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The Oscar-winning actress blasted pay inequality between the sexes in her post for Lenny, a newsletter co-founded by Lena Dunham, but admitted she had failed to tackle the issue out of fear of being labeled “difficult” or “spoiled.”

She said that when she found out from Sony emails leaked last year that she was paid less than her male co-stars in the hit-movie “American Hustle,” she didn’t get mad at Sony but at herself.

“I would be lying if I didn’t say there was an element of wanting to be liked that influenced my decision to close the deal without a real fight,” Lawrence said in her post.

“At the time, that seemed like a fine idea, until I saw the payroll on the Internet and realized every man I was working with definitely didn’t worry about being ‘difficult’ or ‘spoiled.’”

“The Hunger Games” actress added that male col-leagues appeared annoyed when she had recently shared her opinion about sexism in the industry.

“I’m over trying to find the ‘adorable’ way to state my opinion and still be lik-able! Fuck that,” she wrote. “I don’t think I’ve ever worked for a man in charge who spent time contemplating what angle he should use to have his voice heard. It’s just heard.”

She also said she found it offensive that one of the hacked Sony emails had referred to fellow movie star Angelina Jolie as a “spoiled brat.”

“For some reason, I just can’t picture someone saying that about a man,” she wrote.

Lawrence, who won an Oscar for her role in the 2012 comedy “Silver Linings Playbook,” is one of Hollywood’s young-est stars at age 25.

She’s also one of its highest earners, topping Forbes magazine’s 2015 list of best-paid actresses at $52 million dol-lars.

But that’s still nearly $30 million short of the $80 million raked in by Robert Downey Jr., who topped the list for the third consecutive year. (afp)

LOS ANGELES - Pop superstar Taylor Swift on Tuesday led nominations for the American Music Awards, with Canadian singer The Weeknd the favorite among newcomers.

The winners, to be announced at a gala in Los Angeles on No-vember 22, will be determined through voting by fans, unlike the more prestigious Grammy Awards which are based on polling within the music industry.

Swift’s early lead is not surprising as the American Music Awards’ nominations are based on sales and other commercial factors.

Swift, whose “1989” was last year’s top-selling album in the United States and posted the biggest first-week sales in more than a decade, was nominated in six categories including Artist of the Year and Favorite Pop/Rock Album.

The Weeknd and Ed Sheeran, the English singer behind the smash hit ballad “Thinking Out Loud,” follow Swift with five nominations each.

The Weeknd, who rose from obscurity several years ago by posting videos of his singing on YouTube, has enjoyed

a breakthrough success in recent months with his funky pop tune “Can’t Feel My Face.”

The 25-year-old Canadian is nominated in categories including New Artist of the Year, where competitors include the rap sensation Fetty Wap and Tove Lo, a Swedish singer who has recently broken into the US

market.Nicki Minaj, one of the leading women in hip-hop, was

nominated in four categories.Tied with four nods are Meghan Trainor, the “All About That Bass” singer who has challenged traditional no-

tions of slender appearance among women in pop, and Sam Smith, the English soul singer who was the big winner at this year’s Grammys.

Last year’s big winner at the American Music Awards was the British boy band One Direction.

The group is again nominated for Artist of the Year after a tumultuous year in which founding

member Zayn Malik quit. (afp)

Taylor Swift leads American Music

Award nominations

LOS ANGELES - One of Hollywood’s top movie stars Jennifer Lawrence hit out against film industry sexism in a blunt essay Tuesday for an online feminist newsletter.

SINGARAJA - The charm of the natural beauty of Bule-leng is never ending. Creative developments continue to be supported in order to increase the number of tourist visits to North Bali. The development of a new natural tourist destination at Putri Menjangan is on example. In contrast to Menjangan Island, the beauty of Putri (Princess) Menjangan mangrove forests, offers forest exploration in the form of a tour package.

Located at Batu Ampar hamlet, Pejarakan, Gerokgak, Putri Menjan-gan’s nature tourism site is located just north of the Banyumandi Harbor. Lately, the mangrove forest has been transformed and equipped with a bamboo bridge along one kilometer. Visitors start the tour by taking pictures and enjoying approximately 18 types of mangrove found there. Afternnon visitors can also enjoy a beautiful sunset view on the white sandy beaches. Undersea enchantment can be enjoyed by diving and snorkeling around nearby Menjangan Island.

The development of Putri Menjangan into a tourist destination was motivated by the that embarrassment of Menjangan Island tourism stakeholders felt when the price of admission was hiked up to IDR 200,000 from IDR 20,000 by authorities. Two months ago, Putri Men-jangan Conservation Forum. took the initiative of opening a nature tourism site. “Obviously we are still resentful about the increase in the ticket price. The revenue form these tickets goes entirely to the central government, while we get no contribution at all. We are therefore look-ing to take advantage of the natural potential of our village to generate revenue for people here. This destination is known as Putri Menjangan, just like a cranky princess because the central government is not in favor of the public,” said forum member I Nyoman Suntara.

A number of other tourism stakeholders are also participating in pioneering and preserving the mangrove forests, includ-ing I Wayan Sulitra, I Nyoman Sandi and I Nyoman Suntara. Currently, there are at least 140 members in support of the Putri Menjangan Conservation Forum.

RAPID eco-nomic growth and the preva-lence of tour-i s m i n B a l i make for many

opportunities for drug dealers to run

their illicit businesses here. For-

eigner visitors are also vying for a share of the market and are willing to to run th erisk of smuggling drugs onto the island of the Gods.

Lack of adequate security and supervision at the airport means that some some smugglers are successful in bringing in illegal

substances. More vulnerable still are Bali’s coastal areas that are not guarded by security forces. “Most dry dealers in Bali are foreign nationals many of whom have smuggling drugs into the country by seas land or air. The sea in par-ticular makes for an easy escape root,” said Acting Division Head

of Eradication, for the BNNP Bali, Made Pakris.

In addition to unsupervised ports, drug traffickers also target fishermen or cabin crew (ABK) who are manipulated into aid-ing these drug syndicates. “For example, tuna intestines are re-moved and replaced with dugs

such as crystal meth. Until now no one has been checking things to that extent. Likely transactions are made at sea and then the drug filled fish are brought to shore, where they are assumed to be ordinary fish,” he said.

Weak supervision, drug smuggling continues

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The beauty of Putri (Princess) Menjangan mangrove forests, offers forest exploration in the form of a tour package.

Tourism players create Putri Menjangan tourist destination

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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Cer-emony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

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

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beau-tifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

General Manager Joane said that the piodalan is held every year to invoke safety and express gratitude to God Almighty. This activity also fosters togetherness among the hotel employees. Besides, it is also a cultural attraction that visitors very much enjoy. “We also invite our guests to participate” she said.

Chairman of the organizing committee, I Ketut Nik Arta Wiguna, explained that preparations for the piodalan started a month earlier, first with a cleanup, then mebat (preparation of Balinese cooking) making of penjor, decorating padmasana shrines and the holding of pecaruan or animal sacrifice. After that there was the presenting pejati and daksina. “At the peak of this piodalan, we purify the spirit by saying prayers together”

he said.By implementing this piodalan, explained

Nik Arta Wiguna, we invoke safety and se-curity for the workers and all the in-house guests. Similarly, it is also held so that Hotel Neo Kuta Jelantik will be more developed in the future physically (sekala) and psychi-cally (niskala).

Human Resources Coordinator, I Putu Hendra Saputra, said that the piodalan has been held three times after since the hotel was established. The ceremony is also part of the implementation of the Tri Hita Karana concept at the hotel. “Everything can be made due to the cooperation of all the team members consisting of 62 employees, so that we can realize quality service” he said. (kmb)

Piodalan at Temple of Hotel Neo Kuta Jelantik

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KUTA - The staff and employees of the Hotel Neo Kuta Jelantik said prayers together during the piodalan or anniversary of the hotel temple, on Monday (Sep. 28). The ceremony was held on the full moon of the fourth month of the Balinese calendar and took place in togetherness and thankfulness. Hotel staff prepared all the ritual means together such as doing cleanup as well as installing shrine paraphernalia, umbrellas and penjor. The peak of the temple anniversary was not only attended by Hindu employees, but also by employees of other religions in an expression of tolerance.

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A 33 year old man identified as Ram who was arrested by the Denpasar Police Narcotic Unit for suspicion of trafficking these ‘fake-drugs’, reportedly said that he worked as a freelance tour guide and admitted that he deliberately sells these concoctions because there is a high profit margin.

To make fake crystal meth, the suspect said that that he mixes salt and other ingredients, while fake cocaine is made from drugs includ-ing headache medicine.

“I don’t’ have enough money to buy the real drugs because they are very expensive. I sell (coun-terfeit drug—Ed) to foreigners for IDR 200,000 per package,” said Madurese Ram on Tuesday (Oct. 6). He added that he has been dis-tributing such fake illicit goods for a month.

Chief of the Denpasar Police Narcotic Unit, Gede Ganefo, said that the suspect was arrested on Jalan Gunung Welirang, West Denpasar. “The evidence secured consists of three packs of what is suspected of being crystal meth, a package suspected of being cocaine, a bundle of plastic clip,

pipettes and a helmet. We will ex-amine the evidence in the forensic laboratory in order to ascertain where the drugs are fake or if some of them are real,” he said.

Ganefo added that the police were made aware of the case through information provided by the public indicating that crystal meth was being sold in the area of Jalan Gunung Welirang.

A search of the suspect revealed a small package suspected of being crystal meth and another suspected of being cocaine in his wallet. A few other item were also seized as evidence. More incriminating items were found in the suspects room before he was finally arrested.

Two other suspects were also arrested, both of whom worked as hotel employees. Dik was ar-rested on Jalan Raya Sesetan, South Denpasar. while Wir was arrested on Jalan Tukad Barito. Evidecne seized from these two suspects include; five packages of crystal meth, an electric scale, four bundles of plastic clips, two bongs and two scissors. “Both suspects belong to the same syndicate,” he said.

Head of the National Narcot-

ics Agency (BNNP) of Bali, Putu Gede Suastawa, said that he was not surprised to hear that fake drugs were in circulation because he has been hearing about such cases for a while now. “We need to check to be sure that the drugs are fake, possibly the suspect is just using subterfuge to escape criminal charges,” he said.

Suastawa affirmed however that the that circulation of fake drugs makes Bali look bad, especially as foreigners are being targeted for the sale if these substances. “Fake drugs are made by mixing various different ingredients. As a result, the impact of consuming such sub-stances is not clear and could be even worse that the impact of con-

suming the real thing,” he said. On that account, he suggests that

people do not attempt to consume any kind of narcotics. Dealers of fake drugs are trying to take ad-vantage of opportunities in Bali to double their profits. “People need to fortify themselves so as not to be affected by drug syndicates,” pleaded Suastawa. (rah)

Therefore the BNNP Bali is continuing to disseminate infor-mation to coastal residents about the hazards of drugs and how to prevent these substances from becoming a problem. “Security forces cannot guards the entire coast line, so fishermen and other people who live on the coast, are expected to contributing to pro-tecting Bali from the onslaught of drug traffickers,” said Pakris.

As for Ngurah Rai airport, Pakris affirmed that Customs and Excise officers have performed well as evidenced by a number of cases in which they managed to thwart drug smugglers. How-ever, Pakris still hopes that an integrated security team made up of BNNP Bali, Customs and Excise, the Immigration Office,

police, military and airport au-thorities can be established at the airport. “Maybe, this team can be established next year and is sure to yield good results. A lot of drugs were sent by expedi-tion of cargo,” he said.

Head of the Customs and Excise Supervision and Services (KPPBC) of the Ngurah Rai Airport, Budi Harjanto, said that there were less cases of drug smuggling a the airport this year than last year. Since January there were four cases of drug smuggling that were thwarted at the airport, four at the post office and another two at the arrivals terminal. “The death penalty for dug dealing has a positive impact. It is a major factor,” he said.

Although drug smuggling has decreased, said Budi, air-port personnel remain alert. Surveillance and investiga-

tion techniques continue to be improved upon because drug dealers attempt to run drugs into Bali through a variety of ways. “Customs must work to the best of their ability and according to procedure in order not to miss any illicit transactions,” said Budi. (rah)

Customs and Excise Supervision and Services

(KPPBC) of the Ngurah Rai Airport showed drug

smuggler that was thwart-ed at the airport. Lack of

adequate security and supervision at the airport

means that some some smugglers are success-ful in bringing in illegal

substances. More vulner-able still are Bali’s coastal areas that are not guarded

by security forces. IBP/File Photo

‘Fake drugs’ threaten foreigners

IBP/Ngurah Ken

Chief of the Denpasar Police Narcotic Unit, Gede Ganefo showed ‘fake drugs’.

THE CIrCULATION of drugs in Bali is increasingly wor-risome and threatens to have negative impacts on the younger generation. This condition is aggravated by the circulation of “fake-drugs”. Currently, there are traffickers of these ‘fake drug’ roaming around Kuta and certainly target foreign citizens as prospective clientele.

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The study also challenged advice from the UK National Health Ser-vice (NHS) based on other studies stating that “remaining seated for too long is bad for your health, regardless of how much exercise

you do.”Exeter University and University

College London researchers fol-lowed more than 5,000 people over a 16-year period and their findings were published in the International

Journal of Epidemiology.“Any stationary posture where

energy expenditure is low may be detrimental to health, be it sitting or standing,” said Melvyn Hillsdon from Exeter’s sport and health sci-ences department.

“The results cast doubt on the benefits of sit-stand work stations, which employers are increasingly providing to promote healthy work-

ing environments.”The research found there was

no influence on mortality risk for participants from sitting at work, during leisure time or watching television.

The NHS said on its website in advice published last year that there was “increasing evidence” linking excessive sitting with being obese, type 2 diabetes, some types of can-

cer, and premature death.It recommends an active break

from sitting every 30 minutes, cit-ing expert Professor Stuart Biddle saying: “Sitting needs breaking up.”

“Do some tasks standing, like having coffee and chats, or even writing a letter –- Ernest Heming-way wrote his novels standing,” he added. (afp)

Now you see it, now you don’t. A new type of heart stent that works like dissolving stitches, slowly going away after it has done its job, passed its first major test in a large study, doctors said Monday.

Abbott Vascular’s dissolving Absorb stent performed as well as a conventional stent in the one-year study, but the fact it did not prove superior led some experts to be wary.

Still, the results on this and other novel stents currently in testing are fueling hope for a new generation of these devices, used on about 850,000 heart disease patients each year in the United States alone.

Stents are tiny mesh cages that keep blood vessels from reclogging after an artery-opening angioplasty procedure. The ones available now in the U.S. are permanent implants made of metal, usually coated with a material that oozes medicine, but they sometimes cause inflammation and other problems years down the road.

The Absorb stent, already sold in Europe, is made of a degradable material that’s designed to stay intact and release medicine for a year, then break down over the next two years.

“It holds the artery open long enough for the artery to heal,” then completely goes away, said one study leader, Dr. Dean Kereiakes of Christ Heart and Vascular Center in Cincinnati. “It can return the artery to its normal, natural structure and function.”

The study involved about 2,000 patients with chest pain due to one or two clogged arteries, and was aimed at winning Food and Drug Administration approval to sell Absorb in the U.S.

In the study, those treated with the dissolving stent fared as well as those given a conventional Abbott stent called Xience. After one year, 6 percent to 7 percent of both groups had died of a heart-related cause, had a heart attack due to a problem with the treated artery or needed a new artery-opening procedure.

The dissolving stent did not prove better, though, on several mea-sures, and the trends were leaning in the opposite direction, noted Dr. Robert A. Byrne of the Technical University of Munich, who has been a paid speaker for some rival stent and heart device makers.

He wrote a commentary published online with the study by the New England Journal of Medicine. Results also were discussed Monday at a meeting of heart specialists, the TCT conference, in San Francisco. Abbott sponsored and helped designed the study, and several study leaders consult for the company.

The idea of a dissolving stent is attractive, but “promise alone is not enough to make us unconditionally embrace this technology,” Byrne wrote. A longer study underway now of 5,000 patients “will go a long way toward determining whether this promise will become a reality.”

Price could be a factor in how widely dissolving stents catch on. Abbott would not disclose Absorb’s price and said it varies in dozens of countries. Others said dissolving stents cost more than conventional ones. (ap)

PARIS - A simple blood test can reduce unneccessary hospital admissions by pinpointing people seeking medical help for chest pain caused by something other than a heart attack, a study said Thursday.

Researchers said they had identi-fied the optimal level of a protein called troponin in the blood below which a heart attack can be all but ruled out as the cause of chest pain.

In a trial of about 6,300 people who went to the emergency room with chest pain at four hospitals in Scotland and the United States, the test correctly identified about two-thirds of those who were not having a heart attack -- all had a troponin level under five nanogrammes (bil-lionths of a gram) per decilitre (a tenth of a litre).

This meant everyone under this threshold could probably have been

sent home instead of being admitted to hospital, the research team wrote in The Lancet medical journal.

“Implementation of this ap-proach would reduce avoidable hospital admission and have ma-jor benefits for both patients and health-care providers,” the re-searchers wrote.

But they underlined the approach should not be applied without con-sulting a patient’s medical history

and profile.Chest pain is one of the most

common causes of hospitalisation worldwide, with international guide-lines recommending that people who complain of chest pain be admitted for extensive testing. The vast major-ity do not have a heart attack.

“Until now there were no quick ways to rule out heart attack within the emergency department,” lead author Anoop Shah from the Uni-

versity of Edinburgh said in a statement.

In a comment also carried by The Lancet, experts Louise Cullen and William Parsonage from the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in Australia, and Martin Than from Christchurch Hospital in New Zea-land, urged further study before a troponin benchmark is determined for early discharge of people with chest pain. (afp)

Sitting no worse for health than standingLoNDoN - Sitting down is no worse for you than standing

up as long as you take regular exercise, a British study said Monday, casting doubt on the health benefits of sit-stand work stations.

Heart attack test can reduce hospital admission

Weinberg-Clark Photography/Abbott via AP

This undated image provided by Abbott shows their experimental heart stent “Absorb.” Doctors say the new type of heart stent that works like dissolving stitches, slowly going away after it has done its job, passed its first major test in a large study.

Dissolving stent for heart arteries passes first large test

The minister said although they are amateur radio operators, their organi-zation has shown professionalism.

He also expressed the hope that amateur radio broadcasting can im-prove development communication

in Indonesia.Meanwhile, the president of the

16th IARU conference, Sutiyoso, expressed appreciation for the Com-munication and Informatics Ministry and Bali’s provincial government for their cooperation in organizing the IARU conference.

A hundred participants from 20 countries are participating in the IARU conference. (ant)

TABANAN - Tabanan actually has many potential tourist destina-tions. Unfortunately, the damage of infrastructure chiefly road has made the tourism development in the region potentially hampered. One of them is the Kelecung Beach at Tegal Mengkeb, East Selemadeg. Scenery of the beach stays pristine and untouched by human hands. More interestingly, this beach is a strategic location for turtle to nest.

Seeing this potential, the village authorities of Tegal Mengkeb plans to develop Kelecung Beach into a tourist object. “However, the road access to the beach is badly dam-aged so that it is difficult to develop the tourism on Klecung Beach,” said headman of Tegal Mengkeb, I Dewa Made Widarma. Actually in terms of scenery, Kelecung Beach is no less beautiful.

The waves are also challenging to surf. It has a rock named stage rock commonly taken advantage for spiritual activities such as yoga and meditation. Currently Tegal Mengkeb village has developed turtle breeding in a simple method to protect the population of the en-dangered species and makes it into a tourist attraction.

“In the past, turtle eggs were

taken by residents to be fried and consumed. Certainly it is very much deplored. To that end, the village established Pokwasmas in 2008, where the eggs are collected for hatching and then released,” explained Widarma.

To collect turtle eggs, the Pok-wasmas with 60 members involves the surrounding community. Com-pensation of the turtle eggs are given as much as IDR 2,000. Oper-ating cost of the turtle conservation, said Widarma, is still taken from the village. So far, the breeding site has released at least 200 turtle hatchlings.

Though having great potential, the tourism development of Kele-cung Beach is still hampered by damaged road. To reach Kelecung Beach visitors must pass through potholed road about one kilometer from Tegal Mengkeb Kelod. Ac-cording to Widarma, the damaged road has made many travelers reluc-tant to visit Kelecung Beach.

Although the village will de-velop beach tourism, it has provided protection so that the beach area can be well maintained, where one of which is by prohibiting the con-struction of villas and hotels around the beach. (kmb24)

SINGARAJA - The beauty of the landscape in many areas of Buleleng has the potential to draw visitors again and again, The natural beauty of the region of Lake Buyan, is supported by such activities as cherry tomato picking in Pancasari village, Sukasada. The cool moun-tain air makes it all the more pleas-ant for visitors to linger and enjoy the natural surroundings while savouring the cherry tomatoes.

The climate around Lake Bu-nyan is ideal for growing cheery

tomatoes that will flourish here if given enough water. Farmers take advantage of the cherry tomatoes by creating a unique tourist attraction widely known as the cherry picking tomato tour. “These unique cherry tomatoes can be enjoyed immedi-ately or can be picked to take home for only IDR 8,000 to IDR 10,000 per kg. It is my first time coming here,” said a cherry tomato tourist Putu Ari.

These red cherry tomatoes in-deed attracts many visitors who are

asked to only pick the ripe toma-toes. Most of the cherry tomatoes cultivated here are Solanum lyco-persicum that have a sweet flavour and are smaller than most tomatoes on the market.

Cherry tomato plants are very suitable for highlands that have temperatures around 17 to 18 de-grees Celsius. Good quality toma-toes have a fixed colour and smooth skin, while poor quality tomatoes have a dull colour and sour taste. (kmb34)

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Tabanan actually has many potential tourist destinations. Unfortunately, the damage of infrastructure chiefly road has made the tourism development in the region potentially ham-pered. One of them is the Kelecung Beach at Tegal Mengkeb, East Selemadeg.

Tourism development of Kelecung Beach hampered

by infrastructure

Bali hosts international conference of

amateur radio unionDENPASAR - Bali played host to the 16th conference of In-

ternational Amateur Radio Union from october 12 to 16, 2015. The Communication and Informatics Minister, Rudiantara, expressed the hope that the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) conference will be able to provide a breakthrough or an exchange of ideas regarding the current issues facing the amateur radio operators.

Cherry tomato attraction draws visitors to Lake Buyan

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Cool mountain air makes visitors linger to enjoy local nature while tasting the cherry toma-toes.

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The comeback that the damaged tourism industry had hoped would begin in October, normally the high season for visitors, has failed to materialize, in part because of pro-

tests and other troubles that began in August.

“We have already had at least 40 percent cancellations from tourists who had planned to visit Nepal in

autumn season, and that number is expected to be much, much more,” said Hari Man Lama of Kathmandu-based Incentive Tours, who added that it would take at least a year for the industry to recover.

This time of year at the tour-ist hub of Thamel in Kathmandu, people usually walk shoulder to shoulder along the narrow alley lined with stores for trekking gear,

souvenirs, cafes and restaurants. Yet today, there is only a thin presence of visitors. Those who have made it to Nepal are having difficulty getting around because of the fuel shortages.

Canadian tourist Darren Flach, from Calgary, had plans to trek the Mount Annapurna circuit, a pictur-esque trail surrounding the world’s 10th-highest mountain. But now he is thinking of shortening his vaca-tion. “I did not imagine it was going to be so tough. I am planning to return, the sooner the better,” Flach said, adding that he was just going to cycle around Kathmandu because taxis were asking too much money.

“I have come before to Nepal during this season, and I can tell you there is lot less people this year,” he said. The poor Himalayan country is expected to receive far fewer than the 790,000 tourists it saw last year. Tour-ist money is one of the main sources of foreign currency for Nepal, and which is necessary to import every-thing from oil and cars to clothes.

The April earthquake that killed 8,900 people — including 19 Mount Everest climbers — and destroyed hundreds of thousands of houses across much of Nepal was the worst but not the only disaster to hit the country and its tourist industry.

Sixteen Nepalese guides were killed in avalanche in April 2014, and that October, a freak storm swept through a popular trekking route and killed 42 people, includ-ing foreign hikers. While the coun-try has much rebuilding ahead, its latest problems are political.

Since August, Madhesi ethnic groups in southern Nepal have been blocking highways to protest the

country’s newly adopted constitu-tion. They have blocked a border crossing with India that is normally the entry point for most of Nepal’s fuel and other supplies.

India, which has close ties to the Madhesis, denies Nepal’s accusa-tion that it has imposed a blockade. The fuel shortage has left long lines at service stations and created a black market for gasoline. Much of the country’s bus service has been canceled, and those buses still op-erating are so packed some passen-gers must travel on the rooftops.

To ease the crisis, the govern-ment this week announced a one-time sale of 15 liters (4 gallons) per vehicle. But Tuesday marked the beginning of the two-week Dasain festival, a time when Nepalis travel to their home villages to be with family. At the main bus station in Kathmandu, hundreds of people lined up hoping to get tickets on the few buses that were leaving.

Taxi fares, meanwhile, have in-creased manifold. Norwegian cou-ple Tom Omdal and Elise Skogheim paid $30 for what would normally be a $6 trip from the Kathmandu airport to their hotel.

“The situation is more serious than what I had expected. It is in-sane. I did not think it was so bad,” said Skogheim, 26, from Oslo. It’s not just transport that has been af-fected. Many restaurants in Thamel have closed because they ran out of cooking gas.

“We did not even get eggs with our breakfast,” Omdal said, sipping his coffee and eating a ham and cheese sandwich at the popular New Orleans Restaurant in Thamel.(ap)

VATICAN CITY — Pope Fran-cis asked forgiveness Wednesday for recent scandals that have hit Rome and the Vatican, showing again he doesn’t much care about making waves if it’s for the sake of reassuring his flock.

Francis didn’t cite examples in his off-the-cuff request for par-don at the start of his general au-dience. It was met with subdued applause afterward. However, the past week has seen its fair share of headline-making news that has involved the church in one way or another.

On the eve of Francis’ big and contentious meeting on family is-sues, a Vatican monsignor came out as gay and, with his boyfriend

by his side, denounced homophobia in the Catholic Church. He was summarily fired from his job in the Vatican’s doctrine office.

A few days later, Rome’s mayor resigned amid scandal of his own doing. But Mayor Ignazio Marino’s downfall followed widespread criticism within the church that the city was ill-prepared to handle the millions of pilgrims expected for Francis’ Jubilee Year of Mercy, which starts in December.

And finally, Francis’ synod has been rocked by revelations that a dozen conservative cardinals wrote to the pope with serious concerns about the way the meeting was being run.

“Before I begin the catechesis

I would like in the name of the church to ask your forgiveness for the scandals which have recently fallen on Rome and the Vatican,” Francis said to thousands of people gathered under damp but warm skies in St. Peter’s Square. “I ask your forgiveness.”

“Jesus is a realist and he says that it is inevitable that scandal happens, but woe to the man who causes such scandals,” he said. The Vatican spokesman did not immediately respond to an email seeking clarifi-cation of what Francis meant.

During the audience, the also pope greeted some of the 33 Chil-ean miners who survived 69 days underground in 2010 after their mine shaft caved in. (ap)

AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia

Pope Francis, center, arrives in St. Peter’s Square for the weekly general audience, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. Pope Francis is asking forgiveness for recent scandals that have hit Rome and the Vatican.

Pope begs forgiveness for ‘scandals’ hitting Rome, Vatican


KATHMANDU — Just when Nepal was recovering from the devastating earthquake that killed thousands, flattened com-munities and chased away foreign tourists, protests by ethnic groups and severe fuel shortages are again keeping visitors away from the nation known for the world’s highest peaks.

AP Photo/Tashi Sherpa, file

FILE - In this March 18, 2015 file photo, trekkers take an acclimatization hike to Nagarzhang peak above Dingboche valley on the way to Everest base camp, Nepal.

The sacrificial animals presented by Balinese people to the middle of the lake included buffalo, goat, geese and ducks. Before offering the animals into the lake, a series of events are held at the Ulun Danu Beratan Temple. After delivering the offerings to be drowned into

the lake, all the pilgrims are praying together at the Ulun Danu Beratan Temple.

The bakti pakelem is held as an expression of gratitude to Goddess Lakshmi who has bestowed pros-perity for Balinese people. Lake Beratan itself is one of the lakes in

Bali which is becoming the source of water for Balinese people.

With the ceremony it is expected that harmony of nature can be well maintained, mainly the availability of water denoting the essence of life especially in the dry season lasting longer in the 2015. The ritual is also supported by the apparatus of Candikuning customary village and supporting devotees of the Ulun Danu Beratan Temple. Chief of Candikuning customary village, I Made Susila Putra, said that the Ulun Danu Beratan Temple is sup-ported by four pesataan namely the Pesataan Baturiti, Pesataan

Antapan, Pesataan Bangah and Pesataan Candikuning with a total of 18 customary villages and two pande (blacksmith) clans namely the Pande Marga and Pande Bayan. “All the parties supported the bakti pakelem held in Lake Beratan,” he said.

He continued that pakelem ritual is regularly held in Lake Beratan. This is one of the functions of the Ulun Danu Beratan Temple that do not only serve as a sanctum to invoke holy water but also func-tions to hold nyegara gunung and meajar-ajar ritual. “Each week there is always a pakelem ritual held here

either in small or large offerings like this time,” he explained. Other than meaning to ask for balance of nature, the pakelem ritual in Lake Beratan is also intended to ask for fertility and prosperity.

The pakelem ritual taking place on Monday (Oct. 12) was attended by the former governor of Bali Dewa Made Beratha, a member of the Central House of Representa-tives from Tabanan, Made Urip, and his colleague Nyoman Dha-mantra, subdistrict head of Baturiti Tos Partha, and a number of senior figures of royal palaces in Tabanan. (kmb24)

SEMARAPURA - Shortage of water resources in Nusa Penida makes agricultural land in this subdistrict rely more on rainwater. Nusa Penida is also known as a pro-ducer of cassava or locally known as gayot. Potential outcome of this plantation is widely processed into various kinds of foods such as fermented cassava. Dry land in Nusa Penida makes local cassava have a flavor and softer texture on

the tongue.As with fermented cassava in

general, the people of Ped village, Nusa Penida, often make it be on sale at traditional markets. To prepare it, the cassava is cleaned up first and then boiled. Let it cool down for a while. After that, the boiled cassava is mixed with yeast. “The process of making is not so complicated. It just needs a different touch to make it savory

and creamy on the tongue,” said a fermented cassava maker from Sental Kangin hamlet, Ped village, Ni Wayan Astini.

She said that Ped villagers aver-agely have a side job as the maker of fermented cassava. Most of them are seaweed farmers. This side job is usually carried out on the sidelines of their time working on seaweed.

“Its marketing remains target

local areas, especially at Mentigi Market, but guests or pilgrims that come to say prayers to Nusa Penida will usually stop by and purchase the fermented cassava as souvenir. Along the road to Penataran Ped Temple the fermented cassava mak-ers are peddling their products,” said Astini. In terms of pricing, it varies depending on the contents, ranging from IDR 3,000 to IDR 5,000.

According to the Head of the Klungkung Cooperatives and Small Business Agency, A.A. Manik, the typical fermented cassava of Nusa Penida has often been included in various SME ex-hibitions as a medium to introduce this product to wider community. This snack is free from preserva-tives and flavoring additives since it is still prepared in traditional process. (dwa)

Typical fermented cassava of Nusa Penida

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The Pakelem Ritual is held in Lake Beratan

Bakti Pakelem ritual held in Lake Beratan

TABANAN - Coinciding with new moon of the fourth month in Balinese calendar hundreds of Balinese people engaged in the bakti pakelem ritual in Lake Beratan, Monday (Oct. 12). The lake located at Candikuning village is the lake for the wor-ship of Goddess Lakshmi symbolizing prosperity. The ritual was officiated over by Ida Mpu Budha Alit Maharsi Parama Daksha from Griya Agung Budha Salahin, Tanggahan Tengah hamlet, Demulih, Bangli.

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BUSINESS

In a move to bolster growth, the Monetary Authority of Sin-gapore (MAS) eased policy for a second time this year, slightly reducing the local dollar’s rate of appreciation to make exports more competitive after other Asian countries weakened their own currencies.

The central bank uses currency policy rather than interest rates as a tool to tweak the island’s open economy. It manages the Singapore dollar against an un-disclosed basket of currencies of its major trading partners and competitors.

“The global disinflationary

trend and depreciating curren-cies of our trading partners and competitors had somewhat eroded Singapore’s export competitive-ness,” United Overseas Bank said in a market commentary.

“Going ahead, the ‘milder’ ap-preciation of our currency against the basket of currencies could help to support our export growth.”

The Singapore dollar rose fol-lowing the central bank move as traders focused on news that the economy averted a recession, but analysts expect it to ease in the coming months.

Advance estimates from the trade ministry showed GDP grew

0.1 percent in the July-September quarter, defying expectations of a second consecutive quarterly contraction, which would have pushed the economy into a techni-cal recession.

An economic slump in China -- the world’s second biggest economy -- is hurting demand for exports from Singapore and other Asian countries.

“Despite the close shave, the storyline hasn’t changed,” leading bank DBS said, adding that the “growth outlook remains dicey”.

The MAS noted that “China’s growth momentum is easing on a sharp deceleration in investment growth” which it said was among the factors weighing on trade-dependent economies.

On an annual basis, GDP ex-panded 1.4 percent in the three

months to September, slowing from 2.0 percent year-on-year growth in the June quarter.

The GDP estimates released Wednesday were based on only two months of data -- July and Au-gust -- and adjustments could still be made when the final numbers are calculated with the September figures.

“Singapore is not yet out of the woods,” Rajiv Biswas, Asia-Pacific chief economist at IHS Global Insight, told AFP.

The government expects GDP to expand 2.0-2.5 percent for the full year, but DBS, Southeast Asia’s biggest lender, is forecast-ing 1.8 percent growth.

“As China’s GDP growth con-tinues to slide, its Asia Pacific neighbours are starting to feel the pain,” Biswas said.

He said the region’s vulner-ability to the slowdown in China has risen over the past decade as China’s GDP surged to $10.3 trillion in 2014 from only $2.3 trillion in 2005.

Last year, China accounted for 15.3 percent of Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports, much larger than the European Union’s share of 11.1 percent and 9.5 percent for the United States, he said.

China also bought 35 percent of Australia’s exports, 25 percent of South Korea’s and 20 percent of Japan’s in 2014, he said.

The World Bank is forecasting China’s GDP to grow by 6.9 per-cent this year, moderating to 6.7 percent next year and 6.5 percent in 2017. GDP rose 7.3 percent in 2014. (afp)

BEIJING — Chi-nese inflation eased in September, giving Bei-jing more room to stim-ulate slowing economic growth if needed.

Consumer prices rose 1.6 percent over a year earlier, driven by a 2.7 percent rise in food costs, data showed Wednesday. That was down of from August’s 2 percent increase.

The decline leaves room for interest rate cuts or other stimu-lus to prop up cool-ing economic growth and prevent politically dangerous job losses with less risk of ignit-ing price rises. Beijing has cut interest rates five times since No-vember.

Growth in the quar-ter ending in June held steady at 7 percent. But that was the lowest level since the 2008 financial crisis and analysts said a stock market boom pushed up activity in financial industries, masking declines in other industries. (ap)

Singapore avoids technical recession, eases monetary policy

SINGAPORE - Trade-dependent Singapore narrowly avoid-ed a technical recession in the third quarter, official estimates showed Wednesday, but analysts said the city-state’s growth outlook remains subdued because of China’s slowdown.

REUTERS/China Daily

Customers choose products at a supermarket in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China, October 14, 2015. Consumer inflation in China eased more than expected in September while producer prices fell for the 43rd straight month, adding to concerns over growing deflationary pressures in the world’s second-largest economy.

Chinese inflation eases, leaving room for stimulus

Acting Head of the Jembrana Trade and Cooperative Agency, I Made Sudantra, told reporters on Monday (Oct. 12) that pursuant to previous statement his institution will give the first to third reprimand to the merchants that do not open their kiosk. The officers will always check the attendance and activities of the merchants given ration to do selling in the three-storey market. Though such firm action is given, he still appeals to the merchants in order their kiosk gets to be taken over by local government. “When it is often closed, how do buyers want to come?” he questioned.

Previously, from the communi-cation and guidance provided for the merchants, they claimed to be reluctant to open their kiosk be-cause it is deserted every day. He re-

gretted it because the merchants still think instantly by expecting buyers to throng the markets whereas the market is still relatively new and just in operation for few months. It needs adjustment and introduction to the public that there is a market selling a variety of needs. Undeni-ably, most of them are small-capital merchants. According to him, there should be a commitment to keep opening. He is confident that if the market is operating every day consumers will gradually crowd the market. Moreover, this time the government of Jembrana has sup-ported by shopping coupon program to the officials.

According to him, allegedly there are some merchants getting the kiosks or stalls, but deliber-ately not selling while waiting for

the market is crowded. As long as there not many visitors, they will probably sell or rent theirs to others. Moreover, since it was established, the merchants are given for free in terms of usage and levies. However, it will remain to be monitored by the agency.

Previously, the agency also planned an evaluation on the activ-ity of the Ijogading Market. If the three reprimands are still ignored, the kiosks will be taken over. Later on it will be given to residents that are indeed serious to sell at the market. The regent of Jembrana has affirmed it every occasion. He even still applies the coupon program for the officials to stimulate visitors to the market. From observation, the market is increasingly known to the public, especially the merchants of canang oblation and ritual parapher-nalia. On full moon and new moon, the merchants are selling canang oblation on the first floor from the morning until late afternoon. (kmb26)

SINGARAJA - Rabies dog bite cases have drawn public at-tention recently and will endanger if without an immediate treatment. The government of Buleleng in the near future is entrusted to host the celebration of the World Rabies Day for national level.

The event will be filled in with seminar, discussions and immedi-ate elimination in the field. It will be organized by the Directorate General of Livestock and Animal Health at the Ministry of Agricul-ture on October 20-22 at Lovina, Buleleng.

Selection of Buleleng as the host is not known for sure by the Bule-leng Livestock Agency. Allegedly the world rabies day is celebrated in Buleleng due to the high incidence of rabies dog bite in Buleleng. The Buleleng Health Agency has re-corded that rabies has claimed six casualties in the region.

“We do not know the reasons for choosing. We must be grateful if there is a concern of the central gov-ernment against rabies in Buleleng. I think it happens because the rabies case in other regions also increases. It poses a moment to remind us that rabies still exists and becomes a threat. It needs to be alerted in the next five years. Raising dogs may no longer be let roam around on the streets,” said Division Head of Animal Health at the Buleleng Livestock Agency, Wayan Susila, with permission from the Head of the Livestock Agency Nyoman Swatantra, Monday (Oct. 12).

Susila explained that mass vac-cination activities at several vil-lages in Buleleng will be carried out in the series of the world rabies day. It targets remote areas that are difficult to be reached by rabies dog prevention team lately. The

vaccination will involve 20 teams from all over Bali in the efforts to control the dog population.

From April to October 2015, there were 1,327 dogs eliminated in Buleleng. The number of dog popu-lation in Buleleng reached 80,000 and approximately 58,018 dogs have been vaccinated by involving village communities.

“Elimination activity becomes an important effort in controlling the dog population, so that the dog vaccination in all subdistricts in Buleleng can be accomplished quickly,” he explained.

The stock of anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) in Buleleng reaches 70,000 vials. An important thing to be ap-plied by people is to vaccinate the dogs they raise. “Dogs which are not treated well will easily spread rabies virus. We do hope the com-munity to vaccinate their dogs since they were born,” said Susila.

Susila explained that Buleleng County has encouraged villagers in Buleleng to create and implement a rural bylaw on dog nurture. It is made through the Regent Regula-tion No.2/2015. At least the dog owners in the future must be more introspective and never carelessly neglect their newly born puppies. Most rabies cases are caused by stray dogs on the streets. In Bule-leng, at least five subdistricts are categorized into red zone of rabies, such as the Sawan, Kubutambahan, Buleleng, Banjar and Sukasada.

“Hopefully, the rural bylaw to be made will give a limit to dog own-ers and habituate dog owners to be more responsible. In the future, no more dogs may be let roam around, no dogs are discarded and no dogs are unclaimed because most rabies cases happen due to dogs let go wild,” he said. (kmb34)

Merchants do not sell, given

first reprimand

IBP/Olo

The empty lots at Ijogading

Market are seen in the picture. the majority

of the merchant at the market are given first

reprimand becuase they don’t use the lost at the market.

NEGARA - Since the merchants never open their kiosk at Ijogading Market, the majority of the merchant at the market are given first reprimand. Of the surveillance by the officers, 50 percent of the market kiosks managed by the Trade and Cooperatives Agency rarely open.

IBP/File

A dog is given vaccination to prevent the spread of rabies

Buleleng to host World Rabies Day

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About 750 stick-wielding men razed a church in southern Aceh be-fore clashing with local Christians at a second church.

“After burning the church the mob tried to attack another church, but it turned out Chris-tians were already at the ready,” Aceh police chief Husein Hamidi told AFP.

“A clash occurred, and one man was killed after being shot in the head with an air rifle.”

Four others were wounded by rocks thrown during the confronta-tion, he added.

Police and the military were jointly deployed to restore order

and one of the injured was a mem-ber of the armed forces, according to Hamidi.

The identity of the dead man and the three other injured remained unclear.

Hamidi said the clashes followed a demonstration last week by an Islamic youth group demanding the local government tear down a number of churches they claimed had been built illegally without permits.

The local authorities agreed to act, but tensions boiled over Tues-day as angry civilians took matters into their own hands, Hamidi said.

The situation has since been

brought under control, and 30 people have been detained for questioning, he added.

Jakarta-based human rights group Imparsial “condemned the burning of a place of worship and the loss of life,” director executive Poengky Indarti told AFP.

“Imparsial is deeply concerned of the presence of intolerant groups (acting) in the name of religion.”

Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim majority coun-try but significant minorities of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and Confucians live side by side in the diverse archipelago.

Attacks on places of worship have occurred in the past. A mosque was razed in Papua, a Christian-ma-jority province in eastern Indonesia, in July on the Islamic holy day of Eid al-Fitr. (afp)

REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski

Books are displayed in the Indonesia booth at the upcoming Frankfurt book fair, Ger-many, October 13, 2015. The world’s largest bookfair with its focal theme on Indonesian literature will run from October 14 until October 20.

SAMOSIR - A missing Indo-nesian man was found alive, naked and floating in a huge volcanic lake on Tuesday two days after the helicopter in which he was travel-ling crashed.

The man, named in local re-ports as Fransiskus Subihardayan, was rushed to hospital after being found conscious but very weak, and wearing only a black watch, in Lake Toba, into which the aircraft is believed to have plummeted, on western Sumatra island.

The survivor, in his 20s, was one of five people aboard the Eurocopter EC-130 when it disappeared Sunday during a short flight from Samosir island, a popular tourist spot on the lake, to the city of Medan.

“The man was found by the navy at around 1:00 pm (0600 GMT),” Hisar Turnip, a search and rescue agency spokesman, told AFP. “He was not swimming, just floating. He was found without clothes, stark naked.”

He told rescuers he was a pas-senger on the helicopter and gave some details, but he was slipping in and out of consciousness as he

was taken to a local hospital, of-ficials said.

Search and rescue agency official Heronimus Guru said that Subihar-dayan told rescuers that all on board -- himself, two other passengers, one pilot and one engineer -- man-aged to jump from the helicopter as it went down.

“He said the five managed to jump off, and they managed to stay afloat by holding on to water hya-cinths until 11:00 pm but then they were separated,” he said.

The rescue came after a helicop-ter seat cushion was found in the lake late Monday. Search teams are still hunting for the wreckage of the missing aircraft and the other pas-sengers and crew.

Lake Toba sits amid volcanos on vast, jungle-clad Sumatra island, and is popular with both foreign and domestic tourists. It is the world’s biggest volcanic lake and was formed by a huge eruption tens of thousands of years ago.

The disappearance of the heli-copter was the latest blow to Indo-nesia’s aviation sector following a spate of deadly crashes. (afp)

AP Photo

Rescuers carry helicopter crash survivor Fransiskus Subihar-dayan as they arrive in Onan Runggu, North Sumatra, Indone-sia, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015. Subihardayan was found floating on plants in Indonesia’s largest lake Tuesday and told rescuers the four other people on board also survived by jumping before the craft hit the water Sunday.

Indonesian found alive and naked in lake, after chopper crash

One dead, church burned, in

clashes in AcehBANDA ACEH - One man was killed Tuesday in violent

clashes that saw a church burned to the ground by hundreds of armed men in Indonesia’s conservative Islamic province of Aceh, a local police chief said.

All the forum members work independently and hope the potential of Putri Menjangan will become better known in the community. “We man-age it independently and the natural wonders here are just as beautiful as any other. We have established a small bamboo bridge. Here visitors can enjoy diving, snorkeling and trekking,” he said.

Forum members and others supervise the preservation of the mangrove trees there. One concrete way this is done, is by cleaning up aplastic in the forest area. In the future, the Putri Menjangan destination will be equipped with supporting facilities of tour packages and gazebo independently. “Previously the natural potential of this area was left alone but now we are looking to develop to properly. Conservation areas are also protected from abrasion and plastic waste,” said Suntara. (kmb34)

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The Dutch Safety Board said in its final report released on Tuesday that the jet was destroyed by a Sovi-et-made Buk surface-to-air missile. Two-thirds of the 298 people who died were Dutch.

The 15-month probe did not explicitly say who had fired the missile, but it identified an area of 320 square kilometers (120 square miles) from where it said the launch must have taken place. All of the land was in the hands of pro-Russian separatists fighting

Ukrainian forces at the time of the disaster, according to daily maps of fighting released by the Ukrainian National Security Council. Russia and the rebels insist that if the plane was destroyed by a missile, it must have been fired by the Ukrainian military.

“The Russian commission cat-egorically disagrees with the con-clusions of the final report. They are fundamentally wrong, the lack of logic there is beyond comparison,” Oleg Storchevoi said in a televised

news conference on Wednesday. “I had a feeling that the commission was cherry-picking the evidence to suit a theory they had chosen.”

Storchevoi said Russia “will use its right” to continue the probe and has already appealed to the U.N.’s civil aviation agency to intervene.

Storchevoi hinted that Russia believes that some of the evidence has been faked. He accused the Dutch of “hiding important data” from Russia, calling into question the authenticity of the shrapnel and pieces of the missile reportedly found in the wreckage.

Speaking in Donetsk, rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko de-nied any involvement in the crash. “We have said before and we still say that we did not shoot down the plane,” he said. (ap)

BERLIN — Fadi and Fadiya started school in Berlin last month not knowing a word of German. The 9-year-old twins from Syria are among nearly 400,000 children among a wave of up to 1 million migrants expected in Germany this year alone. All around the country, schools have added extra teachers and “welcome classes” to teach kids like Fadi and Fadiya the basics of German before they are integrated into regular classrooms around six to eight months later.

As a new school year began last month, Berlin’s schools saw non-German speaking children jump by 70 percent. There are now 478 welcome classes in the capital alone for roughly 5,000 new refugee children.

Fadi and Fadiya’s school, lo-cated near their asylum home, will open a second welcome class in a few weeks, reflecting the massive demand for special schooling for refugee kids in Berlin and else-where. The Associated Press was allowed into the classroom under an agreement not to publish the children’s last names to protect their privacy.

Fadi, wearing an oversized Spi-derman hat, and his sister Fadiya, with a brown ponytail and big timid eyes, were among 20 new arrivals from 11 countries in the welcome class offered by an elementary school.

On Tuesday morning, teacher

Sandra Wiandt, an energetic woman with a warm smile, taught them the days of the week, colors and autumn vocabulary. The children ages 6 to 12 came from Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Korea, Ghana and the U.S. Not all were refugees. Some, for example, were children of parents who had relocated to Germany for work.

They got a first taste of the intri-cacies of the German language as they had to repeat differing singu-lar and plural forms of words like chestnut, acorn and leaf — speci-mens of which they’d picked up on the schoolyard the day before.

Fadi pointed insecurely at a basket full of leaves, carefully ut-tering the German word for them: “Blaetter.” Fadiya shyly handed the teacher a painting she had drawn: a portrait of a girl with long dangling earrings and a floor length dress.

Some of the kids were alert and quick to remember the words, while others were withdrawn or overall detached. A few got up in the middle of lessons and wandered aimlessly through the classroom.

“Some of those kids have never seen a school from the inside because they spent years hiding in basements from bombs,” said principal Irina Wissmann. “But we’re trying to get them used to our routines as quickly as possible — it’s the best thing that can happen to them right now.” (ap)

Big influx of migrants brings challenges for German schools

AP Photo/Markus Schreiber

This Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015 photo shows general view of the class room of a so-called Willkommensklasse (Welcome Class) at the elementary school at the Baeke in Berlin, Germany.

AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin, File

FILE - In this Friday, July 25, 2014 file photo, a Malaysia Airlines crew member places a flower next to candles forming the letters MH17 after a multi-faith prayers for the victims of the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 at Malaysia Airlines Academy in Kelana Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Russia appeals to UN aviation body to open

new MH17 probeMOSCOW — Russia has appealed to the International Civil

Aviation Organization to open a new probe into last year’s downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine, the chief of the Russian aviation agency said Wednesday. The Boeing 777 crashed on July 17, 2014, in the middle of a mili-tary conflict between Russia-backed separatists and Ukrainian government forces.

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challenge from an emotional Nick Kyrgios to advance to the third round of the Shanghai Masters with a 1-6, 6-4, 6-4 win on Wednesday.

After winning the first set in 30 minutes, Kyrgios began to unravel at the end of the second set when he smacked a ball in frustration toward the baseline, causing a line judge to bend to avoid being hit.

The Australian was assessed a code violation and dropped his serve at love, losing the set. Kyrgios then saved three match points in the third set before Nishikori finally closed it out.

Kyrgios was already fined $1,500 for an “audible obscen-ity” in his first-round match in Shanghai. He faces a 28-day suspension from the ATP tour if he reaches $5,000 in fines before February after being placed on probation for making derogatory comments to Stan Wawrinka during a match in Montreal in August.

“I didn’t think I behaved bad at all out there today,” Kyrgios said after Wednesday’s loss. “I thought I was good mentally. I showed emotion, but at the same time I played great.”

Nishikori said he tried to be more patient after struggling with his serve early in the match, winning just one point on his second serve in the opening set.

“I didn’t have the best start this match today,” he said. “My serve wasn’t going in, especially in the beginning. I had three double faults in first game.”

In other matches, Andy Murray overcame five double faults to defeat Steve Johnson of the United States 6-2, 6-4, and Australia’s Bernard Tomic saved eight of nine break points he faced to upset seventh-seeded David Ferrer of Spain 6-4, 6-2.

Tomic said he’s feeling increasingly more confident than he was at the start of the year when his ranking dipped into the 70s. He reached No. 20 last month and is aiming to finish close to the top 15 by the end of the season. “This is my best year,” he said. “I’m working much harder. I’m a bit smarter and wiser.”

Fifth-seeded Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic also advanced with a 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-4 win over Jack Sock of the United States, No. 13-seeded John Isner of the United States defeated Belgium’s David Goffin 6-3, 7-6 (5), and No. 12 Kevin Anderson beat Fabio Fognini of Italy 6-3, 7-6 (1). (ap)

LAS VEGAS — Former NBA and reality TV star Lamar Odom was hospitalized after he was found unconscious at a Nevada brothel, authorities said. The former Los Angeles Laker and member-by-marriage of the Kardashian family was in a Las Vegas hospital Tuesday night and there was no immediate word on his condition, officials said.

The Nye County Sheriff ’s Department was called at about 3:15 p .m. Tuesday to Love Ranch in Crystal, Nevada, about 70 miles outside of Las Vegas for a report of an unresponsive man needing an ambulance, Sheriff Sharon A. Wehrly said in a statement.

The 35-year-old was stabilized and taken to Desert View Hospital in nearby Pahrump, the statement said. Officials then tried to have him airlifted to Las Vegas, but the 6-foot-10-inch Odom was too tall for the helicopter that was available and he was driven by ambulance to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center.

Dennis Hof, who owns the Love Ranch and other legal brothels in Nevada, said his staff had picked up Odom from a home in Las Vegas on Saturday. “He just wanted to get away, have a good time and relax,” Hof told The Associated Press in a phone interview.

Hof said Odom was “happy, he was sleeping every night,” while

visiting, but two women went to check on Odom Tuesday afternoon after not hearing from him since early morning, and found him face down and unconscious. When they turned him on his side at the direction of a 911 operator, Odom started “throwing up all kinds of stuff.”

Hof said Odom had been taking herbal Viagra and had drunk part of a bottle of cognac since arriving, but had no knowledge of his use of any other drugs.

“It’s incredibly sad,” said Hof, who turns 69 on Wednesday. Hof is known for his own onetime re-ality show, “Cathouse,” on HBO. Odom’s hospitalization was first reported by TMZ. (ap)

Former NBA star Odom found unconscious at Nevada brothel

AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File

FILE - This Jan. 2, 2013 file photo shows Los Angeles Clippers’ Lamar Odom (7) in action against the Golden State Warriors during an NBA basketball game in Oakland, Calif.

AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi

Kei Nishikori of Japan reacts after losing a point against Borna Coric of Croatia during their first round match of the Japan Open tennis tournament in Tokyo, Monday, Oct. 5, 2015.

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Another South American heavyweight in Argentina continued to struggle with-out its talisman Lionel Messi, enduring a frustrating 0-0 away draw against Para-guay in Asuncion. The 2014 World Cup finalist now has just a point after its first two qualifiers.

Brazil’s impressive Willian capitalized on a strong tackle from fellow midfielder Luiz Gustavo to settle the home crowd’s nerves following last week’s 2-0 loss to Chile.

Venezuela, with just one win in 22 previous matches against Brazil, was the ideal opponent for a team playing its first competitive home match since the hu-miliating 7-1 and 3-0 defeats to Germany and the Netherlands respectively ended its involvement in the 2014 World Cup.

Having seen his teammates spurn several clear chances to extend Brazil’s lead in the first half, Willian scored his second goal on 42 minutes, finding the top corner from the edge of the area. Ricardo Oliveira, top scorer in Brazil’s domestic league this season with 17 goals for Santos, settled the tie in the 74th minute after a Christian Santos goal for Venezuela had threatened to spoil the atmosphere.

Argentina, which hu-miliated Paraguay 6-1 in the semi-final of the Copa America in June of this year, could only mus-ter four shots on target during a disappoint-ing display against the same oppo-nent.

M i s s -i n g b o t h Barcelona star Messi, whose left knee injury is expected t o k e e p him out until late Novem-ber, and S e r g i o Aguero, who

was stretchered off during last week’s 2-0 loss to Ecuador, the goal scoring burden fell to Carlos Tevez and Angel Di Maria. Both proved wasteful.

On 21 minutes, the unmarked Tevez flashed a header over the bar from six yards out, Di Maria having supplied an in-viting cross. Eight minutes later the roles were reversed, Di Maria shooting over the top, following good work from Tevez. A dreadful freekick from Di Maria in the fi-nal minute of regulation time, which failed to beat the first defender, was emblematic of Argentina’s limp display.

In other qualifiers on Tuesday, Uru-guay shrugged off the continued absence of its suspended strikers, Luiz S u a r e z and Edison Cavani, to beat Co-l o m - bia 3-0 in Mon- tevideo. D e - s p i t e hav- i n g j u s t 3 4 p e r -

cent of possession, the home side was lethal on the counter attack, scoring with three of its four efforts on target.

Captain Diego Godin opened the scoring in the 34th minute with a flying header; his second goal of the campaign. Diego Rolan made it 2-0 early in the sec-ond half before substitute Abel Hernandez fired in to the top corner with two minutes o f normal time remaining.

Having scored five goals and conceded none, Uruguay has

taken an early lead in the two-year qualification marathon. Chile forwards Alexis Sanchez and Eduardo Var-gas scored twice each in a

4-3 win at ten-man Peru.Sanchez put the visitors

ahead in the seventh min-ute, but Jefferson Farfan equalized for the hosts in the 10th, and he put Peru ahead from the pen-alty spot in the 36th. In between Farfan’s two

strikes, Peru was reduced to ten men when Christian

Cueva was shown red in the 23rd minute.

Chile quickly took advan-tage of the extra man, scoring

three goals in nine minutes either side of halftime. Vargas made it

2-2 in the 41st minute and Sanchez put the visitors ahead in the 44th.

Vargas netted his second in the 49th to effectively end the contest, though Paolo Guerrero pulled a goal back in the second minute of stoppage time.

Ecuador defied torrential rain in Quito to secure its second consecutive victory, beating Bolivia 2-0. The home side left it late, Miller Bolanos scoring from inside the area in the 85th minute before Felipe Caicedo won and converted a penalty in the 95th minute.

The third round of World Cup 2018 qualifiers begin on 12 November, with the Argentina versus Brazil clash in Buenos Aires a day later, now looking like a must-win match for the home side. (ap)

HARRISON, N.J. — Storm clouds hover over U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann. The Americans finished fourth in the CONCACAF Gold Cup, their poorest performance since 2000. They lost a playoff against Mexico on Saturday for the region’s berth in the 2017 Confederations Cup.

Not even Tim Howard’s first game in goal in 15 months stopped the slump. Joel Campbell’s 70th-minute goal led Costa Rica over the over-whelmed U.S. 1-0 in an exhibition Tuesday night, the Americans’ fifth defeat in six games. The U.S. has lost three straight home games for the first time since 1997.

Klinsmann turned meteorologist for his analysis. “There are not only sunshine days,” he said. “We had a lot of sunshine, 2012, 2013, 2014. Now it’s raining a little bit, and you’ve got to go through that. Maybe you have to go through a little bit of mud as well.”

Costa Rica outshot the U.S. 14-5, and the Americans created almost no scoring chances. Klinsmann changed eight of his starters from Saturday, keeping only defender Geoff Cameron, midfielder Jermaine Jones and forward Jozy Altidore. And all three were re-placed at the start of the second half.

“I understand if some people are really critical because of the disap-pointment with the Gold Cup and because of the big disappointment on Saturday, and I respect that,” Klins-mann said. “But at the same time, when everything goes not my way, I get even hungrier to turn it around the other way.”

U.S. Soccer Federation President

Sunil Gulati has repeatedly backed Klinsmann, who took over in 2011 and is signed through 2018 as coach and technical director. Klinsmann created a stir this week when he sent Fabian Johnson home to Germany, angry he asked to be substituted in the 111th minute against Mexico.

Still, there was a bit of good news for the U.S. The under-23 team beat Canada 2-0 on second-half goals by Marc Pelosi and Jordan Kiesewetter and will play Colombia in March for a spot in next year’s Olympics. The youth team lost to Honduras on Saturday, wasting a chance for one of CONCACAF’s automatic berths.

“I’m going to look everywhere for younger players hopefully develop-ing,” Klinsmann said, “and hopefully getting to a point where that transition that we talk about since more than a year really happens.”

Howard, now 36, took a one-year sabbatical from the national team after making 15 saves in the 2-1 round-of-16 loss to Belgium at last year’s World Cup, wanting to use international breaks for family time. When How-ard returned last month, Klinsmann installed him as his No. 2 behind Brad Guzan, the 31-year-old who had been Howard’s primary backup. Klinsmann anticipates the pair will rotate going forward.

“We have two exceptional inter-national-caliber goalkeepers and we need both of them,” he said. Before a crowd of just 9,214 in almost two-thirds empty Red Bulls Arena, Howard tipped Campbell’s 25-yard shot over the crossbar in the 59th.

A turnover by second-half sub Jonathan Spector led to the goal. Dave Myrie, who had just entered, crossed for Campbell, and the forward beat Danny Williams into space and sent a 12-yard, left-footed shot just past Howard’s outstretched right arm into the far corner. Campbell, who has struggled for playing time at Arsenal, scored his 11th international goal but first since Costa Rica played Uruguay in last year’s World Cup. Howard made an excellent sliding stop on Marcos Urena in the 88th.

“It was just great to pull the shirt on again and get all the hype and the talk over with,” Howard said. “I was just wanting to get a shot and just get back into the swing of things.”

The Americans open qualifying for the 2018 World Cup against St. Vin-cent and the Grenadines in St. Louis on Nov. 13, then play at Trinidad and Tobago four days later.

“Every cycle is a rebirth and you have to shake things up,” Howard said. “You have to try new players. Other players get older. Some of your best players who are top dogs today are go-ing to be old as dirt in 2018 and they’re not going to be able to perform. So there’s that balance, right, of getting a result today versus trying to bleed new guys in. So it’s not doom and gloom. I think we’re a good team.”

He predicted “we’ll get two wins against St. Vincent, against Trinidad, and everybody will be happy again.” Klinsmann used his weather metaphor. “Sooner or later the clouds will pass by,” he said, “and we’re going to find some sun again.” (ap)

ZAGREB - Dogged by prob-lems on and off the pitch, Croatia owed their Euro 2016 qualifica-tion partly to Italy and winger Ivan Perisic had no qualms admitting it.

Croatia sealed their Euro 2016 berth with Tuesday’s nervy 1-0 win in Malta which was only enough after Group H winners Italy beat Norway 2-1 to con-fine the Scandinavians to the playoffs.

For 73 minutes it looked like the Croatians would endure a bittersweet victory as the Nor-wegians were ahead in Rome, but were in raptures after the Italians, who were already as-sured of progressing, scored two late goals.

“We were very anxious in the last 10 minutes after the tide had turned our way and I must thank Italy for doing their bit,” said Inter Milan player Perisic, who scored Croatia’s first-half winner in Ta’Qali.

“We have only ourselves to blame for getting into a situation where our fate wasn’t entirely in our hands,” he said.

Having made a blistering start to their campaign after winning four and drawing one of their opening five games, it all went sour for the Croatians during a 5-1 home defeat of Norway marred by a racist outburst. Fans in Zagreb shouted a racist slogan which resulted in a crowd ban for their next home qualifier against Italy, where another racist inci-dent got the Croatians into more trouble.

Home supporters used a chem-ical agent to imprint a swastika into the pitch at Poljud Stadium in Split days before the 1-1 draw on June 12, prompting UEFA to apply even more drastic punish-ment. Europe’s soccer govern-ing body deducted a point from Croatia’s tally and ordered them to play their following home qualifier against Bulgaria behind closed doors, with the situation leading to a slump in form.

Coach Niko Kovac was sacked after a 2-0 defeat in Norway fol-lowed a 0-0 draw in Azerbaijan as Croatia slipped from first to third in the section. His replace-ment Ante Cacic then steered the ship through rocky waters with a 3-0 defeat of the Bulgarians and Tuesday’s win in Malta.

Even when Croatia did have support, it was half-hearted with many of their fans unhappy with the governing of the country’s football association and its chief Davor Suker boycotted the na-tional team’s home games. De-fender Vedran Corluka appealed for unity ahead of next year’s 24-nation tournament in France.

“The dressing room is com-pact but also sad because of all the side-events,” he was quoted as saying by Croatian media. “The national team must not suf-fer from divisions nor can it be a battlefield for fan discontent with the FA and some individuals.

“The fans belong shoulder-to-shoulder with their national team and I hope they come to France as real support, like so many times before.” (rtr)

ZURICH - FIFA’s presidential election should go ahead as planned on Feb. 26 and not be delayed due to the suspensions of Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, candidate Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan said on Wednesday.

World soccer chief Blatter and UEFA boss Platini were suspended by FIFA’s Ethics Committee last week, engulfed by a deepening corruption scandal as their sport faces criminal investigations in Switzerland and the United States.

FIFA’s ruling executive committee will hold an emergency meeting on Oct. 20 and the possibility of delaying the election of its next leader is likely to be on the agenda.

“Delaying the scheduled election would only post-pone needed change and create further instability,” Ali said in a statement, his first since the banning of Blatter and Platini.

“It would tell the world that lessons haven’t been learned, that the same backroom deals that have dis-credited FIFA in the first place continue,” he said.

A 2011 payment of two million Swiss francs ($2.09 million) from FIFA to Frenchman Platini is part of a Swiss criminal investigation into Blatter, in which the UEFA boss is considered as someone “between a witness and an accused person”, according to Swiss judicial authorities.

Platini has said the payment was for his work under contract for FIFA as an advisor to Swiss-born Blatter between 1999 and 2002, and the nine-year payment delay was due to FIFA’s financial situation. Both men have denied any wrongdoing.

An election delay would give Platini more time to appeal against his 90-day provisional ban. The ban, to-gether with a possible 45-day extension and the length of any appeals process, are seen as major obstacles to his campaign. (ap)

NYON, Switzerland — UEFA says Bosnia-Herze-govina, Hungary, Sweden and Ukraine will avoid each other in the playoffs for the European Championship as top seeds.

The teams they can be paired with in Sunday’s draw are Denmark, Ireland, Norway and Slovenia. The two-legged playoffs are being played from Nov. 12 to Nov. 17.

The eight nations are vying for the final four places in the expanded 24-team Euro 2016 after finishing third in their groups.

Alongside host nation France the other finalists so far are: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, England, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Northern Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and Wales. (ap)

Prince Ali urges FIFA to

stick with February

election date

UEFA confirms seeds for Euro

2016 playoff draw

Brazil downs Venezuela, Argentina

held in Paraguay

Brazil’s Ricardo Oliveira cel-ebrates after scoring against Venezuela during a 2018 World Cup qualifying soccer match in Fortaleza, Brazil, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015.

FORTALEZA — A goal from midfielder Willian after just 36 seconds helped five-time World Cup champions Brazil to a welcome 3-1 win over Venezuela in Tuesday’s second round of World Cup 2018 qualifiers.

With Howard back in goal, US loses to Costa Rica 1-0

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Costa Rica’s Joel Campbell, right, scores a goal on United States goalkeeper goalkeeper Tim Howard, left, during the second half of a international soccer friendly match, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, in Harrison, N.J.

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Croatia’s Ivan Perisic (C) defends possession of the ball from Malta’s Rowen Muscat (L) during their Euro 2016 Group H qualification soccer match at the National Stadium in Ta’ Qali, outside Valletta, Malta, October 13, 2015.

Croatia advance to France amid plethora

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Berawa BeachSHANGHAI — Kei Nishikori overcame a stiff

challenge from an emotional Nick Kyrgios to advance to the third round of the Shanghai Masters with a 1-6, 6-4, 6-4 win on Wednesday.

After winning the first set in 30 minutes, Kyrgios began to unravel at the end of the second set when he smacked a ball in frustration toward the baseline, causing a line judge to bend to avoid being hit.

The Australian was assessed a code violation and dropped his serve at love, losing the set. Kyrgios then saved three match points in the third set before Nishikori finally closed it out.

Kyrgios was already fined $1,500 for an “audible obscen-ity” in his first-round match in Shanghai. He faces a 28-day suspension from the ATP tour if he reaches $5,000 in fines before February after being placed on probation for making derogatory comments to Stan Wawrinka during a match in Montreal in August.

“I didn’t think I behaved bad at all out there today,” Kyrgios said after Wednesday’s loss. “I thought I was good mentally. I showed emotion, but at the same time I played great.”

Nishikori said he tried to be more patient after struggling with his serve early in the match, winning just one point on his second serve in the opening set.

“I didn’t have the best start this match today,” he said. “My serve wasn’t going in, especially in the beginning. I had three double faults in first game.”

In other matches, Andy Murray overcame five double faults to defeat Steve Johnson of the United States 6-2, 6-4, and Australia’s Bernard Tomic saved eight of nine break points he faced to upset seventh-seeded David Ferrer of Spain 6-4, 6-2.

Tomic said he’s feeling increasingly more confident than he was at the start of the year when his ranking dipped into the 70s. He reached No. 20 last month and is aiming to finish close to the top 15 by the end of the season. “This is my best year,” he said. “I’m working much harder. I’m a bit smarter and wiser.”

Fifth-seeded Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic also advanced with a 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-4 win over Jack Sock of the United States, No. 13-seeded John Isner of the United States defeated Belgium’s David Goffin 6-3, 7-6 (5), and No. 12 Kevin Anderson beat Fabio Fognini of Italy 6-3, 7-6 (1). (ap)

LAS VEGAS — Former NBA and reality TV star Lamar Odom was hospitalized after he was found unconscious at a Nevada brothel, authorities said. The former Los Angeles Laker and member-by-marriage of the Kardashian family was in a Las Vegas hospital Tuesday night and there was no immediate word on his condition, officials said.

The Nye County Sheriff ’s Department was called at about 3:15 p .m. Tuesday to Love Ranch in Crystal, Nevada, about 70 miles outside of Las Vegas for a report of an unresponsive man needing an ambulance, Sheriff Sharon A. Wehrly said in a statement.

The 35-year-old was stabilized and taken to Desert View Hospital in nearby Pahrump, the statement said. Officials then tried to have him airlifted to Las Vegas, but the 6-foot-10-inch Odom was too tall for the helicopter that was available and he was driven by ambulance to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center.

Dennis Hof, who owns the Love Ranch and other legal brothels in Nevada, said his staff had picked up Odom from a home in Las Vegas on Saturday. “He just wanted to get away, have a good time and relax,” Hof told The Associated Press in a phone interview.

Hof said Odom was “happy, he was sleeping every night,” while

visiting, but two women went to check on Odom Tuesday afternoon after not hearing from him since early morning, and found him face down and unconscious. When they turned him on his side at the direction of a 911 operator, Odom started “throwing up all kinds of stuff.”

Hof said Odom had been taking herbal Viagra and had drunk part of a bottle of cognac since arriving, but had no knowledge of his use of any other drugs.

“It’s incredibly sad,” said Hof, who turns 69 on Wednesday. Hof is known for his own onetime re-ality show, “Cathouse,” on HBO. Odom’s hospitalization was first reported by TMZ. (ap)

Former NBA star Odom found unconscious at Nevada brothel

AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File

FILE - This Jan. 2, 2013 file photo shows Los Angeles Clippers’ Lamar Odom (7) in action against the Golden State Warriors during an NBA basketball game in Oakland, Calif.

AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi

Kei Nishikori of Japan reacts after losing a point against Borna Coric of Croatia during their first round match of the Japan Open tennis tournament in Tokyo, Monday, Oct. 5, 2015.

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About 750 stick-wielding men razed a church in southern Aceh be-fore clashing with local Christians at a second church.

“After burning the church the mob tried to attack another church, but it turned out Chris-tians were already at the ready,” Aceh police chief Husein Hamidi told AFP.

“A clash occurred, and one man was killed after being shot in the head with an air rifle.”

Four others were wounded by rocks thrown during the confronta-tion, he added.

Police and the military were jointly deployed to restore order

and one of the injured was a mem-ber of the armed forces, according to Hamidi.

The identity of the dead man and the three other injured remained unclear.

Hamidi said the clashes followed a demonstration last week by an Islamic youth group demanding the local government tear down a number of churches they claimed had been built illegally without permits.

The local authorities agreed to act, but tensions boiled over Tues-day as angry civilians took matters into their own hands, Hamidi said.

The situation has since been

brought under control, and 30 people have been detained for questioning, he added.

Jakarta-based human rights group Imparsial “condemned the burning of a place of worship and the loss of life,” director executive Poengky Indarti told AFP.

“Imparsial is deeply concerned of the presence of intolerant groups (acting) in the name of religion.”

Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim majority coun-try but significant minorities of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and Confucians live side by side in the diverse archipelago.

Attacks on places of worship have occurred in the past. A mosque was razed in Papua, a Christian-ma-jority province in eastern Indonesia, in July on the Islamic holy day of Eid al-Fitr. (afp)

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SAMOSIR - A missing Indo-nesian man was found alive, naked and floating in a huge volcanic lake on Tuesday two days after the helicopter in which he was travel-ling crashed.

The man, named in local re-ports as Fransiskus Subihardayan, was rushed to hospital after being found conscious but very weak, and wearing only a black watch, in Lake Toba, into which the aircraft is believed to have plummeted, on western Sumatra island.

The survivor, in his 20s, was one of five people aboard the Eurocopter EC-130 when it disappeared Sunday during a short flight from Samosir island, a popular tourist spot on the lake, to the city of Medan.

“The man was found by the navy at around 1:00 pm (0600 GMT),” Hisar Turnip, a search and rescue agency spokesman, told AFP. “He was not swimming, just floating. He was found without clothes, stark naked.”

He told rescuers he was a pas-senger on the helicopter and gave some details, but he was slipping in and out of consciousness as he

was taken to a local hospital, of-ficials said.

Search and rescue agency official Heronimus Guru said that Subihar-dayan told rescuers that all on board -- himself, two other passengers, one pilot and one engineer -- man-aged to jump from the helicopter as it went down.

“He said the five managed to jump off, and they managed to stay afloat by holding on to water hya-cinths until 11:00 pm but then they were separated,” he said.

The rescue came after a helicop-ter seat cushion was found in the lake late Monday. Search teams are still hunting for the wreckage of the missing aircraft and the other pas-sengers and crew.

Lake Toba sits amid volcanos on vast, jungle-clad Sumatra island, and is popular with both foreign and domestic tourists. It is the world’s biggest volcanic lake and was formed by a huge eruption tens of thousands of years ago.

The disappearance of the heli-copter was the latest blow to Indo-nesia’s aviation sector following a spate of deadly crashes. (afp)

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Rescuers carry helicopter crash survivor Fransiskus Subihar-dayan as they arrive in Onan Runggu, North Sumatra, Indone-sia, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015. Subihardayan was found floating on plants in Indonesia’s largest lake Tuesday and told rescuers the four other people on board also survived by jumping before the craft hit the water Sunday.

Indonesian found alive and naked in lake, after chopper crash

One dead, church burned, in

clashes in AcehBANDA ACEH - One man was killed Tuesday in violent

clashes that saw a church burned to the ground by hundreds of armed men in Indonesia’s conservative Islamic province of Aceh, a local police chief said.

All the forum members work independently and hope the potential of Putri Menjangan will become better known in the community. “We man-age it independently and the natural wonders here are just as beautiful as any other. We have established a small bamboo bridge. Here visitors can enjoy diving, snorkeling and trekking,” he said.

Forum members and others supervise the preservation of the mangrove trees there. One concrete way this is done, is by cleaning up aplastic in the forest area. In the future, the Putri Menjangan destination will be equipped with supporting facilities of tour packages and gazebo independently. “Previously the natural potential of this area was left alone but now we are looking to develop to properly. Conservation areas are also protected from abrasion and plastic waste,” said Suntara. (kmb34)

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The Dutch Safety Board said in its final report released on Tuesday that the jet was destroyed by a Sovi-et-made Buk surface-to-air missile. Two-thirds of the 298 people who died were Dutch.

The 15-month probe did not explicitly say who had fired the missile, but it identified an area of 320 square kilometers (120 square miles) from where it said the launch must have taken place. All of the land was in the hands of pro-Russian separatists fighting

Ukrainian forces at the time of the disaster, according to daily maps of fighting released by the Ukrainian National Security Council. Russia and the rebels insist that if the plane was destroyed by a missile, it must have been fired by the Ukrainian military.

“The Russian commission cat-egorically disagrees with the con-clusions of the final report. They are fundamentally wrong, the lack of logic there is beyond comparison,” Oleg Storchevoi said in a televised

news conference on Wednesday. “I had a feeling that the commission was cherry-picking the evidence to suit a theory they had chosen.”

Storchevoi said Russia “will use its right” to continue the probe and has already appealed to the U.N.’s civil aviation agency to intervene.

Storchevoi hinted that Russia believes that some of the evidence has been faked. He accused the Dutch of “hiding important data” from Russia, calling into question the authenticity of the shrapnel and pieces of the missile reportedly found in the wreckage.

Speaking in Donetsk, rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko de-nied any involvement in the crash. “We have said before and we still say that we did not shoot down the plane,” he said. (ap)

BERLIN — Fadi and Fadiya started school in Berlin last month not knowing a word of German. The 9-year-old twins from Syria are among nearly 400,000 children among a wave of up to 1 million migrants expected in Germany this year alone. All around the country, schools have added extra teachers and “welcome classes” to teach kids like Fadi and Fadiya the basics of German before they are integrated into regular classrooms around six to eight months later.

As a new school year began last month, Berlin’s schools saw non-German speaking children jump by 70 percent. There are now 478 welcome classes in the capital alone for roughly 5,000 new refugee children.

Fadi and Fadiya’s school, lo-cated near their asylum home, will open a second welcome class in a few weeks, reflecting the massive demand for special schooling for refugee kids in Berlin and else-where. The Associated Press was allowed into the classroom under an agreement not to publish the children’s last names to protect their privacy.

Fadi, wearing an oversized Spi-derman hat, and his sister Fadiya, with a brown ponytail and big timid eyes, were among 20 new arrivals from 11 countries in the welcome class offered by an elementary school.

On Tuesday morning, teacher

Sandra Wiandt, an energetic woman with a warm smile, taught them the days of the week, colors and autumn vocabulary. The children ages 6 to 12 came from Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Korea, Ghana and the U.S. Not all were refugees. Some, for example, were children of parents who had relocated to Germany for work.

They got a first taste of the intri-cacies of the German language as they had to repeat differing singu-lar and plural forms of words like chestnut, acorn and leaf — speci-mens of which they’d picked up on the schoolyard the day before.

Fadi pointed insecurely at a basket full of leaves, carefully ut-tering the German word for them: “Blaetter.” Fadiya shyly handed the teacher a painting she had drawn: a portrait of a girl with long dangling earrings and a floor length dress.

Some of the kids were alert and quick to remember the words, while others were withdrawn or overall detached. A few got up in the middle of lessons and wandered aimlessly through the classroom.

“Some of those kids have never seen a school from the inside because they spent years hiding in basements from bombs,” said principal Irina Wissmann. “But we’re trying to get them used to our routines as quickly as possible — it’s the best thing that can happen to them right now.” (ap)

Big influx of migrants brings challenges for German schools

AP Photo/Markus Schreiber

This Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015 photo shows general view of the class room of a so-called Willkommensklasse (Welcome Class) at the elementary school at the Baeke in Berlin, Germany.

AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin, File

FILE - In this Friday, July 25, 2014 file photo, a Malaysia Airlines crew member places a flower next to candles forming the letters MH17 after a multi-faith prayers for the victims of the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 at Malaysia Airlines Academy in Kelana Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Russia appeals to UN aviation body to open

new MH17 probeMOSCOW — Russia has appealed to the International Civil

Aviation Organization to open a new probe into last year’s downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine, the chief of the Russian aviation agency said Wednesday. The Boeing 777 crashed on July 17, 2014, in the middle of a mili-tary conflict between Russia-backed separatists and Ukrainian government forces.

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BUSINESS

In a move to bolster growth, the Monetary Authority of Sin-gapore (MAS) eased policy for a second time this year, slightly reducing the local dollar’s rate of appreciation to make exports more competitive after other Asian countries weakened their own currencies.

The central bank uses currency policy rather than interest rates as a tool to tweak the island’s open economy. It manages the Singapore dollar against an un-disclosed basket of currencies of its major trading partners and competitors.

“The global disinflationary

trend and depreciating curren-cies of our trading partners and competitors had somewhat eroded Singapore’s export competitive-ness,” United Overseas Bank said in a market commentary.

“Going ahead, the ‘milder’ ap-preciation of our currency against the basket of currencies could help to support our export growth.”

The Singapore dollar rose fol-lowing the central bank move as traders focused on news that the economy averted a recession, but analysts expect it to ease in the coming months.

Advance estimates from the trade ministry showed GDP grew

0.1 percent in the July-September quarter, defying expectations of a second consecutive quarterly contraction, which would have pushed the economy into a techni-cal recession.

An economic slump in China -- the world’s second biggest economy -- is hurting demand for exports from Singapore and other Asian countries.

“Despite the close shave, the storyline hasn’t changed,” leading bank DBS said, adding that the “growth outlook remains dicey”.

The MAS noted that “China’s growth momentum is easing on a sharp deceleration in investment growth” which it said was among the factors weighing on trade-dependent economies.

On an annual basis, GDP ex-panded 1.4 percent in the three

months to September, slowing from 2.0 percent year-on-year growth in the June quarter.

The GDP estimates released Wednesday were based on only two months of data -- July and Au-gust -- and adjustments could still be made when the final numbers are calculated with the September figures.

“Singapore is not yet out of the woods,” Rajiv Biswas, Asia-Pacific chief economist at IHS Global Insight, told AFP.

The government expects GDP to expand 2.0-2.5 percent for the full year, but DBS, Southeast Asia’s biggest lender, is forecast-ing 1.8 percent growth.

“As China’s GDP growth con-tinues to slide, its Asia Pacific neighbours are starting to feel the pain,” Biswas said.

He said the region’s vulner-ability to the slowdown in China has risen over the past decade as China’s GDP surged to $10.3 trillion in 2014 from only $2.3 trillion in 2005.

Last year, China accounted for 15.3 percent of Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports, much larger than the European Union’s share of 11.1 percent and 9.5 percent for the United States, he said.

China also bought 35 percent of Australia’s exports, 25 percent of South Korea’s and 20 percent of Japan’s in 2014, he said.

The World Bank is forecasting China’s GDP to grow by 6.9 per-cent this year, moderating to 6.7 percent next year and 6.5 percent in 2017. GDP rose 7.3 percent in 2014. (afp)

BEIJING — Chi-nese inflation eased in September, giving Bei-jing more room to stim-ulate slowing economic growth if needed.

Consumer prices rose 1.6 percent over a year earlier, driven by a 2.7 percent rise in food costs, data showed Wednesday. That was down of from August’s 2 percent increase.

The decline leaves room for interest rate cuts or other stimu-lus to prop up cool-ing economic growth and prevent politically dangerous job losses with less risk of ignit-ing price rises. Beijing has cut interest rates five times since No-vember.

Growth in the quar-ter ending in June held steady at 7 percent. But that was the lowest level since the 2008 financial crisis and analysts said a stock market boom pushed up activity in financial industries, masking declines in other industries. (ap)

Singapore avoids technical recession, eases monetary policy

SINGAPORE - Trade-dependent Singapore narrowly avoid-ed a technical recession in the third quarter, official estimates showed Wednesday, but analysts said the city-state’s growth outlook remains subdued because of China’s slowdown.

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Customers choose products at a supermarket in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China, October 14, 2015. Consumer inflation in China eased more than expected in September while producer prices fell for the 43rd straight month, adding to concerns over growing deflationary pressures in the world’s second-largest economy.

Chinese inflation eases, leaving room for stimulus

Acting Head of the Jembrana Trade and Cooperative Agency, I Made Sudantra, told reporters on Monday (Oct. 12) that pursuant to previous statement his institution will give the first to third reprimand to the merchants that do not open their kiosk. The officers will always check the attendance and activities of the merchants given ration to do selling in the three-storey market. Though such firm action is given, he still appeals to the merchants in order their kiosk gets to be taken over by local government. “When it is often closed, how do buyers want to come?” he questioned.

Previously, from the communi-cation and guidance provided for the merchants, they claimed to be reluctant to open their kiosk be-cause it is deserted every day. He re-

gretted it because the merchants still think instantly by expecting buyers to throng the markets whereas the market is still relatively new and just in operation for few months. It needs adjustment and introduction to the public that there is a market selling a variety of needs. Undeni-ably, most of them are small-capital merchants. According to him, there should be a commitment to keep opening. He is confident that if the market is operating every day consumers will gradually crowd the market. Moreover, this time the government of Jembrana has sup-ported by shopping coupon program to the officials.

According to him, allegedly there are some merchants getting the kiosks or stalls, but deliber-ately not selling while waiting for

the market is crowded. As long as there not many visitors, they will probably sell or rent theirs to others. Moreover, since it was established, the merchants are given for free in terms of usage and levies. However, it will remain to be monitored by the agency.

Previously, the agency also planned an evaluation on the activ-ity of the Ijogading Market. If the three reprimands are still ignored, the kiosks will be taken over. Later on it will be given to residents that are indeed serious to sell at the market. The regent of Jembrana has affirmed it every occasion. He even still applies the coupon program for the officials to stimulate visitors to the market. From observation, the market is increasingly known to the public, especially the merchants of canang oblation and ritual parapher-nalia. On full moon and new moon, the merchants are selling canang oblation on the first floor from the morning until late afternoon. (kmb26)

SINGARAJA - Rabies dog bite cases have drawn public at-tention recently and will endanger if without an immediate treatment. The government of Buleleng in the near future is entrusted to host the celebration of the World Rabies Day for national level.

The event will be filled in with seminar, discussions and immedi-ate elimination in the field. It will be organized by the Directorate General of Livestock and Animal Health at the Ministry of Agricul-ture on October 20-22 at Lovina, Buleleng.

Selection of Buleleng as the host is not known for sure by the Bule-leng Livestock Agency. Allegedly the world rabies day is celebrated in Buleleng due to the high incidence of rabies dog bite in Buleleng. The Buleleng Health Agency has re-corded that rabies has claimed six casualties in the region.

“We do not know the reasons for choosing. We must be grateful if there is a concern of the central gov-ernment against rabies in Buleleng. I think it happens because the rabies case in other regions also increases. It poses a moment to remind us that rabies still exists and becomes a threat. It needs to be alerted in the next five years. Raising dogs may no longer be let roam around on the streets,” said Division Head of Animal Health at the Buleleng Livestock Agency, Wayan Susila, with permission from the Head of the Livestock Agency Nyoman Swatantra, Monday (Oct. 12).

Susila explained that mass vac-cination activities at several vil-lages in Buleleng will be carried out in the series of the world rabies day. It targets remote areas that are difficult to be reached by rabies dog prevention team lately. The

vaccination will involve 20 teams from all over Bali in the efforts to control the dog population.

From April to October 2015, there were 1,327 dogs eliminated in Buleleng. The number of dog popu-lation in Buleleng reached 80,000 and approximately 58,018 dogs have been vaccinated by involving village communities.

“Elimination activity becomes an important effort in controlling the dog population, so that the dog vaccination in all subdistricts in Buleleng can be accomplished quickly,” he explained.

The stock of anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) in Buleleng reaches 70,000 vials. An important thing to be ap-plied by people is to vaccinate the dogs they raise. “Dogs which are not treated well will easily spread rabies virus. We do hope the com-munity to vaccinate their dogs since they were born,” said Susila.

Susila explained that Buleleng County has encouraged villagers in Buleleng to create and implement a rural bylaw on dog nurture. It is made through the Regent Regula-tion No.2/2015. At least the dog owners in the future must be more introspective and never carelessly neglect their newly born puppies. Most rabies cases are caused by stray dogs on the streets. In Bule-leng, at least five subdistricts are categorized into red zone of rabies, such as the Sawan, Kubutambahan, Buleleng, Banjar and Sukasada.

“Hopefully, the rural bylaw to be made will give a limit to dog own-ers and habituate dog owners to be more responsible. In the future, no more dogs may be let roam around, no dogs are discarded and no dogs are unclaimed because most rabies cases happen due to dogs let go wild,” he said. (kmb34)

Merchants do not sell, given

first reprimand

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The empty lots at Ijogading

Market are seen in the picture. the majority

of the merchant at the market are given first

reprimand becuase they don’t use the lost at the market.

NEGARA - Since the merchants never open their kiosk at Ijogading Market, the majority of the merchant at the market are given first reprimand. Of the surveillance by the officers, 50 percent of the market kiosks managed by the Trade and Cooperatives Agency rarely open.

IBP/File

A dog is given vaccination to prevent the spread of rabies

Buleleng to host World Rabies Day

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The comeback that the damaged tourism industry had hoped would begin in October, normally the high season for visitors, has failed to materialize, in part because of pro-

tests and other troubles that began in August.

“We have already had at least 40 percent cancellations from tourists who had planned to visit Nepal in

autumn season, and that number is expected to be much, much more,” said Hari Man Lama of Kathmandu-based Incentive Tours, who added that it would take at least a year for the industry to recover.

This time of year at the tour-ist hub of Thamel in Kathmandu, people usually walk shoulder to shoulder along the narrow alley lined with stores for trekking gear,

souvenirs, cafes and restaurants. Yet today, there is only a thin presence of visitors. Those who have made it to Nepal are having difficulty getting around because of the fuel shortages.

Canadian tourist Darren Flach, from Calgary, had plans to trek the Mount Annapurna circuit, a pictur-esque trail surrounding the world’s 10th-highest mountain. But now he is thinking of shortening his vaca-tion. “I did not imagine it was going to be so tough. I am planning to return, the sooner the better,” Flach said, adding that he was just going to cycle around Kathmandu because taxis were asking too much money.

“I have come before to Nepal during this season, and I can tell you there is lot less people this year,” he said. The poor Himalayan country is expected to receive far fewer than the 790,000 tourists it saw last year. Tour-ist money is one of the main sources of foreign currency for Nepal, and which is necessary to import every-thing from oil and cars to clothes.

The April earthquake that killed 8,900 people — including 19 Mount Everest climbers — and destroyed hundreds of thousands of houses across much of Nepal was the worst but not the only disaster to hit the country and its tourist industry.

Sixteen Nepalese guides were killed in avalanche in April 2014, and that October, a freak storm swept through a popular trekking route and killed 42 people, includ-ing foreign hikers. While the coun-try has much rebuilding ahead, its latest problems are political.

Since August, Madhesi ethnic groups in southern Nepal have been blocking highways to protest the

country’s newly adopted constitu-tion. They have blocked a border crossing with India that is normally the entry point for most of Nepal’s fuel and other supplies.

India, which has close ties to the Madhesis, denies Nepal’s accusa-tion that it has imposed a blockade. The fuel shortage has left long lines at service stations and created a black market for gasoline. Much of the country’s bus service has been canceled, and those buses still op-erating are so packed some passen-gers must travel on the rooftops.

To ease the crisis, the govern-ment this week announced a one-time sale of 15 liters (4 gallons) per vehicle. But Tuesday marked the beginning of the two-week Dasain festival, a time when Nepalis travel to their home villages to be with family. At the main bus station in Kathmandu, hundreds of people lined up hoping to get tickets on the few buses that were leaving.

Taxi fares, meanwhile, have in-creased manifold. Norwegian cou-ple Tom Omdal and Elise Skogheim paid $30 for what would normally be a $6 trip from the Kathmandu airport to their hotel.

“The situation is more serious than what I had expected. It is in-sane. I did not think it was so bad,” said Skogheim, 26, from Oslo. It’s not just transport that has been af-fected. Many restaurants in Thamel have closed because they ran out of cooking gas.

“We did not even get eggs with our breakfast,” Omdal said, sipping his coffee and eating a ham and cheese sandwich at the popular New Orleans Restaurant in Thamel.(ap)

VATICAN CITY — Pope Fran-cis asked forgiveness Wednesday for recent scandals that have hit Rome and the Vatican, showing again he doesn’t much care about making waves if it’s for the sake of reassuring his flock.

Francis didn’t cite examples in his off-the-cuff request for par-don at the start of his general au-dience. It was met with subdued applause afterward. However, the past week has seen its fair share of headline-making news that has involved the church in one way or another.

On the eve of Francis’ big and contentious meeting on family is-sues, a Vatican monsignor came out as gay and, with his boyfriend

by his side, denounced homophobia in the Catholic Church. He was summarily fired from his job in the Vatican’s doctrine office.

A few days later, Rome’s mayor resigned amid scandal of his own doing. But Mayor Ignazio Marino’s downfall followed widespread criticism within the church that the city was ill-prepared to handle the millions of pilgrims expected for Francis’ Jubilee Year of Mercy, which starts in December.

And finally, Francis’ synod has been rocked by revelations that a dozen conservative cardinals wrote to the pope with serious concerns about the way the meeting was being run.

“Before I begin the catechesis

I would like in the name of the church to ask your forgiveness for the scandals which have recently fallen on Rome and the Vatican,” Francis said to thousands of people gathered under damp but warm skies in St. Peter’s Square. “I ask your forgiveness.”

“Jesus is a realist and he says that it is inevitable that scandal happens, but woe to the man who causes such scandals,” he said. The Vatican spokesman did not immediately respond to an email seeking clarifi-cation of what Francis meant.

During the audience, the also pope greeted some of the 33 Chil-ean miners who survived 69 days underground in 2010 after their mine shaft caved in. (ap)

AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia

Pope Francis, center, arrives in St. Peter’s Square for the weekly general audience, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. Pope Francis is asking forgiveness for recent scandals that have hit Rome and the Vatican.

Pope begs forgiveness for ‘scandals’ hitting Rome, Vatican


KATHMANDU — Just when Nepal was recovering from the devastating earthquake that killed thousands, flattened com-munities and chased away foreign tourists, protests by ethnic groups and severe fuel shortages are again keeping visitors away from the nation known for the world’s highest peaks.

AP Photo/Tashi Sherpa, file

FILE - In this March 18, 2015 file photo, trekkers take an acclimatization hike to Nagarzhang peak above Dingboche valley on the way to Everest base camp, Nepal.

The sacrificial animals presented by Balinese people to the middle of the lake included buffalo, goat, geese and ducks. Before offering the animals into the lake, a series of events are held at the Ulun Danu Beratan Temple. After delivering the offerings to be drowned into

the lake, all the pilgrims are praying together at the Ulun Danu Beratan Temple.

The bakti pakelem is held as an expression of gratitude to Goddess Lakshmi who has bestowed pros-perity for Balinese people. Lake Beratan itself is one of the lakes in

Bali which is becoming the source of water for Balinese people.

With the ceremony it is expected that harmony of nature can be well maintained, mainly the availability of water denoting the essence of life especially in the dry season lasting longer in the 2015. The ritual is also supported by the apparatus of Candikuning customary village and supporting devotees of the Ulun Danu Beratan Temple. Chief of Candikuning customary village, I Made Susila Putra, said that the Ulun Danu Beratan Temple is sup-ported by four pesataan namely the Pesataan Baturiti, Pesataan

Antapan, Pesataan Bangah and Pesataan Candikuning with a total of 18 customary villages and two pande (blacksmith) clans namely the Pande Marga and Pande Bayan. “All the parties supported the bakti pakelem held in Lake Beratan,” he said.

He continued that pakelem ritual is regularly held in Lake Beratan. This is one of the functions of the Ulun Danu Beratan Temple that do not only serve as a sanctum to invoke holy water but also func-tions to hold nyegara gunung and meajar-ajar ritual. “Each week there is always a pakelem ritual held here

either in small or large offerings like this time,” he explained. Other than meaning to ask for balance of nature, the pakelem ritual in Lake Beratan is also intended to ask for fertility and prosperity.

The pakelem ritual taking place on Monday (Oct. 12) was attended by the former governor of Bali Dewa Made Beratha, a member of the Central House of Representa-tives from Tabanan, Made Urip, and his colleague Nyoman Dha-mantra, subdistrict head of Baturiti Tos Partha, and a number of senior figures of royal palaces in Tabanan. (kmb24)

SEMARAPURA - Shortage of water resources in Nusa Penida makes agricultural land in this subdistrict rely more on rainwater. Nusa Penida is also known as a pro-ducer of cassava or locally known as gayot. Potential outcome of this plantation is widely processed into various kinds of foods such as fermented cassava. Dry land in Nusa Penida makes local cassava have a flavor and softer texture on

the tongue.As with fermented cassava in

general, the people of Ped village, Nusa Penida, often make it be on sale at traditional markets. To prepare it, the cassava is cleaned up first and then boiled. Let it cool down for a while. After that, the boiled cassava is mixed with yeast. “The process of making is not so complicated. It just needs a different touch to make it savory

and creamy on the tongue,” said a fermented cassava maker from Sental Kangin hamlet, Ped village, Ni Wayan Astini.

She said that Ped villagers aver-agely have a side job as the maker of fermented cassava. Most of them are seaweed farmers. This side job is usually carried out on the sidelines of their time working on seaweed.

“Its marketing remains target

local areas, especially at Mentigi Market, but guests or pilgrims that come to say prayers to Nusa Penida will usually stop by and purchase the fermented cassava as souvenir. Along the road to Penataran Ped Temple the fermented cassava mak-ers are peddling their products,” said Astini. In terms of pricing, it varies depending on the contents, ranging from IDR 3,000 to IDR 5,000.

According to the Head of the Klungkung Cooperatives and Small Business Agency, A.A. Manik, the typical fermented cassava of Nusa Penida has often been included in various SME ex-hibitions as a medium to introduce this product to wider community. This snack is free from preserva-tives and flavoring additives since it is still prepared in traditional process. (dwa)

Typical fermented cassava of Nusa Penida

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The Pakelem Ritual is held in Lake Beratan

Bakti Pakelem ritual held in Lake Beratan

TABANAN - Coinciding with new moon of the fourth month in Balinese calendar hundreds of Balinese people engaged in the bakti pakelem ritual in Lake Beratan, Monday (Oct. 12). The lake located at Candikuning village is the lake for the wor-ship of Goddess Lakshmi symbolizing prosperity. The ritual was officiated over by Ida Mpu Budha Alit Maharsi Parama Daksha from Griya Agung Budha Salahin, Tanggahan Tengah hamlet, Demulih, Bangli.

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The study also challenged advice from the UK National Health Ser-vice (NHS) based on other studies stating that “remaining seated for too long is bad for your health, regardless of how much exercise

you do.”Exeter University and University

College London researchers fol-lowed more than 5,000 people over a 16-year period and their findings were published in the International

Journal of Epidemiology.“Any stationary posture where

energy expenditure is low may be detrimental to health, be it sitting or standing,” said Melvyn Hillsdon from Exeter’s sport and health sci-ences department.

“The results cast doubt on the benefits of sit-stand work stations, which employers are increasingly providing to promote healthy work-

ing environments.”The research found there was

no influence on mortality risk for participants from sitting at work, during leisure time or watching television.

The NHS said on its website in advice published last year that there was “increasing evidence” linking excessive sitting with being obese, type 2 diabetes, some types of can-

cer, and premature death.It recommends an active break

from sitting every 30 minutes, cit-ing expert Professor Stuart Biddle saying: “Sitting needs breaking up.”

“Do some tasks standing, like having coffee and chats, or even writing a letter –- Ernest Heming-way wrote his novels standing,” he added. (afp)

Now you see it, now you don’t. A new type of heart stent that works like dissolving stitches, slowly going away after it has done its job, passed its first major test in a large study, doctors said Monday.

Abbott Vascular’s dissolving Absorb stent performed as well as a conventional stent in the one-year study, but the fact it did not prove superior led some experts to be wary.

Still, the results on this and other novel stents currently in testing are fueling hope for a new generation of these devices, used on about 850,000 heart disease patients each year in the United States alone.

Stents are tiny mesh cages that keep blood vessels from reclogging after an artery-opening angioplasty procedure. The ones available now in the U.S. are permanent implants made of metal, usually coated with a material that oozes medicine, but they sometimes cause inflammation and other problems years down the road.

The Absorb stent, already sold in Europe, is made of a degradable material that’s designed to stay intact and release medicine for a year, then break down over the next two years.

“It holds the artery open long enough for the artery to heal,” then completely goes away, said one study leader, Dr. Dean Kereiakes of Christ Heart and Vascular Center in Cincinnati. “It can return the artery to its normal, natural structure and function.”

The study involved about 2,000 patients with chest pain due to one or two clogged arteries, and was aimed at winning Food and Drug Administration approval to sell Absorb in the U.S.

In the study, those treated with the dissolving stent fared as well as those given a conventional Abbott stent called Xience. After one year, 6 percent to 7 percent of both groups had died of a heart-related cause, had a heart attack due to a problem with the treated artery or needed a new artery-opening procedure.

The dissolving stent did not prove better, though, on several mea-sures, and the trends were leaning in the opposite direction, noted Dr. Robert A. Byrne of the Technical University of Munich, who has been a paid speaker for some rival stent and heart device makers.

He wrote a commentary published online with the study by the New England Journal of Medicine. Results also were discussed Monday at a meeting of heart specialists, the TCT conference, in San Francisco. Abbott sponsored and helped designed the study, and several study leaders consult for the company.

The idea of a dissolving stent is attractive, but “promise alone is not enough to make us unconditionally embrace this technology,” Byrne wrote. A longer study underway now of 5,000 patients “will go a long way toward determining whether this promise will become a reality.”

Price could be a factor in how widely dissolving stents catch on. Abbott would not disclose Absorb’s price and said it varies in dozens of countries. Others said dissolving stents cost more than conventional ones. (ap)

PARIS - A simple blood test can reduce unneccessary hospital admissions by pinpointing people seeking medical help for chest pain caused by something other than a heart attack, a study said Thursday.

Researchers said they had identi-fied the optimal level of a protein called troponin in the blood below which a heart attack can be all but ruled out as the cause of chest pain.

In a trial of about 6,300 people who went to the emergency room with chest pain at four hospitals in Scotland and the United States, the test correctly identified about two-thirds of those who were not having a heart attack -- all had a troponin level under five nanogrammes (bil-lionths of a gram) per decilitre (a tenth of a litre).

This meant everyone under this threshold could probably have been

sent home instead of being admitted to hospital, the research team wrote in The Lancet medical journal.

“Implementation of this ap-proach would reduce avoidable hospital admission and have ma-jor benefits for both patients and health-care providers,” the re-searchers wrote.

But they underlined the approach should not be applied without con-sulting a patient’s medical history

and profile.Chest pain is one of the most

common causes of hospitalisation worldwide, with international guide-lines recommending that people who complain of chest pain be admitted for extensive testing. The vast major-ity do not have a heart attack.

“Until now there were no quick ways to rule out heart attack within the emergency department,” lead author Anoop Shah from the Uni-

versity of Edinburgh said in a statement.

In a comment also carried by The Lancet, experts Louise Cullen and William Parsonage from the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in Australia, and Martin Than from Christchurch Hospital in New Zea-land, urged further study before a troponin benchmark is determined for early discharge of people with chest pain. (afp)

Sitting no worse for health than standingLoNDoN - Sitting down is no worse for you than standing

up as long as you take regular exercise, a British study said Monday, casting doubt on the health benefits of sit-stand work stations.

Heart attack test can reduce hospital admission

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The minister said although they are amateur radio operators, their organi-zation has shown professionalism.

He also expressed the hope that amateur radio broadcasting can im-prove development communication

in Indonesia.Meanwhile, the president of the

16th IARU conference, Sutiyoso, expressed appreciation for the Com-munication and Informatics Ministry and Bali’s provincial government for their cooperation in organizing the IARU conference.

A hundred participants from 20 countries are participating in the IARU conference. (ant)

TABANAN - Tabanan actually has many potential tourist destina-tions. Unfortunately, the damage of infrastructure chiefly road has made the tourism development in the region potentially hampered. One of them is the Kelecung Beach at Tegal Mengkeb, East Selemadeg. Scenery of the beach stays pristine and untouched by human hands. More interestingly, this beach is a strategic location for turtle to nest.

Seeing this potential, the village authorities of Tegal Mengkeb plans to develop Kelecung Beach into a tourist object. “However, the road access to the beach is badly dam-aged so that it is difficult to develop the tourism on Klecung Beach,” said headman of Tegal Mengkeb, I Dewa Made Widarma. Actually in terms of scenery, Kelecung Beach is no less beautiful.

The waves are also challenging to surf. It has a rock named stage rock commonly taken advantage for spiritual activities such as yoga and meditation. Currently Tegal Mengkeb village has developed turtle breeding in a simple method to protect the population of the en-dangered species and makes it into a tourist attraction.

“In the past, turtle eggs were

taken by residents to be fried and consumed. Certainly it is very much deplored. To that end, the village established Pokwasmas in 2008, where the eggs are collected for hatching and then released,” explained Widarma.

To collect turtle eggs, the Pok-wasmas with 60 members involves the surrounding community. Com-pensation of the turtle eggs are given as much as IDR 2,000. Oper-ating cost of the turtle conservation, said Widarma, is still taken from the village. So far, the breeding site has released at least 200 turtle hatchlings.

Though having great potential, the tourism development of Kele-cung Beach is still hampered by damaged road. To reach Kelecung Beach visitors must pass through potholed road about one kilometer from Tegal Mengkeb Kelod. Ac-cording to Widarma, the damaged road has made many travelers reluc-tant to visit Kelecung Beach.

Although the village will de-velop beach tourism, it has provided protection so that the beach area can be well maintained, where one of which is by prohibiting the con-struction of villas and hotels around the beach. (kmb24)

SINGARAJA - The beauty of the landscape in many areas of Buleleng has the potential to draw visitors again and again, The natural beauty of the region of Lake Buyan, is supported by such activities as cherry tomato picking in Pancasari village, Sukasada. The cool moun-tain air makes it all the more pleas-ant for visitors to linger and enjoy the natural surroundings while savouring the cherry tomatoes.

The climate around Lake Bu-nyan is ideal for growing cheery

tomatoes that will flourish here if given enough water. Farmers take advantage of the cherry tomatoes by creating a unique tourist attraction widely known as the cherry picking tomato tour. “These unique cherry tomatoes can be enjoyed immedi-ately or can be picked to take home for only IDR 8,000 to IDR 10,000 per kg. It is my first time coming here,” said a cherry tomato tourist Putu Ari.

These red cherry tomatoes in-deed attracts many visitors who are

asked to only pick the ripe toma-toes. Most of the cherry tomatoes cultivated here are Solanum lyco-persicum that have a sweet flavour and are smaller than most tomatoes on the market.

Cherry tomato plants are very suitable for highlands that have temperatures around 17 to 18 de-grees Celsius. Good quality toma-toes have a fixed colour and smooth skin, while poor quality tomatoes have a dull colour and sour taste. (kmb34)

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Tabanan actually has many potential tourist destinations. Unfortunately, the damage of infrastructure chiefly road has made the tourism development in the region potentially ham-pered. One of them is the Kelecung Beach at Tegal Mengkeb, East Selemadeg.

Tourism development of Kelecung Beach hampered

by infrastructure

Bali hosts international conference of

amateur radio unionDENPASAR - Bali played host to the 16th conference of In-

ternational Amateur Radio Union from october 12 to 16, 2015. The Communication and Informatics Minister, Rudiantara, expressed the hope that the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) conference will be able to provide a breakthrough or an exchange of ideas regarding the current issues facing the amateur radio operators.

Cherry tomato attraction draws visitors to Lake Buyan

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Cool mountain air makes visitors linger to enjoy local nature while tasting the cherry toma-toes.

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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Cer-emony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

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

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beau-tifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

General Manager Joane said that the piodalan is held every year to invoke safety and express gratitude to God Almighty. This activity also fosters togetherness among the hotel employees. Besides, it is also a cultural attraction that visitors very much enjoy. “We also invite our guests to participate” she said.

Chairman of the organizing committee, I Ketut Nik Arta Wiguna, explained that preparations for the piodalan started a month earlier, first with a cleanup, then mebat (preparation of Balinese cooking) making of penjor, decorating padmasana shrines and the holding of pecaruan or animal sacrifice. After that there was the presenting pejati and daksina. “At the peak of this piodalan, we purify the spirit by saying prayers together”

he said.By implementing this piodalan, explained

Nik Arta Wiguna, we invoke safety and se-curity for the workers and all the in-house guests. Similarly, it is also held so that Hotel Neo Kuta Jelantik will be more developed in the future physically (sekala) and psychi-cally (niskala).

Human Resources Coordinator, I Putu Hendra Saputra, said that the piodalan has been held three times after since the hotel was established. The ceremony is also part of the implementation of the Tri Hita Karana concept at the hotel. “Everything can be made due to the cooperation of all the team members consisting of 62 employees, so that we can realize quality service” he said. (kmb)

Piodalan at Temple of Hotel Neo Kuta Jelantik

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KUTA - The staff and employees of the Hotel Neo Kuta Jelantik said prayers together during the piodalan or anniversary of the hotel temple, on Monday (Sep. 28). The ceremony was held on the full moon of the fourth month of the Balinese calendar and took place in togetherness and thankfulness. Hotel staff prepared all the ritual means together such as doing cleanup as well as installing shrine paraphernalia, umbrellas and penjor. The peak of the temple anniversary was not only attended by Hindu employees, but also by employees of other religions in an expression of tolerance.

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A 33 year old man identified as Ram who was arrested by the Denpasar Police Narcotic Unit for suspicion of trafficking these ‘fake-drugs’, reportedly said that he worked as a freelance tour guide and admitted that he deliberately sells these concoctions because there is a high profit margin.

To make fake crystal meth, the suspect said that that he mixes salt and other ingredients, while fake cocaine is made from drugs includ-ing headache medicine.

“I don’t’ have enough money to buy the real drugs because they are very expensive. I sell (coun-terfeit drug—Ed) to foreigners for IDR 200,000 per package,” said Madurese Ram on Tuesday (Oct. 6). He added that he has been dis-tributing such fake illicit goods for a month.

Chief of the Denpasar Police Narcotic Unit, Gede Ganefo, said that the suspect was arrested on Jalan Gunung Welirang, West Denpasar. “The evidence secured consists of three packs of what is suspected of being crystal meth, a package suspected of being cocaine, a bundle of plastic clip,

pipettes and a helmet. We will ex-amine the evidence in the forensic laboratory in order to ascertain where the drugs are fake or if some of them are real,” he said.

Ganefo added that the police were made aware of the case through information provided by the public indicating that crystal meth was being sold in the area of Jalan Gunung Welirang.

A search of the suspect revealed a small package suspected of being crystal meth and another suspected of being cocaine in his wallet. A few other item were also seized as evidence. More incriminating items were found in the suspects room before he was finally arrested.

Two other suspects were also arrested, both of whom worked as hotel employees. Dik was ar-rested on Jalan Raya Sesetan, South Denpasar. while Wir was arrested on Jalan Tukad Barito. Evidecne seized from these two suspects include; five packages of crystal meth, an electric scale, four bundles of plastic clips, two bongs and two scissors. “Both suspects belong to the same syndicate,” he said.

Head of the National Narcot-

ics Agency (BNNP) of Bali, Putu Gede Suastawa, said that he was not surprised to hear that fake drugs were in circulation because he has been hearing about such cases for a while now. “We need to check to be sure that the drugs are fake, possibly the suspect is just using subterfuge to escape criminal charges,” he said.

Suastawa affirmed however that the that circulation of fake drugs makes Bali look bad, especially as foreigners are being targeted for the sale if these substances. “Fake drugs are made by mixing various different ingredients. As a result, the impact of consuming such sub-stances is not clear and could be even worse that the impact of con-

suming the real thing,” he said. On that account, he suggests that

people do not attempt to consume any kind of narcotics. Dealers of fake drugs are trying to take ad-vantage of opportunities in Bali to double their profits. “People need to fortify themselves so as not to be affected by drug syndicates,” pleaded Suastawa. (rah)

Therefore the BNNP Bali is continuing to disseminate infor-mation to coastal residents about the hazards of drugs and how to prevent these substances from becoming a problem. “Security forces cannot guards the entire coast line, so fishermen and other people who live on the coast, are expected to contributing to pro-tecting Bali from the onslaught of drug traffickers,” said Pakris.

As for Ngurah Rai airport, Pakris affirmed that Customs and Excise officers have performed well as evidenced by a number of cases in which they managed to thwart drug smugglers. How-ever, Pakris still hopes that an integrated security team made up of BNNP Bali, Customs and Excise, the Immigration Office,

police, military and airport au-thorities can be established at the airport. “Maybe, this team can be established next year and is sure to yield good results. A lot of drugs were sent by expedi-tion of cargo,” he said.

Head of the Customs and Excise Supervision and Services (KPPBC) of the Ngurah Rai Airport, Budi Harjanto, said that there were less cases of drug smuggling a the airport this year than last year. Since January there were four cases of drug smuggling that were thwarted at the airport, four at the post office and another two at the arrivals terminal. “The death penalty for dug dealing has a positive impact. It is a major factor,” he said.

Although drug smuggling has decreased, said Budi, air-port personnel remain alert. Surveillance and investiga-

tion techniques continue to be improved upon because drug dealers attempt to run drugs into Bali through a variety of ways. “Customs must work to the best of their ability and according to procedure in order not to miss any illicit transactions,” said Budi. (rah)

Customs and Excise Supervision and Services

(KPPBC) of the Ngurah Rai Airport showed drug

smuggler that was thwart-ed at the airport. Lack of

adequate security and supervision at the airport

means that some some smugglers are success-ful in bringing in illegal

substances. More vulner-able still are Bali’s coastal areas that are not guarded

by security forces. IBP/File Photo

‘Fake drugs’ threaten foreigners

IBP/Ngurah Ken

Chief of the Denpasar Police Narcotic Unit, Gede Ganefo showed ‘fake drugs’.

THE CIrCULATION of drugs in Bali is increasingly wor-risome and threatens to have negative impacts on the younger generation. This condition is aggravated by the circulation of “fake-drugs”. Currently, there are traffickers of these ‘fake drug’ roaming around Kuta and certainly target foreign citizens as prospective clientele.



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The Oscar-winning actress blasted pay inequality between the sexes in her post for Lenny, a newsletter co-founded by Lena Dunham, but admitted she had failed to tackle the issue out of fear of being labeled “difficult” or “spoiled.”

She said that when she found out from Sony emails leaked last year that she was paid less than her male co-stars in the hit-movie “American Hustle,” she didn’t get mad at Sony but at herself.

“I would be lying if I didn’t say there was an element of wanting to be liked that influenced my decision to close the deal without a real fight,” Lawrence said in her post.

“At the time, that seemed like a fine idea, until I saw the payroll on the Internet and realized every man I was working with definitely didn’t worry about being ‘difficult’ or ‘spoiled.’”

“The Hunger Games” actress added that male col-leagues appeared annoyed when she had recently shared her opinion about sexism in the industry.

“I’m over trying to find the ‘adorable’ way to state my opinion and still be lik-able! Fuck that,” she wrote. “I don’t think I’ve ever worked for a man in charge who spent time contemplating what angle he should use to have his voice heard. It’s just heard.”

She also said she found it offensive that one of the hacked Sony emails had referred to fellow movie star Angelina Jolie as a “spoiled brat.”

“For some reason, I just can’t picture someone saying that about a man,” she wrote.

Lawrence, who won an Oscar for her role in the 2012 comedy “Silver Linings Playbook,” is one of Hollywood’s young-est stars at age 25.

She’s also one of its highest earners, topping Forbes magazine’s 2015 list of best-paid actresses at $52 million dol-lars.

But that’s still nearly $30 million short of the $80 million raked in by Robert Downey Jr., who topped the list for the third consecutive year. (afp)

LOS ANGELES - Pop superstar Taylor Swift on Tuesday led nominations for the American Music Awards, with Canadian singer The Weeknd the favorite among newcomers.

The winners, to be announced at a gala in Los Angeles on No-vember 22, will be determined through voting by fans, unlike the more prestigious Grammy Awards which are based on polling within the music industry.

Swift’s early lead is not surprising as the American Music Awards’ nominations are based on sales and other commercial factors.

Swift, whose “1989” was last year’s top-selling album in the United States and posted the biggest first-week sales in more than a decade, was nominated in six categories including Artist of the Year and Favorite Pop/Rock Album.

The Weeknd and Ed Sheeran, the English singer behind the smash hit ballad “Thinking Out Loud,” follow Swift with five nominations each.

The Weeknd, who rose from obscurity several years ago by posting videos of his singing on YouTube, has enjoyed

a breakthrough success in recent months with his funky pop tune “Can’t Feel My Face.”

The 25-year-old Canadian is nominated in categories including New Artist of the Year, where competitors include the rap sensation Fetty Wap and Tove Lo, a Swedish singer who has recently broken into the US

market.Nicki Minaj, one of the leading women in hip-hop, was

nominated in four categories.Tied with four nods are Meghan Trainor, the “All About That Bass” singer who has challenged traditional no-

tions of slender appearance among women in pop, and Sam Smith, the English soul singer who was the big winner at this year’s Grammys.

Last year’s big winner at the American Music Awards was the British boy band One Direction.

The group is again nominated for Artist of the Year after a tumultuous year in which founding

member Zayn Malik quit. (afp)

Taylor Swift leads American Music

Award nominations

LOS ANGELES - One of Hollywood’s top movie stars Jennifer Lawrence hit out against film industry sexism in a blunt essay Tuesday for an online feminist newsletter.

SINGARAJA - The charm of the natural beauty of Bule-leng is never ending. Creative developments continue to be supported in order to increase the number of tourist visits to North Bali. The development of a new natural tourist destination at Putri Menjangan is on example. In contrast to Menjangan Island, the beauty of Putri (Princess) Menjangan mangrove forests, offers forest exploration in the form of a tour package.

Located at Batu Ampar hamlet, Pejarakan, Gerokgak, Putri Menjan-gan’s nature tourism site is located just north of the Banyumandi Harbor. Lately, the mangrove forest has been transformed and equipped with a bamboo bridge along one kilometer. Visitors start the tour by taking pictures and enjoying approximately 18 types of mangrove found there. Afternnon visitors can also enjoy a beautiful sunset view on the white sandy beaches. Undersea enchantment can be enjoyed by diving and snorkeling around nearby Menjangan Island.

The development of Putri Menjangan into a tourist destination was motivated by the that embarrassment of Menjangan Island tourism stakeholders felt when the price of admission was hiked up to IDR 200,000 from IDR 20,000 by authorities. Two months ago, Putri Men-jangan Conservation Forum. took the initiative of opening a nature tourism site. “Obviously we are still resentful about the increase in the ticket price. The revenue form these tickets goes entirely to the central government, while we get no contribution at all. We are therefore look-ing to take advantage of the natural potential of our village to generate revenue for people here. This destination is known as Putri Menjangan, just like a cranky princess because the central government is not in favor of the public,” said forum member I Nyoman Suntara.

A number of other tourism stakeholders are also participating in pioneering and preserving the mangrove forests, includ-ing I Wayan Sulitra, I Nyoman Sandi and I Nyoman Suntara. Currently, there are at least 140 members in support of the Putri Menjangan Conservation Forum.

RAPID eco-nomic growth and the preva-lence of tour-i s m i n B a l i make for many

opportunities for drug dealers to run

their illicit businesses here. For-

eigner visitors are also vying for a share of the market and are willing to to run th erisk of smuggling drugs onto the island of the Gods.

Lack of adequate security and supervision at the airport means that some some smugglers are successful in bringing in illegal

substances. More vulnerable still are Bali’s coastal areas that are not guarded by security forces. “Most dry dealers in Bali are foreign nationals many of whom have smuggling drugs into the country by seas land or air. The sea in par-ticular makes for an easy escape root,” said Acting Division Head

of Eradication, for the BNNP Bali, Made Pakris.

In addition to unsupervised ports, drug traffickers also target fishermen or cabin crew (ABK) who are manipulated into aid-ing these drug syndicates. “For example, tuna intestines are re-moved and replaced with dugs

such as crystal meth. Until now no one has been checking things to that extent. Likely transactions are made at sea and then the drug filled fish are brought to shore, where they are assumed to be ordinary fish,” he said.

Weak supervision, drug smuggling continues

IBP/Dewa Kusuma

The beauty of Putri (Princess) Menjangan mangrove forests, offers forest exploration in the form of a tour package.

Tourism players create Putri Menjangan tourist destination

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