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Second time lucky for Denzel, whose new film tops box office KENA BETANCUR / AFP

Gabriel GarzonMontano, finding escape in magical funk

With estimated ticket sales of $35.8 million for the three-day weekend, “Equalizer” edged out another new sequel, star-studded “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again,” according to industry tracker Exhibitor Relations.

In his new film, Washington again plays a former black-ops agent -- and now soft-spoken Lyft driver -- who is drawn back into action to avenge a friend’s death. Director Antoine Fuqua also made “Training Day,” which earned Washington a best actor Oscar nod.

Industry watchers had expected Universal’s “Mamma Mia!” to open atop the box office, but its ticket sales of $34.4 million were “by no means a disappointment” at 22 percent above the original film’s opening, according to Hollywood Reporter.

With a star-studded cast -- including Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth and Pierce Brosnan -- the film is set after the events of the original “Mamma Mia!” but uses flashbacks to fill in the story of Streep’s carefree character on the sun-splashed Greek island where an ABBA soundtrack is never far away.

In third spot was “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation” from Sony, which took in $23.2 million. The animated comedy, whose voice cast includes Adam Sandler and Selena Gomez, follows Count Dracula and his family as they get away from their hotel for their own vacation.

Slipping from second last week to fourth was “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” the 20th release in Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe, at $16.1 million. It has ex-con Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) struggling to balance home life and Ant-Man duties as he and old flame Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly, alias the Wasp), take up an urgent new mission.

And in fifth, also from Disney, was “Incredibles 2,” at $11.5 million, which earlier in the month pushed past Pixar stablemate “Finding Dory” as the top-grossing animated film of all time. (afp)

Kravitz’s as crowds trickled in “who paid the babysitter to go see the greatesthits show.”

Around the same time his phone kept ringing as friends heard his voice on Drake’s song “Jungle.”

Drake properly secured rights to the sample.

But he credited GarzonMontano only by his initials, leaving the emerging artist embittered.

“It was like ‘Groundhog Day,’” he told AFP. “Everybody was like, ‘Congratulations, everything is going so well,’ and I was saying, well, actually this experience has been really horrifying for me.” (afp)

Actor Denzel Washington attends The Equalizer 2 Premiere at the TCL Chinese Theater, on July 17, 2018, in Hollywood, California.

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HOLLYWOOD - Superstar Denzel Washington had never made a sequel in a career reaching back nearly four decades, but when he did, with the Sony/Columbia production of “The Equalizer 2,” it managed to open at the top of the North American box office.

US musician Gabriel Garzon-Montano

NEW YORK - Gabriel GarzonMontano’s career trajectory a few years ago sounded, to his friends at least, to be the envy of a musician on the make.

Still in his mid-20s, the Brooklyn-born singer and multi-instrumentalist driven by the sensibilities of old-school R&B was tapped as Lenny Kravitz’s opening act on a tour of Europe and Drake sampled him on one of the hip-hop superstar’s number-one albums.

Instead, Garzon-Montano, a perfectionist who struggles to determine when his music is good enough for release, was crushed inside.

“I felt like he had just mopped the European floor with me,” Garzon-Montano said of Kravitz. “I just felt like I was going along for this shaming ride almost.”

Acknowledging that playing as an opening act is a rite of passage, Garzon-Montano said he nonetheless felt ignored, his set on less than half the volume of

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This picture taken on July 22, 2018 shows Indonesian officials standing near home appliances that were collected from inmates at the Sukamiskin jail in Bandung. Inmates at an Indonesian prison paid bribes for luxurious cells equipped with air conditioning, flat-screen televisions and private washrooms, officials said on July 23, as half a dozen jail employees were arrested in the case.

Lap of luxury: Indonesian jailers busted over fancy cells

Inmates at an Indonesian prison paid for luxury cells equipped with air conditioning, flatscreen TVs and private washrooms, anti-graft officials said, in the graft-riddled country’s latest corruption scandal. Jail staff allegedly took bribes of 200-500 million rupiah ($14,000-$35,000) from inmates to renovate cells and supply banned mobile phones or even let them temporarily leave prison, Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said.

Anti-graft agents arrested five people connected to the scandal at Sukamiskin prison, including inmates and the warden who got cash and a pair of vehicles to look the other way, it added.

A raid on Sunday turned up several cells that featured modern bathrooms with hot showers, fullsized refrigerators, coffee makers,

microwave ovens and stereo loudspeakers, the KPK said.

“We apologise to the Indonesian people,” Sri Puguh Budi Utami, the director general of Indonesia’s prisons, told reporters late Sunday.

“We’re very sorry that we still have not been able to maximise our monitoring systems.”

A former tax official now serv-

ing time at Sukamiskin was once photographed watching a tennis tournament in Bali and had even travelled overseas on a fake passport when he was supposed to be in another jail.

The prison’s other inmates include a former chief justice and exhouse speaker Setya Novanto, who was convicted in April of taking

millions of dollars in kickbacks and bribes linked to the national roll-out of government ID cards.

They were not among the inmates or prison staff arrested Sunday. Indonesian prisons are more commonly known for their poor conditions and outbreaks of violence.

But it is an open secret that the rich and powerful can buy luxury on the inside, prompting the government to warn last year that it would jail guards or other staff caught taking bribes from inmates in exchange for special treatment.

In one of the highest-profile cases, a businesswoman imprisoned for bribery had a cell with a spring mattress, couch, refrigerator, television and air conditioning -- and adjoining karaoke room. (afp) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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French drug smuggler home after being held 18 years in Indonesia

A Frenchman detained for 18 years after trying to smuggle drugs into Bali arrived in Geneva on Sunday and was on his way home after being deported in a case that sparked outrage in France over Indonesia’s tough narcotics laws. Police arrested Michael Blanc on the day after Christmas in 1999 at the tropical island’s airport with 3.8 kilogrammes (8.4 pounds) of hashish hidden inside scuba diving canisters.

Blanc, now 45, was given a life sentence -- narrowly escaping the death penalty which has been handed to some other foreign drug traffickers, including two members of the notorious Bali Nine who were executed in 2015.

His prison term was later cut to 20 years, and in 2014 Blanc won something that few foreigners get in Indonesia -- parole, though he was not allowed to leave the country immediately. The three-year parole period ended in July 2017, and he then had to wait another year while on probation.

The former cook was escorted by immigration officials to Jakarta airport Saturday accompanied by his mother, Helene Le Touzey, who gave up her life in France to spend nearly two decades in Indonesia campaigning for his release. “He has indeed arrived in Geneva,” Martial Saddier, a parliamentary lawmaker for Blanc’s native Haute-Savoie region in western France who is close

to Blanc’s family, told AFP. He was met by his father JeanClaude Blanc and other relatives out of sight of the journalists gathered to cover his return, and they later left by a side door. “I may be almost as nervous as he is,” Jean-Claude Blanc told AFP while waiting for his son’s plane to land.

Saddier said Blanc was going to remain several days in an undisclosed location. “He’s going to recover from these past nearly 20 years before making any public appearances,” he said.

- Years of efforts The life sentence handed out by an Indonesian court, which rejected Blanc’s claim that he was carrying the drug-filled gear for a friend, was criticised in France as unduly harsh.

The country has some of the world’s toughest laws against drug use and trafficking, and several convicted suspects have been executed since President Joko Widodo took office in 2014.

Paris raised the issue at the highest levels, with the thenprime minister Francois Fillon bringing it up during a visit to Indonesia in 2011. In 2008, Blanc’s sentence was cut to

20 years thanks in large part to his mother’s efforts.

She later helped secure her son’s parole in 2014, despite the fact that Indonesian law does not usually allow conditional release of foreigners after serving just two-thirds of their sentence.

More than 70 people, including 42 foreigners, are facing the firing squad for drug offences, according to the Coalition for the Abolition of Death Penalty in ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations). Among them were foreign nationals, including two Bali Nine members arrested in 2005 for an attempt to smuggle heroin from Indonesia to Australia.

The executions of Australian ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran sparked diplomatic outrage and a call to abolish Indonesia’s death penalty. Although Jakarta suspended executions last year, Widodo has said the country is facing a “drug emergency” and previously ordered police to shoot traffickers who resist arrest.

High-profile cases like that of Australian national Schapelle Corby, who spent more than nine years behind bars for smuggling marijuana into Bali, have stoked concern that Indonesia is becoming a drug destination. Corby was deported in 2017 after several years of parole.(afp)

Jean-Claude Blanc, father of Frenchman Michael Blanc who served 18 years in custody for smuggling drugs into Bali, waits for his son’s arrival at Geneva Airport on July 22, 2018. Blanc arrived in Geneva after he was deported in a case that sparked outrage in France over Indonesia’s tough narcotics laws.

Rolled up by waves, a World Bank senior economist dies MANGUPURA —World Bank senior economist, Aakansha Pande, 38, was rolled up by waves and drowned while swimming on the beach in front of Double Six, Seminyak, Kuta, Badung, on Saturday (Jul. 21). The victim was successfully rescued by Badung lifesaver officers, but she breathed her last on the way to Siloam Hospital, Kuta.

As the information compiled on Sunday (Jul. 22), this American woman stayed at the Hotel Indigo, Seminyak, where during the stay in Bali she was with her husband, Ziad Haider.

Around 17:00 local time, the victim with her husband and friends of six people arrived at the scene.

Initially, the victim had played with

sand, and then swam to the middle of the sea. Suddenly, a great wave rolled up and drowned the victim.

The incident was seen by lifesaver team and directly helped the victim.

After being evacuated to the beach, the victim was immediately taken to Siloam Hospital. Upon arrival at the hospital, the medical team immediately conducted a check on

the patient’s condition, checked the response as well as patient’s pulse and breath. In addition, it was also resumed with a heart record, but the victim was in a state of death upon arrival at the hospital.

Furthermore, the medical team suggested the victim’s body to be taken to Sanglah Hospital for an autopsy. At 22:30, the victim’s body

was taken to Sanglah Hospital by using an ambulance.

Chief of the Denpasar Police, Hadi Purnomo, when asked for his confirmation justified the incident.

He said the victim’s body was checked at hospital but no longer existed. “Possibly, it has been taken by her family. She was in Bali in a series of holidays,” he said. (kmb36)

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Bad weather impact

Cancellation of lodging in Nusa Penida increases

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A 200-year drought 4,200 years ago that caused civilizations to collapse across the globe marks the start of the newly designated Meghalayan Age. As seen in this photo from Algeria in 2017, droughts still occur during this ongoing geologic time period.

You’re living in a new geologic age. It’s called the Meghalayan

THE newly named current geologic age that started 4,200 years ago.Welcome to the Meghalayan, our geologic here and now. It’s one of three newly designated ages divvying up the Holocene Epoch, a geologic time period kicked off 11,700 years ago by the end of the Ice Age. First came a warming period, now dubbed the Greenlandian Age. Then, about 8,300 years ago, the

Northgrippian Age began with a big chill that gripped Earth for about 4,000 years. Finally, the Megha-

layan started 4,200 years ago with a devastating, 200-year worldwide megadrought.

“It marked a quite serious collapse of human agricultural civilizations,” says Phil Gibbard of the International Union of Geological Sciences, which ratified the new ages June 14 and released an up-

dated geologic time scale July 13.

The megadrought triggered human crises and migrations ranging from China to the Middle East to India, where the new age’s namesake is located. A stalagmite from a cave in the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya acts as the official time stamp marker for the start of the

age. The drought is also recorded in other geologic sediments and at archaeological sites around the world.

The Meghalayan is the first formal geologic time interval in Earth’s 4.6-billion-year history that began at the same time as a global, climatedriven cultural event. (net)

Jupiter has 12 more moons than we knew about — and one is bizarre

ASTRONOMERS have found 12 more moons around Jupiter, and one is really weird.

While 11 orbit in the same direction as their nearest neighbors, one doesn’t, potentially putting it on a fatal collision course.

“It’s driving down the highway on the wrong side of the road,” says planetary scientist Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. Sheppard and colleagues found the moons while looking for something else entirely: a putative planet that could exist beyond the orbit of Neptune, known colloquially as Planet Nine (SN: 7/23/16, p. 7). During a survey in 2017 of the most distant objects in the solar system using the Victor Blanco 4-meter telescope in Chile, Jupiter happened to be visible in the same area of sky that the team was searching during one of its

observing runs. “Might as well kill two birds with one stone,” Sheppard thought.

The researchers found a dozen objects moving around the sun at the same rate as Jupiter. Followup observations confirmed the moons’ existence and orbits: two inner moons that orbit in the same direction that Jupiter spins, nine outer moons that orbit the planet in the opposite direction and one oddball traveler. The researchers announced two of the moons in 2017 and the remaining 10 on July 16.

The motions of all but the oddball are normal for Jovian moons, which now number a whopping 79. Scientists think that’s because the inner moons formed from a disk of gas and dust that orbited the giant planet in the solar system’s early days, similar to how the planets formed around the sun (SN: 5/12/18, p.

28). The outer moons were prob-

ably free-floating space rocks captured when they came too close, and their opposite orbit was set by the direction that they approached Jupiter from.

But one moon broke the mold.

This rock, which the team calls Valetudo for the Roman goddess of health and hygiene, is tiny, only about a kilometer across.

It orbits in the same direction as Jupiter’s spin, but alongside the farther-out retrograde moons.

As a result, Valetudo is probably doomed to collide with one or more of the other moons someday. The researchers are still calculating when, but they expect it to occur sometime between 100 million and a billion years from now.

Valetudo may be the last remnant of a bigger object that has already withstood several collisions, or of a family of moons that has since been smashed to smithereens. “It’s probably the

largest surviving member, if not the only one,” Sheppard says.

Such nonconformist satellites are not rare, notes planetary scientist David Jewitt of UCLA, who was not involved in the new work. “But they are very interest-

ing, because we know that they have been captured by their host planets, but we don’t know how, or from where,” he says. Figuring out what oddballs like Valetudo are made of could help nail those details down. (net)

SEMARAPURA — The high waves occurred in the Badung Strait caused the crossing activities to Nusa Penida Island from the Klungkung mainland area disturbed. Moreover, it had been closed for a few days. This natural condition has an impact on cancellation of accommodation reservations. The owner had to suffer great losses.

Secretary of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Klungkung, I Wayan Sukadana, stated on Sunday (Jul. 22) the cancellation of room reservation reached 20 to 30 percent.

This has taken place since July 20, exactly with the closing of fast boat activities from the traditional harbor at Kusamba village, Dawan subdistrict and from Sanur, Denpasar. “Information on the crossing services remain confusing whether can cross and cannot. This makes many rooms cancelled,” he explained.

Faced with such situation, he said the accommodation owners cannot do much. They just hoped the situation can be getting better soon. “For example, if the weather is fine, the sea condition is calm, hotel occupancy is actually high. Now, it has entered high season,” he said.

An accommodation owner in Nusa Lembongan, I Wayan Topik Nusa Putra, said the cancellation has occurred since July 19. “The losses are sure because the room supposed to be occupied becomes empty. Besides, the guests who should stay longer finally check out earlier,” he explained.

Not only that, the closure of sea transportation activities also caused the supply of staple goods hampered. “We only rely on sea transportation to deliver goods to Nusa Penida. Like some time ago, it was difficult to find meat, chili and onions,” he said.

On Sunday, he said the marine condition has improved. However, there is information telling if a few days ahead there will be potentially longer and high waves. It could affect room reservation.

“We have anticipated the difficulties of basic commodities and are worried if the crossing will be closed again,” he added.

Head of the Klungkung Transportation Agency, I Nyoman Sucitra, said the fast boat activity has started to open and so does the roro ship to Padangbai Harbor, Karangasem. “Today (Sunday—Ed) is open, the situation in the sea is good, Roro already departed in the morning with passengers,” he explained.

However, this official from Tusan village, Banjarangkan, said that according to information from the National Weather Service (BMKG), the adverse waves are potential to occur until July 25.

On that account, people are asked to remain vigilant. “Just watch out because the natural situation is difficult to guess,” he pleaded.

Previously, the closure of fast boat and roro activities caused the accumulation of passengers in the Nusa Penida Harbor. Similarly, this happened to domestic and foreign tourists. Unavoidably, it reaped complaints. (kmb45)

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Of 12 recently discovered Jovian moons (illustrated in bold orange, blue and green), one orbits in the opposite direction of its neighbors (arrows show orbit direction). Four moons discovered by Galileo are also shown (purple).

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The natural condition has an impact on cancellation of accommodation reservations.

Dr. Tjokorda Artha Ardhana Sukawati

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Potentials of every district to be developed

GIANYAR — After being elected as deputy governor of Bali, Dr. Tjokorda Artha Ardhana Sukawati plans to develop the island evenly, but in accordance with the potential in each regency / municipality. This is done in order to overcome the problem of economic inequality happening all this time. “We will develop every region pursuant to each potential and concept,” he said during the Ubud Royal Weekend at Puri Lukisan Museum, Ubud, on Sunday (Jul. 22).

For instance, the equitable distribution of potential development in Tabanan is done by combining Jatiluwih area with the agricultural sector, while Ubud continues to be developed with the concept of tourism village.

“This is the equitable distribution of potential development, not just accommodation. If every district is given the opportunity to build the accommodation like Badung, we will end,” he said.

He said that currently almost 70 percent runs the business in tourism sector, so it needs to develop the other sectors, but still support tourism. “So far, we just run the business in the tourism sector, while other sectors remain to grow. Thus, it will be creating an equitable economy,” he said.

“The SME development will also become the focus,” said

this senior figure of Ubud Palace familiarly addressed as Cok Ace, especially the development of various crafts in the form of creative industry. “One of them is through the Ubud Royal Weekend where we open up the opportunities for young entrepreneurs to be widely known,” he said.

Committee Chairman of the Ubud Royal Weekend, Cokorda Agung Ichiro Sukawati, said the event is designed to be able to grow young and tough entrepreneurs that are ready to compete in the global market. “So, crowded visitor is not indicating if this event is successful, not like that. The most important is that after the event it can produce young entrepreneurs,” said the man who is also a young businessman from Ubud Palace.

He stated the Royal Ubud Royal itself is followed about 40

young entrepreneurs. Some are young entrepreneurs from Ubud, while some others from outside Bali that started the business and introduced their products through the Ubud Royal Weekend. “So, we facilitate quite a lot here. There are crafts from creative industries and a number of culinary entrepreneurs,” he said.

The Ubud Royal Weekend festival presented three aspects.

They include education through workshops to seminars; festival held in the form of bazaar to performance; and fashion show.

The event at the Puri Lukisan Museum has been held from Thursday (Jul. 19). “The closing will be made on Sunday, tomorrow. There will be a workshop from Anne Avantie and a number of entertainments on Sunday night,” he added. (kmb35)

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Other than setting up shoreline

ITDC to install wave absorber to handle abrasion

MANGUPURA - After abrasion due to the onslaught of the waves in the coastal area of Selagan Nusa Dua, currently the area has been re-arranged. Nevertheless, although the shoreline has been installed with geobag to protect from crashing waves, it is not enough to reduce abrasion.

According to Managing Director of The Nusa Dua of ITDC, I Wayan Karioka, although the beach is protected, if the waves are not absorbed, the re-arrangement will become in vain. To that end after re-arranging the beach, it will also create a structure to reduce waves.

“The current workmanship remains in the first stage, while the wave absorber has not been worked on yet,” he said when confirmed on Sunday (Jul. 22).

He explained to have some alternatives for the structure to be installed as wave absorber. Among them, there are conventional breakwater whose building reaches the bottom of the sea and the breakwater with new technology whose position is floating on the water.

He said the installation plan of the breakwater is currently being discussed with the BPLH and other related parties. For outside the shoreline area, the authority indeed lies in the province. “We have to

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After abrasion due to the onslaught of the waves in the coastal area of Selagan Nusa Dua, currently the area has been rearranged. coordinate this wave absorber with the provincial and central government. The provision is being discussed,” he said.

Admittedly, the arrangement done at this time is the nature for emergency only. As is known, Se-

lagan Beach is experiencing severe abrasion due to the onslaught of waves. Currently, the coastal revetment workmanship uses geobag along 415 meters. For the ongoing arrangement, the current progress reaches around 70 percent or as

long as 300 meters. “Now, it has almost got connected with the old structure, from the end of the Island of Nusa Darma to the Peninsula,” he concluded.

For the safeguard of shoreline, it is targeted to be completed

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next August. However, the wave absorber will begin after the IMFWB organization in October. “We are currently in the finalization of administrative matters, whether technical, licensing or legal provisions,” he added. (kmb23)

Record heat broils Japan, prompting warnings

TOKYO - Japanese officials issued new warnings Monday as a deadly heatwave blankets the country, producing record high temperatures in Tokyo just two years before the city hosts the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Officials said last week that the heatwave had killed at least 15 people and forced the hospitalisation of over 12,000 others in the first two weeks of July.

But the death toll may be more than double that, with Kyodo News agency reporting 11 people died on Saturday alone across Japan.

An updated official toll is expected later this week.

The heatwave has toppled temperature records across the country, with Kumagaya in Saitama outside Tokyo setting a new nationwide record on Monday with temperatures hitting 41.1 Celsius (106 degrees Fahrenheit).

And in western Tokyo’s Ome, temperatures hit 40.3 degrees Celsius, the first time temperatures over 40 have been recorded in Tokyo’s metro area.

Records fell at 13 other observation stations across the country, with more than a dozen cities and towns seeing temperatures around 40 degrees, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

“People in areas where temperatures are as high as 35 degrees or higher should be extremely careful” to avoid heatstroke, meteorological agency official Minako Sakurai told AFP.

“And even at lower temperatures, the heat can be dangerous for small children and elderly people, and depending on the environment and activities you are doing,” she warned.

“People should be all the more careful as many people must be exhausted after days of cruelly hot weather,” she added.

Yoshihide Suga, top government spokesman, warned that extremely hot days “are expected to continue until early August.”

Japan’s disaster management agency has urged people to use air conditioning, drink sufficient water and rest often while at work.

The heatwave follows record rainfall that devastated parts of western and central Japan with floods and landslides that killed over 220 people.

Japan’s summers are notoriously hot and humid, and hundreds of people die each year from heatstroke, particularly the elderly in the country’s ageing society.

But this year’s record temperatures have surprised residents and officials alike, and revived concerns about the 2020 Summer Olympics, which will be held in July and August in Tokyo.

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The Ambassador of Indonesia to Singapore, I Gede Ngurah Swajaya (L) gave the award of Kayak Travel Awards Singapore 2018 to the Ngurah Rai Airport.

the airport, but also through this cruise,” he concluded.

Currently, through Singapore, it has encouraged four destinations to Indonesia. For instance, North Bali has been included in the destination of cruise tourism, other than Surabaya, Jakarta, and Bintan. He said that a large cruise ship can accommodate 3,000-4,000 people. When compared to aircraft, that number should be transported by several aircrafts. “Surely, it is a very extraordinary potential,” he said.

Nevertheless, the airport development also needs to be continued.

Other than increasing the capacity, it also has something to do with carrying capacity as well as flight safety and comfort.

When talking about tourism, according to him, the airport plays a very important role because it is like the front side of a house or entrance. To that end, it is our duty to

improve the services and comfort, so that Ngurah Rai Airport can become a pride, not only for Bali, but also nationally.

“Indeed, it requires support from all the stakeholders including the provincial government of Bali so that Bali having truly remarkable reputation can be maintained and continuously be an interesting destination,” he said when met after the award of Kayak Travel Awards Singapore 2018 to the Ngurah Rai Airport, on Saturday (Jul. 21).

In the award event dedicated to visitors accessing the website from Singapore, Ngurah Rai Airport managed to be a runner up and outperformed Kuala Lumpur International Airport (Malaysia), Suvarnabhumi Airport (Thailand), and Phuket International Airport (Thailand). Meanwhile, the first rank of the Favorite Airport category was successfully achieved by Changi Airport, Singapore. (kmb23)

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People cool down in a swimming pool at Toshimaen amusement park in Tokyo on July 23, 2018. Japanese officials issued new warnings July 23 as a deadly heatwave blankets the country, producing record high temperatures in Tokyo just two years before the city hosts the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Olympic officials and Tokyo’s local government are touting measures from solar-blocking paint on roads to mobile misting stations to tackle the heat.

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike

acknowledged Monday that the recent heatwave was “exactly like living in a sauna”.

“For the athletes, they’re trained but for spectators who are cheering on the road, we may not necessarily

be able to say the same,” she said at a Monday press conference.

“Countermeasures against heat is one of the major pillars for the success of the 2020 Olympics.” (afp)

Crocodile in Paradise: Thailand hunts reptile in resort town

Cruise tourism hoped to alternatively increase tourist visit MANGUPURA - Bali is five times larger than Singapore, while the number of foreign tourist visit just reaches six million. Unlike Singapore, although the area is smaller than Bali, the number of foreign tourists visiting Singapore today has reached 16 million people.

According to the Ambassador of Indonesia to Singapore, I Gede Ngurah Swajaya, this condition is influenced by the capacity of Ngurah Rai Airport. The only airport in Bali is not able to accommodate the arrival of more aircrafts to bring in more than 10 million tourists.

To that end, he hoped the government to immediately seek alternative solutions such as the development of cruise tourism. With this cruise tourism, large cruises are expected to enter. “This is one of the alternatives needing to be considered so that the arrival of foreign tourists does not come only through

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Thailand is in hot pursuit of a cagey crocodile that has made unwelcome appearances off the beaches of resort island Phuket.

PHUKET - Thailand is in hot pursuit of a cagey crocodile that has made unwelcome appearances off the beaches of resort island Phuket only to slip through the clutches of local authorities.

The evasive reptile was first seen near Rawai beach about a week ago but has resurfaced in multiple locations near the beaches on the Andaman Sea. A group of hunters has joined an expanding team trying to track it down.

Thawee Thongcha, the mayor of Karon town on the west coast of Phuket, told AFP Monday they had come very close to success.

“We almost caught it when it was seen near the beach in Karon, (we were) metres away but it moved quickly back to the sea,” Thawee said.

“We do not yet know where it comes from.”

Thailand’s pristine beaches draw millions of tourists a year and Phuket in the southwest is one of the most popular destinations.

Thawee said choppy monsoon seas had prevented fishing boats from using nets to capture the creature, which is almost two metres in length.

The Siamese crocodile was once ubiquitous across Southeast Asia but is currently listed as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s red list.

Thon Thamrongnawasawat, a marine biologist and lecturer at Kasetsart University, said the presence of a crocodile in Phuket meant it was likely a hybrid saltwater version of the species bred

on a farm, and it was not the first such sighting.

“Normally the open sea is not a place where a crocodile would live,” he said.

Crocodile numbers in Thailand and Southeast Asia generally have been decimated by habitat loss, commercial hunting for the skin trade and the capture of live reptiles to stock crocodile farms, according to the IUCN. In Thailand there are just a handful of wild populations in central and western national parks.

A French tourist was bitten on the leg by a crocodile inside a Thai national park in January last year when she tried to get close to take a selfie.

In 2014 a Thai woman committed suicide by leaping into a pond of crocodiles at a farm popular with tourists on Bangkok’s outskirts. (afp)

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BUSINESS Asian markets slide as trade and currency war fears deepen Asian markets largely lost ground Monday as jitters grew over a potential trade and currency war, with the dollar sliding against most major currencies and extending Friday’s declines. The fall in the dollar came as US President Donald Trump attacked Washington’s main trading partners for their currency policies on Friday.

“China, the European Union and others have been manipulating their currencies and interest rates lower, while the U.S. is raising rates while the dollars gets stronger and stronger with each passing day - taking away our big competitive edge. As usual, not a level playing field,” Trump tweeted.

Trump’s combative stance has compounded fears of an all-out trade and currency war, with the US slapping tariffs on steel and aluminium from the EU, Canada and Mexico, in addition to levies on goods from China worth tens of billions of dollars.

In an interview with US channel CNBC broadcast Friday, Trump threatened to impose taxes on all Chinese imports, saying the US has been “ripped off by China for a long time”.

Tokyo plunged 1.3 percent -- falling for a third straight trading day -- as a stronger yen hurt exporters, making their products less competitive abroad and eroding repatriated profits. Hong Kong ended the day flat while Seoul and Sydney slid 0.9 percent. But Shanghai jumped more than one percent and Jakarta advanced 0.7 percent.

European markets opened lower, with London and Paris dropping 0.3 percent and Frankfurt falling 0.4 percent. Oil markets rose slightly, though analysts cautioned that concerns about the trade dispute would likely weigh on prices in the short to medium term.

“The impact of the trade war and the recognition that President Trump and his administration are serious about going to the mat on this issue is finally starting to register in the consciousness of traders and investors in oil and other financial markets”, said Greg McKenna, chief market strategist at AxiTrader. “That means we are seeing downgrades, in some cases material, to the outlook for global growth and as a consequence the demand for oil,” he added. (afp)

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2014 fiel photo the new headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB), building at right, is reflected in the River Main in Frankfurt, Germany.

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Sudaji Village Offers Numerous Tourism Activities

Numerous potentials owned by North Bali can lure foreign tourists. If some regions offer the potential of the beach, then some others are superior to the potential of mountainous nature and culture. Now, it depends on each region to pack and present the potential at hand to tourists.

One of the villages developing the potential with the characteristic owned is Sudaji village in Sawan subdistrict, Buleleng. Aside from offering durians, since several years ago Sudaji has been known as a tourism village. According to the Chief of the Sudaji tourism village, Gede Suharsana, the village was inaugurated as a tourism village by the regent of Buleleng last May 5.

Though newly inaugurated, the village has initiated and pioneered a tour package since 2008. This tourism village is managed by local tourism awareness group (Pokdarwis) inaugurated by customary village in 2012.

He said that establishment of the tourism village passed through a long process, inseparable from the mapping of the potential owned. The concept introduced and highlighted is the local wisdom with the Tri Hita Karana (three causes of happiness). Habitable homes of residents are taken advantage as an accommodation as well as a place to interact for tourists. His group also

ECB research says stimulus didn’t favor the rich

FRANKFURT - New research published by the European Central Bank pushes back against criticism levelled at its 2.4 trillion euro ($2.8 trillion) stimulus program, indicating it did not increase inequality and helped boost poorer households’ income by putting people back to work.

The arguments in the paper released Wednesday help counter accusations, particularly from German politicians and news media, that the stimulus program hurt savers by depressing returns and benefited financially wobbly southern European governments such as Italy’s through lower borrowing costs.

A headline in the Bild newspaper in December 2015, a few months after the program started, read: “We’ll Never Get Savings Interest Again.”

The ECB research — compiled by five economists from the central bank and one outside author — found that pain in one area could be compensated by stimulus gains in other areas, and that employment and wage gains benefited people across all income categories — in Germany as well as in Italy.

“Monetary policy in recent years benefited most households and did not contribute to an increase in wealth, income, or consumption inequality,” they wrote.

The report does not represent an official stance by the Frankfurt-based bank, which conducts monetary policy for the 19 countries that use the euro currency. The bank makes those policies clear in statements after its regular meetings and in news conferences

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held by Draghi.

The researchers sought to measure the total effect of the stimulus program across different aspects of people’s pocketbooks: house prices, mortgage payments, rise or fall in investment holdings, wages, and interest on savings.

The research found that direct and obvious losses — such as a bank statement showing zero returns on savings due to low interest rate policy — were often offset by indirect benefits. That could be from people returning to work, as the stimulus policy lifts demand across the economy. The ECB cut its benchmark interest rate from 1.5 percent to zero from 2011 to 2016 and started its stimulus program in March 2015. Unemployment in the 19-country eurozone has fallen from 12.1 percent in 2013 to 8.4 percent currently, with 8.4 million more people in work.

The researchers also found that people in the lowest fifth by wealth — with a median net worth of only 1,100 euros — saw a gain of 2.5 percent after a year of stimulus, while the top fifth saw more modest increases of about 1 percent. A measure of inequality commonly used by economists, called the Gini coefficient, decreased slightly.

The European Central Bank is already

getting ready to phase out at year-end its stimulus program. The stimulus is created by buying bonds from banks, which pushes newly created money into the financial system. The aim is to make borrowing cheaper in the wider economy, stimulating economic activity.

Even with the stimulus, the bank struggled for a long time to push inflation up to its goal of just under 2 percent. Now, however, ECB President Mario Draghi and the members of the bank’s governing council say they are more confident inflation is finally trending that way.

The U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, and the Bank of England have all run similar bond purchase programs. The Fed ended its program after accumulating some $4.5 trillion in bonds and is withdrawing stimulus by raising interest rates and letting its bond holdings shrink as the bonds are repaid.

A March report published by the Bank of England found that the impact of such stimulus on wealth and income inequality was small; a study by academic economists in the U.S. in 2014 found that expansionary monetary policy by the Fed reduced inequality. (ap)

introduces typical cuisines to visiting guests, not Western food. Not only that, in the span of a few years Sudaji tourism village has been capable of presenting tourist activities ranging from trekking, spiritual tourism, agro-tourism and cultural performances.

Pokdarwis continues to explore the village potential, where the latest is the potential of the river. The local river remaining natural with a fairly heavy flow can be used for rafting adventure. This rafting tour is considered as the first one in North Bali. However, his group is still constrained by equipment of the adrenalin racing adventure. “Yesterday we tested with our self-made equipment, but we still need equipment complying with the standards,” he said.

Another obstacle is the matter of weather, where rainy season is prone to flooding that will be hazardous and make tourists feel afraid to try the whitewater rafting adventure. (kmb)

Catfish Pepes in Complete Mouse Cremation at Bedha Village, Seasoning and Torch Ginger How Does the Ceremony Look Like?

Make a try to taste fried catfish.

Wow… it is remarkably delicious!

Similarly, you can taste catfish pepes (wrapped in banana leaf) with complete seasoning. Of course, it must be different. Catfish pepes coming with Balinese complete seasoning is indeed unable to be prepared by all people.

This means the catfish pepes having excellent taste with natural ingredients without preservatives.

Mak Ade is one of the rural chefs who always makes catfish pepes with torch ginger every day. This old and single woman from Ole hamlet, Marga Dauh Puri, Tabanan, indeed has expertise in preparing menus especially the traditional ones. Her cooking is famous for its delicacy, so that local villagers always purchase it.

Well, among the menus on sale, the catfish pepes with torch ginger is frequently purchased as can be consumed by children, teenagers to old people. In the afternoon, after coming home from cultivating paddy fields, village farmers will drop in to buy catfish pepes as a side dish for dinner. Sometimes, people have also arrived before her stall is opened. The side dish will be served as side dish for lunch in paddy fields.

Children also like this kind of menu. However, they must eat carefully because the flesh still contains few bones. Catfish will be better to be consumed when accompanied with vegetable with grated coconut

seasoning and cassava chips. Catfish pepes prepared by Mak Ade offers very distinctive taste. On that account, she opens her food stalls in the morning and afternoon for breakfast and dinner.

When preparing this catfish pepes, Mak Ade uses giant catfish, torch ginger, Balinese complete seasoning and banana leaf to wrap it. The complete seasoning covers turmeric, galangal, aromatic ginger, ginger, garlic, onion, large chili, cayenne pepper, lemongrass, candlenut, pepper, coriander and salt. First of all, prepare complete seasoning by chopping turmeric, galangal, ginger, and aromatic ginger.

Then, grind garlic, onion, large chili, cayenne and lemongrass. Similarly, grind the candlenut, pepper, and coriander. All the seasonings are ground to be getting smooth. Please add salt to taste. Similarly, cut thin the torch ginger and bruise to be smoother.

Cleanse the catfish and then cut into pieces according to taste.

The finely grounded seasoning is put into the basin, put the slices of catfish flesh and mix them together well with the seasoning. Add bay leaves to create a distinctive flavor. Further, wrapped the batter of catfish flesh and the seasoning lengthways following the line of leaves and attach with bamboo pin (tooth pick). After that, steam it until cooked. Roast to taste fine and delicious. Now, it is ready to serve. (kmb)

Bali Island retains a number of unique things. For instance, Balinese people have a tradition of fighting against mouse pests.

Dubbed as the rice granary region of Bali, Tabanan district surely has an extensive agricultural land.

A number of challenges are often faced by local farmers.

For instance, mouse attack threatens the yields of agricultural production. To overcome such pest attack, some villages in Tabanan district still uses traditional method of mass hunting. Not only that, the ceremony of mereteka merana or mouse cremation is still done especially by subak members in the area of Bedha customary village, Tabanan. This ceremony is still closely related to the safety and fertility of plants, especially paddy.

The mouse cremation has been frequently done at Bedha customary village and has been regarded as local custom. Moreover, this ceremony is held in the holy place namely Penataran Bale Agung, Puseh Temple of Bedha. Moreover, after the ceremony it has proved to provide real evidence for the life of farmers. “Until now, the tradition of mouse cremation in Bedha remains to exist, but it’s only done if there is an uncontrolled mouse pest attacks in paddy fields,” said chief of Bedha customary village,

I Nyoman Surata.

The ceremony, said Surata, aims to purify the soul of pests so as to return to its origin and does not reincarnate to the earth as a pest that damage all types of plants on earth, especially paddy plants. “Thus, it is unlike cremation on Pitra Yadnya but when there is an uncontrolled pest attack, so farmers always face harvest failure. The mouse also called as Jero Ketut is cremated like in ngaben ceremony. After being cremated, the mice collected from mass hunting (through fumigation)

in the fields are floated to the sea,” he explained.

He added that at Bedha village such ceremonies are often organized when mice and other pests have caused an extraordinary disturbance and cannot be controlled.

This last mouse cremation ceremony was held in 2009 involving subak groups in Tabanan district under the coordination of Sedahan Agung of Tabanan. Interestingly, after the mouse cremation, the plants have never been attacked by pests until now. (kmb)

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Another woman lynched in India after WhatsApp rumours NEW DELHI - A mob lynched a woman in India after rumours circulated on WhatsApp about child kidnappers, police said Monday, days after the messaging firm said it was curbing the forwarding of messages.

More than 20 people have been killed in similar incidents in the past two months, leaving both the Indian authorities and Facebookowned WhatsApp scrambling to find a solution in its biggest market.

Police said nine people have been arrested and more are being sought after they found the middle-aged woman’s mutilated body near a forest area in the Singrauli district of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on Sunday.

The accused men told police they caught hold of the woman late Saturday after finding her moving suspiciously and seeing a flurry of WhatsApp messages about gangs of child kidnappers in the area, local police chief Riyaz Iqbal told AFP. “We are trying to identify the victim and have circulated her picture to all the police stations,” Singrauli police chief Riyaz Iqbal told AFP. Last Thursday the Indian government threatened WhatsApp with legal action, saying the “medium” for spreading malicious rumours “cannot evade responsibility and accountability”.

WhatsApp said the next day it would test limiting the ability of its more than 225 million Indian users to forward messages and remove the “quick forward button” next to media messages.

It had already announced new features to help users identify messages that have been forwarded and bought full-page adverts in Indian newspapers with tips on how to spot misinformation.

It has however stopped short of acceding to Indian government demands to enable the authorities to trace messages, saying its service would stay “end-to-end encrypted”.

Lynchings are nothing new in India, but the spread of smartphones to even the most remote corners has enabled rumours to be shared at lightning speed and in huge volumes.

The spate of attacks related to rumours of child kidnapping started last May in the eastern state of Jharkhand with the emergence of a video that has since spread across India.

People have also been lynched by Hindu extremists murdering Muslims and thrashing low-caste Dalits accused of killing cows or eating beef. (afp)

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This photo taken on July 10, 2018 shows Gulshan Daolagupu, deputy superintendent of police, showing the damaged vehicle in which two men were lynched at Dokmoka Police station in Karbi Anglong district, some 180km from Guwahati, the capital city of India’s northeastern state of Assam.

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Toronto Police officers stand watch at the foot of Danforth St. at the scene of a shooting in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on July 23, 2018. A gunman opened fire in central Toronto on Sunday night, injuring 13 people including a child. Two dead incluiding gunman, police reported.

Toronto shooting leaves 2 dead including gunman, 13 hurt

TORONTO - Two people including the gunman are dead and 13 wounded in Toronto after a shooting Sunday in the bustling Greektown neighborhood, adding to concern about gun violence in Canada’s largest city.

A video clip posted by Canadian media appeared to show a dark-clad man walking on the sidewalk and then turning to aim and fire a handgun.

“One female adult has died. One young girl in critical condition,” Toronto police said on Twitter, adding that all 14 victims were shot with a handgun.

Police said the suspect was also dead, and Chief Mark Saunders said there had been “an exchange of gunfire.”

It was not clear, however, whether the suspect died from police gunfire or killed himself.

Saunders said it was too soon to know what the motive was for the rampage in a district of cafes and restaurants.

Toronto’s homicide squad was leading the investigation but local media reported the independent Special Investigations Unit, which probes police-involved shootings, had also been notified.

Officers, some armed with rifles, sealed off Greektown’s main street, known as the Danforth, after getting the call around 10:00 pm (0200 GMT Monday).

Witnesses reported hearing about 20 shots.

“There was a lot of shots. It would shoot, there’d be a pause, we heard more shooting, and then a pause and then more shooting,” The Globe and Mail quoted John Tulloch, who was out for a walk at the time, as saying.

“There must’ve been 20, 30 shots, altogether. It was a lot. We just ran.”

- People screamed, fled Jody Steinhauer told CBC News she was at a neighborhood restaurant with her family when she heard what sounded like 10 to 15 blasts of firecrackers. She said she was told to run to the back of the restaurant.

“We started to hear people scream out front,” Steinhauer told the broadcaster.

Ontario’s new Premier Doug Ford called it a “horrific act of gun violence” and said his heart went out to the victims.

The incident comes with Canada’s largest metropolis concerned over a surge of shootings. Canada traditionally has relatively low levels of gun violence, particularly compared with its neighbor the United States.

Mayor John Tory said Sunday night’s firearms violence is “evidence of a gun problem” in Toronto.

“Guns are too readily available to too many people,” Tory told a news conference.

Tory added that details of the latest incident remained sketchy and urged people to stay calm.

“We have to figure out what happened here. We don’t know,” he said.

Toronto Police statistics show that, to July 14, there had been a total of 220 shootings with 27 fatalities so far this year, against 196 with 17 deaths for all of 2017.

Last week, Toronto police started implementing the enforcement component of their “gun violence reduction plan.” That includes around 200 additional officers on shift in particular neighborhoods between the hours of 7:00 pm and 3:00 am — when most shootings occur.

The Greektown shooting comes about three months after the city was shaken by the deaths of 10 people killed by a man with an apparent grudge against women who drove into them on a busy street in Toronto’s north end. (afp)

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40 Indonesian Figures Involved in Asian Games Torch Relay

Jakarta - The 2018 Asian Games torch relay that is set to commence on July 17 until August 15 will journey through 53 districts in 18 provinces and will be participated by 40 Indonesian legendary athletes, celebrities, and public figures.

INASGOC Chairman Erick Thohir stated that the legendary athletes to be involved include Taufik Hidayat, Susy Susanti, Budi Hartono, Yustedjo Tarik, Yayuk Basuki, and Herman Sembalo. “We will commence in India on July 14-July 16 as it was the first host nation for the Asian Games,” said Erick Thohir in Jakarta yesterday, July 12.

The torch will travel across historic cities such as Aceh, Mataram, Palembang, Raja Ampat, Banyuwangi, and Bali Province. From India, the torch will travel to Mrapen in Central Java which will be handed over to the

Youth and Sports Minister and Coordinating Minister of Human development and culture.

“We want the Asian Games spirit to echo across Indonesia,” said Erick. The torch itself will be transported from India to Indonesia via a Boeing 737-500 that is supported by the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI).

INASGOC has prepared at least 200 torches for the 2018 Asian Games torch relay tradition across 53 cities and districts before the sporting event kicks off in Jakarta and Palembang on August 18 up to September 2.(ant)

Search on for two dozen inmates after Indonesia prison break Indonesian authorities are searching for two dozen inmates who escaped from a prison by sawing through the iron bars of a ventilation window, police said Monday.

While six inmates were quickly apprehended after the Sunday escape, another 25 are still on the run from Doyo prison, an institution for drug offenders in easternmost Papua province, authorities said.

“We have deployed officers to hunt them, secure the borders, the harbour, airport and also to set up extra security behind the prison,” said Jayapura police chief Victor Dean Mackbon. Prison breaks are not uncommon in Indonesia.

In May last year, more than 200 inmates escaped in a mass breakout from an overcrowded prison in Sumatra. A month later, four foreign inmates tunnelled themselves out of a prison on the resort island of Bali.

Police managed to recapture three of the foreigners a few days later in neighbouring East Timor, but one of them -- an Australian -- is still on the run.(afp)

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Former Indonesian badminton player Susi Susanti (C) lights the torch for the Asian Games during the torch relay at the site of the Mount Bromo volcano in Probolinggo, East Java province, on July 21, 2018. Jakarta and Palembang in Sumatra will host about 11,000 athletes and 5,000 officials from 45 Asian countries for the Asian Games, which will be held from August 18 to September 2.

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Mercedes’ British driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates after winning the German Formula One Grand Prix at the Hockenheim racing circuit on July 22, 2018 in Hockenheim, southern Germany.

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“I would like to offer my sincere apologies to both Elie Gesbert and Team Fortuneo for this unacceptable incident.”

It is not the first time Moscon, now in his third year with Sky but on his race debut, has fallen foul of officials.

Last year he was handed a suspension by Sky after racially abusing Frenchman Kevin Reza at the Tour of Romandie.

That misdemeanour earned the Italian a written warning from Team Sky, who said at the time: “Gianni Moscon has been given a formal written warning and suspended from racing for six weeks.

“He will also attend a diversity awareness course.

“Gianni knows that there is no excuse for his behaviour and that any repeat will result in termination of his contract.”

At the end of last season Moscon was also accused by Swiss rider Sebastien Reichenbach of causing him to crash in an Italian race, an incident for which he escaped sanctions. Moscon finished an impressive fifth at Paris-Roubaix last year and third in the Tour of Lombardy, before helping Froome to claim overall victory in the 2017 Tour of Spain. (afp)

HOCKENHEIM - Mercedes team chief Toto Wolff denied Monday that the use of team orders in Sunday’s spectacular German Grand Prix signalled that Lewis Hamilton would be preferred as the number one driver.

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CARCASSONNE - Italian Gianni Moscon, a Team Sky teammate of defending Tour de France champion Chris Froome, was thrown off the race Sunday after an altercation with a fellow rider, officials said.

Race officials took the decision after Moscon was involved in a fracas with a rider from the Fortuneo team shortly after the stage start in Millau.

Speaking to AFP, officials said the Italian used heavy-handed tactics when the Fortuneo team rider tried to help his team leader, Warren Barguil, join an early breakaway in the 181.5 km-long 15th stage from Millau to Carcassonne.

Race commissaires classed the incident as a “particularly serious aggression” and threw the 24-yearold Italian off the race shortly after the stage, won by Denmark’s Magnus Cort Nielsen of Astana.

Team Sky boss Dave Brailsford said he accepted the decision to exclude Moscon.

“Gianni is desperately disappointed in his behaviour and knows that he has let himself, the team and the race down,” Brailsford said in a team statment.

“We will address this incident with Gianni once the Tour is complete and decide then if any further

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Wolff was adamant that the triumphant Hamilton and his teammate Valtteri Bottas will remain free to race each other until late in the season when there might be championships decided by such decisions.

“Racing is most important,” said Wolff. “We always said if the championship goes into its last third, or last quarter, and there is a big difference between the drivers, then we might make these unpopular calls.

“But it’s much too early in the season to do this. We made it in order to bring a one and two home….

And we would have done it the other way around.”

Bottas attempted to challenge and pass Hamilton for the lead in Sunday’s rain-hit race following a Safety Car period after Sebastian Vettel crashed while leading for Ferrari. The two Mercedes men battled side-by-side before Hamilton emerged in front and Mercedes intervened with a team radio message to ‘hold position’.

Wolff said the message did not mean Hamilton, who declared his German win from 14th on the grid as the greatest of his career, was seen as favoured ahead of Bottas as

a clear number one driver.

“No, absolutely not,” he said. “If it had been the other way around, with Valtteri in the lead and Lewis second, we would have made the same call. Identical call. It was about bringing it home irrespective of who was in front.”

Wolff added it was still raining at the time of the message and the team did not want to take any risks.

He said: “What I said to Valtteri is something that I would also say in the team. I would have done the same thing the other way around.

“This is the transparency we have in the team, that we wouldn’t make a difference. It was important to score the double podium, the one and two, in order to recover some of the points which we lost through bad luck.”

Hamilton’s astonishing victory, hailed as the greatest of his career, lifted him 17 points clear of Vettel in the drivers’ championship race after 11 of this year’s 21 races. He is 66 ahead of fourth-placed Bottas.

“It is a very difficult call because on the one side you want to optimise the result and that is what you need to do, but on the other side you need to give both drivers a chance to win

the race,” said Wolff.

Ferrari had also used team orders when asking Kimi Raikkonen, who finished third, to allow Vettel to pass him for the lead.

Wolff said: “Kimi was unlucky in a few races at the beginning of the season, where the strategy went against him, and I think that Ferrari struggled to come up with the right call there. It’s understandable.”

Sunday’s result meant the leadership in the championship changed again for the sixth time this season as the close ‘fight for five’ between Hamilton and Vettel remained so hotly-contested.

Hamilton said afterwards that he feared his lead might again be short-lived as the teams head to Budapest for this week’s Hungarian Grand Prix, the last one before the European summer break.

“It’s usually not our strongest track, but I’m hopeful it’s not a power circuit,” he said, referring to the dusty, tight and technical Hungaroring where chassis performance is important.

“Hopefully this extra chunk of power that Ferrari have found doesn’t serve them as well there and we have a decent fight...” (afp)

Philippe LOPEZ / AFP

Great Britain’s Team Sky cycling team rider, Italy’s Gianni Moscon rides during the 15th stage of the 105th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, between Millau and Carcassonne on July 22, 2018.

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Ozil’s resignation sparks Germany racism storm as Ankara cheers

Man Utd held to scoreless draw by Earthquakes

Mesut Ozil’s decision to quit playing for Germany unleashed a racism storm in Berlin on Monday, but earned the applause of Ankara with a Turkish minister hailing “a goal against the virus of fascism”. After months of silence over a controversial photograph with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in May, which sparked questions about his loyalty to Germany, Ozil erupted on Sunday.

The Arsenal midfielder posted a stinging four-page statement taking aim at German Football Association (DFB) bosses, sponsors and the media. Ozil, a key member of the squad which won the 2014 World Cup, blamed the DFB management, in particular its president Reinhard Grindel, for failing to side with him against his critics.

“In the eyes of Grindel and his supporters, I am German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose,” Ozil wrote. The 29-year-old said he was true to both his Turkish and German origins and insisted he did not intend to make a political statement by appearing with Erdogan just before the World Cup finals.

“I have two hearts, one German and one Turkish,” said Ozil, who has been repeatedly singled out for criticism after Germany’s woeful performance at the World Cup saw them crash out after the group stages. Ozil’s explosive statement, in three separate postings on Twitter and Instagram, was hailed by the Turkish government of Erdogan, who has championed a campaign against what Ankara sees as growing Islamophobia in Europe.

“I congratulate Mesut Ozil who by leaving the national team has scored the most beautiful goal against the virus of fascism,” Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul wrote on Twitter. But it was met with a mix of dismay and outrage in Germany. Justice Minister Katarina Barley wrote on Twitter that it was an “alarm sign if a great, German footballer like Mesut Ozil no longer feels wanted in his country or represented by the DFB.” - ‘Whiny resignation’ Cem Ozdemir of the Greens party also voiced dismay that “young German-Turks now get the impression that they have no place in the German national team”. At the same time, Ozdemir, who himself has Turkish roots, voiced disappointment that Ozil “did not live up to his

function of setting examples” by failing to distance himself from Erdogan.

“Posing with the sole ruler Erdogan is disrespectful to those who are being persecuted in Turkey or put arbitrarily in prison,” he said. Germany’s country’s best-selling newspaper Bild led the charge of criticism against Ozil, calling his statement a “whiny resignation” and slamming him for heaping “criticism on everyone but himself”.

Bild, which has for weeks has been calling for Ozil to be dropped from the starting team , also hit back against the midfielder’s claims that his Turkish origin and Erdogan photo have been used by some media to pander to the far-right. “Ozil’s world view here is dangerously close to Erdogan and his despots,” charged the tabloid-style daily.

The photo, which was published on the presidential website and the Twitter feed of the ruling party, came just before the June 24 polls Erdogan won to claim sweeping new powers.

Ozil said that despite the timing of the picture “it wasn’t about politics or elections, it was about me respecting the highest office of my family’s country”.

- ‘Watershed’ Born and raised in Gelsenkirchen, Ozil, who has scored 23 goals and made 40 assists in 92 appearances for Germany, is third-generation German-Turk and counts among more than three million people of Turkish origin in Germany. In his statement, Ozil underlined how he felt “hurt” by his school which he said did not want him to appear in an event there because of the raging criticism against him over the Erdogan affair.

The DFB has so far stayed mum, and in a first reaction from his former teammates, defender Jerome Boateng wrote on Twitter only using the Turkish word for “brother”: “It was a pleasure, Abi.” Former DFB chief Theo Zwanziger warned that the de-

bacle was a “serious blow to the integration efforts in our country that goes beyond football”.

For Tagesspiegel, the entire affair was a “watershed for sports, politics and society.” While the newspaper noted that Ozil’s thinking that a photograph could be non-political was “naive”, it said that the debacle had far reaching consequences. “Ultimately, Ozil did not fall because of Grindel but because of a heated, populist mood in Germany,” it said.

“The danger exists because many who also have family roots in other countries or culture, can understand Ozil’s mood. And this needs to be countered quickly and decisively. “Because more is at stake than just the future of the German national football team.”(afp)

In this file photo taken on October 8, 2010, Germany’s midfielder Mesut Oezil walks after scoring during the Euro 2012 qualifying group A football match between Germany and Turkey at the Olympia stadium in Berlin.

Mesut Ozil’s decision to quit playing for the German national football team Die Mannschaft unleashed on July 23, 2018 a racism storm in Germany, but earned the applause of Ankara with a Turkish minister hailing “a goal against the virus of fascism”.

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Laporte ‘jealous’ after seeing France World Cup win Aymeric Laporte says he was “jealous” watching France win the World Cup as his international tug-of-war with Spain continues.

The £57 million ($74.9 million) French-born Manchester City defender, who is of Basque descent and qualifies for Spanish residency having spent eight years at Athletic Bilbao, represented Les Bleus at youth level but failed to make a senior appearance.

Now new Spanish manager Luis Enrique is keen for him to join his squad ahead of the Euro 2020 qualifiers. Two years ago while at Bilbao, Laporte was urged by then Spanish manager Julen Lopetegui to explore the possibility of switching nationalities. He was then called up by France and declared his intentions to play for the country of his birth.

But a failure to find a way into Deschamps’ plans has seen Enrique urge him to change his mind, according to a report in Mundo Deportivo this week. Spain’s dis-

appointing showing at the World Cup together with the search for a ball-playing defender to eventually replace the likes of Sergio Ramos and Gerard Pique has intensified the move for Laporte.

Aymeric declined to comment on his international future when asked about the Spanish reports during City’s pre-season tour of the United States. But the 24-year-old acknowledged he had conflicting emotions while watching France win the World Cup. “It was jealousy to be honest,” he told reporters about how he felt watching France’s World Cup win.

“The decisions were made and you just have to accept them.

That’s how it is in football. “It didn’t come as a surprise to me that I wasn’t involved. I hadn’t been in the previous squad that had been named without me. “But it was still a little disappointing for me not to be involved.” Laporte, who missed Friday’s defeat to Borussia Dortmund in Chicago through

injury, knows dislodging the likes of Samuel Umtiti and Raphael Varane will be difficult and under Pep Guardiola, he can become the stylish center-half Spain are desperate for.

“I had a really good six months here,” he added. “It’s been a great move - a perfect move for me. “Pep is the best manager in the world, he’s always looking to help me get better and improve my game.

“He’s demanding yes but it’s not scary - his is a style of play that I really enjoy and I think I can improve and so can the team playing like this. “I’m comfortable with what he asks me to do.” City, meanwhile, will complete the free signing today of PSG midfielder Claudio Gomes.

The highly-rated French youngster has been training with Guardiola’s side but the club wanted to wait until he turned 18 to finalise the move and therefore avoiding the bureaucracy which comes with signing a player under that age.(afp)

Manchester United, buoyed by the arrival of Alexis Sanchez on Sunday, nevertheless remained without a win in their North American pre-season tour after a 0-0 draw against the San Jose Earthquakes. The match at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, pitted a United side playing its second match of the pre-season against an Earthquakes team in the midst of what has been a lackluster Major League Soccer campaign. Sanchez was a lively presence after missing the 1-1 draw against Club America of Mexico in Phoenix on Thursday because of visa issues.

But in hot conditions before a sparse crowd, United created few chances, and saw Antonio Valencia limp off with an apparent calf injury less than 10 minutes in. Valencia, who was replaced by Matteo Darmian, was part of Jose Mourinho’s starting back four along with Luke Shaw, Eric Bailly and Chris Smalling.Bailly had a golden chance to score in the fifth minute but his header off a free kick from Sanchez rocketed off the cross bar. Minutes later Valencia departed, and Sanchez himself was lucky to escape injury when Florian Jungwirth stuck out an arm in a “clothesline” tackle of the Chilean -- who went close with a free kick in the 30th minute.

“Today is good for Alexis,” Mourinho said. “The first time he plays after some individual sessions. He needed this and he made a good effort, a good physical effort, which is important for him in this moment.” After a scoreless first half, the Earthquakes nearly opened the scoring when Vako beat keeper Lee Grant only for defender Timothy Fosu-Mensah -- one of five second-half substitutions --to clear the danger.

Nine minutes from time Grant’s superb diving save denied Tommy Thompson’s long-range effort. “This is one more training session. We are not a team.

We’re a group of players from different teams,” said Mourinho, whose players are now looking toward three International Champions Cup friendly tournament matches against AC Milan, Liverpool and Real Madrid.(afp)

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Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Ozil’s resignation sparks Germany racism storm as Ankara cheers

Man Utd held to scoreless draw by Earthquakes

Mesut Ozil’s decision to quit playing for Germany unleashed a racism storm in Berlin on Monday, but earned the applause of Ankara with a Turkish minister hailing “a goal against the virus of fascism”. After months of silence over a controversial photograph with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in May, which sparked questions about his loyalty to Germany, Ozil erupted on Sunday.

The Arsenal midfielder posted a stinging four-page statement taking aim at German Football Association (DFB) bosses, sponsors and the media. Ozil, a key member of the squad which won the 2014 World Cup, blamed the DFB management, in particular its president Reinhard Grindel, for failing to side with him against his critics.

“In the eyes of Grindel and his supporters, I am German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose,” Ozil wrote. The 29-year-old said he was true to both his Turkish and German origins and insisted he did not intend to make a political statement by appearing with Erdogan just before the World Cup finals.

“I have two hearts, one German and one Turkish,” said Ozil, who has been repeatedly singled out for criticism after Germany’s woeful performance at the World Cup saw them crash out after the group stages. Ozil’s explosive statement, in three separate postings on Twitter and Instagram, was hailed by the Turkish government of Erdogan, who has championed a campaign against what Ankara sees as growing Islamophobia in Europe.

“I congratulate Mesut Ozil who by leaving the national team has scored the most beautiful goal against the virus of fascism,” Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul wrote on Twitter. But it was met with a mix of dismay and outrage in Germany. Justice Minister Katarina Barley wrote on Twitter that it was an “alarm sign if a great, German footballer like Mesut Ozil no longer feels wanted in his country or represented by the DFB.” - ‘Whiny resignation’ Cem Ozdemir of the Greens party also voiced dismay that “young German-Turks now get the impression that they have no place in the German national team”. At the same time, Ozdemir, who himself has Turkish roots, voiced disappointment that Ozil “did not live up to his

function of setting examples” by failing to distance himself from Erdogan.

“Posing with the sole ruler Erdogan is disrespectful to those who are being persecuted in Turkey or put arbitrarily in prison,” he said. Germany’s country’s best-selling newspaper Bild led the charge of criticism against Ozil, calling his statement a “whiny resignation” and slamming him for heaping “criticism on everyone but himself”.

Bild, which has for weeks has been calling for Ozil to be dropped from the starting team , also hit back against the midfielder’s claims that his Turkish origin and Erdogan photo have been used by some media to pander to the far-right. “Ozil’s world view here is dangerously close to Erdogan and his despots,” charged the tabloid-style daily.

The photo, which was published on the presidential website and the Twitter feed of the ruling party, came just before the June 24 polls Erdogan won to claim sweeping new powers.

Ozil said that despite the timing of the picture “it wasn’t about politics or elections, it was about me respecting the highest office of my family’s country”.

- ‘Watershed’ Born and raised in Gelsenkirchen, Ozil, who has scored 23 goals and made 40 assists in 92 appearances for Germany, is third-generation German-Turk and counts among more than three million people of Turkish origin in Germany. In his statement, Ozil underlined how he felt “hurt” by his school which he said did not want him to appear in an event there because of the raging criticism against him over the Erdogan affair.

The DFB has so far stayed mum, and in a first reaction from his former teammates, defender Jerome Boateng wrote on Twitter only using the Turkish word for “brother”: “It was a pleasure, Abi.” Former DFB chief Theo Zwanziger warned that the de-

bacle was a “serious blow to the integration efforts in our country that goes beyond football”.

For Tagesspiegel, the entire affair was a “watershed for sports, politics and society.” While the newspaper noted that Ozil’s thinking that a photograph could be non-political was “naive”, it said that the debacle had far reaching consequences. “Ultimately, Ozil did not fall because of Grindel but because of a heated, populist mood in Germany,” it said.

“The danger exists because many who also have family roots in other countries or culture, can understand Ozil’s mood. And this needs to be countered quickly and decisively. “Because more is at stake than just the future of the German national football team.”(afp)

In this file photo taken on October 8, 2010, Germany’s midfielder Mesut Oezil walks after scoring during the Euro 2012 qualifying group A football match between Germany and Turkey at the Olympia stadium in Berlin.

Mesut Ozil’s decision to quit playing for the German national football team Die Mannschaft unleashed on July 23, 2018 a racism storm in Germany, but earned the applause of Ankara with a Turkish minister hailing “a goal against the virus of fascism”.

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Laporte ‘jealous’ after seeing France World Cup win Aymeric Laporte says he was “jealous” watching France win the World Cup as his international tug-of-war with Spain continues.

The £57 million ($74.9 million) French-born Manchester City defender, who is of Basque descent and qualifies for Spanish residency having spent eight years at Athletic Bilbao, represented Les Bleus at youth level but failed to make a senior appearance.

Now new Spanish manager Luis Enrique is keen for him to join his squad ahead of the Euro 2020 qualifiers. Two years ago while at Bilbao, Laporte was urged by then Spanish manager Julen Lopetegui to explore the possibility of switching nationalities. He was then called up by France and declared his intentions to play for the country of his birth.

But a failure to find a way into Deschamps’ plans has seen Enrique urge him to change his mind, according to a report in Mundo Deportivo this week. Spain’s dis-

appointing showing at the World Cup together with the search for a ball-playing defender to eventually replace the likes of Sergio Ramos and Gerard Pique has intensified the move for Laporte.

Aymeric declined to comment on his international future when asked about the Spanish reports during City’s pre-season tour of the United States. But the 24-year-old acknowledged he had conflicting emotions while watching France win the World Cup. “It was jealousy to be honest,” he told reporters about how he felt watching France’s World Cup win.

“The decisions were made and you just have to accept them.

That’s how it is in football. “It didn’t come as a surprise to me that I wasn’t involved. I hadn’t been in the previous squad that had been named without me. “But it was still a little disappointing for me not to be involved.” Laporte, who missed Friday’s defeat to Borussia Dortmund in Chicago through

injury, knows dislodging the likes of Samuel Umtiti and Raphael Varane will be difficult and under Pep Guardiola, he can become the stylish center-half Spain are desperate for.

“I had a really good six months here,” he added. “It’s been a great move - a perfect move for me. “Pep is the best manager in the world, he’s always looking to help me get better and improve my game.

“He’s demanding yes but it’s not scary - his is a style of play that I really enjoy and I think I can improve and so can the team playing like this. “I’m comfortable with what he asks me to do.” City, meanwhile, will complete the free signing today of PSG midfielder Claudio Gomes.

The highly-rated French youngster has been training with Guardiola’s side but the club wanted to wait until he turned 18 to finalise the move and therefore avoiding the bureaucracy which comes with signing a player under that age.(afp)

Manchester United, buoyed by the arrival of Alexis Sanchez on Sunday, nevertheless remained without a win in their North American pre-season tour after a 0-0 draw against the San Jose Earthquakes. The match at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, pitted a United side playing its second match of the pre-season against an Earthquakes team in the midst of what has been a lackluster Major League Soccer campaign. Sanchez was a lively presence after missing the 1-1 draw against Club America of Mexico in Phoenix on Thursday because of visa issues.

But in hot conditions before a sparse crowd, United created few chances, and saw Antonio Valencia limp off with an apparent calf injury less than 10 minutes in. Valencia, who was replaced by Matteo Darmian, was part of Jose Mourinho’s starting back four along with Luke Shaw, Eric Bailly and Chris Smalling.Bailly had a golden chance to score in the fifth minute but his header off a free kick from Sanchez rocketed off the cross bar. Minutes later Valencia departed, and Sanchez himself was lucky to escape injury when Florian Jungwirth stuck out an arm in a “clothesline” tackle of the Chilean -- who went close with a free kick in the 30th minute.

“Today is good for Alexis,” Mourinho said. “The first time he plays after some individual sessions. He needed this and he made a good effort, a good physical effort, which is important for him in this moment.” After a scoreless first half, the Earthquakes nearly opened the scoring when Vako beat keeper Lee Grant only for defender Timothy Fosu-Mensah -- one of five second-half substitutions --to clear the danger.

Nine minutes from time Grant’s superb diving save denied Tommy Thompson’s long-range effort. “This is one more training session. We are not a team.

We’re a group of players from different teams,” said Mourinho, whose players are now looking toward three International Champions Cup friendly tournament matches against AC Milan, Liverpool and Real Madrid.(afp)

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International

Froome teammate Moscon thrown off Tour de France

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“I would like to offer my sincere apologies to both Elie Gesbert and Team Fortuneo for this unacceptable incident.”

It is not the first time Moscon, now in his third year with Sky but on his race debut, has fallen foul of officials.

Last year he was handed a suspension by Sky after racially abusing Frenchman Kevin Reza at the Tour of Romandie.

That misdemeanour earned the Italian a written warning from Team Sky, who said at the time: “Gianni Moscon has been given a formal written warning and suspended from racing for six weeks.

“He will also attend a diversity awareness course.

“Gianni knows that there is no excuse for his behaviour and that any repeat will result in termination of his contract.”

At the end of last season Moscon was also accused by Swiss rider Sebastien Reichenbach of causing him to crash in an Italian race, an incident for which he escaped sanctions. Moscon finished an impressive fifth at Paris-Roubaix last year and third in the Tour of Lombardy, before helping Froome to claim overall victory in the 2017 Tour of Spain. (afp)

HOCKENHEIM - Mercedes team chief Toto Wolff denied Monday that the use of team orders in Sunday’s spectacular German Grand Prix signalled that Lewis Hamilton would be preferred as the number one driver.

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CARCASSONNE - Italian Gianni Moscon, a Team Sky teammate of defending Tour de France champion Chris Froome, was thrown off the race Sunday after an altercation with a fellow rider, officials said.

Race officials took the decision after Moscon was involved in a fracas with a rider from the Fortuneo team shortly after the stage start in Millau.

Speaking to AFP, officials said the Italian used heavy-handed tactics when the Fortuneo team rider tried to help his team leader, Warren Barguil, join an early breakaway in the 181.5 km-long 15th stage from Millau to Carcassonne.

Race commissaires classed the incident as a “particularly serious aggression” and threw the 24-yearold Italian off the race shortly after the stage, won by Denmark’s Magnus Cort Nielsen of Astana.

Team Sky boss Dave Brailsford said he accepted the decision to exclude Moscon.

“Gianni is desperately disappointed in his behaviour and knows that he has let himself, the team and the race down,” Brailsford said in a team statment.

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Wolff was adamant that the triumphant Hamilton and his teammate Valtteri Bottas will remain free to race each other until late in the season when there might be championships decided by such decisions.

“Racing is most important,” said Wolff. “We always said if the championship goes into its last third, or last quarter, and there is a big difference between the drivers, then we might make these unpopular calls.

“But it’s much too early in the season to do this. We made it in order to bring a one and two home….

And we would have done it the other way around.”

Bottas attempted to challenge and pass Hamilton for the lead in Sunday’s rain-hit race following a Safety Car period after Sebastian Vettel crashed while leading for Ferrari. The two Mercedes men battled side-by-side before Hamilton emerged in front and Mercedes intervened with a team radio message to ‘hold position’.

Wolff said the message did not mean Hamilton, who declared his German win from 14th on the grid as the greatest of his career, was seen as favoured ahead of Bottas as

a clear number one driver.

“No, absolutely not,” he said. “If it had been the other way around, with Valtteri in the lead and Lewis second, we would have made the same call. Identical call. It was about bringing it home irrespective of who was in front.”

Wolff added it was still raining at the time of the message and the team did not want to take any risks.

He said: “What I said to Valtteri is something that I would also say in the team. I would have done the same thing the other way around.

“This is the transparency we have in the team, that we wouldn’t make a difference. It was important to score the double podium, the one and two, in order to recover some of the points which we lost through bad luck.”

Hamilton’s astonishing victory, hailed as the greatest of his career, lifted him 17 points clear of Vettel in the drivers’ championship race after 11 of this year’s 21 races. He is 66 ahead of fourth-placed Bottas.

“It is a very difficult call because on the one side you want to optimise the result and that is what you need to do, but on the other side you need to give both drivers a chance to win

the race,” said Wolff.

Ferrari had also used team orders when asking Kimi Raikkonen, who finished third, to allow Vettel to pass him for the lead.

Wolff said: “Kimi was unlucky in a few races at the beginning of the season, where the strategy went against him, and I think that Ferrari struggled to come up with the right call there. It’s understandable.”

Sunday’s result meant the leadership in the championship changed again for the sixth time this season as the close ‘fight for five’ between Hamilton and Vettel remained so hotly-contested.

Hamilton said afterwards that he feared his lead might again be short-lived as the teams head to Budapest for this week’s Hungarian Grand Prix, the last one before the European summer break.

“It’s usually not our strongest track, but I’m hopeful it’s not a power circuit,” he said, referring to the dusty, tight and technical Hungaroring where chassis performance is important.

“Hopefully this extra chunk of power that Ferrari have found doesn’t serve them as well there and we have a decent fight...” (afp)

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Great Britain’s Team Sky cycling team rider, Italy’s Gianni Moscon rides during the 15th stage of the 105th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, between Millau and Carcassonne on July 22, 2018.

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Another woman lynched in India after WhatsApp rumours NEW DELHI - A mob lynched a woman in India after rumours circulated on WhatsApp about child kidnappers, police said Monday, days after the messaging firm said it was curbing the forwarding of messages.

More than 20 people have been killed in similar incidents in the past two months, leaving both the Indian authorities and Facebookowned WhatsApp scrambling to find a solution in its biggest market.

Police said nine people have been arrested and more are being sought after they found the middle-aged woman’s mutilated body near a forest area in the Singrauli district of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on Sunday.

The accused men told police they caught hold of the woman late Saturday after finding her moving suspiciously and seeing a flurry of WhatsApp messages about gangs of child kidnappers in the area, local police chief Riyaz Iqbal told AFP. “We are trying to identify the victim and have circulated her picture to all the police stations,” Singrauli police chief Riyaz Iqbal told AFP. Last Thursday the Indian government threatened WhatsApp with legal action, saying the “medium” for spreading malicious rumours “cannot evade responsibility and accountability”.

WhatsApp said the next day it would test limiting the ability of its more than 225 million Indian users to forward messages and remove the “quick forward button” next to media messages.

It had already announced new features to help users identify messages that have been forwarded and bought full-page adverts in Indian newspapers with tips on how to spot misinformation.

It has however stopped short of acceding to Indian government demands to enable the authorities to trace messages, saying its service would stay “end-to-end encrypted”.

Lynchings are nothing new in India, but the spread of smartphones to even the most remote corners has enabled rumours to be shared at lightning speed and in huge volumes.

The spate of attacks related to rumours of child kidnapping started last May in the eastern state of Jharkhand with the emergence of a video that has since spread across India.

People have also been lynched by Hindu extremists murdering Muslims and thrashing low-caste Dalits accused of killing cows or eating beef. (afp)

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This photo taken on July 10, 2018 shows Gulshan Daolagupu, deputy superintendent of police, showing the damaged vehicle in which two men were lynched at Dokmoka Police station in Karbi Anglong district, some 180km from Guwahati, the capital city of India’s northeastern state of Assam.

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Toronto Police officers stand watch at the foot of Danforth St. at the scene of a shooting in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on July 23, 2018. A gunman opened fire in central Toronto on Sunday night, injuring 13 people including a child. Two dead incluiding gunman, police reported.

Toronto shooting leaves 2 dead including gunman, 13 hurt

TORONTO - Two people including the gunman are dead and 13 wounded in Toronto after a shooting Sunday in the bustling Greektown neighborhood, adding to concern about gun violence in Canada’s largest city.

A video clip posted by Canadian media appeared to show a dark-clad man walking on the sidewalk and then turning to aim and fire a handgun.

“One female adult has died. One young girl in critical condition,” Toronto police said on Twitter, adding that all 14 victims were shot with a handgun.

Police said the suspect was also dead, and Chief Mark Saunders said there had been “an exchange of gunfire.”

It was not clear, however, whether the suspect died from police gunfire or killed himself.

Saunders said it was too soon to know what the motive was for the rampage in a district of cafes and restaurants.

Toronto’s homicide squad was leading the investigation but local media reported the independent Special Investigations Unit, which probes police-involved shootings, had also been notified.

Officers, some armed with rifles, sealed off Greektown’s main street, known as the Danforth, after getting the call around 10:00 pm (0200 GMT Monday).

Witnesses reported hearing about 20 shots.

“There was a lot of shots. It would shoot, there’d be a pause, we heard more shooting, and then a pause and then more shooting,” The Globe and Mail quoted John Tulloch, who was out for a walk at the time, as saying.

“There must’ve been 20, 30 shots, altogether. It was a lot. We just ran.”

- People screamed, fled Jody Steinhauer told CBC News she was at a neighborhood restaurant with her family when she heard what sounded like 10 to 15 blasts of firecrackers. She said she was told to run to the back of the restaurant.

“We started to hear people scream out front,” Steinhauer told the broadcaster.

Ontario’s new Premier Doug Ford called it a “horrific act of gun violence” and said his heart went out to the victims.

The incident comes with Canada’s largest metropolis concerned over a surge of shootings. Canada traditionally has relatively low levels of gun violence, particularly compared with its neighbor the United States.

Mayor John Tory said Sunday night’s firearms violence is “evidence of a gun problem” in Toronto.

“Guns are too readily available to too many people,” Tory told a news conference.

Tory added that details of the latest incident remained sketchy and urged people to stay calm.

“We have to figure out what happened here. We don’t know,” he said.

Toronto Police statistics show that, to July 14, there had been a total of 220 shootings with 27 fatalities so far this year, against 196 with 17 deaths for all of 2017.

Last week, Toronto police started implementing the enforcement component of their “gun violence reduction plan.” That includes around 200 additional officers on shift in particular neighborhoods between the hours of 7:00 pm and 3:00 am — when most shootings occur.

The Greektown shooting comes about three months after the city was shaken by the deaths of 10 people killed by a man with an apparent grudge against women who drove into them on a busy street in Toronto’s north end. (afp)

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40 Indonesian Figures Involved in Asian Games Torch Relay

Jakarta - The 2018 Asian Games torch relay that is set to commence on July 17 until August 15 will journey through 53 districts in 18 provinces and will be participated by 40 Indonesian legendary athletes, celebrities, and public figures.

INASGOC Chairman Erick Thohir stated that the legendary athletes to be involved include Taufik Hidayat, Susy Susanti, Budi Hartono, Yustedjo Tarik, Yayuk Basuki, and Herman Sembalo. “We will commence in India on July 14-July 16 as it was the first host nation for the Asian Games,” said Erick Thohir in Jakarta yesterday, July 12.

The torch will travel across historic cities such as Aceh, Mataram, Palembang, Raja Ampat, Banyuwangi, and Bali Province. From India, the torch will travel to Mrapen in Central Java which will be handed over to the

Youth and Sports Minister and Coordinating Minister of Human development and culture.

“We want the Asian Games spirit to echo across Indonesia,” said Erick. The torch itself will be transported from India to Indonesia via a Boeing 737-500 that is supported by the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI).

INASGOC has prepared at least 200 torches for the 2018 Asian Games torch relay tradition across 53 cities and districts before the sporting event kicks off in Jakarta and Palembang on August 18 up to September 2.(ant)

Search on for two dozen inmates after Indonesia prison break Indonesian authorities are searching for two dozen inmates who escaped from a prison by sawing through the iron bars of a ventilation window, police said Monday.

While six inmates were quickly apprehended after the Sunday escape, another 25 are still on the run from Doyo prison, an institution for drug offenders in easternmost Papua province, authorities said.

“We have deployed officers to hunt them, secure the borders, the harbour, airport and also to set up extra security behind the prison,” said Jayapura police chief Victor Dean Mackbon. Prison breaks are not uncommon in Indonesia.

In May last year, more than 200 inmates escaped in a mass breakout from an overcrowded prison in Sumatra. A month later, four foreign inmates tunnelled themselves out of a prison on the resort island of Bali.

Police managed to recapture three of the foreigners a few days later in neighbouring East Timor, but one of them -- an Australian -- is still on the run.(afp)

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Former Indonesian badminton player Susi Susanti (C) lights the torch for the Asian Games during the torch relay at the site of the Mount Bromo volcano in Probolinggo, East Java province, on July 21, 2018. Jakarta and Palembang in Sumatra will host about 11,000 athletes and 5,000 officials from 45 Asian countries for the Asian Games, which will be held from August 18 to September 2.

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BUSINESS Asian markets slide as trade and currency war fears deepen Asian markets largely lost ground Monday as jitters grew over a potential trade and currency war, with the dollar sliding against most major currencies and extending Friday’s declines. The fall in the dollar came as US President Donald Trump attacked Washington’s main trading partners for their currency policies on Friday.

“China, the European Union and others have been manipulating their currencies and interest rates lower, while the U.S. is raising rates while the dollars gets stronger and stronger with each passing day - taking away our big competitive edge. As usual, not a level playing field,” Trump tweeted.

Trump’s combative stance has compounded fears of an all-out trade and currency war, with the US slapping tariffs on steel and aluminium from the EU, Canada and Mexico, in addition to levies on goods from China worth tens of billions of dollars.

In an interview with US channel CNBC broadcast Friday, Trump threatened to impose taxes on all Chinese imports, saying the US has been “ripped off by China for a long time”.

Tokyo plunged 1.3 percent -- falling for a third straight trading day -- as a stronger yen hurt exporters, making their products less competitive abroad and eroding repatriated profits. Hong Kong ended the day flat while Seoul and Sydney slid 0.9 percent. But Shanghai jumped more than one percent and Jakarta advanced 0.7 percent.

European markets opened lower, with London and Paris dropping 0.3 percent and Frankfurt falling 0.4 percent. Oil markets rose slightly, though analysts cautioned that concerns about the trade dispute would likely weigh on prices in the short to medium term.

“The impact of the trade war and the recognition that President Trump and his administration are serious about going to the mat on this issue is finally starting to register in the consciousness of traders and investors in oil and other financial markets”, said Greg McKenna, chief market strategist at AxiTrader. “That means we are seeing downgrades, in some cases material, to the outlook for global growth and as a consequence the demand for oil,” he added. (afp)

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2014 fiel photo the new headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB), building at right, is reflected in the River Main in Frankfurt, Germany.

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Sudaji Village Offers Numerous Tourism Activities

Numerous potentials owned by North Bali can lure foreign tourists. If some regions offer the potential of the beach, then some others are superior to the potential of mountainous nature and culture. Now, it depends on each region to pack and present the potential at hand to tourists.

One of the villages developing the potential with the characteristic owned is Sudaji village in Sawan subdistrict, Buleleng. Aside from offering durians, since several years ago Sudaji has been known as a tourism village. According to the Chief of the Sudaji tourism village, Gede Suharsana, the village was inaugurated as a tourism village by the regent of Buleleng last May 5.

Though newly inaugurated, the village has initiated and pioneered a tour package since 2008. This tourism village is managed by local tourism awareness group (Pokdarwis) inaugurated by customary village in 2012.

He said that establishment of the tourism village passed through a long process, inseparable from the mapping of the potential owned. The concept introduced and highlighted is the local wisdom with the Tri Hita Karana (three causes of happiness). Habitable homes of residents are taken advantage as an accommodation as well as a place to interact for tourists. His group also

ECB research says stimulus didn’t favor the rich

FRANKFURT - New research published by the European Central Bank pushes back against criticism levelled at its 2.4 trillion euro ($2.8 trillion) stimulus program, indicating it did not increase inequality and helped boost poorer households’ income by putting people back to work.

The arguments in the paper released Wednesday help counter accusations, particularly from German politicians and news media, that the stimulus program hurt savers by depressing returns and benefited financially wobbly southern European governments such as Italy’s through lower borrowing costs.

A headline in the Bild newspaper in December 2015, a few months after the program started, read: “We’ll Never Get Savings Interest Again.”

The ECB research — compiled by five economists from the central bank and one outside author — found that pain in one area could be compensated by stimulus gains in other areas, and that employment and wage gains benefited people across all income categories — in Germany as well as in Italy.

“Monetary policy in recent years benefited most households and did not contribute to an increase in wealth, income, or consumption inequality,” they wrote.

The report does not represent an official stance by the Frankfurt-based bank, which conducts monetary policy for the 19 countries that use the euro currency. The bank makes those policies clear in statements after its regular meetings and in news conferences

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The researchers sought to measure the total effect of the stimulus program across different aspects of people’s pocketbooks: house prices, mortgage payments, rise or fall in investment holdings, wages, and interest on savings.

The research found that direct and obvious losses — such as a bank statement showing zero returns on savings due to low interest rate policy — were often offset by indirect benefits. That could be from people returning to work, as the stimulus policy lifts demand across the economy. The ECB cut its benchmark interest rate from 1.5 percent to zero from 2011 to 2016 and started its stimulus program in March 2015. Unemployment in the 19-country eurozone has fallen from 12.1 percent in 2013 to 8.4 percent currently, with 8.4 million more people in work.

The researchers also found that people in the lowest fifth by wealth — with a median net worth of only 1,100 euros — saw a gain of 2.5 percent after a year of stimulus, while the top fifth saw more modest increases of about 1 percent. A measure of inequality commonly used by economists, called the Gini coefficient, decreased slightly.

The European Central Bank is already

getting ready to phase out at year-end its stimulus program. The stimulus is created by buying bonds from banks, which pushes newly created money into the financial system. The aim is to make borrowing cheaper in the wider economy, stimulating economic activity.

Even with the stimulus, the bank struggled for a long time to push inflation up to its goal of just under 2 percent. Now, however, ECB President Mario Draghi and the members of the bank’s governing council say they are more confident inflation is finally trending that way.

The U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, and the Bank of England have all run similar bond purchase programs. The Fed ended its program after accumulating some $4.5 trillion in bonds and is withdrawing stimulus by raising interest rates and letting its bond holdings shrink as the bonds are repaid.

A March report published by the Bank of England found that the impact of such stimulus on wealth and income inequality was small; a study by academic economists in the U.S. in 2014 found that expansionary monetary policy by the Fed reduced inequality. (ap)

introduces typical cuisines to visiting guests, not Western food. Not only that, in the span of a few years Sudaji tourism village has been capable of presenting tourist activities ranging from trekking, spiritual tourism, agro-tourism and cultural performances.

Pokdarwis continues to explore the village potential, where the latest is the potential of the river. The local river remaining natural with a fairly heavy flow can be used for rafting adventure. This rafting tour is considered as the first one in North Bali. However, his group is still constrained by equipment of the adrenalin racing adventure. “Yesterday we tested with our self-made equipment, but we still need equipment complying with the standards,” he said.

Another obstacle is the matter of weather, where rainy season is prone to flooding that will be hazardous and make tourists feel afraid to try the whitewater rafting adventure. (kmb)

Catfish Pepes in Complete Mouse Cremation at Bedha Village, Seasoning and Torch Ginger How Does the Ceremony Look Like?

Make a try to taste fried catfish.

Wow… it is remarkably delicious!

Similarly, you can taste catfish pepes (wrapped in banana leaf) with complete seasoning. Of course, it must be different. Catfish pepes coming with Balinese complete seasoning is indeed unable to be prepared by all people.

This means the catfish pepes having excellent taste with natural ingredients without preservatives.

Mak Ade is one of the rural chefs who always makes catfish pepes with torch ginger every day. This old and single woman from Ole hamlet, Marga Dauh Puri, Tabanan, indeed has expertise in preparing menus especially the traditional ones. Her cooking is famous for its delicacy, so that local villagers always purchase it.

Well, among the menus on sale, the catfish pepes with torch ginger is frequently purchased as can be consumed by children, teenagers to old people. In the afternoon, after coming home from cultivating paddy fields, village farmers will drop in to buy catfish pepes as a side dish for dinner. Sometimes, people have also arrived before her stall is opened. The side dish will be served as side dish for lunch in paddy fields.

Children also like this kind of menu. However, they must eat carefully because the flesh still contains few bones. Catfish will be better to be consumed when accompanied with vegetable with grated coconut

seasoning and cassava chips. Catfish pepes prepared by Mak Ade offers very distinctive taste. On that account, she opens her food stalls in the morning and afternoon for breakfast and dinner.

When preparing this catfish pepes, Mak Ade uses giant catfish, torch ginger, Balinese complete seasoning and banana leaf to wrap it. The complete seasoning covers turmeric, galangal, aromatic ginger, ginger, garlic, onion, large chili, cayenne pepper, lemongrass, candlenut, pepper, coriander and salt. First of all, prepare complete seasoning by chopping turmeric, galangal, ginger, and aromatic ginger.

Then, grind garlic, onion, large chili, cayenne and lemongrass. Similarly, grind the candlenut, pepper, and coriander. All the seasonings are ground to be getting smooth. Please add salt to taste. Similarly, cut thin the torch ginger and bruise to be smoother.

Cleanse the catfish and then cut into pieces according to taste.

The finely grounded seasoning is put into the basin, put the slices of catfish flesh and mix them together well with the seasoning. Add bay leaves to create a distinctive flavor. Further, wrapped the batter of catfish flesh and the seasoning lengthways following the line of leaves and attach with bamboo pin (tooth pick). After that, steam it until cooked. Roast to taste fine and delicious. Now, it is ready to serve. (kmb)

Bali Island retains a number of unique things. For instance, Balinese people have a tradition of fighting against mouse pests.

Dubbed as the rice granary region of Bali, Tabanan district surely has an extensive agricultural land.

A number of challenges are often faced by local farmers.

For instance, mouse attack threatens the yields of agricultural production. To overcome such pest attack, some villages in Tabanan district still uses traditional method of mass hunting. Not only that, the ceremony of mereteka merana or mouse cremation is still done especially by subak members in the area of Bedha customary village, Tabanan. This ceremony is still closely related to the safety and fertility of plants, especially paddy.

The mouse cremation has been frequently done at Bedha customary village and has been regarded as local custom. Moreover, this ceremony is held in the holy place namely Penataran Bale Agung, Puseh Temple of Bedha. Moreover, after the ceremony it has proved to provide real evidence for the life of farmers. “Until now, the tradition of mouse cremation in Bedha remains to exist, but it’s only done if there is an uncontrolled mouse pest attacks in paddy fields,” said chief of Bedha customary village,

I Nyoman Surata.

The ceremony, said Surata, aims to purify the soul of pests so as to return to its origin and does not reincarnate to the earth as a pest that damage all types of plants on earth, especially paddy plants. “Thus, it is unlike cremation on Pitra Yadnya but when there is an uncontrolled pest attack, so farmers always face harvest failure. The mouse also called as Jero Ketut is cremated like in ngaben ceremony. After being cremated, the mice collected from mass hunting (through fumigation)

in the fields are floated to the sea,” he explained.

He added that at Bedha village such ceremonies are often organized when mice and other pests have caused an extraordinary disturbance and cannot be controlled.

This last mouse cremation ceremony was held in 2009 involving subak groups in Tabanan district under the coordination of Sedahan Agung of Tabanan. Interestingly, after the mouse cremation, the plants have never been attacked by pests until now. (kmb)

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ITDC to install wave absorber to handle abrasion

MANGUPURA - After abrasion due to the onslaught of the waves in the coastal area of Selagan Nusa Dua, currently the area has been re-arranged. Nevertheless, although the shoreline has been installed with geobag to protect from crashing waves, it is not enough to reduce abrasion.

According to Managing Director of The Nusa Dua of ITDC, I Wayan Karioka, although the beach is protected, if the waves are not absorbed, the re-arrangement will become in vain. To that end after re-arranging the beach, it will also create a structure to reduce waves.

“The current workmanship remains in the first stage, while the wave absorber has not been worked on yet,” he said when confirmed on Sunday (Jul. 22).

He explained to have some alternatives for the structure to be installed as wave absorber. Among them, there are conventional breakwater whose building reaches the bottom of the sea and the breakwater with new technology whose position is floating on the water.

He said the installation plan of the breakwater is currently being discussed with the BPLH and other related parties. For outside the shoreline area, the authority indeed lies in the province. “We have to

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After abrasion due to the onslaught of the waves in the coastal area of Selagan Nusa Dua, currently the area has been rearranged. coordinate this wave absorber with the provincial and central government. The provision is being discussed,” he said.

Admittedly, the arrangement done at this time is the nature for emergency only. As is known, Se-

lagan Beach is experiencing severe abrasion due to the onslaught of waves. Currently, the coastal revetment workmanship uses geobag along 415 meters. For the ongoing arrangement, the current progress reaches around 70 percent or as

long as 300 meters. “Now, it has almost got connected with the old structure, from the end of the Island of Nusa Darma to the Peninsula,” he concluded.

For the safeguard of shoreline, it is targeted to be completed

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next August. However, the wave absorber will begin after the IMFWB organization in October. “We are currently in the finalization of administrative matters, whether technical, licensing or legal provisions,” he added. (kmb23)

Record heat broils Japan, prompting warnings

TOKYO - Japanese officials issued new warnings Monday as a deadly heatwave blankets the country, producing record high temperatures in Tokyo just two years before the city hosts the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Officials said last week that the heatwave had killed at least 15 people and forced the hospitalisation of over 12,000 others in the first two weeks of July.

But the death toll may be more than double that, with Kyodo News agency reporting 11 people died on Saturday alone across Japan.

An updated official toll is expected later this week.

The heatwave has toppled temperature records across the country, with Kumagaya in Saitama outside Tokyo setting a new nationwide record on Monday with temperatures hitting 41.1 Celsius (106 degrees Fahrenheit).

And in western Tokyo’s Ome, temperatures hit 40.3 degrees Celsius, the first time temperatures over 40 have been recorded in Tokyo’s metro area.

Records fell at 13 other observation stations across the country, with more than a dozen cities and towns seeing temperatures around 40 degrees, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

“People in areas where temperatures are as high as 35 degrees or higher should be extremely careful” to avoid heatstroke, meteorological agency official Minako Sakurai told AFP.

“And even at lower temperatures, the heat can be dangerous for small children and elderly people, and depending on the environment and activities you are doing,” she warned.

“People should be all the more careful as many people must be exhausted after days of cruelly hot weather,” she added.

Yoshihide Suga, top government spokesman, warned that extremely hot days “are expected to continue until early August.”

Japan’s disaster management agency has urged people to use air conditioning, drink sufficient water and rest often while at work.

The heatwave follows record rainfall that devastated parts of western and central Japan with floods and landslides that killed over 220 people.

Japan’s summers are notoriously hot and humid, and hundreds of people die each year from heatstroke, particularly the elderly in the country’s ageing society.

But this year’s record temperatures have surprised residents and officials alike, and revived concerns about the 2020 Summer Olympics, which will be held in July and August in Tokyo.

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The Ambassador of Indonesia to Singapore, I Gede Ngurah Swajaya (L) gave the award of Kayak Travel Awards Singapore 2018 to the Ngurah Rai Airport.

the airport, but also through this cruise,” he concluded.

Currently, through Singapore, it has encouraged four destinations to Indonesia. For instance, North Bali has been included in the destination of cruise tourism, other than Surabaya, Jakarta, and Bintan. He said that a large cruise ship can accommodate 3,000-4,000 people. When compared to aircraft, that number should be transported by several aircrafts. “Surely, it is a very extraordinary potential,” he said.

Nevertheless, the airport development also needs to be continued.

Other than increasing the capacity, it also has something to do with carrying capacity as well as flight safety and comfort.

When talking about tourism, according to him, the airport plays a very important role because it is like the front side of a house or entrance. To that end, it is our duty to

improve the services and comfort, so that Ngurah Rai Airport can become a pride, not only for Bali, but also nationally.

“Indeed, it requires support from all the stakeholders including the provincial government of Bali so that Bali having truly remarkable reputation can be maintained and continuously be an interesting destination,” he said when met after the award of Kayak Travel Awards Singapore 2018 to the Ngurah Rai Airport, on Saturday (Jul. 21).

In the award event dedicated to visitors accessing the website from Singapore, Ngurah Rai Airport managed to be a runner up and outperformed Kuala Lumpur International Airport (Malaysia), Suvarnabhumi Airport (Thailand), and Phuket International Airport (Thailand). Meanwhile, the first rank of the Favorite Airport category was successfully achieved by Changi Airport, Singapore. (kmb23)

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People cool down in a swimming pool at Toshimaen amusement park in Tokyo on July 23, 2018. Japanese officials issued new warnings July 23 as a deadly heatwave blankets the country, producing record high temperatures in Tokyo just two years before the city hosts the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Olympic officials and Tokyo’s local government are touting measures from solar-blocking paint on roads to mobile misting stations to tackle the heat.

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike

acknowledged Monday that the recent heatwave was “exactly like living in a sauna”.

“For the athletes, they’re trained but for spectators who are cheering on the road, we may not necessarily

be able to say the same,” she said at a Monday press conference.

“Countermeasures against heat is one of the major pillars for the success of the 2020 Olympics.” (afp)

Crocodile in Paradise: Thailand hunts reptile in resort town

Cruise tourism hoped to alternatively increase tourist visit MANGUPURA - Bali is five times larger than Singapore, while the number of foreign tourist visit just reaches six million. Unlike Singapore, although the area is smaller than Bali, the number of foreign tourists visiting Singapore today has reached 16 million people.

According to the Ambassador of Indonesia to Singapore, I Gede Ngurah Swajaya, this condition is influenced by the capacity of Ngurah Rai Airport. The only airport in Bali is not able to accommodate the arrival of more aircrafts to bring in more than 10 million tourists.

To that end, he hoped the government to immediately seek alternative solutions such as the development of cruise tourism. With this cruise tourism, large cruises are expected to enter. “This is one of the alternatives needing to be considered so that the arrival of foreign tourists does not come only through

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Thailand is in hot pursuit of a cagey crocodile that has made unwelcome appearances off the beaches of resort island Phuket.

PHUKET - Thailand is in hot pursuit of a cagey crocodile that has made unwelcome appearances off the beaches of resort island Phuket only to slip through the clutches of local authorities.

The evasive reptile was first seen near Rawai beach about a week ago but has resurfaced in multiple locations near the beaches on the Andaman Sea. A group of hunters has joined an expanding team trying to track it down.

Thawee Thongcha, the mayor of Karon town on the west coast of Phuket, told AFP Monday they had come very close to success.

“We almost caught it when it was seen near the beach in Karon, (we were) metres away but it moved quickly back to the sea,” Thawee said.

“We do not yet know where it comes from.”

Thailand’s pristine beaches draw millions of tourists a year and Phuket in the southwest is one of the most popular destinations.

Thawee said choppy monsoon seas had prevented fishing boats from using nets to capture the creature, which is almost two metres in length.

The Siamese crocodile was once ubiquitous across Southeast Asia but is currently listed as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s red list.

Thon Thamrongnawasawat, a marine biologist and lecturer at Kasetsart University, said the presence of a crocodile in Phuket meant it was likely a hybrid saltwater version of the species bred

on a farm, and it was not the first such sighting.

“Normally the open sea is not a place where a crocodile would live,” he said.

Crocodile numbers in Thailand and Southeast Asia generally have been decimated by habitat loss, commercial hunting for the skin trade and the capture of live reptiles to stock crocodile farms, according to the IUCN. In Thailand there are just a handful of wild populations in central and western national parks.

A French tourist was bitten on the leg by a crocodile inside a Thai national park in January last year when she tried to get close to take a selfie.

In 2014 a Thai woman committed suicide by leaping into a pond of crocodiles at a farm popular with tourists on Bangkok’s outskirts. (afp)

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A 200-year drought 4,200 years ago that caused civilizations to collapse across the globe marks the start of the newly designated Meghalayan Age. As seen in this photo from Algeria in 2017, droughts still occur during this ongoing geologic time period.

You’re living in a new geologic age. It’s called the Meghalayan

THE newly named current geologic age that started 4,200 years ago.Welcome to the Meghalayan, our geologic here and now. It’s one of three newly designated ages divvying up the Holocene Epoch, a geologic time period kicked off 11,700 years ago by the end of the Ice Age. First came a warming period, now dubbed the Greenlandian Age. Then, about 8,300 years ago, the

Northgrippian Age began with a big chill that gripped Earth for about 4,000 years. Finally, the Megha-

layan started 4,200 years ago with a devastating, 200-year worldwide megadrought.

“It marked a quite serious collapse of human agricultural civilizations,” says Phil Gibbard of the International Union of Geological Sciences, which ratified the new ages June 14 and released an up-

dated geologic time scale July 13.

The megadrought triggered human crises and migrations ranging from China to the Middle East to India, where the new age’s namesake is located. A stalagmite from a cave in the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya acts as the official time stamp marker for the start of the

age. The drought is also recorded in other geologic sediments and at archaeological sites around the world.

The Meghalayan is the first formal geologic time interval in Earth’s 4.6-billion-year history that began at the same time as a global, climatedriven cultural event. (net)

Jupiter has 12 more moons than we knew about — and one is bizarre

ASTRONOMERS have found 12 more moons around Jupiter, and one is really weird.

While 11 orbit in the same direction as their nearest neighbors, one doesn’t, potentially putting it on a fatal collision course.

“It’s driving down the highway on the wrong side of the road,” says planetary scientist Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. Sheppard and colleagues found the moons while looking for something else entirely: a putative planet that could exist beyond the orbit of Neptune, known colloquially as Planet Nine (SN: 7/23/16, p. 7). During a survey in 2017 of the most distant objects in the solar system using the Victor Blanco 4-meter telescope in Chile, Jupiter happened to be visible in the same area of sky that the team was searching during one of its

observing runs. “Might as well kill two birds with one stone,” Sheppard thought.

The researchers found a dozen objects moving around the sun at the same rate as Jupiter. Followup observations confirmed the moons’ existence and orbits: two inner moons that orbit in the same direction that Jupiter spins, nine outer moons that orbit the planet in the opposite direction and one oddball traveler. The researchers announced two of the moons in 2017 and the remaining 10 on July 16.

The motions of all but the oddball are normal for Jovian moons, which now number a whopping 79. Scientists think that’s because the inner moons formed from a disk of gas and dust that orbited the giant planet in the solar system’s early days, similar to how the planets formed around the sun (SN: 5/12/18, p.

28). The outer moons were prob-

ably free-floating space rocks captured when they came too close, and their opposite orbit was set by the direction that they approached Jupiter from.

But one moon broke the mold.

This rock, which the team calls Valetudo for the Roman goddess of health and hygiene, is tiny, only about a kilometer across.

It orbits in the same direction as Jupiter’s spin, but alongside the farther-out retrograde moons.

As a result, Valetudo is probably doomed to collide with one or more of the other moons someday. The researchers are still calculating when, but they expect it to occur sometime between 100 million and a billion years from now.

Valetudo may be the last remnant of a bigger object that has already withstood several collisions, or of a family of moons that has since been smashed to smithereens. “It’s probably the

largest surviving member, if not the only one,” Sheppard says.

Such nonconformist satellites are not rare, notes planetary scientist David Jewitt of UCLA, who was not involved in the new work. “But they are very interest-

ing, because we know that they have been captured by their host planets, but we don’t know how, or from where,” he says. Figuring out what oddballs like Valetudo are made of could help nail those details down. (net)

SEMARAPURA — The high waves occurred in the Badung Strait caused the crossing activities to Nusa Penida Island from the Klungkung mainland area disturbed. Moreover, it had been closed for a few days. This natural condition has an impact on cancellation of accommodation reservations. The owner had to suffer great losses.

Secretary of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Klungkung, I Wayan Sukadana, stated on Sunday (Jul. 22) the cancellation of room reservation reached 20 to 30 percent.

This has taken place since July 20, exactly with the closing of fast boat activities from the traditional harbor at Kusamba village, Dawan subdistrict and from Sanur, Denpasar. “Information on the crossing services remain confusing whether can cross and cannot. This makes many rooms cancelled,” he explained.

Faced with such situation, he said the accommodation owners cannot do much. They just hoped the situation can be getting better soon. “For example, if the weather is fine, the sea condition is calm, hotel occupancy is actually high. Now, it has entered high season,” he said.

An accommodation owner in Nusa Lembongan, I Wayan Topik Nusa Putra, said the cancellation has occurred since July 19. “The losses are sure because the room supposed to be occupied becomes empty. Besides, the guests who should stay longer finally check out earlier,” he explained.

Not only that, the closure of sea transportation activities also caused the supply of staple goods hampered. “We only rely on sea transportation to deliver goods to Nusa Penida. Like some time ago, it was difficult to find meat, chili and onions,” he said.

On Sunday, he said the marine condition has improved. However, there is information telling if a few days ahead there will be potentially longer and high waves. It could affect room reservation.

“We have anticipated the difficulties of basic commodities and are worried if the crossing will be closed again,” he added.

Head of the Klungkung Transportation Agency, I Nyoman Sucitra, said the fast boat activity has started to open and so does the roro ship to Padangbai Harbor, Karangasem. “Today (Sunday—Ed) is open, the situation in the sea is good, Roro already departed in the morning with passengers,” he explained.

However, this official from Tusan village, Banjarangkan, said that according to information from the National Weather Service (BMKG), the adverse waves are potential to occur until July 25.

On that account, people are asked to remain vigilant. “Just watch out because the natural situation is difficult to guess,” he pleaded.

Previously, the closure of fast boat and roro activities caused the accumulation of passengers in the Nusa Penida Harbor. Similarly, this happened to domestic and foreign tourists. Unavoidably, it reaped complaints. (kmb45)

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Of 12 recently discovered Jovian moons (illustrated in bold orange, blue and green), one orbits in the opposite direction of its neighbors (arrows show orbit direction). Four moons discovered by Galileo are also shown (purple).

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The natural condition has an impact on cancellation of accommodation reservations.

Dr. Tjokorda Artha Ardhana Sukawati

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Potentials of every district to be developed

GIANYAR — After being elected as deputy governor of Bali, Dr. Tjokorda Artha Ardhana Sukawati plans to develop the island evenly, but in accordance with the potential in each regency / municipality. This is done in order to overcome the problem of economic inequality happening all this time. “We will develop every region pursuant to each potential and concept,” he said during the Ubud Royal Weekend at Puri Lukisan Museum, Ubud, on Sunday (Jul. 22).

For instance, the equitable distribution of potential development in Tabanan is done by combining Jatiluwih area with the agricultural sector, while Ubud continues to be developed with the concept of tourism village.

“This is the equitable distribution of potential development, not just accommodation. If every district is given the opportunity to build the accommodation like Badung, we will end,” he said.

He said that currently almost 70 percent runs the business in tourism sector, so it needs to develop the other sectors, but still support tourism. “So far, we just run the business in the tourism sector, while other sectors remain to grow. Thus, it will be creating an equitable economy,” he said.

“The SME development will also become the focus,” said

this senior figure of Ubud Palace familiarly addressed as Cok Ace, especially the development of various crafts in the form of creative industry. “One of them is through the Ubud Royal Weekend where we open up the opportunities for young entrepreneurs to be widely known,” he said.

Committee Chairman of the Ubud Royal Weekend, Cokorda Agung Ichiro Sukawati, said the event is designed to be able to grow young and tough entrepreneurs that are ready to compete in the global market. “So, crowded visitor is not indicating if this event is successful, not like that. The most important is that after the event it can produce young entrepreneurs,” said the man who is also a young businessman from Ubud Palace.

He stated the Royal Ubud Royal itself is followed about 40

young entrepreneurs. Some are young entrepreneurs from Ubud, while some others from outside Bali that started the business and introduced their products through the Ubud Royal Weekend. “So, we facilitate quite a lot here. There are crafts from creative industries and a number of culinary entrepreneurs,” he said.

The Ubud Royal Weekend festival presented three aspects.

They include education through workshops to seminars; festival held in the form of bazaar to performance; and fashion show.

The event at the Puri Lukisan Museum has been held from Thursday (Jul. 19). “The closing will be made on Sunday, tomorrow. There will be a workshop from Anne Avantie and a number of entertainments on Sunday night,” he added. (kmb35)

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French drug smuggler home after being held 18 years in Indonesia

A Frenchman detained for 18 years after trying to smuggle drugs into Bali arrived in Geneva on Sunday and was on his way home after being deported in a case that sparked outrage in France over Indonesia’s tough narcotics laws. Police arrested Michael Blanc on the day after Christmas in 1999 at the tropical island’s airport with 3.8 kilogrammes (8.4 pounds) of hashish hidden inside scuba diving canisters.

Blanc, now 45, was given a life sentence -- narrowly escaping the death penalty which has been handed to some other foreign drug traffickers, including two members of the notorious Bali Nine who were executed in 2015.

His prison term was later cut to 20 years, and in 2014 Blanc won something that few foreigners get in Indonesia -- parole, though he was not allowed to leave the country immediately. The three-year parole period ended in July 2017, and he then had to wait another year while on probation.

The former cook was escorted by immigration officials to Jakarta airport Saturday accompanied by his mother, Helene Le Touzey, who gave up her life in France to spend nearly two decades in Indonesia campaigning for his release. “He has indeed arrived in Geneva,” Martial Saddier, a parliamentary lawmaker for Blanc’s native Haute-Savoie region in western France who is close

to Blanc’s family, told AFP. He was met by his father JeanClaude Blanc and other relatives out of sight of the journalists gathered to cover his return, and they later left by a side door. “I may be almost as nervous as he is,” Jean-Claude Blanc told AFP while waiting for his son’s plane to land.

Saddier said Blanc was going to remain several days in an undisclosed location. “He’s going to recover from these past nearly 20 years before making any public appearances,” he said.

- Years of efforts The life sentence handed out by an Indonesian court, which rejected Blanc’s claim that he was carrying the drug-filled gear for a friend, was criticised in France as unduly harsh.

The country has some of the world’s toughest laws against drug use and trafficking, and several convicted suspects have been executed since President Joko Widodo took office in 2014.

Paris raised the issue at the highest levels, with the thenprime minister Francois Fillon bringing it up during a visit to Indonesia in 2011. In 2008, Blanc’s sentence was cut to

20 years thanks in large part to his mother’s efforts.

She later helped secure her son’s parole in 2014, despite the fact that Indonesian law does not usually allow conditional release of foreigners after serving just two-thirds of their sentence.

More than 70 people, including 42 foreigners, are facing the firing squad for drug offences, according to the Coalition for the Abolition of Death Penalty in ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations). Among them were foreign nationals, including two Bali Nine members arrested in 2005 for an attempt to smuggle heroin from Indonesia to Australia.

The executions of Australian ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran sparked diplomatic outrage and a call to abolish Indonesia’s death penalty. Although Jakarta suspended executions last year, Widodo has said the country is facing a “drug emergency” and previously ordered police to shoot traffickers who resist arrest.

High-profile cases like that of Australian national Schapelle Corby, who spent more than nine years behind bars for smuggling marijuana into Bali, have stoked concern that Indonesia is becoming a drug destination. Corby was deported in 2017 after several years of parole.(afp)

Jean-Claude Blanc, father of Frenchman Michael Blanc who served 18 years in custody for smuggling drugs into Bali, waits for his son’s arrival at Geneva Airport on July 22, 2018. Blanc arrived in Geneva after he was deported in a case that sparked outrage in France over Indonesia’s tough narcotics laws.

Rolled up by waves, a World Bank senior economist dies MANGUPURA —World Bank senior economist, Aakansha Pande, 38, was rolled up by waves and drowned while swimming on the beach in front of Double Six, Seminyak, Kuta, Badung, on Saturday (Jul. 21). The victim was successfully rescued by Badung lifesaver officers, but she breathed her last on the way to Siloam Hospital, Kuta.

As the information compiled on Sunday (Jul. 22), this American woman stayed at the Hotel Indigo, Seminyak, where during the stay in Bali she was with her husband, Ziad Haider.

Around 17:00 local time, the victim with her husband and friends of six people arrived at the scene.

Initially, the victim had played with

sand, and then swam to the middle of the sea. Suddenly, a great wave rolled up and drowned the victim.

The incident was seen by lifesaver team and directly helped the victim.

After being evacuated to the beach, the victim was immediately taken to Siloam Hospital. Upon arrival at the hospital, the medical team immediately conducted a check on

the patient’s condition, checked the response as well as patient’s pulse and breath. In addition, it was also resumed with a heart record, but the victim was in a state of death upon arrival at the hospital.

Furthermore, the medical team suggested the victim’s body to be taken to Sanglah Hospital for an autopsy. At 22:30, the victim’s body

was taken to Sanglah Hospital by using an ambulance.

Chief of the Denpasar Police, Hadi Purnomo, when asked for his confirmation justified the incident.

He said the victim’s body was checked at hospital but no longer existed. “Possibly, it has been taken by her family. She was in Bali in a series of holidays,” he said. (kmb36)

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With estimated ticket sales of $35.8 million for the three-day weekend, “Equalizer” edged out another new sequel, star-studded “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again,” according to industry tracker Exhibitor Relations.

In his new film, Washington again plays a former black-ops agent -- and now soft-spoken Lyft driver -- who is drawn back into action to avenge a friend’s death. Director Antoine Fuqua also made “Training Day,” which earned Washington a best actor Oscar nod.

Industry watchers had expected Universal’s “Mamma Mia!” to open atop the box office, but its ticket sales of $34.4 million were “by no means a disappointment” at 22 percent above the original film’s opening, according to Hollywood Reporter.

With a star-studded cast -- including Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth and Pierce Brosnan -- the film is set after the events of the original “Mamma Mia!” but uses flashbacks to fill in the story of Streep’s carefree character on the sun-splashed Greek island where an ABBA soundtrack is never far away.

In third spot was “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation” from Sony, which took in $23.2 million. The animated comedy, whose voice cast includes Adam Sandler and Selena Gomez, follows Count Dracula and his family as they get away from their hotel for their own vacation.

Slipping from second last week to fourth was “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” the 20th release in Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe, at $16.1 million. It has ex-con Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) struggling to balance home life and Ant-Man duties as he and old flame Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly, alias the Wasp), take up an urgent new mission.

And in fifth, also from Disney, was “Incredibles 2,” at $11.5 million, which earlier in the month pushed past Pixar stablemate “Finding Dory” as the top-grossing animated film of all time. (afp)

Kravitz’s as crowds trickled in “who paid the babysitter to go see the greatesthits show.”

Around the same time his phone kept ringing as friends heard his voice on Drake’s song “Jungle.”

Drake properly secured rights to the sample.

But he credited GarzonMontano only by his initials, leaving the emerging artist embittered.

“It was like ‘Groundhog Day,’” he told AFP. “Everybody was like, ‘Congratulations, everything is going so well,’ and I was saying, well, actually this experience has been really horrifying for me.” (afp)

Actor Denzel Washington attends The Equalizer 2 Premiere at the TCL Chinese Theater, on July 17, 2018, in Hollywood, California.

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HOLLYWOOD - Superstar Denzel Washington had never made a sequel in a career reaching back nearly four decades, but when he did, with the Sony/Columbia production of “The Equalizer 2,” it managed to open at the top of the North American box office.

US musician Gabriel Garzon-Montano

NEW YORK - Gabriel GarzonMontano’s career trajectory a few years ago sounded, to his friends at least, to be the envy of a musician on the make.

Still in his mid-20s, the Brooklyn-born singer and multi-instrumentalist driven by the sensibilities of old-school R&B was tapped as Lenny Kravitz’s opening act on a tour of Europe and Drake sampled him on one of the hip-hop superstar’s number-one albums.

Instead, Garzon-Montano, a perfectionist who struggles to determine when his music is good enough for release, was crushed inside.

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Acknowledging that playing as an opening act is a rite of passage, Garzon-Montano said he nonetheless felt ignored, his set on less than half the volume of

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This picture taken on July 22, 2018 shows Indonesian officials standing near home appliances that were collected from inmates at the Sukamiskin jail in Bandung. Inmates at an Indonesian prison paid bribes for luxurious cells equipped with air conditioning, flat-screen televisions and private washrooms, officials said on July 23, as half a dozen jail employees were arrested in the case.

Lap of luxury: Indonesian jailers busted over fancy cells

Inmates at an Indonesian prison paid for luxury cells equipped with air conditioning, flatscreen TVs and private washrooms, anti-graft officials said, in the graft-riddled country’s latest corruption scandal. Jail staff allegedly took bribes of 200-500 million rupiah ($14,000-$35,000) from inmates to renovate cells and supply banned mobile phones or even let them temporarily leave prison, Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said.

Anti-graft agents arrested five people connected to the scandal at Sukamiskin prison, including inmates and the warden who got cash and a pair of vehicles to look the other way, it added.

A raid on Sunday turned up several cells that featured modern bathrooms with hot showers, fullsized refrigerators, coffee makers,

microwave ovens and stereo loudspeakers, the KPK said.

“We apologise to the Indonesian people,” Sri Puguh Budi Utami, the director general of Indonesia’s prisons, told reporters late Sunday.

“We’re very sorry that we still have not been able to maximise our monitoring systems.”

A former tax official now serv-

ing time at Sukamiskin was once photographed watching a tennis tournament in Bali and had even travelled overseas on a fake passport when he was supposed to be in another jail.

The prison’s other inmates include a former chief justice and exhouse speaker Setya Novanto, who was convicted in April of taking

millions of dollars in kickbacks and bribes linked to the national roll-out of government ID cards.

They were not among the inmates or prison staff arrested Sunday. Indonesian prisons are more commonly known for their poor conditions and outbreaks of violence.

But it is an open secret that the rich and powerful can buy luxury on the inside, prompting the government to warn last year that it would jail guards or other staff caught taking bribes from inmates in exchange for special treatment.

In one of the highest-profile cases, a businesswoman imprisoned for bribery had a cell with a spring mattress, couch, refrigerator, television and air conditioning -- and adjoining karaoke room. (afp) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.