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Not just a thriller, ‘Girl on the Train’ plumbs women’s struggles

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Restoring the glory Bali’ agricuttural market

NEW YORK - It’s a thriller, a whodunit, a story of loneliness, alcoholism and voyeurism. But “The Girl on the Train,” the movie version of the best-selling novel, is also a tale of female empowerment, the filmmakers say.

After selling 15 million copies worldwide since its 2015 release, Paula Hawkins’ story of murder, betrayal and emotional abuse gets a dark twist in the movie that opens this week.

Emily Blunt plays Rachel Watson, an alcoholic who has lost her job and her marriage and who spies from the train on her cheating ex-husband (Justin Theroux) and his new wife Anna (Rebecca Ferguson). Rachel turns amateur detective when another woman with disturbing secrets, Megan (Haley Bennett), goes missing and turns up dead.

“I feel like this film represents women’s right to be bad and flawed and wrong and messed up. I think women around the world are going to applaud that,” Blunt said.

“Yes, (the women) are pitted against each other in the beginning but yet they do ultimately unite, and they are real,” she added.

All three women are subject to jealousy, controlling behavior and gaslighting - the term for psychological abuse that makes a victim doubt his or her sanity.

Reviving the market for agricultural products would be instrumental in raising agriculture in Bali to its former glory. However, before taking pioneering steps in this direction, there needs to be a mapping of Bali’s farms and a real breakthrough in farm management. During a dialogue with Bali Post on Wednesday (OCT 6), Head of the Bali Institute for Agricultural Technology (BPTP), AAN Bagus Kamandalu expressed the need for a mapping out of the farming potential and carrying capacity of the island as well as the need for efforts to be made to encourage young farmers and stimmulate the market.

According to Kamandalu, reinvigorating agriculture in Bali requires commitment and patience. “Building up the agricultural sector of Bali takes time and requires synergy between relevant parties as well as mentoring measures” he said. Relevant parties include the Agricultural Agency, The Institute for Agricultrual Technology (BPTP) and university campuses. By working together, a clear model can be developed for the management of agricutlure in Bali.

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Emily Blunt poses as she arrives at the World premiere of “The Girl on the Train” at Leicester Square in London, Britain September 20, 2016.

Some previews have had women in the audience cheering at the end as the female characters wreak their revenge.

The movie opens during domestic violence awareness month in the United States and the National Network to End Domestic Violence has produced discussion questions that highlight themes of abuse in the book.

Director Tate Taylor said he would be glad if the film empowers women. “I didn’t intend, on an intellectual level, for it to be a revenge film, but it has struck a

nerve.”

Taylor, who also directed the female-centric movie “The Help,” attributes his empathy with women to his upbringing.

“I was raised by a single mom.

She was pretty much my primary caregiver... So I had a lot of female energy and I saw a lot of struggle, a lot of determination and a lot of success. I equate women with being survivors because of my mom,” he said.

Taylor and Blunt said the movie was deliberately darker than the book. (rtr)

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Hurricane Matthew kills 26 in Caribbean on destructive path to U.S. Page 13

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Downtown Miami is pictured in this aerial photo as clouds begin to form in advance of Hurricane Matthew in Miami, Florida, U.S. October 5, 2016.

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Millions flee as Southeast U.S. braces for deadly Hurricane Matthew

Hurricane Matthew, the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade, slammed into the Bahamas early on Thursday and intensified as it barreled toward the southeastern U.S. coast where millions of residents heeded warnings to flee inland.

Roadways in Florida, Georgia and North and South Carolina were jammed and gas stations and food stores ran out of supplies as the storm approached, bringing storm surges, heavy rain and sustained winds that accelerated overnight to about 125 miles (205 km) per hour.

Matthew, which killed at least 39 people and displaced thousands, mostly in southern Haiti, was predicted to strengthen from a Category 3 to 4 storm en route to Florida’s Atlantic coast. Landfall was expected there on Thursday night, the U.S. National Hurricane

Center said.

The center extended its hurricane warning area farther north into Georgia and more than 12 million U.S. residents were under a hurricane watches and warnings, according to the Weather Channel. “Everyone in our state

must prepare now for a direct hit,” Florida Governor Scott said at a news conference in Tallahassee on Wednesday. “If Matthew directly impacts Florida, the destruction could be catastrophic and you need to be prepared.”

The four states in the path of the hurricane, which was 215 miles (346 km) southeast of West Palm Beach at about 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT), declared states of emergency enabling their governors to mobilize the National Guard. Shelters in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina opened their doors after authorities, along with President Barack Obama, urged people to evacuate their homes.

Federal emergency response teams were coordinating with officials in all four states and stockpiling supplies, Obama said.

Scott requested Obama declare a pre-landfall emergency for Florida, which would bring resources including food, water and waterproof coverings and double the active National Guard force to 3,000.

Schools and airports across the region were to closed on Thursday and some hospitals were evacuated, according to local media. Hundreds of flights were canceled in and out of Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, Florida, industry website Flightaware.com said early on Thursday.

‘ALL BOARDED UP’ In Florida, fuel stations posted “out of gas” signs after cars waited in long lines to fill up.

“Every gas station I went to is empty,” motorist Charles Bivona said in a Tweet late Wednesday.

“Here comes Hurricane Matthew.

Um, yikes.”

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COVER STORY

Agriculture...

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“It is not enough to just talk, we do to take concrete action. Academics that have done a lot of research on agrictulture need to come down to the filed. Similarly the district and city agricultural agencies also need to take action. Discourse is not enough when it comes to managing agricutture”, he advised.

Agung Kamandalu accompanied by businessman Jeffry Budiman said that there is a lot of room for breakthoughs in Bali’s agricultural market, but the mangement of agriculture remians key. Mapping, technological adaptations and appropriate seed selectino are also key compoments in ensure success.

The commitment of government and academics to assiste farmers also needs to be clear. The Bali Commerce Agency and the Bali Chamber of Commerce (Kadin) also play important roles in terms of making adjustment to the market place.

One idea that is being discussed is the possibility of holding agricultural contests for local fruit products. This contest could be held on a regular basis and be managed by the Bali Chamber of Commerce and Industry who could set standards for quality. “A agricultrual contest, held in different districts on a rotating basis would be a way to select Bali’s top quality product and set higher standards for product quality” he said.

Agung Kamandalu emphasise

that the partcipation of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry is absolutley necessary for the development of the agricultural product market in Bali as they are in a position to mobilize industry, tourism and agriculture in order to improve coordination and management. This, he said, is the first measure that must be taken if Bali indeed wants to stand up and get back to managing its agricultural sector.

In terms of building up the market for agricultural products, Kamandalu spoke to the need for beaurocrats to first think about wah products should be marketed. Not only is a mret for these products required, but attention must also be given to product quality and sustainability. Also that cooperation between buyers such as hotels and the farmers (and resellers) also needs to be clearly established.

“Basically, apart from empowering local farmers, Bali also needs to look into investors in the agricultural secotr more widely speaking” he stressed. The regeneration of dry and abandoned farm lands is another thing that needs to be dealt with.

Prof. Dr. I Wayan Lasmawan from the Undhiksa emphasised that the movement to reinvigorate Bali’s agricultural sector must be done with mutual cooperation.

Bali’s business people, bureaucrats, academics needs to work together and to actually create sample farms in villages or demonstartion plots.

Agriculture requires clear applications and examples. If possible,

he said, Bali should formulate a clear plan to build up the agricultural sector. “This requires coop-

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erationand innovation” he stated.

Lawmawan added that he is in full suport of creating a single represen-

tative agricultural market to serve the needs of hotels and restaurants on the island. (dir)

former Tiara Grosir. I have therefore asked that the reconstruction of Badung Market be implemented in early 2017” said Mayor Mantra.

In order to expedite the auction process, for bids on the construction project, the mayor has also asked for the involvement of the Denpasar Transportation Agency and municipal police. Mayor Rai Mantra also asked all relevant agencies to coordinate the demolition process so that it can be

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The traditional market in Bali

Reconstruction to start in 2017

The Mayor of Denpasar, Rai Mantra in a meeting with the agancy heads of the Municipality of Denpasar recently, announced that Denpasr’s municipal government plans to start construction on the new building for Badung Market in early 2017.

“I do not want the rebuilding of Badung Market to be protracted.

It is a pity that merchants from Bandung Market are now forced to squeaze into the area aroudn the

Friday, October 7, 2016

WEEKLY EVENTS and FARMERS MARKETS

Badung Market soon to be demolished

DENPASAR - Following the massive fire that blazed through Badung Market last Febuary, merchants have been temporarily relocated to the former Tiara Grosir Supermarket. Badung Market has been completed abandoned and will be razed to the ground shortly.

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done quickly and that he be kept informed about developments in the reconstruction process so that any probelsm that may arise can be dealt with effectively.

He also ordered relevant agencies to take immediately measures to ensure that the development strategy for the largest market in Denpasar takes place smoothly.

Managing Director of PD Pasar Badung, Made Westra, explained that the tender process for the dismantling of the market is already underway. “Currently we are in the proces of announcing the auction for the demolition of Badung Market. Hopefully, the tender winner will be determined

on October 10, so that on October 15, the scorched Market can start to be taken down. If there is no major obstacle, the building that formerly housed Badung Market will soon be flattenedhas” said Westra accompanied by Bidding Committee representative A.A. Yuliarta.

Wastra added that before the building can be demolished, the disamntling must be doen in accordance with the procedures outlines by the state treasure and auction services (KPKLN) of Denpasar.

According the the feasibility study, the maximum cost for the demolition is set at IDR 88 million.

“In essence, we spend no money for the demolition, this is the mini-

mal amount for dimantling”, he added. To ensure that the company that wins the bid cleans up the debris, a security deposit of IDR 75 million must be paid in advance.

Head of the Denpasar Spatial Planning and Housing Agency, Kadek Kusuma Diputra, said that the detailed engineering design (DED) will be made according to the amended budget for 2016, including the creation of a design contest for the new Badung market.

“We have already announced the Badung Market design contest.

The winning design will serve as a reference for the construction of the new market building”, said Kusuma Diputra. (kmb12)

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Spiritual and social visit of Hotel Santika Seminyak

Hotel Santika Seminyak – Bali is a three-star hotel located on Jalan Sunset Road 17, Seminyak - Bali. The hotel having reached the age of one year celebrated its anniversary right on September 20, 2016. In a series of the anniversary, the Hotel Santika Seminyak organized a variety of activities.

Coming with the theme ‘One Heart We’re One-derful,’ the event was started with the activities like blood donation at Hotel Santika Seminyak on September 15, pilgrimage to Melanting Temple in Buleleng and ended with a social visit to Sanatana Dharma Orphanage in Jembrana on October 1.

As an expression of gratitude for the blessing graced by God Almighty, the management of Hotel Santika Seminyak organized a pilgrimage to Melanting Temple.

It is located in north coast of Bali Island, belonging to Banyupoh village, Grokgak, about 50 km west of Singaraja.

This activity is meant to thank God because during the past year He has given favorable opportunity to Hotel Santika Seminyak to continuously develop and compete against some other hotels.

In addition to saying prayers, the Hotel Santika Seminyak also organized social activities through a visit to orphanage. On this occasion, the visit was made to the Sanatana Dharma Orphanage located on Jalan SMAN 1 Melaya, Jembrana.

The journey took about three hours to get to the location from the town. The social activities are intended to share with fellow human beings in need of assistance in the

form of usable goods. The goods donated still belong to daily needs required by the residents such as clothing, household goods and groceries used to survive including rice, oil, sugar and eggs.

Arrival of the management of the Hotel Santika Seminyak was welcomed by the orphanage dwellers. Their face exuded the expression of happiness when meeting with the management team of the Hotel Santika Seminyak. In a conversation with the children at the orphanage, they looked to really need the assistance and expressed their gratitude for the attention extended to them. Hopefully, this visit could become a good start for them and attract sympathy of other parties to help out this area in order to be more prosperous.

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The Streetwear Brand the Kardashians and Hadids Love UNRAVEL Project has been on our radar for a while now, what with its hard-to-miss bomber seen worn by every other member of the Kardashian-Jenner clan, Gigi Hadid, and Rihanna. With its S/S 17 showing at Paris Fashion Week and a glowing profile from Vogue.com, it looks like it’s about to become an even bigger hit.

The mastermind behind the celebrity-loved streetwear line is its 36-year-old founder and creative director Ben Taverniti. As reported by W in August, the French native’s motto is “To create something new, you must first destroy.” This maxim is most evident in his pieces, which are distressed, cut, and frayed to the coolest degree.

Most recently, Kim Kardashian West has been wearing the brand’s signature lace-up pants while attending shows in Paris, and Kourtney Kardashian was spotted at Unravel’s impromptu party at the Plaza Athénée.

Ben Taverniti tells Vogue.com his goal is to “redo the classics.” For his most recent collection, the inspiration came from Venice Beach in the ‘90s, adding a shock of neon to the label’s usually all-black offerings. (IBP/net)

Friday, October 7, 2016

The Ubud Monkey Forest Sanctuary is one of Gianyar’s tourist destinations that is visited by thousands of tourists every day.

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Less tourists visiting Monkey forest this early October

GIANYAR - The Ubud Monkey Forest Sanctuary is one of Gianyar’s tourist destinations that is visited by thousands of tourists every day. During the high season, as many as 5000 people a day coem to see the monkeys in their natural habitat.

Last week however the number of visitors already started to decline.

Operations Manager of the Ubud Monkey Forest Sanctuary, I Nyoman Buana, said on Tuesday (Oct. 4) that since the beginnin of the month, there have only been 1,000 visitors a day. During the holiday season the average is about 5,000

a day and during the off season the average is about 1,500 to 2,000 visitors a day. “Last Eid Al-Fitr, we saw 4,900 visitors a day”, he said adding that last week numbers were down.

Nyoman Buana further ex-

plained about the cycle of tourist visits to the Ubud Monkey Forest.

December and January, he said are the peak months, and from February to June the number of visits goes down unitl July when there is another influx of visitors unitl Spetember. “From about midSeptember through to November it trends to be quite quite here” he said.

There are some concerns that the large numbers of visitors during peak season could affect the 659

monkeys that are currently protected in this tourist attraction. The management the Monkey Forest Tourist Attraction is therefor cooperating with the Center for Primate Studies at Udayana University to conduct an assessement. Based on this academic research, we will decide if we need to place restrictions on the number of people who visit during high season”, explained Buana.

He also revealed that a number of research studies have shown

that regular interactions with human has an influence on the behavior of monkeys. For example, monkeys in the Ubud Monkey Forest are more docile and lazier than monkeys that seldom see humans. “Results have in fact shown that the monkeys here have become more benings as a result ofinteracting with humans on a daily basis, and because they are fed three times a day and given banana snacks by visitors too”, he said. (kmb35)

Residents of Songan learn to make crafts from water hyacinths

BANGLI - Water hyacinth that proliferate in Lake Batur are considered a weed that is harmful to the eco system of the lake. Now, thanks to trainning that residents of Songan Village recived from a Denpasar University campus, they are able to process the water hyacinths into craft products.

“After being trained by the university students over the course of a few days, dosens of us can now make crafts from the water hyacinths” explained Made Tirtani

from Songan B Village. She added that housewives as well as tenneagers were eager to learn how to use these plants that thrive in the Lake by their village to make valuable craft products.

Songan B headman’s wife explained that the first step in transforming the hyacinths from Lake Batur into crafts, is to dry them out so that they can be used for crafting.

Those who followed the trainning learned to make kleenex boxes and slippers but intend to continue developing other products. “We

will continue to meet every Sunday to work on new product ideas”, she said.

Water hyacinths thrive in Lake Batur and have long been considered to be a problematic weed.

Apart from being somewhat unsightly, these plants also accelerate silting in the Lake which can cause a number of other problems. It is hoped that by giving economic value to these distruptive plants, that people will be more inspired to clear the lake of the hyacinths. (kmb40)

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Water hyacinth that proliferate in Lake Batur are considered a weed that is harmful to the eco system of the lake. Now, thanks to trainning that residents of Songan Village recived from a Denpasar University campus, they are able to process the water hyacinths into craft products.

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The BBDF Coral Reef Conservation through Ecotourism The normally quiet town of Buleleng on the northern coast of will come alive when the highly anticipated annual Buleleng Bali Dive Festival (BBDF) is staged at the Pemuteran Village on (23-26/10) 2016. Among divers, Pemuteran is known worldwide for its uniquely inspiring underwater temple, which is acreative artwork involving coal reef revitalization.

Once a barren underwater ocean landscape devastated by destructive fishing, bleaching and sedimentation, the reefs at Pemuteran Village have now been totally transformed and are the world’s largest and most successful reef restoration program, alive with underwater creatures.

The result from collective efforts done by the local community, Pemuteran Bay now glows with bright colorful corals, schools of fish, and counting over 70 separate stunning Bio-rock reefs. The community is proud that their efforts at coral reef conservation that were done purely with local resources have proven to be a national success that has even garnered international recognition in the form of many national and international awards – namely the prestigious PATA Gold Award, the Equator Prize and the Millennium G20 Award.

Local hotels and dive shops led

by Taman Sari Resort, Amertha Villas and Bali Diving Academy have all been involved in the restoration project by supporting community environmental education and management initiatives to promote ecotourism, making Pemuteran economically sustainable for the local community.

The BBDF is aimed to both

spread the need and benefits of global awareness on reef conservation at the same time promote Pemuteran and Buleleng’s art and culture internationally. Divers from around the world are invited to witness firsthand the beauty of marine life that Buleleng has to offer and participate in, and learning about the many conservation programs in the area.

The festival will feature an Underwater Art Parade, Reef Check Monitoring, Underwater Photography Competition, Live Painting, Underwater Expo, Kids & Students Reef, Culinary Bazaar, Performing Art Stage, Bio-rock Reef Conservation Workshop and the prestigious release of the Bedawang Nala statue the 2016 BBDF icon.

This year the Bedawang Nala was chosen as the festival’s icon since it symbolizes Mother Earth and universal balance and harmony.

The statue which is created from Bio-rock coral was masterfully crafted by a team of artists and Bio-rock specialists and will be placed on the sea floor, close to last year’s BBDF icon, the Gadjah Mina which represents the guardian of the sea.

Many arts and performances will be showcased at this impressive event including the Pemuteran Community Heritage Celebration of Gebug Ende. The Gebug Ende combines performance art with a fighting ritual that is usually performed to invite rain during the dry season. The ritual symbolizes respect to the universe and the spirits, and asking for blessings from the gods for harmony among mankind.(kmb)

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Hurricane Matthew kills 26 in Caribbean on destructive path to U.S.

LES CAYES - H urricane Matthew twisted toward the Bahamas and Florida’s east coast on Wednesday after killing at least 26 people and damaging a majority of homes in Haiti’s south, prompting the hard-hit country to postpone a long-awaited presidential election.

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The salt production in Pejarakan Village decrease due to te high rainfall.

Rainy season, salt farmers slowdown production

SINGARAJA - The rainy season that has arrived thougout Bali, is having an adverse impact on the production of salt by traditional salt makers, who rely on the scorching sun to dry out sea water. Salt farmers in Gerokgak, in the area of Pejarakan, explain that the processing of seawater into fine grain salt generally takes two to three days. but the rain is not only slowing down the production process but also affecting the quality of the salt.

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The rain not only slows down the process of trunign seawter into salt but also reduces the saltiness of the seawater as it is eposed to rain in the holding bins. Many salt farmers are choosing to dealy theyir salt harvest alogether. “Well yes, this happens every raiiny season, but now salt farmers have to be on the lookout for erratic weather conditions too. If the dried seawter is rainned on for too long, the

saltiness is lost and we are left with fresh water, with nothing to harvest” explained Iksan, Chief of the Bumi Putih Salt Farmers, on Monday (Oct. 3).

He said that he and others hope that the sun will make an appearance so that the seawter can get dried out. During the rinany season salt farmers need to be patient as salt processing can take up to a week as they repeat the harvest-

ing process over and over again.

The salt farmers usually sell their yields for about IDR 600 per kg but this goes up to IDR 700 per kg during the dry season. Concerns over harvest failures are looming over many salt farmers as their income would certainly be affected.

IN order to make ends meet, they need to find other work during the rainny season. “Our group accomodates 152 salt farmers and manages 150 hectares os salt ponds located at Marga Garuda Hamlet in Pejarakan. IN my experience, we can produce about 100 tons of salt in the rented ponds that cover two heactares, but only 40 tons during the rainny season because of unfavorabel weather conditions”, he concluded. (kmb34)

The powerful Category 3 hurricane, the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade, whipped Cuba and Haiti with 140 mile-per-hour (230 kph) winds and torrential rains on Tuesday, pummeling towns and destroying livestock, crops and homes.

In the United States, more than 1.5 million people were urged to evacuate the southeastern coast and Florida Governor Rick Scott warned residents to prepare for a possible direct hit that could be catastrophic.

Hundreds of thousands of people had been evacuated from the path of Matthew, which caused severe flooding and killed four people in the Dominican Republic as well as at least 22 in Haiti. The two countries share the island of Hispaniola.

The storm carved a path of devastation through southwestern Haiti, dumping boats and debris on coastal roads hit by surging seas and flooding residential areas heavily.

Some 80 percent of homes were damaged in Haiti’s Sud Department, which has a population of more than 700,000, a government official said in a meeting with U.N. officials.

Some 11,000 people were in shelters in the province.

In the town of Jeremie, people were cooking and sleeping outside because most houses were either knocked down or severely damaged. Similar scenes were reported across the coastal towns of the south.

Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, had been set to hold a repeatedly postponed presidential election on Sunday, but the country’s electoral council delayed it again in the aftermath of Matthew. No new date has yet been set. (rtr)

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A man walks amongst trees damaged by Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, October 5, 2016.

Duterte rated “very good” in first 90 days - Philippines poll

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An artwork featuring the image of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte with the letters D U and the number 3, a word play on the President’s surname “DU30”, is seen on a rice paddy in Los Banos city, Laguna province, south of Manila October 6, 2016.

MANILA - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has been rated “very good” in an opinion poll on his first 90 days in office, which has been defined largely by his deadly war on drugs and vitriol against Western leaders.

Only 11 percent of 1,200 Filipinos surveyed by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) agency said they were dissatisfied with his performance. That gave Duterte a net satisfaction rating of 64 percent, getting him off to a better start than predecessors Benigno Aquino, Joseph Estrada and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, but short of the 66 percent achieved by Fidel Ramos in 1992.

The rating, announced on Thursday, was calculated by deducting the 11 percent from the 76 percent of respondents who said they were satisfied with Duterte’s presidency, then rounding it off. Thirteen percent were undecided.

The SWS survey did not ask respondents to give a reason for the rating. It was conducted in face-to-face interviews held from Sept. 24-27, after Duterte had a spat with President Barack Obama over criticism of his anti-dugs campaign but before he said he was seeking new alliances with China and Russia.

A survey by Pulse Asia, another polling

agency, less than a month after he took office on June 30 said Duterte had a record 91 percent trust rating. The two polls are not comparable.

Duterte won the May 9 election by a substantial margin after promising to expand a ruthless anti-crime campaign he started while mayor of Davao City, which had earned him nicknames like “the Punisher” and “Duterte Harry”.

Political analyst Nelson Navarro said the SWS survey suggested Filipinos felt safer because Duterte had followed through with his promised war on crime and drugs, in which over 3,400 people have been killed.

He said Duterte’s abrasive style and his sometimes profane outbursts against the United States, European Union and United Nations were not discrediting him either, and supporters would rally in his defence amid criticism at home and abroad.

“This is not going to be good manners and right conduct. What you see here is exactly what you get. His tough stance has gained him popularity across the Philippines,” Navarro said.

“Everyone likes to dump on President Duterte for the extra-judicial killings but ... there is a kind of backlash on the perception of the West.” (rtr)

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Merkel says EU, U.S. should keep talking on free trade deal

free trade deal with Canada, which had set high standards for protections, would help prevent adoption of a European-U.S. deal that offered worse conditions.

BGA President Anton Boerner told the meeting: “TTIP may be the last chance for Europe to participate in a trade deal that allows us to set the standards for global trade.”

Such standards might not please everyone, but they would “definitely be better than the ones that other countries without democracy and respect for human rights would write,” he said.

U.S. and European officials have said they expect talks on the trade deal to continue at least until a new U.S. president is sworn in next January. Some German and French officials have said it might be helpful to resume the talks under a new name.

A senior German government official said Germany expects an intense debate at the International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington this week on the growing risks of populism and growing opposition to free trade.

“For us and also many others, a free world economy, free movement of goods and no protectionism are basic pillars of an order that we have always advocated and supported,” the official said on condition of anonymity. (rtr)

NATUNA - Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and First Lady Iriana Widodo witnessed the Angkasa Yudha airborne exercise on Natuna Islands on Thursday. Dozens of Indonesian F-16 and Sukhoi fighter jets took part in the exercise.

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Visitors are silhouetted against the logo of the International Monetary Fund at the main venue for the IMF and World Bank annual meeting in Tokyo October 10, 2012.

IMF says global debt tops $152 trillion, urges some to spend more

WASHINGTON- The world is swimming in a record $152 trillion in debt, the IMF said on Wednesday, even as the institution encourages some countries to spend more to boost flagging growth if they can afford it.

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Queen Rania of Jordan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the President of the Federation of German Industry (BDI) Ulrich Grillo attend the Day of German Industry 2016 conference in Berlin, Germany, October 6, 2016.

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BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the European Union and the United States should continue to negotiate the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) free trade deal as long as possible, despite opposition in many European countries.

German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel triggered an intense debate in Europe about the free trade deal when he said in August that the talks had failed because Washington did not want to compromise with its European counterparts.

“We are still continuing the discussions about TTIP and I think we should continue them as long as possible,” Merkel told a meeting of the German BGA trade body on Wednesday. “We will never fall below the standards set by the European Union.”

Opponents of the deal argue it would weaken environmental standards and give too much power to multinational companies. But Merkel said a successful deal could “write a new chapter in the history of globalisation”.

Gabriel told the BGA trade group he did not believe the TTIP trade talks could be completed this year.

“I expect that we’ll need a new start after the U.S. president election,” Gabriel said.

He said the European Union’s

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Global debt, both public and private, reached 225 percent of global economic output last year, up from about 200 percent in 2002, the IMF said in its new Fiscal Monitor report.

The IMF said about about two thirds of the 2015 total, or about $100 billion, is owed by private sector borrowers, and noted that rapid increases in private debt often lead to financial crises.

While debt profiles vary by country, the report said that the sheer size of the debt could set the stage for an unprecedented private deleveraging that could thwart a still-fragile economic recovery.

“Excessive private debt is a major headwind against the global recovery and a risk to financial stability,” IMF Fiscal Affairs Director Vitor Gaspar told a news conference. “Financial recessions are longer and deeper than normal recessions.”

While the United States has de-leveraged since the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the report cited the buildup of private debt in China and Brazil as a significant concern, fueled in part by a long era of low interest rates.

The report comes as IMF managing director Christine Lagarde is urging the Fund’s 189 member governments that have “fiscal space”

- the ability to sustainably borrow and spend more - to do so to boost persistently weak growth.

The Fund’s call for targeted fiscal support for consumer demand comes is accompanied by calls for continued accomodative monetary policy and accelerated structural reforms aimed at boosting countries’ economic efficiency.

If a major deleveraging of private debt were to occur, the IMF report recommends that fiscal policy should include targeted interventions to restructure private debt or repair bank balance sheets to mininize damage to the overall economy.

These could be similar to the mortgage restructuring programs undertaken by the United States during the crisis or the Obama administration’s automotive industry restructuring, Gaspar said. (rtr)

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Also, a unit of Sukhoi Su 30 and two F-16 units held an aerial dog-fight training exercise. During the military training, the Hawk 100/200 fighter jets, T50i Golden Eagle and Super Tucano bombed a target in Natuna waters, Riau Islands.

Additionally, the TNI AUs Special Forces (Paskhas) conducted military static and dynamic line jumps from the rear of a CN-295 and C-130 Hercules, as part of a security exercise.

The Air Force also successfully struck the remaining targets at sea using Oerlikon cannons and QW3

missiles.

Several squadrons of Super Puma helicopter also conducted evacuation and relief drills, practicing the rescue of a simulated pilot who ejected from a warplane. As part of the exercise, the President received honorary badges from the Air Force.

Meanwhile, the president was also scheduled to visit the construction site of a cold storage facility at the Center for Integrated Marine and Fisheries (SKT) in the Straits of Lampa. In addition, the head of state will visit a floating dock and a naval base.(ant)

A vegetable vendor (R) takes money from customer at a morning market in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 3, 2016.

Indonesia prosecutors seek 20 years in coffee poisoning case

JAKARTA - Indonesian prosecutors said they are seeking a 20year jail term for a woman charged with murdering her college friend by poisoning her coffee.

Jessica Kumala Wongso, a resident of Australia, is accused of the murder of Wayan Mirna Salihin at a Jakarta cafe in early January.

The case has grabbed widespread media attention in Indonesia and neighbouring Australia, with the cafe turning into a tourist spot

and coffee products being named after Wongso. Weekly court hearings are televised live.

President Joko Widodo’s administration said in June Wongso would not be executed. The deal was made with Australia in order for Australian police to assist in the investigation.

“The public prosecutor in this case demands the panel of judges ... sentence the defendant Jessica Kumala Wongso to 20 years in

prison,” prosecutor Melanie Wuwung said at the court hearing in Jakarta late Wednesday. Wongso’s lawyers say there is no evidence that she poisoned her friend’s coffee.

“There is no CCTV footage,” lawyer Otto Hasibuan said. “What has been proven by prosecutors is only a game of words. Prosecutors have no direct evidence or witnesses who have seen the incident.”(rtr)

REUTERS/Beawiharta

Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo sits in the cockpit of a Sukhoi fighter jet while attending a military exercise at Ranai military airbase in Natuna Island, Riau Islands province, Indonesia October 6, 2016.

Philippine fishermen allegedly used indonesian IDs

JAKARTA - Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti said she was investigating the alleged use of Indonesian Identity Cards (KTP) by the Philippines fishermen to fish in Indonesian waters.

“Based on the latest update, certain fishermen belonging to the Philippines are using Indonesian Identity Cards (KTP) in Bitung (North Sulawesi),” Susi Pudjiastuti

told a press conference here on Wednesday.

According to Susi, investigation into the case was nearing completion and those allegedly involved in such activities have been arrested.

In addition, she noted, her ministry also found that some of the accused had changed the fishing vessels documents and even the status of the fishing boats, showing

them as vessels owned by locals when, in fact, these were foreignerowned. Minister Susi revealed that all related facts have been collected, including a transcript recovered from the fishermen.

Previously, the ministry had stated that campaign against illegal fishing in Indonesian waters had an impact and the national production of fish meal had increased.

“The availability of domestically produced fish meal increased and the imports of fish meal has gone down,” the Director General of Aquaculture, Slamet Soebjakto, said. According to Slamet Soebjakto, if this condition continued, slowly but surely, the fish feed industry will start using the national fish meal widely.

In addition, he said, to increase

the income of farmers, particularly freshwater fish farmers, a breakthrough was needed in the provision of fish feed.

“To answer these challenges, the ministry has launched a Self-Reliant Fish Meal Movement (Gerpari). The Gerpari will encourage setting up an independent group of fish feed (Pokari), separate from the fish farmers group,” he stressed.(ant)

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Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump shakes hands with Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at the conclusion of their first presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, U.S., September 26, 2016.

Next U.S. president, Putin’s fourth, inherits sinking Russia ties

WASHINGTON - Confronted by Russia in Syria, Ukraine and cyberspace, the next U.S. president will be the fourth to face Vladimir Putin and the challenge of deterring a Kremlin often more willing than the White House to take risk and project power.

Over the last four years, the Russian president has annexed Crimea and destabilized eastern Ukraine, stymied U.S. hopes to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and mounted cyber attacks that U.S. officials blame on hackers commanded or orchestrated by Russian intelligence agencies.

In his latest gambit, Putin this week suspended a treaty with Washington on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium.

While the United States has imposed economic sanctions on

Russia for its actions in Ukraine, these have yet to force it to calm tensions in eastern Ukraine, let alone surrender Crimea.

Some current and former U.S. officials argue the White House has failed to understand Putin’s bitterness about the decade after the Soviet Union collapsed, at a time the Russian leader feels the West took advantage of Russia when it was down.

Further, they say the United States has little influence over the course of democracy in Russia, or on its willingness to use force in Syria, Ukraine

or elsewhere to achieve its ends.

The result, critics say, could be that Syria festers, Ukraine stays off balance and unable to draw closer to Europe, and that even areas such as arms control and nonproliferation, pillars of cooperation during the Cold War, could deteriorate.

“For Putin and most of the Russian leadership, it’s a zero-sum world,” said Andrew Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think tank.

Weiss argued the Russian leader was unlikely to change his stripes before Russia’s 2018 presidential election “in an atmosphere where Putin’s own domestic political fortunes depend on having this external enemy, namely the United States”. (rtr)

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sandbags to protect property against flooding. “All boarded up and ready to bunker down. God be with us,” West Palm Beach Florida resident Brad Gray said in a Tweet.

The National Hurricane Center said it was too soon to predict where in the United States Matthew was likely to do the most damage.

Matthew is the strongest hurricane in the Caribbean since Felix struck Central America in 2007.

On Tuesday and Wednesday it whipped Cuba and Haiti with 140 mph (225 kph) winds and torrential rain, pummeling towns and destroying livestock, crops and homes.

The devastation in Haiti, where officials on Thursday said at least 35 people were killed by the hurricane, prompted authorities to postpone a presidential election. (rtr)

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Others prepared to wait out the storm and stocked up on water, milk and canned goods, emptying grocery store shelves, footage from local media showed.

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Paris climate accord to take effect; Obama hails ‘historic day’

OSLO - A global agreement to combat climate change will take force after support from European nations sent the accord across an important threshold on Wednesday, prompting U.S. President Barack Obama to hail it as a “historic day” for protecting the planet.

European nations, Canada, Bolivia and Nepal raised backing for the 2015 Paris Agreement to countries representing 56.87 percent of world greenhouse gas emissions, above the 55 percent needed for implementation, a United Nations website showed.

The deal will formally start in 30 days on Nov. 4, four days before the U.S. presidential election in which Republican Donald Trump opposes the accord and Democrat Hillary Clinton strongly supports it.

China and the United States joined up last month in a joint step by the world’s top emitters.

Obama called Wednesday “a historic day in the fight to protect our planet for future generations” and he told reporters on the White House Rose Garden: “If we follow through on the commitments that this Paris agreement embodies, history may well judge it as a turning point for our planet.”

Germany, France, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Portugal and Malta - European Union nations which have completed domestic ratification and account for about four percent of emissions - formally signed up on Wednesday.

In total, 73 countries out of 195 have ratified the agreement, accord-

ing to the U.N. website.

“Great job!” tweeted European Climate Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete.

The Europeans brought forward a formal submission of documents to the United Nations from a ceremony planned on Friday, fearing that other nations might ratify and trigger entry into force without them.

“We didn’t want to be upstaged,” an EU diplomat said.

Many praised the rapid ratification of an agreement meant to cut global greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels, to limit floods, droughts, more powerful storms and rising ocean levels.

“What once seemed unthinkable is now unstoppable,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement.

But all said more work was needed.

“It is no exaggeration to say we are in a race against time,” said Thoriq Ibrahim, Environment Minister for the Maldives and Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States which fears the impact of rising sea levels.

By contrast, it took eight years for the previous U.N. climate deal, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, to gain enough backing to take effect. It obliged only rich nations to cut emissions and the United States stayed out of it.

Opposition continues in the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress to Democrat Obama’s climate change policies. (rtr)

AP Photo/Jim Cole, File

In this Jan. 20, 2015 file photo, a plume of steam billows from the coal-fired Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H. If the nation doesn’t do more, the U.S. probably won’t quite meet the dramatic heat-trapping gas reduction goal it promised in last year’s Paris agreement to battle climate change, according to a new study.

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Murray and Ferrer cruise into China Open quarters

GIANYAR - Peliatan is best known for its legong – a graceful dance traditionally performed by two pre-pubescent girls in glittering costumes.

Indeed, the first Balinese dance troupe to travel abroad was a legong group from Peliatan that performed at the Paris Exhibition in 1931 under the leadership of the late Anak Agung Gede Mandera (affectionately known as “Gung Kak”) a man who excelled in both music and dance.

The group’s performances created a sensation, it was then, for example, that French actor Antonin Artaud first witnessed the Balinese barong. Peliatan is also a village of carvers and painters. Everywhere you go you see orchids, fruits, frogs, ducks and birds being fashioned out of wood. These are all of course for tourists. (IBP/net)

BEIJING - World number two Andy Murray crushed Russia’s Andrey Kuznetsov 6-2 6-1 and fifth seed David Ferrer overwhelmed Italian Fabio Fognini 6-3 6-4 to reach the China Open quarter-finals in Beijing on Wednesday.

The 29-year-old Murray won 81 percent of first-serve points and Kuznetsov made a string of unforced errors to hand the Briton victory in one hour 16 minutes.

Murray will meet his 21-year-old compatriot Kyle Edmund, who upset Spanish world number 18 Roberto Bautista Agut 6-4 4-6 6-4, in the last eight on Friday. “(On) the day of the match, it’s always a little bit uncomfortable,” Murray, a three-times grand slam winner, told reporters about facing his Davis Cup team mate.

“Normally when you see your friends and stuff in the locker room, you have a chat, joke around a bit. But on match days, it always tends to be a little bit more serious.”

The 34-year-old Ferrer, who reached the China Open final in 2010 maintained his perfect career record over Fognini.

The Spaniard, bidding to reach his first final of the year, will next face in-form 19-year-old Alexander Zverev, who beat American Jack Sock 6-4 6-2 to reach the quarter-finals. (rtr)

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Andy Murray of Britain celebrates winning the match against Russia’s Andrey Kuznetsov.

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LOS ANGELES - Tiger Woods, who plans to make his PGA Tour return next week after more than a year on the sidelines, has been appointed as one of three vicecaptains to U.S. skipper Steve Stricker for next year’s Presidents Cup in New Jersey.

Woods will join Fred Couples and triumphant U.S. Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III as assistants for the biennial team competition against the Internationals to be played at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City from Sept.

28-Oct. 1.

“It’s just a tremendous honour,” Woods, who has paired up successfully with his longtime friend Stricker in the past at both the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup, said in a statement on Wednesday after being formally appointed.

“We’ve been friends for close to 20 years now, and we’ve been on teams together ... so for him to have the confidence in me, to be part of the crew and help him in any way I possibly can - I’m thrilled to be his assistant.”

Former world number one Woods, who got his first taste as a vice-captain during last week’s Ryder Cup in Minnesota where the United States beat Europe 17-11, could still play his way on to the U.S. Presidents Cup team.

“If that happens, replacing him as a captain’s assistant will be a great problem for me to have,” said Stricker. “But if he doesn’t, I’m honoured he accepted this role for the first time in his impressive Presidents Cup career.

“Tiger has been a great team mate and friend over the years, and

I know the U.S. guys will benefit from the experience and camaraderie that only Tiger can bring.”

Woods, who has not played competitive golf since the Wyndham Championship in late August 2015 while recovering from multiple back surgeries, intends to make his PGA Tour comeback at next week’s Safeway Open in Napa, California.

In other Presidents Cup announcements on Wednesday, Internationals captain Nick Price appointed fellow Zimbabwean Tony Johnstone, South African Ernie Els and Australian Geoff Ogilvy as his assistants.

The United States have won the Presidents Cup nine times in its 11 editions, most recently by 15-1/2 points to 14-1/2 in South Korea last year. (rtr)

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Team USA vice-captain Tiger Woods is introduced during the Opening Ceremony for the 41st Ryder Cup at Hazeltine National Golf Club.

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Buffon urges Italy team to forget Euro 2016 win over Spain TURIN — Most Italians remember their team’s victory over Spain in the round of 16 at the European Championship. Not Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon.

The Azzurri captain insists he often doesn’t remember previous matches because of the adrenaline that goes through him on the pitch, and he has urged his teammates to put it to the back of their minds too.

“I only remember that we had a strong match, with a team that wanted the result at any cost,” Buffon said on the eve of Thursday’s World Cup qualifier against Spain.

“We have to have the same attitude tomorrow too, passion, desire and humility, which is fundamental. If in remembering the victory at the Euros instead we go out on the pitch with arrogance and cockiness, it will be the worst mistake we could do ... that match is in the past, now there is another to build ourselves a good present and a great future.”

Spain will want to make amends after Italy’s 2-0 victory ended its bid for a third consecutive European title.

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their opening qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup and while the match in Turin might only be their second in Group G, with only one team qualifying automatically, there is no doubt as to how important it is on the road to Russia.

“Spain will be wounded, but it’s already started on its new cycle — as have we,” Buffon said. “The World Cup is a still a year and a half away, but we have to be aware of the value of this match.”

Many of the matches between the two old foes have centered on their veteran goalkeepers, with Buffon and Iker Casillas regarded as the best in the world for many years. But Casillas has again not been included in Julen Lopetegui’s second squad since taking over from Vicente del Bosque.

“It will be strange not to see Iker, but it’s also a sign we’re getting to our sell-by date,” laughed Buffon.

“But it’s a source of pride to still be here, with the prospect of becoming the player with the most appearances for their national side.”

Buffon needs four more appearances to move level with Casillas and former Latvia midfielder Vitalijs Astafjevs on 167 caps as the most capped players in European football history. The 38-year-old Buffon is 21 appearances off Ahmed Hassan’s record for Egypt.

Another member of Italy’s 2006 World Cup winning squad will be recognized for his longevity at the match in Turin, with UEFA awarding Daniele De Rossi a prize for having made more than 100 international appearances. Last month’s friendly match against France was De Rossi’s 107th for Italy. (ap)

Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon stands on the pitch of Maksimir stadium ahead of the Champions League Group H soccer match between Dinamo Zagreb and Juventus, in Zagreb, Croatia, Monday, Sept. 26, 2016.

LONDON — The doormen at Zurich’s Baur au Lac hotel can put away their white sheets. There will be no FIFA executives to shield while being dragged out of the hotel into police cars again.

FIFA is no longer hosting its executives at the waterside superluxurious, lake-side hotel that became synonymous with the sport’s corruption scandal last year when Swiss police launched dawn raids on previously untouchable leaders.

By moving its ruling-council members from the 172-year-old Baur au Lac to the more modest five-star Park Hyatt in Zurich, FIFA will be saving money during next week’s meetings.

FIFA provided no details of the rooms where council members will be staying, but the cheapest double room for Oct. 13 at the Baur au Lac is 870 Swiss francs ($900) which can be booked at the Hyatt for 527 Swiss francs.

The decision to switch hotels was made by new FIFA secretary general Fatma Samoura. “We’re on business so a good solid business hotel I think is more appropriate,” FIFA Vice President Victor Montagliani, who is also head of the

CONCACAF confederation, told The Associated Press. “It’s not just only cost-cutting. As we have done at CONCACAF, it’s about sending a message we are here to work and I think those are some changes that have to happen.”

Moving hotels ends a troubled association with the Baur au Lac which became world renowned — for the wrong reasons — when several soccer officials were arrested in their bedrooms at dawn on May 27, 2015. Swiss police were executing arrest warrants on behalf of American authorities, who have charged more than 40 people in a soccer corruption investigation.

In video captured by The Associated Press , then-Costa Rican Football Federation president Eduardo Li was seen being escorted into a police car last year as hotel porters held up white sheets, unsuccessfully trying to shield him.

Despite the unwelcome wake-up call, FIFA didn’t abandon the Baur au Lac after the arrests. And police paid another visit to the hotel when FIFA executives were in Zurich last December to execute a second wave of arrests. When the FIFA Council meets next week, the Baur au Lac will be a lot quieter. (ap)

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Gary Cahill

LONDON Chelsea defender Gary Cahill is eager to iron out the “easy to correct” errors in his game to both prove doubters wrong and retain his starting spot in Antonio Conte’s first team.

Cahill has come under intense scrutiny in recent weeks following a number of high-profile mistakes,

Cahill keen to silence critics and prove worth at Chelsea including a glaring error that gifted Arsenal the opening goal in Chelsea’s 3-0 Premier League defeat at the Emirates Stadium last month.

“The only people I have to prove myself to is the manager of the football club that I’m playing at and my team mates that I’m playing with,” the 30-year-old told the BBC. “I made a few big errors and we all know that... it gets noticed. I’m not stupid... I basically made my own mistakes out of nothing, so as

ridiculously as bad as they were, they are also easy to correct.”

Cahill’s place in the starting line-up is looking increasingly vulnerable after Chelsea signed defender David Luiz in August with captain John Terry and fellow centre back Kurt Zouma also nearing a return from injury.

However, the England international was unconcerned by the raised intensity in the battle for places in the Chelsea defence.

“I am my own fiercest critic, I do look at myself of course. I think

that’s the way you should be and is the way I have improved. That’s how I got to where I am today,” he said.

“I don’t point (the blame) at everybody else. I look at how I can improve... Whether it’s club level or international level, there’s always competition. It’s good.”

Cahill, who is closing in on a 50th cap for England, is part of the national squad for World Cup qualifiers against Malta at Wembley on Saturday and in Slovenia three days later. (rtr)

AP Photo/Michael Probst, File

FILE- This Wednesday, May 27, 2015 file photo shows the hotel Baur au Lac in Zurich, Switzerland. FIFA is no longer hosting its executives at the waterside super-luxurious, lake-side hotel where Swiss police launched dawn raids last year.

Cazorla eager to extend stay at Arsenal

Spanish midfielder Santi Cazorla would be happy to sign a new contract with Arsenal despite local media linking him with a move to La Liga side Atletico Madrid.

The 31-year-old, who extended his contract with the Gunners in July last year, has scored 25 goals under manager Arsene Wenger since joining from Malaga in 2012.

“I am happy here. I am trusted by the manager and my team-mates.

I am feeling important here, and if they’ll offer me a new contract, I’ll sign it because I am very happy with this great club,” Cazorla told Spanish radio station Cadena Ser. Cazorla has scored twice in seven Premier League appearances this season. The London club, who are third in the standings, host Swansea City on Oct. 15. (rtr)

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Arsenal’s Santi Cazorla warms up before the match

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Buffon urges Italy team to forget Euro 2016 win over Spain TURIN — Most Italians remember their team’s victory over Spain in the round of 16 at the European Championship. Not Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon.

The Azzurri captain insists he often doesn’t remember previous matches because of the adrenaline that goes through him on the pitch, and he has urged his teammates to put it to the back of their minds too.

“I only remember that we had a strong match, with a team that wanted the result at any cost,” Buffon said on the eve of Thursday’s World Cup qualifier against Spain.

“We have to have the same attitude tomorrow too, passion, desire and humility, which is fundamental. If in remembering the victory at the Euros instead we go out on the pitch with arrogance and cockiness, it will be the worst mistake we could do ... that match is in the past, now there is another to build ourselves a good present and a great future.”

Spain will want to make amends after Italy’s 2-0 victory ended its bid for a third consecutive European title.

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their opening qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup and while the match in Turin might only be their second in Group G, with only one team qualifying automatically, there is no doubt as to how important it is on the road to Russia.

“Spain will be wounded, but it’s already started on its new cycle — as have we,” Buffon said. “The World Cup is a still a year and a half away, but we have to be aware of the value of this match.”

Many of the matches between the two old foes have centered on their veteran goalkeepers, with Buffon and Iker Casillas regarded as the best in the world for many years. But Casillas has again not been included in Julen Lopetegui’s second squad since taking over from Vicente del Bosque.

“It will be strange not to see Iker, but it’s also a sign we’re getting to our sell-by date,” laughed Buffon.

“But it’s a source of pride to still be here, with the prospect of becoming the player with the most appearances for their national side.”

Buffon needs four more appearances to move level with Casillas and former Latvia midfielder Vitalijs Astafjevs on 167 caps as the most capped players in European football history. The 38-year-old Buffon is 21 appearances off Ahmed Hassan’s record for Egypt.

Another member of Italy’s 2006 World Cup winning squad will be recognized for his longevity at the match in Turin, with UEFA awarding Daniele De Rossi a prize for having made more than 100 international appearances. Last month’s friendly match against France was De Rossi’s 107th for Italy. (ap)

Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon stands on the pitch of Maksimir stadium ahead of the Champions League Group H soccer match between Dinamo Zagreb and Juventus, in Zagreb, Croatia, Monday, Sept. 26, 2016.

LONDON — The doormen at Zurich’s Baur au Lac hotel can put away their white sheets. There will be no FIFA executives to shield while being dragged out of the hotel into police cars again.

FIFA is no longer hosting its executives at the waterside superluxurious, lake-side hotel that became synonymous with the sport’s corruption scandal last year when Swiss police launched dawn raids on previously untouchable leaders.

By moving its ruling-council members from the 172-year-old Baur au Lac to the more modest five-star Park Hyatt in Zurich, FIFA will be saving money during next week’s meetings.

FIFA provided no details of the rooms where council members will be staying, but the cheapest double room for Oct. 13 at the Baur au Lac is 870 Swiss francs ($900) which can be booked at the Hyatt for 527 Swiss francs.

The decision to switch hotels was made by new FIFA secretary general Fatma Samoura. “We’re on business so a good solid business hotel I think is more appropriate,” FIFA Vice President Victor Montagliani, who is also head of the

CONCACAF confederation, told The Associated Press. “It’s not just only cost-cutting. As we have done at CONCACAF, it’s about sending a message we are here to work and I think those are some changes that have to happen.”

Moving hotels ends a troubled association with the Baur au Lac which became world renowned — for the wrong reasons — when several soccer officials were arrested in their bedrooms at dawn on May 27, 2015. Swiss police were executing arrest warrants on behalf of American authorities, who have charged more than 40 people in a soccer corruption investigation.

In video captured by The Associated Press , then-Costa Rican Football Federation president Eduardo Li was seen being escorted into a police car last year as hotel porters held up white sheets, unsuccessfully trying to shield him.

Despite the unwelcome wake-up call, FIFA didn’t abandon the Baur au Lac after the arrests. And police paid another visit to the hotel when FIFA executives were in Zurich last December to execute a second wave of arrests. When the FIFA Council meets next week, the Baur au Lac will be a lot quieter. (ap)

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Gary Cahill

LONDON Chelsea defender Gary Cahill is eager to iron out the “easy to correct” errors in his game to both prove doubters wrong and retain his starting spot in Antonio Conte’s first team.

Cahill has come under intense scrutiny in recent weeks following a number of high-profile mistakes,

Cahill keen to silence critics and prove worth at Chelsea including a glaring error that gifted Arsenal the opening goal in Chelsea’s 3-0 Premier League defeat at the Emirates Stadium last month.

“The only people I have to prove myself to is the manager of the football club that I’m playing at and my team mates that I’m playing with,” the 30-year-old told the BBC. “I made a few big errors and we all know that... it gets noticed. I’m not stupid... I basically made my own mistakes out of nothing, so as

ridiculously as bad as they were, they are also easy to correct.”

Cahill’s place in the starting line-up is looking increasingly vulnerable after Chelsea signed defender David Luiz in August with captain John Terry and fellow centre back Kurt Zouma also nearing a return from injury.

However, the England international was unconcerned by the raised intensity in the battle for places in the Chelsea defence.

“I am my own fiercest critic, I do look at myself of course. I think

that’s the way you should be and is the way I have improved. That’s how I got to where I am today,” he said.

“I don’t point (the blame) at everybody else. I look at how I can improve... Whether it’s club level or international level, there’s always competition. It’s good.”

Cahill, who is closing in on a 50th cap for England, is part of the national squad for World Cup qualifiers against Malta at Wembley on Saturday and in Slovenia three days later. (rtr)

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FILE- This Wednesday, May 27, 2015 file photo shows the hotel Baur au Lac in Zurich, Switzerland. FIFA is no longer hosting its executives at the waterside super-luxurious, lake-side hotel where Swiss police launched dawn raids last year.

Cazorla eager to extend stay at Arsenal

Spanish midfielder Santi Cazorla would be happy to sign a new contract with Arsenal despite local media linking him with a move to La Liga side Atletico Madrid.

The 31-year-old, who extended his contract with the Gunners in July last year, has scored 25 goals under manager Arsene Wenger since joining from Malaga in 2012.

“I am happy here. I am trusted by the manager and my team-mates.

I am feeling important here, and if they’ll offer me a new contract, I’ll sign it because I am very happy with this great club,” Cazorla told Spanish radio station Cadena Ser. Cazorla has scored twice in seven Premier League appearances this season. The London club, who are third in the standings, host Swansea City on Oct. 15. (rtr)

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Arsenal’s Santi Cazorla warms up before the match

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Murray and Ferrer cruise into China Open quarters

GIANYAR - Peliatan is best known for its legong – a graceful dance traditionally performed by two pre-pubescent girls in glittering costumes.

Indeed, the first Balinese dance troupe to travel abroad was a legong group from Peliatan that performed at the Paris Exhibition in 1931 under the leadership of the late Anak Agung Gede Mandera (affectionately known as “Gung Kak”) a man who excelled in both music and dance.

The group’s performances created a sensation, it was then, for example, that French actor Antonin Artaud first witnessed the Balinese barong. Peliatan is also a village of carvers and painters. Everywhere you go you see orchids, fruits, frogs, ducks and birds being fashioned out of wood. These are all of course for tourists. (IBP/net)

BEIJING - World number two Andy Murray crushed Russia’s Andrey Kuznetsov 6-2 6-1 and fifth seed David Ferrer overwhelmed Italian Fabio Fognini 6-3 6-4 to reach the China Open quarter-finals in Beijing on Wednesday.

The 29-year-old Murray won 81 percent of first-serve points and Kuznetsov made a string of unforced errors to hand the Briton victory in one hour 16 minutes.

Murray will meet his 21-year-old compatriot Kyle Edmund, who upset Spanish world number 18 Roberto Bautista Agut 6-4 4-6 6-4, in the last eight on Friday. “(On) the day of the match, it’s always a little bit uncomfortable,” Murray, a three-times grand slam winner, told reporters about facing his Davis Cup team mate.

“Normally when you see your friends and stuff in the locker room, you have a chat, joke around a bit. But on match days, it always tends to be a little bit more serious.”

The 34-year-old Ferrer, who reached the China Open final in 2010 maintained his perfect career record over Fognini.

The Spaniard, bidding to reach his first final of the year, will next face in-form 19-year-old Alexander Zverev, who beat American Jack Sock 6-4 6-2 to reach the quarter-finals. (rtr)

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Andy Murray of Britain celebrates winning the match against Russia’s Andrey Kuznetsov.

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LOS ANGELES - Tiger Woods, who plans to make his PGA Tour return next week after more than a year on the sidelines, has been appointed as one of three vicecaptains to U.S. skipper Steve Stricker for next year’s Presidents Cup in New Jersey.

Woods will join Fred Couples and triumphant U.S. Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III as assistants for the biennial team competition against the Internationals to be played at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City from Sept.

28-Oct. 1.

“It’s just a tremendous honour,” Woods, who has paired up successfully with his longtime friend Stricker in the past at both the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup, said in a statement on Wednesday after being formally appointed.

“We’ve been friends for close to 20 years now, and we’ve been on teams together ... so for him to have the confidence in me, to be part of the crew and help him in any way I possibly can - I’m thrilled to be his assistant.”

Former world number one Woods, who got his first taste as a vice-captain during last week’s Ryder Cup in Minnesota where the United States beat Europe 17-11, could still play his way on to the U.S. Presidents Cup team.

“If that happens, replacing him as a captain’s assistant will be a great problem for me to have,” said Stricker. “But if he doesn’t, I’m honoured he accepted this role for the first time in his impressive Presidents Cup career.

“Tiger has been a great team mate and friend over the years, and

I know the U.S. guys will benefit from the experience and camaraderie that only Tiger can bring.”

Woods, who has not played competitive golf since the Wyndham Championship in late August 2015 while recovering from multiple back surgeries, intends to make his PGA Tour comeback at next week’s Safeway Open in Napa, California.

In other Presidents Cup announcements on Wednesday, Internationals captain Nick Price appointed fellow Zimbabwean Tony Johnstone, South African Ernie Els and Australian Geoff Ogilvy as his assistants.

The United States have won the Presidents Cup nine times in its 11 editions, most recently by 15-1/2 points to 14-1/2 in South Korea last year. (rtr)

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Team USA vice-captain Tiger Woods is introduced during the Opening Ceremony for the 41st Ryder Cup at Hazeltine National Golf Club.

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Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump shakes hands with Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at the conclusion of their first presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, U.S., September 26, 2016.

Next U.S. president, Putin’s fourth, inherits sinking Russia ties

WASHINGTON - Confronted by Russia in Syria, Ukraine and cyberspace, the next U.S. president will be the fourth to face Vladimir Putin and the challenge of deterring a Kremlin often more willing than the White House to take risk and project power.

Over the last four years, the Russian president has annexed Crimea and destabilized eastern Ukraine, stymied U.S. hopes to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and mounted cyber attacks that U.S. officials blame on hackers commanded or orchestrated by Russian intelligence agencies.

In his latest gambit, Putin this week suspended a treaty with Washington on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium.

While the United States has imposed economic sanctions on

Russia for its actions in Ukraine, these have yet to force it to calm tensions in eastern Ukraine, let alone surrender Crimea.

Some current and former U.S. officials argue the White House has failed to understand Putin’s bitterness about the decade after the Soviet Union collapsed, at a time the Russian leader feels the West took advantage of Russia when it was down.

Further, they say the United States has little influence over the course of democracy in Russia, or on its willingness to use force in Syria, Ukraine

or elsewhere to achieve its ends.

The result, critics say, could be that Syria festers, Ukraine stays off balance and unable to draw closer to Europe, and that even areas such as arms control and nonproliferation, pillars of cooperation during the Cold War, could deteriorate.

“For Putin and most of the Russian leadership, it’s a zero-sum world,” said Andrew Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think tank.

Weiss argued the Russian leader was unlikely to change his stripes before Russia’s 2018 presidential election “in an atmosphere where Putin’s own domestic political fortunes depend on having this external enemy, namely the United States”. (rtr)

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sandbags to protect property against flooding. “All boarded up and ready to bunker down. God be with us,” West Palm Beach Florida resident Brad Gray said in a Tweet.

The National Hurricane Center said it was too soon to predict where in the United States Matthew was likely to do the most damage.

Matthew is the strongest hurricane in the Caribbean since Felix struck Central America in 2007.

On Tuesday and Wednesday it whipped Cuba and Haiti with 140 mph (225 kph) winds and torrential rain, pummeling towns and destroying livestock, crops and homes.

The devastation in Haiti, where officials on Thursday said at least 35 people were killed by the hurricane, prompted authorities to postpone a presidential election. (rtr)

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Others prepared to wait out the storm and stocked up on water, milk and canned goods, emptying grocery store shelves, footage from local media showed.

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Paris climate accord to take effect; Obama hails ‘historic day’

OSLO - A global agreement to combat climate change will take force after support from European nations sent the accord across an important threshold on Wednesday, prompting U.S. President Barack Obama to hail it as a “historic day” for protecting the planet.

European nations, Canada, Bolivia and Nepal raised backing for the 2015 Paris Agreement to countries representing 56.87 percent of world greenhouse gas emissions, above the 55 percent needed for implementation, a United Nations website showed.

The deal will formally start in 30 days on Nov. 4, four days before the U.S. presidential election in which Republican Donald Trump opposes the accord and Democrat Hillary Clinton strongly supports it.

China and the United States joined up last month in a joint step by the world’s top emitters.

Obama called Wednesday “a historic day in the fight to protect our planet for future generations” and he told reporters on the White House Rose Garden: “If we follow through on the commitments that this Paris agreement embodies, history may well judge it as a turning point for our planet.”

Germany, France, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Portugal and Malta - European Union nations which have completed domestic ratification and account for about four percent of emissions - formally signed up on Wednesday.

In total, 73 countries out of 195 have ratified the agreement, accord-

ing to the U.N. website.

“Great job!” tweeted European Climate Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete.

The Europeans brought forward a formal submission of documents to the United Nations from a ceremony planned on Friday, fearing that other nations might ratify and trigger entry into force without them.

“We didn’t want to be upstaged,” an EU diplomat said.

Many praised the rapid ratification of an agreement meant to cut global greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels, to limit floods, droughts, more powerful storms and rising ocean levels.

“What once seemed unthinkable is now unstoppable,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement.

But all said more work was needed.

“It is no exaggeration to say we are in a race against time,” said Thoriq Ibrahim, Environment Minister for the Maldives and Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States which fears the impact of rising sea levels.

By contrast, it took eight years for the previous U.N. climate deal, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, to gain enough backing to take effect. It obliged only rich nations to cut emissions and the United States stayed out of it.

Opposition continues in the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress to Democrat Obama’s climate change policies. (rtr)

AP Photo/Jim Cole, File

In this Jan. 20, 2015 file photo, a plume of steam billows from the coal-fired Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H. If the nation doesn’t do more, the U.S. probably won’t quite meet the dramatic heat-trapping gas reduction goal it promised in last year’s Paris agreement to battle climate change, according to a new study.

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Merkel says EU, U.S. should keep talking on free trade deal

free trade deal with Canada, which had set high standards for protections, would help prevent adoption of a European-U.S. deal that offered worse conditions.

BGA President Anton Boerner told the meeting: “TTIP may be the last chance for Europe to participate in a trade deal that allows us to set the standards for global trade.”

Such standards might not please everyone, but they would “definitely be better than the ones that other countries without democracy and respect for human rights would write,” he said.

U.S. and European officials have said they expect talks on the trade deal to continue at least until a new U.S. president is sworn in next January. Some German and French officials have said it might be helpful to resume the talks under a new name.

A senior German government official said Germany expects an intense debate at the International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington this week on the growing risks of populism and growing opposition to free trade.

“For us and also many others, a free world economy, free movement of goods and no protectionism are basic pillars of an order that we have always advocated and supported,” the official said on condition of anonymity. (rtr)

NATUNA - Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and First Lady Iriana Widodo witnessed the Angkasa Yudha airborne exercise on Natuna Islands on Thursday. Dozens of Indonesian F-16 and Sukhoi fighter jets took part in the exercise.

REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Visitors are silhouetted against the logo of the International Monetary Fund at the main venue for the IMF and World Bank annual meeting in Tokyo October 10, 2012.

IMF says global debt tops $152 trillion, urges some to spend more

WASHINGTON- The world is swimming in a record $152 trillion in debt, the IMF said on Wednesday, even as the institution encourages some countries to spend more to boost flagging growth if they can afford it.

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Queen Rania of Jordan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the President of the Federation of German Industry (BDI) Ulrich Grillo attend the Day of German Industry 2016 conference in Berlin, Germany, October 6, 2016.

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BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the European Union and the United States should continue to negotiate the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) free trade deal as long as possible, despite opposition in many European countries.

German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel triggered an intense debate in Europe about the free trade deal when he said in August that the talks had failed because Washington did not want to compromise with its European counterparts.

“We are still continuing the discussions about TTIP and I think we should continue them as long as possible,” Merkel told a meeting of the German BGA trade body on Wednesday. “We will never fall below the standards set by the European Union.”

Opponents of the deal argue it would weaken environmental standards and give too much power to multinational companies. But Merkel said a successful deal could “write a new chapter in the history of globalisation”.

Gabriel told the BGA trade group he did not believe the TTIP trade talks could be completed this year.

“I expect that we’ll need a new start after the U.S. president election,” Gabriel said.

He said the European Union’s

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Global debt, both public and private, reached 225 percent of global economic output last year, up from about 200 percent in 2002, the IMF said in its new Fiscal Monitor report.

The IMF said about about two thirds of the 2015 total, or about $100 billion, is owed by private sector borrowers, and noted that rapid increases in private debt often lead to financial crises.

While debt profiles vary by country, the report said that the sheer size of the debt could set the stage for an unprecedented private deleveraging that could thwart a still-fragile economic recovery.

“Excessive private debt is a major headwind against the global recovery and a risk to financial stability,” IMF Fiscal Affairs Director Vitor Gaspar told a news conference. “Financial recessions are longer and deeper than normal recessions.”

While the United States has de-leveraged since the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the report cited the buildup of private debt in China and Brazil as a significant concern, fueled in part by a long era of low interest rates.

The report comes as IMF managing director Christine Lagarde is urging the Fund’s 189 member governments that have “fiscal space”

- the ability to sustainably borrow and spend more - to do so to boost persistently weak growth.

The Fund’s call for targeted fiscal support for consumer demand comes is accompanied by calls for continued accomodative monetary policy and accelerated structural reforms aimed at boosting countries’ economic efficiency.

If a major deleveraging of private debt were to occur, the IMF report recommends that fiscal policy should include targeted interventions to restructure private debt or repair bank balance sheets to mininize damage to the overall economy.

These could be similar to the mortgage restructuring programs undertaken by the United States during the crisis or the Obama administration’s automotive industry restructuring, Gaspar said. (rtr)

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Also, a unit of Sukhoi Su 30 and two F-16 units held an aerial dog-fight training exercise. During the military training, the Hawk 100/200 fighter jets, T50i Golden Eagle and Super Tucano bombed a target in Natuna waters, Riau Islands.

Additionally, the TNI AUs Special Forces (Paskhas) conducted military static and dynamic line jumps from the rear of a CN-295 and C-130 Hercules, as part of a security exercise.

The Air Force also successfully struck the remaining targets at sea using Oerlikon cannons and QW3

missiles.

Several squadrons of Super Puma helicopter also conducted evacuation and relief drills, practicing the rescue of a simulated pilot who ejected from a warplane. As part of the exercise, the President received honorary badges from the Air Force.

Meanwhile, the president was also scheduled to visit the construction site of a cold storage facility at the Center for Integrated Marine and Fisheries (SKT) in the Straits of Lampa. In addition, the head of state will visit a floating dock and a naval base.(ant)

A vegetable vendor (R) takes money from customer at a morning market in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 3, 2016.

Indonesia prosecutors seek 20 years in coffee poisoning case

JAKARTA - Indonesian prosecutors said they are seeking a 20year jail term for a woman charged with murdering her college friend by poisoning her coffee.

Jessica Kumala Wongso, a resident of Australia, is accused of the murder of Wayan Mirna Salihin at a Jakarta cafe in early January.

The case has grabbed widespread media attention in Indonesia and neighbouring Australia, with the cafe turning into a tourist spot

and coffee products being named after Wongso. Weekly court hearings are televised live.

President Joko Widodo’s administration said in June Wongso would not be executed. The deal was made with Australia in order for Australian police to assist in the investigation.

“The public prosecutor in this case demands the panel of judges ... sentence the defendant Jessica Kumala Wongso to 20 years in

prison,” prosecutor Melanie Wuwung said at the court hearing in Jakarta late Wednesday. Wongso’s lawyers say there is no evidence that she poisoned her friend’s coffee.

“There is no CCTV footage,” lawyer Otto Hasibuan said. “What has been proven by prosecutors is only a game of words. Prosecutors have no direct evidence or witnesses who have seen the incident.”(rtr)

REUTERS/Beawiharta

Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo sits in the cockpit of a Sukhoi fighter jet while attending a military exercise at Ranai military airbase in Natuna Island, Riau Islands province, Indonesia October 6, 2016.

Philippine fishermen allegedly used indonesian IDs

JAKARTA - Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti said she was investigating the alleged use of Indonesian Identity Cards (KTP) by the Philippines fishermen to fish in Indonesian waters.

“Based on the latest update, certain fishermen belonging to the Philippines are using Indonesian Identity Cards (KTP) in Bitung (North Sulawesi),” Susi Pudjiastuti

told a press conference here on Wednesday.

According to Susi, investigation into the case was nearing completion and those allegedly involved in such activities have been arrested.

In addition, she noted, her ministry also found that some of the accused had changed the fishing vessels documents and even the status of the fishing boats, showing

them as vessels owned by locals when, in fact, these were foreignerowned. Minister Susi revealed that all related facts have been collected, including a transcript recovered from the fishermen.

Previously, the ministry had stated that campaign against illegal fishing in Indonesian waters had an impact and the national production of fish meal had increased.

“The availability of domestically produced fish meal increased and the imports of fish meal has gone down,” the Director General of Aquaculture, Slamet Soebjakto, said. According to Slamet Soebjakto, if this condition continued, slowly but surely, the fish feed industry will start using the national fish meal widely.

In addition, he said, to increase

the income of farmers, particularly freshwater fish farmers, a breakthrough was needed in the provision of fish feed.

“To answer these challenges, the ministry has launched a Self-Reliant Fish Meal Movement (Gerpari). The Gerpari will encourage setting up an independent group of fish feed (Pokari), separate from the fish farmers group,” he stressed.(ant)

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The BBDF Coral Reef Conservation through Ecotourism The normally quiet town of Buleleng on the northern coast of will come alive when the highly anticipated annual Buleleng Bali Dive Festival (BBDF) is staged at the Pemuteran Village on (23-26/10) 2016. Among divers, Pemuteran is known worldwide for its uniquely inspiring underwater temple, which is acreative artwork involving coal reef revitalization.

Once a barren underwater ocean landscape devastated by destructive fishing, bleaching and sedimentation, the reefs at Pemuteran Village have now been totally transformed and are the world’s largest and most successful reef restoration program, alive with underwater creatures.

The result from collective efforts done by the local community, Pemuteran Bay now glows with bright colorful corals, schools of fish, and counting over 70 separate stunning Bio-rock reefs. The community is proud that their efforts at coral reef conservation that were done purely with local resources have proven to be a national success that has even garnered international recognition in the form of many national and international awards – namely the prestigious PATA Gold Award, the Equator Prize and the Millennium G20 Award.

Local hotels and dive shops led

by Taman Sari Resort, Amertha Villas and Bali Diving Academy have all been involved in the restoration project by supporting community environmental education and management initiatives to promote ecotourism, making Pemuteran economically sustainable for the local community.

The BBDF is aimed to both

spread the need and benefits of global awareness on reef conservation at the same time promote Pemuteran and Buleleng’s art and culture internationally. Divers from around the world are invited to witness firsthand the beauty of marine life that Buleleng has to offer and participate in, and learning about the many conservation programs in the area.

The festival will feature an Underwater Art Parade, Reef Check Monitoring, Underwater Photography Competition, Live Painting, Underwater Expo, Kids & Students Reef, Culinary Bazaar, Performing Art Stage, Bio-rock Reef Conservation Workshop and the prestigious release of the Bedawang Nala statue the 2016 BBDF icon.

This year the Bedawang Nala was chosen as the festival’s icon since it symbolizes Mother Earth and universal balance and harmony.

The statue which is created from Bio-rock coral was masterfully crafted by a team of artists and Bio-rock specialists and will be placed on the sea floor, close to last year’s BBDF icon, the Gadjah Mina which represents the guardian of the sea.

Many arts and performances will be showcased at this impressive event including the Pemuteran Community Heritage Celebration of Gebug Ende. The Gebug Ende combines performance art with a fighting ritual that is usually performed to invite rain during the dry season. The ritual symbolizes respect to the universe and the spirits, and asking for blessings from the gods for harmony among mankind.(kmb)

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Hurricane Matthew kills 26 in Caribbean on destructive path to U.S.

LES CAYES - H urricane Matthew twisted toward the Bahamas and Florida’s east coast on Wednesday after killing at least 26 people and damaging a majority of homes in Haiti’s south, prompting the hard-hit country to postpone a long-awaited presidential election.

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The salt production in Pejarakan Village decrease due to te high rainfall.

Rainy season, salt farmers slowdown production

SINGARAJA - The rainy season that has arrived thougout Bali, is having an adverse impact on the production of salt by traditional salt makers, who rely on the scorching sun to dry out sea water. Salt farmers in Gerokgak, in the area of Pejarakan, explain that the processing of seawater into fine grain salt generally takes two to three days. but the rain is not only slowing down the production process but also affecting the quality of the salt.

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The rain not only slows down the process of trunign seawter into salt but also reduces the saltiness of the seawater as it is eposed to rain in the holding bins. Many salt farmers are choosing to dealy theyir salt harvest alogether. “Well yes, this happens every raiiny season, but now salt farmers have to be on the lookout for erratic weather conditions too. If the dried seawter is rainned on for too long, the

saltiness is lost and we are left with fresh water, with nothing to harvest” explained Iksan, Chief of the Bumi Putih Salt Farmers, on Monday (Oct. 3).

He said that he and others hope that the sun will make an appearance so that the seawter can get dried out. During the rinany season salt farmers need to be patient as salt processing can take up to a week as they repeat the harvest-

ing process over and over again.

The salt farmers usually sell their yields for about IDR 600 per kg but this goes up to IDR 700 per kg during the dry season. Concerns over harvest failures are looming over many salt farmers as their income would certainly be affected.

IN order to make ends meet, they need to find other work during the rainny season. “Our group accomodates 152 salt farmers and manages 150 hectares os salt ponds located at Marga Garuda Hamlet in Pejarakan. IN my experience, we can produce about 100 tons of salt in the rented ponds that cover two heactares, but only 40 tons during the rainny season because of unfavorabel weather conditions”, he concluded. (kmb34)

The powerful Category 3 hurricane, the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade, whipped Cuba and Haiti with 140 mile-per-hour (230 kph) winds and torrential rains on Tuesday, pummeling towns and destroying livestock, crops and homes.

In the United States, more than 1.5 million people were urged to evacuate the southeastern coast and Florida Governor Rick Scott warned residents to prepare for a possible direct hit that could be catastrophic.

Hundreds of thousands of people had been evacuated from the path of Matthew, which caused severe flooding and killed four people in the Dominican Republic as well as at least 22 in Haiti. The two countries share the island of Hispaniola.

The storm carved a path of devastation through southwestern Haiti, dumping boats and debris on coastal roads hit by surging seas and flooding residential areas heavily.

Some 80 percent of homes were damaged in Haiti’s Sud Department, which has a population of more than 700,000, a government official said in a meeting with U.N. officials.

Some 11,000 people were in shelters in the province.

In the town of Jeremie, people were cooking and sleeping outside because most houses were either knocked down or severely damaged. Similar scenes were reported across the coastal towns of the south.

Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, had been set to hold a repeatedly postponed presidential election on Sunday, but the country’s electoral council delayed it again in the aftermath of Matthew. No new date has yet been set. (rtr)

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A man walks amongst trees damaged by Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, October 5, 2016.

Duterte rated “very good” in first 90 days - Philippines poll

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An artwork featuring the image of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte with the letters D U and the number 3, a word play on the President’s surname “DU30”, is seen on a rice paddy in Los Banos city, Laguna province, south of Manila October 6, 2016.

MANILA - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has been rated “very good” in an opinion poll on his first 90 days in office, which has been defined largely by his deadly war on drugs and vitriol against Western leaders.

Only 11 percent of 1,200 Filipinos surveyed by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) agency said they were dissatisfied with his performance. That gave Duterte a net satisfaction rating of 64 percent, getting him off to a better start than predecessors Benigno Aquino, Joseph Estrada and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, but short of the 66 percent achieved by Fidel Ramos in 1992.

The rating, announced on Thursday, was calculated by deducting the 11 percent from the 76 percent of respondents who said they were satisfied with Duterte’s presidency, then rounding it off. Thirteen percent were undecided.

The SWS survey did not ask respondents to give a reason for the rating. It was conducted in face-to-face interviews held from Sept. 24-27, after Duterte had a spat with President Barack Obama over criticism of his anti-dugs campaign but before he said he was seeking new alliances with China and Russia.

A survey by Pulse Asia, another polling

agency, less than a month after he took office on June 30 said Duterte had a record 91 percent trust rating. The two polls are not comparable.

Duterte won the May 9 election by a substantial margin after promising to expand a ruthless anti-crime campaign he started while mayor of Davao City, which had earned him nicknames like “the Punisher” and “Duterte Harry”.

Political analyst Nelson Navarro said the SWS survey suggested Filipinos felt safer because Duterte had followed through with his promised war on crime and drugs, in which over 3,400 people have been killed.

He said Duterte’s abrasive style and his sometimes profane outbursts against the United States, European Union and United Nations were not discrediting him either, and supporters would rally in his defence amid criticism at home and abroad.

“This is not going to be good manners and right conduct. What you see here is exactly what you get. His tough stance has gained him popularity across the Philippines,” Navarro said.

“Everyone likes to dump on President Duterte for the extra-judicial killings but ... there is a kind of backlash on the perception of the West.” (rtr)

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The Streetwear Brand the Kardashians and Hadids Love UNRAVEL Project has been on our radar for a while now, what with its hard-to-miss bomber seen worn by every other member of the Kardashian-Jenner clan, Gigi Hadid, and Rihanna. With its S/S 17 showing at Paris Fashion Week and a glowing profile from Vogue.com, it looks like it’s about to become an even bigger hit.

The mastermind behind the celebrity-loved streetwear line is its 36-year-old founder and creative director Ben Taverniti. As reported by W in August, the French native’s motto is “To create something new, you must first destroy.” This maxim is most evident in his pieces, which are distressed, cut, and frayed to the coolest degree.

Most recently, Kim Kardashian West has been wearing the brand’s signature lace-up pants while attending shows in Paris, and Kourtney Kardashian was spotted at Unravel’s impromptu party at the Plaza Athénée.

Ben Taverniti tells Vogue.com his goal is to “redo the classics.” For his most recent collection, the inspiration came from Venice Beach in the ‘90s, adding a shock of neon to the label’s usually all-black offerings. (IBP/net)

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The Ubud Monkey Forest Sanctuary is one of Gianyar’s tourist destinations that is visited by thousands of tourists every day.

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Less tourists visiting Monkey forest this early October

GIANYAR - The Ubud Monkey Forest Sanctuary is one of Gianyar’s tourist destinations that is visited by thousands of tourists every day. During the high season, as many as 5000 people a day coem to see the monkeys in their natural habitat.

Last week however the number of visitors already started to decline.

Operations Manager of the Ubud Monkey Forest Sanctuary, I Nyoman Buana, said on Tuesday (Oct. 4) that since the beginnin of the month, there have only been 1,000 visitors a day. During the holiday season the average is about 5,000

a day and during the off season the average is about 1,500 to 2,000 visitors a day. “Last Eid Al-Fitr, we saw 4,900 visitors a day”, he said adding that last week numbers were down.

Nyoman Buana further ex-

plained about the cycle of tourist visits to the Ubud Monkey Forest.

December and January, he said are the peak months, and from February to June the number of visits goes down unitl July when there is another influx of visitors unitl Spetember. “From about midSeptember through to November it trends to be quite quite here” he said.

There are some concerns that the large numbers of visitors during peak season could affect the 659

monkeys that are currently protected in this tourist attraction. The management the Monkey Forest Tourist Attraction is therefor cooperating with the Center for Primate Studies at Udayana University to conduct an assessement. Based on this academic research, we will decide if we need to place restrictions on the number of people who visit during high season”, explained Buana.

He also revealed that a number of research studies have shown

that regular interactions with human has an influence on the behavior of monkeys. For example, monkeys in the Ubud Monkey Forest are more docile and lazier than monkeys that seldom see humans. “Results have in fact shown that the monkeys here have become more benings as a result ofinteracting with humans on a daily basis, and because they are fed three times a day and given banana snacks by visitors too”, he said. (kmb35)

Residents of Songan learn to make crafts from water hyacinths

BANGLI - Water hyacinth that proliferate in Lake Batur are considered a weed that is harmful to the eco system of the lake. Now, thanks to trainning that residents of Songan Village recived from a Denpasar University campus, they are able to process the water hyacinths into craft products.

“After being trained by the university students over the course of a few days, dosens of us can now make crafts from the water hyacinths” explained Made Tirtani

from Songan B Village. She added that housewives as well as tenneagers were eager to learn how to use these plants that thrive in the Lake by their village to make valuable craft products.

Songan B headman’s wife explained that the first step in transforming the hyacinths from Lake Batur into crafts, is to dry them out so that they can be used for crafting.

Those who followed the trainning learned to make kleenex boxes and slippers but intend to continue developing other products. “We

will continue to meet every Sunday to work on new product ideas”, she said.

Water hyacinths thrive in Lake Batur and have long been considered to be a problematic weed.

Apart from being somewhat unsightly, these plants also accelerate silting in the Lake which can cause a number of other problems. It is hoped that by giving economic value to these distruptive plants, that people will be more inspired to clear the lake of the hyacinths. (kmb40)

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Water hyacinth that proliferate in Lake Batur are considered a weed that is harmful to the eco system of the lake. Now, thanks to trainning that residents of Songan Village recived from a Denpasar University campus, they are able to process the water hyacinths into craft products.

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“It is not enough to just talk, we do to take concrete action. Academics that have done a lot of research on agrictulture need to come down to the filed. Similarly the district and city agricultural agencies also need to take action. Discourse is not enough when it comes to managing agricutture”, he advised.

Agung Kamandalu accompanied by businessman Jeffry Budiman said that there is a lot of room for breakthoughs in Bali’s agricultural market, but the mangement of agriculture remians key. Mapping, technological adaptations and appropriate seed selectino are also key compoments in ensure success.

The commitment of government and academics to assiste farmers also needs to be clear. The Bali Commerce Agency and the Bali Chamber of Commerce (Kadin) also play important roles in terms of making adjustment to the market place.

One idea that is being discussed is the possibility of holding agricultural contests for local fruit products. This contest could be held on a regular basis and be managed by the Bali Chamber of Commerce and Industry who could set standards for quality. “A agricultrual contest, held in different districts on a rotating basis would be a way to select Bali’s top quality product and set higher standards for product quality” he said.

Agung Kamandalu emphasise

that the partcipation of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry is absolutley necessary for the development of the agricultural product market in Bali as they are in a position to mobilize industry, tourism and agriculture in order to improve coordination and management. This, he said, is the first measure that must be taken if Bali indeed wants to stand up and get back to managing its agricultural sector.

In terms of building up the market for agricultural products, Kamandalu spoke to the need for beaurocrats to first think about wah products should be marketed. Not only is a mret for these products required, but attention must also be given to product quality and sustainability. Also that cooperation between buyers such as hotels and the farmers (and resellers) also needs to be clearly established.

“Basically, apart from empowering local farmers, Bali also needs to look into investors in the agricultural secotr more widely speaking” he stressed. The regeneration of dry and abandoned farm lands is another thing that needs to be dealt with.

Prof. Dr. I Wayan Lasmawan from the Undhiksa emphasised that the movement to reinvigorate Bali’s agricultural sector must be done with mutual cooperation.

Bali’s business people, bureaucrats, academics needs to work together and to actually create sample farms in villages or demonstartion plots.

Agriculture requires clear applications and examples. If possible,

he said, Bali should formulate a clear plan to build up the agricultural sector. “This requires coop-

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erationand innovation” he stated.

Lawmawan added that he is in full suport of creating a single represen-

tative agricultural market to serve the needs of hotels and restaurants on the island. (dir)

former Tiara Grosir. I have therefore asked that the reconstruction of Badung Market be implemented in early 2017” said Mayor Mantra.

In order to expedite the auction process, for bids on the construction project, the mayor has also asked for the involvement of the Denpasar Transportation Agency and municipal police. Mayor Rai Mantra also asked all relevant agencies to coordinate the demolition process so that it can be

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The traditional market in Bali

Reconstruction to start in 2017

The Mayor of Denpasar, Rai Mantra in a meeting with the agancy heads of the Municipality of Denpasar recently, announced that Denpasr’s municipal government plans to start construction on the new building for Badung Market in early 2017.

“I do not want the rebuilding of Badung Market to be protracted.

It is a pity that merchants from Bandung Market are now forced to squeaze into the area aroudn the

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WEEKLY EVENTS and FARMERS MARKETS

Badung Market soon to be demolished

DENPASAR - Following the massive fire that blazed through Badung Market last Febuary, merchants have been temporarily relocated to the former Tiara Grosir Supermarket. Badung Market has been completed abandoned and will be razed to the ground shortly.

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done quickly and that he be kept informed about developments in the reconstruction process so that any probelsm that may arise can be dealt with effectively.

He also ordered relevant agencies to take immediately measures to ensure that the development strategy for the largest market in Denpasar takes place smoothly.

Managing Director of PD Pasar Badung, Made Westra, explained that the tender process for the dismantling of the market is already underway. “Currently we are in the proces of announcing the auction for the demolition of Badung Market. Hopefully, the tender winner will be determined

on October 10, so that on October 15, the scorched Market can start to be taken down. If there is no major obstacle, the building that formerly housed Badung Market will soon be flattenedhas” said Westra accompanied by Bidding Committee representative A.A. Yuliarta.

Wastra added that before the building can be demolished, the disamntling must be doen in accordance with the procedures outlines by the state treasure and auction services (KPKLN) of Denpasar.

According the the feasibility study, the maximum cost for the demolition is set at IDR 88 million.

“In essence, we spend no money for the demolition, this is the mini-

mal amount for dimantling”, he added. To ensure that the company that wins the bid cleans up the debris, a security deposit of IDR 75 million must be paid in advance.

Head of the Denpasar Spatial Planning and Housing Agency, Kadek Kusuma Diputra, said that the detailed engineering design (DED) will be made according to the amended budget for 2016, including the creation of a design contest for the new Badung market.

“We have already announced the Badung Market design contest.

The winning design will serve as a reference for the construction of the new market building”, said Kusuma Diputra. (kmb12)

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Spiritual and social visit of Hotel Santika Seminyak

Hotel Santika Seminyak – Bali is a three-star hotel located on Jalan Sunset Road 17, Seminyak - Bali. The hotel having reached the age of one year celebrated its anniversary right on September 20, 2016. In a series of the anniversary, the Hotel Santika Seminyak organized a variety of activities.

Coming with the theme ‘One Heart We’re One-derful,’ the event was started with the activities like blood donation at Hotel Santika Seminyak on September 15, pilgrimage to Melanting Temple in Buleleng and ended with a social visit to Sanatana Dharma Orphanage in Jembrana on October 1.

As an expression of gratitude for the blessing graced by God Almighty, the management of Hotel Santika Seminyak organized a pilgrimage to Melanting Temple.

It is located in north coast of Bali Island, belonging to Banyupoh village, Grokgak, about 50 km west of Singaraja.

This activity is meant to thank God because during the past year He has given favorable opportunity to Hotel Santika Seminyak to continuously develop and compete against some other hotels.

In addition to saying prayers, the Hotel Santika Seminyak also organized social activities through a visit to orphanage. On this occasion, the visit was made to the Sanatana Dharma Orphanage located on Jalan SMAN 1 Melaya, Jembrana.

The journey took about three hours to get to the location from the town. The social activities are intended to share with fellow human beings in need of assistance in the

form of usable goods. The goods donated still belong to daily needs required by the residents such as clothing, household goods and groceries used to survive including rice, oil, sugar and eggs.

Arrival of the management of the Hotel Santika Seminyak was welcomed by the orphanage dwellers. Their face exuded the expression of happiness when meeting with the management team of the Hotel Santika Seminyak. In a conversation with the children at the orphanage, they looked to really need the assistance and expressed their gratitude for the attention extended to them. Hopefully, this visit could become a good start for them and attract sympathy of other parties to help out this area in order to be more prosperous.

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Not just a thriller, ‘Girl on the Train’ plumbs women’s struggles

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Restoring the glory Bali’ agricuttural market

NEW YORK - It’s a thriller, a whodunit, a story of loneliness, alcoholism and voyeurism. But “The Girl on the Train,” the movie version of the best-selling novel, is also a tale of female empowerment, the filmmakers say.

After selling 15 million copies worldwide since its 2015 release, Paula Hawkins’ story of murder, betrayal and emotional abuse gets a dark twist in the movie that opens this week.

Emily Blunt plays Rachel Watson, an alcoholic who has lost her job and her marriage and who spies from the train on her cheating ex-husband (Justin Theroux) and his new wife Anna (Rebecca Ferguson). Rachel turns amateur detective when another woman with disturbing secrets, Megan (Haley Bennett), goes missing and turns up dead.

“I feel like this film represents women’s right to be bad and flawed and wrong and messed up. I think women around the world are going to applaud that,” Blunt said.

“Yes, (the women) are pitted against each other in the beginning but yet they do ultimately unite, and they are real,” she added.

All three women are subject to jealousy, controlling behavior and gaslighting - the term for psychological abuse that makes a victim doubt his or her sanity.

Reviving the market for agricultural products would be instrumental in raising agriculture in Bali to its former glory. However, before taking pioneering steps in this direction, there needs to be a mapping of Bali’s farms and a real breakthrough in farm management. During a dialogue with Bali Post on Wednesday (OCT 6), Head of the Bali Institute for Agricultural Technology (BPTP), AAN Bagus Kamandalu expressed the need for a mapping out of the farming potential and carrying capacity of the island as well as the need for efforts to be made to encourage young farmers and stimmulate the market.

According to Kamandalu, reinvigorating agriculture in Bali requires commitment and patience. “Building up the agricultural sector of Bali takes time and requires synergy between relevant parties as well as mentoring measures” he said. Relevant parties include the Agricultural Agency, The Institute for Agricultrual Technology (BPTP) and university campuses. By working together, a clear model can be developed for the management of agricutlure in Bali.

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Emily Blunt poses as she arrives at the World premiere of “The Girl on the Train” at Leicester Square in London, Britain September 20, 2016.

Some previews have had women in the audience cheering at the end as the female characters wreak their revenge.

The movie opens during domestic violence awareness month in the United States and the National Network to End Domestic Violence has produced discussion questions that highlight themes of abuse in the book.

Director Tate Taylor said he would be glad if the film empowers women. “I didn’t intend, on an intellectual level, for it to be a revenge film, but it has struck a

nerve.”

Taylor, who also directed the female-centric movie “The Help,” attributes his empathy with women to his upbringing.

“I was raised by a single mom.

She was pretty much my primary caregiver... So I had a lot of female energy and I saw a lot of struggle, a lot of determination and a lot of success. I equate women with being survivors because of my mom,” he said.

Taylor and Blunt said the movie was deliberately darker than the book. (rtr)

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Downtown Miami is pictured in this aerial photo as clouds begin to form in advance of Hurricane Matthew in Miami, Florida, U.S. October 5, 2016.

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Millions flee as Southeast U.S. braces for deadly Hurricane Matthew

Hurricane Matthew, the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade, slammed into the Bahamas early on Thursday and intensified as it barreled toward the southeastern U.S. coast where millions of residents heeded warnings to flee inland.

Roadways in Florida, Georgia and North and South Carolina were jammed and gas stations and food stores ran out of supplies as the storm approached, bringing storm surges, heavy rain and sustained winds that accelerated overnight to about 125 miles (205 km) per hour.

Matthew, which killed at least 39 people and displaced thousands, mostly in southern Haiti, was predicted to strengthen from a Category 3 to 4 storm en route to Florida’s Atlantic coast. Landfall was expected there on Thursday night, the U.S. National Hurricane

Center said.

The center extended its hurricane warning area farther north into Georgia and more than 12 million U.S. residents were under a hurricane watches and warnings, according to the Weather Channel. “Everyone in our state

must prepare now for a direct hit,” Florida Governor Scott said at a news conference in Tallahassee on Wednesday. “If Matthew directly impacts Florida, the destruction could be catastrophic and you need to be prepared.”

The four states in the path of the hurricane, which was 215 miles (346 km) southeast of West Palm Beach at about 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT), declared states of emergency enabling their governors to mobilize the National Guard. Shelters in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina opened their doors after authorities, along with President Barack Obama, urged people to evacuate their homes.

Federal emergency response teams were coordinating with officials in all four states and stockpiling supplies, Obama said.

Scott requested Obama declare a pre-landfall emergency for Florida, which would bring resources including food, water and waterproof coverings and double the active National Guard force to 3,000.

Schools and airports across the region were to closed on Thursday and some hospitals were evacuated, according to local media. Hundreds of flights were canceled in and out of Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, Florida, industry website Flightaware.com said early on Thursday.

‘ALL BOARDED UP’ In Florida, fuel stations posted “out of gas” signs after cars waited in long lines to fill up.

“Every gas station I went to is empty,” motorist Charles Bivona said in a Tweet late Wednesday.

“Here comes Hurricane Matthew.

Um, yikes.”

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