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Ben Affleck reveals title of upcoming Batman film

LOS ANGELES — Ben Affleck says the upcoming stand-alone Batman film he’s directing and starring in will be called “The Batman.” Affleck is leaving open the possibility of changing the title, but tells The Associated Pres “that’s what we’re going with now.”

Affleck is also dismissing critics of his debut as The Dark Knight in “Batman v. Superman” earlier this year. He tells Washington’s WTTGTV that the film is the “biggest hit of my career” and says he loves the movie.

Responding to the mostly negative critical response to the movie, Affleck says most critics took issue with its dark tone. Affleck says the tone was parallel with the Frank Miller’s comic miniseries, “The Dark Knight Returns,” on which it was partly based. Affleck next stars in “The Accountant,” which opens next week.(ap)

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Wednesday, October 5, 2016 U.S. suspends Syria ceasefire talks with Russia, blames Moscow Page 6

Iceland’s dentist coach off to the pub as usual before key qualifier Page 8

Colombia’s shock at peace deal rejection makes Brexit anguish seem trivial

BOGOTA - Imagine your country has been at war with itself for more than 50 years. Some 220,000 people have been killed, six million displaced, thousands of women raped, children turned into soldiers.

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FILE - In this March, 20 2016, file photo, Ben Affleck attends the premiere of “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

Kardashian West assailants still at large after France heist PARIS — French police on Tuesday continued hunting for five people suspected of assaulting Kim Kardashian West in a private Paris residence before robbing her of more than $10 million worth of jewelry.

Paris police said they were analyzing footage from surveillance cameras to try to identify the assailants, who wore fake police emblems on their jackets.

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After forcing their way into the American celebrity’s apartment in the chic eighth district, the robbers held her up at gunpoint and locked her in a bathroom before escaping on bicycles in the early hours of Monday. They stole a jewelry box containing valuables worth 6 million euros ($6.7 million) as well as a ring worth 4 million euros.

Kardashian West, who was in the

French capital to attend fashion week shows, returned to the U.S. Monday Paris prosecutors on Tuesday declined to answer whether the robbers had received help from the reality TV star’s entourage.

Kardashian’s stylist was also in the residence at the time, and alerted police, but Kardashian’s bodyguard was not present, according to the prosecutor’s office.(ap)

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A Colombian Guambiano indigenous woman votes in a referendum on a peace deal between the government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels in Silvia, Colombia, October 2, 2016.

Then your government and its enemies thrash out a deal, offering peace, an end to the slaughter. It’s put to the public vote and then, it is rejected.

That is what just happened in Colombia. The peace deal’s supporters are in shock. What they are going through makes the anguish of Remainers in Britain’s Brexit referendum look trivial in comparison.

The proposed peace deal between FARC and the Colombian government had been welcomed around the world.

“At a time when conflict seems to be on the rise across the globe, Colombia has just provided us with a glimmer of hope,” wrote Antonio Sampaio with the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London.

At the release of IISS’s Annual Review of World Affairs last week, analysts’ global summary could be summed up as “the world is going to hell in a handcart”. Russia on the rampage in Ukraine and Syria, the Middle East on fire, uncertainty in America. Colombia was a welcome exception. Not any more.

Polls had predicted majority ap-

proval of the deal. But reservations about it clearly ran deeper than pollsters could detect. Only 40% of Colombians turned out to vote and the deal was rejected by a wafer thin majority: 50.2% to 49.8%.

The agreement had problems.

Critics say it was far too lenient on FARC. Lengthy jail terms for atrocities would be avoided if its members confessed. And some would be given political representation - in other words they’ll have killed their way to political office.

FARC long ago mutated from an agrarian militant Marxist/Maoist uprising to a narco terrorist network.

Many Colombians have remained deeply sceptical it would simply give in and give up its guns.

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Competency test of tourism workers, constrained by working schedule

DENPASAR - Approximately 9,000 people become the members of the tourism labor union federation (FSPSI) of Badung originating in 41 tourism companies. About 85 percent of them have owned certificate of competency test. In the meantime, the tourism worker in Badung

amounts to 50,000 people originating in 5,000 private companies. This was revealed

by Putu Satyawira Marhaendra, Chairman of the Badung Tourism Labor Union Federation. “Moreover, there are some members having extended their certificate,” he added.

Admittedly, the achievement of 85 percent of the members having owned the certificate of competency test was funded through the regional budget of Badung and tourism professional certification institute (LSP) either the LSP Parindo or LSP Pariwisata Bali Mediterranean. “We

get a competency test program funded by regional budget with the approval of the Regent of Badung A.A. Gede Agung and Giri Prasta,” he said.

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“We want the validity like the identity card and we ask for life provided that they take competency test if promoted. It is a pity that the workers must take competency test every three years and spend money because each unit of tourism competency test costs IDR 350,000,” he explained.

Having been declared to be competent by the competency test certificate, the workers find another obstacle. For instance, when the workers asked for salary, the employers do not want to recognize.

Actually, according to the Government Regulation No.78, the indicators of the salary increase include four things, namely employment period, education, competency and position. (kmb42)

The guide is preparing the tourists before entering the temple

SINGARAJA - The community circle of Munduk, Banjar, should be proud of having the spinning top tradition renowned at home and overseas for hundreds of years. Now, local people make a phenomenal work in the form of a giant spinning top with the diameter of 2.5 meters.

said Jro Ardana, Monday (Oct. 3).

According to him, the emergence of the idea on the making of giant spinning top is meant to introduce the tradition of Munduk village to wider community. In general, it has small size and is played after harvest time. However, the making of the giant spinning top requires patience and precision to carve the wood material.

“During the making of this giant spinning top, we surely encounter dif-

ficulty. We have to measure correctly especially the matter of balance so as the balance can get the middle point and it is capable of rotating longer and in balanced condition. If the side is not balanced, we will adjust it to make it much lighter,” he said.

He added that it was designed five years ago. But eventually it can be realized this year due to the assistance of a sponsor from Jakarta. Ardana himself was introduced by his colleague to a collector of traditional

The competency test is free of charge as it is financed by the government of Badung whose implementation was carried out for two times namely in June and next October through the amended regional budget. “Hopefully, there will be no changes,” he hoped.

Initially the competency test was held once due to the demand of tourism labor union of Badung in the meeting of tourism stakeholders. “Mr. Giri Prasta realized that 85 percent of the regionally generated revenue of Badung is obtained from hotel and restaurant tax. Thus, he allocated for tourism workers in

As people around the globe once again mark World Animal Day, the hard-working team at the Bali Safari & Marine Park, who spend there working lives with the hundreds of animals who make their home at the Park, happily joined this special celebration dedicated to animals everywhere and to their animal colleagues who live at the Park. World Animal Day is an annual event at the Bali Safari & Marine Park.

As part of Bali Safari & Marine Park community outreach and corporate social responsibility program, their team of educators and caregivers invited 50 children from the Yappa Foundation - a local orphanage, to explore and enjoy the many wonders of the 40-hectare nature park.

Like the many thousands who have visited the Park before them, the children enjoying World Animal Day were excited and overjoyed to join the Safari Journey that uses secure vehicles to pass through three open-space enclosures that are the home to animals from Africa, India and Indonesia. Wide-eyed and excited to learn as much as they can about the animal world, the happy children also visited the Fresh Water Aquarium, watched the magnificent tigers performing in the Big Cat Show, became entranced with the cleverness of the performers

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Giant spinning top as the pride of Munduk community

Chief of Munduk customary village, Jro Putu Ardana, said that the giant spinning top is made from bay cedar timber. It was made by overtime at his courtyard by involving ten people of the local communities. This spinning top game is often played by

the four customary communities of the Dalem Tamblingan consisting of the Munduk, Gobleg, Umejero and Gesing in Banjar and Busungbiu subdistrict. “We have not weighed the overall weight of this spinning top. It is estimated to reach 400 kg,”

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World Animal Day at the Bali Safari & Marine Park

order to win the competition of human resources in the era of ASEAN Economic Community,” he said.

In the meantime, the members of tourism labor union are also keen to follow the competency test but they recognize to be constrained by working schedule. Although the competency test has been scheduled, but when the hotel is suddenly crowded the workers then reschedule their test because providing the best services for guest becomes the priority. “Most importantly, we can see their enthusiasm to take the competency test. So, we can continue and give a chance for them,” he said.

In 2004, the certificate of competency test is extended after two years, but in 2005 this certificate can be extended every three years.

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spinning top named Endi Aras. “We are very grateful as the giant spinning top can be realized this year due to sponsor from Jakarta. Well, by chance I was introduced by my friend to a lover of traditional game named Endi Aras. After effectively made for two weeks, finally it can be materialized as it is today,” he added.

The giant spinning top will be displayed in a game event in Jakarta where the sponsor will organize the event on October 6-9. The spinning top is taken to Jakarta on Tuesday (Oct. 4) by a truck from Buleleng.

The making of it costs IDR 50 million while the delivery to Jakarta costs IDR 100 million. “Hopefully, the delivery to Jakarta could run smoothly and safely and when the event begins it could be played well,” he said.

He said that it will need more than five persons to play the giant spinning top, different from the one of regular size only needing one person. As the giant spinning top is quite heavy, it requires more players to control the game.

“We also use different rope for this spinning top. Well, we usually take advantage of wooden bark but this one use a special and large rope.

It can turn for 15 to 20 minutes and be played over the metal to maintain the balance of its rotation. When arrives in Jakarta, it will not be brought home again to Buleleng and becomes the property of the sponsor,” said Jro Ardana. (kmb34)

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in the Animal Show, and learned about a struggle for species survival at the Elephant Show. The children were given free range of the Park allowing them to also visit the Petting Zoo, view the world’s largest lizard at the Komodo Exhibit and view the rare White Tigers presented in an ancient fort inspired

by Ranthambore in India.

For many of the children this was their first encounter with wildlife of any sort, awakening an interest in the wild kingdom that the Park’s staff hopes will blossom into a genuine concern for animals and the natural environment.

Under the thoughtful guidance of the professional educational team at the Bali Safari & Marine Park the children were also encouraged to explore their creative natures by making handicrafts with wildlife themes from recycled items.

The children also “took a walk on the wild side” imitating the animals they had met during the visit as teams of Park Educators performed elaborate face paintings that transformed the kids into wild cats and other inhabitants of the wild jungle.

Delighted with their “new look,” the children eagerly posed for photos taken by Park guests who vied for prizes by posting the pictures on the Social Network with suitable hash tags linked to World Animal Day. William Santoso, General Man-

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ager of the Bali Safari and Marine Park commented on the visit by local orphans, saying: “World Animal Day is an important day for everyone at the Park. Via the celebration of this day, we are reminded of the importance of protecting and conserving wildlife. We hope that by facilitating visits by children from the Yappa Foundation Orphanage to the Bali Safari & Marine Park we can instill a sense of concern and caring for wildlife that will last a lifetime, and create young men and women who become active conservationists.”

World Animal Day is marked internationally every October 4th. First celebrated in Florence, Italy in 1931 at a convention attended by renowned ecologists, World Animal Day was set aside to recognize the high value of all members of the Animal Kingdom.

With each passing year, the animals of the world are honored on the same date at an increasing number of locations around the world. This date coincides with the celebration of the Feast Dayof Saint Francis of Assisi, a legendary friend of nature and the animal kingdom. Despite this religious link, animal lovers worldwide without regard to differing religious faith, national original or personal background join forces every October 4th to recognize World Animal Day.

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Google readies new phones, gadgets featuring its software

Grow ornamental flowers to reduce dependency of Bali on Java

On Tuesday, the search giant will ramp up its consumer electronics strategy with expected announcements of new gadgets including new smartphones and an internet-connected personal-assistant for the home similar to Amazon’s Echo speaker. All are intended to showcase Google’s software and online services.

A new virtual reality headset and other devices, such as a home router, could also be on tap, according to analysts and industry blogs. Google has declined to confirm any specifics, although it previously described some of these products back in May .

Google makes most of its money from online software and digital ads. But it’s putting more emphasis on hardware as it faces rivals like Apple, Amazon and South Korea’s Samsung.

BANGLI - Fulfillment of ornamental flowers in Bali is still highly dependent on a number of regions in Java. This condition inspired a resident of Pengotan, Bangli, named I Wayan Nyarka. One hectare of the land previously overgrown by bushes was then transformed into a place to cultivate horticultural crops. By self-taught, the business pioneered three years ago has sufficiently developed.

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In this May 18, 2016 file photo, Google vice president Mario Queiroz gestures while introducing the new Google Home device during the keynote address of the Google I/O conference in Mountain View, Calif. On Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016.

Tokyo gamers slapped down for virtual groping TOKYO - Virtual reality got a little too real at the Tokyo Game Show on Friday when gamers lined up at one exhibition and got touchy-feely with a mannequin that with VR goggles transformed into a female anime character.

The show’s organiser told software developer M2 Co. to stop visitors fondling the dummy’s breasts, which with built-in sensors prompted the anime image in the goggles to move.

The hands-on display was meant to demonstrate technology to turn flat pictures into 3D images.

“I feel as though I have seen the future,” said an excited programmer, Hiroyasu Ando, 24, who tried the VR game before the touching ban was imposed.

“It’s going to be possible to fall in love with a virtual girl.”

The annual gaming showcase was dominated this year by VR goggles from the likes of Sony Corp and new software for immersive technology. Although scantily clad women greeted visitors at many of the booths, exhibitors on the whole stuck to family-rated content.

M2 nonetheless showed that other, racier and potentially more profitable applications for VR exist, with the adult entertainment industry usually quick to adopt to new ways to distribute its content. (rtr)

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A man rects as he tries out a M2 Co.Ltd’s “E-mote” system at Tokyo Game Show 2016 in Chiba, east of Tokyo, Japan. “E-mote” is the abbreviation of “Emotional Motion Technology” and is a tool to convert 2D image into 3D Look image without coding or other complicated procedures, the company said.

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SAN FRANCISCO - Google may be getting serious about selling its own hardware gadgets.

New devices could help Google keep its services front and center in the battle for consumers’ attention, said analyst Julie Ask at Forrester Research. Unlike a new mobile app or other software, she noted, it can be an expensive gamble to build and ship new hardware products. “But if you’re Google, you can’t afford to stop placing bets.”

Google already sells smartphones and tablets under the Nexus brand, which it launched in 2010 as a way to show off the best features of its Android software. But it’s spent relatively little effort to promote those devices, which have mostly ended up in the hands of Google purists. Tech blogs are reporting the company is now planning to launch two smartphone models under a new brand, Pixel, and Google has hinted it may invest in an extensive marketing campaign intended to introduce the phones to the mass market.

Android already powers the majority of smartphones sold around the world. But Samsung, the biggest maker of Android phones, has increasingly been adding more of its own software — even its own Samsung Pay mobile wallet — on the phones it sells.

Another big rival, Apple, has built its own services, such as online maps and its own Siri personal assistant, to replace Google’s apps on the iPhone. (ap)

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When entering October, the health authorities urged people to more aggressively perform mosquito nests eradication (PSN).

Mosquito nests eradication

Powerful ways to prevent increase in dengue cases

DENPASAR - When entering October, the health authorities urged people to more aggressively perform mosquito nests eradication (PSN). This happens because dengue fever case is predicted to increase in October.

Luh Sri Armini, the Head of the Denpasar Health Agency, said that for precautions against the increase in dengue fever cases, currently all the mosquito larvae monitoring officers in Denpasar are being deployed to provide dissemination, coach and mentoring to community. “They go into people’s homes to eradicate mosquito nests and provide Abate powder en mass in the effort to eradicate mosquito larva and distribute larvicidal powder, dengue prevention leaflets to residents or households,” she said, Saturday (Oct. 1).

A total of 431 mosquito larvae monitoring officers and eight fogging officers in Denpasar are getting into people’s home and eradicate mosquito nests with local residents and provide mass Abate powder to prevent the rising cases of dengue fever one month to go and so on. “We hope the participation of all components of society

will make the mosquito nests eradication and provision of Abate successful,” she hoped.

The officers work for 4-6 hours.

Of the 100 homes monitored by the officers, 95 percent is free from mosquito larvae. She asserted that almost all the homes have been monitored. “We give them target to monitor 10 homes each day, and this measure has been already running within the past four years,” she said.

If they find larvae exceeding five percent or at least 5-10 containers declared to be positive to larvae, the health agency will do fogging.

Similar thing was also disclosed by the Head of the Bali Health Agency, Ketut Suarjaya.

The agency is going to intensify the mosquito nests eradication movement simultaneously.

Moreover, in the health center III of North Denpasar has been established self-monitoring officer by involving school children as larva monitoring officers. Since most of the positive dengue fever attacks school children, schools were then involved in the movement through the mosquito larvae self-monitoring officer. (kmb42)

Ornamental flowers such as rose and chrysanthemum are currently not only sought after when Valentine’s Day arrives. Wedding as well as official events taking place at hotels, for instance, surely needs them to complement their decor.

The selling price is also quite promising. However, behind this reality, the flowers are still brought in from a number of regions in Java such as Bogor, Bandung, Malang and Pasuruan. In the meantime, almost no regions in Bali cultivate them.

At best it only comes from Bedugul area with very small production capacity. It is unable to meet the entire demand. This condition inspired the resident of Pengotan village, Bangli, I Wayan Nyarka, to cultivate the flowers.

“When asking a friend in Bandung, he said the flower demand from Bali is quite a lot. Similar information was also given by friends in Bogor and Pasuruan.

Well, it has inspired me to cultivate flowers since three years ago. Our environment also supports,” he said, Sunday (Oct. 2).

Flower cultivation is done on one hectare of land previously only overgrown by bushes and grasses.

It is full of struggle and one by one of the ornamental flowers were then planted. Other than roses and chrysanthemums, gerbera, peacock, petunia, babybird, silverdas and others have become his collection.

Armed with the knowledge gained by self-taught, the marketing has been able to increase the number of florists in the regions such as Denpasar, Ubud and Kuta. Moreover, recently he is overwhelmed in meeting the demand.

“Ornamental flowers seem to have been mandatory in every event, in addition to Valentine.

That’s what causes the demand to be quite high,” said Nyarka. Flower demand can be said to be quite smooth. Delivery to Denpasar is carried out once every two days.

The income obtained is sufficient to meet daily needs.

Cultivating ornamental flower is not an easy matter. There is no water source around his garden.

Water can only be obtained from

the purchase and it is quite expensive. Quite frequent purchase automatically causes to increase his expenditure. To get around, this high school graduate man continued to look for solution. Finally, the shortage of water can be resolved by the making of reservoir.

“At first, the water became a major problem. Ultimately I got an idea to take advantage of rainwater. It is stored in a reservoir. In fact, it was very helpful and I no longer need to spend money to purchase water,” he said.

The innovation initiated is not only that. To reduce costs, he fertilizes his plants by using pig waste. Similarly, this method is also learned autodidactically. However, as the business in common it is very difficult to rid of problems. He is difficult to get flower seeds in Bali and must be purchased to Java. Due to long distance, the transportation cost becomes quite expensive.

“Until now, looking for seeds remains to become a constraint. But what I’m doing is meant to inspire farmers in Bali. We have incredible potential. Do not let the matter of ornamental flowers continuously rely on Java,” he said.

Flower plantation exuding beautiful impression, in fact, does not only bring in rupiahs to Nyarka. However, his garden is also hunted by young people as a place to take pictures and a means of education. (sos)

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One hectare of the land previously overgrown by bushes was then transformed into a place to cultivate horticultural crops.

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Stricken by rain with hurricane, hectares of tangerine fall out BANGLI - Hurricane with torrential rain frequently occurring in Bangli district since the past few days do not only cause fallen tree.

However, the tangerines of farmers of Delod Desa hamlet, Pengotan, were caused to fall out. Such conditions make farmer crops decrease.

A local farmer, I Wayan Parma, said that the rain happened recently is no longer like the previous ones.

Its presence is often accompanied with strong winds. This affects the tangerine orchards. The fruits approaching harvest time are caused to fall out and perish. “Since last week, it has rained frequently accompanied with strong winds.

Hectares of tangerine trees are slammed so that their fruits fall out,” he said, Monday (Oct. 3).

Raging of the wind happening for the first time this year made the tangerine harvest slump by 25 percent. Automatically it caused the income of farmers and middlemen to be inversely proportional.

Similarly this issue is very difficult to overcome. Farmers can only surrender to see their tangerine fruit scattering and perishing. “The fruits falling out should actually come into harvest season. Many farmers and middlemen complained. Farmers cannot cope with this,” he said.

This farmer possessing two hectares of cultivation land also told that other than caused by rain and strong wind, the tangerine falling out is also triggered by the attack of fruit flies. They have been present for long time. As a result, farmers are very difficult to do extermination. “It is quite hard to stop the fruit fly attack. It adequately

affects the yield and quality of crops,” he said.

Amid the decline in production, farmers are also faced with the quite low price of their tangerine.

Tangerine of good quality is sold for IDR 5,000 per kilogram, while the lowest price lies in the range of IDR 2,000. To avoid farmers from great losses, the minimal selling price is in the range of IDR 7,000 per kilogram. “If the minimum price lies in this range, farmers will be more secure and will not lose. Well, if the price is cheap like the current one and the fruits fall out, farmers can be shaken up,” he added.

The Processing and Marketing Division Head of the Bangli Agriculture and Forestry Agency, Dewa Putu Sugiarta, said that the tangerine fruits fall out due to rain accompanied with strong wind and this only takes place in a few regions. On that account, there is no significant effect on global production. “Tangerine falling out only occurred in several areas, not thoroughly. We did not receive any reports regarding this incident,” he said.

In the meantime, the Division Head of Food and Horticulture at the Bangli Agriculture Agency, I Wayan Tagel Sujana, explained that bad weather happening recently do not only spark the widespread of pest attack the irrigated farmland but also the non-irrigated, like tangerine. Other than using pesticides, the eradication must be done simultaneously at a region.

“With simultaneous eradication, the chance for pests to move is very small,” he said. (kmb45)

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The farmer in Banjar Delod Desa, Pengotan Village, Bangli is picking up the tangerine fall down.

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For now, U.S. tries to ignore Philippine president’s broadsides

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Yoshinori Ohsumi, a professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology, speaks during a news conference after he won the Nobel medicine prize at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Tokyo, Japan, October 3, 2016.

Komang Badra when speaks on the forum in Karangasem.

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Speak up, but do not talk carelessly

AMLAPURA - The government of Karangasem begins to open a space to accept public criticism, proposals and suggestions. The opportunity to speak up is an aspiration forum opened to the public every first week of each month. Deputy Regent of Karangasem, I Wayan Artha Dipa, said that the aspiration forum should be really utilized by the public, but they may not just talk.

Artha Dipa said that in the current era of openness the administration needs to receive suggestion and criticism. It becomes a part of development so that it can be better in the future. However, Artha Dipa reminded that any people speaking up in the aspiration forum may not always consider themselves correct. “We in Bali are always reminded by a Balinese maxim.

Never consider yourself smart, but let other people judge,” said Artha Dipa when launching the monthly agenda initiated by the MPC Pemuda Pancasila of Karangasem at Padangkerta Stadium on Jalan Veteran, Amlapura.

Deputy Regent of Karangasem encouraged people, especially young men, to speak up critically while providing solutions. The youth must dare to tell the truth at

forefront. Likewise, when something goes wrong, they must go forward when others do not dare say it. He quoted the principles of Pancasila where the youth builds excitement among its circles by developing the region.

Each community can directly express their aspirations in the forum after signing up to the committee. Every resident is given a maximum of ten minutes. On the first day, people’s responses to the forum were pretty good. Several residents expressed their aspirations, like Putu Suartawan from Susuan neighborhood, Komang Badra and Wayan Jatiyasa. These three residents speak up about the future of Balinese language and regional language asset conservation.

Komang Badra, Deputy Chairman of Student Affairs of the STKIP

Amlapura, for instance, considered the need to establish the Karangasem Balinese writer alliance.

The alliance will be able to serve as a forum for Balinese literati to document literature in Karangasem.

It becomes a real attempt for the preservation of Balinese literature, including Balinese language. This must be done immediately to avoid it from extinction. Then, Wayan Jatiyasa added that the establishment of the Karangasem Balinese writer alliance should be immediately followed up with the making of MoU with the Karangasem Culture and Tourism Agency, so there is a written agreement between them. This can be an answer to address the lack of Balinese speakers in Karangasem Bali.

“To continuously promote Balinese language, it is also needed to set the day of speaking Balinese language. In addition, it is necessary to think about the opening of vacancies for civil servant aspirants because the current teacher of Balinese language is held by temporary teacher,” said Jatiyasa, the Head of Balinese Language Program Study at the STKIP Amlapura. (kmb31)

Japanese scientist wins Nobel medicine prize for work on “self-eating” cell mechanism

STOCKHOLM - Japan’s Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel prize for medicine for ground-breaking experiments with yeast which exposed a key mechanism in the body’s defences where cells degrade and recycle their components.

Understanding the science behind the process, called “autophagy” or “self-eating”, has led to a better understanding of diseases such as cancer, Parkinson’s and type 2 diabetes, the prize committee said in its statement on Monday.

“Ohsumi’s discoveries led to a new paradigm in our understanding of how the cell recycles its content,” it said.

The Physiology or Medicine prize, the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year, is worth 8 million Swedish crowns ($933,000).

Ohsumi, born in 1945 in Fukuoka, Japan, has been a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technol-

ogy since 2009. He told Kyodo News agency he was “extremely honoured” to get the prize.

In a separate interview with broadcaster NHK, he said he had “always wanted to do something that other people wouldn’t do”.

“I thought the breakdown (of cells) would be interesting, and that was my start,” he said.

Ohsumi’s work - carried out in the 1990s and described by commentators as “paradigm-shifting” and “pioneering” - included locating the genes that regulate autophagy. This is important for medicine because it helps show why errors in these genes can contribute to a range of diseases.

David Rubinsztein, deputy director of Cambridge University’s Institute for Medical Research, said Ohsumi had provided scientists around the world with “critical tools” to help them understand how disrupted autophagy can contribute to illnesses including infectious diseases, cancers and neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s and Parkinson’s.

Christer Hoog, a professor at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, told Reuters the work helped explain crucial processes in human development, from growing up, to ageing to succumbing to disease.

“In the very early stages (of a human’s development) your organs and your whole body is constantly being made over again - you are growing. So you need to get rid of the old stuff and generate new structures,” he said. (rtr)

WASHINGTON - U.S. officials are doing their best to ignore Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s hostile rhetoric and taking comfort in the fact that he has yet to translate his words into less military cooperation.

The United States is trying not to give the new Philippine president, who recently appeared to liken himself to Hitler, a pretext for further outbursts while at the same time pressing ahead with military and other cooperation at lower levels, U.S. officials said on Monday.

Two U.S. officials said that while an open break with Manila would create problems in a region where China has grown increasingly aggressive, there are no serious discussions about taking punitive steps such as cutting aid to the Philippines.

Mindful of anti-colonial sentiment, despite the estimated 3 million people of Philippine descent living in the United States, U.S. officials do not want to say or do anything that might encourage Duterte to turn his rhetoric into reality.

“He is like Mr. Trump,” a senior Southeast Asian official said, referring to U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

“He craves attention, and the more he gets, the more outrageous he becomes. It is wisest to ignore him.”

In the last month, Duterte has appeared to call U.S. President Barack Obama a “son of a bitch,” leading the White House to cancel a planned meeting, and to liken himself to Hitler, saying he would “be happy” to kill 3 million drug users and peddlers in the country.

Duterte said he regretted using that language to describe Obama and apologized to the Jewish community for his references to the Holocaust.

In his latest broadside, Duterte on Sunday said he got expressions of support from Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and from an unnamed Chinese official after he complained of ill-treatment

by Washington.

While Duterte has publicly suggested he would end joint military exercises, push U.S. special operations forces out of the southern Philippines, and review a defense pact signed two years ago, U.S. officials stressed none of this has happened. (rtr)

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U.S. Marine Corps Brigadier General John Jansen (L) greets Commandant of Philippine Marine Corps, Maj. General Andre Costales Jr (C), during the opening ceremony of annual Philippines-US amphibious landing exercise (PHILBLEX) inside the Philippine Marines headquarters in Taguig city, metro Manila, Philippines October 4, 2016.

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Deutsche Bank has been engulfed by a crisis of confidence after the U.S. Department of Justice demanded last month that it pay up to $14 billion to settle claims it missold U.S. mortgage-backed securities before the financial crisis.

The threat of the penalty has pushed the bank’s shares to record lows. It is pushing to reach an agreement for a much smaller settlement, to reverse the stock selloff and help to restore confidence.

Gabriel said he was worried for the people who worked at the bank, but conservatives accused him of playing politics.

“I’m not just worried about employees, but also about the German economy,” Joachim Pfeiffer, the spokesman on economic policy for the conservatives in parliament, told Reuters. Attacking the bank when it is in a period of consolidation is not clever but “cheap,” conservative lawmaker Michael Fuchs told the Passauer Neue Presse. “The economy minister is abusing his office to do party politics,” Fuchs said.

With elections due next year, German politicians have little appetite for helping Deutsche Bank, after its pursuit of business abroad left it facing billions of euros in penalties for wrongdoing.

In an Emnid survey for Focus magazine on Saturday, 69 percent were opposed to state aid for the bank, with just 24 percent in favour. (rtr)

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A vintage clock with the logo of Deutsche Bank is pictured outside the bank’s branch in Wiesbaden, Germany, January 28, 2015.

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Indonesians register their earnings for a government’s tax amnesty at a tax office in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016. The Indonesian government applies a tax amnesty law aimed at drawing billions of dollars from wealthy Indonesians abroad and from tax evaders at home to help finance infrastructure and boost economic growth.

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A vendor sprinkles water over fish for sale as she waits for customers inside a public market in Las Pinas, south of Metro Manila November 5, 2009. REUTERS/John

It’s the economy: Duterte not main cause of Philippines market selloff

MANILA - Philippine markets have been heavily sold down since July, primarily for economic reasons, not the festering row between new President Rodrigo Duterte and traditional ally the United States over his war on drugs, money managers say.

A slowdown in remittances from Filipinos working overseas, which have historically been a big driver of growth in the Southeast Asian nation, is a cause of concern.

For bond investors, a bigger concern is the heavy correlation between Philippine bonds and U.S. Treasuries, and the potential for Philippine bond prices to drop as market participants prepare for the Federal Reserve to raise its near-zero rates.

“Everybody’s pointing to Duterte,” said Erwin Balita, a fund manager at BPI Asset Management in Manila. “But for me, it’s really the fundamentals of the country. The drop in remittances is a big game

changer,” he said. BPI manages around 700 billion pesos ($14.5 billion) in the Philippines.

The stock market .PSI, one of Asia’s outperformers in 2015, has fallen 4 percent since late July. In the same period, MSCI’s Asia ex-Japan index .MIAPJ0000PUS has risen 5.3 percent.

The peso has borne the brunt of the exodus of foreign investment and is down 5 percent against the dollar since July. It is down 2.4 percent this year, making it the worst performing currency in the region after the yuan.

Yields on 15-year dollar bonds issued by the Philippine govern-

ment, one of the most liquid on the market, have risen 17 basis points since July.

The Philippines is one of Asia’s most active issuers of U.S. dollardenominated bonds. With Asia’s second-highest growth rate, it has been a haven for yield-hunting foreign investors over the past couple of years. Yet, those bonds have been volatile in recent weeks.

“People think that Treasury rates are going to go up and that is the reason why the role of Philippine bonds being a Treasury proxy is negatively affected,” said Arthur Lau, a fixed income portfolio manager at PineBridge Investments.

PineBridge, which has $42 billion of Asian assets under management, has been neutral to underweight on Philippine assets across its funds this year. (rtr)

Banda Aceh to build digital museum

BANDA ACEH - The administration of Banda Aceh, Aceh province will build a digital museum that will collect, showcase and preserve the history of the city. “The museum will preserve the historical journey of Banda Aceh, which is now more than eight centuries old,” Aceh Mayor Illiza Saaduddin Djamal said here on Tuesday.

According to the mayor, the digital museum is important for Banda Aceh as it is an old city and therefore, has many valuable and precious histories to tell the world.

In addition, she stated, the museum will function as an educational center to learn about the history of Banda Aceh. “We will seek help and support from the British, the Dutch and the Turkish governments as they have many historical remains related to Banda Aceh,” Illiza added.

Besides building a digital museum, the city administration also takes care of the historical remains, among others, those left by the Sultanate of Aceh and the colonial Dutch rulers.

“Such historical legacy as a

house in which Snouck Hurgronje and General Kohler used to live is invaluable,” she stressed.

Another historical remain is the Old Town of Peunayong that will be renovated and preserved as a cultural heritage.

“These historical buildings are not allowed to be tweaked with.

Once they have been designated as historical items, people should not carry out any change therein. We are doing this to save the evidence of our historical past,” the mayor commented.(ant)

Hajj pilgrims with Philippines`quota in process of returning home: Minister

JAKARTA - Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi has said that the government is in the process of bringing home 106 Indonesian Hajj pilgrims who travelled to Saudi Arabia by using the Philippines quota.

“There are 106 pilgrims in Manila, Philippines now. They are currently in the Indonesian Embassy in Manila for the final processing phase,” said the Minister, after accompanying President Joko Widodo, while receiving the credentials of Ambassadors and plenipotentiaries from 18 countries at the State Palace on Tuesday.Minister Marsudi further explained that the 106 pilgrims are preparing their documents to return to Indonesia.

“It is much like the previous processes, only this time it has been accelerated. They will be able to return home once a clearance is is-

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Conservative lawmakers slam German economy minister over Deutsche remarks BERLIN - Conservative lawmakers lashed out at Germany’s economy minister on Tuesday for attacking Deutsche Bank’s chief executive, saying the minister’s job was to support the country’s biggest bank, not talk it down.

Sigmar Gabriel, the economy minister and leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s junior coalition partner, the Social Democrats, criticised Deutsche Bank CEO John Cryan for blaming speculators when the bank’s share price plunged last week.

“I did not know if I should laugh or cry that the bank that made speculation a business model is now saying it is a victim of speculators,” Gabriel told reporters on a plane to Iran.

Hans Michelbach, a senior member of Merkel’s conservative bloc, called Gabriel’s remarks “pretty counterproductive.”

“As German economy minister, your task is to promote Germany as a place to do business and not to bad-mouth individual market participants,” he told the newspaper Handelsblatt.

Germany needs Deutsche Bank, which employs around 100,000 people, if its export-orientated economy is to fulfil its potential, Michelbach added.

“Therefore, it’s inconceivable that Mr Gabriel could let himself get carried away with such comments,” he said.

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sued from the immigration authorities. We will then release a document for them to use in place of their passports, as I estimated that not all of them have their passports in hand,” the Minister added.

The Filipino government previously mentioned that there are some 700 Indonesian nationals who illegally departed for the Hajj pilgrimage without carrying with them their assigned Filipino passports.

Minister Marsudi noted that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recorded that 106 Indonesians have completed their pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, but they were unable to return to Indonesia as they had to go through an investigation processes in the Philippines.

“The Filipino authorities originally estimated about 700 people, but we do not really have the exact number, so at the moment the Indo-

nesian Embassy in Manila is taking care of 106 people,” she added.

As for the case of 177 pilgrims who were arrested in the Philippines, the Minister said that the process for returning them has been completed. “Two of them arrived in Jakarta this morning. I have reported to the President that the process for 177 pilgrims in the Philippines is complete,” she remarked.

The authorities have repatriated 177 Indonesian nationals who were arrested before they could depart for their Hajj pilgrimage using the Philippine quota. They were then sent back home, after completing a lengthy investigation process.

In relation to the law, the Minister said that Indonesian officials must wait for Filipino authorities to complete their work. “The next process will be taken care of by the police force,” she added.(ant)

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s air force is holding its largest military exercise this week, near some of its islands in the South China Sea, in a show of sovereignty over the gas-rich area on the fringe of territory claimed by China, officials said on Tuesday.

President Joko Widodo in June launched an unprecedented campaign to bolster fishing, oil exploration and defense facilities around the Natuna island chain after a series of face-offs between the Indonesian navy and Chinese fishing boats.

China, while not disputing Indonesia’s clams to the Natuna islands, has raised Indonesian anger by saying the two countries had “over-lapping claims” to waters near them, an area Indonesia calls the Natuna Sea. “We want to show our existence in the area. We have a good enough air force to act as a deterrent,” said Jemi Trisonjaya, spokesman for Indonesia’s air force.

More than 2,000 air force personnel were taking part in the two-

week long exercise, which includes the deployment of Indonesia’s fleet of Russian Sukhoi and F-16 fighter jets, he said.

Other branches of the Indonesian armed forces are not taking part in exercise, which ends on Thursday.

China claims almost the entire South China Sea, where about $5 trillion worth of trade passes every year. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims.

While Indonesia is not part of the dispute over claims in the South China Sea, it objects to China’s inclusion of waters around the Natuna Islands within its “nine-dash line,” a demarcation line used by China to show its claims in the sea.(rtr)

Antara Foto/M N Kanwa/ via REUTERS

Indonesian Air Force Sukhoi fighter pilots and crew walk across the tarmac after training for an upcoming military exercise at Hang Nadim Airport, Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia October 3, 2016 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Picture taken October 3, 2016.

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U.S. suspends Syria ceasefire talks with Russia, blames Moscow

WASHINGTON - The United States broke off talks with Russia on Monday on implementing a ceasefire agreement in Syria and accused Moscow of not living up to its commitments under the Sept. 9 deal to halt fighting and ensure aid reached besieged communities.

The confirmation that the U.S.Russian talks on Syria have collapsed suggests that there is little hope, if any, of a diplomatic solution emerging anytime soon to end a 5-1/2-year-old civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced 11 million.

“The United States is suspending its participation in bilateral channels with Russia that were established to sustain the cessation of hostilities,” U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement.

Secretary of State John Kerry last spoke to his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, on Saturday, a senior State Department official said, after Kerry threatened last week to walk away from the

talks.

In Moscow, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Russian news agencies the United States was trying to shift blame onto Russia, which in recent days had tried to sustain the agreement.

But Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, supported by Iranian-backed militia and Russian air power, have since last week stepped up their offensive against rebel-held areas of Aleppo, Syria’s biggest city, bombing hospitals and damaging water supplies.

In the northeastern city of Hasaka, a bomb killed at least 20 people at a Kurdish wedding, according to a Kurdish militia and a monitoring group.

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A U.S. intelligence official said the bombing campaign was “one of the deadliest” since the civil war erupted in 2011.

“These air strikes, mostly focused on Aleppo, have utilized a wide variety of deadly munitions, including barrel bombs, thermobaric bombs, incendiary munitions, cluster bombs and bunker busters,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The end of the talks could trigger deeper U.S. consideration of military options such as providing more sophisticated arms, logistical support, and training to Syrian rebel groups, either directly or via Gulf Arab states or Turkey.

But the speed with which the ceasefire collapsed - after a U.N. aid convoy was bombed in Syria - appeared to take some officials in the Obama administration by surprise and without a clear plan on the immediate way forward. (rtr)

REUTERS/Huseyin Aldemir

A RTUK official (L) takes notes at the master control room of the IMC TV in Istanbul, Turkey, October 4, 2016. RTUK stands for Turkish State Agency for monitoring, regulating and sanctioning radio and television broadcasts.

Turkey suspends thousands of police, shuts down TV station as crackdown widens

ANKARA/ISTANBU - Turkish authorities suspended nearly 13,000 police officers, detained dozens of air force officers and shut down a TV station on Tuesday, widening a state-ordered clampdown against perceived enemies in the wake of July’s failed coup.

The police headquarters said 12,801 officers, including 2,523 chiefs, had been suspended because of their suspected links to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara accuses of orchestrating the attempt to overthrow the government.

Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, denies any link to the putsch which has shaken the country and led to the deaths of more than 240 people.

The suspensions came hours after deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmus announced that the cabinet had approved a 90-day extension to a state of emergency, renewing President Tayyip Erdogan’s powers to govern by decree at least until January.

The emergency measures, if approved by parliament, mean Erdogan can take decisions without oversight of the Constitutional Court, Turkey’s highest legal body.

As well as suspending around five percent of the entire police force, the authorities detained 33 air force officers in raids across the country, the private Dogan news agency reported, and the transmission of TV station IMC was cut following accusations of spreading “terrorist propaganda”.

State-run Anadolu Agency said 37 people working in the Interior Ministry’s headquarters had also been removed from their posts, although no explanation was given.

Since July 15, Erdogan has taken unprecedented steps to rid state institutions of staff deemed disloyal or potential enemies.

About 100,000 people in the military, civil service, police, judiciary and universities have been sacked or suspended from their jobs, and 32,000 have been arrested. (rtr)

Colombia’s...

Colombians were convinced enough to turn out to vote and support the peace deal.

They were also worried by what might be left behind. Colombia has other terrorist organisations and other narcotic gangster networks.

FARC’s retirement would leave a vacuum they could easily fill and fight over. Vicious turf wars might simply have replaced five decades of civil war. Mexico, for instance, has no civil war but a massive narco conflict equally as devastating.

For whatever reason, not enough

So what next?

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Civil Defense members search for survivors at a site hit by an airstrike in the rebel-held alShaar neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria, September 27, 2016.

Both Colombia’s government and FARC have vowed to respect the ceasefire they announced during negotiations. Talking will go on.

But opponents of the deal say it was too lenient and did not punish those responsible for atrocities with long jail sentences.

It is hard to see FARC accepting a new deal that jails many of its members for lengthy times behind bars. (rtr)

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Tampak Siring Palace

GIANYAR - Tampak Siring Palace was located in the Tampak Siring Village, Tampak Siring Sub District, Gianyar District, Bali Province, Indonesia. Tampak Siring Palace was the only Presidential Palace that was built after Indonesian Independent. The five other palaces that were building since the Dutch colonialism time, including the Country Palace and Merdeka Palace (Jakarta), Bogor Palace (Bogor), Cipanas Palace (Cipanas), and Agung Building (Yogyakarta).

The president to rest, carry out the working meeting, and carry out foreign talks usually uses Tampak Siring Palace. The name of Tampak Siring came from two words in Balinese, that is Tampak (appearance) and Siring (gutter): “Telapak (palm)” and “Miring (askew)”. The naming was linked tight to the community’s local legend about King Mayadenawa.

This king was known to be clever and magical invulnerable.

However, because his presumption appointed itself as the god who must be worshipped by his people, then Betara Indra delegated troops to attack King Mayadenawa. This attack made Mayadenawa escape into the forest. To conceal his tracks, Mayadenawa deliberate went by means of tilting his palm foot. But unfortunately, Mayadenawa efforts to deceive Betara Indra troops failed, his tracks had finally been known.

With the remnants of his supernatural powers, King Mayadenawa tried to oppose by creating the poisonous spring that could kill Betara Indra’s troops. To deal with resulting from bad from the poisonous spring, Betara Indra created the source of his antidote spring, that is Empul Water (holy water). Refugee’s territory King Mayadenawa so that currently is known as Tampak Siring. An architect named R.M. Soedarsono on the initiative of President Soekarno built Tampak Siring Palace. (IBP/net)

CAS to rule on Sharapova’s doping ban

LONDON - The verdict in Maria Sharapova’s appeal against a two-year doping ban will be announced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Tuesday.

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KUALA LUMPUR - Nine Australians detained for stripping down to their underwear at the Formula One Malaysian Grand Prix may face possible indecency charges or deportation, authorities said on Tuesday.

Photos and videos of the group drinking beer from their shoes while wearing underwear emblazoned with the Malaysian flag at Sunday’s race drew an outcry on social media, with many calling it a sign of disrespect.

The group were celebrating after Australian Daniel Ricciardo claimed his maiden Formula One win of the season.

They are being held in remand for four days pending investigations for public indecency and provocation, state news agency Bernama had reported, quoting local police.

“Police will investigate, we choose which law is appropriate then we recommend to the A-G (Attorney-General) to charge them under those acts,” Malaysia’s deputy home minister Nur Jazlan Mohamed told reporters at an event in Putrajaya, the country’s administrative capital.

Nur Jazlan said tourists to the Muslim-majority country should respect its open attitude towards visitors and respond in kind.

“We open our doors to tourists. We try to treat them as well as or sometimes even better than our own people. But when they come here with the intention to commit indecent acts to embarrass us, I think that’s not how visitors should respond to our good treatment, especially if there is a political motive behind it,” the minister said.

According to race organizers, nearly 50,000 people, mostly tourists, attended the Formula One race in Sepang, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. (rtr)

CAS said it would issue the decision at 1300 GMT (9:AM ET).

Five-times grand slam winner Sharapova was banned by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) in June following a positive test for the banned drug meldonium during January’s Australian Open.

The former world number one from Russia is seeking to have her suspension wiped out or reduced.

She had called the ITF’s ruling “unfairly harsh” as an independent tribunal had found that she had not

intentionally violated anti-doping rules.

Sharapova, 29, admitted taking meldonium during the season’s opening grand slam in Melbourne but said she had been unaware that it had been banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

Meldonium was added to WADA’s list of banned substances at the start of the year after mounting evidence that it boosted blood flow and enhanced athletic performance. (rtr)

Soccer, Formula 1, drone racing Sky takes to air with new sport LONDON - Europe’s leading payTV group Sky, known for splashing out billions of pounds on coverage of glamorous sports to keep an edge over its rivals, said on Wednesday it had identified the next big thing: drone racing.

Sky, which has 22 million paying customers in Britain, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy, plans to add

elite drone racing to its portfolio of European soccer and Formula One racing in a $1 million investment in the sport.

Drone racing features land-based pilots flying custom-designed radiocontrolled aircraft through complex three-dimensional race courses at high speed. A mounted camera provides a live video stream.

Sky, which is 39 percent-owned by Rupert Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox, said it invested the money in the New York-based Drone Racing League and would show 10 one-hour episodes on a new channel from October in Britain and Ireland.

Sky pays huge sums for exclusive sports rights to lure subscribers. (rtr)

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Racing drones fly during the first SPARK Multirotor Challenge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina September 10, 2016.

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Iceland’s dentist coach off to the pub as usual before key qualifier

REYKJAVIK - When he became Iceland coach after the team’s amazing exploits at Euro 2016, Heimir Hallgrimsson made it a priority to protect the things that make his team unique.

That would explain why he was helping somebody with a dentistry problem last week, and why he will be in the pub on Thursday evening before masterminding the team’s first home World Cup qualifier against Finland.

Hallgrimsson, a qualified dentist, treated a player who lost a tooth in a recent match played near his clinic. “I don’t take bookings, but I like to keep my fingers busy, just for one or two private clients or emergencies,” he told Reuters. “I’m actually quite a good dentist.”

He is also skilled in public relations, taking a lot of trouble as assistant coach to build a strong relationship with the fans.

Before a 2012 friendly against the Faroe Islands, he went to the bar frequented by Tolfan, the national supporters’ group, to announce the team, explain the selection and talk tactics. He has done the same

for every home game since.

“There were only 12 or 15 guys and girls that first time.

Now the place is packed,” he said. “There will be as many as 400 there on Thursday. “It wasn’t only the team in France, the supporters were fantastic too,” said Hallgrimsson, 49, who worked alongside the now retired Swede Lars Lagerback before taking over.

“We have built a unique relationship with our fans and my visits to the bar have become a sweet Icelandic tradition. I like to keep what’s unique about us, and even though I am now the head coach, it would be disrespectful not to go,” he added.

“We always ask them not to film it with their phone, to leak anything to the press, and they haven’t done it.”

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Apart from Lagerback’s retirement and the arrival of a German fitness coach, little has

changed since Iceland stunned England to reach the Euro 2016 quarter-finals. No players have retired, the support staff is barely changed and the team will not be adopting new tactics.

“We play how we must,” Hallgrimsson said. “We have 30-40% possession in our games, so hell, we have to be good at defending, and we have to have solutions for what to do if we win the ball.” Several players have switched clubs and six now play in the English Premier League or Championship. “Our players have been clever, sensible, when it comes to selecting a club,” Hallgrimsson said.

“The first priority is that they should be in the team, not on the bench at a club that’s too high-profile for them. We don’t have many on the bench.”

He cites the example of Hordur Magnusson, a promising 23-year-old defender who never made it into the Juventus first team and was loaned out to Spezia and Cesena. Magnusson signed for Bristol City and is already popular with their fans

after a good start in the Championship.

Expectations are higher after the Euros but Iceland have been unlucky to be drawn with Croatia, Turkey and Ukraine in their bid to reach the World Cup finals for the first time.

“It’s the toughest group, the only one with four teams who played at the Euro finals,” said Hallgrimsson. “The benefit is that it’s so even.”

All three opening fixtures finished 1-1. Iceland drew in Ukraine and four points from home games against Finland and Turkey would be “fantastic” for Hallgrimsson. So would home wins for the Under-21s against Scotland on Wednesday and Ukraine on Tuesday. That would ensure qualification for the European Championship finals, matching the achievement of the senior women’s team.

“The Under-21s have been in a really tough group and they beat France,” said Hallgrimsson. “They can win that group.

We have a lot of good young players, a good future. Nobody is underestimating Iceland any more.” (rtr)

England might actually benefit from Sam Allardyce’s shock exit with caretaker manager Gareth Southgate bringing in a fresh approach to the job, according to former Scotland midfielder Archie Gemmill.

Thrust into the job after Allardyce departed following an undercover newspaper investigation, Southgate’s immediate challenge is England’s World Cup qualifiers at home to Malta on Saturday and away to Slovenia three days later.

“It’s fresh management once again. Gareth has been with the England set-up for quite a few years, he has had a stint at Middlesbrough as a manager. So he’ll know a large percentage of the players,” Gemmill told British media.

“It’s someone who is a bit younger and possibly a bit fresher and might have some different ideas. I think it might help them.”

Southgate will also be in charge in a third World Cup qualifier at home to Scotland, who breezed past Malta 5-1 earlier this month, in November.

Gemmill felt the former Middlesbrough manager’s appointment will make England stronger and Scotland should target second place in Group F. “I think that will possibly make England stronger. I think Scotland should look at it as a group minus England,” he added.

“If Scotland can concentrate on picking up the points against Lithuania, Slovakia, Malta and take it as that, if they win the group minus England, they are going to be in a play-off for the World Cup.” (rtr)

Action Images via Reuters / Carl Recine

England interim manager Gareth Southgate during the press conference

Granada brings back Alcaraz to save struggling club

Lucas Alcaraz

IBP/net

GRANADA — Struggling Spanish club Granada has hired former coach Lucas Alcaraz in an attempt to salvage its season. Alcaraz replaces fired coach Paco Jemez.

Interim coach Lluis Planaguma led the team for its latest setback, a 1-0 home loss to newly promoted Leganes on Saturday.

Granada is in last place in the Spanish league after earning only two of a possible 21 points.

The 50-year-old Alcaraz was born in the southern city of Granada and made his coaching debut with the club while it was in the lower divisions. He returned to the club midway through the 2012-13 season and ensured it stayed in the top division.

He now faces a similar task with Granada winless and four points from safety after seven matches. (ap)

Manchester United midfielder Herrera called into Spain squad

MADRID — Spain coach Julen Lopetegui is adding Manchester United midfielder Ander Herrera to his squad for World Cup qualifiers against Italy and Albania. The 27-year-old Herrera will be making his debut with the Spanish national team.

Bayern Munich’s Javi Martinez was ruled out because of a muscle injury in his left leg.

Spain plays against Italy in Turin on Thursday and Albania three days later. Spain will be seeking to avenge a loss to Italy at the European Championship that ended its bid for a third consecutive continental title.

The 2-0 loss to Italy at Euro 2016 marked the end of Vicente del Bosque’s long and successful stint as Spain’s manager.

Lopetegui has since been tasked with rejuvenating a team that won the 2010 World Cup and 2008 and 2012 European Championships. (ap)

Action Images via Reuters / Carl Recine

Manchester United’s Ander Herrera in action with Leicester City’s Jeffrey Schlupp

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Iceland’s Alfred Finnbogason celebrates after scoring a goal.

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Iceland’s dentist coach off to the pub as usual before key qualifier

REYKJAVIK - When he became Iceland coach after the team’s amazing exploits at Euro 2016, Heimir Hallgrimsson made it a priority to protect the things that make his team unique.

That would explain why he was helping somebody with a dentistry problem last week, and why he will be in the pub on Thursday evening before masterminding the team’s first home World Cup qualifier against Finland.

Hallgrimsson, a qualified dentist, treated a player who lost a tooth in a recent match played near his clinic. “I don’t take bookings, but I like to keep my fingers busy, just for one or two private clients or emergencies,” he told Reuters. “I’m actually quite a good dentist.”

He is also skilled in public relations, taking a lot of trouble as assistant coach to build a strong relationship with the fans.

Before a 2012 friendly against the Faroe Islands, he went to the bar frequented by Tolfan, the national supporters’ group, to announce the team, explain the selection and talk tactics. He has done the same

for every home game since.

“There were only 12 or 15 guys and girls that first time.

Now the place is packed,” he said. “There will be as many as 400 there on Thursday. “It wasn’t only the team in France, the supporters were fantastic too,” said Hallgrimsson, 49, who worked alongside the now retired Swede Lars Lagerback before taking over.

“We have built a unique relationship with our fans and my visits to the bar have become a sweet Icelandic tradition. I like to keep what’s unique about us, and even though I am now the head coach, it would be disrespectful not to go,” he added.

“We always ask them not to film it with their phone, to leak anything to the press, and they haven’t done it.”

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Apart from Lagerback’s retirement and the arrival of a German fitness coach, little has

changed since Iceland stunned England to reach the Euro 2016 quarter-finals. No players have retired, the support staff is barely changed and the team will not be adopting new tactics.

“We play how we must,” Hallgrimsson said. “We have 30-40% possession in our games, so hell, we have to be good at defending, and we have to have solutions for what to do if we win the ball.” Several players have switched clubs and six now play in the English Premier League or Championship. “Our players have been clever, sensible, when it comes to selecting a club,” Hallgrimsson said.

“The first priority is that they should be in the team, not on the bench at a club that’s too high-profile for them. We don’t have many on the bench.”

He cites the example of Hordur Magnusson, a promising 23-year-old defender who never made it into the Juventus first team and was loaned out to Spezia and Cesena. Magnusson signed for Bristol City and is already popular with their fans

after a good start in the Championship.

Expectations are higher after the Euros but Iceland have been unlucky to be drawn with Croatia, Turkey and Ukraine in their bid to reach the World Cup finals for the first time.

“It’s the toughest group, the only one with four teams who played at the Euro finals,” said Hallgrimsson. “The benefit is that it’s so even.”

All three opening fixtures finished 1-1. Iceland drew in Ukraine and four points from home games against Finland and Turkey would be “fantastic” for Hallgrimsson. So would home wins for the Under-21s against Scotland on Wednesday and Ukraine on Tuesday. That would ensure qualification for the European Championship finals, matching the achievement of the senior women’s team.

“The Under-21s have been in a really tough group and they beat France,” said Hallgrimsson. “They can win that group.

We have a lot of good young players, a good future. Nobody is underestimating Iceland any more.” (rtr)

England might actually benefit from Sam Allardyce’s shock exit with caretaker manager Gareth Southgate bringing in a fresh approach to the job, according to former Scotland midfielder Archie Gemmill.

Thrust into the job after Allardyce departed following an undercover newspaper investigation, Southgate’s immediate challenge is England’s World Cup qualifiers at home to Malta on Saturday and away to Slovenia three days later.

“It’s fresh management once again. Gareth has been with the England set-up for quite a few years, he has had a stint at Middlesbrough as a manager. So he’ll know a large percentage of the players,” Gemmill told British media.

“It’s someone who is a bit younger and possibly a bit fresher and might have some different ideas. I think it might help them.”

Southgate will also be in charge in a third World Cup qualifier at home to Scotland, who breezed past Malta 5-1 earlier this month, in November.

Gemmill felt the former Middlesbrough manager’s appointment will make England stronger and Scotland should target second place in Group F. “I think that will possibly make England stronger. I think Scotland should look at it as a group minus England,” he added.

“If Scotland can concentrate on picking up the points against Lithuania, Slovakia, Malta and take it as that, if they win the group minus England, they are going to be in a play-off for the World Cup.” (rtr)

Action Images via Reuters / Carl Recine

England interim manager Gareth Southgate during the press conference

Granada brings back Alcaraz to save struggling club

Lucas Alcaraz

IBP/net

GRANADA — Struggling Spanish club Granada has hired former coach Lucas Alcaraz in an attempt to salvage its season. Alcaraz replaces fired coach Paco Jemez.

Interim coach Lluis Planaguma led the team for its latest setback, a 1-0 home loss to newly promoted Leganes on Saturday.

Granada is in last place in the Spanish league after earning only two of a possible 21 points.

The 50-year-old Alcaraz was born in the southern city of Granada and made his coaching debut with the club while it was in the lower divisions. He returned to the club midway through the 2012-13 season and ensured it stayed in the top division.

He now faces a similar task with Granada winless and four points from safety after seven matches. (ap)

Manchester United midfielder Herrera called into Spain squad

MADRID — Spain coach Julen Lopetegui is adding Manchester United midfielder Ander Herrera to his squad for World Cup qualifiers against Italy and Albania. The 27-year-old Herrera will be making his debut with the Spanish national team.

Bayern Munich’s Javi Martinez was ruled out because of a muscle injury in his left leg.

Spain plays against Italy in Turin on Thursday and Albania three days later. Spain will be seeking to avenge a loss to Italy at the European Championship that ended its bid for a third consecutive continental title.

The 2-0 loss to Italy at Euro 2016 marked the end of Vicente del Bosque’s long and successful stint as Spain’s manager.

Lopetegui has since been tasked with rejuvenating a team that won the 2010 World Cup and 2008 and 2012 European Championships. (ap)

Action Images via Reuters / Carl Recine

Manchester United’s Ander Herrera in action with Leicester City’s Jeffrey Schlupp

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Tampak Siring Palace

GIANYAR - Tampak Siring Palace was located in the Tampak Siring Village, Tampak Siring Sub District, Gianyar District, Bali Province, Indonesia. Tampak Siring Palace was the only Presidential Palace that was built after Indonesian Independent. The five other palaces that were building since the Dutch colonialism time, including the Country Palace and Merdeka Palace (Jakarta), Bogor Palace (Bogor), Cipanas Palace (Cipanas), and Agung Building (Yogyakarta).

The president to rest, carry out the working meeting, and carry out foreign talks usually uses Tampak Siring Palace. The name of Tampak Siring came from two words in Balinese, that is Tampak (appearance) and Siring (gutter): “Telapak (palm)” and “Miring (askew)”. The naming was linked tight to the community’s local legend about King Mayadenawa.

This king was known to be clever and magical invulnerable.

However, because his presumption appointed itself as the god who must be worshipped by his people, then Betara Indra delegated troops to attack King Mayadenawa. This attack made Mayadenawa escape into the forest. To conceal his tracks, Mayadenawa deliberate went by means of tilting his palm foot. But unfortunately, Mayadenawa efforts to deceive Betara Indra troops failed, his tracks had finally been known.

With the remnants of his supernatural powers, King Mayadenawa tried to oppose by creating the poisonous spring that could kill Betara Indra’s troops. To deal with resulting from bad from the poisonous spring, Betara Indra created the source of his antidote spring, that is Empul Water (holy water). Refugee’s territory King Mayadenawa so that currently is known as Tampak Siring. An architect named R.M. Soedarsono on the initiative of President Soekarno built Tampak Siring Palace. (IBP/net)

CAS to rule on Sharapova’s doping ban

LONDON - The verdict in Maria Sharapova’s appeal against a two-year doping ban will be announced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Tuesday.

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Maria Sharapova of Russia stretches to hit a return to Serena Williams of the U.S. during their women’s singles final match at the Australian Open 2015 tennis tournament in Melbourne January 31, 2015.

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KUALA LUMPUR - Nine Australians detained for stripping down to their underwear at the Formula One Malaysian Grand Prix may face possible indecency charges or deportation, authorities said on Tuesday.

Photos and videos of the group drinking beer from their shoes while wearing underwear emblazoned with the Malaysian flag at Sunday’s race drew an outcry on social media, with many calling it a sign of disrespect.

The group were celebrating after Australian Daniel Ricciardo claimed his maiden Formula One win of the season.

They are being held in remand for four days pending investigations for public indecency and provocation, state news agency Bernama had reported, quoting local police.

“Police will investigate, we choose which law is appropriate then we recommend to the A-G (Attorney-General) to charge them under those acts,” Malaysia’s deputy home minister Nur Jazlan Mohamed told reporters at an event in Putrajaya, the country’s administrative capital.

Nur Jazlan said tourists to the Muslim-majority country should respect its open attitude towards visitors and respond in kind.

“We open our doors to tourists. We try to treat them as well as or sometimes even better than our own people. But when they come here with the intention to commit indecent acts to embarrass us, I think that’s not how visitors should respond to our good treatment, especially if there is a political motive behind it,” the minister said.

According to race organizers, nearly 50,000 people, mostly tourists, attended the Formula One race in Sepang, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. (rtr)

CAS said it would issue the decision at 1300 GMT (9:AM ET).

Five-times grand slam winner Sharapova was banned by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) in June following a positive test for the banned drug meldonium during January’s Australian Open.

The former world number one from Russia is seeking to have her suspension wiped out or reduced.

She had called the ITF’s ruling “unfairly harsh” as an independent tribunal had found that she had not

intentionally violated anti-doping rules.

Sharapova, 29, admitted taking meldonium during the season’s opening grand slam in Melbourne but said she had been unaware that it had been banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

Meldonium was added to WADA’s list of banned substances at the start of the year after mounting evidence that it boosted blood flow and enhanced athletic performance. (rtr)

Soccer, Formula 1, drone racing Sky takes to air with new sport LONDON - Europe’s leading payTV group Sky, known for splashing out billions of pounds on coverage of glamorous sports to keep an edge over its rivals, said on Wednesday it had identified the next big thing: drone racing.

Sky, which has 22 million paying customers in Britain, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy, plans to add

elite drone racing to its portfolio of European soccer and Formula One racing in a $1 million investment in the sport.

Drone racing features land-based pilots flying custom-designed radiocontrolled aircraft through complex three-dimensional race courses at high speed. A mounted camera provides a live video stream.

Sky, which is 39 percent-owned by Rupert Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox, said it invested the money in the New York-based Drone Racing League and would show 10 one-hour episodes on a new channel from October in Britain and Ireland.

Sky pays huge sums for exclusive sports rights to lure subscribers. (rtr)

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Racing drones fly during the first SPARK Multirotor Challenge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina September 10, 2016.

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U.S. suspends Syria ceasefire talks with Russia, blames Moscow

WASHINGTON - The United States broke off talks with Russia on Monday on implementing a ceasefire agreement in Syria and accused Moscow of not living up to its commitments under the Sept. 9 deal to halt fighting and ensure aid reached besieged communities.

The confirmation that the U.S.Russian talks on Syria have collapsed suggests that there is little hope, if any, of a diplomatic solution emerging anytime soon to end a 5-1/2-year-old civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced 11 million.

“The United States is suspending its participation in bilateral channels with Russia that were established to sustain the cessation of hostilities,” U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement.

Secretary of State John Kerry last spoke to his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, on Saturday, a senior State Department official said, after Kerry threatened last week to walk away from the

talks.

In Moscow, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Russian news agencies the United States was trying to shift blame onto Russia, which in recent days had tried to sustain the agreement.

But Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, supported by Iranian-backed militia and Russian air power, have since last week stepped up their offensive against rebel-held areas of Aleppo, Syria’s biggest city, bombing hospitals and damaging water supplies.

In the northeastern city of Hasaka, a bomb killed at least 20 people at a Kurdish wedding, according to a Kurdish militia and a monitoring group.

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A U.S. intelligence official said the bombing campaign was “one of the deadliest” since the civil war erupted in 2011.

“These air strikes, mostly focused on Aleppo, have utilized a wide variety of deadly munitions, including barrel bombs, thermobaric bombs, incendiary munitions, cluster bombs and bunker busters,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The end of the talks could trigger deeper U.S. consideration of military options such as providing more sophisticated arms, logistical support, and training to Syrian rebel groups, either directly or via Gulf Arab states or Turkey.

But the speed with which the ceasefire collapsed - after a U.N. aid convoy was bombed in Syria - appeared to take some officials in the Obama administration by surprise and without a clear plan on the immediate way forward. (rtr)

REUTERS/Huseyin Aldemir

A RTUK official (L) takes notes at the master control room of the IMC TV in Istanbul, Turkey, October 4, 2016. RTUK stands for Turkish State Agency for monitoring, regulating and sanctioning radio and television broadcasts.

Turkey suspends thousands of police, shuts down TV station as crackdown widens

ANKARA/ISTANBU - Turkish authorities suspended nearly 13,000 police officers, detained dozens of air force officers and shut down a TV station on Tuesday, widening a state-ordered clampdown against perceived enemies in the wake of July’s failed coup.

The police headquarters said 12,801 officers, including 2,523 chiefs, had been suspended because of their suspected links to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara accuses of orchestrating the attempt to overthrow the government.

Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, denies any link to the putsch which has shaken the country and led to the deaths of more than 240 people.

The suspensions came hours after deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmus announced that the cabinet had approved a 90-day extension to a state of emergency, renewing President Tayyip Erdogan’s powers to govern by decree at least until January.

The emergency measures, if approved by parliament, mean Erdogan can take decisions without oversight of the Constitutional Court, Turkey’s highest legal body.

As well as suspending around five percent of the entire police force, the authorities detained 33 air force officers in raids across the country, the private Dogan news agency reported, and the transmission of TV station IMC was cut following accusations of spreading “terrorist propaganda”.

State-run Anadolu Agency said 37 people working in the Interior Ministry’s headquarters had also been removed from their posts, although no explanation was given.

Since July 15, Erdogan has taken unprecedented steps to rid state institutions of staff deemed disloyal or potential enemies.

About 100,000 people in the military, civil service, police, judiciary and universities have been sacked or suspended from their jobs, and 32,000 have been arrested. (rtr)

Colombia’s...

Colombians were convinced enough to turn out to vote and support the peace deal.

They were also worried by what might be left behind. Colombia has other terrorist organisations and other narcotic gangster networks.

FARC’s retirement would leave a vacuum they could easily fill and fight over. Vicious turf wars might simply have replaced five decades of civil war. Mexico, for instance, has no civil war but a massive narco conflict equally as devastating.

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So what next?

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REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail

Civil Defense members search for survivors at a site hit by an airstrike in the rebel-held alShaar neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria, September 27, 2016.

Both Colombia’s government and FARC have vowed to respect the ceasefire they announced during negotiations. Talking will go on.

But opponents of the deal say it was too lenient and did not punish those responsible for atrocities with long jail sentences.

It is hard to see FARC accepting a new deal that jails many of its members for lengthy times behind bars. (rtr)

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Deutsche Bank has been engulfed by a crisis of confidence after the U.S. Department of Justice demanded last month that it pay up to $14 billion to settle claims it missold U.S. mortgage-backed securities before the financial crisis.

The threat of the penalty has pushed the bank’s shares to record lows. It is pushing to reach an agreement for a much smaller settlement, to reverse the stock selloff and help to restore confidence.

Gabriel said he was worried for the people who worked at the bank, but conservatives accused him of playing politics.

“I’m not just worried about employees, but also about the German economy,” Joachim Pfeiffer, the spokesman on economic policy for the conservatives in parliament, told Reuters. Attacking the bank when it is in a period of consolidation is not clever but “cheap,” conservative lawmaker Michael Fuchs told the Passauer Neue Presse. “The economy minister is abusing his office to do party politics,” Fuchs said.

With elections due next year, German politicians have little appetite for helping Deutsche Bank, after its pursuit of business abroad left it facing billions of euros in penalties for wrongdoing.

In an Emnid survey for Focus magazine on Saturday, 69 percent were opposed to state aid for the bank, with just 24 percent in favour. (rtr)

REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/Files

A vintage clock with the logo of Deutsche Bank is pictured outside the bank’s branch in Wiesbaden, Germany, January 28, 2015.

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Indonesians register their earnings for a government’s tax amnesty at a tax office in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016. The Indonesian government applies a tax amnesty law aimed at drawing billions of dollars from wealthy Indonesians abroad and from tax evaders at home to help finance infrastructure and boost economic growth.

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A vendor sprinkles water over fish for sale as she waits for customers inside a public market in Las Pinas, south of Metro Manila November 5, 2009. REUTERS/John

It’s the economy: Duterte not main cause of Philippines market selloff

MANILA - Philippine markets have been heavily sold down since July, primarily for economic reasons, not the festering row between new President Rodrigo Duterte and traditional ally the United States over his war on drugs, money managers say.

A slowdown in remittances from Filipinos working overseas, which have historically been a big driver of growth in the Southeast Asian nation, is a cause of concern.

For bond investors, a bigger concern is the heavy correlation between Philippine bonds and U.S. Treasuries, and the potential for Philippine bond prices to drop as market participants prepare for the Federal Reserve to raise its near-zero rates.

“Everybody’s pointing to Duterte,” said Erwin Balita, a fund manager at BPI Asset Management in Manila. “But for me, it’s really the fundamentals of the country. The drop in remittances is a big game

changer,” he said. BPI manages around 700 billion pesos ($14.5 billion) in the Philippines.

The stock market .PSI, one of Asia’s outperformers in 2015, has fallen 4 percent since late July. In the same period, MSCI’s Asia ex-Japan index .MIAPJ0000PUS has risen 5.3 percent.

The peso has borne the brunt of the exodus of foreign investment and is down 5 percent against the dollar since July. It is down 2.4 percent this year, making it the worst performing currency in the region after the yuan.

Yields on 15-year dollar bonds issued by the Philippine govern-

ment, one of the most liquid on the market, have risen 17 basis points since July.

The Philippines is one of Asia’s most active issuers of U.S. dollardenominated bonds. With Asia’s second-highest growth rate, it has been a haven for yield-hunting foreign investors over the past couple of years. Yet, those bonds have been volatile in recent weeks.

“People think that Treasury rates are going to go up and that is the reason why the role of Philippine bonds being a Treasury proxy is negatively affected,” said Arthur Lau, a fixed income portfolio manager at PineBridge Investments.

PineBridge, which has $42 billion of Asian assets under management, has been neutral to underweight on Philippine assets across its funds this year. (rtr)

Banda Aceh to build digital museum

BANDA ACEH - The administration of Banda Aceh, Aceh province will build a digital museum that will collect, showcase and preserve the history of the city. “The museum will preserve the historical journey of Banda Aceh, which is now more than eight centuries old,” Aceh Mayor Illiza Saaduddin Djamal said here on Tuesday.

According to the mayor, the digital museum is important for Banda Aceh as it is an old city and therefore, has many valuable and precious histories to tell the world.

In addition, she stated, the museum will function as an educational center to learn about the history of Banda Aceh. “We will seek help and support from the British, the Dutch and the Turkish governments as they have many historical remains related to Banda Aceh,” Illiza added.

Besides building a digital museum, the city administration also takes care of the historical remains, among others, those left by the Sultanate of Aceh and the colonial Dutch rulers.

“Such historical legacy as a

house in which Snouck Hurgronje and General Kohler used to live is invaluable,” she stressed.

Another historical remain is the Old Town of Peunayong that will be renovated and preserved as a cultural heritage.

“These historical buildings are not allowed to be tweaked with.

Once they have been designated as historical items, people should not carry out any change therein. We are doing this to save the evidence of our historical past,” the mayor commented.(ant)

Hajj pilgrims with Philippines`quota in process of returning home: Minister

JAKARTA - Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi has said that the government is in the process of bringing home 106 Indonesian Hajj pilgrims who travelled to Saudi Arabia by using the Philippines quota.

“There are 106 pilgrims in Manila, Philippines now. They are currently in the Indonesian Embassy in Manila for the final processing phase,” said the Minister, after accompanying President Joko Widodo, while receiving the credentials of Ambassadors and plenipotentiaries from 18 countries at the State Palace on Tuesday.Minister Marsudi further explained that the 106 pilgrims are preparing their documents to return to Indonesia.

“It is much like the previous processes, only this time it has been accelerated. They will be able to return home once a clearance is is-

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Conservative lawmakers slam German economy minister over Deutsche remarks BERLIN - Conservative lawmakers lashed out at Germany’s economy minister on Tuesday for attacking Deutsche Bank’s chief executive, saying the minister’s job was to support the country’s biggest bank, not talk it down.

Sigmar Gabriel, the economy minister and leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s junior coalition partner, the Social Democrats, criticised Deutsche Bank CEO John Cryan for blaming speculators when the bank’s share price plunged last week.

“I did not know if I should laugh or cry that the bank that made speculation a business model is now saying it is a victim of speculators,” Gabriel told reporters on a plane to Iran.

Hans Michelbach, a senior member of Merkel’s conservative bloc, called Gabriel’s remarks “pretty counterproductive.”

“As German economy minister, your task is to promote Germany as a place to do business and not to bad-mouth individual market participants,” he told the newspaper Handelsblatt.

Germany needs Deutsche Bank, which employs around 100,000 people, if its export-orientated economy is to fulfil its potential, Michelbach added.

“Therefore, it’s inconceivable that Mr Gabriel could let himself get carried away with such comments,” he said.

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sued from the immigration authorities. We will then release a document for them to use in place of their passports, as I estimated that not all of them have their passports in hand,” the Minister added.

The Filipino government previously mentioned that there are some 700 Indonesian nationals who illegally departed for the Hajj pilgrimage without carrying with them their assigned Filipino passports.

Minister Marsudi noted that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recorded that 106 Indonesians have completed their pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, but they were unable to return to Indonesia as they had to go through an investigation processes in the Philippines.

“The Filipino authorities originally estimated about 700 people, but we do not really have the exact number, so at the moment the Indo-

nesian Embassy in Manila is taking care of 106 people,” she added.

As for the case of 177 pilgrims who were arrested in the Philippines, the Minister said that the process for returning them has been completed. “Two of them arrived in Jakarta this morning. I have reported to the President that the process for 177 pilgrims in the Philippines is complete,” she remarked.

The authorities have repatriated 177 Indonesian nationals who were arrested before they could depart for their Hajj pilgrimage using the Philippine quota. They were then sent back home, after completing a lengthy investigation process.

In relation to the law, the Minister said that Indonesian officials must wait for Filipino authorities to complete their work. “The next process will be taken care of by the police force,” she added.(ant)

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s air force is holding its largest military exercise this week, near some of its islands in the South China Sea, in a show of sovereignty over the gas-rich area on the fringe of territory claimed by China, officials said on Tuesday.

President Joko Widodo in June launched an unprecedented campaign to bolster fishing, oil exploration and defense facilities around the Natuna island chain after a series of face-offs between the Indonesian navy and Chinese fishing boats.

China, while not disputing Indonesia’s clams to the Natuna islands, has raised Indonesian anger by saying the two countries had “over-lapping claims” to waters near them, an area Indonesia calls the Natuna Sea. “We want to show our existence in the area. We have a good enough air force to act as a deterrent,” said Jemi Trisonjaya, spokesman for Indonesia’s air force.

More than 2,000 air force personnel were taking part in the two-

week long exercise, which includes the deployment of Indonesia’s fleet of Russian Sukhoi and F-16 fighter jets, he said.

Other branches of the Indonesian armed forces are not taking part in exercise, which ends on Thursday.

China claims almost the entire South China Sea, where about $5 trillion worth of trade passes every year. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims.

While Indonesia is not part of the dispute over claims in the South China Sea, it objects to China’s inclusion of waters around the Natuna Islands within its “nine-dash line,” a demarcation line used by China to show its claims in the sea.(rtr)

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Indonesian Air Force Sukhoi fighter pilots and crew walk across the tarmac after training for an upcoming military exercise at Hang Nadim Airport, Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia October 3, 2016 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Picture taken October 3, 2016.

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Stricken by rain with hurricane, hectares of tangerine fall out BANGLI - Hurricane with torrential rain frequently occurring in Bangli district since the past few days do not only cause fallen tree.

However, the tangerines of farmers of Delod Desa hamlet, Pengotan, were caused to fall out. Such conditions make farmer crops decrease.

A local farmer, I Wayan Parma, said that the rain happened recently is no longer like the previous ones.

Its presence is often accompanied with strong winds. This affects the tangerine orchards. The fruits approaching harvest time are caused to fall out and perish. “Since last week, it has rained frequently accompanied with strong winds.

Hectares of tangerine trees are slammed so that their fruits fall out,” he said, Monday (Oct. 3).

Raging of the wind happening for the first time this year made the tangerine harvest slump by 25 percent. Automatically it caused the income of farmers and middlemen to be inversely proportional.

Similarly this issue is very difficult to overcome. Farmers can only surrender to see their tangerine fruit scattering and perishing. “The fruits falling out should actually come into harvest season. Many farmers and middlemen complained. Farmers cannot cope with this,” he said.

This farmer possessing two hectares of cultivation land also told that other than caused by rain and strong wind, the tangerine falling out is also triggered by the attack of fruit flies. They have been present for long time. As a result, farmers are very difficult to do extermination. “It is quite hard to stop the fruit fly attack. It adequately

affects the yield and quality of crops,” he said.

Amid the decline in production, farmers are also faced with the quite low price of their tangerine.

Tangerine of good quality is sold for IDR 5,000 per kilogram, while the lowest price lies in the range of IDR 2,000. To avoid farmers from great losses, the minimal selling price is in the range of IDR 7,000 per kilogram. “If the minimum price lies in this range, farmers will be more secure and will not lose. Well, if the price is cheap like the current one and the fruits fall out, farmers can be shaken up,” he added.

The Processing and Marketing Division Head of the Bangli Agriculture and Forestry Agency, Dewa Putu Sugiarta, said that the tangerine fruits fall out due to rain accompanied with strong wind and this only takes place in a few regions. On that account, there is no significant effect on global production. “Tangerine falling out only occurred in several areas, not thoroughly. We did not receive any reports regarding this incident,” he said.

In the meantime, the Division Head of Food and Horticulture at the Bangli Agriculture Agency, I Wayan Tagel Sujana, explained that bad weather happening recently do not only spark the widespread of pest attack the irrigated farmland but also the non-irrigated, like tangerine. Other than using pesticides, the eradication must be done simultaneously at a region.

“With simultaneous eradication, the chance for pests to move is very small,” he said. (kmb45)

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The farmer in Banjar Delod Desa, Pengotan Village, Bangli is picking up the tangerine fall down.

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Yoshinori Ohsumi, a professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology, speaks during a news conference after he won the Nobel medicine prize at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Tokyo, Japan, October 3, 2016.

Komang Badra when speaks on the forum in Karangasem.

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Speak up, but do not talk carelessly

AMLAPURA - The government of Karangasem begins to open a space to accept public criticism, proposals and suggestions. The opportunity to speak up is an aspiration forum opened to the public every first week of each month. Deputy Regent of Karangasem, I Wayan Artha Dipa, said that the aspiration forum should be really utilized by the public, but they may not just talk.

Artha Dipa said that in the current era of openness the administration needs to receive suggestion and criticism. It becomes a part of development so that it can be better in the future. However, Artha Dipa reminded that any people speaking up in the aspiration forum may not always consider themselves correct. “We in Bali are always reminded by a Balinese maxim.

Never consider yourself smart, but let other people judge,” said Artha Dipa when launching the monthly agenda initiated by the MPC Pemuda Pancasila of Karangasem at Padangkerta Stadium on Jalan Veteran, Amlapura.

Deputy Regent of Karangasem encouraged people, especially young men, to speak up critically while providing solutions. The youth must dare to tell the truth at

forefront. Likewise, when something goes wrong, they must go forward when others do not dare say it. He quoted the principles of Pancasila where the youth builds excitement among its circles by developing the region.

Each community can directly express their aspirations in the forum after signing up to the committee. Every resident is given a maximum of ten minutes. On the first day, people’s responses to the forum were pretty good. Several residents expressed their aspirations, like Putu Suartawan from Susuan neighborhood, Komang Badra and Wayan Jatiyasa. These three residents speak up about the future of Balinese language and regional language asset conservation.

Komang Badra, Deputy Chairman of Student Affairs of the STKIP

Amlapura, for instance, considered the need to establish the Karangasem Balinese writer alliance.

The alliance will be able to serve as a forum for Balinese literati to document literature in Karangasem.

It becomes a real attempt for the preservation of Balinese literature, including Balinese language. This must be done immediately to avoid it from extinction. Then, Wayan Jatiyasa added that the establishment of the Karangasem Balinese writer alliance should be immediately followed up with the making of MoU with the Karangasem Culture and Tourism Agency, so there is a written agreement between them. This can be an answer to address the lack of Balinese speakers in Karangasem Bali.

“To continuously promote Balinese language, it is also needed to set the day of speaking Balinese language. In addition, it is necessary to think about the opening of vacancies for civil servant aspirants because the current teacher of Balinese language is held by temporary teacher,” said Jatiyasa, the Head of Balinese Language Program Study at the STKIP Amlapura. (kmb31)

Japanese scientist wins Nobel medicine prize for work on “self-eating” cell mechanism

STOCKHOLM - Japan’s Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel prize for medicine for ground-breaking experiments with yeast which exposed a key mechanism in the body’s defences where cells degrade and recycle their components.

Understanding the science behind the process, called “autophagy” or “self-eating”, has led to a better understanding of diseases such as cancer, Parkinson’s and type 2 diabetes, the prize committee said in its statement on Monday.

“Ohsumi’s discoveries led to a new paradigm in our understanding of how the cell recycles its content,” it said.

The Physiology or Medicine prize, the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year, is worth 8 million Swedish crowns ($933,000).

Ohsumi, born in 1945 in Fukuoka, Japan, has been a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technol-

ogy since 2009. He told Kyodo News agency he was “extremely honoured” to get the prize.

In a separate interview with broadcaster NHK, he said he had “always wanted to do something that other people wouldn’t do”.

“I thought the breakdown (of cells) would be interesting, and that was my start,” he said.

Ohsumi’s work - carried out in the 1990s and described by commentators as “paradigm-shifting” and “pioneering” - included locating the genes that regulate autophagy. This is important for medicine because it helps show why errors in these genes can contribute to a range of diseases.

David Rubinsztein, deputy director of Cambridge University’s Institute for Medical Research, said Ohsumi had provided scientists around the world with “critical tools” to help them understand how disrupted autophagy can contribute to illnesses including infectious diseases, cancers and neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s and Parkinson’s.

Christer Hoog, a professor at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, told Reuters the work helped explain crucial processes in human development, from growing up, to ageing to succumbing to disease.

“In the very early stages (of a human’s development) your organs and your whole body is constantly being made over again - you are growing. So you need to get rid of the old stuff and generate new structures,” he said. (rtr)

WASHINGTON - U.S. officials are doing their best to ignore Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s hostile rhetoric and taking comfort in the fact that he has yet to translate his words into less military cooperation.

The United States is trying not to give the new Philippine president, who recently appeared to liken himself to Hitler, a pretext for further outbursts while at the same time pressing ahead with military and other cooperation at lower levels, U.S. officials said on Monday.

Two U.S. officials said that while an open break with Manila would create problems in a region where China has grown increasingly aggressive, there are no serious discussions about taking punitive steps such as cutting aid to the Philippines.

Mindful of anti-colonial sentiment, despite the estimated 3 million people of Philippine descent living in the United States, U.S. officials do not want to say or do anything that might encourage Duterte to turn his rhetoric into reality.

“He is like Mr. Trump,” a senior Southeast Asian official said, referring to U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

“He craves attention, and the more he gets, the more outrageous he becomes. It is wisest to ignore him.”

In the last month, Duterte has appeared to call U.S. President Barack Obama a “son of a bitch,” leading the White House to cancel a planned meeting, and to liken himself to Hitler, saying he would “be happy” to kill 3 million drug users and peddlers in the country.

Duterte said he regretted using that language to describe Obama and apologized to the Jewish community for his references to the Holocaust.

In his latest broadside, Duterte on Sunday said he got expressions of support from Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and from an unnamed Chinese official after he complained of ill-treatment

by Washington.

While Duterte has publicly suggested he would end joint military exercises, push U.S. special operations forces out of the southern Philippines, and review a defense pact signed two years ago, U.S. officials stressed none of this has happened. (rtr)

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U.S. Marine Corps Brigadier General John Jansen (L) greets Commandant of Philippine Marine Corps, Maj. General Andre Costales Jr (C), during the opening ceremony of annual Philippines-US amphibious landing exercise (PHILBLEX) inside the Philippine Marines headquarters in Taguig city, metro Manila, Philippines October 4, 2016.

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Google readies new phones, gadgets featuring its software

Grow ornamental flowers to reduce dependency of Bali on Java

On Tuesday, the search giant will ramp up its consumer electronics strategy with expected announcements of new gadgets including new smartphones and an internet-connected personal-assistant for the home similar to Amazon’s Echo speaker. All are intended to showcase Google’s software and online services.

A new virtual reality headset and other devices, such as a home router, could also be on tap, according to analysts and industry blogs. Google has declined to confirm any specifics, although it previously described some of these products back in May .

Google makes most of its money from online software and digital ads. But it’s putting more emphasis on hardware as it faces rivals like Apple, Amazon and South Korea’s Samsung.

BANGLI - Fulfillment of ornamental flowers in Bali is still highly dependent on a number of regions in Java. This condition inspired a resident of Pengotan, Bangli, named I Wayan Nyarka. One hectare of the land previously overgrown by bushes was then transformed into a place to cultivate horticultural crops. By self-taught, the business pioneered three years ago has sufficiently developed.

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In this May 18, 2016 file photo, Google vice president Mario Queiroz gestures while introducing the new Google Home device during the keynote address of the Google I/O conference in Mountain View, Calif. On Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016.

Tokyo gamers slapped down for virtual groping TOKYO - Virtual reality got a little too real at the Tokyo Game Show on Friday when gamers lined up at one exhibition and got touchy-feely with a mannequin that with VR goggles transformed into a female anime character.

The show’s organiser told software developer M2 Co. to stop visitors fondling the dummy’s breasts, which with built-in sensors prompted the anime image in the goggles to move.

The hands-on display was meant to demonstrate technology to turn flat pictures into 3D images.

“I feel as though I have seen the future,” said an excited programmer, Hiroyasu Ando, 24, who tried the VR game before the touching ban was imposed.

“It’s going to be possible to fall in love with a virtual girl.”

The annual gaming showcase was dominated this year by VR goggles from the likes of Sony Corp and new software for immersive technology. Although scantily clad women greeted visitors at many of the booths, exhibitors on the whole stuck to family-rated content.

M2 nonetheless showed that other, racier and potentially more profitable applications for VR exist, with the adult entertainment industry usually quick to adopt to new ways to distribute its content. (rtr)

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A man rects as he tries out a M2 Co.Ltd’s “E-mote” system at Tokyo Game Show 2016 in Chiba, east of Tokyo, Japan. “E-mote” is the abbreviation of “Emotional Motion Technology” and is a tool to convert 2D image into 3D Look image without coding or other complicated procedures, the company said.

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SAN FRANCISCO - Google may be getting serious about selling its own hardware gadgets.

New devices could help Google keep its services front and center in the battle for consumers’ attention, said analyst Julie Ask at Forrester Research. Unlike a new mobile app or other software, she noted, it can be an expensive gamble to build and ship new hardware products. “But if you’re Google, you can’t afford to stop placing bets.”

Google already sells smartphones and tablets under the Nexus brand, which it launched in 2010 as a way to show off the best features of its Android software. But it’s spent relatively little effort to promote those devices, which have mostly ended up in the hands of Google purists. Tech blogs are reporting the company is now planning to launch two smartphone models under a new brand, Pixel, and Google has hinted it may invest in an extensive marketing campaign intended to introduce the phones to the mass market.

Android already powers the majority of smartphones sold around the world. But Samsung, the biggest maker of Android phones, has increasingly been adding more of its own software — even its own Samsung Pay mobile wallet — on the phones it sells.

Another big rival, Apple, has built its own services, such as online maps and its own Siri personal assistant, to replace Google’s apps on the iPhone. (ap)

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When entering October, the health authorities urged people to more aggressively perform mosquito nests eradication (PSN).

Mosquito nests eradication

Powerful ways to prevent increase in dengue cases

DENPASAR - When entering October, the health authorities urged people to more aggressively perform mosquito nests eradication (PSN). This happens because dengue fever case is predicted to increase in October.

Luh Sri Armini, the Head of the Denpasar Health Agency, said that for precautions against the increase in dengue fever cases, currently all the mosquito larvae monitoring officers in Denpasar are being deployed to provide dissemination, coach and mentoring to community. “They go into people’s homes to eradicate mosquito nests and provide Abate powder en mass in the effort to eradicate mosquito larva and distribute larvicidal powder, dengue prevention leaflets to residents or households,” she said, Saturday (Oct. 1).

A total of 431 mosquito larvae monitoring officers and eight fogging officers in Denpasar are getting into people’s home and eradicate mosquito nests with local residents and provide mass Abate powder to prevent the rising cases of dengue fever one month to go and so on. “We hope the participation of all components of society

will make the mosquito nests eradication and provision of Abate successful,” she hoped.

The officers work for 4-6 hours.

Of the 100 homes monitored by the officers, 95 percent is free from mosquito larvae. She asserted that almost all the homes have been monitored. “We give them target to monitor 10 homes each day, and this measure has been already running within the past four years,” she said.

If they find larvae exceeding five percent or at least 5-10 containers declared to be positive to larvae, the health agency will do fogging.

Similar thing was also disclosed by the Head of the Bali Health Agency, Ketut Suarjaya.

The agency is going to intensify the mosquito nests eradication movement simultaneously.

Moreover, in the health center III of North Denpasar has been established self-monitoring officer by involving school children as larva monitoring officers. Since most of the positive dengue fever attacks school children, schools were then involved in the movement through the mosquito larvae self-monitoring officer. (kmb42)

Ornamental flowers such as rose and chrysanthemum are currently not only sought after when Valentine’s Day arrives. Wedding as well as official events taking place at hotels, for instance, surely needs them to complement their decor.

The selling price is also quite promising. However, behind this reality, the flowers are still brought in from a number of regions in Java such as Bogor, Bandung, Malang and Pasuruan. In the meantime, almost no regions in Bali cultivate them.

At best it only comes from Bedugul area with very small production capacity. It is unable to meet the entire demand. This condition inspired the resident of Pengotan village, Bangli, I Wayan Nyarka, to cultivate the flowers.

“When asking a friend in Bandung, he said the flower demand from Bali is quite a lot. Similar information was also given by friends in Bogor and Pasuruan.

Well, it has inspired me to cultivate flowers since three years ago. Our environment also supports,” he said, Sunday (Oct. 2).

Flower cultivation is done on one hectare of land previously only overgrown by bushes and grasses.

It is full of struggle and one by one of the ornamental flowers were then planted. Other than roses and chrysanthemums, gerbera, peacock, petunia, babybird, silverdas and others have become his collection.

Armed with the knowledge gained by self-taught, the marketing has been able to increase the number of florists in the regions such as Denpasar, Ubud and Kuta. Moreover, recently he is overwhelmed in meeting the demand.

“Ornamental flowers seem to have been mandatory in every event, in addition to Valentine.

That’s what causes the demand to be quite high,” said Nyarka. Flower demand can be said to be quite smooth. Delivery to Denpasar is carried out once every two days.

The income obtained is sufficient to meet daily needs.

Cultivating ornamental flower is not an easy matter. There is no water source around his garden.

Water can only be obtained from

the purchase and it is quite expensive. Quite frequent purchase automatically causes to increase his expenditure. To get around, this high school graduate man continued to look for solution. Finally, the shortage of water can be resolved by the making of reservoir.

“At first, the water became a major problem. Ultimately I got an idea to take advantage of rainwater. It is stored in a reservoir. In fact, it was very helpful and I no longer need to spend money to purchase water,” he said.

The innovation initiated is not only that. To reduce costs, he fertilizes his plants by using pig waste. Similarly, this method is also learned autodidactically. However, as the business in common it is very difficult to rid of problems. He is difficult to get flower seeds in Bali and must be purchased to Java. Due to long distance, the transportation cost becomes quite expensive.

“Until now, looking for seeds remains to become a constraint. But what I’m doing is meant to inspire farmers in Bali. We have incredible potential. Do not let the matter of ornamental flowers continuously rely on Java,” he said.

Flower plantation exuding beautiful impression, in fact, does not only bring in rupiahs to Nyarka. However, his garden is also hunted by young people as a place to take pictures and a means of education. (sos)

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One hectare of the land previously overgrown by bushes was then transformed into a place to cultivate horticultural crops.

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“We want the validity like the identity card and we ask for life provided that they take competency test if promoted. It is a pity that the workers must take competency test every three years and spend money because each unit of tourism competency test costs IDR 350,000,” he explained.

Having been declared to be competent by the competency test certificate, the workers find another obstacle. For instance, when the workers asked for salary, the employers do not want to recognize.

Actually, according to the Government Regulation No.78, the indicators of the salary increase include four things, namely employment period, education, competency and position. (kmb42)

The guide is preparing the tourists before entering the temple

SINGARAJA - The community circle of Munduk, Banjar, should be proud of having the spinning top tradition renowned at home and overseas for hundreds of years. Now, local people make a phenomenal work in the form of a giant spinning top with the diameter of 2.5 meters.

said Jro Ardana, Monday (Oct. 3).

According to him, the emergence of the idea on the making of giant spinning top is meant to introduce the tradition of Munduk village to wider community. In general, it has small size and is played after harvest time. However, the making of the giant spinning top requires patience and precision to carve the wood material.

“During the making of this giant spinning top, we surely encounter dif-

ficulty. We have to measure correctly especially the matter of balance so as the balance can get the middle point and it is capable of rotating longer and in balanced condition. If the side is not balanced, we will adjust it to make it much lighter,” he said.

He added that it was designed five years ago. But eventually it can be realized this year due to the assistance of a sponsor from Jakarta. Ardana himself was introduced by his colleague to a collector of traditional

The competency test is free of charge as it is financed by the government of Badung whose implementation was carried out for two times namely in June and next October through the amended regional budget. “Hopefully, there will be no changes,” he hoped.

Initially the competency test was held once due to the demand of tourism labor union of Badung in the meeting of tourism stakeholders. “Mr. Giri Prasta realized that 85 percent of the regionally generated revenue of Badung is obtained from hotel and restaurant tax. Thus, he allocated for tourism workers in

As people around the globe once again mark World Animal Day, the hard-working team at the Bali Safari & Marine Park, who spend there working lives with the hundreds of animals who make their home at the Park, happily joined this special celebration dedicated to animals everywhere and to their animal colleagues who live at the Park. World Animal Day is an annual event at the Bali Safari & Marine Park.

As part of Bali Safari & Marine Park community outreach and corporate social responsibility program, their team of educators and caregivers invited 50 children from the Yappa Foundation - a local orphanage, to explore and enjoy the many wonders of the 40-hectare nature park.

Like the many thousands who have visited the Park before them, the children enjoying World Animal Day were excited and overjoyed to join the Safari Journey that uses secure vehicles to pass through three open-space enclosures that are the home to animals from Africa, India and Indonesia. Wide-eyed and excited to learn as much as they can about the animal world, the happy children also visited the Fresh Water Aquarium, watched the magnificent tigers performing in the Big Cat Show, became entranced with the cleverness of the performers

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Giant spinning top as the pride of Munduk community

Chief of Munduk customary village, Jro Putu Ardana, said that the giant spinning top is made from bay cedar timber. It was made by overtime at his courtyard by involving ten people of the local communities. This spinning top game is often played by

the four customary communities of the Dalem Tamblingan consisting of the Munduk, Gobleg, Umejero and Gesing in Banjar and Busungbiu subdistrict. “We have not weighed the overall weight of this spinning top. It is estimated to reach 400 kg,”

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order to win the competition of human resources in the era of ASEAN Economic Community,” he said.

In the meantime, the members of tourism labor union are also keen to follow the competency test but they recognize to be constrained by working schedule. Although the competency test has been scheduled, but when the hotel is suddenly crowded the workers then reschedule their test because providing the best services for guest becomes the priority. “Most importantly, we can see their enthusiasm to take the competency test. So, we can continue and give a chance for them,” he said.

In 2004, the certificate of competency test is extended after two years, but in 2005 this certificate can be extended every three years.

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spinning top named Endi Aras. “We are very grateful as the giant spinning top can be realized this year due to sponsor from Jakarta. Well, by chance I was introduced by my friend to a lover of traditional game named Endi Aras. After effectively made for two weeks, finally it can be materialized as it is today,” he added.

The giant spinning top will be displayed in a game event in Jakarta where the sponsor will organize the event on October 6-9. The spinning top is taken to Jakarta on Tuesday (Oct. 4) by a truck from Buleleng.

The making of it costs IDR 50 million while the delivery to Jakarta costs IDR 100 million. “Hopefully, the delivery to Jakarta could run smoothly and safely and when the event begins it could be played well,” he said.

He said that it will need more than five persons to play the giant spinning top, different from the one of regular size only needing one person. As the giant spinning top is quite heavy, it requires more players to control the game.

“We also use different rope for this spinning top. Well, we usually take advantage of wooden bark but this one use a special and large rope.

It can turn for 15 to 20 minutes and be played over the metal to maintain the balance of its rotation. When arrives in Jakarta, it will not be brought home again to Buleleng and becomes the property of the sponsor,” said Jro Ardana. (kmb34)

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in the Animal Show, and learned about a struggle for species survival at the Elephant Show. The children were given free range of the Park allowing them to also visit the Petting Zoo, view the world’s largest lizard at the Komodo Exhibit and view the rare White Tigers presented in an ancient fort inspired

by Ranthambore in India.

For many of the children this was their first encounter with wildlife of any sort, awakening an interest in the wild kingdom that the Park’s staff hopes will blossom into a genuine concern for animals and the natural environment.

Under the thoughtful guidance of the professional educational team at the Bali Safari & Marine Park the children were also encouraged to explore their creative natures by making handicrafts with wildlife themes from recycled items.

The children also “took a walk on the wild side” imitating the animals they had met during the visit as teams of Park Educators performed elaborate face paintings that transformed the kids into wild cats and other inhabitants of the wild jungle.

Delighted with their “new look,” the children eagerly posed for photos taken by Park guests who vied for prizes by posting the pictures on the Social Network with suitable hash tags linked to World Animal Day. William Santoso, General Man-

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ager of the Bali Safari and Marine Park commented on the visit by local orphans, saying: “World Animal Day is an important day for everyone at the Park. Via the celebration of this day, we are reminded of the importance of protecting and conserving wildlife. We hope that by facilitating visits by children from the Yappa Foundation Orphanage to the Bali Safari & Marine Park we can instill a sense of concern and caring for wildlife that will last a lifetime, and create young men and women who become active conservationists.”

World Animal Day is marked internationally every October 4th. First celebrated in Florence, Italy in 1931 at a convention attended by renowned ecologists, World Animal Day was set aside to recognize the high value of all members of the Animal Kingdom.

With each passing year, the animals of the world are honored on the same date at an increasing number of locations around the world. This date coincides with the celebration of the Feast Dayof Saint Francis of Assisi, a legendary friend of nature and the animal kingdom. Despite this religious link, animal lovers worldwide without regard to differing religious faith, national original or personal background join forces every October 4th to recognize World Animal Day.

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Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Ben Affleck reveals title of upcoming Batman film

LOS ANGELES — Ben Affleck says the upcoming stand-alone Batman film he’s directing and starring in will be called “The Batman.” Affleck is leaving open the possibility of changing the title, but tells The Associated Pres “that’s what we’re going with now.”

Affleck is also dismissing critics of his debut as The Dark Knight in “Batman v. Superman” earlier this year. He tells Washington’s WTTGTV that the film is the “biggest hit of my career” and says he loves the movie.

Responding to the mostly negative critical response to the movie, Affleck says most critics took issue with its dark tone. Affleck says the tone was parallel with the Frank Miller’s comic miniseries, “The Dark Knight Returns,” on which it was partly based. Affleck next stars in “The Accountant,” which opens next week.(ap)

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Wednesday, October 5, 2016 U.S. suspends Syria ceasefire talks with Russia, blames Moscow Page 6

Iceland’s dentist coach off to the pub as usual before key qualifier Page 8

Colombia’s shock at peace deal rejection makes Brexit anguish seem trivial

BOGOTA - Imagine your country has been at war with itself for more than 50 years. Some 220,000 people have been killed, six million displaced, thousands of women raped, children turned into soldiers.

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FILE - In this March, 20 2016, file photo, Ben Affleck attends the premiere of “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

Kardashian West assailants still at large after France heist PARIS — French police on Tuesday continued hunting for five people suspected of assaulting Kim Kardashian West in a private Paris residence before robbing her of more than $10 million worth of jewelry.

Paris police said they were analyzing footage from surveillance cameras to try to identify the assailants, who wore fake police emblems on their jackets.

Japanese scientist wins Nobel medicine prize for work on “self-eating” cell mechanism Page 13

After forcing their way into the American celebrity’s apartment in the chic eighth district, the robbers held her up at gunpoint and locked her in a bathroom before escaping on bicycles in the early hours of Monday. They stole a jewelry box containing valuables worth 6 million euros ($6.7 million) as well as a ring worth 4 million euros.

Kardashian West, who was in the

French capital to attend fashion week shows, returned to the U.S. Monday Paris prosecutors on Tuesday declined to answer whether the robbers had received help from the reality TV star’s entourage.

Kardashian’s stylist was also in the residence at the time, and alerted police, but Kardashian’s bodyguard was not present, according to the prosecutor’s office.(ap)

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A Colombian Guambiano indigenous woman votes in a referendum on a peace deal between the government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels in Silvia, Colombia, October 2, 2016.

Then your government and its enemies thrash out a deal, offering peace, an end to the slaughter. It’s put to the public vote and then, it is rejected.

That is what just happened in Colombia. The peace deal’s supporters are in shock. What they are going through makes the anguish of Remainers in Britain’s Brexit referendum look trivial in comparison.

The proposed peace deal between FARC and the Colombian government had been welcomed around the world.

“At a time when conflict seems to be on the rise across the globe, Colombia has just provided us with a glimmer of hope,” wrote Antonio Sampaio with the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London.

At the release of IISS’s Annual Review of World Affairs last week, analysts’ global summary could be summed up as “the world is going to hell in a handcart”. Russia on the rampage in Ukraine and Syria, the Middle East on fire, uncertainty in America. Colombia was a welcome exception. Not any more.

Polls had predicted majority ap-

proval of the deal. But reservations about it clearly ran deeper than pollsters could detect. Only 40% of Colombians turned out to vote and the deal was rejected by a wafer thin majority: 50.2% to 49.8%.

The agreement had problems.

Critics say it was far too lenient on FARC. Lengthy jail terms for atrocities would be avoided if its members confessed. And some would be given political representation - in other words they’ll have killed their way to political office.

FARC long ago mutated from an agrarian militant Marxist/Maoist uprising to a narco terrorist network.

Many Colombians have remained deeply sceptical it would simply give in and give up its guns.

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Competency test of tourism workers, constrained by working schedule

DENPASAR - Approximately 9,000 people become the members of the tourism labor union federation (FSPSI) of Badung originating in 41 tourism companies. About 85 percent of them have owned certificate of competency test. In the meantime, the tourism worker in Badung

amounts to 50,000 people originating in 5,000 private companies. This was revealed

by Putu Satyawira Marhaendra, Chairman of the Badung Tourism Labor Union Federation. “Moreover, there are some members having extended their certificate,” he added.

Admittedly, the achievement of 85 percent of the members having owned the certificate of competency test was funded through the regional budget of Badung and tourism professional certification institute (LSP) either the LSP Parindo or LSP Pariwisata Bali Mediterranean. “We

get a competency test program funded by regional budget with the approval of the Regent of Badung A.A. Gede Agung and Giri Prasta,” he said.

Workers...

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