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Actors Chris Pratt, Anna Faris announce they are separating LOS ANGELES - Actors Chris Pratt and Anna Faris are splitting up after eight years of marriage, they said on Sunday.

“Anna and I are sad to announce we are legally separating. We tried hard for a long time, and we’re really disappointed,” Pratt, 38, said in a statement posted on his official Facebook page.

Faris, 40, posted a statement along the same lines on her social media pages.

Pratt, known for starring roles in blockbusters “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “The Lego Movie” and “Jurassic World,” and Faris, star of the “Scary Movie” franchise and the TV sitcom “Mom,” have a fouryear-old child.

“Our son has two parents who love him very much and for his sake we want to keep this situation as private as possible moving forward,” the couple said. “We still have love for each other, will always cherish our time together and continue to have the deepest respect for one another.”

The couple married in 2009, two years after co-starring in the film “Take Me Home Tonight.” It was Pratt’s first marriage and Faris’ second. (rtr)

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Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift in federal court over groping allegation

DENVER - Taylor Swift might turn up in a federal court in Denver on Monday as lawyers for the pop star and a Colorado radio personality start jury selection for dueling lawsuits over whether the former disc jockey groped her four years ago during a photo shoot.

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Chris Pratt (R) poses with his wife Anna Faris as they attend a premiere of the film “Guardians of the galaxy, Vol. 2” in London April 24, 2017.

Swift, 27, is expected to take the witness stand during the trial in U.S. District Court to testify about the incident, which resulted in broadcaster David Mueller’s firing from Colorado music station KYGO-FM. The bitter litigation centers on Swift’s allegations that Mueller slipped his hand under her dress and grabbed her bare bottom as they posed together during a meetand-greet session before her June 2, 2013, concert in Denver.

“It was not an accident, it was completely intentional, and I have

never been so sure of anything in my life,” Swift said in describing the incident during a deposition.

Mueller, 55, sued first, claiming the singer-songwriter had falsely accused him of the groping and pressured station management to oust him from his $150,000-peryear job at the station, according to the lawsuit.

Swift countersued for assault and battery, and that became part of the same trial.

Mueller denies that anything inappropriate occurred during the brief backstage encounter in which

he stood on one side of the pop star and his girlfriend on the other.

“The contention that Mr. Mueller lifted up Ms. Swift’s skirt and grabbed her bottom, while standing with his girlfriend, in front of Ms. Swift’s photographer and (her) highly trained security personnel ... is nonsense,” the lawsuit said.

Mueller is suing under tort claims of interference with contractual obligations and prospective business relations. Jurors will determine what monetary damages, if any, he is entitled to if Swift is found liable. (rtr)

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IEBC workers stand in front of ballot boxes and election material in Baragoy, Kenya August 7, 2017.

Kenyans stockpile food, police get first aid kits ahead of vote

KISUMU - Nervous Kenyans stockpiled food and water on Monday and police prepared first emergency aid kits as families headed to their ethnic heartlands on the eve of an election many fear could descend into violence. Opposition leader Raila Odinga, 72, who lost elections in 2007 and 2013, has already said President Uhuru Kenyatta, 55, can only win if his ruling Jubilee party rigs the vote, a stance that increases the chances of a disputed result and unrest.

Opinion polls before Tuesday’s presidential election put the pair neck-and-neck. Kenyans will also be voting for members of parliament and local representatives.

In 2007, Odinga’s call for street protests after problems with the vote count triggered a widespread campaign of ethnic violence in which 1,200 people were killed and 600,000 displaced. The violence also hammered East Africa’s biggest economy as regional trade ground to a halt and tourists, the biggest source of foreign exchange, cancelled holidays. Much of the killing a decade ago was in Kisumu, a city of a million people, most of them from Odinga’s Luo tribe, on the shores of Lake Victoria.

On Sunday, its open-air markets and shops were packed with customers stocking up on last-minute essentials. “We are fearful because before there was rigging and that

led to violence,” said orange seller Christine Okoth.

Wilson Njenga, a central government official overseeing the western region, said police had received disaster equipment including first aid and gloves but insisted it was all part of normal contingency planning. “We don’t want to be caught flatfooted,” he told reporters. On the campaign trail last week, Odinga told Reuters that Kenyatta could not win without cheating, a message that has fired up supporters in his back yard.

“If he doesn’t win, we are going to the streets and we’ll demonstrate,” said 28-year-old Kisumu potato seller Ruth Achieng. Deputy President William Ruto, who was charged along

with Kenyatta by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for organising the 2007 violence, tweeted a prayer for peaceful and transparent polls.

The ICC cases against both him and Kenyatta collapsed.

INTIMIDATION ACCUSATIONS Going back to rural roots to vote is a long-standing Kenyan tradition, driven by a desire to catch up with friends and family as well as choose a suitable local political representative. More recently, fear of unrest has become a factor. In all, 150,000 security personnel including park rangers have been called up to maintain order across the country, including preventing

demonstrations in hotspots immediately before or after the polls.

In Kisumu, where many people feel neglected by a central government led by a president from the Kikuyu ethnic group since 2002, County Commissioner Mohamed Maalim told local media protests near election day were banned.

Such edicts are likely to fuel opposition accusations of intimidation and dirty tricks by the security forces. “I have never seen this level of intimidation by the state against the electorate,” 71-year-old Senator Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o, an Odinga ally running for Kisumu county governorship, told Reuters. Rights groups say hate-speech has been notably absent from large public speeches in both campaigns - an important difference from 2007 although two incidents in the last week have put the nation of nearly 50 million on edge.

A key election official was found tortured and murdered a week ago, and on Friday two foreign political advisers to Odinga were arrested

and deported by plain-clothes police. Their laptops were also seized. Some Kisumu residents said they were headed to villages outside the city to vote and hunker down in case of trouble. Members of Kenyatta’s Kikuyu ethnic group headed the other direction, away from Odinga’s strongholds.

One supermarket manager who asked not to be identified said suppliers of televisions and furniture had halted deliveries over the past week due to fears of looting. “They fear to come to this side of the country,” the manager, a Kikuyu, said. He had already sent his family to a Kikuyu-majority city and would be joining them in the evening, he added.(rtr) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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Lonely orders, Bamboo wall makers shift profession to building workers

BANGLI —Lately, the order received by bamboo wall makers is getting lonelier. This happens due to the sluggish economy. In addition, the decline in orders also happens because the community recently began to switch to cement-based fiber board instead of bamboo wall for home plafond material. This condition causes a number of bamboo wall makers to switch profession into construction worker.

One of the bamboo wall makers from Linjong hamlet, Tiga, Susut, I Komang Arta, 35, said on Sunday (Aug. 6) that the sluggish order has been going on since the past two years. According to him, the decline in order happens because people are now beginning to switch to using cement-based fiber board for their ceiling. “Prior to the presence of this fiber board in the market, the demand for bamboo wall was high enough,” he said.

“In the past, when receiving many orders, I was overwhelmed to make the bamboo wall. Within a month, I could receive 10 to 15 pieces of bamboo wall of various sizes. However, the current order has dropped dramatically,” he said.

Due to lonely orders, many bamboo wall makers currently have to switch professions in order to earn more to meet their daily needs. This measure is taken because the income of making bamboo wall is assessed still inadequate. “At Linjong hamlet, almost 90 percent of the residents are bamboo wall makers. Due to lack of orders and cheap price of bamboo wall, now many people here switch professions into a hoeing worker or construction worker,” he said.

Similar condition was expressed by a bamboo wall maker from Kayumabua, Ketut Rena. He stated that currently the price of bamboo wall indeed plummeted. People now prefer to use other materials because it is considered more practical and more durable. “Bamboo wall is only used for Balinese style building.

Other than it, people prefer to use material other than bamboo wall,” said Rena.

When asked about the selling price of bamboo wall, Rena added, for the size of 3x4 meters is sold for IDR 250,000. When calculated, the costs incurred namely for bamboo raw material reaches IDR 150,000, while the making process will take him up to four days. “When the result of plaiting bamboo wall is calculated, I just get IDR 25,000 per day, while the price of basic needs continues to rise. It is no wonder many residents here leave the profession as a bamboo wall maker,” explained Rena. (kmb41)

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Denpasar develops subak ecotourism as tourist destination The beautiful ricfield can be one of the attraction in Bali.

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DENPASAR —Denpasar has various tourist destinations ranging from Sanur Beach, Bali Museum, Le Mayeur Museum, Badung Market, Dalem Serangan Temple as well as various festivals such as Sanur Village Festival and Denpasar Festival. If other districts have the potential of tourism village as a new tourist development trend, Denpasar city having no hills and mountains choose to develop ecotourism.

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Denpasar city will develop ecotourism in the form of subak (irrigation cooperative). Subak in Denpasar city is almost the same as in other districts. North Denpasar has ten subak organizations, East Denpasar (13), South Denpasar (10) and West Denpasar (8).

The subak areas having become ecotourism are the Subak Sembung at Peguyangan and Subak Umalayu at Penatih in East Denpasar subdistrict. East Denpasar and North Denpasar have the potential to be developed into ecotourism.

“The existing ecotourism has been good. We just need to improve the visit and the facilities. I want Denpasar to be a driving force for new objects. Otherwise, we will be left behind,” said A.A. Bagus Sudharsana, the Head of the Denpasar Tourism Office, on Sunday (Aug. 6).

Denpasar having no hills and mountains must take advantage of beaches and ecotourism. “We can take selfie in agricultural areas spreading widely enough,” he said.

For instance, Subak Sembung has a farmland area of 120 hectares,

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Subak Kerdung in South Denpasar (82 hectares of farmland), Subak Umalayu in East Denpasar, including subak area at Penatih and others have extensive farmland.

His agency tried to develop the potential by teaming up with local community. One of the efforts undertaken to develop ecotourism is to train beginners to become local guides at these locations. “The training will be provided by practitioners, academician from SPB and from the government to direct the tourist object so that the infrastructure is well arranged. Do not just arrange the object but also the entrance and parking lot, so they must be well integrated,” he said.

These eco-tourism objects are being built. At Bindu, Kesiman village, East Denpasar, is also being built by taking advantage of the potential owned by local rivers.

“We clean it up and plant trees; the public works agency repairs the irrigation channels and rivers, revetment, while the landscaping agency establishes the park including its jogging track,” he explained. It is developed to become a new tourist

attraction.

After arranging the infrastructure and human resources, it is resumed with the efforts to increase tourist visit. The efforts are made by the BPPD in cooperation with the PHRI and tour guides. However, the obstacle faced is related to guide fee. “To us in Denpasar, this fee may be inadequate. Then, who will give guide fee when visiting subak? Later on, we will gather the operators of tourist attractions to make them professional,” he said.

In addition to cooperating with tour guide, his agency also tried to make the tourist attractions in the city of Denpasar viral, especially the ecotourism, through online promotions. For instance, it can be made by organizing tourism video blog (vlog) competition of Denpasar city.

This year, the Denpasar municipality will also hold gamelan attractions, make galleries and organize gig attraction around the city with the Denpasar Gig Association (Perdoden). The gamelan attraction is carried out by cooperating with schools and making city tour. (kmb42)

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DenPasar2017 Exhibition and Movement

Fresh Market Languages from Bali-based Artists

Researchers have extracted DNA from

DENPASAR - CushCush Gallery (CCG), a gallery located in Denpasar city, Bali is an alternative platform for contemporary arts and design. This gallery is having an exciting new endeavor on pasar – which means market - and Denpasar – which literally means “Pasar Utara” (North of Market) - through an exhibition and a movement titled “DenPasar2017”.

the blood samples of 10,000 people, 3,000 of them transgender and the rest non-transgender, or cisgender.

The project is awaiting grant funding to begin the next phase.

Born this way? Researchers explore the science of gender identity REUTERS

NEW YORK - While President Donald Trump has thrust transgender people back into the conflict between conservative and liberal values in the United States, geneticists are quietly working on a major research effort to unlock the secrets of gender identity.

A consortium of five research institutions in Europe and the United States, including Vanderbilt University Medical Center, George Washington University and Boston Children’s Hospital, is looking to the genome, a person’s complete set of DNA, for clues about whether transgender people are born that way.

Two decades of brain research have provided hints of a biological origin to being transgender,

but no irrefutable conclusions.

Now scientists in the consortium have embarked on what they call the largest-ever study of its kind, searching for a genetic component to explain why people assigned one gender at birth so persistently identify as the other, often from very early childhood.

Researchers have extracted DNA from the blood samples of 10,000 people, 3,000 of them transgender and the rest non-

transgender, or cisgender. The project is awaiting grant funding to begin the next phase: testing about 3 million markers, or variations, across the genome for all of the samples.

Knowing what variations transgender people have in common, and comparing those patterns to those of cisgender people in the study, may help investigators understand what role the genome plays in everyone’s gender

identity.

“If the trait is strongly genetic, then people who identify as trans will share more of their genome, not because they are related in nuclear families but because they are more anciently related,” said Lea Davis, leader of the study and an assistant professor of medicine at the Vanderbilt Genetics Institute.

The search for the biological underpinnings is taking on new relevance as the battle for transgender rights plays out in the U.S. political arena.

One of the first acts of the

new Trump administration was to revoke Obama-era guidelines directing public schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms of their choice. (reut. rs/2l8pWJe) Last week, the president announced on Twitter he intends to ban transgender people from serving in the military.

A Quinnipiac University poll released on Thursday found 68 percent of Americans say transgender people should be allowed to serve in the military, an even larger majority than the 58 percent found in a Reuters/Ipsos poll last week. (rtr)

Brick by brick: satellite images could identify slave labour in India

LONDON - Researchers in England are hoping to help root out modern day slavery in northern India by using detailed satellite imagery to locate brick kilns - sites that are notorious for using millions of slaves, including children.

A team of geospatial experts at the University of Nottingham use Google Maps and dozens of volunteers to identify potential sites of exploitation and report them to authorities.

“The key thing at the moment is to get those statistics right and to get the locations of the brick kilns sorted,” said Dr Doreen Boyd, a co-researcher on the ‘Slavery from Space’ project.

“There are certainly activists on the ground that will help us in terms of getting the statistics and the locations of these brick kilns to (government) officials.”

Anti-slavery activists said the project could be useful in identifying remote kilns or mines that would otherwise escape public or official scrutiny.

“But there are other, more pressing challenges like tackling problematic practices including withheld wages, lack of transparent accounting,... no enforcement of existing labour laws,” said Jakub Sobik, spokesman at Anti-Slavery, a London-based NGO. Millions of people in India are believed to be living in slavery. Despite a 1976 ban on bonded labour, the practice remains widespread at brick kilns, rice mills, and brothels, among others.

The majority of victims belong to low-income families or marginalized castes like the Dalits or ‘untouchables’.

Nearly 70 percent of brick kiln workers in South Asia are estimated to be working in bonded and forced labour, according to a 2016 report by the International Labor Organization.

About a fifth of those are under age.

The project relies on ‘citizen science’ or ‘crowdsourcing’ - a process where volunteers sift through thousands of satellite images to identify possible locations of kilns. Each image is shown to multiple volunteers who mark kilns independently.

The team is currently focused on an area of 2,600 square km in the desert state of Rajasthan - teeming with brick-making sites - and plans to scale up the project in the coming years.

Researchers are now in talks with satellite companies to get access to more detailed images, rather than having to rely on publicly available Google Maps. (rtr)

An exhibition that starts with a wandering For theDenPasar2017 exhibition, CCG have selected 17 interdisciplinary Bali-based artists through an open call earlier in January 2017. The word ‘pasar’ in ‘Denpasar’reinforced the important role of the market in the development of the city as it has become today, and participants were asked to observe, understand, and re-learn the meaning of ‘Pasar’ and Denpasar, with the theme Bahasapasar or “market language.”

The selected artists are Adhika Annisa Ninus (architect, dancer, and performing artist), Dian Suri (jewelry designer), Myra Juliarti (fashion designer), FarhanAdityasmara (visual artist and art lecturer), MirahRahmawati (fine artist and art lecturer), I Gede Jaya Putra (fine artist), Andre Yoga (illustrator and mural artist), Soehartawan (fine artist), I Wayan Martino (photographer), LuguGumilar (barista and illustrator), NajmaAchmad (product designer and photographer), SidhiVhisatya (illustrator and mural artist), SyafiudinVifick (photographer), Tri HaryokoAdi (mural artist), QomaruzzamanAlamry (comic artist), ReevoSaulus (graphic designer), and Yoga Wahyudi (fashion designer).

DenPasar 2017 started with MelaliKePasar (meaning: journey to the market) session in March 2017. It began withDenPasarTalk with culture enthusiasts, AriefAyipBudiman and Marlowe Bandem as speakers who gave inspirations to the 17 artists, and then continued with DenPasarWalk (going through four traditional and modern markets together) with the participants.

After an intense two months of explorations and process, through MelaliKePasar and later their own markets visits, the 17 participants have some similar observations. For example, many find the roles of women are very noteworthy – as sellers and as

carriers / potters with bamboo weaved baskets on their heads. Some came to a realization that the biggest pasar located in the heart of Denpasar, can be seen as the heart of Bali itself.

As one of the DenPasar2017 participant, NajmaAchmad, stated in her CCG Instagram account takeover, “The market is also a place where you can find a rich diversity of human characters as well as its wide variety of products.

It is the place where differences melt in one common priority.”

This recalls what speaker Marlowe Bandem’sDenPasarTalk titled “Let’s Wander. Let’s Acquire”.

Bali’s open-ness and multicultural spirit has become Bali’s excellence from the past, present and into its future.

Denpasar city is a clear example where Arab, Chinese, Indian and Javanese villages are neighbors. It did not only create the biggest traditional ‘market’ in Bali, it also becomes the evidence to this island’s rich acculturation. And this is clearly seen and felt in the traditional markets of Denpasar and undoubtedly presented in the 17 artworks at DenPasar2017 exhibition.

With that in mind, Denpasar is seen as the “heart of Bali” - the domain to synergize tradition and modernity - a cultural practice that originates from the forefathers generations to today’s younger generation’s ‘creative tension’.

An exhibition that developed one’s sense of place In DenPasar2017 exhibition, the 17 participants withdifferentcreative disciplines create 17 fresh market perspectives, their very own ‘Market Language’.

As encouraged byDenPasarTalk speaker, Arief ‘Ayip’ Budiman, through his talk “A Sense of Place and Iconography”, a contribution towards the succession of the dynamic Denpasar iconography timeline that

keeps on cultivating is necessary.

Ayip challenged the participants of DenPasar2017 to get involved in presenting a sense of place of their time.

He explained how ‘one icon produces another icon, and how icons form a sense of place’. This is all done through sensory – using one’s five senses. Reflecting on the participants’ explorations of sensing Denpasar and finding their own interpretation of market language, their artworks show their contemporary views of Denpasar city, and aspire to become icons that add to Denpasar’s sense of place.

Their sensory were very expressively seen on each of the artwork produced in two-dimensional work of size 40 x 60 cm. Some can interpret the market language straightforwardly through photography, drawings, or paintings. Some become very abstract due to the absurdity found from its chaotic and complex atmosphere.

An exhibition that is also a movement CCG shared that DenPasar2017 is not only an art exhibition, but it is also a movement. DenPasar2017 aims to create new documentation and image creation of Denpasar city in the year of 2017, and CCG is inviting the society to provide spaces for these participants’ artworks to be shown and letting every corner of Denpasar city become a big exhibition space.

As a movement, CCG has also invited artists and creative communities who took pasar and Denpasar as their main themes in their creation to show their works, as a further collaboration that adds enriching layers to the theme of ‘Market Language’. They are Urban Sketchers Bali (creative sketching community), Swoofone (street artist), KitaPoleng (art performance community) and Masuria Sudjana (a 3rd generation photographer based in Denpasar).

DenPasar2017 becomes a continuing process as it progresses to promote

Cash transaction shifts to non-cash

BNI increases digital banking literacy

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Researchers in England are hoping to help root out modern day slavery in northern India by using detailed satellite imagery to locate brick kilns.

DENPASAR - In the future, cash transactions will soon be replaced by non-cash. Banking authorities continue to improve their digital banking services in line with the development of information and communication technology. Thus, the banking can increase performance through digital banking. All the banks coalesced into the state-owned enterprise are

currently undergoing transformation into a qualified national digital financial institution. BNI is one of them. With digital banking, it seeks to improve performance in terms of third party funds, credit to transactions. The transformation of BNI into a national digital financial institution is a means for BNI to improve the performance and acceleration of literacy

of financial transactions to the digital technology-based community. This was conveyed by the Head of BNI for Bali, NTB & NTT Regional Office, Putu Bagus Kresna, recently.

“Implementation of digital banking is not just an increase in third party funds, but also credit including transactions leading to digital. In the future, all the transactions will lead to

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SyafiudinVifick with “SekerenengPasar” using photography, a reflection of his conversations towards the buyers of Denpasar’s markets.

Denpasar city in the mapping the art, design and creative tourism in Bali. This includes providing artistic perspectives and stories that have not received much attention.

Besides coming from the exhibition of 17 open call artists and 4 invited artists / creative communities, there are also exciting upcoming events. These events include Meet The Artist sessions where the public

can hear the participants’ involvement and collaboration directly, exclusive talks and workshops with invited artists/creative communities/previous speakers.

DenPasar2017 Exhibition runs from 26thMay 2017 until 26th August 2017 at CushCush Gallery (CCG), JalanTeuku Umar, Gang Rajawali no. 1A Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.

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non-cash,” he said.

Through the development of DigiNation concept, his institution will transform the behavior of bank services to customers towards the model of banking digitization transactions.

Various digital products have been developed such as BNI UnikQu, BNI Digital Loan, Agent46 BNI, social assistance dashboard and other digital products. In addition, BNI is also actively embracing financial technology (fintech) company to further enrich itself in meeting all the needs of customers that increasingly demand for mobile, fast and concise business

model. In terms of performance, Bagus revealed that for the Bali, NTB and NTT Regional Office, it recorded a good growth in credit distribution in the first half of 2017 that grew by 13 percent from IDR 8.5 trillion in the first half of 2016 to more than IDR 9.5 trillion in the first half of 2017.

Credit distribution in the business banking sector such as working capital loans, investment loans, people’s business credit (KUR) and others still dominate reaching more than IDR 5.2 trillion, and around IDR 4.3 trillion is channeled to consumer sector. (kmb42)

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Tuesday, August 8, 2017

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Dozens of Bengkala artifacts identified

Oldest artifacts from Ming Dynasty found

Weakening Typhoon Noru makes landfall, batters central Japan with rain

SINGARAJA — Dozens of historical artifacts at Bengkala village, Kubutambahan, are identified by the Denpasar archaeological institute last week. This identification is the first measure before the archaeological institute conducts more in-depth research on the artifacts.

An apparatus of Bengkala customary village, Ketut Darpa, said the artifacts were found in village temple of Bengkala.

Dozens of the artifacts were found after local customary village did a restoration to temple buildings. Its meru shrine in the innermost courtyard has been refurbished since June 26. At that time was found many historical relics hidden in the meru shrine. Customary village then invited the Denpasar archeological institute to identify the artifacts.

“At least, we know the exact information about the objects we have found. After getting the information, we continue to disseminate it to the citizens. We are open to the public in order they can also know, and this must be known. It is meant that people will not forget the history of the village,” he affirmed.

Head of the Denpasar Archeological Institute, I Gusti Made Suarbawa, said that from the results of temporary identification, the oldest artifact is a bowl made of salted egg-green ceramic with floral ornaments.

The artifacts are believed to have originated from the Ming Dynasty in the thirteenth to fourteenth centuries.

Based on the identification, he has confidence if the artifacts found at village temple of Bengkala are ritual paraphernalia used to support religious activities in the past. In addition, the items found in the temple are not much different from the profane properties used for daily activities. “Other ceramics, including teapots, belongs to European products. One of which we can identify is from Belgium,” he added. (kmb38)

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A protestor holds a placard in front of anti-riot policemen during a protest condemning the 50th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Ministerial meeting in Manila, Philippines August 7, 2017. The placard reads “Dismantle! Chinese Military facilities in South China Sea”.

Australia, Japan, U.S. call for South China Sea code to be legally binding

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This identification is the first measure before the archaeological institute conducts more in-depth research on the artifacts.

29 dams in damaged condition

Thousands of hectares of paddy fields threatened to dry out

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Nyoman Suparta Wijaya

SINGARAJA — At least 3,200 paddy fields in Buleleng are predicted to experience shortage of irrigation water supply. This happens because 29 dams draining the irrigation water to farmland in North Bali are now in moderate to severe damaged condition. The damage in the 23 watersheds happens due to the impact of natural disasters occurred in January and the peak in February 2017.

The damage to dozens of dams caused by natural disasters began to cause unrest among farmers. Moreover, when entering dry season this year, their fields require irrigation water supply from the dam. Actually, since the beginning of this dry season, farmers in Buleleng have

repeatedly requested the acceleration of aid for improvement to local government. In addition to sending official letters, farmers also come to the office of public works and spatial planning (PU-PR) on Jalan Kartini, Singaraja. Their desire cannot be fulfilled in the near future because the regulation governing the use of emergency response fund cannot be used as the period is over. Upon this condition, the repair is proposed through post-disaster program and takes a long time.

Head of the Buleleng Public Works and Spatial Planning Agency, Nyoman Suparta Wijaya, said on Sunday (Aug. 6) that he repeatedly received a complaint from farmers

that requested the acceleration of repair to the 29 dams. Repair of the 29 dams has been planned and the required funding has been calculated reaching about IDR 8.9 billion.

“The 29 dams are the asset of the PU-PR. Since the disaster, it was planned to be repaired from the emergency response fund. However, it cannot be done because the period is over. Now, we have discussed for the improvement and needs quite large funds,” he said.

Under this condition, Suparta will temporarily reprogram by giving priority to more severe damages as well as those having urgent impact and needs. Later on, starting from the amended regional budget 2017, his

agency began to repair the damaged dams in North Bali. In the meantime, further handling will be scheduled through the regional budget 2018.

With this effort, the thousands of hectares of paddy field predicted to be affected by damaged dam could be addressed, and the risk of drought in the dry season this year can be minimized.

“We target to repair them through the amended regional budget. We will do based on priority scale because the budget is not sufficient. Anyway, the irrigation is very important so that we anticipate the risk of the drought from really happening due to the damage to agricultural infrastructure,” he added. (kmb38)

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TOKYO - A weakening Typhoon Noru made landfall in central Japan on Monday, pounding some regions with more than a month’s worth of rain, but while it appeared likely to brush close to Tokyo it was losing much of its strength.

At one point the world’s strongest storm this year, Noru’s approach to the Japanese heartland prompted evacuation advisories for tens of thousands on Shikoku, Japan’s smallest main island, and more than 400 flights were cancelled, NHK public broadcaster said.

But there were no further deaths reported than two at the weekend, one of them a fisherman in his 80s who went out to check on his boat during the storm. No people were missing and only around a dozen injured, NHK added.

Noru, whose name is the Korean word for a type of deer, made landfall in the central prefecture of Wakayama on Wednesday afternoon and continued to head northeast, raising the possibility it could brush past Tokyo on Tuesday - although by then it will have weakened to a tropical depression.

Parts of Shikoku were hit with 52 mm (2.1 inches) of rain in one hour on Monday morning, with some parts of central Japan likely to see 500 mm (20 inches) of rain in the 24 hours to Tuesday morning due to the storm’s unusual slowness, the meteorological agency added.

“Usually typhoons just whip right on through, but this one is so slow, the rain goes on and on,” one man told NHK. Three Japanese oil refiners said they had halted berth oil product shipments at their refineries in western and central Japan on Monday due to a typhoon, but that there had been no impact on refining operations or truck shipments.

Noru formed more than two weeks ago and wandered around the north Pacific in a circular course until it strengthened and began heading for Japan. At one point it was a Category 5 storm, but has been downgraded to a Category 1.

Noru is likely to weaken to tropical storm strength later on Monday, according to Tropical Storm Risk.com and be a tropical depression by the time it brushes past Tokyo on Tuesday. (rtr)

MANILA - Australia, Japan and the United States on Monday urged Southeast Asia and China to ensure that a South China Sea code of conduct they have committed to draw up will be legally binding and said they strongly opposed “coercive unilateral actions”.

The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China should establish a set of rules that were “legally binding, meaningful, effective, and consistent with international law,” the foreign ministers of the three countries said in a statement following a meeting in Manila.

Foreign ministers of ASEAN and China on Sunday adopted a negotiating framework for a code of conduct, a move they hailed as progress but seen by critics as a tactic to buy China time to consolidate its maritime power.

Australia, Japan and the United States also “voiced their strong opposition to coercive unilateral actions that could alter the status quo and increase tensions”.

They also urged claimants to refrain from land reclamation, construction of outposts and militarization of disputed features, in a veiled reference to China’s expansion of

its defence capability on Mischief, Fiery Cross and Subi reefs in the Spratly archipelago.

The three countries are not claimants but have long been vocal on the issue, arguing their interest is in ensuring freedom of navigation and overflight.

They urged China and the Philippines to abide by last year’s international arbitration ruling, which invalidated China’s claim to almost the entire South China Sea, where more than $3 trillion worth of seaborne goods pass every year.

Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have competing claims there.

The code framework is an outline for what China and ASEAN call “consultations” on a formal agreement, which could start later this year. China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, on Sunday said that hinged on whether the situation was stable, and if there was no “major

interference” from outsiders.

Several ASEAN countries want the code to be legally binding, enforceable and have a dispute resolution mechanism, but experts say China will not allow that, and ASEAN may end up acquiescing to what amounts to a gentlemen’s agreement.

Singapore’s foreign minister Vivian Balakrishnan said it was still premature to conclude the outcome of the negotiations for the code of conduct, which will be done by lawyers.

“One key issue is the question of legally binding,” he told reporters late on Sunday. “Surely when we move into the COC, it has got to have some additional or significant legal effect.”

Philippine Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said he preferred a legally-binding agreement, which other countries, like Vietnam, supported. (rtr)

Mandatory credit Kyodo via REUTERS

A big wave caused by Typhoon Noru crashes on a breakwater in Aki, Kochi Prefecture, Japan in this photo taken

by Kyodo on August 7, 2017.

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BUSINESS Another milestone for stocks: Most boring market in decades

NEW YORK — Yawn. This year’s run to a record for the stock market has been one of the least eventful in decades. Seemingly every day, stocks have drifted by just a few tenths of a percent in a lazy ascent to new heights.

Only twice this year have investors had to deal with a 1 percent drop for the Standard & Poor’s 500 index in a day. That’s far fewer than typical. The last time stocks sailed through such an uneventful first seven months was when a group of burglars was arrested for breaking into the Watergate complex in 1972. Broaden the scope to include when the S&P 500 fell or rose by 1 percent in a day, and this could be the least volatile year for stocks since 1964, if the current pace holds. Just don’t get too comfortable. As central banks start to wean markets off the stimulus they’ve injected into the global economy, many money managers say they’re preparing for a bumpier ride ahead.

For now, markets have been so calm that the biggest loss for the S&P 500 last week was just 0.2 percent. Compare that to the whiplash investors felt during the summer of 2011, when the S&P 500 swung by more than 4 percent each day during one four-day stretch.

Investors fortunate enough to be in the market have enjoyed all the upside of owning stocks with almost none of the traditional downside.

Stocks are supposed to be volatile, and investors have long accepted that having to stomach big swings in price is one of the costs of owning them. But the largest stock fund by assets, Vanguard’s Total Stock Market Index fund, has already returned 11 percent in 2017 with only a few big down days.

“At the surface, it is surprising” how calm stocks have been, said Greg Davis, Vanguard’s chief investment officer. “But it’s not surprising if you think about a world where central banks have been unbelievably accommodative. I think investors still think central banks will step in if there’s any stress in the financial markets.”

But the Fed is now slowly moving in the opposite direction: It has raised short-term rates modestly three times in the last year. The central bank also expects to begin paring its vast portfolio of bond investments “relatively soon.” Investors on both sides of the Atlantic, meanwhile, are handicapping how long it will be before the European Central Bank pulls back on its bond-buying program.

That could force a return to more typical levels of volatility. Over the last half century, the S&P 500 has had a median 26 days where it fell by at least 1 percent during a year. The worry is that the stock market may not only get back to that level but overshoot it. Stocks are pricier, which raises the risk: One popular measure that compares stock prices to corporate earnings over the prior 10 years says the S&P 500 is at its most expensive level since the dot-com bubble in 2001..(ap)

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In this Wednesday, April 26, 2017, file photo, specialist Anthony Matesic works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

The year’s run to a record for the stock market has been one of the least eventful in decades. But don’t get lulled: Many professional investors expect a bumpier ride ahead.

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Pejaten Village a Home to Ceramic Arts

Pejaten has a new tourist attraction namely ceramics museum. Many people do not know yet about it. It is natural because it was just established four years ago gradually. Visitors to the museum named Tantri only reach tens of people. More foreign travelers are recorded. Aside from having a look, they can also practice the making of ceramics. The result can be taken home, so that Pejaten can still be remembered.

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Workers assemble an e-Golf electric car at the new production line of the Transparent Factory of German carmaker Volkswagen in Dresden, Germany March 30, 2017.

German state premier on defensive over close ties with VW

BERLIN - The government of Germany’s Lower Saxony on Sunday denied a newspaper report that its premier softened speeches critical of Volkswagen in the diesel emissions scandal at the company’s request. Stephan Weil, already facing an unexpected election after the defection of a member of his ruling coalition to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives, is under fire for what some see as a too-cozy relationship with VW. The mass circulation newspaper Bild am Sonntag quoted a VW employee as saying that the company “rewrote and watered down” an October 2015 speech by Weil to the state legislature about the diesel scandal after Weil shared a draft with the company.

“This was no fact check,” the paper quoted the employee as saying. Weil called VW “a pearl of German industry” in the speech, but other passages were removed, the newspaper reported, including one in which he called for company officials to be held accountable “regardless of their place in the hierarchy.”

Weil’s office issued a two-page statement on Sunday denying the charges and calling the report “distorting and misleading.” It acknowledged that it had in fact asked the company to fact-check the speech given the sensitivity of “difficult” discussions with U.S. authorities about the rigging of

U.S. emissions tests. It said only very few changes suggested by VW were actually adopted, adding: “There were definitely no substantial changes between the first draft and the speech as ultimately delivered.”

Weil, who is a member of VW’s supervisory board, also sharply criticised VW leadership in the speech for not disclosing its emissions rigging until a year after it first began discussions with U.S. officials, his office said.

It said there had been no consultation about speeches or remarks with VW for several months, since the “situation between VW and the U.S. authorities has now been cleared up.” VW executive Oliver Schmidt pleaded guilty last week in a U.S. court in connection with the emissions scandal that has cost the German automaker as much as $25 billion. The controversy about Weil’s speech erupted amid renewed questions about close ties

between German politicians and German car makers, and whether they prevented the German government from acting sooner to address the widening emissions scandal.

Critics have also blasted the outcome of last week’s diesel summit, saying that the German government should have insisted on harsher steps to rein in diesel emissions, but was swayed by industry to adopt less onerous measures.

They included Daimler’s chief lobbyist Eckart von Klaeden, a conservative politician who worked under Chancellor Angela Merkel in the chancellery until 2013. His abrupt switch to the Mercedes manufacturer prompted an investigation by Berlin prosecutors and new rules on “cooling off” periods. Thomas Steg, now VW’s top lobbyist, served as spokesman for the government of Lower Saxony for seven years until 2009.(rtr)

Balinese men prepare for their kites during a traditional kite competition at a kite festival in Bali, Indonesia, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. The four-day international kite festival is organized to promote tourism on the resort island.

To Maintain Peace, Residents Preserve Tradition of Burning “Memedi” Bungaya customary village, Bebandem, Karangasem, is one of the old villages in Bali. Every customary and religious ritual at the village takes place uniquely.

One of them can be seen in the implementation of usaba mumu or familiarly known as usaba memedi. It’s named as usaba memedi because the ritual is marked with the ‘burning’ of memedi (spirits).

The procession is carried out amid the pounding sounds of kulkul (wooden split drum) throughout customary hamlet and clan temples at night. How does the implementation look like?

Usaba mumu is held once a year falling in January (Balinese seventh month). This year, peak of the implementation took place on Wednesday (Jan. 18). Fifteen days in advance, residents have looked for ritual paraphernalia ingredients such as young coconut leaf, fruit, palm leaf and others at local customary village. ‘’Usaba Mumu’’ di Desa Adat Bungaya Then, three days before the peak of procession, all the people create the figure of memedi made from various leaves, such as the leaf of aba, bamboo, eggplant and pulet.

The leaves are arranged in such a way to form humanoid figure coming with tribal marking by using lime betel.

“This paraphernalia is ritualized first in the morning at respective family temple. At night, it is taken out for the ritual procession,” said

the apparatus of Bungaya customary village, I Gede Adi Krisna Widana, just before the peak of the ritual began.

At the peak of usaba mumu, thousands of families at Bungaya village have been busy with ritual preparations from the morning.

Krisna said that before sunrise, the whole customary village apparatus come out to village temple or Bale Agung temple to prepare all means of rituals such as pras daksina, bayuan and kelanan.

In the meantime, all people have prepared ritual paraphernalia known as penyagaan (guard) made from palm tree stem from the morning. It is made to resemble a human figure decorated with various means such as coconut leaf arrangement and wild cherry fruit. The penyagaan means that people must be able to control their passions as preparation to pay homage.

The guard figure is placed in front of their respective alley. It will be dismantled at midday, after going through particular ritual.

“According to local belief, all the guard figures can later be mounted again in paddy fields or anywhere in order to avoid any catastrophe,” said Krisna.

In the afternoon, the whole community, especially women, will say prayers at Pemuhunan Temple.

This temple is quite unique located under a sacred banyan tree without any shrines. Prior to the prayers, thousands of women are sitting

around a banyan tree along with their offerings before the worship around 22:00 On the other hand, men are preparing the memedi figure that will be burned at the location of guard figure in the morning.

After completing the ritual at the Pemuhunan Temple, then memedi figure is burned simultaneously marked with the sounds of kulkul at 15 customary hamlets and clan temples that keep pounding until the procession is over. Burning the memedi figure has the meaning of burning all the natures of anger and negative traits in human beings, so that people can live harmonious and peaceful life.

The ashes are ritualized again after formed into human figure at the location of burning. When everything is over, the offerings prepared are immediately offered at the ash-made figure. “After the procession, it usually rains at the night symbolizing if the ritual has run smoothly,” said Krisna.

Three days after this procession, the entire local residents say prayers at the village temple. This process is called ngelisin where all pilgrims invoke holy water.

After making introspection for three days, all the local people go through life with a new atmosphere.

Basically, this procession symbolizes the journey of self-control and restores the butha kala to maintain the balance of macrocosm and microcosm. (kmb)

Putu Oka Mahendra, founder of the Tantri Museum of Ceramics, said that the idea of ??establishing the museum actually emerged in the 1980s. At that time, his father served as headman of Pejaten.

The idea was then materialized in 2011.

Oka Mahendra said that ceramics and pottery or products made from clay are synonymous with Pejaten village. These crafts have been supporting the life of local community since the beginning.

“In the past around in the 1970s, this village was a barren place. The existing agricultural land available was insufficient. Then, pottery crafts helped support the people here,” he said.

In the next decade, around 1985, the ceramics and pottery industry at the village was growing. It was in line with the introduction of the heating technique at high temperatures by a Dutch guest stopping at the village. With the technique, people could produce much higher quality ceramics and pottery.

This former legislator of Tabanan in the period of 2009-2014 said that incoming guests do not only have a look at the collection of ceramics, but also see the process

of making ceramics from raw material processing, manufacturing to finishing processes.

In harmony with the passage of time, Oka Mahendra said that many domestic and foreign travelers then come to Pejaten village especially to see the making of ceramics. “The visit is still dominated by foreign travelers from Europe with an average of 30 people per day, while domestic consists of 20 people,” he explained.

Admittedly, the development of Pejaten ceramics has started to increase. It is indicated by high demand for the goods, especially from hotels and restaurants. Definitely this condition encourages the growth of ceramic artisans.

Unfortunately, amid such development the artisans are faced with raw material constraint. Not infrequently they must be in line to get ready-to-used materials. “Our raw materials are brought in from Jakarta,” he explained.

Nevertheless, together with local residents he is currently conducting an area arrangement to support the existence of the ceramic museum.

One of them is organizing the rural environment so as to support the existence of the industry. (kmb)

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Third Dubai fire in days forces evacuation of hotel

No monkeying around, Indonesia task force vows

DUBAI - A small fire broke out a Dubai hotel on Monday, forcing guests and staff to leave, in the third such blaze in the United Arab Emirates tourism and trade hub in less than a week.

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African migrants react after crossing the border from Morocco to Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta, Spain, early August 7, 2017.

Several fire engines and an ambulance were deployed at the Movenpick hotel near the Marina district as scores of people gathered outside.

A video of the hotel posted on social media showed thin clouds of smoke wafting around a lower floor.

The hotel said on its official

Twitter account that the fire was “swiftly brought under control and guests and staff were safely evacuated.”

Civil defence workers gave the all-clear for people to return inside and there were no reports of injuries.

A blaze shot up the side of a nearby residential tower on Friday,

and local media reported that a smaller fire was quickly put out at a neighbouring building on Sunday.

No injuries were reported in either of those fires.

The series of fires in tall buildings in the UAE has revived questions about the safety of cladding materials used in the Gulf region and beyond. (rtr)

Dozens of migrants run across border in Spanish enclave

MADRID - Dozens of sub-Saharan migrants crossed into Spain from Morocco in the early hours of Monday after running through a border gate into the enclave of Ceuta, emergency services said.

Migrants frequently attempt to storm the borders of Spain’s two enclaves in northern Africa, Ceuta and Melilla, often clambering up fences which are up to 6 metres tall and topped by razor wire.

On Monday a group of more than 100 migrants ran through one gate in the fence usually used as a border control, surprising Moroccan and Spanish security forces, a Reuters witness said.

The Red Cross said it had assisted 186 people following the morning rush across the border, adding that four migrants were taken to hospital.

Once inside Spain’s enclaves, migrants are usually taken to temporary shelters and later moved to the Spanish mainland, or returned to their country of origin.

Many migrants try to enter Spain as a means of reaching other parts of Europe. Arrivals through Ceuta and Melilla, as well as the number of migrants attempting to cross into Spain by sea from North Africa has risen this year, although the route between Libya and Italy remains the most popular.

The Red Cross said last week it had attended 7,400 migrants crossing into mainlaind Spain and Ceuta and Melilla so far this year, up from 3,600 in the same period a year ago. (rtr)

Indonesian military officer orders that forest burners be shot

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Flames shoot up the sides of the Torch tower residential building in the Marina district, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in this August 4, 2017.

Kenyans stockpile food, police get first aid kits ahead of vote

KISUMU - Nervous Kenyans stockpiled food and water on Monday and police prepared first emergency aid kits as families headed to their ethnic heartlands on the eve of an election many fear could descend into violence.

Opposition leader Raila Odinga, 72, who lost elections in 2007 and 2013, has already said President Uhuru Kenyatta, 55, can only win if his ruling Jubilee party rigs the vote, a stance

that increases the chances of a disputed result and unrest.

Opinion polls before Tuesday’s presidential election put the pair neck-and-neck. Kenyans will also be voting for members of parliament and local representatives.

In 2007, Odinga’s call for street protests after problems with the vote count triggered a widespread campaign of ethnic violence in which 1,200 people were

killed and 600,000 displaced.

The violence also hammered East Africa’s biggest economy as regional trade ground to a halt and tourists, the biggest source of foreign exchange, cancelled holidays.

Much of the killing a decade ago was in Kisumu, a city of a million people, most of them from Odinga’s Luo tribe, on the shores of Lake Victoria.

On Sunday, its open-air mar-

kets and shops were packed with customers stocking up on lastminute essentials.

“We are fearful because before there was rigging and that led to violence,” said orange seller Christine Okoth.

Wilson Njenga, a central government official overseeing the western region, said police had received disaster equipment including first aid and gloves but insisted it was all part of normal

contingency planning.

“We don’t want to be caught flatfooted,” he told reporters.

On the campaign trail last week, Odinga told Reuters that Kenyatta could not win without cheating, a message that has fired up supporters in his back yard.

“If he doesn’t win, we are going to the streets and we’ll demonstrate,” said 28-yearold Kisumu potato seller Ruth Achieng. (rtr)

JAKARTA - A military official in the Indonesian province of Jambi said on Saturday he has ordered that anyone who deliberately sets fire to forest areas be shot, as authorities struggle to contain fires that cause choking smoke in the region. Five Indonesian provinces have declared emergencies because of forest fires, according to Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB), with the number of hotspots steadily increasing in many areas over the past week.

The BNPB is working with many government branches, including the military, to contain the fires. Indonesian media have reported that authorities in the neighbouring province of South Sumatra, also on the island of Sumatra, had issued the same order.

“This is to stress a point to the people, who have been warned many, many times,” said Colonel Refrizal, commander of the forest fire task force in Jambi. “(This is) to show our firmness and seriousness.”

The order would be carried out “responsibly”, said Refrizal, who goes by one name. BNPB spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said on Twitter the Jambi task force

was working to extinguish a fire covering an area of 10 hectares (25 acres). Nugroho also said authorities had found one area in Jambi that had been “intentionally” burned by its owner.

The number of hotspots had increased to 239 by July 30, from 173 hotspots three days earlier, according to the BNPB. The hotspots were seen mostly on Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of Borneo island, with some also on Sumatra and Java island.

The agency had previously warned that the threat of forest fires would escalate, with the dry season expected to peak in September. Indonesia is regularly hit

by forest fires, which can result in choking smoke blowing across to neighbouring countries like Singapore and Malaysia.

The sprawling Southeast Asian archipelago suffered some of its worst forest fires in 2015, hitting Sumatra and Kalimantan. The World Bank, citing government data, said 2.6 million hectares (6.4 million acres) of land in Indonesia burned between June and October 2015, causing $16 billion of estimated economic damage. Draining and conversion of peatland, often driven by palm oil plantations, contributed to the intensity of haze from the fires, the World Bank said.(rtr)

JAKARTA - Indonesia has deployed armed police and soldiers to help villagers on the island of Java fight back against marauding monkeys that have been terrorising their area, stealing food and even attacking vulnerable elderly residents and a child. The longtailed macaques have been growing increasingly bold in their interactions with humans in the Boyolali district of Central Java, north of the city of Solo.

“The monkeys had started coming here two months ago,” said police chief Aries Andhi. “After we shot one of them, the rest didn’t come back. Now they are back again.” A task force set up to patrol the area will shoot monkeys if necessary, he said, although traps will also be used to return others to the forest. “As long as they don’t disturb the villagers, we won’t shoot them,” said Andhi.

The patrols are comprised of villagers and local officials, supported by police, soldiers, and members of a hunting association, he said. “Most of the villagers attacked are senior citizens who live alone in makeshift

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houses,” said Andhi. “They don’t really have neighbours so when attacks happen it’s hard to get help.”

Among the 11 victims of monkey attacks was a fourth-grade student, said Heru Sunarko, coordinator of the Natural Resource Conservation Agency in Central Java. Animal protection activists said the destruction of natural forest habitats was pushing macaques into conflict with humans, but killing them was unacceptable.

“The reason why they are raiding people’s houses or gardens is because they need food,” said Robithotul Huda of International Animal Rescue Indonesia. “Their natural habitat, teak or pine forests, have changed into commercial forest.” Fruit was scarcer in the forest during the current dry season than in the rains, he added, while conceding that efforts to scare off the animals would only have temporary success.

“Slingshots, paintball, or firecrackers can scare them,” Huda said.

“But monkeys are intelligent, if the people have used a slingshot, tomorrow they have to use something else.

Monkeys can read these tactics.”(rtr)

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Brilliant Zverev wins Citi Open for fourth title of year

WASHINGTON - German Alexander Zverev used his dominant serve to claim a fourth ATP title of the year with a commanding 6-4 6-4 win over South African veteran Kevin Anderson at the Citi Open in Washington on Sunday.

Bali Mangrove Forest MANGUPURA - A beautiful Mangrove Forest is 6 km away from Sanur, Kuta direction. You are within 10 minutes at the entrance of the mangrove park. It is still unspoilt and not so well known among tourists. There are two different trails on scaffolding through the mangrove forest. Also there is a beautiful tower (see photo above).

A guide you do not really needed. You can walk around on your own, but you do miss some background information, which you can obtain in the Mangrove Information Centre.

The coast south of Sanur is naturally protected by a green belt of mangrove forest. A portion of this well-maintained forest is open to visitors. While taking a walk, visitors can experience, what does the mangrove for good with regard to the local ecosystem.

If you walk along the path, you’ll see dart away all kinds of animals, such as crabs and mud fish. At high tide, the water flows over the roots and it is a protected place for small fish and other animals, which would have been easy prey for predators. Between them to protect the roots. It is also considered as the breeding ground for many crustaceans such as crabs, shrimp, crabs, horseshoe crabs and shrimp. But also little fishes.

It is an unusual sight to see, how these trees protect themselves against salt water and their aerial roots attach themselves in the swampy soil. The mangrove roots filter the water at low tide and high tide, causing sediments are removed before they enter again the open sea, could otherwise the coral reefs could be dying. Like all mangrove swamps, the Matang

Mangrove Forest Reserve has been proven to act as a natural barrier against tsunamis. Undoubtedly, it is an important site for coastal migratory water birds and a portion of migrant forest birds. Also you can also find 10 species of reptiles in this mangrove.

Visit the nearby and wellequipped Mangrove Information Centre in the vast 600-hectare mangrove forest east coast south of Sanur. This center is doing great work to tell the local school children and visitors about the importance of mangrove forests. It’s a good place to spend half a day.

The Information Service is also a museum, where one can admire animals. There are also plans to take a bath, where you can touch sea creatures. There are also guides available who can guide you through the park. (IBP/net)

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The 20-year-old fifth seed made only seven unforced errors and did not face a break point on the super-fast outdoor hardcourt at Rock Creek Park, never giving Anderson a chance to get into the match.

One break in each set was enough for Zverev to enhance his burgeoning reputation as one of the game’s rising talents.

He closed out the match in just under 70 minutes before accepting the enthusiastic applause from a near capacity crowd that included his parents and his dog.

Zverev joined Rafa Nadal as a four-time ATP winner this year.

Only Roger Federer, with five, has captured more titles in 2017.

Zverev won his fifth career title and improved his career record against Anderson to 3-0.

“It was a great match,” said the German, who started the week ranked eighth in the world.

“I felt unbelievable starting from the quarter-finals and from then it got better and better every match I played.”

The only time Zverev was pushed all week came in the second round, when he edged Australian Jordan Thompson in a third set tiebreak.

But he improved as the tournament progressed and a severe case of jet lag subsided, and did not lose another set in his final four matches.

Zverev said the next goal in his career was to go deeper into the grand slams.

“I’ve lost in five sets against Rafa, five sets against (Milos) Raonic,” he said.

“At some stage I want to win those kind of matches and get further in grand slams.

“The best I’ve done is fourth round. I know I still have to improve a lot to be able to go far in the big tournaments.” (rtr)

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Christian Coleman of the U.S. (Silver), Justin Gatlin of the U.S. (Gold) and Usain Bolt of Jamaica (Bronze) pose with medals.

LONDON - Justin Gatlin’s father has asked the fans to lay off his son after the 35-year-old was booed inside the London Stadium while accepting his 100 metres World Championships gold medal.

American Gatlin, who has served two suspensions for doping offences, ruined Usain Bolt’s farewell on Saturday by beating the Jamaican sprinter in his final individual race.

“He is very strong and can deal with it. Only here. He only gets it here,” Willie Gatlin told the Times.

“The people booing need to read

the reports. He has never committed a crime. They need to go and look at what was said.”

Willie said Justin had been fully rehabilitated in the U.S. and that he could be a role model for children.

“He gets invited into schools all the time and does lots of talks,” he said.

Gatlin was banned for two years in 2001 after failing a dope test for amphetamines found in prescribed medication he had been taking since a child for Attention Deficit Disorder. This suspension was later

reduced to one year on appeal.

The sprinter then tested positive for testosterone in 2006 and was suspended for eight years, avoiding a lifetime ban in exchange for his cooperation with the doping authorities. This ban, however, was also halved by an arbitration panel in 2007. IAAF president Sebastian Coe reiterated his support for life bans for convicted drug cheats, using Gatlin’s example to show how legal systems worldwide have made it increasingly difficult to impose severe punishments on athletes. (rtr)

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Sp rt United’s Mourinho eyes first Super Cup win in Real reunion Manchester United’s Jose Mourinho can collect the one European trophy he lacks when his side face Real Madrid in the UEFA Super Cup on Tuesday in his first competitive meeting with the Spanish giants since an acrimonious split in 2013. Mourinho, whose team won the Europa League last season to salvage an otherwise disappointing first campaign under the Portuguese, led Real to the Liga title with a record 100 points and won a King’s Cup in an eventful stay between 2010 and 2013.

REUTERS/Alan Greth

Manchester United’s Jesse Lingard (hidden) celebrates with team mates after scoring the first goal for his side as fans take photographs

His achievements at the Santiago Bernabeu were overshadowed, however, by his falling out with key dressing room figures such as Sergio Ramos and Iker Casillas as well as confrontations with referees and opponents plus a failure to win the Champions League, as Real lost in the semi finals each year.

Mourinho’s legacy has been upstaged by the Spanish club’s three Champions League triumphs in the four years since his departure, although in a recent interview the Portuguese claimed he had “to beg” Real’s board to let him leave for Chelsea.

Champions League holders Real will be without talisman and former United forward Cristiano Ronaldo in Skopje, Macedonia, as the Portugal international was allowed to report late for pre-season training after he played in the Confederations Cup. Zinedine Zidane’s side beat Sevilla 3-2 in extra-time last year to win the showcase match and the

French coach is targeting a fourth European trophy in less than two years in charge of Real, which would match Mourinho’s tally of continental titles.

NEW SIGNINGS United, meanwhile, will be missing central defenders Eric Bailly and Phil Jones due to suspension, opening up a place in the starting lineup for new recruit Victor Lindelof. The Swede is one of three signings made so far by United along with Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku and midfield anchorman Nemanja Matic arriving at a combined cost of 146 million pounds ($190.34 million) as the Old Trafford side look to improve on a disappointing sixth-placed Premier League finish last term.

Real have added promising youngsters Theo Hernandez and Dani Ceballos to their talentpacked squad which won a Liga and Champions League double

last season while parting ways with forwards Alvaro Morata and James Rodriguez.

Their reported interest in French teenage sensation Kylian Mbappe has yet to materialise, however.

United beat Real on penalties after a 1-1 draw in a friendly in California last month and won five of their other pre-season games, losing only to Barcelona. Real, meanwhile, failed to win any of their four friendluies in the United States in 90 minutes, losing 3-2 to Barca and getting thrashed 4-1 by Manchester City, their only win coming in a shoot-out victory over an MLS All-Stars team.

“The sensation overall is not good, when you don’t win any of your four games something is wrong,” Zidane told reporters after the tour. “We have to do a lot more, we’ve made a bad start with these results and what we all want is to get home, rest and think about the Super Cup.”(rtr)

Netherlands wins women’s European soccer championship

ENSCHEDE — Striker Vivianne Miedema scored twice Sunday as the Netherlands beat Denmark 4-2 to win its first Women’s European Championship title and set off a huge party among thousands of orange-clad fans. Long after the final whistle and award ceremony, the players — many clutching bottles of Champagne — danced through the corridors of the FC Twente stadium chanting “Champions!” The success of the Dutch women’s team is in stark contrast to the country’s men, who failed to qualify for last year’s European Championship in France and is struggling to reach next year’s World Cup in Russia.

Netherlands coach Sarina Wiegman said she hoped the victory and success of the tournament on home soil would promote the game among Dutch girls and prove a platform on which to build greater success

for the women’s team as it prepares to start qualification for the World Cup later this year. It was a disappointing end to the tournament for Denmark, which knocked out sixtime defending champion Germany in the quarterfinals and reached its first final after losing five previous semifinals. A penalty shootout win over Austria after extra time in the semifinals left the Danes looking tired in the second half, allowing the Dutch to control play.

The end of the German reign as European champion after more than two decades at the top is a sign that the game is improving across the continent, Wiegman said. “Germany was champion and nobody else could get close,” she said. “Today we changed that.

Actually Denmark changed it and we continued today.”

The game started well for the Danes, when striker Nadia Nadim

— a former refugee from Afghanistan whose father was killed by the Taliban — converted a sixthminute penalty after Kika van Es clumsily brought down Sanne Troelsgaard in the area.

“Sometimes you can’t choose what you want. You just get it,” said Nadim, who fled Afghanistan after her father’s death and settled in Denmark. She now plays for the Portland Thorns in the U.S. National Women’s Soccer League.

The Dutch fans did not have to wait long for their team to cancel out Nadim’s opener.

A long ball by midfielder Jackie Groenen launched right winger Shanice van de Sanden and her low cross was met by Miedema for her third goal in as many matches in the knockout stage of the tournament. Left winger Lieke Martens, named player of the tournament after the match, put the Dutch ahead

in the 28th when she drifted into the center, turned a defender and fired a low shot past goalkeeper Stina Lykke Petersen. Five minutes later, Denmark was back on terms at 2-2 when captain Pernille Harder overcame the Dutch offside trap and then beat Sari van Veenendaal at her near post with a well-placed shot.

Captain Sherida Spitse restored the Dutch lead after the break with a free kick that rolled wide of the wall and into the corner. Miedema, who had been criticized for not scoring in the group stage, sealed the victory in the 89th with her second goal of the final.

“It was tough at the start, but then things started going well,” the forward told Dutch broadcaster NOS. “Today the first half was so chaotic, Denmark was good, and it was fantastic that we could show in the second half that we can play good football.”(ap)

AP Photo/Patrick Post

Players of the Netherlands celebrate with the trophy after defeating Denmark during the Women’s Euro 2017 final soccer match in Enschede, the Netherlands, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017.

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Community Shield: Arsenal beats Chelsea in ABBA shootout LONDON — Arsenal will start the Premier League season on a high note after mastering the experimental ABBA penalty shootout pattern to beat Chelsea to the Community Shield.

Wembley Stadium provided the biggest stage yet for global trials with the format that mixes up the order of penalties rather than spotkicks alternating between teams A and B. The long-standing system was deemed by soccer’s lawmaking body to be handing an unfair advantage to the team going first. And going second in the rejigged shootout, Arsenal overwhelmed Chelsea 4-1 to win the traditional curtain raiser to the English season after the match was locked at 1-1 after 90 minutes. “We showed great composure to come back to the game,” Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Cech said, “then it is penalties and who keeps their cool better.”

Only six penalties were required between Premier League champion Chelsea and FA Cup

holder Arsenal. Gary Cahill got Chelsea off to a perfect start before Theo Walcott and Nacho Monreal responded by finding the target for Arsenal. But Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois blazed his kick over the crossbar followed by striker Alvaro Morata also missing.

Arsenal duo Alex OxladeChamberlain and Olivier Giroud then converted their kicks in succession to ensure the north London club started the new season just as it finished the last one — by beating Chelsea at Wembley. Just like in the FA Cup final, Chelsea was reduced to 10 men. Victor Moses, who was sent off in the May showpiece, made amends this time by putting Chelsea in front a minute into the second half by getting on the end of Cahill’s header.

“Even though we were 1-0 down we didn’t panic and kept control of our game and came back,” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said. Arsenal gained a man advantage with 10 minutes

to go when Pedro Rodriguez, wearing a mask after being injured on Chelsea’s pre-season tour of Asia, was dismissed for a studs-up sliding challenge on Mohamed Elneny.

It proved even costlier when the resulting free kick by Granit Xhaka was headed in by new defensive signing Sead Kolasinac, sending the game into the shootout.

“Physically he is naturally very strong,” Wenger said of Kolasinac, who was a free recruit after being out of contract at Schalke. “We have players pumped up in the gym and players who were born strong. And he was the second part.”

Defeat for Chelsea added to the uneasy atmosphere around the club since winning the title, with uncertainty and rancor surrounding the future of striker Diego Costa, who is up for sale and didn’t play at Wembley.

Asked about Costa, Chelsea manager Antonio Conte replied: “I have already replied to this

Lille starts Bielsa era with 3-0 win over Ranieri’s Nantes

PARIS — Lille’s attacking potential this season was on display as coach Marcelo Bielsa’s new team started its French league campaign with a 3-0 win over Nantes on Sunday. After finishing a disappointing 11th last season, Lille hired the Argentine coach — known as “El Loco Bielsa” (Crazy Bielsa) to his fans — with the aim of returning to the Champions League while playing an exciting brand of football.

Lille also recruited more than a dozen new players, and the northern club’s squad appears to have gelled.

Facing an unimaginative side, Lille dominated from the start but had to wait until the 48th to open the scoring through Paraguay defender Junior Alonso. Nicolas De Preville doubled his team’s lead from the spot and Anwar El Ghazi put the win beyond doubt. The match also featured a duel between Bielsa and

another prominent coach, Italian Claudio Ranieri. The managers, who had a quick chat before the game, returned to the French top flight after spending several years away.

With better players at his disposal following Lille’s ambitious recruiting campaign this summer, Bielsa’s team was in control from the start. “We played a high-energy match, on a fast rhythm, and we made only a few fouls,” Bielsa said. “I believe that we deserved the goals we scored, and that it is a fair result. Let’s see if we can keep that rhythm and speed we want to play with throughout the whole season.”

Lille imposed a fast tempo by preLille finally broke the deadlock three minutes into the second half after taking advantage of a poor clearance from Nantes captain Leo Dubois. Alonso received the ball outside the box and unleashed a

powerful strike into the bottom corner.

Lille was awarded a penalty in the 68th after Kevin Malcuit was fouled by Nicolas Pallois in the box, and De Preville converted from the spot by sending Maxime Dupe the wrong way. El Ghazi made it 3-0 three minutes later with a clean finish. El Ghazi celebrated his goal by taking his shirt off, revealing a tribute to former Ajax teammate Abdelhak Nouri, who collapsed during a pre-season game this summer and suffered brain damage.

Bielsa guided Marseille to a fourth-place finish in 2015 while Ranieri — who famously led English club Leicester to the Premier League title in 2016 — helped Monaco win the second division title in his first season, and then finish runner-up in the top flight in the 2013-14 season.(ap)

question.”

The tough questions on the pitch will start next weekend when the league season begins.

Chelsea opens its title defense against Burnley on Saturday.

Arsenal play Leicester on Friday as Wenger chases a first league title since 2004, with his team out of the Champions League

after finishing fifth last season.

“It’s down for us to keep a positive atmosphere around the team,” said Wenger, who dithered over his own future before signing a new two-season contract after the FA Cup success. “A lot was created by my own situation. Maybe I made a mistake.”(ap)

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Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Sp rt United’s Mourinho eyes first Super Cup win in Real reunion Manchester United’s Jose Mourinho can collect the one European trophy he lacks when his side face Real Madrid in the UEFA Super Cup on Tuesday in his first competitive meeting with the Spanish giants since an acrimonious split in 2013. Mourinho, whose team won the Europa League last season to salvage an otherwise disappointing first campaign under the Portuguese, led Real to the Liga title with a record 100 points and won a King’s Cup in an eventful stay between 2010 and 2013.

REUTERS/Alan Greth

Manchester United’s Jesse Lingard (hidden) celebrates with team mates after scoring the first goal for his side as fans take photographs

His achievements at the Santiago Bernabeu were overshadowed, however, by his falling out with key dressing room figures such as Sergio Ramos and Iker Casillas as well as confrontations with referees and opponents plus a failure to win the Champions League, as Real lost in the semi finals each year.

Mourinho’s legacy has been upstaged by the Spanish club’s three Champions League triumphs in the four years since his departure, although in a recent interview the Portuguese claimed he had “to beg” Real’s board to let him leave for Chelsea.

Champions League holders Real will be without talisman and former United forward Cristiano Ronaldo in Skopje, Macedonia, as the Portugal international was allowed to report late for pre-season training after he played in the Confederations Cup. Zinedine Zidane’s side beat Sevilla 3-2 in extra-time last year to win the showcase match and the

French coach is targeting a fourth European trophy in less than two years in charge of Real, which would match Mourinho’s tally of continental titles.

NEW SIGNINGS United, meanwhile, will be missing central defenders Eric Bailly and Phil Jones due to suspension, opening up a place in the starting lineup for new recruit Victor Lindelof. The Swede is one of three signings made so far by United along with Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku and midfield anchorman Nemanja Matic arriving at a combined cost of 146 million pounds ($190.34 million) as the Old Trafford side look to improve on a disappointing sixth-placed Premier League finish last term.

Real have added promising youngsters Theo Hernandez and Dani Ceballos to their talentpacked squad which won a Liga and Champions League double

last season while parting ways with forwards Alvaro Morata and James Rodriguez.

Their reported interest in French teenage sensation Kylian Mbappe has yet to materialise, however.

United beat Real on penalties after a 1-1 draw in a friendly in California last month and won five of their other pre-season games, losing only to Barcelona. Real, meanwhile, failed to win any of their four friendluies in the United States in 90 minutes, losing 3-2 to Barca and getting thrashed 4-1 by Manchester City, their only win coming in a shoot-out victory over an MLS All-Stars team.

“The sensation overall is not good, when you don’t win any of your four games something is wrong,” Zidane told reporters after the tour. “We have to do a lot more, we’ve made a bad start with these results and what we all want is to get home, rest and think about the Super Cup.”(rtr)

Netherlands wins women’s European soccer championship

ENSCHEDE — Striker Vivianne Miedema scored twice Sunday as the Netherlands beat Denmark 4-2 to win its first Women’s European Championship title and set off a huge party among thousands of orange-clad fans. Long after the final whistle and award ceremony, the players — many clutching bottles of Champagne — danced through the corridors of the FC Twente stadium chanting “Champions!” The success of the Dutch women’s team is in stark contrast to the country’s men, who failed to qualify for last year’s European Championship in France and is struggling to reach next year’s World Cup in Russia.

Netherlands coach Sarina Wiegman said she hoped the victory and success of the tournament on home soil would promote the game among Dutch girls and prove a platform on which to build greater success

for the women’s team as it prepares to start qualification for the World Cup later this year. It was a disappointing end to the tournament for Denmark, which knocked out sixtime defending champion Germany in the quarterfinals and reached its first final after losing five previous semifinals. A penalty shootout win over Austria after extra time in the semifinals left the Danes looking tired in the second half, allowing the Dutch to control play.

The end of the German reign as European champion after more than two decades at the top is a sign that the game is improving across the continent, Wiegman said. “Germany was champion and nobody else could get close,” she said. “Today we changed that.

Actually Denmark changed it and we continued today.”

The game started well for the Danes, when striker Nadia Nadim

— a former refugee from Afghanistan whose father was killed by the Taliban — converted a sixthminute penalty after Kika van Es clumsily brought down Sanne Troelsgaard in the area.

“Sometimes you can’t choose what you want. You just get it,” said Nadim, who fled Afghanistan after her father’s death and settled in Denmark. She now plays for the Portland Thorns in the U.S. National Women’s Soccer League.

The Dutch fans did not have to wait long for their team to cancel out Nadim’s opener.

A long ball by midfielder Jackie Groenen launched right winger Shanice van de Sanden and her low cross was met by Miedema for her third goal in as many matches in the knockout stage of the tournament. Left winger Lieke Martens, named player of the tournament after the match, put the Dutch ahead

in the 28th when she drifted into the center, turned a defender and fired a low shot past goalkeeper Stina Lykke Petersen. Five minutes later, Denmark was back on terms at 2-2 when captain Pernille Harder overcame the Dutch offside trap and then beat Sari van Veenendaal at her near post with a well-placed shot.

Captain Sherida Spitse restored the Dutch lead after the break with a free kick that rolled wide of the wall and into the corner. Miedema, who had been criticized for not scoring in the group stage, sealed the victory in the 89th with her second goal of the final.

“It was tough at the start, but then things started going well,” the forward told Dutch broadcaster NOS. “Today the first half was so chaotic, Denmark was good, and it was fantastic that we could show in the second half that we can play good football.”(ap)

AP Photo/Patrick Post

Players of the Netherlands celebrate with the trophy after defeating Denmark during the Women’s Euro 2017 final soccer match in Enschede, the Netherlands, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017.

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Community Shield: Arsenal beats Chelsea in ABBA shootout LONDON — Arsenal will start the Premier League season on a high note after mastering the experimental ABBA penalty shootout pattern to beat Chelsea to the Community Shield.

Wembley Stadium provided the biggest stage yet for global trials with the format that mixes up the order of penalties rather than spotkicks alternating between teams A and B. The long-standing system was deemed by soccer’s lawmaking body to be handing an unfair advantage to the team going first. And going second in the rejigged shootout, Arsenal overwhelmed Chelsea 4-1 to win the traditional curtain raiser to the English season after the match was locked at 1-1 after 90 minutes. “We showed great composure to come back to the game,” Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Cech said, “then it is penalties and who keeps their cool better.”

Only six penalties were required between Premier League champion Chelsea and FA Cup

holder Arsenal. Gary Cahill got Chelsea off to a perfect start before Theo Walcott and Nacho Monreal responded by finding the target for Arsenal. But Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois blazed his kick over the crossbar followed by striker Alvaro Morata also missing.

Arsenal duo Alex OxladeChamberlain and Olivier Giroud then converted their kicks in succession to ensure the north London club started the new season just as it finished the last one — by beating Chelsea at Wembley. Just like in the FA Cup final, Chelsea was reduced to 10 men. Victor Moses, who was sent off in the May showpiece, made amends this time by putting Chelsea in front a minute into the second half by getting on the end of Cahill’s header.

“Even though we were 1-0 down we didn’t panic and kept control of our game and came back,” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said. Arsenal gained a man advantage with 10 minutes

to go when Pedro Rodriguez, wearing a mask after being injured on Chelsea’s pre-season tour of Asia, was dismissed for a studs-up sliding challenge on Mohamed Elneny.

It proved even costlier when the resulting free kick by Granit Xhaka was headed in by new defensive signing Sead Kolasinac, sending the game into the shootout.

“Physically he is naturally very strong,” Wenger said of Kolasinac, who was a free recruit after being out of contract at Schalke. “We have players pumped up in the gym and players who were born strong. And he was the second part.”

Defeat for Chelsea added to the uneasy atmosphere around the club since winning the title, with uncertainty and rancor surrounding the future of striker Diego Costa, who is up for sale and didn’t play at Wembley.

Asked about Costa, Chelsea manager Antonio Conte replied: “I have already replied to this

Lille starts Bielsa era with 3-0 win over Ranieri’s Nantes

PARIS — Lille’s attacking potential this season was on display as coach Marcelo Bielsa’s new team started its French league campaign with a 3-0 win over Nantes on Sunday. After finishing a disappointing 11th last season, Lille hired the Argentine coach — known as “El Loco Bielsa” (Crazy Bielsa) to his fans — with the aim of returning to the Champions League while playing an exciting brand of football.

Lille also recruited more than a dozen new players, and the northern club’s squad appears to have gelled.

Facing an unimaginative side, Lille dominated from the start but had to wait until the 48th to open the scoring through Paraguay defender Junior Alonso. Nicolas De Preville doubled his team’s lead from the spot and Anwar El Ghazi put the win beyond doubt. The match also featured a duel between Bielsa and

another prominent coach, Italian Claudio Ranieri. The managers, who had a quick chat before the game, returned to the French top flight after spending several years away.

With better players at his disposal following Lille’s ambitious recruiting campaign this summer, Bielsa’s team was in control from the start. “We played a high-energy match, on a fast rhythm, and we made only a few fouls,” Bielsa said. “I believe that we deserved the goals we scored, and that it is a fair result. Let’s see if we can keep that rhythm and speed we want to play with throughout the whole season.”

Lille imposed a fast tempo by preLille finally broke the deadlock three minutes into the second half after taking advantage of a poor clearance from Nantes captain Leo Dubois. Alonso received the ball outside the box and unleashed a

powerful strike into the bottom corner.

Lille was awarded a penalty in the 68th after Kevin Malcuit was fouled by Nicolas Pallois in the box, and De Preville converted from the spot by sending Maxime Dupe the wrong way. El Ghazi made it 3-0 three minutes later with a clean finish. El Ghazi celebrated his goal by taking his shirt off, revealing a tribute to former Ajax teammate Abdelhak Nouri, who collapsed during a pre-season game this summer and suffered brain damage.

Bielsa guided Marseille to a fourth-place finish in 2015 while Ranieri — who famously led English club Leicester to the Premier League title in 2016 — helped Monaco win the second division title in his first season, and then finish runner-up in the top flight in the 2013-14 season.(ap)

question.”

The tough questions on the pitch will start next weekend when the league season begins.

Chelsea opens its title defense against Burnley on Saturday.

Arsenal play Leicester on Friday as Wenger chases a first league title since 2004, with his team out of the Champions League

after finishing fifth last season.

“It’s down for us to keep a positive atmosphere around the team,” said Wenger, who dithered over his own future before signing a new two-season contract after the FA Cup success. “A lot was created by my own situation. Maybe I made a mistake.”(ap)

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Brilliant Zverev wins Citi Open for fourth title of year

WASHINGTON - German Alexander Zverev used his dominant serve to claim a fourth ATP title of the year with a commanding 6-4 6-4 win over South African veteran Kevin Anderson at the Citi Open in Washington on Sunday.

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A guide you do not really needed. You can walk around on your own, but you do miss some background information, which you can obtain in the Mangrove Information Centre.

The coast south of Sanur is naturally protected by a green belt of mangrove forest. A portion of this well-maintained forest is open to visitors. While taking a walk, visitors can experience, what does the mangrove for good with regard to the local ecosystem.

If you walk along the path, you’ll see dart away all kinds of animals, such as crabs and mud fish. At high tide, the water flows over the roots and it is a protected place for small fish and other animals, which would have been easy prey for predators. Between them to protect the roots. It is also considered as the breeding ground for many crustaceans such as crabs, shrimp, crabs, horseshoe crabs and shrimp. But also little fishes.

It is an unusual sight to see, how these trees protect themselves against salt water and their aerial roots attach themselves in the swampy soil. The mangrove roots filter the water at low tide and high tide, causing sediments are removed before they enter again the open sea, could otherwise the coral reefs could be dying. Like all mangrove swamps, the Matang

Mangrove Forest Reserve has been proven to act as a natural barrier against tsunamis. Undoubtedly, it is an important site for coastal migratory water birds and a portion of migrant forest birds. Also you can also find 10 species of reptiles in this mangrove.

Visit the nearby and wellequipped Mangrove Information Centre in the vast 600-hectare mangrove forest east coast south of Sanur. This center is doing great work to tell the local school children and visitors about the importance of mangrove forests. It’s a good place to spend half a day.

The Information Service is also a museum, where one can admire animals. There are also plans to take a bath, where you can touch sea creatures. There are also guides available who can guide you through the park. (IBP/net)

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The 20-year-old fifth seed made only seven unforced errors and did not face a break point on the super-fast outdoor hardcourt at Rock Creek Park, never giving Anderson a chance to get into the match.

One break in each set was enough for Zverev to enhance his burgeoning reputation as one of the game’s rising talents.

He closed out the match in just under 70 minutes before accepting the enthusiastic applause from a near capacity crowd that included his parents and his dog.

Zverev joined Rafa Nadal as a four-time ATP winner this year.

Only Roger Federer, with five, has captured more titles in 2017.

Zverev won his fifth career title and improved his career record against Anderson to 3-0.

“It was a great match,” said the German, who started the week ranked eighth in the world.

“I felt unbelievable starting from the quarter-finals and from then it got better and better every match I played.”

The only time Zverev was pushed all week came in the second round, when he edged Australian Jordan Thompson in a third set tiebreak.

But he improved as the tournament progressed and a severe case of jet lag subsided, and did not lose another set in his final four matches.

Zverev said the next goal in his career was to go deeper into the grand slams.

“I’ve lost in five sets against Rafa, five sets against (Milos) Raonic,” he said.

“At some stage I want to win those kind of matches and get further in grand slams.

“The best I’ve done is fourth round. I know I still have to improve a lot to be able to go far in the big tournaments.” (rtr)

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Christian Coleman of the U.S. (Silver), Justin Gatlin of the U.S. (Gold) and Usain Bolt of Jamaica (Bronze) pose with medals.

LONDON - Justin Gatlin’s father has asked the fans to lay off his son after the 35-year-old was booed inside the London Stadium while accepting his 100 metres World Championships gold medal.

American Gatlin, who has served two suspensions for doping offences, ruined Usain Bolt’s farewell on Saturday by beating the Jamaican sprinter in his final individual race.

“He is very strong and can deal with it. Only here. He only gets it here,” Willie Gatlin told the Times.

“The people booing need to read

the reports. He has never committed a crime. They need to go and look at what was said.”

Willie said Justin had been fully rehabilitated in the U.S. and that he could be a role model for children.

“He gets invited into schools all the time and does lots of talks,” he said.

Gatlin was banned for two years in 2001 after failing a dope test for amphetamines found in prescribed medication he had been taking since a child for Attention Deficit Disorder. This suspension was later

reduced to one year on appeal.

The sprinter then tested positive for testosterone in 2006 and was suspended for eight years, avoiding a lifetime ban in exchange for his cooperation with the doping authorities. This ban, however, was also halved by an arbitration panel in 2007. IAAF president Sebastian Coe reiterated his support for life bans for convicted drug cheats, using Gatlin’s example to show how legal systems worldwide have made it increasingly difficult to impose severe punishments on athletes. (rtr)

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Third Dubai fire in days forces evacuation of hotel

No monkeying around, Indonesia task force vows

DUBAI - A small fire broke out a Dubai hotel on Monday, forcing guests and staff to leave, in the third such blaze in the United Arab Emirates tourism and trade hub in less than a week.

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African migrants react after crossing the border from Morocco to Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta, Spain, early August 7, 2017.

Several fire engines and an ambulance were deployed at the Movenpick hotel near the Marina district as scores of people gathered outside.

A video of the hotel posted on social media showed thin clouds of smoke wafting around a lower floor.

The hotel said on its official

Twitter account that the fire was “swiftly brought under control and guests and staff were safely evacuated.”

Civil defence workers gave the all-clear for people to return inside and there were no reports of injuries.

A blaze shot up the side of a nearby residential tower on Friday,

and local media reported that a smaller fire was quickly put out at a neighbouring building on Sunday.

No injuries were reported in either of those fires.

The series of fires in tall buildings in the UAE has revived questions about the safety of cladding materials used in the Gulf region and beyond. (rtr)

Dozens of migrants run across border in Spanish enclave

MADRID - Dozens of sub-Saharan migrants crossed into Spain from Morocco in the early hours of Monday after running through a border gate into the enclave of Ceuta, emergency services said.

Migrants frequently attempt to storm the borders of Spain’s two enclaves in northern Africa, Ceuta and Melilla, often clambering up fences which are up to 6 metres tall and topped by razor wire.

On Monday a group of more than 100 migrants ran through one gate in the fence usually used as a border control, surprising Moroccan and Spanish security forces, a Reuters witness said.

The Red Cross said it had assisted 186 people following the morning rush across the border, adding that four migrants were taken to hospital.

Once inside Spain’s enclaves, migrants are usually taken to temporary shelters and later moved to the Spanish mainland, or returned to their country of origin.

Many migrants try to enter Spain as a means of reaching other parts of Europe. Arrivals through Ceuta and Melilla, as well as the number of migrants attempting to cross into Spain by sea from North Africa has risen this year, although the route between Libya and Italy remains the most popular.

The Red Cross said last week it had attended 7,400 migrants crossing into mainlaind Spain and Ceuta and Melilla so far this year, up from 3,600 in the same period a year ago. (rtr)

Indonesian military officer orders that forest burners be shot

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Flames shoot up the sides of the Torch tower residential building in the Marina district, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in this August 4, 2017.

Kenyans stockpile food, police get first aid kits ahead of vote

KISUMU - Nervous Kenyans stockpiled food and water on Monday and police prepared first emergency aid kits as families headed to their ethnic heartlands on the eve of an election many fear could descend into violence.

Opposition leader Raila Odinga, 72, who lost elections in 2007 and 2013, has already said President Uhuru Kenyatta, 55, can only win if his ruling Jubilee party rigs the vote, a stance

that increases the chances of a disputed result and unrest.

Opinion polls before Tuesday’s presidential election put the pair neck-and-neck. Kenyans will also be voting for members of parliament and local representatives.

In 2007, Odinga’s call for street protests after problems with the vote count triggered a widespread campaign of ethnic violence in which 1,200 people were

killed and 600,000 displaced.

The violence also hammered East Africa’s biggest economy as regional trade ground to a halt and tourists, the biggest source of foreign exchange, cancelled holidays.

Much of the killing a decade ago was in Kisumu, a city of a million people, most of them from Odinga’s Luo tribe, on the shores of Lake Victoria.

On Sunday, its open-air mar-

kets and shops were packed with customers stocking up on lastminute essentials.

“We are fearful because before there was rigging and that led to violence,” said orange seller Christine Okoth.

Wilson Njenga, a central government official overseeing the western region, said police had received disaster equipment including first aid and gloves but insisted it was all part of normal

contingency planning.

“We don’t want to be caught flatfooted,” he told reporters.

On the campaign trail last week, Odinga told Reuters that Kenyatta could not win without cheating, a message that has fired up supporters in his back yard.

“If he doesn’t win, we are going to the streets and we’ll demonstrate,” said 28-yearold Kisumu potato seller Ruth Achieng. (rtr)

JAKARTA - A military official in the Indonesian province of Jambi said on Saturday he has ordered that anyone who deliberately sets fire to forest areas be shot, as authorities struggle to contain fires that cause choking smoke in the region. Five Indonesian provinces have declared emergencies because of forest fires, according to Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB), with the number of hotspots steadily increasing in many areas over the past week.

The BNPB is working with many government branches, including the military, to contain the fires. Indonesian media have reported that authorities in the neighbouring province of South Sumatra, also on the island of Sumatra, had issued the same order.

“This is to stress a point to the people, who have been warned many, many times,” said Colonel Refrizal, commander of the forest fire task force in Jambi. “(This is) to show our firmness and seriousness.”

The order would be carried out “responsibly”, said Refrizal, who goes by one name. BNPB spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said on Twitter the Jambi task force

was working to extinguish a fire covering an area of 10 hectares (25 acres). Nugroho also said authorities had found one area in Jambi that had been “intentionally” burned by its owner.

The number of hotspots had increased to 239 by July 30, from 173 hotspots three days earlier, according to the BNPB. The hotspots were seen mostly on Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of Borneo island, with some also on Sumatra and Java island.

The agency had previously warned that the threat of forest fires would escalate, with the dry season expected to peak in September. Indonesia is regularly hit

by forest fires, which can result in choking smoke blowing across to neighbouring countries like Singapore and Malaysia.

The sprawling Southeast Asian archipelago suffered some of its worst forest fires in 2015, hitting Sumatra and Kalimantan. The World Bank, citing government data, said 2.6 million hectares (6.4 million acres) of land in Indonesia burned between June and October 2015, causing $16 billion of estimated economic damage. Draining and conversion of peatland, often driven by palm oil plantations, contributed to the intensity of haze from the fires, the World Bank said.(rtr)

JAKARTA - Indonesia has deployed armed police and soldiers to help villagers on the island of Java fight back against marauding monkeys that have been terrorising their area, stealing food and even attacking vulnerable elderly residents and a child. The longtailed macaques have been growing increasingly bold in their interactions with humans in the Boyolali district of Central Java, north of the city of Solo.

“The monkeys had started coming here two months ago,” said police chief Aries Andhi. “After we shot one of them, the rest didn’t come back. Now they are back again.” A task force set up to patrol the area will shoot monkeys if necessary, he said, although traps will also be used to return others to the forest. “As long as they don’t disturb the villagers, we won’t shoot them,” said Andhi.

The patrols are comprised of villagers and local officials, supported by police, soldiers, and members of a hunting association, he said. “Most of the villagers attacked are senior citizens who live alone in makeshift

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houses,” said Andhi. “They don’t really have neighbours so when attacks happen it’s hard to get help.”

Among the 11 victims of monkey attacks was a fourth-grade student, said Heru Sunarko, coordinator of the Natural Resource Conservation Agency in Central Java. Animal protection activists said the destruction of natural forest habitats was pushing macaques into conflict with humans, but killing them was unacceptable.

“The reason why they are raiding people’s houses or gardens is because they need food,” said Robithotul Huda of International Animal Rescue Indonesia. “Their natural habitat, teak or pine forests, have changed into commercial forest.” Fruit was scarcer in the forest during the current dry season than in the rains, he added, while conceding that efforts to scare off the animals would only have temporary success.

“Slingshots, paintball, or firecrackers can scare them,” Huda said.

“But monkeys are intelligent, if the people have used a slingshot, tomorrow they have to use something else.

Monkeys can read these tactics.”(rtr)

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BUSINESS Another milestone for stocks: Most boring market in decades

NEW YORK — Yawn. This year’s run to a record for the stock market has been one of the least eventful in decades. Seemingly every day, stocks have drifted by just a few tenths of a percent in a lazy ascent to new heights.

Only twice this year have investors had to deal with a 1 percent drop for the Standard & Poor’s 500 index in a day. That’s far fewer than typical. The last time stocks sailed through such an uneventful first seven months was when a group of burglars was arrested for breaking into the Watergate complex in 1972. Broaden the scope to include when the S&P 500 fell or rose by 1 percent in a day, and this could be the least volatile year for stocks since 1964, if the current pace holds. Just don’t get too comfortable. As central banks start to wean markets off the stimulus they’ve injected into the global economy, many money managers say they’re preparing for a bumpier ride ahead.

For now, markets have been so calm that the biggest loss for the S&P 500 last week was just 0.2 percent. Compare that to the whiplash investors felt during the summer of 2011, when the S&P 500 swung by more than 4 percent each day during one four-day stretch.

Investors fortunate enough to be in the market have enjoyed all the upside of owning stocks with almost none of the traditional downside.

Stocks are supposed to be volatile, and investors have long accepted that having to stomach big swings in price is one of the costs of owning them. But the largest stock fund by assets, Vanguard’s Total Stock Market Index fund, has already returned 11 percent in 2017 with only a few big down days.

“At the surface, it is surprising” how calm stocks have been, said Greg Davis, Vanguard’s chief investment officer. “But it’s not surprising if you think about a world where central banks have been unbelievably accommodative. I think investors still think central banks will step in if there’s any stress in the financial markets.”

But the Fed is now slowly moving in the opposite direction: It has raised short-term rates modestly three times in the last year. The central bank also expects to begin paring its vast portfolio of bond investments “relatively soon.” Investors on both sides of the Atlantic, meanwhile, are handicapping how long it will be before the European Central Bank pulls back on its bond-buying program.

That could force a return to more typical levels of volatility. Over the last half century, the S&P 500 has had a median 26 days where it fell by at least 1 percent during a year. The worry is that the stock market may not only get back to that level but overshoot it. Stocks are pricier, which raises the risk: One popular measure that compares stock prices to corporate earnings over the prior 10 years says the S&P 500 is at its most expensive level since the dot-com bubble in 2001..(ap)

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In this Wednesday, April 26, 2017, file photo, specialist Anthony Matesic works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

The year’s run to a record for the stock market has been one of the least eventful in decades. But don’t get lulled: Many professional investors expect a bumpier ride ahead.

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Pejaten Village a Home to Ceramic Arts

Pejaten has a new tourist attraction namely ceramics museum. Many people do not know yet about it. It is natural because it was just established four years ago gradually. Visitors to the museum named Tantri only reach tens of people. More foreign travelers are recorded. Aside from having a look, they can also practice the making of ceramics. The result can be taken home, so that Pejaten can still be remembered.

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Workers assemble an e-Golf electric car at the new production line of the Transparent Factory of German carmaker Volkswagen in Dresden, Germany March 30, 2017.

German state premier on defensive over close ties with VW

BERLIN - The government of Germany’s Lower Saxony on Sunday denied a newspaper report that its premier softened speeches critical of Volkswagen in the diesel emissions scandal at the company’s request. Stephan Weil, already facing an unexpected election after the defection of a member of his ruling coalition to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives, is under fire for what some see as a too-cozy relationship with VW. The mass circulation newspaper Bild am Sonntag quoted a VW employee as saying that the company “rewrote and watered down” an October 2015 speech by Weil to the state legislature about the diesel scandal after Weil shared a draft with the company.

“This was no fact check,” the paper quoted the employee as saying. Weil called VW “a pearl of German industry” in the speech, but other passages were removed, the newspaper reported, including one in which he called for company officials to be held accountable “regardless of their place in the hierarchy.”

Weil’s office issued a two-page statement on Sunday denying the charges and calling the report “distorting and misleading.” It acknowledged that it had in fact asked the company to fact-check the speech given the sensitivity of “difficult” discussions with U.S. authorities about the rigging of

U.S. emissions tests. It said only very few changes suggested by VW were actually adopted, adding: “There were definitely no substantial changes between the first draft and the speech as ultimately delivered.”

Weil, who is a member of VW’s supervisory board, also sharply criticised VW leadership in the speech for not disclosing its emissions rigging until a year after it first began discussions with U.S. officials, his office said.

It said there had been no consultation about speeches or remarks with VW for several months, since the “situation between VW and the U.S. authorities has now been cleared up.” VW executive Oliver Schmidt pleaded guilty last week in a U.S. court in connection with the emissions scandal that has cost the German automaker as much as $25 billion. The controversy about Weil’s speech erupted amid renewed questions about close ties

between German politicians and German car makers, and whether they prevented the German government from acting sooner to address the widening emissions scandal.

Critics have also blasted the outcome of last week’s diesel summit, saying that the German government should have insisted on harsher steps to rein in diesel emissions, but was swayed by industry to adopt less onerous measures.

They included Daimler’s chief lobbyist Eckart von Klaeden, a conservative politician who worked under Chancellor Angela Merkel in the chancellery until 2013. His abrupt switch to the Mercedes manufacturer prompted an investigation by Berlin prosecutors and new rules on “cooling off” periods. Thomas Steg, now VW’s top lobbyist, served as spokesman for the government of Lower Saxony for seven years until 2009.(rtr)

Balinese men prepare for their kites during a traditional kite competition at a kite festival in Bali, Indonesia, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. The four-day international kite festival is organized to promote tourism on the resort island.

To Maintain Peace, Residents Preserve Tradition of Burning “Memedi” Bungaya customary village, Bebandem, Karangasem, is one of the old villages in Bali. Every customary and religious ritual at the village takes place uniquely.

One of them can be seen in the implementation of usaba mumu or familiarly known as usaba memedi. It’s named as usaba memedi because the ritual is marked with the ‘burning’ of memedi (spirits).

The procession is carried out amid the pounding sounds of kulkul (wooden split drum) throughout customary hamlet and clan temples at night. How does the implementation look like?

Usaba mumu is held once a year falling in January (Balinese seventh month). This year, peak of the implementation took place on Wednesday (Jan. 18). Fifteen days in advance, residents have looked for ritual paraphernalia ingredients such as young coconut leaf, fruit, palm leaf and others at local customary village. ‘’Usaba Mumu’’ di Desa Adat Bungaya Then, three days before the peak of procession, all the people create the figure of memedi made from various leaves, such as the leaf of aba, bamboo, eggplant and pulet.

The leaves are arranged in such a way to form humanoid figure coming with tribal marking by using lime betel.

“This paraphernalia is ritualized first in the morning at respective family temple. At night, it is taken out for the ritual procession,” said

the apparatus of Bungaya customary village, I Gede Adi Krisna Widana, just before the peak of the ritual began.

At the peak of usaba mumu, thousands of families at Bungaya village have been busy with ritual preparations from the morning.

Krisna said that before sunrise, the whole customary village apparatus come out to village temple or Bale Agung temple to prepare all means of rituals such as pras daksina, bayuan and kelanan.

In the meantime, all people have prepared ritual paraphernalia known as penyagaan (guard) made from palm tree stem from the morning. It is made to resemble a human figure decorated with various means such as coconut leaf arrangement and wild cherry fruit. The penyagaan means that people must be able to control their passions as preparation to pay homage.

The guard figure is placed in front of their respective alley. It will be dismantled at midday, after going through particular ritual.

“According to local belief, all the guard figures can later be mounted again in paddy fields or anywhere in order to avoid any catastrophe,” said Krisna.

In the afternoon, the whole community, especially women, will say prayers at Pemuhunan Temple.

This temple is quite unique located under a sacred banyan tree without any shrines. Prior to the prayers, thousands of women are sitting

around a banyan tree along with their offerings before the worship around 22:00 On the other hand, men are preparing the memedi figure that will be burned at the location of guard figure in the morning.

After completing the ritual at the Pemuhunan Temple, then memedi figure is burned simultaneously marked with the sounds of kulkul at 15 customary hamlets and clan temples that keep pounding until the procession is over. Burning the memedi figure has the meaning of burning all the natures of anger and negative traits in human beings, so that people can live harmonious and peaceful life.

The ashes are ritualized again after formed into human figure at the location of burning. When everything is over, the offerings prepared are immediately offered at the ash-made figure. “After the procession, it usually rains at the night symbolizing if the ritual has run smoothly,” said Krisna.

Three days after this procession, the entire local residents say prayers at the village temple. This process is called ngelisin where all pilgrims invoke holy water.

After making introspection for three days, all the local people go through life with a new atmosphere.

Basically, this procession symbolizes the journey of self-control and restores the butha kala to maintain the balance of macrocosm and microcosm. (kmb)

Putu Oka Mahendra, founder of the Tantri Museum of Ceramics, said that the idea of ??establishing the museum actually emerged in the 1980s. At that time, his father served as headman of Pejaten.

The idea was then materialized in 2011.

Oka Mahendra said that ceramics and pottery or products made from clay are synonymous with Pejaten village. These crafts have been supporting the life of local community since the beginning.

“In the past around in the 1970s, this village was a barren place. The existing agricultural land available was insufficient. Then, pottery crafts helped support the people here,” he said.

In the next decade, around 1985, the ceramics and pottery industry at the village was growing. It was in line with the introduction of the heating technique at high temperatures by a Dutch guest stopping at the village. With the technique, people could produce much higher quality ceramics and pottery.

This former legislator of Tabanan in the period of 2009-2014 said that incoming guests do not only have a look at the collection of ceramics, but also see the process

of making ceramics from raw material processing, manufacturing to finishing processes.

In harmony with the passage of time, Oka Mahendra said that many domestic and foreign travelers then come to Pejaten village especially to see the making of ceramics. “The visit is still dominated by foreign travelers from Europe with an average of 30 people per day, while domestic consists of 20 people,” he explained.

Admittedly, the development of Pejaten ceramics has started to increase. It is indicated by high demand for the goods, especially from hotels and restaurants. Definitely this condition encourages the growth of ceramic artisans.

Unfortunately, amid such development the artisans are faced with raw material constraint. Not infrequently they must be in line to get ready-to-used materials. “Our raw materials are brought in from Jakarta,” he explained.

Nevertheless, together with local residents he is currently conducting an area arrangement to support the existence of the ceramic museum.

One of them is organizing the rural environment so as to support the existence of the industry. (kmb)

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Dozens of Bengkala artifacts identified

Oldest artifacts from Ming Dynasty found

Weakening Typhoon Noru makes landfall, batters central Japan with rain

SINGARAJA — Dozens of historical artifacts at Bengkala village, Kubutambahan, are identified by the Denpasar archaeological institute last week. This identification is the first measure before the archaeological institute conducts more in-depth research on the artifacts.

An apparatus of Bengkala customary village, Ketut Darpa, said the artifacts were found in village temple of Bengkala.

Dozens of the artifacts were found after local customary village did a restoration to temple buildings. Its meru shrine in the innermost courtyard has been refurbished since June 26. At that time was found many historical relics hidden in the meru shrine. Customary village then invited the Denpasar archeological institute to identify the artifacts.

“At least, we know the exact information about the objects we have found. After getting the information, we continue to disseminate it to the citizens. We are open to the public in order they can also know, and this must be known. It is meant that people will not forget the history of the village,” he affirmed.

Head of the Denpasar Archeological Institute, I Gusti Made Suarbawa, said that from the results of temporary identification, the oldest artifact is a bowl made of salted egg-green ceramic with floral ornaments.

The artifacts are believed to have originated from the Ming Dynasty in the thirteenth to fourteenth centuries.

Based on the identification, he has confidence if the artifacts found at village temple of Bengkala are ritual paraphernalia used to support religious activities in the past. In addition, the items found in the temple are not much different from the profane properties used for daily activities. “Other ceramics, including teapots, belongs to European products. One of which we can identify is from Belgium,” he added. (kmb38)

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A protestor holds a placard in front of anti-riot policemen during a protest condemning the 50th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Ministerial meeting in Manila, Philippines August 7, 2017. The placard reads “Dismantle! Chinese Military facilities in South China Sea”.

Australia, Japan, U.S. call for South China Sea code to be legally binding

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This identification is the first measure before the archaeological institute conducts more in-depth research on the artifacts.

29 dams in damaged condition

Thousands of hectares of paddy fields threatened to dry out

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Nyoman Suparta Wijaya

SINGARAJA — At least 3,200 paddy fields in Buleleng are predicted to experience shortage of irrigation water supply. This happens because 29 dams draining the irrigation water to farmland in North Bali are now in moderate to severe damaged condition. The damage in the 23 watersheds happens due to the impact of natural disasters occurred in January and the peak in February 2017.

The damage to dozens of dams caused by natural disasters began to cause unrest among farmers. Moreover, when entering dry season this year, their fields require irrigation water supply from the dam. Actually, since the beginning of this dry season, farmers in Buleleng have

repeatedly requested the acceleration of aid for improvement to local government. In addition to sending official letters, farmers also come to the office of public works and spatial planning (PU-PR) on Jalan Kartini, Singaraja. Their desire cannot be fulfilled in the near future because the regulation governing the use of emergency response fund cannot be used as the period is over. Upon this condition, the repair is proposed through post-disaster program and takes a long time.

Head of the Buleleng Public Works and Spatial Planning Agency, Nyoman Suparta Wijaya, said on Sunday (Aug. 6) that he repeatedly received a complaint from farmers

that requested the acceleration of repair to the 29 dams. Repair of the 29 dams has been planned and the required funding has been calculated reaching about IDR 8.9 billion.

“The 29 dams are the asset of the PU-PR. Since the disaster, it was planned to be repaired from the emergency response fund. However, it cannot be done because the period is over. Now, we have discussed for the improvement and needs quite large funds,” he said.

Under this condition, Suparta will temporarily reprogram by giving priority to more severe damages as well as those having urgent impact and needs. Later on, starting from the amended regional budget 2017, his

agency began to repair the damaged dams in North Bali. In the meantime, further handling will be scheduled through the regional budget 2018.

With this effort, the thousands of hectares of paddy field predicted to be affected by damaged dam could be addressed, and the risk of drought in the dry season this year can be minimized.

“We target to repair them through the amended regional budget. We will do based on priority scale because the budget is not sufficient. Anyway, the irrigation is very important so that we anticipate the risk of the drought from really happening due to the damage to agricultural infrastructure,” he added. (kmb38)

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TOKYO - A weakening Typhoon Noru made landfall in central Japan on Monday, pounding some regions with more than a month’s worth of rain, but while it appeared likely to brush close to Tokyo it was losing much of its strength.

At one point the world’s strongest storm this year, Noru’s approach to the Japanese heartland prompted evacuation advisories for tens of thousands on Shikoku, Japan’s smallest main island, and more than 400 flights were cancelled, NHK public broadcaster said.

But there were no further deaths reported than two at the weekend, one of them a fisherman in his 80s who went out to check on his boat during the storm. No people were missing and only around a dozen injured, NHK added.

Noru, whose name is the Korean word for a type of deer, made landfall in the central prefecture of Wakayama on Wednesday afternoon and continued to head northeast, raising the possibility it could brush past Tokyo on Tuesday - although by then it will have weakened to a tropical depression.

Parts of Shikoku were hit with 52 mm (2.1 inches) of rain in one hour on Monday morning, with some parts of central Japan likely to see 500 mm (20 inches) of rain in the 24 hours to Tuesday morning due to the storm’s unusual slowness, the meteorological agency added.

“Usually typhoons just whip right on through, but this one is so slow, the rain goes on and on,” one man told NHK. Three Japanese oil refiners said they had halted berth oil product shipments at their refineries in western and central Japan on Monday due to a typhoon, but that there had been no impact on refining operations or truck shipments.

Noru formed more than two weeks ago and wandered around the north Pacific in a circular course until it strengthened and began heading for Japan. At one point it was a Category 5 storm, but has been downgraded to a Category 1.

Noru is likely to weaken to tropical storm strength later on Monday, according to Tropical Storm Risk.com and be a tropical depression by the time it brushes past Tokyo on Tuesday. (rtr)

MANILA - Australia, Japan and the United States on Monday urged Southeast Asia and China to ensure that a South China Sea code of conduct they have committed to draw up will be legally binding and said they strongly opposed “coercive unilateral actions”.

The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China should establish a set of rules that were “legally binding, meaningful, effective, and consistent with international law,” the foreign ministers of the three countries said in a statement following a meeting in Manila.

Foreign ministers of ASEAN and China on Sunday adopted a negotiating framework for a code of conduct, a move they hailed as progress but seen by critics as a tactic to buy China time to consolidate its maritime power.

Australia, Japan and the United States also “voiced their strong opposition to coercive unilateral actions that could alter the status quo and increase tensions”.

They also urged claimants to refrain from land reclamation, construction of outposts and militarization of disputed features, in a veiled reference to China’s expansion of

its defence capability on Mischief, Fiery Cross and Subi reefs in the Spratly archipelago.

The three countries are not claimants but have long been vocal on the issue, arguing their interest is in ensuring freedom of navigation and overflight.

They urged China and the Philippines to abide by last year’s international arbitration ruling, which invalidated China’s claim to almost the entire South China Sea, where more than $3 trillion worth of seaborne goods pass every year.

Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have competing claims there.

The code framework is an outline for what China and ASEAN call “consultations” on a formal agreement, which could start later this year. China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, on Sunday said that hinged on whether the situation was stable, and if there was no “major

interference” from outsiders.

Several ASEAN countries want the code to be legally binding, enforceable and have a dispute resolution mechanism, but experts say China will not allow that, and ASEAN may end up acquiescing to what amounts to a gentlemen’s agreement.

Singapore’s foreign minister Vivian Balakrishnan said it was still premature to conclude the outcome of the negotiations for the code of conduct, which will be done by lawyers.

“One key issue is the question of legally binding,” he told reporters late on Sunday. “Surely when we move into the COC, it has got to have some additional or significant legal effect.”

Philippine Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said he preferred a legally-binding agreement, which other countries, like Vietnam, supported. (rtr)

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A big wave caused by Typhoon Noru crashes on a breakwater in Aki, Kochi Prefecture, Japan in this photo taken

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DenPasar2017 Exhibition and Movement

Fresh Market Languages from Bali-based Artists

Researchers have extracted DNA from

DENPASAR - CushCush Gallery (CCG), a gallery located in Denpasar city, Bali is an alternative platform for contemporary arts and design. This gallery is having an exciting new endeavor on pasar – which means market - and Denpasar – which literally means “Pasar Utara” (North of Market) - through an exhibition and a movement titled “DenPasar2017”.

the blood samples of 10,000 people, 3,000 of them transgender and the rest non-transgender, or cisgender.

The project is awaiting grant funding to begin the next phase.

Born this way? Researchers explore the science of gender identity REUTERS

NEW YORK - While President Donald Trump has thrust transgender people back into the conflict between conservative and liberal values in the United States, geneticists are quietly working on a major research effort to unlock the secrets of gender identity.

A consortium of five research institutions in Europe and the United States, including Vanderbilt University Medical Center, George Washington University and Boston Children’s Hospital, is looking to the genome, a person’s complete set of DNA, for clues about whether transgender people are born that way.

Two decades of brain research have provided hints of a biological origin to being transgender,

but no irrefutable conclusions.

Now scientists in the consortium have embarked on what they call the largest-ever study of its kind, searching for a genetic component to explain why people assigned one gender at birth so persistently identify as the other, often from very early childhood.

Researchers have extracted DNA from the blood samples of 10,000 people, 3,000 of them transgender and the rest non-

transgender, or cisgender. The project is awaiting grant funding to begin the next phase: testing about 3 million markers, or variations, across the genome for all of the samples.

Knowing what variations transgender people have in common, and comparing those patterns to those of cisgender people in the study, may help investigators understand what role the genome plays in everyone’s gender

identity.

“If the trait is strongly genetic, then people who identify as trans will share more of their genome, not because they are related in nuclear families but because they are more anciently related,” said Lea Davis, leader of the study and an assistant professor of medicine at the Vanderbilt Genetics Institute.

The search for the biological underpinnings is taking on new relevance as the battle for transgender rights plays out in the U.S. political arena.

One of the first acts of the

new Trump administration was to revoke Obama-era guidelines directing public schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms of their choice. (reut. rs/2l8pWJe) Last week, the president announced on Twitter he intends to ban transgender people from serving in the military.

A Quinnipiac University poll released on Thursday found 68 percent of Americans say transgender people should be allowed to serve in the military, an even larger majority than the 58 percent found in a Reuters/Ipsos poll last week. (rtr)

Brick by brick: satellite images could identify slave labour in India

LONDON - Researchers in England are hoping to help root out modern day slavery in northern India by using detailed satellite imagery to locate brick kilns - sites that are notorious for using millions of slaves, including children.

A team of geospatial experts at the University of Nottingham use Google Maps and dozens of volunteers to identify potential sites of exploitation and report them to authorities.

“The key thing at the moment is to get those statistics right and to get the locations of the brick kilns sorted,” said Dr Doreen Boyd, a co-researcher on the ‘Slavery from Space’ project.

“There are certainly activists on the ground that will help us in terms of getting the statistics and the locations of these brick kilns to (government) officials.”

Anti-slavery activists said the project could be useful in identifying remote kilns or mines that would otherwise escape public or official scrutiny.

“But there are other, more pressing challenges like tackling problematic practices including withheld wages, lack of transparent accounting,... no enforcement of existing labour laws,” said Jakub Sobik, spokesman at Anti-Slavery, a London-based NGO. Millions of people in India are believed to be living in slavery. Despite a 1976 ban on bonded labour, the practice remains widespread at brick kilns, rice mills, and brothels, among others.

The majority of victims belong to low-income families or marginalized castes like the Dalits or ‘untouchables’.

Nearly 70 percent of brick kiln workers in South Asia are estimated to be working in bonded and forced labour, according to a 2016 report by the International Labor Organization.

About a fifth of those are under age.

The project relies on ‘citizen science’ or ‘crowdsourcing’ - a process where volunteers sift through thousands of satellite images to identify possible locations of kilns. Each image is shown to multiple volunteers who mark kilns independently.

The team is currently focused on an area of 2,600 square km in the desert state of Rajasthan - teeming with brick-making sites - and plans to scale up the project in the coming years.

Researchers are now in talks with satellite companies to get access to more detailed images, rather than having to rely on publicly available Google Maps. (rtr)

An exhibition that starts with a wandering For theDenPasar2017 exhibition, CCG have selected 17 interdisciplinary Bali-based artists through an open call earlier in January 2017. The word ‘pasar’ in ‘Denpasar’reinforced the important role of the market in the development of the city as it has become today, and participants were asked to observe, understand, and re-learn the meaning of ‘Pasar’ and Denpasar, with the theme Bahasapasar or “market language.”

The selected artists are Adhika Annisa Ninus (architect, dancer, and performing artist), Dian Suri (jewelry designer), Myra Juliarti (fashion designer), FarhanAdityasmara (visual artist and art lecturer), MirahRahmawati (fine artist and art lecturer), I Gede Jaya Putra (fine artist), Andre Yoga (illustrator and mural artist), Soehartawan (fine artist), I Wayan Martino (photographer), LuguGumilar (barista and illustrator), NajmaAchmad (product designer and photographer), SidhiVhisatya (illustrator and mural artist), SyafiudinVifick (photographer), Tri HaryokoAdi (mural artist), QomaruzzamanAlamry (comic artist), ReevoSaulus (graphic designer), and Yoga Wahyudi (fashion designer).

DenPasar 2017 started with MelaliKePasar (meaning: journey to the market) session in March 2017. It began withDenPasarTalk with culture enthusiasts, AriefAyipBudiman and Marlowe Bandem as speakers who gave inspirations to the 17 artists, and then continued with DenPasarWalk (going through four traditional and modern markets together) with the participants.

After an intense two months of explorations and process, through MelaliKePasar and later their own markets visits, the 17 participants have some similar observations. For example, many find the roles of women are very noteworthy – as sellers and as

carriers / potters with bamboo weaved baskets on their heads. Some came to a realization that the biggest pasar located in the heart of Denpasar, can be seen as the heart of Bali itself.

As one of the DenPasar2017 participant, NajmaAchmad, stated in her CCG Instagram account takeover, “The market is also a place where you can find a rich diversity of human characters as well as its wide variety of products.

It is the place where differences melt in one common priority.”

This recalls what speaker Marlowe Bandem’sDenPasarTalk titled “Let’s Wander. Let’s Acquire”.

Bali’s open-ness and multicultural spirit has become Bali’s excellence from the past, present and into its future.

Denpasar city is a clear example where Arab, Chinese, Indian and Javanese villages are neighbors. It did not only create the biggest traditional ‘market’ in Bali, it also becomes the evidence to this island’s rich acculturation. And this is clearly seen and felt in the traditional markets of Denpasar and undoubtedly presented in the 17 artworks at DenPasar2017 exhibition.

With that in mind, Denpasar is seen as the “heart of Bali” - the domain to synergize tradition and modernity - a cultural practice that originates from the forefathers generations to today’s younger generation’s ‘creative tension’.

An exhibition that developed one’s sense of place In DenPasar2017 exhibition, the 17 participants withdifferentcreative disciplines create 17 fresh market perspectives, their very own ‘Market Language’.

As encouraged byDenPasarTalk speaker, Arief ‘Ayip’ Budiman, through his talk “A Sense of Place and Iconography”, a contribution towards the succession of the dynamic Denpasar iconography timeline that

keeps on cultivating is necessary.

Ayip challenged the participants of DenPasar2017 to get involved in presenting a sense of place of their time.

He explained how ‘one icon produces another icon, and how icons form a sense of place’. This is all done through sensory – using one’s five senses. Reflecting on the participants’ explorations of sensing Denpasar and finding their own interpretation of market language, their artworks show their contemporary views of Denpasar city, and aspire to become icons that add to Denpasar’s sense of place.

Their sensory were very expressively seen on each of the artwork produced in two-dimensional work of size 40 x 60 cm. Some can interpret the market language straightforwardly through photography, drawings, or paintings. Some become very abstract due to the absurdity found from its chaotic and complex atmosphere.

An exhibition that is also a movement CCG shared that DenPasar2017 is not only an art exhibition, but it is also a movement. DenPasar2017 aims to create new documentation and image creation of Denpasar city in the year of 2017, and CCG is inviting the society to provide spaces for these participants’ artworks to be shown and letting every corner of Denpasar city become a big exhibition space.

As a movement, CCG has also invited artists and creative communities who took pasar and Denpasar as their main themes in their creation to show their works, as a further collaboration that adds enriching layers to the theme of ‘Market Language’. They are Urban Sketchers Bali (creative sketching community), Swoofone (street artist), KitaPoleng (art performance community) and Masuria Sudjana (a 3rd generation photographer based in Denpasar).

DenPasar2017 becomes a continuing process as it progresses to promote

Cash transaction shifts to non-cash

BNI increases digital banking literacy

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Researchers in England are hoping to help root out modern day slavery in northern India by using detailed satellite imagery to locate brick kilns.

DENPASAR - In the future, cash transactions will soon be replaced by non-cash. Banking authorities continue to improve their digital banking services in line with the development of information and communication technology. Thus, the banking can increase performance through digital banking. All the banks coalesced into the state-owned enterprise are

currently undergoing transformation into a qualified national digital financial institution. BNI is one of them. With digital banking, it seeks to improve performance in terms of third party funds, credit to transactions. The transformation of BNI into a national digital financial institution is a means for BNI to improve the performance and acceleration of literacy

of financial transactions to the digital technology-based community. This was conveyed by the Head of BNI for Bali, NTB & NTT Regional Office, Putu Bagus Kresna, recently.

“Implementation of digital banking is not just an increase in third party funds, but also credit including transactions leading to digital. In the future, all the transactions will lead to

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SyafiudinVifick with “SekerenengPasar” using photography, a reflection of his conversations towards the buyers of Denpasar’s markets.

Denpasar city in the mapping the art, design and creative tourism in Bali. This includes providing artistic perspectives and stories that have not received much attention.

Besides coming from the exhibition of 17 open call artists and 4 invited artists / creative communities, there are also exciting upcoming events. These events include Meet The Artist sessions where the public

can hear the participants’ involvement and collaboration directly, exclusive talks and workshops with invited artists/creative communities/previous speakers.

DenPasar2017 Exhibition runs from 26thMay 2017 until 26th August 2017 at CushCush Gallery (CCG), JalanTeuku Umar, Gang Rajawali no. 1A Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.

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non-cash,” he said.

Through the development of DigiNation concept, his institution will transform the behavior of bank services to customers towards the model of banking digitization transactions.

Various digital products have been developed such as BNI UnikQu, BNI Digital Loan, Agent46 BNI, social assistance dashboard and other digital products. In addition, BNI is also actively embracing financial technology (fintech) company to further enrich itself in meeting all the needs of customers that increasingly demand for mobile, fast and concise business

model. In terms of performance, Bagus revealed that for the Bali, NTB and NTT Regional Office, it recorded a good growth in credit distribution in the first half of 2017 that grew by 13 percent from IDR 8.5 trillion in the first half of 2016 to more than IDR 9.5 trillion in the first half of 2017.

Credit distribution in the business banking sector such as working capital loans, investment loans, people’s business credit (KUR) and others still dominate reaching more than IDR 5.2 trillion, and around IDR 4.3 trillion is channeled to consumer sector. (kmb42)

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Lonely orders, Bamboo wall makers shift profession to building workers

BANGLI —Lately, the order received by bamboo wall makers is getting lonelier. This happens due to the sluggish economy. In addition, the decline in orders also happens because the community recently began to switch to cement-based fiber board instead of bamboo wall for home plafond material. This condition causes a number of bamboo wall makers to switch profession into construction worker.

One of the bamboo wall makers from Linjong hamlet, Tiga, Susut, I Komang Arta, 35, said on Sunday (Aug. 6) that the sluggish order has been going on since the past two years. According to him, the decline in order happens because people are now beginning to switch to using cement-based fiber board for their ceiling. “Prior to the presence of this fiber board in the market, the demand for bamboo wall was high enough,” he said.

“In the past, when receiving many orders, I was overwhelmed to make the bamboo wall. Within a month, I could receive 10 to 15 pieces of bamboo wall of various sizes. However, the current order has dropped dramatically,” he said.

Due to lonely orders, many bamboo wall makers currently have to switch professions in order to earn more to meet their daily needs. This measure is taken because the income of making bamboo wall is assessed still inadequate. “At Linjong hamlet, almost 90 percent of the residents are bamboo wall makers. Due to lack of orders and cheap price of bamboo wall, now many people here switch professions into a hoeing worker or construction worker,” he said.

Similar condition was expressed by a bamboo wall maker from Kayumabua, Ketut Rena. He stated that currently the price of bamboo wall indeed plummeted. People now prefer to use other materials because it is considered more practical and more durable. “Bamboo wall is only used for Balinese style building.

Other than it, people prefer to use material other than bamboo wall,” said Rena.

When asked about the selling price of bamboo wall, Rena added, for the size of 3x4 meters is sold for IDR 250,000. When calculated, the costs incurred namely for bamboo raw material reaches IDR 150,000, while the making process will take him up to four days. “When the result of plaiting bamboo wall is calculated, I just get IDR 25,000 per day, while the price of basic needs continues to rise. It is no wonder many residents here leave the profession as a bamboo wall maker,” explained Rena. (kmb41)

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Denpasar develops subak ecotourism as tourist destination The beautiful ricfield can be one of the attraction in Bali.

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DENPASAR —Denpasar has various tourist destinations ranging from Sanur Beach, Bali Museum, Le Mayeur Museum, Badung Market, Dalem Serangan Temple as well as various festivals such as Sanur Village Festival and Denpasar Festival. If other districts have the potential of tourism village as a new tourist development trend, Denpasar city having no hills and mountains choose to develop ecotourism.

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Denpasar city will develop ecotourism in the form of subak (irrigation cooperative). Subak in Denpasar city is almost the same as in other districts. North Denpasar has ten subak organizations, East Denpasar (13), South Denpasar (10) and West Denpasar (8).

The subak areas having become ecotourism are the Subak Sembung at Peguyangan and Subak Umalayu at Penatih in East Denpasar subdistrict. East Denpasar and North Denpasar have the potential to be developed into ecotourism.

“The existing ecotourism has been good. We just need to improve the visit and the facilities. I want Denpasar to be a driving force for new objects. Otherwise, we will be left behind,” said A.A. Bagus Sudharsana, the Head of the Denpasar Tourism Office, on Sunday (Aug. 6).

Denpasar having no hills and mountains must take advantage of beaches and ecotourism. “We can take selfie in agricultural areas spreading widely enough,” he said.

For instance, Subak Sembung has a farmland area of 120 hectares,

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Subak Kerdung in South Denpasar (82 hectares of farmland), Subak Umalayu in East Denpasar, including subak area at Penatih and others have extensive farmland.

His agency tried to develop the potential by teaming up with local community. One of the efforts undertaken to develop ecotourism is to train beginners to become local guides at these locations. “The training will be provided by practitioners, academician from SPB and from the government to direct the tourist object so that the infrastructure is well arranged. Do not just arrange the object but also the entrance and parking lot, so they must be well integrated,” he said.

These eco-tourism objects are being built. At Bindu, Kesiman village, East Denpasar, is also being built by taking advantage of the potential owned by local rivers.

“We clean it up and plant trees; the public works agency repairs the irrigation channels and rivers, revetment, while the landscaping agency establishes the park including its jogging track,” he explained. It is developed to become a new tourist

attraction.

After arranging the infrastructure and human resources, it is resumed with the efforts to increase tourist visit. The efforts are made by the BPPD in cooperation with the PHRI and tour guides. However, the obstacle faced is related to guide fee. “To us in Denpasar, this fee may be inadequate. Then, who will give guide fee when visiting subak? Later on, we will gather the operators of tourist attractions to make them professional,” he said.

In addition to cooperating with tour guide, his agency also tried to make the tourist attractions in the city of Denpasar viral, especially the ecotourism, through online promotions. For instance, it can be made by organizing tourism video blog (vlog) competition of Denpasar city.

This year, the Denpasar municipality will also hold gamelan attractions, make galleries and organize gig attraction around the city with the Denpasar Gig Association (Perdoden). The gamelan attraction is carried out by cooperating with schools and making city tour. (kmb42)

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Actors Chris Pratt, Anna Faris announce they are separating LOS ANGELES - Actors Chris Pratt and Anna Faris are splitting up after eight years of marriage, they said on Sunday.

“Anna and I are sad to announce we are legally separating. We tried hard for a long time, and we’re really disappointed,” Pratt, 38, said in a statement posted on his official Facebook page.

Faris, 40, posted a statement along the same lines on her social media pages.

Pratt, known for starring roles in blockbusters “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “The Lego Movie” and “Jurassic World,” and Faris, star of the “Scary Movie” franchise and the TV sitcom “Mom,” have a fouryear-old child.

“Our son has two parents who love him very much and for his sake we want to keep this situation as private as possible moving forward,” the couple said. “We still have love for each other, will always cherish our time together and continue to have the deepest respect for one another.”

The couple married in 2009, two years after co-starring in the film “Take Me Home Tonight.” It was Pratt’s first marriage and Faris’ second. (rtr)

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Taylor Swift in federal court over groping allegation

DENVER - Taylor Swift might turn up in a federal court in Denver on Monday as lawyers for the pop star and a Colorado radio personality start jury selection for dueling lawsuits over whether the former disc jockey groped her four years ago during a photo shoot.

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Chris Pratt (R) poses with his wife Anna Faris as they attend a premiere of the film “Guardians of the galaxy, Vol. 2” in London April 24, 2017.

Swift, 27, is expected to take the witness stand during the trial in U.S. District Court to testify about the incident, which resulted in broadcaster David Mueller’s firing from Colorado music station KYGO-FM. The bitter litigation centers on Swift’s allegations that Mueller slipped his hand under her dress and grabbed her bare bottom as they posed together during a meetand-greet session before her June 2, 2013, concert in Denver.

“It was not an accident, it was completely intentional, and I have

never been so sure of anything in my life,” Swift said in describing the incident during a deposition.

Mueller, 55, sued first, claiming the singer-songwriter had falsely accused him of the groping and pressured station management to oust him from his $150,000-peryear job at the station, according to the lawsuit.

Swift countersued for assault and battery, and that became part of the same trial.

Mueller denies that anything inappropriate occurred during the brief backstage encounter in which

he stood on one side of the pop star and his girlfriend on the other.

“The contention that Mr. Mueller lifted up Ms. Swift’s skirt and grabbed her bottom, while standing with his girlfriend, in front of Ms. Swift’s photographer and (her) highly trained security personnel ... is nonsense,” the lawsuit said.

Mueller is suing under tort claims of interference with contractual obligations and prospective business relations. Jurors will determine what monetary damages, if any, he is entitled to if Swift is found liable. (rtr)

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Kenyans stockpile food, police get first aid kits ahead of vote

KISUMU - Nervous Kenyans stockpiled food and water on Monday and police prepared first emergency aid kits as families headed to their ethnic heartlands on the eve of an election many fear could descend into violence. Opposition leader Raila Odinga, 72, who lost elections in 2007 and 2013, has already said President Uhuru Kenyatta, 55, can only win if his ruling Jubilee party rigs the vote, a stance that increases the chances of a disputed result and unrest.

Opinion polls before Tuesday’s presidential election put the pair neck-and-neck. Kenyans will also be voting for members of parliament and local representatives.

In 2007, Odinga’s call for street protests after problems with the vote count triggered a widespread campaign of ethnic violence in which 1,200 people were killed and 600,000 displaced. The violence also hammered East Africa’s biggest economy as regional trade ground to a halt and tourists, the biggest source of foreign exchange, cancelled holidays. Much of the killing a decade ago was in Kisumu, a city of a million people, most of them from Odinga’s Luo tribe, on the shores of Lake Victoria.

On Sunday, its open-air markets and shops were packed with customers stocking up on last-minute essentials. “We are fearful because before there was rigging and that

led to violence,” said orange seller Christine Okoth.

Wilson Njenga, a central government official overseeing the western region, said police had received disaster equipment including first aid and gloves but insisted it was all part of normal contingency planning. “We don’t want to be caught flatfooted,” he told reporters. On the campaign trail last week, Odinga told Reuters that Kenyatta could not win without cheating, a message that has fired up supporters in his back yard.

“If he doesn’t win, we are going to the streets and we’ll demonstrate,” said 28-year-old Kisumu potato seller Ruth Achieng. Deputy President William Ruto, who was charged along

with Kenyatta by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for organising the 2007 violence, tweeted a prayer for peaceful and transparent polls.

The ICC cases against both him and Kenyatta collapsed.

INTIMIDATION ACCUSATIONS Going back to rural roots to vote is a long-standing Kenyan tradition, driven by a desire to catch up with friends and family as well as choose a suitable local political representative. More recently, fear of unrest has become a factor. In all, 150,000 security personnel including park rangers have been called up to maintain order across the country, including preventing

demonstrations in hotspots immediately before or after the polls.

In Kisumu, where many people feel neglected by a central government led by a president from the Kikuyu ethnic group since 2002, County Commissioner Mohamed Maalim told local media protests near election day were banned.

Such edicts are likely to fuel opposition accusations of intimidation and dirty tricks by the security forces. “I have never seen this level of intimidation by the state against the electorate,” 71-year-old Senator Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o, an Odinga ally running for Kisumu county governorship, told Reuters. Rights groups say hate-speech has been notably absent from large public speeches in both campaigns - an important difference from 2007 although two incidents in the last week have put the nation of nearly 50 million on edge.

A key election official was found tortured and murdered a week ago, and on Friday two foreign political advisers to Odinga were arrested

and deported by plain-clothes police. Their laptops were also seized. Some Kisumu residents said they were headed to villages outside the city to vote and hunker down in case of trouble. Members of Kenyatta’s Kikuyu ethnic group headed the other direction, away from Odinga’s strongholds.

One supermarket manager who asked not to be identified said suppliers of televisions and furniture had halted deliveries over the past week due to fears of looting. “They fear to come to this side of the country,” the manager, a Kikuyu, said. He had already sent his family to a Kikuyu-majority city and would be joining them in the evening, he added.(rtr) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.