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Bruno Mars leads music’s AMA nominations as female artists edged out LOS ANGELES - The men of pop and hip hop led the nominations for the American Music Awards (AMA) on Thursday, while female artists were left out of most categories.

Bruno Mars led with eight nominations, including Artist of the Year, the top accolade of the night. He will face hip hop stars Drake and Kendrick Lamar, British singersongwriter Ed Sheeran and electropop DJ duo The Chainsmokers - each of whom landed five nominations - for the coveted award. The women of pop music failed to land nominations in categories such as Artist of the Year, Video of the Year and Tour of the Year.

Pop star Halsey, one of the few female artists to land nominations for her collaboration with The Chainsmokers on the hit song “Closer,” tweeted on Thursday that she was “really disappointed” at the male-dominated nominees list. “so many incredible female artists have released this year. hoping the coming award shows give them the credit that is due to them,” she said.

Halsey landed two nominations, in the favorite pop/rock song and collaboration of the year categories for “Closer,” but did not land any solo nominations despite having

had a chart-topping album earlier this year.

Notable omissions include Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Lorde, Demi Lovato, Lana Del Rey and Kesha, all of whom released new songs and albums this year, as well as Taylor Swift, who released a high-concept video in August for her single “Look What You Made Me Do.” The AMA nominees are selected through measurements on fan interactions across Billboard Magazine and Billboard.com, which include figures from music sales, touring, streaming and radio airplay and social activity from Sept. 9, 2016 to Sept. 14, 2017, organizers said.

The winners of the American Music Awards are voted for by fans and will be announced at a live ceremony televised on ABC on Nov. 19.

Rihanna was the only other female artist to land two nods. She will compete with Lady Gaga and newcomer Alessia Cara for favorite female pop/rock artist, and she will face Beyonce and Kehlani in the favorite female soul/R&B category.

Newcomer Julia Michaels is up against singer James Arthur, former One Direction star Niall Horan, rapper Post Malone and hip hop duo Rae Sremmurd for the New Artist of the Year accolade. (rtr)

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President Rodrigo Duterte greets visiting American actor Steven Seagal (L) during his courtesy call at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines October 12, 2017. Picture taken October 12, 2017.

U.S. actor Seagal meets ‘The Punisher’ Duterte, talks drug war

Earlier this week, Seagal said at MANILA - U.S. actor Steven Seagal, famous for playing action roles like a vice squad detective in “Above the Law”, a news conference in Manila that he met Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte while on a location didn’t think the Philippines was “a dangerous place”. scouting trip in Manila.

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Video footage released by government channel RTVM showed Seagal animatedly talking to Duterte.

Seagal, 65, was in the Philippines to look for a location for his upcoming movie which will be “about illegal drugs and other crimes”, a presidential palace statement said.

The statement said that Duterte told Seagal that “movies are a reflection of life” and “re-

iterated his strong stance against illegal drugs because it enslaves people to a form of synthetic chemical.”

Duterte has been involved in a deadly drug war since taking office last June, and on Wednesday ordered all drug operations be left to the drug enforcement agency, amid unprecedented scrutiny of police conduct in the brutal crackdown that has left thousands of Filipinos dead.

“It’s a place that’s up and coming with the new leadership,” the Philippine Star reported him as saying.

Duterte was nicknamed “The Punisher” due to his zero-tolerance of crime and drugs during the 22 years he was mayor of southern Davao City.

A former martial arts instructor, Seagal is famous for action hero roles in blockbuster movies in the 1990s, such as “Under Siege” and “Hard To Kill”. (rtr)

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A local resident carries a box of food as he walks along the side of a river after Hurricane Maria destroyed the town’s bridge in San Lorenzo, Morovis, Puerto Rico, October 4, 2017.

Desperate Puerto Ricans are drinking water from a hazardous-waste site

Puerto Rico - Jose Luis Rodriguez waited in line to fill plastic jugs in the back of his pickup truck with water for drinking, doing the dishes and bathing. But there is something about this water Rodriguez didn’t know: It was being pumped to him by water authorities from a federally designated hazardous-waste site, CNN learned after reviewing Superfund documents and interviewing federal and local officials.

Rodriguez, 66, is so desperate for water that this news didn’t startle him. “I don’t have a choice,” he said. “This is the only option I have.” More than three weeks after Hurricane Maria ravaged this island, more than 35% of the island’s residents -- American citizens -- remain without safe drinking water.

It’s clear some residents are turning to potentially risky sources to get by. Friday afternoon, CNN watched workers from the Puerto Rican water utility, Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados, or AAA, distribute water from a

well at the Dorado Groundwater Contamination Site, which was listed in 2016 as part of the federal Superfund program for hazardous waste cleanup.

Residents like Rodriguez filled small bottles from a hose and piled them in their vehicles. Large trucks with cylindrical tanks on their backs carried the water to people elsewhere. Some of the trucks carried the name of the municipality of Dorado. Others simply were labeled with the words “Agua Potable,” Spanish for potable water.

In announcing the addition of the

Dorado site to the Superfund program, the US Environmental Protection Agency says the area was polluted with industrial chemicals, including tetrachloroethylene and trichloroethylene, which “can have serious health impacts including damage to the liver and increasing the risk of cancer,” according to the EPA. It’s unclear whether there are public health risks from this particular well, however. The EPA said it plans to do testing in the area over the weekend. “The EPA is gathering more information about the quality of water from the wells associated with

our Dorado groundwater contamination site, as well as other Superfund sites in Puerto Rico,” the agency said in a statement issued to CNN on Friday. “While some of these wells are sometimes used to provide drinking water, the EPA is concerned that people could be drinking water that may be contaminated, depending on the well. We are mindful of the paramount job of protecting people’s health, balanced with people’s basic need for water.”

Regional EPA spokesman Elias Rodriguez confirmed the location is part of a Superfund site. Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados, the water authority, was unaware that this well site was part of the Superfund program until CNN provided maps showing that this was the case, according to Luis

Melendez, sub-director for environmental compliance at the utility.

Melendez maintained the water is fit for public consumption. The well was opened on an emergency basis and is not part of the regular drinking water supply, he said. In 2015, this well in Dorado, which is located near a shopping center, was found by the EPA to be safely within federal standards for PCE and chloroform, two industrial chemicals.(rtr) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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Mount Agung eruption

Assumed as non-disaster, but a rare event AMLAPURA - The eruption of Mount Agung has threatened the sustainability of Bali tourism.

Actually, there has not been an eruption, but the fear resulted in is very large. The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) has a tough task to straighten out this understanding. It then came up with the idea to create the notion that volcanic eruption is not a disaster. The viewpoint is changed where the eruption is considered as a rare and exciting event to see. It aims to suppress negative impacts occurred today in relation to the sustainability of tourism in Bali.

Deputy Prevention and Preparedness of the BNPB, Wisnu Widjaja, recently admitted to have being challenged to face the current situation in Bali. As is known, the pulse of Bali’s economy is tourism. Therefore, he claimed to continuously think hard and wanted to provide a breakthrough so that the understanding of society and tourism players is in line with the disaster mitigation measures of the BNPB that volcanic eruption is actually not a frightening incident. Provided, the mitigation measures are carried out correctly. Mitigation efforts are carried out to prevent victims in certain radius from climbing to the mountain top. Thus, the evacuation can be done and the needs are temporarily filled in the refugee camp.

He admitted to have learned a lot about the eruption of a number of volcanoes in Java. With the same motivation, to suppress the impact on tourism, volcanic eruption is then actually used as tourism package. The idea was realized by BNPB in collaboration with travel agencies by determining safe mountain observation points. Thus, from there tourists can see firsthand about the process of a volcanic eruption. “So, we see the volcanic eruption as a rare event, not a disaster. When else we can see volcanic eruption in person. This is we see as an opportunity to turn things around,” said Wisnu Widjaja.

He asserted to have done a mapping of the safe and appropriate places for this plan. In addition to determining the points of observation, his agency even has determined some right coordinate positions for photographers to take the exact moment of the eruption. One of the recommendations is from Kubu waters. From the middle of the sea, Mount Agung looks very intact. He admitted to be confident if the eruption happens the position is very appropriate to immortalize the moment from that angle by utilizing several fast boats to get there. He has done digital trials. Results from this

angle, when immortalizing the eruption event, will result in extraordinary images.

“So, this is also an opportunity for my photographer fellows. Simply see this as a rare moment that must be perpetuated, not feared so that must flock to escape. Actually, it is located in the safe zone,” he said.

To make sure his plan, he is even ready to prepare a fast boat. Moreover, he is ready to try first if later on the eruption really happens. This is to ensure that volcanic eruptions will not be harmful as long as mitigation measures have been done properly. So far, the mitigation efforts have been done well enough to prevent casualties. Residents in the warning zone have been evacuated. The paths to the warning zones have been closed. In addition, his agency has made leaflets regarding the simple ways to face the impact of Mount Agung eruption, especially when facing the threat of volcanic ashes at home to the ways of doing self-evacuation safely as well

as the evacuation routes that can be utilized. Immediately, he would like to affirm and talk to ASITA Bali or travel agencies and other Bali tourism players to equally save Bali tourism.

A similar understanding was also conveyed by the Head of the Center for Data and Information and Public Relations of the BNPB, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho on Saturday (Oct. 14).

He said the apparatus continued to give understanding to community so as not to be afraid of Mount Agung. Sutopo asserted that every volcano will erupt within a certain period.

But after the eruption it will bring in a great blessing. The land becomes fertile, agricultural productivity increases and it brings in abundant sand and rocks that can be mined and others. People should be familiar with and live harmony with volcano. When erupting, the community can temporarily evacuate. Refugees of Mount Agung are currently recorded to reach around 139,199 people in 389 refugee points spreading across nine districts / city in Bali. (kmb31)

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Jemeluk beach is seen some 15 km away from Mount Agung, a volcano on the highest alert level, in Amed on the resort island of Bali, Indonesia October 2, 2017.

such as bracelets, necklaces and rings. In addition, visitors can also find musical instruments of bronze, bamboo, coconut shell, cow leather and wooden fruits.

Although not being a part of the Sukawati art market, this morning market also sells mask, headdress, dance costume, beach clothes, and some other Bali products. Since it is a traditional market, the goods are sold at cheap price. Nevertheless, visitors should be good at bargaining when wishing to buy.

Visitors to this market are mostly art shop owners, merchants of Bali souvenir or the hotel management.

They take handicraft products in

large quantities to be resold. Foreign tourists often visit this market to buy souvenirs and be brought to their home country. “Morning Market becomes a favorite of foreign tourists for selling various Bali souvenirs at cheap prices,” said Nyoman Warti, a souvenir merchant.

Chief of Gelulung customary village, Wayan Parwata, said the Gelulung Morning Market has about 600 kiosks, but not all of them are sold. This market has existed long time ago, not a part of the Sukawati art market. Originally, this market was pioneered by many handicraft merchants from various regions in Gianyar that wanted to

sell their products at Sukawati art market. They came early in the morning before the art market was opened. They sold haphazardly, so it looked chaotic and dirty.

Seeing such conditions, the merchants in the art market complained and drove them away. The handicraft merchants were then moved to the west of the art market, precisely at the vacant land of Gelulung field around 1988. The handicraft merchants were then allowed to sell in the morning or before Sukawati art market opened.

“The merchants at this art market buy handicraft to be resold in Sukawati Market, so they can not open until noon or may only sell if the art mar-

ket is closed,” said Parwata.

After experiencing the development, it made cooperation with the government of Gianyar district in 1991, so there is a levy of 20 percent to the district government and 80 percent to Gelulung customary village. It is for market operating costs such as the development and improvement of the market.

“The number of buyers currently declines compared to the previous years. Honestly, now we are losing with sophisticated technology because guests can buy products through the internet so that they do not have to come to the market,” he said. (kmb)

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Hunting for Wooden Handicrafts at Gelulung Morning Market, Sukawati

If you are a hobbyist of wooden craft, try to stop at Gelulung Morning Market, Sukawati. This handicraft art market is located in the west of Sukawati Art Market, about 12 km from Denpasar. This market opens from 06:30 to 11:30, so it is called morning market. The excellence is the knick-knacks or handicrafts and souvenirs made of wood that are not offered by other art markets.

Various kinds of handicrafts are sold here, such as the statue of Lord Ganesha, Lord Shiva, farmers, Balinese dancers, barong, mask, trees, birds and other animals. There are also statue of abstract style, paintings and knick-knacks for women

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Minister Puspayoga visits refugees at Tegak village

Distributes books for children, motivates to continue education

SEMARAPURA — Tens of thousands of Karangasem residents are still surviving at the evacuation in Klungkung district. They continue to receive the attention from central government. After President Joko Widodo making a visit on Saturday (Oct. 14), then it’s the turn of Minister of Cooperatives and SMEs, AAN Puspayoga, along with his staff to do the same. Refugees are accommodated in the hall of Tegak hamlet, Tegak, as his targeted location.

The Guggenheim Museum

BILBAO - The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was founded in 1937, and its first New York–based venue for the display of art, the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, opened in 1939.

With its exhibitions of Solomon Guggenheim’s somewhat eccentric art collection, the unusual gallery— designed by William Muschenheim at the behest of Hilla Rebay, the foundation’s curator and the mu-

seum’s director—provided many visitors with their first encounter with great works by Vasily Kandinsky, as well as works by his followers, including Rudolf Bauer, Alice Mason, Otto Nebel, and Rolph Scarlett. The need for a permanent building to house Guggenheim’s art collection became evident in the early 1940s, and in 1943 renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright gained the commission to design

a museum in New York City. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opened on October 21, 1959.

Today the Guggenheim Foundation includes the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, designed by Frank Gehry. Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, also a Gehry design, is slated to open in the Cultural District of Saadiyat Island.

After an international architectural competition, Moreau Kusunoki Architectes’ design was selected for the proposed Guggenheim Helsinki.

Through collaborative efforts, the foundation has extended its reach to projects and exhibitions globally, most recently with the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative and through the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, a multiyear collaboration

with UBS in support of art, artists, and curatorial talent from South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa. The Guggenheim Foundation remains committed to collecting, preserving and interpreting modern and contemporary art while forging international collaborations that explore ideas across cultures through dynamic curatorial and educational initiatives. (IBP/net)

Kerta Gosa got impacts on declining tourist visits.

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Warning status of Mount Agung impacts on declining tourist visits

SO far, the Mt. Agung in Karangasem remains in warning status. This does not only cause residents living in the vicinity to lose their jobs because they have to evacuate, but also has an impact on tourist visits to a number of tourist attractions in Klungkung.

The number decreases to the range of ten percent.

Head of the Klungkung Tourism Office, I Nengah Sukasta, explained the decrease in tourist visit happened at the objects like Kerta Gosa and Goa Lawah Temple and Pesinggahan village, Dawan.

“Indeed, it has an impact, but not significant. For Nusa Penida, it remains stable,” he explained.

Such conditions, he suspected, happened due to holiday season has begun to go by. Nevertheless,

his office continued to maximize promotion. The measure is crucial to achieve this year’s target of 333,000 visitors. “So far, the achievement just reaches about 90 percent. We are optimistic the target can be achieved,” he said.

In the meantime, Regent of Klungkung, I Nyoman Suwirta, equally did not dismiss the impact of the increase in activities of the largest mountain in Bali, yet it is not so significant. The tourism program initiated can still be realized.

“Indeed, it has an impact but not happen significantly. The market is quiet as well. However, it is not entirely due to the current situation.

Similarly, we are not dissolved with this situation, but keep looking for breakthroughs to continuously develop,” he affirmed. (kmb)

In the visit taking place at 16:00 Local Time, Puspayoga was accompanied by his wife, Bintang Puspayoga. The site inspection was also attended

by Regent of Klungkung, I Nyoman Suwirta, with the agency heads, Head of Bali Cooperative and SME Agency, I Dewa Nyoman Patra, as well as the ranks of Bali Post Media Group (KMB). They were also welcomed by hundreds of refugees of various ages.

Other than ensuring the refugee condition, Bintang Puspayoga also handed over stationery for children in the form of 1,000 notebooks and 500 pencil boxes. It is expected to support the process of their learning. “It is meant to provide motivation for children. Moreover, they are the asset of the nation. Their learning process should never break even though in refugee camp,” she said.

The book, she continued, also contains education on four pillars of nationality, national songs and motiva-

tion in order to be proud to be Indonesian children.

“The contents are related to way how to keep the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia or NKRI,” she added.

In the meantime, KMB in cooperation with the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs, Bali Cooperative and SMEs Agency, Cooperative of Services, Semen Gresik Cooperative and Kodanua Saving and Loan Cooperative helped alleviate refugees’ burden by providing 900 gallons of drinking water assistance intended for refugees at command posts throughout Bali.

The other assistance is 200 kilograms of LPG. In addition, the KMB handed over the donations of Bali Posts’ readers and BaliTV’s viewers and ngaben cremation funds for 23 priest of Besakih Temple totally amounting to IDR 11,500,000, 44 pecalang or customary security guard officers of Besakih customary village amounting to IDR 13.200,000 and 35 apparatuses of Besakih customary village valued at IDR 17,500,000.

Chief of Besakih customary village, Jero Mangku Widiarta, said the aid is very beneficial to the community because it will be able to ease the burden in the evacuation. “We are very grateful for the attention in the form of assistance,” he said.

In the meantime, Chief of Tegak customary village, Komang Merta, conveyed that since the evacuation, the residents are often difficult to get clean water. In addition, LPG for cooking is still lacking. “For once cooking, the refugee camp needs ten tubes, it’s pretty much and so is water. With this help, the burden here can be alleviated,” he said. (kmb45)

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Minister of Cooperatives and SMEs, AAN Puspayoga (C) along with his staff welcomed by hundreds of refugees of various ages.

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Economic panic drives inflation

DENPASAR — Condition of Mount Agung currently declared in warning status has an impact on the economy of Bali. The current condition of Bali relying on tourism has caused guests to cancel or postpone the room reservation. In addition, this condition also has an impact on inflation in Bali.

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Condition of Mount Agung currently declared in warning status has an impact on the economy of Bali.

An economist from Udayana University, Prof. Dr. I Wayan Ramantha, said if inflation occurred in Bali in relation to the current condition of Mount Agung, firstly, it happens because the real basic needs of the community undergo price hike. Vegetables, for instance, also come from the area of Mount Agung and disrupted livestock productivity will make the price more expensive. “On that account, we should rely on the sources of basic needs from other regions,” he explained.

The second influence affecting the inflation is psychological condition of society.

With the experience of eruption in 1963, which lasted for a year, such experience will cause to think about basic needs and so forth for a year. As a result, people will think to stock basic needs and so on. The demand for goods especially basic needs will increase.

“Prices will rise and so will the inflation,” he added.

In addition, Bali’s economic growth will also get influenced. All the information spreading in the community, either in international community or the people of Bali must be addressed properly and wisely. “We cannot face it with panicky manner,” he said.

The panic, according to him, will also cause an economic panic. “We should be able to provide cool information that the risks that probably occur have been anticipated or mitigated,” he said.

With such an effort, if the Bali’s economic growth is not as high as the target expected, he was confident that it will not make Bali’s economy plummet. “Similarly, it also happens to inflation. When getting panic, we will finally buy out goods. Unavoidably, they will eventually become rotten and will surely harm the community,” he said.

With tranquility and soothing information, it is expected to keep our economic growth and inflation in Bali. However, according to his calculations, inflation will not reach the threshold despite an increase.

“Actually, the inflation is in accordance with the prediction. But, according to prediction of 2017 it is 4 plus minus one. We can even achieve two and this may be in the range of 3 and so forth. Thus, it remains within safe limits and so does our growth in the range of 6.1 percent -6.5 percent,” he said.

Bali still has three months to be able to spur on the target. Prevention effort that can be done is to start thinking of alternative supplies as well as alternative activities. “Currently, one certain thing at this moment is the increase in the price of building materials, such as sand,” he said.

On that account, he advised to reschedule the development projects, especially that of private sector and have been already running. In the meantime, the government project should have been definitely completed at the end of the year. “However, we can delay first the private sector determining the economic growth of 70 percent. Thus, the demand for materials such as sand or others having a direct impact due to Mount Agung can be delayed so that inflation can be controlled,” he explained.

In the meantime, the construction services that will lose due to this condition, especially on the components of sand, are predicted to suffer losses not more than 5 percent. So, the margin obtained by the construction service businessman can still cover the losses suffered due to the increase in the price of sand. (kmb42)

To minimize impact of Mount Agung on Bali tourism

Tourism players must do three things

DENPASAR — Bali’s economy to these days is supported by tourism sector. Warning status of Mount Agung seems also influential on tourist visits. Actually, more tourist objects in Bali are located in the safe radius than in disasterprone areas.

Head of Bali Tourism Office, A.A. Gede Yuniartha Putra, recently said there are only a few attractions in Bali affected by Mount Agung when erupts like Besakih Temple, Tulamben, and Amed.

While the other attractions, especially in South Bali, are in a fairly safe radius. It also includes other attractions in Karangasem such as Candidasa. Even if there is ash rain, the impact on the flight will highly depend on direction.

“Of course currently just a few tourists make a visit to the objects in Karangasem such as Besakih Temple, Tulamben and Amed.

Since the mountain is located right there, we cannot say the region is safe. Nevertheless, we still have many destinations in other districts and can direct them to visit other

areas,” he said.

According to Yuniartha, foreign tourists should get correct and updated information about Mount Agung. Any mazy information can cause tourists to be afraid. ASITA and PHRI Bali have even reported the cancellation of a group of tourists originally scheduled to arrive this October. “So far, they (foreign tourists—Ed) have understanding that Mount Agung is in Denpasar, that’s what makes people afraid whereas it is far away,” he explained.

A member of the Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) of the Bali House of Representatives, Ni Kadek Darmini, said that tourism players should be ready to cope with three things. They are reducing tourists that cancel their visit to Bali, the number of tourists going out from Bali, and creating a sense of comfort and safety for tourists remaining to stay in Bali.

“Communication flow must be obtained from a reliable and valid source. Then, it should be able to be communicated in such a way that

does not give excited impression.

It is important to pay attention that the economy in Bali is greatly supported by tourism sector,” he said.

Division Head of Information and Media of Bali Tourism Hospitality (BTH), Dewa Gede Ngurah Byomantara, agreed that what absolutely needed this time is to convince tourists that Bali tourist destinations are mostly safe. Based on the mapping of BTH, only 2 percent of the tourist attractions are located in Karangasem. It means that 98 percent of tourist objects on the Island of the Gods are within a safe radius of the eruption. However, according to the results of coordination with the PHRI, there are about 15 to 20 percent of tourists that have canceled or postponed their travel to Bali this October. “I cannot believe this is the impact of Mount Agung, but probably this is the impact of Mount Agung,” he said.

According to Byomantara, the main task of BTH is to increase information related to Mount Agung that has not erupted yet and Bali remains safe to be visited.

Besides, it also includes which objects are allowed and not allowed to be visited by tourists. Though for the time being tourists cannot do climbing activities on Mount Agung, there are other alternative climbing tours.

“As alternative options, there are many mountains that can still

be climbed such as Mt. Batur, Mt. Batukaru and Mt. Abang that are quite safe to visit. It does not necessarily means that Mt. Agung eruption causes the guests to have lost the opportunity to enjoy hiking tourism. We need to assure the international community,” he explained. (kmb32)

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Bali’s economy to these days is supported by tourism sector.

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Final assault starts on Syria’s Raqqa as some Islamic State fighters quit

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Migrant workers Wang Qin (L) and her sister Wang Jun eat lunch during a break from collecting scrap materials from the debris of demolished buildings at the outskirts of Beijing, China October 1, 2017. Picture taken October 1, 2017.

China steps up war on poverty, though some still left behind

BEIJING - Wang Qin, 59, collects scrap at a demolished residential district on the outskirts of Beijing, working 15 hours a day and struggling on her own to pay for her granddaughter’s education.

She worries that her own home, a small illegally constructed shack where she lives with her granddaughter and mentally ill husband, might also be bulldozed by local authorities.

The family lives off the 1,500 yuan ($228) a month Wang makes selling scrap and receives no assistance from the Beijing government.

As migrants from another province, they are not recognised as residents of the capital despite having lived there since 2014. Since she is not registered in Beijing, Wang has to pay more for things like school and medical care - a hardship for migrants in cities, where costs such as housing are also far higher than in the countryside.

“Every month you still need to

live, I still need to pay the school fees for the child, and her food and drink every day,” said Wang, who came to Beijing to try escape the grinding poverty of her village in Henan province in central China. “I can’t take it, my whole body aches, I can’t earn the money.”

Wang’s plight is a common one among millions of poor migrants in China’s big cities, as well as in the rural areas from which so many of them come, highlighting the challenges of the government’s campaign to wipe out extreme poverty by 2020.

President Xi Jinping made the campaign one of his signature policy issues after pledging in 2015 that China would lift the 70 million people living under the poverty level at the time out of poverty

by 2020.

The campaign has been ratcheted up as the Communist Party prepares to hold a twice-a-decade leadership meeting on Wednesday.

“The country is placing an unprecedented amount of effort on alleviating poverty,” Liu Yongfu, head of the government’s Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development, said at a news conference in Beijing on Tuesday.

“President Xi Jinping is personally in command, and has visited all of the areas of concentrated poverty” in China. He added: “With the active participation of all parts of society, it can be said that the battle against poverty has achieved significant results.”

Asked by Reuters about people like Wang, the scrap collector, Liu said migrants could receive benefits in their hometowns, noting that city dwellers were covered by urban social security programmes. (rtr)

AIN ISSA - U.S.-backed militias said they had launched their final assault on Syria’s Raqqa on Sunday after a convoy of Islamic State fighters left the city, leaving only a hardcore of jihadists to mount a last stand.

“The battle will continue until the whole city is clean,” said a statement by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a U.S.-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias.

The SDF said earlier that a group of the jihadists had left in a convoy taking some civilians with them.

But there were conflicting accounts as to whether the evacuees included both Syrian and foreign fighters.

Raqqa’s fall to the SDF now looks imminent after four months of battle.

“We still expect there to be difficult fighting,” said Colonel Ryan Dillon, spokesman for the U.S.-led international coalition backing the SDF in the war against Islamic State.

Raqqa was the first big Syrian city to fall to Islamic State as it declared a “caliphate” and rampaged through Syria and Iraq in 2014, becoming an operations centre for attacks abroad and the stage for some of its darkest atrocities.

But Islamic State has been in retreat for two years, losing swathes of territory in both countries and forced back into an ever-diminishing foothold along the Euphrates river valley.

“Last night, the final batch of fighters (who had agreed to leave) left the city,” said Mostafa Bali, an SDF spokesman.

Bali said only Syrian Islamic State fighters had evacuated in the

convoy. But Omar Alloush, an official in the Raqqa Civil Council formed under SDF auspices to oversee the city, said some foreign fighters had also departed.

Neither said how many fighters had left or how many remained in the tiny, bomb-cratered patch of Raqqa still held by Islamic State.

Before the convoy left, the coalition estimated that about 300-400 fighters remained.

HUMAN SHIELDS The convoy would head to the remaining Islamic State territory in eastern Syria and included about 400 civilians along with the fighters, Alloush had said on Saturday.

Bali described the civilians who left with Islamic State fighters in the convoy as human shields. The jihadists had refused to release them once they left the city as agreed, wanting to take them as far as their destination to guarantee their own safety, he said.

Such withdrawals of fighters along with groups of civilians have grown commonplace in Syria’s six-year war, as a way for besieging forces to accelerate the fall of populated areas.

In previous evacuations, including by Islamic State, the civilians usually included family members of the fighters.

The agreement was brokered by the Raqqa Civil Council and tribal elders to “minimise civilian casualties”, the coalition said on Saturday.

Tribal leaders from Raqqa said they sought to prevent bloodshed among civilians still trapped in the city. (rtr)

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An Islamic State militants’ tank is pictured at the Free Women Monument in Kobani, Syria October 11, 2017. Picture taken October 11, 2017.

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Gasoline boosts U.S. consumer prices, underlying inflation tame

WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer prices recorded their biggest increase in eight months in September as gasoline prices soared in the wake of hurricane-related production disruptions at oil refineries in the Gulf Coast, but underlying inflation remained muted.

The mixed report from the Labor Department on Friday comes as Federal Reserve officials have been engaged in a vigorous debate on the inflation path and suggests a December interest rate increase is not a done deal.

Prices for U.S. Treasuries rose and stocks on Wall Street hit record highs. The dollar was little changed against a basket of currencies. Policymakers could, however, find solace in another report indicating that the economy was swiftly recovering from the damage inflicted by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, with a strong rebound in retail sales last month. “The firmness in retail sales should override the enduring mystery of low inflation to spur a December Fed rate hike,” said Sal Guatieri, a senior economist at BMO Capital Markets in Toronto.

The Labor Department said its Consumer Price Index increased 0.5 percent last month after advancing 0.4 percent in August. The rise was the biggest since January and lifted the year-on-year gain in the CPI to 2.2 percent from 1.9 percent in August.

Gasoline prices surged 13.1 percent last month, accounting for 75 percent of the increase in the CPI. The jump in gasoline prices was the largest since June 2009 and followed a 6.3 percent gain in August. The Labor Department said Harvey was reported to have impacted refinery capacity in the Gulf Coast and was likely a factor in last month’s increase in gasoline prices.

Outside gasoline, price pressures were benign. Excluding the volatile food and energy components, consumer prices ticked up 0.1 percent as the increase in rental accommodation slowed and the cost of new motor vehicles, furniture and medical care declined.

The so-called core CPI rose 0.2 percent in August. In the 12 months through September, the core CPI increased 1.7 percent. The yearon-year core CPI has now advanced by the same margin for five consecutive months.

The Fed tracks the personal consumption expenditures price index excluding food and energy, which has consistently undershot the U.S. central bank’s 2 percent target for more than five years. Fed Chair Janet Yellen has said that temporary factors such as one-off price cuts by wireless telephone companies are holding back inflation.

Minutes of the Fed’s Sept. 19-20 meeting published on Wednesday showed “many par-

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Nyoman Bratayasa’s Solo exhibition

Soul of Nature expressed in water

Water colour is a tricky medium to work with as it leaves little room to hide. Like water itself, water colour paint shows even the slightness vibrations. It is therefor a fitting medium for painter Nyoman Bratayasa to work with as this talented young painter is very much interested in the subtler vibrational aspects of visuality.

ticipants expressed concern that the low inflation readings this year might reflect not only transitory factors, but also the influence of developments that could prove more persistent.”

INFLATION EXPECTATIONS SLIP Adding to the debate, the University of Michigan’s survey of consumers showed consumer’s inflation expectations over the medium term slipped in early October. While the Fed could still increase borrowing costs in December for a third time this year, it would probably be hard for the central bank to push through the three rate hikes it has forecast for 2008, if the slow inflation trend persists.

Last month, food prices rose 0.1 percent after a similar gain in August. Owners’ equivalent rent of primary residence rose 0.2 percent after advancing 0.3 percent in August. Prices for new motor vehicles fell 0.4 percent as manufacturers resort to

deep discounting to eliminate an inventory overhang. There were also decreases in the cost of medical care, apparel, and household furnishings. But the cost of mobile phone services rose 0.4 percent after 14 straight months of declines.

In a separate report on Friday, the Commerce Department said retail sales jumped 1.6 percent in September likely as reconstruction and clean-up efforts in areas devastated by Harvey and Irma boosted demand for building materials and motor vehicles. Retail sales were also buoyed by a surge in receipts at service stations, which reflected higher gasoline prices. Last month’s increase in retail sales was the largest since March 2015.

Excluding automobiles, gasoline, building materials and food services, retail sales increased 0.4 percent last month after being unchanged in August. These so-called core retail sales correspond most closely with

the consumer spending component of gross domestic product.

The pick-up in core retail sales suggests the drag on the economy from the hurricanes will probably be modest. The growth outlook was boosted by another report from the Commerce Department showing inventories recorded their biggest gain in nine months in August. Economists estimate the storms could subtract at least six-tenths of a percentage point from third-quarter GDP growth.

The economy grew at a 3.1 percent annualized rate in the April-June period. The Atlanta Fed raised its third-quarter GDP growth estimate by two-tenths of a percentage point to a 2.7 percent pace after the data.

“The sudden increase in retail demand is likely to cause third-quarter growth to come in somewhat better than expected before the hurricanes hit,” said Joel Naroff, chief economist at Naroff Economic Advisors in Holland, Pennsylvania.(rtr)

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Although Bratayasa often paints in acrylic, he has found himself increasingly drawn to the more ephemeral qualities of water colours as they allow the soul of nature to speak through him as he tries to visually translate the spirit of sacred places and objects into paintings.

Soul of Nature is in fact the name of his solo exhibition at Maya Resort & Spa that opened on Wednesday October 11th. The intimate gallery is displaying 20 or so of Bratayasa’s recent works exploring the beauty of the unseen spirit that infuses the material world.

Many of the paintings, explained Bratayasa were first sketched on the spot and coloured in later, while others were painted from memory.

In both cases, this young artist seeks to express something of his own feelings about the subject of his paintings. As he explained: “it is all about feeling, no two people feel the same things. For example

when I visited Pura Anantaboga in Java, I felt something different, something I have never felt anywhere in Bali. I cannot explain it, and maybe it is different for other people. I just try to let the feeling i had come through when I paint, without thinking about how I am going to do that”.

This emphasis on feeling is something that comes through these simple yet profound water colour paintings. Although the objects of his paintings (temple doorways, Balinese offerings, shadow puppet characters amongst other things) verges on the banal and have been reproduced by countless other painters, there appears in these works something extraordinary.

Wavering between abstract expressionist and purely realist there is a subdued sharpness to these works. Allowing the subtler vibrations of his own feelings to be expressed in the spontaneous movement of his hand across the

paper, the vibration of his subjects is thus transmitted in a unique manner. Combining balanced compositions based on Bali’s centuries old artistic traditions, with the looser qualities of water colour itself along with Bratayasa’s fearless approach to uncertainty, we are given depictions of real and imagined spaces inviting us to feel into what it is that creates beauty, quite apart from form.

As Bratayasa says ,what makes the objects of Balinese culture so beautiful is their intimate and inseparable relationship and respect for the natural world. This respect is expressed in ‘The soul of Nature”, in a refreshing manner reminding us that beauty is expressed when we allow the natural forces within us to speak rather than trying to speak for them. It is the subtle balance between order and chaos depicted in these works that so beautifully expresses the harmony that is all around us.(kmb)

Have you found a cozy coffee shop? Try to come to Black Eye Coffee & Roastery located on Jalan Raya Sunset Road 168, Kuta.

This second outlet after the Black Eye Coffee & Roastery at Secret Garden Village is managed R. Deryl Juniar, a well experienced store manager in the field of coffee, so that it provides deliciously processed coffee. After testing, you will definitely get addicted to it.

In the area of ??approximately 150 square meters, this Black Eye Brewing Bar & Kitchen offers a selection of puzzle themes as the interior design. This can be seen from the spot and furniture in the outlets made in the form of geometric pieces, such as custom chair, bar hanging rack, floor and ceiling. The architecture looks so unique because it utilizes the right combination of tropical wood material and cement. “Black Eye Brewing Bar & Kitchen maximizes the outlet with open brewing bar & kitchen concept,” said Ana Dewi Permana, Vice President of PT Natura Pesona Mandiri (Secret Garden Village) amid the soft opening on Saturday (Aug. 26).

Ana added that there are three pillars to introduce coffee of the archipelago. Indonesia is ranked third in the world as top producer of quality coffee. Here, there is education on the variety of coffee along with its producing regions as well as innovations to the coffee served. Each of the seven regions in Indonesia offers different flavor. For example, the region in Sumatra, West Java, and Bali produce special coffee because farmers have been provided with post-harvest handling. “In addition to the original coffee of Kintamani, we also introduce the coffee produced in the area of Pupuan, Tabanan,” she said.

READ Adhi Jaya Sunset Hotel; Think of Mie, Think Asia R. Deryl Juniar, Store Manager of Black Eye, said that open brewing bar is chosen to support three basic ideas of Black Eye Coffee & Roastery in the form of education, coffee machine and innovation. Therefore, Black Eye Coffee & Roastery always educates connoisseurs and coffee lovers so that they get to know coffee more profoundly through coffee talk or manual brewing method. “As long as this manual brewing method is executed, there is a discussion between coffee lovers and baristas within 2 minutes,” he said.

As for the kitchen, it applies open kitchen concept to highlight the process of making healthy and hygienic food with modern equipment. Visitors can directly see the process of serving the menus ordered. In addition to the simple menu of delicacies such as burgers, pasta and salads, it also provides a wide selection of vegetarian menus and the mainstay menu of The Luwus Restaurant, namely Bebek Timbungan (duck cooked in bamboo) and Salmon Roasted Rice. “During this soft opening, the Black Eye Brewing Bar & Kitchen provides the promo of buy 1,” he said. (kmb)

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Death toll from blasts in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu rises to 85

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Firefighters battle a wildfire near Santa Rosa, California, U.S., October 14, 2017.

California ‘horror’ fires burn on, 40 dead in one week

SANTA ROSA - Authorities hope weaker winds will help more than 10,000 firefighters battle the deadliest blazes in California history, which have killed at least 40 people and destroyed thousands of structures in one of the state’s worst natural disasters in years.

Fast-moving fires spread by shifting winds forced thousands more to evacuate their homes on Saturday as the death toll over the week rose to 40, with hundreds missing.

More than 10,000 firefighters supported by air tankers and helicopters battled 16 major wildfires in areas north of San Francisco that have consumed nearly 214,000 acres (86,000 hectares), or roughly 334 square miles (865 sq km) - an area larger than New York City.

The 40 confirmed fatalities, including 22 in Sonoma County, make it California’s deadliest-ever fire event, surpassing the 29 deaths from the Griffith Park fire of 1933 in Los Angeles.

With 235 people still missing on Saturday in Sonoma County alone and rubble from thousands of incinerated dwellings yet to be searched, authorities expect the death toll to climb.

Some 100,000 people have been forced from their homes, including 3,000 on Saturday from the city of Santa Rosa, about 50 miles (80 km) north of San Francisco. The fires have damaged or destroyed about 5,700 structures, reducing homes and businesses to ash.

Some victims were asleep when flames engulfed their homes, while others had only minutes to flee.

“This is truly one of the greatest tragedies that California has ever faced. The devastation is just unbelievable. It is a horror that no one could have imagined,” California Governor Jerry Brown said on a visit to a devastated city.

Janis and Roberto Lucha joined people lining up at a Federal Emergency Management Agency office in Santa Rosa, seeking help after losing their home of 27 years in the city’s Coffey Park neighborhood, where most homes burned to the ground.

Molly Kurland, 63, joined a packed community meeting at the Santa Rosa High School gymnasium.

“Even for people who haven’t lost their house, the uncertainty and anxiety is tremendous,” she said.

But there were heroic stories as well.

Teen-aged twins woke their parents on Sunday night to find fire engulfing the landscape.

The persistent alarms from Benjamin Lasker, 16, gave the family time to escape the conflagration with little more than the clothes on their backs.

Benjamin and his twin sister, Natalie, went on to awaken another eight families in their Fountain Grove neighborhood in Santa Rosa, pounding on doors, yelling “Fire!” and shining lights in windows.

“They asked permission to wake people up,” Howard Lasker told Reuters, adding “I gave it to them.” (rtr)

MOGADISHU - The death toll from twin bomb blasts that struck busy junctions in the heart of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has jumped to 85, making it one of the deadliest attacks since an Islamist insurgency began in 2007.

President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo declared three days of national mourning and called for donations of blood and funds to victims of Saturday’s attack. At least 100 others were wounded.

Police said a truck bomb exploded outside a hotel in the K5 intersection that is lined with government offices, restaurants and kiosks, flattening several buildings and setting dozens of vehicles on fire.

Two hours later, another blast struck the capital’s Medina district.

“The number of dead has risen to 85. We know some 100 who were injured,” Mohamed Hussein, a police official, told Reuters, giving combined figures of casualties. He said the toll was likely to rise. Police previously said 22 people had died.

On Sunday, police and emergency workers searched the rubble of destroyed buildings. They also recovered dozens of corpses the night before, most of which were charred beyond recognition.

Hundreds of people came to the junction in search of missing family members and police cordoned off the area for security reasons.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, although the Islamist militant group al Shabaab, which is allied to al Qaeda, stages regular attacks in the capital and other parts of the country.

The group is waging an insurgency against the U.N.-backed government and its African Union allies in a bid to topple the weak administration and impose its own strict interpretation of Islam.

The militants controlled Mogadishu between 2007 and 2011 but withdrew as fighting raged. African Union peacekeepers also drove them out of most other territory they controlled. (rtr)

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No new coal power stations in Java, Indonesia energy minister says

JAKARTA - Indonesia will not approve any new coal-fired power stations on the heavily-populated island of Java as the country strives to reach its renewable energy development targets, the energy minister said on Thursday. “We will not approve any coal-fired power plants in Java, this island, any more,” Energy and Mineral resources minister Ignasius Jonan told a press conference.

Java is home to about two thirds of Indonesia’s population of 250 million, but the island is also far

better supplied with electricity than the rest of the archipelago, particularly eastern Indonesia.

“We will push, very hard, in the near future that Java should build the renewables, as well as geothermal especially, as well as gas-fired power plants,” Jonan said, referring to gas power plants “at the well head.” The government has also revived plans to develop high voltage undersea power cables linking the islands of Sumatra, Java and Bali, he said.

“So whenever Java needs the power, Sumatra can send it to Java and the other way around.”

Indonesia is committed to a target to increase the renewable portion of the energy mix to 23 percent by 2025 from about 12 percent at present, and expects to reach 18 percent in the next three years, Jonan said.

However, the government will continue to prioritise price in deciding power sources, he added.

“While I do understand that it’s not easy to compete with coal-fired power plants, especially with minemouth power plants, they do have to compete with gas power,” Jonan said, referring to “strict” power tariff negotiations.

In the first nine months of this year, Indonesia signed a total of 1,023 megawatts of renewable energy contracts, about double the total amount signed in the three years before that, Jonan said. Coal makes up around 57 percent of the energy mix in Indonesia, the world’s top thermal coal exporter, with consumption

expected to reach 101 million tonnes this year.

State electricity utility PLN, tasked to oversee President Joko Wiododo’s target to build 35 gigawatts (GW) of new power stations in Indonesia, is under pressure to improve its efficiency and reduce costs. Widodo recently “advised” that PLN could halve its target to contribute 5 GW to the programme from more than 10 GW at present, Jonan said.

“If PLN thinks their financial position in the long term or even in the mid term will not be quite sound, it’s acceptable for them not to continue,” he said. “They can offer it to the private sector.” (rtr)

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Indonesia to propose new ASEAN intelligence sharing to track militants

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Civilians carry the body of an unidentified man from the scene of an explosion in KM4 street in the Hodan district of Mogadishu, Somalia October 15, 2017.

KUALA LUMPUR - Indonesia will propose a broad intelligence sharing initiative among members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to deal with the rising threat of radical Islamist militants, its defence minister said on Thursday.

Unrest in the southern Philippines has unsettled neighbours Malaysia and Indonesia, as the three countries grapple with the possible rise of the Islamic State aided by local militants who have declared allegiance with the group.

Indonesian Defence Minister Ryamizard Ryacuda said he would propose an “Our Eyes” initiative at

the ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting (ADMM) in the Philippines this month.

“Be it maritime, air or intelligence... we will fine-tune this when we have deliberations and discussions at the ADMM,” he told a news conference at the launch of air patrols between Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.

The patrols are part of a multi-pronged initiative involving the three countries - which also includes maritime patrols and intelligence sharing - aimed at plugging porous borders around the Sulu Sea where militant groups aligned with the IS are active. (rtr)

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Dovizioso holds off Marquez in Japanese thriller

MOTEGI - Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso breathed new life into the MotoGP championship on Sunday, edging Marc Marquez in a ferocious duel to win a rain-soaked Japanese Grand Prix in Motegi.

BANGLI - Batur temple which is more familiar with the name Ulun Danu Temple is known as beautiful temple in Bali. The temple exists very close with Mount Batur exactly the southwestern slope of Mount Batur. Even, there is Lake Batur at the foot of the Mount Batur makes the beauty of the temple more complete. At that place, the weather is very fresh; there are many fruit sellers along the way at the location.

Batur Temple is located precisely in Kalanganyar Village, Kintamani District, Bangli.

The ceremony at this temple is held annually called Ngusaba Kadasa. The great eruption of Mount Batur in 1917 had destroyed everything except the highest God’s shrine at the temple. Then due to the initiative village chief along with other village prominent figures decided to bring the remaining shrine to be built again on a higher ground, at the present place. (kmb)

Batukaang Village

BANGLI - Batukaang village is situated on an altitude of around 1,150 meters above sea level. It has features of exotic natural attractions as well as cool air. At this village, there is coffee plantation spreading like a tapestry on the mountains.

When flowering, the coffee plants will exude nice fragrance so that it adds the coolness and excitement in the journey to this village.

Aside from coffee plantation, this village retains many ancient relics in the form of statues totally amounting to 188 pieces. Most of those statues are still sanctified by the majority of the population considering the relics are stored in some temples such as the Puseh Sanggambu Temple and Sangambu Temple.

Batukaang village is located in Kintamani subdistrict, Bangli County. It is approximately 60 km from Denpasar, 35 km from the town of Bangli and 18 km from the capital of the subdistict. (kmb)

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MotoGP class winner Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso of Italy (R) sprays champagne to his team officer Gabriele Conti (L) on the podium during the MotoGP Japanese Grand Prix at Twin Ring Motegi circuit in Motegi, Tochigi prefecture on October 15, 2017.

In a white-knuckle battle in appalling conditions at the Twin Ring circuit, Dovizioso snatched the lead from championship leader Marquez in a dramatic last lap after the swashbuckling Spaniard made a rare mistake when rounding a corner.

The Italian’s nerve-jangling win by 0.249 seconds trimmed the Honda rider ’s lead to 11 points with three races left in the season.

Danilo Petrucci finished third on a non-works Ducati, his fourth podium for the season, while Maverick Vinales’ faint title hopes were all but extinguished after a disappointing ninth for Yamaha.

Spaniard Vinales heads to Phillip Island in Australia 41 points adrift of three-times MotoGP champion Marquez, who improved to 244 points in the title race.

The dogged Dovizioso was beaming, however, having completed a brilliant race from ninth on the grid and fended off the series’ most fearsome competitor.

Defending champion Marquez looked to have it won after he burned past Dovizioso with three laps left but he gave up precious momentum on the final lap with a slide at turn eight.

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but crashing, Marquez did well to regain control but the error allowed Dovizioso enough ground to mount a final daring raid.

“The rear tyre was completely gone,” Dovizioso said track-side after grabbing his fifth win of the season.

“But he did a mistake so I was able to catch him and I did a perfect corner at turn 10.”

Marquez all but brushed Dovizioso’s rear wheel as he attacked at the last corner but could find no way through.

“It was an amazing race, I mean the two guys that are fighting for the championship are fighting to the last corner,” said Marquez without a trace of disappointment.

“I did a few mistakes especially at turn eight, I lose a lot.”

Suzuki savoured an encouraging weekend, with Andrew Iannone and Alex Rins finishing fourth and fifth respectively.

Three-times MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo fought to the front briefly in the early laps but faded to sixth for Ducati, while Italian great Valentino Rossi’s forgettable weekend ended mid-race with a fall.

Alex Marquez won the Moto2 category for Kalex, with Honda’s Romano Fenati claiming the Moto3. (rtr)

Lange wins Ironman World Championship in course record

HAWAII - German Patrick Lange produced a sizzling marathon run, charging to victory in a course record time while Swiss Daniela Ryf claimed a third successive victory in the women’s event at the triathlon Ironman World Championship in Hawaii on Saturday.

Lange came off the 180-km bike leg more than nine minutes behind Canadian Lionel Sanders and still trailled by more than six minutes halfway through the 42.2-km run.

But he turned on the afterburners to pass a shuffling Sanders less than five kilometres from home and looked amazingly fresh as he charged to victory.

Lange grabbed a German flag from a spectator before breaking the tape in eight hours, one minute and 40 seconds in front of a cheer-

ing crowd in Kailua-Kona. He was more than two minutes faster than the record set by Australia’s Craig Alexander in 2011.

“It’s everything I ever dreamed of. Oh my god, I cannot believe it,” Lange said. “I always, always, always since I was a child dreamed to have this crown.”

Not that it was as easy as it looked.

“From time to time you think someone is hitting with a baseball beneath your knees and you just want to drop out,” he said. “I had to fight so hard.”

Sanders, who took up triathlon eight years ago in an effort to beat a drug problem, held on for second place, while Briton David McNamee finished third, with Sebastian Kienle in fourth.

Lange, 31, who finished third last year, continued Germany’s recent dominance of the event, with Jan Frodeno winning in 2015 and 2016, while Kienle won in 2014.

Frodeno, who reached the second transition in fourth place, slowed to a walk shortly after starting the run. Ryf took the lead late in the bike leg and was never threatened during the run as she romped to an emphatic victory over Briton Lucy Charles in second place, nearly nine minutes behind.

“It was the hardest I’ve ever had to fight for a win,” Ryf said after finishing in 8:50:47.

“I felt really bad at the start of the bike, and I didn’t know what would come. I thought I’d just give my all in the last 40k and didn’t even think about the run.” (rtr)

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Patrick Lange of Germany celebrates after winning the IRONMAN World Championship and setting a course record of 8:01.39 beating Craig Alexander’s 2011 record of 8:03.56 on October 14, 2017 in Kailua Kona, Hawaii.

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Sp rt Lazio end Juve’s long home run, Napoli go on winning MILAN - Lazio ended Juventus’s two-year unbeaten home record in all competitions with a 2-1 win after Paulo Dybala missed a stoppage-time penalty awarded with the help of the video assistant on Saturday. The defeat meant that titleholders Juventus dropped five points behind leaders Napoli who won their eighth straight game by beating bitter rivals AS Roma 1-0 away with a Lorenzo Insigne goal, although last season’s runners-up hit the woodwork twice.

Ciro Immobile scored twice early in the second half for Lazio, the second goal a penalty, after Douglas Costa had given the champions a halftime lead. Juve’s last home defeat was against Udinese in August, 2015 and they have since been unbeaten at their own stadium for 57 matches, including 41 in Serie A. There was extraordinary drama in stoppage time when Dybala hit the foot of the post and before Juve were awarded a penalty.

Lazio substitute Gil Patric clattered into Federico Bernardeschi and, although he touched the ball, he also raised his leg and upended the Juventus player. The tackle led to scuffles between players while referee Paolo Silvio Mazzoleni consulted the video assistant before pointing to the spot amid furious Lazio pro-

tests. However, Dybala’s effort with the last kick of the match was brilliantly saved by Thomas Strakosha.

Juve’s first league defeat of the season left them on 19 points from eight games, level with Inter Milan and Lazio, while Napoli have 24. Costa put Juventus ahead in the 23rd minute from a rebound after Strakosha parried Sami Khedira’s header, the goal being confirmed after the referee consulted the VAR. Juventus nearly got another in an odd incident when Strakosha’s clearance off his line hit Gonzalo Higuain and rebounded on to the crossbar from point-blank range.

Immobile levelled two minutes into the second half after a one-two with Luis Alberto, then won and converted a penalty seven minutes later, after he was upended by Buffon, for his eleventh league goal of the season.

“We have to avoid these lapses in concentration,” said Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri whose side are aiming for a seventh successive title. “To win the championship, we have to fight all the way.” Insigne scored Napoli’s winner after 20 minutes with a cool finish after the ball rebounded to him off a Roma player.

Roma pressed desperately for an equaliser in the final 20 minutes and Federico Fazio had a header tipped on to the post by Napoli goalkeeper Pepe Reina before Edin Dzeko saw another header bounce off the top of the crossbar. (rtr)

Lazio’s Ciro Immobile celebrates scoring their second goal

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Watford players praise manager Silva after Arsenal win LONDON - Watford’s players sung the praises of manager Marco Silva after a 2-1 victory over Arsenal at Vicarage Road on Saturday lifted them to fourth place in the Premier League. The Hornets have collected 15 points from eight matches and are enjoying their best start to a top-flight campaign since Graham Taylor led them to 16 from eight games in 1982-83.

Watford were poor in the first half against Arsenal and trailed 1-0 at the break, but they improved significantly in the second period and claimed all three points thanks to Troy Deeney’s 71st-minute penalty and Tom Cleverley’s 92nd-minute winner.

“The manager said to play with a bit more belief in the second half,” Cleverley told reporters. “We did that and I thought we deserved

the win.”

Deeney added: “Credit to the manager - he gave us a bit of a roasting at halftime. We are building something really good here.”

Silva joined Watford before this season from Hull City, where he earned widespread admiration despite being relegated from the Premier League.

“It was an amazing result and

amazing atmosphere,” Goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes said. “The manager said we were too shy in the first half. We have to have more confidence about our game. We keep believing all the time, even when the result isn’t going for us.”

Watford’s victory lifted them above Arsenal and Chelsea and they are seven points adrift of league leaders Manchester City.

“What I really like is the way we acted after it was 1-1. We didn’t go back again, we carried on looking for more from the game,” said Silva who guided Olympiakos to the Greek title before moving to England.

“We played with a little bit more risk in second half. Our opponent had more chances because of this, but it was what we wanted to do.” (rtr)

Australia braces for another World Cup cliffhanger in Sydney REUTERS/Sergio Perez

Barcelona’s Luis Suarez celebrates scoring their first goal

Ronaldo, Suarez strike again to kickstart their seasons

MADRID - Real Madrid talisman Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona striker Luis Suarez took centre stage on Saturday in bailing their teams out with late strikes to silence their critics following slow starts to the season. Ronaldo shrugged off a glaring miss by snatching a 2-1 win for Real at Getafe with a deadly first-time strike in the 85th minute to claim his first league goal of the season.

The Portuguese missed Real’s first four league games due to a suspension for pushing a referee and although he scored four times in the Champions League and once in the Spanish Super Cup, his barren spell looked set to continue against Getafe after he spurned an open goal. Ronaldo, however, had the last word when he buried substitute Isco’s chipped past beyond Getafe goalkeeper Vicente Guaita, who had turned away a potent shot from the 32-year-old in the first half.

“It was important for him to get his first goal,” coach Zinedine Zidane told reporters. “We will see how it goes now but I am very happy with his goal, and also Isco’s assist.” Suarez, meanwhile, headed in Barcelona’s equaliser in a 1-1 draw at Atletico Madrid and celebrated wildly, taunting the fans behind the goal before rushing to the adjacent stand and cupping his ears.

The Uruguayan has faced criticism for his lumbering performances this season, in which he had only scored two goals in eight previous appearances in all competitions. Suarez rushed back from a knee injury in order to help Uruguay’s bid to qualify for the World Cup and his form appeared to suffer.

In the previous game against Las Palmas he ripped his shirt off and walked off the pitch before full time in frustration after missing a clear chance to add to the 3-0 scoreline. He had boosted his confidence by scoring twice for his country against Bolivia to seal their place in next year’s World Cup in Russia and struck again by appearing at the far post to nod in Sergi Roberto’s arching cross.

“Suarez played very well in addition to his goal but strikers live for scoring and his confidence will change rapidly because of it,” Barca coach Ernesto Valverde said “When he doesn’t score it’s as if he’s in the shadows but he scored today and had another clear chance. He negotiated the madness in the penalty area well and I hope this is the start of a good run for him.” (rtr)

MELBOURNE - Australia will brace for another World Cup cliffhanger in Sydney, with FIFA confirming the second leg of the Socceroos’ intercontinental playoff against Honduras will be played at the city’s Olympic stadium on Nov. 15.

Australia defeated Syria 2-1 in a nail-biting second leg of their Asia playoff last week at the same venue, keeping their hopes of a fourth consecutive World Cup appearance alive.

Australia need to overcome Honduras, who booked their place in the intercontinental playoff by finishing fourth in the North, Central American and Caribbean qualifying, to secure a berth in the finals in Russia next year.

The first leg of the playoff will be in Honduras on Nov. 10 but the time and venue have yet to be confirmed, Football Federation Australia said in a media release on Sunday.

Prior to joining the Asian Football Confederation, Australia competed in Oceania qualifying and had to beat Uruguay in a playoff to qualify for the

2006 finals in Germany, their first World Cup appearance since their 1974 debut.

Australia defeated Uruguay in a penalty shootout in the second leg at the Olympic stadium to secure their 2006 ticket, sparking wild celebrations across the country.

“Following last week’s dramatic play-off victory over Syria it comes down to these last two matches to see who will get the final berth at the 2018 FIFA World Cup,” FFA chief executive David Gallop said.

“There hasn’t been a more important match played in Australia since our last intercontinental playoff against Uruguay 12 years ago, and for all of us who were there it was truly a very special moment in Australian sporting history.

“With a place at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia at stake we’re calling on all football and sports fans to rally behind the ... Socceroos as they aim to qualify for their fourth successive FIFA World Cup.” (rtr)

REUTERS/Hassan Abdallah

Syrians watch a telecast of the World Cup 2018 qualifier between Australia and Syria inside a Syrian refugee camp in Bar Elias town, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon October 10, 2017.

Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs

Watford’s Tom Cleverley celebrates scoring their second goal

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Sp rt Lazio end Juve’s long home run, Napoli go on winning MILAN - Lazio ended Juventus’s two-year unbeaten home record in all competitions with a 2-1 win after Paulo Dybala missed a stoppage-time penalty awarded with the help of the video assistant on Saturday. The defeat meant that titleholders Juventus dropped five points behind leaders Napoli who won their eighth straight game by beating bitter rivals AS Roma 1-0 away with a Lorenzo Insigne goal, although last season’s runners-up hit the woodwork twice.

Ciro Immobile scored twice early in the second half for Lazio, the second goal a penalty, after Douglas Costa had given the champions a halftime lead. Juve’s last home defeat was against Udinese in August, 2015 and they have since been unbeaten at their own stadium for 57 matches, including 41 in Serie A. There was extraordinary drama in stoppage time when Dybala hit the foot of the post and before Juve were awarded a penalty.

Lazio substitute Gil Patric clattered into Federico Bernardeschi and, although he touched the ball, he also raised his leg and upended the Juventus player. The tackle led to scuffles between players while referee Paolo Silvio Mazzoleni consulted the video assistant before pointing to the spot amid furious Lazio pro-

tests. However, Dybala’s effort with the last kick of the match was brilliantly saved by Thomas Strakosha.

Juve’s first league defeat of the season left them on 19 points from eight games, level with Inter Milan and Lazio, while Napoli have 24. Costa put Juventus ahead in the 23rd minute from a rebound after Strakosha parried Sami Khedira’s header, the goal being confirmed after the referee consulted the VAR. Juventus nearly got another in an odd incident when Strakosha’s clearance off his line hit Gonzalo Higuain and rebounded on to the crossbar from point-blank range.

Immobile levelled two minutes into the second half after a one-two with Luis Alberto, then won and converted a penalty seven minutes later, after he was upended by Buffon, for his eleventh league goal of the season.

“We have to avoid these lapses in concentration,” said Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri whose side are aiming for a seventh successive title. “To win the championship, we have to fight all the way.” Insigne scored Napoli’s winner after 20 minutes with a cool finish after the ball rebounded to him off a Roma player.

Roma pressed desperately for an equaliser in the final 20 minutes and Federico Fazio had a header tipped on to the post by Napoli goalkeeper Pepe Reina before Edin Dzeko saw another header bounce off the top of the crossbar. (rtr)

Lazio’s Ciro Immobile celebrates scoring their second goal

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Watford players praise manager Silva after Arsenal win LONDON - Watford’s players sung the praises of manager Marco Silva after a 2-1 victory over Arsenal at Vicarage Road on Saturday lifted them to fourth place in the Premier League. The Hornets have collected 15 points from eight matches and are enjoying their best start to a top-flight campaign since Graham Taylor led them to 16 from eight games in 1982-83.

Watford were poor in the first half against Arsenal and trailed 1-0 at the break, but they improved significantly in the second period and claimed all three points thanks to Troy Deeney’s 71st-minute penalty and Tom Cleverley’s 92nd-minute winner.

“The manager said to play with a bit more belief in the second half,” Cleverley told reporters. “We did that and I thought we deserved

the win.”

Deeney added: “Credit to the manager - he gave us a bit of a roasting at halftime. We are building something really good here.”

Silva joined Watford before this season from Hull City, where he earned widespread admiration despite being relegated from the Premier League.

“It was an amazing result and

amazing atmosphere,” Goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes said. “The manager said we were too shy in the first half. We have to have more confidence about our game. We keep believing all the time, even when the result isn’t going for us.”

Watford’s victory lifted them above Arsenal and Chelsea and they are seven points adrift of league leaders Manchester City.

“What I really like is the way we acted after it was 1-1. We didn’t go back again, we carried on looking for more from the game,” said Silva who guided Olympiakos to the Greek title before moving to England.

“We played with a little bit more risk in second half. Our opponent had more chances because of this, but it was what we wanted to do.” (rtr)

Australia braces for another World Cup cliffhanger in Sydney REUTERS/Sergio Perez

Barcelona’s Luis Suarez celebrates scoring their first goal

Ronaldo, Suarez strike again to kickstart their seasons

MADRID - Real Madrid talisman Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona striker Luis Suarez took centre stage on Saturday in bailing their teams out with late strikes to silence their critics following slow starts to the season. Ronaldo shrugged off a glaring miss by snatching a 2-1 win for Real at Getafe with a deadly first-time strike in the 85th minute to claim his first league goal of the season.

The Portuguese missed Real’s first four league games due to a suspension for pushing a referee and although he scored four times in the Champions League and once in the Spanish Super Cup, his barren spell looked set to continue against Getafe after he spurned an open goal. Ronaldo, however, had the last word when he buried substitute Isco’s chipped past beyond Getafe goalkeeper Vicente Guaita, who had turned away a potent shot from the 32-year-old in the first half.

“It was important for him to get his first goal,” coach Zinedine Zidane told reporters. “We will see how it goes now but I am very happy with his goal, and also Isco’s assist.” Suarez, meanwhile, headed in Barcelona’s equaliser in a 1-1 draw at Atletico Madrid and celebrated wildly, taunting the fans behind the goal before rushing to the adjacent stand and cupping his ears.

The Uruguayan has faced criticism for his lumbering performances this season, in which he had only scored two goals in eight previous appearances in all competitions. Suarez rushed back from a knee injury in order to help Uruguay’s bid to qualify for the World Cup and his form appeared to suffer.

In the previous game against Las Palmas he ripped his shirt off and walked off the pitch before full time in frustration after missing a clear chance to add to the 3-0 scoreline. He had boosted his confidence by scoring twice for his country against Bolivia to seal their place in next year’s World Cup in Russia and struck again by appearing at the far post to nod in Sergi Roberto’s arching cross.

“Suarez played very well in addition to his goal but strikers live for scoring and his confidence will change rapidly because of it,” Barca coach Ernesto Valverde said “When he doesn’t score it’s as if he’s in the shadows but he scored today and had another clear chance. He negotiated the madness in the penalty area well and I hope this is the start of a good run for him.” (rtr)

MELBOURNE - Australia will brace for another World Cup cliffhanger in Sydney, with FIFA confirming the second leg of the Socceroos’ intercontinental playoff against Honduras will be played at the city’s Olympic stadium on Nov. 15.

Australia defeated Syria 2-1 in a nail-biting second leg of their Asia playoff last week at the same venue, keeping their hopes of a fourth consecutive World Cup appearance alive.

Australia need to overcome Honduras, who booked their place in the intercontinental playoff by finishing fourth in the North, Central American and Caribbean qualifying, to secure a berth in the finals in Russia next year.

The first leg of the playoff will be in Honduras on Nov. 10 but the time and venue have yet to be confirmed, Football Federation Australia said in a media release on Sunday.

Prior to joining the Asian Football Confederation, Australia competed in Oceania qualifying and had to beat Uruguay in a playoff to qualify for the

2006 finals in Germany, their first World Cup appearance since their 1974 debut.

Australia defeated Uruguay in a penalty shootout in the second leg at the Olympic stadium to secure their 2006 ticket, sparking wild celebrations across the country.

“Following last week’s dramatic play-off victory over Syria it comes down to these last two matches to see who will get the final berth at the 2018 FIFA World Cup,” FFA chief executive David Gallop said.

“There hasn’t been a more important match played in Australia since our last intercontinental playoff against Uruguay 12 years ago, and for all of us who were there it was truly a very special moment in Australian sporting history.

“With a place at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia at stake we’re calling on all football and sports fans to rally behind the ... Socceroos as they aim to qualify for their fourth successive FIFA World Cup.” (rtr)

REUTERS/Hassan Abdallah

Syrians watch a telecast of the World Cup 2018 qualifier between Australia and Syria inside a Syrian refugee camp in Bar Elias town, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon October 10, 2017.

Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs

Watford’s Tom Cleverley celebrates scoring their second goal

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Dovizioso holds off Marquez in Japanese thriller

MOTEGI - Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso breathed new life into the MotoGP championship on Sunday, edging Marc Marquez in a ferocious duel to win a rain-soaked Japanese Grand Prix in Motegi.

BANGLI - Batur temple which is more familiar with the name Ulun Danu Temple is known as beautiful temple in Bali. The temple exists very close with Mount Batur exactly the southwestern slope of Mount Batur. Even, there is Lake Batur at the foot of the Mount Batur makes the beauty of the temple more complete. At that place, the weather is very fresh; there are many fruit sellers along the way at the location.

Batur Temple is located precisely in Kalanganyar Village, Kintamani District, Bangli.

The ceremony at this temple is held annually called Ngusaba Kadasa. The great eruption of Mount Batur in 1917 had destroyed everything except the highest God’s shrine at the temple. Then due to the initiative village chief along with other village prominent figures decided to bring the remaining shrine to be built again on a higher ground, at the present place. (kmb)

Batukaang Village

BANGLI - Batukaang village is situated on an altitude of around 1,150 meters above sea level. It has features of exotic natural attractions as well as cool air. At this village, there is coffee plantation spreading like a tapestry on the mountains.

When flowering, the coffee plants will exude nice fragrance so that it adds the coolness and excitement in the journey to this village.

Aside from coffee plantation, this village retains many ancient relics in the form of statues totally amounting to 188 pieces. Most of those statues are still sanctified by the majority of the population considering the relics are stored in some temples such as the Puseh Sanggambu Temple and Sangambu Temple.

Batukaang village is located in Kintamani subdistrict, Bangli County. It is approximately 60 km from Denpasar, 35 km from the town of Bangli and 18 km from the capital of the subdistict. (kmb)

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MotoGP class winner Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso of Italy (R) sprays champagne to his team officer Gabriele Conti (L) on the podium during the MotoGP Japanese Grand Prix at Twin Ring Motegi circuit in Motegi, Tochigi prefecture on October 15, 2017.

In a white-knuckle battle in appalling conditions at the Twin Ring circuit, Dovizioso snatched the lead from championship leader Marquez in a dramatic last lap after the swashbuckling Spaniard made a rare mistake when rounding a corner.

The Italian’s nerve-jangling win by 0.249 seconds trimmed the Honda rider ’s lead to 11 points with three races left in the season.

Danilo Petrucci finished third on a non-works Ducati, his fourth podium for the season, while Maverick Vinales’ faint title hopes were all but extinguished after a disappointing ninth for Yamaha.

Spaniard Vinales heads to Phillip Island in Australia 41 points adrift of three-times MotoGP champion Marquez, who improved to 244 points in the title race.

The dogged Dovizioso was beaming, however, having completed a brilliant race from ninth on the grid and fended off the series’ most fearsome competitor.

Defending champion Marquez looked to have it won after he burned past Dovizioso with three laps left but he gave up precious momentum on the final lap with a slide at turn eight.

Thrown from his seat and all

but crashing, Marquez did well to regain control but the error allowed Dovizioso enough ground to mount a final daring raid.

“The rear tyre was completely gone,” Dovizioso said track-side after grabbing his fifth win of the season.

“But he did a mistake so I was able to catch him and I did a perfect corner at turn 10.”

Marquez all but brushed Dovizioso’s rear wheel as he attacked at the last corner but could find no way through.

“It was an amazing race, I mean the two guys that are fighting for the championship are fighting to the last corner,” said Marquez without a trace of disappointment.

“I did a few mistakes especially at turn eight, I lose a lot.”

Suzuki savoured an encouraging weekend, with Andrew Iannone and Alex Rins finishing fourth and fifth respectively.

Three-times MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo fought to the front briefly in the early laps but faded to sixth for Ducati, while Italian great Valentino Rossi’s forgettable weekend ended mid-race with a fall.

Alex Marquez won the Moto2 category for Kalex, with Honda’s Romano Fenati claiming the Moto3. (rtr)

Lange wins Ironman World Championship in course record

HAWAII - German Patrick Lange produced a sizzling marathon run, charging to victory in a course record time while Swiss Daniela Ryf claimed a third successive victory in the women’s event at the triathlon Ironman World Championship in Hawaii on Saturday.

Lange came off the 180-km bike leg more than nine minutes behind Canadian Lionel Sanders and still trailled by more than six minutes halfway through the 42.2-km run.

But he turned on the afterburners to pass a shuffling Sanders less than five kilometres from home and looked amazingly fresh as he charged to victory.

Lange grabbed a German flag from a spectator before breaking the tape in eight hours, one minute and 40 seconds in front of a cheer-

ing crowd in Kailua-Kona. He was more than two minutes faster than the record set by Australia’s Craig Alexander in 2011.

“It’s everything I ever dreamed of. Oh my god, I cannot believe it,” Lange said. “I always, always, always since I was a child dreamed to have this crown.”

Not that it was as easy as it looked.

“From time to time you think someone is hitting with a baseball beneath your knees and you just want to drop out,” he said. “I had to fight so hard.”

Sanders, who took up triathlon eight years ago in an effort to beat a drug problem, held on for second place, while Briton David McNamee finished third, with Sebastian Kienle in fourth.

Lange, 31, who finished third last year, continued Germany’s recent dominance of the event, with Jan Frodeno winning in 2015 and 2016, while Kienle won in 2014.

Frodeno, who reached the second transition in fourth place, slowed to a walk shortly after starting the run. Ryf took the lead late in the bike leg and was never threatened during the run as she romped to an emphatic victory over Briton Lucy Charles in second place, nearly nine minutes behind.

“It was the hardest I’ve ever had to fight for a win,” Ryf said after finishing in 8:50:47.

“I felt really bad at the start of the bike, and I didn’t know what would come. I thought I’d just give my all in the last 40k and didn’t even think about the run.” (rtr)

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Patrick Lange of Germany celebrates after winning the IRONMAN World Championship and setting a course record of 8:01.39 beating Craig Alexander’s 2011 record of 8:03.56 on October 14, 2017 in Kailua Kona, Hawaii.

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Firefighters battle a wildfire near Santa Rosa, California, U.S., October 14, 2017.

California ‘horror’ fires burn on, 40 dead in one week

SANTA ROSA - Authorities hope weaker winds will help more than 10,000 firefighters battle the deadliest blazes in California history, which have killed at least 40 people and destroyed thousands of structures in one of the state’s worst natural disasters in years.

Fast-moving fires spread by shifting winds forced thousands more to evacuate their homes on Saturday as the death toll over the week rose to 40, with hundreds missing.

More than 10,000 firefighters supported by air tankers and helicopters battled 16 major wildfires in areas north of San Francisco that have consumed nearly 214,000 acres (86,000 hectares), or roughly 334 square miles (865 sq km) - an area larger than New York City.

The 40 confirmed fatalities, including 22 in Sonoma County, make it California’s deadliest-ever fire event, surpassing the 29 deaths from the Griffith Park fire of 1933 in Los Angeles.

With 235 people still missing on Saturday in Sonoma County alone and rubble from thousands of incinerated dwellings yet to be searched, authorities expect the death toll to climb.

Some 100,000 people have been forced from their homes, including 3,000 on Saturday from the city of Santa Rosa, about 50 miles (80 km) north of San Francisco. The fires have damaged or destroyed about 5,700 structures, reducing homes and businesses to ash.

Some victims were asleep when flames engulfed their homes, while others had only minutes to flee.

“This is truly one of the greatest tragedies that California has ever faced. The devastation is just unbelievable. It is a horror that no one could have imagined,” California Governor Jerry Brown said on a visit to a devastated city.

Janis and Roberto Lucha joined people lining up at a Federal Emergency Management Agency office in Santa Rosa, seeking help after losing their home of 27 years in the city’s Coffey Park neighborhood, where most homes burned to the ground.

Molly Kurland, 63, joined a packed community meeting at the Santa Rosa High School gymnasium.

“Even for people who haven’t lost their house, the uncertainty and anxiety is tremendous,” she said.

But there were heroic stories as well.

Teen-aged twins woke their parents on Sunday night to find fire engulfing the landscape.

The persistent alarms from Benjamin Lasker, 16, gave the family time to escape the conflagration with little more than the clothes on their backs.

Benjamin and his twin sister, Natalie, went on to awaken another eight families in their Fountain Grove neighborhood in Santa Rosa, pounding on doors, yelling “Fire!” and shining lights in windows.

“They asked permission to wake people up,” Howard Lasker told Reuters, adding “I gave it to them.” (rtr)

MOGADISHU - The death toll from twin bomb blasts that struck busy junctions in the heart of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has jumped to 85, making it one of the deadliest attacks since an Islamist insurgency began in 2007.

President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo declared three days of national mourning and called for donations of blood and funds to victims of Saturday’s attack. At least 100 others were wounded.

Police said a truck bomb exploded outside a hotel in the K5 intersection that is lined with government offices, restaurants and kiosks, flattening several buildings and setting dozens of vehicles on fire.

Two hours later, another blast struck the capital’s Medina district.

“The number of dead has risen to 85. We know some 100 who were injured,” Mohamed Hussein, a police official, told Reuters, giving combined figures of casualties. He said the toll was likely to rise. Police previously said 22 people had died.

On Sunday, police and emergency workers searched the rubble of destroyed buildings. They also recovered dozens of corpses the night before, most of which were charred beyond recognition.

Hundreds of people came to the junction in search of missing family members and police cordoned off the area for security reasons.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, although the Islamist militant group al Shabaab, which is allied to al Qaeda, stages regular attacks in the capital and other parts of the country.

The group is waging an insurgency against the U.N.-backed government and its African Union allies in a bid to topple the weak administration and impose its own strict interpretation of Islam.

The militants controlled Mogadishu between 2007 and 2011 but withdrew as fighting raged. African Union peacekeepers also drove them out of most other territory they controlled. (rtr)

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No new coal power stations in Java, Indonesia energy minister says

JAKARTA - Indonesia will not approve any new coal-fired power stations on the heavily-populated island of Java as the country strives to reach its renewable energy development targets, the energy minister said on Thursday. “We will not approve any coal-fired power plants in Java, this island, any more,” Energy and Mineral resources minister Ignasius Jonan told a press conference.

Java is home to about two thirds of Indonesia’s population of 250 million, but the island is also far

better supplied with electricity than the rest of the archipelago, particularly eastern Indonesia.

“We will push, very hard, in the near future that Java should build the renewables, as well as geothermal especially, as well as gas-fired power plants,” Jonan said, referring to gas power plants “at the well head.” The government has also revived plans to develop high voltage undersea power cables linking the islands of Sumatra, Java and Bali, he said.

“So whenever Java needs the power, Sumatra can send it to Java and the other way around.”

Indonesia is committed to a target to increase the renewable portion of the energy mix to 23 percent by 2025 from about 12 percent at present, and expects to reach 18 percent in the next three years, Jonan said.

However, the government will continue to prioritise price in deciding power sources, he added.

“While I do understand that it’s not easy to compete with coal-fired power plants, especially with minemouth power plants, they do have to compete with gas power,” Jonan said, referring to “strict” power tariff negotiations.

In the first nine months of this year, Indonesia signed a total of 1,023 megawatts of renewable energy contracts, about double the total amount signed in the three years before that, Jonan said. Coal makes up around 57 percent of the energy mix in Indonesia, the world’s top thermal coal exporter, with consumption

expected to reach 101 million tonnes this year.

State electricity utility PLN, tasked to oversee President Joko Wiododo’s target to build 35 gigawatts (GW) of new power stations in Indonesia, is under pressure to improve its efficiency and reduce costs. Widodo recently “advised” that PLN could halve its target to contribute 5 GW to the programme from more than 10 GW at present, Jonan said.

“If PLN thinks their financial position in the long term or even in the mid term will not be quite sound, it’s acceptable for them not to continue,” he said. “They can offer it to the private sector.” (rtr)

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Indonesia to propose new ASEAN intelligence sharing to track militants

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Civilians carry the body of an unidentified man from the scene of an explosion in KM4 street in the Hodan district of Mogadishu, Somalia October 15, 2017.

KUALA LUMPUR - Indonesia will propose a broad intelligence sharing initiative among members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to deal with the rising threat of radical Islamist militants, its defence minister said on Thursday.

Unrest in the southern Philippines has unsettled neighbours Malaysia and Indonesia, as the three countries grapple with the possible rise of the Islamic State aided by local militants who have declared allegiance with the group.

Indonesian Defence Minister Ryamizard Ryacuda said he would propose an “Our Eyes” initiative at

the ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting (ADMM) in the Philippines this month.

“Be it maritime, air or intelligence... we will fine-tune this when we have deliberations and discussions at the ADMM,” he told a news conference at the launch of air patrols between Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.

The patrols are part of a multi-pronged initiative involving the three countries - which also includes maritime patrols and intelligence sharing - aimed at plugging porous borders around the Sulu Sea where militant groups aligned with the IS are active. (rtr)

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Gasoline boosts U.S. consumer prices, underlying inflation tame

WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer prices recorded their biggest increase in eight months in September as gasoline prices soared in the wake of hurricane-related production disruptions at oil refineries in the Gulf Coast, but underlying inflation remained muted.

The mixed report from the Labor Department on Friday comes as Federal Reserve officials have been engaged in a vigorous debate on the inflation path and suggests a December interest rate increase is not a done deal.

Prices for U.S. Treasuries rose and stocks on Wall Street hit record highs. The dollar was little changed against a basket of currencies. Policymakers could, however, find solace in another report indicating that the economy was swiftly recovering from the damage inflicted by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, with a strong rebound in retail sales last month. “The firmness in retail sales should override the enduring mystery of low inflation to spur a December Fed rate hike,” said Sal Guatieri, a senior economist at BMO Capital Markets in Toronto.

The Labor Department said its Consumer Price Index increased 0.5 percent last month after advancing 0.4 percent in August. The rise was the biggest since January and lifted the year-on-year gain in the CPI to 2.2 percent from 1.9 percent in August.

Gasoline prices surged 13.1 percent last month, accounting for 75 percent of the increase in the CPI. The jump in gasoline prices was the largest since June 2009 and followed a 6.3 percent gain in August. The Labor Department said Harvey was reported to have impacted refinery capacity in the Gulf Coast and was likely a factor in last month’s increase in gasoline prices.

Outside gasoline, price pressures were benign. Excluding the volatile food and energy components, consumer prices ticked up 0.1 percent as the increase in rental accommodation slowed and the cost of new motor vehicles, furniture and medical care declined.

The so-called core CPI rose 0.2 percent in August. In the 12 months through September, the core CPI increased 1.7 percent. The yearon-year core CPI has now advanced by the same margin for five consecutive months.

The Fed tracks the personal consumption expenditures price index excluding food and energy, which has consistently undershot the U.S. central bank’s 2 percent target for more than five years. Fed Chair Janet Yellen has said that temporary factors such as one-off price cuts by wireless telephone companies are holding back inflation.

Minutes of the Fed’s Sept. 19-20 meeting published on Wednesday showed “many par-

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Nyoman Bratayasa’s Solo exhibition

Soul of Nature expressed in water

Water colour is a tricky medium to work with as it leaves little room to hide. Like water itself, water colour paint shows even the slightness vibrations. It is therefor a fitting medium for painter Nyoman Bratayasa to work with as this talented young painter is very much interested in the subtler vibrational aspects of visuality.

ticipants expressed concern that the low inflation readings this year might reflect not only transitory factors, but also the influence of developments that could prove more persistent.”

INFLATION EXPECTATIONS SLIP Adding to the debate, the University of Michigan’s survey of consumers showed consumer’s inflation expectations over the medium term slipped in early October. While the Fed could still increase borrowing costs in December for a third time this year, it would probably be hard for the central bank to push through the three rate hikes it has forecast for 2008, if the slow inflation trend persists.

Last month, food prices rose 0.1 percent after a similar gain in August. Owners’ equivalent rent of primary residence rose 0.2 percent after advancing 0.3 percent in August. Prices for new motor vehicles fell 0.4 percent as manufacturers resort to

deep discounting to eliminate an inventory overhang. There were also decreases in the cost of medical care, apparel, and household furnishings. But the cost of mobile phone services rose 0.4 percent after 14 straight months of declines.

In a separate report on Friday, the Commerce Department said retail sales jumped 1.6 percent in September likely as reconstruction and clean-up efforts in areas devastated by Harvey and Irma boosted demand for building materials and motor vehicles. Retail sales were also buoyed by a surge in receipts at service stations, which reflected higher gasoline prices. Last month’s increase in retail sales was the largest since March 2015.

Excluding automobiles, gasoline, building materials and food services, retail sales increased 0.4 percent last month after being unchanged in August. These so-called core retail sales correspond most closely with

the consumer spending component of gross domestic product.

The pick-up in core retail sales suggests the drag on the economy from the hurricanes will probably be modest. The growth outlook was boosted by another report from the Commerce Department showing inventories recorded their biggest gain in nine months in August. Economists estimate the storms could subtract at least six-tenths of a percentage point from third-quarter GDP growth.

The economy grew at a 3.1 percent annualized rate in the April-June period. The Atlanta Fed raised its third-quarter GDP growth estimate by two-tenths of a percentage point to a 2.7 percent pace after the data.

“The sudden increase in retail demand is likely to cause third-quarter growth to come in somewhat better than expected before the hurricanes hit,” said Joel Naroff, chief economist at Naroff Economic Advisors in Holland, Pennsylvania.(rtr)

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Although Bratayasa often paints in acrylic, he has found himself increasingly drawn to the more ephemeral qualities of water colours as they allow the soul of nature to speak through him as he tries to visually translate the spirit of sacred places and objects into paintings.

Soul of Nature is in fact the name of his solo exhibition at Maya Resort & Spa that opened on Wednesday October 11th. The intimate gallery is displaying 20 or so of Bratayasa’s recent works exploring the beauty of the unseen spirit that infuses the material world.

Many of the paintings, explained Bratayasa were first sketched on the spot and coloured in later, while others were painted from memory.

In both cases, this young artist seeks to express something of his own feelings about the subject of his paintings. As he explained: “it is all about feeling, no two people feel the same things. For example

when I visited Pura Anantaboga in Java, I felt something different, something I have never felt anywhere in Bali. I cannot explain it, and maybe it is different for other people. I just try to let the feeling i had come through when I paint, without thinking about how I am going to do that”.

This emphasis on feeling is something that comes through these simple yet profound water colour paintings. Although the objects of his paintings (temple doorways, Balinese offerings, shadow puppet characters amongst other things) verges on the banal and have been reproduced by countless other painters, there appears in these works something extraordinary.

Wavering between abstract expressionist and purely realist there is a subdued sharpness to these works. Allowing the subtler vibrations of his own feelings to be expressed in the spontaneous movement of his hand across the

paper, the vibration of his subjects is thus transmitted in a unique manner. Combining balanced compositions based on Bali’s centuries old artistic traditions, with the looser qualities of water colour itself along with Bratayasa’s fearless approach to uncertainty, we are given depictions of real and imagined spaces inviting us to feel into what it is that creates beauty, quite apart from form.

As Bratayasa says ,what makes the objects of Balinese culture so beautiful is their intimate and inseparable relationship and respect for the natural world. This respect is expressed in ‘The soul of Nature”, in a refreshing manner reminding us that beauty is expressed when we allow the natural forces within us to speak rather than trying to speak for them. It is the subtle balance between order and chaos depicted in these works that so beautifully expresses the harmony that is all around us.(kmb)

Have you found a cozy coffee shop? Try to come to Black Eye Coffee & Roastery located on Jalan Raya Sunset Road 168, Kuta.

This second outlet after the Black Eye Coffee & Roastery at Secret Garden Village is managed R. Deryl Juniar, a well experienced store manager in the field of coffee, so that it provides deliciously processed coffee. After testing, you will definitely get addicted to it.

In the area of ??approximately 150 square meters, this Black Eye Brewing Bar & Kitchen offers a selection of puzzle themes as the interior design. This can be seen from the spot and furniture in the outlets made in the form of geometric pieces, such as custom chair, bar hanging rack, floor and ceiling. The architecture looks so unique because it utilizes the right combination of tropical wood material and cement. “Black Eye Brewing Bar & Kitchen maximizes the outlet with open brewing bar & kitchen concept,” said Ana Dewi Permana, Vice President of PT Natura Pesona Mandiri (Secret Garden Village) amid the soft opening on Saturday (Aug. 26).

Ana added that there are three pillars to introduce coffee of the archipelago. Indonesia is ranked third in the world as top producer of quality coffee. Here, there is education on the variety of coffee along with its producing regions as well as innovations to the coffee served. Each of the seven regions in Indonesia offers different flavor. For example, the region in Sumatra, West Java, and Bali produce special coffee because farmers have been provided with post-harvest handling. “In addition to the original coffee of Kintamani, we also introduce the coffee produced in the area of Pupuan, Tabanan,” she said.

READ Adhi Jaya Sunset Hotel; Think of Mie, Think Asia R. Deryl Juniar, Store Manager of Black Eye, said that open brewing bar is chosen to support three basic ideas of Black Eye Coffee & Roastery in the form of education, coffee machine and innovation. Therefore, Black Eye Coffee & Roastery always educates connoisseurs and coffee lovers so that they get to know coffee more profoundly through coffee talk or manual brewing method. “As long as this manual brewing method is executed, there is a discussion between coffee lovers and baristas within 2 minutes,” he said.

As for the kitchen, it applies open kitchen concept to highlight the process of making healthy and hygienic food with modern equipment. Visitors can directly see the process of serving the menus ordered. In addition to the simple menu of delicacies such as burgers, pasta and salads, it also provides a wide selection of vegetarian menus and the mainstay menu of The Luwus Restaurant, namely Bebek Timbungan (duck cooked in bamboo) and Salmon Roasted Rice. “During this soft opening, the Black Eye Brewing Bar & Kitchen provides the promo of buy 1,” he said. (kmb)

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Economic panic drives inflation

DENPASAR — Condition of Mount Agung currently declared in warning status has an impact on the economy of Bali. The current condition of Bali relying on tourism has caused guests to cancel or postpone the room reservation. In addition, this condition also has an impact on inflation in Bali.

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Condition of Mount Agung currently declared in warning status has an impact on the economy of Bali.

An economist from Udayana University, Prof. Dr. I Wayan Ramantha, said if inflation occurred in Bali in relation to the current condition of Mount Agung, firstly, it happens because the real basic needs of the community undergo price hike. Vegetables, for instance, also come from the area of Mount Agung and disrupted livestock productivity will make the price more expensive. “On that account, we should rely on the sources of basic needs from other regions,” he explained.

The second influence affecting the inflation is psychological condition of society.

With the experience of eruption in 1963, which lasted for a year, such experience will cause to think about basic needs and so forth for a year. As a result, people will think to stock basic needs and so on. The demand for goods especially basic needs will increase.

“Prices will rise and so will the inflation,” he added.

In addition, Bali’s economic growth will also get influenced. All the information spreading in the community, either in international community or the people of Bali must be addressed properly and wisely. “We cannot face it with panicky manner,” he said.

The panic, according to him, will also cause an economic panic. “We should be able to provide cool information that the risks that probably occur have been anticipated or mitigated,” he said.

With such an effort, if the Bali’s economic growth is not as high as the target expected, he was confident that it will not make Bali’s economy plummet. “Similarly, it also happens to inflation. When getting panic, we will finally buy out goods. Unavoidably, they will eventually become rotten and will surely harm the community,” he said.

With tranquility and soothing information, it is expected to keep our economic growth and inflation in Bali. However, according to his calculations, inflation will not reach the threshold despite an increase.

“Actually, the inflation is in accordance with the prediction. But, according to prediction of 2017 it is 4 plus minus one. We can even achieve two and this may be in the range of 3 and so forth. Thus, it remains within safe limits and so does our growth in the range of 6.1 percent -6.5 percent,” he said.

Bali still has three months to be able to spur on the target. Prevention effort that can be done is to start thinking of alternative supplies as well as alternative activities. “Currently, one certain thing at this moment is the increase in the price of building materials, such as sand,” he said.

On that account, he advised to reschedule the development projects, especially that of private sector and have been already running. In the meantime, the government project should have been definitely completed at the end of the year. “However, we can delay first the private sector determining the economic growth of 70 percent. Thus, the demand for materials such as sand or others having a direct impact due to Mount Agung can be delayed so that inflation can be controlled,” he explained.

In the meantime, the construction services that will lose due to this condition, especially on the components of sand, are predicted to suffer losses not more than 5 percent. So, the margin obtained by the construction service businessman can still cover the losses suffered due to the increase in the price of sand. (kmb42)

To minimize impact of Mount Agung on Bali tourism

Tourism players must do three things

DENPASAR — Bali’s economy to these days is supported by tourism sector. Warning status of Mount Agung seems also influential on tourist visits. Actually, more tourist objects in Bali are located in the safe radius than in disasterprone areas.

Head of Bali Tourism Office, A.A. Gede Yuniartha Putra, recently said there are only a few attractions in Bali affected by Mount Agung when erupts like Besakih Temple, Tulamben, and Amed.

While the other attractions, especially in South Bali, are in a fairly safe radius. It also includes other attractions in Karangasem such as Candidasa. Even if there is ash rain, the impact on the flight will highly depend on direction.

“Of course currently just a few tourists make a visit to the objects in Karangasem such as Besakih Temple, Tulamben and Amed.

Since the mountain is located right there, we cannot say the region is safe. Nevertheless, we still have many destinations in other districts and can direct them to visit other

areas,” he said.

According to Yuniartha, foreign tourists should get correct and updated information about Mount Agung. Any mazy information can cause tourists to be afraid. ASITA and PHRI Bali have even reported the cancellation of a group of tourists originally scheduled to arrive this October. “So far, they (foreign tourists—Ed) have understanding that Mount Agung is in Denpasar, that’s what makes people afraid whereas it is far away,” he explained.

A member of the Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) of the Bali House of Representatives, Ni Kadek Darmini, said that tourism players should be ready to cope with three things. They are reducing tourists that cancel their visit to Bali, the number of tourists going out from Bali, and creating a sense of comfort and safety for tourists remaining to stay in Bali.

“Communication flow must be obtained from a reliable and valid source. Then, it should be able to be communicated in such a way that

does not give excited impression.

It is important to pay attention that the economy in Bali is greatly supported by tourism sector,” he said.

Division Head of Information and Media of Bali Tourism Hospitality (BTH), Dewa Gede Ngurah Byomantara, agreed that what absolutely needed this time is to convince tourists that Bali tourist destinations are mostly safe. Based on the mapping of BTH, only 2 percent of the tourist attractions are located in Karangasem. It means that 98 percent of tourist objects on the Island of the Gods are within a safe radius of the eruption. However, according to the results of coordination with the PHRI, there are about 15 to 20 percent of tourists that have canceled or postponed their travel to Bali this October. “I cannot believe this is the impact of Mount Agung, but probably this is the impact of Mount Agung,” he said.

According to Byomantara, the main task of BTH is to increase information related to Mount Agung that has not erupted yet and Bali remains safe to be visited.

Besides, it also includes which objects are allowed and not allowed to be visited by tourists. Though for the time being tourists cannot do climbing activities on Mount Agung, there are other alternative climbing tours.

“As alternative options, there are many mountains that can still

be climbed such as Mt. Batur, Mt. Batukaru and Mt. Abang that are quite safe to visit. It does not necessarily means that Mt. Agung eruption causes the guests to have lost the opportunity to enjoy hiking tourism. We need to assure the international community,” he explained. (kmb32)

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Final assault starts on Syria’s Raqqa as some Islamic State fighters quit

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Migrant workers Wang Qin (L) and her sister Wang Jun eat lunch during a break from collecting scrap materials from the debris of demolished buildings at the outskirts of Beijing, China October 1, 2017. Picture taken October 1, 2017.

China steps up war on poverty, though some still left behind

BEIJING - Wang Qin, 59, collects scrap at a demolished residential district on the outskirts of Beijing, working 15 hours a day and struggling on her own to pay for her granddaughter’s education.

She worries that her own home, a small illegally constructed shack where she lives with her granddaughter and mentally ill husband, might also be bulldozed by local authorities.

The family lives off the 1,500 yuan ($228) a month Wang makes selling scrap and receives no assistance from the Beijing government.

As migrants from another province, they are not recognised as residents of the capital despite having lived there since 2014. Since she is not registered in Beijing, Wang has to pay more for things like school and medical care - a hardship for migrants in cities, where costs such as housing are also far higher than in the countryside.

“Every month you still need to

live, I still need to pay the school fees for the child, and her food and drink every day,” said Wang, who came to Beijing to try escape the grinding poverty of her village in Henan province in central China. “I can’t take it, my whole body aches, I can’t earn the money.”

Wang’s plight is a common one among millions of poor migrants in China’s big cities, as well as in the rural areas from which so many of them come, highlighting the challenges of the government’s campaign to wipe out extreme poverty by 2020.

President Xi Jinping made the campaign one of his signature policy issues after pledging in 2015 that China would lift the 70 million people living under the poverty level at the time out of poverty

by 2020.

The campaign has been ratcheted up as the Communist Party prepares to hold a twice-a-decade leadership meeting on Wednesday.

“The country is placing an unprecedented amount of effort on alleviating poverty,” Liu Yongfu, head of the government’s Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development, said at a news conference in Beijing on Tuesday.

“President Xi Jinping is personally in command, and has visited all of the areas of concentrated poverty” in China. He added: “With the active participation of all parts of society, it can be said that the battle against poverty has achieved significant results.”

Asked by Reuters about people like Wang, the scrap collector, Liu said migrants could receive benefits in their hometowns, noting that city dwellers were covered by urban social security programmes. (rtr)

AIN ISSA - U.S.-backed militias said they had launched their final assault on Syria’s Raqqa on Sunday after a convoy of Islamic State fighters left the city, leaving only a hardcore of jihadists to mount a last stand.

“The battle will continue until the whole city is clean,” said a statement by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a U.S.-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias.

The SDF said earlier that a group of the jihadists had left in a convoy taking some civilians with them.

But there were conflicting accounts as to whether the evacuees included both Syrian and foreign fighters.

Raqqa’s fall to the SDF now looks imminent after four months of battle.

“We still expect there to be difficult fighting,” said Colonel Ryan Dillon, spokesman for the U.S.-led international coalition backing the SDF in the war against Islamic State.

Raqqa was the first big Syrian city to fall to Islamic State as it declared a “caliphate” and rampaged through Syria and Iraq in 2014, becoming an operations centre for attacks abroad and the stage for some of its darkest atrocities.

But Islamic State has been in retreat for two years, losing swathes of territory in both countries and forced back into an ever-diminishing foothold along the Euphrates river valley.

“Last night, the final batch of fighters (who had agreed to leave) left the city,” said Mostafa Bali, an SDF spokesman.

Bali said only Syrian Islamic State fighters had evacuated in the

convoy. But Omar Alloush, an official in the Raqqa Civil Council formed under SDF auspices to oversee the city, said some foreign fighters had also departed.

Neither said how many fighters had left or how many remained in the tiny, bomb-cratered patch of Raqqa still held by Islamic State.

Before the convoy left, the coalition estimated that about 300-400 fighters remained.

HUMAN SHIELDS The convoy would head to the remaining Islamic State territory in eastern Syria and included about 400 civilians along with the fighters, Alloush had said on Saturday.

Bali described the civilians who left with Islamic State fighters in the convoy as human shields. The jihadists had refused to release them once they left the city as agreed, wanting to take them as far as their destination to guarantee their own safety, he said.

Such withdrawals of fighters along with groups of civilians have grown commonplace in Syria’s six-year war, as a way for besieging forces to accelerate the fall of populated areas.

In previous evacuations, including by Islamic State, the civilians usually included family members of the fighters.

The agreement was brokered by the Raqqa Civil Council and tribal elders to “minimise civilian casualties”, the coalition said on Saturday.

Tribal leaders from Raqqa said they sought to prevent bloodshed among civilians still trapped in the city. (rtr)

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An Islamic State militants’ tank is pictured at the Free Women Monument in Kobani, Syria October 11, 2017. Picture taken October 11, 2017.

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Minister Puspayoga visits refugees at Tegak village

Distributes books for children, motivates to continue education

SEMARAPURA — Tens of thousands of Karangasem residents are still surviving at the evacuation in Klungkung district. They continue to receive the attention from central government. After President Joko Widodo making a visit on Saturday (Oct. 14), then it’s the turn of Minister of Cooperatives and SMEs, AAN Puspayoga, along with his staff to do the same. Refugees are accommodated in the hall of Tegak hamlet, Tegak, as his targeted location.

The Guggenheim Museum

BILBAO - The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was founded in 1937, and its first New York–based venue for the display of art, the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, opened in 1939.

With its exhibitions of Solomon Guggenheim’s somewhat eccentric art collection, the unusual gallery— designed by William Muschenheim at the behest of Hilla Rebay, the foundation’s curator and the mu-

seum’s director—provided many visitors with their first encounter with great works by Vasily Kandinsky, as well as works by his followers, including Rudolf Bauer, Alice Mason, Otto Nebel, and Rolph Scarlett. The need for a permanent building to house Guggenheim’s art collection became evident in the early 1940s, and in 1943 renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright gained the commission to design

a museum in New York City. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opened on October 21, 1959.

Today the Guggenheim Foundation includes the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, designed by Frank Gehry. Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, also a Gehry design, is slated to open in the Cultural District of Saadiyat Island.

After an international architectural competition, Moreau Kusunoki Architectes’ design was selected for the proposed Guggenheim Helsinki.

Through collaborative efforts, the foundation has extended its reach to projects and exhibitions globally, most recently with the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative and through the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, a multiyear collaboration

with UBS in support of art, artists, and curatorial talent from South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa. The Guggenheim Foundation remains committed to collecting, preserving and interpreting modern and contemporary art while forging international collaborations that explore ideas across cultures through dynamic curatorial and educational initiatives. (IBP/net)

Kerta Gosa got impacts on declining tourist visits.

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Warning status of Mount Agung impacts on declining tourist visits

SO far, the Mt. Agung in Karangasem remains in warning status. This does not only cause residents living in the vicinity to lose their jobs because they have to evacuate, but also has an impact on tourist visits to a number of tourist attractions in Klungkung.

The number decreases to the range of ten percent.

Head of the Klungkung Tourism Office, I Nengah Sukasta, explained the decrease in tourist visit happened at the objects like Kerta Gosa and Goa Lawah Temple and Pesinggahan village, Dawan.

“Indeed, it has an impact, but not significant. For Nusa Penida, it remains stable,” he explained.

Such conditions, he suspected, happened due to holiday season has begun to go by. Nevertheless,

his office continued to maximize promotion. The measure is crucial to achieve this year’s target of 333,000 visitors. “So far, the achievement just reaches about 90 percent. We are optimistic the target can be achieved,” he said.

In the meantime, Regent of Klungkung, I Nyoman Suwirta, equally did not dismiss the impact of the increase in activities of the largest mountain in Bali, yet it is not so significant. The tourism program initiated can still be realized.

“Indeed, it has an impact but not happen significantly. The market is quiet as well. However, it is not entirely due to the current situation.

Similarly, we are not dissolved with this situation, but keep looking for breakthroughs to continuously develop,” he affirmed. (kmb)

In the visit taking place at 16:00 Local Time, Puspayoga was accompanied by his wife, Bintang Puspayoga. The site inspection was also attended

by Regent of Klungkung, I Nyoman Suwirta, with the agency heads, Head of Bali Cooperative and SME Agency, I Dewa Nyoman Patra, as well as the ranks of Bali Post Media Group (KMB). They were also welcomed by hundreds of refugees of various ages.

Other than ensuring the refugee condition, Bintang Puspayoga also handed over stationery for children in the form of 1,000 notebooks and 500 pencil boxes. It is expected to support the process of their learning. “It is meant to provide motivation for children. Moreover, they are the asset of the nation. Their learning process should never break even though in refugee camp,” she said.

The book, she continued, also contains education on four pillars of nationality, national songs and motiva-

tion in order to be proud to be Indonesian children.

“The contents are related to way how to keep the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia or NKRI,” she added.

In the meantime, KMB in cooperation with the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs, Bali Cooperative and SMEs Agency, Cooperative of Services, Semen Gresik Cooperative and Kodanua Saving and Loan Cooperative helped alleviate refugees’ burden by providing 900 gallons of drinking water assistance intended for refugees at command posts throughout Bali.

The other assistance is 200 kilograms of LPG. In addition, the KMB handed over the donations of Bali Posts’ readers and BaliTV’s viewers and ngaben cremation funds for 23 priest of Besakih Temple totally amounting to IDR 11,500,000, 44 pecalang or customary security guard officers of Besakih customary village amounting to IDR 13.200,000 and 35 apparatuses of Besakih customary village valued at IDR 17,500,000.

Chief of Besakih customary village, Jero Mangku Widiarta, said the aid is very beneficial to the community because it will be able to ease the burden in the evacuation. “We are very grateful for the attention in the form of assistance,” he said.

In the meantime, Chief of Tegak customary village, Komang Merta, conveyed that since the evacuation, the residents are often difficult to get clean water. In addition, LPG for cooking is still lacking. “For once cooking, the refugee camp needs ten tubes, it’s pretty much and so is water. With this help, the burden here can be alleviated,” he said. (kmb45)

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Minister of Cooperatives and SMEs, AAN Puspayoga (C) along with his staff welcomed by hundreds of refugees of various ages.

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Mount Agung eruption

Assumed as non-disaster, but a rare event AMLAPURA - The eruption of Mount Agung has threatened the sustainability of Bali tourism.

Actually, there has not been an eruption, but the fear resulted in is very large. The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) has a tough task to straighten out this understanding. It then came up with the idea to create the notion that volcanic eruption is not a disaster. The viewpoint is changed where the eruption is considered as a rare and exciting event to see. It aims to suppress negative impacts occurred today in relation to the sustainability of tourism in Bali.

Deputy Prevention and Preparedness of the BNPB, Wisnu Widjaja, recently admitted to have being challenged to face the current situation in Bali. As is known, the pulse of Bali’s economy is tourism. Therefore, he claimed to continuously think hard and wanted to provide a breakthrough so that the understanding of society and tourism players is in line with the disaster mitigation measures of the BNPB that volcanic eruption is actually not a frightening incident. Provided, the mitigation measures are carried out correctly. Mitigation efforts are carried out to prevent victims in certain radius from climbing to the mountain top. Thus, the evacuation can be done and the needs are temporarily filled in the refugee camp.

He admitted to have learned a lot about the eruption of a number of volcanoes in Java. With the same motivation, to suppress the impact on tourism, volcanic eruption is then actually used as tourism package. The idea was realized by BNPB in collaboration with travel agencies by determining safe mountain observation points. Thus, from there tourists can see firsthand about the process of a volcanic eruption. “So, we see the volcanic eruption as a rare event, not a disaster. When else we can see volcanic eruption in person. This is we see as an opportunity to turn things around,” said Wisnu Widjaja.

He asserted to have done a mapping of the safe and appropriate places for this plan. In addition to determining the points of observation, his agency even has determined some right coordinate positions for photographers to take the exact moment of the eruption. One of the recommendations is from Kubu waters. From the middle of the sea, Mount Agung looks very intact. He admitted to be confident if the eruption happens the position is very appropriate to immortalize the moment from that angle by utilizing several fast boats to get there. He has done digital trials. Results from this

angle, when immortalizing the eruption event, will result in extraordinary images.

“So, this is also an opportunity for my photographer fellows. Simply see this as a rare moment that must be perpetuated, not feared so that must flock to escape. Actually, it is located in the safe zone,” he said.

To make sure his plan, he is even ready to prepare a fast boat. Moreover, he is ready to try first if later on the eruption really happens. This is to ensure that volcanic eruptions will not be harmful as long as mitigation measures have been done properly. So far, the mitigation efforts have been done well enough to prevent casualties. Residents in the warning zone have been evacuated. The paths to the warning zones have been closed. In addition, his agency has made leaflets regarding the simple ways to face the impact of Mount Agung eruption, especially when facing the threat of volcanic ashes at home to the ways of doing self-evacuation safely as well

as the evacuation routes that can be utilized. Immediately, he would like to affirm and talk to ASITA Bali or travel agencies and other Bali tourism players to equally save Bali tourism.

A similar understanding was also conveyed by the Head of the Center for Data and Information and Public Relations of the BNPB, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho on Saturday (Oct. 14).

He said the apparatus continued to give understanding to community so as not to be afraid of Mount Agung. Sutopo asserted that every volcano will erupt within a certain period.

But after the eruption it will bring in a great blessing. The land becomes fertile, agricultural productivity increases and it brings in abundant sand and rocks that can be mined and others. People should be familiar with and live harmony with volcano. When erupting, the community can temporarily evacuate. Refugees of Mount Agung are currently recorded to reach around 139,199 people in 389 refugee points spreading across nine districts / city in Bali. (kmb31)

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Jemeluk beach is seen some 15 km away from Mount Agung, a volcano on the highest alert level, in Amed on the resort island of Bali, Indonesia October 2, 2017.

such as bracelets, necklaces and rings. In addition, visitors can also find musical instruments of bronze, bamboo, coconut shell, cow leather and wooden fruits.

Although not being a part of the Sukawati art market, this morning market also sells mask, headdress, dance costume, beach clothes, and some other Bali products. Since it is a traditional market, the goods are sold at cheap price. Nevertheless, visitors should be good at bargaining when wishing to buy.

Visitors to this market are mostly art shop owners, merchants of Bali souvenir or the hotel management.

They take handicraft products in

large quantities to be resold. Foreign tourists often visit this market to buy souvenirs and be brought to their home country. “Morning Market becomes a favorite of foreign tourists for selling various Bali souvenirs at cheap prices,” said Nyoman Warti, a souvenir merchant.

Chief of Gelulung customary village, Wayan Parwata, said the Gelulung Morning Market has about 600 kiosks, but not all of them are sold. This market has existed long time ago, not a part of the Sukawati art market. Originally, this market was pioneered by many handicraft merchants from various regions in Gianyar that wanted to

sell their products at Sukawati art market. They came early in the morning before the art market was opened. They sold haphazardly, so it looked chaotic and dirty.

Seeing such conditions, the merchants in the art market complained and drove them away. The handicraft merchants were then moved to the west of the art market, precisely at the vacant land of Gelulung field around 1988. The handicraft merchants were then allowed to sell in the morning or before Sukawati art market opened.

“The merchants at this art market buy handicraft to be resold in Sukawati Market, so they can not open until noon or may only sell if the art mar-

ket is closed,” said Parwata.

After experiencing the development, it made cooperation with the government of Gianyar district in 1991, so there is a levy of 20 percent to the district government and 80 percent to Gelulung customary village. It is for market operating costs such as the development and improvement of the market.

“The number of buyers currently declines compared to the previous years. Honestly, now we are losing with sophisticated technology because guests can buy products through the internet so that they do not have to come to the market,” he said. (kmb)

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Bruno Mars leads music’s AMA nominations as female artists edged out LOS ANGELES - The men of pop and hip hop led the nominations for the American Music Awards (AMA) on Thursday, while female artists were left out of most categories.

Bruno Mars led with eight nominations, including Artist of the Year, the top accolade of the night. He will face hip hop stars Drake and Kendrick Lamar, British singersongwriter Ed Sheeran and electropop DJ duo The Chainsmokers - each of whom landed five nominations - for the coveted award. The women of pop music failed to land nominations in categories such as Artist of the Year, Video of the Year and Tour of the Year.

Pop star Halsey, one of the few female artists to land nominations for her collaboration with The Chainsmokers on the hit song “Closer,” tweeted on Thursday that she was “really disappointed” at the male-dominated nominees list. “so many incredible female artists have released this year. hoping the coming award shows give them the credit that is due to them,” she said.

Halsey landed two nominations, in the favorite pop/rock song and collaboration of the year categories for “Closer,” but did not land any solo nominations despite having

had a chart-topping album earlier this year.

Notable omissions include Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Lorde, Demi Lovato, Lana Del Rey and Kesha, all of whom released new songs and albums this year, as well as Taylor Swift, who released a high-concept video in August for her single “Look What You Made Me Do.” The AMA nominees are selected through measurements on fan interactions across Billboard Magazine and Billboard.com, which include figures from music sales, touring, streaming and radio airplay and social activity from Sept. 9, 2016 to Sept. 14, 2017, organizers said.

The winners of the American Music Awards are voted for by fans and will be announced at a live ceremony televised on ABC on Nov. 19.

Rihanna was the only other female artist to land two nods. She will compete with Lady Gaga and newcomer Alessia Cara for favorite female pop/rock artist, and she will face Beyonce and Kehlani in the favorite female soul/R&B category.

Newcomer Julia Michaels is up against singer James Arthur, former One Direction star Niall Horan, rapper Post Malone and hip hop duo Rae Sremmurd for the New Artist of the Year accolade. (rtr)

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President Rodrigo Duterte greets visiting American actor Steven Seagal (L) during his courtesy call at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines October 12, 2017. Picture taken October 12, 2017.

U.S. actor Seagal meets ‘The Punisher’ Duterte, talks drug war

Earlier this week, Seagal said at MANILA - U.S. actor Steven Seagal, famous for playing action roles like a vice squad detective in “Above the Law”, a news conference in Manila that he met Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte while on a location didn’t think the Philippines was “a dangerous place”. scouting trip in Manila.

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Video footage released by government channel RTVM showed Seagal animatedly talking to Duterte.

Seagal, 65, was in the Philippines to look for a location for his upcoming movie which will be “about illegal drugs and other crimes”, a presidential palace statement said.

The statement said that Duterte told Seagal that “movies are a reflection of life” and “re-

iterated his strong stance against illegal drugs because it enslaves people to a form of synthetic chemical.”

Duterte has been involved in a deadly drug war since taking office last June, and on Wednesday ordered all drug operations be left to the drug enforcement agency, amid unprecedented scrutiny of police conduct in the brutal crackdown that has left thousands of Filipinos dead.

“It’s a place that’s up and coming with the new leadership,” the Philippine Star reported him as saying.

Duterte was nicknamed “The Punisher” due to his zero-tolerance of crime and drugs during the 22 years he was mayor of southern Davao City.

A former martial arts instructor, Seagal is famous for action hero roles in blockbuster movies in the 1990s, such as “Under Siege” and “Hard To Kill”. (rtr)

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A local resident carries a box of food as he walks along the side of a river after Hurricane Maria destroyed the town’s bridge in San Lorenzo, Morovis, Puerto Rico, October 4, 2017.

Desperate Puerto Ricans are drinking water from a hazardous-waste site

Puerto Rico - Jose Luis Rodriguez waited in line to fill plastic jugs in the back of his pickup truck with water for drinking, doing the dishes and bathing. But there is something about this water Rodriguez didn’t know: It was being pumped to him by water authorities from a federally designated hazardous-waste site, CNN learned after reviewing Superfund documents and interviewing federal and local officials.

Rodriguez, 66, is so desperate for water that this news didn’t startle him. “I don’t have a choice,” he said. “This is the only option I have.” More than three weeks after Hurricane Maria ravaged this island, more than 35% of the island’s residents -- American citizens -- remain without safe drinking water.

It’s clear some residents are turning to potentially risky sources to get by. Friday afternoon, CNN watched workers from the Puerto Rican water utility, Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados, or AAA, distribute water from a

well at the Dorado Groundwater Contamination Site, which was listed in 2016 as part of the federal Superfund program for hazardous waste cleanup.

Residents like Rodriguez filled small bottles from a hose and piled them in their vehicles. Large trucks with cylindrical tanks on their backs carried the water to people elsewhere. Some of the trucks carried the name of the municipality of Dorado. Others simply were labeled with the words “Agua Potable,” Spanish for potable water.

In announcing the addition of the

Dorado site to the Superfund program, the US Environmental Protection Agency says the area was polluted with industrial chemicals, including tetrachloroethylene and trichloroethylene, which “can have serious health impacts including damage to the liver and increasing the risk of cancer,” according to the EPA. It’s unclear whether there are public health risks from this particular well, however. The EPA said it plans to do testing in the area over the weekend. “The EPA is gathering more information about the quality of water from the wells associated with

our Dorado groundwater contamination site, as well as other Superfund sites in Puerto Rico,” the agency said in a statement issued to CNN on Friday. “While some of these wells are sometimes used to provide drinking water, the EPA is concerned that people could be drinking water that may be contaminated, depending on the well. We are mindful of the paramount job of protecting people’s health, balanced with people’s basic need for water.”

Regional EPA spokesman Elias Rodriguez confirmed the location is part of a Superfund site. Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados, the water authority, was unaware that this well site was part of the Superfund program until CNN provided maps showing that this was the case, according to Luis

Melendez, sub-director for environmental compliance at the utility.

Melendez maintained the water is fit for public consumption. The well was opened on an emergency basis and is not part of the regular drinking water supply, he said. In 2015, this well in Dorado, which is located near a shopping center, was found by the EPA to be safely within federal standards for PCE and chloroform, two industrial chemicals.(rtr) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.