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Chrissy Teigen caught in Bali earthquake while on vacation

Chrissy Teigen has shared her shock and worry in real time during a powerful and deadly earthquake in Indonesia with her social media followers.

The model, along with singerhusband John Legend and their two children, felt the shaking on neighboring Bali on Sunday.

“Bali. Trembling. So long,” Teigen tweeted to her 10.6 million followers.

The quake killed at least 39 people on the tourist island of Lombok, about 50 miles (80.5 kilometers) from Bali. A brief tsunami warning went into effect but was later lifted.

In another posting, she wrote, “Oh man. We are on stilts. It felt like a ride. 15 solid seconds of “hooooooly (expletive) this is happening.”

The aftershocks unnerved Teigen, too. “im either still trembling or these little quakes won’t stop IM TRYING TO BE NORMAL HERE,” she wrote.

At one point, Teigen reacted to the temblor as she was holding her 2-month-old son Miles: “I very calmly walked outside saying clutching baby saying ‘I’m naked.

I’m naked. I’m naked.’ like a naked zombie.” (ap)

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In this Nov. 2, 2017 file photo, model Chrissy Teigen poses at the 2017 Revolve Awards at the Dream Hollywood hotel in Los Angeles.

‘Murphy Brown’ revival to tackle MeToo movement, free press

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- A roundup of news Sunday from the Television Critics Association summer meeting, at which TV networks and streaming services are presenting details on upcoming programs.

“Murphy Brown” will weigh in on the MeToo movement when the series starring Candice Bergen returns to a very different world in September, the show’s creator said.

The 13-episode reboot reunites Bergen as a sharp-tongued investigative journalist and TV anchor with most of the original cast from the CBS show’s initial 10-year run that ended in 1998 — before the internet and the rise of 24-hour cable news took hold. Once again, scripts will be inspired by current events, including the fourth episode entitled “(Hashtag) MurphyToo.” Executive producer and writer Diane English told a TV critics’ meeting the episode was developed months ago and inspired by the movement against workplace sexual harassment and assault that first gained momentum last fall.

“It’s a powerful movement,” she said. “We wanted to do it justice.”

English said the show’s writing staff, comprised of men and women of different ages who are gay and straight, spent days discussing what she calls “a complicated issue.”

“We came at it from so many different angles. Just the conversations we had in there, the perspectives that people have from their own particular prism,” English said. “I don’t think there’s probably a woman out here that hasn’t had an experience with misogyny and

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Stephen Hill, from left, Zachary Knighton, Peter M Lenkov, Jay Hernandez, Perdita Weeks, Tim Kang and Eric Guggenheim participate in the “Magnum P.I” panel during the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018, in Beverly Hills, Calif. misconduct.”

However, English is not one of them. She says she never experienced any kind of sexual misconduct or misogyny at CBS, where CEO Leslie Moonves is under investigation for such behavior.

English said everyone on “Murphy Brown” takes the allegations against Moonves and other network employees raised in a recent New Yorker magazine article “extremely seriously” and fully supports the investigation.

“I’m focusing the show really through the prism of the press,” English said. “The First Amendment and the free press is under attack like I’ve never seen before.

The press is not the enemy of the people.”

The series debuts Sept. 27.

The reboot of “Magnum P.I.” won’t forget fans of the original hit

starring Tom Selleck, paying quiet homage recognizable to long-time viewers.

They include a pair of Dobermans, the red Ferrari, and the bickering relationship between Magnum, who is played by Jay Hernandez, and Higgins, with Perdita Weeks taking on the role that was a man in the original.

Just don’t look for the big moustache that Selleck sported in the 1980s original on CBS. His character, along with those of Higgins and T.C., all sported ‘staches.

Executive producer Peter Lenkov says Selleck brought that aesthetic to the role and the reboot aims to step away from his version of the character.

However, there will be what Lenkov calls a little moustache “nod” in the second episode. The series debuts Sept. 24. (ap)

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This handout picture taken on August 6, 2018 and released by Indonesia Water Police shows hundreds of people attempting to leave Gili Trawangan, north of neighbouring Lombok island, a day after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the area. More than 1,000 tourists were being evacuated from Indonesia’s tiny Gili islands on August 6 after a powerful quake struck neighbouring Lombok, killing 91 people and injuring hundreds.

Indonesia evacuates tourists after Lombok quake kills 99

Indonesia Monday sent rescuers fanning out across the holiday island of Lombok and evacuated hundreds of tourists after a powerful earthquake killed at least 99 people and damaged thousands of buildings. The shallow 6.9-magnitude quake sparked terror among tourists and locals alike, coming just a week after another deadly tremor surged through Lombok and killed 17 people.

Rescuers on Monday searched for survivors in the rubble of houses, mosques and schools destroyed in the latest disaster on Sunday evening.

National disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said there were fears a number of people were trapped in the ruins of a collapsed mosque in the northern village of Lading-Lading. Footage he

posted on Twitter showed the large concrete mosque had pancaked.

Nugroho said a lack of heavy equipment and shattered roads were hampering efforts to reach survivors in the mountainous north and east of the island, which had been hardest hit. “The number of fatalities will definitely rise because some victims have not been found or rescued,” he added.

An operation was also under way Monday to evacuate some 1,200 tourists from the Gili Islands, three tiny, coral-fringed tropical islands a few kilometres off the northwest coast of Lombok that are particularly popular with backpackers and divers.

Margret Helgadottir, a holidaymaker from Iceland, described people screaming as the roof of

her hotel on one of the islands collapsed. “We just froze: thankfully we were outside,” she told AFP tearfully from a harbour in Lombok where she had been evacuated to.

“Everything went black, it was terrible.”

Footage posted online by Nugroho showed hundreds crowded onto powder-white beaches desperately awaiting off the normally paradise Gilis.

“We cannot evacuate all of them all at once because we don’t have enough capacity on the boats,” Muhammad Faozal, the head of

thr tourism agency in West Nusa Tenggara province, told AFP, adding two navy vessels were on their way. “It’s understandable they want to leave the Gilis, they are panicking.”

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One of the shire in Tembuku Village that is damaged by the earthquake.

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Shaken by earthquake, some shrines damaged

Based on data compiled by the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Bangli, two shrines belonging to Nyoman Suad in Gunaksa hamler, Cempaga and shrines in Tegallalang hamlet, Kawan. Two split gates (candi bentar) at Kehen Temple were also reported to have collapsed in the earthquake.

Shrines of the Arya Kepakisan clan temple at Manuk hamlet, Susut and several other shrines in the subdistrict of Tembuku were also severly damaged from the earthquake tremors. In the subdistrict of Kintamani, the cliff along the cypress path of Terunyan village crumbled taking down elctrical cables, causing a total blackout in

Terunyan village.

“No fatalities were reported in the disaster. We are still collecting data regarding estimated material losses”, the Head of the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) Bangli, I Wayan Karmawan.

The earthquake that shook Bali on Sunday (Aug 5) caused some roof tiles at Matahari Dept. Stroe on Jalan Dewi Sartika to come crashing to the ground. One shopper also fainted. “He fainted from shock. Fortunately he was helped right away”, explained mall security guard Nengah Sunia.

During the earthquake mall shoppers scattered in panic wanting to

leave the building. However the security guard in lobby told everyone to stay in the lobby. “If people were allowed to go outside, they could be exposed to falling roof tiles and splinters and in fact as people waited in the lobby some roof tiles did fall”, he said.

The mall decided to close a few minutes after the earthquake at 20:00.

“We closed early to avoid any unfortunate incidents from occurring and started to clean up the roof tile debris”, added the security guard.

While mall employees were busy cleaning up the tile debris, at 20:45 there were some noticeable aftershocks causing them to run to the edge of the road for safety. A police officer was onsite and using a loudspeaker appealed to everyone to remain calm.

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NUSA DUA - Despite Sunday evening`s magnitude-7 earthquake that rocked Lombok and Sumbawa Islands in West Nusa Tenggara, the Bali Process meeting on August 6-7, 2018, will be held according to schedule.

“So far, no delegation has canceled its attendance at this meeting after the quake last night,” Kamapradipta Isnomo, the director of social culture and international organizations of the developing countries at the Min-

istry of Foreign Affairs, noted on the sidelines of the “Bali Process” meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Monday.

Isnomo remarked that Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi and her Australian counterpart Julie Bishop had already arrived in Bali to serve as co-chairmen for the 7th meeting of the Bali Process.

He explained that the Bali Process meeting will go ahead, as the area in Nusa Dua, especially

the Bali International Convention Center and Westin Hotel, where the meeting will take place, are unaffected by the powerful earthquake in Lombok on Sunday evening.

To provide direction to the delegates, the organizing committee is disseminating security information in the event of natural disasters, such as earthquakes.

Handling instructions during and after the earthquake were disseminated by officers from the

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Guilt Free Lunch and Dinner at Bali Luna

Opening a new chapter in their recipe book, Bali Luna restaurant at Hotel Nikko Bali Benoa Beach has launched a new menu concept which features an appetizing combination of comfort food and healthy ingredients.

“The whole idea behind the new menu concept is to let people know that healthy food can be delicious too. Here at Bali Luna, not only we keep that in mind while creating the recipe, we had done the extra work for you by calculating the calorie counts for those who wish to control their nutrition intake,” explained the hotel’s Executive Chef, I Dewa Gede Eka Putra.

The new menu boasts a wide range of choices with the best

BANGLI — The earthquake in Lombok on Sunday noght (Aug. 5 ) shook Bangli causing damage to some buildings and shrines in a number of locations.

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Relations, Ismi Rahayu, said that the building of the Directorate of Traffic Affairs which is adjoined to the Bali Police Specific Criminal Investigation, experienced similar damage.

“So far we are only aware of some fallen roof tiles. We are still checking to see if there was any further damage”, said Rahayu.

The 7.0 magnitude earthquake also caused damage to a number of buildings in the district of Gianyar.

So far it appears that the most severe damage occurred in Gagah hamlet, Tegallalang where Nyoman Adiarsa’s temple was knocked down.

“Two shrines there – arip-arip and gedong sari shrine collapsed due to the earthquake” explained hamlet chief of Gagah hamlet, I Made Sentrayana as confirmed on Sunday night.

Residents of Tegalllang village, he added were indeed anerved by

the earthquake and left their homes to ensure safety. “There were no injuries, it only knocked down the shrines owned by Adiarsa”, said hamlet chief Sentrayana.

Head of the Gianyar Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD), A.A. Gde Oka Digjaya, said that a number of buildings were damaged in the earthquake including the compound wall of the Ubud Pelayan Palace. “The compound wall in Pelayan Palace collapsed, but thankfully there was nobody near the wall at the time of the incident”, he added.

One of the temples in Daun village, Ubud was also damaged but head of the BPBD said they were still waiting to hear about other damage that may have occurred.

“So far there have been no reports of fatalities”, he affirmed. (kmb)

local hotel to the delegates just before the meeting on the first day. “This is to (offer a sense of) calm and security to all delegates during the session,” he remarked.

A meeting of senior officials was held on the first day of the “Bali Process,” the results of which will be delivered at the ministerial meeting scheduled for Tuesday.

The Bali Process conference was established in 2002 by Indonesia and Australia, with as many as 45 member countries and three international

organizations: the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Organization for Migration, and the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime.

The Bali Process meeting, held this time in Nusa Dua, Bali, will discuss the issue of people smuggling, human trafficking, and transnational crimes.

According to Foreign Minister Marsudi, the Bali Process this time will not only involve the governments but also private sectors.(ant)

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How the Parker probe was built to survive close encounters with the sun

NASA has a mantra for preparing spacecraft to launch: “Test as you fly.” The idea is to test the entire spacecraft, fully assembled, in the same environment and configuration that it will see in orbit.

But the Parker Solar Probe, set to launch August 11, is no ordinary spacecraft. And it’s headed to no ordinary environment.

Parker will sweep through the sun’s scorching hot atmosphere for humankind’s first close encounter with the star at the center of the solar system.

“Solar Probe is a little bit special,” says space plasma physicist Stuart Bale of the University of California, Berkeley. Getting the whole kit and caboodle into a setting that simulated the sun’s energetic particles, intense light and searing heat “was deemed impossible.” Scientists had to get creative to test the technology that will touch the sun, using everything from huge mirrors to dust tunnels to reams of paper.

Taking the heat The first order of business was to find materials that can stand the heat. The sun’s atmosphere, or corona, sizzles at millions of degrees Celsius — but it is so diffuse that it doesn’t pose much threat to the spacecraft (SN Online: 8/20/17). Direct sunlight, however, can heat exposed components to around 1370° Celsius.

Two of the spacecraft’s scientific instruments, plus parts of its solar panels and its revolutionary heat shield, will be exposed to that searing sunlight at all times.

“Normal things … would melt,” says solar physicist Kelly Korreck of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass.

Korreck works on the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons instrument, known by its acronym SWEAP, which will catch the charged particles of the solar wind with a sensor called a Faraday cup (SN Online: 8/18/17). “It actually sticks around the heat shield and will be able to touch the sun,” Korreck says. “That cup is special.”

To build the cup and other instruments that will see the sun directly, engineers settled on three main materials — a niobium alloy called C103 that is used in rocket engines, an alloy of titanium, zirconium and molybdenum called TZM, and tungsten. Some cables carrying power to the SWEAP cup are also lined with sapphire, a good insulator at high temperatures. And the probe’s heat shield is made of two kinds of carbonbased materials.

Figuring out how each of these materials would behave in space was tricky. Engineers couldn’t just use an oven to test the metals, which in heat can react with oxygen to rust or corrode. Carbon also can react with oxygen to combust. So the team had to test pieces of the instruments in airless vacuum chambers.

“Getting things hot on Earth is easier than you would think it is,” says Elizabeth Congdon of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., the lead engineer for the heat shield.

“Getting things hot on Earth in vacuum is difficult.”

One way the Parker team mimicked the sun’s heat was using actual sunlight. Engineers took material samples to the world’s largest solar furnace, the PROMES facility in Odeillo, France. A series of 63 mirrors

built on a hillside redirect sunlight onto an enormous concave mirror on the side of an eightstory building. That mirror then focuses the sunlight into a beam no more than 80 centimeters wide that heats materials to 3000° C inside a small vacuum chamber in a laboratory on stilts.

The beam is so hot, “you can take a two-by-four and swing it through the beam, and it burns right off,” Bale says. “Just a flash of smoke and it’s gone.”

Bale leads another of the probe’s experiments called FIELDS that also needed heat testing. FIELDS is comprised of five long antennas, four of which will be exposed to the sun, that will measure electric and magnetic fields in the corona.

The SWEAP team needed an even more realistic simulator, one that would deliver intense sunlight at the angles that Parker will experience. They found an unlikely solution in IMAX film projectors, which emit light in a similar range of wavelengths to the sun.

“It took a completely custom test facility to do it,” says astrophysicist Anthony Case of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, who also works on the SWEAP instrument. He and his colleagues turned four IMAX projectors around so the lamps focused light into a small vacuum chamber, rather than spreading it across a huge screen.

That gave the team the right light intensity and angles to test their instrument.

Biting the dust Solar heat isn’t the only threat to the Parker Solar Probe. The region around the sun is also expected to be full of dust, left over

from the formation of the planets.

Scientists don’t know exactly how much dust to expect, but it’s likely to be moving almost as fast as the spacecraft, about 170 kilometers per second.

That’s a big worry for Parker’s twin telescopes, together called the Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe, or WISPR. One of the telescopes will be facing the direction that Parker is traveling, so it will be heading directly into the dust storm. “It can’t be protected,” says astrophysicist Russell Howard of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. Dust particles hitting the telescope’s lens leave it pocked with little craters. Only 0.6 percent of the lens should be pitted by the end of Parker’s seven-year mission, according to computer models of dust in the inner solar system. But even a few pits can skew the data, so the team wanted

to minimize the damage by choosing the right glass.

Howard and colleagues tested three possible materials for the lens in a dust acceleration tunnel at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany. The tunnel accelerated charged iron particles, ranging from half a micrometer to 3 micrometers wide, to speeds between half a kilometer per second to 8 kilometers per second — fast enough for the scientists to extrapolate up to the dust speeds Parker might experience.

Sapphire withstood the barrage best, but it was unclear how it would behave as a lens. The team also rejected diamond-coated BK7 glass, commonly used for space telescopes, after the coating separated from the glass and left an extra ring around the impact spot. Regular, uncoated BK7 was the winner. (net)

DENPASAR — Street crime cases from May to July 2018 were released on Friday (Aug. 3). Ahead of the Asian Games XVIII and the IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting, the Bali Police warned street criminals to stop their actions. If there are criminals desperate to do so, they will be dealt with firmly. This is done to ensure that Asian Games and IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting participants spending vacation to Bali will not become a victim.

“If there are still the acts of thuggery, begging and pickpocketing, we will paralyze and shoot them when giving a fight. If persisting, we will not hesitate to take the more decisive action,” said Director of Bali Police Criminal Investigation Unit, Andi Fairan, on Friday (Aug. 3).

All this time, the Bali Police Directorate of General Crime and his staff revealed 93 cases with various types of criminal acts. The number of perpetrators arrested amounted to 93 people, consisting of three foreigners and 90 Indonesians.

From the cases revealed, Andi Fairan said there are several prominent cases of foreign perpetrators. They are two Bulgarian namely Ivan Hristov Stanchev, 43, and Stefan Ivanov, 53, and an Australian, Nicolov Pandov Plamen, 45. They were arrested for skimming cases. “Their mode is the same, but the crime scene is different,” he said.

The suspect Stefan Ivanov took action in the Denpasar area on Tuesday (Jul. 31), while Ivan Hristov Stanchev and Nicolov Pandov Plamen were arrested in Nusa Penida, Klungkung, on Monday (Jul. 9). Investigators are still exploring the syndicate of the three perpetrators. Other prominent cases are motor theft, theft with qualification, robbery and pickpocketing.

In order to create a safe and conducive public security ahead of the Asian Games XVIII and IMF-WB Annual Meeting 2018, Andi Fairan continued that his staff carries out creating condition activities. During which, it will carry out preventive, pre-emptive and repressive measures.

This officer graduated from the Police Academy in 1990 emphasized that during the Asian Games and Annual Meeting there should be no cases of robbery or pickpocketing in the Bali region. For that purpose, his unit has established the Road Eradication Task Force.

“We also established a Special Anti-pickpocket team,” said Andi Fairan accompanied by the Sub-division Head of the Public Relations and Community Service, I Gusti Ayu Yuli Ratnawati.

The target is the tourist attraction visited by many foreign tourists, such as the Kuta, Seminyak, Nusa Dua and Sanur areas. The Special Anti-pickpocket team will clean thuggery, robbers and pickpockets along with their syndicate that often take action in tourist areas. (kmb36)

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The Bali Police warned street criminals to stop their actions. If there are criminals desperate to do so, they will be dealt with firmly.

The nyakan diwang is ancestral tradition at several villages in Banjar subdistrict.

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For UNESCO’s intangible heritage

Buleleng proposes Truna Jaya and roadside cooking

SINGARAJA — Buleleng district government is now awaiting the decision to make a proposal for the Truna Jaya Dance and Nyakan Diwang (roadside cooking) to become an intangible cultural heritage from the United Nations Educational Scientific and Culture Organization (UNESCO). The dance composed by the late Gde Manik dance maestro is proposed because it was already staged massively at the Buleleng Festival (Bulfest) a few years earlier. Truna Jaya itself is a dance performed by a dancer, but when performed in the Bulfest arena, the dancers and gamelan players were able to appear and amaze the audience. For this performance, the district government is asked to propose to the UNESCO so as to be designated into an intangible cultural heritage.

Meanwhile, the nyakan diwang is ancestral tradition at several villages in Banjar subdistrict. Of the many villages in the region, the residents of Banjar, Banyuwati, Kayu Putih and other villages never violate and regularly carry it out on the day of Ngembak Geni (a day after the Nyepi—Ed).

Based on the stories of predecessors and references, the nyakan diwang tends to be a manifestation of social interaction and friendship among residents after a full day of solemn implementation of bratha penyepian or the four abstinences related to Nyepi celebration.

Head of the Buleleng Culture Agency, Gede Komang, said on Friday (Aug. 3) the proposal to UNESCO is just waiting for the determination from the official having

the authority. He said the proposal process lasts quite long because it does not only complete the administrative document, but the government is also obliged to include a description containing the history of the proposed tradition. In addition, the staging or performance documents must be made in the form of videos.

“Since the requirements are complete, today (Aug. 3) we assign our staff to coordinate with the representatives of the UNESCO in Jakarta because there is information that the proposal of Truna Jaya Dance and Nyakan Diwang tradition heritage has been nominated. We are confidence it can be decided. As planned, it will be submitted at the closing of the Bulfest later on,” he said.

He said the recognition by the

UNESCO to Balinese art and cultural heritage is important to ‘protect’ the work so that it will not be claimed or recognized by other regions. In addition, with this recognition, the local government has ‘capital’ to lobby the higher levels of government to get the attention both in the form of programs or financial support to preserve and develop the culture established by the UNESCO as an institution given the authority to provide protection for every world’s cultural heritage.

“If we have got this, it can be used as a basis for carrying out conservation program and discovery program of the arts having been recognized, so that after these two proposals we will study the potential of the rare arts or culture hidden in our region to be protected,” he said. (kmb38)

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Tanjung Ser site at Pemuteran

Archeologist believes it’s a prehistoric settlement and ancient port

SINGARAJA - The Bali Archaeological Institute examines the findings at the Tanjung Ser site at Yeh Panes hamlet, Pemuteran, Gerokgak. A number of pottery and ceramic fragments were found from the follow-up study. Researchers suspect the Tanjung Ser site is the exact pre-historical settlement area during the Hindu-Buddhist era. Another guess is that the site is an ancient port area.

This research was conducted by involving six researchers from the Bali Archaeological Institute and assisted by a number of local residents to help with excavation.

Location of the excavation is on the land owned by a foreign national from Italy named Mello. It is located near the beach and in the Bukit Ser area known to have a high magical aura.

Two excavation boxes can have been opened since July 27 and it is scheduled to end on August 10, 2018. Of the two boxes, researchers found hundreds of pottery and ceramic fragments.

In addition, many researchers found shells buried hundreds of years ago.

A researcher of the Bali Archeological Institute, I Wayan Suantika, stated on Sunday (Aug. 5) that Tanjung Ser site was discovered in 2000. It was started with a survey after people found two goddess statues and Nadhi statue. Now, the two ancient statues are stored in the Bukit Celedu Temple area, Pemuteran customary village. In 2001, the institute conducted a test where at the time the research area was being planted with corn. From the loose soil, several pottery and ceramic fragments were found. The findings strengthen if ancient objects were buried at this location. This is supported by further testing by opening three research boxes and showed the same results.

“This is a follow-up study after we conducted previous tests, and the objects we found consist of

pottery fragments, ceramics and pottery. This year, we open two more boxes and more pottery fragments and ceramics, including shells, are found,” he said.

According to Wayan Suantika, from this continued research, his institute found the results if the Tanjung Ser site belongs to prehistoric times, especially during the Hindu-Buddhist era.

This site is alleged to have been inhabited by many people. Moreover, it was not only inhabited by residents of Pemuteran and the surrounding area, but also those from outside Bali. Based on the analysis, it was populated by many people seeing from the findings of pottery fragments and ceramics including a lot of clay cooking utensils. Movement of the residents is suspected to have related to the Gilimanuk site which was also found to have a large population.

Another suspicion, continued Wayan Suantika, is the assumption related to the results of the study regarding the possibility of the Tanjung Ser site as an ancient port area in prehistoric times.

Again this suspicion is referred to the finding of pottery fragments and other objects purchased by residents of that period brought in from Bali by sea. Besides, the evidence of preliminary findings in the form of two statues is believed to have relation to the inhabitants’ megalithic activities through the worship of stones in a number of temple areas in Gerokgak subdistrict.

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The Bali Archaeological Institute examines the findings at the Tanjung Ser site at Yeh Panes hamlet, Pemuteran, Gerokgak.

“Obviously, this site was inhabited by many residents. Our other suspicion regarding this area is the presence of ancient port having to do with other ancient ports located on the east coast of Buleleng, such as at the village of Sembiran, Julah, Ponjok Batu and Pacung. If the results are correct, this site poses an ancient port area playing an important role in the western Buleleng area,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Bali Archaeological Institute, I

Gusti Made Suarbhawa, said the Tanjung Ser site is very much related to prehistoric life on the coast of Bali. This site also deals with the Gilimanuk, Kalibukbuk, Kalanganyar and Pulaki sites.

To complete this research, he planned further research.

In further research, pottery fragments, ceramics, shells, and stones will be subjected to laboratory tests to ascertain the shape, function and the origin of the object. In addition, it will also be conducted the research to

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ensure the age of all the ancient objects.

“After finding this object, there will be further research and we indeed need a long time to find other objects including human skeleton. After this excavation, we will convey to the government starting from the village, subdistrict, districts to Bali provincial government, so there will be a commitment to doing conservation against the sites we have researched,” he explained. (kmb38)

Morocco’s ancient city of Volubilis rises again

MOULAY DRISS ZERHOUN - Situated in a fertile plain at the foot of Mount Zerhoun, the sprawling remains of Morocco’s oldest Roman site -- Volubilis -- have survived pillage and long periods of neglect.

After decades of decay, however, custodians of the now closely guarded ancient city have turned the page and are bringing back the tourists. The site, nestled among olive groves near the city of Meknes, boasts a new museum and visitor centre and has been attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors.

They stroll along the main artery lined with porticoes and the remnants of vast mansions, whose mosaic floors testify to a prosperous past. A triumphal arch, a classic symbol of Roman architecture, sits at the top of what once was the main compound.

Known in Arabic as “Oualili”, the city was named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1997. The ancient city has “known several civilisations, from the Mauritanian era to the Romans through the Islamic period”, according to Mohamed Alilou, topographer and assistant conservator of the site.

Volubilis was founded in the third century BC by a Moorish community, before being annexed by the Roman Empire in 42 AD. At its peak, it would have counted up to 15,000 inhabitants. Threatened by civil wars across the empire, the Romans evacuated the city in 285.

It didn’t regain its splendour until the arrival of Arab conquerors in the seventh century.

In the eighth century when the Idrisid dynasty erected the city of Fez as its new capital, Volubilis fell once more into disuse.

- Bacchus gone missing At the end of the 17th century, Sultan Moulay Ismail sent thousands of slaves to plunder Volubilis’s marble columns for the construction of his palace in Meknes.

“On the track leading from Volubilis to

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In this file photo taken on July 25, 2018 Tourists walk through the ruins of the ancient Roman site of Volubilis, near the town of Moulay Idriss Zerhounon in Morocco’s north central Meknes region, on July 25, 2018.

Meknes, we found capitals (of columns) abandoned by slaves, who fled when they learnt that Moulay Ismail was dead,” said Alilou, who has been watching over the site for more than 30 years. Excavations at Volubilis began in 1915, along with research programmes and restoration work.

But renewed interest in the site brought with it looting, especially during the period of

Many people also immediately secured themselves to safer location. “People living in the coastal area are worried if there will be a tsunami. So, many of them looked for safety to Dawan and Paksebali.

Many also stayed on the highway,” he said. So far, he continued the condition of seawater is reported to be normal. “It is said to remain normal. But people are worried too,” he added.

Meanwhile, the Headman of Dawan Kaler, I Kadek Sudarmawa, said the arrival of people to his area took place shortly after the earthquake. They gathered at the field and a number of hamlet halls.

“Many people gather here so the field is fully occupied. They are from Kusamba,” he explained.

Admittedly, the natural phenomenon made the people overwhelmed by panic. “Well, many people are

panic. Hopefully, there will be no more aftershocks,” he said.

This condition was also justified

by Headman of Dawan Klod, Nengah Suardita. “Yes, there are many people escaping from Kusamba to Dawan. As information, the seawater receded after the earthquake.

They are fear of tsunami,” he said.

Similar thing was also done by the residents of Kutampi Kaler and Batununggul village, Nusa Penida.

Many have fled to the local Puseh Temple. This was justified by the Chief Executive of the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Klungkung, I Putu Widiada. “Well, there are residents evacuating. We are coming down to provide information for the public regarding the information that potential tsunami from the National Weather Service (BMKG) has ended,” he said. (kmb45)

French colonial rule from 1912 to 1956.

One particularly striking case in 1982 made headlines when a marble statue of Bacchus -the Roman god of wine -- disappeared.

In a desperate bid to find the relic, King Hassan II dispatched gendarmes who “interrogated, abused and beat” peasants who “didn’t know Bacchus from Adam and Eve”, according to Moroccan press reports.

The effort was in vain and the statue was never found.

“The people here are still traumatised,” said a resident of nearby Moulay Driss Zerhoun.

Moroccan media frequently warn that the country’s heritage -- archeological finds, mosaics and ancient coins -- is being looted.

But in Volubilis, Alilou says that looting is a thing of the past. (afp)

New security measures on Sydney Harbour Bridge

Worried about tsunami, residents of three villages evacuate

SEMARAPURA - The earthquake shaking Bali on Sunday night (Aug. 5) made people panic.

People on the coast of Kusamba village, Dawan, were also worried about tsunami. As a result, many flocked to Dawan Klod and Dawan Kaler to look for saver place.

A Kusamba resident, Ketut Adi, revealed that when the earthquake took place, people immediately came down to the street.

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This photo taken on March 13, 2017 shows a view of the Sydney Harbour bridge. Climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge illegally will now cost offenders 22,000 AUD (16,300 USD) after authorities on August 6, 2018 raised the fine more than sixfold as part of new security measures.

SYDNEY - Climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge illegally will now cost offenders Aus$22,000 (US$16,300) after authorities Monday raised the fine more than sixfold as part of new security measures.

The New South Wales state government will also install anticlimb mesh, higher fencing and more cameras to deter people from scaling the world-renowned landmark.

The move comes after a mentally-ill man sparked a major police operation and caused hours of traffic chaos when he

climbed the bridge in April during an hours-long stand off in the morning rush-hour.

It took almost six hours to get him down and multiple lanes on the bridge were closed amid fears he planned to jump.

“The people of Sydney have had enough of being held to ransom by one person, irrespective of their circumstance, with a personal agenda to seek attention and cause gridlock across our city,” said the state’s Roads Minister Melinda Pavey.

“While we are sympathetic to someone’s personal situation,

illegally climbing the bridge is not only extremely dangerous, it also endangers the lives of thousands of drivers who use it every day.”

The fine, which used to be Aus$3,300, is now in line with the penalty for illegally climbing the nearby Sydney Opera House.

Scaling the Harbour Bridge legally is a hugely popular tourist experience, with more than four million visitors from 140 countries making the ascent under supervision since the climb began in 1998. (afp)

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UK rates raised to highest since 2009 despite Brexit worries

LONDON - The Bank of England raised its main interest rate Thursday for only the second time since the 2008 financial crisis as it weighed conflicting signs about the economy and growing concerns about Brexit.

The bank’s nine-member Monetary Policy Committee voted unanimously to raise the rate from 0.50 percent to 0.75 percent, the highest level since March 2009.

Economists had been expecting the move but believe the central bank will be more cautious about further increases in coming months as Britain’s divorce talks with the European Union enter a crucial phase and uncertainty about the future heightens.

Bank of England governor Mark Carney said “rate rises are expected to be limited and gradual,” with about three hikes over the next three years.

“Policy needs to walk, not run, to stand still,” he told a news conference.

Britain’s economy is sending mixed signals. Unemployment is at its lowest level since the 1970s, wages are rising and inflation is above the bank’s 2 percent target, at 2.4 percent. But growth has been weak so far this year, people are not spending much and com-

panies are worried about the lack of progress in Brexit talks, which could see Britain crash out of the EU without a deal on trade and business ties.

The increase was only the second in more than 10 years, following a hike in November.

Higher rates make loans more expensive, weighing on some mortgage holders and businesses looking for credit to invest. But the rate hike will increase returns on some investments.

“While an interest rate rise is positive news for people living on their savings income, or holding pensions and investments, it may prove to be the tipping point for those in financial difficulty or struggling with debt,” said Richard Haymes, head of financial difficulties at credit data firm TDX Group.

The Bank of England, like the U.S. Federal Reserve and European Central Bank, is trying to gradually unwind the easy-money policies it deployed during the fi-

nancial crisis to keep the economy afloat.

But while the U.S. and eurozone economies have seen strong growth in the past year, the British economy has wilted under the uncertainties of Brexit. Britain is due to leave the EU in March, and the two sides have yet to agree on the divorce terms and future trade relations.

Both Britain and the EU have hardened their negotiating positions, and companies are worried. Major manufacturers including Airbus have warned they could pull their operations out of the country, and drug maker

Sanofi says it’s stockpiling more medicines in Britain in case of

customs trouble during Brexit.

Carney said “there are signs that business confidence is softening,” with companies increasingly expressing concerns about Brexit.

He insisted the central bank was “well prepared for whatever path the economy takes, including a wide range of potential Brexit outcomes,” and would be able to keep lending even in the event of “a disorderly, cliff-edge Brexit.”

More broadly, trade disputes between the U.S. and major powers are also casting a shadow over the world economy’s outlook.

George Brown, an economist at Investec, said he expects the Bank of England will not raise rates again until February. (ap)

Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, speaks during a media conference to present the central bank’s quarterly Inflation Report, in London, Thursday Aug. 2, 2018. The Bank of England raised its main interest rate for only the second time since the 2008 financial crisis, from 0.50 percent to 0.75 percent, as it weighed conflicting signs about the economy and growing concerns about Brexit.

German factory orders down 4 percent in June BERLIN - Official data show that factory orders in Germany dropped a steep 4 percent in June compared with the previous month, led lower by a drop in demand from outside the eurozone.

The figure released Monday by the Economy Ministry compared with a gain of 2.6 percent the

previous month. The ministry said that orders in the second quarter were down 1.6 percent overall compared with the previous quarter, largely because of lower demand for investment goods such as factory machinery.

In June, orders from inside Germany were down 2.8 percent

and those from other countries in the 19-nation eurozone dropped 2.7 percent. Orders from outside the eurozone fell 5.9 percent.

The German economy, Europe’s biggest, remains robust, with business confidence high and unemployment low despite some disappointing data this year. (ap)

Modern Approaches to Spiritual Traditions Prism Exhibition at Sudakara Art Space Three prolific, talented and deeply spiritual painters have joined together to exhibit their works as individual artists and also as a unified trinity, to deliver a common message to the viewing public.

Although their paintings are widely divergent in visual style, they share a common approach to art and indeed to life. This approach is distinctly expressive of a culture that values harmony, beauty and togetherness and reflects these three artists’ commitment to developing themselves as human beings and desire to inspire others to express their greatest selves.

Artists I Made Somadita, Ni Nyoman Sani, I Ketut Jaya (Kaprus), were all born and raised in Bali and deeply influenced by the cultural and spiritual traditions of the Island of the Gods. However, all three artists also express this influence in forms that appear far removed from the aesthetics for which Balinese traditional art is known, yet remain nonetheless firmly rooted in

the philosophy or world view that informs these aesthetic forms.

The title of the exhibition is Prism and indeed refers to a transparent triangular object with refractive surfaces that disperses white light into its constituent parts – the colors of the rainbow. Or, to put it another way: the same essence of life is expresses in myriad forms and perceived in different ways depending on one’s perspective while remaining essentially one.

Prism also refers to all three artists’ approach to art making as a way to reflect back to themselves their inner workings and serve as the three refractive surfaces that disperse white light into a variety of colors.

Harmony is the starting point for the artistic process of these

three artists as it is out of a desire to connect with their deepest inner harmony that they are inspired to create. Beauty serves as the bridge to give form to their inner vision so that it can be reflected back to themselves and shared with the outer world. Togetherness is expressed in the interaction between the painting and the painter and the viewing public but in this case, it is also demonstrated in a collaborative work created by all three artists.

Up until relatively recently there was no word for art in Balinese, as the act of creating beautiful objects or performances was an integrated part of cultural and spiritual activities and always served a particular function related to these spheres of life. As such, art was created anonymously and often collaboratively based on the notion that all human beings have an innate desire to express the divine force that flows through us and the expression

that emerges is meant to serve the greater good and is not attributable to any individual as it springs forth from this common divine source.

As contemporary painters, Sani, Kaprus, and Soma as they are known amongst their peers, function in the contemporary arts sphere and so although their works are neither created in the same community based context nor serve the same religious function as they might have a hundred years ago, they are still acutely aware of this context and function and seek to maintain this essence in their practice.

The collaborative work they created explained Ni Nyoman Sani, was a way for them to put into practice the idea of setting aside one’s personal ego to allow a true spirit of togetherness to emerge on the canvas. “When we do ngayah or perform devotional works –whether for the banjar (community) or for the ceremonies, we come together as one large working unit to achieve something far greater

than any of us could as individuals.

Remembering this spirit we decided to create a contemporary art work with this in mind”, explained I Made Somadita.

I Made Jaya, whose aesthetic inspiration comes directly from the visual manifestations of his culture further explained that: “we took turns painting, so we were each inspired by the way the others work thus opening new possibilities for each of us as individuals and for all of us as whole. We hope that that the way we use painting as a process for healing is felt by the viewing audience and serves to inspire them to express their artistic impulse and thus heal themselves in the process”.

The group show entitled Prism will be opening at Sudakara Art Space, Sudamala Suites & Villa, (Jalan Sudamala no 20, Sanur) on August 11th at 7PM and will be on display from August 12- November 11, 2019 from 9AM to 6PM. (kmb)

Catfish Pepes in Complete Seasoning and Torch Ginger

Make a try to taste fried catfish.

Wow… it is remarkably delicious!

Similarly, you can taste catfish pepes (wrapped in banana leaf) with complete seasoning. Of course, it must be different. Catfish pepes coming with Balinese complete seasoning is indeed unable to be prepared by all people. This means the catfish pepes having excellent taste with natural ingredients without preservatives.

Mak Ade is one of the rural chefs who always makes catfish pepes with torch ginger every day. This old and single woman from Ole hamlet, Marga Dauh Puri, Tabanan,

indeed has expertise in preparing menus especially the traditional ones. Her cooking is famous for its delicacy, so that local villagers always purchase it.

Well, among the menus on sale, the catfish pepes with torch ginger is frequently purchased as can be consumed by children, teenagers to old people. In the afternoon, after coming home from cultivating paddy fields, village farmers will drop in to buy catfish pepes as a side dish for dinner. Sometimes, people have also arrived before her stall is opened. The side dish will be served as side dish for lunch in

paddy fields.

Children also like this kind of menu. However, they must eat carefully because the flesh still contains few bones. Catfish will be better to be consumed when accompanied with vegetable with grated coconut seasoning and cassava chips. Catfish pepes prepared

by Mak Ade offers very distinctive taste. On that account, she opens her food stalls in the morning and afternoon for breakfast and dinner.

When preparing this catfish pepes, Mak Ade uses giant catfish, torch ginger, Balinese complete

seasoning and banana leaf to wrap it. The complete seasoning covers turmeric, galangal, aromatic ginger, ginger, garlic, onion, large chili, cayenne pepper, lemongrass, candlenut, pepper, coriander and salt.

First of all, prepare complete seasoning by chopping turmeric, galangal, ginger, and aromatic ginger. Then, grind garlic, onion, large chili, cayenne and lemongrass. Similarly, grind the candlenut, pepper, and coriander.

All the seasonings are ground to be getting smooth. Please add salt to taste. Similarly, cut thin

the torch ginger and bruise to be smoother. Cleanse the catfish and then cut into pieces according to taste.

The finely grounded seasoning is put into the basin, put the slices of catfish flesh and mix them together well with the seasoning. Add bay leaves to create a distinctive flavor. Further, wrapped the batter of catfish flesh and the seasoning lengthways following the line of leaves and attach with bamboo pin (tooth pick). After that, steam it until cooked. Roast to taste fine and delicious. Now, it is ready to serve. (kmb)

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US police say 11 children rescued from ‘filthy’ hideout

LOS ANGELES - Police say 11 children ages one to 15 were rescued in the US state of New Mexico after officers raided a dilapidated compound occupied by armed men.

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Local disaster officials said 358 tourists had been evacuated so far.

At least one person, an Indonesian holidaymaker, was killed on the Gili islands while another tourist died on nearby Bali.

- Night of aftershocks But it was Lombok which bore the brunt of Sunday evening’s quake.

The shallow tremor sent thousands of Lombok residents and tourists scrambling outdoors, where many spent the night as strong aftershocks including one of 5.3-magnitude rattled the island.

The quake knocked out power in many areas, and parts of Lombok remained without electricity on Monday. Nugroho said up to 20,000 people may have had to quit their homes on Lombok and paramedics, food and medication were badly needed.

Hundreds of bloodied and bandaged victims were treated outside damaged hospitals in the main city of Mataram and other hard-hit areas.

Patients lay on beds under wards set up in tents, surrounded by drip stands and monitors, as doctors in blue scrubs attended to them.

Anguished relatives were huddled around loved ones in front of the main clinic in Mataram, as medical staff struggled to cope with hundreds of patients. Many were yet to be attended to despite spending the night out in the open.

“I feel restless sleeping in a tent, I

can’t be at peace,” Nurhayati told AFP outside one hospital where she had brought her sick 70-year-old mother.

“What we really need now are paramedics, we are short-staffed, we also need medications,” Supriadi, a spokesman for Mataram general hospital, told AFP. Most of the victims were in the mountainous north and east of the island, away from the main tourist spots and coastal districts in the south and west.

Najmul Akhyar, the head of North Lombok district, estimated that 80 percent of that region was damaged by the quake.

Singapore’s Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam, who was in Lombok for a security conference when the earthquake struck, described on Facebook how his hotel room on the 10th floor shook violently. “Walls cracked, it was quite impossible to stand up,” he said.

Bali’s international airport suffered damage to its terminal but the runway was unaffected and operations had returned to normal. Disaster agency officials said. Lombok airport was also operating.

Indonesia, one of the most disasterprone nations on earth, straddles the so-called Pacific “Ring of Fire”, where tectonic plates collide and many of the world’s volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur.

In 2014, a devastating tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.3 undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra in western Indonesia killed 220,000 people in countries around the Indian Ocean, including 168,000 in Indonesia.(afp)

Two men were arrested after police found them and the children in what one officer called “the saddest living conditions and poverty I have seen,” as part of the operation connected to a months-long search for an abducted three-year-old, according to New Mexico’s Taos County sheriff’s office.

The investigation kicked off late last year on the opposite side of the country in Jonesboro, Georgia, where 39-year-old Siraj Wahhaj of the state’s Clayton County was accused of kidnapping his toddler -- who was ultimately not found.

The boy’s mother told police her child, who she said suffered from seizures along with developmental and cognitive delays, went to the park with his father Wahhaj last December and never returned.

On August 2, Sheriff Jerry

Hogrefe of Taos County in New Mexico issued a search warrant describing “a makeshift compound surrounded by tires and an earthen berm” in a subdivision in the rural community of Amalia, where Wahhaj along with adult Lucas Morten were thought to be in hiding.

The FBI had provided information and surveillance on the spot but “didn’t feel there was enough probable cause to get on the property,” Hogrefe said.

“That all changed for me when a message was forwarded to us from a Georgia Detective that we reasonably believed came from someone at the compound -- the message sent to a third party simply said in part ‘we are starving and need food and water,’” the sheriff said in a statement.

“I absolutely knew that we

couldn’t wait on another agency to step up and we had to go check this out as soon as possible.”

The sheriff described planning “a tactical approach for our own safety because we had learned the occupants were most likely heavily armed.”

- ‘Heartbreaking’ On the morning of August 3, a dozen officers kicked off the “all day” operation, discovering hidden beneath New Mexico’s scrubland the two men with an AR-15 rifle, five loaded 30-round magazines and four loaded pistols, including one in Wahhaj’s pocket.

The men had refused to follow verbal direction, police said, who added the raid went without major incident or injuries even as Wahhaj needed to be “taken down.”(afp)

Marches and tears as Argentina abortion law vote approaches BUENOS AIRES - With Argentina on the verge of a Senate move on legalizing abortion, women in favor marched, banged pots and made their voices heard Sunday.

Ahead of Wednesday’s Senate hearing, 32 women in Buenos Aires donned the white bonnets and red cloaks worn by women forced into childbearing servitude on the television drama “The Handmaid’s Tale,” based on Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel.

At the Rio de la Plata, they also raised their green handkerchiefs, a symbol of the struggle for legal

abortion.

It is a thorny issue in Argentina -- which is mostly Roman Catholic and the home country of Pope Francis, the first pontiff born in Latin America.

Many in the country believe the church teaching that life begins at conception and that abortion is murder.

“Doing this helps us express what is not being heard -- which is that abortions happen. And we need them to be done in a safe place, open to the community, to all women,” Bernardina Rossini, one of the marchers, told AFP. The women embraced, and several wept openly. Most were between 30

and 60 years old, and between them, a girl walked with her mother.

“It’s a way of saying this: it’s our body, and we want to decide on what happens ourselves,” Rossini stressed.

Approved by Congress’ lower house on June 14, the bill sent to the Senate would legalize abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy and provide for conscientious objection for practitioners, but not for hospitals.

In the August 8 vote, senators will have to decide on the version of the text adopted by the deputies. The vote is expected to be tight -- but if a majority of the 72 senators approve the text, abortion will be legalized. (afp)

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Activists in favour of the legalization of abortion disguised as characters from Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s feminist dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale”, perform at the “Parque de la Memoria” (Remembrance Park) in Buenos Aires, on August 5, 2018.

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Australian delegates, minister ‘safe’ following Lombok earthquake

Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton and a number of delegates who were on Lombok Island at the time of Sunday evening’s 7-magnitude earthquake have safely arrived in neighboring Bali.

“I thank the Lombok authorities, the police and others who assisted the Australian delegations and who are working with us in ensuring that assistance are being provided to those in need,” Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said in Bali on Monday.

Dutton was in Lombok to attend the Sub Regional Meeting on Counterterrorism along with Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Wiranto. Wiranto also announced on Sunday evening that all members of the delegation were safe.

“We decided to postpone the meeting because of the earthquake and encourage delegates

to return to their respective home countries immediately,” he said.

The delegates were having dinner at a restaurant on the 12th floor of their hotel when the earthquake struck. The two-day counterterrorism meeting was scheduled to take place on Sunday and Monday.

Meanwhile, Bishop was in Bali to attend the Bali Process international forum and moderate a discussion on people smuggling, human trafficking and related transnational crimes.

She added that no Australian casualties or serious injuries were reported following the earthquake, which claimed at least 82 lives.

Despite the incident, Bishop believed that Australians would continue visiting Lombok and neighboring islands like Bali because they are “very popular tourist destinations for Australians”(ant)

Indonesia, US foreign ministers discuss IsraelPalestine issue in meeting JAKARTA - Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi discussed the conflict between Israel and Palestine and the development in Palestine in a meeting with visiting US Foreign Minister Michael Pompeo here on Saturday.

“He (minister Pompeo) said that the situation in Palestine is not easy. However, when I mentioned about the two-state solution, I saw him accept,” she stated. She remarked that Pompeo saw the two-state solution as the only way of settling the protracted conflict between Israel and Palestine.

“He did not reject two-state solution. He noted that more time was needed before a peace plan could be made on Palestine,” she revealed. At the meeting, Marsudi emphasized that the Palestinian issue not only drew attention from the Indonesian government but also the people in the country.

“And indeed specifically, I mentioned the two-state solution as the only valuable and lasting solution,” she added.

Earlier, at the meeting between foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the US in Singapore, Marsudi had also underlined the importance for ASEAN and the US to support the efforts for the resolution of the Palestinian issue.

“The situation in Palestine is the responsibility of all of us. Efforts to settle the issue will not only contribute to stability in the Middle Eastern region but also peace and stability in the world,” she explained.

Indonesia believes that the two-state resolution was the only viable solution, and the US is expected to be able to immediately submit a new peace plan, Marsudi pointed out.(ant)

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Cracked concrete and damaged houses are pictured in Pemenang in northern Lombok on August 6, 2018, a day after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the area. More than 1,000 tourists were being evacuated from Indonesia’s tiny Gili islands on August 6 after a powerful quake struck neighbouring Lombok, killing 91 people and injuring hundreds.

President orders immediate response to Lombok earthquake

JAKARTA- President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has instructed his concerned ministers particularly Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Wiranto and other stakeholders to immediately address the impacts of 7-magnitude earthquake that hit Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, on Sunday.

“Last night, I ordered the Political, Legal and Security Affairs Wiranto to coordinate with other concerned institutions including TNI (Indonesian Defense Forces), Polri (National Police), and NTB (West Nusa Tenggara) government, for immediate response to the earthquake impacts,” President Jokowi said here, Monday.

The immediate response includes evacuation of injured and dead victims, and dispatching of relief aid. “Concerning logistics, it has already been sent to NTB since last night, including doctors,” he said.

Jokowi said he has been monitoring the impacts of the powerful earthquake from Jakarta. He is waiting for the right time to visit the quake-affected locations in

Lombok, and he does not want to disturb the ongoing earthquake handling efforts. He said he would deliver assistance after assessing the impacts of the tremor.

“We will see the situation in the field because it`s different from the 5-magnitude earthquake previously. Now it`s 7 magnitude.

We will decide after witnessing the condition in the field. However, assistance will be provided,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) recorded 73 aftershocks as of 00:00 Monday after the magnitude-7 earthquake rocked East Lombok in West Nusa Tenggara province on Sunday night.

The aftershocks had steadily declining intensity, the BMKG

said in a statement received early Monday. As the local residents still felt the aftershocks, they opted to save themselves in open space, the agency said.

An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale shook the islands of Lombok and Sumbawa in the province on Sunday night.

The BMKG said the magnitude-7 quake was the main shock of the series of quakes which hit the province earlier.

The magnitude 7 quake almost had the same epicenter as the magnitude 6.4 quake which hit the province on July 29 this year.

Judging by its epicenter, hypcenter depth and source mechanism, the quake is a shallow quake due to the activity of Flores back arc trust.(ant)

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Zverev beats De Minaur to defend Washington ATP crown

WASHINGTON - Alexander Zverev says defending his ATP Washington Open title Sunday shows growing in strength and maturity, but the world number three still sees a big gap to Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer.

The 21-year-old German won his third title of the year and the ninth of his career by defeating Australian teen Alex De Minaur 6-2, 6-4 in the 50th edition of the US Open tuneup event.

“What a fantastic week for me,” Zverev said. “Winning a tournament on its 50th anniversary is something amazing. This has been a very special week for me. “(Defending a title) feels great and shows mental strength as well. It shows a little maturity I think.”

While Zverev stands atop a generation of rising young stars, he still puts 20-time Grand Slam winner Federer, 36, and 17-time Grand Slam champion Nadal, 32, on the highest of pedestals.

“Roger and Rafa are still the best out there and still competing for Grand Slam titles,” he said. “I haven’t won a Grand Slam title.

Saying I’m on their level wouldn’t be fair to them.”

Not since 20-year-old Rafael Nadal beat 19-year-old Novak Djokovic 11 years ago at Indian Wells had the combined ages of ATP finalists been so young. And not since 1995 in Buenos Aires had all four semi-finalists been 21-or-under, Zverev being the eldest.

“It’s not only me that’s the future of the sport. I think everybody who made it to the semi-finals is the future,” Zverev said. “We all want to be the best. Some of us already think we’re the best. We all have a lot of talent.”

Zverev joined a list of back-to-back Washington champions that includes Andre Agassi, Michael Chang and Juan Martin del Potro. (afp)

Eikon Bar and Club

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The vibe at Eikon Bar and Club is backed by hip-hop and R’n’B, and there are two dance floors that usually get an equal share of the crowd. Live bands that play Top 40 party pop and renditions of the latest hits take to the Garaz indoor stage on the upper floor, while its DJ booth is manned by Eikon’s resident

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ABUJA - Kenya edged out South Africa to finish top of the African Athletics Championship medals table after a five-day tournament blasted as “tedious” during its troubled build-up.

Kenya finished with 11 gold medals, six silver and two bronze with South Africa on nine gold, 13 silver and eight bronze.

Nigeria, the hosts of the cham-

pionships staged in the southern city of Asaba, were third with nine gold, five silver and five bronze.

The 52-team showpiece event was not without some hiccups -– from the delayed arrival of some countries to complaints of substandard facilities.

However, Ifeanyi Okowa, the governor of oil-rich Delta, said he

Kenyan Edward Zakayo celebrates with the Kenyan flag after winning the Men’s 5000m event on the final day of the African Athletics Championship at the Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba, Delta State in midwestern Nigeria, on August 5, 2018.

Kenya finished with 11 gold medals, six silver and two bronze with South Africa on nine gold, 13 silver and eight bronze.

was pleased that after the initial challenges, the championship lived up to its billing.

“We had only nine, 10 months to prepare for this championship and so it was a bit tedious at the start,” Okowa admitted.

“But we were committed to deliver a great event and we did and we are all happy.”

Kenya dominated in the middle and long distances while the South Africans lined up top stars such as Olympic and world champion Caster Semenya who won the 400m and 800m.

The next edition of the championships will be staged in Algeria in 2020. (afp)

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Community Shield: Man City show of strength, beating Chelsea LONDON (AP) — Despite the tight turnaround after the World Cup, Manchester City’s attacking ruthlessness has not been blunted by fatigue or the English heatwave. Winning the Community Shield demonstrated that beyond any doubt on Sunday.

Three weeks after the World Cup finished, the Premier League champions opened the new season by collecting more silverware. Sergio Aguero scored twice — once in each half for his record-extending 200th and 201st goals for City — as FA Cup holder Chelsea was beaten 2-0 in the traditional curtain raiser to the English season at Wembley Stadium.

“The heat today was so tough,” City manager Pep Guardiola said. “So demanding.”

While it has been a summer of continuity at City after a record 100-point Premier League haul, Chelsea has gone through more turmoil in recent weeks.

“Our preseason until now has been crazy,” Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri said. “So we have to work.”

The former Napoli coach has had only a couple of weeks to work on his new Chelsea squad after the protracted firing of Antonio Conte, abandoning his fellow Italian’s preferred 3-4-2-1 formation for 4-3-3.

Although Conte won the FA Cup at Wembley in May, he paid the price for Chelsea’s slump from league winners to fifth place, leaving the 2012 Champions League winners out of Europe’s elite competition this year. City finished 30 points ahead of Chelsea.

AGUERO AT THE DOUBLE City had already wrapped up its third Premier League title in six years when Aguero underwent surgery on his left knee in April. The striker was fit for the World Cup, but Argentina was eliminated in the round of 16, ensuring he left Russia two weeks before the tournament ended.

“He arrived (back at City) so sharp, so good,” Guardiola said. “With him and Gabriel (Jesus) we are good in that position.”

Aguero’s second goal against Chelsea completed a counterattack in the 58th minute. John Stones gained possession inside his own half, Ilkay Gundogan advanced with the ball and Bernardo Silva then threaded a pass through to Aguero, who netted his 201st goal.

WORLD CUP WINNERS Although England missed out on World Cup glory in Russia — losing in the semifinals to Croatia — the coun-

try still did win a World Cup in the last year. Two of the 2017 under-17 world champions are finally getting game time with their clubs and seized their opportunities at the national stadium.

When Chelsea did threaten City’s goal it often owed much to winger Callum Hudson-Odoi creating danger on the left flank. And midfielder Phil Foden helped to create City’s opener, surging forward in the 13th minute before squaring for Aguero, who struck into the bottom corner.

“Now he is more mature and he is part of the first team,” Guardiola said of the 18-year-old Foden. “It’s good because he is a Manchester City fan and people love him.”

TRANSFER WINDOW Resolving the managerial situation hasn’t ended uncertainty around Chelsea. Both goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois and midfielder Eden Hazard are still on their breaks after helping Belgium to finish third at the World Cup. It’s unclear if they will play for Chelsea again, with the duo linked with moves to Real Madrid.

Courtois’ agent was quoted as saying over the weekend that the goalkeeper, who was sent to Atletico Madrid on loan for three years, now wants to move back to the Spanish capital to be close to his children.

Sarri wants to hear the message directly from Courtois.

“I am not interested in the agent,” Sarri said. “If Courtois will tomorrow tell me the same, I will have to speak to my club of course. I want only players with a high level of motivations. I have (nothing) to answer to the agent.”

Premier League clubs have until Thursday to sign players after the close of the transfer window was brought forward to before the season opens. The summer trading period for most European leagues still closes on Aug. 31 as usual.

City has already broken its transfer record, signing Riyad Mahrez last month for 60 million pounds (then $80 million). The former Leicester winger played 68 minutes against Chelsea but will take time to settle in the side.

Chelsea opens its campaign at Huddersfield on Saturday, and City is back in London next Sunday to face Unai Emery’s Arsenal.(ap)

Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero celebrates scoring his second goal of the game during the Community Shield soccer match between Chelsea and Manchester City at Wembley, London, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018.

Rostov claim first win over CSKA in nine years Sergei Parshivlyuk’s early goal gave Rostov their first win over CSKA in nine years on Sunday as the early season woes of the Moscow giants continued in the Russian Premier League.

CSKA have just one point from their first two games and are struggling to plug the gaps in defence left by the summer retirements of Sergei Ignashevich and twins Alexei and Vasily

Berezutsky.

Parshivlyuk scored the only goal of the game in the seventh minute, heading in a cross from the left by Dmitry Skopintsev.

The win lifted Rostov into

second place in the table on six points behind leaders Zenit St Petersburg, who defeated Arsenal Tula 1-0 on Saturday.

“There’s no euphoria after winning two matches at the start

of the championship,” said Rostov manager Valery Karpin after his team’s first win over CSKA since 2009. “Everything has just begun -- there are 28 matches to go.”(afp)

‘No time to cry’ as Mourinho braces for testing Premier League start

Jose Mourinho admitted that he may not have his ideal side at his disposal when Manchester United open their Premier League campaign on Friday. United’s roller-coaster pre-season ended in defeat on Sunday when Javi Martinez’s second-half header earned Bayern Munich a 1-0 victory at the Allianz Arena.

Spain international Martinez nodded in from a corner on 59 minutes as the German champions overcame a lacklustre display from Mourinho’s side who face Leicester City at home on Friday.

“In the week, we have to organise the week in a way so we can be fresh for Friday because, on Friday, the Premier League starts. We play for points and it’s with the players we have,” Mourinho told MUTV. “There is no time to cry. Players are not going to be here on Friday and we have to go with best possible team and with a great mentality.”

Mourinho still remains hopeful of strengthening his side in the transfer window before the August 9 deadline, with Brazil international midfielder Fred the club’s top signing this summer.

“My CEO knows what I want for quite a long time,” Mourinho told German TV ahead of Sunday’s game.

“I know he tries to do the best for me, and I still have a few days to wait and see what is going to happen.”

Marcus Rashford and Victor Lindelof returned for United on Sunday after their post-World Cup break, although the visitors lost Eric Bailly to injury after the interval following a collision with Serge Gnabry.

“Finally, it’s over. Finally, such a difficult pre-season is over. The players were, once more, brilliant, they could not have done better than what they did,” added Mourinho to MUTV. Rashford wore the number 10 short, previously the Old Trafford

property of the likes of Wayne Rooney and Zlatan Ibrahimovic. “He wanted it. He always wanted it,” said Mourinho.

“Of course, he respected Rooney and then Zlatan wanted to have it. Of course, he was in the shadow, waiting for the opportunity and now the shirt is empty. “It’s something fantastic for the kid, let’s give the shirt to him.”

Bayern, under new coach Niko Kovac, will head back to their training camp in Tegernsee ahead of next weekend’s German Super Cup against Eintracht Frankfurt.(afp)

MELBOURNE — Japan star Keisuke Honda has signed for Melbourne Victory as a marquee player for the club in the 2018-19 Australian A-League season.

The Victory confirmed the signing Monday, making the 32-year-old Japanese international the club’s biggest signing in its 13-year history.

Honda told Fox Sports he was excited about the challenge of moving to Australia.

“I’m ready. I can’t wait,” Honda said. “I have confidence. I will help the team as much as I can. I’m an ambitious person and I always work my best.

“Let’s make it happen.”

Honda is set to arrive in Melbourne next week after commenc-

ing negotiations following Japan’s exit at the World Cup in Russia last month. The veteran attacker has scored 37 goals for Japan, won the Asian title in 2011 and scored in three World Cup campaigns.

Victory coach Kevin Muscat said Honda, who moved from AC Milan to Mexican club Pachuca last year, was a proven performer at the highest level and “we can’t wait to see what he can do in Melbourne.”

“He brings world-class ability and offers great flexibility in the front third of the pitch,” Muscat said. “It’s obviously an added benefit to have him a part of our AFC Asian Champions League campaign too.”

Victory, which placed fourth in

the regular season but rallied to win the grand final and claim its fourth championship, will kick off its domestic season on Oct. 20 against Melbourne City.

The deal with Honda involved support from Victory, Football Federation Australia and broadcaster Fox Sports. Details of the one-season contract were not released.(ap)In this June 17, 2018, file photo, Japan’s Keisuke Honda warms up during a training session of the Japan national soccer team at the 2018 soccer World Cup in Kazan, Russia. Melbourne Victory confirmed on Monday, Aug. 6, 2018, the signing of Honda for the 2018-2019 Australian A-League season.

Manager Jose Mourinho of Manchester United gestures during the International Champions Cup match against Real Madrid at Hard Rock Stadium on July 31, 2018 in Miami, Florida.

Keisuke Honda signs for Melbourne Victory in Aussie A-League

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Community Shield: Man City show of strength, beating Chelsea LONDON (AP) — Despite the tight turnaround after the World Cup, Manchester City’s attacking ruthlessness has not been blunted by fatigue or the English heatwave. Winning the Community Shield demonstrated that beyond any doubt on Sunday.

Three weeks after the World Cup finished, the Premier League champions opened the new season by collecting more silverware. Sergio Aguero scored twice — once in each half for his record-extending 200th and 201st goals for City — as FA Cup holder Chelsea was beaten 2-0 in the traditional curtain raiser to the English season at Wembley Stadium.

“The heat today was so tough,” City manager Pep Guardiola said. “So demanding.”

While it has been a summer of continuity at City after a record 100-point Premier League haul, Chelsea has gone through more turmoil in recent weeks.

“Our preseason until now has been crazy,” Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri said. “So we have to work.”

The former Napoli coach has had only a couple of weeks to work on his new Chelsea squad after the protracted firing of Antonio Conte, abandoning his fellow Italian’s preferred 3-4-2-1 formation for 4-3-3.

Although Conte won the FA Cup at Wembley in May, he paid the price for Chelsea’s slump from league winners to fifth place, leaving the 2012 Champions League winners out of Europe’s elite competition this year. City finished 30 points ahead of Chelsea.

AGUERO AT THE DOUBLE City had already wrapped up its third Premier League title in six years when Aguero underwent surgery on his left knee in April. The striker was fit for the World Cup, but Argentina was eliminated in the round of 16, ensuring he left Russia two weeks before the tournament ended.

“He arrived (back at City) so sharp, so good,” Guardiola said. “With him and Gabriel (Jesus) we are good in that position.”

Aguero’s second goal against Chelsea completed a counterattack in the 58th minute. John Stones gained possession inside his own half, Ilkay Gundogan advanced with the ball and Bernardo Silva then threaded a pass through to Aguero, who netted his 201st goal.

WORLD CUP WINNERS Although England missed out on World Cup glory in Russia — losing in the semifinals to Croatia — the coun-

try still did win a World Cup in the last year. Two of the 2017 under-17 world champions are finally getting game time with their clubs and seized their opportunities at the national stadium.

When Chelsea did threaten City’s goal it often owed much to winger Callum Hudson-Odoi creating danger on the left flank. And midfielder Phil Foden helped to create City’s opener, surging forward in the 13th minute before squaring for Aguero, who struck into the bottom corner.

“Now he is more mature and he is part of the first team,” Guardiola said of the 18-year-old Foden. “It’s good because he is a Manchester City fan and people love him.”

TRANSFER WINDOW Resolving the managerial situation hasn’t ended uncertainty around Chelsea. Both goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois and midfielder Eden Hazard are still on their breaks after helping Belgium to finish third at the World Cup. It’s unclear if they will play for Chelsea again, with the duo linked with moves to Real Madrid.

Courtois’ agent was quoted as saying over the weekend that the goalkeeper, who was sent to Atletico Madrid on loan for three years, now wants to move back to the Spanish capital to be close to his children.

Sarri wants to hear the message directly from Courtois.

“I am not interested in the agent,” Sarri said. “If Courtois will tomorrow tell me the same, I will have to speak to my club of course. I want only players with a high level of motivations. I have (nothing) to answer to the agent.”

Premier League clubs have until Thursday to sign players after the close of the transfer window was brought forward to before the season opens. The summer trading period for most European leagues still closes on Aug. 31 as usual.

City has already broken its transfer record, signing Riyad Mahrez last month for 60 million pounds (then $80 million). The former Leicester winger played 68 minutes against Chelsea but will take time to settle in the side.

Chelsea opens its campaign at Huddersfield on Saturday, and City is back in London next Sunday to face Unai Emery’s Arsenal.(ap)

Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero celebrates scoring his second goal of the game during the Community Shield soccer match between Chelsea and Manchester City at Wembley, London, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018.

Rostov claim first win over CSKA in nine years Sergei Parshivlyuk’s early goal gave Rostov their first win over CSKA in nine years on Sunday as the early season woes of the Moscow giants continued in the Russian Premier League.

CSKA have just one point from their first two games and are struggling to plug the gaps in defence left by the summer retirements of Sergei Ignashevich and twins Alexei and Vasily

Berezutsky.

Parshivlyuk scored the only goal of the game in the seventh minute, heading in a cross from the left by Dmitry Skopintsev.

The win lifted Rostov into

second place in the table on six points behind leaders Zenit St Petersburg, who defeated Arsenal Tula 1-0 on Saturday.

“There’s no euphoria after winning two matches at the start

of the championship,” said Rostov manager Valery Karpin after his team’s first win over CSKA since 2009. “Everything has just begun -- there are 28 matches to go.”(afp)

‘No time to cry’ as Mourinho braces for testing Premier League start

Jose Mourinho admitted that he may not have his ideal side at his disposal when Manchester United open their Premier League campaign on Friday. United’s roller-coaster pre-season ended in defeat on Sunday when Javi Martinez’s second-half header earned Bayern Munich a 1-0 victory at the Allianz Arena.

Spain international Martinez nodded in from a corner on 59 minutes as the German champions overcame a lacklustre display from Mourinho’s side who face Leicester City at home on Friday.

“In the week, we have to organise the week in a way so we can be fresh for Friday because, on Friday, the Premier League starts. We play for points and it’s with the players we have,” Mourinho told MUTV. “There is no time to cry. Players are not going to be here on Friday and we have to go with best possible team and with a great mentality.”

Mourinho still remains hopeful of strengthening his side in the transfer window before the August 9 deadline, with Brazil international midfielder Fred the club’s top signing this summer.

“My CEO knows what I want for quite a long time,” Mourinho told German TV ahead of Sunday’s game.

“I know he tries to do the best for me, and I still have a few days to wait and see what is going to happen.”

Marcus Rashford and Victor Lindelof returned for United on Sunday after their post-World Cup break, although the visitors lost Eric Bailly to injury after the interval following a collision with Serge Gnabry.

“Finally, it’s over. Finally, such a difficult pre-season is over. The players were, once more, brilliant, they could not have done better than what they did,” added Mourinho to MUTV. Rashford wore the number 10 short, previously the Old Trafford

property of the likes of Wayne Rooney and Zlatan Ibrahimovic. “He wanted it. He always wanted it,” said Mourinho.

“Of course, he respected Rooney and then Zlatan wanted to have it. Of course, he was in the shadow, waiting for the opportunity and now the shirt is empty. “It’s something fantastic for the kid, let’s give the shirt to him.”

Bayern, under new coach Niko Kovac, will head back to their training camp in Tegernsee ahead of next weekend’s German Super Cup against Eintracht Frankfurt.(afp)

MELBOURNE — Japan star Keisuke Honda has signed for Melbourne Victory as a marquee player for the club in the 2018-19 Australian A-League season.

The Victory confirmed the signing Monday, making the 32-year-old Japanese international the club’s biggest signing in its 13-year history.

Honda told Fox Sports he was excited about the challenge of moving to Australia.

“I’m ready. I can’t wait,” Honda said. “I have confidence. I will help the team as much as I can. I’m an ambitious person and I always work my best.

“Let’s make it happen.”

Honda is set to arrive in Melbourne next week after commenc-

ing negotiations following Japan’s exit at the World Cup in Russia last month. The veteran attacker has scored 37 goals for Japan, won the Asian title in 2011 and scored in three World Cup campaigns.

Victory coach Kevin Muscat said Honda, who moved from AC Milan to Mexican club Pachuca last year, was a proven performer at the highest level and “we can’t wait to see what he can do in Melbourne.”

“He brings world-class ability and offers great flexibility in the front third of the pitch,” Muscat said. “It’s obviously an added benefit to have him a part of our AFC Asian Champions League campaign too.”

Victory, which placed fourth in

the regular season but rallied to win the grand final and claim its fourth championship, will kick off its domestic season on Oct. 20 against Melbourne City.

The deal with Honda involved support from Victory, Football Federation Australia and broadcaster Fox Sports. Details of the one-season contract were not released.(ap)In this June 17, 2018, file photo, Japan’s Keisuke Honda warms up during a training session of the Japan national soccer team at the 2018 soccer World Cup in Kazan, Russia. Melbourne Victory confirmed on Monday, Aug. 6, 2018, the signing of Honda for the 2018-2019 Australian A-League season.

Manager Jose Mourinho of Manchester United gestures during the International Champions Cup match against Real Madrid at Hard Rock Stadium on July 31, 2018 in Miami, Florida.

Keisuke Honda signs for Melbourne Victory in Aussie A-League

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Zverev beats De Minaur to defend Washington ATP crown

WASHINGTON - Alexander Zverev says defending his ATP Washington Open title Sunday shows growing in strength and maturity, but the world number three still sees a big gap to Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer.

The 21-year-old German won his third title of the year and the ninth of his career by defeating Australian teen Alex De Minaur 6-2, 6-4 in the 50th edition of the US Open tuneup event.

“What a fantastic week for me,” Zverev said. “Winning a tournament on its 50th anniversary is something amazing. This has been a very special week for me. “(Defending a title) feels great and shows mental strength as well. It shows a little maturity I think.”

While Zverev stands atop a generation of rising young stars, he still puts 20-time Grand Slam winner Federer, 36, and 17-time Grand Slam champion Nadal, 32, on the highest of pedestals.

“Roger and Rafa are still the best out there and still competing for Grand Slam titles,” he said. “I haven’t won a Grand Slam title.

Saying I’m on their level wouldn’t be fair to them.”

Not since 20-year-old Rafael Nadal beat 19-year-old Novak Djokovic 11 years ago at Indian Wells had the combined ages of ATP finalists been so young. And not since 1995 in Buenos Aires had all four semi-finalists been 21-or-under, Zverev being the eldest.

“It’s not only me that’s the future of the sport. I think everybody who made it to the semi-finals is the future,” Zverev said. “We all want to be the best. Some of us already think we’re the best. We all have a lot of talent.”

Zverev joined a list of back-to-back Washington champions that includes Andre Agassi, Michael Chang and Juan Martin del Potro. (afp)

Eikon Bar and Club

LEGIAN - Eikon Bar and Club is one in the collection of popular nightspots along the main clubbing route of Jalan Legian. The club rocks every night, seven days a week, and opens at the relatively early time of 18:00 when compared to other hotspots nearby (the likes of Sky Garden at the 61 Legian Complex, and the Engine Room across the road). Eikon Bali commonly gets its fair share of local partygoers over the weekends, and with a good mix of Kuta and Legian beach boys and girls, expats and visitors during the high season, particularly ‘schoolies week’ in November. Catch different kinds of drink promos and late ‘happy hours’ nightly from 21:00 through midnight, including Eikon’s ‘beer towers’ (tall lidded 2L and 3L jugs

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ABUJA - Kenya edged out South Africa to finish top of the African Athletics Championship medals table after a five-day tournament blasted as “tedious” during its troubled build-up.

Kenya finished with 11 gold medals, six silver and two bronze with South Africa on nine gold, 13 silver and eight bronze.

Nigeria, the hosts of the cham-

pionships staged in the southern city of Asaba, were third with nine gold, five silver and five bronze.

The 52-team showpiece event was not without some hiccups -– from the delayed arrival of some countries to complaints of substandard facilities.

However, Ifeanyi Okowa, the governor of oil-rich Delta, said he

Kenyan Edward Zakayo celebrates with the Kenyan flag after winning the Men’s 5000m event on the final day of the African Athletics Championship at the Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba, Delta State in midwestern Nigeria, on August 5, 2018.

Kenya finished with 11 gold medals, six silver and two bronze with South Africa on nine gold, 13 silver and eight bronze.

was pleased that after the initial challenges, the championship lived up to its billing.

“We had only nine, 10 months to prepare for this championship and so it was a bit tedious at the start,” Okowa admitted.

“But we were committed to deliver a great event and we did and we are all happy.”

Kenya dominated in the middle and long distances while the South Africans lined up top stars such as Olympic and world champion Caster Semenya who won the 400m and 800m.

The next edition of the championships will be staged in Algeria in 2020. (afp)

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US police say 11 children rescued from ‘filthy’ hideout

LOS ANGELES - Police say 11 children ages one to 15 were rescued in the US state of New Mexico after officers raided a dilapidated compound occupied by armed men.

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Police say 11 children ages one to 15 were rescued in the US state of New Mexico after officers raided a dilapidated compound occupied by armed men.

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Local disaster officials said 358 tourists had been evacuated so far.

At least one person, an Indonesian holidaymaker, was killed on the Gili islands while another tourist died on nearby Bali.

- Night of aftershocks But it was Lombok which bore the brunt of Sunday evening’s quake.

The shallow tremor sent thousands of Lombok residents and tourists scrambling outdoors, where many spent the night as strong aftershocks including one of 5.3-magnitude rattled the island.

The quake knocked out power in many areas, and parts of Lombok remained without electricity on Monday. Nugroho said up to 20,000 people may have had to quit their homes on Lombok and paramedics, food and medication were badly needed.

Hundreds of bloodied and bandaged victims were treated outside damaged hospitals in the main city of Mataram and other hard-hit areas.

Patients lay on beds under wards set up in tents, surrounded by drip stands and monitors, as doctors in blue scrubs attended to them.

Anguished relatives were huddled around loved ones in front of the main clinic in Mataram, as medical staff struggled to cope with hundreds of patients. Many were yet to be attended to despite spending the night out in the open.

“I feel restless sleeping in a tent, I

can’t be at peace,” Nurhayati told AFP outside one hospital where she had brought her sick 70-year-old mother.

“What we really need now are paramedics, we are short-staffed, we also need medications,” Supriadi, a spokesman for Mataram general hospital, told AFP. Most of the victims were in the mountainous north and east of the island, away from the main tourist spots and coastal districts in the south and west.

Najmul Akhyar, the head of North Lombok district, estimated that 80 percent of that region was damaged by the quake.

Singapore’s Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam, who was in Lombok for a security conference when the earthquake struck, described on Facebook how his hotel room on the 10th floor shook violently. “Walls cracked, it was quite impossible to stand up,” he said.

Bali’s international airport suffered damage to its terminal but the runway was unaffected and operations had returned to normal. Disaster agency officials said. Lombok airport was also operating.

Indonesia, one of the most disasterprone nations on earth, straddles the so-called Pacific “Ring of Fire”, where tectonic plates collide and many of the world’s volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur.

In 2014, a devastating tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.3 undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra in western Indonesia killed 220,000 people in countries around the Indian Ocean, including 168,000 in Indonesia.(afp)

Two men were arrested after police found them and the children in what one officer called “the saddest living conditions and poverty I have seen,” as part of the operation connected to a months-long search for an abducted three-year-old, according to New Mexico’s Taos County sheriff’s office.

The investigation kicked off late last year on the opposite side of the country in Jonesboro, Georgia, where 39-year-old Siraj Wahhaj of the state’s Clayton County was accused of kidnapping his toddler -- who was ultimately not found.

The boy’s mother told police her child, who she said suffered from seizures along with developmental and cognitive delays, went to the park with his father Wahhaj last December and never returned.

On August 2, Sheriff Jerry

Hogrefe of Taos County in New Mexico issued a search warrant describing “a makeshift compound surrounded by tires and an earthen berm” in a subdivision in the rural community of Amalia, where Wahhaj along with adult Lucas Morten were thought to be in hiding.

The FBI had provided information and surveillance on the spot but “didn’t feel there was enough probable cause to get on the property,” Hogrefe said.

“That all changed for me when a message was forwarded to us from a Georgia Detective that we reasonably believed came from someone at the compound -- the message sent to a third party simply said in part ‘we are starving and need food and water,’” the sheriff said in a statement.

“I absolutely knew that we

couldn’t wait on another agency to step up and we had to go check this out as soon as possible.”

The sheriff described planning “a tactical approach for our own safety because we had learned the occupants were most likely heavily armed.”

- ‘Heartbreaking’ On the morning of August 3, a dozen officers kicked off the “all day” operation, discovering hidden beneath New Mexico’s scrubland the two men with an AR-15 rifle, five loaded 30-round magazines and four loaded pistols, including one in Wahhaj’s pocket.

The men had refused to follow verbal direction, police said, who added the raid went without major incident or injuries even as Wahhaj needed to be “taken down.”(afp)

Marches and tears as Argentina abortion law vote approaches BUENOS AIRES - With Argentina on the verge of a Senate move on legalizing abortion, women in favor marched, banged pots and made their voices heard Sunday.

Ahead of Wednesday’s Senate hearing, 32 women in Buenos Aires donned the white bonnets and red cloaks worn by women forced into childbearing servitude on the television drama “The Handmaid’s Tale,” based on Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel.

At the Rio de la Plata, they also raised their green handkerchiefs, a symbol of the struggle for legal

abortion.

It is a thorny issue in Argentina -- which is mostly Roman Catholic and the home country of Pope Francis, the first pontiff born in Latin America.

Many in the country believe the church teaching that life begins at conception and that abortion is murder.

“Doing this helps us express what is not being heard -- which is that abortions happen. And we need them to be done in a safe place, open to the community, to all women,” Bernardina Rossini, one of the marchers, told AFP. The women embraced, and several wept openly. Most were between 30

and 60 years old, and between them, a girl walked with her mother.

“It’s a way of saying this: it’s our body, and we want to decide on what happens ourselves,” Rossini stressed.

Approved by Congress’ lower house on June 14, the bill sent to the Senate would legalize abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy and provide for conscientious objection for practitioners, but not for hospitals.

In the August 8 vote, senators will have to decide on the version of the text adopted by the deputies. The vote is expected to be tight -- but if a majority of the 72 senators approve the text, abortion will be legalized. (afp)

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Activists in favour of the legalization of abortion disguised as characters from Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s feminist dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale”, perform at the “Parque de la Memoria” (Remembrance Park) in Buenos Aires, on August 5, 2018.

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Australian delegates, minister ‘safe’ following Lombok earthquake

Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton and a number of delegates who were on Lombok Island at the time of Sunday evening’s 7-magnitude earthquake have safely arrived in neighboring Bali.

“I thank the Lombok authorities, the police and others who assisted the Australian delegations and who are working with us in ensuring that assistance are being provided to those in need,” Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said in Bali on Monday.

Dutton was in Lombok to attend the Sub Regional Meeting on Counterterrorism along with Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Wiranto. Wiranto also announced on Sunday evening that all members of the delegation were safe.

“We decided to postpone the meeting because of the earthquake and encourage delegates

to return to their respective home countries immediately,” he said.

The delegates were having dinner at a restaurant on the 12th floor of their hotel when the earthquake struck. The two-day counterterrorism meeting was scheduled to take place on Sunday and Monday.

Meanwhile, Bishop was in Bali to attend the Bali Process international forum and moderate a discussion on people smuggling, human trafficking and related transnational crimes.

She added that no Australian casualties or serious injuries were reported following the earthquake, which claimed at least 82 lives.

Despite the incident, Bishop believed that Australians would continue visiting Lombok and neighboring islands like Bali because they are “very popular tourist destinations for Australians”(ant)

Indonesia, US foreign ministers discuss IsraelPalestine issue in meeting JAKARTA - Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi discussed the conflict between Israel and Palestine and the development in Palestine in a meeting with visiting US Foreign Minister Michael Pompeo here on Saturday.

“He (minister Pompeo) said that the situation in Palestine is not easy. However, when I mentioned about the two-state solution, I saw him accept,” she stated. She remarked that Pompeo saw the two-state solution as the only way of settling the protracted conflict between Israel and Palestine.

“He did not reject two-state solution. He noted that more time was needed before a peace plan could be made on Palestine,” she revealed. At the meeting, Marsudi emphasized that the Palestinian issue not only drew attention from the Indonesian government but also the people in the country.

“And indeed specifically, I mentioned the two-state solution as the only valuable and lasting solution,” she added.

Earlier, at the meeting between foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the US in Singapore, Marsudi had also underlined the importance for ASEAN and the US to support the efforts for the resolution of the Palestinian issue.

“The situation in Palestine is the responsibility of all of us. Efforts to settle the issue will not only contribute to stability in the Middle Eastern region but also peace and stability in the world,” she explained.

Indonesia believes that the two-state resolution was the only viable solution, and the US is expected to be able to immediately submit a new peace plan, Marsudi pointed out.(ant)

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Cracked concrete and damaged houses are pictured in Pemenang in northern Lombok on August 6, 2018, a day after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the area. More than 1,000 tourists were being evacuated from Indonesia’s tiny Gili islands on August 6 after a powerful quake struck neighbouring Lombok, killing 91 people and injuring hundreds.

President orders immediate response to Lombok earthquake

JAKARTA- President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has instructed his concerned ministers particularly Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Wiranto and other stakeholders to immediately address the impacts of 7-magnitude earthquake that hit Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, on Sunday.

“Last night, I ordered the Political, Legal and Security Affairs Wiranto to coordinate with other concerned institutions including TNI (Indonesian Defense Forces), Polri (National Police), and NTB (West Nusa Tenggara) government, for immediate response to the earthquake impacts,” President Jokowi said here, Monday.

The immediate response includes evacuation of injured and dead victims, and dispatching of relief aid. “Concerning logistics, it has already been sent to NTB since last night, including doctors,” he said.

Jokowi said he has been monitoring the impacts of the powerful earthquake from Jakarta. He is waiting for the right time to visit the quake-affected locations in

Lombok, and he does not want to disturb the ongoing earthquake handling efforts. He said he would deliver assistance after assessing the impacts of the tremor.

“We will see the situation in the field because it`s different from the 5-magnitude earthquake previously. Now it`s 7 magnitude.

We will decide after witnessing the condition in the field. However, assistance will be provided,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) recorded 73 aftershocks as of 00:00 Monday after the magnitude-7 earthquake rocked East Lombok in West Nusa Tenggara province on Sunday night.

The aftershocks had steadily declining intensity, the BMKG

said in a statement received early Monday. As the local residents still felt the aftershocks, they opted to save themselves in open space, the agency said.

An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale shook the islands of Lombok and Sumbawa in the province on Sunday night.

The BMKG said the magnitude-7 quake was the main shock of the series of quakes which hit the province earlier.

The magnitude 7 quake almost had the same epicenter as the magnitude 6.4 quake which hit the province on July 29 this year.

Judging by its epicenter, hypcenter depth and source mechanism, the quake is a shallow quake due to the activity of Flores back arc trust.(ant)

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UK rates raised to highest since 2009 despite Brexit worries

LONDON - The Bank of England raised its main interest rate Thursday for only the second time since the 2008 financial crisis as it weighed conflicting signs about the economy and growing concerns about Brexit.

The bank’s nine-member Monetary Policy Committee voted unanimously to raise the rate from 0.50 percent to 0.75 percent, the highest level since March 2009.

Economists had been expecting the move but believe the central bank will be more cautious about further increases in coming months as Britain’s divorce talks with the European Union enter a crucial phase and uncertainty about the future heightens.

Bank of England governor Mark Carney said “rate rises are expected to be limited and gradual,” with about three hikes over the next three years.

“Policy needs to walk, not run, to stand still,” he told a news conference.

Britain’s economy is sending mixed signals. Unemployment is at its lowest level since the 1970s, wages are rising and inflation is above the bank’s 2 percent target, at 2.4 percent. But growth has been weak so far this year, people are not spending much and com-

panies are worried about the lack of progress in Brexit talks, which could see Britain crash out of the EU without a deal on trade and business ties.

The increase was only the second in more than 10 years, following a hike in November.

Higher rates make loans more expensive, weighing on some mortgage holders and businesses looking for credit to invest. But the rate hike will increase returns on some investments.

“While an interest rate rise is positive news for people living on their savings income, or holding pensions and investments, it may prove to be the tipping point for those in financial difficulty or struggling with debt,” said Richard Haymes, head of financial difficulties at credit data firm TDX Group.

The Bank of England, like the U.S. Federal Reserve and European Central Bank, is trying to gradually unwind the easy-money policies it deployed during the fi-

nancial crisis to keep the economy afloat.

But while the U.S. and eurozone economies have seen strong growth in the past year, the British economy has wilted under the uncertainties of Brexit. Britain is due to leave the EU in March, and the two sides have yet to agree on the divorce terms and future trade relations.

Both Britain and the EU have hardened their negotiating positions, and companies are worried. Major manufacturers including Airbus have warned they could pull their operations out of the country, and drug maker

Sanofi says it’s stockpiling more medicines in Britain in case of

customs trouble during Brexit.

Carney said “there are signs that business confidence is softening,” with companies increasingly expressing concerns about Brexit.

He insisted the central bank was “well prepared for whatever path the economy takes, including a wide range of potential Brexit outcomes,” and would be able to keep lending even in the event of “a disorderly, cliff-edge Brexit.”

More broadly, trade disputes between the U.S. and major powers are also casting a shadow over the world economy’s outlook.

George Brown, an economist at Investec, said he expects the Bank of England will not raise rates again until February. (ap)

Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, speaks during a media conference to present the central bank’s quarterly Inflation Report, in London, Thursday Aug. 2, 2018. The Bank of England raised its main interest rate for only the second time since the 2008 financial crisis, from 0.50 percent to 0.75 percent, as it weighed conflicting signs about the economy and growing concerns about Brexit.

German factory orders down 4 percent in June BERLIN - Official data show that factory orders in Germany dropped a steep 4 percent in June compared with the previous month, led lower by a drop in demand from outside the eurozone.

The figure released Monday by the Economy Ministry compared with a gain of 2.6 percent the

previous month. The ministry said that orders in the second quarter were down 1.6 percent overall compared with the previous quarter, largely because of lower demand for investment goods such as factory machinery.

In June, orders from inside Germany were down 2.8 percent

and those from other countries in the 19-nation eurozone dropped 2.7 percent. Orders from outside the eurozone fell 5.9 percent.

The German economy, Europe’s biggest, remains robust, with business confidence high and unemployment low despite some disappointing data this year. (ap)

Modern Approaches to Spiritual Traditions Prism Exhibition at Sudakara Art Space Three prolific, talented and deeply spiritual painters have joined together to exhibit their works as individual artists and also as a unified trinity, to deliver a common message to the viewing public.

Although their paintings are widely divergent in visual style, they share a common approach to art and indeed to life. This approach is distinctly expressive of a culture that values harmony, beauty and togetherness and reflects these three artists’ commitment to developing themselves as human beings and desire to inspire others to express their greatest selves.

Artists I Made Somadita, Ni Nyoman Sani, I Ketut Jaya (Kaprus), were all born and raised in Bali and deeply influenced by the cultural and spiritual traditions of the Island of the Gods. However, all three artists also express this influence in forms that appear far removed from the aesthetics for which Balinese traditional art is known, yet remain nonetheless firmly rooted in

the philosophy or world view that informs these aesthetic forms.

The title of the exhibition is Prism and indeed refers to a transparent triangular object with refractive surfaces that disperses white light into its constituent parts – the colors of the rainbow. Or, to put it another way: the same essence of life is expresses in myriad forms and perceived in different ways depending on one’s perspective while remaining essentially one.

Prism also refers to all three artists’ approach to art making as a way to reflect back to themselves their inner workings and serve as the three refractive surfaces that disperse white light into a variety of colors.

Harmony is the starting point for the artistic process of these

three artists as it is out of a desire to connect with their deepest inner harmony that they are inspired to create. Beauty serves as the bridge to give form to their inner vision so that it can be reflected back to themselves and shared with the outer world. Togetherness is expressed in the interaction between the painting and the painter and the viewing public but in this case, it is also demonstrated in a collaborative work created by all three artists.

Up until relatively recently there was no word for art in Balinese, as the act of creating beautiful objects or performances was an integrated part of cultural and spiritual activities and always served a particular function related to these spheres of life. As such, art was created anonymously and often collaboratively based on the notion that all human beings have an innate desire to express the divine force that flows through us and the expression

that emerges is meant to serve the greater good and is not attributable to any individual as it springs forth from this common divine source.

As contemporary painters, Sani, Kaprus, and Soma as they are known amongst their peers, function in the contemporary arts sphere and so although their works are neither created in the same community based context nor serve the same religious function as they might have a hundred years ago, they are still acutely aware of this context and function and seek to maintain this essence in their practice.

The collaborative work they created explained Ni Nyoman Sani, was a way for them to put into practice the idea of setting aside one’s personal ego to allow a true spirit of togetherness to emerge on the canvas. “When we do ngayah or perform devotional works –whether for the banjar (community) or for the ceremonies, we come together as one large working unit to achieve something far greater

than any of us could as individuals.

Remembering this spirit we decided to create a contemporary art work with this in mind”, explained I Made Somadita.

I Made Jaya, whose aesthetic inspiration comes directly from the visual manifestations of his culture further explained that: “we took turns painting, so we were each inspired by the way the others work thus opening new possibilities for each of us as individuals and for all of us as whole. We hope that that the way we use painting as a process for healing is felt by the viewing audience and serves to inspire them to express their artistic impulse and thus heal themselves in the process”.

The group show entitled Prism will be opening at Sudakara Art Space, Sudamala Suites & Villa, (Jalan Sudamala no 20, Sanur) on August 11th at 7PM and will be on display from August 12- November 11, 2019 from 9AM to 6PM. (kmb)

Catfish Pepes in Complete Seasoning and Torch Ginger

Make a try to taste fried catfish.

Wow… it is remarkably delicious!

Similarly, you can taste catfish pepes (wrapped in banana leaf) with complete seasoning. Of course, it must be different. Catfish pepes coming with Balinese complete seasoning is indeed unable to be prepared by all people. This means the catfish pepes having excellent taste with natural ingredients without preservatives.

Mak Ade is one of the rural chefs who always makes catfish pepes with torch ginger every day. This old and single woman from Ole hamlet, Marga Dauh Puri, Tabanan,

indeed has expertise in preparing menus especially the traditional ones. Her cooking is famous for its delicacy, so that local villagers always purchase it.

Well, among the menus on sale, the catfish pepes with torch ginger is frequently purchased as can be consumed by children, teenagers to old people. In the afternoon, after coming home from cultivating paddy fields, village farmers will drop in to buy catfish pepes as a side dish for dinner. Sometimes, people have also arrived before her stall is opened. The side dish will be served as side dish for lunch in

paddy fields.

Children also like this kind of menu. However, they must eat carefully because the flesh still contains few bones. Catfish will be better to be consumed when accompanied with vegetable with grated coconut seasoning and cassava chips. Catfish pepes prepared

by Mak Ade offers very distinctive taste. On that account, she opens her food stalls in the morning and afternoon for breakfast and dinner.

When preparing this catfish pepes, Mak Ade uses giant catfish, torch ginger, Balinese complete

seasoning and banana leaf to wrap it. The complete seasoning covers turmeric, galangal, aromatic ginger, ginger, garlic, onion, large chili, cayenne pepper, lemongrass, candlenut, pepper, coriander and salt.

First of all, prepare complete seasoning by chopping turmeric, galangal, ginger, and aromatic ginger. Then, grind garlic, onion, large chili, cayenne and lemongrass. Similarly, grind the candlenut, pepper, and coriander.

All the seasonings are ground to be getting smooth. Please add salt to taste. Similarly, cut thin

the torch ginger and bruise to be smoother. Cleanse the catfish and then cut into pieces according to taste.

The finely grounded seasoning is put into the basin, put the slices of catfish flesh and mix them together well with the seasoning. Add bay leaves to create a distinctive flavor. Further, wrapped the batter of catfish flesh and the seasoning lengthways following the line of leaves and attach with bamboo pin (tooth pick). After that, steam it until cooked. Roast to taste fine and delicious. Now, it is ready to serve. (kmb)

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Tanjung Ser site at Pemuteran

Archeologist believes it’s a prehistoric settlement and ancient port

SINGARAJA - The Bali Archaeological Institute examines the findings at the Tanjung Ser site at Yeh Panes hamlet, Pemuteran, Gerokgak. A number of pottery and ceramic fragments were found from the follow-up study. Researchers suspect the Tanjung Ser site is the exact pre-historical settlement area during the Hindu-Buddhist era. Another guess is that the site is an ancient port area.

This research was conducted by involving six researchers from the Bali Archaeological Institute and assisted by a number of local residents to help with excavation.

Location of the excavation is on the land owned by a foreign national from Italy named Mello. It is located near the beach and in the Bukit Ser area known to have a high magical aura.

Two excavation boxes can have been opened since July 27 and it is scheduled to end on August 10, 2018. Of the two boxes, researchers found hundreds of pottery and ceramic fragments.

In addition, many researchers found shells buried hundreds of years ago.

A researcher of the Bali Archeological Institute, I Wayan Suantika, stated on Sunday (Aug. 5) that Tanjung Ser site was discovered in 2000. It was started with a survey after people found two goddess statues and Nadhi statue. Now, the two ancient statues are stored in the Bukit Celedu Temple area, Pemuteran customary village. In 2001, the institute conducted a test where at the time the research area was being planted with corn. From the loose soil, several pottery and ceramic fragments were found. The findings strengthen if ancient objects were buried at this location. This is supported by further testing by opening three research boxes and showed the same results.

“This is a follow-up study after we conducted previous tests, and the objects we found consist of

pottery fragments, ceramics and pottery. This year, we open two more boxes and more pottery fragments and ceramics, including shells, are found,” he said.

According to Wayan Suantika, from this continued research, his institute found the results if the Tanjung Ser site belongs to prehistoric times, especially during the Hindu-Buddhist era.

This site is alleged to have been inhabited by many people. Moreover, it was not only inhabited by residents of Pemuteran and the surrounding area, but also those from outside Bali. Based on the analysis, it was populated by many people seeing from the findings of pottery fragments and ceramics including a lot of clay cooking utensils. Movement of the residents is suspected to have related to the Gilimanuk site which was also found to have a large population.

Another suspicion, continued Wayan Suantika, is the assumption related to the results of the study regarding the possibility of the Tanjung Ser site as an ancient port area in prehistoric times.

Again this suspicion is referred to the finding of pottery fragments and other objects purchased by residents of that period brought in from Bali by sea. Besides, the evidence of preliminary findings in the form of two statues is believed to have relation to the inhabitants’ megalithic activities through the worship of stones in a number of temple areas in Gerokgak subdistrict.

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The Bali Archaeological Institute examines the findings at the Tanjung Ser site at Yeh Panes hamlet, Pemuteran, Gerokgak.

“Obviously, this site was inhabited by many residents. Our other suspicion regarding this area is the presence of ancient port having to do with other ancient ports located on the east coast of Buleleng, such as at the village of Sembiran, Julah, Ponjok Batu and Pacung. If the results are correct, this site poses an ancient port area playing an important role in the western Buleleng area,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Bali Archaeological Institute, I

Gusti Made Suarbhawa, said the Tanjung Ser site is very much related to prehistoric life on the coast of Bali. This site also deals with the Gilimanuk, Kalibukbuk, Kalanganyar and Pulaki sites.

To complete this research, he planned further research.

In further research, pottery fragments, ceramics, shells, and stones will be subjected to laboratory tests to ascertain the shape, function and the origin of the object. In addition, it will also be conducted the research to

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ensure the age of all the ancient objects.

“After finding this object, there will be further research and we indeed need a long time to find other objects including human skeleton. After this excavation, we will convey to the government starting from the village, subdistrict, districts to Bali provincial government, so there will be a commitment to doing conservation against the sites we have researched,” he explained. (kmb38)

Morocco’s ancient city of Volubilis rises again

MOULAY DRISS ZERHOUN - Situated in a fertile plain at the foot of Mount Zerhoun, the sprawling remains of Morocco’s oldest Roman site -- Volubilis -- have survived pillage and long periods of neglect.

After decades of decay, however, custodians of the now closely guarded ancient city have turned the page and are bringing back the tourists. The site, nestled among olive groves near the city of Meknes, boasts a new museum and visitor centre and has been attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors.

They stroll along the main artery lined with porticoes and the remnants of vast mansions, whose mosaic floors testify to a prosperous past. A triumphal arch, a classic symbol of Roman architecture, sits at the top of what once was the main compound.

Known in Arabic as “Oualili”, the city was named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1997. The ancient city has “known several civilisations, from the Mauritanian era to the Romans through the Islamic period”, according to Mohamed Alilou, topographer and assistant conservator of the site.

Volubilis was founded in the third century BC by a Moorish community, before being annexed by the Roman Empire in 42 AD. At its peak, it would have counted up to 15,000 inhabitants. Threatened by civil wars across the empire, the Romans evacuated the city in 285.

It didn’t regain its splendour until the arrival of Arab conquerors in the seventh century.

In the eighth century when the Idrisid dynasty erected the city of Fez as its new capital, Volubilis fell once more into disuse.

- Bacchus gone missing At the end of the 17th century, Sultan Moulay Ismail sent thousands of slaves to plunder Volubilis’s marble columns for the construction of his palace in Meknes.

“On the track leading from Volubilis to

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In this file photo taken on July 25, 2018 Tourists walk through the ruins of the ancient Roman site of Volubilis, near the town of Moulay Idriss Zerhounon in Morocco’s north central Meknes region, on July 25, 2018.

Meknes, we found capitals (of columns) abandoned by slaves, who fled when they learnt that Moulay Ismail was dead,” said Alilou, who has been watching over the site for more than 30 years. Excavations at Volubilis began in 1915, along with research programmes and restoration work.

But renewed interest in the site brought with it looting, especially during the period of

Many people also immediately secured themselves to safer location. “People living in the coastal area are worried if there will be a tsunami. So, many of them looked for safety to Dawan and Paksebali.

Many also stayed on the highway,” he said. So far, he continued the condition of seawater is reported to be normal. “It is said to remain normal. But people are worried too,” he added.

Meanwhile, the Headman of Dawan Kaler, I Kadek Sudarmawa, said the arrival of people to his area took place shortly after the earthquake. They gathered at the field and a number of hamlet halls.

“Many people gather here so the field is fully occupied. They are from Kusamba,” he explained.

Admittedly, the natural phenomenon made the people overwhelmed by panic. “Well, many people are

panic. Hopefully, there will be no more aftershocks,” he said.

This condition was also justified

by Headman of Dawan Klod, Nengah Suardita. “Yes, there are many people escaping from Kusamba to Dawan. As information, the seawater receded after the earthquake.

They are fear of tsunami,” he said.

Similar thing was also done by the residents of Kutampi Kaler and Batununggul village, Nusa Penida.

Many have fled to the local Puseh Temple. This was justified by the Chief Executive of the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Klungkung, I Putu Widiada. “Well, there are residents evacuating. We are coming down to provide information for the public regarding the information that potential tsunami from the National Weather Service (BMKG) has ended,” he said. (kmb45)

French colonial rule from 1912 to 1956.

One particularly striking case in 1982 made headlines when a marble statue of Bacchus -the Roman god of wine -- disappeared.

In a desperate bid to find the relic, King Hassan II dispatched gendarmes who “interrogated, abused and beat” peasants who “didn’t know Bacchus from Adam and Eve”, according to Moroccan press reports.

The effort was in vain and the statue was never found.

“The people here are still traumatised,” said a resident of nearby Moulay Driss Zerhoun.

Moroccan media frequently warn that the country’s heritage -- archeological finds, mosaics and ancient coins -- is being looted.

But in Volubilis, Alilou says that looting is a thing of the past. (afp)

New security measures on Sydney Harbour Bridge

Worried about tsunami, residents of three villages evacuate

SEMARAPURA - The earthquake shaking Bali on Sunday night (Aug. 5) made people panic.

People on the coast of Kusamba village, Dawan, were also worried about tsunami. As a result, many flocked to Dawan Klod and Dawan Kaler to look for saver place.

A Kusamba resident, Ketut Adi, revealed that when the earthquake took place, people immediately came down to the street.

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This photo taken on March 13, 2017 shows a view of the Sydney Harbour bridge. Climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge illegally will now cost offenders 22,000 AUD (16,300 USD) after authorities on August 6, 2018 raised the fine more than sixfold as part of new security measures.

SYDNEY - Climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge illegally will now cost offenders Aus$22,000 (US$16,300) after authorities Monday raised the fine more than sixfold as part of new security measures.

The New South Wales state government will also install anticlimb mesh, higher fencing and more cameras to deter people from scaling the world-renowned landmark.

The move comes after a mentally-ill man sparked a major police operation and caused hours of traffic chaos when he

climbed the bridge in April during an hours-long stand off in the morning rush-hour.

It took almost six hours to get him down and multiple lanes on the bridge were closed amid fears he planned to jump.

“The people of Sydney have had enough of being held to ransom by one person, irrespective of their circumstance, with a personal agenda to seek attention and cause gridlock across our city,” said the state’s Roads Minister Melinda Pavey.

“While we are sympathetic to someone’s personal situation,

illegally climbing the bridge is not only extremely dangerous, it also endangers the lives of thousands of drivers who use it every day.”

The fine, which used to be Aus$3,300, is now in line with the penalty for illegally climbing the nearby Sydney Opera House.

Scaling the Harbour Bridge legally is a hugely popular tourist experience, with more than four million visitors from 140 countries making the ascent under supervision since the climb began in 1998. (afp)

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How the Parker probe was built to survive close encounters with the sun

NASA has a mantra for preparing spacecraft to launch: “Test as you fly.” The idea is to test the entire spacecraft, fully assembled, in the same environment and configuration that it will see in orbit.

But the Parker Solar Probe, set to launch August 11, is no ordinary spacecraft. And it’s headed to no ordinary environment.

Parker will sweep through the sun’s scorching hot atmosphere for humankind’s first close encounter with the star at the center of the solar system.

“Solar Probe is a little bit special,” says space plasma physicist Stuart Bale of the University of California, Berkeley. Getting the whole kit and caboodle into a setting that simulated the sun’s energetic particles, intense light and searing heat “was deemed impossible.” Scientists had to get creative to test the technology that will touch the sun, using everything from huge mirrors to dust tunnels to reams of paper.

Taking the heat The first order of business was to find materials that can stand the heat. The sun’s atmosphere, or corona, sizzles at millions of degrees Celsius — but it is so diffuse that it doesn’t pose much threat to the spacecraft (SN Online: 8/20/17). Direct sunlight, however, can heat exposed components to around 1370° Celsius.

Two of the spacecraft’s scientific instruments, plus parts of its solar panels and its revolutionary heat shield, will be exposed to that searing sunlight at all times.

“Normal things … would melt,” says solar physicist Kelly Korreck of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass.

Korreck works on the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons instrument, known by its acronym SWEAP, which will catch the charged particles of the solar wind with a sensor called a Faraday cup (SN Online: 8/18/17). “It actually sticks around the heat shield and will be able to touch the sun,” Korreck says. “That cup is special.”

To build the cup and other instruments that will see the sun directly, engineers settled on three main materials — a niobium alloy called C103 that is used in rocket engines, an alloy of titanium, zirconium and molybdenum called TZM, and tungsten. Some cables carrying power to the SWEAP cup are also lined with sapphire, a good insulator at high temperatures. And the probe’s heat shield is made of two kinds of carbonbased materials.

Figuring out how each of these materials would behave in space was tricky. Engineers couldn’t just use an oven to test the metals, which in heat can react with oxygen to rust or corrode. Carbon also can react with oxygen to combust. So the team had to test pieces of the instruments in airless vacuum chambers.

“Getting things hot on Earth is easier than you would think it is,” says Elizabeth Congdon of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., the lead engineer for the heat shield.

“Getting things hot on Earth in vacuum is difficult.”

One way the Parker team mimicked the sun’s heat was using actual sunlight. Engineers took material samples to the world’s largest solar furnace, the PROMES facility in Odeillo, France. A series of 63 mirrors

built on a hillside redirect sunlight onto an enormous concave mirror on the side of an eightstory building. That mirror then focuses the sunlight into a beam no more than 80 centimeters wide that heats materials to 3000° C inside a small vacuum chamber in a laboratory on stilts.

The beam is so hot, “you can take a two-by-four and swing it through the beam, and it burns right off,” Bale says. “Just a flash of smoke and it’s gone.”

Bale leads another of the probe’s experiments called FIELDS that also needed heat testing. FIELDS is comprised of five long antennas, four of which will be exposed to the sun, that will measure electric and magnetic fields in the corona.

The SWEAP team needed an even more realistic simulator, one that would deliver intense sunlight at the angles that Parker will experience. They found an unlikely solution in IMAX film projectors, which emit light in a similar range of wavelengths to the sun.

“It took a completely custom test facility to do it,” says astrophysicist Anthony Case of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, who also works on the SWEAP instrument. He and his colleagues turned four IMAX projectors around so the lamps focused light into a small vacuum chamber, rather than spreading it across a huge screen.

That gave the team the right light intensity and angles to test their instrument.

Biting the dust Solar heat isn’t the only threat to the Parker Solar Probe. The region around the sun is also expected to be full of dust, left over

from the formation of the planets.

Scientists don’t know exactly how much dust to expect, but it’s likely to be moving almost as fast as the spacecraft, about 170 kilometers per second.

That’s a big worry for Parker’s twin telescopes, together called the Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe, or WISPR. One of the telescopes will be facing the direction that Parker is traveling, so it will be heading directly into the dust storm. “It can’t be protected,” says astrophysicist Russell Howard of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. Dust particles hitting the telescope’s lens leave it pocked with little craters. Only 0.6 percent of the lens should be pitted by the end of Parker’s seven-year mission, according to computer models of dust in the inner solar system. But even a few pits can skew the data, so the team wanted

to minimize the damage by choosing the right glass.

Howard and colleagues tested three possible materials for the lens in a dust acceleration tunnel at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany. The tunnel accelerated charged iron particles, ranging from half a micrometer to 3 micrometers wide, to speeds between half a kilometer per second to 8 kilometers per second — fast enough for the scientists to extrapolate up to the dust speeds Parker might experience.

Sapphire withstood the barrage best, but it was unclear how it would behave as a lens. The team also rejected diamond-coated BK7 glass, commonly used for space telescopes, after the coating separated from the glass and left an extra ring around the impact spot. Regular, uncoated BK7 was the winner. (net)

DENPASAR — Street crime cases from May to July 2018 were released on Friday (Aug. 3). Ahead of the Asian Games XVIII and the IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting, the Bali Police warned street criminals to stop their actions. If there are criminals desperate to do so, they will be dealt with firmly. This is done to ensure that Asian Games and IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting participants spending vacation to Bali will not become a victim.

“If there are still the acts of thuggery, begging and pickpocketing, we will paralyze and shoot them when giving a fight. If persisting, we will not hesitate to take the more decisive action,” said Director of Bali Police Criminal Investigation Unit, Andi Fairan, on Friday (Aug. 3).

All this time, the Bali Police Directorate of General Crime and his staff revealed 93 cases with various types of criminal acts. The number of perpetrators arrested amounted to 93 people, consisting of three foreigners and 90 Indonesians.

From the cases revealed, Andi Fairan said there are several prominent cases of foreign perpetrators. They are two Bulgarian namely Ivan Hristov Stanchev, 43, and Stefan Ivanov, 53, and an Australian, Nicolov Pandov Plamen, 45. They were arrested for skimming cases. “Their mode is the same, but the crime scene is different,” he said.

The suspect Stefan Ivanov took action in the Denpasar area on Tuesday (Jul. 31), while Ivan Hristov Stanchev and Nicolov Pandov Plamen were arrested in Nusa Penida, Klungkung, on Monday (Jul. 9). Investigators are still exploring the syndicate of the three perpetrators. Other prominent cases are motor theft, theft with qualification, robbery and pickpocketing.

In order to create a safe and conducive public security ahead of the Asian Games XVIII and IMF-WB Annual Meeting 2018, Andi Fairan continued that his staff carries out creating condition activities. During which, it will carry out preventive, pre-emptive and repressive measures.

This officer graduated from the Police Academy in 1990 emphasized that during the Asian Games and Annual Meeting there should be no cases of robbery or pickpocketing in the Bali region. For that purpose, his unit has established the Road Eradication Task Force.

“We also established a Special Anti-pickpocket team,” said Andi Fairan accompanied by the Sub-division Head of the Public Relations and Community Service, I Gusti Ayu Yuli Ratnawati.

The target is the tourist attraction visited by many foreign tourists, such as the Kuta, Seminyak, Nusa Dua and Sanur areas. The Special Anti-pickpocket team will clean thuggery, robbers and pickpockets along with their syndicate that often take action in tourist areas. (kmb36)

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The Bali Police warned street criminals to stop their actions. If there are criminals desperate to do so, they will be dealt with firmly.

The nyakan diwang is ancestral tradition at several villages in Banjar subdistrict.

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For UNESCO’s intangible heritage

Buleleng proposes Truna Jaya and roadside cooking

SINGARAJA — Buleleng district government is now awaiting the decision to make a proposal for the Truna Jaya Dance and Nyakan Diwang (roadside cooking) to become an intangible cultural heritage from the United Nations Educational Scientific and Culture Organization (UNESCO). The dance composed by the late Gde Manik dance maestro is proposed because it was already staged massively at the Buleleng Festival (Bulfest) a few years earlier. Truna Jaya itself is a dance performed by a dancer, but when performed in the Bulfest arena, the dancers and gamelan players were able to appear and amaze the audience. For this performance, the district government is asked to propose to the UNESCO so as to be designated into an intangible cultural heritage.

Meanwhile, the nyakan diwang is ancestral tradition at several villages in Banjar subdistrict. Of the many villages in the region, the residents of Banjar, Banyuwati, Kayu Putih and other villages never violate and regularly carry it out on the day of Ngembak Geni (a day after the Nyepi—Ed).

Based on the stories of predecessors and references, the nyakan diwang tends to be a manifestation of social interaction and friendship among residents after a full day of solemn implementation of bratha penyepian or the four abstinences related to Nyepi celebration.

Head of the Buleleng Culture Agency, Gede Komang, said on Friday (Aug. 3) the proposal to UNESCO is just waiting for the determination from the official having

the authority. He said the proposal process lasts quite long because it does not only complete the administrative document, but the government is also obliged to include a description containing the history of the proposed tradition. In addition, the staging or performance documents must be made in the form of videos.

“Since the requirements are complete, today (Aug. 3) we assign our staff to coordinate with the representatives of the UNESCO in Jakarta because there is information that the proposal of Truna Jaya Dance and Nyakan Diwang tradition heritage has been nominated. We are confidence it can be decided. As planned, it will be submitted at the closing of the Bulfest later on,” he said.

He said the recognition by the

UNESCO to Balinese art and cultural heritage is important to ‘protect’ the work so that it will not be claimed or recognized by other regions. In addition, with this recognition, the local government has ‘capital’ to lobby the higher levels of government to get the attention both in the form of programs or financial support to preserve and develop the culture established by the UNESCO as an institution given the authority to provide protection for every world’s cultural heritage.

“If we have got this, it can be used as a basis for carrying out conservation program and discovery program of the arts having been recognized, so that after these two proposals we will study the potential of the rare arts or culture hidden in our region to be protected,” he said. (kmb38)

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One of the shire in Tembuku Village that is damaged by the earthquake.

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Shaken by earthquake, some shrines damaged

Based on data compiled by the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Bangli, two shrines belonging to Nyoman Suad in Gunaksa hamler, Cempaga and shrines in Tegallalang hamlet, Kawan. Two split gates (candi bentar) at Kehen Temple were also reported to have collapsed in the earthquake.

Shrines of the Arya Kepakisan clan temple at Manuk hamlet, Susut and several other shrines in the subdistrict of Tembuku were also severly damaged from the earthquake tremors. In the subdistrict of Kintamani, the cliff along the cypress path of Terunyan village crumbled taking down elctrical cables, causing a total blackout in

Terunyan village.

“No fatalities were reported in the disaster. We are still collecting data regarding estimated material losses”, the Head of the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) Bangli, I Wayan Karmawan.

The earthquake that shook Bali on Sunday (Aug 5) caused some roof tiles at Matahari Dept. Stroe on Jalan Dewi Sartika to come crashing to the ground. One shopper also fainted. “He fainted from shock. Fortunately he was helped right away”, explained mall security guard Nengah Sunia.

During the earthquake mall shoppers scattered in panic wanting to

leave the building. However the security guard in lobby told everyone to stay in the lobby. “If people were allowed to go outside, they could be exposed to falling roof tiles and splinters and in fact as people waited in the lobby some roof tiles did fall”, he said.

The mall decided to close a few minutes after the earthquake at 20:00.

“We closed early to avoid any unfortunate incidents from occurring and started to clean up the roof tile debris”, added the security guard.

While mall employees were busy cleaning up the tile debris, at 20:45 there were some noticeable aftershocks causing them to run to the edge of the road for safety. A police officer was onsite and using a loudspeaker appealed to everyone to remain calm.

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NUSA DUA - Despite Sunday evening`s magnitude-7 earthquake that rocked Lombok and Sumbawa Islands in West Nusa Tenggara, the Bali Process meeting on August 6-7, 2018, will be held according to schedule.

“So far, no delegation has canceled its attendance at this meeting after the quake last night,” Kamapradipta Isnomo, the director of social culture and international organizations of the developing countries at the Min-

istry of Foreign Affairs, noted on the sidelines of the “Bali Process” meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Monday.

Isnomo remarked that Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi and her Australian counterpart Julie Bishop had already arrived in Bali to serve as co-chairmen for the 7th meeting of the Bali Process.

He explained that the Bali Process meeting will go ahead, as the area in Nusa Dua, especially

the Bali International Convention Center and Westin Hotel, where the meeting will take place, are unaffected by the powerful earthquake in Lombok on Sunday evening.

To provide direction to the delegates, the organizing committee is disseminating security information in the event of natural disasters, such as earthquakes.

Handling instructions during and after the earthquake were disseminated by officers from the

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Guilt Free Lunch and Dinner at Bali Luna

Opening a new chapter in their recipe book, Bali Luna restaurant at Hotel Nikko Bali Benoa Beach has launched a new menu concept which features an appetizing combination of comfort food and healthy ingredients.

“The whole idea behind the new menu concept is to let people know that healthy food can be delicious too. Here at Bali Luna, not only we keep that in mind while creating the recipe, we had done the extra work for you by calculating the calorie counts for those who wish to control their nutrition intake,” explained the hotel’s Executive Chef, I Dewa Gede Eka Putra.

The new menu boasts a wide range of choices with the best

BANGLI — The earthquake in Lombok on Sunday noght (Aug. 5 ) shook Bangli causing damage to some buildings and shrines in a number of locations.

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Relations, Ismi Rahayu, said that the building of the Directorate of Traffic Affairs which is adjoined to the Bali Police Specific Criminal Investigation, experienced similar damage.

“So far we are only aware of some fallen roof tiles. We are still checking to see if there was any further damage”, said Rahayu.

The 7.0 magnitude earthquake also caused damage to a number of buildings in the district of Gianyar.

So far it appears that the most severe damage occurred in Gagah hamlet, Tegallalang where Nyoman Adiarsa’s temple was knocked down.

“Two shrines there – arip-arip and gedong sari shrine collapsed due to the earthquake” explained hamlet chief of Gagah hamlet, I Made Sentrayana as confirmed on Sunday night.

Residents of Tegalllang village, he added were indeed anerved by

the earthquake and left their homes to ensure safety. “There were no injuries, it only knocked down the shrines owned by Adiarsa”, said hamlet chief Sentrayana.

Head of the Gianyar Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD), A.A. Gde Oka Digjaya, said that a number of buildings were damaged in the earthquake including the compound wall of the Ubud Pelayan Palace. “The compound wall in Pelayan Palace collapsed, but thankfully there was nobody near the wall at the time of the incident”, he added.

One of the temples in Daun village, Ubud was also damaged but head of the BPBD said they were still waiting to hear about other damage that may have occurred.

“So far there have been no reports of fatalities”, he affirmed. (kmb)

local hotel to the delegates just before the meeting on the first day. “This is to (offer a sense of) calm and security to all delegates during the session,” he remarked.

A meeting of senior officials was held on the first day of the “Bali Process,” the results of which will be delivered at the ministerial meeting scheduled for Tuesday.

The Bali Process conference was established in 2002 by Indonesia and Australia, with as many as 45 member countries and three international

organizations: the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Organization for Migration, and the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime.

The Bali Process meeting, held this time in Nusa Dua, Bali, will discuss the issue of people smuggling, human trafficking, and transnational crimes.

According to Foreign Minister Marsudi, the Bali Process this time will not only involve the governments but also private sectors.(ant)

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Chrissy Teigen caught in Bali earthquake while on vacation

Chrissy Teigen has shared her shock and worry in real time during a powerful and deadly earthquake in Indonesia with her social media followers.

The model, along with singerhusband John Legend and their two children, felt the shaking on neighboring Bali on Sunday.

“Bali. Trembling. So long,” Teigen tweeted to her 10.6 million followers.

The quake killed at least 39 people on the tourist island of Lombok, about 50 miles (80.5 kilometers) from Bali. A brief tsunami warning went into effect but was later lifted.

In another posting, she wrote, “Oh man. We are on stilts. It felt like a ride. 15 solid seconds of “hooooooly (expletive) this is happening.”

The aftershocks unnerved Teigen, too. “im either still trembling or these little quakes won’t stop IM TRYING TO BE NORMAL HERE,” she wrote.

At one point, Teigen reacted to the temblor as she was holding her 2-month-old son Miles: “I very calmly walked outside saying clutching baby saying ‘I’m naked.

I’m naked. I’m naked.’ like a naked zombie.” (ap)

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‘Murphy Brown’ revival to tackle MeToo movement, free press

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“Murphy Brown” will weigh in on the MeToo movement when the series starring Candice Bergen returns to a very different world in September, the show’s creator said.

The 13-episode reboot reunites Bergen as a sharp-tongued investigative journalist and TV anchor with most of the original cast from the CBS show’s initial 10-year run that ended in 1998 — before the internet and the rise of 24-hour cable news took hold. Once again, scripts will be inspired by current events, including the fourth episode entitled “(Hashtag) MurphyToo.” Executive producer and writer Diane English told a TV critics’ meeting the episode was developed months ago and inspired by the movement against workplace sexual harassment and assault that first gained momentum last fall.

“It’s a powerful movement,” she said. “We wanted to do it justice.”

English said the show’s writing staff, comprised of men and women of different ages who are gay and straight, spent days discussing what she calls “a complicated issue.”

“We came at it from so many different angles. Just the conversations we had in there, the perspectives that people have from their own particular prism,” English said. “I don’t think there’s probably a woman out here that hasn’t had an experience with misogyny and

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Stephen Hill, from left, Zachary Knighton, Peter M Lenkov, Jay Hernandez, Perdita Weeks, Tim Kang and Eric Guggenheim participate in the “Magnum P.I” panel during the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018, in Beverly Hills, Calif. misconduct.”

However, English is not one of them. She says she never experienced any kind of sexual misconduct or misogyny at CBS, where CEO Leslie Moonves is under investigation for such behavior.

English said everyone on “Murphy Brown” takes the allegations against Moonves and other network employees raised in a recent New Yorker magazine article “extremely seriously” and fully supports the investigation.

“I’m focusing the show really through the prism of the press,” English said. “The First Amendment and the free press is under attack like I’ve never seen before.

The press is not the enemy of the people.”

The series debuts Sept. 27.

The reboot of “Magnum P.I.” won’t forget fans of the original hit

starring Tom Selleck, paying quiet homage recognizable to long-time viewers.

They include a pair of Dobermans, the red Ferrari, and the bickering relationship between Magnum, who is played by Jay Hernandez, and Higgins, with Perdita Weeks taking on the role that was a man in the original.

Just don’t look for the big moustache that Selleck sported in the 1980s original on CBS. His character, along with those of Higgins and T.C., all sported ‘staches.

Executive producer Peter Lenkov says Selleck brought that aesthetic to the role and the reboot aims to step away from his version of the character.

However, there will be what Lenkov calls a little moustache “nod” in the second episode. The series debuts Sept. 24. (ap)

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This handout picture taken on August 6, 2018 and released by Indonesia Water Police shows hundreds of people attempting to leave Gili Trawangan, north of neighbouring Lombok island, a day after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the area. More than 1,000 tourists were being evacuated from Indonesia’s tiny Gili islands on August 6 after a powerful quake struck neighbouring Lombok, killing 91 people and injuring hundreds.

Indonesia evacuates tourists after Lombok quake kills 99

Indonesia Monday sent rescuers fanning out across the holiday island of Lombok and evacuated hundreds of tourists after a powerful earthquake killed at least 99 people and damaged thousands of buildings. The shallow 6.9-magnitude quake sparked terror among tourists and locals alike, coming just a week after another deadly tremor surged through Lombok and killed 17 people.

Rescuers on Monday searched for survivors in the rubble of houses, mosques and schools destroyed in the latest disaster on Sunday evening.

National disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said there were fears a number of people were trapped in the ruins of a collapsed mosque in the northern village of Lading-Lading. Footage he

posted on Twitter showed the large concrete mosque had pancaked.

Nugroho said a lack of heavy equipment and shattered roads were hampering efforts to reach survivors in the mountainous north and east of the island, which had been hardest hit. “The number of fatalities will definitely rise because some victims have not been found or rescued,” he added.

An operation was also under way Monday to evacuate some 1,200 tourists from the Gili Islands, three tiny, coral-fringed tropical islands a few kilometres off the northwest coast of Lombok that are particularly popular with backpackers and divers.

Margret Helgadottir, a holidaymaker from Iceland, described people screaming as the roof of

her hotel on one of the islands collapsed. “We just froze: thankfully we were outside,” she told AFP tearfully from a harbour in Lombok where she had been evacuated to.

“Everything went black, it was terrible.”

Footage posted online by Nugroho showed hundreds crowded onto powder-white beaches desperately awaiting off the normally paradise Gilis.

“We cannot evacuate all of them all at once because we don’t have enough capacity on the boats,” Muhammad Faozal, the head of

thr tourism agency in West Nusa Tenggara province, told AFP, adding two navy vessels were on their way. “It’s understandable they want to leave the Gilis, they are panicking.”

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