut leaf. Remove the stick of the leaf, fold at one of the ends and then twist circularly resembling a cone. After the coconut leaf wrap has been made, the mixture is poured into the wrapper.

Be careful, do not let it be full because when steamed it can melt and fall.

Finally, steam them until cooked (for approximately 20 minutes). To check whether the cake is already cooked, insert a palm stick into the steamed dough. If the dough is not sticky when being pulled, it means the cake is already cooked. If it has been cooked, take out the cake and it is ready to be served. (kmb)

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Farmers of Subak Gede Tembuku presents Krisik waterfall

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BANGLI - The community of Tembuku village continues to explore the existing natural potential to be developed into an attractive tourist destination. After successfully featuring a tourist destination named the Tukad Cepung Waterfall, now the village community has another attraction named the Krisik Waterfall. The new tourist object is presented and managed by farmers of Subak Tembuku Kelod.

Krisik Waterfall is located at Tembuku Kelod hamlet. To reach the location of waterfall, visitors must go through an overlay of farmers’ paddy fields and irrigation channels with very clear water. After going through the fields, visitors still have to explore short pathway. Prior to arriving at the location of waterfall, visitors need to pass a very beautiful stone wall with lovely texture.

Chief of Subak Gede Tembuku Kelod, I Wayan Sumada, when met on Sunday (Sep. 30) stated the waterfall has begun to be arranged by the members of Subak Tembuku Kelod since last March. They develops the potential of the Krisik waterfall as a tourist attraction started by the visit of a number of tourists getting interested in seeing the local agriculture after visiting the Tukad Cepung tourist attraction. Seeing the potential, farmers then tried to arrange the potential like the waterfall into a tourist destination. Hopefully, it can develop and prosper the people of Tembuku village.

Sumada said even though it was just arranged and opened, so far there are enough tourists coming to enjoy the natural atmosphere of Krisik waterfall. “We present this Krisik waterfall as additional attraction. Our main feature is trekking activity crossing the paddy fields remaining to be cultivated traditionally as well as natural scenery of Mount Agung,” he explained accompanied by the treasurer of Subak Tembuku Kelod,

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Krisik Waterfall I Wayan Pintu.

He explained the waterfall named Krisik (Balinese word) because the waterfall sounds to gurgle. The name has also been used by local people since a long time ago to call the location. According to ancestral stories, the water falling among the rocks has never dried

up, despite facing a long dry season.

Since it remains relatively new, Sumada admitted that many things must still be arranged to attract more tourist visit to the Krisik Waterfall. While operating, his management will continue to organize and develop the Krisik Waterfall so that it can

be known by many tourists as other tourist attractions in Bangli. First thing first done in arranging it is to make the Krisik Waterfall was to make it free from plastic waste. “In the future, we are going to establish a tourismaware group (Pokdarwis) to manage the tourism objects,” he said. (kmb40)

Water crisis faced by Bunga Mekar inhibits tourism development

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Dry season hitting Klungkung area, especially Nusa Penida subdistrict.

SEMARAPURA - Dry season hitting Klungkung area, especially Nusa Penida subdistrict, caused the residents of Bunga Mekar village to face clean water difficulties. To meet the consumption needs as well as bathing, washing and toilet (MCK), some residents should buy at quite high prices. The condition happening regularly every year also becomes one of the obstacles to the development of tourism sector.

Headman of Bunga Mekar, I Wayan Yasa, stated that currently his residents buy water at IDR 300,000 for 2,200 liters. It is only enough to meet the needs for about

one week. For the underprivileged, this condition is certainly burdensome. “Some underprivileged people are still using rainwater they’ve collected. They should be economical so they don’t buy much,” he explained on Monday (Oct. 1).

He further conveyed that pipeline network of the Municipality Waterworks (PDAM) has reached his territory. However, so far it has just reached Pundukan Kaja and half in the Pundukan Kelod and cannot be used yet. Meanwhile, the other hamlets, namely the Pikat, Sebuluh Kawan, Batugae,

Karangdawa, Penangkidan and Sompang have not been touched at all. “This water difficulty has been happening for a long time so the handling is very much awaited.

This problem has been conveyed to district government repeatedly,” he said.

The handling is also considered urgent to support the tourism sector having a large potential. “If water can reach these areas, tourism can run smoothly. Now, the water remains a problem and still hampers.

Indeed, some roads are damaged but can still be passed through,” he concluded. (kmb45)

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KUALA LUMPUR - Rosmah Mansor, the flamboyant wife of Malaysia’s former prime minister, was arrested Wednesday by the country’s anti-graft agency over a multi-billion-dollar scandal that helped to bring down the last government.

Investigations into the alleged looting of state fund 1MDB by an audacious international fraud ring have already seen her husband Najib Razak hit with more than two dozen charges including corruption and money laundering.

He is out on bail following his spectacular fall from power in May elections, at the hands of a reformist alliance headed by Mahathir Mohamad.

“Rosmah has been arrested,” her lawyer K. Kumaraendran told AFP after she was questioned for hours at the Malaysian AntiCorruption Commission (MACC) on Wednesday.

The MACC in a statement said it arrested Rosmah, 66, in relation to money laundering investigations after getting approval from state prosecutors.

“Following this, Rosmah will face a number of charges,” it said, adding she will be brought to court early on Thursday to be charged.

An MACC official said Rosmah could face up to 15 years in jail if convicted on each charge.

She is expected to spend the night at the MACC headquarters

located in the administrative capital Putrajaya outside Kuala Lumpur.

Rosmah, widely reviled in Malaysia due to her profligate spending and imperious manner while her husband was in power, arrived at the MACC headquarters in a two-car convoy late Wednesday morning. At the same time, her husband was also being questioned by police in a separate location in relation to the scandal.

Najib, 65, has denied any wrongdoing despite revelations that hundreds of millions of dollars ended up in his personal bank accounts.

- Cash, jewellery and handbags Rosmah, wearing a light green dress with matching headscarf, was met by her lawyers and escorted by anti-corruption officers into the agency’s building.

She smiled as she walked past journalists but did not make any comment. In Rosmah’s last appearance a week ago, she was questioned for 13 hours.

Wednesday was the third occasion on which Rosmah had been questioned, but the first time she had been arrested, since her hus-

band’s coalition was dramatically ousted from office after six decades in power. A central issue in the campaign was the allegation that Najib, his family and his cronies looted billions of dollars from 1MDB in a fraud ring that stretched from Singapore to Switzerland.

Rosmah’s love of costly overseas shopping trips, designer handbags and jewellery made her a lightning rod for public anger, and fuelled suspicions that she benefited from the plundering of 1MDB. After the election loss, a stash of cash, jewellery and hundreds of designer handbags worth as much as $273 million was seized from properties linked to the couple in raids around Kuala Lumpur.

Rosmah is often compared to Imelda Marcos, who left behind more than a thousand pairs of shoes after her husband, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, was ousted in a popular uprising in 1986.

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, 93, who came back from retirement to challenge Najib, has launched a crackdown against corruption involving people in the previous government. (afp)

SABRATHA - Perched on the edge of Libya’s Mediterranean coast, the ancient city of Sabratha remains an awe-inspiring spectacle, the pink columns of its amphitheatre towering above turquoise waters.

But the world heritage site is classed as “endangered” by UNESCO, its majestic structures pockmarked by mortar and small arms fire. Shell casings and bullets still litter the surrounding earth, a year after clashes between rival armed groups.

Locals say snipers positioned themselves at the top of the amphitheatre, once a jewel of the Roman Empire.

Bringing bloodshed back to the gladiatorial arena some 18 centuries after it was built, 39 people were killed and 300 wounded in the fighting.

Today, the site around 70 kilometres (45 miles) from the capital lies eerily abandoned, encircled by parched grass and weeds.

Since the toppling and killing of Libya’s dictator Moamer Kadhafi in a 2011 uprising, Sabratha has become a key departure point for illegal migration.

Smugglers and militias have profited amply from a chronic security vacuum.

It is from the long and deserted shores a few kilometres (miles) from ancient Sabratha that most migrants start their perilous boat journeys towards Europe.

- ‘Permanent danger’ UNESCO declared Sabratha to be at risk in July 2016, along with four other Libyan sites on its World Heritage list.

The UN’s cultural organisation based its decision on two factors -- “damage already caused” and

vulnerability to future destruction.

It noted that “armed groups are present on these sites or in their immediate proximity”.

Experts fear worse is to come for the country’s historic sites, as armed groups continue to vie for ascendancy.

Libya’s archaeological heritage is at great risk, warns Mohamad al-Chakchouki, head of the North African country’s department of antiquities.

The “entrenchment of armed groups inside archaeological sites and the battles which have unfolded near the sites, including Sabratha, pose a permanent danger”, he told AFP. The conservation of sites was once entrusted to Western teams.

But these experts have not travelled to Libya “for four years, because of the chaos and insecurity”, said Chakchouki.

Spread out over 90 hectares (220 acres), including a part engulfed by the sea, Sabratha is one of three former cities that constituted Roman Tripolitania.

The others are Oea -- modernday Tripoli -- and Leptis Magna in western Libya that was one of the sites classed as endangered by UNESCO two years ago.

At the mercy of the scorching summer sun and the salty sea breeze, Sabratha suffers from stone erosion and degradation, said Mohamad Abu Ajela, an official at the city’s office of antiquities.

But the “damage caused by man is a greater fear”, he said.

A Spanish archaeological mission recently visited Sabratha and signed an agreement to restore some areas, including the theatre.

But completion of the work “depends on the security situation”, Ajela said. (afp)

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A picture taken on September 1, 2018 shows a portion of the site of the ancient Roman city of Sabratha, around 70 kilometres (45 miles) from the Libyan capital Tripoli.

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Why Do Researchers Want Tissue From Aborted Fetuses?

IMF-WB Annual Meeting

SME players wait for blessings

ACTIVISTS who released a video they say shows a Planned Parenthood doctor discussing the sale of tissue from aborted fetuses have riled up abortion-rights opponents, with House Speaker John Boehner saying the case makes him want to “vomit” and Republican-controlled committees in Congress promising to investigate.

The political firestorm raises a question: Why would anyone use tissue from an aborted fetus?

It’s because some scientists hope they might provide cures for a range of diseases from Parkinson’s to crushed spinal cords.

A SOURCE OF STEM CELLS

Cells from embryos and very early fetuses have properties that fully developed cells do not. What most researchers are after if they use fetal tissue are the stem cells.

The term “stem cell” is confusing because it encompasses many different types of cells. There are the embryonic stem cells, which come from days-old embryos and which have the power to morph into any type of cell in the body – blood, brain, bone or organ. They can be difficult to direct and there’s a whole industry devoted to orchestrating the growth and development of these cells into desired tissue types.

Then there are adult stem cells, found in everyone’s body. These are the stem cells that are taken from the bone marrow, for example, to treat patients with cancer.

They’re already partially developed and they also can elicit an immune response if transplanted into another person’s body. That’s why clinics look so hard for someone who is a “match” for a bone marrow transplant.

Fetal stem cells fall somewhere in between. They grow well in lab dishes and can be kept alive and thriving for years. They’re not fully developed and so they don’t cause the life-threatening immune response that adult stem cells do when transplanted into somebody.

It’s not clear just how frequently these cells are gathered for research uses. Scientists grow batches of cells from many different sources and those that thrive are used for years and passed around. The book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” focuses on one batch that’s been used for decades, taken from a cervical cancer patient.

FROM VACCINES TO REGENERATIVE MEDICINE

Fetal cells were used to develop vaccines, including the measles and polio vaccines.

Companies such as NeuralStem Inc. have developed cells taken from aborted fetuses into possible therapies. They’re testing some now in people with crushed spinal cords who cannot walk, to see if the cells can grow over the injury and restore the nerve connections.

A team at Harvard Medical School’s McLean Hospital has been testing fetal stem cells in patients with Parkinson’s disease.

In Parkinson’s, the brain cells that produce an important messagecarrying chemical called dopamine are destroyed. The transplants aim to replace those cells and restore the dopamine.

They’ve had dramatic effects in some patients, not-so-dramatic effects in others.

There’s work developing stem cells from all three sources to treat type-1 or juvenile diabetes, which is caused when the body mistakenly destroys the pancreas cells that produce insulin. Cells from fetal liver or pancreas have been tested – either source might be well primed to develop into the desired cell type. (IBP/net)

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A microscopic view shows a colony of human embryonic stem cells (light blue) growing on fibroblasts (dark blue) in this handout photo released to Reuters by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, on March 9, 2009.

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The Neco Robo Knights at a robotics competition at Regis University in Denver on Feb. 2. The competition engages students in Grades 7-12 in science, technology, engineering and math.

Study finds boys are not better at math GIRLS get better grades than boys do at all ages, including in math and science, researchers reported Tuesday.

A big analysis of grades covering 1.6 million elementary, high school and university students shows that girls outperform boys at all ages. This includes science, technology, engineering and math subjects, the Australian researchers said.

Their analysis also challenges one prevailing theory about why boys tend to excel in STEM fields: that there are more male “geniuses” who get perfect grades in those subjects, the team at the University of New South Wales in Sydney said.

One difference they did find was that the female advantage is narrower in STEM subjects, especially as students get older and more advanced. But it was still there, Rose O’Dea, who studies biology and applied statistics, and colleagues reported.

They used a new technique for meta-analysis — a study of studies that crunched the numbers in a novel way. They analyzed the results of more than 200 different studies done around the world but mostly in the U.S. “Overall, girls had significantly higher grades than boys by 6.3 percent,” they wrote in their report, published in the journal Nature Communications.

“Simulations of these differences suggest the top 10 percent of a class contains equal numbers of girls and boys in STEM, but more girls in non-STEM subjects,” they added.

Some experts had put forward a theory that boys do better in STEM fields than girls do because there are more males who perform at the

extremely high end of the scale in STEM subjects. According to the theory, boys and girls average out the same, but that is because there are also more boys at the low end.

O’Dea’s team did not find that.

“We definitely did find gender differences,” O’Dea told NBC News. “The differences are quite small. They are particularly small in STEM.” STEM fields are dominated by men, and for decades educators, medical professionals and the general public believed that males were somehow more adept at math, science and similar subjects. Teachers tend to gauge white girls’ math abilities lower than those of white male students, even when the girls’ grades and test scores are comparable to those of boys.

Debate over the theory peaked when then-Harvard University President Lawrence Summers made comments suggesting that women had different biological capabilities. He resigned the next year.

O’Dea has her own theories about why women might steer clear of STEM fields. One is culture.

“Women in male-dominated pursuits, including STEM, face a paradox: If they conform to gender stereotypes, they might be perceived as less competent, but if they defy gender stereotypes and perform ‘like a man,’ then their progress can be halted by ‘backlash’ from both men and women,” she and colleagues wrote.

It is possible that since women have a bigger advantage over men in non-STEM subjects, they tend to gravitate toward those studies in school and college, O’Dea said.

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KLUNGKUNG district does not only have potential in the tourism sector. However, many of its citizens are involved in small and medium enterprises (MSEs) and handicrafts like endek fabrics and Kamasan puppet paintings. Both are going to participate in gracing the IMF-WB Annual Meeting taking place in Nusa Dua next October.

Endek fabrics of Klungkung have its own characteristics. It offers diverse design and colors. It is quite elegant to be seen or transformed into clothing. This traditionally woven fabric remains to be produced and sold in the Semarapura Art Market located in the east of Kertha Gosa tourist attraction. Quite a lot of people are eyeing to make it into the collections of local residents and foreign tourists. The price depends on the design and type, starting from hundreds of thousands per sheet.

Merchants really hoped the IMFWB Annual Meeting can give an impact on their sales as well as wider promotion. This hope was revealed by one of the merchants, Putu Mayuni.

“Hopefully, it will have an impact on our sales,” she said, recently.

Similarly, she began to prepare a variety of typical products that can be possibly sold easily. “Now, our products are mostly purchased by local residents. Sometimes there are also foreign tourists,” he said.

Kamasan puppet painters also await similar blessing. One of them is Jero Mangku Muriati Mura. She supported if the event can be used as a promotional event for her works in the midst of sluggish sales lately.

“Moreover, last year the sales were very quiet. If there is a promotion, it is very good,” he said when he was met on the sidelines of a painting

demonstration at Kertha Gosa.

This woman from Siku hamlet admitted that all this time the district government has made a medium for painters. However, in terms of the promotion of art work, it remains to be done independently. “For instance, I have to look for networks overseas alone,” he added This painting is no longer stranger to Balinese people. It is the work of art having long been a wealth of Klungkung district. It is not just an art but also retaining puppetry stories such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata epics with high philosophies. The selling price varies, depending on the size and complexity.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Klungkung Cooperative, SME and Trade Agency, I Wayan Ardiasa, assessed the endek fabric and the painting are the most likely to be seen by delegates as souvenirs because of their distinctive characteristics in contrast to other regions. “Both are the prominent products of Klungkung.

We want to expand the promotion,” he explained.

Further, he conveyed if the participation in the exhibition is also instruction from the provincial government. His agency welcomed warmly because it can open market opportunities. “We just need to appoint the representing craftsmen. And this has been coordinated,” he said.

At present, the district government has facilitated with promotion through a number of exhibitions, both in the region and at the national level. This has also been carried out by craftsmen, through information technology.

“With direct promotion, people will be able to see the products visually and it’s more convincing,” added this official from Jembrana. (sos)

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Endek surface design of Jehem weavers made into gift of IMF delegates

BANGLI — The IMF-WB Annual Meeting scheduled to take place in Bali next October does not only bring in blessings to the world of tourism but also to a number of craftsmen in Bali. One of them is A.A. Tirta Rai, an endek weaver from Jehem Kelod, Jehem village, Tembuku. Ahead of the IMF event, this 61-year-old weaver got the order in the form of 500 pieces of endek clothes in combination with gold leaf.

His product named the endek surface design will be used as a souvenir for the IMF delegates from a number of countries.

When met at his home on Sunday (Sep. 30), Agung Tirta said the order of endek surface design products had been completed last August. Moreover, the homemade products have been handed over to the IMF committee to be used as souvenirs for delegates.

He added there are at least 20 best designs applied in the making of the 500 pieces of endek surface design.

Likewise, the gold leaf material applied to decorate the endek woven fabrics is more than one type, namely the pearl and glitter.

In the workmanship, he involved quite a lot of craftsmen. Especially for the workmanship of the endek woven fabric, he involved some craftsmen in the Sukawati, Gianyar and Klungkung region. As for decorating process with gold leaf, he employed around ten people from the family and the local community around his house.

This artisan who is also a lecturer in the ISI Denpasar revealed that selection of the endek products by the IMF committee as souvenir was due to his frequent involvement in a number of exhibitions at the provincial and national levels. At the national level, his products have been exhibited at the State Palace on the Dekranasda’s Anniversary some time ago.

All this time, his endek surface design product is

admitted to have received a lot of recognition from consumers because the quality is durable and the designs are beautiful and diverse. He claimed that to create the endek surface design product, he always makes innovations and has the principle that his weaving product is not only convenient to use, but also beautiful to look at and lasts longer.

“Maybe these are the reason for choosing our product into souvenir for the IMF delegates. It is inseparable from the role of Bank Indonesia (BI) having helped foster and promote our products,” he explained.

He also claimed to be very proud and grateful because the endek surface design product having been developed since 2015 is chosen as a souvenir in the IMF event held next October. “We are certainly very proud and grateful because our product is used in this world class event,” said the man having been working on endek crafts since 1978. (kmb40)

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There are at least 20 best designs applied in the making of the 500 pieces of endek surface design.

During five-year leadership

Bali’s economic growth targeted to reach at least 7 percent

DENPASAR — So far, the figures as indicator of the development in Bali have always been better than the national average. Among other things, the poverty rate of Bali is only 4.14 percent or below the national rate at 9.81 percent, unemployment is 0.86 percent while the national rate is 5.15 percent, the gini index is 0.18 percent compared to the national index reaching 0.38 percent, and te HDI reaches 73.4 percent or higher than the national at 70.8 percent.

“This achievement is the work of the previous governor. I indeed read the data of economic development in Bali. Almost all indicators are better than the national average,” said Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster, amid the Regional Financial Management Coordination Meeting at the Wiswas-

abha Utama Office of the Governor of Bali on Monday (Oct. 1).

Other than these indicators, continued Koster, Bali’s economic growth also always exceeds the national average. Currently, for instance, it grows by 5.68 percent compared to national economic growth at 5.27 percent. Meanwhile, the average economic growth of Bali has always been above 6 percent. It only dropped in 2017 to 5.59 percent due to the eruption of Mount Agung. He hoped there will be no more natural disaster in the future that will disturb Bali’s economic growth.

“I see a huge potential gap that can still be further boosted. I have targeted the economic growth of Bali to reach at least 7 percent in the next 5 years. Of course, we cannot do it in

a hurry. Everything must be prepared with a concept, strategy, order and so on,” he explained.

Koster sees the agricultural sector has great potential to boost Bali’s economic growth. Currently, contribution of the GRDP is still dominated by tourism sector reaching 65 percent. Therefore, the agricultural sector still under-managed so far will be more balanced with tourism sector.

It will include craft industry whose development will be encouraged.

Thus, the average economic growth of at least 7 percent can be achieved.

“With the presence of the IMFWorld Bank Annual Meeting, Bappenas calculated (Bali’s economic growth) to reach 6.54 percent. The impact of the IMF will continue to roll out because the infrastructure

has been built. Then, the economic growth centers will appear. So, I think an average of 7 percent until the end of my office can hopefully be achieved,” he explained.

The next challenge, continued Koster, is to reduce the Gini Ratio index in order to narrow the inequality so that it is even getting more fairly and evenly. That is why the development agenda formerly dominated by South Bali will be shifted by developing economic centers in North, East and West Bali. Likewise, the poverty rate alleviation to at least 2 percent is attempted to be achieved within the next 5 years.

“Now, the unemployment rate is already very good, the challenging target is if it can be made into 0 percent or even under 0. We will run it as

well as possible with the development agenda having been comprehensively stated in the vision and mission to the details of every sector and all districts / municipality in accordance with their potential,” he said.

A member IV of the Supreme Audit Board of the RI, Harry Azhar Azis, called Bali as one of the best provinces in Indonesia. Indicators of the development in Bali are not only far better than national development indicators, but the local provincial government also won an unqualified opinion (WTP) from the Supreme Audit Board for 5 times in a row. Since 2016, the provincial and district / municipal governments in Bali have even entirely succeeded in reaching the predicate of unqualified opinion. (kmb32)

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Poor family amid the Kerobokan Kelod tourism area

The officer is trying to put out the fire in Gunung Payang

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Bukit Payang tourism park returns to catch fire Suspected of being triggered by a cigarette butt

BANGLI - The area of the natural tourism park (TWA) of Mount Batur Bukit Payang, Kintamani, returned to catch fire. The fire on Sunday (Sep. 30) burned about one hectare of land overgrown with bushes. Allegedly, the fire was triggered by the presence of cigarette butts carelessly dumped in the tourism park area.

Head of the Regional Conservation Section II, Bali Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA), Sulistyo Widodo, when asked for his confirmation stated the location of the burned conservation area is under Pasar Agung Temple. As the report received, the fire occurred on Sunday around 11:00. The fire was successfully extinguished about an hour later by the BKSDA officers, the community and local tour guides. The extinguishing was carried out manually because the terrain is not accessible to fire truck.

Sulistyo claimed he did not know the exact cause of the fire

last Sunday. However, he suspected the fire was caused by human negligence. “The cause is still being investigated. Possibly it happened because someone may throw away cigarette butts,” he said. He added the last Sunday’s fire was the second time happening this year. On August 25, a fire had also occurred in the same area.

To prevent the fire incident in the forest area, Sulistyo said that the BKSDA had made a number of efforts ranging from dissemination and counseling for the community, tour guides and visitors, regular patrols into the tourism park area, to the making of firebreaks. The

making of this firebreak is carried out to limit the fire movement from quickly expanding when a fire broke out. Ahead of dry season, the coordination has also been intensified with military district command and local police, including the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Bangli to jointly deal with a fire.

“Similarly, we continue to provide guidance for groups of people that care about fire (MPA) established previously,” he explained.

To prevent the recurrence of such fire incident, his agency returned to appeal to all communities, tour guides and visitors to jointly protect the forest. (kmb40)

MANGUPURA - Badung tourism area is apparently not free from the poor like at Kerobokan Kelod. The area included in the North Kuta subdistrict is famous for Petitenget, Umalas, Bidadari, and Oberoi as one of the tourism areas in the Badung district.

It is the family of the late Wayan Suarnawa. His family is living at Taman Merthanadi hamlet, Kerobokan Kelod village, in a house that is not suitable for habitation, so that people are encouraged to help.

A North Kuta community figure, AAN Ketut Agus Nadi Putra, along with a number of community leaders at Kerobokan Kelod village immediately came down to the field on Monday (Oct. 1). “I know that one of the residents’ houses at Mertanadi hamlet when coming to the house of mourning of the late Wayan Suarnawa, and found his house is very uninhabitable,” he said.

Nevertheless, the man familiarly addressed as Gung Nadi stated the condition of the house began to be refurbished through an independent housing program. The program is carried out by a number of donors in North Kuta, but has not been roofed yet and not been finished. “We have asked to apply for home refurbishment. However, since the poverty rate at Kerobokan village is declared to have been zero, the family does not get home refurbishment assistance,” he said.

This Chairperson of Commission IV of the Badung House of Representatives explained that he had coordinated with community leaders in North Kuta and Kerobokan Kelod village to help the deceased’s family in order to get a decent house.

“I helped through the Panca Marga Cooperative Agency for IDR 50 million to carry out the house refurbishment and the rest will be endeavored by the community figures of Kerobokan Kelod,” he said.

He said to have conveyed to the Badung Social Agency in order that the family can get home refurbishment assistance. The agency has also conducted a survey. However, administratively he cannot be helped because the area is recorded to have zero poverty.

“We are so sad to see it. Hopefully, the government will do a cross-check in the future so that this kind of thing will no longer happen. Moreover, in developed countries there is no poverty up to zero percent and so is in Badung. On that account, it should not make the status of poverty into zero after reflecting from this finding,” he said.

Headman of Kerobokan Kelod, Made Wistwan, revealed that actually the assistance for the poor at Kerobokan Kelod village has been distributed, both house refurbishment and productive economic assistance for the targeted households, so that the household has been administratively overcome.

“When making data collection at other neighborhood, we did not find such a case. But for this case, it has actually been dealt with considering the rights of this citizen have been provided, so that it is feasible because it can fulfill the needs independently. Sometimes the data in the field are different.

Surely we need to deal with this by making cross-check in the future,” he concluded. (kmb27)

Luhut envisions Bali as marine tourism hub for eastern Indonesia KUTA - Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Panjaitan has a vision to make Bali a marine tourism hub after the expansion of the tourist port of Benoa.

“We should not serve as a feeder port for Singapore. We have to make Bali a hub between Mandalika, Labuan Bajo and

Banyuangi,” he said after commissioning a new underpass in the Ngurah Rai cross road in Kuta, Bali on Saturday.

The expansion of the Benoa Tourist Port of Bali has apparently conjured to the vision of Bali as marine tourism center especially for Eastern Indonesia.

Luhut said Bali, the country`s

largest tourism asset, is highly potential to become a marina tourism center that would help increase visits to other areas in Indonesia.

Currently, the state owned port operator Pelindo III is expanding the terminal for tourist boats to be completed by the end of September this year.

A tourist boat with a capacity

of carrying 3,000 tourists would be able to dock at the terminal, he said, adding,”Not only that, a special terminal for yacht is being built there.”

Foreign tourists could fly in to Bali and hire a yacht to continue to Mandalika in Lombok or Labuan Bajo, in Flores he said.

Labuan Bajo is important

as the main access to the Komodo Park the habitat of ancient dragon Komodo found only on the Komodo island just across Labuan Bajo in the western end of Florea.

Currently the expansion of the “Benoa Tourism Port” is in progress estimated to cost Rp600 billion. (ant)

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China star Fan apologises for tax evasion after order to pay $129m

BEIJING - Chinese superstar Fan Bingbing took to social media for the first time in months Wednesday to apologise to fans and the Communist Party for tax evasion, shortly after news broke that authorities had ordered her to pay nearly $130 million in back taxes and fines.

T h e 3 6 - y e a r- o l d actress, model and producer had been a ubiquitous household name in China for years and tasted Hollywood success with a role in the 2014 blockbuster “X-Men: Days of Future Past.”

But she disappeared from the public eye and her once active social media presence went silent in May after allegations emerged that she had evaded taxes on a lucrative movie shoot, charges her studio called

LOS ANGELES - Four people have been arrested for allegedly using social media to plan burglaries on stars such as Rihanna and Christina Milian.

Three men, aged 18 and 19, have been detained by Los Angeles Police, as has the 34-year-old mother of one of the suspects.

The addresses of basketball superstar LeBron James and actor Matt Damon were also found on a list at one suspect’s house, police said. Detectives believe the suspects chose their victims based on social media posts that revealed when they were away from home.

They allegedly showed up in expensive cars to stake out the houses before the break-ins. Singer Rihanna’s Hollywood Hills mansion was broken into last week, with three people reportedly seen running away as an alarm went off.

Watches, jewellery and designer handbags that police believe were stolen were put on show at a news conference on Tuesday.

A stolen car, a gun and $50,000 (£44,400) in cash have also been recovered. The suspects were arrested following a burglary on Thursday at the home of LA Rams American football player Robert Woods. His property was broken into while he played against the Minnesota Vikings.

LAPD captain Lillian Carranza said police believe the suspects are part of a larger gang responsible for more than two dozen burglaries. She said they had targeted “actors, producers, musicians and professional athletes”.

“The victims’ homes had been selected based on social media postings and touring or travel schedules of the owners,” said Ms Carranza.

She said the thieves would first knock to make sure no one was home, before breaking in and heading to the master bedroom to grab valuables. (afp)

“slander”.

Her sudden absence from screens and advertisements across the country spurred rumors that she had been snatched by officials at a time when Beijing is cracking down on what it views as excesses in the film and television industry.

Chinese tax authorities have now laid at least part of the mystery to rest, ruling that both Fan and companies controlled by her failed to pay tens of millions of dollars in taxes, the official Xinhua news service reported on Wednesday.

The report said Fan would have to pay a total of 883 million yuan ($129 million) in owed taxes, fines and penalties, adding that she would avoid criminal prosecution as long as she met a repayment deadline.

At least one other person implicated in the probe has been detained for further investigation related to concealing and “deliberately destroying” accounting documents, Xinhua added without detailing that person’s identity. (afp)

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Time running out for survivors as Indonesia toll tops 1,400

The death toll in Indonesia’s twin quake-tsunami disaster passed 1,400 Wednesday, with time running out to rescue survivors and the UN warning of “vast” unmet needs. Authorities have set a tentative deadline of Friday to find anyone still trapped under rubble, at which point -- a week after this devastating double disaster on Sulawesi island -- the chances of finding survivors will dwindle to almost zero.

Military spokesman M. Thohir said the number of confirmed dead has risen to 1,411, while the disaster agency said 519 bodies have already been buried.

Government rescue workers seeking survivors are focusing on half a dozen key sites around the seaside city of Palu -- the Hotel Roa-Roa where up to 60 people are still believed buried, a shopping mall, a restaurant and the Balaroa area where the sheer force of the quake turned the earth temporarily to mush.

At least 150 people are unaccounted for beneath the rubble, officials said. According to the UN’s humanitarian office almost 200,000 people need urgent help, among them tens of thousands of children, with an estimated 66,000 homes destroyed or damaged by the 7.5-magnitude quake and the tsunami it spawned.

Despite the Indonesian government urging foreign rescue teams to “stand down” because the crisis was in hand, residents in hard-hit, remote villages like Wani in Donggala province say little help has arrived and hope is fading.

“Twelve people in this area haven’t yet been found,” Mohammad Thahir Talib told AFP. “In the area to the south, because there hasn’t been an evacuation we don’t know if there are bodies. It’s possible there are more,” the 39-year-old said. In Geneva, the United Nations expressed frustration at the slow pace of the response.

“There are still large areas of what might be the worst-affected areas that haven’t been properly reached, but the teams are pushing, they are doing what they can,” Jens Laerke, from the UN’s humanitarian office, told reporters late Tuesday.

The World Health Organization has estimated that across Donggala, some 310,000 people have been affected by the disaster.

Survivors are battling thirst and hunger, with food and clean water in short supply, and local hospitals are overwhelmed by the number of injured.

Officials on the ground said that while the government was now inviting offers of help, there is still no “mechanism for this to be implemented”.

Landing slots at Palu airport are snapped up by the Indonesian military, although it was expected to be open to commercial flights from 7:59am on Thursday. Palu’s port, a key transit point for aid, has been damaged.

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