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Universal sees lots of green as ‘Grinch’ tops box office
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LOS ANGELES - Universal Pictures saw plenty of green over the weekend as its remake of “The Grinch” pulled in an impressive $66 million in North American theaters, industry tracker Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday. The three-day estimate put the ever-popular Dr. Seuss tale -- with Benedict Cumberbatch voicing the small-hearted, ill-tempered, kid-hating title character -- well ahead of last week’s No. 1 film, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which slid to second place with a still-healthy take of $30.9 million. It also put this “Grinch” comfortably ahead of the Ron Howard-directed 2000 version, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” which took in $55 million in its opening weekend. The new film also features the voices of Rashida Jones, Kenan Thompson and Angela Lansbury, with Pharrell Williams narrating. “Bohemian Rhapsody,” with Rami Malek playing Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury, has drawn mixed reviews but has proved a foot-stomping audience favorite. The Fox production has taken $100 million domestically in its first two weeks and $110 million overseas.
In third place, at $10.1 million, was Paramount’s new release “Overlord,” a supernatural horror film set against a backdrop of the D-Day invasion. It stars Jovan Adepo and Wyatt Russell. Another seasonal film, Disney’s “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms,” placed fourth, at $9.6 million. It stars Mackenzie Foy as a young girl who travels to a magic land in search of a key to unlock a gift from her late mother. Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren and Morgan Freeman also star. Fifth spot went to new Sony release “The Girl in the Spider’s Web,” which took in what analysts called a disappointing $8 million. Claire Foy -- a young Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix’s 2016-17 series “The Crown” -- makes the not-inconsiderable leap to portraying tough, brooding, street-smart Lisbeth Salander, AKA “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” (afp)
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In this file photo taken on November 3, 2018 US model Mariah Strongin attends the premiere of “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” at Alice Tully Hall in New York City.
Guitarist Joe Perry recovering after collapsing at NY concert NEW YORK - Famed Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry was recovering in hospital Sunday after collapsing shortly after performing with rock superstar Billy Joel in New York’s Madison Square Garden. Perry, who is 68, suffered “shortness of breath and was treated backstage by paramedics who gave the guitarist oxygen and used a tracheal tube to clear his airway,” said a statement from a spokesman. It said he was “alert and responsive” on Sunday, but would have to cancel an appearance later in the day at a rock ‘n’ roll fantasy camp in Florida.
US guitar player Joe Perry
“Perry is expected to return to the road later this month,” the statement said. Perry was playing hit song “Walk This Way,” penned by him and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and later covered by hip-hop group Run-DMC, shortly before he collapsed in his dressing room, TMZ reported. Perry, who has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and, with Aerosmith, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is ranked by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. (afp)
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Small team leads harrowing search for California fire victims
A small team searching for victims of one of California’s deadliest fires happen upon a man lying face down between two ash-covered pickup trucks. His body and clothes seem intact, aside from hideous burns around his calves. “You never get used to it. You have to face reality,” says one of a trio of sheriff deputies searching for the dead in the wreckage around the town of Paradise. “Everybody has its own way to cope with it,” he mused. “Mine? Better leave that unanswered.” The “Camp Fire” in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains north of the state capital Sacramento has claimed 29 lives, razed 6,400 buildings and effectively wiped Paradise off the map. For the past days, this team -- one deputy from Butte County and two from neighboring Yuba County -- has scoured the town
and the many nearby communities nestled in this hilly area searching for human remains. On Sunday the team drove several miles up a steep rocky road keeping an eye out for possible victims. They refused to give their names and had little to say as they focused on their macabre task. - Many people missing Scores of people have gone missing since the wildfire broke out on Thursday and swept through the area. Some survivors may be huddled in a hotel or at a shelter, unable to communicate with loved ones because the fire has destroyed
area cell phone towers. Others -- like the man face down on the hills overlooking Lake Concow -- were caught by the fast-moving flames as they tried to escape the inferno. Was he overcome by smoke? Did he live at the nearby farm, of which nothing survived except for scorched marijuana plants inside the charred shell of a greenhouse? “Far too early to tell” said one of the Yuba County deputies. - Abandoned vehicles The deputies took pictures, noted GPS coordinates, and picked up documents inside the cars in hopes
of eventually making an identification. They lifted the corpse, placed it in a body bag, and loaded it into a hearse that had followed them from Paradise. Without wasting time they resumed their search for fire victims. Dozens of cars and trucks, some seemingly intact, litter the sides of roads in the area. The deputies check each one for victims. Inside the shell of one torched vehicle that had slammed into a tree they find a ball of burnt flesh the size of a small child. A deputy carefully removes it and places the remains on a white tarp for careful examination. “No skull. It’s an animal!” he cries out after several minutes. The deputy wipes his hands and a brief smile crosses his face. “We’re moving
on,” he says. The team continues on the meandering road and eventually reach an abandoned farm, where ducks, geese and goats roam freely. The unexpected encounter with farm animals breaks the tension -but as they drive off, with just one more hour of sunlight available, the hearse blows a tire. “We’re done,” one of the deputies says. “We’ll get back to it tomorrow.” (afp) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.
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Chaotic OTT at customary village
MMDP Klungkung to summon all customary village chiefs
SEMARAPURA —Concerns of the customary village authorities over the Red Handed Operation (OTT) by law enforcement officers regarding the management of tourist objects are increasingly widespread. This happens because lately more and more individuals of tourist object management are arrested by police. Seeing this situation, Customary Village Middle Assembly (MMDP) of Klungkung will summon the chief of customary village across Klungkung to provide an explanation of this situation. Chairman of the MMDP Klungkung, Ketut Rupia Arsana, stated on Sunday (Nov. 11) that he did not know much about the red handed operation intensified by the illegal levy eradication taskforce (Saber Pungli). He did not dare to give further explanation whether to advise temporary suspension all the tourist management fees collected by customary villages or other appeals. “We will coordinate first with the regional government, especially with the regent and the culture agency,” said Rupia Arsana. On the other hand, Deputy Chairperson of the Klungkung House of Representatives, I Wayan Buda Parwata, when asked about this issue claimed to be quite surprised. The rules of the game are clear where the assets belong to customary villages. Based on the results of the customary meeting, there is ticket issued as levy
evidence. He hoped the regional government, in this case the regent, can sit together with district leadership council (Forkompinda) to discuss about this matter to find the right formulation. Thus, customary villages are safe in carrying out their policies below. This Hanura politician admitted that he very much supports if there is a customary meeting decision set forth in the awig-awig in managing the tourism objects and safeguarding the assets owned. By this way, the customary village managing can maintain the temple sanctity in the area of the tourist attraction. The impact is clear as stated by the maxim ‘people will no longer become spectators in his hometown.’ Other than being able to make it more organized and orderly, there is no longer impression of dirty. “With the role of customary village in empowering residents, customary villages in
empowering their regional potential and assets can help people’s economy to the low level of community,” said this Timuhun politician. All this time, traditional villages having tourism potential can form and implement strong economic foundations by relying on economic players from the lower level with the support from stakeholders in Klungkung district. Similarly, this can give a view to tourism players entering the area of customary villages towards the changing of international tourism trends leading to quality tourism. This concept also directly grows tourism potentials and opportunities for economic multiplier effects in the local economic sector. “This can prevent and minimize negative impacts of the tourism sector by providing the widest opportunity for customary villages to implement their customary awig-awig (bylaw) policies,” he said while adding the results are also for local customary interests such as repairing shrines or temples, and even alleviating residents in large ceremonies, such as mass or religious ceremonies. On the other hand, Regent of Klungkung, Nyoman Suwirta, when asked for his response to this matter could not comment much. “We will discuss it further,” said Regent Suwirta. (kmb31)
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The Head of MMDP Klungkung Ketut Rupia Arsana
Chief of Klungkung Police welcomed with gate sword tradition SEMARAPURA —Chief of Klungkung Police is now officially replaced. The baton was handed over by Chief of Bali Police, Petrus Reinhard Golose, in the Bali Police and district police main official position handover in the ranks of Bali Police in the Perkasa Raga Garwita Building, recently. The old officer Bambang Tertianto was replaced by new officer I Komang Sudana. After the handover, the new police chief was immediately greeted by the tradition of sword gate. The farewell-welcome event of the old and new officials of the Klungkung Police was held last Saturday (Nov. 10). When arriving at the courtyard of the Klungkung Police headquarters, the old official Bambang Tertianto welcomed I Komang Sudana, with flower garland and bouquet. After that, it was followed by a procession of sword gate by the first officers with the rank of second and first police inspector led by the commander of the sword gate Nengah Simpen. The sword gate tradition at welcoming to new officials like the district police chief has the meaning of how other officers will always be loyal to cover and guard their new leaders during the execution of the tasks. Similarly, the tradition of gate sword in releasing the chief in the form of circular gate sword has
the meaning of protecting and escorting the old leadership having been over. After entering the sword gate, I Komang Sudana, along with Chairperson of Bhayangkari (spouse of police corps) accompanied by Deputy Chief of Klungkung Police, Adnan Pandibu, were welcomed by the Functional Section Heads and subdistrict police chief along with their troops and all Klungkung police officers. Their new leadership was greeted by the welcoming speech of the Klungkung police chief getting to enter the office of the police chief. “Please cooperate with all parties. I am ready to continue what Mr. Bambang has been done,” said the police chief originating from Tulang Nyuh, Klungkung, who previously served in the Head of the Sub-Directorate III of Bali Police General Criminal Investigation Unit. Furthermore, Komang Sudana headed to the Rupatama Room of the Klungkung Police to follow the unit report as well as the farewell of Bambang Tertianto through an umbrella gate procession. Bambang expressed his gratitude to his staff after leading quite well in Klungkung region for 1.5 years. Furthermore, he was appointed to fill in the position as Deputy Director of the Bali Police Specific Criminal Investigation.(kmb)
The New Chief of Klungkung Police is entering his office
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National Unity Day of India 143rd Birth Anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
The Consulate General of India, Bali organized a function to celebrate National Unity Day, commemorating the 143rd Anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on Wednesday, 31st October 2018. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was born in October 31, 1875 in Nadiad, Gujarat. Inspired by the work and philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi, he joined India’s struggle for independence. He organised peasants of Kheda, Bardoli and other parts of Gujarat and launched non-violent Civil Disobedience Movement in Gujarat, against the payment of raised tax, levied by the British government, leading to the British Government suspending the payment of revenue for that year. His leadership qualities led him to becoming the President of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee in 1920 and he continued to serve as served in the post till 1945. He was a strong supporter of the Non -Cooperation Movement of Gandhiji and worked against alcoholism, untouchability and caste discrimination in Gujarat. When Mahatma Gandhi was in prison, he led the Satyagraha movement in Nagpur in 1923 against the British law banning the raising of the Indian flag. He was elected as the President of India National Congress in 1931. He was at the forefront of the Congress’ all India election campaign in 1934 and 1937 and
was a prominent leader in organising the Quit India Movement in 1942. He was arrested prior to the Quit India Movement and was released in 1945. After India’s independence in 1947, he became the Deputy Prime Minister of India and India’s first Home Minister. He was the man behind the consolidation of 565 semi-autonomous princely states to form a united India. He passed away on 15 December 1950. He was a man of courage and determination and in the true sense, the ‘Iron Man of India’. He was awarded India’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, in 1991. The participant was welcomed by The Consul General of India, Bali, Mr. R. O. Sunil Babu, who spoke about Sardar Patel’s single handed effort in integrating over 560 princely states and British administrative provinces into one single political entity that is India. He also informed the audience of the unveiling of a statue of Sardar Patel called the Statue of Unity on the Narmada River in Gujarat by the Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi on 31st October 2018. This statue is the world’s tallest statue at 182 metres. On the same occasion, videos of Documentary Life of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was also shown to the audience. The gathering was closed by group photo session covering all consulate members and participants.
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Bacteria that cause gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrhoeae, illustrated) have developed resistance to numerous antibiotics over the years, rendering the drugs unable to kill the microbes.
A new drug may boost dwindling treatment options for gonorrhea
GONORRHEA is a wily foe. But doctors may soon have another drug to fight the sexually transmitted infection that’s become resistant to nearly every antibiotic thrown its way. In clinical trials, a new antibiotic was effective at stopping the bacteria that causes the disease. A single oral dose of the drug, called zoliflodacin, cured 96 percent of people who had gonorrhea infections in the urinary and genital organs, researchers report in the Nov. 8 New England Journal of Medi-
cine. In comparison, 100 percent of patients given ceftriaxone — the remaining antibiotic that’s effective against the disease in the United States — were successfully treated. Caused by Neisseria gonorrhoe-
ae, gonorrhea can be passed from an infected person to a sexual partner or from an infected mother to her baby at birth. The consequences of the infection are especially severe for women, who can develop pelvic inflammatory disease and become infertile, and for babies, who can lose their sight. The United States had more than half a million new gonorrhea cases reported in 2017, up about 75 percent from the historical
low point in 2009. Worldwide, an estimated 78 million new gonorrhea infections occur each year. In the United States, doctors treat an infection with a combination of ceftriaxone and another antibiotic called azithromycin. But bacterial strains resistant to ceftriaxone have cropped up in other countries, raising concerns of untreatable gonorrhea. Zoliflodacin blocks proteins that
N. gonorrhoeae needs to replicate its genetic material. In a Phase II clinical trial to determine the drug’s effectiveness, 141 participants were split into three groups. One set got ceftriaxone. Of the two groups given either a two-gram or three-gram dose of zoliflodacin, 55 of 57 and 54 of 56 people, respectively, were cured of infections. A larger, international clinical trial of the drug is underway. (IBP/net)
Marijuana may change the decision-making part of teen brains
SAN DIEGO — Marijuana use during teenage years may change the brain in key decision-making areas, a study in rats suggests. “Adolescence is a dangerous time to be insulting the brain, particularly with drugs of abuse,” study coauthor Eliza Jacobs-Brichford said November 7 at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Jacobs-Brichford and colleagues gave adolescent male and female rats a marijuana-like compound. Afterward, the researchers found changes in parts of the brain involved in making decisions. Normally, many of the nerve cells there are surrounded by rigid structures called perineuronal nets, sturdy webs that help stabilize connections between nerve cells. But in male rats that had been exposed to the marijuana-like compound in adolescence, fewer of these nerve cells, which help put the brakes on other cells’ activity, were covered by nets. Drug exposure didn’t seem to affect the nets in female rats. “Males look more susceptible to these drugs,” said JacobsBrichford, a behavioral neuroscientist at the University of Illinois at Chicago. (IBP/net) After exposure to a marijuana-like drug in adolescence, male rats had changes in structures that surround and help stabilize certain nerve cells.
The IVA test program and clinical breast examination on BaliTV.
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Balinese women remain shy about doing health checkup
DENPASAR — Health problems experienced by women, especially Balinese women, are cervical cancer and breast cancer. The two diseases are number one and two killers in women. On that account, an early examination must be carried out so that prevention efforts can be carried out more optimally. Chairman of the Bali Motivator Team of the Family Welfare Development (PKK), Putu Putri Suastini Koster, stated that Balinese women do not check up their health early because they are embarrassed and lazy. According to her, actually it should not be a problem because it will be detected faster if there is a disease. “It does not matter if we know about our disease early, we don’t have to panic. But calm down because we can treat it earlier or prevent it. Sometimes it is embarrassing because it is related to our femininity,” she said on Friday (Nov. 9) in the IVA test program and clinical breast examination on BaliTV. If women have been given explanation about the importance of early examination of cervical cancer and breast cancer, according to her, it will not become a
problem for women to examine themselves. “Those who can prevent the disease should be supported by the environment,” she said. Besides, she has a regular program to conduct free IVA examinations and clinical breast examination. This PKK program is intended for women, considering that women are vulnerable to cancer, especially cervical cancer and breast cancer. “Lately, it is getting faster and faster,” he added. She encountered more and more women that have cervical cancer. Unfortunately, the patients just want to do treatment after advanced stages. On that account, the PKK Bali seeks to foster public awareness, especially for women. The first thing to do is to educate and provide understanding for the community, especially
women, so that they can be prevented by early detection. “When having suffered, do treatment immediately and don’t wait until the cancer gets worse. This is also the responsibility of the government as well and of course all components of society,” she affirmed. Women must also care for their siblings or people suffering from disease or having cancer. “At least, we are informing where we should get medical treatment,” she added. The PKK will continue to oversee public health, especially women’s health. This activity is carried out at all levels of PKK management such as in the provincial and district/city level. Similarly, the Health Agency also has an IVA test program synergized with the PKK. “We do it routinely throughout Bali,” she concluded. (kmb32)
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Tabanan unable to meet corn demand
TABANAN - Tabanan has approximately 20,000 hectares of paddy fields or 25 percent of the area of paddy fields in Bali. Though being extensive, Tabanan still cannot meet the needs of corn and remains dependent on outside regions such as Java, NTB and NTT. Division Head of the Tabanan Food Crop and Horticulture Production, Wayan Suandra, admitted on Sunday (Nov. 11) that corn production of Tabanan is still lacking and has not met domestic needs. “In this case, it is the corn of old harvest. Actually, many farmers are widely growing sweet corn but it is harvested at the young age. So that it is not considered as corn production,” said Suandra. On the other hand, corn is one of the commodities having become the government’s concern in the effort of food self-sufficiency program. Suandra continued that in general, the corn deficiency is not only in Tabanan but also Bali in general. Therefore, breeders in need of corn for their feed should purchase from outside Bali. Approximately, there are two to four trailer trucks of corn entering Tabanan each day. This amount is quite large and has the potential for farmers to meet the needs of corn. Lack of farmers planting and harvesting corn until the old age or a maximum of three months after planting happens because the corn market is not very profitable. “Indeed, the corn was formerly sold cheaply for around IDR 1,000 to IDR 1,200 per cob. So farmers are rather reluctant to cultivate
and harvest corn when it is old,” explained Suandra. But today, the price of corn is more expensive. In the form of grain, it reached IDR 5,000 per kilogram and in the form of a cob reaching IDR 1,700 to IDR 2,000 per cob. The market is clear because corn is currently really sought after. “Anyone cultivating corn will be surely looked for by buyers because the current market is big,” said Suandra. To encourage farmers to start planting corn and harvest it when they are old, Tabanan received an intercropping program from the central government covering 212 hectares. Farmers get seed assistance of 1.3 tons per hectare for corn and 3.6 tons per hectare for soybeans. The planting system is an intercropping system. With this system, farmers do not only harvest one type of crop but more than one, meaning the profits also increase. Suandra added that intercropping system is very appropriate to be applied for agricultural land currently beginning to diminish due to land conversion so as to maximize the land use. For this intercropping program, farmers are targeted to produce 10 to 12 tons of corn and 8 to 10 tons of soybeans. (kmb24)
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Crazy in love? The Japanese man ‘married’ to a hologram
TOKYO - Akihiko Kondo’s mother refused an invitation to her only son’s wedding in Tokyo this month, but perhaps that isn’t such a surprise: he was marrying a hologram. “For mother, it wasn’t something to celebrate,” said the soft-spoken 35-year-old, whose “bride” is a virtual reality singer named Hatsune Miku. In fact, none of Kondo’s relatives attended his wedding to Miku -- an animated 16-yearold with saucer eyes and lengthy aquamarine pigtails -- but that didn’t stop him from spending two million yen ($17,600) on a formal ceremony at a Tokyo hall. Around 40 guests watched as he tied the knot with Miku, present in the form of a cat-sized stuffed doll. “I never cheated on her, I’ve always been in love with Miku-san,” he said, using a honorific that is commonly employed in Japan, even by friends. “I’ve been thinking about her every day,” he told AFP a week after the wedding. Since March, Kondo has been living with a moving, talking hologram of Miku that floats in a $2,800 desktop device. “I’m in love with the whole concept of Hatsune Miku but I got married to the Miku of my house,” he said, looking at the blue image glowing in a capsule. IBP/kmb
Though being extensive, Tabanan still cannot meet the needs of corn and remains dependent on outside regions such as Java, NTB and NTT.
Lake Beratan tourism dock starts working on Disbursed with funds of IDR 24 billion from central govt
TABANAN - Since it was proposed in 2015, the construction of the Lake Beratan tourism dock has not showed any realization. However, central government through the Ministry of Transportation seems to have given special attention and disbursed a budget of around IDR 24 billion in
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stages for the construction of boat docks in the Lake Beratan area. Moreover, the construction design of the dock has begun this year (2018). It is expected that within a period of three years, the dock will be in operation. “Well, it’s indeed true that the installation
of dock piles has even begun last October,” explained the Head of the Tabanan Transportation Agency, Agus Harta Wiguna, on Sunday (Nov. 1). He further explained the construction of the Lake Beratan tourism dock was a proposal from the Tabanan government proposed
The construction design of the dock has begun this year (2018).
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since 2015, starting with the submission of proposals and completion of the required documents with the aim of providing security and safety for tourists, considering the stretch of water tourism activities at one of the famous objects in Tabanan district. “The growing development of water tourism activities using speedboats certainly needs to prepare a representative dock to meet safety and security standards,” he explained. However, considering the funds disbursed by central government are carried out in stages, the dock construction is predicted to be taking around three years before it can function properly. Agus said the tourism dock is expected to become a new tourist icon that supports tourist attraction at the location having been known for its lake view and water tourism activities. “It is considered necessary to prepare supporting facilities and infrastructure for the sake of security and comfort,” he said. So far, many boats and speedboats were berthed anywhere and seemed not to be well organized. Construction of the tourism dock takes the location in the area of Beratan Indah Serasi denoting the asset of the local government. And the requirement to get help from the central government is that the local government must prepare the land. (kmb)
- ‘Drop dead, creepy otaku!’ He considers himself an ordinary married man -- his holographic wife wakes him up each morning and sends him off to his job as an administrator at a school. In the evening, when he tells her by cellphone that he’s coming home, she turns on the lights. Later, she tells him when it’s time to go to bed. He sleeps alongside the doll version of
her that attended the wedding, complete with a wedding ring that fits around her left wrist. Kondo’s marriage might not have any legal standing, but that doesn’t bother him. He even took his Miku doll to a jewellery shop to get the ring. And Gatebox, the company that produces the hologram device featuring Miku, has issued a “marriage certificate”, which certifies that a human and a virtual character have wed “beyond dimensions”. Kondo’s not alone either: he says Gatebox has issued more than 3,700 certificates for “cross-dimension” marriages and some people have sent him supportive messages. “There must be some people who can’t come forward and say they want to hold a wedding. I want to give them a supportive push,” he says. Kondo’s path to Miku came after difficult encounters with women as an anime-mad teenager. “Girls would say ‘Drop dead, creepy otaku!’,” he recalled, using a Japanese term for geeks that can carry a negative connotation. As he got older, he says a woman at a previous workplace bullied him into a nervous breakdown and he became determined never to marry. In Japan, that wouldn’t be entirely unusual nowadays. While in 1980, only one in 50 men had never married by the age of 50, that figure is now one in four. But eventually Kondo realised he had been in love with Miku for more than a decade and decided to marry her. (afp)
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In this photograph taken on November 10, 2018 Japanese Akihiko Kondo poses next to a hologram of Japanese virtual reality singer Hatsune Miku as he holds the doll version of her at his apartment in Tokyo, a week after marrying her.
Mushrooms and tangerines: North and South Korea swap food gifts SEOUL - South Korea has sent 200 tonnes of tangerines to the North in return for mushrooms
Pyongyang gave earlier, Seoul said Monday, in the latest reconciliatory gesture between the neighbours.
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In this photo taken on November 11, 2018, a South Korean military transport aircraft is loaded with tangerines bound for North Korea at an airport on Jeju island.
Seoul is pushing ahead with a rapprochement with the nucleararmed North while its security ally the US insists pressure on Pyongyang should be maintained until it denuclearises. The tangerines -- a rarity in the North -- were being airlifted to Pyongyang from the southern island of Jeju, where they were grown, in four flights, the last one due Monday afternoon. The fruits reciprocate two tonnes of pine mushrooms sent by the North’s leader Kim Jong Un during his September summit with the South’s President Moon Jae-in, Seoul’s presidential office said. The pine mushrooms -- a delicacy claimed to help prevent heart diseases and diabetes, and a key Northern export to China -- were distributed to Southern families separated from relatives in the North. “Tangerines are a speciality of
the South that ordinary North Koreans normally don’t have access to,” Moon’s spokesman said Sunday. His office did not elaborate on the fruits’ value but local media, citing local tangerine prices, estimated it at about 400 to 500 million won ($350,000-$440,000). Opposition politicians were critical. “This action runs counter to the current atmosphere of the international community,” Liberty Korea Party floor leader Song Hee-kyung said in a statement. “South Koreans are sick and tired of such sentimental moves.” Moon -- a dovish leader who advocates dialogue with the North to nudge it toward denuclearisation negotiations -- has met Kim three times so far and is seeking to hold another summit in Seoul in the near future. Kim also gave Moon a pair of North Korean indigenous hunting
dogs after the September summit -- one of which gave birth to six puppies on Friday, according to the South Korean leader. “The gift of two dogs now grew to six more dogs. It’s a good fortune for us,” Moon said on Facebook on Monday, adding: “I hope interKorea ties will also be like this.” But the peace push has increasingly met with scepticism at home and abroad as denuclearisation talks between Pyongyang and Washington falter. North Korea last week asked for a planned meeting between US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Kim’s right-hand man Kim Yong Chol to be delayed. No clear explanation was given, but Pyongyang is demanding sanctions imposed on it over its weapons programmes are eased while the Washington insists that they should stay in place until the North denuclearises. (afp)
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BUSINESS German government advisers slash economic growth forecast
BERLIN - The German government’s panel of independent economic advisers has cut its growth forecast for this year, citing a tougher foreign trade environment, among other issues. The five advisers on Wednesday pre-
dicted growth of 1.6 percent this year in Europe’s biggest economy, down sharply from the 2.3 percent they forecast in March. They predicted an expansion of 1.5 percent next year, down from 1.8 percent.
In their report, they noted that the German economy is in one of its longest upswings since World War II but wrote that “a less favorable foreign trade environment, temporary production issues and capacity bottlenecks are slowing the pace
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Makincang-Kincung Tradition at Taro Village
There is always something unique in Bali. The MakincangKincung tradition was held in the area of ??Puseh Temple of Patas hamlet, Taro, Tegallalang, on Saturday night (Oct. 27). The annual tradition coinciding with the pujawali or temple festival in Puseh Bale Agung Temple was held as a reflection or description of the hard work performed by the local community to achieve prosperity.
of expansion.” Last year, gross domestic product grew 2.2 percent, Germany’s strongest performance in six years. The government last month forecast 1.8 percent growth for 2018.
Secretary of Patas customary village, I Ketut Wija, explained that in implementing the tradition, the participants are coming from the local customary village youth. The procession was begun by walking around the specially made penjor with more than 10 meters in height. The initial process of this ceremony was preceded by local customary apparatus. After making a circular movement around the penjor, all the participants have to work hard and try to climb the penjor in order to get the sampian penjor festoon as a symbol of fertility. A c c o r d i n g t o Wi j a , t h e r e are about eight series of the ceremonies performed before all the participants compete in
Mutton Lawar, How Does It Taste?
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In this Sept. 29, 2018 file photo, Mexico’s President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks at a rally commemorating the 50th anniversary of a bloody reprisal against students, at the Tlatelolco Plaza in Mexico City. Mexican stocks appeared headed for a second day of losses on Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, after Lopez Obrador floated a proposal to prohibit some commissions charged by private banks.
Mexican stocks headed for 2nd day of losses MEXICO CITY - Mexican stocks experienced a second day of losses Friday after the party of President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador floated a proposal to prohibit some commissions charged by private banks.
Mexico’s benchmark IPC index finished the day down slightly at .03 percent Friday, after dropping 5.8 percent in the previous session. The Mexican peso has dropped about 2.3 percent against the U.S. dollar since Wednesday’s close. Mexico’s Banco Base attributed
the setbacks in financial markets to the Senate proposal, which would prohibit charging minimumbalance, electronic transfer and other fees. Senators from Lopez Obrador’s Morena party said the measure was necessary because Mexican banks
get one-third of their income from fees, a higher amount than in other Latin American markets. But in an apparent damagecontrol effort, Lopez Obrador’s financial governance team said Thursday that the bill would be subject to further study so its impact could be determined. Lopez Obrador takes office on Dec. 1 after winning a crushing victory in presidential elections by pledging to put the poor first and
respect private business. In a news conference Friday, Lopez Obrador said the executive branch wasn’t planning any changes to banking rules, but the legislature had the right to decide for itself. “There is nervousness and mistrust,” Lopez Obrador said of financial markets. “This is part of what democracy and freedom means.” Carlos Urzua, Lopez Obrador’s pick to head the treasury depart-
ment, said in a statement that senators were well-intentioned but needed to pay attention to potential effects on financial markets. “Even though we recognize that their intention is to improve the lives of Mexicans,” Urzua said, “that goal is not necessarily going to be achieved if they don’t take into account the impact on public finances, and the stability of the financial sector.” (ap)
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Enjoying mutton satay may have been a commonplace. Tasting mutton curry has also been too often. But wait… what about tasting mutton lawar? Well, this is a new one, so that it must be delicious and different. This lawar (one of Balinese delicacies) made from mutton is not an ordinary yet a quite popular menu among local people and tourists. This traditional menu is rarely made. Other than having expensive ingredient, the preparation process is also quite complicated. Warung Kakwick99 is a dining place specializing in offering mutton lawar. It is located in the heart of Kuta tourism area, precisely at Pertokoan Desa Adat Kuta on Jalan Kubu Anyar, Badung. It is opened every day. Aside from selling the lawar delicacy, there are also complementary menus such as satay, mutton soup and many kinds of drink. Each package has included white mutton lawar, white rice, serapah, mutton bone soup and three skewers of satay. During promotion period, each portion is sold for IDR 35,000. Then, after the promotion ends next month, it will return to normal price namely at IDR 40,000 per portion, including drinks. Meanwhile, the choice of drink consists of mineral water, bottled tea, Java ginger, sweet tea ice, orange ice, coffee, ginseng coffee, lemon ice, lemon squash, virgin mogito, blue ocean, young coconut, small Bintang beer, large Bintang beer, and Radler beer. Made Dwi Putra Harimbawa, the owner and one of the chefs when met
by Bali Travel News, stated that tough mutton along with its distinctive smell is processed to become a delicious servings. Various menus are served by using Balinese authentic spices. “With this spice, the texture and distinctive aroma of the mutton is no longer felt. Visitors will just feel the aroma of the strong spices. “The recipe is the same, but there is a touch of few secret recipes derived from my grandfather,” he said. This calm man admitted that his stall only serves one menu package made from mutton. It happens because it has great opportunities and market demand around the Kuta area. “I observe that people here and surrounding areas are willing to come from far distance to Kuta just to look for mutton delicacies and this is an opportunity that I take advantage of,” said Putra Harimbawa, claiming to also receive orders via online motorcycle taxis. Although it is newly opened, the Warung Kakwick99 is always crowded with visitors. Sometimes the menus have run out before the closing hour. The warung opened from 10:00 to 17:00 perhaps has been closed early at 14:00 because all the menus are already sold out. “Although using Balinese spices, this menu is not spicy. The meat is obtained from young goats remaining to have freshness as the key to producing a different taste,” said this man who graduated from management studies. (kmb)
order to be able to climb to the end between the penjor’s wing boundaries. I Wayan Buda, one of the participants of the Makincang-kincung, admitted to struggle among the temptations of his friends with the slippery penjor bamboo pole to finally reach the top and get a sampian penjor festoon. “It is quite hard to climb as having to compete against all the friends and the bamboo pole is also very slippery,” he said with a rushing breath due to exhaustion. Nevertheless, he claimed to be proud of being able to climb up and get a symbol of welfare in the form of sampian penjor. “I’m very happy to be able to participate in this ceremony,” he said. (kmb)
Wayang Lemah to Conquer the Times
Day puppet or wayang lemah performance is considered sacred and usually staged during the day and always associated with the execution of religious ceremony. Puppet performance can only be staged by puppeteers who have undergone spiritual initiation through ceremony. This puppet show is without using a screen and blencong oil lamp. In playing the puppet, the puppeteer leans the puppets on a white thread of about half to one meter tied to an erythrina wooden stick placed on a banana trunk on both sides of the puppeteer. The gamelan accompaniment is a gender puppet with a five-tone scale. Puppet show of this ceremony is very dependent on the time of the implementation of the religious
ceremonies to be followed. Supporting artists of this show are at least 3 to 5 people consisting of a puppeteer and one or two pairs of gender gamelan players. As ritual arts, the day puppet show usually takes place around the venue of ceremony without using a special stage. The storyline is adapted to the ceremony performed. If the staging is performed in Deva Yadnya, the play will feature Kunti Yadnya, Marisuda Bumi and others. Meanwhile, at the bhuta yadnya ceremony, the play will feature Bima Dadi Caru and so do the other ceremonies. They must be adjusted to the type of ceremony taking place. The plays are generally derived from the Mahabharata story. (kmb)
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Colombia’s Duque calls for action against Venezuelan ‘dictatorship’
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LETICIA - Colombian President Ivan Duque is stressing the need for international action to halt Nicolas Maduro’s “dictatorship” in Venezuela, which he blames for a “massive humanitarian crisis” and a migration wave. “The real cause of this migration shock is the dictatorship,” the right-wing leader told AFP. “We must use all the diplomatic mechanisms, all the multilateral mechanisms available to allow this dictatorship to end.” During an official visit to France from November 11-13, Duque, who has been in power since August 7, will take part in Sunday’s Forum for Peace organized by French President Emmanuel Macron. Prior to his departure he urged the need for countries worldwide to fight drug trafficking, in a wide-ranging interview with AFP that also touched on peace talks with Colombia’s last active guerrilla group and the election of an extreme-right leader in Brazil. - ‘Shared struggle’ Duque accused Maduro -- leader of Venezuela, where economic woes began in 2014 with the crash in the price of crude -- of “clinging to power and exacerbating patriotic feelings in his favor.” Maduro’s government has been slapped with a range of sanctions over its crackdown on the opposition and civil society critics. The Colombian president said its neighbors “huge humanitarian crisis” is leaking over the border: “We have received nearly a million migrants in less than two years.” “Colombia is facing a difficult situation,” he said, calling on the international community to help with “significant means to face this challenge.” He echoed the need for international cooperation on the issue of drug trafficking: “All countries of the world must strengthen their policies to prevent consumption,” he said.” “The fight against drugs must be a shared struggle.” Illegal coca plantations in Colombia reached record levels last year following a 17 percent increase from 2016 to around 423,000 acres (171,000 hectares), according to the United Nations. - Threat of ‘offensive’ action Colombia, the world’s leading producer of cocaine, is just emerging from over a half century of civil war waged by guerrillas, paramilitaries, armed forces and drug traffickers. Asked about 2016’s peace agreement between the ex-rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), now a political party, and the government, Duque emphasized that he “never campaigned saying that we are going to destroy the agreements.” Duque has vowed to fix “flaws” in the agreement negotiated by his predecessor, Nobel Peace Prize winner Juan Manuel Santos. He has in particular criticized the FARC deal as being too lenient in allowing former rebels accused of atrocities to serve as lawmakers. Duque said the “most important issue is... to ensure that those holding political representation mandates, tried by transitional justice and whose human rights violations are upheld, receive proportionate sentences and leave political office.”(afp)
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Colombian President Ivan Duque talks with teachers at a school in Leticia, department of Amazonas, on the border with Brazil and Peru, on November 9, 2018.
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Pneumonia will kill nearly 11 million children under five by 2030, experts warned Monday on a global day aimed at raising awareness of the biggest infectious killer of infants worldwide.
Pneumonia to kill nearly 11 mn children by 2030, study warns
PARIS - Pneumonia will kill nearly 11 million children under five by 2030, experts warned Monday on a global day aimed at raising awareness of the biggest infectious killer of infants worldwide. While in the developed world the severe lung infection mainly affects the elderly, in developing nations it is children who bear the brunt, with hundreds of thousands dying each year from the easily preventable disease. More than 880,000 children -- mainly aged less than two years old -- died from pneumonia in 2016 alone. A new analysis conducted by Johns Hopkins University and the aid group Save the Children using forecasts based on current trends showed more than 10,800,000 under-fives would succumb to the disease by the end of the next decade. Furthermore, a handful of countries are set to carry the highest burdens, with 1.7 million children set to die in Nigeria and India,
700,000 in Pakistan and 635,000 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Yet there is some good news. The study, published on World Pneumonia Day, found that scaling up existing vaccination coverage, coupled with cheap antibiotics and ensuring good nutrition for children could save a total of 4.1 million lives. Pneumonia, an inflammatory infection of the lungs that may be contracted via viral or bacteria infection, is treatable if caught early enough and the patient’s immune system isn’t compromised. But worldwide it hits young children who are often weak through malnutrition, killing more infants each year than malaria, diarrhoea and measles combined. “It beggars belief that close to a million children are dying every
year from a disease that we have the knowledge and resources to defeat,” said Save the Children CEO Kevin Watkins. “There are no pink ribbons, global summits or marches for pneumonia. But anyone who cares about justice for children and their access to essential healthcare, this forgotten killer should be the defining cause of our age.” Watkins’ group, which operates health programmes in some of the countries worst hit by the disease, called for prices of major existing pneumonia vaccines to be lowered “dramatically”. 2030 is the target date for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which includes a pledge to “end preventable child deaths” by the end of the next decade. (afp)
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Officials from Lion Group take a look at the wheels of the ill-fated Lion Air flight JT 610, recovered during search operations from the sea, at Jakarta port, on November 3, 2018. An Indonesian diver died while recovering body parts from the ill-fated Lion Air plane which crashed into the sea killing 189 people, an official said on November 3.
Indonesia calls off the search for Lion Air crash victims
Indonesia on Saturday called off the search for passengers of a Lion Air plane, almost two weeks after the jetliner plunged into the Java Sea killing 189 people on board. Some 196 bags containing body parts have been recovered from under the water with 79 victims identified and handed over to their families for burial. “Since yesterday afternoon until today we have not found any more victims and therefore I declare the search and rescue operation is over,” Muhammad Syaugi, head of the search and rescue agency, told reporters Saturday. “We apologise to the public, especially the families of victims if during the operation we were not able to satisfy everybody,” he added. Rescuers have also retrieved parts of the plane’s engines, wheels and seats from the sea. One diver died helping with search. Lion Air has begun paying $102,058
compensation money for each passenger to the grieving families. Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee has retrieved one of the black boxes -- the flight data recorder -- and is still hunting for the cockpit voice recorder, which recorded the last conversation between the pilot and co-pilot before the crash. The doomed jet was a Boeing 737Max 8, one of the world’s newest and most advanced commercial passenger planes, and there is still no answer as to what caused the crash. The government has ordered a check on all Boe-
ing 737-Max 8 fleets and conducted a special audit on Lion Air management. The transportation ministry has also removed several executives and technical staff from the airline to help with the accident investigation. The Lion Air plane plunged into the Java Sea on October 29 minutes after takeoff from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang city. All 189 people on board were killed and the data from the flight recorder data has so far revealed the plane’s air speed indicator had not been working properly on its last four journeys, including on the fatal flight. Following the fatal crash, Boeing issued a special bulletin on how to deal with the erroneous Angle of Attack sensor alert in 737-8 and -9 airplanes.(afp)
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Verstappen threatens to ‘punch’ Ocon as Hamilton wins Brazilian GP
SAO PAULO - Dutch driver Max Verstappen was accused of trying to punch French rival Esteban Ocon after a controversial clash at Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix which was won by five-time world champion Lewis Hamilton.
West Bali National Park
NEGARA - Unspoilt beauty lies at the west end of the fabled island of Bali: lush green forests, picturesque mountain range, crystal clear blue water, and vast stretches of pristine beaches, those are what await at the West Bali National Park. Home to over a hundred species of wildlife, the national park is best known as the sanctuary of the exotic white Bali Starling , an endemic iconic bird of the island of the gods. Located in the most north-westerly point of Bali, the national park includes the whole area of the Prapat Agung Peninsula, and large swathes of land around the towns of Gilimanuk, Cekik and Banyuwedang which lie in the regencies of Jembrana and Buleleng. This national park is approximately 100Km from Bali’s capital city, Denpasar, or about 50 km west from the northern city of Singaraja, capital of Buleleng regency. West Bali National Park has a total area of 19,002.89 hectares, covering 15,587.89 hectares of land and 3,415 hectares of water. The habitat is very varied with rainforests, dry savannas, acacia scrubs and lowland forests, as well as more montane forests in the higher region. There are also some pockets of dense mangrove forests. In the north of the park is an obvious north jutting peninsula called Prapat
Agung. Around this peninsula are long stretches of protected beach and offshore coral reefs as well as a small offshore island called Menjangan . The latter is a very popular diving destination. One hundred and sixty species of birds have been recorded in the park, including the near extinct Bali Starling (Leucopsar rothschildi), Bali’s only endemic vertebrate species,the fauna icon of Bali. It was the key reason why this national park was created in 1941. By 2001, it was estimated that as few as only six individual starlings were thought to have survived in the wild, all of them in this park. Since then, captive breeding and re-introduction efforts have continued apace, but poaching pressures remain a large problem. With that in mind, a second
re-introduction program was started in the remote regions of Nusa Penida, off the coast of Sanur Beach in 2004. In June 2011, West Bali National Park received 60 endangered Bali Starling for release, 40 from the Surabaya Zoo and 20 from Taman Safari Indonesia . Keen birdwatchers can find a checklist of likely species and their status here. Among some other fauna found in the National park are: the Wild Bull ( Banteng), Barn Swallow, Blacknaped Oriole, Black Racket-tailed Treepie, Crested Serpent-eagle, Crested Treeswift, Dollarbird, Hawksbill Turtle, Indian Muntjac, Java Sparrow, Javan macaque (Lutung), Large Flying Fox, Leopard Cat, Lesser Adjutant, Long-tailed Shrike, Milky Stork, Pacific Swallow, Red-rumped Swallow, Menjangan Wild Deer,
Sacred Kingfisher, Savanna Nightjar, Stork-billed Kingfisher, Water Monitor, Wild Boar, Yellow-vented Bulbul, and many more. The national park is also the home of several endangered species of flora such as: Pterospermum diversifolium, Antidesma bunius, Lagerstroemia speciosa, Steleochocarpus burahol, Santalum album, Aleuritas moluccana, Sterculia foetida, Schleichera oleosa, Dipterocarpus hasseltii, Garcinia dulcis, Alstonia scholaris, Manilkara kauki, Dalbergia latifolia and Cassia fistula. The Marine reserve includes the cape shores and several sanctuary islands with many seabirds in the bay of Gilimanuk, on the island of Menjangan and the excellent coral reefs surrounding it. The good drop-offs on Menjangan’s south side are only surpassed by the particularly superb reefs on its northern shores. The island is a popular spot for locals and tourists wishing to dive for a variety of fish and coral reef exploration. There are no dangerous currents to contend with in this area. West Bali Barat National Park also shows high bio-diversity in a relatively small marine area. At the end of the last century, 110 species of corals belonging to 18 families were recorded, of which 22 species
were of the mushroom coral family (there are only 29 species of mushroom corals recorded worldwide), and there were at least 27 species of Acropora coral found in a relatively small area of only 2 hectares. With all the splendors that stretch from the heart of its thick jungle to the deep waters that surround the peninsula, West Bali National Park is truly a natural treasure of the fabled island of Bali. (IBP/net)
Red Bull star Verstappen was seen on TV pushing Force India’s Ocon three times and accused of threatening to hit him, after the pair had collided on track. The collision on lap 44 of the 71-lap race at Interlagos’ famed Senna S curves cost Verstappen the race and he had to settle for second place. The livid Dutchman, 21, had earlier said he did not see the Frenchman in the paddock after the race, but made no effort to avoid him in the drivers’ weighing room where he walked straight at him. “We were at the scales room,” said Ocon. “He wanted to punch me. He pushed me and he was wanting to be violent. It was not professional.” Ocon added that his rivalry with Verstappen “goes back a few years” and said he “has always been the same”. “I was behind Max for two laps,” Ocon told Sky Sports. “On the first lap, I was a lot faster and, on the second lap, I was a lot faster. The rules say you are allowed to un-lap yourself so that’s what I did. “I’m used to the fights with Max. He’s always been the same. It goes back a few years.” Verstappen swore so much
on team radio that his comments bleeped out after he described him as an “idiot”. Ocon was given a 10-second stop-go penalty by the race stewards for causing the collision. A video clip of the post-race incident went viral soon afterwards but Verstappen said he had no regrets. - ‘I don’t care what people say’ “He came out of the pit lane and he had the right to overtake, but the level of risk he was taking, it was not right,” he explained. “The stewards gave him a penalty. You can say, ‘Max, you should have given room’, but we were not racing and you don’t expect that.” Asked about confronting and pushing Ocon, he said: “We are all passionate about the sport, but it would be odd if I shook his hand. I don’t care what people say. “I’m a winner. To get taken out by that and to get a stupid response from their side, I was not happy about that.” Verstappen told his team over the radio on the slowdown lap that he had better not bump into Ocon because there could be trouble. The Ocon incident overshad-
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Red Bull’s Dutch driver Max Verstappen awaits on his cockpit at the pits, during the first free practice session of the Brazil Grand Prix, at the Interlagos racetrack in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 9, 2018. owed a brilliant drive from Verstappen who had charged from fifth on the grid to take the lead. “The car was working brilliant today. I don’t know what to say. I am happy for second, but we should
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have won,” added Verstappen. Verstappen’s Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said: “I think Max has been pretty restrained. It cost him a Grand Prix victory. “He’s driven his heart out with
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French skipper Francis Joyon sails his Ultim multihull IDEC Sport near the harbour of Pointe-a-Pitre on the French overseas department of Guadeloupe, to win the Route du Rhum solo sailing race on November 11, 2018.
POINTE-A-PITRE - French yachtsman Francis Joyon, 62, won the Route du Rhum transatlantic race in record time on Sunday, outpacing young competitor Francois Gabart in a nail-biting final lap around Guadeloupe’s main island. Joyon sailed into Point-a-Pitre just before midnight to take victory in the single-handed race after seven days, 14 hours, 21 minutes and 47 seconds at sea. The 35-year-old Gabart arrived seven minutes after Joyon, finishing second in the 11th edition of the daunting race dubbed “Formula One on water” due to the six next-generation, high-speed boats taking part. “It was really an extraordinary race,” said Joyon, praising Gabart, whose boat was badly damaged by storms, as “highly brave and committed”. Joyon beat the previous record set by Frenchman Loick Peyron (Banque Populaire VII) in 2014 of seven days and 15 hours. It was his first victory in seven attempts.
All 123 challengers, half of them in small Class 40 boats, left Saint Malo in northwest France on November 4 for Guadeloupe, a French-governed archipelago in the Caribbean. When Canadian Mike Birch won the inaugural Route du Rhum in Olympus in 1978, he completed the 3,542-mile (5,700 kilometres) course in 23 days and six hours. Forty years on, Joyon’s Idec Sport and Gabart’s Macif were two of the vessels called Ultim -- maxi-trimarans which can speed across the waves at 85km/h (45 knots). The other Ultim skippers included Armel Le Cleac’h, winner of the most recent solo round-the-world Vendee Globe, whose dreams of victory were scuppered when his vessel, Banque Populaire IX, capsized and had to be rescued by a fishing boat. He was one of four challengers in the fastest Ultim category to drop out after Sebastien Josse, Thomas Coville and Romain Pilliard also hit difficulties, taking refuge in the Spanish port of La Coruna. (afp)
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Forget the title, derby defeat leaves ‘We’re not robots’: Higuain misses penalty, sees red as Juve outclass AC Milan Man Utd fighting for top four
Manchester United can forget trying to challenge Manchester City until they can even compete for a place in the Premier League top four, Jose Mourinho confessed as his side were outclassed in a 3-1 derby defeat by the English champions on Sunday. A fourth league loss of the season leaves United already 12 points adrift of their local rivals just 12 games into the new campaign. Of even more concern for Mourinho’s job prospects, the Red Devils are now also seven points adrift of the top four, putting Champions League qualification for next season at risk. Indeed, eighth-placed United are now as close to Cardiff in the relegation zone as they are to City. “We knew that there is a difference in potential (with City),” said Mourinho, whose side finished second in the Premier League last season, albeit
a record 19 points behind City’s 100-point tally. “Since the beginning of the season, we knew that our second position last season was a fantastic achievement for us, and this season we are going to fight for the top four.” Yet Mourinho’s tune was very different on his last visit to the Etihad when United spoiled City’s chance to seal the title in the derby by coming from 2-0 down to win 3-2. “The point is can we improve enough to catch them next season?” Mourinho said that day in April, but has only overseen a collapse in United’s ambitions since. - Champagne football Despite spending more than City in the summer transfer window, the Portuguese coach has routinely trotted out the excuse that he was not backed enough in the market to mount a title
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Real Betis’ Dominican defender Junior Firpo (R) celebrates scoring a goal during the Spanish league football match between FC Barcelona and Real Betis at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on November 11, 2018.
Barca suffer first league home defeat in two years, Real boost Solari hopes
Barcelona lost at home in La Liga for the first time in more than two years as Real Betis pulled off a stunning 4-3 victory on Sunday, despite Lionel Messi scoring twice on his return from injury. Barca last endured a league defeat at the Camp Nou against Alaves in September 2016 but, following 42 games unbeaten, their run was ended by a brilliant, counter-attacking display from Betis. Three hours later, Real Madrid were putting the finishing touches to a 4-2 win away at Celta Vigo, a result expected to earn Santiago Solari an extension to his tenure as coach. Real have now posted four consecutive victories since Solari was put in temporary charge while the gap behind Barca has been reduced to four points. “He has done excellently,” Madrid club director Emilio Butragueno said afterwards. “We are very happy with how things have gone.” On his future, Solari said: “We’ll see. I don’t usually plan too far ahead but in principle, it´s my
day off tomorrow.” Barca’s shock defeat came despite a return for Messi, whose two goals, one from the penalty spot and another deep into injury-time, proved little more than consolations. “We don’t leave with the feeling Betis were the better team,” coach Ernesto Valverde said. “I don’t want to take any credit away from our opponent but we could have countered them better.” It was the first time ever that Messi scored twice and Barcelona lost, but they stay top of the table, even if three clubs now lurk just one point behind. Atletico Madrid, whom they face at the Wanda Metropolitano after the international break, Sevilla and Alaves lead the chasing pack. Alaves beat Huesca 2-1 earlier
on Sunday, while Sevilla won by the same scoreline at home to Espanyol, Wissam Ben Yedder prodding in an 89th-minute winner. “Top of the table is fine, I won’t deny it,” Valverde said. “It should also help us to realise it is never easy to win.” Betis’ reward for beating Barca is to climb to 12th. Quique Setien’s side may have pulled back on the sumptuous, attacking football that earned them a sixth-place finish last term but, in full flow, they remain one of Spain’s most difficult opponents to stop. “We have been a brave team in every way,” former Spain international Joaquin said. “Winning at the Camp Nou requires concentration and doing everything very well. We played a great game.”
- Faster, sharper and hungrier Betis seemed faster, sharper and hungrier while Barcelona’s midfield was repeatedly carved open on the break. It took five passes for the opener,
the last a first-time drive from William Carvalho to free Junior Firpo down the left. He weaved inside Sergi Roberto and struck hard into the net. Barca had chances but Betis were soon pouring forward again, with Junior’s cross evading everyone except Giovani Lo Celso on the opposite flank. His cute cut-back picked out Joaquin, who stabbed in Betis’ second. Arturo Vidal replaced the jaded Arthur Melo at half-time and, in the 68th minute, Barca pulled one back, with Jordi Alba tugged down by Cristian Tello, and Messi converting the penalty for his eighth league goal of the season. But the recovery stalled three minutes later as Marc-Andre ter Stegen let Lo Celso’s shot slip through his fingers and drop into the far corner for 3-1. Barca were not done yet. Two substitutes combined for a second, Munir El Haddadi laying on Vidal but no sooner had the comeback begun again, it was halted.
First, Ivan Rakitic was sent off, a second yellow card for a late challenge on Lo Celso, and then Sergio Canales tapped in Betis’ fourth from Junior’s cross. Messi added his second in injury-time but there was to be no more late drama. Madrid’s win was more straightforward as Karim Benzema opened the scoring, a sublime touch and turn making space for a crisp finish into the corner. Benzema’s shot then cannoned in off Gustavo Cabral before Hugo Mallo’s sweet volley gave Celta hope. Sergio Ramos, however, chipped in a late penalty, Cabral was sent off for a second yellow card and Dani Ceballos wrapped up the points with a superb long-range strike. Brais Mendez scored a second for Celta in injury-time. The only blot for Solari was a spate of injuries which saw Casemiro, Sergio Reguilon and Nacho all forced off. Gareth Bale also took a knock to his left ankle in the first half but was able to continue.(afp)
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Manchester United’s Belgian midfielder Marouane Fellaini (L) vies with Manchester City’s Portuguese midfielder Bernardo Silva during the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Manchester United at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, on November 11, 2018.
challenge. Mourinho’s latest justification was that City had an easier week to prepare having thrashed Southampton and Shakhtar Donetsk 6-1 and 6-0 respectively at home, while United fought to the end to secure 2-1 wins at Bournemouth and Juventus. “I told the players already that one thing is to win two matches at home six to zero, be fresh and relaxed physically and mentally,” he added. “Another thing is two matches away, where the second one is against Juventus, where you fight like animals, and not just a physical effort but a mental effort. The pressure before and during the game. And I think some of the boys felt it.” However, United made things difficult for themselves with what Mourinho himself described as a “chaotic” first-half display at Bournemouth and needing a famous win in Turin after failing to beat both the Italian champions and Valencia at home in the Champions League. United also lost Paul Pogba’s presence in the derby after he played through the pain barrier against his old club in midweek and was not fit to feature at the Etihad. Mourinho bemoaned the Frenchman’s absence meant Marouane Fellaini had to play the 90 minutes and was not fresh for an aerial bombardment off the bench when Anthony Martial’s penalty reduced United’s deficit to 2-1 after goals early in both halves from David Silva and Sergio Aguero put City in command. Instead, Martial’s spot-kick remained United’s only shot on target, while City sealed the game in a manner that emphasised the gulf in class between the sides. Ilkay Gundogan provided the final flourish to a 44-pass move five minutes from time. It was champagne football that showed why City are champions and United struggling to make the Champions League.(afp)
On-loan AC Milan striker Gonzalo Higuain apologised for his meltdown in the 2-0 defeat to his parent club Juventus on Sunday which saw him sent off for screaming at the referee after earlier missing a penalty. Argentine Higuain had shrugged off a back injury to take on his former teammates after being loaned to AC Milan last summer to make space for the arrival of Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo. But tensions boiled over as AC Milan struggled to find a way past the reigning seven-time champions. Higuain was sent off after 83 minutes, two minutes after Ronaldo, the player who took his place in Turin on an 100-million-euro ($115m) deal, fired in his eighth league goal in 12 matches since arriving from Real Madrid. Higuain saw red after screaming at referee Paolo Mazzoleni in protest at a yellow card for a foul on Medhi Benatia. “I know that we are an example for all children, for those who play football, for the
people watching, but we are not robots, and we carry things within us,” Higuain said after. “We are human, we feel emotions, the game was not going the right way and it was one of those days. “I think sometimes the referees should understand the situation,” added Higuain, who won two Serie A titles with Juventus after joining from Napoli in 2016. The 30-year-old was loaned to AC Milan with a 36-millioneuro option to buy with defender Leonardo Bonucci moving the other way. He has scored five goals for Milan but could not get one past his former club, for whom he scored 16 goals in the league last season. - ‘Emotion can get to you’ Croatian forward Mario Mandzukic headed in the opener in the eighth minute at the San Siro, before Higuain failed to convert his 40th-minute chance from the spot after a Benatia handball.(afp)
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Forget the title, derby defeat leaves ‘We’re not robots’: Higuain misses penalty, sees red as Juve outclass AC Milan Man Utd fighting for top four
Manchester United can forget trying to challenge Manchester City until they can even compete for a place in the Premier League top four, Jose Mourinho confessed as his side were outclassed in a 3-1 derby defeat by the English champions on Sunday. A fourth league loss of the season leaves United already 12 points adrift of their local rivals just 12 games into the new campaign. Of even more concern for Mourinho’s job prospects, the Red Devils are now also seven points adrift of the top four, putting Champions League qualification for next season at risk. Indeed, eighth-placed United are now as close to Cardiff in the relegation zone as they are to City. “We knew that there is a difference in potential (with City),” said Mourinho, whose side finished second in the Premier League last season, albeit
a record 19 points behind City’s 100-point tally. “Since the beginning of the season, we knew that our second position last season was a fantastic achievement for us, and this season we are going to fight for the top four.” Yet Mourinho’s tune was very different on his last visit to the Etihad when United spoiled City’s chance to seal the title in the derby by coming from 2-0 down to win 3-2. “The point is can we improve enough to catch them next season?” Mourinho said that day in April, but has only overseen a collapse in United’s ambitions since. - Champagne football Despite spending more than City in the summer transfer window, the Portuguese coach has routinely trotted out the excuse that he was not backed enough in the market to mount a title
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Real Betis’ Dominican defender Junior Firpo (R) celebrates scoring a goal during the Spanish league football match between FC Barcelona and Real Betis at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on November 11, 2018.
Barca suffer first league home defeat in two years, Real boost Solari hopes
Barcelona lost at home in La Liga for the first time in more than two years as Real Betis pulled off a stunning 4-3 victory on Sunday, despite Lionel Messi scoring twice on his return from injury. Barca last endured a league defeat at the Camp Nou against Alaves in September 2016 but, following 42 games unbeaten, their run was ended by a brilliant, counter-attacking display from Betis. Three hours later, Real Madrid were putting the finishing touches to a 4-2 win away at Celta Vigo, a result expected to earn Santiago Solari an extension to his tenure as coach. Real have now posted four consecutive victories since Solari was put in temporary charge while the gap behind Barca has been reduced to four points. “He has done excellently,” Madrid club director Emilio Butragueno said afterwards. “We are very happy with how things have gone.” On his future, Solari said: “We’ll see. I don’t usually plan too far ahead but in principle, it´s my
day off tomorrow.” Barca’s shock defeat came despite a return for Messi, whose two goals, one from the penalty spot and another deep into injury-time, proved little more than consolations. “We don’t leave with the feeling Betis were the better team,” coach Ernesto Valverde said. “I don’t want to take any credit away from our opponent but we could have countered them better.” It was the first time ever that Messi scored twice and Barcelona lost, but they stay top of the table, even if three clubs now lurk just one point behind. Atletico Madrid, whom they face at the Wanda Metropolitano after the international break, Sevilla and Alaves lead the chasing pack. Alaves beat Huesca 2-1 earlier
on Sunday, while Sevilla won by the same scoreline at home to Espanyol, Wissam Ben Yedder prodding in an 89th-minute winner. “Top of the table is fine, I won’t deny it,” Valverde said. “It should also help us to realise it is never easy to win.” Betis’ reward for beating Barca is to climb to 12th. Quique Setien’s side may have pulled back on the sumptuous, attacking football that earned them a sixth-place finish last term but, in full flow, they remain one of Spain’s most difficult opponents to stop. “We have been a brave team in every way,” former Spain international Joaquin said. “Winning at the Camp Nou requires concentration and doing everything very well. We played a great game.”
- Faster, sharper and hungrier Betis seemed faster, sharper and hungrier while Barcelona’s midfield was repeatedly carved open on the break. It took five passes for the opener,
the last a first-time drive from William Carvalho to free Junior Firpo down the left. He weaved inside Sergi Roberto and struck hard into the net. Barca had chances but Betis were soon pouring forward again, with Junior’s cross evading everyone except Giovani Lo Celso on the opposite flank. His cute cut-back picked out Joaquin, who stabbed in Betis’ second. Arturo Vidal replaced the jaded Arthur Melo at half-time and, in the 68th minute, Barca pulled one back, with Jordi Alba tugged down by Cristian Tello, and Messi converting the penalty for his eighth league goal of the season. But the recovery stalled three minutes later as Marc-Andre ter Stegen let Lo Celso’s shot slip through his fingers and drop into the far corner for 3-1. Barca were not done yet. Two substitutes combined for a second, Munir El Haddadi laying on Vidal but no sooner had the comeback begun again, it was halted.
First, Ivan Rakitic was sent off, a second yellow card for a late challenge on Lo Celso, and then Sergio Canales tapped in Betis’ fourth from Junior’s cross. Messi added his second in injury-time but there was to be no more late drama. Madrid’s win was more straightforward as Karim Benzema opened the scoring, a sublime touch and turn making space for a crisp finish into the corner. Benzema’s shot then cannoned in off Gustavo Cabral before Hugo Mallo’s sweet volley gave Celta hope. Sergio Ramos, however, chipped in a late penalty, Cabral was sent off for a second yellow card and Dani Ceballos wrapped up the points with a superb long-range strike. Brais Mendez scored a second for Celta in injury-time. The only blot for Solari was a spate of injuries which saw Casemiro, Sergio Reguilon and Nacho all forced off. Gareth Bale also took a knock to his left ankle in the first half but was able to continue.(afp)
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Manchester United’s Belgian midfielder Marouane Fellaini (L) vies with Manchester City’s Portuguese midfielder Bernardo Silva during the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Manchester United at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, on November 11, 2018.
challenge. Mourinho’s latest justification was that City had an easier week to prepare having thrashed Southampton and Shakhtar Donetsk 6-1 and 6-0 respectively at home, while United fought to the end to secure 2-1 wins at Bournemouth and Juventus. “I told the players already that one thing is to win two matches at home six to zero, be fresh and relaxed physically and mentally,” he added. “Another thing is two matches away, where the second one is against Juventus, where you fight like animals, and not just a physical effort but a mental effort. The pressure before and during the game. And I think some of the boys felt it.” However, United made things difficult for themselves with what Mourinho himself described as a “chaotic” first-half display at Bournemouth and needing a famous win in Turin after failing to beat both the Italian champions and Valencia at home in the Champions League. United also lost Paul Pogba’s presence in the derby after he played through the pain barrier against his old club in midweek and was not fit to feature at the Etihad. Mourinho bemoaned the Frenchman’s absence meant Marouane Fellaini had to play the 90 minutes and was not fresh for an aerial bombardment off the bench when Anthony Martial’s penalty reduced United’s deficit to 2-1 after goals early in both halves from David Silva and Sergio Aguero put City in command. Instead, Martial’s spot-kick remained United’s only shot on target, while City sealed the game in a manner that emphasised the gulf in class between the sides. Ilkay Gundogan provided the final flourish to a 44-pass move five minutes from time. It was champagne football that showed why City are champions and United struggling to make the Champions League.(afp)
On-loan AC Milan striker Gonzalo Higuain apologised for his meltdown in the 2-0 defeat to his parent club Juventus on Sunday which saw him sent off for screaming at the referee after earlier missing a penalty. Argentine Higuain had shrugged off a back injury to take on his former teammates after being loaned to AC Milan last summer to make space for the arrival of Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo. But tensions boiled over as AC Milan struggled to find a way past the reigning seven-time champions. Higuain was sent off after 83 minutes, two minutes after Ronaldo, the player who took his place in Turin on an 100-million-euro ($115m) deal, fired in his eighth league goal in 12 matches since arriving from Real Madrid. Higuain saw red after screaming at referee Paolo Mazzoleni in protest at a yellow card for a foul on Medhi Benatia. “I know that we are an example for all children, for those who play football, for the
people watching, but we are not robots, and we carry things within us,” Higuain said after. “We are human, we feel emotions, the game was not going the right way and it was one of those days. “I think sometimes the referees should understand the situation,” added Higuain, who won two Serie A titles with Juventus after joining from Napoli in 2016. The 30-year-old was loaned to AC Milan with a 36-millioneuro option to buy with defender Leonardo Bonucci moving the other way. He has scored five goals for Milan but could not get one past his former club, for whom he scored 16 goals in the league last season. - ‘Emotion can get to you’ Croatian forward Mario Mandzukic headed in the opener in the eighth minute at the San Siro, before Higuain failed to convert his 40th-minute chance from the spot after a Benatia handball.(afp)
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Verstappen threatens to ‘punch’ Ocon as Hamilton wins Brazilian GP
SAO PAULO - Dutch driver Max Verstappen was accused of trying to punch French rival Esteban Ocon after a controversial clash at Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix which was won by five-time world champion Lewis Hamilton.
West Bali National Park
NEGARA - Unspoilt beauty lies at the west end of the fabled island of Bali: lush green forests, picturesque mountain range, crystal clear blue water, and vast stretches of pristine beaches, those are what await at the West Bali National Park. Home to over a hundred species of wildlife, the national park is best known as the sanctuary of the exotic white Bali Starling , an endemic iconic bird of the island of the gods. Located in the most north-westerly point of Bali, the national park includes the whole area of the Prapat Agung Peninsula, and large swathes of land around the towns of Gilimanuk, Cekik and Banyuwedang which lie in the regencies of Jembrana and Buleleng. This national park is approximately 100Km from Bali’s capital city, Denpasar, or about 50 km west from the northern city of Singaraja, capital of Buleleng regency. West Bali National Park has a total area of 19,002.89 hectares, covering 15,587.89 hectares of land and 3,415 hectares of water. The habitat is very varied with rainforests, dry savannas, acacia scrubs and lowland forests, as well as more montane forests in the higher region. There are also some pockets of dense mangrove forests. In the north of the park is an obvious north jutting peninsula called Prapat
Agung. Around this peninsula are long stretches of protected beach and offshore coral reefs as well as a small offshore island called Menjangan . The latter is a very popular diving destination. One hundred and sixty species of birds have been recorded in the park, including the near extinct Bali Starling (Leucopsar rothschildi), Bali’s only endemic vertebrate species,the fauna icon of Bali. It was the key reason why this national park was created in 1941. By 2001, it was estimated that as few as only six individual starlings were thought to have survived in the wild, all of them in this park. Since then, captive breeding and re-introduction efforts have continued apace, but poaching pressures remain a large problem. With that in mind, a second
re-introduction program was started in the remote regions of Nusa Penida, off the coast of Sanur Beach in 2004. In June 2011, West Bali National Park received 60 endangered Bali Starling for release, 40 from the Surabaya Zoo and 20 from Taman Safari Indonesia . Keen birdwatchers can find a checklist of likely species and their status here. Among some other fauna found in the National park are: the Wild Bull ( Banteng), Barn Swallow, Blacknaped Oriole, Black Racket-tailed Treepie, Crested Serpent-eagle, Crested Treeswift, Dollarbird, Hawksbill Turtle, Indian Muntjac, Java Sparrow, Javan macaque (Lutung), Large Flying Fox, Leopard Cat, Lesser Adjutant, Long-tailed Shrike, Milky Stork, Pacific Swallow, Red-rumped Swallow, Menjangan Wild Deer,
Sacred Kingfisher, Savanna Nightjar, Stork-billed Kingfisher, Water Monitor, Wild Boar, Yellow-vented Bulbul, and many more. The national park is also the home of several endangered species of flora such as: Pterospermum diversifolium, Antidesma bunius, Lagerstroemia speciosa, Steleochocarpus burahol, Santalum album, Aleuritas moluccana, Sterculia foetida, Schleichera oleosa, Dipterocarpus hasseltii, Garcinia dulcis, Alstonia scholaris, Manilkara kauki, Dalbergia latifolia and Cassia fistula. The Marine reserve includes the cape shores and several sanctuary islands with many seabirds in the bay of Gilimanuk, on the island of Menjangan and the excellent coral reefs surrounding it. The good drop-offs on Menjangan’s south side are only surpassed by the particularly superb reefs on its northern shores. The island is a popular spot for locals and tourists wishing to dive for a variety of fish and coral reef exploration. There are no dangerous currents to contend with in this area. West Bali Barat National Park also shows high bio-diversity in a relatively small marine area. At the end of the last century, 110 species of corals belonging to 18 families were recorded, of which 22 species
were of the mushroom coral family (there are only 29 species of mushroom corals recorded worldwide), and there were at least 27 species of Acropora coral found in a relatively small area of only 2 hectares. With all the splendors that stretch from the heart of its thick jungle to the deep waters that surround the peninsula, West Bali National Park is truly a natural treasure of the fabled island of Bali. (IBP/net)
Red Bull star Verstappen was seen on TV pushing Force India’s Ocon three times and accused of threatening to hit him, after the pair had collided on track. The collision on lap 44 of the 71-lap race at Interlagos’ famed Senna S curves cost Verstappen the race and he had to settle for second place. The livid Dutchman, 21, had earlier said he did not see the Frenchman in the paddock after the race, but made no effort to avoid him in the drivers’ weighing room where he walked straight at him. “We were at the scales room,” said Ocon. “He wanted to punch me. He pushed me and he was wanting to be violent. It was not professional.” Ocon added that his rivalry with Verstappen “goes back a few years” and said he “has always been the same”. “I was behind Max for two laps,” Ocon told Sky Sports. “On the first lap, I was a lot faster and, on the second lap, I was a lot faster. The rules say you are allowed to un-lap yourself so that’s what I did. “I’m used to the fights with Max. He’s always been the same. It goes back a few years.” Verstappen swore so much
on team radio that his comments bleeped out after he described him as an “idiot”. Ocon was given a 10-second stop-go penalty by the race stewards for causing the collision. A video clip of the post-race incident went viral soon afterwards but Verstappen said he had no regrets. - ‘I don’t care what people say’ “He came out of the pit lane and he had the right to overtake, but the level of risk he was taking, it was not right,” he explained. “The stewards gave him a penalty. You can say, ‘Max, you should have given room’, but we were not racing and you don’t expect that.” Asked about confronting and pushing Ocon, he said: “We are all passionate about the sport, but it would be odd if I shook his hand. I don’t care what people say. “I’m a winner. To get taken out by that and to get a stupid response from their side, I was not happy about that.” Verstappen told his team over the radio on the slowdown lap that he had better not bump into Ocon because there could be trouble. The Ocon incident overshad-
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Red Bull’s Dutch driver Max Verstappen awaits on his cockpit at the pits, during the first free practice session of the Brazil Grand Prix, at the Interlagos racetrack in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 9, 2018. owed a brilliant drive from Verstappen who had charged from fifth on the grid to take the lead. “The car was working brilliant today. I don’t know what to say. I am happy for second, but we should
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a damaged car -– Esteban was lucky to get away with a push to be honest. Emotions are running high and I told him to just get yourself under control on the cool down lap. (afp)
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have won,” added Verstappen. Verstappen’s Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said: “I think Max has been pretty restrained. It cost him a Grand Prix victory. “He’s driven his heart out with
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French skipper Francis Joyon sails his Ultim multihull IDEC Sport near the harbour of Pointe-a-Pitre on the French overseas department of Guadeloupe, to win the Route du Rhum solo sailing race on November 11, 2018.
POINTE-A-PITRE - French yachtsman Francis Joyon, 62, won the Route du Rhum transatlantic race in record time on Sunday, outpacing young competitor Francois Gabart in a nail-biting final lap around Guadeloupe’s main island. Joyon sailed into Point-a-Pitre just before midnight to take victory in the single-handed race after seven days, 14 hours, 21 minutes and 47 seconds at sea. The 35-year-old Gabart arrived seven minutes after Joyon, finishing second in the 11th edition of the daunting race dubbed “Formula One on water” due to the six next-generation, high-speed boats taking part. “It was really an extraordinary race,” said Joyon, praising Gabart, whose boat was badly damaged by storms, as “highly brave and committed”. Joyon beat the previous record set by Frenchman Loick Peyron (Banque Populaire VII) in 2014 of seven days and 15 hours. It was his first victory in seven attempts.
All 123 challengers, half of them in small Class 40 boats, left Saint Malo in northwest France on November 4 for Guadeloupe, a French-governed archipelago in the Caribbean. When Canadian Mike Birch won the inaugural Route du Rhum in Olympus in 1978, he completed the 3,542-mile (5,700 kilometres) course in 23 days and six hours. Forty years on, Joyon’s Idec Sport and Gabart’s Macif were two of the vessels called Ultim -- maxi-trimarans which can speed across the waves at 85km/h (45 knots). The other Ultim skippers included Armel Le Cleac’h, winner of the most recent solo round-the-world Vendee Globe, whose dreams of victory were scuppered when his vessel, Banque Populaire IX, capsized and had to be rescued by a fishing boat. He was one of four challengers in the fastest Ultim category to drop out after Sebastien Josse, Thomas Coville and Romain Pilliard also hit difficulties, taking refuge in the Spanish port of La Coruna. (afp)
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LETICIA - Colombian President Ivan Duque is stressing the need for international action to halt Nicolas Maduro’s “dictatorship” in Venezuela, which he blames for a “massive humanitarian crisis” and a migration wave. “The real cause of this migration shock is the dictatorship,” the right-wing leader told AFP. “We must use all the diplomatic mechanisms, all the multilateral mechanisms available to allow this dictatorship to end.” During an official visit to France from November 11-13, Duque, who has been in power since August 7, will take part in Sunday’s Forum for Peace organized by French President Emmanuel Macron. Prior to his departure he urged the need for countries worldwide to fight drug trafficking, in a wide-ranging interview with AFP that also touched on peace talks with Colombia’s last active guerrilla group and the election of an extreme-right leader in Brazil. - ‘Shared struggle’ Duque accused Maduro -- leader of Venezuela, where economic woes began in 2014 with the crash in the price of crude -- of “clinging to power and exacerbating patriotic feelings in his favor.” Maduro’s government has been slapped with a range of sanctions over its crackdown on the opposition and civil society critics. The Colombian president said its neighbors “huge humanitarian crisis” is leaking over the border: “We have received nearly a million migrants in less than two years.” “Colombia is facing a difficult situation,” he said, calling on the international community to help with “significant means to face this challenge.” He echoed the need for international cooperation on the issue of drug trafficking: “All countries of the world must strengthen their policies to prevent consumption,” he said.” “The fight against drugs must be a shared struggle.” Illegal coca plantations in Colombia reached record levels last year following a 17 percent increase from 2016 to around 423,000 acres (171,000 hectares), according to the United Nations. - Threat of ‘offensive’ action Colombia, the world’s leading producer of cocaine, is just emerging from over a half century of civil war waged by guerrillas, paramilitaries, armed forces and drug traffickers. Asked about 2016’s peace agreement between the ex-rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), now a political party, and the government, Duque emphasized that he “never campaigned saying that we are going to destroy the agreements.” Duque has vowed to fix “flaws” in the agreement negotiated by his predecessor, Nobel Peace Prize winner Juan Manuel Santos. He has in particular criticized the FARC deal as being too lenient in allowing former rebels accused of atrocities to serve as lawmakers. Duque said the “most important issue is... to ensure that those holding political representation mandates, tried by transitional justice and whose human rights violations are upheld, receive proportionate sentences and leave political office.”(afp)
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Colombian President Ivan Duque talks with teachers at a school in Leticia, department of Amazonas, on the border with Brazil and Peru, on November 9, 2018.
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Pneumonia will kill nearly 11 million children under five by 2030, experts warned Monday on a global day aimed at raising awareness of the biggest infectious killer of infants worldwide.
Pneumonia to kill nearly 11 mn children by 2030, study warns
PARIS - Pneumonia will kill nearly 11 million children under five by 2030, experts warned Monday on a global day aimed at raising awareness of the biggest infectious killer of infants worldwide. While in the developed world the severe lung infection mainly affects the elderly, in developing nations it is children who bear the brunt, with hundreds of thousands dying each year from the easily preventable disease. More than 880,000 children -- mainly aged less than two years old -- died from pneumonia in 2016 alone. A new analysis conducted by Johns Hopkins University and the aid group Save the Children using forecasts based on current trends showed more than 10,800,000 under-fives would succumb to the disease by the end of the next decade. Furthermore, a handful of countries are set to carry the highest burdens, with 1.7 million children set to die in Nigeria and India,
700,000 in Pakistan and 635,000 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Yet there is some good news. The study, published on World Pneumonia Day, found that scaling up existing vaccination coverage, coupled with cheap antibiotics and ensuring good nutrition for children could save a total of 4.1 million lives. Pneumonia, an inflammatory infection of the lungs that may be contracted via viral or bacteria infection, is treatable if caught early enough and the patient’s immune system isn’t compromised. But worldwide it hits young children who are often weak through malnutrition, killing more infants each year than malaria, diarrhoea and measles combined. “It beggars belief that close to a million children are dying every
year from a disease that we have the knowledge and resources to defeat,” said Save the Children CEO Kevin Watkins. “There are no pink ribbons, global summits or marches for pneumonia. But anyone who cares about justice for children and their access to essential healthcare, this forgotten killer should be the defining cause of our age.” Watkins’ group, which operates health programmes in some of the countries worst hit by the disease, called for prices of major existing pneumonia vaccines to be lowered “dramatically”. 2030 is the target date for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which includes a pledge to “end preventable child deaths” by the end of the next decade. (afp)
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Officials from Lion Group take a look at the wheels of the ill-fated Lion Air flight JT 610, recovered during search operations from the sea, at Jakarta port, on November 3, 2018. An Indonesian diver died while recovering body parts from the ill-fated Lion Air plane which crashed into the sea killing 189 people, an official said on November 3.
Indonesia calls off the search for Lion Air crash victims
Indonesia on Saturday called off the search for passengers of a Lion Air plane, almost two weeks after the jetliner plunged into the Java Sea killing 189 people on board. Some 196 bags containing body parts have been recovered from under the water with 79 victims identified and handed over to their families for burial. “Since yesterday afternoon until today we have not found any more victims and therefore I declare the search and rescue operation is over,” Muhammad Syaugi, head of the search and rescue agency, told reporters Saturday. “We apologise to the public, especially the families of victims if during the operation we were not able to satisfy everybody,” he added. Rescuers have also retrieved parts of the plane’s engines, wheels and seats from the sea. One diver died helping with search. Lion Air has begun paying $102,058
compensation money for each passenger to the grieving families. Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee has retrieved one of the black boxes -- the flight data recorder -- and is still hunting for the cockpit voice recorder, which recorded the last conversation between the pilot and co-pilot before the crash. The doomed jet was a Boeing 737Max 8, one of the world’s newest and most advanced commercial passenger planes, and there is still no answer as to what caused the crash. The government has ordered a check on all Boe-
ing 737-Max 8 fleets and conducted a special audit on Lion Air management. The transportation ministry has also removed several executives and technical staff from the airline to help with the accident investigation. The Lion Air plane plunged into the Java Sea on October 29 minutes after takeoff from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang city. All 189 people on board were killed and the data from the flight recorder data has so far revealed the plane’s air speed indicator had not been working properly on its last four journeys, including on the fatal flight. Following the fatal crash, Boeing issued a special bulletin on how to deal with the erroneous Angle of Attack sensor alert in 737-8 and -9 airplanes.(afp)
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BUSINESS German government advisers slash economic growth forecast
BERLIN - The German government’s panel of independent economic advisers has cut its growth forecast for this year, citing a tougher foreign trade environment, among other issues. The five advisers on Wednesday pre-
dicted growth of 1.6 percent this year in Europe’s biggest economy, down sharply from the 2.3 percent they forecast in March. They predicted an expansion of 1.5 percent next year, down from 1.8 percent.
In their report, they noted that the German economy is in one of its longest upswings since World War II but wrote that “a less favorable foreign trade environment, temporary production issues and capacity bottlenecks are slowing the pace
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Makincang-Kincung Tradition at Taro Village
There is always something unique in Bali. The MakincangKincung tradition was held in the area of ??Puseh Temple of Patas hamlet, Taro, Tegallalang, on Saturday night (Oct. 27). The annual tradition coinciding with the pujawali or temple festival in Puseh Bale Agung Temple was held as a reflection or description of the hard work performed by the local community to achieve prosperity.
of expansion.” Last year, gross domestic product grew 2.2 percent, Germany’s strongest performance in six years. The government last month forecast 1.8 percent growth for 2018.
Secretary of Patas customary village, I Ketut Wija, explained that in implementing the tradition, the participants are coming from the local customary village youth. The procession was begun by walking around the specially made penjor with more than 10 meters in height. The initial process of this ceremony was preceded by local customary apparatus. After making a circular movement around the penjor, all the participants have to work hard and try to climb the penjor in order to get the sampian penjor festoon as a symbol of fertility. A c c o r d i n g t o Wi j a , t h e r e are about eight series of the ceremonies performed before all the participants compete in
Mutton Lawar, How Does It Taste?
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In this Sept. 29, 2018 file photo, Mexico’s President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks at a rally commemorating the 50th anniversary of a bloody reprisal against students, at the Tlatelolco Plaza in Mexico City. Mexican stocks appeared headed for a second day of losses on Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, after Lopez Obrador floated a proposal to prohibit some commissions charged by private banks.
Mexican stocks headed for 2nd day of losses MEXICO CITY - Mexican stocks experienced a second day of losses Friday after the party of President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador floated a proposal to prohibit some commissions charged by private banks.
Mexico’s benchmark IPC index finished the day down slightly at .03 percent Friday, after dropping 5.8 percent in the previous session. The Mexican peso has dropped about 2.3 percent against the U.S. dollar since Wednesday’s close. Mexico’s Banco Base attributed
the setbacks in financial markets to the Senate proposal, which would prohibit charging minimumbalance, electronic transfer and other fees. Senators from Lopez Obrador’s Morena party said the measure was necessary because Mexican banks
get one-third of their income from fees, a higher amount than in other Latin American markets. But in an apparent damagecontrol effort, Lopez Obrador’s financial governance team said Thursday that the bill would be subject to further study so its impact could be determined. Lopez Obrador takes office on Dec. 1 after winning a crushing victory in presidential elections by pledging to put the poor first and
respect private business. In a news conference Friday, Lopez Obrador said the executive branch wasn’t planning any changes to banking rules, but the legislature had the right to decide for itself. “There is nervousness and mistrust,” Lopez Obrador said of financial markets. “This is part of what democracy and freedom means.” Carlos Urzua, Lopez Obrador’s pick to head the treasury depart-
ment, said in a statement that senators were well-intentioned but needed to pay attention to potential effects on financial markets. “Even though we recognize that their intention is to improve the lives of Mexicans,” Urzua said, “that goal is not necessarily going to be achieved if they don’t take into account the impact on public finances, and the stability of the financial sector.” (ap)
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Enjoying mutton satay may have been a commonplace. Tasting mutton curry has also been too often. But wait… what about tasting mutton lawar? Well, this is a new one, so that it must be delicious and different. This lawar (one of Balinese delicacies) made from mutton is not an ordinary yet a quite popular menu among local people and tourists. This traditional menu is rarely made. Other than having expensive ingredient, the preparation process is also quite complicated. Warung Kakwick99 is a dining place specializing in offering mutton lawar. It is located in the heart of Kuta tourism area, precisely at Pertokoan Desa Adat Kuta on Jalan Kubu Anyar, Badung. It is opened every day. Aside from selling the lawar delicacy, there are also complementary menus such as satay, mutton soup and many kinds of drink. Each package has included white mutton lawar, white rice, serapah, mutton bone soup and three skewers of satay. During promotion period, each portion is sold for IDR 35,000. Then, after the promotion ends next month, it will return to normal price namely at IDR 40,000 per portion, including drinks. Meanwhile, the choice of drink consists of mineral water, bottled tea, Java ginger, sweet tea ice, orange ice, coffee, ginseng coffee, lemon ice, lemon squash, virgin mogito, blue ocean, young coconut, small Bintang beer, large Bintang beer, and Radler beer. Made Dwi Putra Harimbawa, the owner and one of the chefs when met
by Bali Travel News, stated that tough mutton along with its distinctive smell is processed to become a delicious servings. Various menus are served by using Balinese authentic spices. “With this spice, the texture and distinctive aroma of the mutton is no longer felt. Visitors will just feel the aroma of the strong spices. “The recipe is the same, but there is a touch of few secret recipes derived from my grandfather,” he said. This calm man admitted that his stall only serves one menu package made from mutton. It happens because it has great opportunities and market demand around the Kuta area. “I observe that people here and surrounding areas are willing to come from far distance to Kuta just to look for mutton delicacies and this is an opportunity that I take advantage of,” said Putra Harimbawa, claiming to also receive orders via online motorcycle taxis. Although it is newly opened, the Warung Kakwick99 is always crowded with visitors. Sometimes the menus have run out before the closing hour. The warung opened from 10:00 to 17:00 perhaps has been closed early at 14:00 because all the menus are already sold out. “Although using Balinese spices, this menu is not spicy. The meat is obtained from young goats remaining to have freshness as the key to producing a different taste,” said this man who graduated from management studies. (kmb)
order to be able to climb to the end between the penjor’s wing boundaries. I Wayan Buda, one of the participants of the Makincang-kincung, admitted to struggle among the temptations of his friends with the slippery penjor bamboo pole to finally reach the top and get a sampian penjor festoon. “It is quite hard to climb as having to compete against all the friends and the bamboo pole is also very slippery,” he said with a rushing breath due to exhaustion. Nevertheless, he claimed to be proud of being able to climb up and get a symbol of welfare in the form of sampian penjor. “I’m very happy to be able to participate in this ceremony,” he said. (kmb)
Wayang Lemah to Conquer the Times
Day puppet or wayang lemah performance is considered sacred and usually staged during the day and always associated with the execution of religious ceremony. Puppet performance can only be staged by puppeteers who have undergone spiritual initiation through ceremony. This puppet show is without using a screen and blencong oil lamp. In playing the puppet, the puppeteer leans the puppets on a white thread of about half to one meter tied to an erythrina wooden stick placed on a banana trunk on both sides of the puppeteer. The gamelan accompaniment is a gender puppet with a five-tone scale. Puppet show of this ceremony is very dependent on the time of the implementation of the religious
ceremonies to be followed. Supporting artists of this show are at least 3 to 5 people consisting of a puppeteer and one or two pairs of gender gamelan players. As ritual arts, the day puppet show usually takes place around the venue of ceremony without using a special stage. The storyline is adapted to the ceremony performed. If the staging is performed in Deva Yadnya, the play will feature Kunti Yadnya, Marisuda Bumi and others. Meanwhile, at the bhuta yadnya ceremony, the play will feature Bima Dadi Caru and so do the other ceremonies. They must be adjusted to the type of ceremony taking place. The plays are generally derived from the Mahabharata story. (kmb)
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Tabanan unable to meet corn demand
TABANAN - Tabanan has approximately 20,000 hectares of paddy fields or 25 percent of the area of paddy fields in Bali. Though being extensive, Tabanan still cannot meet the needs of corn and remains dependent on outside regions such as Java, NTB and NTT. Division Head of the Tabanan Food Crop and Horticulture Production, Wayan Suandra, admitted on Sunday (Nov. 11) that corn production of Tabanan is still lacking and has not met domestic needs. “In this case, it is the corn of old harvest. Actually, many farmers are widely growing sweet corn but it is harvested at the young age. So that it is not considered as corn production,” said Suandra. On the other hand, corn is one of the commodities having become the government’s concern in the effort of food self-sufficiency program. Suandra continued that in general, the corn deficiency is not only in Tabanan but also Bali in general. Therefore, breeders in need of corn for their feed should purchase from outside Bali. Approximately, there are two to four trailer trucks of corn entering Tabanan each day. This amount is quite large and has the potential for farmers to meet the needs of corn. Lack of farmers planting and harvesting corn until the old age or a maximum of three months after planting happens because the corn market is not very profitable. “Indeed, the corn was formerly sold cheaply for around IDR 1,000 to IDR 1,200 per cob. So farmers are rather reluctant to cultivate
and harvest corn when it is old,” explained Suandra. But today, the price of corn is more expensive. In the form of grain, it reached IDR 5,000 per kilogram and in the form of a cob reaching IDR 1,700 to IDR 2,000 per cob. The market is clear because corn is currently really sought after. “Anyone cultivating corn will be surely looked for by buyers because the current market is big,” said Suandra. To encourage farmers to start planting corn and harvest it when they are old, Tabanan received an intercropping program from the central government covering 212 hectares. Farmers get seed assistance of 1.3 tons per hectare for corn and 3.6 tons per hectare for soybeans. The planting system is an intercropping system. With this system, farmers do not only harvest one type of crop but more than one, meaning the profits also increase. Suandra added that intercropping system is very appropriate to be applied for agricultural land currently beginning to diminish due to land conversion so as to maximize the land use. For this intercropping program, farmers are targeted to produce 10 to 12 tons of corn and 8 to 10 tons of soybeans. (kmb24)
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Crazy in love? The Japanese man ‘married’ to a hologram
TOKYO - Akihiko Kondo’s mother refused an invitation to her only son’s wedding in Tokyo this month, but perhaps that isn’t such a surprise: he was marrying a hologram. “For mother, it wasn’t something to celebrate,” said the soft-spoken 35-year-old, whose “bride” is a virtual reality singer named Hatsune Miku. In fact, none of Kondo’s relatives attended his wedding to Miku -- an animated 16-yearold with saucer eyes and lengthy aquamarine pigtails -- but that didn’t stop him from spending two million yen ($17,600) on a formal ceremony at a Tokyo hall. Around 40 guests watched as he tied the knot with Miku, present in the form of a cat-sized stuffed doll. “I never cheated on her, I’ve always been in love with Miku-san,” he said, using a honorific that is commonly employed in Japan, even by friends. “I’ve been thinking about her every day,” he told AFP a week after the wedding. Since March, Kondo has been living with a moving, talking hologram of Miku that floats in a $2,800 desktop device. “I’m in love with the whole concept of Hatsune Miku but I got married to the Miku of my house,” he said, looking at the blue image glowing in a capsule. IBP/kmb
Though being extensive, Tabanan still cannot meet the needs of corn and remains dependent on outside regions such as Java, NTB and NTT.
Lake Beratan tourism dock starts working on Disbursed with funds of IDR 24 billion from central govt
TABANAN - Since it was proposed in 2015, the construction of the Lake Beratan tourism dock has not showed any realization. However, central government through the Ministry of Transportation seems to have given special attention and disbursed a budget of around IDR 24 billion in
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stages for the construction of boat docks in the Lake Beratan area. Moreover, the construction design of the dock has begun this year (2018). It is expected that within a period of three years, the dock will be in operation. “Well, it’s indeed true that the installation
of dock piles has even begun last October,” explained the Head of the Tabanan Transportation Agency, Agus Harta Wiguna, on Sunday (Nov. 1). He further explained the construction of the Lake Beratan tourism dock was a proposal from the Tabanan government proposed
The construction design of the dock has begun this year (2018).
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since 2015, starting with the submission of proposals and completion of the required documents with the aim of providing security and safety for tourists, considering the stretch of water tourism activities at one of the famous objects in Tabanan district. “The growing development of water tourism activities using speedboats certainly needs to prepare a representative dock to meet safety and security standards,” he explained. However, considering the funds disbursed by central government are carried out in stages, the dock construction is predicted to be taking around three years before it can function properly. Agus said the tourism dock is expected to become a new tourist icon that supports tourist attraction at the location having been known for its lake view and water tourism activities. “It is considered necessary to prepare supporting facilities and infrastructure for the sake of security and comfort,” he said. So far, many boats and speedboats were berthed anywhere and seemed not to be well organized. Construction of the tourism dock takes the location in the area of Beratan Indah Serasi denoting the asset of the local government. And the requirement to get help from the central government is that the local government must prepare the land. (kmb)
- ‘Drop dead, creepy otaku!’ He considers himself an ordinary married man -- his holographic wife wakes him up each morning and sends him off to his job as an administrator at a school. In the evening, when he tells her by cellphone that he’s coming home, she turns on the lights. Later, she tells him when it’s time to go to bed. He sleeps alongside the doll version of
her that attended the wedding, complete with a wedding ring that fits around her left wrist. Kondo’s marriage might not have any legal standing, but that doesn’t bother him. He even took his Miku doll to a jewellery shop to get the ring. And Gatebox, the company that produces the hologram device featuring Miku, has issued a “marriage certificate”, which certifies that a human and a virtual character have wed “beyond dimensions”. Kondo’s not alone either: he says Gatebox has issued more than 3,700 certificates for “cross-dimension” marriages and some people have sent him supportive messages. “There must be some people who can’t come forward and say they want to hold a wedding. I want to give them a supportive push,” he says. Kondo’s path to Miku came after difficult encounters with women as an anime-mad teenager. “Girls would say ‘Drop dead, creepy otaku!’,” he recalled, using a Japanese term for geeks that can carry a negative connotation. As he got older, he says a woman at a previous workplace bullied him into a nervous breakdown and he became determined never to marry. In Japan, that wouldn’t be entirely unusual nowadays. While in 1980, only one in 50 men had never married by the age of 50, that figure is now one in four. But eventually Kondo realised he had been in love with Miku for more than a decade and decided to marry her. (afp)
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In this photograph taken on November 10, 2018 Japanese Akihiko Kondo poses next to a hologram of Japanese virtual reality singer Hatsune Miku as he holds the doll version of her at his apartment in Tokyo, a week after marrying her.
Mushrooms and tangerines: North and South Korea swap food gifts SEOUL - South Korea has sent 200 tonnes of tangerines to the North in return for mushrooms
Pyongyang gave earlier, Seoul said Monday, in the latest reconciliatory gesture between the neighbours.
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In this photo taken on November 11, 2018, a South Korean military transport aircraft is loaded with tangerines bound for North Korea at an airport on Jeju island.
Seoul is pushing ahead with a rapprochement with the nucleararmed North while its security ally the US insists pressure on Pyongyang should be maintained until it denuclearises. The tangerines -- a rarity in the North -- were being airlifted to Pyongyang from the southern island of Jeju, where they were grown, in four flights, the last one due Monday afternoon. The fruits reciprocate two tonnes of pine mushrooms sent by the North’s leader Kim Jong Un during his September summit with the South’s President Moon Jae-in, Seoul’s presidential office said. The pine mushrooms -- a delicacy claimed to help prevent heart diseases and diabetes, and a key Northern export to China -- were distributed to Southern families separated from relatives in the North. “Tangerines are a speciality of
the South that ordinary North Koreans normally don’t have access to,” Moon’s spokesman said Sunday. His office did not elaborate on the fruits’ value but local media, citing local tangerine prices, estimated it at about 400 to 500 million won ($350,000-$440,000). Opposition politicians were critical. “This action runs counter to the current atmosphere of the international community,” Liberty Korea Party floor leader Song Hee-kyung said in a statement. “South Koreans are sick and tired of such sentimental moves.” Moon -- a dovish leader who advocates dialogue with the North to nudge it toward denuclearisation negotiations -- has met Kim three times so far and is seeking to hold another summit in Seoul in the near future. Kim also gave Moon a pair of North Korean indigenous hunting
dogs after the September summit -- one of which gave birth to six puppies on Friday, according to the South Korean leader. “The gift of two dogs now grew to six more dogs. It’s a good fortune for us,” Moon said on Facebook on Monday, adding: “I hope interKorea ties will also be like this.” But the peace push has increasingly met with scepticism at home and abroad as denuclearisation talks between Pyongyang and Washington falter. North Korea last week asked for a planned meeting between US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Kim’s right-hand man Kim Yong Chol to be delayed. No clear explanation was given, but Pyongyang is demanding sanctions imposed on it over its weapons programmes are eased while the Washington insists that they should stay in place until the North denuclearises. (afp)
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Bacteria that cause gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrhoeae, illustrated) have developed resistance to numerous antibiotics over the years, rendering the drugs unable to kill the microbes.
A new drug may boost dwindling treatment options for gonorrhea
GONORRHEA is a wily foe. But doctors may soon have another drug to fight the sexually transmitted infection that’s become resistant to nearly every antibiotic thrown its way. In clinical trials, a new antibiotic was effective at stopping the bacteria that causes the disease. A single oral dose of the drug, called zoliflodacin, cured 96 percent of people who had gonorrhea infections in the urinary and genital organs, researchers report in the Nov. 8 New England Journal of Medi-
cine. In comparison, 100 percent of patients given ceftriaxone — the remaining antibiotic that’s effective against the disease in the United States — were successfully treated. Caused by Neisseria gonorrhoe-
ae, gonorrhea can be passed from an infected person to a sexual partner or from an infected mother to her baby at birth. The consequences of the infection are especially severe for women, who can develop pelvic inflammatory disease and become infertile, and for babies, who can lose their sight. The United States had more than half a million new gonorrhea cases reported in 2017, up about 75 percent from the historical
low point in 2009. Worldwide, an estimated 78 million new gonorrhea infections occur each year. In the United States, doctors treat an infection with a combination of ceftriaxone and another antibiotic called azithromycin. But bacterial strains resistant to ceftriaxone have cropped up in other countries, raising concerns of untreatable gonorrhea. Zoliflodacin blocks proteins that
N. gonorrhoeae needs to replicate its genetic material. In a Phase II clinical trial to determine the drug’s effectiveness, 141 participants were split into three groups. One set got ceftriaxone. Of the two groups given either a two-gram or three-gram dose of zoliflodacin, 55 of 57 and 54 of 56 people, respectively, were cured of infections. A larger, international clinical trial of the drug is underway. (IBP/net)
Marijuana may change the decision-making part of teen brains
SAN DIEGO — Marijuana use during teenage years may change the brain in key decision-making areas, a study in rats suggests. “Adolescence is a dangerous time to be insulting the brain, particularly with drugs of abuse,” study coauthor Eliza Jacobs-Brichford said November 7 at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Jacobs-Brichford and colleagues gave adolescent male and female rats a marijuana-like compound. Afterward, the researchers found changes in parts of the brain involved in making decisions. Normally, many of the nerve cells there are surrounded by rigid structures called perineuronal nets, sturdy webs that help stabilize connections between nerve cells. But in male rats that had been exposed to the marijuana-like compound in adolescence, fewer of these nerve cells, which help put the brakes on other cells’ activity, were covered by nets. Drug exposure didn’t seem to affect the nets in female rats. “Males look more susceptible to these drugs,” said JacobsBrichford, a behavioral neuroscientist at the University of Illinois at Chicago. (IBP/net) After exposure to a marijuana-like drug in adolescence, male rats had changes in structures that surround and help stabilize certain nerve cells.
The IVA test program and clinical breast examination on BaliTV.
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Balinese women remain shy about doing health checkup
DENPASAR — Health problems experienced by women, especially Balinese women, are cervical cancer and breast cancer. The two diseases are number one and two killers in women. On that account, an early examination must be carried out so that prevention efforts can be carried out more optimally. Chairman of the Bali Motivator Team of the Family Welfare Development (PKK), Putu Putri Suastini Koster, stated that Balinese women do not check up their health early because they are embarrassed and lazy. According to her, actually it should not be a problem because it will be detected faster if there is a disease. “It does not matter if we know about our disease early, we don’t have to panic. But calm down because we can treat it earlier or prevent it. Sometimes it is embarrassing because it is related to our femininity,” she said on Friday (Nov. 9) in the IVA test program and clinical breast examination on BaliTV. If women have been given explanation about the importance of early examination of cervical cancer and breast cancer, according to her, it will not become a
problem for women to examine themselves. “Those who can prevent the disease should be supported by the environment,” she said. Besides, she has a regular program to conduct free IVA examinations and clinical breast examination. This PKK program is intended for women, considering that women are vulnerable to cancer, especially cervical cancer and breast cancer. “Lately, it is getting faster and faster,” he added. She encountered more and more women that have cervical cancer. Unfortunately, the patients just want to do treatment after advanced stages. On that account, the PKK Bali seeks to foster public awareness, especially for women. The first thing to do is to educate and provide understanding for the community, especially
women, so that they can be prevented by early detection. “When having suffered, do treatment immediately and don’t wait until the cancer gets worse. This is also the responsibility of the government as well and of course all components of society,” she affirmed. Women must also care for their siblings or people suffering from disease or having cancer. “At least, we are informing where we should get medical treatment,” she added. The PKK will continue to oversee public health, especially women’s health. This activity is carried out at all levels of PKK management such as in the provincial and district/city level. Similarly, the Health Agency also has an IVA test program synergized with the PKK. “We do it routinely throughout Bali,” she concluded. (kmb32)
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Chaotic OTT at customary village
MMDP Klungkung to summon all customary village chiefs
SEMARAPURA —Concerns of the customary village authorities over the Red Handed Operation (OTT) by law enforcement officers regarding the management of tourist objects are increasingly widespread. This happens because lately more and more individuals of tourist object management are arrested by police. Seeing this situation, Customary Village Middle Assembly (MMDP) of Klungkung will summon the chief of customary village across Klungkung to provide an explanation of this situation. Chairman of the MMDP Klungkung, Ketut Rupia Arsana, stated on Sunday (Nov. 11) that he did not know much about the red handed operation intensified by the illegal levy eradication taskforce (Saber Pungli). He did not dare to give further explanation whether to advise temporary suspension all the tourist management fees collected by customary villages or other appeals. “We will coordinate first with the regional government, especially with the regent and the culture agency,” said Rupia Arsana. On the other hand, Deputy Chairperson of the Klungkung House of Representatives, I Wayan Buda Parwata, when asked about this issue claimed to be quite surprised. The rules of the game are clear where the assets belong to customary villages. Based on the results of the customary meeting, there is ticket issued as levy
evidence. He hoped the regional government, in this case the regent, can sit together with district leadership council (Forkompinda) to discuss about this matter to find the right formulation. Thus, customary villages are safe in carrying out their policies below. This Hanura politician admitted that he very much supports if there is a customary meeting decision set forth in the awig-awig in managing the tourism objects and safeguarding the assets owned. By this way, the customary village managing can maintain the temple sanctity in the area of the tourist attraction. The impact is clear as stated by the maxim ‘people will no longer become spectators in his hometown.’ Other than being able to make it more organized and orderly, there is no longer impression of dirty. “With the role of customary village in empowering residents, customary villages in
empowering their regional potential and assets can help people’s economy to the low level of community,” said this Timuhun politician. All this time, traditional villages having tourism potential can form and implement strong economic foundations by relying on economic players from the lower level with the support from stakeholders in Klungkung district. Similarly, this can give a view to tourism players entering the area of customary villages towards the changing of international tourism trends leading to quality tourism. This concept also directly grows tourism potentials and opportunities for economic multiplier effects in the local economic sector. “This can prevent and minimize negative impacts of the tourism sector by providing the widest opportunity for customary villages to implement their customary awig-awig (bylaw) policies,” he said while adding the results are also for local customary interests such as repairing shrines or temples, and even alleviating residents in large ceremonies, such as mass or religious ceremonies. On the other hand, Regent of Klungkung, Nyoman Suwirta, when asked for his response to this matter could not comment much. “We will discuss it further,” said Regent Suwirta. (kmb31)
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The Head of MMDP Klungkung Ketut Rupia Arsana
Chief of Klungkung Police welcomed with gate sword tradition SEMARAPURA —Chief of Klungkung Police is now officially replaced. The baton was handed over by Chief of Bali Police, Petrus Reinhard Golose, in the Bali Police and district police main official position handover in the ranks of Bali Police in the Perkasa Raga Garwita Building, recently. The old officer Bambang Tertianto was replaced by new officer I Komang Sudana. After the handover, the new police chief was immediately greeted by the tradition of sword gate. The farewell-welcome event of the old and new officials of the Klungkung Police was held last Saturday (Nov. 10). When arriving at the courtyard of the Klungkung Police headquarters, the old official Bambang Tertianto welcomed I Komang Sudana, with flower garland and bouquet. After that, it was followed by a procession of sword gate by the first officers with the rank of second and first police inspector led by the commander of the sword gate Nengah Simpen. The sword gate tradition at welcoming to new officials like the district police chief has the meaning of how other officers will always be loyal to cover and guard their new leaders during the execution of the tasks. Similarly, the tradition of gate sword in releasing the chief in the form of circular gate sword has
the meaning of protecting and escorting the old leadership having been over. After entering the sword gate, I Komang Sudana, along with Chairperson of Bhayangkari (spouse of police corps) accompanied by Deputy Chief of Klungkung Police, Adnan Pandibu, were welcomed by the Functional Section Heads and subdistrict police chief along with their troops and all Klungkung police officers. Their new leadership was greeted by the welcoming speech of the Klungkung police chief getting to enter the office of the police chief. “Please cooperate with all parties. I am ready to continue what Mr. Bambang has been done,” said the police chief originating from Tulang Nyuh, Klungkung, who previously served in the Head of the Sub-Directorate III of Bali Police General Criminal Investigation Unit. Furthermore, Komang Sudana headed to the Rupatama Room of the Klungkung Police to follow the unit report as well as the farewell of Bambang Tertianto through an umbrella gate procession. Bambang expressed his gratitude to his staff after leading quite well in Klungkung region for 1.5 years. Furthermore, he was appointed to fill in the position as Deputy Director of the Bali Police Specific Criminal Investigation.(kmb)
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National Unity Day of India 143rd Birth Anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
The Consulate General of India, Bali organized a function to celebrate National Unity Day, commemorating the 143rd Anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on Wednesday, 31st October 2018. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was born in October 31, 1875 in Nadiad, Gujarat. Inspired by the work and philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi, he joined India’s struggle for independence. He organised peasants of Kheda, Bardoli and other parts of Gujarat and launched non-violent Civil Disobedience Movement in Gujarat, against the payment of raised tax, levied by the British government, leading to the British Government suspending the payment of revenue for that year. His leadership qualities led him to becoming the President of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee in 1920 and he continued to serve as served in the post till 1945. He was a strong supporter of the Non -Cooperation Movement of Gandhiji and worked against alcoholism, untouchability and caste discrimination in Gujarat. When Mahatma Gandhi was in prison, he led the Satyagraha movement in Nagpur in 1923 against the British law banning the raising of the Indian flag. He was elected as the President of India National Congress in 1931. He was at the forefront of the Congress’ all India election campaign in 1934 and 1937 and
was a prominent leader in organising the Quit India Movement in 1942. He was arrested prior to the Quit India Movement and was released in 1945. After India’s independence in 1947, he became the Deputy Prime Minister of India and India’s first Home Minister. He was the man behind the consolidation of 565 semi-autonomous princely states to form a united India. He passed away on 15 December 1950. He was a man of courage and determination and in the true sense, the ‘Iron Man of India’. He was awarded India’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, in 1991. The participant was welcomed by The Consul General of India, Bali, Mr. R. O. Sunil Babu, who spoke about Sardar Patel’s single handed effort in integrating over 560 princely states and British administrative provinces into one single political entity that is India. He also informed the audience of the unveiling of a statue of Sardar Patel called the Statue of Unity on the Narmada River in Gujarat by the Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi on 31st October 2018. This statue is the world’s tallest statue at 182 metres. On the same occasion, videos of Documentary Life of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was also shown to the audience. The gathering was closed by group photo session covering all consulate members and participants.
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Universal sees lots of green as ‘Grinch’ tops box office
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LOS ANGELES - Universal Pictures saw plenty of green over the weekend as its remake of “The Grinch” pulled in an impressive $66 million in North American theaters, industry tracker Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday. The three-day estimate put the ever-popular Dr. Seuss tale -- with Benedict Cumberbatch voicing the small-hearted, ill-tempered, kid-hating title character -- well ahead of last week’s No. 1 film, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which slid to second place with a still-healthy take of $30.9 million. It also put this “Grinch” comfortably ahead of the Ron Howard-directed 2000 version, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” which took in $55 million in its opening weekend. The new film also features the voices of Rashida Jones, Kenan Thompson and Angela Lansbury, with Pharrell Williams narrating. “Bohemian Rhapsody,” with Rami Malek playing Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury, has drawn mixed reviews but has proved a foot-stomping audience favorite. The Fox production has taken $100 million domestically in its first two weeks and $110 million overseas.
In third place, at $10.1 million, was Paramount’s new release “Overlord,” a supernatural horror film set against a backdrop of the D-Day invasion. It stars Jovan Adepo and Wyatt Russell. Another seasonal film, Disney’s “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms,” placed fourth, at $9.6 million. It stars Mackenzie Foy as a young girl who travels to a magic land in search of a key to unlock a gift from her late mother. Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren and Morgan Freeman also star. Fifth spot went to new Sony release “The Girl in the Spider’s Web,” which took in what analysts called a disappointing $8 million. Claire Foy -- a young Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix’s 2016-17 series “The Crown” -- makes the not-inconsiderable leap to portraying tough, brooding, street-smart Lisbeth Salander, AKA “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” (afp)
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In this file photo taken on November 3, 2018 US model Mariah Strongin attends the premiere of “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” at Alice Tully Hall in New York City.
Guitarist Joe Perry recovering after collapsing at NY concert NEW YORK - Famed Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry was recovering in hospital Sunday after collapsing shortly after performing with rock superstar Billy Joel in New York’s Madison Square Garden. Perry, who is 68, suffered “shortness of breath and was treated backstage by paramedics who gave the guitarist oxygen and used a tracheal tube to clear his airway,” said a statement from a spokesman. It said he was “alert and responsive” on Sunday, but would have to cancel an appearance later in the day at a rock ‘n’ roll fantasy camp in Florida.
US guitar player Joe Perry
“Perry is expected to return to the road later this month,” the statement said. Perry was playing hit song “Walk This Way,” penned by him and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and later covered by hip-hop group Run-DMC, shortly before he collapsed in his dressing room, TMZ reported. Perry, who has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and, with Aerosmith, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is ranked by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. (afp)
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A helicopter passes by the sun as it makes a water drop in the Feather River Canyon, east of Paradise, California on November 11, 2018.
Small team leads harrowing search for California fire victims
A small team searching for victims of one of California’s deadliest fires happen upon a man lying face down between two ash-covered pickup trucks. His body and clothes seem intact, aside from hideous burns around his calves. “You never get used to it. You have to face reality,” says one of a trio of sheriff deputies searching for the dead in the wreckage around the town of Paradise. “Everybody has its own way to cope with it,” he mused. “Mine? Better leave that unanswered.” The “Camp Fire” in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains north of the state capital Sacramento has claimed 29 lives, razed 6,400 buildings and effectively wiped Paradise off the map. For the past days, this team -- one deputy from Butte County and two from neighboring Yuba County -- has scoured the town
and the many nearby communities nestled in this hilly area searching for human remains. On Sunday the team drove several miles up a steep rocky road keeping an eye out for possible victims. They refused to give their names and had little to say as they focused on their macabre task. - Many people missing Scores of people have gone missing since the wildfire broke out on Thursday and swept through the area. Some survivors may be huddled in a hotel or at a shelter, unable to communicate with loved ones because the fire has destroyed
area cell phone towers. Others -- like the man face down on the hills overlooking Lake Concow -- were caught by the fast-moving flames as they tried to escape the inferno. Was he overcome by smoke? Did he live at the nearby farm, of which nothing survived except for scorched marijuana plants inside the charred shell of a greenhouse? “Far too early to tell” said one of the Yuba County deputies. - Abandoned vehicles The deputies took pictures, noted GPS coordinates, and picked up documents inside the cars in hopes
of eventually making an identification. They lifted the corpse, placed it in a body bag, and loaded it into a hearse that had followed them from Paradise. Without wasting time they resumed their search for fire victims. Dozens of cars and trucks, some seemingly intact, litter the sides of roads in the area. The deputies check each one for victims. Inside the shell of one torched vehicle that had slammed into a tree they find a ball of burnt flesh the size of a small child. A deputy carefully removes it and places the remains on a white tarp for careful examination. “No skull. It’s an animal!” he cries out after several minutes. The deputy wipes his hands and a brief smile crosses his face. “We’re moving
on,” he says. The team continues on the meandering road and eventually reach an abandoned farm, where ducks, geese and goats roam freely. The unexpected encounter with farm animals breaks the tension -but as they drive off, with just one more hour of sunlight available, the hearse blows a tire. “We’re done,” one of the deputies says. “We’ll get back to it tomorrow.” (afp) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.