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‘Goosebumps’ spooks ‘Spies,’ ‘Crimson Peak’ at box office

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LOS ANGELES — Scare-seeking audiences preferred the family-friendly “Goosebumps” over the gothic horror of Guillermo del Toro’s haunted house pic “Crimson Peak” two weekends out from Halloween.

Sony’s “Goosebumps,” based on the popular book series, earned $23.5 million out of the gates to take the firstplace spot, while del Toro’s “Crimson Peak” languished at fourth with $12.8 million.

“Goosebumps” also managed to beat “The Martian” by a hair, pushing Ridley Scott’s space adventure to the second-place spot for the first time in its three-week run with $21.5 million.

Starring Jack Black as author R.L. Stine, “Goosebumps” cost a reported $58 million to produce. Audiences, 59 percent of whom were under the age of 25, gave the film a promising “A” CinemaScore, and reviews have been mostly favorable for the PGrated pic.

“It’s set up so well for not only this weekend, but for the rest of the fall,” said Rory Bruer, Sony’s president of worldwide distribution. “The word of mouth is just terrific. I think we were able to convey how much fun the film

is for the entire family, no matter what their age.” The Halloween-timing didn’t necessarily help “Crimson Peak,” though. The Legendary film, distributed by Universal, failed to attract a significant audience in its debut.

Those who did turn out gave the film a lousy B- CinemaScore.

It’s one of del Toro’s lowest wide openings; 1997’s “Mimic” earned only $7.8 million in its first weekend in theaters. One of the issues is that the movie, starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain and Tom Hiddleston, is rated R, and therefore has a more limited audience. Also, despite promises of a haunted house, the film, which cost a reported $55 million to produce, is more of a gothic romance than a classic horror.

“It’s not a slasher movie, it’s not a PG-13 movie aimed at the date crowd.

It’s more of a sophisticated movie,” said Paul Dergarabedian, Rentrak’s senior media analyst.

“Del Toro has passionate fans for

Tourism festivals still overlapping

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This photo provided by Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures shows Mia Wasikowska as Edith Cushing in a scene from Legendary Pictures’ “Crimson Peak,” a gothic romance from director, Guillermo del Toro. films that give this sort of approach to topics,” said Nick Carpou, Universal’s president of domestic distribution. In an exit poll, 45 percent of respondents said that they went because it was a del Toro movie. But that fandom, it seems,

is limited in box-office impact.

Also on the lower end, Steven Spielberg’s well-received cold-war thriller “Bridge of Spies,” meanwhile, debuted in third-place with $15.4 million from 2,811 theaters.

Despite the PG-13 rating, audiences for the $40 million film starring Tom Hanks were overwhelmingly adult. An estimated 88 percent were over the age of 25, according to a Rentrak survey. (ap)

‘Star Wars’ trailer to play during ‘Monday Night Football’

LOS ANGELES — More than just football fans will likely be tuning in to watch halftime on “Monday Night Football” this week.

A new trailer for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” will debut during

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halftime of the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles game, Lucasfilm announced Sunday. Tickets will also go on sale for the film, opening Dec. 18, after the trailer plays.

People dressed as Stormtroopers parade during a campaign of the Star Wars “The Force Awakens” film at the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015.

The game will be broadcast on ESPN, which, like Lucasfilm is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.

“The Force Awakens,” the seventh film in the franchise, is one of the most anticipated of the year.

Even its trailer launches have become events in and of themselves.

The second teaser trailer, which debuted in April, has over 64 million views on YouTube to date. (ap)

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Construction workers are seen working against a hazy skyline in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, Oct. 19, 2015.

Malaysian authorities ordered school closure again due to the haze situation. Indonesian forest fires that have caused choking smoke to drift across Southeast Asia are spreading to new areas and are unlikely to be put out until next year, experts said on Monday.

A NUMBER of festivals are held in Bali, however they have yet to coordinate with each other so as to maximize turnouts. “Many of the existing festivals do not show off unique characteristics or do not reach the target of their allocated funds,” said Chairman of the Regional Tourism Promotion Board (BPPD) of Bali, Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati, in Denpasar, recently.

The man familiarly addressed Cok Ace, added that any festival or tourism event should show their specific character. For example, there should not be more than one festival that features the art of baleganjur gamelan music from all of Bali’s counties. It is important to avoid overlap in the organization of tourism festivals.

“Nevertheless, we are still confident that despite some of the organizational set backs of Bali’s festivals they are still successful in showing travellers that Balinese people are still working creatively and that Bali is safe and worth visiting,” he said.

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Southeast Asia set to suffer for months as Indonesia fails to douse fires

JAKARTA - Indonesian forest fires that have caused choking smoke to drift across Southeast Asia are spreading to new areas and are unlikely to be put out until next year, experts said on Monday.

Indonesia has come under increased pressure from its neighbours to contain the annual “haze” crisis, which is caused by slash-and-burn agriculture practices, largely on Sumatra and Kalimantan.

But it has failed to put out the fires, with “hot spots” growing in eastern parts of the country and industry officials and analysts estimating the smoke will last until early 2016.

“Maybe it will last until December and January,” said Herry Purnomo, a scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research, adding that hot spots had reached Papua, a region that usually avoids widespread fires.

“It is because people are opening new agriculture areas, like palm oil,” he said.

A senior official at a company active in Indonesia’s forested areas said

the haze could continue until March.

Indonesia usually enters its wet season in October and November, but this year the country is expected to face moderate El Nino dry conditions which could strengthen until December and may hinder efforts to control the fires.

Indonesia’s national disaster management agency has made several forecasts for when the forest fires will be brought under control, many of which have now passed, but their latest target date is early November.

On the ground, NASA satellites detected 1,729 fire alerts across

Indonesia on Wednesday, a national holiday, more than any single day in the last two years.

About half of the fires during the last week have been on carbon-rich peat land areas, mostly in South Sumatra, South and Central Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Papua.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has increased government efforts to tackle the haze in recent weeks, making several visits to the worst-hit areas and asking other countries for help, but apparently to little avail.

“We all know that the burned areas are now widening beyond normal

conditions,” Widodo told reporters on Sunday. “...the efforts to extinguish the fires are ongoing now both by land and air. We have to be patient because the burned areas is now wide.” (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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Branding of Bali tourism still being discussed

THE BALI Tourism Office is discussing how to rebrand Bali tourism. The old slogan “Shanti Shanti Shanti” is considered by many not be very popular. Also, competing countries, like Thailand have rebranded their tourism promotion to be more attractive and easily distinguishable.

“We’ll have to create a new slogan, because the old one, ‘Shanti Shanti Shanti’ has not caught on with the public,” said the Head of the Bali Tourism Office, A.A. Yuniartha Putra, in Denpasar recently.

In the meantime tourism promotion for Bali -especially for Balinese counties doing promotion overseas, the name Bali will obviously be included in the promotional material.

“I think that Bali is already

branded, and the minister agrees, all we have to do is use the name “Bali”, as the minister said, it is enough,” he explained.

Yuniarta explained that when a region like Buleleng for example wants to promote tourism, they can

use the term ‘North Bali’, Karangasem can say: East Bali, etc.

The Indonesian Tourism Industry Association (GIPI) of Bali expects the new branding of tourism in Bali to be done quickly. The Ministry of Tourism has already set aside a budget for the tourism branding.

“We’ve talked to the Ministry of Tourism and discussed with

the Bali Development Planning Board (Bappeda) about branding Bali but we have not heard anything back yet,” said Chairman of the GIPI Bali, Ida Bagus Ngurah Wijaya.

According to Wijaya, branding is cornerstone of promotion, thus the branding of Bali tourism will certainly facilitate tourism promotion. (kmb32)

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Promotion fund

The central government has allocated IDR 200 billion to Bali for tourism promotion, but many hope that this amount can be increased for 2016.

Deputy Governor of Bali Ketut Sudikerta said tourism clearly depends on promotion and promotion needs to be financed. “We hope that the allocation it can be increased,” said Sudikerta.

Sudirka explained that 80 percent of the fund for tourism promotion will go towards ad campaigns. The remaining 20 percent will be used to finance various festivals in each county or municipality.

Additional fund are needed for the

promotion of the increasing number of festivals in different regions of Bali.

For example, Badung hosts the Nusa Dua Fiesta, Kuta Carnival and others; Denpasar hosts the Sanur Village Festival and the Denpasar Festival; and other counties have festivals such as the Nusa Penida Festival, Batur Festival, Tanah Lot Festival and others. “Promotion for festivals in the different regions of Bali cannot rely only on funding form the central and provincial government but should also be receiving funding from local governments,” said Sudikerta.

This former deputy regent of Badung is worried that the proposal to increase the budget for festival promotion will be denied even though local funding is clearly not enough.

Head of the Bali Tourism Office, A.A. Gede Yuniartha Putra, said that there is instead a decrease in the amount of funds being allocated to Bali for tourism promotion in the regional budget for 2016.

“The regional budget for 2015 allocated IDR 800 billion for tourism promotion while the budget for 2016 is onlyIDR 600 billion. The amount was adjusted because our income decreased by IDR 3000 billion this year,” he said.

Nevertheless, his institution still aims to increase the number of tourist arrivals to Bali next year. Financial assistance from the Ministry of Tourism for tourism promotion is aimed at encouraging tourists to visits provinces throughout Indonesia, with the island of the Gods serving as a gateway. (kmb32)

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Green School Bali opens its campus for Bali residents

Green School boasts one of the most beautiful campuses imaginable. Located along the Ayung River in Sibang Kaja, Bali, the island’s unique artistic and religious culture enriches the Green School learning experience. There are currently 360 Green School students from over 30 countries in Pre-K through to Grade 12. Boarding is also offered for students in Grades 6 and up. Since its founding, the school has been visited by many influential and prominent figures such as UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and Dr. Jane Goodall.

Dancers performed Rejang Dewa Dance during the opening of Nusa Penida Festival (NDF) 2015. A number of festivals are held in Bali, however they have yet to coordinate with each other so as to maximize turnouts.

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MANGUPURA - Green School Bali was founded in 2008 by John and Cynthia Hardy. As acclaimed jewelry designers and local residents of Bali for 30 years, they recognized a unique opportunity to create something truly inspiring and outside the structural, conceptual, and physical limitations of most traditional schools. Today, Green School aims are to be the number one model of sustainability in education through offering an unparalleled education which integrates traditional academics with experiential, hands-on learning. Staying true to the founders’ core values of celebrating and respecting Balinese culture, the school proudly supports a Local Scholar Programme which allows local Balinese and Indonesian children to experience a Green School education. It is the school’s long-term goal to have 20% local student enrolment.

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According to Cok Ace, festival organizers fall into three categories: private or independent organizers, communities and governments. Private or independently organized festivals tend to be focused on promotion and fair trade.

“Community organized festivals tend to be focused on self-actualization though undoubtedly these also impact tourism. Government organized festivals are clearly aimed developing and preserving culture,” said the former regent of Gianyar.

Cok Ace is asking that the government provide incentives or stimulus through financing for the private sector and for communities who want to hold tourism festivals in Bali because these festivals clearly promote tourism yet they have yet to receive any attention from the government.

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After his 2014 visit, Ki Moon described the school as “the most unique and impressive school I have ever visited.”

In 2012, Green School was awarded the “Greenest School on Earth” by U.S. Green Building Council. Rachel Gutter, director of Green Schools noted, “Green School Bali possesses a deep, even spiritual connection with the community, and exists in perfect harmony with the earth it sits on.” In 2011, Green School partnered with renewable energy producer Akuo Energy to further their

goal towards 100% sustainability. Akuo engineers and Green School community members worked together to build a customized solar power project and Gravitational Water Vortex which both create sustainable energy for the school. The school also has an organic garden, aquatic systems, sustainable

waste and water usage systems, and a bird conservatory.

The school will open its campus on 23rd of October, 20th of November and 11th of December to prospective families to tour around the natural campus and have a lunch with the Admissions team.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses.

Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine.

In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Fossil teeth show earliest sign of people in southern Asia until only about 40,000 to 45,000 years ago. Maybe Neanderthals crowded them out, basically out-competing them as hunter-gatherers until their populations started to fade, the researchers suggest.

In a journal commentary, Robin Dennell of the University of Exeter in England suggests that cold winters might be a better explanation.

Eric Delson of Lehman College in New York, who was not part of the research, called the discovery potentially exciting. But given the implications, he said, the researchers must present a more detailed documentation of the geological setting of the find, which is crucial for the age estimate.

Shara Bailey, an expert on the evolution of human teeth at New York University who also didn’t participate in the research, said some teeth appear to have cavities, which is unusual for humans living so long ago. Cavities aren’t common until the appearance of agriculture changed the human diet about 10,000 years ago, she said. (ap)

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DENPASAR - Education has seen some significant developments in recent years. For example, three and four year olds are already attending pre-school and children as young as two years old are also being sent to school.

According to psychiatrist Wayan Westa, this is an age for playing. playing is an important part of the learning process for young children, and playing is how children learn to get along with their peers. “Playing is also a lesson,” he said recently.

For young children, learning is

not necessarily learning to read, draw or speak English yet teachers expect young children to participate in formal learning processes such as drawing et cetera. It used to be that children of this age were not expected to engage in formal learning but were instead invited to learn

how to exercise their courage and social interactions.

“In the past, young children did not receive formal education until they were slightly older,” said Westa.

Ideally, children begin to learn more formally at the age of six or

seven years old because their brains have already developed enough. “Today, even children much younger that that are expected to engage in formal learning this new approach is based on the fact that some students are ready to learn earlier than others,” he said.

Some students may be quite intelligence and ready to learn at an early age while others may not be so intelligent or ready to learn.

“In the past, children started

going to school at the age of six or seven. According to the Dutch laws and rules students were expected to begin interacting with their friends at that age, and that it was unnecessary to wait for their brain to be ready to learn,” he explained.

Sending kids to school at that age may also be based on economic capabilities, or children’s varying abilities to understand lessons. (kmb42)

Museum goes to school program finally realized TABANAN - After being delayed due to the revitalization of the Subak Museum, the Museum Goes to School program was finally launched last Monday. This program, the first of its kind, seeks to introduce museums to the younger generation by first targeting the SMAN 1 Kediri high school.

Similar program will also be launched in other schools such as the SMAN 1 Tabanan and SMAN 2 Tabanan. The program is working in conjuntion with both the management of the Subak Museum, as well as university agricultural analysts.

Head of the Tabanan Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Adnyana, said that this program initiated by his agency, aims both at letting

students know of the existence of the museum and also at preserving Balinese agricultural practices.

“Museum education will not remain restricted to high school students, in the future we plan to involve elementary students in Tabanan as well. The program is very good for promoting an understanding of the agricultural sector of Tabanan in particular and that if Bali more generally,” he said.

Head of the Subak Museum, Ida Ayu Ratna Pawitrani, said that the idea for the program emerged after it was noted that fewer and fewer young people were familiar with the agricultural sector. Currently young people are reluctant to whorl in agriculture. “The concept of the ‘museum goes to school’ program

based on a proactive approach to museums rather than a passive approach to museum visits,” explained Pawitrani.

Each time the museum visits a school, the students will be presented with a documentary film screening about the local irrigation cooperatives known as subak.

“After watching the movie, we will have a short discussion about the subak system, so that students can really know and understand more about subak,” she explained.

Pawitrani explained that actually the concept for this program was designed in 2014, but because the subak museum was being revitalized, the ‘museum goes to school’ program could only be realized this year.

To target primary school students, the subak museum proposed to the ministry of education that an animated documentary film be created so as to be more apple align to young students. “By using animation and a smile presentation, even elementary students can understand the subak system,” she concluded.

Principal of the SMAN 1 Kediri, I Dewa Nyoman Maryono, welcomed the dissemination of information related to the subak museum. Maryono’s school had already introduced its students to the subak system by visiting the subak museum and encouraging students to visit other museums in Tabanan. “This included having the students see all the equipments needed by farmers in Bali to pursue

farming,” he said.

As many people know the appearance of Subak Museum located at Sanggulan, Kediri, is no longer in a humbles but has been restores.

Previously, many of the buildings were poorly maintained, for instance, the Balinese traditional farmer’s house that was severely damaged has been restored into a beautiful condition thanks to the museum revitalizations project that was started in 2012 with the assistance of the Ministry of Education and Culture.

Since the restorations, many visitors both domestic and foreign have enjoyed visiting the museum.

The number of visitors continues to increase, though admittedly most visitors are locals. (kmb28) After being delayed due to the revitalization of the Subak Museum, the Museum Goes to School program was finally launched last Monday. This program, the first of its kind, seeks to introduce museums to the younger generation by first targeting the SMAN 1 Kediri high school.

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This photo provided by the journal Nature shows human upper teeth found in the Fuyan Cave of Hunan province in southern China. They are among dozens of fossil human teeth more than 80,000 years old that were recovered from the cave, providing the oldest clear indication by far that people lived in southern Asia that long ago. Maria Martinon-Torres, of University College London in England, and colleagues report the discovery in a paper released by the journal Nature on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015.

Baby dinosaur fossils found in ‘Dragon’s Tomb’ MIAMI - A handful of baby dinosaur fossils complete with fragments of eggshells have been uncovered in Mongolia, researchers said Wednesday.

They are the youngest ever discovered of a type of giant hadrosaur that lived about 70 million

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Preschoolers too young to receive formal education

NEW YORK — Dozens of fossil human teeth from a cave in China show that people lived in southern Asia more than 80,000 years ago, researchers report.

Before this, the earliest well-dated fossils firmly linked to our species in southern Asia were only around 45,000 years old.

Our species, Homo sapiens, is thought to have appeared in Africa around 200,000 years ago and later spread to other continents.

The details of that dispersal are still murky. The discovery in China’s Hunan province argues against a theory that the first wave reached southern Asia only about 60,000 years ago.

The finding may mean that people arrived in multiple waves, said Maria Martinon-Torres of University College London, a study author.

She and authors from China and elsewhere reported the discovery of 47 teeth in the journal Nature on Wednesday. They could not date the teeth directly, but analysis of nearby mineral samples and animal fossils indicated the teeth are somewhere between 80,000 and 120,000 years old.

The finding raises the question of why our species didn’t enter Europe

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years ago, known as Saurolophus angustirostris, which means “lizard crest,” said the study in PLOS ONE. Their discovery adds to knowledge about how dinosaurs developed and grew, from birth to adulthood.

The babies all likely came from the same nest in a site known as the “Dragon’s Tomb” in the Gobi Desert, according to lead researcher Leonard Dewaele from Ghent University and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.

The saurolophus family is al-

ready well known to paleontologists. The herbivores could measure up to 12 meters (40 feet) long and weigh more than two tons. They are distinguished by a crest that projects backward off the top of the skull.

The three or four babies described in the paper did not yet

have this cranial crest, and their skulls were not yet fused, suggesting they were in the early stages of development.

Scientists are not sure if they had hatched yet or if they met their demise while still in their shells. (afp)

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Agustay ready to reveal many facts on Engeline’s murder

DENPASAR - Initial trial has been determined for the murder against the kid Engeline. The judge hoped the openness of the defendants so that the trial can run smoothly. One of the attorneys of the defendant Agustay Hamda May, namely Haposan Sihombing, said on Sunday (Oct. 18) that Agustay is ready to stand trial, and expected the trial can be held on Thursday (Oct. 22) so that he can reveal the truth having been attempted to be hid.

Haposan said that Agustay hopes this trial can uncover the truth hidden all this time. “Agus will open as wide as possible the facts. He has admitted to have helped wrap and bury the corpse of Engeline. He feels so sorry and wants his former employer to also regret as he does,” said Haposan.

As is known, the Denpasar District Court directly appointed the judges that will prosecute the case of Engeline’s murder allegation with the defendant Margriet Ch Megawe and Agustay Hamda May. A day after receiving of the transfer of file from Prosecutor’s Office, the Head of the Denpasar District Court, Prim Haryadi, directly appointed judges that will prosecute

the case. For the defendant Margriet Ch Megawe, it is entrusted to the Deputy Head of the Denpasar District Court, Edward Harris Sinaga (head) and the judges consist of I Wayan Sukanila and Agus Walujo Tjahjono with substitute clerk I Made Arta Jaya Negara and the main prosecutor Subekhan.

Then, the defendant Agustay Hamda May will be prosecuted by I Ketut Gede Wanugraha (head) with the judge members consisting of Made Sukereni and Achmad Peten Sili, with substitute clerk I Made Sukarma and the main prosecutor Ketut Maha Agung.

When being confirmed on Friday (Oct. 16), Deputy Head of the Denpasar District Court, Edward Harris

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Sinaga, told that he is entrusted to lead the trial for the defendant Margriet. “I serve as the judge, and the hearing will be held next Thursday,” said Harris Sinaga.

He added that the indictment in the files received has been read.

However, he did not dare to explain it clearly because the charges have not been read out before the public.

He said that there are a number of witnesses having been entered into the files. However, the fact witness is very minimal, namely Agustay (in separate file) and the couple staying at the same home.

“I think the fact witness at the location is only Agustay. The couple is a bit far off, but they have given many clues,” he explained. About the other witnesses, they are even somewhat far away from the principal case because there are NGOs and other witnesses. (kmb37)

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In this Oct. 13, 2015, photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during the Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas. It seems like there was a 15-year virtual gag order on guns in presidential politics.

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The officers from Denpasar District Attorney Office carried the paperworks for Angeline murder case.

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76 wild dogs eliminated at Tanah Lot

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The wild dogs which were eliminated in Tanah Lot area to prevent the spread of rabies

TABANAN - As a precautionary measure against positive rabies bite cases at Tanah Lot tourist attraction, the management with Beraban villagers, task force as well as the Tabanan and Bali Livestock Agency do elimination against stray dogs, Saturday (Oct. 17). The elimination started at 4:00 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. can eliminate 76 wild dogs around the Tanah Lot and Beraban village, Kediri.

The Head of the Tabanan Livestock Agency, Wayan Kotio, when contacted on Sunday (Oct. 18) explained that the burial land for the dogs is provided by local village.

He admitted that when the elimination taking place there are people protesting because their dog gets eliminated. However, when waiting for resolving the problem at local meeting hall, the protesting dog owners did not come.

“Maybe they realize that village authorities have given an announcement before the elimination. To prevent the pet dog from being eliminated, people should tie or put their dog in cage,” said Kotio. Apparently on the day of elimination some people still allow

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their pet dog to roam.

In doing the elimination, added Kotio, the Livestock Agency cannot immediately come into an area declared to be in positive case and immediately eliminate dogs. He said that his institution always makes coordination in advance with local village whether it is ready to do the elimination.

“So, the village apparatus will provide information for local residents.

By doing so, the elimination will really target wild dogs, not pet dogs,” he explained.

On the other hand, the coordination made with local village enables the officers to bury the carcasses of the dogs eliminated as well as prepare the required ceremonies.

In the elimination around the Tanah Lot tourist attraction and Beraban village, Saturday (Oct. 17), Kotio said the Livestock Agency gets the help of poison from the province. He also explained that in addressing canine rabies at Tanah Lot the task force has been regularly assigned to the area in order to eliminate stray dogs. (kmb24)

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is considering more executive action on gun control. The front-runner in the Democratic race to replace him says she “will not be silenced” on guns. At the Democrats’ first debate in the presidential season, candidates jockeyed for bragging rights over who had the lowest rating from the country’s biggest gun lobby.

The return of the gun debate comes in the first White House contest since the December 2012 shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, that killed 20 children and six educators at an elementary school, and a string of mass shootings after that. The absence of gun legislation passed by Congress has spurred a steady call for action from the Democratic base.

Democrats say support for new gun laws is broader now and the politics of the issue have shifted enough to make the push for tougher measures a political winner, even if there remains almost no chance for success in Congress. Republicans are eager for Democrats to test the theory.

They watched the Democratic debate and saw fodder for advertising aimed at rural voters and gun owners still firmly opposed to putting more restrictions on gun purchases.

Those voters have tended to retain their passion on the issue and have been motivated to vote, long after a shooting recedes from the headlines.

The White House has been upfront that it plans to keep attention on the issue.

Obama has directed his staff to review gun laws for possible ways

he could make changes without congressional approval.

One option could be changing regulations to ensure gun show and Internet purchasers are subject to background checks, a move that would probably run into a court challenge over whether he has that authority.

It would risk a backlash from supporters of gun rights — one that could complicate Obama’s agenda in Congress and create trouble for Democratic lawmaker running in conservative or rural districts.

But Democrats increasingly argue that fears of such a backlash are overblown, particularly if the issue is framed narrowly.

“You see such strong support all across the country for proposals like closing the gun show loophole,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, urging Congress to act. “There’s ample public data to indicate that even a majority of gun owners support something like this.”

A July Pew Research Center poll found that 85 percent of those questioned, including 87 percent of those in gun-owning households, support requiring background checks for private sales and at gun shows. But

on the more general question of whether gun laws should be tighter, just 52 percent of respondents overall agreed, in a CBS News poll conducted in July and August.

That survey found 77 percent of Democrats in favor of tighter laws, a number that helps explain why the issue has lit up the Democratic primary. Hillary Rodham Clinton has kept up a drumbeat for weeks, using the issue to try to drive a wedge between liberal Democrats and her top rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has voted against some gun control legislation.

Clinton on Friday suggested that the U.S. might consider a gun buyback program and mocked the gun lobby for opposing such measures.

Chris Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action, said the buy-back idea “validates what the NRA has said all along. The real goal of gun control supporters is gun confiscation.” It was hard to imagine Democrats picking a fight with the NRA in past presidential contests.

Democrats’ electoral losses after the 1994 passage of the ban on assault-type weapons had a chilling effect on the debate. President Bill Clinton posited that Vice President Al Gore lost the 2000 election because of opposition to Gore’s gun stance in his home state of Tennessee and other rural, right-leaning states.

Democrats have since all but taken the issue off the table in national campaigns. (ap)

WASHINGTON — The U.S. expects Iran will take months to live up to its end of a seven-nation nuclear pact that could eventually provide the country relief from international sanctions.

The deal formally took effect Sunday, opening the way for Iran to make major changes to an underground nuclear facility, a heavy water reactor and a site for enriching uranium. The changes will not happen immediately, and Iran must further constrain its nuclear program before relief from sanctions will occur.

“These next steps will allow us to reach the objectives we set out to achieve over the course of nearly two years of tough, principled diplomacy,” President Barack Obama said in a statement.

“I am confident in the extraordinary benefits to our national security and the peace and security of the world” from putting the agreement in place.

Senior administration officials said Saturday they understand it’s in Iran’s best interest to work quickly, but they are only concerned that the work is done correctly. They insisted that no relief from the penalties will occur until the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency has verified Iran’s compliance with the terms of the agreement. They said Iran’s work will almost certainly take more than the two months Iran has projected.

The administration officials spoke on a conference call with reporters, but under the condition that they not be identified by name.

As part of the nuclear agreement, President Barack Obama on Sunday issued provisional waivers and a memorandum instructing U.S. agencies to lay the groundwork for relieving sanctions on Iran.

In Iran, Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told state TV: “On implementation, all should be watchful that Westerners, particularly Americans, keep their promises.”

Velayati said Iran expects that the United States and other Western countries that negotiated the deal will show their “good will” through lifting sanctions.

Iran’s atomic energy chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, told state TV that Tehran was ready to begin taking steps to comply, and awaited an order from President Hassan Rouhani. “We are hopeful to begin in the current or next week,” he said.

The IAEA said Sunday that Iran has agreed to allow greater monitoring of its commitment to the deal, going beyond basic oversight provided by the safeguards agreement that IAEA member nations have with the agency. For instance, it allows short-notice inspections of sites the IAEA may suspect of undeclared nuclear activities. (ap)

AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during the Munich Security Conference in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015.

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BUSINESS China’s economic growth declines to 6-year low

BEIJING — China’s economy decelerated in the latest quarter but stronger spending by consumers who are emerging as an important pillar of growth helped to avert a deeper downturn.

The world’s second-largest economy grew by 6.9 percent in the three months ended in September, the slowest since early 2009 in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, data showed Monday. That was down from the previous quarter’s 7 percent.

Weakening trade and manufacturing have fueled concern about possible job losses and unrest. The communist government has cut interest

rates five times since last November in an effort to shore up growth.

The latest data highlight the twospeed nature of China’s economy in the midst of a marathon effort by the Communist Party to nurture selfsustaining growth based on domestic consumption and reduce reliance on trade and investment. Manufacturers are shrinking and shedding millions of jobs while consumer-oriented businesses expand.

In September, growth in factory output slowed to 5.7 percent from August’s 6.1 percent. At the same time, retail sales growth rose to 10.9 percent from July’s 10.5 percent. Ecommerce spending leaped ahead, rising 36 percent in the third quarter over a year earlier.

“Continued downward pressures from real estate and exports caused GDP growth to drop,” said Louis Kuijs of Oxford Economics in a report. “But robust consumption and infrastructure prevented a sharper slowdown.”

The decline in Chinese heavy industry and construction has de-

pressed demand for oil, iron ore and other commodities, dragging on growth in Australia, Brazil and other supplier countries.

At the same time, rising Chinese incomes are propelling demand for European wines, wheat and fresh fruit from Australia and the United States, medical technology and other imports.

Private sector forecasters have cut their outlook for China’s growth this year to between 6.5 and 7 percent. That still would be the second-strongest of any major country, surpassed only by India, where the International Monetary

Bali News

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BDDF promote potential of Pemuteran coral reef

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SINGARAJA - The underwater beauty in the region of Pemuteran in relatively short time will be enlivened by hundreds of divers through the event entitled the Buleleng Bali Dive Festival (BBDF) 2015. The Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Affairs have designed a special agenda and increasingly introduced the undersea beauty of Pemuteran to wider circles of community.

Fund expects 7.5 percent. It would be more than double the 3.1 percent growth forecast by the IMF for the United States.

Much of China’s 5-year-old slowdown has been self-imposed but an unexpectedly sharp decline over the past year, due in part to weak demand for Chinese exports, prompted concern the downturn might be deepening too sharply.

Forecasters expect Beijing to cut interest rates further and take other steps to shore up growth.

The IMF expects growth to slow to 6.3 percent next year and 6 percent in 2017. (ap)

Troubled Deutsche Bank announces sweeping restructuring

BERLIN - Scandal-plagued Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest lender, Sunday announced a major business and management shake-up that would “fundamentally change” its leadership structure.

The announcement came after Deutsche Bank this month braced employees for bonus cuts, announced its biggest quarterly loss in about a decade and warned that even dividends could be scrapped.

The bank has been undergoing a massive shake-up after its co-chief executives Anshu Jain and Juergen Fitschen resigned in June over a tangle of scandals and missed profit targets, replaced by new co-CEO John Cryan.

The investment and retail bank is mired in around 6,000 different litigation cases and was fined in May a record $2.5 billion (2.2 billion euros) for its involvement in rigging interest rates.

It has also faced probes by Swiss authorities for suspected price fixing on the precious metals market, and US investigators have looked at its Moscow branch on suspicion of possible involvement in money-laundering.

The Supervisory Board on Sunday resolved at an extraordinary meeting in Frankfurt to restructure executive committees and senior management.

The guiding principle was “to reduce complexity of the bank’s management structure, AP Photo/Michael Probst, file enabling it to better meet client demands and requirements of supervisory authorities”, the In this April 27, 2015 file photo people walk by a branch of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany. Scandal-plagued bank said in a statement.

Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest lender, Sunday announced a major business and management shake-up that would “Deutsche Bank rarely underwent such a “fundamentally change” its leadership structure. fundamental reorganisation in its history,” said Paul Achleitner, chairman of the Su“The new structure and management split in two from January 1 -- Corporate and management board, responsible for corporate pervisory Board. “This also requires tough team are essential to getting this done. I am Investment Banking and Global Markets, and investment banking. decisions.”

Stefan Krause will resign from the mandelighted to welcome six new members to the while there would also be changes in Asset Cryan said that “we want to create a better Management Board to form the team that to- & Wealth Management. agement board on October 31, and Michele controlled, lower cost, and more focused bank gether will build a better Deutsche Bank.”

Among the management changes, Jeff Faissola, head of the asset and wealth manthat delivers long-term value to shareholders In the shake-up the bank’s corporate Urwin, currently co-head of CB&S together agement unit, will leave the bank after a and great experiences to clients”. banking and securities unit (CB&S) will be with London-based Colin Fan, will join the transition period, Deutsche Bank said. (afp)

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The beautiful underwater view of Pemuteran sea

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The Head of the Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, Nyoman Sutrisna, said that the Pemuteran region is known to the public as a marine conservation area and has artificial coral reef or biorock. The coral reefs begin to be introduced to the world, so that Pemuteran village is increasingly crowded by divers from various countries.

“Coral reef made by the Karang Lestari Foundation and other social foundations offers a very spectacular beauty to divers. They assess the undersea tourism in the region of Gerokgak should continue to be developed and preserved,” said Sutrisna, Sunday (Oct. 18).

He added that before the organization of the BBDF 2015, Sutrisna has come down to the field for making coordination and cooperation with various foundations and fishermen at Pemuteran. He invited all the parties to actively conserve coral reef. In the future, when having grown well on the seabed it will have the potential to become

marine tourism and beneficial to society. The so quiet and comfortable marine area of Pemuteran has been embedded with a tool to stimulate the growth acceleration of the coral reef.

“We have developed coral reef by involving local communities.

This coral reef acceleration program has been managed well and the benefits will be enjoyed by the public,” he added.

Furthermore, Sutrisna explained that if there is a temple in the middle of the ocean it can be enjoyed by divers taking action under the sea. Other than being nice to see, the underwater beauty also makes visitors eager to come back for diving. “Temple under the sea is very beautiful to see. Travelers wishing to see it must hire a small boat because the distance is far enough.

It lies in the depth of about 30-40 meters. This is the superiority of potential owned by Pemuteran and Buleleng in general,” he explained. (kmb34)

Prolonged dry season, water discharge of PDAM Buleleng declines

SINGARAJA - A decrease in the water discharge during dry season cannot be avoided in North Bali. Significant decline of water discharge reaches 15 to 20 percent, while in normal season it reaches 628 liters per second. Lately the decline is below the range of 500 liters per second. Allegedly the dry season has caused dryness at some points of water and affected the amount of water flow in Buleleng.

Director of the Municipality Waterworks (PDAM) Buleleng, Made Lestariana, did not dismiss on Sunday (Oct. 18) if the prolonged dry season has an influence on the water flow in Buleleng. Such condition is clearly visible based on the result of measurement last September 2015. Discharge of springs occurred at Pangkung Dalem, Gitgit village (Sukasada), Gunung Sari (Seririt) and Bestala. Based on monitoring of the officers, the spring discharge of the PDAM Buleleng declines to averagely 15 to 20 percent.

“Some springs decline in water discharge.

Formerly, it reached 628 liter per second, but last month it was lower than 500 liters per second. Dry season this year has significantly influences the decline in the volume of water in the entire Buleleng area,” said Lestariana.

He explained that water discharge indeed declines significantly, while the use of water in the community tends to increase significantly. It can be seen from the public consumption showing an increase in water usage compared to before dry seasons. “The water consumption of the community is quite high lately. It happens due to drought and hot weather. They increasingly use water for bathing and watering yard,” he explained.

In dry season this year, the people of Buleleng are invited to use water as wisely and effectively as possible. The issue is not just about the decline in water discharge, but the PDAM Buleleng has not distributed water evenly to all villages and subdistricts. It happens due to the topographical conditions of the region where Buleleng is dominated by highlands. So far, the PDAM Buleleng can just serve 43,000 customers spreading over nine subdistricts. Moreover, 900 other customers are still in waiting list to get water connection from the PDAM. “Hopefully, in the future people can use water more wisely. It can be done by holding water outside the peak hours in the morning and evening. If all customers are wise, the water can benefit together. Currently the

PDAM Buleleng has alerted six truck tanks of water in order to provide water services

if there is any disturbance occurred to the network,” he said. (kmb34)

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The dry condition in Buleleng Regency due to the drought that happen in the last few months

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7 dead in capsized boat in central Philippines

MANILA — The coast guard says a passenger motorboat with 41 people on board capsized in central Philippines in a storm, leaving seven dead and two others missing.

A coast guard report Monday said the boat Tawash was on its way to to Guimaras province with 36 passengers and five crew members when it capsized.

The storm is not believed to be connected to Typhoon Koppu, which struck northeastern provinces of the Philippines on Sunday.

Coast guard rescuers and passing vessels recovered 32 survivors.

Among the dead were two boys aged 6 and 9 and two of the crew members. A 3-year-old boy is among the missing. (ap)

Assailant opens fire on bus station, soldier killed

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FILE - In a Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015 file photo, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau greets supporters as he makes his way through a crowd at a campaign rally in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Canadian election could see Trudeau’s son become PM

TORONTO — Canadian voters cast their ballots Monday to decide whether to extend Conservative leader Stephen Harper’s near-decade in power or return Canada to its more liberal roots.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is trailing Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, the son of late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, in the polls.

Pierre Trudeau led Canada for almost all of a 16-year stretch from 1968-84 and is a storied name in Canadian history. He is responsible for the country’s version of the bill of rights and open door to immigration.

Harper got into politics to destroy Pierre Trudeau’s legacy and is seeking a rare fourth term in the hopes of safeguarding his goal of shattering Canada’s reputation as a liberal haven.

“We have a chance to bring real change to Canada and bring an end to the Harper decade,” Justin Trudeau said in Harper’s adopted home province of Alberta, traditionally a Conservative stronghold.

Trudeau, 43, ran an optimistic campaign and appears to have overcome relentless attack ads.

In the final days of the campaign he visited districts where the

Liberals traditionally haven’t won but now have a chance to win. Harper, 56, ran a divisive campaign that played on fears of the Muslim face veil. He visited districts he won in the 2011 election in an attempt to hang onto them.

The Liberals lead the Conservatives by almost 9 percentage points. According to the CTV/ Globe and Mail/Nanos Nightly Tracking Poll, the Liberals are at 39.1 percent, followed by the Conservatives at 30.5 percent.

The New Democrats are at 19.7 percent. The margin of error for the survey of 800 respondents is 3.7 percentage points.

A minority government in the 338-seat Parliament appears likely no matter which party wins the most seats. That would mean the winning party would have a shaky hold on power and need to rely on another party to pass legislation. Harper has said he’ll step down as Conservative leader if his party loses.

If the Liberals win the most

seats they’re expected to rely on the New Democrats for support on a bill-by-bill basis. If the Harper Conservatives win the most seats, the Liberals and New Democrats say they’ll defeat them in a vote in Parliament, raising the possibility of a coalition government or arrangement.

“It’s hard for me to see a path for his survival now,” said Tom Flanagan, Harper’s former campaign manager. “When you play out all the scenarios they all seem to end with a defeat on election night or a very tenuous victory that would not allow Harper to survive very long.”

If he wins Trudeau, a former teacher, would become the second youngest prime minister in Canada’s history, despite a thin resume.

David Axelrod, who helped mastermind Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign and offered advice to Trudeau’s team, tweeted congratulations to Trudeau’s top advisers for running a great campaign and said “Hope beats fear.” (ap)

JERUSALEM — An Arab attacker armed with a gun and a knife opened fire in a southern Israel bus station on Sunday, police said, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding 10 people in one of the boldest attacks yet in a monthlong wave of violence.

The attack came as Israel further tightened security around the country, highlighted by the construction of a barrier separating Jewish and Arab neighborhoods in east Jerusalem. In a bid to halt the fighting, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he would meet the Israeli and Palestinian leaders in the coming days.

Israel has deployed thousands of police, backed up by troops, to maintain order following a spate of attacks, mostly stabbings, by Palestinian assailants.

Those measures have so far failed to stop the violence.

In Sunday night’s attack, police said the Arab assailant entered the central bus station in the southern city of Beersheba and began shooting and stabbing people. They said an Israeli soldier was killed, five police were lightly wounded and five civilians were wounded to varying degrees.

Yoram Halevy, a police commander in southern Israel, told reporters that in addition to the knife and gun he entered with, the attacker also snatched a weapon from the soldier he killed. The attacker, whose identity was not immediately known, was shot and killed.

A foreigner was shot by police during the attack after they apparently mistook him for an assailant. Halevy said security forces responding to the attack entered the bus station from another area and saw a “foreign national,” shooting and wounding him. Israeli media said the foreigner was an Eritrean national living in Israel.

Israeli media showed footage of a blood-streaked floor and rows of ambulances outside the bus station. Security camera footage from the bus station aired on Israeli TV showed what appeared to be a civilian shooting the attacker as soldiers and civilians crouched for cover nearby.

The attack was one of the most serious incidents amid near-daily bouts of violence that has hit Israel and the Palestinian territories over the past month. After the attack, a crowd of Israelis gathered outside the bus station and chanted “death to Arabs.” The unrest erupted in Jerusalem a month ago over tensions surrounding a Jerusalem holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims.

It soon spread to Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem and then to the West Bank, Gaza and Israel. (ap)

AP Photo/Ariel Schalit

A Palestinian woman walks by concrete barrier between the Arab neighborhood of Jabal Mukaber and the Jewish area of Armon Hanatziv in east Jerusalem, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015.

International

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

INDONESIA Wildfire kills seven hikers

JAKARTA - Seven hikers were killed and two others suffered severe burns when a wildfire broke out on a mountain on Indonesia’s main island of Java, an official said Monday.

The group was climbing on Mount Lawu when the accident took place on Sunday, local disaster agency official Agung Lewis told AFP. “Seven of them were killed and two others are in critical condition as they sustained around 50 percent burns,” he said, adding all the dead and injured had been brought down from the mountain.

“The area is actually closed for hiking because there had been previous cases of wildfires due to the dry weather, so we suspect these hikers could have used unofficial routes,” he added.

He did not give any further details about those killed or injured.

The blaze was thought to have been caused by a campfire started by hikers and not properly extinguished, said disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.

While nobody else has been reported missing, rescuers are combing the area to check for others who might be stuck on the mountain.

Wildfires are a frequent occurrence during Indonesia’s monthslong dry season. (afp)

Indonesia committed to maintaining security, stability in South China Sea

JAKARTA - Commander of the Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) General Gatot Nurmantyo has reiterated Indonesia’s commitment to maintaining security and stability in South China Sea. The government also called on every element to not conduct activities in South China Sea that could increase tensions, the TNI chief stated on Monday. “It means that whatever country invites (us) to take part (in a joint military exercise) in South China Sea, it is better that the TNI does not accept it, for the sake of (regional) stability,” the general emphasized.

The Indonesian military will only conduct activities that are in line with the government’s policy, he affirmed.

“The TNI has to function in accordance with and obey whatever the government’s policies are,” he noted.

Earlier, China had offered to conduct a joint military exercise in South China Sea amid tensions arising due to overlapping territorial claims by some ASEAN member nations in the region.

The offer was conveyed by the Chinese defense minister during a recent informal meeting of the Chinese and ASEAN member countries’ defense ministers in Beijing.

Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan stated that the objectives of the joint military exercise would be to ensure maritime protection and disaster mitigation. (ant)

(AP Photo)

In this late Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015 photo, rescuers carry a body bag containing the body of a hiker who was killed in a forest fire on Lawu Mountain, upon arrival at Cemoro Sewu, East Java, Indonesia. Several hikers have died after being caught in a forest fire on the 3,265-meter (10,712-feet) mountain which on the border between East and Central Java provinces.

Aceh province tears down churches after religious violence

ACEH SINGKIL - Authorities in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Monday began tearing down several small Christian churches after hardline Muslims demanded their closure, citing a lack of building permits, and following religious violence.

Tensions are high among the ethnically and religiously diverse population of Aceh Singkil, where last week a mob burned down a church, leaving one person dead and forcing thousands of Christians to flee the area. Armed police and military troops have been deployed to the area and evacuees have returned.

Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population and the vast majority of its citizens practice a moderate form of the religion. Aceh is its only province to implement Islamic Sharia law as it was granted

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autonomy as part of a 2005 peace agreement that ended decades of separatist violence.

Police in Aceh Singkil district used sledgehammers and axes to tear down the churches - little more than small, wooden structures - as Christian members of the community looked on, many of them weeping.

“Whether or not we agree, we are going ahead with it,” said Paima Brutu, 35, caretaker of one Protestant church that was closed.

He added the church had about 100 members.

“We have applied for the building permit again and again so at this point all we’re asking the government is to be allowed to have that permit,” he said.

The closures come after a meeting on Sunday of local political and religious figures, including

Christians, in which all sides agreed to close the houses of worship, officials present at the meeting said.

Muslim residents, including members of the hardline group Islamic Defenders Front, had demanded that 10 churches be closed.

“On a day to day basis, the communities live in peace with each other and there is no pressure to close down these churches,” said Genti Brutu, the chief of Siompin village in Aceh Singkil where at least three churches were torn down.

“But what we are told is that it is a matter of permits so we have to abide by the rules.

Dozens of armored security vehicles patrolled the streets of a cluster of villages where at least 10 churches are slated to be demolished in the coming days. (rtr)

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Logano spins out Kenseth late, wins at Kansas Speedway

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Joey Logano kept peeking around Matt Kenseth as the laps ticked away at Kansas Speedway, the two of them in entirely different situations in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. Logano had nothing to lose. Kenseth had just about everything.

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Mertasari Beach is an ideal place for relaxing, while bathing, swimming or sunbathing on the white

sand. In the late 1976, this beach was used to sunbathe by tourists while facing east at sunrise. When exploring the coast, we will see many travelers lying down along the white sandy beach, bathing in sunlight or they call it sunbathing.

On certain days, Mertasari Beach

will be thronged by a myriad of visitors. Moreover, on Umanis Kuningan that coincides with Sunday, it will be very crowded.

Hindu people of Bali will cross to Serangan Island to pray at Sakenan Temple. So, do not to miss this rare opportunity.

So when Logano got under Kenseth entering Turn 1 with about five laps remaining, and sent him spinning across the track, it left many eyebrows raised long after the Penske Racing driver pulled away on the final restart to win his second straight Chase race.

“That’s good, hard racing,” Logano said. “We were racing each other really hard. I felt like I got fenced twice. He raced me hard so I raced him back.”

Logano was already guaranteed his spot in the next round of the Chase after his victory at Charlotte, though. After a difficult race a week ago, Kenseth’s team arrived at Kansas knowing a victory this weekend or next weekend at unpredictable Talladega might be the only way he could make it to the final eight in the “eliminator” round of the playoffs.

That’s why Kenseth was doing everything possible to block Logano. “I’m really disappointed,” Kenseth said. “I was running the lane he wanted to run in, but my goodness, isn’t this racing? Strategically, I think it wasn’t the smartest move on his part. He’ll probably sleep good tonight. I hope he enjoys that one.

It’s not what I would have done.”

Kenseth wound up leading a race-high 153 laps, but his wild ride with a handful to go dropped him to 14th in the race and, more importantly, last among the 12 drivers in the title race.

“I’m sure we’ll talk about it,” Logano said after hopping out of his No. 22 Ford. “I just felt like I raced hard. I got fenced twice. I wasn’t going to put up with it.” Uh, Joey, you sure about that chat?

“I won’t talk to Joey. I don’t have anything to talk to him about,” Kenseth said. “I’m one of the only guys that I think hasn’t been into it yet with Joey, and I’ve always raced him with a ton of respect. I’ve actually been one of his biggest fans.

I’m certainly not anymore.”

Already eliminated from contention, Jimmie Johnson had a strong car all day and wound up behind Denny Hamlin in third. Kasey Kahne was fourth, followed by Chase drivers Kyle Busch and Kurt Busch. Ryan Blaney was seventh, followed by more title contenders in Carl Edwards, pole sitter Brad Keselowski, Jeff Gordon and Ryan Newman.

Hamlin’s second-place finish allowed him to climb to second in the standings, giving him the best chance of everybody outside of Logano of moving onto the next round.

“It was a very good day,” he said. “I wanted to be seventh or better entering this weekend, and obviously second was a good run for us. Some of the guys in front of us had some troubles.”

Plenty of guys behind him, too.

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Dale Earnhardt Jr., who already felt like he needed to win to advance, had a wheel go loose during a long run and pitted under green.

That dropped him off the lead lap,

too, and Earnhardt wound up two laps down and in 21st place heading to Talladega.

“There’s no place I would rather go next week,” said Earnhardt, one of the best restrictor-plate drivers in the series, and the winner at Talladega in the spring.

The wild finish at Kansas led to a massive shake-up in the Chase standings, with Logano the only driver who can head to Alabama next week without feeling any pressure.

Hamlin, Kurt Busch and Edwards have a bit of a cushion, but everyone else is left hanging in the balance. Truex currently holds down the eighth and final spot in the next round, but he’s just six points ahead of Kyle Busch. Ryan Newman is only eight points back.

Then there’s Kenseth, now 35 points out of the final spot. If he wasn’t facing a must-win Sunday, his late-race spin from Logano left him facing exactly that next weekend. (ap)

Hamilton: A Ferrari surge would be good for Formula 1

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Sprint Cup Series driver Carl Edwards (19) pits at the front of pit row during a NASCAR auto race at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan., Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015.

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Ferrari Formula One driver Kimi Raikkonen of Finland leads his team mate Sebastian Vettel of Germany (R) during the Russian F1 Grand Prix in Sochi, Russia, October 11, 2015.

Lewis Hamilton is hoping for the sake of Formula 1 Ferrari will pose more of a threat to Mercedes’ dominance in 2016.

After winning 16 of 19 races last season en route to a constructors’ and drivers’ championship double, Mercedes has won 12 of 15 grands prix this year to make it back to back team titles, and Hamilton is on the brink of a third personal crown.

Ferrari has, however, proved stronger opposition for Mercedes this year, with Sebastian Vettel winning three races and currently lying second in the drivers’ standings after overhauling Nico Rosberg

with his second place in the Russian Grand Prix last Sunday.

Suggested to Hamilton that Vettel could become his main threat in 2016, the 30-year-old said: “Sebastian is always going to be one of the strongest opponents, but it depends how you look at it.

“As a driver from another team he’s definitely going to be the strongest opponent, but Nico will come strong next year. “But of course I hope we do have a race with the Ferraris, I think it would be good for the sport. “Hopefully it will be with us being in front, but still a good race.”

Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff also recognises what a more sustained battle with Ferrari could do for F1.

Vettel and Hamilton both now boast 42 wins apiece, and the Briton is almost certain to close to within one of the German’s title haul of four this season, Wolff agrees there is a real battle for supremacy building between the duo.

“They are both in cars that are performing very well,” said Wolff. “It could be one of the great rivalries in the sport, in different teams obviously, but Lewis has his own rivalry within the team, so that is good.” (rtr)

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Sanchez and Lewandowski duel key to Arsenal versus Bayern LONDON - Free-scoring strikers Alexis Sanchez of Arsenal and Robert Lewandowski of Bayern Munich will be looking to keep the goals flowing in their bid to help win their pivotal Champions League Group F match in north London on Tuesday.

After failing to score in his first eight matches of the season, Chilean Sanchez has netted 10 goals in his last six for club and country, while Lewandowski has scored 22 for club and country this season, including 15 in his last seven matches.

He failed to find the net in Bayern’s 1-0 win over Werder Bremen on Saturday but has not gone two matches without scoring all season.

Even if he does have an off-day, Arsenal will have Thomas Mueller to worry about after his 15 goals so far this season.

The Bayern front men pose a big threat to an Arsenal defence that has performed reasonably well in the Premier League but badly in the Champions League. The side are bottom of Group F, having lost their opening two group matches for the first time.

Bayern top the group with six points.

Olympiakos Piraeus, who won 3-2 at Arsenal three weeks ago, have three, as do Dinamo Zagreb, while Arsenal have none.

If Bayern win they are likely to seal their place in the last 16 with matches to spare.

If Arsenal lose, it is difficult to see them qualifying and they cannot afford to drop any more points when Bayern visit for the third time in four seasons.

After losing to Olympiakos, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger admitted his side faced a huge fight to qualify.

“It is still possible of course to qualify but it is difficult to swallow losing a game like that and we have a big battle ahead of us,” he said.

Wenger faced a wave of criticism for resting first choice keeper Petr Cech for the match and playing his reserve David Ospina instead, and it would be a big surprise if Cech was left out again as he has played a big role in Arsenal’s two wins since then keeping two clean sheets.

Arsenal bounced back from that defeat with an emphatic 3-0 demolition of Manchester United five days later and they maintained their good domestic form with a 3-0 win at Watford on Saturday.

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They will have to be at their best again against an in-form Bayern side that won 3-1 in London in Feb. 2013 and 2-0 there a year later. In four Champions League visits since Dec. 2000 Bayern have lost only once, in March 2005, though they still won that

round-of-16 tie 3-2 on aggregate.

They now come back in stellar form, having set a league record of nine successive wins from the start of the season when they beat Werder Bremen 1-0 on Saturday, their 12th successive win in all competitions.

Despite already having several injured players, including defenders Medhi Benatia and Holger Badstuber, as well as Franck Ribery and Mario Goetze, coach Pep Guardiola rested Douglas Costa and Javi Martinez ahead of the trip to London.

Winger Arjen Robben failed to recover from a groin injury in time to depart with the team on Sunday.

“It won’t be an easy task there but we are well prepared,” captain Philipp Lahm said of the match.

Guardiola will have Lewandowski in the squad despite the Poland forward suffering a knock on Saturday.

Lewandowski was hit by Werder keeper Felix Wiedwald, crashed to the ground and stayed there for a minute before playing on. “ I t ’s f i n e , ” L e w a n dowski said, “Nothing has happened. But I hope our game improves because from tomorrow it’s all about the Champions League.” (rtr)

Reuters / Dylan Martinez

Alexis Sanchez celebrates after scoring the first goal for Arsenal

Corinthians extend Brazilian lead with 4-1 win at Atletico

SAO PAULO — Renato Augusto and Vagner Love scored two goals each as Corinthians increased their Brazilian league lead to eight points with a crushing 4-1 win at Atletico Paranaense on Sunday.

Atletico had not won in eight games in the top flight and proved no match for Sao Paulo’s Corinthians.

Attacking midfielder Augusto’s two goals, either side of a Vagner Love strike, settled the contest by half time. Love added his second in the 62nd minute after a consolation goal from Paranaense midfielder Bruno Mota.

Corinthians’ attacking trio of Love, Augusto and Jadson have now scored 27 goals between them in 31 matches this season.

Second placed Atletico Mineiro, who had midfielder Carlos sent off in the 19th minute, lost 4-1 at Sport Recife. Already 1-0 down after an early goal from Mineiro defender Mattheus Ferraz, Carlos received two yellow cards in four min-

utes to leave his teammates a man down for most of the match.

The home side wasted little time making their advantage count as midfielder Diego Souza scored four minutes after Carlos’s early departure, before setting up teammate Elber to make it 3-0 in the 27th. In an impressive display, Souza also set up substitute Maikon Leite early in the second half.

A late Thiago Ribero goal would have done little to cheer up Mineiro’s long trip back from Recife to Belo Horizonte. Third place Gremio also lost despite taking a two-goal lead at home against Chapecoense.

In a thrilling match Gremio produced a resilient second half performance, striker Tulio de Melo scoring in the 57th and 78th minutes to draw Chapecoense level. Despite Gremio enjoying the majority of possession and having more shots on target, it was Chapecoense who snatched the win, with right back Apodi calming lifting the ball over keeper Bruno Grassi with the last kick of the game in the fifth minute of injury time. (ap)

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Grella scores fastest goal in MLS history, Red Bulls win 4-1 HARRISON, New Jersey — Mike Grella took just 7 seconds to score the quickest ever Major League Soccer goal as the New York Red Bulls beat the Philadelphia Union 4-1 on Sunday to earn the top seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs.

Grella raced to the ball and attacked the open lane after flatfooted midfielder Michael Lahoud allowed the initial backpass to roll past him. With Steven Vitoria backpedaling, Grella juked left and sent a left-footed shot deflecting off the defender and past goalkeeper Andre Blake. Tim Cahill scored the previous fastest goal at 8 seconds in the Red Bulls’ 3-0 victory over the Houston Dynamo on Oct. 20,

2013.

Grella also scored in the 17th minute to give New York a 3-0 lead. Wright-Phillips added his 16th goal of the season on a right-footed volley in the fourth minute. Kemar Lawrence scored his first MLS goal to make it 4-0 just before the half.

The Red Bulls are level with FC Dallas in the Supporters’ Shield race for the overall regular-season title with one game left. Sebastien Le Toux scored for the Union in the 55th minute.

In Washington, Chris Pontius scored in the 39th minute and D.C. United added three second-half goals to beat the Chicago Fire 4-0.

United moved into second place in the East and can secure an auto-

matic berth in the conference semifinals with a win over Columbus in the regular-season finale.

Pontius opened the scoring when he pushed the ball past Chicago’s Jon Busch with a heavy touch and raced behind the goalkeeper to finish in the open net.

Bobby Boswell headed home Fabian Espindola’s corner in the 67th minute, Espindola knocked in a leftfooter with the benefit of defender Lovel Palmer’s deflection in the 71st, and Alvaro Saborio volleyed in a high-arching deflection from point-blank range in the 80th.

Portland’s Fanendo Adi scored two second-half goals in the Timbers’ 5-2 victory over the Los Angeles Galaxy. (ap)

Celta beats Villarreal with late goal to stay top in Spain

BARCELONA, Spain — Celta Vigo forward Manuel “Nolito” Agudo scored in the 90th minute to snatch a 2-1 win at 10-man Villarreal and pull the visitors level with Real Madrid and Barcelona at the top of the Spanish league on Sunday. Nolito and attacking midfielder Fabian Orellana kept Celta unbeaten through eight rounds after each scored a goal and hit the woodwork in an attractive clash between the two of the league’s best passing teams at El Madrigal Stadium.

Nolito, who has been linked to a move to Barcelona during the winter transfer window, got the winner from a rebound after Orellana’s shot came off the post. Nolito’s sixth goal of the season left him level with Madrid stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema, and two goals behind Neymar.

Celta’s win left Madrid as leader on goal difference after its 3-0 victory over Levante on Saturday. Celta is second, followed by Barcelona in third after the defending champions routed Rayo Vallecano 5-2, also on Saturday.

“We think we can beat anyone, that we can go to any ground and show that we can win because we are a solid team that works hard and is dangerous,” said coach Eduardo Berizzo, whose Celta side stunned Barcelona 4-1 last month.

Villarreal, which entered the round in first place, fell all the way to fifth, two points off the pace.

Atletico Madrid moved into fourth on goal difference with a 2-0 win at Real Sociedad, which has just one win this season.

Deportivo La Coruna scored twice in the final minutes to fight back 2-2 with Athletic Bilbao to remain in sixth, while Getafe also eased to a 4-0 victory over 10-man Las Palmas. Villarreal dominated possession for the first 25 minutes until REUTERS/Vincent West

Nolito tilted the action the other way by making his first incursions into the area.

Orellana put Celta in front with a great long-range strike after Villarreal’s defense failed to close on him before he could unleash a curling shot around outstretched goalkeeper Alphonse Areola.

Celta went close to a second goal when Nolito hit the upright in the 45th. Iago Aspas then squandered a clever buildup by Nolito and Orellana with Villarreal playing with 10 men after defender Eric Bailly picked up a second booking for clumsily handling the ball two minutes after halftime.

Substitute Denis Suarez leveled for Villarreal against the flow of play with a deflected shot in the 67th but, just as the match was heading to a draw, Nolito smashed home the loose ball after Orellana’s last-gasp effort clipped the post. “We made mistakes that you just can’t make,” said Villarreal manager Marcelino Garcia.

Antoine Griezmann earned the applause of his former fans at Sociedad when he was substituted late in the match despite his audacious goal to give Atletico the lead in the ninth minute. The France forward quickly dribbled right past three defenders before coolly chipping the ball over goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli for a great goal that he didn’t celebrate out of respect for his previous club.

Sociedad saw Diego Reyes sent off with two bookings in the last minute before Yannick Carrasco raced forward to score Atletico’s second goal in injury time. Sociedad added to its own misery when Jonathas got a second yellow card for protesting before the final whistle.

Bilbao seemed to be in complete control after Inaki Williams and Aritz Aduriz gave the Basques a two-goal lead, but Lucas Perez sparked Deportivo’s comeback with a sweeping volley in the 80th and Alejandro Arribas headed in the equalizer a minute from time.

Victor Rodriguez and Pablo Sarabia gave Getafe a two-goal lead by the 11th minute, and substitute Stefan Scepovic rounded off the victory with two goals after Juan Culio’s low tackle on Sarabia earned him a straight red card in the 80th. (ap)

Atletico Madrid’s Antoine Griezmann celebrates a goal by putting the ball under his jersey during their Spanish first division soccer match against Real Sociedad at Anoeta stadium in San Sebastian, northern Spain, October 18, 2015.

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Juventus’ Simone Zaza, right, is challenged by Inter Milan’s Jeison Murillo during a Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Juventus at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015.

Fiorentina stays top despite loss to Napoli

MILAN — Fiorentina stayed top of Serie A despite losing 2-1 at Napoli on Sunday, after title rival Inter Milan was held to a 0-0 draw

by Juventus.

Both Inter and Juventus hit the woodwork and had several other chances in an entertaining match at a packed San Siro. It was only the second match of the 80 games played in Serie A this season to finish goalless.

“Am I satisfied? Not really, you play to win, but at the end a point is OK,” Inter coach Roberto Mancini said. “We are fairly well placed in the standings and I want to win.

We can do better, that’s my aim. If we continue to work hard, we will improve.”

In Naples, Lorenzo Insigne’s stellar start to the season continued as the forward — who had to pull out of the Italy squad last week through injury — opened the scoring in the first minute of the second half with his sixth goal of the campaign, setting a new personal record. Inter is third, a point behind Fiorentina and below Roma on goal difference.

Four-time defending champion Juventus is now just three points above the drop zone, and 10 below Fiorentina.

“We have to grow, we have to be more clinical when we get into the box and in choosing our final passes too,” coach Massimiliano Allegri said. “A point doesn’t change our position in the table, we need to be aware that we have to cut the gap before Christmas and be in the running in March.”

Napoli moved into fourth place, three points behind Fiorentina, and above Lazio on goal difference after the capital side lost 2-1 at Sassuolo — which also now has 15 points.

Atalanta was a point further back after easing past Carpi 3-0.

Elsewhere, substitute Panagiotis Tachtstidis — who had only just come off the bench — scored a stoppage-time winner as 10-man Genoa snatched a 3-2 win over Chievo Verona.

Newly-promoted Frosinone beat Sampdoria 2-0 and Hellas Verona drew 1-1 against Udinese, while Palermo won 1-0 at bottom side Bologna.

There was a heated atmosphere at a sold-out San Siro, with almost 80,000 vociferous fans packing the stadium for the eagerly-anticipated match.

There is no love lost between the two clubs and the bitter rivalry among fans is longstanding.

Juventus came agonizingly close last season to joining Inter as the only Italian clubs to have won the treble of the league, cup and Champions League trophies, but it failed with the last piece of the puzzle as it lost to Barcelona in Berlin.

Inter fans taunted Juventus about that in their pre-match choreography as they unfurled a giant cutout of the Champions League trophy above a banner with the words “Berlin, 06.06.2015 ... you almost did it.”

They then depicted all three trophies below a banner saying “keep dreaming” and above a giant picture of three cartoon thieves. (ap)

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Sanchez and Lewandowski duel key to Arsenal versus Bayern LONDON - Free-scoring strikers Alexis Sanchez of Arsenal and Robert Lewandowski of Bayern Munich will be looking to keep the goals flowing in their bid to help win their pivotal Champions League Group F match in north London on Tuesday.

After failing to score in his first eight matches of the season, Chilean Sanchez has netted 10 goals in his last six for club and country, while Lewandowski has scored 22 for club and country this season, including 15 in his last seven matches.

He failed to find the net in Bayern’s 1-0 win over Werder Bremen on Saturday but has not gone two matches without scoring all season.

Even if he does have an off-day, Arsenal will have Thomas Mueller to worry about after his 15 goals so far this season.

The Bayern front men pose a big threat to an Arsenal defence that has performed reasonably well in the Premier League but badly in the Champions League. The side are bottom of Group F, having lost their opening two group matches for the first time.

Bayern top the group with six points.

Olympiakos Piraeus, who won 3-2 at Arsenal three weeks ago, have three, as do Dinamo Zagreb, while Arsenal have none.

If Bayern win they are likely to seal their place in the last 16 with matches to spare.

If Arsenal lose, it is difficult to see them qualifying and they cannot afford to drop any more points when Bayern visit for the third time in four seasons.

After losing to Olympiakos, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger admitted his side faced a huge fight to qualify.

“It is still possible of course to qualify but it is difficult to swallow losing a game like that and we have a big battle ahead of us,” he said.

Wenger faced a wave of criticism for resting first choice keeper Petr Cech for the match and playing his reserve David Ospina instead, and it would be a big surprise if Cech was left out again as he has played a big role in Arsenal’s two wins since then keeping two clean sheets.

Arsenal bounced back from that defeat with an emphatic 3-0 demolition of Manchester United five days later and they maintained their good domestic form with a 3-0 win at Watford on Saturday.

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They will have to be at their best again against an in-form Bayern side that won 3-1 in London in Feb. 2013 and 2-0 there a year later. In four Champions League visits since Dec. 2000 Bayern have lost only once, in March 2005, though they still won that

round-of-16 tie 3-2 on aggregate.

They now come back in stellar form, having set a league record of nine successive wins from the start of the season when they beat Werder Bremen 1-0 on Saturday, their 12th successive win in all competitions.

Despite already having several injured players, including defenders Medhi Benatia and Holger Badstuber, as well as Franck Ribery and Mario Goetze, coach Pep Guardiola rested Douglas Costa and Javi Martinez ahead of the trip to London.

Winger Arjen Robben failed to recover from a groin injury in time to depart with the team on Sunday.

“It won’t be an easy task there but we are well prepared,” captain Philipp Lahm said of the match.

Guardiola will have Lewandowski in the squad despite the Poland forward suffering a knock on Saturday.

Lewandowski was hit by Werder keeper Felix Wiedwald, crashed to the ground and stayed there for a minute before playing on. “ I t ’s f i n e , ” L e w a n dowski said, “Nothing has happened. But I hope our game improves because from tomorrow it’s all about the Champions League.” (rtr)

Reuters / Dylan Martinez

Alexis Sanchez celebrates after scoring the first goal for Arsenal

Corinthians extend Brazilian lead with 4-1 win at Atletico

SAO PAULO — Renato Augusto and Vagner Love scored two goals each as Corinthians increased their Brazilian league lead to eight points with a crushing 4-1 win at Atletico Paranaense on Sunday.

Atletico had not won in eight games in the top flight and proved no match for Sao Paulo’s Corinthians.

Attacking midfielder Augusto’s two goals, either side of a Vagner Love strike, settled the contest by half time. Love added his second in the 62nd minute after a consolation goal from Paranaense midfielder Bruno Mota.

Corinthians’ attacking trio of Love, Augusto and Jadson have now scored 27 goals between them in 31 matches this season.

Second placed Atletico Mineiro, who had midfielder Carlos sent off in the 19th minute, lost 4-1 at Sport Recife. Already 1-0 down after an early goal from Mineiro defender Mattheus Ferraz, Carlos received two yellow cards in four min-

utes to leave his teammates a man down for most of the match.

The home side wasted little time making their advantage count as midfielder Diego Souza scored four minutes after Carlos’s early departure, before setting up teammate Elber to make it 3-0 in the 27th. In an impressive display, Souza also set up substitute Maikon Leite early in the second half.

A late Thiago Ribero goal would have done little to cheer up Mineiro’s long trip back from Recife to Belo Horizonte. Third place Gremio also lost despite taking a two-goal lead at home against Chapecoense.

In a thrilling match Gremio produced a resilient second half performance, striker Tulio de Melo scoring in the 57th and 78th minutes to draw Chapecoense level. Despite Gremio enjoying the majority of possession and having more shots on target, it was Chapecoense who snatched the win, with right back Apodi calming lifting the ball over keeper Bruno Grassi with the last kick of the game in the fifth minute of injury time. (ap)

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Grella scores fastest goal in MLS history, Red Bulls win 4-1 HARRISON, New Jersey — Mike Grella took just 7 seconds to score the quickest ever Major League Soccer goal as the New York Red Bulls beat the Philadelphia Union 4-1 on Sunday to earn the top seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs.

Grella raced to the ball and attacked the open lane after flatfooted midfielder Michael Lahoud allowed the initial backpass to roll past him. With Steven Vitoria backpedaling, Grella juked left and sent a left-footed shot deflecting off the defender and past goalkeeper Andre Blake. Tim Cahill scored the previous fastest goal at 8 seconds in the Red Bulls’ 3-0 victory over the Houston Dynamo on Oct. 20,

2013.

Grella also scored in the 17th minute to give New York a 3-0 lead. Wright-Phillips added his 16th goal of the season on a right-footed volley in the fourth minute. Kemar Lawrence scored his first MLS goal to make it 4-0 just before the half.

The Red Bulls are level with FC Dallas in the Supporters’ Shield race for the overall regular-season title with one game left. Sebastien Le Toux scored for the Union in the 55th minute.

In Washington, Chris Pontius scored in the 39th minute and D.C. United added three second-half goals to beat the Chicago Fire 4-0.

United moved into second place in the East and can secure an auto-

matic berth in the conference semifinals with a win over Columbus in the regular-season finale.

Pontius opened the scoring when he pushed the ball past Chicago’s Jon Busch with a heavy touch and raced behind the goalkeeper to finish in the open net.

Bobby Boswell headed home Fabian Espindola’s corner in the 67th minute, Espindola knocked in a leftfooter with the benefit of defender Lovel Palmer’s deflection in the 71st, and Alvaro Saborio volleyed in a high-arching deflection from point-blank range in the 80th.

Portland’s Fanendo Adi scored two second-half goals in the Timbers’ 5-2 victory over the Los Angeles Galaxy. (ap)

Celta beats Villarreal with late goal to stay top in Spain

BARCELONA, Spain — Celta Vigo forward Manuel “Nolito” Agudo scored in the 90th minute to snatch a 2-1 win at 10-man Villarreal and pull the visitors level with Real Madrid and Barcelona at the top of the Spanish league on Sunday. Nolito and attacking midfielder Fabian Orellana kept Celta unbeaten through eight rounds after each scored a goal and hit the woodwork in an attractive clash between the two of the league’s best passing teams at El Madrigal Stadium.

Nolito, who has been linked to a move to Barcelona during the winter transfer window, got the winner from a rebound after Orellana’s shot came off the post. Nolito’s sixth goal of the season left him level with Madrid stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema, and two goals behind Neymar.

Celta’s win left Madrid as leader on goal difference after its 3-0 victory over Levante on Saturday. Celta is second, followed by Barcelona in third after the defending champions routed Rayo Vallecano 5-2, also on Saturday.

“We think we can beat anyone, that we can go to any ground and show that we can win because we are a solid team that works hard and is dangerous,” said coach Eduardo Berizzo, whose Celta side stunned Barcelona 4-1 last month.

Villarreal, which entered the round in first place, fell all the way to fifth, two points off the pace.

Atletico Madrid moved into fourth on goal difference with a 2-0 win at Real Sociedad, which has just one win this season.

Deportivo La Coruna scored twice in the final minutes to fight back 2-2 with Athletic Bilbao to remain in sixth, while Getafe also eased to a 4-0 victory over 10-man Las Palmas. Villarreal dominated possession for the first 25 minutes until REUTERS/Vincent West

Nolito tilted the action the other way by making his first incursions into the area.

Orellana put Celta in front with a great long-range strike after Villarreal’s defense failed to close on him before he could unleash a curling shot around outstretched goalkeeper Alphonse Areola.

Celta went close to a second goal when Nolito hit the upright in the 45th. Iago Aspas then squandered a clever buildup by Nolito and Orellana with Villarreal playing with 10 men after defender Eric Bailly picked up a second booking for clumsily handling the ball two minutes after halftime.

Substitute Denis Suarez leveled for Villarreal against the flow of play with a deflected shot in the 67th but, just as the match was heading to a draw, Nolito smashed home the loose ball after Orellana’s last-gasp effort clipped the post. “We made mistakes that you just can’t make,” said Villarreal manager Marcelino Garcia.

Antoine Griezmann earned the applause of his former fans at Sociedad when he was substituted late in the match despite his audacious goal to give Atletico the lead in the ninth minute. The France forward quickly dribbled right past three defenders before coolly chipping the ball over goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli for a great goal that he didn’t celebrate out of respect for his previous club.

Sociedad saw Diego Reyes sent off with two bookings in the last minute before Yannick Carrasco raced forward to score Atletico’s second goal in injury time. Sociedad added to its own misery when Jonathas got a second yellow card for protesting before the final whistle.

Bilbao seemed to be in complete control after Inaki Williams and Aritz Aduriz gave the Basques a two-goal lead, but Lucas Perez sparked Deportivo’s comeback with a sweeping volley in the 80th and Alejandro Arribas headed in the equalizer a minute from time.

Victor Rodriguez and Pablo Sarabia gave Getafe a two-goal lead by the 11th minute, and substitute Stefan Scepovic rounded off the victory with two goals after Juan Culio’s low tackle on Sarabia earned him a straight red card in the 80th. (ap)

Atletico Madrid’s Antoine Griezmann celebrates a goal by putting the ball under his jersey during their Spanish first division soccer match against Real Sociedad at Anoeta stadium in San Sebastian, northern Spain, October 18, 2015.

AP Photo/Luca Bruno

Juventus’ Simone Zaza, right, is challenged by Inter Milan’s Jeison Murillo during a Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Juventus at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015.

Fiorentina stays top despite loss to Napoli

MILAN — Fiorentina stayed top of Serie A despite losing 2-1 at Napoli on Sunday, after title rival Inter Milan was held to a 0-0 draw

by Juventus.

Both Inter and Juventus hit the woodwork and had several other chances in an entertaining match at a packed San Siro. It was only the second match of the 80 games played in Serie A this season to finish goalless.

“Am I satisfied? Not really, you play to win, but at the end a point is OK,” Inter coach Roberto Mancini said. “We are fairly well placed in the standings and I want to win.

We can do better, that’s my aim. If we continue to work hard, we will improve.”

In Naples, Lorenzo Insigne’s stellar start to the season continued as the forward — who had to pull out of the Italy squad last week through injury — opened the scoring in the first minute of the second half with his sixth goal of the campaign, setting a new personal record. Inter is third, a point behind Fiorentina and below Roma on goal difference.

Four-time defending champion Juventus is now just three points above the drop zone, and 10 below Fiorentina.

“We have to grow, we have to be more clinical when we get into the box and in choosing our final passes too,” coach Massimiliano Allegri said. “A point doesn’t change our position in the table, we need to be aware that we have to cut the gap before Christmas and be in the running in March.”

Napoli moved into fourth place, three points behind Fiorentina, and above Lazio on goal difference after the capital side lost 2-1 at Sassuolo — which also now has 15 points.

Atalanta was a point further back after easing past Carpi 3-0.

Elsewhere, substitute Panagiotis Tachtstidis — who had only just come off the bench — scored a stoppage-time winner as 10-man Genoa snatched a 3-2 win over Chievo Verona.

Newly-promoted Frosinone beat Sampdoria 2-0 and Hellas Verona drew 1-1 against Udinese, while Palermo won 1-0 at bottom side Bologna.

There was a heated atmosphere at a sold-out San Siro, with almost 80,000 vociferous fans packing the stadium for the eagerly-anticipated match.

There is no love lost between the two clubs and the bitter rivalry among fans is longstanding.

Juventus came agonizingly close last season to joining Inter as the only Italian clubs to have won the treble of the league, cup and Champions League trophies, but it failed with the last piece of the puzzle as it lost to Barcelona in Berlin.

Inter fans taunted Juventus about that in their pre-match choreography as they unfurled a giant cutout of the Champions League trophy above a banner with the words “Berlin, 06.06.2015 ... you almost did it.”

They then depicted all three trophies below a banner saying “keep dreaming” and above a giant picture of three cartoon thieves. (ap)

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Logano spins out Kenseth late, wins at Kansas Speedway

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Joey Logano kept peeking around Matt Kenseth as the laps ticked away at Kansas Speedway, the two of them in entirely different situations in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. Logano had nothing to lose. Kenseth had just about everything.

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into Jalan Sekar Waru and then turn right to the T-junction and encounter a large banyan tree in the middle and then turn left. Ultimately, you will arrive on Mertasari Beach.

Mertasari Beach is an ideal place for relaxing, while bathing, swimming or sunbathing on the white

sand. In the late 1976, this beach was used to sunbathe by tourists while facing east at sunrise. When exploring the coast, we will see many travelers lying down along the white sandy beach, bathing in sunlight or they call it sunbathing.

On certain days, Mertasari Beach

will be thronged by a myriad of visitors. Moreover, on Umanis Kuningan that coincides with Sunday, it will be very crowded.

Hindu people of Bali will cross to Serangan Island to pray at Sakenan Temple. So, do not to miss this rare opportunity.

So when Logano got under Kenseth entering Turn 1 with about five laps remaining, and sent him spinning across the track, it left many eyebrows raised long after the Penske Racing driver pulled away on the final restart to win his second straight Chase race.

“That’s good, hard racing,” Logano said. “We were racing each other really hard. I felt like I got fenced twice. He raced me hard so I raced him back.”

Logano was already guaranteed his spot in the next round of the Chase after his victory at Charlotte, though. After a difficult race a week ago, Kenseth’s team arrived at Kansas knowing a victory this weekend or next weekend at unpredictable Talladega might be the only way he could make it to the final eight in the “eliminator” round of the playoffs.

That’s why Kenseth was doing everything possible to block Logano. “I’m really disappointed,” Kenseth said. “I was running the lane he wanted to run in, but my goodness, isn’t this racing? Strategically, I think it wasn’t the smartest move on his part. He’ll probably sleep good tonight. I hope he enjoys that one.

It’s not what I would have done.”

Kenseth wound up leading a race-high 153 laps, but his wild ride with a handful to go dropped him to 14th in the race and, more importantly, last among the 12 drivers in the title race.

“I’m sure we’ll talk about it,” Logano said after hopping out of his No. 22 Ford. “I just felt like I raced hard. I got fenced twice. I wasn’t going to put up with it.” Uh, Joey, you sure about that chat?

“I won’t talk to Joey. I don’t have anything to talk to him about,” Kenseth said. “I’m one of the only guys that I think hasn’t been into it yet with Joey, and I’ve always raced him with a ton of respect. I’ve actually been one of his biggest fans.

I’m certainly not anymore.”

Already eliminated from contention, Jimmie Johnson had a strong car all day and wound up behind Denny Hamlin in third. Kasey Kahne was fourth, followed by Chase drivers Kyle Busch and Kurt Busch. Ryan Blaney was seventh, followed by more title contenders in Carl Edwards, pole sitter Brad Keselowski, Jeff Gordon and Ryan Newman.

Hamlin’s second-place finish allowed him to climb to second in the standings, giving him the best chance of everybody outside of Logano of moving onto the next round.

“It was a very good day,” he said. “I wanted to be seventh or better entering this weekend, and obviously second was a good run for us. Some of the guys in front of us had some troubles.”

Plenty of guys behind him, too.

When the field pitted under green with 53 laps remaining, Martin

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Truex Jr. had a tire roll away and served a pass-through penalty, while Kevin Harvick drove off with his fuel can and had to serve a stop-and-go penalty. Both lost a lap and precious points in the title race. Truex got his lap back and finished 15th. Harvick came across in 16th.

Dale Earnhardt Jr., who already felt like he needed to win to advance, had a wheel go loose during a long run and pitted under green.

That dropped him off the lead lap,

too, and Earnhardt wound up two laps down and in 21st place heading to Talladega.

“There’s no place I would rather go next week,” said Earnhardt, one of the best restrictor-plate drivers in the series, and the winner at Talladega in the spring.

The wild finish at Kansas led to a massive shake-up in the Chase standings, with Logano the only driver who can head to Alabama next week without feeling any pressure.

Hamlin, Kurt Busch and Edwards have a bit of a cushion, but everyone else is left hanging in the balance. Truex currently holds down the eighth and final spot in the next round, but he’s just six points ahead of Kyle Busch. Ryan Newman is only eight points back.

Then there’s Kenseth, now 35 points out of the final spot. If he wasn’t facing a must-win Sunday, his late-race spin from Logano left him facing exactly that next weekend. (ap)

Hamilton: A Ferrari surge would be good for Formula 1

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Sprint Cup Series driver Carl Edwards (19) pits at the front of pit row during a NASCAR auto race at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan., Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015.

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Ferrari Formula One driver Kimi Raikkonen of Finland leads his team mate Sebastian Vettel of Germany (R) during the Russian F1 Grand Prix in Sochi, Russia, October 11, 2015.

Lewis Hamilton is hoping for the sake of Formula 1 Ferrari will pose more of a threat to Mercedes’ dominance in 2016.

After winning 16 of 19 races last season en route to a constructors’ and drivers’ championship double, Mercedes has won 12 of 15 grands prix this year to make it back to back team titles, and Hamilton is on the brink of a third personal crown.

Ferrari has, however, proved stronger opposition for Mercedes this year, with Sebastian Vettel winning three races and currently lying second in the drivers’ standings after overhauling Nico Rosberg

with his second place in the Russian Grand Prix last Sunday.

Suggested to Hamilton that Vettel could become his main threat in 2016, the 30-year-old said: “Sebastian is always going to be one of the strongest opponents, but it depends how you look at it.

“As a driver from another team he’s definitely going to be the strongest opponent, but Nico will come strong next year. “But of course I hope we do have a race with the Ferraris, I think it would be good for the sport. “Hopefully it will be with us being in front, but still a good race.”

Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff also recognises what a more sustained battle with Ferrari could do for F1.

Vettel and Hamilton both now boast 42 wins apiece, and the Briton is almost certain to close to within one of the German’s title haul of four this season, Wolff agrees there is a real battle for supremacy building between the duo.

“They are both in cars that are performing very well,” said Wolff. “It could be one of the great rivalries in the sport, in different teams obviously, but Lewis has his own rivalry within the team, so that is good.” (rtr)

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7 dead in capsized boat in central Philippines

MANILA — The coast guard says a passenger motorboat with 41 people on board capsized in central Philippines in a storm, leaving seven dead and two others missing.

A coast guard report Monday said the boat Tawash was on its way to to Guimaras province with 36 passengers and five crew members when it capsized.

The storm is not believed to be connected to Typhoon Koppu, which struck northeastern provinces of the Philippines on Sunday.

Coast guard rescuers and passing vessels recovered 32 survivors.

Among the dead were two boys aged 6 and 9 and two of the crew members. A 3-year-old boy is among the missing. (ap)

Assailant opens fire on bus station, soldier killed

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FILE - In a Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015 file photo, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau greets supporters as he makes his way through a crowd at a campaign rally in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Canadian election could see Trudeau’s son become PM

TORONTO — Canadian voters cast their ballots Monday to decide whether to extend Conservative leader Stephen Harper’s near-decade in power or return Canada to its more liberal roots.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is trailing Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, the son of late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, in the polls.

Pierre Trudeau led Canada for almost all of a 16-year stretch from 1968-84 and is a storied name in Canadian history. He is responsible for the country’s version of the bill of rights and open door to immigration.

Harper got into politics to destroy Pierre Trudeau’s legacy and is seeking a rare fourth term in the hopes of safeguarding his goal of shattering Canada’s reputation as a liberal haven.

“We have a chance to bring real change to Canada and bring an end to the Harper decade,” Justin Trudeau said in Harper’s adopted home province of Alberta, traditionally a Conservative stronghold.

Trudeau, 43, ran an optimistic campaign and appears to have overcome relentless attack ads.

In the final days of the campaign he visited districts where the

Liberals traditionally haven’t won but now have a chance to win. Harper, 56, ran a divisive campaign that played on fears of the Muslim face veil. He visited districts he won in the 2011 election in an attempt to hang onto them.

The Liberals lead the Conservatives by almost 9 percentage points. According to the CTV/ Globe and Mail/Nanos Nightly Tracking Poll, the Liberals are at 39.1 percent, followed by the Conservatives at 30.5 percent.

The New Democrats are at 19.7 percent. The margin of error for the survey of 800 respondents is 3.7 percentage points.

A minority government in the 338-seat Parliament appears likely no matter which party wins the most seats. That would mean the winning party would have a shaky hold on power and need to rely on another party to pass legislation. Harper has said he’ll step down as Conservative leader if his party loses.

If the Liberals win the most

seats they’re expected to rely on the New Democrats for support on a bill-by-bill basis. If the Harper Conservatives win the most seats, the Liberals and New Democrats say they’ll defeat them in a vote in Parliament, raising the possibility of a coalition government or arrangement.

“It’s hard for me to see a path for his survival now,” said Tom Flanagan, Harper’s former campaign manager. “When you play out all the scenarios they all seem to end with a defeat on election night or a very tenuous victory that would not allow Harper to survive very long.”

If he wins Trudeau, a former teacher, would become the second youngest prime minister in Canada’s history, despite a thin resume.

David Axelrod, who helped mastermind Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign and offered advice to Trudeau’s team, tweeted congratulations to Trudeau’s top advisers for running a great campaign and said “Hope beats fear.” (ap)

JERUSALEM — An Arab attacker armed with a gun and a knife opened fire in a southern Israel bus station on Sunday, police said, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding 10 people in one of the boldest attacks yet in a monthlong wave of violence.

The attack came as Israel further tightened security around the country, highlighted by the construction of a barrier separating Jewish and Arab neighborhoods in east Jerusalem. In a bid to halt the fighting, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he would meet the Israeli and Palestinian leaders in the coming days.

Israel has deployed thousands of police, backed up by troops, to maintain order following a spate of attacks, mostly stabbings, by Palestinian assailants.

Those measures have so far failed to stop the violence.

In Sunday night’s attack, police said the Arab assailant entered the central bus station in the southern city of Beersheba and began shooting and stabbing people. They said an Israeli soldier was killed, five police were lightly wounded and five civilians were wounded to varying degrees.

Yoram Halevy, a police commander in southern Israel, told reporters that in addition to the knife and gun he entered with, the attacker also snatched a weapon from the soldier he killed. The attacker, whose identity was not immediately known, was shot and killed.

A foreigner was shot by police during the attack after they apparently mistook him for an assailant. Halevy said security forces responding to the attack entered the bus station from another area and saw a “foreign national,” shooting and wounding him. Israeli media said the foreigner was an Eritrean national living in Israel.

Israeli media showed footage of a blood-streaked floor and rows of ambulances outside the bus station. Security camera footage from the bus station aired on Israeli TV showed what appeared to be a civilian shooting the attacker as soldiers and civilians crouched for cover nearby.

The attack was one of the most serious incidents amid near-daily bouts of violence that has hit Israel and the Palestinian territories over the past month. After the attack, a crowd of Israelis gathered outside the bus station and chanted “death to Arabs.” The unrest erupted in Jerusalem a month ago over tensions surrounding a Jerusalem holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims.

It soon spread to Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem and then to the West Bank, Gaza and Israel. (ap)

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A Palestinian woman walks by concrete barrier between the Arab neighborhood of Jabal Mukaber and the Jewish area of Armon Hanatziv in east Jerusalem, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015.

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INDONESIA Wildfire kills seven hikers

JAKARTA - Seven hikers were killed and two others suffered severe burns when a wildfire broke out on a mountain on Indonesia’s main island of Java, an official said Monday.

The group was climbing on Mount Lawu when the accident took place on Sunday, local disaster agency official Agung Lewis told AFP. “Seven of them were killed and two others are in critical condition as they sustained around 50 percent burns,” he said, adding all the dead and injured had been brought down from the mountain.

“The area is actually closed for hiking because there had been previous cases of wildfires due to the dry weather, so we suspect these hikers could have used unofficial routes,” he added.

He did not give any further details about those killed or injured.

The blaze was thought to have been caused by a campfire started by hikers and not properly extinguished, said disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.

While nobody else has been reported missing, rescuers are combing the area to check for others who might be stuck on the mountain.

Wildfires are a frequent occurrence during Indonesia’s monthslong dry season. (afp)

Indonesia committed to maintaining security, stability in South China Sea

JAKARTA - Commander of the Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) General Gatot Nurmantyo has reiterated Indonesia’s commitment to maintaining security and stability in South China Sea. The government also called on every element to not conduct activities in South China Sea that could increase tensions, the TNI chief stated on Monday. “It means that whatever country invites (us) to take part (in a joint military exercise) in South China Sea, it is better that the TNI does not accept it, for the sake of (regional) stability,” the general emphasized.

The Indonesian military will only conduct activities that are in line with the government’s policy, he affirmed.

“The TNI has to function in accordance with and obey whatever the government’s policies are,” he noted.

Earlier, China had offered to conduct a joint military exercise in South China Sea amid tensions arising due to overlapping territorial claims by some ASEAN member nations in the region.

The offer was conveyed by the Chinese defense minister during a recent informal meeting of the Chinese and ASEAN member countries’ defense ministers in Beijing.

Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan stated that the objectives of the joint military exercise would be to ensure maritime protection and disaster mitigation. (ant)

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In this late Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015 photo, rescuers carry a body bag containing the body of a hiker who was killed in a forest fire on Lawu Mountain, upon arrival at Cemoro Sewu, East Java, Indonesia. Several hikers have died after being caught in a forest fire on the 3,265-meter (10,712-feet) mountain which on the border between East and Central Java provinces.

Aceh province tears down churches after religious violence

ACEH SINGKIL - Authorities in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Monday began tearing down several small Christian churches after hardline Muslims demanded their closure, citing a lack of building permits, and following religious violence.

Tensions are high among the ethnically and religiously diverse population of Aceh Singkil, where last week a mob burned down a church, leaving one person dead and forcing thousands of Christians to flee the area. Armed police and military troops have been deployed to the area and evacuees have returned.

Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population and the vast majority of its citizens practice a moderate form of the religion. Aceh is its only province to implement Islamic Sharia law as it was granted

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autonomy as part of a 2005 peace agreement that ended decades of separatist violence.

Police in Aceh Singkil district used sledgehammers and axes to tear down the churches - little more than small, wooden structures - as Christian members of the community looked on, many of them weeping.

“Whether or not we agree, we are going ahead with it,” said Paima Brutu, 35, caretaker of one Protestant church that was closed.

He added the church had about 100 members.

“We have applied for the building permit again and again so at this point all we’re asking the government is to be allowed to have that permit,” he said.

The closures come after a meeting on Sunday of local political and religious figures, including

Christians, in which all sides agreed to close the houses of worship, officials present at the meeting said.

Muslim residents, including members of the hardline group Islamic Defenders Front, had demanded that 10 churches be closed.

“On a day to day basis, the communities live in peace with each other and there is no pressure to close down these churches,” said Genti Brutu, the chief of Siompin village in Aceh Singkil where at least three churches were torn down.

“But what we are told is that it is a matter of permits so we have to abide by the rules.

Dozens of armored security vehicles patrolled the streets of a cluster of villages where at least 10 churches are slated to be demolished in the coming days. (rtr)

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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

BUSINESS China’s economic growth declines to 6-year low

BEIJING — China’s economy decelerated in the latest quarter but stronger spending by consumers who are emerging as an important pillar of growth helped to avert a deeper downturn.

The world’s second-largest economy grew by 6.9 percent in the three months ended in September, the slowest since early 2009 in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, data showed Monday. That was down from the previous quarter’s 7 percent.

Weakening trade and manufacturing have fueled concern about possible job losses and unrest. The communist government has cut interest

rates five times since last November in an effort to shore up growth.

The latest data highlight the twospeed nature of China’s economy in the midst of a marathon effort by the Communist Party to nurture selfsustaining growth based on domestic consumption and reduce reliance on trade and investment. Manufacturers are shrinking and shedding millions of jobs while consumer-oriented businesses expand.

In September, growth in factory output slowed to 5.7 percent from August’s 6.1 percent. At the same time, retail sales growth rose to 10.9 percent from July’s 10.5 percent. Ecommerce spending leaped ahead, rising 36 percent in the third quarter over a year earlier.

“Continued downward pressures from real estate and exports caused GDP growth to drop,” said Louis Kuijs of Oxford Economics in a report. “But robust consumption and infrastructure prevented a sharper slowdown.”

The decline in Chinese heavy industry and construction has de-

pressed demand for oil, iron ore and other commodities, dragging on growth in Australia, Brazil and other supplier countries.

At the same time, rising Chinese incomes are propelling demand for European wines, wheat and fresh fruit from Australia and the United States, medical technology and other imports.

Private sector forecasters have cut their outlook for China’s growth this year to between 6.5 and 7 percent. That still would be the second-strongest of any major country, surpassed only by India, where the International Monetary

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BDDF promote potential of Pemuteran coral reef

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SINGARAJA - The underwater beauty in the region of Pemuteran in relatively short time will be enlivened by hundreds of divers through the event entitled the Buleleng Bali Dive Festival (BBDF) 2015. The Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Affairs have designed a special agenda and increasingly introduced the undersea beauty of Pemuteran to wider circles of community.

Fund expects 7.5 percent. It would be more than double the 3.1 percent growth forecast by the IMF for the United States.

Much of China’s 5-year-old slowdown has been self-imposed but an unexpectedly sharp decline over the past year, due in part to weak demand for Chinese exports, prompted concern the downturn might be deepening too sharply.

Forecasters expect Beijing to cut interest rates further and take other steps to shore up growth.

The IMF expects growth to slow to 6.3 percent next year and 6 percent in 2017. (ap)

Troubled Deutsche Bank announces sweeping restructuring

BERLIN - Scandal-plagued Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest lender, Sunday announced a major business and management shake-up that would “fundamentally change” its leadership structure.

The announcement came after Deutsche Bank this month braced employees for bonus cuts, announced its biggest quarterly loss in about a decade and warned that even dividends could be scrapped.

The bank has been undergoing a massive shake-up after its co-chief executives Anshu Jain and Juergen Fitschen resigned in June over a tangle of scandals and missed profit targets, replaced by new co-CEO John Cryan.

The investment and retail bank is mired in around 6,000 different litigation cases and was fined in May a record $2.5 billion (2.2 billion euros) for its involvement in rigging interest rates.

It has also faced probes by Swiss authorities for suspected price fixing on the precious metals market, and US investigators have looked at its Moscow branch on suspicion of possible involvement in money-laundering.

The Supervisory Board on Sunday resolved at an extraordinary meeting in Frankfurt to restructure executive committees and senior management.

The guiding principle was “to reduce complexity of the bank’s management structure, AP Photo/Michael Probst, file enabling it to better meet client demands and requirements of supervisory authorities”, the In this April 27, 2015 file photo people walk by a branch of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany. Scandal-plagued bank said in a statement.

Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest lender, Sunday announced a major business and management shake-up that would “Deutsche Bank rarely underwent such a “fundamentally change” its leadership structure. fundamental reorganisation in its history,” said Paul Achleitner, chairman of the Su“The new structure and management split in two from January 1 -- Corporate and management board, responsible for corporate pervisory Board. “This also requires tough team are essential to getting this done. I am Investment Banking and Global Markets, and investment banking. decisions.”

Stefan Krause will resign from the mandelighted to welcome six new members to the while there would also be changes in Asset Cryan said that “we want to create a better Management Board to form the team that to- & Wealth Management. agement board on October 31, and Michele controlled, lower cost, and more focused bank gether will build a better Deutsche Bank.”

Among the management changes, Jeff Faissola, head of the asset and wealth manthat delivers long-term value to shareholders In the shake-up the bank’s corporate Urwin, currently co-head of CB&S together agement unit, will leave the bank after a and great experiences to clients”. banking and securities unit (CB&S) will be with London-based Colin Fan, will join the transition period, Deutsche Bank said. (afp)

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The beautiful underwater view of Pemuteran sea

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The Head of the Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, Nyoman Sutrisna, said that the Pemuteran region is known to the public as a marine conservation area and has artificial coral reef or biorock. The coral reefs begin to be introduced to the world, so that Pemuteran village is increasingly crowded by divers from various countries.

“Coral reef made by the Karang Lestari Foundation and other social foundations offers a very spectacular beauty to divers. They assess the undersea tourism in the region of Gerokgak should continue to be developed and preserved,” said Sutrisna, Sunday (Oct. 18).

He added that before the organization of the BBDF 2015, Sutrisna has come down to the field for making coordination and cooperation with various foundations and fishermen at Pemuteran. He invited all the parties to actively conserve coral reef. In the future, when having grown well on the seabed it will have the potential to become

marine tourism and beneficial to society. The so quiet and comfortable marine area of Pemuteran has been embedded with a tool to stimulate the growth acceleration of the coral reef.

“We have developed coral reef by involving local communities.

This coral reef acceleration program has been managed well and the benefits will be enjoyed by the public,” he added.

Furthermore, Sutrisna explained that if there is a temple in the middle of the ocean it can be enjoyed by divers taking action under the sea. Other than being nice to see, the underwater beauty also makes visitors eager to come back for diving. “Temple under the sea is very beautiful to see. Travelers wishing to see it must hire a small boat because the distance is far enough.

It lies in the depth of about 30-40 meters. This is the superiority of potential owned by Pemuteran and Buleleng in general,” he explained. (kmb34)

Prolonged dry season, water discharge of PDAM Buleleng declines

SINGARAJA - A decrease in the water discharge during dry season cannot be avoided in North Bali. Significant decline of water discharge reaches 15 to 20 percent, while in normal season it reaches 628 liters per second. Lately the decline is below the range of 500 liters per second. Allegedly the dry season has caused dryness at some points of water and affected the amount of water flow in Buleleng.

Director of the Municipality Waterworks (PDAM) Buleleng, Made Lestariana, did not dismiss on Sunday (Oct. 18) if the prolonged dry season has an influence on the water flow in Buleleng. Such condition is clearly visible based on the result of measurement last September 2015. Discharge of springs occurred at Pangkung Dalem, Gitgit village (Sukasada), Gunung Sari (Seririt) and Bestala. Based on monitoring of the officers, the spring discharge of the PDAM Buleleng declines to averagely 15 to 20 percent.

“Some springs decline in water discharge.

Formerly, it reached 628 liter per second, but last month it was lower than 500 liters per second. Dry season this year has significantly influences the decline in the volume of water in the entire Buleleng area,” said Lestariana.

He explained that water discharge indeed declines significantly, while the use of water in the community tends to increase significantly. It can be seen from the public consumption showing an increase in water usage compared to before dry seasons. “The water consumption of the community is quite high lately. It happens due to drought and hot weather. They increasingly use water for bathing and watering yard,” he explained.

In dry season this year, the people of Buleleng are invited to use water as wisely and effectively as possible. The issue is not just about the decline in water discharge, but the PDAM Buleleng has not distributed water evenly to all villages and subdistricts. It happens due to the topographical conditions of the region where Buleleng is dominated by highlands. So far, the PDAM Buleleng can just serve 43,000 customers spreading over nine subdistricts. Moreover, 900 other customers are still in waiting list to get water connection from the PDAM. “Hopefully, in the future people can use water more wisely. It can be done by holding water outside the peak hours in the morning and evening. If all customers are wise, the water can benefit together. Currently the

PDAM Buleleng has alerted six truck tanks of water in order to provide water services

if there is any disturbance occurred to the network,” he said. (kmb34)

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The dry condition in Buleleng Regency due to the drought that happen in the last few months

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Agustay ready to reveal many facts on Engeline’s murder

DENPASAR - Initial trial has been determined for the murder against the kid Engeline. The judge hoped the openness of the defendants so that the trial can run smoothly. One of the attorneys of the defendant Agustay Hamda May, namely Haposan Sihombing, said on Sunday (Oct. 18) that Agustay is ready to stand trial, and expected the trial can be held on Thursday (Oct. 22) so that he can reveal the truth having been attempted to be hid.

Haposan said that Agustay hopes this trial can uncover the truth hidden all this time. “Agus will open as wide as possible the facts. He has admitted to have helped wrap and bury the corpse of Engeline. He feels so sorry and wants his former employer to also regret as he does,” said Haposan.

As is known, the Denpasar District Court directly appointed the judges that will prosecute the case of Engeline’s murder allegation with the defendant Margriet Ch Megawe and Agustay Hamda May. A day after receiving of the transfer of file from Prosecutor’s Office, the Head of the Denpasar District Court, Prim Haryadi, directly appointed judges that will prosecute

the case. For the defendant Margriet Ch Megawe, it is entrusted to the Deputy Head of the Denpasar District Court, Edward Harris Sinaga (head) and the judges consist of I Wayan Sukanila and Agus Walujo Tjahjono with substitute clerk I Made Arta Jaya Negara and the main prosecutor Subekhan.

Then, the defendant Agustay Hamda May will be prosecuted by I Ketut Gede Wanugraha (head) with the judge members consisting of Made Sukereni and Achmad Peten Sili, with substitute clerk I Made Sukarma and the main prosecutor Ketut Maha Agung.

When being confirmed on Friday (Oct. 16), Deputy Head of the Denpasar District Court, Edward Harris

Iran nuclear deal hits milestone aimed at sanctions relief

Sinaga, told that he is entrusted to lead the trial for the defendant Margriet. “I serve as the judge, and the hearing will be held next Thursday,” said Harris Sinaga.

He added that the indictment in the files received has been read.

However, he did not dare to explain it clearly because the charges have not been read out before the public.

He said that there are a number of witnesses having been entered into the files. However, the fact witness is very minimal, namely Agustay (in separate file) and the couple staying at the same home.

“I think the fact witness at the location is only Agustay. The couple is a bit far off, but they have given many clues,” he explained. About the other witnesses, they are even somewhat far away from the principal case because there are NGOs and other witnesses. (kmb37)

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In this Oct. 13, 2015, photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during the Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas. It seems like there was a 15-year virtual gag order on guns in presidential politics.

Democrats welcome the gun debate to the campaign

The officers from Denpasar District Attorney Office carried the paperworks for Angeline murder case.

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76 wild dogs eliminated at Tanah Lot

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The wild dogs which were eliminated in Tanah Lot area to prevent the spread of rabies

TABANAN - As a precautionary measure against positive rabies bite cases at Tanah Lot tourist attraction, the management with Beraban villagers, task force as well as the Tabanan and Bali Livestock Agency do elimination against stray dogs, Saturday (Oct. 17). The elimination started at 4:00 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. can eliminate 76 wild dogs around the Tanah Lot and Beraban village, Kediri.

The Head of the Tabanan Livestock Agency, Wayan Kotio, when contacted on Sunday (Oct. 18) explained that the burial land for the dogs is provided by local village.

He admitted that when the elimination taking place there are people protesting because their dog gets eliminated. However, when waiting for resolving the problem at local meeting hall, the protesting dog owners did not come.

“Maybe they realize that village authorities have given an announcement before the elimination. To prevent the pet dog from being eliminated, people should tie or put their dog in cage,” said Kotio. Apparently on the day of elimination some people still allow

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their pet dog to roam.

In doing the elimination, added Kotio, the Livestock Agency cannot immediately come into an area declared to be in positive case and immediately eliminate dogs. He said that his institution always makes coordination in advance with local village whether it is ready to do the elimination.

“So, the village apparatus will provide information for local residents.

By doing so, the elimination will really target wild dogs, not pet dogs,” he explained.

On the other hand, the coordination made with local village enables the officers to bury the carcasses of the dogs eliminated as well as prepare the required ceremonies.

In the elimination around the Tanah Lot tourist attraction and Beraban village, Saturday (Oct. 17), Kotio said the Livestock Agency gets the help of poison from the province. He also explained that in addressing canine rabies at Tanah Lot the task force has been regularly assigned to the area in order to eliminate stray dogs. (kmb24)

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is considering more executive action on gun control. The front-runner in the Democratic race to replace him says she “will not be silenced” on guns. At the Democrats’ first debate in the presidential season, candidates jockeyed for bragging rights over who had the lowest rating from the country’s biggest gun lobby.

The return of the gun debate comes in the first White House contest since the December 2012 shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, that killed 20 children and six educators at an elementary school, and a string of mass shootings after that. The absence of gun legislation passed by Congress has spurred a steady call for action from the Democratic base.

Democrats say support for new gun laws is broader now and the politics of the issue have shifted enough to make the push for tougher measures a political winner, even if there remains almost no chance for success in Congress. Republicans are eager for Democrats to test the theory.

They watched the Democratic debate and saw fodder for advertising aimed at rural voters and gun owners still firmly opposed to putting more restrictions on gun purchases.

Those voters have tended to retain their passion on the issue and have been motivated to vote, long after a shooting recedes from the headlines.

The White House has been upfront that it plans to keep attention on the issue.

Obama has directed his staff to review gun laws for possible ways

he could make changes without congressional approval.

One option could be changing regulations to ensure gun show and Internet purchasers are subject to background checks, a move that would probably run into a court challenge over whether he has that authority.

It would risk a backlash from supporters of gun rights — one that could complicate Obama’s agenda in Congress and create trouble for Democratic lawmaker running in conservative or rural districts.

But Democrats increasingly argue that fears of such a backlash are overblown, particularly if the issue is framed narrowly.

“You see such strong support all across the country for proposals like closing the gun show loophole,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, urging Congress to act. “There’s ample public data to indicate that even a majority of gun owners support something like this.”

A July Pew Research Center poll found that 85 percent of those questioned, including 87 percent of those in gun-owning households, support requiring background checks for private sales and at gun shows. But

on the more general question of whether gun laws should be tighter, just 52 percent of respondents overall agreed, in a CBS News poll conducted in July and August.

That survey found 77 percent of Democrats in favor of tighter laws, a number that helps explain why the issue has lit up the Democratic primary. Hillary Rodham Clinton has kept up a drumbeat for weeks, using the issue to try to drive a wedge between liberal Democrats and her top rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has voted against some gun control legislation.

Clinton on Friday suggested that the U.S. might consider a gun buyback program and mocked the gun lobby for opposing such measures.

Chris Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action, said the buy-back idea “validates what the NRA has said all along. The real goal of gun control supporters is gun confiscation.” It was hard to imagine Democrats picking a fight with the NRA in past presidential contests.

Democrats’ electoral losses after the 1994 passage of the ban on assault-type weapons had a chilling effect on the debate. President Bill Clinton posited that Vice President Al Gore lost the 2000 election because of opposition to Gore’s gun stance in his home state of Tennessee and other rural, right-leaning states.

Democrats have since all but taken the issue off the table in national campaigns. (ap)

WASHINGTON — The U.S. expects Iran will take months to live up to its end of a seven-nation nuclear pact that could eventually provide the country relief from international sanctions.

The deal formally took effect Sunday, opening the way for Iran to make major changes to an underground nuclear facility, a heavy water reactor and a site for enriching uranium. The changes will not happen immediately, and Iran must further constrain its nuclear program before relief from sanctions will occur.

“These next steps will allow us to reach the objectives we set out to achieve over the course of nearly two years of tough, principled diplomacy,” President Barack Obama said in a statement.

“I am confident in the extraordinary benefits to our national security and the peace and security of the world” from putting the agreement in place.

Senior administration officials said Saturday they understand it’s in Iran’s best interest to work quickly, but they are only concerned that the work is done correctly. They insisted that no relief from the penalties will occur until the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency has verified Iran’s compliance with the terms of the agreement. They said Iran’s work will almost certainly take more than the two months Iran has projected.

The administration officials spoke on a conference call with reporters, but under the condition that they not be identified by name.

As part of the nuclear agreement, President Barack Obama on Sunday issued provisional waivers and a memorandum instructing U.S. agencies to lay the groundwork for relieving sanctions on Iran.

In Iran, Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told state TV: “On implementation, all should be watchful that Westerners, particularly Americans, keep their promises.”

Velayati said Iran expects that the United States and other Western countries that negotiated the deal will show their “good will” through lifting sanctions.

Iran’s atomic energy chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, told state TV that Tehran was ready to begin taking steps to comply, and awaited an order from President Hassan Rouhani. “We are hopeful to begin in the current or next week,” he said.

The IAEA said Sunday that Iran has agreed to allow greater monitoring of its commitment to the deal, going beyond basic oversight provided by the safeguards agreement that IAEA member nations have with the agency. For instance, it allows short-notice inspections of sites the IAEA may suspect of undeclared nuclear activities. (ap)

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during the Munich Security Conference in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015.

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Fossil teeth show earliest sign of people in southern Asia until only about 40,000 to 45,000 years ago. Maybe Neanderthals crowded them out, basically out-competing them as hunter-gatherers until their populations started to fade, the researchers suggest.

In a journal commentary, Robin Dennell of the University of Exeter in England suggests that cold winters might be a better explanation.

Eric Delson of Lehman College in New York, who was not part of the research, called the discovery potentially exciting. But given the implications, he said, the researchers must present a more detailed documentation of the geological setting of the find, which is crucial for the age estimate.

Shara Bailey, an expert on the evolution of human teeth at New York University who also didn’t participate in the research, said some teeth appear to have cavities, which is unusual for humans living so long ago. Cavities aren’t common until the appearance of agriculture changed the human diet about 10,000 years ago, she said. (ap)

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DENPASAR - Education has seen some significant developments in recent years. For example, three and four year olds are already attending pre-school and children as young as two years old are also being sent to school.

According to psychiatrist Wayan Westa, this is an age for playing. playing is an important part of the learning process for young children, and playing is how children learn to get along with their peers. “Playing is also a lesson,” he said recently.

For young children, learning is

not necessarily learning to read, draw or speak English yet teachers expect young children to participate in formal learning processes such as drawing et cetera. It used to be that children of this age were not expected to engage in formal learning but were instead invited to learn

how to exercise their courage and social interactions.

“In the past, young children did not receive formal education until they were slightly older,” said Westa.

Ideally, children begin to learn more formally at the age of six or

seven years old because their brains have already developed enough. “Today, even children much younger that that are expected to engage in formal learning this new approach is based on the fact that some students are ready to learn earlier than others,” he said.

Some students may be quite intelligence and ready to learn at an early age while others may not be so intelligent or ready to learn.

“In the past, children started

going to school at the age of six or seven. According to the Dutch laws and rules students were expected to begin interacting with their friends at that age, and that it was unnecessary to wait for their brain to be ready to learn,” he explained.

Sending kids to school at that age may also be based on economic capabilities, or children’s varying abilities to understand lessons. (kmb42)

Museum goes to school program finally realized TABANAN - After being delayed due to the revitalization of the Subak Museum, the Museum Goes to School program was finally launched last Monday. This program, the first of its kind, seeks to introduce museums to the younger generation by first targeting the SMAN 1 Kediri high school.

Similar program will also be launched in other schools such as the SMAN 1 Tabanan and SMAN 2 Tabanan. The program is working in conjuntion with both the management of the Subak Museum, as well as university agricultural analysts.

Head of the Tabanan Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Adnyana, said that this program initiated by his agency, aims both at letting

students know of the existence of the museum and also at preserving Balinese agricultural practices.

“Museum education will not remain restricted to high school students, in the future we plan to involve elementary students in Tabanan as well. The program is very good for promoting an understanding of the agricultural sector of Tabanan in particular and that if Bali more generally,” he said.

Head of the Subak Museum, Ida Ayu Ratna Pawitrani, said that the idea for the program emerged after it was noted that fewer and fewer young people were familiar with the agricultural sector. Currently young people are reluctant to whorl in agriculture. “The concept of the ‘museum goes to school’ program

based on a proactive approach to museums rather than a passive approach to museum visits,” explained Pawitrani.

Each time the museum visits a school, the students will be presented with a documentary film screening about the local irrigation cooperatives known as subak.

“After watching the movie, we will have a short discussion about the subak system, so that students can really know and understand more about subak,” she explained.

Pawitrani explained that actually the concept for this program was designed in 2014, but because the subak museum was being revitalized, the ‘museum goes to school’ program could only be realized this year.

To target primary school students, the subak museum proposed to the ministry of education that an animated documentary film be created so as to be more apple align to young students. “By using animation and a smile presentation, even elementary students can understand the subak system,” she concluded.

Principal of the SMAN 1 Kediri, I Dewa Nyoman Maryono, welcomed the dissemination of information related to the subak museum. Maryono’s school had already introduced its students to the subak system by visiting the subak museum and encouraging students to visit other museums in Tabanan. “This included having the students see all the equipments needed by farmers in Bali to pursue

farming,” he said.

As many people know the appearance of Subak Museum located at Sanggulan, Kediri, is no longer in a humbles but has been restores.

Previously, many of the buildings were poorly maintained, for instance, the Balinese traditional farmer’s house that was severely damaged has been restored into a beautiful condition thanks to the museum revitalizations project that was started in 2012 with the assistance of the Ministry of Education and Culture.

Since the restorations, many visitors both domestic and foreign have enjoyed visiting the museum.

The number of visitors continues to increase, though admittedly most visitors are locals. (kmb28) After being delayed due to the revitalization of the Subak Museum, the Museum Goes to School program was finally launched last Monday. This program, the first of its kind, seeks to introduce museums to the younger generation by first targeting the SMAN 1 Kediri high school.

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This photo provided by the journal Nature shows human upper teeth found in the Fuyan Cave of Hunan province in southern China. They are among dozens of fossil human teeth more than 80,000 years old that were recovered from the cave, providing the oldest clear indication by far that people lived in southern Asia that long ago. Maria Martinon-Torres, of University College London in England, and colleagues report the discovery in a paper released by the journal Nature on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015.

Baby dinosaur fossils found in ‘Dragon’s Tomb’ MIAMI - A handful of baby dinosaur fossils complete with fragments of eggshells have been uncovered in Mongolia, researchers said Wednesday.

They are the youngest ever discovered of a type of giant hadrosaur that lived about 70 million

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NEW YORK — Dozens of fossil human teeth from a cave in China show that people lived in southern Asia more than 80,000 years ago, researchers report.

Before this, the earliest well-dated fossils firmly linked to our species in southern Asia were only around 45,000 years old.

Our species, Homo sapiens, is thought to have appeared in Africa around 200,000 years ago and later spread to other continents.

The details of that dispersal are still murky. The discovery in China’s Hunan province argues against a theory that the first wave reached southern Asia only about 60,000 years ago.

The finding may mean that people arrived in multiple waves, said Maria Martinon-Torres of University College London, a study author.

She and authors from China and elsewhere reported the discovery of 47 teeth in the journal Nature on Wednesday. They could not date the teeth directly, but analysis of nearby mineral samples and animal fossils indicated the teeth are somewhere between 80,000 and 120,000 years old.

The finding raises the question of why our species didn’t enter Europe

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years ago, known as Saurolophus angustirostris, which means “lizard crest,” said the study in PLOS ONE. Their discovery adds to knowledge about how dinosaurs developed and grew, from birth to adulthood.

The babies all likely came from the same nest in a site known as the “Dragon’s Tomb” in the Gobi Desert, according to lead researcher Leonard Dewaele from Ghent University and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.

The saurolophus family is al-

ready well known to paleontologists. The herbivores could measure up to 12 meters (40 feet) long and weigh more than two tons. They are distinguished by a crest that projects backward off the top of the skull.

The three or four babies described in the paper did not yet

have this cranial crest, and their skulls were not yet fused, suggesting they were in the early stages of development.

Scientists are not sure if they had hatched yet or if they met their demise while still in their shells. (afp)

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Branding of Bali tourism still being discussed

THE BALI Tourism Office is discussing how to rebrand Bali tourism. The old slogan “Shanti Shanti Shanti” is considered by many not be very popular. Also, competing countries, like Thailand have rebranded their tourism promotion to be more attractive and easily distinguishable.

“We’ll have to create a new slogan, because the old one, ‘Shanti Shanti Shanti’ has not caught on with the public,” said the Head of the Bali Tourism Office, A.A. Yuniartha Putra, in Denpasar recently.

In the meantime tourism promotion for Bali -especially for Balinese counties doing promotion overseas, the name Bali will obviously be included in the promotional material.

“I think that Bali is already

branded, and the minister agrees, all we have to do is use the name “Bali”, as the minister said, it is enough,” he explained.

Yuniarta explained that when a region like Buleleng for example wants to promote tourism, they can

use the term ‘North Bali’, Karangasem can say: East Bali, etc.

The Indonesian Tourism Industry Association (GIPI) of Bali expects the new branding of tourism in Bali to be done quickly. The Ministry of Tourism has already set aside a budget for the tourism branding.

“We’ve talked to the Ministry of Tourism and discussed with

the Bali Development Planning Board (Bappeda) about branding Bali but we have not heard anything back yet,” said Chairman of the GIPI Bali, Ida Bagus Ngurah Wijaya.

According to Wijaya, branding is cornerstone of promotion, thus the branding of Bali tourism will certainly facilitate tourism promotion. (kmb32)

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The central government has allocated IDR 200 billion to Bali for tourism promotion, but many hope that this amount can be increased for 2016.

Deputy Governor of Bali Ketut Sudikerta said tourism clearly depends on promotion and promotion needs to be financed. “We hope that the allocation it can be increased,” said Sudikerta.

Sudirka explained that 80 percent of the fund for tourism promotion will go towards ad campaigns. The remaining 20 percent will be used to finance various festivals in each county or municipality.

Additional fund are needed for the

promotion of the increasing number of festivals in different regions of Bali.

For example, Badung hosts the Nusa Dua Fiesta, Kuta Carnival and others; Denpasar hosts the Sanur Village Festival and the Denpasar Festival; and other counties have festivals such as the Nusa Penida Festival, Batur Festival, Tanah Lot Festival and others. “Promotion for festivals in the different regions of Bali cannot rely only on funding form the central and provincial government but should also be receiving funding from local governments,” said Sudikerta.

This former deputy regent of Badung is worried that the proposal to increase the budget for festival promotion will be denied even though local funding is clearly not enough.

Head of the Bali Tourism Office, A.A. Gede Yuniartha Putra, said that there is instead a decrease in the amount of funds being allocated to Bali for tourism promotion in the regional budget for 2016.

“The regional budget for 2015 allocated IDR 800 billion for tourism promotion while the budget for 2016 is onlyIDR 600 billion. The amount was adjusted because our income decreased by IDR 3000 billion this year,” he said.

Nevertheless, his institution still aims to increase the number of tourist arrivals to Bali next year. Financial assistance from the Ministry of Tourism for tourism promotion is aimed at encouraging tourists to visits provinces throughout Indonesia, with the island of the Gods serving as a gateway. (kmb32)

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Green School Bali opens its campus for Bali residents

Green School boasts one of the most beautiful campuses imaginable. Located along the Ayung River in Sibang Kaja, Bali, the island’s unique artistic and religious culture enriches the Green School learning experience. There are currently 360 Green School students from over 30 countries in Pre-K through to Grade 12. Boarding is also offered for students in Grades 6 and up. Since its founding, the school has been visited by many influential and prominent figures such as UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and Dr. Jane Goodall.

Dancers performed Rejang Dewa Dance during the opening of Nusa Penida Festival (NDF) 2015. A number of festivals are held in Bali, however they have yet to coordinate with each other so as to maximize turnouts.

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MANGUPURA - Green School Bali was founded in 2008 by John and Cynthia Hardy. As acclaimed jewelry designers and local residents of Bali for 30 years, they recognized a unique opportunity to create something truly inspiring and outside the structural, conceptual, and physical limitations of most traditional schools. Today, Green School aims are to be the number one model of sustainability in education through offering an unparalleled education which integrates traditional academics with experiential, hands-on learning. Staying true to the founders’ core values of celebrating and respecting Balinese culture, the school proudly supports a Local Scholar Programme which allows local Balinese and Indonesian children to experience a Green School education. It is the school’s long-term goal to have 20% local student enrolment.

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According to Cok Ace, festival organizers fall into three categories: private or independent organizers, communities and governments. Private or independently organized festivals tend to be focused on promotion and fair trade.

“Community organized festivals tend to be focused on self-actualization though undoubtedly these also impact tourism. Government organized festivals are clearly aimed developing and preserving culture,” said the former regent of Gianyar.

Cok Ace is asking that the government provide incentives or stimulus through financing for the private sector and for communities who want to hold tourism festivals in Bali because these festivals clearly promote tourism yet they have yet to receive any attention from the government.

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After his 2014 visit, Ki Moon described the school as “the most unique and impressive school I have ever visited.”

In 2012, Green School was awarded the “Greenest School on Earth” by U.S. Green Building Council. Rachel Gutter, director of Green Schools noted, “Green School Bali possesses a deep, even spiritual connection with the community, and exists in perfect harmony with the earth it sits on.” In 2011, Green School partnered with renewable energy producer Akuo Energy to further their

goal towards 100% sustainability. Akuo engineers and Green School community members worked together to build a customized solar power project and Gravitational Water Vortex which both create sustainable energy for the school. The school also has an organic garden, aquatic systems, sustainable

waste and water usage systems, and a bird conservatory.

The school will open its campus on 23rd of October, 20th of November and 11th of December to prospective families to tour around the natural campus and have a lunch with the Admissions team.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses.

Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine.

In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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LOS ANGELES — Scare-seeking audiences preferred the family-friendly “Goosebumps” over the gothic horror of Guillermo del Toro’s haunted house pic “Crimson Peak” two weekends out from Halloween.

Sony’s “Goosebumps,” based on the popular book series, earned $23.5 million out of the gates to take the firstplace spot, while del Toro’s “Crimson Peak” languished at fourth with $12.8 million.

“Goosebumps” also managed to beat “The Martian” by a hair, pushing Ridley Scott’s space adventure to the second-place spot for the first time in its three-week run with $21.5 million.

Starring Jack Black as author R.L. Stine, “Goosebumps” cost a reported $58 million to produce. Audiences, 59 percent of whom were under the age of 25, gave the film a promising “A” CinemaScore, and reviews have been mostly favorable for the PGrated pic.

“It’s set up so well for not only this weekend, but for the rest of the fall,” said Rory Bruer, Sony’s president of worldwide distribution. “The word of mouth is just terrific. I think we were able to convey how much fun the film

is for the entire family, no matter what their age.” The Halloween-timing didn’t necessarily help “Crimson Peak,” though. The Legendary film, distributed by Universal, failed to attract a significant audience in its debut.

Those who did turn out gave the film a lousy B- CinemaScore.

It’s one of del Toro’s lowest wide openings; 1997’s “Mimic” earned only $7.8 million in its first weekend in theaters. One of the issues is that the movie, starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain and Tom Hiddleston, is rated R, and therefore has a more limited audience. Also, despite promises of a haunted house, the film, which cost a reported $55 million to produce, is more of a gothic romance than a classic horror.

“It’s not a slasher movie, it’s not a PG-13 movie aimed at the date crowd.

It’s more of a sophisticated movie,” said Paul Dergarabedian, Rentrak’s senior media analyst.

“Del Toro has passionate fans for

Tourism festivals still overlapping

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This photo provided by Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures shows Mia Wasikowska as Edith Cushing in a scene from Legendary Pictures’ “Crimson Peak,” a gothic romance from director, Guillermo del Toro. films that give this sort of approach to topics,” said Nick Carpou, Universal’s president of domestic distribution. In an exit poll, 45 percent of respondents said that they went because it was a del Toro movie. But that fandom, it seems,

is limited in box-office impact.

Also on the lower end, Steven Spielberg’s well-received cold-war thriller “Bridge of Spies,” meanwhile, debuted in third-place with $15.4 million from 2,811 theaters.

Despite the PG-13 rating, audiences for the $40 million film starring Tom Hanks were overwhelmingly adult. An estimated 88 percent were over the age of 25, according to a Rentrak survey. (ap)

‘Star Wars’ trailer to play during ‘Monday Night Football’

LOS ANGELES — More than just football fans will likely be tuning in to watch halftime on “Monday Night Football” this week.

A new trailer for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” will debut during

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halftime of the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles game, Lucasfilm announced Sunday. Tickets will also go on sale for the film, opening Dec. 18, after the trailer plays.

People dressed as Stormtroopers parade during a campaign of the Star Wars “The Force Awakens” film at the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015.

The game will be broadcast on ESPN, which, like Lucasfilm is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.

“The Force Awakens,” the seventh film in the franchise, is one of the most anticipated of the year.

Even its trailer launches have become events in and of themselves.

The second teaser trailer, which debuted in April, has over 64 million views on YouTube to date. (ap)

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Construction workers are seen working against a hazy skyline in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, Oct. 19, 2015.

Malaysian authorities ordered school closure again due to the haze situation. Indonesian forest fires that have caused choking smoke to drift across Southeast Asia are spreading to new areas and are unlikely to be put out until next year, experts said on Monday.

A NUMBER of festivals are held in Bali, however they have yet to coordinate with each other so as to maximize turnouts. “Many of the existing festivals do not show off unique characteristics or do not reach the target of their allocated funds,” said Chairman of the Regional Tourism Promotion Board (BPPD) of Bali, Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati, in Denpasar, recently.

The man familiarly addressed Cok Ace, added that any festival or tourism event should show their specific character. For example, there should not be more than one festival that features the art of baleganjur gamelan music from all of Bali’s counties. It is important to avoid overlap in the organization of tourism festivals.

“Nevertheless, we are still confident that despite some of the organizational set backs of Bali’s festivals they are still successful in showing travellers that Balinese people are still working creatively and that Bali is safe and worth visiting,” he said.

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Southeast Asia set to suffer for months as Indonesia fails to douse fires

JAKARTA - Indonesian forest fires that have caused choking smoke to drift across Southeast Asia are spreading to new areas and are unlikely to be put out until next year, experts said on Monday.

Indonesia has come under increased pressure from its neighbours to contain the annual “haze” crisis, which is caused by slash-and-burn agriculture practices, largely on Sumatra and Kalimantan.

But it has failed to put out the fires, with “hot spots” growing in eastern parts of the country and industry officials and analysts estimating the smoke will last until early 2016.

“Maybe it will last until December and January,” said Herry Purnomo, a scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research, adding that hot spots had reached Papua, a region that usually avoids widespread fires.

“It is because people are opening new agriculture areas, like palm oil,” he said.

A senior official at a company active in Indonesia’s forested areas said

the haze could continue until March.

Indonesia usually enters its wet season in October and November, but this year the country is expected to face moderate El Nino dry conditions which could strengthen until December and may hinder efforts to control the fires.

Indonesia’s national disaster management agency has made several forecasts for when the forest fires will be brought under control, many of which have now passed, but their latest target date is early November.

On the ground, NASA satellites detected 1,729 fire alerts across

Indonesia on Wednesday, a national holiday, more than any single day in the last two years.

About half of the fires during the last week have been on carbon-rich peat land areas, mostly in South Sumatra, South and Central Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Papua.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has increased government efforts to tackle the haze in recent weeks, making several visits to the worst-hit areas and asking other countries for help, but apparently to little avail.

“We all know that the burned areas are now widening beyond normal

conditions,” Widodo told reporters on Sunday. “...the efforts to extinguish the fires are ongoing now both by land and air. We have to be patient because the burned areas is now wide.” (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.