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Drake performs during the iHeartRadio Music Festival at The T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. September 23, 2016.

Drake returns to Billboard No.1 for 13th time with ‘Views’

LOS ANGELES - Canadian rapper Drake returned to the top of the Billboard 200 album chart with “Views” on Monday after a seven-week break from the top spot.

“Views” first took the No.1 spot in April and has now topped the Billboard charts for 13 nonconsecutive weeks. About 53,000 units of the album were sold last week, according to Nielsen Soundscan, which tracks sales of music and music video products.

Billboard said “Views” now has the longest non-consecutive run at

No.1 on the album chart since the soundtrack for the animated Disney movie “Frozen” in 2014.

The Billboard 200 album chart tallies units from album sales, song sales (10 songs equal one album) and streaming activity (1,500 streams equal one album).

The enduring popularity of “Views” meant hip hop artist Mac

Miller’s new release, “The Divine Feminine,” had to settle for second spot on the Billboard 200, with 48,000 units sold.

New releases from country singer Aaron Lewis (“Sinner”) and Usher (“Hard II Love”) debuted in the No.4 and No.5 spots respectively.

On the digital songs chart, which measures online single download sales, summer hit “Closer” by American duo The Chainsmokers reigned once again with some 162,000 sales for the week. (rtr)

The K-9 Unit is securing the area of a convention held in Bali few months ago

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Head of the Badung Tourism Office, Cokorda Darmawan

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Made Sujana, Director of the STPI Bali

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Stability and comfort serve as tourism benchmark

CRIMES and social conflicts including political conflicts are serious threat in the management of tourism sector. In building competitiveness of tourism sector, the security would be a fixed price to be realized. For Bali, regional escort and elaboration of security system at tourist attractions including at hotels should be done professionally.

This opinion was expressed by the Head of the Badung Tourism Office, Cokorda Darmawan, in the focus group discussion (FGD) on regional security in managing tourism at Hotel Sovereign, Tuban, recently. To him, safety is a fixed price for the creation of conduciveness for tourism development.

“Therefore, Badung district always supports the government’s efforts to maintain stability and security of the region,” he said.

He explained that Badung has

followed up the Ministerial Regulation No.53 on hotel security management system (SMPH) with the regent regulation requiring tourism employers in Badung to have a SMPH certificate when they will renew their business registration.

Furthermore, Cokorda Darmawan hoped that Bali Police could encourage hoteliers in the district and municipality to participate in implementing the SMPH as carried out in Badung. It is important to be elaborated considering that accom-

modation service business in all regions in Bali have to carry out the mandate of Law No. 10/2009 and Ministerial Regulation No. 53. The security issues in Bali are related to the implementation of the SMPH and cannot only be implemented in Badung.

Made Sujana, Director of the STPI Bali said that SMPH should be audited by an auditor. Originally Bali only had four auditors including him that need to pass the education of auditor for two weeks

in Jakarta. One of the provisions in the Ministerial Regulation No. 53 says that the results of auditor should also be verified, in addition to the obligation to oversee the implementation of this system at least once a year. In the meantime, the audit cost offered at the time was worth over IDR 50 million. It was considered very expensive by hoteliers.

“Since there is a demand of international market for carrying out hotel security system, Bali Police and the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (IHRA) only performs verification. Other than offered at affordable cost, it does not need to be done by certified auditor as it does today,” he explained.

In the meantime, Mangku Made Sulasa Jaya said that the amount of budget required is actually relative. The hotels implementing the security management system as an integrated need with the implementation of the company system that can save company’s money will consider it cheap. It will turn clear, especially if there is a need to obtain a security certificate as a promotional tool of the hotel.

According to him, this system should be completely mastered and implemented. It will be very different from the hoteliers having not regarded the hotel security system as a need for them, but as the needs of government regulation only.

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Ministry of Tourism targets 400 arrivals of cruise ship

Maintain paddy field as asset, It needs regional bylaw on immortal paddy fields

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AMLAPURA - Nearly 92 percent of the Karangasem area belongs to dry land. Only eight percent or less than 7,000 hectares belong to paddy fields. Limited paddy field area yet beautiful must be maintained as an asset to maintain food security, asset of cultural and spiritual tourist attraction as well as natural tourist attraction. This was submitted by a legislator of Karangasem House of Representatives, Gede Dana, in Karangasem few days ago.

According to this member of Commission IV of the Karangasem House of Representatives if the assets in the form of beautiful paddy fields are maintained they will be able to improve public welfare of Karangasem.

Other than sustainable agriculture, maintaining food security either in the form of rice and other crops such as cassava, sweet potatoes or corn has also become an asset of tourist attraction. From the past time, the beautiful terraced paddy fields at Bukit Jambul, Arca and Telaga Waja river bank to Sidemen, Muncan, Selat, Sibetan village, overlay of paddy fields at Tumbu village and on the way to Ujung Water Palace, Tirtagangga, Ababi, Tista and Kangkahang are frequently taken advantage as a stopover by travelers while enjoying beautiful terraced paddy fields. Travelers stop and take pictures there.

“Apart from enjoying the beauty of unspoiled nature, foreign travelers are willing to come repeatedly to Bali and never get bored because they can watch the procession of five kinds

of holy sacrifice made by Balinese people. The assets of tourist attraction, especially in Karangasem, should be maintained so that travelers continue to increase and always keep interested in traveling to Bali. At the same time, the central government will also create 10 New-Bali destinations outside Bali,” he said.

According to him, Karangasem needs to make regional bylaw to protect paddy field areas, so that limited paddy fields in Karangasem can be protected as an immortal paddy field.

Based on the records, the paddy fields in Karangasem have continuously been converted to non-paddy fields since a few years ago. Irrigation channel of paddy fields at villages are dried and then the paddy fields are made into land plots. In some areas near the town of Amlapura, paddy fields are quickly converted to settlements, land plot, government office and sport facilities such as the Gunung Agung Stadium, public field at Padangkerta and highways.

On the other hand, the Head of

the Karangasem Agriculture and Horticulture Agency, Nyoman Mertha Tanaya, said that paddy field conversion to non-agricultural need is not too extensive. He said that in the middle of the land conversion to the building use, there are also new fields created from snakefruit orchards, such as at East Duda village. He said that responding to the increasingly small water flow in the irrigation channel, farmers may not be discouraged and do not need to convert or sell or make their paddy field into land plots.

“Shrinking irrigation water can be got around by technology. For instance, it can be resolved by the making of artesian wells and the water is then taken up by pumping technology,” he affirmed.

On the other hand, when contacted in a separate place, the Head of the Karangasem Development Planning Board (Bappeda), Ketut Sedana Merta, said that it is indeed required a regional bylaw (Perda) to protect the lush and beautiful terraced paddy fields. Moreover, the paddy field area in Karangasem is very limited, but very important. According to him, in order to protect the limited paddy fields, he recognized the need of regional bylaw on immortal paddy fields. Later on, the paddy fields will be classified into some zones and where should be preserved as immortal paddy fields. (013)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Tourism is targeting 400 cruise ship arrivals to Indonesia this year. “The government regulation issued is expected to facilitate the arrival of foreign travelers using cruise ships to enter Indonesia,” said Spokesperson of PT Pelabuhan Indonesia (Pelindo) III Edi Priyanto in a press release received by Bali Post Jakarta, Sunday (Sep. 25).

According to Priyanto, there are two rules providing facilities for travelers making a visit to Indonesia, including the presidential regulation on visa-free entry for 90 countries and convenience of a cruise ship.

Likewise, the Regulation of the Minister of Transportation No. 121/2015 on the Granting of Convenient for Travelers Using Foreign-flagged Cruise Ship where foreign-flagged cruise ships can transport travelers to domestic harbors for tourism needs.

So far, said Priyanto, Benoa Harbor becomes an entrance for foreign travelers spending holidays in Bali by using cruise ships. The harbor becomes a turn-around cruise harbor. In other words, travelers will start their voyage from Bali and then resume it to some other destinations. Benoa Harbor continues to be developed, and Pelindo III has also planned to add to length of pier for cruise ships to moor, so that it can be moored by larger-size cruise ships and with a length of over 300 meters.

The development of cruise terminal is also carried in Lombok.

Terminal operator of Pelindo III has planned the construction of a new harbor for cruise ship in Gilimas.

Planning has been done and licensing has been completed, so the stages of development are just waiting for the issuance of harbor master plan (RIP) of the Ministry of Transportation.

Other than in Bali and Lombok, said Priyanto, Pelindo III also devel-

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ops Boom Marina in Banyuwangi by designing it into an integrated marina area so that it will be more interesting to be visited by foreign travelers. In 2017, the biennial agenda to be followed by dozens of yachts incorporated in the Fremantle Sailing Club of Western Australia has been scheduled to moor at the Boom Marina in Banyuwangi.

Until September 2016, approximately 28 cruise ships have recorded to enter through the Benoa Harbor (Bali) carrying around 38,000 foreign travelers, 14 cruise ships at Lembar Harbor (NTB) carrying about 20,000 travelers and 10 cruise ships at Tanjung Emas Harbor (Semarang) carrying 12,000 travelers. “Pelindo III continues to develop the tourismbased harbor, chiefly those becoming favorite for cruise ship visits because it is a commitment to support the government to develop tourism in Indonesia,” said Priyanto.

Cruise ship visits within the area of Pelindo III until the first half of 2016 totally reached 46 cruise ships weighing 2,721,597 Gross Tonnage (GT), carrying passengers around 55,586 foreign travelers. Based on data, the realization of cruise ship visits in recent years shows positive trend in the harbor working area of Pelindo III. Based on the record, throughout the year 2015 at least 130 cruise ships were recorded to moor at the harbor in the working area of Pelindo III carrying 128,574 foreign travelers with the weight of the vessel reaching 6,798,284 Gross Tonnage (GT).

Priyanto said that the dominance of cruise ship visits still occurs at three harbors having favorite tourism hinterland such as the Benoa Harbor (Bali), Lembar Harbor (NTB), Tanjung Emas Harbor (Semarang), Tanjung Tembaga (Probolinggo) and Tanjung Perak (Surabaya). (010)

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Poor exercise habits may follow teens into adulthood

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As many as 80 percent of pregnant women experience nausea, vomiting, or both, Hinkle and colleagues note in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Why morning sickness may be a good thing

FOR women with a history of miscarriage, experiencing nausea and vomiting during subsequent pregnancy attempts is linked to higher odds of success, a U.S. study suggests.

“This study came from the long-standing idea that nausea and vomiting in pregnancy indicated that a woman was still pregnant,” said lead study author Stefanie Hinkle, a scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

As many as 80 percent of pregnant women experience nausea, vomiting, or both, Hinkle and colleagues note in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The current study included about 800 pregnant women with at least one or two prior miscarriages.

All of the women had pregnancies confirmed by lab tests and they were around 29 years old on average at the start of the study.

A typical pregnancy lasts 40 weeks, and women have the highest risk of miscarriage in the first trimester, roughly the first 12 weeks. Odds of a miscarriage are higher for women that are older or have certain medical problems such as diabetes, lupus or thyroid disorders.

For the study, women recorded nausea and vomiting symptoms in

daily diaries from weeks 2 through 8 of their pregnancies. Then, starting with week 12, they reported symptoms in monthly questionnaires.

After two weeks of pregnancy, 18 percent of the women reported nausea without vomiting, while 4 percent said they experienced both symptoms.

By eight weeks of pregnancy, 57 percent experienced nausea alone and 27 percent had a combination of nausea and vomiting.

As women approached the 12week mark, 86 percent reported nausea and 35 percent reported nausea combined with vomiting.

In general, women younger than 25 were more likely to experience nausea and vomiting than the older participants in the study.

Overall, 188 pregnancies (24 percent) ended in another miscarriage.

Nausea and vomiting were associated with a 50 percent to 75 percent lower risk of pregnancy loss, the study found.

“Our findings should be reassuring to women experiencing these symptoms, as the risk for a

pregnancy loss is greatly reduced in women with these symptoms,” Hinkle said by email.

The study doesn’t explain why women who have these symptoms may be more likely to have successful pregnancies, the authors caution.

It’s possible that nausea and vomiting may be the body’s way of getting women to alter their diets during pregnancy, or that a surge in pregnancy hormones triggers these symptoms, the authors suggest.

Limitations of the study include the reliance on women to accurately recall and report symptoms in their diaries, the researchers point out. Researchers also lacked data on the severity of nausea and vomiting.

Still, the findings add to a large body of evidence linking nausea and vomiting to a lower risk of miscarriage, Dr. Siripanth Nippita, a reproductive health researcher at Harvard Medical School in Boston, noted in an accompanying editorial.

Women need to keep in mind that these symptoms don’t protect against miscarriage, and that severe morning sickness can require treatment to minimize the risk of complications during pregnancy, Nippita said by email. (rtr)

MOST American teenagers don’t get enough exercise, and they often stick with their sedentary ways as they enter adulthood, a U.S. study suggests.

More than 9 in 10 adolescents fail to get the minimum 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous daily physical activity recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), researchers report in the journal Pediatrics.

“Physical inactivity is one of the major predictors of childhood and adolescent obesity, the consequences of which increases incidence of obesity as well as metabolic syndrome in adulthood,” said lead study author Kaigang Li, a researcher at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

Childhood obesity has more than doubled in kids and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years, according to the CDC. More than one third of children and teens are currently overweight or obese, putting them at risk for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, bone and joint problems, sleep apnea and psychological issues such as poor self-esteem.

To assess activity levels in teens, Li and colleagues assessed exercise habits among a sample of 561 students in 10th grade at 44 schools representing urban, suburban and rural communities.

At the start of the study, when participants were 16 years old on average, researchers asked them to

wear activity trackers for one week to see how much physical activity they got.

In 10th grade, students got about 27 minutes of exercise each weekday, on average. This inched up to almost 29 minutes in 11th grade, then dipped back down to 28 minutes for both 12th grade and the year after completing high school.

Weekends came out even worse, with participants logging only about 20 minutes in all but one year of the study, when they achieved 21 minutes on average.

High school students who went on to a four-year college got more exercise than their peers who didn’t continue their education, and so did college students living on campus versus those living at home, the study also found.

One limitation of the study is that it wasn’t a nationally representative sample even though researchers selected participants to include a variety of different communities, the authors note. Researchers also didn’t have data on the health impacts of exercise or assess how much additional physical activity some teens might need to achieve health benefits.

Still, the findings highlight the need for parents and school leaders to build more opportunities for exercise into children’s routines, said Dr. Ravi Shah, a researcher at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston who wasn’t involved in the study. (rtr)

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Discourse on Buleleng airport, Regent submits it to Angkasa Pura

SINGARAJA - The emergence of companies considered to be unserious in planning the construction of the international airport at Kubutambahan village, Kubutambahan, makes the Regent of Buleleng Putu Agus Suradnyana (PAS) act proactively. The government decided to hand over the airport development plan to Angkasa Pura. This attitude is showed after several companies proposed the making of the airport development planning. Some of the companies include the Airport Kenesis Consulting (AKC) Canada, PT. Pembangunan Bali Mandiri (PBM) and Pratiba Industries Limited.

Regent Putu Agus Suradnyana said at his office on Tuesday

(Sep. 27) the airport construction in the region remains in the pre-

A plane is preparing to take off in Ngurah Rai Airport.

feasibility study (Pre-FS). Some companies have performed their pre-feasibility study after the central government announced openly to the public both at home and overseas. This measure is done to invite serious companies having the ability to plan, complete the requirements and implement the airport project. However, none of the companies submitting proposal are serious. It is evidenced by the seriousness of the companies in

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Public openness, each village has its own website

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NEGARA - Each village in Jembrana district will have a village website. All the activities and information of the village will be published on the website.

As the observation, some villages have operated their website and published information about the village.

However, some village websites are still vacant.

The Head of the Jembrana Transportation and Infocom Agency, Gusti Ngurah Putra Riyadi, told reporter that such village website will become a stand-alone website, but will have link to the website of Jembrana district. When they have operated, the village websites will be connected to one of the website links owned by the government of Jembrana as connected to relevant agencies.

However, content of the website will be entirely provided by respective village. This measure poses one of the village’s efforts to provide information openness for the public.

To support the implementation of village website program, the agency does the domain registration. In the meantime, the leading sector will be the empowerment agency and village administration (BPMPD).

Chief of the BPMPD Jembrana, I Nengah Ledang, told reporters that to support the village website, each village allocates the budget of IDR 5 million for the

creation of the website.

Other than the budget, the village will also provide the content of the website. For the operation, a number of village apparatuses have been given training some time ago. Later on, each village will have an operator in charge of publishing the profiles and activities of the village. Hopefully, the information can be accessed by the public. (kmb26)

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resuming their planning. “We do hope all the companies submitting proposal to be serious, but they are unclear so far,” he said.

Seeing this condition, the regent declared that local government is still awaiting the decision of central government. In addition, as the head of local government, he reiterated that the planning of the airport project has been handed over to Angkasa Pura. This happens because Angkasa Pura is a state-owned enterprise (BUMN) specializing in the development of air transport infrastructure. He appealed to all parties, especially the residents of Kubutambahan, to be not easily ingested by unclear issues regarding the airport project.

The regent urged all elements of society in Buleleng to wait for the follow up of central government related to the plan having been included in the national development planning. “Now, we have decided to hand over this airport to Angkasa Pura. Its follow up is delivered to central government because it has been included in the

national development planning,” he explained.

To note, after searching for the follow-up of the airport project in Buleleng, the Buleleng House of Representatives urged the district or provincial government to initiate the project continuation having been awaited by the people of Buleleng. This attitude is important because the previous companies are confident to invest, but they are not appropriate with the reality. Moreover, one of the companies earlier claimed to have proposed the permit of location determination to the Ministry of Transport, but after being searched there was no application for the permit received by the Ministry of Transportation.

The attitude to initiate this project is considered important to assure the public that the government remains committed to implementing the policy in preparing air transportation infrastructure that is also used as a measure of equitable development between the south and north of Bali. (kmb38)

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Bali lacks of anti-rabies serum

Children vulnerable to be bitten at risky areas

DENPASAR - Bali was reportedly to lack of anti-rabies serum (SAR) as it only remains 70 ampoules scattered in Badung and Jembrana district. In the meantime, the anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) stock remains is safe level with about 40,000 vials, where 26,000 vials are in the Bali Health Agency.

Division Head of the Disease Control and Environmental Health (P2PL) of the Bali Health Agency, Gede Wira Sunetra, said on Tuesday (Sep. 27) that the agency indeed ran out of anti-rabies serum but the Badung and Jembrana Health Agency still have approximately 70 vials with expiry date up to December 2016. Besides, private hospitals in Denpasar remain to have the stock.

The Head of the Bali Health Agency, Ketut Suarjaya, when asked for his confirmation justified if the anti-rabies serum is empty while the stock of anti-rabies vaccine is enough for this year. “Well, our stock is indeed empty because it is expensive and its expiry date is short,” he said. The price of anti-rabies serum in the market reaches around IDR 12 million per ampoule, while each patient will use around 2-3 ampoules.

Anti-rabies serum is used for the bite victim of rabies carrier animal with the wounds at risky areas such as the shoulder upward, head, ears and the tips of the nail.

In the meantime, the anti-rabies vaccine is intended for the bite victims of rabies carrier animals with the bite wounds other than at such risky areas.

Considering the minimal stock of antirabies serum, it will not be effective when

replaced with the provision of anti-rabies vaccine to prevent rabies virus from spreading to the brain. “They work differently, but in principle they equally prevent rabies virus from reaching the brain. Anti-rabies serum can give better prevention,” he explained.

He continued that bites on the head are indeed risky because they are close to the brain. On that account, the bite victims of rabies carrier animal should use anti-rabies serum to prevent the effects from more

quickly spreading to the brain.

Related to the shortage of the anti-rabies serum stock, the procurement cannot be made this year because the budget has run out for the procurement of anti-rabies vaccine. “Hopefully, we could supply next year,” he said.

The Animal Health Division Head at the Bali Livestock Agency, IKG Nata Kesuma, said that a dog indeed does not always bite in risky areas of the human body because it

Sentenced to 16 years in prison

Foreign pedophilia defendant asks to be freed DENPASAR - Having been delayed to file pleading because the defendant’s legal counsel is not ready and the defendant is sick, the trial of pedophilia case involving Robert Andrew Fiddes Ellis was resumed on Tuesday (Sep. 27). In the trial chaired by Wayan Sukanila, this Australian sentenced to 16 years in prison, through his legal counsel Yanuarius Nahak and Benny Hariyono, in the pleading of the 70-year-old defendant even asked to be freed.

One of the reasons is that the demand of public prosecutor is considered flawed. According to Yanuar, the criminal charge of article 76E in conjunction with article 82, paragraph (1) of the Law No.35/2014 on the amendments to the Law No.23/2002 in conjunction with article 65 paragraph (1) of Criminal Code on child protection is only 15

years. “However, the prosecutor indicted him to 16 years. Then, where is the additional one year obtained from?” asked Yanuar.

Additionally, the defendant’s legal counsel considered the defendant was not proved in the trial. Based on witness’ testimony, the result of medical report and the fact on the trial do not indicate any sign of sexual violence against the victim. On the contrary, said Yanuar, Robert was the victim of child trafficking committed by S and W. On that account, the two women should be arrested and prosecuted. “Robert is a stranger, so that it is impossible for him to find children by himself. Surely there are people bringing the children for him. Thus, the position of Robert is as victim,” he argued.

On that account, he requested that his

client suspected of having committed pedophilia act in Bali should be freed.

“If the judges have different views and opinions, hopefully the punishment can be decided as light as possible,” pleased Robert.

The trial was delayed because the interpreter that must accompany Robert did not come. Public prosecutor Purwanti et al. searched for an impromptu interpreter. She is a prosecutor from the Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office, Ni Luh Oka Ariani.

Earlier, in this case the defendant was sentenced to 16 years in prison for pedophilic case. In addition, the defendant was also fined as much as IDR 2 billion with subsidiary punishment of eight months. The demand is considered to invent by the defendant’s legal counsel team. (kmb37)

does not select the area of bite. “Dog will bite which parts of the body are the closest to be bitten,” he said.

However, children have the risk to be bitten by dogs in the risky areas of the body because the limbs of children are usually aligned with the dog so that they are potentially bitten in the upper parts of the body.

“Commonly children like dogs and do not understand how to avoid the risk,” he said. (kmb42)

Tabuh Rah

Tabuh Rah or blood sprinkle of cockfight using sacrificial animals is carried out in a series of religious ceremonies (yadnya). It also denotes a symbol to neutralize bhuta kala as mentioned in the articles of Hinduism chiefly on Lord Shiva. Not all religious ceremonies are accompanied with cockfight. Only the pecaruan ceremonies are appropriately accompanied with cockfight such as the caru manca kelud, caru rishi gana et cetera. The implementation can be carried out with the perang satha namely cockfight for three rounds. The figure three is selected because it is believed to have magical power and symbolize the beginning, middle and the end. Besides, the blood sprinkle can also be implemented by penyamblehan or slaughtering the animal’s neck with a kris dagger and then the blood is sprinkled.

Cockfight is usually held in the temple outermost courtyard because according to the belief of the Hindus, the location is regarded as the place of the bhuta kala. So, this location is considered appropriate to make the offerings for the beings so as not to disturb people. (kmb)

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Philippines’ Duterte wants to ‘open alliances’ with Russia, China

MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday he would visit Russia and China this year to chart an independent foreign policy and “open alliances” with two powers with historic rivalries with the United States.

Duterte said the Philippines was at the “point of no return” in relations with former colonial ruler the United States, so he wanted to strengthen ties with others, and picked two global powers that have been sparring with Washington on the international political stage.

Last week, he last declared he would visit China, with which ties remain frosty over a South China Sea arbitration ruling won by the Philippines in July. He said Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was expecting him in Moscow.

China claims most of the South China Sea, through which more than $5 trillion of trade moves annually. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam have rival claims.

An arbitration court in The Hague in July invalidated China’s claims to the waterway in a case brought by the Philippines, a ruling Beijing refuses to recognise.

“I am ready to not really break (U.S.) ties but we will open alliances with China and... Medvedev,” Duterte told reporters, adding he would open up the “other side of the ideological barrier”.

He welcomed investment and shrugged off rating agency Standard and Poor’s concerns last week about the Philippine economy on his watch.

“Never mind about the ratings,” he said. “I will open up the Philippines for them to do business, alliances of trade and commerce.”

The peso fell on Monday to its lowest since 2009, and foreign investors have dumped local shares for six straight weeks, worried about Duterte’s anti-U.S. rhetoric and brutal war on drugs, which has alarmed rights groups at home and abroad.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the Philippine government had not contacted the United States about the comments made by Duterte.

U.S. cooperation with the Philippine government remains strong and the United States has not seen anything that would indicate a shift

by Manila, Toner said at a daily news briefing.

“They’re a sovereign nation and we’re certainly not going to hold them back from pursuing closer relations with either of those countries. ...

It’s not a zero-sum game,” he said.

Duterte also said he would open up telecoms and airlines, two domestic sectors long controlled by local players and criticized for being uncompetitive. He did not elaborate.

His vitriol against the United States has become a near-daily occurrence, sparking both amusement and concern. On Monday he ac-

AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File

In this Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016, file photo, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte poses with a fist bump during the anniversary of the 250th Presidential Airlift Wing at the Philippine Air Force headquarters in Pasay city, southeast of Manila, Philippines. cused Washington of “hypocrisy” and “lording it over us”.

His latest swipe included ruling out participation in any maritime conflict initiated by the United States, despite a 1951 treaty which Duterte said required Manila to

back Washington.

“I am about to cross the Rubicon between me and the U.S.,” he said,” without elaborating. “It’s the point of no return.”

Toner said he would dispute Duterte’s premise that the United

States might start a maritime conflict. “The United states has a strong security presence in the Asia-Pacific region, but we’re certainly not looking to start a military action against anyone,” he said. (rtr)

Thailand investigates four cases of suspected Zika-linked microcephaly

BANGKOK - Thailand is investigating four suspected cases of Zika-related microcephaly in three babies and a 36-week old unborn baby, the public health minister said on Tuesday, in what could be the first cases of Zika-linked microcephaly in Southeast Asia.

Several countries in Southeast Asia have reported increasing cases of infection from the mosquito-borne Zika virus but Thailand has one of the highest numbers in the region, with 349 confirmed since January, including 25 pregnant women.

Public Health Minister Piyasakon Sakolsatayadorn said authorities needed to be thorough in their investigation of the cases as confirmation would be “sensitive”.

“The lab results will take at least two days because we have to be thorough with this as REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha it is a big deal and a link hasn’t been detected A city worker fumigates the area to control the spread of mosquitoes at a before,” Piyasakon told Reuters. university in Bangkok, Thailand, September 13, 2016. Picture taken Septem“This is a sensitive matter for Thailand,” he said. ber 13, 2016.

U.S. health officials have concluded that Zika infections in pregnant women can cause microcephaly, a birth defect marked by small head size that can lead to severe developmental problems in babies.

Piyasakon said the three babies were born with small heads and an ultrasound appeared to indicate the unborn baby had a small head.

Of the four mothers, two were diagnosed with Zika when they were pregnant but two were not confirmed to have had Zika, said Apichai Mongkol, director-general of the ministry’s Department of Medical Sciences.

If a Thai case were confirmed, it would be the first in Southeast Asia, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement emailed to Reuters.

The connection between Zika and microcephaly first came to light last year in Brazil, which has confirmed more than 1,600 cases of microcephaly that it considers to be related to Zika infections in the mothers. (rtr)

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GENEVA - The World Trade Organization cut its forecast for global trade growth this year by more than a third on Tuesday, reflecting a slowdown in China and falling levels of imports into the United States.

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PURWOKERTO - Indonesian Military (TNI) Chief Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo has reiterated that the Natuna Islands rightfully belong to Indonesia.

“The Indonesian territory cannot be negotiated. (It is either the) Unitary State or death,” Gatot Nurmantyo declared here on Monday.

He said the military will build several military bases in the Natuna Islands to safeguard the countrys sovereignty.

“We are building military bases in the Natuna Islands,” he emphasized, adding that these bases would be ready in three years time.

The outermost islands of the Natuna archipelago were made the baseline of the Indonesian territory as stipulated in the 1957 Juanda Declaration.

Moreover, in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) 1982, the baseline was registered with the UN in 2009.

Commission I Chairman Mahfud Siddiq had earlier said a military base on the island of Natuna was of key importance as part of the defense system in the central region of the country, which shares

its maritime borders with several nations.

“Developing a military base on Natuna Island is important for the defense system in the central region of Indonesia, which shares its borders with many countries in the South China Sea,” Siddiq stated.

Siddiq noted that such a base in Natuna will reinforce Indonesia’s existing regional defense system in the eastern and western parts of the country. This will help improve the military’s mobility.

The lawmaker remarked that the plan to develop a military base in Natuna has been around since 2015.

“Commission I had once discussed the plan, including its budget,” Siddiq pointed out.

This is a strategic defense development plan as Natuna lies in the frontier region of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. It is close to the area in South China Sea where several countries have overlapping claims.

Siddiq, a politician of the Prosperous Justice Party, affirmed that the government will require some Rp1.3 trillion worth of funds to develop a military base on the island.

An earlier estimate had pegged it at Rp400 billion. (ant)

Indonesia highly potential to develop digital economy: Jokowi

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said Indonesia is highly potential to develop digital economy that the country should not be lagging behind in its development.

Container boxes are seen at the Yangshan Deep Water Port, part of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, in Shanghai, China September 24, 2016. Picture taken September 24, 2016.

“I am absolutely convinced that this is not a moment to turn inward,” Azevedo told a WTO conference.

The benefits of trade should be shared more widely, he said, with a system that does

more to include poor countries, small firms, marginalised groups and entrepreneurs - an apparent nod to anti-globalisation activists who say that secretive trade talks are exclusively aimed at helping big business.

will deal with the fallout from talks that may deprive Britain of its membership of the single market as the quid pro quo for imposing controls on immigration.

Comments from some of the ministers responsible for steering Brexit have raised expectations of that more disruptive scenario in the last 10 days, knocking sterling back below $1.30 and to a six-week low of 87 pence per euro on Monday.

The pound was pinned around those levels on Tuesday, trading at $1.2985 and just 0.4 percent stronger on the day against the euro at 86.36 pence.

“If you take (Prime Minister)

Theresa May at her words, we will go for a hard Brexit and that is clearly a worry,” said Neil Mellor, a strategist with Bank of New York Mellon.

“It’s about the huge amount of activity that the UK would be precluded from doing. Clearing (of euro trades) is one issue and there are a lot of activities that relate to that.

“Given how important the City is to the UK in terms of growth ... it is a negative.”

Forecasts for the pound after the vote were almost universally bleak. A number of major banks predicted a fall to around $1.20,

Azevedo said four out of five job losses in industrialised countries were not due to competition from cheap imports but to automation and efficiency campaigns that allowed firms to cut their workforce. (rtr)

levels not seen since the Plaza Accord’s move to weaken the dollar in the mid-1980s.

But the pound has so far held up better than that, bottoming out in early July at $1.2798, still a 31-year low but a long way short of many forecasts.

Analysts and traders have argued since about the reasons for the halt. Many point to record-high market positioning against the pound that means there is limited space in the trading books run by banks and speculative investors to bet further against the British currency. Those bets were trimmed in the last month.

Others, including custodial bank State Street, have pointed to hedging against the pound done by the big long-term fund investors in the days after the vote, which investors have been steadily closing out -- in sterling’s favour -- since.

“Investors (at the time) bought gilts, bought UK stocks and hedged the currency,” said Michael Metcalfe, the bank’s global head of macro strategy.

“The question is how long they hold onto that position. It would benefit sterling if they decided to cash in, but there does seem to be the view that it will fall further.” (rtr)

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The outermost islands of the Natuna archipelago were made the baseline of the Indonesian territory as stipulated in the 1957 Juanda Declaration.

“Hard Brexit” worries pin sterling near six-week lows

LONDON - Three months after Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, fears in currency markets of a “hard Brexit” that would drive an exodus of banks from London have knocked sterling to within sight of its weakest levels in decades.

It has been a rollercoaster ride for investors and companies worried by or speculating on the value of the pound. It slumped by more than 20 U.S. cents in the days following the shock result of the June 23 vote but had recovered around a third of that by early this month.

That broadly reflects shifts in expectations of how the economy

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Natuna Islands rightfully belong to Indonesia: TNI chief

WTO cuts 2016 world trade growth forecast to 1.7 pct, cites wake-up call

The new figure of 1.7 percent, down from the WTO’s previous estimate of 2.8 percent in April, marked the first time in 15 years that international commerce was expected to lag the growth of the world economy, the trade body said.

The figures should be a wake-up call for governments, WTO Director-General Roberto Azevedo said in the six-monthly trade outlook report.

“We need to make sure that this does not translate into misguided policies that could make the situation much worse, not only from the perspective of trade but also for job creation and economic growth and development which are so closely linked to an open trading system,” the report quoted him as saying.

The data underlined concerns that, after a long period of growth through globalisation and reliance on global trade, governments are increasingly seeking to protect their own industries and promote domestic producers at the expense of foreign competitors.

Although all governments deny protectionism, trade is no longer outpacing economic growth as it used to. Trade has grown 1.5 times faster than gross domestic product over the long term, and twice as fast when globalisation picked up in the 1990s.

This year trade will grow only 80 percent as fast as the global economy, the WTO said, the first reversal of globalisation since 2001 and only the second since 1982.

Indonesia Today

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President Joko Widodo

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“I see we have big potentials to develop digital economy and the market of digital economy is potential with a population of 250 million of which 94.3 million are internet service users,” Jokowi said when presiding over a limited cabinet meeting on digital economy here on Tuesday.

Jokowi said when attending the G20 Summit in China, big nations began to speak loudly about new industrial revolution based on digital economy.

Almost all nations taking part in the summit meeting spoke about digital economy, he said, adding, “We must not be left behind. We must play a role in the process.”

The president said he had information that in 2014, sales through e-commerce in Indonesia reached US$2.6 billion with penetration of only 6 percent of the total population.

Whereas e-commerce could help 56 million units of small and medium enterprises (UMKM) which contribute around 55 percent to the countrys GDP. “Just compared with in China, where the users of e-commerce already reached 30 percent of the population and contribute 20 percent to its GDP,” the president said.

The president repeated saying the potential market must not be wasted, adding that he was confident Indonesia could be the largest digital economy in Southeast Asia.

“For that purpose I want acceleration of the implementation of digital economy, otherwise, we would be lagging behind other countries,” he said.

As the first step Indonesia should develop world logistic interlink system with existing products in rural areas, he said.

“At the same time we also must make a breakthrough step to strengthen our digital economic players as we see the potentials among our youths in this area,” he said.

The president also said he wants that the new comers in digital economy are facilitated including in capital that they could expand.

“Take large scale deregulation to support development of e-commerce industry,” he said.

He said training is necessary to improve the skills and capacity of new comers or players to be competitive,” he added.

He said a number of Indonesian digital economic players have been bought by foreign companies such as OLX. (rtr)

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U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter testifies before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on National Security Challenges and Ongoing Military Operations on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 22, 2016.

Cost of modernizing U.S. nuclear weapons to fall to next president

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE - In this flat, windy expanse just south of the Canadian border, U.S. Air Force pilots fly the same bombers their grandfathers flew, using mid-20th century cables and pulleys.

Each spring, the airmen and airwomen must clear melting snow from the steel and concrete doors of the silos that house 150 nucleartipped ballistic missiles scattered across thousands of square miles of the upper Great Plains.

The U.S. nuclear arsenal, patched, welded, and re-skinned countless times, was built between 25 and 62 years ago when the United States found itself locked in an arms race with a rival superpower, the Soviet Union. Now, its future is an issue in the campaign for the Nov. 8 presidential election.

Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has said she would call for a nuclear posture review, last completed in 2010, as one of her first acts upon taking office. Re-

publican candidate Donald Trump has said he would be open to reversing decades of U.S. policy and allowing allies such as Japan and South Korea to acquire their own nuclear weapons to deter a strike from North Korea, which carried out its fifth and largest nuclear test this month.

On Monday, in his first visit to Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota as U.S. Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter said America’s nuclear deterrence was the “bedrock” of its security, and the Pentagon’s No. 1 priority.

“If we don’t replace these systems, quite simply they will age even more, and become unsafe, unreliable, and ineffective,” Carter said, speaking at a lectern in front of a B-52 bomber loaded with

cruise missiles.

“The fact is, most of our nuclear weapon delivery systems have already been extended decades beyond their original expected service lives. So it’s not a choice between replacing these platforms or keeping them - it’s really a choice between replacing them or losing them,” Carter said.

Russia, he said, had built new nuclear weapons systems, raising questions as to whether its leaders were cautious enough when it came to atomic weapons. And North Korea presents a sustained threat, Carter said.

Carter’s speech coincides with a growing realization among defense officials and experts that budget constraints almost certainly will force the next president to decide whether and how quickly to proceed with the Obama administration’s plans to maintain and modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal. (rtr)

Stability...

of public security system held by the customary village in Bali,” he said.

Bali Police having made cooperation with the PHRI since 2004 continues to coordinate and create the standard of verification for security management system for tourist accommodation business.

The SMPH verification aims to prevent and reduce losses due to threat,

disruption or disaster of a hotel as well as realize convenience, security and safety of hotel.

The SMPH verification is performed to determine whether this system has been implemented, to assess whether the security facilities and infrastructure have met the standards in terms of quality and quantity as well as to prepare the SMPH audit. (dir)

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“I absolutely agree with the Head of the Badung Tourism Office that security is a fixed price within the tourism industry. Therefore, the PHRI will always encourage all the efforts to create safe condition, including the implementation

International

U.S. crime rises in 2015, still far below peak levels -FBI

WASHINGTON - Violent crime in the United States increased in 2015 but remained far below peak levels of the 1990s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Monday as presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump prepared for a debate that is likely to focus on public safety.

While murder, rape and assault remained far below the peak levels of the 1990s, last year’s increase in the violent crime rate could provide fodder for Trump, a Republican who has portrayed himself as a “law and order” candidate willing to support aggressive policing tactics. Clinton, a Democrat, has said many of his crime-fighting proposals amount to unconstitutional attacks on American freedoms.

The FBI report could “be turned into political football,” said Harvard Law School research fellow Robert Smith.

At 372.6 incidents per 100,000 people, the 2015 violent-crime rate is higher than the 2014 rate of 361.6 but still well below the 1996 level of 636.6. The increase was most pronounced in big cities, the report found.

On the campaign trail, Trump frequently points to rising crime rates as a reason to support “stopand-frisk” tactics and other police methods that critics say unfairly target minorities.

Clinton has pushed for stricter gun control to help curb violence and has called for national guidelines on the use of force by police officers.

In 2015, there were an estimated 15,696 murders in the United

States, compared with an estimated 14,164 the prior year, according to the report. Last year’s crime rate was still lower than in 2012 and earlier years, the FBI found.

Crime was highest in the southern United States, the report found.

At 45.9 per 100,000 people, the murder and manslaughter rate in the region was more than twice as high as in the West, the Midwest and the Northeast, according to the FBI. Rates of rape, assault and property crime were dramatically higher as well.

FBI Director James Comey warned last year that violent crime in the United States might rise because increased scrutiny of policing tactics had created a “chill wind” that discouraged officers from using aggressive tactics.

The rise in crime has been concentrated in big cities’ segregated and impoverished neighborhoods.

Experts said crime there can best be fought through better community policing and alternatives to incarceration for nonviolent crime.

“We’re just beginning to see a shift in mentality in law enforcement from a warrior mentality... to a guardian mentality,” Carter Stewart, a former prosecutor for the Southern District of Ohio, said on the teleconference. “I don’t want us as a country to go backwards.”

In Chicago, 54 more people were murdered in 2015 than in the previous year, a 13 percent jump in the city’s murder rate, according to an April study by New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice. (rtr)

REUTERS/Karen Ducey

Suspect Arcan Cetin arrives in court escorted by a bailiff for his arraignment on murder charges in the killing of five people, in Mt. Vernon, Washington, U.S., September 26, 2016.

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Upstart Team Europe to face Canada in World Cup final

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Europe team captain Darren Clarke addresses the media during the captains press conference ahead of the 41st Ryder Cup at Hazeltine National Golf Club.

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World number three McIlroy rolled in a 15-foot birdie putt at the fourth playoff hole on Sunday to beat American Ryan Moore and win the season-ending PGA Tour event, FedExCup honours and a mind-boggling $10 million bonus.

“From a European perspective it is always good to have one of our members win the week before the Ryder Cup,” a hay-fever stricken Clarke told a news conference after arriving at Hazeltine National.

“With the guys that were travelling here today on the plane, we were all there last night with all our caddies in the bar in the hotel watching it on the big screen. Everyone was delighted and excited.

“Rory is a wonderful young man and an unbelievable golfer so he’s a

hugely inspirational figure for our team and I feel very lucky he’s on our European side.”

McIlroy vaulted into the playoff with a barnstorming finish to his final round, holing out from 140 yards to eagle the same 16th hole where he would clinch the win 90 minutes later.

“To see Rory showing that fighting spirit and battling the way he did was wonderful,” said Clarke as he constantly dabbed away at his nose with a handkerchief. “Rory is a very, very talented young man.

“He has played very well all year. He wasn’t knocking the putts in before but he has done a little these past few weeks.”

The 27-year-old Northern Irishman stormed home in 30 strokes to

catch, and eventually overtake, the leaders on Sunday.

“To shoot what he did on the back nine ... I think that was very impressive,” said Clarke.

“Ryan Moore was very strong yesterday. Rory hung in there, gave himself some opportunities ... and then made birdie on the last playoff hole.”

Clarke was also having to hang in there at his joint news conference with United States captain Davis Love III on Monday.

“I’ve come off the plane with a really bad case of hay fever,” said the Northern Irishman who has been plotting his Ryder Cup campaign for months.

“My nose is dribbling and running (but) it was a good trip. I managed to get six hours’ sleep which is probably the most I’ve had in two months.”

The Ryder Cup starts on Friday. (rtr)

TORONTO - Hosts Canada, the two-time reigning Olympic champions who are deep in both tradition and talent, were always expected to reach this week’s World Cup of Hockey final.

Their opponent, Team Europe, a gimmicky squad of players from smaller European hockey playing nations, were not even expected to advance beyond the preliminary round.

What it means is a confounding but intriguing best-of-three final starting on Tuesday with hot favourites Canada taking on the longest of tournament longshots.

At one end of the ice will stand Canada, the Goliath of the hockey world, while a group of Davids without a country, flag or anthem and whose coach’s day job is chairman of Premiership club Southampton FC will stand at the other.

“Well, personally, first and foremost, just so pleased that these peripheral countries in the world of hockey have had an opportunity to compete with the best in the world for the first time in their life and to truly believe in being competitive,” said Team Europe coach Ralph Krueger.

“That’s not possible when these players show up alone at tournaments. They’re forever fighting just to get to Olympic Games, forget about competing for anything at them.”

Russia, Czech Republic, Finland and Sweden, who Team Europe knocked out with a shock overtime semi-final win, have all gone home leaving Krueger’s crew from Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Slovakia, Austria and France playing for a trophy they would never normally get close to hoisting.

Team Europe, created solely for the 2016 World Cup in a bid to avoid lopsided results that would likely have occurred had the next best European team been included, have defied the odds.

But while more competitive games were expected as a result of the new format few outside Team Europe’s locker room dared to dream they could reach the final.

“And off we go to finals, who would have thought? Us. Just us.

Literally just us,” Team Europe’s German defenseman Christian Ehrhoff said on Twitter.

In fact, Team Europe may be a one-and-done outfit with the NHL and NHL Players’ Association, who jointly operate the World Cup, considering a return to more traditional format of eight countries at the next tournament in 2020.

“Because we have no past and we have no future, we are really capable of being in the now,” said Krueger. “It’s the opportunity in this that we’ve tapped into.”

How much farther that inspiration can carry Team Europe, whose only blemish in four games was a 4-1 preliminary round loss to Canada, could prove difficult against the hosts.

Undefeated Canada, led once again by an inspired Sidney Crosby, has operated with ruthless focus having outscored their opponents 19-6 en route to the final The tournament’s top five scorers all wear the Maple Leaf with Crosby topping the table with seven points on three goals and four assists.

However, Canada coach Mike Babcock, who steered Canada to gold medals at the Vancouver and Sochi Olympics will not be underestimating the Euros. (rtr)

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Team Sweden forward Filip Forsberg (9) wipes his face as he prepares to shake hands with Team Europe players celebrating a 3-2 overtime win during a semifinal game in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey at Air Canada Centre.

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Sp rt Ronaldo and Zidane at peace, but Madrid still not winning

MADRID — Real Madrid solved one of its problems during its trip to Germany in the Champions League: Cristiano Ronaldo made peace with coach Zinedine Zidane. Now it needs to find a way to start winning again.

The 2-2 draw at Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday was the third consecutive for Madrid in all competitions, raising questions about the team’s potential to repeat as Champions League champion, and to end a four-year title drought in

the Spanish league.

“I am frustrated,” Zidane said.

“We played a good game in attack and defense and it was a great effort from everyone. We played the game we wanted. At the end, the same (draw) again, it’s the third

AP Photo/Michael Probst

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates scoring the opening goal with Real Madrid’s head coach Zinedine Zidane during the Champions League group F soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid in Dortmund, Germany, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016.

match. I’m frustrated for the players because it’s undeserved.” Dortmund’s equalizer came in the 87th minute, when Madrid appeared in control.

One of the positives that came out of the result was that Zidane got a much warmer handshake from Ronaldo, who created a bit of turmoil after going on a little rant because of his substitution in the league setback at Las Palmas on Saturday. He didn’t even look at Zidane while reaching for the coach’s extended hand on the sidelines.

After scoring Madrid’s first goal in Dortmund, he immediately pointed to the bench and rushed to celebrate with his teammates. He also exchanged a moment with Zidane, apparently trying to erase doubts about any problems in their relationship.

Ronaldo and his teammates have been struggling to put together the type of top-notch performances that led them to the European final last season, failing to capitalize on scoring opportunities and being unable to put games away.

“We need one more goal. When you are only one goal in front, things like this can happen,” Zidane said. “We are in a slump but we will keep working, and we will change things soon.”

Madrid’s first draw was at home against Villarreal, and then it tied Las Palmas after conceding a late goal. In its Champions League opener against Sporting Lisbon, it was losing until the 89th when it rallied to win.

Madrid remains unbeaten, and is in decent shape both in the Champions League and La Liga, but new setbacks could start putting Zidane’s team in a difficult position in both competitions. Madrid is tied with Dortmund atop Group F with four points from two matches. It leads the league after six games, one point ahead of Barcelona.

Madrid’s next chance to snap its winless streak is on Sunday in La Liga against Eibar at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

“Even though we’ve drawn the last two games in the league, we don’t want to keep playing badly,” Madrid midfielder James Rodrigues said. “On Sunday, we have to go out looking for a win.” All three draws came against teams with yellow uniforms. Eibar’s colors are blue and purple. (ap)

Pjanic and Higuain help Juventus ease to 4-0 win over Dinamo

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Former England soccer team manager Sam Allardyce leaves his home in Bolton, England Wednesday Sept. 28, 2016. Even

by English soccer’s standards, the latest embarrassment is a new low after Sam Allardyce was forced out in disgrace after one game in charge of the national team.

Allardyce decries entrapment as England job ends in disgrace

MANCHESTER — Sam Allardyce flew out of England on Wednesday after expressing regret over “silly” unguarded comments to undercover journalists that cost him the England manager’s job.

While apologizing for his indiscretions, Allardyce complained about “entrapment” by the Daily Telegraph that made his England job untenable after only 67 days and one match in charge.

A covert video showed Allardyce appearing to offer advice to fictitious businessmen on how to sidestep an outlawed player transfer practice and also to negotiate a 400,000-pound ($519,000) public-speaking contract to top up an annual England salary of 3 million pounds ($4 million).

A further video showed Allardyce mocking predecessor Roy Hodgson, who was fired after England’s humiliating loss to tiny Iceland at the European Championship in June, questioning the FA’s financial strategy, and talking dismissively about the organization’s president, Prince William.

The 61-year-old Allardyce was filmed in a London hotel in August and a Manchester restaurant talking to the undercover reporters.

“On reflection it was a silly thing to do, but just to let everyone know I’d sort of helped out what

was somebody I’d known for 30 years,” Allardyce said, referring to football agent Scott McGarvey.

“Unfortunately, it was an error of judgment on my behalf and I’ve paid the consequences.

“Entrapment has won on this occasion and I have to accept that.

The agreement was done very amicably with the FA. I apologize to those and all concerned in this unfortunate situation I’ve put myself in.”

Allardyce never even got a chance to manage England at the national stadium, Wembley, with his only game in charge a World Cup qualifying win in Slovakia earlier this month. Speaking outside his home near the northern English city of Manchester, the former West Ham, Sunderland and Bolton manager said: “I am off abroad, just to chill out and reflect.” England is not rushing to replace Allardyce.

Gareth Southgate, the manager of England Under-21e, will take charge of the senior team’s next four matches — against Malta, Slovenia, Scotland, and Spain — across October and November.

That means there is less urgency for the FA to hire a new manager with the following game not until March 2017 when England hosts Lithuania in its fifth World Cup qualifier. (ap)

ZAGREB — Juventus’ big summer signings proved their worth as Miralem Pjanic and Gonzalo Higuain helped the Italian side to a 4-0 win at Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League on Tuesday. Pjanic scored one and set up another to put Juventus firmly in charge at halftime.

Paulo Dybala and Dani Alves sealed matters after the break.

Juventus moved top of Group H, level on points with Sevilla after the Spanish side beat Lyon 1-0. Dinamo, which lost 3-0 at Lyon in the first round of fixtures, remained bottom.

After a massive outlay in the offseason on new players, a sixth successive Serie A title seemed a foregone conclusion for Juventus, while great things were also expected in the Champions League from the Turin club, which finished runnersup in 2015.

Juventus leads Serie A but it has not all been plain sailing for Massimiliano Allegri’s team, and it drew 0-0 at home to Sevilla in its opening match in Europe’s elite club competition. “We’ve been together for 40 days and we’re working well, but we need a bit of time because there are new players to fit in,” Allegri said.

“The risk this year is that we break with tradition: there could be the illusion that, having signed great

players, we can easily win all the matches. Instead, we have to keep our usual attitude. Keeping our feet on the ground is the most important thing, not losing sight of our aims and working hard.”

Juventus is already without several key players because of long-term injuries and there were fears another would be added to the list when Pjanic, who had to receive treatment following an early challenge, was substituted at halftime.

But the Bosnia and Herzegovina midfielder, who signed for 32 million euros ($36 million) from Roma in the offseason, is confident of recovering in time for the weekend. “Today we were better at finding spaces, we followed Allegri’s instructions and you saw the results,” Pjanic said. “I took a knock on the calf, but I hope to recover as soon as possible and be on the pitch at Empoli.”

Juventus dominated from the start and broke the deadlock in the 24th minute after Dinamo defenders Gordon Schildenfeld and Leonardo Sigali got in each other’s way. Sigali attempted to head Leonardo Bonucci’s ball back to his goalkeeper, Pjanic nipped in behind and slotted the ball into the bottom right corner.

Schildenfeld almost immediately atoned for his error with Dinamo’s best chance of the match but headed

Domagoj Antolic’s free kick onto the crossbar with Gianluigi Buffon beaten. Pjanic helped Juventus double its lead in the 31st with a stunning pass for Higuain to chest down and volley into the bottom far corner.

Higuain transferred from rival Napoli for 90 million euros ($99 million) after scoring 36 goals last campaign to break a 66-year-old Serie A record.

Dinamo was offering little resistance and Dybala extended Juve’s lead with a stunning strike, sending the ball swerving into the top near corner from more than 30 yards (meters). Dani Alves, who was also signed in the offseason, had done little of note all match but he got on the scoresheet five minutes from time with a deflected free kick.

Dinamo goalkeeper Adrian Semper was wrongfooted by the deflection and although the 18-year-old managed to get a hand to the ball, he couldn’t keep it out.

The only moment for Dinamo fans to cheer was when former player Marko Pjaca, who scored 12 goals for the Croatian side last season, came on as a substitute in the 68th minute for Juventus. Pjaca, who is yet to score for Juventus, also helped Dinamo reach the group stage with two goals in a preliminary round match against FK Vardar. (ap)

AP Photo/Darko Bandic

Juventus’s Gonzalo Higuain celebrates after team mate Miralem Pjanic scored his side’s first goal during the Champions League Group H soccer match between Dinamo Zagreb and Juventus, at Maksimir stadium in Zagreb, Croatia, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016.

Slimani torments Porto again, Leicester wins 1-0

LEICESTER — Islam Slimani kept up his hot streak against Porto by scoring Leicester’s first-half goal in a 1-0 victory in the Champions League on Tuesday, maintaining the English champions’ 100 percent start to Group G. The Algeria striker headed home from close range off a pinpoint cross by international teammate Riyad Mahrez in the 25th minute. It was Slimani’s sixth goal in four games against Porto in 2016, with the other five coming for Sporting Lisbon in Portuguese soccer before his offseason move to Leicester.

Leicester opened group play with a 3-0 win at Club Brugge and is in good shape to advance to the knockout stage in its first-ever season in the Champions League. “I am superstitious,” said Ranieri, refusing to look too far ahead.

“We have to stay calm.”

Porto couldn’t translate secondhalf dominance to goals at King Power stadium, with Jesus Corona smashing a volley against the post in the 83rd minute. The two-time European champions have one point

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from two games, and their winless run in games away to English opponents stretched to 17 games.

Slimani picked up the nickname the “Dragon Slayer” at Sporting because of his penchant for scoring against Porto, which is sometimes referred to as the Dragons. On his final appearance for Sporting before joining Leicester for a club-record fee $33.5 million in August, he scored in a 2-1 win over Porto.

He was at it again here — and he could hardly miss from Mahrez’s inswinging cross from the right. The move started with Marc Albrighton switching play with a brilliant long pass to Mahrez, and ended with Slimani outmuscling his marker to head in from the edge of the six-yard box.

Slimani has now scored three goals in four games for Leicester. “I was very confident with Slimani, because he often scored against Porto when he was a Sporting player,” Ranieri said.

“I spoke with Riyad and Islam and said, ‘Come on guys, let’s make something special tonight.’ They made the pass and goal.” (ap)

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Sp rt Ronaldo and Zidane at peace, but Madrid still not winning

MADRID — Real Madrid solved one of its problems during its trip to Germany in the Champions League: Cristiano Ronaldo made peace with coach Zinedine Zidane. Now it needs to find a way to start winning again.

The 2-2 draw at Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday was the third consecutive for Madrid in all competitions, raising questions about the team’s potential to repeat as Champions League champion, and to end a four-year title drought in

the Spanish league.

“I am frustrated,” Zidane said.

“We played a good game in attack and defense and it was a great effort from everyone. We played the game we wanted. At the end, the same (draw) again, it’s the third

AP Photo/Michael Probst

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates scoring the opening goal with Real Madrid’s head coach Zinedine Zidane during the Champions League group F soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid in Dortmund, Germany, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016.

match. I’m frustrated for the players because it’s undeserved.” Dortmund’s equalizer came in the 87th minute, when Madrid appeared in control.

One of the positives that came out of the result was that Zidane got a much warmer handshake from Ronaldo, who created a bit of turmoil after going on a little rant because of his substitution in the league setback at Las Palmas on Saturday. He didn’t even look at Zidane while reaching for the coach’s extended hand on the sidelines.

After scoring Madrid’s first goal in Dortmund, he immediately pointed to the bench and rushed to celebrate with his teammates. He also exchanged a moment with Zidane, apparently trying to erase doubts about any problems in their relationship.

Ronaldo and his teammates have been struggling to put together the type of top-notch performances that led them to the European final last season, failing to capitalize on scoring opportunities and being unable to put games away.

“We need one more goal. When you are only one goal in front, things like this can happen,” Zidane said. “We are in a slump but we will keep working, and we will change things soon.”

Madrid’s first draw was at home against Villarreal, and then it tied Las Palmas after conceding a late goal. In its Champions League opener against Sporting Lisbon, it was losing until the 89th when it rallied to win.

Madrid remains unbeaten, and is in decent shape both in the Champions League and La Liga, but new setbacks could start putting Zidane’s team in a difficult position in both competitions. Madrid is tied with Dortmund atop Group F with four points from two matches. It leads the league after six games, one point ahead of Barcelona.

Madrid’s next chance to snap its winless streak is on Sunday in La Liga against Eibar at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

“Even though we’ve drawn the last two games in the league, we don’t want to keep playing badly,” Madrid midfielder James Rodrigues said. “On Sunday, we have to go out looking for a win.” All three draws came against teams with yellow uniforms. Eibar’s colors are blue and purple. (ap)

Pjanic and Higuain help Juventus ease to 4-0 win over Dinamo

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Former England soccer team manager Sam Allardyce leaves his home in Bolton, England Wednesday Sept. 28, 2016. Even

by English soccer’s standards, the latest embarrassment is a new low after Sam Allardyce was forced out in disgrace after one game in charge of the national team.

Allardyce decries entrapment as England job ends in disgrace

MANCHESTER — Sam Allardyce flew out of England on Wednesday after expressing regret over “silly” unguarded comments to undercover journalists that cost him the England manager’s job.

While apologizing for his indiscretions, Allardyce complained about “entrapment” by the Daily Telegraph that made his England job untenable after only 67 days and one match in charge.

A covert video showed Allardyce appearing to offer advice to fictitious businessmen on how to sidestep an outlawed player transfer practice and also to negotiate a 400,000-pound ($519,000) public-speaking contract to top up an annual England salary of 3 million pounds ($4 million).

A further video showed Allardyce mocking predecessor Roy Hodgson, who was fired after England’s humiliating loss to tiny Iceland at the European Championship in June, questioning the FA’s financial strategy, and talking dismissively about the organization’s president, Prince William.

The 61-year-old Allardyce was filmed in a London hotel in August and a Manchester restaurant talking to the undercover reporters.

“On reflection it was a silly thing to do, but just to let everyone know I’d sort of helped out what

was somebody I’d known for 30 years,” Allardyce said, referring to football agent Scott McGarvey.

“Unfortunately, it was an error of judgment on my behalf and I’ve paid the consequences.

“Entrapment has won on this occasion and I have to accept that.

The agreement was done very amicably with the FA. I apologize to those and all concerned in this unfortunate situation I’ve put myself in.”

Allardyce never even got a chance to manage England at the national stadium, Wembley, with his only game in charge a World Cup qualifying win in Slovakia earlier this month. Speaking outside his home near the northern English city of Manchester, the former West Ham, Sunderland and Bolton manager said: “I am off abroad, just to chill out and reflect.” England is not rushing to replace Allardyce.

Gareth Southgate, the manager of England Under-21e, will take charge of the senior team’s next four matches — against Malta, Slovenia, Scotland, and Spain — across October and November.

That means there is less urgency for the FA to hire a new manager with the following game not until March 2017 when England hosts Lithuania in its fifth World Cup qualifier. (ap)

ZAGREB — Juventus’ big summer signings proved their worth as Miralem Pjanic and Gonzalo Higuain helped the Italian side to a 4-0 win at Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League on Tuesday. Pjanic scored one and set up another to put Juventus firmly in charge at halftime.

Paulo Dybala and Dani Alves sealed matters after the break.

Juventus moved top of Group H, level on points with Sevilla after the Spanish side beat Lyon 1-0. Dinamo, which lost 3-0 at Lyon in the first round of fixtures, remained bottom.

After a massive outlay in the offseason on new players, a sixth successive Serie A title seemed a foregone conclusion for Juventus, while great things were also expected in the Champions League from the Turin club, which finished runnersup in 2015.

Juventus leads Serie A but it has not all been plain sailing for Massimiliano Allegri’s team, and it drew 0-0 at home to Sevilla in its opening match in Europe’s elite club competition. “We’ve been together for 40 days and we’re working well, but we need a bit of time because there are new players to fit in,” Allegri said.

“The risk this year is that we break with tradition: there could be the illusion that, having signed great

players, we can easily win all the matches. Instead, we have to keep our usual attitude. Keeping our feet on the ground is the most important thing, not losing sight of our aims and working hard.”

Juventus is already without several key players because of long-term injuries and there were fears another would be added to the list when Pjanic, who had to receive treatment following an early challenge, was substituted at halftime.

But the Bosnia and Herzegovina midfielder, who signed for 32 million euros ($36 million) from Roma in the offseason, is confident of recovering in time for the weekend. “Today we were better at finding spaces, we followed Allegri’s instructions and you saw the results,” Pjanic said. “I took a knock on the calf, but I hope to recover as soon as possible and be on the pitch at Empoli.”

Juventus dominated from the start and broke the deadlock in the 24th minute after Dinamo defenders Gordon Schildenfeld and Leonardo Sigali got in each other’s way. Sigali attempted to head Leonardo Bonucci’s ball back to his goalkeeper, Pjanic nipped in behind and slotted the ball into the bottom right corner.

Schildenfeld almost immediately atoned for his error with Dinamo’s best chance of the match but headed

Domagoj Antolic’s free kick onto the crossbar with Gianluigi Buffon beaten. Pjanic helped Juventus double its lead in the 31st with a stunning pass for Higuain to chest down and volley into the bottom far corner.

Higuain transferred from rival Napoli for 90 million euros ($99 million) after scoring 36 goals last campaign to break a 66-year-old Serie A record.

Dinamo was offering little resistance and Dybala extended Juve’s lead with a stunning strike, sending the ball swerving into the top near corner from more than 30 yards (meters). Dani Alves, who was also signed in the offseason, had done little of note all match but he got on the scoresheet five minutes from time with a deflected free kick.

Dinamo goalkeeper Adrian Semper was wrongfooted by the deflection and although the 18-year-old managed to get a hand to the ball, he couldn’t keep it out.

The only moment for Dinamo fans to cheer was when former player Marko Pjaca, who scored 12 goals for the Croatian side last season, came on as a substitute in the 68th minute for Juventus. Pjaca, who is yet to score for Juventus, also helped Dinamo reach the group stage with two goals in a preliminary round match against FK Vardar. (ap)

AP Photo/Darko Bandic

Juventus’s Gonzalo Higuain celebrates after team mate Miralem Pjanic scored his side’s first goal during the Champions League Group H soccer match between Dinamo Zagreb and Juventus, at Maksimir stadium in Zagreb, Croatia, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016.

Slimani torments Porto again, Leicester wins 1-0

LEICESTER — Islam Slimani kept up his hot streak against Porto by scoring Leicester’s first-half goal in a 1-0 victory in the Champions League on Tuesday, maintaining the English champions’ 100 percent start to Group G. The Algeria striker headed home from close range off a pinpoint cross by international teammate Riyad Mahrez in the 25th minute. It was Slimani’s sixth goal in four games against Porto in 2016, with the other five coming for Sporting Lisbon in Portuguese soccer before his offseason move to Leicester.

Leicester opened group play with a 3-0 win at Club Brugge and is in good shape to advance to the knockout stage in its first-ever season in the Champions League. “I am superstitious,” said Ranieri, refusing to look too far ahead.

“We have to stay calm.”

Porto couldn’t translate secondhalf dominance to goals at King Power stadium, with Jesus Corona smashing a volley against the post in the 83rd minute. The two-time European champions have one point

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from two games, and their winless run in games away to English opponents stretched to 17 games.

Slimani picked up the nickname the “Dragon Slayer” at Sporting because of his penchant for scoring against Porto, which is sometimes referred to as the Dragons. On his final appearance for Sporting before joining Leicester for a club-record fee $33.5 million in August, he scored in a 2-1 win over Porto.

He was at it again here — and he could hardly miss from Mahrez’s inswinging cross from the right. The move started with Marc Albrighton switching play with a brilliant long pass to Mahrez, and ended with Slimani outmuscling his marker to head in from the edge of the six-yard box.

Slimani has now scored three goals in four games for Leicester. “I was very confident with Slimani, because he often scored against Porto when he was a Sporting player,” Ranieri said.

“I spoke with Riyad and Islam and said, ‘Come on guys, let’s make something special tonight.’ They made the pass and goal.” (ap)

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Upstart Team Europe to face Canada in World Cup final

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Europe team captain Darren Clarke addresses the media during the captains press conference ahead of the 41st Ryder Cup at Hazeltine National Golf Club.

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“From a European perspective it is always good to have one of our members win the week before the Ryder Cup,” a hay-fever stricken Clarke told a news conference after arriving at Hazeltine National.

“With the guys that were travelling here today on the plane, we were all there last night with all our caddies in the bar in the hotel watching it on the big screen. Everyone was delighted and excited.

“Rory is a wonderful young man and an unbelievable golfer so he’s a

hugely inspirational figure for our team and I feel very lucky he’s on our European side.”

McIlroy vaulted into the playoff with a barnstorming finish to his final round, holing out from 140 yards to eagle the same 16th hole where he would clinch the win 90 minutes later.

“To see Rory showing that fighting spirit and battling the way he did was wonderful,” said Clarke as he constantly dabbed away at his nose with a handkerchief. “Rory is a very, very talented young man.

“He has played very well all year. He wasn’t knocking the putts in before but he has done a little these past few weeks.”

The 27-year-old Northern Irishman stormed home in 30 strokes to

catch, and eventually overtake, the leaders on Sunday.

“To shoot what he did on the back nine ... I think that was very impressive,” said Clarke.

“Ryan Moore was very strong yesterday. Rory hung in there, gave himself some opportunities ... and then made birdie on the last playoff hole.”

Clarke was also having to hang in there at his joint news conference with United States captain Davis Love III on Monday.

“I’ve come off the plane with a really bad case of hay fever,” said the Northern Irishman who has been plotting his Ryder Cup campaign for months.

“My nose is dribbling and running (but) it was a good trip. I managed to get six hours’ sleep which is probably the most I’ve had in two months.”

The Ryder Cup starts on Friday. (rtr)

TORONTO - Hosts Canada, the two-time reigning Olympic champions who are deep in both tradition and talent, were always expected to reach this week’s World Cup of Hockey final.

Their opponent, Team Europe, a gimmicky squad of players from smaller European hockey playing nations, were not even expected to advance beyond the preliminary round.

What it means is a confounding but intriguing best-of-three final starting on Tuesday with hot favourites Canada taking on the longest of tournament longshots.

At one end of the ice will stand Canada, the Goliath of the hockey world, while a group of Davids without a country, flag or anthem and whose coach’s day job is chairman of Premiership club Southampton FC will stand at the other.

“Well, personally, first and foremost, just so pleased that these peripheral countries in the world of hockey have had an opportunity to compete with the best in the world for the first time in their life and to truly believe in being competitive,” said Team Europe coach Ralph Krueger.

“That’s not possible when these players show up alone at tournaments. They’re forever fighting just to get to Olympic Games, forget about competing for anything at them.”

Russia, Czech Republic, Finland and Sweden, who Team Europe knocked out with a shock overtime semi-final win, have all gone home leaving Krueger’s crew from Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Slovakia, Austria and France playing for a trophy they would never normally get close to hoisting.

Team Europe, created solely for the 2016 World Cup in a bid to avoid lopsided results that would likely have occurred had the next best European team been included, have defied the odds.

But while more competitive games were expected as a result of the new format few outside Team Europe’s locker room dared to dream they could reach the final.

“And off we go to finals, who would have thought? Us. Just us.

Literally just us,” Team Europe’s German defenseman Christian Ehrhoff said on Twitter.

In fact, Team Europe may be a one-and-done outfit with the NHL and NHL Players’ Association, who jointly operate the World Cup, considering a return to more traditional format of eight countries at the next tournament in 2020.

“Because we have no past and we have no future, we are really capable of being in the now,” said Krueger. “It’s the opportunity in this that we’ve tapped into.”

How much farther that inspiration can carry Team Europe, whose only blemish in four games was a 4-1 preliminary round loss to Canada, could prove difficult against the hosts.

Undefeated Canada, led once again by an inspired Sidney Crosby, has operated with ruthless focus having outscored their opponents 19-6 en route to the final The tournament’s top five scorers all wear the Maple Leaf with Crosby topping the table with seven points on three goals and four assists.

However, Canada coach Mike Babcock, who steered Canada to gold medals at the Vancouver and Sochi Olympics will not be underestimating the Euros. (rtr)

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Team Sweden forward Filip Forsberg (9) wipes his face as he prepares to shake hands with Team Europe players celebrating a 3-2 overtime win during a semifinal game in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey at Air Canada Centre.

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U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter testifies before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on National Security Challenges and Ongoing Military Operations on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 22, 2016.

Cost of modernizing U.S. nuclear weapons to fall to next president

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE - In this flat, windy expanse just south of the Canadian border, U.S. Air Force pilots fly the same bombers their grandfathers flew, using mid-20th century cables and pulleys.

Each spring, the airmen and airwomen must clear melting snow from the steel and concrete doors of the silos that house 150 nucleartipped ballistic missiles scattered across thousands of square miles of the upper Great Plains.

The U.S. nuclear arsenal, patched, welded, and re-skinned countless times, was built between 25 and 62 years ago when the United States found itself locked in an arms race with a rival superpower, the Soviet Union. Now, its future is an issue in the campaign for the Nov. 8 presidential election.

Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has said she would call for a nuclear posture review, last completed in 2010, as one of her first acts upon taking office. Re-

publican candidate Donald Trump has said he would be open to reversing decades of U.S. policy and allowing allies such as Japan and South Korea to acquire their own nuclear weapons to deter a strike from North Korea, which carried out its fifth and largest nuclear test this month.

On Monday, in his first visit to Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota as U.S. Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter said America’s nuclear deterrence was the “bedrock” of its security, and the Pentagon’s No. 1 priority.

“If we don’t replace these systems, quite simply they will age even more, and become unsafe, unreliable, and ineffective,” Carter said, speaking at a lectern in front of a B-52 bomber loaded with

cruise missiles.

“The fact is, most of our nuclear weapon delivery systems have already been extended decades beyond their original expected service lives. So it’s not a choice between replacing these platforms or keeping them - it’s really a choice between replacing them or losing them,” Carter said.

Russia, he said, had built new nuclear weapons systems, raising questions as to whether its leaders were cautious enough when it came to atomic weapons. And North Korea presents a sustained threat, Carter said.

Carter’s speech coincides with a growing realization among defense officials and experts that budget constraints almost certainly will force the next president to decide whether and how quickly to proceed with the Obama administration’s plans to maintain and modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal. (rtr)

Stability...

of public security system held by the customary village in Bali,” he said.

Bali Police having made cooperation with the PHRI since 2004 continues to coordinate and create the standard of verification for security management system for tourist accommodation business.

The SMPH verification aims to prevent and reduce losses due to threat,

disruption or disaster of a hotel as well as realize convenience, security and safety of hotel.

The SMPH verification is performed to determine whether this system has been implemented, to assess whether the security facilities and infrastructure have met the standards in terms of quality and quantity as well as to prepare the SMPH audit. (dir)

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U.S. crime rises in 2015, still far below peak levels -FBI

WASHINGTON - Violent crime in the United States increased in 2015 but remained far below peak levels of the 1990s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Monday as presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump prepared for a debate that is likely to focus on public safety.

While murder, rape and assault remained far below the peak levels of the 1990s, last year’s increase in the violent crime rate could provide fodder for Trump, a Republican who has portrayed himself as a “law and order” candidate willing to support aggressive policing tactics. Clinton, a Democrat, has said many of his crime-fighting proposals amount to unconstitutional attacks on American freedoms.

The FBI report could “be turned into political football,” said Harvard Law School research fellow Robert Smith.

At 372.6 incidents per 100,000 people, the 2015 violent-crime rate is higher than the 2014 rate of 361.6 but still well below the 1996 level of 636.6. The increase was most pronounced in big cities, the report found.

On the campaign trail, Trump frequently points to rising crime rates as a reason to support “stopand-frisk” tactics and other police methods that critics say unfairly target minorities.

Clinton has pushed for stricter gun control to help curb violence and has called for national guidelines on the use of force by police officers.

In 2015, there were an estimated 15,696 murders in the United

States, compared with an estimated 14,164 the prior year, according to the report. Last year’s crime rate was still lower than in 2012 and earlier years, the FBI found.

Crime was highest in the southern United States, the report found.

At 45.9 per 100,000 people, the murder and manslaughter rate in the region was more than twice as high as in the West, the Midwest and the Northeast, according to the FBI. Rates of rape, assault and property crime were dramatically higher as well.

FBI Director James Comey warned last year that violent crime in the United States might rise because increased scrutiny of policing tactics had created a “chill wind” that discouraged officers from using aggressive tactics.

The rise in crime has been concentrated in big cities’ segregated and impoverished neighborhoods.

Experts said crime there can best be fought through better community policing and alternatives to incarceration for nonviolent crime.

“We’re just beginning to see a shift in mentality in law enforcement from a warrior mentality... to a guardian mentality,” Carter Stewart, a former prosecutor for the Southern District of Ohio, said on the teleconference. “I don’t want us as a country to go backwards.”

In Chicago, 54 more people were murdered in 2015 than in the previous year, a 13 percent jump in the city’s murder rate, according to an April study by New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice. (rtr)

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Suspect Arcan Cetin arrives in court escorted by a bailiff for his arraignment on murder charges in the killing of five people, in Mt. Vernon, Washington, U.S., September 26, 2016.

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BUSINESS

GENEVA - The World Trade Organization cut its forecast for global trade growth this year by more than a third on Tuesday, reflecting a slowdown in China and falling levels of imports into the United States.

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PURWOKERTO - Indonesian Military (TNI) Chief Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo has reiterated that the Natuna Islands rightfully belong to Indonesia.

“The Indonesian territory cannot be negotiated. (It is either the) Unitary State or death,” Gatot Nurmantyo declared here on Monday.

He said the military will build several military bases in the Natuna Islands to safeguard the countrys sovereignty.

“We are building military bases in the Natuna Islands,” he emphasized, adding that these bases would be ready in three years time.

The outermost islands of the Natuna archipelago were made the baseline of the Indonesian territory as stipulated in the 1957 Juanda Declaration.

Moreover, in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) 1982, the baseline was registered with the UN in 2009.

Commission I Chairman Mahfud Siddiq had earlier said a military base on the island of Natuna was of key importance as part of the defense system in the central region of the country, which shares

its maritime borders with several nations.

“Developing a military base on Natuna Island is important for the defense system in the central region of Indonesia, which shares its borders with many countries in the South China Sea,” Siddiq stated.

Siddiq noted that such a base in Natuna will reinforce Indonesia’s existing regional defense system in the eastern and western parts of the country. This will help improve the military’s mobility.

The lawmaker remarked that the plan to develop a military base in Natuna has been around since 2015.

“Commission I had once discussed the plan, including its budget,” Siddiq pointed out.

This is a strategic defense development plan as Natuna lies in the frontier region of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. It is close to the area in South China Sea where several countries have overlapping claims.

Siddiq, a politician of the Prosperous Justice Party, affirmed that the government will require some Rp1.3 trillion worth of funds to develop a military base on the island.

An earlier estimate had pegged it at Rp400 billion. (ant)

Indonesia highly potential to develop digital economy: Jokowi

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said Indonesia is highly potential to develop digital economy that the country should not be lagging behind in its development.

Container boxes are seen at the Yangshan Deep Water Port, part of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, in Shanghai, China September 24, 2016. Picture taken September 24, 2016.

“I am absolutely convinced that this is not a moment to turn inward,” Azevedo told a WTO conference.

The benefits of trade should be shared more widely, he said, with a system that does

more to include poor countries, small firms, marginalised groups and entrepreneurs - an apparent nod to anti-globalisation activists who say that secretive trade talks are exclusively aimed at helping big business.

will deal with the fallout from talks that may deprive Britain of its membership of the single market as the quid pro quo for imposing controls on immigration.

Comments from some of the ministers responsible for steering Brexit have raised expectations of that more disruptive scenario in the last 10 days, knocking sterling back below $1.30 and to a six-week low of 87 pence per euro on Monday.

The pound was pinned around those levels on Tuesday, trading at $1.2985 and just 0.4 percent stronger on the day against the euro at 86.36 pence.

“If you take (Prime Minister)

Theresa May at her words, we will go for a hard Brexit and that is clearly a worry,” said Neil Mellor, a strategist with Bank of New York Mellon.

“It’s about the huge amount of activity that the UK would be precluded from doing. Clearing (of euro trades) is one issue and there are a lot of activities that relate to that.

“Given how important the City is to the UK in terms of growth ... it is a negative.”

Forecasts for the pound after the vote were almost universally bleak. A number of major banks predicted a fall to around $1.20,

Azevedo said four out of five job losses in industrialised countries were not due to competition from cheap imports but to automation and efficiency campaigns that allowed firms to cut their workforce. (rtr)

levels not seen since the Plaza Accord’s move to weaken the dollar in the mid-1980s.

But the pound has so far held up better than that, bottoming out in early July at $1.2798, still a 31-year low but a long way short of many forecasts.

Analysts and traders have argued since about the reasons for the halt. Many point to record-high market positioning against the pound that means there is limited space in the trading books run by banks and speculative investors to bet further against the British currency. Those bets were trimmed in the last month.

Others, including custodial bank State Street, have pointed to hedging against the pound done by the big long-term fund investors in the days after the vote, which investors have been steadily closing out -- in sterling’s favour -- since.

“Investors (at the time) bought gilts, bought UK stocks and hedged the currency,” said Michael Metcalfe, the bank’s global head of macro strategy.

“The question is how long they hold onto that position. It would benefit sterling if they decided to cash in, but there does seem to be the view that it will fall further.” (rtr)

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The outermost islands of the Natuna archipelago were made the baseline of the Indonesian territory as stipulated in the 1957 Juanda Declaration.

“Hard Brexit” worries pin sterling near six-week lows

LONDON - Three months after Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, fears in currency markets of a “hard Brexit” that would drive an exodus of banks from London have knocked sterling to within sight of its weakest levels in decades.

It has been a rollercoaster ride for investors and companies worried by or speculating on the value of the pound. It slumped by more than 20 U.S. cents in the days following the shock result of the June 23 vote but had recovered around a third of that by early this month.

That broadly reflects shifts in expectations of how the economy

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Natuna Islands rightfully belong to Indonesia: TNI chief

WTO cuts 2016 world trade growth forecast to 1.7 pct, cites wake-up call

The new figure of 1.7 percent, down from the WTO’s previous estimate of 2.8 percent in April, marked the first time in 15 years that international commerce was expected to lag the growth of the world economy, the trade body said.

The figures should be a wake-up call for governments, WTO Director-General Roberto Azevedo said in the six-monthly trade outlook report.

“We need to make sure that this does not translate into misguided policies that could make the situation much worse, not only from the perspective of trade but also for job creation and economic growth and development which are so closely linked to an open trading system,” the report quoted him as saying.

The data underlined concerns that, after a long period of growth through globalisation and reliance on global trade, governments are increasingly seeking to protect their own industries and promote domestic producers at the expense of foreign competitors.

Although all governments deny protectionism, trade is no longer outpacing economic growth as it used to. Trade has grown 1.5 times faster than gross domestic product over the long term, and twice as fast when globalisation picked up in the 1990s.

This year trade will grow only 80 percent as fast as the global economy, the WTO said, the first reversal of globalisation since 2001 and only the second since 1982.

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President Joko Widodo

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“I see we have big potentials to develop digital economy and the market of digital economy is potential with a population of 250 million of which 94.3 million are internet service users,” Jokowi said when presiding over a limited cabinet meeting on digital economy here on Tuesday.

Jokowi said when attending the G20 Summit in China, big nations began to speak loudly about new industrial revolution based on digital economy.

Almost all nations taking part in the summit meeting spoke about digital economy, he said, adding, “We must not be left behind. We must play a role in the process.”

The president said he had information that in 2014, sales through e-commerce in Indonesia reached US$2.6 billion with penetration of only 6 percent of the total population.

Whereas e-commerce could help 56 million units of small and medium enterprises (UMKM) which contribute around 55 percent to the countrys GDP. “Just compared with in China, where the users of e-commerce already reached 30 percent of the population and contribute 20 percent to its GDP,” the president said.

The president repeated saying the potential market must not be wasted, adding that he was confident Indonesia could be the largest digital economy in Southeast Asia.

“For that purpose I want acceleration of the implementation of digital economy, otherwise, we would be lagging behind other countries,” he said.

As the first step Indonesia should develop world logistic interlink system with existing products in rural areas, he said.

“At the same time we also must make a breakthrough step to strengthen our digital economic players as we see the potentials among our youths in this area,” he said.

The president also said he wants that the new comers in digital economy are facilitated including in capital that they could expand.

“Take large scale deregulation to support development of e-commerce industry,” he said.

He said training is necessary to improve the skills and capacity of new comers or players to be competitive,” he added.

He said a number of Indonesian digital economic players have been bought by foreign companies such as OLX. (rtr)

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Bali News

International

Bali lacks of anti-rabies serum

Children vulnerable to be bitten at risky areas

DENPASAR - Bali was reportedly to lack of anti-rabies serum (SAR) as it only remains 70 ampoules scattered in Badung and Jembrana district. In the meantime, the anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) stock remains is safe level with about 40,000 vials, where 26,000 vials are in the Bali Health Agency.

Division Head of the Disease Control and Environmental Health (P2PL) of the Bali Health Agency, Gede Wira Sunetra, said on Tuesday (Sep. 27) that the agency indeed ran out of anti-rabies serum but the Badung and Jembrana Health Agency still have approximately 70 vials with expiry date up to December 2016. Besides, private hospitals in Denpasar remain to have the stock.

The Head of the Bali Health Agency, Ketut Suarjaya, when asked for his confirmation justified if the anti-rabies serum is empty while the stock of anti-rabies vaccine is enough for this year. “Well, our stock is indeed empty because it is expensive and its expiry date is short,” he said. The price of anti-rabies serum in the market reaches around IDR 12 million per ampoule, while each patient will use around 2-3 ampoules.

Anti-rabies serum is used for the bite victim of rabies carrier animal with the wounds at risky areas such as the shoulder upward, head, ears and the tips of the nail.

In the meantime, the anti-rabies vaccine is intended for the bite victims of rabies carrier animals with the bite wounds other than at such risky areas.

Considering the minimal stock of antirabies serum, it will not be effective when

replaced with the provision of anti-rabies vaccine to prevent rabies virus from spreading to the brain. “They work differently, but in principle they equally prevent rabies virus from reaching the brain. Anti-rabies serum can give better prevention,” he explained.

He continued that bites on the head are indeed risky because they are close to the brain. On that account, the bite victims of rabies carrier animal should use anti-rabies serum to prevent the effects from more

quickly spreading to the brain.

Related to the shortage of the anti-rabies serum stock, the procurement cannot be made this year because the budget has run out for the procurement of anti-rabies vaccine. “Hopefully, we could supply next year,” he said.

The Animal Health Division Head at the Bali Livestock Agency, IKG Nata Kesuma, said that a dog indeed does not always bite in risky areas of the human body because it

Sentenced to 16 years in prison

Foreign pedophilia defendant asks to be freed DENPASAR - Having been delayed to file pleading because the defendant’s legal counsel is not ready and the defendant is sick, the trial of pedophilia case involving Robert Andrew Fiddes Ellis was resumed on Tuesday (Sep. 27). In the trial chaired by Wayan Sukanila, this Australian sentenced to 16 years in prison, through his legal counsel Yanuarius Nahak and Benny Hariyono, in the pleading of the 70-year-old defendant even asked to be freed.

One of the reasons is that the demand of public prosecutor is considered flawed. According to Yanuar, the criminal charge of article 76E in conjunction with article 82, paragraph (1) of the Law No.35/2014 on the amendments to the Law No.23/2002 in conjunction with article 65 paragraph (1) of Criminal Code on child protection is only 15

years. “However, the prosecutor indicted him to 16 years. Then, where is the additional one year obtained from?” asked Yanuar.

Additionally, the defendant’s legal counsel considered the defendant was not proved in the trial. Based on witness’ testimony, the result of medical report and the fact on the trial do not indicate any sign of sexual violence against the victim. On the contrary, said Yanuar, Robert was the victim of child trafficking committed by S and W. On that account, the two women should be arrested and prosecuted. “Robert is a stranger, so that it is impossible for him to find children by himself. Surely there are people bringing the children for him. Thus, the position of Robert is as victim,” he argued.

On that account, he requested that his

client suspected of having committed pedophilia act in Bali should be freed.

“If the judges have different views and opinions, hopefully the punishment can be decided as light as possible,” pleased Robert.

The trial was delayed because the interpreter that must accompany Robert did not come. Public prosecutor Purwanti et al. searched for an impromptu interpreter. She is a prosecutor from the Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office, Ni Luh Oka Ariani.

Earlier, in this case the defendant was sentenced to 16 years in prison for pedophilic case. In addition, the defendant was also fined as much as IDR 2 billion with subsidiary punishment of eight months. The demand is considered to invent by the defendant’s legal counsel team. (kmb37)

does not select the area of bite. “Dog will bite which parts of the body are the closest to be bitten,” he said.

However, children have the risk to be bitten by dogs in the risky areas of the body because the limbs of children are usually aligned with the dog so that they are potentially bitten in the upper parts of the body.

“Commonly children like dogs and do not understand how to avoid the risk,” he said. (kmb42)

Tabuh Rah

Tabuh Rah or blood sprinkle of cockfight using sacrificial animals is carried out in a series of religious ceremonies (yadnya). It also denotes a symbol to neutralize bhuta kala as mentioned in the articles of Hinduism chiefly on Lord Shiva. Not all religious ceremonies are accompanied with cockfight. Only the pecaruan ceremonies are appropriately accompanied with cockfight such as the caru manca kelud, caru rishi gana et cetera. The implementation can be carried out with the perang satha namely cockfight for three rounds. The figure three is selected because it is believed to have magical power and symbolize the beginning, middle and the end. Besides, the blood sprinkle can also be implemented by penyamblehan or slaughtering the animal’s neck with a kris dagger and then the blood is sprinkled.

Cockfight is usually held in the temple outermost courtyard because according to the belief of the Hindus, the location is regarded as the place of the bhuta kala. So, this location is considered appropriate to make the offerings for the beings so as not to disturb people. (kmb)

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Philippines’ Duterte wants to ‘open alliances’ with Russia, China

MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday he would visit Russia and China this year to chart an independent foreign policy and “open alliances” with two powers with historic rivalries with the United States.

Duterte said the Philippines was at the “point of no return” in relations with former colonial ruler the United States, so he wanted to strengthen ties with others, and picked two global powers that have been sparring with Washington on the international political stage.

Last week, he last declared he would visit China, with which ties remain frosty over a South China Sea arbitration ruling won by the Philippines in July. He said Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was expecting him in Moscow.

China claims most of the South China Sea, through which more than $5 trillion of trade moves annually. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam have rival claims.

An arbitration court in The Hague in July invalidated China’s claims to the waterway in a case brought by the Philippines, a ruling Beijing refuses to recognise.

“I am ready to not really break (U.S.) ties but we will open alliances with China and... Medvedev,” Duterte told reporters, adding he would open up the “other side of the ideological barrier”.

He welcomed investment and shrugged off rating agency Standard and Poor’s concerns last week about the Philippine economy on his watch.

“Never mind about the ratings,” he said. “I will open up the Philippines for them to do business, alliances of trade and commerce.”

The peso fell on Monday to its lowest since 2009, and foreign investors have dumped local shares for six straight weeks, worried about Duterte’s anti-U.S. rhetoric and brutal war on drugs, which has alarmed rights groups at home and abroad.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the Philippine government had not contacted the United States about the comments made by Duterte.

U.S. cooperation with the Philippine government remains strong and the United States has not seen anything that would indicate a shift

by Manila, Toner said at a daily news briefing.

“They’re a sovereign nation and we’re certainly not going to hold them back from pursuing closer relations with either of those countries. ...

It’s not a zero-sum game,” he said.

Duterte also said he would open up telecoms and airlines, two domestic sectors long controlled by local players and criticized for being uncompetitive. He did not elaborate.

His vitriol against the United States has become a near-daily occurrence, sparking both amusement and concern. On Monday he ac-

AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File

In this Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016, file photo, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte poses with a fist bump during the anniversary of the 250th Presidential Airlift Wing at the Philippine Air Force headquarters in Pasay city, southeast of Manila, Philippines. cused Washington of “hypocrisy” and “lording it over us”.

His latest swipe included ruling out participation in any maritime conflict initiated by the United States, despite a 1951 treaty which Duterte said required Manila to

back Washington.

“I am about to cross the Rubicon between me and the U.S.,” he said,” without elaborating. “It’s the point of no return.”

Toner said he would dispute Duterte’s premise that the United

States might start a maritime conflict. “The United states has a strong security presence in the Asia-Pacific region, but we’re certainly not looking to start a military action against anyone,” he said. (rtr)

Thailand investigates four cases of suspected Zika-linked microcephaly

BANGKOK - Thailand is investigating four suspected cases of Zika-related microcephaly in three babies and a 36-week old unborn baby, the public health minister said on Tuesday, in what could be the first cases of Zika-linked microcephaly in Southeast Asia.

Several countries in Southeast Asia have reported increasing cases of infection from the mosquito-borne Zika virus but Thailand has one of the highest numbers in the region, with 349 confirmed since January, including 25 pregnant women.

Public Health Minister Piyasakon Sakolsatayadorn said authorities needed to be thorough in their investigation of the cases as confirmation would be “sensitive”.

“The lab results will take at least two days because we have to be thorough with this as REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha it is a big deal and a link hasn’t been detected A city worker fumigates the area to control the spread of mosquitoes at a before,” Piyasakon told Reuters. university in Bangkok, Thailand, September 13, 2016. Picture taken Septem“This is a sensitive matter for Thailand,” he said. ber 13, 2016.

U.S. health officials have concluded that Zika infections in pregnant women can cause microcephaly, a birth defect marked by small head size that can lead to severe developmental problems in babies.

Piyasakon said the three babies were born with small heads and an ultrasound appeared to indicate the unborn baby had a small head.

Of the four mothers, two were diagnosed with Zika when they were pregnant but two were not confirmed to have had Zika, said Apichai Mongkol, director-general of the ministry’s Department of Medical Sciences.

If a Thai case were confirmed, it would be the first in Southeast Asia, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement emailed to Reuters.

The connection between Zika and microcephaly first came to light last year in Brazil, which has confirmed more than 1,600 cases of microcephaly that it considers to be related to Zika infections in the mothers. (rtr)

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Poor exercise habits may follow teens into adulthood

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As many as 80 percent of pregnant women experience nausea, vomiting, or both, Hinkle and colleagues note in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Why morning sickness may be a good thing

FOR women with a history of miscarriage, experiencing nausea and vomiting during subsequent pregnancy attempts is linked to higher odds of success, a U.S. study suggests.

“This study came from the long-standing idea that nausea and vomiting in pregnancy indicated that a woman was still pregnant,” said lead study author Stefanie Hinkle, a scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

As many as 80 percent of pregnant women experience nausea, vomiting, or both, Hinkle and colleagues note in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The current study included about 800 pregnant women with at least one or two prior miscarriages.

All of the women had pregnancies confirmed by lab tests and they were around 29 years old on average at the start of the study.

A typical pregnancy lasts 40 weeks, and women have the highest risk of miscarriage in the first trimester, roughly the first 12 weeks. Odds of a miscarriage are higher for women that are older or have certain medical problems such as diabetes, lupus or thyroid disorders.

For the study, women recorded nausea and vomiting symptoms in

daily diaries from weeks 2 through 8 of their pregnancies. Then, starting with week 12, they reported symptoms in monthly questionnaires.

After two weeks of pregnancy, 18 percent of the women reported nausea without vomiting, while 4 percent said they experienced both symptoms.

By eight weeks of pregnancy, 57 percent experienced nausea alone and 27 percent had a combination of nausea and vomiting.

As women approached the 12week mark, 86 percent reported nausea and 35 percent reported nausea combined with vomiting.

In general, women younger than 25 were more likely to experience nausea and vomiting than the older participants in the study.

Overall, 188 pregnancies (24 percent) ended in another miscarriage.

Nausea and vomiting were associated with a 50 percent to 75 percent lower risk of pregnancy loss, the study found.

“Our findings should be reassuring to women experiencing these symptoms, as the risk for a

pregnancy loss is greatly reduced in women with these symptoms,” Hinkle said by email.

The study doesn’t explain why women who have these symptoms may be more likely to have successful pregnancies, the authors caution.

It’s possible that nausea and vomiting may be the body’s way of getting women to alter their diets during pregnancy, or that a surge in pregnancy hormones triggers these symptoms, the authors suggest.

Limitations of the study include the reliance on women to accurately recall and report symptoms in their diaries, the researchers point out. Researchers also lacked data on the severity of nausea and vomiting.

Still, the findings add to a large body of evidence linking nausea and vomiting to a lower risk of miscarriage, Dr. Siripanth Nippita, a reproductive health researcher at Harvard Medical School in Boston, noted in an accompanying editorial.

Women need to keep in mind that these symptoms don’t protect against miscarriage, and that severe morning sickness can require treatment to minimize the risk of complications during pregnancy, Nippita said by email. (rtr)

MOST American teenagers don’t get enough exercise, and they often stick with their sedentary ways as they enter adulthood, a U.S. study suggests.

More than 9 in 10 adolescents fail to get the minimum 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous daily physical activity recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), researchers report in the journal Pediatrics.

“Physical inactivity is one of the major predictors of childhood and adolescent obesity, the consequences of which increases incidence of obesity as well as metabolic syndrome in adulthood,” said lead study author Kaigang Li, a researcher at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

Childhood obesity has more than doubled in kids and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years, according to the CDC. More than one third of children and teens are currently overweight or obese, putting them at risk for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, bone and joint problems, sleep apnea and psychological issues such as poor self-esteem.

To assess activity levels in teens, Li and colleagues assessed exercise habits among a sample of 561 students in 10th grade at 44 schools representing urban, suburban and rural communities.

At the start of the study, when participants were 16 years old on average, researchers asked them to

wear activity trackers for one week to see how much physical activity they got.

In 10th grade, students got about 27 minutes of exercise each weekday, on average. This inched up to almost 29 minutes in 11th grade, then dipped back down to 28 minutes for both 12th grade and the year after completing high school.

Weekends came out even worse, with participants logging only about 20 minutes in all but one year of the study, when they achieved 21 minutes on average.

High school students who went on to a four-year college got more exercise than their peers who didn’t continue their education, and so did college students living on campus versus those living at home, the study also found.

One limitation of the study is that it wasn’t a nationally representative sample even though researchers selected participants to include a variety of different communities, the authors note. Researchers also didn’t have data on the health impacts of exercise or assess how much additional physical activity some teens might need to achieve health benefits.

Still, the findings highlight the need for parents and school leaders to build more opportunities for exercise into children’s routines, said Dr. Ravi Shah, a researcher at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston who wasn’t involved in the study. (rtr)

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Discourse on Buleleng airport, Regent submits it to Angkasa Pura

SINGARAJA - The emergence of companies considered to be unserious in planning the construction of the international airport at Kubutambahan village, Kubutambahan, makes the Regent of Buleleng Putu Agus Suradnyana (PAS) act proactively. The government decided to hand over the airport development plan to Angkasa Pura. This attitude is showed after several companies proposed the making of the airport development planning. Some of the companies include the Airport Kenesis Consulting (AKC) Canada, PT. Pembangunan Bali Mandiri (PBM) and Pratiba Industries Limited.

Regent Putu Agus Suradnyana said at his office on Tuesday

(Sep. 27) the airport construction in the region remains in the pre-

A plane is preparing to take off in Ngurah Rai Airport.

feasibility study (Pre-FS). Some companies have performed their pre-feasibility study after the central government announced openly to the public both at home and overseas. This measure is done to invite serious companies having the ability to plan, complete the requirements and implement the airport project. However, none of the companies submitting proposal are serious. It is evidenced by the seriousness of the companies in

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Public openness, each village has its own website

Clients work out on machines at the Bally Total Fitness facility in Arvada, Colorado June 15, 2009.

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NEGARA - Each village in Jembrana district will have a village website. All the activities and information of the village will be published on the website.

As the observation, some villages have operated their website and published information about the village.

However, some village websites are still vacant.

The Head of the Jembrana Transportation and Infocom Agency, Gusti Ngurah Putra Riyadi, told reporter that such village website will become a stand-alone website, but will have link to the website of Jembrana district. When they have operated, the village websites will be connected to one of the website links owned by the government of Jembrana as connected to relevant agencies.

However, content of the website will be entirely provided by respective village. This measure poses one of the village’s efforts to provide information openness for the public.

To support the implementation of village website program, the agency does the domain registration. In the meantime, the leading sector will be the empowerment agency and village administration (BPMPD).

Chief of the BPMPD Jembrana, I Nengah Ledang, told reporters that to support the village website, each village allocates the budget of IDR 5 million for the

creation of the website.

Other than the budget, the village will also provide the content of the website. For the operation, a number of village apparatuses have been given training some time ago. Later on, each village will have an operator in charge of publishing the profiles and activities of the village. Hopefully, the information can be accessed by the public. (kmb26)

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resuming their planning. “We do hope all the companies submitting proposal to be serious, but they are unclear so far,” he said.

Seeing this condition, the regent declared that local government is still awaiting the decision of central government. In addition, as the head of local government, he reiterated that the planning of the airport project has been handed over to Angkasa Pura. This happens because Angkasa Pura is a state-owned enterprise (BUMN) specializing in the development of air transport infrastructure. He appealed to all parties, especially the residents of Kubutambahan, to be not easily ingested by unclear issues regarding the airport project.

The regent urged all elements of society in Buleleng to wait for the follow up of central government related to the plan having been included in the national development planning. “Now, we have decided to hand over this airport to Angkasa Pura. Its follow up is delivered to central government because it has been included in the

national development planning,” he explained.

To note, after searching for the follow-up of the airport project in Buleleng, the Buleleng House of Representatives urged the district or provincial government to initiate the project continuation having been awaited by the people of Buleleng. This attitude is important because the previous companies are confident to invest, but they are not appropriate with the reality. Moreover, one of the companies earlier claimed to have proposed the permit of location determination to the Ministry of Transport, but after being searched there was no application for the permit received by the Ministry of Transportation.

The attitude to initiate this project is considered important to assure the public that the government remains committed to implementing the policy in preparing air transportation infrastructure that is also used as a measure of equitable development between the south and north of Bali. (kmb38)

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Ministry of Tourism targets 400 arrivals of cruise ship

Maintain paddy field as asset, It needs regional bylaw on immortal paddy fields

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AMLAPURA - Nearly 92 percent of the Karangasem area belongs to dry land. Only eight percent or less than 7,000 hectares belong to paddy fields. Limited paddy field area yet beautiful must be maintained as an asset to maintain food security, asset of cultural and spiritual tourist attraction as well as natural tourist attraction. This was submitted by a legislator of Karangasem House of Representatives, Gede Dana, in Karangasem few days ago.

According to this member of Commission IV of the Karangasem House of Representatives if the assets in the form of beautiful paddy fields are maintained they will be able to improve public welfare of Karangasem.

Other than sustainable agriculture, maintaining food security either in the form of rice and other crops such as cassava, sweet potatoes or corn has also become an asset of tourist attraction. From the past time, the beautiful terraced paddy fields at Bukit Jambul, Arca and Telaga Waja river bank to Sidemen, Muncan, Selat, Sibetan village, overlay of paddy fields at Tumbu village and on the way to Ujung Water Palace, Tirtagangga, Ababi, Tista and Kangkahang are frequently taken advantage as a stopover by travelers while enjoying beautiful terraced paddy fields. Travelers stop and take pictures there.

“Apart from enjoying the beauty of unspoiled nature, foreign travelers are willing to come repeatedly to Bali and never get bored because they can watch the procession of five kinds

of holy sacrifice made by Balinese people. The assets of tourist attraction, especially in Karangasem, should be maintained so that travelers continue to increase and always keep interested in traveling to Bali. At the same time, the central government will also create 10 New-Bali destinations outside Bali,” he said.

According to him, Karangasem needs to make regional bylaw to protect paddy field areas, so that limited paddy fields in Karangasem can be protected as an immortal paddy field.

Based on the records, the paddy fields in Karangasem have continuously been converted to non-paddy fields since a few years ago. Irrigation channel of paddy fields at villages are dried and then the paddy fields are made into land plots. In some areas near the town of Amlapura, paddy fields are quickly converted to settlements, land plot, government office and sport facilities such as the Gunung Agung Stadium, public field at Padangkerta and highways.

On the other hand, the Head of

the Karangasem Agriculture and Horticulture Agency, Nyoman Mertha Tanaya, said that paddy field conversion to non-agricultural need is not too extensive. He said that in the middle of the land conversion to the building use, there are also new fields created from snakefruit orchards, such as at East Duda village. He said that responding to the increasingly small water flow in the irrigation channel, farmers may not be discouraged and do not need to convert or sell or make their paddy field into land plots.

“Shrinking irrigation water can be got around by technology. For instance, it can be resolved by the making of artesian wells and the water is then taken up by pumping technology,” he affirmed.

On the other hand, when contacted in a separate place, the Head of the Karangasem Development Planning Board (Bappeda), Ketut Sedana Merta, said that it is indeed required a regional bylaw (Perda) to protect the lush and beautiful terraced paddy fields. Moreover, the paddy field area in Karangasem is very limited, but very important. According to him, in order to protect the limited paddy fields, he recognized the need of regional bylaw on immortal paddy fields. Later on, the paddy fields will be classified into some zones and where should be preserved as immortal paddy fields. (013)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Tourism is targeting 400 cruise ship arrivals to Indonesia this year. “The government regulation issued is expected to facilitate the arrival of foreign travelers using cruise ships to enter Indonesia,” said Spokesperson of PT Pelabuhan Indonesia (Pelindo) III Edi Priyanto in a press release received by Bali Post Jakarta, Sunday (Sep. 25).

According to Priyanto, there are two rules providing facilities for travelers making a visit to Indonesia, including the presidential regulation on visa-free entry for 90 countries and convenience of a cruise ship.

Likewise, the Regulation of the Minister of Transportation No. 121/2015 on the Granting of Convenient for Travelers Using Foreign-flagged Cruise Ship where foreign-flagged cruise ships can transport travelers to domestic harbors for tourism needs.

So far, said Priyanto, Benoa Harbor becomes an entrance for foreign travelers spending holidays in Bali by using cruise ships. The harbor becomes a turn-around cruise harbor. In other words, travelers will start their voyage from Bali and then resume it to some other destinations. Benoa Harbor continues to be developed, and Pelindo III has also planned to add to length of pier for cruise ships to moor, so that it can be moored by larger-size cruise ships and with a length of over 300 meters.

The development of cruise terminal is also carried in Lombok.

Terminal operator of Pelindo III has planned the construction of a new harbor for cruise ship in Gilimas.

Planning has been done and licensing has been completed, so the stages of development are just waiting for the issuance of harbor master plan (RIP) of the Ministry of Transportation.

Other than in Bali and Lombok, said Priyanto, Pelindo III also devel-

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ops Boom Marina in Banyuwangi by designing it into an integrated marina area so that it will be more interesting to be visited by foreign travelers. In 2017, the biennial agenda to be followed by dozens of yachts incorporated in the Fremantle Sailing Club of Western Australia has been scheduled to moor at the Boom Marina in Banyuwangi.

Until September 2016, approximately 28 cruise ships have recorded to enter through the Benoa Harbor (Bali) carrying around 38,000 foreign travelers, 14 cruise ships at Lembar Harbor (NTB) carrying about 20,000 travelers and 10 cruise ships at Tanjung Emas Harbor (Semarang) carrying 12,000 travelers. “Pelindo III continues to develop the tourismbased harbor, chiefly those becoming favorite for cruise ship visits because it is a commitment to support the government to develop tourism in Indonesia,” said Priyanto.

Cruise ship visits within the area of Pelindo III until the first half of 2016 totally reached 46 cruise ships weighing 2,721,597 Gross Tonnage (GT), carrying passengers around 55,586 foreign travelers. Based on data, the realization of cruise ship visits in recent years shows positive trend in the harbor working area of Pelindo III. Based on the record, throughout the year 2015 at least 130 cruise ships were recorded to moor at the harbor in the working area of Pelindo III carrying 128,574 foreign travelers with the weight of the vessel reaching 6,798,284 Gross Tonnage (GT).

Priyanto said that the dominance of cruise ship visits still occurs at three harbors having favorite tourism hinterland such as the Benoa Harbor (Bali), Lembar Harbor (NTB), Tanjung Emas Harbor (Semarang), Tanjung Tembaga (Probolinggo) and Tanjung Perak (Surabaya). (010)

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Drake returns to Billboard No.1 for 13th time with ‘Views’

LOS ANGELES - Canadian rapper Drake returned to the top of the Billboard 200 album chart with “Views” on Monday after a seven-week break from the top spot.

“Views” first took the No.1 spot in April and has now topped the Billboard charts for 13 nonconsecutive weeks. About 53,000 units of the album were sold last week, according to Nielsen Soundscan, which tracks sales of music and music video products.

Billboard said “Views” now has the longest non-consecutive run at

No.1 on the album chart since the soundtrack for the animated Disney movie “Frozen” in 2014.

The Billboard 200 album chart tallies units from album sales, song sales (10 songs equal one album) and streaming activity (1,500 streams equal one album).

The enduring popularity of “Views” meant hip hop artist Mac

Miller’s new release, “The Divine Feminine,” had to settle for second spot on the Billboard 200, with 48,000 units sold.

New releases from country singer Aaron Lewis (“Sinner”) and Usher (“Hard II Love”) debuted in the No.4 and No.5 spots respectively.

On the digital songs chart, which measures online single download sales, summer hit “Closer” by American duo The Chainsmokers reigned once again with some 162,000 sales for the week. (rtr)

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Stability and comfort serve as tourism benchmark

CRIMES and social conflicts including political conflicts are serious threat in the management of tourism sector. In building competitiveness of tourism sector, the security would be a fixed price to be realized. For Bali, regional escort and elaboration of security system at tourist attractions including at hotels should be done professionally.

This opinion was expressed by the Head of the Badung Tourism Office, Cokorda Darmawan, in the focus group discussion (FGD) on regional security in managing tourism at Hotel Sovereign, Tuban, recently. To him, safety is a fixed price for the creation of conduciveness for tourism development.

“Therefore, Badung district always supports the government’s efforts to maintain stability and security of the region,” he said.

He explained that Badung has

followed up the Ministerial Regulation No.53 on hotel security management system (SMPH) with the regent regulation requiring tourism employers in Badung to have a SMPH certificate when they will renew their business registration.

Furthermore, Cokorda Darmawan hoped that Bali Police could encourage hoteliers in the district and municipality to participate in implementing the SMPH as carried out in Badung. It is important to be elaborated considering that accom-

modation service business in all regions in Bali have to carry out the mandate of Law No. 10/2009 and Ministerial Regulation No. 53. The security issues in Bali are related to the implementation of the SMPH and cannot only be implemented in Badung.

Made Sujana, Director of the STPI Bali said that SMPH should be audited by an auditor. Originally Bali only had four auditors including him that need to pass the education of auditor for two weeks

in Jakarta. One of the provisions in the Ministerial Regulation No. 53 says that the results of auditor should also be verified, in addition to the obligation to oversee the implementation of this system at least once a year. In the meantime, the audit cost offered at the time was worth over IDR 50 million. It was considered very expensive by hoteliers.

“Since there is a demand of international market for carrying out hotel security system, Bali Police and the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (IHRA) only performs verification. Other than offered at affordable cost, it does not need to be done by certified auditor as it does today,” he explained.

In the meantime, Mangku Made Sulasa Jaya said that the amount of budget required is actually relative. The hotels implementing the security management system as an integrated need with the implementation of the company system that can save company’s money will consider it cheap. It will turn clear, especially if there is a need to obtain a security certificate as a promotional tool of the hotel.

According to him, this system should be completely mastered and implemented. It will be very different from the hoteliers having not regarded the hotel security system as a need for them, but as the needs of government regulation only.

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