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Linklater’s war veteran comedy speaks to modern America, says star

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Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas and Sylvia Hoeks pose during a photocall to promote Blade Runner 2049 at a hotel in central London, Britain, September 2017.

‘Blade Runner 2049’ Fades to $31.5 Million Opening Weekend

LOS ANGELES - “Blade Runner 2049” is heading for a downbeat $31.5 million opening weekend at 4,058 sites in North America.

Sunday’s estimated result throws serious doubt onto what had been high hopes for a box office success story. In one of the most surprising turnarounds in recent years, “Blade Runner 2049” fell far short of expectations, which had been in the $45 million to $50 million range at the start of the weekend amid stellar reviews, strong advance ticket sales, and the revered status of 1982’s original “Blade Runner.”

Instead, the film grossed only a moderate $12.7 million on Friday, including $4 million from Thursday night previews. Saturday saw an 11% decline to $11.4 million and Sunday’s projected total was $7.4 million.

The key factors for the under-performance were the movie’s 163-minute running time -- which limits the number of showings each day -- plus far less traction among younger moviegoers than anticipated.

“The core of enthusiastic and loyal ‘Blade Runner’ fans were over 25 and predominantly male and propelled the film as expected to the top spot, but a lengthy

running time and lesser interest among females made it tougher for the film to reach the original weekend box office projections,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst with comScore.

According to PostTrack, males over 25 represented 50% of the audience and females over 25 were 27%, while males under 25 represented 15% of moviegoers and females under 25 were 8%. Males gave the movie an A CinemaScore, while females gave it a B+.

Warner Bros. is handling domestic distribution on “Blade Runner 2049,” starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, through its output deal with Alcon Entertainment. Financed by Alcon and Sony and laden with special effects, the film carries a $150 million price tag. Denis Villeneuve helms the sequel film, which is set in a bleak 2049 Los Angeles with Gosling starring as an LAPD officer dealing with replicants seeking freedom.

Warner Bros. domestic distribution president Jeff Goldstein said “Blade Runner 2049” had fallen short of expectations in mid-sized and smaller markets along with the South and Midwest, where the running time and Major League Baseball playoffs appeared to have held down attendance. (rtr)

LONDON - “Last Flag Flying”, a comedy-drama about Vietnam war veterans, will resonate with Trump’s America, despite, or perhaps because of, its period setting, actor Bryan Cranston said on Sunday after a screening at the London Film Festival.

Set in the United States in December 2003 – when U.S. forces in Iraq were dragging Saddam Hussein out of a “spider hole” - it is the story of three ageing former servicemen who reunite to bury the son of one of them who has been killed in action.

With President Donald Trump saying he could “totally destroy” North Korea and characterising a dinner with military commanders as “the calm before the storm”, Cranston said “Last Flag Flying” was a timely reminder of the effect on normal Americans of ill-advised military campaigns.

“I think it has a lot of relevance today in the sense that (today) it’s

not clear cut as far as the (what are the) intentions of the government or military,” Cranston, acclaimed for his lead role in the TV drama “Breaking Bad”, told Reuters.

“In World War Two, it was the ‘good war’, it was clear and present danger, we had to stop this mad man. Since then, with Vietnam and Iraq, (there are) a lot of questions ... among the troops and the citizens as to if we are doing the right thing and what is the purpose of our being there.”

“Last Flag Flying” was produced by Amazon Studios and directed and co-written by Richard Linklater, whose greatest critical acclaim has been for the naturalistic “Before Sunset” trilogy and the 2014 “Boyhood” which won a slew of Oscar nominations.

Linklater also made comedies including “School of Rock” and “Everybody Wants Some!!”, about skirt-chasing undergraduates. “Last Flag Flying” falls somewhere between the two genres. (rtr)

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Weakening Nate brings rain, tornado warnings to U.S. South

A sail boat is seen washed ashore after Hurricane Nate in Biloxi, Mississippi, U.S., October 8, 2017.

BILOXI/PASCAGOULA - Hurricane Nate weakened to a tropical depression on Sunday after coming ashore in Mississippi, flooding roads and buildings but sparing the state from catastrophic damages. Maximum sustained winds from Nate, the fourth major storm to hit the United States in less than two months, dropped to 35 miles per hour (55 km per hour) as it moved through Alabama and into Tennessee.

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The remnants of the storm spawned tornado warnings in those states and the western portions of North Carolina and South Carolina. It is forecast to bring gusty winds and up to 4 inches (10 cm) of rain to parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York on Monday. The storm made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane, the weakest designation by the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Only a few hours earlier, its winds had been blowing at 70 mph (113 kph) but appeared to lack the devastating punch of its recent predecessors.

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant told reporters there had been no deaths or reports of catastrophic damage. “We are

very fortunate this morning and have been blessed,” he said. Nate killed at least 30 people in Central America before entering the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and bearing down on the U.S. South.

It has also shut down most oil and gas production in the Gulf.

Nate follows hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, which have devastated areas of the Caribbean and southern United States. The tropical depression’s center will move up through Alabama into Tennessee and Kentucky through Monday, the hurricane center said.

Heavy rainfall and storm-surge flooding remained a danger across the region, and the hurricane center said Florida’s Panhandle and parts of Alabama and Georgia

might feel tropical storm-force wind gusts.

The storm was expected to bring three to six inches of rain to parts of western North Carolina through midday Monday, with up to 10 inches possible in isolated spots. Power outages, damaged homes and roads closed by debris were all reported in the region.

Nate made its first U.S. landfall on Saturday evening near the mouth of the Mississippi River and then made a second one early on Sunday near Biloxi, Mississippi.

In Biloxi, water surged over roads during the storm and quickly receded on Sunday, leaving a boat that broke loose marooned on the beach. At a Waffle House restaurant, the storm surge deposited a dumpster in its parking lot. Jeff Pickich, a 46-year-old wine salesman from D’Iberville, Mississippi, was counting his blessings. Heavy winds left only minor damage, blowing down part of a fence on his rental property in Biloxi.

“I’m just glad,” he said, digging

fresh holes for fence posts. “I was afraid of the water. The water is Mother Nature. You can’t stop it.” Water flowed through Ursula Staten’s yard in Biloxi, pushing over part of her fence and scattering debris, but did not breach her house. “I have a mess,” the retired massage therapist said. “If we had got Irma, I would have lost everything.” At the Golden Nugget Casino, one of eight Biloxi gaming establishments, workers rushed to clean up mud, debris and minor damage from 3 feet (1 m) of water sloshing into an entrance and the parkade. The gaming room stayed dry.

Three hundred guests remained in the hotel, some eager to try their luck after surviving Nate. But dangers from the storm remain, with Florida Governor Rick Scott warning of tornadoes springing up in the Panhandle region and Alabama Governor Kay Ivey urging residents to prepare for strong winds and storm surges. U.S. President Donald Trump declared

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federal emergencies in Alabama and Florida on Sunday, which provides additional funding for disaster relief.

Mississippi Power had restored electricity to 10,000 customers, but 4,800 were still without it. More than 1,000 people had arrived at shelters, the state Emergency Management Agency said. Alabama Power said it had restored electricity to 58,000 of 146,000 customers who lost it. Rainfall of 3 to 6 inches (8 to 15 cm), with a maximum of 10 inches (25 cm), was expected east of the Mississippi River in Alabama and Tennessee, the hurricane center said.

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Smoke comes out from Mount Agung

Smoke soars up to 1,500 kilometers above Mt. Agung

Triggered by water vapor due to heavy rains AMLAPURA —

The smoke or solfatara coming out from the bottom of the Mount Agung’s crater on Saturday (Oct. 7) at 20:45 soared to a height of 1,500 kilometers. This is the highest smoke seen since the highest mountain in Bali was declared to be in warning status on September 22. The pillar of smoke was triggered by water vapour from heavy rains over the last three days.

Division Head of Volcano Mitigation of the PVMBG/BG, for Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), I Gede Suartika, said on Sunday (Oct. 8) that based on the evaluation on October 8, Mount Agung remains in warning status. Up to now, the seismicity remains quite critical.

Deep volcanic earthquakes occurred in the range of 800, consisting of 536 deep volcanic earthquakes, 309 shallow volcanic earthquakes and 44 local tectonic earthquakes. As of Sunday morning (Oct. 8) there had

been 91 deep volcanic earthquakes, 66 shallow volcanic and 12 local tectonic earthquakes.

Suartika smoke form the crater had indeed reached a height of 1,500 kilometers on Saturday night. In Sunday morning the smoke seen from the north was still nearly as high as the night before. He explained that the seismicity has not indicated a trigger for the occurrence of an eruption. So far, there has not been a change in the earthquakes. If there are continuous

tremors this would indicate an imminent eruption.

“The smoke on Saturday night was due to large amounts of rainfall over the past three days. When rainwater fills the bottom of the crater, it heats up and turns onto water vapour. So the solfatara mixes with the water vapour and gas. The color of the smoke remains white and there is no sand or ash”, explained Suartika adding that the smell of sulfur extended some 700 meters form the lip of the crater.

Suartika further explained that the recent heavy rains will not accelerate an eruption. There are two types of volcanic eruptions he said, phreatic and magmatic. Currently Mount Agung appears to be heading toward a magmatic eruption.

Since such eruptions are preceded by many earthquakes, the PVMBG/ Bg is making models for an eruption and magmatic impact. “So, here is our estimation and we then extend the radius of disaster-prone areas to 12 kilometers. Phreatic eruption shows the effects of water vapor under the crater leading to a magmatic eruption. So, the sequence is phreatic, phreatomagmatic and then magmatic”, he explained.

Head of the Center for Volca-

nology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG), Kasbani, asserted that the warning status of Mount Agung is a common thing.

The smoke or solfatara mixed with water vapour caused by the heavy rains and indicates that the volcanic activity is still quite high.

“The blowing of white solfatara mixed with water vapour and gas is because there remains an energy supply from below”, he said.

Kasbani explained that his division will continue to observe the developments of Mount Agung using incoming data from the devices used to monitor the current condition of the mountain. “The eruption has its time, but is hasn’t happened yet”, explained Kasbani. (kmb41)

Unda River and ocean waves

Gunaksa port looks like Tanah Lot Temple SEMARAPURA — Gunaksa Port in Dawan subdistrict is in a deplorable condition with the revetment and the port’s padmasana shrine having been eroded by the swift streams of the Unda River and the impact of strong waves. The only road that leads to the port has become severely damaged by flooding.

The port that was established around the quarry now looks like Tanah Lot Temple – surrounded by water.

As seen on Sunday (Oct. 8), the revetment had collapsed on the east

side as had the padmasana shrine. A number of shrines previously standing upright have also collapsed.

The swift current of the Unda River streams and ocean waves have caused electrical poles to collapse and damage the land that previsously connected to the port making it impossible to pass through.

Shipping Division Head of the Klungkung Transportation Agency, IGN Suarba, with permission from the Agency Head, I Nyoman Sucitra, confrimed that the condition of the

port was dire following the heavy rains of the last two days that caused the Unda River to swell and erode the surrounding area. “We’wnet down to see for ourselves and to take picture. Indeed the the revetment and the shrine have been eroded” he explained.

The road access, he explained had been repaired 3 months ago to allow heavy trucks to pass. Unfortunately these repairs did not last long and the road is once again inaccessible.. “The road is broken off again, now there is

no access to the location (port—Ed).

We do not dare to walk down to the port as the water is still flowing swiftly”, added Suaba.

Such repairs, explained Suaba cannot be handled by the district government as the authority to handle the management and maintenance of the part area lies with the central government and relevant agencies. “ Because we have no authority to deal with it direcly, we have simple reported the matter.

The minutes will be sent tomorrow

(Monday- Ed). The details will be reported to the regent and then passed onto the central government”, he said.

The port that was built with a budget of about IDR 230 billion could also potentially be hot by cold lava, if Mt. Agung erupts as the Unda River is a likely path for the lava – as witnessed during the eruption of 1963. Preventative measures have been coordinated with the central government”, concluded Suaba. (kmb45)

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DNA confirms amazing Australian isle insect not extinct after all

WASHINGTON - When black rats invaded Lord Howe Island after the 1918 wreck of the steamship Makambo, they wiped out numerous native species on the small Australian isle in the Tasman Sea including a big, flightless insect that resembled a stick.

But the Lord Howe Island stick insect, once declared extinct, still lives. Scientists said on Thursday DNA analysis of museum specimens of the bug and a similar-looking one from an inhospitable volcanic outcrop called Ball’s Pyramid 14 miles (23 km) away confirmed they are the same species. The finding could help pave the way for its reintroduction in the coming years.

“The Lord Howe Island stick insect has become emblematic of the fragility of island ecosystems. Unlike most stories involving extinction, this one gives us a unique second chance,” said evolutionary biologist Alexander Mikheyev of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University in Japan.

The glossy-black insect that grow up to six inches (15 cm) in length is nicknamed the “land lobster.” Other stick insects are found around the world, so named because their appearance lets them blend in with trees and bushes to evade predators.

As adults, the wingless Lord Howe Island stick insects shelter in trees during daytime and come out at night to eat shrubbery. The bright-green babies are active during daytime.

By about 1930, they had vanished on Lord Howe Island, which was

thought to be their only home. There were no land-dwelling mammals there when the rats arrived, and they also vanquished five bird species and 12 other insect species.

A rock-climbing ranger made a curious discovery in 2001 on Ball’s Pyramid: a similar-looking insect.

Since then, captive breeding programs have begun at the Melbourne Zoo and elsewhere.

Because of certain differences between the Ball’s Pyramid insects and the Lord Howe Island insect museum specimens, there was some question about whether they were the same species.

“We found what everyone hoped to find, that despite some significant morphological differences, these are indeed the same species,” said Mikheyev, who led the research published in the journal Current Biology.

Officials are planning a program to eradicate the invasive rats on Lord Howe Island, which could allow the stick insects to return.

“I imagine that maybe a decade from now, people will travel to Lord Howe Island and take night walks, hoping to glimpse this insect,” Mikheyev said. “In maybe 20 years, they could become a ubiquitous sight.” (rtr)

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Since the drainage channel has not been worked on, along the Jalan Ngurah Rai, precisely in the south of SMAN 1 Bangli, until now still continues to be a regular flooded area and overflow of garbage when rain flushes Bangli.

Workmanship of drainage rehab project unclear

Courtesy Rohan Cleave/Melbourne Zoo/Handout via REUTERS

An adult female Dryococelus australis, also known as the Lord Howe Island stick insect which was once declared extinct, is shown in this undated photo released on October 5, 2017.

CTBTO looking at ”unusual seismic activity” in North Korea

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Antennas of the testing facility for seismic and infrasound technologies of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) in the garden of their headquarters in Vienna, Austria September 28, 2017.

ZURICH - Nuclear proliferation watchdog CTBTO is examining unusual seismic activity in North Korea that took place around 50 km (31 miles) from previous nuclear testing in the isolated country, it said on Saturday.

“Analysts looking at unusual #seismic activity of a much smaller magnitude in the #DPRK,” CTBTO Executive Secretary Lassina Zerbo said in a Twitter post.

“Korean Peninsula unusual #seismic activity: LAT=41.36 LON=129.76 mb=3.5 About 50km from prior tests. #CTBT Analysts investigating,” he said in a subsequent post.

China’s earthquake administration said it had detected a magnitude 3.4 quake in North Korea that was a “suspected explosion”, raising fears that Pyongyang might have conducted another nuclear bomb test.

A CTBTO spokeswoman said

Zerbo’s remark about a “smaller magnitude” referred to its monitoring of an event in North Korea on Sept. 3 which the agency described as consistent with a man-made explosion but stopped short of calling a nuclear blast, pending testing for airborne radioactivity.

North Korea has described the Sept. 3 incident as a test of an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile, marking a dramatic escalation of the regime’s stand-off with the United States and its allies.

The CTBTO (Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization) was founded in 1996 to monitor compliance with an accord negotiated in the 1990s that bans nuclear explosions.

The treaty has not come into effect because eight countries with nuclear technology have yet to sign it. (rtr)

When raining, water with garbage runs onto the road BANGLI — The workmanship of drainage rehabilitation project having been budgeted by the government of Bangli in the main regional budget 2017 is unclear. Until mid-October, there is no serious drainage rehabilitation process. Since the drainage channel has not been worked on, along the Jalan Ngurah Rai, precisely in the south of SMAN 1 Bangli, until now still continues to be a regular flooded area and overflow of garbage when rain flushes Bangli.

As seen on Sunday (Oct. 8), the rain flushing the Bangli area on Sunday morning caused the road to be filled with overflowing water. The water flow came from drainage channel in the south of SMAN 1 Bangli high school having been covered with earth material. Other than flooding the shops, offices and homes of residents, the overflowing water of drainage onto the road also made road users difficult to cross. Moreover, the overflowing water caused a motorcyclist to fall in that morning because of trying to break through the flow of water.

Related to this matter, a member of Commission III of the Bangli House of Representatives, Dewa Gede Oka, said that to rehabilitate drainage in Bangli town area, the parliament and executive agreed to allocate the fund in the main regional budget 2017. However, his

commission wondered why until now the project has not been accomplished.

Dewa Oka admitted that his commission had time to question about the implementation of the project to the Bangli Public Work and Housing Agency (PUPR). As a result, the agency stated if the project is already in preparation to be worked on. “The agency told if the work is delayed due to a problem concerning with shade trees.

Another reason is that the agency is still in the process of ordering U-shape drain concrete that will be used for drainage improvement,” said Dewa Oka. In the meantime, Division Head of Highway Construction of the Bangli Public Works and Housing Agency, Putu Wida Gunawan, could not be asked for his confirmation last Sunday.

The call and short messages sent to him were not responded. (kmb40)

Regarding room rate standardization

Badung tourism office summons 200 hoteliers

Made Badra

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MANGUPURA — Badung Tourism Office began to follow up the discourse of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) Badung related to the standardization plan of hotel room rates. Moreover, it has summoned a total of 200 hoteliers and restaurateurs last September. This was conveyed by the Head of the Badung Tourism Office, Made Badra, not long ago.

According to Badra, it was done in accordance with the mandate of the ministerial regulation in order to have standardization of services including the room rate. The standardization is performed with certification of hotel and restaurant business through the rating of related business. “We also have talked to the industry,” he said.

He explained, having been audited, the hotels themselves will be given rating in accordance with the assessment. Otherwise, the tourism office

will evaluate the permit. “It will be clear which category of a particular hotel belongs to, its room rate range and how the service looks like,” he explained.

He admitted that such measure is meant to prevent the unfair hotel room rate competition. It will avoid the practice of one-star hotel class providing services of three-star hotel. Surely, it will damage the market price and the tourism itself. To facilitate the certification, the tourism office provides five local auditor consultants related to the public service standards (SLU). “They will help certify the industry,” he said.

He targeted that the 200 companies having been coached can be certified. According to him, the standardization is only for star-rated hotels and restaurants. As for the hotel of jasmine category, he claimed to still draft the governance by compiling a guidebook. (kmb23)

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Mount Agung in warning status

Philippines says policy trumps popularity after Duterte ratings dip

Marine activities in Tulamben prohibited AMLAPURA — Due to the status of Mount Agung rose to level IV or warning, the economic activities in disaster-prone areas (KRB) paralyze. Apart from the activities on mainland, the activities at sea, both fishermen and diving at Tulamben tourist area, Kubu, are now closed. “Since the activity of Mount Agung has increased, all the hotels at Tulamben are closed, and the community activity from Tulamben to Sukadana area also paralyzes,” said Suadnyana, Chief of Kubu Police on Sunday (Oct. 10).

Suadnyana explained that since two weeks ago, almost 80 percent of residents in the disaster-prone area II and III have evacuated. Nevertheless, in the morning there are still residents, mainly men, coming home to visit their cattle or home.

In the afternoon, they return to their refugee camp. The area of disasterprone area III has been completely sterilized because all the residents have been in the evacuation.

“All the community activities in the prone areas are prohibited, including diving activities on Tu-

lamben Beach. However, a few days ago there were tourists being desperate to dive in the Tulamben area. They departed by a traditional boat from Amed, but their activities were banned by hamlet chief with the backup of our members,” he explained.

In the meantime, a diving guide at Tulamben object, Komang Patra, said that after the threat of Mount Agung eruption, thousands of people turn unemployed. This happens because all hotels in the Tulamben area are closed. So, the people currently relying on their life from tourists can no longer work. On this condition, he asked the government to make a breakthrough by alerting an evacuation team at sea. He asked to allow diving activities in the Tulamben area, but tourists stay in the Amed area.

“On that account, it needs to alert the marine evacuation team to save in case the eruption occurs,” he said while stating that people working as fishermen are still going to sea, but in a small amount. (kmb41)

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Flood sweep away fingerlings

Fish farming group loses tens of millions

TABANAN — Due to heavy rain within past few days, the fingerlings and freshwater fish cultivated by Bentuk Sari fish farming group (Pokdakan) of Yeh Gangga hamlet, Sudimara, Tabanan, were swept away by flood. As a result, the group suffered losses up to tens of millions of rupiahs.

Head of Bentuk Sari fish farming group, Made Sutana, said on Sunday (Oct. 8) that heavy rains flushing Tabanan in the past few days caused floods so the water in the cultivation pond overflowed. Thus, the tilapia fingerlings of about 250,000 heads and tilapia of consumption size weighing 300 kg raised in the pond lost due to swept away. Sutana said it happened on Thursday (Oct. 5).

He told that his group suffered losses reaching tens of millions of rupiahs. It is based on the price calculation of tilapia fingerlings with the size of 7-9 cm at IDR 300 per head and the price of tilapia ready for consumption reaching IDR 25,000 per kg. “Actually, the tilapia fingerlings were about to be purchased

and the buyer already gave a down payment of IDR 5 million. It will be spread in Lake Batur, Bangli, to be raised,” said Sutana.

Made Sutana explained the drifting incident of the fingerlings and tilapia ready for consumption as swept away by flood was known about 04:00 in the morning. At that time, Sutana came to the pond to check the fish. “When I arrived at the pond, the water from irrigation channel already overflowed into the upper pond, while the pond at lower area was already submerged in water due to overflowing water from the creek beneath it,” he explained.

At that time, Sutana immediately took action. He managed to save the fish in the upper pond. Unfortunately, due to the large volume of incoming water it crashed into the lower pond so he was unable to take precautions and could only resign.

Sutana has been cultivating fish for approximately 14 years. So far, it is the first flood disaster overwhelming his fish ponds. Aside from washing away the raised fish, the floods also caused some pigs kept by residents in the northern part of the pond to be carried away. (kmb24)

MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s honeymoon period may be over, but his deadly anti-drugs campaign will not wane, his office said on Monday, after a fall in ratings that his opponents said showed public disillusionment with his rule.

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Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, attends an opening ceremony of a newly constructed residential complex in Ryomyong street in Pyongyang, North Korea April 13, 2017.

North Korea’s ‘princess’ now one of the secretive state’s top policy makers

Heavy rains flushing Tabanan in the past few days caused floods so the water in the cultivation pond overflowed.

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Apart from the activities on mainland, the activities at sea, both fishermen and diving at Tulamben tourist area, Kubu, are now closed.

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SEOUL - The promotion of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s 28-year-old sister to the country’s top decision-making body is a sign he is strengthening his position by drawing his most important people closer to the centre of power, experts and officials say.

Kim Yo Jong was named as an alternate member of the politburo within the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea - the opaque, all-powerful party organ where top state affairs are decided, the North’s official media said on Sunday.

It makes her only the second woman in patriarchal North Korea to join the exclusive club after Kim Kyong Hui, who held powerful roles when her brother Kim Jong Il ruled the country.

“Since she is a female, Kim Jong Un likely does not see her as a threat and a challenge to his leadership,” said Moon Hong-sik, research fellow at the Institute for National Security Strategy. “As the saying goes ‘blood is thicker than water,’ Kim Jong Un thinks Kim Yo Jong can be trusted.”

Unlike her aunt, who was pro-

moted to the politburo in 2012 after serving more than three decades in the party, Kim Yo Jong has risen to power at an unprecedented pace.

Kim Kyong Hui has not been seen since her husband, Jang Song Thaek, once regarded as the No.2 leader in Pyongyang, was executed in 2013. South Korea’s spy agency believes she is now in a secluded place near Pyongyang undergoing a treatment for an unidentified disease, according to an August briefing to parliament.

Jang and his wife are not the only relatives to fall from Kim Jong Un’s favour.

Kim Jong Un’s estranged halfbrother, Kim Jong Nam, was killed with a toxic nerve agent at a Malaysian airport in February. Two women are on trial for the murder, which South Korean and U.S. officials believe Kim Jong Un’s regime was behind.

Kim Jong Nam, who lived in exile in Macau, had criticized his family’s dynastic rule and his brother had issued a standing order for his execution, according to some South Korean lawmakers. (rtr)

Duterte has enjoyed strong opinion poll numbers since winning the presidency in last year’s elections but heavy scrutiny of his war on drugs, which has killed thousands of Filipinos, appears to have impacted his ratings.

Trust and satisfaction in Duterte fell to the lowest of his presidency in the third quarter of this year, a survey showed on Sunday, although sentiment about his leadership remained positive overall.

“The honeymoon period of the president is usually for a year, so this is expected,” Duterte’s communications secretary, Martin Andanar, said in a radio interview, adding it should motivate the government to deliver on its overall objectives.

The Social Weather Stations survey was conducted between September 23-27, two days after thousands of Filipinos rallied to denounce Duterte’s drugs war and his authoritarian leadership style.

The high death toll has stoked international alarm, although domestic polls have shown Filipinos are largely supportive of his tough measures to fight crime and drugs.

Police say they have killed 3,900 drug suspects during their anti-narcotics operations and deny executions have taken place, as human rights groups have alleged.

But the campaign has been under the microscope of late, due largely to the high-profile killing by police of

a 17-year-old student on Aug. 16, which led to a senate probe. A murder investigation is under way.

Police said he was a drug suspect killed because he opened fire on them while resisting arrest, but security camera footage showed him in police custody. His family insists he was executed.

Staunch critics of Duterte were quick to take advantage of a survey slump they said reflected public discontent and scepticism about his drugs war.

“It’s very encouraging to know that the Filipino people are beginning to see the light,” said Senator Antonio Trillanes, a fierce opponent who has recently accused Duterte of concealing assets when he was Davao City mayor.

“They are now seeing Duterte for who he really is: a lying, rude, amoral, corrupt and oppressive former mayor who is totally incompetent about governance at the national level.”

Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella also said the honeymoon was over, but Duterte was not motivated by popularity ratings and was “bent on making sure that he addresses the three campaign themes which is crime, corruption and illegal drugs”.

Duterte’s office frequently cites polls, including SWS, as a sign of his public support.

Peace and order are also one of the cornerstones of the 72-year-old leader’s economic agenda, which aims to lift the country’s growth to 7-8 percent during his six-year term.

Senator Risa Hontiveros said the ratings dip showed Duterte’s “authoritarian style of governance is losing its appeal and support”.

“The writing on the wall is simple and clear: President Duterte cannot govern based on fear, lies and killings,” Hontiveros said in a statement. (rtr)

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This photo taken on October 6, 2017, shows Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte (C) inspecting the honour guard during the turn-over ceremony of the army’s commanding general at Fort Bonifacio in Manila. Duterte’s popularity has suffered a substantial drop for the first time, though it remains at a relatively high 67 percent, an independent pollster has found.

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China survey puts services growth at 21-mth low, blurs picture of resilient economy

BEIJING - Activity in China’s services sector grew at its slowest pace in 21 months in September as new orders cooled, a private survey showed, blurring the picture of how the economy is performing heading into a key Communist Party Congress.

The findings of the Caixin/Markit survey reinforce views that China’s smaller companies are continuing to struggle, while large state-owned giants are apparently reaping most of the benefits from a year-long, government-led construction boom.

However, many analysts believe China’s robust industrial rally cannot be sustained much longer, putting pressure on policymakers to finds ways to energize the lacklustre private sector, which accounts for over half of the country’s investment and jobs.

The central bank threw a fresh lifeline to smaller firms on Sept. 30 in an attempt to redress that deep structural imbalance, offering an earnings booster to banks if they ramp up lending to more vulnerable sectors of the economy.

China is counting on growth in services, particularly high

value-added services in finance and technology, to reduce the economy’s traditional reliance on heavy industry and investment. But Monday’s private survey suggested many services firms are facing a bumpy ride.

The Caixin/Markit services purchasing managers’ index (PMI) fell to 50.6 in September, the lowest reading since December 2015 and one of the weakest since the survey began in 2005.

A reading above 50 indicates growth, and any lower signals contraction. The index had hit a three-month high in August.

To be sure, the private findings were in sharp contrast to official data which showed services activity expanded at the fastest clip since 2014 in September.

But an official factory survey showed a similar trend, with big companies seeing strong improvements in business conditions while smaller ones struggled to grow, exposing a key fault line underneath the rosy headline growth numbers.

Still, Capital Economics’ China economist Julian EvansPritchard, who has been among those predicting a broader slowdown, said it was too early to tell if the weaker Caixin

Buildings are seen in the fog in Jinan, Shandong province, China, October 9, 2017.

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service survey pointed to a turning point just yet.

Retail sales over the just-ended Golden Week holiday rose 10.3 percent from a year earlier, slowing but only slightly from the pace in 2016, data showed on Monday “It is notable that there are signs of weakness in other parts of the economy and I do think services have softened a bit...I think we will see a slowdown in industrial production as well over the coming few months,” Evans-Pritchard said.

IS RECOVERY IN THE LATE INNINGS OR EXTRA INNINGS?

After China posted forecast-beating growth of 6.9 percent in the first half, analysts have said it was only a matter of time before it started to lose steam, especially as the government looks to contain the risks from an explosive build-up in debt, a campaign which is pushing up borrowing costs.

Still, economists expect September data over the next few weeks could show a bounce in activity after a slightly softer August, welcome news for leaders ahead of a twice-a-decade party congress that kicks off on Oct. 18.

Even if growth does start to fade, few China watchers see the risk of an economic hard landing. Beijing should easily meet or beat its full-year growth target of around 6.5 percent after the rousing start to the year.

“The Chinese economy generally held up well in the third quarter,” Zhengsheng Zhong, director of macroeconomic analysis at CEBM Group, said in a note accompanying the PMI survey.

“However, the expansion in both manufacturing and services cooled in September, suggesting downward pressure on economic growth may re-emerge in the fourth quarter.”

Separately, China reported on Monday that foreign exchange reserves rose modestly in September for an eighth straight month, and by slightly more than expected, as tighter regulations and a stronger yuan continued to discourage capital outflows.

A dramatic slowdown in capital flight - which had been seen as one of the biggest risks to China - has helped boost confidence in the world’s second-largest economy ahead of the party congress, at which President Xi Jinping is expected to consolidate his grip on power. (rtr)

Uber suspends unlicensed service in Norway in change of tack

Uber said on Monday it would suspend its unlicensed service UberPOP in Oslo until Norway introduces new rules, as the U.S. ride-hailing app adopts a more conciliatory tone with national authorities.

The move follows a similar one-year suspension in Finland in July to allow a new taxi law to come into effect, however there is no set date for when UberPOP will be reintroduced in Norway.

The U.S. ride-hailing company has come under fierce pressure from traditional taxi drivers and regulators across Europe who accuse it of unfair competition and skirting traditional licensing rules.

UberPOP has already been suspended in several European

capitals, including Paris and Brussels, and Uber was recently humbled when it lost its licence to operate in London.

“We’ve learned the hard way that we must change as a company in order to serve the millions of riders and drivers who rely on us. With our new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi onboard, it’s a new era for Uber,” the company said in a statement.

“That’s why it’s now time to pause UberPOP in Norway, in order to relaunch under new regulations.”

UberPOP will be paused on Oct. 30, while Uber’s licensed services UberBLACK and UberXXL will continue to operate as normal.

Khosrowshahi took the helm of the company in August, replacing co-founder and former boss Travis Kalanick and

has promised change at the $70-billion dollar firm.

The company said it was encouraged by developments in Norway such as the government’s sharing economy committee which recommended repealing certain provisions related to taxis and an opinion from the EFTA surveillance authority which said Norway’s restrictions on taxi licences were illegal.

“Norway deserves modernized laws that encourage innovation and competition without sacrificing what makes the Norwegian model special,” Uber said. “We hope the government will implement these recommendations soon, so that we can relaunch a new and improved version of the product loved by so many.” UberPOP had around 280,000 users in Oslo and hundreds of drivers. (rtr)

Purnama Kapat celebrated all over Bali

Ceremony for Bali’s water on Lake Tamblingan Every full moon Balinese Hindus pray in their village temples, in recognition and celebration of the celestial cycle of the beautiful rock that reflects the sun’s light. Purnama kapat or ‘fourth full moon’ according to the Balinese calendar is an especially significant full moon as it marks the moment when the sun is directly above the equator and often the arrival of the rainy season. So, last week temples throughout Bali held special ceremonies of thanks for the abundance of nature, including Besakih Temple on the slopes of rumbling Mt. Agung. Displaced devotees were told that they could pray from wherever they are. Devotees of other temples gathered to celebrate the particular graces that have been bestowed upon them with particular prayers going out for the peace of sacred Mount Agung.

Gubug Temple on Lake Tamblingan held a a ritual known as pengaturang pengrakih from October 3-6. The moon reflects the sun and of course also effects the flow of water on earth, most notably in relation to the ocean tides. One of Bali’s biggest watersheds is in the north of the island is where the island’s four lakes are all located. Lake Tamblingan is the smallest of these four lakes but is nonetheless a place of great spiritual power and mystery.

Today, there are four villages known as catur desa that surround the lake, though traditionally they are considered to be a single entity. The people of the Munduk, Gesing, Gobleg and Umajero are responsible for caring for Lake Tamblingan.

Part of this responsibility includes holding ceremonies for the lake and the cycle of water from the mountain down into lakes and rivers and out to the sea where it evaporates back into clouds that rain down on the mountain.

Every two years the people of catur desa hold a series of rituals over the course of 4 months that make up a single prolonged ceremony for the purpose of re-establishing harmonious relations with the water. These rituals vary in length and function and location, each serving a particular purpose related to the overarching aim of re-establishing harmony.

The pengaturang pengrakih ceremony on Lake Tamblingan involved the people of all four villages bringing offerings to Pura Gubug, where hundreds of people gathered on the lakeshore for the full moon ceremony. After all the villagers had prayed and placed their offerings in the temples, the gamelan players carried their instruments to shore to play

hypnotic rhythms as a small armada of canoes set off into the mist. The six packed canoes carried offerings to the middle of the lake. One of the canoes carried sacred objects that were held up by a priest, while another held an ornamented umbrella and others chimed the genta bell as women chanted softly from the bobbing canoes.

Everyone on shore held sticks of incense and flowers up towards the lake, some reciting prayers waiting for the canoes to return. As the canoes and their passengers made their way back to shore, the gamelan music started up again as the sacred objects were quickly ushered back into the temple in a lavish procession followed by more prayers.

Everyone then dispersed to various parts of the lakeshore grounds flanked by the two temples to relax, snack and chat for an hour or so.

Suddenly the gamelan gongs started up again and a group of about 50 people dressed in white gathered on the shore again, this time they all crouched down and with incense and flowers in hand and prayed in the direction of the ornamented Hulun Danau Tamblingan Temple with the iconic Balinese temple towers known as meru. A moment later the group stood up and turned in unison towards the forest and again crouched down to pray as the gongs continues their melody. As the priests stood up and turned to face the first temple a massive rain cloud burst. WIth torrential rain falling, they continued praying to the four directions. As soon as they finished people rushed to take cover but the downpour turned to sprinkles and soon the priests were heading back into the temple where the gamelan gongs had joined the full orchestra.

People from Munduk, Gesing, Gobleg and Umarejo had been coming in turns to bring offerings of flowers, fruit and other food stuff and pray here over the last three days, but now it was only men with a few women who filled the space as it was announced that the offerings on the lake been performed well.

Dressed all in white, as is the custom for priests, they sat in meditation for a few moments as the gamelan played. The priest leading the prayer chimed the genta and the gamelan stopped for a few minutes as the priests held up flowers between their fingers in Balinese style prayer. Holy water was sprinkled and distributed to each person as is always done after praying. Before the priests got up however, the

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priest leading the prayers asked the gamelan players to play a particular song.

As the first few notes of the song played, nothing special happened, but soon one man held his arms up in ecstatic gestures and then another had stood up in the distinct posture of male Balinese dancers and started to move towards the area where the sacred objects had been placed. A yellow cloth was now being tied around another of the priests who had stood up and was swaying with eyes fixed.

A crew men rushed over and a black and white checkered cloth was tied around the dancer who was now wandering around energetically in dancer pose. At the other end of the temple yet another man had a small live chicken in his mouth and seemed to be gnawing on the feathers of its wing.

He too had a cloth tied around him. As each man fell into trance several other men rushed around him to make sure that everything was alright.

It was not long before about 7 men- including the man with the small chicken in his mouth were dancing with rigid gestures in front of the gamelan players. Several women where dancing with them though they seemed to be accompanying them rather being in trance themselves.

After a few rather intense minutes, holy water from a young coconut was being sprinkled on the people in trance, bringing them suddenly back to their senses. They sat back down, the music stopped and after a brief prayer, the men gathered their things and cleared the space to make room for the group of devotees waiting at the door of the tempe to give their offerings and pray. The sacred gamelan instrument s were quickly dismantled and covered in cloth to be carried back on foot to their temple of origin in Gobleg along with the sacred objects.

Outside the temple people were gathered here and there, chatting and just enjoying the fresh air and peaceful atmosphere. Others were making their way home. As the thick fog descended from the mountains, and the sun started making its way to the horizon, everyone, at their own pace slowly left the sacred space to go and rest and prepare themselves from the next part of the four month ceremony. All the temples large and small between Munduk and Ubud and likely beyond were lavishly decorated and attended by thousands of Balinese Hindus praying for mercy and giving thanks. (kmb)

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Women wear masks during a pro-union demonstration organised by the Catalan Civil Society organisation in Barcelona, Spain, October 8, 2017.

Protests but no talks as Catalonia crisis goes down to wire

BARCELONA - The Spanish government and its Catalonia region showed no signs of compromise on Monday, a day after hundreds of thousands of pro-Spain unionists protested in Barcelona against Catalan leaders’ plans to declare independence as early as this week.

Spain fears the Catalan parliament could declare independence on Tuesday, when the regional government’s leader is due to speak to the assembly in the wake of a banned referendum on Oct. 1. Catalan officials say people voted overwhelmingly for secession.

However, on the eve of Tuesday’s parliamentary session, neither Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy nor Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont showed signs of entering into talks, with each buoyed by large protests on both sides of the independence divide.

The Catalan crisis has presented Spain with its biggest political challenge since it became a democracy four decades ago.

Losing Catalonia, which has

its own language and culture, is almost unthinkable for Madrid.

It would deprive Spain of a fifth of its economic output and more than a quarter of its exports. A stream of Catalonia-based firms, including its two largest banks, have moved their legal bases outside the region.

There is widespread opposition to a Catalan breakaway among people in the rest of the country and also among a large section of the Catalan population. The majority of the region’s unionists boycotted the Oct. 1 referendum, which was banned by Madrid and disrupted by a violent police crackdown.

The European Union has also shown no interest in an independent Catalonia, despite an appeal by Puigdemont for Brussels to mediate

in the crisis.

France, which borders Catalonia, said on Monday it would not recognise a unilateral independence declaration.

On Sunday, a crowd estimated by local police to number 350,000, took to the streets of the Catalan capital Barcelona, waving Spanish and Catalan flags and carrying banners saying “Catalonia is Spain” and “Together we are stronger”.

The show of support for Madrid helped calm Spanish markets on Monday, along with comments on Friday from credit rating agencies Moody’s and DBRS that they expected Spain to remain united.

Spanish borrowing costs fell to a one-week low and the main share index touched a week high. (rtr)

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Senator Corker says Trump risks putting U.S. on path to World War Three WASHINGTON - Republican U.S. Senator Bob Corker warned on Sunday that President Donald Trump risks setting the nation “on the path to World War Three” in an interview with The New York Times, the latest in a series public barbs traded over the day. Trump had blamed his former political ally for the Iran nuclear deal in a series of derisive Twitter posts that drew a sharp riposte from Corker, who chairs the important Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

In a sweeping, 25-minute interview, Corker told the newspaper he was alarmed about a president who acts “like he’s doing ‘The Apprentice’ or something” - in a reference to the reality television show that Trump had once hosted. “He concerns me. He would have to concern anyone who cares about our nation,” the senator, who announced his retirement last month, said.

Corker dismissed the idea that Trump may be using provocative comments about North Korea to advance U.S. negotiations being conducted by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by playing “bad cop” to the top diplomat’s “good cop” effort to broker a deal with Pyongyang.

“I know he has hurt, in several instances. He’s hurt us as it relates to negotiations that were underway by tweeting things out,” Corker told the paper, which added that Corker did not provide details about negotiations. “A lot of people think that there is some kind of ‘good cop, bad cop’ act underway, but that’s just not true.”

Corker had been a national security adviser to Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign and on Trump’s short-list last year for both vice president and secretary of state.

But the relationship between the two men has greatly deteriorated.

More recently, Corker has criticized Trump, taking issue with the president’s response to a white su-

premacist demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August. Critics assailed Trump for saying rival protesters were also to blame for violence.

“Senator Bob Corker “begged” me to endorse him for re-election in Tennessee. I said “NO” and he dropped out (said he could not win without my endorsement),” Trump wrote. “He also wanted to be Secretary of State, I said “NO THANKS.” He is also largely responsible for the horrendous Iran Deal!

“Hence, I would fully expect Corker to be a negative voice and stand in the way of our great agenda.

Didn’t have the guts to run!”

An hour later Corker tweeted back: “It’s a shame the White House has become an adult day care center.

Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.”

Corker’s chief of staff, Todd Womack, said Trump called the senator last Monday, asked him to reconsider his decision not to seek re-election in 2018, “and reaffirmed that he would have endorsed him, as he has said many times.”

Trump’s dispute with Corker could also have implications for the president’s policy goals of repealing Obamacare and passing tax reform.

Republicans control both houses of the U.S. Congress but hold only a narrow majority, 52-48, in the Senate, which means Trump has only a slim margin for potential defections from within his own party on legislation.

Even before Trump’s Twitter attacks on Corker, the senator has said he would have difficulty supporting any tax package that added to the federal deficit, posing a potential hurdle for the president’s tax plan.

“Bob Corker gave us the Iran Deal, & that’s about it,” Trump posted on Twitter later on Sunday. “We need HealthCare, we need Tax Cuts/Reform, we need people that can get the job done!” (rtr)

NEW ORLEANS...

Landrieu said he expected that evacuated residents could return home soon.

Vessel traffic and port operations at New Orleans resumed on Sunday afternoon, while the Port of Mobile in Alabama remained closed. Oil ports, producers and refiners in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were planning reopenings as the storm moved inland on Sunday.

The storm curtailed 92 percent of daily oil production and 77 percent of daily natural gas output in the Gulf of Mexico, more than three times the amount affected by Harvey. The storm doused Central America with heavy rains on Thursday, killing at least 16 people in Nicaragua, 10 in Costa Rica, two in Honduras and two in El Salvador.(rtr)

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Forecast at one point to make landfall in Louisiana, Nate headed farther east and spared many New Orleans parishes that were devastated

by Hurricane Katrina 12 years ago. “I had prayed for this - that we would be spared,” said Amos Cormier, president of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana’s equivalent to a county. Bernice Barthelemy, a 70-year-old Louisiana resident, died from cardiac arrest overnight after telling Reuters on Saturday that she did not mind having to evacuate, Cormier said on Sunday. He attributed her death to the stress of the move.

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Construction of Jakarta-Surabaya train starts in 2018

JAKARTA - Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi stated that the Jakarta-Surabaya semi-fast train project can be started next year. The first phase will be the Jakarta-Semarang section which is expected to be developed for two years.

“The last discussion with Vice President Jusuf Kalla concluded that the Jakarta-Surabaya train project will use the existing line and work will start in 2018,” the minister told reporters at Trunojoyo Airport, Sumenep, East Java, on Sunday.

President Joko Widodo and his entourage are scheduled to make a working visit to Sumenep with a number of agendas, including a stop-over at Trunojoyo Airport on Sunday. According to the transportation minister, the Semi-high speed train project is currently under study. The study by the Japanese team will be completed at the the end of November.

“The project is fast and cheap while at the same time it can resolve many things such as the problem of level crossings in

800 points,” he said. So, works on the level crossings could start in early 2018. This means that with work on the level crossings, the construction of the semi-fast train project has been started.

“Our prediction is that the Jakarta-Semarang section, including its electrification, will be done in two years and the rest Semarang-Surabaya section will be carried in the following two years,” he said.

Minister Sumadi said that the Semi Fast Train can cover the Jakarta-Surabaya route within five hours with a minimum speed of 140 kilometers per hour (km/h).

“For the time being, Japan will build the train at a maximum speed of 120 km/h,” he said.

The minister added that the estimated investment for the project is around Rp60 trillion, including

about Rp20 trillion for the construction of the level crossings.

“This amount is lower than the previous calculation of Rp80 trillion,” he said. In the construction of level crossings, both for flyovers and under passes, the minister will cooperate with the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR).

“We will share with the Ministry of PUPR for the level crossing construction because PUPR is also concerned,” he said.

Decisions taken with regard to the level crossing points, said Sumadi, will later be reported to President Joko Widodo.

“The initial estimated cost for the construction of a level crossing is Rp25 billion or about Rp20 trillion for 800 crossings along the Jakarta-Surabaya route,” said Minister Budi Karya Sumadi.(ant)

SEMARANG - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has asked the national police to increase public trust, even though it has now reached the top four, with a value of 78.

“Improvement in public services on driving license (SIM), vehicle registration documents (STNK), and vehicle ownership documents (BPKB) must be done continuously.

The public services should be conducted quickly and easily,” Jokowi said here on Monday.

The president lauded the national polices efforts to improve public trust. “The speed of service has become one of the keys for improving public trust,” the president remarked.

In addition, he underlined the importance of political stability, security, and the current level of economic growth.

The president expressed his optimism that Indonesia would become the world’s fourth-largest economy by 2045.

By 2045, Indonesia will have reached its 100th year of independence, have a population of 309

million people, an economic growth of 6 percent, and gross domestic product of US$9.1 trillion.

Furthermore, Indonesia’s income per capita is predicted to reach $29 thousand. Meanwhile, Jokowi highlighted the stability of food prices too.

“Food is the key to the welfare of the people. If food prices rise, then there will be social instability.

Therefore, it is our duty to maintain the stability of food prices,” he affirmed. Jokowi urged the police to be concerned about crimes related to food.

“The crime should not interfere with the distribution of food,” the president revealed. Indonesia ranks first for public trust in the government based on data released by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in its report Organization at a Glance 2017, published on July 17, 2017.

“It is true that Indonesia ranks first in terms of public trust and confidence in the government based on the Gallup data released by the OECD,” Finance Minister Sri Mu-

lyani Indrawati earlier noted.

The achievement has been reported to Jokowi. The report summarizes the various indicators of public sector achievement from OECD countries as well as several other nations, including Indonesia.

“The level of confidence in the government is influenced by factors, such as whether the people view the government as reliable, responsive, and equitable and is able to protect them from risks and provide effective public services,” Indrawati explained.

The level of public confidence in the Indonesian government in 2016 had reached 80 percent, up by 28 percent as compared to 52 percent in 2007.

The level of confidence in the Indonesian government is high as compared to developed OECD countries, such as the US at 30 percent; Britain at 31 percent; Germany, 55 percent; and France, 28 percent and non-OECD developing countries, such as India at 73 percent; Brazil at 26 percent; and South Africa at 48 percent.(ant)

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Want to take selfie at ATM? Visit this fun location

BANGLI - Assuredly it is not an ATM of any kind. To be sure, it has nothing to do with automated teller machines used to withdraw money. It stands for Anjungan Tukad Melangit (ATM) or literally meaning the platform of Melangit River located at Antugan hamlet, Jehem village, Tembuku, Bangli, as one of the favorite places for travelers that like to take selfie. At this ATM, visitors cannot only take pictures with the background of natural beauty of the Melangit River, but also in the swing and some other selfie facilities.

Before becoming the target of travelers, the ATM was once made only by local youths to simply hang out together. The materials used to make the platform are only sober ones, namely wood and bamboo. However, after visitors took selfie and was uploaded to social media, the platform is getting more crowded with tourist visits.

Operations Manager of the ATM, I Wayan Lendra, recently said the ATM has been famous since more than a year ago. Seeing the number of incoming visitors, he continues to make improvements and arrangement. If formerly there used to be only one platform, now there have been three permanently built platforms. “We make them permanent for the convenience of visitors,” he explained.

In addition to the platform, the ATM management also offers several other facilities suitable for taking pictures such as traditional swing and heart-shaped bamboo cane work. At the ATM, visitors can also feel the sensation of camping and picking oranges in person.

If previously visitors to the ATM were only charged a voluntary levy, now the management charges admission ticket worth IDR 10,000 for adult and IDR 5,000 for child of domestic tourists. Meanwhile, foreign tourists are charged IDR 15,000 per person.

So far, Lendra admitted that the rate of tourist visits to ATM is now increasing. On typical days, the average visit rate reaches tens of people per day, while on holidays it increases up to 80 percent more. (kmb)

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Nadal thrashes Kyrgios to win China Open title

BEIJING - World number one Rafael Nadal produced a ruthless performance to thrash Australian Nick Kyrgios 6-2 6-1 in the China Open final on Sunday for his 75th career singles title.

White House/Myles Cullen/Handout via REUTERS

Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence stand during the national anthem prior to the start of an NFL football game between the Indiana Colts and the San Francisco 49ers at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S., October 8, 2017.

Pence exits NFL game after players kneel during anthem WASHINGTON - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence walked out of a National Football League game on Sunday after some players knelt during the national anthem, a form of demonstration that began last year in silent protest against police violence toward racial minorities.

Pence was attending a game in his home state of Indiana between the Indianapolis Colts and the San Francisco 49ers.

When the national anthem was played before the start of the game, some 49ers knelt while some Colts, their arms locked, wore black Tshirts with the words “We Will” on the front and “Stand for equality, justice, unity, respect, dialogue, opportunity” on the back.

“I left today’s Colts game because President Trump and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem,” Pence said in a statement issued by the White House.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said after his team’s game on Sunday that he would bench players who disrespect the U.S. flag.

“If there is anything that is disrespectful to the flag then we will not play,” Jones told reporters.

Asked about Pence’s departure, Jones said: “We cannot in the NFL in any way give the implication that we tolerate disrespecting the flag.

“I know the vice president did leave, because in his opinion the teams were,” he said, adding: “There is no question in my mind that the National Football League

and the Dallas Cowboys are going to stand up for the flag.”

But the NFL Players Association in a statement defended players’ right to protest.

“We should not stifle these discussions and cannot allow our rights to become subservient to the very opinions our Constitution protects,” the association said, adding, in words that borrowed from the national anthem, “that is what makes us the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

After Pence’s departure, critics began to question whether he had only attended the game in order to make a production of leaving, pointing out he flew from Las Vegas on Saturday and was then going to fly to California on Sunday evening.

Pence had planned for “several weeks” to attend Sunday’s Colts game, where former quarterback Peyton Manning was being honored, an official in his office said, asking not to be named. Additionally, he made a last-minute decision to travel to Las Vegas for a prayer service on Saturday, the official said.

“As he had discussed with the president, when several 49ers players disrespected the flag and the national anthem, the vice president decided to leave the game,” the official said.

President Donald Trump said in a tweet on Sunday that he had asked Pence to leave the stadium “if any player kneeled, disrespecting our country.” (rtr)

The 31-year-old was given a tough fight early on but Kyrgios’s challenge faded after he lost his temper and was docked a penalty point at 2-5 in the first set.

Nadal’s previous title at the tournament came 12 years ago.

“I had very tough draw here,” Nadal, who saved match points in his opening round against Frenchman Lucas Pouille, said.

“I was lucky the first day saving the two match points but after that I think I played one of my best events of the year.”

World number 19 Kyrgios matched Nadal early on, winning his opening two service games but became involved in a debate with umpire Mohamed Lahyani over a close line call against him.

“I can’t play at 100 percent if that stuff happens -- and then you expect me not to be angry,” Kyrgios told Lahyani.

He continued to argue the toss with the official

who eventually awarded a penalty point against the Australian during the changeover when he trailed 2-5, meaning he began the eighth game already 0-15 behind.

Nadal was well in control by then and he raced into a 5-0 lead in the second set before Kyrgios slightly delayed the inevitable as the Spaniard sauntered to his 12th consecutive win.

“He played well. I played terrible. He’s in great form. He just destroyed me today, so it was too good,” Kyrgios, who struck 20 winners but 35 unforced errors, said.

“I put in a pretty good week, had some good wins.

It’s tough to find positives when you won three games in the final. But I guess there were positives. In the semi-final I played well, obviously beating Alex (Zverev).”

Kyrgios still has a chance of qualifying for the ATP World Tour Finals as he is 15th in the Race standings with several tournaments remaining to close the gap on those in front.

Nadal, winner of the French Open and U.S. Open titles this year, has won six tournaments in a season for the first time since 2013 and strengthens his position at the top of the rankings ahead of Roger Federer. (rtr)

REUTERS/Jason Lee

Rafael Nadal of Spain poses for a photo next to the trophy after winning the match against Nick Kyrgios of Australia.

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Teammates celebrate with Syria’s Omar Al Soma after he converted a penalty kick.

Syria coach backs depleted squad to continue dream run

Heynckes confident of turning Bayern fortunes round

Everton’s Baines counting on science to help prolong his career

MUNICH - New Bayern Munich coach Jupp Heynckes sounded confident on Monday that he will be able to turn things around for the German champions following a lacklustre start to the season that led to the sacking of Carlo Ancelotti.

The 72-year-old Heynckes, in his fourth stint at the club, takes over with Bayern in second place in the Bundesliga, five points behind leaders Borussia Dortmund after twice wasting two-goal lead in consecutive matches to draw 2-2.

The Bavarians are also second in Champions League Group B with three points from two games, after beating Anderlecht and losing 3-0 at Paris St Germain.

“I think it is a difficult situation, the team is in a phase of change,” Heynckes, who led Bayern to the treble including the Champions League in 2013, told reporters at his official presentation on Monday.

“There are injuries, Manuel Neuer, who is the best goalkeeper in the world, is injured, Franck Ribery is injured. These are all drawbacks but I think I know how to reach the team, the work I need to do,” he added.

“I am confident we can turn the team back on to the road to success.

It has the quality to show a different face. It will be a balancing act but I think I have the experience to do it.”

Heynckes, whose first game is on Oct. 14 at home against Freiburg, said this was not a comeback but rather a favour to good friend and Bayern president Uli Hoeness and he planned to slip back into retirement at the end of the season.

“Now this is not a comeback... I talked with CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and President Uli Hoeness and they asked me to take it over for a limited time.

“I will not shy away from conflict. I want to form a team where everyone works for the other, with respect and togetherness in the forefront.”

Heynckes, who also coached Bayern from 1987-91 and briefly in 2009, reunites with former assistants Peter Hermann and Hermann Gerland, both part of his backroom staff during the treble-winning season.

The German, who also led Real Madrid to the Champions League title and coached Benfica, Athletic Bilbao and a string of Bundesliga clubs, has not worked since leaving Bayern in 2013.

“Heynckes is the best solution for this time,” Hoeness said. “It gives the club time to settle all outstanding issues and present a new coach by July 1. We thought he is the ideal choice. I am happy that my best friend is back at Bayern.”(rtr)

Everton defender Leighton Baines is relying on advances in sports science and medical technology, including a change in diet, to help prolong his career.

The 32-year-old, who has made nearly 400 Premier League appearances, says sports science has come a long way since he started playing and can offer the sort of marginal gains that keep older players performing at the highest level.

“I feel like when I first started it was just creeping in and taking off a little bit and it just keeps growing and growing,” Baines told Everton’s website (www.evertonfc. com).

“There’s so much to it now and everyone’s trying to find that extra

SYDNEY - Syria coach Ayman Hakeem has backed his heavily depleted squad to continue the war-ravaged nation’s unlikely march towards a maiden World Cup finals appearance when they take on Australia in the second leg of the Asian qualifying playoff on Tuesday. Hakeem believes the fairytale run towards a place in Russia has illustrated the underlying unity of a nation bitterly divided by civil war and trusts his players to take another step towards the goal against at Sydney’s Olympic stadium.

The odds were stacked against the Syrians throughout the third round of Asian qualifying but, despite having to play their “home” matches in Malaysia because of security concerns in Syria, they managed to battle into the playoff.

A penalty five minutes from the end of the first leg last week earned them a 1-1 draw and a high-scoring draw or a win on Tuesday would secure an intercontinental playoff against the fourth-placed team in North and Central American qualifying.

Already without key centre backs Ahmad Al Salih and Omar Midani because of injury, though, Hakeem has now lost defender Hadi Al Masri, midfielder Khaled Mobayed and striker Omar Khribin

to suspension for the second leg.

His defence has been particularly badly hit but Hakeem believes the never-say-die attitude his team have shown throughout qualifying will enable them to hold out the Asian champions.

“We’ve faced many obstacles from the start,” he told reporters on Monday. “Five key players is a big loss for us but we trust the players we have. The players have had to fight all the way through qualifying and they believe in themselves. We’re looking forward to tomorrow.” Hakeem said he had not decided yet whether to give an international debut to Swedish-born defender Gabriel Somi in the match and expects another tough tussle with the

Socceroos.

“The game in Malaysia was the first half and tomorrow will be the second half,” he added.

“Both teams know each other well and there will be no surprises.”

The visitors are expecting support from as many as 15,000 of Australia’s Syrian and wider Arab community at the Olympic stadium and Hakeem said they had the backing of the entire nation back home.

“All Syrians are behind the national team,” he said. “The Syrian national team has shown to all nations that Syria is one and there is no divide among any groups.

And that’s the message being sent through the Syrian national team.”(rtr)

REUTERS/Michael Dalder

Bayern Munich’s new coach Jupp Heynckes arrives at a news conference.

one or two percent wherever they can get it, and that can be a big thing in the game now.”

Baines added that he was already benefiting from having good habits throughout his career and expected the sacrifices he had made over the years to pay dividends in terms of extending his time out on the pitch.

“I’ve just got to try to be as close to perfect as possible in terms of how you live your life, your preparation, your recovery,” he said. “I think that’s the only thing you can do when you get into your thirties.

“We have a team of people here who you can have conversations with and just look in-depth into your diet. Recovery, preparation

- all these things are key but I’m feeling good and enjoying it.

“I think it’s worth sacrificing or taking a few of the things off your plate and replacing them with something else because it might just help you a tiny bit... The tiny sacrifices can give you the best chance come the weekend.”

Everton, who visit promoted Brighton and Hove Albion in the league on Sunday, are already under pressure after making a torrid start to the season despite investing heavily in the squad over the summer.

The Merseyside club are currently 16th in the 20-team table after two wins and a draw in their first seven games.(rtr)

Germany’s perfect 10 completed with win over Azerbaijan KAISERSLAUTERN - Germany crushed Azerbaijan 5-1 on Sunday with talented Leon Goretzka scoring twice, to complete a record-equalling World Cup qualifying campaign with ten wins out of ten matches. Germany, who had already secured qualification for next year’s finals in Russia, needed an hour to hit their stride despite an early lead through the 22-yearold Goretzka, already a target for several top European clubs.

They made sure of the three points and a maximum 30 in Group C with a strong secondhalf performance, scoring four more goals after an unexpected Azeri equaliser. The Germans equalled Spain’s record from the 2008-9 qualifying campaign for the 2010 World Cup with their 10th victory but they could boast an even better goal difference than the Spaniards. Joachim Loew’s world champions dominated their group to such an extent that they scored 43 goals -- on average, more than four per game

-- while conceding just four.

In contrast, Vicente del Bosque’s Spanish charges of 2008-9, who went on to win the World Cup in South Africa, scored 28 and conceded five.

“Overall it would be a mistake to take this qualification as the standard. We did it well, great, 10 wins, best goal difference,” Loew said. “But at the World Cup next year it will be a completely different calibre of teams and we should stay grounded.”

Germany, with seven changes to the lineup after the 3-1 win in Belfast against Northern Ireland that secured their qualification, went ahead through Goretzka’s superb and powerful eighthminute backheel.

After that, the new-look side struggled for a long period to find any rhythm. “It was difficult at the start. We had not played with such a lineup before,” Loew said. “The young players need some time to find their footing in a game.” Sandro Wagner should have doubled

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the lead on the half-hour mark but his casual effort was palmed onto the post by the keeper.

Instead it was the hosts who scored, briefly stunning the home crowd, when Ramil Sheidaev fired in from a tight angle to complete a quick break in the 34th minute.

Loew’s initial plans to use the game as a first test en route to their title defence went out the window with first-half injuries to defenders Niklas Suele and Shkodran Mustafi. Mustafi could be out for some time with a suspected right thigh muscle tear, Loew said.

Yet his team quickly finished off the game with Wagner grabbing his fifth goal in his fifth international in the 54th minute and Antonio Ruediger scoring 10 minutes later. The 22-yearold Goretzka then slipped into the box to tap in his second goal of the evening in the 66th minute as the Azeri defence collapsed before Emre Can capped the rout with a thundering 25-metre strike nine minutes from time.(rtr)

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Teammates celebrate with Syria’s Omar Al Soma after he converted a penalty kick.

Syria coach backs depleted squad to continue dream run

Heynckes confident of turning Bayern fortunes round

Everton’s Baines counting on science to help prolong his career

MUNICH - New Bayern Munich coach Jupp Heynckes sounded confident on Monday that he will be able to turn things around for the German champions following a lacklustre start to the season that led to the sacking of Carlo Ancelotti.

The 72-year-old Heynckes, in his fourth stint at the club, takes over with Bayern in second place in the Bundesliga, five points behind leaders Borussia Dortmund after twice wasting two-goal lead in consecutive matches to draw 2-2.

The Bavarians are also second in Champions League Group B with three points from two games, after beating Anderlecht and losing 3-0 at Paris St Germain.

“I think it is a difficult situation, the team is in a phase of change,” Heynckes, who led Bayern to the treble including the Champions League in 2013, told reporters at his official presentation on Monday.

“There are injuries, Manuel Neuer, who is the best goalkeeper in the world, is injured, Franck Ribery is injured. These are all drawbacks but I think I know how to reach the team, the work I need to do,” he added.

“I am confident we can turn the team back on to the road to success.

It has the quality to show a different face. It will be a balancing act but I think I have the experience to do it.”

Heynckes, whose first game is on Oct. 14 at home against Freiburg, said this was not a comeback but rather a favour to good friend and Bayern president Uli Hoeness and he planned to slip back into retirement at the end of the season.

“Now this is not a comeback... I talked with CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and President Uli Hoeness and they asked me to take it over for a limited time.

“I will not shy away from conflict. I want to form a team where everyone works for the other, with respect and togetherness in the forefront.”

Heynckes, who also coached Bayern from 1987-91 and briefly in 2009, reunites with former assistants Peter Hermann and Hermann Gerland, both part of his backroom staff during the treble-winning season.

The German, who also led Real Madrid to the Champions League title and coached Benfica, Athletic Bilbao and a string of Bundesliga clubs, has not worked since leaving Bayern in 2013.

“Heynckes is the best solution for this time,” Hoeness said. “It gives the club time to settle all outstanding issues and present a new coach by July 1. We thought he is the ideal choice. I am happy that my best friend is back at Bayern.”(rtr)

Everton defender Leighton Baines is relying on advances in sports science and medical technology, including a change in diet, to help prolong his career.

The 32-year-old, who has made nearly 400 Premier League appearances, says sports science has come a long way since he started playing and can offer the sort of marginal gains that keep older players performing at the highest level.

“I feel like when I first started it was just creeping in and taking off a little bit and it just keeps growing and growing,” Baines told Everton’s website (www.evertonfc. com).

“There’s so much to it now and everyone’s trying to find that extra

SYDNEY - Syria coach Ayman Hakeem has backed his heavily depleted squad to continue the war-ravaged nation’s unlikely march towards a maiden World Cup finals appearance when they take on Australia in the second leg of the Asian qualifying playoff on Tuesday. Hakeem believes the fairytale run towards a place in Russia has illustrated the underlying unity of a nation bitterly divided by civil war and trusts his players to take another step towards the goal against at Sydney’s Olympic stadium.

The odds were stacked against the Syrians throughout the third round of Asian qualifying but, despite having to play their “home” matches in Malaysia because of security concerns in Syria, they managed to battle into the playoff.

A penalty five minutes from the end of the first leg last week earned them a 1-1 draw and a high-scoring draw or a win on Tuesday would secure an intercontinental playoff against the fourth-placed team in North and Central American qualifying.

Already without key centre backs Ahmad Al Salih and Omar Midani because of injury, though, Hakeem has now lost defender Hadi Al Masri, midfielder Khaled Mobayed and striker Omar Khribin

to suspension for the second leg.

His defence has been particularly badly hit but Hakeem believes the never-say-die attitude his team have shown throughout qualifying will enable them to hold out the Asian champions.

“We’ve faced many obstacles from the start,” he told reporters on Monday. “Five key players is a big loss for us but we trust the players we have. The players have had to fight all the way through qualifying and they believe in themselves. We’re looking forward to tomorrow.” Hakeem said he had not decided yet whether to give an international debut to Swedish-born defender Gabriel Somi in the match and expects another tough tussle with the

Socceroos.

“The game in Malaysia was the first half and tomorrow will be the second half,” he added.

“Both teams know each other well and there will be no surprises.”

The visitors are expecting support from as many as 15,000 of Australia’s Syrian and wider Arab community at the Olympic stadium and Hakeem said they had the backing of the entire nation back home.

“All Syrians are behind the national team,” he said. “The Syrian national team has shown to all nations that Syria is one and there is no divide among any groups.

And that’s the message being sent through the Syrian national team.”(rtr)

REUTERS/Michael Dalder

Bayern Munich’s new coach Jupp Heynckes arrives at a news conference.

one or two percent wherever they can get it, and that can be a big thing in the game now.”

Baines added that he was already benefiting from having good habits throughout his career and expected the sacrifices he had made over the years to pay dividends in terms of extending his time out on the pitch.

“I’ve just got to try to be as close to perfect as possible in terms of how you live your life, your preparation, your recovery,” he said. “I think that’s the only thing you can do when you get into your thirties.

“We have a team of people here who you can have conversations with and just look in-depth into your diet. Recovery, preparation

- all these things are key but I’m feeling good and enjoying it.

“I think it’s worth sacrificing or taking a few of the things off your plate and replacing them with something else because it might just help you a tiny bit... The tiny sacrifices can give you the best chance come the weekend.”

Everton, who visit promoted Brighton and Hove Albion in the league on Sunday, are already under pressure after making a torrid start to the season despite investing heavily in the squad over the summer.

The Merseyside club are currently 16th in the 20-team table after two wins and a draw in their first seven games.(rtr)

Germany’s perfect 10 completed with win over Azerbaijan KAISERSLAUTERN - Germany crushed Azerbaijan 5-1 on Sunday with talented Leon Goretzka scoring twice, to complete a record-equalling World Cup qualifying campaign with ten wins out of ten matches. Germany, who had already secured qualification for next year’s finals in Russia, needed an hour to hit their stride despite an early lead through the 22-yearold Goretzka, already a target for several top European clubs.

They made sure of the three points and a maximum 30 in Group C with a strong secondhalf performance, scoring four more goals after an unexpected Azeri equaliser. The Germans equalled Spain’s record from the 2008-9 qualifying campaign for the 2010 World Cup with their 10th victory but they could boast an even better goal difference than the Spaniards. Joachim Loew’s world champions dominated their group to such an extent that they scored 43 goals -- on average, more than four per game

-- while conceding just four.

In contrast, Vicente del Bosque’s Spanish charges of 2008-9, who went on to win the World Cup in South Africa, scored 28 and conceded five.

“Overall it would be a mistake to take this qualification as the standard. We did it well, great, 10 wins, best goal difference,” Loew said. “But at the World Cup next year it will be a completely different calibre of teams and we should stay grounded.”

Germany, with seven changes to the lineup after the 3-1 win in Belfast against Northern Ireland that secured their qualification, went ahead through Goretzka’s superb and powerful eighthminute backheel.

After that, the new-look side struggled for a long period to find any rhythm. “It was difficult at the start. We had not played with such a lineup before,” Loew said. “The young players need some time to find their footing in a game.” Sandro Wagner should have doubled

9

the lead on the half-hour mark but his casual effort was palmed onto the post by the keeper.

Instead it was the hosts who scored, briefly stunning the home crowd, when Ramil Sheidaev fired in from a tight angle to complete a quick break in the 34th minute.

Loew’s initial plans to use the game as a first test en route to their title defence went out the window with first-half injuries to defenders Niklas Suele and Shkodran Mustafi. Mustafi could be out for some time with a suspected right thigh muscle tear, Loew said.

Yet his team quickly finished off the game with Wagner grabbing his fifth goal in his fifth international in the 54th minute and Antonio Ruediger scoring 10 minutes later. The 22-yearold Goretzka then slipped into the box to tap in his second goal of the evening in the 66th minute as the Azeri defence collapsed before Emre Can capped the rout with a thundering 25-metre strike nine minutes from time.(rtr)

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Want to take selfie at ATM? Visit this fun location

BANGLI - Assuredly it is not an ATM of any kind. To be sure, it has nothing to do with automated teller machines used to withdraw money. It stands for Anjungan Tukad Melangit (ATM) or literally meaning the platform of Melangit River located at Antugan hamlet, Jehem village, Tembuku, Bangli, as one of the favorite places for travelers that like to take selfie. At this ATM, visitors cannot only take pictures with the background of natural beauty of the Melangit River, but also in the swing and some other selfie facilities.

Before becoming the target of travelers, the ATM was once made only by local youths to simply hang out together. The materials used to make the platform are only sober ones, namely wood and bamboo. However, after visitors took selfie and was uploaded to social media, the platform is getting more crowded with tourist visits.

Operations Manager of the ATM, I Wayan Lendra, recently said the ATM has been famous since more than a year ago. Seeing the number of incoming visitors, he continues to make improvements and arrangement. If formerly there used to be only one platform, now there have been three permanently built platforms. “We make them permanent for the convenience of visitors,” he explained.

In addition to the platform, the ATM management also offers several other facilities suitable for taking pictures such as traditional swing and heart-shaped bamboo cane work. At the ATM, visitors can also feel the sensation of camping and picking oranges in person.

If previously visitors to the ATM were only charged a voluntary levy, now the management charges admission ticket worth IDR 10,000 for adult and IDR 5,000 for child of domestic tourists. Meanwhile, foreign tourists are charged IDR 15,000 per person.

So far, Lendra admitted that the rate of tourist visits to ATM is now increasing. On typical days, the average visit rate reaches tens of people per day, while on holidays it increases up to 80 percent more. (kmb)

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Nadal thrashes Kyrgios to win China Open title

BEIJING - World number one Rafael Nadal produced a ruthless performance to thrash Australian Nick Kyrgios 6-2 6-1 in the China Open final on Sunday for his 75th career singles title.

White House/Myles Cullen/Handout via REUTERS

Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence stand during the national anthem prior to the start of an NFL football game between the Indiana Colts and the San Francisco 49ers at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S., October 8, 2017.

Pence exits NFL game after players kneel during anthem WASHINGTON - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence walked out of a National Football League game on Sunday after some players knelt during the national anthem, a form of demonstration that began last year in silent protest against police violence toward racial minorities.

Pence was attending a game in his home state of Indiana between the Indianapolis Colts and the San Francisco 49ers.

When the national anthem was played before the start of the game, some 49ers knelt while some Colts, their arms locked, wore black Tshirts with the words “We Will” on the front and “Stand for equality, justice, unity, respect, dialogue, opportunity” on the back.

“I left today’s Colts game because President Trump and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem,” Pence said in a statement issued by the White House.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said after his team’s game on Sunday that he would bench players who disrespect the U.S. flag.

“If there is anything that is disrespectful to the flag then we will not play,” Jones told reporters.

Asked about Pence’s departure, Jones said: “We cannot in the NFL in any way give the implication that we tolerate disrespecting the flag.

“I know the vice president did leave, because in his opinion the teams were,” he said, adding: “There is no question in my mind that the National Football League

and the Dallas Cowboys are going to stand up for the flag.”

But the NFL Players Association in a statement defended players’ right to protest.

“We should not stifle these discussions and cannot allow our rights to become subservient to the very opinions our Constitution protects,” the association said, adding, in words that borrowed from the national anthem, “that is what makes us the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

After Pence’s departure, critics began to question whether he had only attended the game in order to make a production of leaving, pointing out he flew from Las Vegas on Saturday and was then going to fly to California on Sunday evening.

Pence had planned for “several weeks” to attend Sunday’s Colts game, where former quarterback Peyton Manning was being honored, an official in his office said, asking not to be named. Additionally, he made a last-minute decision to travel to Las Vegas for a prayer service on Saturday, the official said.

“As he had discussed with the president, when several 49ers players disrespected the flag and the national anthem, the vice president decided to leave the game,” the official said.

President Donald Trump said in a tweet on Sunday that he had asked Pence to leave the stadium “if any player kneeled, disrespecting our country.” (rtr)

The 31-year-old was given a tough fight early on but Kyrgios’s challenge faded after he lost his temper and was docked a penalty point at 2-5 in the first set.

Nadal’s previous title at the tournament came 12 years ago.

“I had very tough draw here,” Nadal, who saved match points in his opening round against Frenchman Lucas Pouille, said.

“I was lucky the first day saving the two match points but after that I think I played one of my best events of the year.”

World number 19 Kyrgios matched Nadal early on, winning his opening two service games but became involved in a debate with umpire Mohamed Lahyani over a close line call against him.

“I can’t play at 100 percent if that stuff happens -- and then you expect me not to be angry,” Kyrgios told Lahyani.

He continued to argue the toss with the official

who eventually awarded a penalty point against the Australian during the changeover when he trailed 2-5, meaning he began the eighth game already 0-15 behind.

Nadal was well in control by then and he raced into a 5-0 lead in the second set before Kyrgios slightly delayed the inevitable as the Spaniard sauntered to his 12th consecutive win.

“He played well. I played terrible. He’s in great form. He just destroyed me today, so it was too good,” Kyrgios, who struck 20 winners but 35 unforced errors, said.

“I put in a pretty good week, had some good wins.

It’s tough to find positives when you won three games in the final. But I guess there were positives. In the semi-final I played well, obviously beating Alex (Zverev).”

Kyrgios still has a chance of qualifying for the ATP World Tour Finals as he is 15th in the Race standings with several tournaments remaining to close the gap on those in front.

Nadal, winner of the French Open and U.S. Open titles this year, has won six tournaments in a season for the first time since 2013 and strengthens his position at the top of the rankings ahead of Roger Federer. (rtr)

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Women wear masks during a pro-union demonstration organised by the Catalan Civil Society organisation in Barcelona, Spain, October 8, 2017.

Protests but no talks as Catalonia crisis goes down to wire

BARCELONA - The Spanish government and its Catalonia region showed no signs of compromise on Monday, a day after hundreds of thousands of pro-Spain unionists protested in Barcelona against Catalan leaders’ plans to declare independence as early as this week.

Spain fears the Catalan parliament could declare independence on Tuesday, when the regional government’s leader is due to speak to the assembly in the wake of a banned referendum on Oct. 1. Catalan officials say people voted overwhelmingly for secession.

However, on the eve of Tuesday’s parliamentary session, neither Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy nor Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont showed signs of entering into talks, with each buoyed by large protests on both sides of the independence divide.

The Catalan crisis has presented Spain with its biggest political challenge since it became a democracy four decades ago.

Losing Catalonia, which has

its own language and culture, is almost unthinkable for Madrid.

It would deprive Spain of a fifth of its economic output and more than a quarter of its exports. A stream of Catalonia-based firms, including its two largest banks, have moved their legal bases outside the region.

There is widespread opposition to a Catalan breakaway among people in the rest of the country and also among a large section of the Catalan population. The majority of the region’s unionists boycotted the Oct. 1 referendum, which was banned by Madrid and disrupted by a violent police crackdown.

The European Union has also shown no interest in an independent Catalonia, despite an appeal by Puigdemont for Brussels to mediate

in the crisis.

France, which borders Catalonia, said on Monday it would not recognise a unilateral independence declaration.

On Sunday, a crowd estimated by local police to number 350,000, took to the streets of the Catalan capital Barcelona, waving Spanish and Catalan flags and carrying banners saying “Catalonia is Spain” and “Together we are stronger”.

The show of support for Madrid helped calm Spanish markets on Monday, along with comments on Friday from credit rating agencies Moody’s and DBRS that they expected Spain to remain united.

Spanish borrowing costs fell to a one-week low and the main share index touched a week high. (rtr)

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Senator Corker says Trump risks putting U.S. on path to World War Three WASHINGTON - Republican U.S. Senator Bob Corker warned on Sunday that President Donald Trump risks setting the nation “on the path to World War Three” in an interview with The New York Times, the latest in a series public barbs traded over the day. Trump had blamed his former political ally for the Iran nuclear deal in a series of derisive Twitter posts that drew a sharp riposte from Corker, who chairs the important Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

In a sweeping, 25-minute interview, Corker told the newspaper he was alarmed about a president who acts “like he’s doing ‘The Apprentice’ or something” - in a reference to the reality television show that Trump had once hosted. “He concerns me. He would have to concern anyone who cares about our nation,” the senator, who announced his retirement last month, said.

Corker dismissed the idea that Trump may be using provocative comments about North Korea to advance U.S. negotiations being conducted by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by playing “bad cop” to the top diplomat’s “good cop” effort to broker a deal with Pyongyang.

“I know he has hurt, in several instances. He’s hurt us as it relates to negotiations that were underway by tweeting things out,” Corker told the paper, which added that Corker did not provide details about negotiations. “A lot of people think that there is some kind of ‘good cop, bad cop’ act underway, but that’s just not true.”

Corker had been a national security adviser to Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign and on Trump’s short-list last year for both vice president and secretary of state.

But the relationship between the two men has greatly deteriorated.

More recently, Corker has criticized Trump, taking issue with the president’s response to a white su-

premacist demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August. Critics assailed Trump for saying rival protesters were also to blame for violence.

“Senator Bob Corker “begged” me to endorse him for re-election in Tennessee. I said “NO” and he dropped out (said he could not win without my endorsement),” Trump wrote. “He also wanted to be Secretary of State, I said “NO THANKS.” He is also largely responsible for the horrendous Iran Deal!

“Hence, I would fully expect Corker to be a negative voice and stand in the way of our great agenda.

Didn’t have the guts to run!”

An hour later Corker tweeted back: “It’s a shame the White House has become an adult day care center.

Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.”

Corker’s chief of staff, Todd Womack, said Trump called the senator last Monday, asked him to reconsider his decision not to seek re-election in 2018, “and reaffirmed that he would have endorsed him, as he has said many times.”

Trump’s dispute with Corker could also have implications for the president’s policy goals of repealing Obamacare and passing tax reform.

Republicans control both houses of the U.S. Congress but hold only a narrow majority, 52-48, in the Senate, which means Trump has only a slim margin for potential defections from within his own party on legislation.

Even before Trump’s Twitter attacks on Corker, the senator has said he would have difficulty supporting any tax package that added to the federal deficit, posing a potential hurdle for the president’s tax plan.

“Bob Corker gave us the Iran Deal, & that’s about it,” Trump posted on Twitter later on Sunday. “We need HealthCare, we need Tax Cuts/Reform, we need people that can get the job done!” (rtr)

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Landrieu said he expected that evacuated residents could return home soon.

Vessel traffic and port operations at New Orleans resumed on Sunday afternoon, while the Port of Mobile in Alabama remained closed. Oil ports, producers and refiners in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were planning reopenings as the storm moved inland on Sunday.

The storm curtailed 92 percent of daily oil production and 77 percent of daily natural gas output in the Gulf of Mexico, more than three times the amount affected by Harvey. The storm doused Central America with heavy rains on Thursday, killing at least 16 people in Nicaragua, 10 in Costa Rica, two in Honduras and two in El Salvador.(rtr)

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Forecast at one point to make landfall in Louisiana, Nate headed farther east and spared many New Orleans parishes that were devastated

by Hurricane Katrina 12 years ago. “I had prayed for this - that we would be spared,” said Amos Cormier, president of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana’s equivalent to a county. Bernice Barthelemy, a 70-year-old Louisiana resident, died from cardiac arrest overnight after telling Reuters on Saturday that she did not mind having to evacuate, Cormier said on Sunday. He attributed her death to the stress of the move.

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Construction of Jakarta-Surabaya train starts in 2018

JAKARTA - Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi stated that the Jakarta-Surabaya semi-fast train project can be started next year. The first phase will be the Jakarta-Semarang section which is expected to be developed for two years.

“The last discussion with Vice President Jusuf Kalla concluded that the Jakarta-Surabaya train project will use the existing line and work will start in 2018,” the minister told reporters at Trunojoyo Airport, Sumenep, East Java, on Sunday.

President Joko Widodo and his entourage are scheduled to make a working visit to Sumenep with a number of agendas, including a stop-over at Trunojoyo Airport on Sunday. According to the transportation minister, the Semi-high speed train project is currently under study. The study by the Japanese team will be completed at the the end of November.

“The project is fast and cheap while at the same time it can resolve many things such as the problem of level crossings in

800 points,” he said. So, works on the level crossings could start in early 2018. This means that with work on the level crossings, the construction of the semi-fast train project has been started.

“Our prediction is that the Jakarta-Semarang section, including its electrification, will be done in two years and the rest Semarang-Surabaya section will be carried in the following two years,” he said.

Minister Sumadi said that the Semi Fast Train can cover the Jakarta-Surabaya route within five hours with a minimum speed of 140 kilometers per hour (km/h).

“For the time being, Japan will build the train at a maximum speed of 120 km/h,” he said.

The minister added that the estimated investment for the project is around Rp60 trillion, including

about Rp20 trillion for the construction of the level crossings.

“This amount is lower than the previous calculation of Rp80 trillion,” he said. In the construction of level crossings, both for flyovers and under passes, the minister will cooperate with the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR).

“We will share with the Ministry of PUPR for the level crossing construction because PUPR is also concerned,” he said.

Decisions taken with regard to the level crossing points, said Sumadi, will later be reported to President Joko Widodo.

“The initial estimated cost for the construction of a level crossing is Rp25 billion or about Rp20 trillion for 800 crossings along the Jakarta-Surabaya route,” said Minister Budi Karya Sumadi.(ant)

SEMARANG - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has asked the national police to increase public trust, even though it has now reached the top four, with a value of 78.

“Improvement in public services on driving license (SIM), vehicle registration documents (STNK), and vehicle ownership documents (BPKB) must be done continuously.

The public services should be conducted quickly and easily,” Jokowi said here on Monday.

The president lauded the national polices efforts to improve public trust. “The speed of service has become one of the keys for improving public trust,” the president remarked.

In addition, he underlined the importance of political stability, security, and the current level of economic growth.

The president expressed his optimism that Indonesia would become the world’s fourth-largest economy by 2045.

By 2045, Indonesia will have reached its 100th year of independence, have a population of 309

million people, an economic growth of 6 percent, and gross domestic product of US$9.1 trillion.

Furthermore, Indonesia’s income per capita is predicted to reach $29 thousand. Meanwhile, Jokowi highlighted the stability of food prices too.

“Food is the key to the welfare of the people. If food prices rise, then there will be social instability.

Therefore, it is our duty to maintain the stability of food prices,” he affirmed. Jokowi urged the police to be concerned about crimes related to food.

“The crime should not interfere with the distribution of food,” the president revealed. Indonesia ranks first for public trust in the government based on data released by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in its report Organization at a Glance 2017, published on July 17, 2017.

“It is true that Indonesia ranks first in terms of public trust and confidence in the government based on the Gallup data released by the OECD,” Finance Minister Sri Mu-

lyani Indrawati earlier noted.

The achievement has been reported to Jokowi. The report summarizes the various indicators of public sector achievement from OECD countries as well as several other nations, including Indonesia.

“The level of confidence in the government is influenced by factors, such as whether the people view the government as reliable, responsive, and equitable and is able to protect them from risks and provide effective public services,” Indrawati explained.

The level of public confidence in the Indonesian government in 2016 had reached 80 percent, up by 28 percent as compared to 52 percent in 2007.

The level of confidence in the Indonesian government is high as compared to developed OECD countries, such as the US at 30 percent; Britain at 31 percent; Germany, 55 percent; and France, 28 percent and non-OECD developing countries, such as India at 73 percent; Brazil at 26 percent; and South Africa at 48 percent.(ant)

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China survey puts services growth at 21-mth low, blurs picture of resilient economy

BEIJING - Activity in China’s services sector grew at its slowest pace in 21 months in September as new orders cooled, a private survey showed, blurring the picture of how the economy is performing heading into a key Communist Party Congress.

The findings of the Caixin/Markit survey reinforce views that China’s smaller companies are continuing to struggle, while large state-owned giants are apparently reaping most of the benefits from a year-long, government-led construction boom.

However, many analysts believe China’s robust industrial rally cannot be sustained much longer, putting pressure on policymakers to finds ways to energize the lacklustre private sector, which accounts for over half of the country’s investment and jobs.

The central bank threw a fresh lifeline to smaller firms on Sept. 30 in an attempt to redress that deep structural imbalance, offering an earnings booster to banks if they ramp up lending to more vulnerable sectors of the economy.

China is counting on growth in services, particularly high

value-added services in finance and technology, to reduce the economy’s traditional reliance on heavy industry and investment. But Monday’s private survey suggested many services firms are facing a bumpy ride.

The Caixin/Markit services purchasing managers’ index (PMI) fell to 50.6 in September, the lowest reading since December 2015 and one of the weakest since the survey began in 2005.

A reading above 50 indicates growth, and any lower signals contraction. The index had hit a three-month high in August.

To be sure, the private findings were in sharp contrast to official data which showed services activity expanded at the fastest clip since 2014 in September.

But an official factory survey showed a similar trend, with big companies seeing strong improvements in business conditions while smaller ones struggled to grow, exposing a key fault line underneath the rosy headline growth numbers.

Still, Capital Economics’ China economist Julian EvansPritchard, who has been among those predicting a broader slowdown, said it was too early to tell if the weaker Caixin

Buildings are seen in the fog in Jinan, Shandong province, China, October 9, 2017.

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service survey pointed to a turning point just yet.

Retail sales over the just-ended Golden Week holiday rose 10.3 percent from a year earlier, slowing but only slightly from the pace in 2016, data showed on Monday “It is notable that there are signs of weakness in other parts of the economy and I do think services have softened a bit...I think we will see a slowdown in industrial production as well over the coming few months,” Evans-Pritchard said.

IS RECOVERY IN THE LATE INNINGS OR EXTRA INNINGS?

After China posted forecast-beating growth of 6.9 percent in the first half, analysts have said it was only a matter of time before it started to lose steam, especially as the government looks to contain the risks from an explosive build-up in debt, a campaign which is pushing up borrowing costs.

Still, economists expect September data over the next few weeks could show a bounce in activity after a slightly softer August, welcome news for leaders ahead of a twice-a-decade party congress that kicks off on Oct. 18.

Even if growth does start to fade, few China watchers see the risk of an economic hard landing. Beijing should easily meet or beat its full-year growth target of around 6.5 percent after the rousing start to the year.

“The Chinese economy generally held up well in the third quarter,” Zhengsheng Zhong, director of macroeconomic analysis at CEBM Group, said in a note accompanying the PMI survey.

“However, the expansion in both manufacturing and services cooled in September, suggesting downward pressure on economic growth may re-emerge in the fourth quarter.”

Separately, China reported on Monday that foreign exchange reserves rose modestly in September for an eighth straight month, and by slightly more than expected, as tighter regulations and a stronger yuan continued to discourage capital outflows.

A dramatic slowdown in capital flight - which had been seen as one of the biggest risks to China - has helped boost confidence in the world’s second-largest economy ahead of the party congress, at which President Xi Jinping is expected to consolidate his grip on power. (rtr)

Uber suspends unlicensed service in Norway in change of tack

Uber said on Monday it would suspend its unlicensed service UberPOP in Oslo until Norway introduces new rules, as the U.S. ride-hailing app adopts a more conciliatory tone with national authorities.

The move follows a similar one-year suspension in Finland in July to allow a new taxi law to come into effect, however there is no set date for when UberPOP will be reintroduced in Norway.

The U.S. ride-hailing company has come under fierce pressure from traditional taxi drivers and regulators across Europe who accuse it of unfair competition and skirting traditional licensing rules.

UberPOP has already been suspended in several European

capitals, including Paris and Brussels, and Uber was recently humbled when it lost its licence to operate in London.

“We’ve learned the hard way that we must change as a company in order to serve the millions of riders and drivers who rely on us. With our new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi onboard, it’s a new era for Uber,” the company said in a statement.

“That’s why it’s now time to pause UberPOP in Norway, in order to relaunch under new regulations.”

UberPOP will be paused on Oct. 30, while Uber’s licensed services UberBLACK and UberXXL will continue to operate as normal.

Khosrowshahi took the helm of the company in August, replacing co-founder and former boss Travis Kalanick and

has promised change at the $70-billion dollar firm.

The company said it was encouraged by developments in Norway such as the government’s sharing economy committee which recommended repealing certain provisions related to taxis and an opinion from the EFTA surveillance authority which said Norway’s restrictions on taxi licences were illegal.

“Norway deserves modernized laws that encourage innovation and competition without sacrificing what makes the Norwegian model special,” Uber said. “We hope the government will implement these recommendations soon, so that we can relaunch a new and improved version of the product loved by so many.” UberPOP had around 280,000 users in Oslo and hundreds of drivers. (rtr)

Purnama Kapat celebrated all over Bali

Ceremony for Bali’s water on Lake Tamblingan Every full moon Balinese Hindus pray in their village temples, in recognition and celebration of the celestial cycle of the beautiful rock that reflects the sun’s light. Purnama kapat or ‘fourth full moon’ according to the Balinese calendar is an especially significant full moon as it marks the moment when the sun is directly above the equator and often the arrival of the rainy season. So, last week temples throughout Bali held special ceremonies of thanks for the abundance of nature, including Besakih Temple on the slopes of rumbling Mt. Agung. Displaced devotees were told that they could pray from wherever they are. Devotees of other temples gathered to celebrate the particular graces that have been bestowed upon them with particular prayers going out for the peace of sacred Mount Agung.

Gubug Temple on Lake Tamblingan held a a ritual known as pengaturang pengrakih from October 3-6. The moon reflects the sun and of course also effects the flow of water on earth, most notably in relation to the ocean tides. One of Bali’s biggest watersheds is in the north of the island is where the island’s four lakes are all located. Lake Tamblingan is the smallest of these four lakes but is nonetheless a place of great spiritual power and mystery.

Today, there are four villages known as catur desa that surround the lake, though traditionally they are considered to be a single entity. The people of the Munduk, Gesing, Gobleg and Umajero are responsible for caring for Lake Tamblingan.

Part of this responsibility includes holding ceremonies for the lake and the cycle of water from the mountain down into lakes and rivers and out to the sea where it evaporates back into clouds that rain down on the mountain.

Every two years the people of catur desa hold a series of rituals over the course of 4 months that make up a single prolonged ceremony for the purpose of re-establishing harmonious relations with the water. These rituals vary in length and function and location, each serving a particular purpose related to the overarching aim of re-establishing harmony.

The pengaturang pengrakih ceremony on Lake Tamblingan involved the people of all four villages bringing offerings to Pura Gubug, where hundreds of people gathered on the lakeshore for the full moon ceremony. After all the villagers had prayed and placed their offerings in the temples, the gamelan players carried their instruments to shore to play

hypnotic rhythms as a small armada of canoes set off into the mist. The six packed canoes carried offerings to the middle of the lake. One of the canoes carried sacred objects that were held up by a priest, while another held an ornamented umbrella and others chimed the genta bell as women chanted softly from the bobbing canoes.

Everyone on shore held sticks of incense and flowers up towards the lake, some reciting prayers waiting for the canoes to return. As the canoes and their passengers made their way back to shore, the gamelan music started up again as the sacred objects were quickly ushered back into the temple in a lavish procession followed by more prayers.

Everyone then dispersed to various parts of the lakeshore grounds flanked by the two temples to relax, snack and chat for an hour or so.

Suddenly the gamelan gongs started up again and a group of about 50 people dressed in white gathered on the shore again, this time they all crouched down and with incense and flowers in hand and prayed in the direction of the ornamented Hulun Danau Tamblingan Temple with the iconic Balinese temple towers known as meru. A moment later the group stood up and turned in unison towards the forest and again crouched down to pray as the gongs continues their melody. As the priests stood up and turned to face the first temple a massive rain cloud burst. WIth torrential rain falling, they continued praying to the four directions. As soon as they finished people rushed to take cover but the downpour turned to sprinkles and soon the priests were heading back into the temple where the gamelan gongs had joined the full orchestra.

People from Munduk, Gesing, Gobleg and Umarejo had been coming in turns to bring offerings of flowers, fruit and other food stuff and pray here over the last three days, but now it was only men with a few women who filled the space as it was announced that the offerings on the lake been performed well.

Dressed all in white, as is the custom for priests, they sat in meditation for a few moments as the gamelan played. The priest leading the prayer chimed the genta and the gamelan stopped for a few minutes as the priests held up flowers between their fingers in Balinese style prayer. Holy water was sprinkled and distributed to each person as is always done after praying. Before the priests got up however, the

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priest leading the prayers asked the gamelan players to play a particular song.

As the first few notes of the song played, nothing special happened, but soon one man held his arms up in ecstatic gestures and then another had stood up in the distinct posture of male Balinese dancers and started to move towards the area where the sacred objects had been placed. A yellow cloth was now being tied around another of the priests who had stood up and was swaying with eyes fixed.

A crew men rushed over and a black and white checkered cloth was tied around the dancer who was now wandering around energetically in dancer pose. At the other end of the temple yet another man had a small live chicken in his mouth and seemed to be gnawing on the feathers of its wing.

He too had a cloth tied around him. As each man fell into trance several other men rushed around him to make sure that everything was alright.

It was not long before about 7 men- including the man with the small chicken in his mouth were dancing with rigid gestures in front of the gamelan players. Several women where dancing with them though they seemed to be accompanying them rather being in trance themselves.

After a few rather intense minutes, holy water from a young coconut was being sprinkled on the people in trance, bringing them suddenly back to their senses. They sat back down, the music stopped and after a brief prayer, the men gathered their things and cleared the space to make room for the group of devotees waiting at the door of the tempe to give their offerings and pray. The sacred gamelan instrument s were quickly dismantled and covered in cloth to be carried back on foot to their temple of origin in Gobleg along with the sacred objects.

Outside the temple people were gathered here and there, chatting and just enjoying the fresh air and peaceful atmosphere. Others were making their way home. As the thick fog descended from the mountains, and the sun started making its way to the horizon, everyone, at their own pace slowly left the sacred space to go and rest and prepare themselves from the next part of the four month ceremony. All the temples large and small between Munduk and Ubud and likely beyond were lavishly decorated and attended by thousands of Balinese Hindus praying for mercy and giving thanks. (kmb)

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Mount Agung in warning status

Philippines says policy trumps popularity after Duterte ratings dip

Marine activities in Tulamben prohibited AMLAPURA — Due to the status of Mount Agung rose to level IV or warning, the economic activities in disaster-prone areas (KRB) paralyze. Apart from the activities on mainland, the activities at sea, both fishermen and diving at Tulamben tourist area, Kubu, are now closed. “Since the activity of Mount Agung has increased, all the hotels at Tulamben are closed, and the community activity from Tulamben to Sukadana area also paralyzes,” said Suadnyana, Chief of Kubu Police on Sunday (Oct. 10).

Suadnyana explained that since two weeks ago, almost 80 percent of residents in the disaster-prone area II and III have evacuated. Nevertheless, in the morning there are still residents, mainly men, coming home to visit their cattle or home.

In the afternoon, they return to their refugee camp. The area of disasterprone area III has been completely sterilized because all the residents have been in the evacuation.

“All the community activities in the prone areas are prohibited, including diving activities on Tu-

lamben Beach. However, a few days ago there were tourists being desperate to dive in the Tulamben area. They departed by a traditional boat from Amed, but their activities were banned by hamlet chief with the backup of our members,” he explained.

In the meantime, a diving guide at Tulamben object, Komang Patra, said that after the threat of Mount Agung eruption, thousands of people turn unemployed. This happens because all hotels in the Tulamben area are closed. So, the people currently relying on their life from tourists can no longer work. On this condition, he asked the government to make a breakthrough by alerting an evacuation team at sea. He asked to allow diving activities in the Tulamben area, but tourists stay in the Amed area.

“On that account, it needs to alert the marine evacuation team to save in case the eruption occurs,” he said while stating that people working as fishermen are still going to sea, but in a small amount. (kmb41)

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Flood sweep away fingerlings

Fish farming group loses tens of millions

TABANAN — Due to heavy rain within past few days, the fingerlings and freshwater fish cultivated by Bentuk Sari fish farming group (Pokdakan) of Yeh Gangga hamlet, Sudimara, Tabanan, were swept away by flood. As a result, the group suffered losses up to tens of millions of rupiahs.

Head of Bentuk Sari fish farming group, Made Sutana, said on Sunday (Oct. 8) that heavy rains flushing Tabanan in the past few days caused floods so the water in the cultivation pond overflowed. Thus, the tilapia fingerlings of about 250,000 heads and tilapia of consumption size weighing 300 kg raised in the pond lost due to swept away. Sutana said it happened on Thursday (Oct. 5).

He told that his group suffered losses reaching tens of millions of rupiahs. It is based on the price calculation of tilapia fingerlings with the size of 7-9 cm at IDR 300 per head and the price of tilapia ready for consumption reaching IDR 25,000 per kg. “Actually, the tilapia fingerlings were about to be purchased

and the buyer already gave a down payment of IDR 5 million. It will be spread in Lake Batur, Bangli, to be raised,” said Sutana.

Made Sutana explained the drifting incident of the fingerlings and tilapia ready for consumption as swept away by flood was known about 04:00 in the morning. At that time, Sutana came to the pond to check the fish. “When I arrived at the pond, the water from irrigation channel already overflowed into the upper pond, while the pond at lower area was already submerged in water due to overflowing water from the creek beneath it,” he explained.

At that time, Sutana immediately took action. He managed to save the fish in the upper pond. Unfortunately, due to the large volume of incoming water it crashed into the lower pond so he was unable to take precautions and could only resign.

Sutana has been cultivating fish for approximately 14 years. So far, it is the first flood disaster overwhelming his fish ponds. Aside from washing away the raised fish, the floods also caused some pigs kept by residents in the northern part of the pond to be carried away. (kmb24)

MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s honeymoon period may be over, but his deadly anti-drugs campaign will not wane, his office said on Monday, after a fall in ratings that his opponents said showed public disillusionment with his rule.

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Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, attends an opening ceremony of a newly constructed residential complex in Ryomyong street in Pyongyang, North Korea April 13, 2017.

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Heavy rains flushing Tabanan in the past few days caused floods so the water in the cultivation pond overflowed.

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Apart from the activities on mainland, the activities at sea, both fishermen and diving at Tulamben tourist area, Kubu, are now closed.

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SEOUL - The promotion of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s 28-year-old sister to the country’s top decision-making body is a sign he is strengthening his position by drawing his most important people closer to the centre of power, experts and officials say.

Kim Yo Jong was named as an alternate member of the politburo within the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea - the opaque, all-powerful party organ where top state affairs are decided, the North’s official media said on Sunday.

It makes her only the second woman in patriarchal North Korea to join the exclusive club after Kim Kyong Hui, who held powerful roles when her brother Kim Jong Il ruled the country.

“Since she is a female, Kim Jong Un likely does not see her as a threat and a challenge to his leadership,” said Moon Hong-sik, research fellow at the Institute for National Security Strategy. “As the saying goes ‘blood is thicker than water,’ Kim Jong Un thinks Kim Yo Jong can be trusted.”

Unlike her aunt, who was pro-

moted to the politburo in 2012 after serving more than three decades in the party, Kim Yo Jong has risen to power at an unprecedented pace.

Kim Kyong Hui has not been seen since her husband, Jang Song Thaek, once regarded as the No.2 leader in Pyongyang, was executed in 2013. South Korea’s spy agency believes she is now in a secluded place near Pyongyang undergoing a treatment for an unidentified disease, according to an August briefing to parliament.

Jang and his wife are not the only relatives to fall from Kim Jong Un’s favour.

Kim Jong Un’s estranged halfbrother, Kim Jong Nam, was killed with a toxic nerve agent at a Malaysian airport in February. Two women are on trial for the murder, which South Korean and U.S. officials believe Kim Jong Un’s regime was behind.

Kim Jong Nam, who lived in exile in Macau, had criticized his family’s dynastic rule and his brother had issued a standing order for his execution, according to some South Korean lawmakers. (rtr)

Duterte has enjoyed strong opinion poll numbers since winning the presidency in last year’s elections but heavy scrutiny of his war on drugs, which has killed thousands of Filipinos, appears to have impacted his ratings.

Trust and satisfaction in Duterte fell to the lowest of his presidency in the third quarter of this year, a survey showed on Sunday, although sentiment about his leadership remained positive overall.

“The honeymoon period of the president is usually for a year, so this is expected,” Duterte’s communications secretary, Martin Andanar, said in a radio interview, adding it should motivate the government to deliver on its overall objectives.

The Social Weather Stations survey was conducted between September 23-27, two days after thousands of Filipinos rallied to denounce Duterte’s drugs war and his authoritarian leadership style.

The high death toll has stoked international alarm, although domestic polls have shown Filipinos are largely supportive of his tough measures to fight crime and drugs.

Police say they have killed 3,900 drug suspects during their anti-narcotics operations and deny executions have taken place, as human rights groups have alleged.

But the campaign has been under the microscope of late, due largely to the high-profile killing by police of

a 17-year-old student on Aug. 16, which led to a senate probe. A murder investigation is under way.

Police said he was a drug suspect killed because he opened fire on them while resisting arrest, but security camera footage showed him in police custody. His family insists he was executed.

Staunch critics of Duterte were quick to take advantage of a survey slump they said reflected public discontent and scepticism about his drugs war.

“It’s very encouraging to know that the Filipino people are beginning to see the light,” said Senator Antonio Trillanes, a fierce opponent who has recently accused Duterte of concealing assets when he was Davao City mayor.

“They are now seeing Duterte for who he really is: a lying, rude, amoral, corrupt and oppressive former mayor who is totally incompetent about governance at the national level.”

Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella also said the honeymoon was over, but Duterte was not motivated by popularity ratings and was “bent on making sure that he addresses the three campaign themes which is crime, corruption and illegal drugs”.

Duterte’s office frequently cites polls, including SWS, as a sign of his public support.

Peace and order are also one of the cornerstones of the 72-year-old leader’s economic agenda, which aims to lift the country’s growth to 7-8 percent during his six-year term.

Senator Risa Hontiveros said the ratings dip showed Duterte’s “authoritarian style of governance is losing its appeal and support”.

“The writing on the wall is simple and clear: President Duterte cannot govern based on fear, lies and killings,” Hontiveros said in a statement. (rtr)

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This photo taken on October 6, 2017, shows Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte (C) inspecting the honour guard during the turn-over ceremony of the army’s commanding general at Fort Bonifacio in Manila. Duterte’s popularity has suffered a substantial drop for the first time, though it remains at a relatively high 67 percent, an independent pollster has found.

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DNA confirms amazing Australian isle insect not extinct after all

WASHINGTON - When black rats invaded Lord Howe Island after the 1918 wreck of the steamship Makambo, they wiped out numerous native species on the small Australian isle in the Tasman Sea including a big, flightless insect that resembled a stick.

But the Lord Howe Island stick insect, once declared extinct, still lives. Scientists said on Thursday DNA analysis of museum specimens of the bug and a similar-looking one from an inhospitable volcanic outcrop called Ball’s Pyramid 14 miles (23 km) away confirmed they are the same species. The finding could help pave the way for its reintroduction in the coming years.

“The Lord Howe Island stick insect has become emblematic of the fragility of island ecosystems. Unlike most stories involving extinction, this one gives us a unique second chance,” said evolutionary biologist Alexander Mikheyev of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University in Japan.

The glossy-black insect that grow up to six inches (15 cm) in length is nicknamed the “land lobster.” Other stick insects are found around the world, so named because their appearance lets them blend in with trees and bushes to evade predators.

As adults, the wingless Lord Howe Island stick insects shelter in trees during daytime and come out at night to eat shrubbery. The bright-green babies are active during daytime.

By about 1930, they had vanished on Lord Howe Island, which was

thought to be their only home. There were no land-dwelling mammals there when the rats arrived, and they also vanquished five bird species and 12 other insect species.

A rock-climbing ranger made a curious discovery in 2001 on Ball’s Pyramid: a similar-looking insect.

Since then, captive breeding programs have begun at the Melbourne Zoo and elsewhere.

Because of certain differences between the Ball’s Pyramid insects and the Lord Howe Island insect museum specimens, there was some question about whether they were the same species.

“We found what everyone hoped to find, that despite some significant morphological differences, these are indeed the same species,” said Mikheyev, who led the research published in the journal Current Biology.

Officials are planning a program to eradicate the invasive rats on Lord Howe Island, which could allow the stick insects to return.

“I imagine that maybe a decade from now, people will travel to Lord Howe Island and take night walks, hoping to glimpse this insect,” Mikheyev said. “In maybe 20 years, they could become a ubiquitous sight.” (rtr)

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Since the drainage channel has not been worked on, along the Jalan Ngurah Rai, precisely in the south of SMAN 1 Bangli, until now still continues to be a regular flooded area and overflow of garbage when rain flushes Bangli.

Workmanship of drainage rehab project unclear

Courtesy Rohan Cleave/Melbourne Zoo/Handout via REUTERS

An adult female Dryococelus australis, also known as the Lord Howe Island stick insect which was once declared extinct, is shown in this undated photo released on October 5, 2017.

CTBTO looking at ”unusual seismic activity” in North Korea

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Antennas of the testing facility for seismic and infrasound technologies of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) in the garden of their headquarters in Vienna, Austria September 28, 2017.

ZURICH - Nuclear proliferation watchdog CTBTO is examining unusual seismic activity in North Korea that took place around 50 km (31 miles) from previous nuclear testing in the isolated country, it said on Saturday.

“Analysts looking at unusual #seismic activity of a much smaller magnitude in the #DPRK,” CTBTO Executive Secretary Lassina Zerbo said in a Twitter post.

“Korean Peninsula unusual #seismic activity: LAT=41.36 LON=129.76 mb=3.5 About 50km from prior tests. #CTBT Analysts investigating,” he said in a subsequent post.

China’s earthquake administration said it had detected a magnitude 3.4 quake in North Korea that was a “suspected explosion”, raising fears that Pyongyang might have conducted another nuclear bomb test.

A CTBTO spokeswoman said

Zerbo’s remark about a “smaller magnitude” referred to its monitoring of an event in North Korea on Sept. 3 which the agency described as consistent with a man-made explosion but stopped short of calling a nuclear blast, pending testing for airborne radioactivity.

North Korea has described the Sept. 3 incident as a test of an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile, marking a dramatic escalation of the regime’s stand-off with the United States and its allies.

The CTBTO (Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization) was founded in 1996 to monitor compliance with an accord negotiated in the 1990s that bans nuclear explosions.

The treaty has not come into effect because eight countries with nuclear technology have yet to sign it. (rtr)

When raining, water with garbage runs onto the road BANGLI — The workmanship of drainage rehabilitation project having been budgeted by the government of Bangli in the main regional budget 2017 is unclear. Until mid-October, there is no serious drainage rehabilitation process. Since the drainage channel has not been worked on, along the Jalan Ngurah Rai, precisely in the south of SMAN 1 Bangli, until now still continues to be a regular flooded area and overflow of garbage when rain flushes Bangli.

As seen on Sunday (Oct. 8), the rain flushing the Bangli area on Sunday morning caused the road to be filled with overflowing water. The water flow came from drainage channel in the south of SMAN 1 Bangli high school having been covered with earth material. Other than flooding the shops, offices and homes of residents, the overflowing water of drainage onto the road also made road users difficult to cross. Moreover, the overflowing water caused a motorcyclist to fall in that morning because of trying to break through the flow of water.

Related to this matter, a member of Commission III of the Bangli House of Representatives, Dewa Gede Oka, said that to rehabilitate drainage in Bangli town area, the parliament and executive agreed to allocate the fund in the main regional budget 2017. However, his

commission wondered why until now the project has not been accomplished.

Dewa Oka admitted that his commission had time to question about the implementation of the project to the Bangli Public Work and Housing Agency (PUPR). As a result, the agency stated if the project is already in preparation to be worked on. “The agency told if the work is delayed due to a problem concerning with shade trees.

Another reason is that the agency is still in the process of ordering U-shape drain concrete that will be used for drainage improvement,” said Dewa Oka. In the meantime, Division Head of Highway Construction of the Bangli Public Works and Housing Agency, Putu Wida Gunawan, could not be asked for his confirmation last Sunday.

The call and short messages sent to him were not responded. (kmb40)

Regarding room rate standardization

Badung tourism office summons 200 hoteliers

Made Badra

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MANGUPURA — Badung Tourism Office began to follow up the discourse of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) Badung related to the standardization plan of hotel room rates. Moreover, it has summoned a total of 200 hoteliers and restaurateurs last September. This was conveyed by the Head of the Badung Tourism Office, Made Badra, not long ago.

According to Badra, it was done in accordance with the mandate of the ministerial regulation in order to have standardization of services including the room rate. The standardization is performed with certification of hotel and restaurant business through the rating of related business. “We also have talked to the industry,” he said.

He explained, having been audited, the hotels themselves will be given rating in accordance with the assessment. Otherwise, the tourism office

will evaluate the permit. “It will be clear which category of a particular hotel belongs to, its room rate range and how the service looks like,” he explained.

He admitted that such measure is meant to prevent the unfair hotel room rate competition. It will avoid the practice of one-star hotel class providing services of three-star hotel. Surely, it will damage the market price and the tourism itself. To facilitate the certification, the tourism office provides five local auditor consultants related to the public service standards (SLU). “They will help certify the industry,” he said.

He targeted that the 200 companies having been coached can be certified. According to him, the standardization is only for star-rated hotels and restaurants. As for the hotel of jasmine category, he claimed to still draft the governance by compiling a guidebook. (kmb23)

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Smoke comes out from Mount Agung

Smoke soars up to 1,500 kilometers above Mt. Agung

Triggered by water vapor due to heavy rains AMLAPURA —

The smoke or solfatara coming out from the bottom of the Mount Agung’s crater on Saturday (Oct. 7) at 20:45 soared to a height of 1,500 kilometers. This is the highest smoke seen since the highest mountain in Bali was declared to be in warning status on September 22. The pillar of smoke was triggered by water vapour from heavy rains over the last three days.

Division Head of Volcano Mitigation of the PVMBG/BG, for Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), I Gede Suartika, said on Sunday (Oct. 8) that based on the evaluation on October 8, Mount Agung remains in warning status. Up to now, the seismicity remains quite critical.

Deep volcanic earthquakes occurred in the range of 800, consisting of 536 deep volcanic earthquakes, 309 shallow volcanic earthquakes and 44 local tectonic earthquakes. As of Sunday morning (Oct. 8) there had

been 91 deep volcanic earthquakes, 66 shallow volcanic and 12 local tectonic earthquakes.

Suartika smoke form the crater had indeed reached a height of 1,500 kilometers on Saturday night. In Sunday morning the smoke seen from the north was still nearly as high as the night before. He explained that the seismicity has not indicated a trigger for the occurrence of an eruption. So far, there has not been a change in the earthquakes. If there are continuous

tremors this would indicate an imminent eruption.

“The smoke on Saturday night was due to large amounts of rainfall over the past three days. When rainwater fills the bottom of the crater, it heats up and turns onto water vapour. So the solfatara mixes with the water vapour and gas. The color of the smoke remains white and there is no sand or ash”, explained Suartika adding that the smell of sulfur extended some 700 meters form the lip of the crater.

Suartika further explained that the recent heavy rains will not accelerate an eruption. There are two types of volcanic eruptions he said, phreatic and magmatic. Currently Mount Agung appears to be heading toward a magmatic eruption.

Since such eruptions are preceded by many earthquakes, the PVMBG/ Bg is making models for an eruption and magmatic impact. “So, here is our estimation and we then extend the radius of disaster-prone areas to 12 kilometers. Phreatic eruption shows the effects of water vapor under the crater leading to a magmatic eruption. So, the sequence is phreatic, phreatomagmatic and then magmatic”, he explained.

Head of the Center for Volca-

nology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG), Kasbani, asserted that the warning status of Mount Agung is a common thing.

The smoke or solfatara mixed with water vapour caused by the heavy rains and indicates that the volcanic activity is still quite high.

“The blowing of white solfatara mixed with water vapour and gas is because there remains an energy supply from below”, he said.

Kasbani explained that his division will continue to observe the developments of Mount Agung using incoming data from the devices used to monitor the current condition of the mountain. “The eruption has its time, but is hasn’t happened yet”, explained Kasbani. (kmb41)

Unda River and ocean waves

Gunaksa port looks like Tanah Lot Temple SEMARAPURA — Gunaksa Port in Dawan subdistrict is in a deplorable condition with the revetment and the port’s padmasana shrine having been eroded by the swift streams of the Unda River and the impact of strong waves. The only road that leads to the port has become severely damaged by flooding.

The port that was established around the quarry now looks like Tanah Lot Temple – surrounded by water.

As seen on Sunday (Oct. 8), the revetment had collapsed on the east

side as had the padmasana shrine. A number of shrines previously standing upright have also collapsed.

The swift current of the Unda River streams and ocean waves have caused electrical poles to collapse and damage the land that previsously connected to the port making it impossible to pass through.

Shipping Division Head of the Klungkung Transportation Agency, IGN Suarba, with permission from the Agency Head, I Nyoman Sucitra, confrimed that the condition of the

port was dire following the heavy rains of the last two days that caused the Unda River to swell and erode the surrounding area. “We’wnet down to see for ourselves and to take picture. Indeed the the revetment and the shrine have been eroded” he explained.

The road access, he explained had been repaired 3 months ago to allow heavy trucks to pass. Unfortunately these repairs did not last long and the road is once again inaccessible.. “The road is broken off again, now there is

no access to the location (port—Ed).

We do not dare to walk down to the port as the water is still flowing swiftly”, added Suaba.

Such repairs, explained Suaba cannot be handled by the district government as the authority to handle the management and maintenance of the part area lies with the central government and relevant agencies. “ Because we have no authority to deal with it direcly, we have simple reported the matter.

The minutes will be sent tomorrow

(Monday- Ed). The details will be reported to the regent and then passed onto the central government”, he said.

The port that was built with a budget of about IDR 230 billion could also potentially be hot by cold lava, if Mt. Agung erupts as the Unda River is a likely path for the lava – as witnessed during the eruption of 1963. Preventative measures have been coordinated with the central government”, concluded Suaba. (kmb45)

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Linklater’s war veteran comedy speaks to modern America, says star

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Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas and Sylvia Hoeks pose during a photocall to promote Blade Runner 2049 at a hotel in central London, Britain, September 2017.

‘Blade Runner 2049’ Fades to $31.5 Million Opening Weekend

LOS ANGELES - “Blade Runner 2049” is heading for a downbeat $31.5 million opening weekend at 4,058 sites in North America.

Sunday’s estimated result throws serious doubt onto what had been high hopes for a box office success story. In one of the most surprising turnarounds in recent years, “Blade Runner 2049” fell far short of expectations, which had been in the $45 million to $50 million range at the start of the weekend amid stellar reviews, strong advance ticket sales, and the revered status of 1982’s original “Blade Runner.”

Instead, the film grossed only a moderate $12.7 million on Friday, including $4 million from Thursday night previews. Saturday saw an 11% decline to $11.4 million and Sunday’s projected total was $7.4 million.

The key factors for the under-performance were the movie’s 163-minute running time -- which limits the number of showings each day -- plus far less traction among younger moviegoers than anticipated.

“The core of enthusiastic and loyal ‘Blade Runner’ fans were over 25 and predominantly male and propelled the film as expected to the top spot, but a lengthy

running time and lesser interest among females made it tougher for the film to reach the original weekend box office projections,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst with comScore.

According to PostTrack, males over 25 represented 50% of the audience and females over 25 were 27%, while males under 25 represented 15% of moviegoers and females under 25 were 8%. Males gave the movie an A CinemaScore, while females gave it a B+.

Warner Bros. is handling domestic distribution on “Blade Runner 2049,” starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, through its output deal with Alcon Entertainment. Financed by Alcon and Sony and laden with special effects, the film carries a $150 million price tag. Denis Villeneuve helms the sequel film, which is set in a bleak 2049 Los Angeles with Gosling starring as an LAPD officer dealing with replicants seeking freedom.

Warner Bros. domestic distribution president Jeff Goldstein said “Blade Runner 2049” had fallen short of expectations in mid-sized and smaller markets along with the South and Midwest, where the running time and Major League Baseball playoffs appeared to have held down attendance. (rtr)

LONDON - “Last Flag Flying”, a comedy-drama about Vietnam war veterans, will resonate with Trump’s America, despite, or perhaps because of, its period setting, actor Bryan Cranston said on Sunday after a screening at the London Film Festival.

Set in the United States in December 2003 – when U.S. forces in Iraq were dragging Saddam Hussein out of a “spider hole” - it is the story of three ageing former servicemen who reunite to bury the son of one of them who has been killed in action.

With President Donald Trump saying he could “totally destroy” North Korea and characterising a dinner with military commanders as “the calm before the storm”, Cranston said “Last Flag Flying” was a timely reminder of the effect on normal Americans of ill-advised military campaigns.

“I think it has a lot of relevance today in the sense that (today) it’s

not clear cut as far as the (what are the) intentions of the government or military,” Cranston, acclaimed for his lead role in the TV drama “Breaking Bad”, told Reuters.

“In World War Two, it was the ‘good war’, it was clear and present danger, we had to stop this mad man. Since then, with Vietnam and Iraq, (there are) a lot of questions ... among the troops and the citizens as to if we are doing the right thing and what is the purpose of our being there.”

“Last Flag Flying” was produced by Amazon Studios and directed and co-written by Richard Linklater, whose greatest critical acclaim has been for the naturalistic “Before Sunset” trilogy and the 2014 “Boyhood” which won a slew of Oscar nominations.

Linklater also made comedies including “School of Rock” and “Everybody Wants Some!!”, about skirt-chasing undergraduates. “Last Flag Flying” falls somewhere between the two genres. (rtr)

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Weakening Nate brings rain, tornado warnings to U.S. South

A sail boat is seen washed ashore after Hurricane Nate in Biloxi, Mississippi, U.S., October 8, 2017.

BILOXI/PASCAGOULA - Hurricane Nate weakened to a tropical depression on Sunday after coming ashore in Mississippi, flooding roads and buildings but sparing the state from catastrophic damages. Maximum sustained winds from Nate, the fourth major storm to hit the United States in less than two months, dropped to 35 miles per hour (55 km per hour) as it moved through Alabama and into Tennessee.

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The remnants of the storm spawned tornado warnings in those states and the western portions of North Carolina and South Carolina. It is forecast to bring gusty winds and up to 4 inches (10 cm) of rain to parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York on Monday. The storm made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane, the weakest designation by the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Only a few hours earlier, its winds had been blowing at 70 mph (113 kph) but appeared to lack the devastating punch of its recent predecessors.

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant told reporters there had been no deaths or reports of catastrophic damage. “We are

very fortunate this morning and have been blessed,” he said. Nate killed at least 30 people in Central America before entering the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and bearing down on the U.S. South.

It has also shut down most oil and gas production in the Gulf.

Nate follows hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, which have devastated areas of the Caribbean and southern United States. The tropical depression’s center will move up through Alabama into Tennessee and Kentucky through Monday, the hurricane center said.

Heavy rainfall and storm-surge flooding remained a danger across the region, and the hurricane center said Florida’s Panhandle and parts of Alabama and Georgia

might feel tropical storm-force wind gusts.

The storm was expected to bring three to six inches of rain to parts of western North Carolina through midday Monday, with up to 10 inches possible in isolated spots. Power outages, damaged homes and roads closed by debris were all reported in the region.

Nate made its first U.S. landfall on Saturday evening near the mouth of the Mississippi River and then made a second one early on Sunday near Biloxi, Mississippi.

In Biloxi, water surged over roads during the storm and quickly receded on Sunday, leaving a boat that broke loose marooned on the beach. At a Waffle House restaurant, the storm surge deposited a dumpster in its parking lot. Jeff Pickich, a 46-year-old wine salesman from D’Iberville, Mississippi, was counting his blessings. Heavy winds left only minor damage, blowing down part of a fence on his rental property in Biloxi.

“I’m just glad,” he said, digging

fresh holes for fence posts. “I was afraid of the water. The water is Mother Nature. You can’t stop it.” Water flowed through Ursula Staten’s yard in Biloxi, pushing over part of her fence and scattering debris, but did not breach her house. “I have a mess,” the retired massage therapist said. “If we had got Irma, I would have lost everything.” At the Golden Nugget Casino, one of eight Biloxi gaming establishments, workers rushed to clean up mud, debris and minor damage from 3 feet (1 m) of water sloshing into an entrance and the parkade. The gaming room stayed dry.

Three hundred guests remained in the hotel, some eager to try their luck after surviving Nate. But dangers from the storm remain, with Florida Governor Rick Scott warning of tornadoes springing up in the Panhandle region and Alabama Governor Kay Ivey urging residents to prepare for strong winds and storm surges. U.S. President Donald Trump declared

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federal emergencies in Alabama and Florida on Sunday, which provides additional funding for disaster relief.

Mississippi Power had restored electricity to 10,000 customers, but 4,800 were still without it. More than 1,000 people had arrived at shelters, the state Emergency Management Agency said. Alabama Power said it had restored electricity to 58,000 of 146,000 customers who lost it. Rainfall of 3 to 6 inches (8 to 15 cm), with a maximum of 10 inches (25 cm), was expected east of the Mississippi River in Alabama and Tennessee, the hurricane center said.

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