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‘Mudbound’ filmmaker on movie’s exploration of racial divide LONDON - The saga of two families pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy in the Mississippi Delta after World War Two explores a racial divide that is relevant even today, the filmmaker of new movie “Mudbound” said.

“I feel like ‘Mudbound’ kind of comments on who we are now,” director and co-writer Dee Rees told Reuters at the “Mudbound” premiere in London on Thursday.

“It’s about family, it’s about what it means to not be able to come home, it’s about citizenship, who’s an American, who’s not and so like those things would be, like timeless,” she added.

“Mudbound,” based on Hillary Jordan’s novel of the same name,

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Catalonia economy How Catalonia’s economy compares to other Spanish autonomous regions TOTAL GDP In billions of euros, 2016 data.

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The woman dialed 911 to report the sexual assault had occurred when the bus was parked at a shopping center in Auburn, which is less than 20 miles (32 km) south of Seattle, local police said in a statement.

Nelly, best-known for the hit songs “Ride Wit Me,” “Hot in Herre” and “Dilemma,” performed at an amphitheater in Auburn on Friday night as part of a tour with

country pop group Florida Georgia Line.

Patrol officers investigated the woman’s report, and Nelly was arrested before dawn, Auburn police said in the statement.

He was booked into the South Correctional Entity Regional Jail in Des Moines, Washington, on suspicion of sexual assault.

Auburn police had no further details to release, the statement

said.

Scott Rosenblum, Nelly’s attorney, said Saturday night that his client had been released from jail.

“Nelly is the victim of a completely fabricated allegation,” Rosenblum said in statement provided to Reuters. “I am confident once this scurrilous accusation is thoroughly investigated, there will be no charges.” (rtr)

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LOS ANGELES - Grammy-winning rapper Nelly was arrested near Seattle early on Saturday after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her on a tour bus, police said.

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Rapper Nelly arrested on sexual assault allegation

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This file photo taken on April 30, 2017 shows Rapper Nelly performing during Live Nation’s celebration of The 3rd Annual National Concert Day at Irving Plaza on May 1, 2017 in New York City.

Actors Carey Mulligan and Jason Clarke arrive for the gala screening of the film “Mudbound” during the British Film Festival at the Odeon Leicester Square, in London, Britain October 5, 2017.

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stars Jason Mitchell, Garrett Hedlund, Carey Mulligan and Jason Clarke and follows the struggles of two farming families - one black, one white - in the heart of the American South in the 1940s.

“Mudbound,” which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival for independent movies, is already garnering strong reviews and Oscar buzz, and will debut on Netflix on Nov. 17.

The film explores the friendship of two men, one from each family, as they return from war and find common ground while their families face an unending struggle for and against the unforgiving land.

“What this film does so cleverly is it creates empathy,” Mulligan said. (rtr)

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A couple of friends wrapped in a Catalan and a Spanish flag pose for a woman as they walk through a street during a protest two days after the banned independence referendum in Barcelona, Spain, October 3, 2017.

Picture taken October 3, 2017.

Thousands protest in Barcelona against Catalan independence

BARCELONA - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Catalonia’s capital Barcelona on Sunday to express their opposition to any declaration of independence from Spain, showing how divided the region is on the issue. The protesters rallied in central Barcelona, waving Spanish and Catalan flags and banners saying “Catalonia is Spain” and “Together we are stronger”, as politicians on both sides hardened their positions in the country’s worst political crisis for decades.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Saturday he would not rule out removing Catalonia’s government and calling a fresh local election if it claimed independence, as well as suspending the region’s existing autonomous status. The stark warning came days before Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont is expected to address the region’s parliament, on Tuesday, when he could unilaterally declare independence.

“We feel both Catalan and Spanish,” Araceli Ponze, 72, said as she rallied in Barcelona. “We are facing a tremendous unknown. We will see what happens this week but we have to speak out very loudly

so they know what we want.” The wealthy northeastern region of 7.5 million people, which has its own language and culture, held an independence referendum on Oct. 1 in defiance of a Spanish court ban.

More than 90 percent of the 2.3 million people who voted backed secession, according to Catalan officials. But that turnout represented only 43 percent of the region’s 5.3 million eligible voters as many opponents of independence stayed away. The Spanish government sent thousands of national police into the region to prevent the vote. About 900 people were injured when officers fired rubber

bullets and charged crowds with truncheons in scenes that shocked Spain and the world, and dramatically escalated the dispute.

Losing Catalonia is almost unthinkable for the Spanish government. It would deprive Spain of about 16 percent of its people, a fifth of its economic output and more than a quarter of its exports.

Catalonia is also the top destination for foreign tourists, attracting about a quarter of Spain’s total.

The political stand-off has pushed banks and companies to move their headquarters outside Catalonia.

Concern is growing in EU capitals about the impact of the crisis on the

Spanish economy, the fourth largest in the euro zone, and on possible spillovers to other economies.

Some European officials are also worried that any softening in Spain’s stance towards Catalan independence could fuel secessionist feelings among other groups in Europe such as Belgium’s Flemings and Italy’s Lombards.

‘DRASTIC SOLUTIONS’ The demonstration in Barcelona was organised by the anti-independence group Catalan Civil Society under the slogan “Let’s recover our senses” to mobilise what it believes is a “silent majority” of citizens in Catalonia who oppose independence. “The people who have come to demonstrate don’t feel Catalan so much as Spanish,” said 40-year-old engineer Raul Briones, wearing a Spanish national soccer team shirt. “We like how

things have been up until now and want to go on like this.”

It was a second day of protests after tens of thousands of people gathered in 50 cities across Spain on Saturday, some defending Spain’s national unity and others dressed in white and calling for talks to defuse the crisis. Until this weekend, Rajoy has remained vague on whether he would use article 155 of the constitution, the so-called nuclear option which enables him to sack the regional government and call a local election.

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Fostering daily life

Those evacuated from Mt. Agung hope to be employed

THOUSANDS of residents of Karangasem who have been evacuated to Buleleng must still deal with the needs of daily life although must of them have lost their means of earning a living. For now, their families must rely on the austere provisions offered at eh evacuation sites. Many evacuees hope to find work while they wait for the Mt. Agung to be declared safe, so that they can provide for their families.

Buleleng is currently accommodating approximately 22,000 refugees from Ban hamlet, Dukuh, Kubu, most of whom are staying in the sub-district of Tejakula for the time being. Others are staying in Kubutambahan, Sukasada, Buleleng and in Gerokgak.

Some people are staying with relatives, but most are living in public facilities provided by the government.

Since they were evacuated on September 22nd, most of the evacuees have had little to nothing to do.

A few men have been going back to their village each morning to care for the livestock that they left behind.

In the afternoon, they retunr to their the evacuation post to be with their wives, children and other relatives.

One 60 year old resident of Bonyoh hamlet named Ketut Susup, when met in a tent at Les village on Saturday (Oct. 7) explained that since he was evacuated from his village he has been resigned to rely on the food and assistance provided by the government to provide for his family.

Susup had been working in construction before he was evacuated by now he and his 40 year old wife Wayan Ketil are at a loss about how to provide for the other needs of their family.

“Since we were evacuated I have not been doing very much and the few supplies that I brought with me have run thing. The government is indeed providing for our basic needs but my money has now run out as

I am not working. I don’t know what to give to my family”, he said.

Susup is therefor hoping to work in construction near the evacuation site while he waits to return home.

He has not however shared this intention with the evacuation post officers. “ Hopefully I will be offered work, but no one is facilitating the evacuees. If only there was a job offer, I would take it so that I am not just sitting around and can earn an income for m living costs” he explained.

Another evacuee from Bonyoh hamlet, 26 year old Komang Ariyani expressed a similar frustration. Since she was evacuated to Buleleng she has just been sitting around with her husband and children. She does not know where to go to find work or what she should do. She is still hopeful that someone will offer work to her and the other women at the evacuation post who are ready to work. She is eager to earn some money to meet her daily needs.

“I just sit around, bath my children and make coffee for my husband. Actually I want to work but I do not know where to go or what to do. Hopefully someone will give me a job so that there is additional income and I don’t have to just rely on the government assistance” she said.

Headman of Ban, Wayan Pontag, said many residents of Ban work as breeders, construction workers and bamboo craftsmen. He therefor hopes that this expertise can be put to use while they are away from home too. He added that he will cooperate with the government at the evacuation post to see about empowering the residents of his village by providing them with work.

“Many of our residents have skills and hopefully there are some people who can give them a job using theses skills. We facilitate the evacuees in finding work so they can meet the living costs for their families” he added. (mud)

Making canang is one of the activities done by the refugees

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Despite evacuations, creative economy still rolling

SEMARAPURA - Thousands of residents of Karangasem are still living in evacuation posts in the district of Klungkung after having been evacuated from MT. Agung two weeks ago. The creativity that many formally used in their hometowns to earn a living is still being put to use. Many evacuees are making various types of crafts that are being sold to provide for their daily needs.

Evacuess at Griya Cucukan hamlet, Selat, Klungkung from Muncan village, Selat, Karangasem, are make bamboo lumpian that are used to place offerings.

The artisans can produce about ten a day and resellers have been coming around to buy them. “ Every two days there is an order for 40 pieces”, said evacuee Desak Ayu Sugiantini, on Saturday (Oct. 7).

We have been making these crafts for years and are selling them for just IDR 5,000. Sales have been good so it provides a little extra income. “Well, there is good income that can be used to buy side dishes”, said Sugiantini.

Sugiantini and her husband Dewa Komang Suda Pertama work together to make these crafts with materials that she brought with her from her village. “Thankfully, we still have work” she said. This mother of two added that she also makes porosan an element of offerings, that also sell quite well.

Other evacuees are carving wood.

Nyoman Nadiarta for example is working on an order from Manikaji, Bangli along with several other evacuees. “This timber was brought from our village. Now we carve so we are not left behind”, he said. (kmb45)

Maintaining sanctity of Mount Agung, climbing tours must be shut down

Mount Agung is Bali’s largest and most sacred mountain and some fear that it is being spiritually polluted. By prohibiting climbing tours on Mt. Agung, the sanctity of the mountain can be easily maintained said Mangku Sueca recently.

According to Mangku Sueca Mount Agung is becoming spiritually tarnished by people committing taboos when they climb the mountain. Climbing the mountain while menstruating, using inappropriate or obscene language are amongst the behaviours that are considered to have sullied the sanctity of the mountain. Mangku Sueca thinks that is will be difficult to maintain the sanctity of Mount Agung if there are still climbing tours.

“To maintain the sanctity of Mount Agung, guests should not be allowed to climb. The climbing tours must be closed because all this time many climbers are impure. There was a woman who climbed to the top even though she was menstruating not to mention the other negative things that have been committed by climbers on the summit. Mount Agug is tarnished by such things and will remain spiritually impure if we allow this”, said Sueca.

He added that relevant agencies should discuss the possibility of closing the mountain to climbers.

He also said that climbing guides also need to be taken into consideration so they do not loose their livelihood. “This needs to be well managed”, he said. “Mount Agung tour guides should be considered, they should not loose their means of earning a living if the tours are shut down. They should be given other options for earning a living or placed according to their abilities” said Mangku Sueca.

When asked about tourists having being prohibited from visiting Besakih temple since the management board was established, Mangku Sueca said that even before the management board was formed, tourists were not allowed to go into the temple unless it was for worship. He added that guests sometimes violate this prohibition and try to go inside even though they have been prohibited.

“This must be respected by tourists and they should follow the rules because the temple is sacred So, anyone entering the tempe in an impure condition will tarnish the sanctity of the temple. As a place of worship it must be well maintained” said Mangku Sueca. (nan)

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Bali Dynasty Resort ranks No. 1 in the Top 10 Family Resorts 2017

Bali Dynasty Resort has been voted No. 1 in the ‘Top 10 Best Family Resorts in Indonesia’, in the 4-Star Category, in the 2017 Holidays with Kids Readers’ Choice Awards. Bali Dynasty Resort has been included in the awards for eight consecutive years and this is the second time that the Resort

has topped the list.

Holidays with Kids’ Reader’s Choice Awards is an annual award organised by Holidays with Kids Magazine, a popular Australian family holiday magazine, highlighting the best accommodation for family travellers in Australia, Bali, Malaysia, Thailand, South

EVERY MONDAY Movie Monday19:00-21:00 Genius Cafe- Home to the entrepreneur Beach CLub Mertasari Beach (Next to Mercure), Sanur EVERY TUESDAY Ecstatic contact dance: Transformative journey Paradiso Ubud, Jalan Goutama Selatan, Ubud 100k includes dinner EVERY WEDNESDAY DEep Dive Dance Guided improvised movement 19:00-21:00 Paradiso Ubud Jalan Goutama Selatan, Ubud 100k EVERY THURSDAY African Drums with Catur SAng Klang Wijaya 16:00-18:00 Experience the healing power of drumming, all levels welcome

BY DONATION SUNDAY MARKETS 10AM 1PM Sunday Market at Batu Jimbar Jl. Danau Tablingan , Sanur 10AM-4PM The Sands Beach Club and Restaurant Sunday MArket Jl. Danau Tamblingan, No 27, Sanur 9:30AM-1PM Sunday Market @ Warung Sopa Jl. Sugriwas no36, Padang Tegal, Ubud 9AM-2PM Samadi Sunday Market Jalan. Padang Linjong 39, Canggu, 9AM-2PM Wednesday and Sunday Ubud Organik Market Jl. Raya Pengosekan across from Zens Hotel Tebesaya, Ubud 12PM-10PM Sunday Food Festival & Bazaar Byrdhouse Beach Club, Sanur 10AM-6PM, Mercure,last sunday of every month, jl. ,Mertasari, Sanur, fashion food and and kids activities The Coffee Spot, Jalan Peigenet 888X,Seminyak, last Sunday of every month, garage sale clothing, books, and hand-made jewellery

Pacific, Fiji, Japan, the USA and Hawaii. The award garnered the nominees based on the votes of the readers in a survey where they have to nominate hotels and resorts that provide excellent facilities and activities for kids with top notch standards of service and hospitality, value for money and most importantly, the impressive staying experience.

Bali Dynasty Resort is committed to be the premier resort for families and leisure in the heart of South Kuta Beach. Each year the Resort makes more and more im-

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This achievement further adds to the recognition of Bali Dynasty

Resort’s consistent quality and popularity in the family market, which has been recognised by many awards over the years, including TripAdvisor Top 25 Best Hotels for Families in Asia and Indonesia and more.

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Drake Well Museum

PENNSYLVANIA - The Drake Well Museum and Park is a museum that interprets the birth of the American oil industry in 1859 by “Colonel” Edwin Drake along the banks of Oil Creek in Cherrytree Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The museum collects and preserves related artifacts. The reconstructed Drake Well demonstrates the first practical use of salt drilling techniques for the extraction of petroleum through an oil well. A historic site, the museum is located in Cherrytree Township, 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Titusville on Drake Well Road, situated between Pennsylvania Routes 8 and 27. The museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.

The site features a reconstruction of the oil well drilled by “Colonel” Edwin Drake and working oil field equipment. The museum includes indoor and outdoor exhibits and houses a library of over 2,500 titles, over 1,000 cubic feet (28 m3) of manuscript material and a photographic collection with over 10,800 images. Programs include the Fall Gas-Up engine show, a spring Heritage Lecture Series, Heritage School Tours, and the Nitroglycerine Show. Visitor services include orientation film, guided tours, a museum store and more.

Nearby attractions are Oil Creek State Park and the Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad.

The State of Pennsylvania has spent US$8 million for renovation of the museum. The new permanent exhibit “There’s

a Drop of Oil and Gas in Your Life Everyday” features over 530 artifacts, many historic images and stories about the birth and growth of the oil and gas industries. Interactive exhibits include a discussion between John D. Rockefeller and Ida Tarbell, author of The History of Standard Oil. Drake Well Museum and Park’s outdoor experience is organized into 5 themes.

1. Drake Well Replica

The centerpiece of our exterior exhibits is the full-size replica of Edwin L. Drake’s engine house and derrick. Built in 1945, this structure encloses the famous well that struck oil in 1859 and launched the modern petroleum industry.

The Replica features working reproductions of the woodfired boiler and steam engine that Drake used to drill and pump oil from the well until 1861. Exhibit operates May through October.

2. Drilling for Oil

Learn about the evolution of drilling while exploring our collection of historic rigs. Put your legs to work kicking down a well at our interactive Spring Pole Drilling Rig. Walk through the interior of an 80-foot Standard Steel rig (1920) and take an up close look at our Wolfe (c. 1920) and Yo-Yo (1943), two early examples of portable drilling rigs.

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3. Producing Oil

Experience an operating Central Power oil lease. By the 1870s, one engine could pump many wells at once. Watch belts transfer power from a 20 HP engine to an eccentric gear that moves long networks of rod lines connected to pump jacks at each well. Exhibit operates May through October.

Inspect the Milton and McCurdy Brothers pulling machines used to maintain producing wells in the 20th century and discover the industry’s ingenuity in our historic pump jack collection.

4. Transporting and Storing Oil

Follow the industry’s progression from barrels to pipelines. Take in the variety of wooden barrels and stock tanks used to store oil. Observe Oil Creek and imagine the danger and sheer pandemonium involved in delivering oil to market via a pond freshet. Explore the Silver Run Pump Station established in 1896 to push oil through Standard Oil’s National Transit Pipeline.

5. The Business of Oil

Visit the Grant Well Oil Company’s office to see where oil men sold shares of stock, hired workers and sent oil to market.

Watch craftsmen forge oil field tools in our Blacksmith Shop (last Saturday March-October). (IBP/net)

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Refugee from Batumadeg fills their spare time by making canang around the refugee camp area and Puseh Temple nearby.

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To kill time, refugees make canang for worship

AMLAPURA — Karangasem residents living in the red zone has evacuated for two weeks. To fill in their spare time during the life in refugee camp, they perform various activities. For instance, a refugee from Batumadeg in her refugee camp at Segah hamlet, Nongan, Rendang, fills her spare time by making canang to say prayers around the refugee camp area and Puseh Temple nearby.

One of the refugees, Mangku Nengah Genek, stated that during her stay in the refugee camp she with other refugees makes canang (oblation) almost every day to be used for worship in the refugee camp and Puseh Temple nearby. This canang making is done by housewives with the help of their children. “Every day, we make quite a lot of canang for prayer.

They are not for sale, but for daily prayers,” she said.

She explained that praying in the refuge is indeed done every day. It is meant to ask for salvation while in the refuge while the situation of Mount Agung currently remains in warning status. “Praying is mandatory, especially if we borrow a shelter at other’s village, including saying prayers at the local Puseh Temple. So, we must say devotion,” she explained. (nan)

Refugees in Denpasar

236 refugees belonging to safe zone return home

DENPASAR - Some Karangasem residents evacuating to Denpasar due to the warning status of Mount Agung have returned to their hometown. Of the total 14,746 refugees in the city of Denpasar, 236 people already returned home on Saturday (Oct. 7) facilitated by Denpasar municipality. Their return is inseparable from the condition of their village having been declared to be in safe zone.

Since the appeal of evacuating came into effect, the Denpasar municipality took a swift measure by providing some points of public posts and independent posts of the Denpasar community.

After several days of evacuating at some points like refugee post on Jalan Danau Tempe, Jalan Gurita, Jalan Sutomo, Kompyang Sujana Stadium post, and Peguyangan urban village post, the refugees chose to return home because they considered the condition of their home village has been safe.

Attention and concern of Denpasar Mayor to the refugees is very visible. Amid his busyness as the Denpasar Mayor, I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra even makes a visit to the refugee camps and provides motivation for them.

Associated with the homecoming of refugees, the government of Denpasar facilitates the residents wishing to return to their respective village. After their villages were declared to be in safe zone and the opening of public facilities in Karangasem become their reasons to return home for most refugees. Moreover, one of the refugees is pregnant. “They go home because their villages have been declared to be in safe zone and the facilities have been opened. We are here due to the instruction of the leadership and the mayor facilitates the residents wishing to return home,” said Sudarita, Coordinator of the Denpasar Municipal Central Post.

In the meantime, one of the refugees, Ketut Agus, also decided to return home based on his own accord and daily condition during their evacuation in Denpasar is very comfortable. “This post is good, but I decide to return home because our area is declared safe and the facilities are opened,” he said. (kmb12)

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Of the total 14,746 refugees in the city of Denpasar, 236 people already returned home on Saturday (Oct. 7).

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Iran warns US against imposing further sanctions

Mount Agung

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To keep sanctity of Mount Agung, climbing tours must be closed

MOUNT Agung is the largest and most sacred mountain in Bali. Psychically, Mount Agung is getting dirty. In order to maintain the sanctity of Mount Agung, there should be courage to close the climbing tours to the mountain. As long as the climbing is not closed, it will be difficult to keep the sanctity of Mount Agung.

Mangku Sueca revealed that psychically the Mount Agung starts to be getting dirty. All this time, many visitors climbing to the top of Mount Agung often break the taboos where one of which was committed by a climbing woman that was menstruating. Saying inappropriate words and obscene things are also considered to have tarnished the sanctity of Mount Agung. In order

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to maintain the sanctity of Mount Agung, it must dare to close the climbing activities. Otherwise, it will be difficult to maintain the sanctity of Mount Agung.

“To maintain the sanctity of Mount Agung, guests should not be allowed to climb. The climbing must be closed because all this time many climbers are impure.

There was a woman continuing to

climb to the top, not to mention the other negative things committed by the climbers at the summit. Mount Agung will remain psychically impure. This is what makes sanctity of Mount Agung getting tarnished,” he said.

According to Mangku Sueca, when wishing to close the climbing activities to Mount Agung it should be discussed seriously by relevant

agencies. Besides, residents becoming the climbing guides should also be considered. Do not let the climbing closure cause them to lose livelihood.

This needs to be well managed.

“Tour guides of Mount Agung should be considered. Do not let them lose their livelihood as tour guide if the climbing is closed. They should be given job opportunities or places according to their abilities,” he said.

When asked about tourists visiting Besakih that are not allowed to enter the temple since the establishment of the management board, Mangku

Sueca suggested that before the management was formed tourists were not allowed to go into the temple except for worship. He added that guests sometimes violate and still want to go into the temple even though they have been prohibited.

“This must be respected by tourists and should follow the rules because the temple is sanctified.

So, when entering the temple in impure condition, it will tarnish the temple sanctity because sanctity of the temple as a worshipping place must remain well maintained,” said Mangku Sueca. (nan)

Bali police disclose 1.3 kg of narcotics

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The perpetrators brought the crystal meth by hiding it in the Toyota Avanza van.

DENPASAR — Joint team of the Directorate of Narcotic Criminal Investigation and CTOT Taskforce of Bali Police arrested three other drug dealers at two different locations on Friday (Oct. 6). The suspect with the initials IGS, 37, with a woman, TE, 35, was arrested at KFC Kebo Iwa parking area on Jalan Gatot Subroto Barat, Denpasar. In the meantime, RP, 23, was arrested in Pondok 828 on Jalan Raya Pemogan, South Denpasar. The evidence of 1.3 kg narcotic in the form of crystal meth was seized in the arrest.

“Disclosure of this big case is due to hard work of the Narcotic Criminal Investigation and CTOC of Bali Police team. Of course, it is also due to

the information from the public,” said Spokesperson of Bali Police, Hengky Widjaja, on Saturday (Oct. 7).

Hengky revealed the arrest of the suspects IGS and TE was carried out around 20:30. The perpetrators brought the crystal meth by hiding it in the Toyota Avanza van. Results of the search confiscated are 5 large packages and 227 small packages of crystal meth with total gross weight of 773.71 grams or 684.52 grams net, four handphone, two digital scales, two rolls of duct tape as well as one BCA saving book and BCA ATM card. “As planned, the narcotics will be circulated in the area of Denpasar,” he said.

In the meantime, RP was arrested at 19:00. As the result of the search

in the suspect’s room, police confiscated six large crystal meth packages with gross weight of 603.91 grams or 599.41 grams net, 23 small packages of crystal meth with gross weight of 23.47 grams or 19.36 grams net, 2.21 grams of marijuana leaves, two pieces of green purple ecstasy, two electric scales, a masses, one crystal meth recap book, two handphones, three bundles of plastic clip, one clear insulating roll, scissors, a BCA ATM card and two spoons.

“The suspect confessed to receive the narcotics package from someone with the initial B. Currently, the Narcotic Criminal Investigation members are still investigating this case in depth,” said Hengky. (kmb36)

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Turkish military vehicles are seen during the opening ceremony of a Turkish military base in Mogadishu, Somalia September 30, 2017.

Turkish military vehicles enter Syria’s Idlib -sources

BEIRUT - Turkish military vehicles crossed the Syrian border into Idlib on Sunday, a local resident and a local rebel said, after Ankara announced an operation by rebel groups in the area, which is controlled by rival jihadist alliance Tahrir al-Sham.

Both sources said the vehicles travelled under escort from Tahrir al-Sham, whose fighters accompanied them along a road. However, the jihadists and the Turkish military had earlier exchanged fire in a nearby area.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Syrian rebels backed by Turkish forces would launch an operation in Idlib and warned that Turkey would not allow “a terrorist corridor” near its borders.

The operation follows a deal between Turkey and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s allies Russia and Iran to impose a “de-escalation” zone in Idlib and surrounding areas to reduce warfare there, an agreement that did not include Tahrir al-Sham.

Reuters witnesses, the local resident and local rebel, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,

a Britain-based war monitor, said the Turkish military and Tahrir al-Sham exchanged fire near the village of Kafr Lusin in Idlib early on Sunday.

The clashes involved Tahrir alSham firing on a Turkish bulldozer removing sections of a border wall and Turkish artillery returning fire, the local resident and rebel and the Reuters witness said.

Idlib and neighbouring parts of northwest Syria represent the country’s biggest and most populous rebel stronghold, home to more than two million people, many of them refugees from other regions.

Rebel groups taking part in the operation -- part of the Euphrates Shield campaign that Turkey has backed with armour and troops in another part of Syria to the east of Idlib since last year -- said on Saturday they expected it to start

very soon.

Tahrir al-Sham said any incursion into Idlib would “not be a picnic” for its enemies.

Tahrir al-Sham is spearheaded by the former Nusra Front, which was al Qaeda’s Syrian branch until last year, when it changed its name and broke formal allegiance to the global movement founded by Osama bin Laden.

It has been a formidable military force since early in the conflict, often fighting alongside other rebel groups, but since early this year it has battled them as it tried to gain control over areas including Idlib.

Turkey has been one of the biggest supporters of rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during the six-and-a-half-year war, but its focus has moved from ousting him to securing its own border. (rtr)

BEIRUT - Iran warned the United States against designating its Revolutionary Guards Corp as a terrorist group and said U.S. regional military bases would be at risk if further sanctions were passed.

The warning came after the White House said on Friday that President Donald Trump would announce new U.S. responses to Iran’s missile tests, support for “terrorism” and cyber operations as part of his new Iran strategy.

“As we’ve announced in the past, if America’s new law for sanctions is passed, this country will have to move their regional bases outside the 2,000 km range of Iran’s missiles,” Guards’ commander Mohammad Ali Jafari said, according to state media.

Jafari also said that additional sanctions would end the chances for future dialogue with the United States, according to state media, and issued a stark warning to American troops.

“If the news is correct about the stupidity of the American government in considering the Revolutionary Guards a terrorist group, then the Revolutionary Guards will consider the American army to be like Islamic State all around the world particularly in the Middle East,” Jafari said.

The Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) are Iran’s most powerful internal and external security force. The Quds Force, the IRGC’s foreign espionage and paramilitary wing, and individuals and entities associated with the IRGC are on the US list of foreign terrorist organisations, but the organisation as a whole is not.

Iran sees the Sunni Muslim militants of Islamic State as an existential threat to the Islamic Republic where the majority of the

population are Shi’ites.

On June 7, Islamic State claimed an attack on Tehran’s parliament and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, killing 18 people. The Guards fired missiles at Islamic State bases in Syria on June 18 in response.

Guards commanders have framed their military involvement in Iraq and Syria, where they are fighting to support the government of President Bashar al-Assad, as a fight against Islamic State.

Dozens of members of the Guards, including senior commanders, have been killed in Syria and Iraq.

MISSILE PROGRAMME The website for state TV reported Jafari as adding that the United States was mistaken if it thought it could pressure Iran into negotiating on regional issues.

Jafari also said that Tehran would ramp up its defence capabilities, including its missile programme, if the U.S. undermined a nuclear deal between Iran and Western powers.

Under the 2015 deal, Iran agreed to limit its disputed nuclear programme in return for the easing of economic sanctions.

However, Trump is expected to announce soon that he will decertify the deal, a senior administration official has said, in a step that potentially could cause the accord to unravel.

“The Americans should know that the Trump government’s stupid behavior with the nuclear deal will be used by the Islamic Republic as an opportunity to move ahead with its missile, regional and conventional defense programme,” Jafari said, according to state media. (rtr)

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A handout picture provided by the Iranian Presidency on October 7, 2017 shows Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani giving a speech during a ceremony at Tehran University marking the beginning of new Iranian academic year.

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LONDON - When Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund’s no-nonsense boss, spoke to Harvard University this past week, she had some good news: nearly 75 percent of the world is experiencing an economic upswing. players. But within economies themselves there are many left behind.

Most of these are the “bottom billion” described by economist Paul Collier in his 2007 book of the same name - people completely untethered to the global economy and any wealth it might bring.

But others in advanced economies - though relatively less poor - are now railing against being left behind.

They range from Britain’s public servants to primary school teachers in the Netherlands and nurses in parts of Australia.

The election of Donald Trump as U.S. president, Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, and the rise -- albeit modest -- of the far right in Germany are all widely viewed as reflecting disaffection brought on by the unequal share of the global economy’s spoils.

Hence, Lagarde’s focus on what needs to be done right now: rich countries should spend more, central banks should communicate more clearly and public debt needs to be brought under control.

It also explains the title of her address, a riff on John F. Kennedy’s comment: “Pleasant as it may be to bask in the warmth of recovery... the

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Employees work inside a garment factory at an industrial area in Mumbai, India October 6, 2017. time to repair the roof is when the move could strip nearly 20 percent in Italy at an election that must take sun is shining.” off Spanish GDP - a bit like Califor- place next year. nia and Florida together cutting loose Germany’s economy is steaming EUROPE’S PROBLEM from the United States. ahead - latest data: industrial orders It is not unrelated that the euro How the European Union would soaring in August - and in France, the zone - barrelling along a surprisingly handle such a things would simply official statistics agency has raised its smooth growth path - finds itself add to its Brexit headache. Rump 2017 growth outlook to the highest facing two potentially destructive Spain would retain its place in the since 2011. threats. The first is the possibility top four of euro zone economies, but But they cannot carry the load in the coming week that Catalonian much diminished. alone, one reason, perhaps for the separatists will declare unilateral The second hit would come if European Central Bank’s softlyindependence from Spain. eurosceptics - some of who want to slowly approach to pulling back Setting aside the politics, such a leave the euro zone -- gain power stimulus.(rtr)

KHARTOUM - Sudan’s economy is headed towards gradual recovery, Finance Minister Mohamed Othman Rukabi said at a forum on Saturday, just one day after the US lifted its 20-year-old economic sanctions opening the way for critical economic reforms and badly needed investment.

The move will suspend a trade embargo, unfreeze assets and remove financial restrictions that have hobbled the Sudanese economy.

“Lifting the sanctions leads to increasing growth and production rates, but in order to benefit from this chance we must bring down inflation, increase exports, decrease imports and government spend-

ing, lift subsidies on basic goods and attract foreign investment,” Rukabi said.

Sudan’s economy has struggled since the south seceded in 2011, taking with it three-quarters of the country’s oil output, its main source of foreign currency and government income.

Price rises have been compounded by the government’s decision late last year to cut fuel and electricity subsidies in a bid to tighten its finances.

Petrol prices rose by about 30 percent, leading to broader inflation.

“The finance minister’s comments on reducing inflation and government spending and increasing exports would not have been possible before the sanctions were

lifted and now there is hope that Sudan can operate under normal conditions,” said Bakri Youssef, general secretary of the Federation of Sudanese Businessmen.

The United States lifted longstanding sanctions against Sudan on Friday, saying Sudan had made progress fighting terrorism and easing humanitarian distress, and also secured Khartoum’s commitment not to pursue arms deals with North Korea.

Khartoum is hopeful that the move would help it regain access to global financial markets which could help draw in badly needed investment and raise prospects for a recovery.(rtr)

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Tugun Karang, a Psychical Gateway to House Compound

Message from the IMF bridge: full speed ahead, mind the inequality

Why, then, was her speech given the somewhat bearish title “A Time to Repair the Roof”? One reason is that the IMF has to worry about everyone, not just those who are doing well. If nearly 75 percent of world economies are growing, more than 25 percent are not.

Some of the strugglers - not for the first time - can be found in Africa, where the two biggest economies, Nigeria and South Africa have only just crawled out of recession and could still be teetering.

The IMF’s last outlook for the sub-Sahara region suggests 2017 growth of 2.6 percent - around a full percentage below that for the world as a whole and less than half the 1999-2008 average of 5.6 percent.

“The recovery is not complete,” Lagarde told the Harvard audience.

“Some countries are growing too slowly, and last year 47 countries experienced negative GDP growth per capita.” This brings up a second reason for Lagarde’s tempered celebration of recovery - inequality.

There is no question that the gap between countries has been narrowing, as Lagarde told the Harvard glitterati. China, Brazil and India, for example, are now major economic

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Kuningan is a series of Galungan feast day performed by the Hindus in Bali. It falls on the tenth day after Galungan, right on Saniscara Kliwon Kuningan or Saturday (Apr. 15, 2017).

However, before Kuningan the Hindus do Penampahan ceremony marked by the slaughter of animals for offerings. This Penampahan day is preparation for carrying out the Kuningan.

Chairman of the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) of Bali Chapter, Prof. Dr. I Gusti Ngurah Sudiana, said that Kuningan Day is believed to be the coming down of gods and goddesses to this mundane world. Then, there is the term angwehaken jagat ring para manusa kabeh meaning that gods and goddess come down to earth to give endowments to the whole mankind. “Celebration of Kuningan is conducted half a day to dedicate ter (an arrow), endongan and tamiang,” he said.

Endongan signifies supplies containing food offered to the gods and goddesses that will return to nirvana. However, the main human provision in living the life is knowledge and devotion (jnana) along with the most powerful weapon namely the peace of mind.

Meanwhile, the ter is the symbol of arrow (weapon) resembling an arrow used as weapon to stretch the mind. Then, sampian gantung is symbol of shield used to protect and fortify human self from bhuta kala (evil spirits). Tamiang also symbolizes repellent of bad forces. At the ceremony of Kuningan, Hindu devotees present dominantly yellow offerings like yellow rice and yellow cone as a symbol of Meru.

Yellow rice as a symbol of prosperity, and presented as an expression of gratitude for having received the endowments of God. Therefore, on Kuningan Day the Hindus should really win and take advantage of the endowments on the previous Galungan celebration. On Kuningan, the Hindus will always try to win and beat out

Adharma (bhuta Dungulan, bhuta Galungan and bhuta Amangkurat) in his life.

The worship on Kuningan feast day should be carried out before midday or before 12:00. At that time, the energy of universe (five great elements: earth, water, fire, air and ether) rises from the morning until reaches its climax at midday.

After which is called the return of the gods and goddesses to their abode (heaven), so that at that time the cosmic energy will decrease.

The next day, Sunday is Manis Kuningan, usually filled with the implementation of pilgrimage or tirtayatra for deepening faith and devotion to God Almighty. Besides, devotees also say prayers to temples and visit relatives and family to maintain social relationship. (kmb)

According to Balinese people, especially the Hindus, every sacred building or shrine placed in the yard of a house or family temple must be respectively functioned according to its location and name. In addition, the sacred buildings are not only functioned, but also believed to be the abode of deities, ancestral spirits and other psychical beings. Moreover, the Tugun Karang shrine or often called as Pengijeng Karang is very often associated with the psychical and haunted thing.

Tugun Karang comes from the word tuhu meaning ‘to know’ or ‘have knowledge.’ Karang means ‘yard’ or house yard or human body.

Who can understand and know about one’s body well, and then he or she is the one who reaches the balance of physical and psychical realm. In the Hindu mysticism and philosophy, Tugun Karang is the ultimate mantra. Tugun is Tang, Ang and Ung; summarized into Karang, namely Ang and Ah. Ang and Ah are double syllables symbolizing the life and death.

Tugun Karang made by the elders of Balinese people is not just a sacred and simple building. It is a sanctified building made and put at a special location through magical and mystical calculation. Thus, the Tugun Karang serves as a pecalang or guardian in a house compound that keeps safety psychically.

Each sikut satak of home yard must have two kinds of shrine, namely the Pangulun Karang in the form of kemulan or three-

chambered shrine and Panunggun Karang functioned as mentioned before. According to I Gusti Ketut Dalem, a permanent lecturer at the Dharma Duta Faculty of the IHDN Denpasar, Tugun Karang shrine is the abode of Ida Ratu Sedahan Panunggun Karang, in charge of security guard in the house compound.

“Actually, he has existed before there are people taking advantage of the land area either intended for housing or moors. According to the elders, they have diverse manifestations according to the place and position. There is manifestation as Jero Dukuh or elder figure, elephant, horse, tiger and other forms,” he said.

Many people do not know that Tugun Karang is the gateway of psychical beings coming from psychical world to physical world.

Moreover, if a human is willing to enter the psychical dimension must seek permission and pass through this gateway. The deity abiding in the Tungun Karang shrine also plays an important role to protect residents from psychical attacks, such as witch.

However, lately many people are ignorant and do not believe in the power of psychical beings in Tugun Karang. The Kala Tattwa palm-leaf manuscript carries that Ida Bhatara Kala changes its form into Sedahan Karang / Sawah / Abian with the function as Pecalang, having the same function as Pangerurah, Penganggit Lawang or Patih in family temple or public temple. (kmb)

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Spain’s PM says may use constitution to block Catalan independence

MADRID - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Saturday he would not rule out using the constitutional powers to remove Catalonia’s autonomous status if it claimed independence as tens of thousands took to the streets to call for talks.

The wealthy northeastern region of Catalonia, with its own language and culture, held a referendum on Oct. 1 on independence, in defiance of the Spanish constitutional court which had ruled the vote illegal.

Until now, Rajoy has remained vague on whether he would use article 155, the so-called nuclear option, of the constitution which enables him to sack the regional government and call a fresh local election.

In an interview with Spanish newspaper El Pais on Saturday Rajoy was asked if he was ready to trigger the article 155 of the constitution, and said: “I don’t rule out absolutely anything that is within the law ... Ideally, it shouldn’t be necessary to implement extreme solutions but for that not to happen things would have to be changed.”

Tens of thousands of people gathered across Spain earlier on Saturday as Catalonia prepared to declare independence from the rest of the country, many dressed in white and calling for talks to defuse Spain’s worst

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political crisis for decades.

The Catalan authorities say around 90 percent of those who voted supported a split from Spain. Madrid says secession is illegal under the Spain’s 1978 constitution. Residents of Catalonia who oppose secession largely boycotted the vote.

The crisis is a political test for Rajoy, who has been uncompromising. Some 900 people were injured during the vote when police tried to disrupt voting, firing rubber bullets and charging crowds with truncheons.

The political stand-off has divided the country, pushed banks and companies to move their headquarters outside Catalonia and shaken market confidence in the Spanish economy, prompting calls from the European Commission for Catalan and Spanish leaders to find a political solution.

“I hope that the Catalonia that makes pacts, is moderate and for many years contributed to Spain’s economic growth and improvement in welfare and wealth returns. It can’t be in the hands of extremists, the radicals and the (far-left secessionist party) CUP,” he said.

However, Rajoy ruled out using mediators to resolve the crisis and also said the issue would not force a snap national election. (rtr)

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In the shadow of the Space Shuttle Discovery, U.S. ?Vice President Mike Pence? delivers remarks before convening the first meeting of the U.S. National Space Council at the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, U.S. October 5, 2017.

Pence offers solace as Las Vegas police puzzle over shooter’s motive

LAS VEGAS - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited Las Vegas on Saturday stressing unity and offering solace as police appealed to the public for help in uncovering a wealthy retiree’s motive for massacring 58 people at an outdoor concert this week.

“We are united in our grief, in our support for those who have suffered and united in our resolve to end such evil in our time,” Pence said, joining Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and other local leaders at a City Hall commemoration for victims of the shooting.

Participants trod seven miles (11 km) along four separate paths to the event amid tight security. President Donald Trump paid a visit to Las Vegas earlier in the week.

Las Vegas’ Democratic Congresswoman Dina Titus was the only speaker who touched on the subject of gun violence and politics, saying, “Let us also pray for those who have power that they will have the wisdom, the courage, and the resolve to find ways to end the gun violence that plagues our nation.”

The commemoration came as Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill said investigators remain largely in the dark about what drove

retired real estate investor and highstakes gambler Stephen Paddock to carry out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

“We have looked at everything, literally, to include the suspect’s personal life, any political affiliation, his social behaviors, economic situation, any potential radicalization,” McMahill told reporters late on Friday.

“We have been down each and every single one of these paths, trying to determine why, to determine who else may have known of these plans.”

McMahill said investigators had uncovered “no nexus” between Islamic State and Paddock, even though the militant group had repeatedly claimed responsibility for the attack.

A piece of paper found in Paddock’s room at the Mandalay Bay hotel appeared to calculate the distance and height from his window to help target victims below, the CBS News show “60 Minutes” said in a news release on Saturday ahead of a broadcast on Sunday of interviews with Clark County Sheriff’s officers, including one who said he saw the paper.

The Sheriff’s Office could not be immediately reached for comment.

Investigators have stressed that no suicide note had been found. (rtr)

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Rajoy added the government would “prevent any declaration of independence from materialising in anything”. “Spain will continue being Spain,” he said.

Nicola Sturgeon, the pro-independence leader of Scotland, which voted to remain part of the United Kingdom in a 2014 referendum, said: “Everyone has to accept reality, this will not be resolved by both sides going to extreme positions.”

“You can’t simply say in a democracy there is no legal or legitimate way for people to decide their own future, that would be an absurd position,” she added. (rtr)

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An EU flag is seen amongst Spanish flags during a pro-union demonstration organised by the Catalan Civil Society organisation in Barcelona, Spain October 8, 2017.

Asked if he was ready to trigger article 155, Rajoy told El Pais newspaper: “I don’t rule out anything that is within the law ...

Ideally, we shouldn’t have to take drastic solutions but for that not to happen there would have to be changes.” The conservative prime minister ruled out using mediators to resolve the crisis - something Puigdemont has said he is open to - and said the issue would not force a snap national election.

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Indonesia police detain 51 men in Jakarta “gay spa” raid JAKARTA - Indonesian police detained 51 men including several foreigners in a raid on what authorities described as a “gay spa” in Jakarta late on Friday, and some could face up to six years in prison under pornography and prostitution laws.

The arrests are the latest in a spate of high-profile police actions against gay clubs and parties in Indonesia this year that have called the country’s reputation for tolerance into question.

With the exception of the ultraconservative Aceh province in northern Sumatra, where Islamic law is enforced and two men were publicly flogged in May for gay

sex, homosexuality is not criminalised in Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population.

Among those detained at the spa in Central Jakarta on Friday were four Chinese nationals, a Singaporean, one Thai national, one Malaysian, and one Dutchman, although none of the foreigners would be charged, Jakarta Police spokesman Argo Yuwono told Reuters on Saturday.

When asked about what the people in the spa were doing at the time of the raid, Yuwono noted that it was dark at the time.

“LGBT is clearly between men and men or same-sex relationships.

Male prostitution,” Yuwono said, without clarifying further. He said those charged could face up to six

years in prison under Indonesia’s pornography law.

“There’s a cashier, the manager there and also those providing facilities like towels and other things,” he said.

Activists say police targeting of consensual gay sex has shone a light on discrimination and harassment in the world’s third-largest democracy.

Andreas Harsono, a Jakartabased researcher for Human Rights Watch, referred to a pattern of discriminatory police action against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Indonesia.

“If they raided (this club) because they are gay, it is abusive, it is abuse of power,” he said,

adding that there is no law against homosexuality as long as relationships are consensual. “If there is no victim, there is no crime,” he said.

Police often used to the pornography law to “criminalise” such cases, but that law itself is also problematic, Harsono said, noting that people could be charged if they had pornographic material on a cell phone.

“Just imagine if every person in Indonesia had their cell phones checked, how many hundred million people would go to jail?”

In May, officers detained 141 men in a raid on the Atlantis sauna, accusing them of involvement in a gay prostitution ring in a part of Jakarta that is also home to many heterosexual “spas”. (rtr)

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Langkat police arrest man carrying 18 kg of marijuana

LANGKAT - During a raid in Tangkahan Durian of West Brandan, the Pangkalan Brandan police in Langkat, North Sumatra, arrested a man from Aceh carrying 18 kilograms (kg) of marijuana to be delivered to East Java.

The suspect is identified as Eko alias EH, a 36-year-old resident of Kedunggalar Sub-district, Ngawi, East Java, Pangkalan Brandan Police Chief Adjunct Commissioner J. M. Sitompul noted here, Saturday.

Sitompul said the suspect was arrested aboard a bus departing from Aceh. He added that the police stopped the bus and after checking the belongings of all passengers found three kg of marijuana in his backpack.

“After further probing the suspect, he admitted to have another 15 packages or 15 kg of marijuana in a box, kept in the bus luggage compartment,” he remarked.

Sitompul said, the suspect confessed that the marijuana was to be

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sent to East Java, and as a courier, he would receive Rp18 million once the drugs were delivered.

“He claimed that he would be paid Rp1 million for each package he delivered, but the police doubted his claim,” he noted, adding that the police had found more than Rp20 million in his bank account.

The case is being investigated under Article 114 and 115 of Law No. 35 of 2009 on narcotics, with a maximum penalty of 20 years in jail. (ant)

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Keramas Aero Park, restaurant in Boeing 737-400 aircraft

GIANYAR - Aircrafts are a means of transportation that are usually only encountered at airports. Not everyone has had the experience of boarding an airplane, but now even thouse simply wishing to dine out can see a Boeing 737-400 up close at Keramas Aero Park where such a craft has been converted into a restaurant.

I Gusti Ngurah Bagus Sangkarisma, Operational Manager of Keramas Aero Park Bali, explains that the park officially opened on October 15, 2016 with the idea of offering guests something different than other tourist destinations complete with supporting facilities and infrastructure to pamper during their visit.

“Because Keramas Aero Park is located close to the beach, visitors can enjoy the beauty of nature as well as the unique atmosphere of an airplane without having to go to the airport or buy a ticket” said Sankarisma, adding: that “the Boeing 737-400 aircraft that

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Sangkarisma also added that Keramas Aero Park also has a beach club where visitors can relax as they gather with colleagues, friends or family.

The Boeing 737-400 with a capacity for 250 passengers was purchased from Juanda International Airport for IDR 3 billion -a fairly large sum for a wrecked aircraft. This rare purchase has allowed Keramas Aero Park to become the unique tourist destination that it is today.

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Vettel’s title bid looks almost over

SUZUKA - Sebastian Vettel saw his Formula One title hopes all but disappear on Sunday after the Ferrari driver retired from the Japanese Grand Prix with engine problems.

The German retired on the fourth lap at Suzuka after his mechanics had worked feverishly on the starting grid to try and fix his car.

Vettel had already been 34 points behind championship leader Lewis Hamilton, with the Mercedes driver then winning from pole position to stretch his overall lead to 59 with four races remaining.

“Of course it hurts, and we’re all disappointed,” the four times world champion, who hugged his mechanics and gave the crowd a quick wave after returning to the pits, told television reporters.

“Now I think we just have to get back, get some rest and go flat out for the last four races and see what happens.”

Vettel had lined up alongside Hamilton on the front row at a sunny Suzuka, hoping the hotter conditions could handicap the Briton after he proved unbeatable in Saturday’s cooler qualifying.

But all was clearly not well, with Ferrari mechanics swarming around the car as the seconds ticked away.

“I think it was a small problem causing a big issue. We didn’t have power already on the formation lap, no power at the start and then the first couple of laps already,” he said.

“We tried to reset everything to try and get the power back but we couldn’t. It looks like there was a problem with the spark plug.

“Not much we could have done.

Unfortunately not our day.”

The German made a clean start, hanging on to second off the line, but it soon became apparent the problem ran much deeper as Vettel, clearly lacking power, plummeted down the order.

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It was the third race in a row that Vettel’s hopes had been dealt a battering.

In Singapore the 30-year-old crashed out on the opening lap after colliding with team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, who had tangled with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.

Two weeks later in Malaysia, the Ferrari driver finished fourth after engine problems in qualifying left him at the back of the field.

Raikkonen had been ruled out even before then and did not start.

Triple champion Hamilton capitalised on both occasions, winning in Singapore and finishing second in Malaysia.

Sunday’s setback could prove the most decisive yet, opening the possibility that Hamilton could wrap up his fourth title as early as the next race in Austin, Texas.

The Briton would need to win there with Vettel no higher than sixth to prevent the championship remaining open until Mexico a week later.

REUTERS/Toru Hanai TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

“I don’t need to be a genius or a mathematician,” said Vettel of the odds against him.

“I think we are improving race by race, we’ve got a lot further than people have thought so there’s also some positives,” he added. “But for sure now you don’t look at the positives because it’s not the day to look at positives.” (rtr)

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TAMPA BAY - Tampa Bay forward J.T. Brown raised a closed right fist during the national anthem on Saturday, joining the growing list of professional athletes protesting what they see as a pattern of racism in the treatment of AfricanAmericans by U.S. police.

Brown, the first NHL player to join the protests at a regularseason game, made the same gesture before a preseason game on Sept. 28, the Tampa Bay Times reported.

The Lightning issued a statement during the game, which they

Tampa Bay forward J.T. Brown raised a closed right fist during the national anthem on Saturday.

lost 5-4 to Florida.

“The Tampa Bay Lightning celebrate the moment before every game when we can unite as a community, paying homage to a flag that is representative of our nation and those who have sacrificed,” the statement read.

“At the same time, we respect our players and individual choices they may make on social and political issues.” (rtr)

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Robben gives up on World Cup qualification for Dutch despite win AMSTERDAM - Netherlands captain Arjen Robben has given up hope on the side advancing to the 2018 World Cup finals despite the side registering a 3-1 win at Belarus in their penultimate qualifier on Saturday. The Dutch still have a mathematical chance of reaching Russia if they beat Sweden in Amsterdam on Tuesday but admit that the seven-goal victory margin needed to leapfrog their opponents is highly unlikely.

“It caused me a lot of pain but unfortunately that is part of sport,” said the Bayern Munich winger, who after 95 caps is edging ever closer to the end to his international career. Saturday’s result left the Dutch on 16 points from

nine matches in Group A, three behind second-placed Sweden, who have a vastly superior goal difference of plus-19 compared to plussix for the Netherlands.

Sweden’s 8-0 home demolition of Luxembourg on Saturday was a crushing blow, said Robben. “We couldn’t believe it was that much,” he told Dutch television. Sweden had completed their victory by the time the Netherlands took to the field in Borisov, where Robben scored one goal and made another in the victory.

“After the result in Sweden we could not do much more than come out with our chests out. But to win 8-0 in Belrus was never going to be realistic. And 7-0 at home against Sweden, that’s not

going to happen either.

“Obviously we must keep believing until the last minute but I had better say what everyone is thinking. It is not realistic to think we can beat Sweden with a big score. People had best leave their calculators at home.”

As to his own future with the national team, the 33-year-old Robben said: “First Sweden and then we’ll see.” Missing out on the World Cup continues a dramatic fall from grace after the Dutch were runners-up in South Africa in 2010 and third at the last tournament in Brazil. They failed to qualify for the European Championship in France last year and now appear virtually certain of being absent for a second major tournament in succession. (rtr)

Man Utd’s Fellaini suffers knee injury ahead of Liverpool clash

Bosnia’s Senad Lulic in action with Belgium’s Marouane Fellaini

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

Manchester United’s midfield injury concerns deepened on Saturday when in-form Belgian Marouane Fellaini picked up a knee injury on international duty which will keep him away from the field for a couple of weeks.

The combative Fellaini has been pivotal to United’s unbeaten start to the season but lasted just 29 minutes of a World Cup qualifier against Bosnia in Sarajevo before limping off after landing awkwardly on his knee.

Although the 29-year-old left the Grbavica Stadium without the use of crutches following Belgium’s 4-3 win, coach Roberto Martinez offered a sombre assessment of the player’s condition.

“We are all worried about Fellaini,” Martinez told reporters. “We fear that there’s ligament damage.”

The Belgian FA said on Sunday Fel-

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laini “will be out for a couple of weeks with a left knee injury” after the player underwent an MRI scan. The injury comes a week before United’s clash with Liverpool on Oct. 14.

United manager Jose Mourinho had voiced concerns over how the international break could stall his side’s momentum ahead of next Saturday’s high-profile clash at Anfield and a mounting injury list will only dampen his mood.

Record signing Paul Pogba is absent after picking up a hamstring injury against Basel in the Champions League last month and Michael Carrick, who has played just once this season, is also a major doubt for the Liverpool match.

After amassing 19 points from seven league games, United are second in the standings below neighbours Manchester City on goal difference. (rtr)

ANDORRA LA VELLA - Cristiano Ronaldo came off the bench and scored an opportunist goal which set Portugal on the way to a 2-0 win in Andorra on Saturday that maintained their chances of qualifying directly for the World Cup. Ronaldo’s 63rd-minute goal, his 15th of the campaign, rescued Portugal as they struggled to break down Andorra and, followed by a second from Andre Silva, set up a mouth-watering showdown with Group B leaders Switzerland in Lisbon on Tuesday.

That match will decide who wins the group and goes straight to Rus-

sia and who has to go into the playoffs.

Switzerland, 5-2 winners over Hungary, lead with a maximum 27 points from nine games and need only a draw while Portugal, on 24 but with a goal difference which is better by eight, will top the group if they win.

The winners of the nine European groups qualify directly for the World Cup and the best eight of the runners-up go into a playoff round for four more places. Whoever finishes second in Group B is assured of a playoff place.

The European champions were desperately short of inspiration as they struggled for more than an hour to break physical, ultradefensive opponents on an artificial

pitch that appeared to have taken a battering and was not in a fit state for a World Cup qualifier.

Coach Fernando Santos decided to leave Ronaldo on the bench for the start as Portugal’s record scorer was carrying a yellow card and another would have ruled him out of the Switzerland game.

Ricardo Quaresma wasted Portugal’s first real chance when he got a free header at the far post but sent the ball into the side-netting.

The flamboyant winger brought a flying save from Andorra goalkeeper Josep Gomes who also parried a powerful Pepe drive while Silva volleyed over from close range, but it was a laboured display from Portugal.

Ronaldo gave coach Santos a

knowing look as the two left the pitch at halftime and started the second half.

He did not make an immediate impact, but when Joao Mario’s cross was deflected into his path Portugal’s record scorer reacted in a flash, bringing the ball down and

driving his shot past Gomes.

Ronaldo’s goal was his 79th in 144 appearances and only his second scored as a substitute. Silva added the second with four minutes left, slipping the ball in from close range after Danilo headed down Ronaldo’s cross. (rtr)

Costa Rica qualify for World Cup after draw with Honduras Costa Rica qualified for the 2018 World Cup finals on Saturday after Kendall Waston’s goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time in San Jose gave them a 1-1 draw against Honduras and the point they needed to seal their spot in Russia.

The last-gasp draw means that Costa Rica, who reached the quarter-finals in 2014, join Mexico as the second representative from the North, Central American and Caribbean region (CONCACAF).

The top three teams qualify automatically for Russia with the fourth-placed side going into a playoff with a team from the Asian confederation.

A lethargic Costa Rica looked as if they were playing for a draw from the outset of a match held over

from Friday due to torrential rain in the capital city.

Honduras, however, took the lead after 66 minutes when Eddie Hernandez powered home a header from nine yards out.

The home side were on the verge of missing out on the point they needed but grabbed the equaliser in the dying seconds when Waston headed home a cross from Bryan Ruiz.

In the remaining fixtures of the round, Honduras host Mexico on Tuesday, while Costa Rica go to Panama and the United States travel to bottom side Trinidad and Tobago.

The United States have 12 points and are favourites to take the third automatic spot but Panama and Honduras, both on 10, are still in with a chance. (rtr)

Kendall Waston of Costa Rica (R) celebrates a goal against Honduras.

REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate

Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo in action

REUTERS/Vincent West

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Robben gives up on World Cup qualification for Dutch despite win AMSTERDAM - Netherlands captain Arjen Robben has given up hope on the side advancing to the 2018 World Cup finals despite the side registering a 3-1 win at Belarus in their penultimate qualifier on Saturday. The Dutch still have a mathematical chance of reaching Russia if they beat Sweden in Amsterdam on Tuesday but admit that the seven-goal victory margin needed to leapfrog their opponents is highly unlikely.

“It caused me a lot of pain but unfortunately that is part of sport,” said the Bayern Munich winger, who after 95 caps is edging ever closer to the end to his international career. Saturday’s result left the Dutch on 16 points from

nine matches in Group A, three behind second-placed Sweden, who have a vastly superior goal difference of plus-19 compared to plussix for the Netherlands.

Sweden’s 8-0 home demolition of Luxembourg on Saturday was a crushing blow, said Robben. “We couldn’t believe it was that much,” he told Dutch television. Sweden had completed their victory by the time the Netherlands took to the field in Borisov, where Robben scored one goal and made another in the victory.

“After the result in Sweden we could not do much more than come out with our chests out. But to win 8-0 in Belrus was never going to be realistic. And 7-0 at home against Sweden, that’s not

going to happen either.

“Obviously we must keep believing until the last minute but I had better say what everyone is thinking. It is not realistic to think we can beat Sweden with a big score. People had best leave their calculators at home.”

As to his own future with the national team, the 33-year-old Robben said: “First Sweden and then we’ll see.” Missing out on the World Cup continues a dramatic fall from grace after the Dutch were runners-up in South Africa in 2010 and third at the last tournament in Brazil. They failed to qualify for the European Championship in France last year and now appear virtually certain of being absent for a second major tournament in succession. (rtr)

Man Utd’s Fellaini suffers knee injury ahead of Liverpool clash

Bosnia’s Senad Lulic in action with Belgium’s Marouane Fellaini

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

Manchester United’s midfield injury concerns deepened on Saturday when in-form Belgian Marouane Fellaini picked up a knee injury on international duty which will keep him away from the field for a couple of weeks.

The combative Fellaini has been pivotal to United’s unbeaten start to the season but lasted just 29 minutes of a World Cup qualifier against Bosnia in Sarajevo before limping off after landing awkwardly on his knee.

Although the 29-year-old left the Grbavica Stadium without the use of crutches following Belgium’s 4-3 win, coach Roberto Martinez offered a sombre assessment of the player’s condition.

“We are all worried about Fellaini,” Martinez told reporters. “We fear that there’s ligament damage.”

The Belgian FA said on Sunday Fel-

9

laini “will be out for a couple of weeks with a left knee injury” after the player underwent an MRI scan. The injury comes a week before United’s clash with Liverpool on Oct. 14.

United manager Jose Mourinho had voiced concerns over how the international break could stall his side’s momentum ahead of next Saturday’s high-profile clash at Anfield and a mounting injury list will only dampen his mood.

Record signing Paul Pogba is absent after picking up a hamstring injury against Basel in the Champions League last month and Michael Carrick, who has played just once this season, is also a major doubt for the Liverpool match.

After amassing 19 points from seven league games, United are second in the standings below neighbours Manchester City on goal difference. (rtr)

ANDORRA LA VELLA - Cristiano Ronaldo came off the bench and scored an opportunist goal which set Portugal on the way to a 2-0 win in Andorra on Saturday that maintained their chances of qualifying directly for the World Cup. Ronaldo’s 63rd-minute goal, his 15th of the campaign, rescued Portugal as they struggled to break down Andorra and, followed by a second from Andre Silva, set up a mouth-watering showdown with Group B leaders Switzerland in Lisbon on Tuesday.

That match will decide who wins the group and goes straight to Rus-

sia and who has to go into the playoffs.

Switzerland, 5-2 winners over Hungary, lead with a maximum 27 points from nine games and need only a draw while Portugal, on 24 but with a goal difference which is better by eight, will top the group if they win.

The winners of the nine European groups qualify directly for the World Cup and the best eight of the runners-up go into a playoff round for four more places. Whoever finishes second in Group B is assured of a playoff place.

The European champions were desperately short of inspiration as they struggled for more than an hour to break physical, ultradefensive opponents on an artificial

pitch that appeared to have taken a battering and was not in a fit state for a World Cup qualifier.

Coach Fernando Santos decided to leave Ronaldo on the bench for the start as Portugal’s record scorer was carrying a yellow card and another would have ruled him out of the Switzerland game.

Ricardo Quaresma wasted Portugal’s first real chance when he got a free header at the far post but sent the ball into the side-netting.

The flamboyant winger brought a flying save from Andorra goalkeeper Josep Gomes who also parried a powerful Pepe drive while Silva volleyed over from close range, but it was a laboured display from Portugal.

Ronaldo gave coach Santos a

knowing look as the two left the pitch at halftime and started the second half.

He did not make an immediate impact, but when Joao Mario’s cross was deflected into his path Portugal’s record scorer reacted in a flash, bringing the ball down and

driving his shot past Gomes.

Ronaldo’s goal was his 79th in 144 appearances and only his second scored as a substitute. Silva added the second with four minutes left, slipping the ball in from close range after Danilo headed down Ronaldo’s cross. (rtr)

Costa Rica qualify for World Cup after draw with Honduras Costa Rica qualified for the 2018 World Cup finals on Saturday after Kendall Waston’s goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time in San Jose gave them a 1-1 draw against Honduras and the point they needed to seal their spot in Russia.

The last-gasp draw means that Costa Rica, who reached the quarter-finals in 2014, join Mexico as the second representative from the North, Central American and Caribbean region (CONCACAF).

The top three teams qualify automatically for Russia with the fourth-placed side going into a playoff with a team from the Asian confederation.

A lethargic Costa Rica looked as if they were playing for a draw from the outset of a match held over

from Friday due to torrential rain in the capital city.

Honduras, however, took the lead after 66 minutes when Eddie Hernandez powered home a header from nine yards out.

The home side were on the verge of missing out on the point they needed but grabbed the equaliser in the dying seconds when Waston headed home a cross from Bryan Ruiz.

In the remaining fixtures of the round, Honduras host Mexico on Tuesday, while Costa Rica go to Panama and the United States travel to bottom side Trinidad and Tobago.

The United States have 12 points and are favourites to take the third automatic spot but Panama and Honduras, both on 10, are still in with a chance. (rtr)

Kendall Waston of Costa Rica (R) celebrates a goal against Honduras.

REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate

Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo in action

REUTERS/Vincent West

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Keramas Aero Park, restaurant in Boeing 737-400 aircraft

GIANYAR - Aircrafts are a means of transportation that are usually only encountered at airports. Not everyone has had the experience of boarding an airplane, but now even thouse simply wishing to dine out can see a Boeing 737-400 up close at Keramas Aero Park where such a craft has been converted into a restaurant.

I Gusti Ngurah Bagus Sangkarisma, Operational Manager of Keramas Aero Park Bali, explains that the park officially opened on October 15, 2016 with the idea of offering guests something different than other tourist destinations complete with supporting facilities and infrastructure to pamper during their visit.

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Vettel’s title bid looks almost over

SUZUKA - Sebastian Vettel saw his Formula One title hopes all but disappear on Sunday after the Ferrari driver retired from the Japanese Grand Prix with engine problems.

The German retired on the fourth lap at Suzuka after his mechanics had worked feverishly on the starting grid to try and fix his car.

Vettel had already been 34 points behind championship leader Lewis Hamilton, with the Mercedes driver then winning from pole position to stretch his overall lead to 59 with four races remaining.

“Of course it hurts, and we’re all disappointed,” the four times world champion, who hugged his mechanics and gave the crowd a quick wave after returning to the pits, told television reporters.

“Now I think we just have to get back, get some rest and go flat out for the last four races and see what happens.”

Vettel had lined up alongside Hamilton on the front row at a sunny Suzuka, hoping the hotter conditions could handicap the Briton after he proved unbeatable in Saturday’s cooler qualifying.

But all was clearly not well, with Ferrari mechanics swarming around the car as the seconds ticked away.

“I think it was a small problem causing a big issue. We didn’t have power already on the formation lap, no power at the start and then the first couple of laps already,” he said.

“We tried to reset everything to try and get the power back but we couldn’t. It looks like there was a problem with the spark plug.

“Not much we could have done.

Unfortunately not our day.”

The German made a clean start, hanging on to second off the line, but it soon became apparent the problem ran much deeper as Vettel, clearly lacking power, plummeted down the order.

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It was the third race in a row that Vettel’s hopes had been dealt a battering.

In Singapore the 30-year-old crashed out on the opening lap after colliding with team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, who had tangled with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.

Two weeks later in Malaysia, the Ferrari driver finished fourth after engine problems in qualifying left him at the back of the field.

Raikkonen had been ruled out even before then and did not start.

Triple champion Hamilton capitalised on both occasions, winning in Singapore and finishing second in Malaysia.

Sunday’s setback could prove the most decisive yet, opening the possibility that Hamilton could wrap up his fourth title as early as the next race in Austin, Texas.

The Briton would need to win there with Vettel no higher than sixth to prevent the championship remaining open until Mexico a week later.

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“I don’t need to be a genius or a mathematician,” said Vettel of the odds against him.

“I think we are improving race by race, we’ve got a lot further than people have thought so there’s also some positives,” he added. “But for sure now you don’t look at the positives because it’s not the day to look at positives.” (rtr)

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TAMPA BAY - Tampa Bay forward J.T. Brown raised a closed right fist during the national anthem on Saturday, joining the growing list of professional athletes protesting what they see as a pattern of racism in the treatment of AfricanAmericans by U.S. police.

Brown, the first NHL player to join the protests at a regularseason game, made the same gesture before a preseason game on Sept. 28, the Tampa Bay Times reported.

The Lightning issued a statement during the game, which they

Tampa Bay forward J.T. Brown raised a closed right fist during the national anthem on Saturday.

lost 5-4 to Florida.

“The Tampa Bay Lightning celebrate the moment before every game when we can unite as a community, paying homage to a flag that is representative of our nation and those who have sacrificed,” the statement read.

“At the same time, we respect our players and individual choices they may make on social and political issues.” (rtr)

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Spain’s PM says may use constitution to block Catalan independence

MADRID - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Saturday he would not rule out using the constitutional powers to remove Catalonia’s autonomous status if it claimed independence as tens of thousands took to the streets to call for talks.

The wealthy northeastern region of Catalonia, with its own language and culture, held a referendum on Oct. 1 on independence, in defiance of the Spanish constitutional court which had ruled the vote illegal.

Until now, Rajoy has remained vague on whether he would use article 155, the so-called nuclear option, of the constitution which enables him to sack the regional government and call a fresh local election.

In an interview with Spanish newspaper El Pais on Saturday Rajoy was asked if he was ready to trigger the article 155 of the constitution, and said: “I don’t rule out absolutely anything that is within the law ... Ideally, it shouldn’t be necessary to implement extreme solutions but for that not to happen things would have to be changed.”

Tens of thousands of people gathered across Spain earlier on Saturday as Catalonia prepared to declare independence from the rest of the country, many dressed in white and calling for talks to defuse Spain’s worst

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political crisis for decades.

The Catalan authorities say around 90 percent of those who voted supported a split from Spain. Madrid says secession is illegal under the Spain’s 1978 constitution. Residents of Catalonia who oppose secession largely boycotted the vote.

The crisis is a political test for Rajoy, who has been uncompromising. Some 900 people were injured during the vote when police tried to disrupt voting, firing rubber bullets and charging crowds with truncheons.

The political stand-off has divided the country, pushed banks and companies to move their headquarters outside Catalonia and shaken market confidence in the Spanish economy, prompting calls from the European Commission for Catalan and Spanish leaders to find a political solution.

“I hope that the Catalonia that makes pacts, is moderate and for many years contributed to Spain’s economic growth and improvement in welfare and wealth returns. It can’t be in the hands of extremists, the radicals and the (far-left secessionist party) CUP,” he said.

However, Rajoy ruled out using mediators to resolve the crisis and also said the issue would not force a snap national election. (rtr)

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In the shadow of the Space Shuttle Discovery, U.S. ?Vice President Mike Pence? delivers remarks before convening the first meeting of the U.S. National Space Council at the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, U.S. October 5, 2017.

Pence offers solace as Las Vegas police puzzle over shooter’s motive

LAS VEGAS - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited Las Vegas on Saturday stressing unity and offering solace as police appealed to the public for help in uncovering a wealthy retiree’s motive for massacring 58 people at an outdoor concert this week.

“We are united in our grief, in our support for those who have suffered and united in our resolve to end such evil in our time,” Pence said, joining Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and other local leaders at a City Hall commemoration for victims of the shooting.

Participants trod seven miles (11 km) along four separate paths to the event amid tight security. President Donald Trump paid a visit to Las Vegas earlier in the week.

Las Vegas’ Democratic Congresswoman Dina Titus was the only speaker who touched on the subject of gun violence and politics, saying, “Let us also pray for those who have power that they will have the wisdom, the courage, and the resolve to find ways to end the gun violence that plagues our nation.”

The commemoration came as Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill said investigators remain largely in the dark about what drove

retired real estate investor and highstakes gambler Stephen Paddock to carry out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

“We have looked at everything, literally, to include the suspect’s personal life, any political affiliation, his social behaviors, economic situation, any potential radicalization,” McMahill told reporters late on Friday.

“We have been down each and every single one of these paths, trying to determine why, to determine who else may have known of these plans.”

McMahill said investigators had uncovered “no nexus” between Islamic State and Paddock, even though the militant group had repeatedly claimed responsibility for the attack.

A piece of paper found in Paddock’s room at the Mandalay Bay hotel appeared to calculate the distance and height from his window to help target victims below, the CBS News show “60 Minutes” said in a news release on Saturday ahead of a broadcast on Sunday of interviews with Clark County Sheriff’s officers, including one who said he saw the paper.

The Sheriff’s Office could not be immediately reached for comment.

Investigators have stressed that no suicide note had been found. (rtr)

Thousands...

Rajoy added the government would “prevent any declaration of independence from materialising in anything”. “Spain will continue being Spain,” he said.

Nicola Sturgeon, the pro-independence leader of Scotland, which voted to remain part of the United Kingdom in a 2014 referendum, said: “Everyone has to accept reality, this will not be resolved by both sides going to extreme positions.”

“You can’t simply say in a democracy there is no legal or legitimate way for people to decide their own future, that would be an absurd position,” she added. (rtr)

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An EU flag is seen amongst Spanish flags during a pro-union demonstration organised by the Catalan Civil Society organisation in Barcelona, Spain October 8, 2017.

Asked if he was ready to trigger article 155, Rajoy told El Pais newspaper: “I don’t rule out anything that is within the law ...

Ideally, we shouldn’t have to take drastic solutions but for that not to happen there would have to be changes.” The conservative prime minister ruled out using mediators to resolve the crisis - something Puigdemont has said he is open to - and said the issue would not force a snap national election.

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Indonesia police detain 51 men in Jakarta “gay spa” raid JAKARTA - Indonesian police detained 51 men including several foreigners in a raid on what authorities described as a “gay spa” in Jakarta late on Friday, and some could face up to six years in prison under pornography and prostitution laws.

The arrests are the latest in a spate of high-profile police actions against gay clubs and parties in Indonesia this year that have called the country’s reputation for tolerance into question.

With the exception of the ultraconservative Aceh province in northern Sumatra, where Islamic law is enforced and two men were publicly flogged in May for gay

sex, homosexuality is not criminalised in Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population.

Among those detained at the spa in Central Jakarta on Friday were four Chinese nationals, a Singaporean, one Thai national, one Malaysian, and one Dutchman, although none of the foreigners would be charged, Jakarta Police spokesman Argo Yuwono told Reuters on Saturday.

When asked about what the people in the spa were doing at the time of the raid, Yuwono noted that it was dark at the time.

“LGBT is clearly between men and men or same-sex relationships.

Male prostitution,” Yuwono said, without clarifying further. He said those charged could face up to six

years in prison under Indonesia’s pornography law.

“There’s a cashier, the manager there and also those providing facilities like towels and other things,” he said.

Activists say police targeting of consensual gay sex has shone a light on discrimination and harassment in the world’s third-largest democracy.

Andreas Harsono, a Jakartabased researcher for Human Rights Watch, referred to a pattern of discriminatory police action against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Indonesia.

“If they raided (this club) because they are gay, it is abusive, it is abuse of power,” he said,

adding that there is no law against homosexuality as long as relationships are consensual. “If there is no victim, there is no crime,” he said.

Police often used to the pornography law to “criminalise” such cases, but that law itself is also problematic, Harsono said, noting that people could be charged if they had pornographic material on a cell phone.

“Just imagine if every person in Indonesia had their cell phones checked, how many hundred million people would go to jail?”

In May, officers detained 141 men in a raid on the Atlantis sauna, accusing them of involvement in a gay prostitution ring in a part of Jakarta that is also home to many heterosexual “spas”. (rtr)

men arrested in in a raid on what authorities described as a “gay spa” in Jakarta

Langkat police arrest man carrying 18 kg of marijuana

LANGKAT - During a raid in Tangkahan Durian of West Brandan, the Pangkalan Brandan police in Langkat, North Sumatra, arrested a man from Aceh carrying 18 kilograms (kg) of marijuana to be delivered to East Java.

The suspect is identified as Eko alias EH, a 36-year-old resident of Kedunggalar Sub-district, Ngawi, East Java, Pangkalan Brandan Police Chief Adjunct Commissioner J. M. Sitompul noted here, Saturday.

Sitompul said the suspect was arrested aboard a bus departing from Aceh. He added that the police stopped the bus and after checking the belongings of all passengers found three kg of marijuana in his backpack.

“After further probing the suspect, he admitted to have another 15 packages or 15 kg of marijuana in a box, kept in the bus luggage compartment,” he remarked.

Sitompul said, the suspect confessed that the marijuana was to be

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sent to East Java, and as a courier, he would receive Rp18 million once the drugs were delivered.

“He claimed that he would be paid Rp1 million for each package he delivered, but the police doubted his claim,” he noted, adding that the police had found more than Rp20 million in his bank account.

The case is being investigated under Article 114 and 115 of Law No. 35 of 2009 on narcotics, with a maximum penalty of 20 years in jail. (ant)

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LONDON - When Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund’s no-nonsense boss, spoke to Harvard University this past week, she had some good news: nearly 75 percent of the world is experiencing an economic upswing. players. But within economies themselves there are many left behind.

Most of these are the “bottom billion” described by economist Paul Collier in his 2007 book of the same name - people completely untethered to the global economy and any wealth it might bring.

But others in advanced economies - though relatively less poor - are now railing against being left behind.

They range from Britain’s public servants to primary school teachers in the Netherlands and nurses in parts of Australia.

The election of Donald Trump as U.S. president, Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, and the rise -- albeit modest -- of the far right in Germany are all widely viewed as reflecting disaffection brought on by the unequal share of the global economy’s spoils.

Hence, Lagarde’s focus on what needs to be done right now: rich countries should spend more, central banks should communicate more clearly and public debt needs to be brought under control.

It also explains the title of her address, a riff on John F. Kennedy’s comment: “Pleasant as it may be to bask in the warmth of recovery... the

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Lifting Sudan sanctions to yield positive but gradual effect - finance minister

Sudan Market

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Kuningan Feast Day, Coming down of God to Give Endowments

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Employees work inside a garment factory at an industrial area in Mumbai, India October 6, 2017. time to repair the roof is when the move could strip nearly 20 percent in Italy at an election that must take sun is shining.” off Spanish GDP - a bit like Califor- place next year. nia and Florida together cutting loose Germany’s economy is steaming EUROPE’S PROBLEM from the United States. ahead - latest data: industrial orders It is not unrelated that the euro How the European Union would soaring in August - and in France, the zone - barrelling along a surprisingly handle such a things would simply official statistics agency has raised its smooth growth path - finds itself add to its Brexit headache. Rump 2017 growth outlook to the highest facing two potentially destructive Spain would retain its place in the since 2011. threats. The first is the possibility top four of euro zone economies, but But they cannot carry the load in the coming week that Catalonian much diminished. alone, one reason, perhaps for the separatists will declare unilateral The second hit would come if European Central Bank’s softlyindependence from Spain. eurosceptics - some of who want to slowly approach to pulling back Setting aside the politics, such a leave the euro zone -- gain power stimulus.(rtr)

KHARTOUM - Sudan’s economy is headed towards gradual recovery, Finance Minister Mohamed Othman Rukabi said at a forum on Saturday, just one day after the US lifted its 20-year-old economic sanctions opening the way for critical economic reforms and badly needed investment.

The move will suspend a trade embargo, unfreeze assets and remove financial restrictions that have hobbled the Sudanese economy.

“Lifting the sanctions leads to increasing growth and production rates, but in order to benefit from this chance we must bring down inflation, increase exports, decrease imports and government spend-

ing, lift subsidies on basic goods and attract foreign investment,” Rukabi said.

Sudan’s economy has struggled since the south seceded in 2011, taking with it three-quarters of the country’s oil output, its main source of foreign currency and government income.

Price rises have been compounded by the government’s decision late last year to cut fuel and electricity subsidies in a bid to tighten its finances.

Petrol prices rose by about 30 percent, leading to broader inflation.

“The finance minister’s comments on reducing inflation and government spending and increasing exports would not have been possible before the sanctions were

lifted and now there is hope that Sudan can operate under normal conditions,” said Bakri Youssef, general secretary of the Federation of Sudanese Businessmen.

The United States lifted longstanding sanctions against Sudan on Friday, saying Sudan had made progress fighting terrorism and easing humanitarian distress, and also secured Khartoum’s commitment not to pursue arms deals with North Korea.

Khartoum is hopeful that the move would help it regain access to global financial markets which could help draw in badly needed investment and raise prospects for a recovery.(rtr)

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Tugun Karang, a Psychical Gateway to House Compound

Message from the IMF bridge: full speed ahead, mind the inequality

Why, then, was her speech given the somewhat bearish title “A Time to Repair the Roof”? One reason is that the IMF has to worry about everyone, not just those who are doing well. If nearly 75 percent of world economies are growing, more than 25 percent are not.

Some of the strugglers - not for the first time - can be found in Africa, where the two biggest economies, Nigeria and South Africa have only just crawled out of recession and could still be teetering.

The IMF’s last outlook for the sub-Sahara region suggests 2017 growth of 2.6 percent - around a full percentage below that for the world as a whole and less than half the 1999-2008 average of 5.6 percent.

“The recovery is not complete,” Lagarde told the Harvard audience.

“Some countries are growing too slowly, and last year 47 countries experienced negative GDP growth per capita.” This brings up a second reason for Lagarde’s tempered celebration of recovery - inequality.

There is no question that the gap between countries has been narrowing, as Lagarde told the Harvard glitterati. China, Brazil and India, for example, are now major economic

Monday, October 9, 2017

Kuningan is a series of Galungan feast day performed by the Hindus in Bali. It falls on the tenth day after Galungan, right on Saniscara Kliwon Kuningan or Saturday (Apr. 15, 2017).

However, before Kuningan the Hindus do Penampahan ceremony marked by the slaughter of animals for offerings. This Penampahan day is preparation for carrying out the Kuningan.

Chairman of the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) of Bali Chapter, Prof. Dr. I Gusti Ngurah Sudiana, said that Kuningan Day is believed to be the coming down of gods and goddesses to this mundane world. Then, there is the term angwehaken jagat ring para manusa kabeh meaning that gods and goddess come down to earth to give endowments to the whole mankind. “Celebration of Kuningan is conducted half a day to dedicate ter (an arrow), endongan and tamiang,” he said.

Endongan signifies supplies containing food offered to the gods and goddesses that will return to nirvana. However, the main human provision in living the life is knowledge and devotion (jnana) along with the most powerful weapon namely the peace of mind.

Meanwhile, the ter is the symbol of arrow (weapon) resembling an arrow used as weapon to stretch the mind. Then, sampian gantung is symbol of shield used to protect and fortify human self from bhuta kala (evil spirits). Tamiang also symbolizes repellent of bad forces. At the ceremony of Kuningan, Hindu devotees present dominantly yellow offerings like yellow rice and yellow cone as a symbol of Meru.

Yellow rice as a symbol of prosperity, and presented as an expression of gratitude for having received the endowments of God. Therefore, on Kuningan Day the Hindus should really win and take advantage of the endowments on the previous Galungan celebration. On Kuningan, the Hindus will always try to win and beat out

Adharma (bhuta Dungulan, bhuta Galungan and bhuta Amangkurat) in his life.

The worship on Kuningan feast day should be carried out before midday or before 12:00. At that time, the energy of universe (five great elements: earth, water, fire, air and ether) rises from the morning until reaches its climax at midday.

After which is called the return of the gods and goddesses to their abode (heaven), so that at that time the cosmic energy will decrease.

The next day, Sunday is Manis Kuningan, usually filled with the implementation of pilgrimage or tirtayatra for deepening faith and devotion to God Almighty. Besides, devotees also say prayers to temples and visit relatives and family to maintain social relationship. (kmb)

According to Balinese people, especially the Hindus, every sacred building or shrine placed in the yard of a house or family temple must be respectively functioned according to its location and name. In addition, the sacred buildings are not only functioned, but also believed to be the abode of deities, ancestral spirits and other psychical beings. Moreover, the Tugun Karang shrine or often called as Pengijeng Karang is very often associated with the psychical and haunted thing.

Tugun Karang comes from the word tuhu meaning ‘to know’ or ‘have knowledge.’ Karang means ‘yard’ or house yard or human body.

Who can understand and know about one’s body well, and then he or she is the one who reaches the balance of physical and psychical realm. In the Hindu mysticism and philosophy, Tugun Karang is the ultimate mantra. Tugun is Tang, Ang and Ung; summarized into Karang, namely Ang and Ah. Ang and Ah are double syllables symbolizing the life and death.

Tugun Karang made by the elders of Balinese people is not just a sacred and simple building. It is a sanctified building made and put at a special location through magical and mystical calculation. Thus, the Tugun Karang serves as a pecalang or guardian in a house compound that keeps safety psychically.

Each sikut satak of home yard must have two kinds of shrine, namely the Pangulun Karang in the form of kemulan or three-

chambered shrine and Panunggun Karang functioned as mentioned before. According to I Gusti Ketut Dalem, a permanent lecturer at the Dharma Duta Faculty of the IHDN Denpasar, Tugun Karang shrine is the abode of Ida Ratu Sedahan Panunggun Karang, in charge of security guard in the house compound.

“Actually, he has existed before there are people taking advantage of the land area either intended for housing or moors. According to the elders, they have diverse manifestations according to the place and position. There is manifestation as Jero Dukuh or elder figure, elephant, horse, tiger and other forms,” he said.

Many people do not know that Tugun Karang is the gateway of psychical beings coming from psychical world to physical world.

Moreover, if a human is willing to enter the psychical dimension must seek permission and pass through this gateway. The deity abiding in the Tungun Karang shrine also plays an important role to protect residents from psychical attacks, such as witch.

However, lately many people are ignorant and do not believe in the power of psychical beings in Tugun Karang. The Kala Tattwa palm-leaf manuscript carries that Ida Bhatara Kala changes its form into Sedahan Karang / Sawah / Abian with the function as Pecalang, having the same function as Pangerurah, Penganggit Lawang or Patih in family temple or public temple. (kmb)

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Iran warns US against imposing further sanctions

Mount Agung

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To keep sanctity of Mount Agung, climbing tours must be closed

MOUNT Agung is the largest and most sacred mountain in Bali. Psychically, Mount Agung is getting dirty. In order to maintain the sanctity of Mount Agung, there should be courage to close the climbing tours to the mountain. As long as the climbing is not closed, it will be difficult to keep the sanctity of Mount Agung.

Mangku Sueca revealed that psychically the Mount Agung starts to be getting dirty. All this time, many visitors climbing to the top of Mount Agung often break the taboos where one of which was committed by a climbing woman that was menstruating. Saying inappropriate words and obscene things are also considered to have tarnished the sanctity of Mount Agung. In order

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to maintain the sanctity of Mount Agung, it must dare to close the climbing activities. Otherwise, it will be difficult to maintain the sanctity of Mount Agung.

“To maintain the sanctity of Mount Agung, guests should not be allowed to climb. The climbing must be closed because all this time many climbers are impure.

There was a woman continuing to

climb to the top, not to mention the other negative things committed by the climbers at the summit. Mount Agung will remain psychically impure. This is what makes sanctity of Mount Agung getting tarnished,” he said.

According to Mangku Sueca, when wishing to close the climbing activities to Mount Agung it should be discussed seriously by relevant

agencies. Besides, residents becoming the climbing guides should also be considered. Do not let the climbing closure cause them to lose livelihood.

This needs to be well managed.

“Tour guides of Mount Agung should be considered. Do not let them lose their livelihood as tour guide if the climbing is closed. They should be given job opportunities or places according to their abilities,” he said.

When asked about tourists visiting Besakih that are not allowed to enter the temple since the establishment of the management board, Mangku

Sueca suggested that before the management was formed tourists were not allowed to go into the temple except for worship. He added that guests sometimes violate and still want to go into the temple even though they have been prohibited.

“This must be respected by tourists and should follow the rules because the temple is sanctified.

So, when entering the temple in impure condition, it will tarnish the temple sanctity because sanctity of the temple as a worshipping place must remain well maintained,” said Mangku Sueca. (nan)

Bali police disclose 1.3 kg of narcotics

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The perpetrators brought the crystal meth by hiding it in the Toyota Avanza van.

DENPASAR — Joint team of the Directorate of Narcotic Criminal Investigation and CTOT Taskforce of Bali Police arrested three other drug dealers at two different locations on Friday (Oct. 6). The suspect with the initials IGS, 37, with a woman, TE, 35, was arrested at KFC Kebo Iwa parking area on Jalan Gatot Subroto Barat, Denpasar. In the meantime, RP, 23, was arrested in Pondok 828 on Jalan Raya Pemogan, South Denpasar. The evidence of 1.3 kg narcotic in the form of crystal meth was seized in the arrest.

“Disclosure of this big case is due to hard work of the Narcotic Criminal Investigation and CTOC of Bali Police team. Of course, it is also due to

the information from the public,” said Spokesperson of Bali Police, Hengky Widjaja, on Saturday (Oct. 7).

Hengky revealed the arrest of the suspects IGS and TE was carried out around 20:30. The perpetrators brought the crystal meth by hiding it in the Toyota Avanza van. Results of the search confiscated are 5 large packages and 227 small packages of crystal meth with total gross weight of 773.71 grams or 684.52 grams net, four handphone, two digital scales, two rolls of duct tape as well as one BCA saving book and BCA ATM card. “As planned, the narcotics will be circulated in the area of Denpasar,” he said.

In the meantime, RP was arrested at 19:00. As the result of the search

in the suspect’s room, police confiscated six large crystal meth packages with gross weight of 603.91 grams or 599.41 grams net, 23 small packages of crystal meth with gross weight of 23.47 grams or 19.36 grams net, 2.21 grams of marijuana leaves, two pieces of green purple ecstasy, two electric scales, a masses, one crystal meth recap book, two handphones, three bundles of plastic clip, one clear insulating roll, scissors, a BCA ATM card and two spoons.

“The suspect confessed to receive the narcotics package from someone with the initial B. Currently, the Narcotic Criminal Investigation members are still investigating this case in depth,” said Hengky. (kmb36)

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Turkish military vehicles are seen during the opening ceremony of a Turkish military base in Mogadishu, Somalia September 30, 2017.

Turkish military vehicles enter Syria’s Idlib -sources

BEIRUT - Turkish military vehicles crossed the Syrian border into Idlib on Sunday, a local resident and a local rebel said, after Ankara announced an operation by rebel groups in the area, which is controlled by rival jihadist alliance Tahrir al-Sham.

Both sources said the vehicles travelled under escort from Tahrir al-Sham, whose fighters accompanied them along a road. However, the jihadists and the Turkish military had earlier exchanged fire in a nearby area.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Syrian rebels backed by Turkish forces would launch an operation in Idlib and warned that Turkey would not allow “a terrorist corridor” near its borders.

The operation follows a deal between Turkey and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s allies Russia and Iran to impose a “de-escalation” zone in Idlib and surrounding areas to reduce warfare there, an agreement that did not include Tahrir al-Sham.

Reuters witnesses, the local resident and local rebel, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,

a Britain-based war monitor, said the Turkish military and Tahrir al-Sham exchanged fire near the village of Kafr Lusin in Idlib early on Sunday.

The clashes involved Tahrir alSham firing on a Turkish bulldozer removing sections of a border wall and Turkish artillery returning fire, the local resident and rebel and the Reuters witness said.

Idlib and neighbouring parts of northwest Syria represent the country’s biggest and most populous rebel stronghold, home to more than two million people, many of them refugees from other regions.

Rebel groups taking part in the operation -- part of the Euphrates Shield campaign that Turkey has backed with armour and troops in another part of Syria to the east of Idlib since last year -- said on Saturday they expected it to start

very soon.

Tahrir al-Sham said any incursion into Idlib would “not be a picnic” for its enemies.

Tahrir al-Sham is spearheaded by the former Nusra Front, which was al Qaeda’s Syrian branch until last year, when it changed its name and broke formal allegiance to the global movement founded by Osama bin Laden.

It has been a formidable military force since early in the conflict, often fighting alongside other rebel groups, but since early this year it has battled them as it tried to gain control over areas including Idlib.

Turkey has been one of the biggest supporters of rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during the six-and-a-half-year war, but its focus has moved from ousting him to securing its own border. (rtr)

BEIRUT - Iran warned the United States against designating its Revolutionary Guards Corp as a terrorist group and said U.S. regional military bases would be at risk if further sanctions were passed.

The warning came after the White House said on Friday that President Donald Trump would announce new U.S. responses to Iran’s missile tests, support for “terrorism” and cyber operations as part of his new Iran strategy.

“As we’ve announced in the past, if America’s new law for sanctions is passed, this country will have to move their regional bases outside the 2,000 km range of Iran’s missiles,” Guards’ commander Mohammad Ali Jafari said, according to state media.

Jafari also said that additional sanctions would end the chances for future dialogue with the United States, according to state media, and issued a stark warning to American troops.

“If the news is correct about the stupidity of the American government in considering the Revolutionary Guards a terrorist group, then the Revolutionary Guards will consider the American army to be like Islamic State all around the world particularly in the Middle East,” Jafari said.

The Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) are Iran’s most powerful internal and external security force. The Quds Force, the IRGC’s foreign espionage and paramilitary wing, and individuals and entities associated with the IRGC are on the US list of foreign terrorist organisations, but the organisation as a whole is not.

Iran sees the Sunni Muslim militants of Islamic State as an existential threat to the Islamic Republic where the majority of the

population are Shi’ites.

On June 7, Islamic State claimed an attack on Tehran’s parliament and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, killing 18 people. The Guards fired missiles at Islamic State bases in Syria on June 18 in response.

Guards commanders have framed their military involvement in Iraq and Syria, where they are fighting to support the government of President Bashar al-Assad, as a fight against Islamic State.

Dozens of members of the Guards, including senior commanders, have been killed in Syria and Iraq.

MISSILE PROGRAMME The website for state TV reported Jafari as adding that the United States was mistaken if it thought it could pressure Iran into negotiating on regional issues.

Jafari also said that Tehran would ramp up its defence capabilities, including its missile programme, if the U.S. undermined a nuclear deal between Iran and Western powers.

Under the 2015 deal, Iran agreed to limit its disputed nuclear programme in return for the easing of economic sanctions.

However, Trump is expected to announce soon that he will decertify the deal, a senior administration official has said, in a step that potentially could cause the accord to unravel.

“The Americans should know that the Trump government’s stupid behavior with the nuclear deal will be used by the Islamic Republic as an opportunity to move ahead with its missile, regional and conventional defense programme,” Jafari said, according to state media. (rtr)

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A handout picture provided by the Iranian Presidency on October 7, 2017 shows Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani giving a speech during a ceremony at Tehran University marking the beginning of new Iranian academic year.

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Drake Well Museum

PENNSYLVANIA - The Drake Well Museum and Park is a museum that interprets the birth of the American oil industry in 1859 by “Colonel” Edwin Drake along the banks of Oil Creek in Cherrytree Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The museum collects and preserves related artifacts. The reconstructed Drake Well demonstrates the first practical use of salt drilling techniques for the extraction of petroleum through an oil well. A historic site, the museum is located in Cherrytree Township, 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Titusville on Drake Well Road, situated between Pennsylvania Routes 8 and 27. The museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.

The site features a reconstruction of the oil well drilled by “Colonel” Edwin Drake and working oil field equipment. The museum includes indoor and outdoor exhibits and houses a library of over 2,500 titles, over 1,000 cubic feet (28 m3) of manuscript material and a photographic collection with over 10,800 images. Programs include the Fall Gas-Up engine show, a spring Heritage Lecture Series, Heritage School Tours, and the Nitroglycerine Show. Visitor services include orientation film, guided tours, a museum store and more.

Nearby attractions are Oil Creek State Park and the Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad.

The State of Pennsylvania has spent US$8 million for renovation of the museum. The new permanent exhibit “There’s

a Drop of Oil and Gas in Your Life Everyday” features over 530 artifacts, many historic images and stories about the birth and growth of the oil and gas industries. Interactive exhibits include a discussion between John D. Rockefeller and Ida Tarbell, author of The History of Standard Oil. Drake Well Museum and Park’s outdoor experience is organized into 5 themes.

1. Drake Well Replica

The centerpiece of our exterior exhibits is the full-size replica of Edwin L. Drake’s engine house and derrick. Built in 1945, this structure encloses the famous well that struck oil in 1859 and launched the modern petroleum industry.

The Replica features working reproductions of the woodfired boiler and steam engine that Drake used to drill and pump oil from the well until 1861. Exhibit operates May through October.

2. Drilling for Oil

Learn about the evolution of drilling while exploring our collection of historic rigs. Put your legs to work kicking down a well at our interactive Spring Pole Drilling Rig. Walk through the interior of an 80-foot Standard Steel rig (1920) and take an up close look at our Wolfe (c. 1920) and Yo-Yo (1943), two early examples of portable drilling rigs.

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3. Producing Oil

Experience an operating Central Power oil lease. By the 1870s, one engine could pump many wells at once. Watch belts transfer power from a 20 HP engine to an eccentric gear that moves long networks of rod lines connected to pump jacks at each well. Exhibit operates May through October.

Inspect the Milton and McCurdy Brothers pulling machines used to maintain producing wells in the 20th century and discover the industry’s ingenuity in our historic pump jack collection.

4. Transporting and Storing Oil

Follow the industry’s progression from barrels to pipelines. Take in the variety of wooden barrels and stock tanks used to store oil. Observe Oil Creek and imagine the danger and sheer pandemonium involved in delivering oil to market via a pond freshet. Explore the Silver Run Pump Station established in 1896 to push oil through Standard Oil’s National Transit Pipeline.

5. The Business of Oil

Visit the Grant Well Oil Company’s office to see where oil men sold shares of stock, hired workers and sent oil to market.

Watch craftsmen forge oil field tools in our Blacksmith Shop (last Saturday March-October). (IBP/net)

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Refugee from Batumadeg fills their spare time by making canang around the refugee camp area and Puseh Temple nearby.

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To kill time, refugees make canang for worship

AMLAPURA — Karangasem residents living in the red zone has evacuated for two weeks. To fill in their spare time during the life in refugee camp, they perform various activities. For instance, a refugee from Batumadeg in her refugee camp at Segah hamlet, Nongan, Rendang, fills her spare time by making canang to say prayers around the refugee camp area and Puseh Temple nearby.

One of the refugees, Mangku Nengah Genek, stated that during her stay in the refugee camp she with other refugees makes canang (oblation) almost every day to be used for worship in the refugee camp and Puseh Temple nearby. This canang making is done by housewives with the help of their children. “Every day, we make quite a lot of canang for prayer.

They are not for sale, but for daily prayers,” she said.

She explained that praying in the refuge is indeed done every day. It is meant to ask for salvation while in the refuge while the situation of Mount Agung currently remains in warning status. “Praying is mandatory, especially if we borrow a shelter at other’s village, including saying prayers at the local Puseh Temple. So, we must say devotion,” she explained. (nan)

Refugees in Denpasar

236 refugees belonging to safe zone return home

DENPASAR - Some Karangasem residents evacuating to Denpasar due to the warning status of Mount Agung have returned to their hometown. Of the total 14,746 refugees in the city of Denpasar, 236 people already returned home on Saturday (Oct. 7) facilitated by Denpasar municipality. Their return is inseparable from the condition of their village having been declared to be in safe zone.

Since the appeal of evacuating came into effect, the Denpasar municipality took a swift measure by providing some points of public posts and independent posts of the Denpasar community.

After several days of evacuating at some points like refugee post on Jalan Danau Tempe, Jalan Gurita, Jalan Sutomo, Kompyang Sujana Stadium post, and Peguyangan urban village post, the refugees chose to return home because they considered the condition of their home village has been safe.

Attention and concern of Denpasar Mayor to the refugees is very visible. Amid his busyness as the Denpasar Mayor, I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra even makes a visit to the refugee camps and provides motivation for them.

Associated with the homecoming of refugees, the government of Denpasar facilitates the residents wishing to return to their respective village. After their villages were declared to be in safe zone and the opening of public facilities in Karangasem become their reasons to return home for most refugees. Moreover, one of the refugees is pregnant. “They go home because their villages have been declared to be in safe zone and the facilities have been opened. We are here due to the instruction of the leadership and the mayor facilitates the residents wishing to return home,” said Sudarita, Coordinator of the Denpasar Municipal Central Post.

In the meantime, one of the refugees, Ketut Agus, also decided to return home based on his own accord and daily condition during their evacuation in Denpasar is very comfortable. “This post is good, but I decide to return home because our area is declared safe and the facilities are opened,” he said. (kmb12)

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Of the total 14,746 refugees in the city of Denpasar, 236 people already returned home on Saturday (Oct. 7).

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Fostering daily life

Those evacuated from Mt. Agung hope to be employed

THOUSANDS of residents of Karangasem who have been evacuated to Buleleng must still deal with the needs of daily life although must of them have lost their means of earning a living. For now, their families must rely on the austere provisions offered at eh evacuation sites. Many evacuees hope to find work while they wait for the Mt. Agung to be declared safe, so that they can provide for their families.

Buleleng is currently accommodating approximately 22,000 refugees from Ban hamlet, Dukuh, Kubu, most of whom are staying in the sub-district of Tejakula for the time being. Others are staying in Kubutambahan, Sukasada, Buleleng and in Gerokgak.

Some people are staying with relatives, but most are living in public facilities provided by the government.

Since they were evacuated on September 22nd, most of the evacuees have had little to nothing to do.

A few men have been going back to their village each morning to care for the livestock that they left behind.

In the afternoon, they retunr to their the evacuation post to be with their wives, children and other relatives.

One 60 year old resident of Bonyoh hamlet named Ketut Susup, when met in a tent at Les village on Saturday (Oct. 7) explained that since he was evacuated from his village he has been resigned to rely on the food and assistance provided by the government to provide for his family.

Susup had been working in construction before he was evacuated by now he and his 40 year old wife Wayan Ketil are at a loss about how to provide for the other needs of their family.

“Since we were evacuated I have not been doing very much and the few supplies that I brought with me have run thing. The government is indeed providing for our basic needs but my money has now run out as

I am not working. I don’t know what to give to my family”, he said.

Susup is therefor hoping to work in construction near the evacuation site while he waits to return home.

He has not however shared this intention with the evacuation post officers. “ Hopefully I will be offered work, but no one is facilitating the evacuees. If only there was a job offer, I would take it so that I am not just sitting around and can earn an income for m living costs” he explained.

Another evacuee from Bonyoh hamlet, 26 year old Komang Ariyani expressed a similar frustration. Since she was evacuated to Buleleng she has just been sitting around with her husband and children. She does not know where to go to find work or what she should do. She is still hopeful that someone will offer work to her and the other women at the evacuation post who are ready to work. She is eager to earn some money to meet her daily needs.

“I just sit around, bath my children and make coffee for my husband. Actually I want to work but I do not know where to go or what to do. Hopefully someone will give me a job so that there is additional income and I don’t have to just rely on the government assistance” she said.

Headman of Ban, Wayan Pontag, said many residents of Ban work as breeders, construction workers and bamboo craftsmen. He therefor hopes that this expertise can be put to use while they are away from home too. He added that he will cooperate with the government at the evacuation post to see about empowering the residents of his village by providing them with work.

“Many of our residents have skills and hopefully there are some people who can give them a job using theses skills. We facilitate the evacuees in finding work so they can meet the living costs for their families” he added. (mud)

Making canang is one of the activities done by the refugees

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Despite evacuations, creative economy still rolling

SEMARAPURA - Thousands of residents of Karangasem are still living in evacuation posts in the district of Klungkung after having been evacuated from MT. Agung two weeks ago. The creativity that many formally used in their hometowns to earn a living is still being put to use. Many evacuees are making various types of crafts that are being sold to provide for their daily needs.

Evacuess at Griya Cucukan hamlet, Selat, Klungkung from Muncan village, Selat, Karangasem, are make bamboo lumpian that are used to place offerings.

The artisans can produce about ten a day and resellers have been coming around to buy them. “ Every two days there is an order for 40 pieces”, said evacuee Desak Ayu Sugiantini, on Saturday (Oct. 7).

We have been making these crafts for years and are selling them for just IDR 5,000. Sales have been good so it provides a little extra income. “Well, there is good income that can be used to buy side dishes”, said Sugiantini.

Sugiantini and her husband Dewa Komang Suda Pertama work together to make these crafts with materials that she brought with her from her village. “Thankfully, we still have work” she said. This mother of two added that she also makes porosan an element of offerings, that also sell quite well.

Other evacuees are carving wood.

Nyoman Nadiarta for example is working on an order from Manikaji, Bangli along with several other evacuees. “This timber was brought from our village. Now we carve so we are not left behind”, he said. (kmb45)

Maintaining sanctity of Mount Agung, climbing tours must be shut down

Mount Agung is Bali’s largest and most sacred mountain and some fear that it is being spiritually polluted. By prohibiting climbing tours on Mt. Agung, the sanctity of the mountain can be easily maintained said Mangku Sueca recently.

According to Mangku Sueca Mount Agung is becoming spiritually tarnished by people committing taboos when they climb the mountain. Climbing the mountain while menstruating, using inappropriate or obscene language are amongst the behaviours that are considered to have sullied the sanctity of the mountain. Mangku Sueca thinks that is will be difficult to maintain the sanctity of Mount Agung if there are still climbing tours.

“To maintain the sanctity of Mount Agung, guests should not be allowed to climb. The climbing tours must be closed because all this time many climbers are impure. There was a woman who climbed to the top even though she was menstruating not to mention the other negative things that have been committed by climbers on the summit. Mount Agug is tarnished by such things and will remain spiritually impure if we allow this”, said Sueca.

He added that relevant agencies should discuss the possibility of closing the mountain to climbers.

He also said that climbing guides also need to be taken into consideration so they do not loose their livelihood. “This needs to be well managed”, he said. “Mount Agung tour guides should be considered, they should not loose their means of earning a living if the tours are shut down. They should be given other options for earning a living or placed according to their abilities” said Mangku Sueca.

When asked about tourists having being prohibited from visiting Besakih temple since the management board was established, Mangku Sueca said that even before the management board was formed, tourists were not allowed to go into the temple unless it was for worship. He added that guests sometimes violate this prohibition and try to go inside even though they have been prohibited.

“This must be respected by tourists and they should follow the rules because the temple is sacred So, anyone entering the tempe in an impure condition will tarnish the sanctity of the temple. As a place of worship it must be well maintained” said Mangku Sueca. (nan)

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‘Mudbound’ filmmaker on movie’s exploration of racial divide LONDON - The saga of two families pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy in the Mississippi Delta after World War Two explores a racial divide that is relevant even today, the filmmaker of new movie “Mudbound” said.

“I feel like ‘Mudbound’ kind of comments on who we are now,” director and co-writer Dee Rees told Reuters at the “Mudbound” premiere in London on Thursday.

“It’s about family, it’s about what it means to not be able to come home, it’s about citizenship, who’s an American, who’s not and so like those things would be, like timeless,” she added.

“Mudbound,” based on Hillary Jordan’s novel of the same name,

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The woman dialed 911 to report the sexual assault had occurred when the bus was parked at a shopping center in Auburn, which is less than 20 miles (32 km) south of Seattle, local police said in a statement.

Nelly, best-known for the hit songs “Ride Wit Me,” “Hot in Herre” and “Dilemma,” performed at an amphitheater in Auburn on Friday night as part of a tour with

country pop group Florida Georgia Line.

Patrol officers investigated the woman’s report, and Nelly was arrested before dawn, Auburn police said in the statement.

He was booked into the South Correctional Entity Regional Jail in Des Moines, Washington, on suspicion of sexual assault.

Auburn police had no further details to release, the statement

said.

Scott Rosenblum, Nelly’s attorney, said Saturday night that his client had been released from jail.

“Nelly is the victim of a completely fabricated allegation,” Rosenblum said in statement provided to Reuters. “I am confident once this scurrilous accusation is thoroughly investigated, there will be no charges.” (rtr)

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This file photo taken on April 30, 2017 shows Rapper Nelly performing during Live Nation’s celebration of The 3rd Annual National Concert Day at Irving Plaza on May 1, 2017 in New York City.

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stars Jason Mitchell, Garrett Hedlund, Carey Mulligan and Jason Clarke and follows the struggles of two farming families - one black, one white - in the heart of the American South in the 1940s.

“Mudbound,” which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival for independent movies, is already garnering strong reviews and Oscar buzz, and will debut on Netflix on Nov. 17.

The film explores the friendship of two men, one from each family, as they return from war and find common ground while their families face an unending struggle for and against the unforgiving land.

“What this film does so cleverly is it creates empathy,” Mulligan said. (rtr)

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A couple of friends wrapped in a Catalan and a Spanish flag pose for a woman as they walk through a street during a protest two days after the banned independence referendum in Barcelona, Spain, October 3, 2017.

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Thousands protest in Barcelona against Catalan independence

BARCELONA - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Catalonia’s capital Barcelona on Sunday to express their opposition to any declaration of independence from Spain, showing how divided the region is on the issue. The protesters rallied in central Barcelona, waving Spanish and Catalan flags and banners saying “Catalonia is Spain” and “Together we are stronger”, as politicians on both sides hardened their positions in the country’s worst political crisis for decades.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Saturday he would not rule out removing Catalonia’s government and calling a fresh local election if it claimed independence, as well as suspending the region’s existing autonomous status. The stark warning came days before Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont is expected to address the region’s parliament, on Tuesday, when he could unilaterally declare independence.

“We feel both Catalan and Spanish,” Araceli Ponze, 72, said as she rallied in Barcelona. “We are facing a tremendous unknown. We will see what happens this week but we have to speak out very loudly

so they know what we want.” The wealthy northeastern region of 7.5 million people, which has its own language and culture, held an independence referendum on Oct. 1 in defiance of a Spanish court ban.

More than 90 percent of the 2.3 million people who voted backed secession, according to Catalan officials. But that turnout represented only 43 percent of the region’s 5.3 million eligible voters as many opponents of independence stayed away. The Spanish government sent thousands of national police into the region to prevent the vote. About 900 people were injured when officers fired rubber

bullets and charged crowds with truncheons in scenes that shocked Spain and the world, and dramatically escalated the dispute.

Losing Catalonia is almost unthinkable for the Spanish government. It would deprive Spain of about 16 percent of its people, a fifth of its economic output and more than a quarter of its exports.

Catalonia is also the top destination for foreign tourists, attracting about a quarter of Spain’s total.

The political stand-off has pushed banks and companies to move their headquarters outside Catalonia.

Concern is growing in EU capitals about the impact of the crisis on the

Spanish economy, the fourth largest in the euro zone, and on possible spillovers to other economies.

Some European officials are also worried that any softening in Spain’s stance towards Catalan independence could fuel secessionist feelings among other groups in Europe such as Belgium’s Flemings and Italy’s Lombards.

‘DRASTIC SOLUTIONS’ The demonstration in Barcelona was organised by the anti-independence group Catalan Civil Society under the slogan “Let’s recover our senses” to mobilise what it believes is a “silent majority” of citizens in Catalonia who oppose independence. “The people who have come to demonstrate don’t feel Catalan so much as Spanish,” said 40-year-old engineer Raul Briones, wearing a Spanish national soccer team shirt. “We like how

things have been up until now and want to go on like this.”

It was a second day of protests after tens of thousands of people gathered in 50 cities across Spain on Saturday, some defending Spain’s national unity and others dressed in white and calling for talks to defuse the crisis. Until this weekend, Rajoy has remained vague on whether he would use article 155 of the constitution, the so-called nuclear option which enables him to sack the regional government and call a local election.

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