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Laika’s talented animators, though, often seem to conjure their puppetry whimsy quicker than their screenwrit-ers can spin a story. That was the case with their last one, the brilliant-looking but meandering “ParaNorman,” about a boy who alone sees and uncomfortably lives with the lingering spirits of dead people, and it’s true with their latest, “The Boxtrolls.”

The film is set in the British village of Cheesebridge where cheese is the most prized currency and the town’s aristocracy — a trio of clueless men dubbed “White

Hats” for their tall head-ware — spend their time slathering over gouda. (In both location and cheese worship, Laika is intruding somewhat on the territory of its sunnier stop-motion rivals, Aardman Animation of “Wallace and Gromit.”)

The supposed scourge of Cheeseb-ridge are the Boxtrolls, little nocturnal creatures who wear discarded boxes like a turtle shell and scavenge for mechani-cal parts on nighttime streets.

Archibald Snatcher (a deliciously snarling Ben Kingsley), having promised to rid the town of the Boxtrolls, hunts

them with his existentially confused henchmen (Richard Ayoade, Nick Frost), who — in the movie’s cleverest bit — are in a quandary over whether they’ve unwittingly become bad guys. “I’m not a stooge, am I?” wonders one.

The Boxtrolls — naturally, not the monsters they’ve been made out to be — live peacefully underground, charmingly stacking themselves for bed as if preparing for UPS pickup. They mutter a little like the minions of “Despicable Me,” fleeing like springing accordions or camouflaging themselves beside a fruit cart.

Among them is a child (voiced by Isaac Hempstead Wright) they’ve raised from infancy named “Eggs” (they all take their names from their boxes, like “Fish” and “Shoe”). He begins to con-fidently explore Cheesebridge above ground, defending his Boxtroll brethren, and befriending the assertive, overlooked daughter of one of the White Hats, Win-nie (Elle Fanning).

The grubby Victorian designs overseen by directors Graham Annable (the story artist of “Para-Norman”) and Anthony Stacchi (co-director of the 2006 animated film “Open Season”) are ulti-mately a little suffocating. “Box-trolls,” loosely based on Alan Snow’s “Here Be Monsters,” belongs to a subgenre called Steampunk, a kind of Victorian fantasy full of neo-futuristic ma-chines. (It’s a little like a Tom Waits video.)

The sensibility here is prob-ably more than some small chil-dren will enjoy. Leaches, for example, don’t come standard in kids’ movies. But “The Box-trolls,” despite a rather uncer-tainly structured story by screen-writers Irena Brignull and Adam Pava, has its pleasantly demented charms.

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LOS ANGELES — Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn will star in the second season of HBO’s “True Detec-tive.” The eight-episode drama series will begin production in California this fall, the premium cable channel said Tuesday.

Farrell will play a compromised de-tective, Ray, who is divided between his loyalty to his bosses in a corrupt police department and a mobster with a hold over him.

Vince Vaughn co-stars as Frank, a

criminal whose move into legitimate business is disrupted by a business part-ner’s murder.

HBO had a critically acclaimed hit with the first season of “True Detective,” which starred the Emmy-nominated Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. The air date for the second season was not announced.

Season one of “True Detective” paired two actors known primarily for their big-screen work in a twisted, noir-ish tale. McConaughey and Harrelson played former Louisiana State Police detectives interrogated in 2012 about a

homicide case they’re shown working, in flashback, in 1995.

The crime drama provoked some grumbling when it was entered in the Emmy Awards drama series category despite its abbreviated eight-episode run and the likelihood its stars wouldn’t return for the next go-around. “True Detective” ended up losing the best drama Emmy to “Breaking Bad,” while McConaughey and Harrelson also failed to grab Emmy gold — although the former, an Oscar winner this year for “Dallas Buyers Club,” was seen as the frontrunner.

Farrell, Vaughn set for ‘True Detective’ season 2

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‘Boxtrolls’ has a demented charmAssociated Press

A spooky surrealism has been the specialty of the Oregon-based anima-tion studio Laika, the Pacific Northwest purveyors of 3-D stop-motion. The self-stylized descendants of the Brothers Grimm and Neil Gaiman (whose “Coraline” they adapted for their first of three features), Laika seems to yearn for a little more darkness, a touch of Gothic in our chil-dren’s films — a laudable and very welcome impulse that makes one inclined to celebrate their fanciful grotesqueries on intentions alone.

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In this image released by Focus Features, characters Winnie, voiced by Elle Fan-ning, left, and Eggs, voiced by Isaac Hempstead Wright, appear in a scene from “The Boxtrolls.”

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DENPASAR - Commission XI of the House of Representatives of the RI has completed a banking bill draft and specified a maximum of 40 percent for foreign share ownership in the sec-tor. This figure is still considered high because it can disrupt the national economic interests.

“We think 40 percent is still relatively high because the restriction in other countries is much lower. In the ASEAN, for example, foreign ownership has been set and should not be the majority,” said Chief of the BNI Econo-mist, Prof. Dr. Wayan Ramantha, when asked for his confirmation, Tuesday (Sep 23).

According to this professor of the Udayana University, the presence of rules prohibiting foreign investors from having a majority of share in the national banking sector aimed to maintain the economy, so that it would not be dominated, especially the strategic sectors.

“The share of bank mostly owned and controlled by a national company will make the economic turnaround in the country can be immediately felt. In other words, bank poses a significant financial intermediation and determining business entity in a country. When the intermediation of a country is de-termined by other country, then the economy will not be good,” he said.

Meanwhile, Director of the Center for Business Economic Data Analysis, Udayana University, Dr. Sudjana Budhi, stated that in the context of the ASEAN cooperation, the national foreign exchange bank should be directed to enter the ASEAN market, while the regional banks should be focused on domestic market share. Thus, there would be a wider movement space for the regional banks to take part in implementing the bank-ing services.

“Concerns on the occurrence of macro-prudence can threaten the stability of the Indonesia’s economy. This leads to failure in achieving the target of domestic banks to international market which should have been achieved if the merger is made to all foreign exchange banks in Indonesia into a single bank entity,” he said.

Remains high, foreign ownership in banking sector

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The photo shows a cashier showed dollar banknote. Commission XI of the House of Representatives of the RI has completed a banking bill draft and specified a maximum of 40 percent for foreign share ownership in the sector. This figure is still considered high because it can disrupt the national economic interests.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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Calendar Event for September 28 through October 28, 2014

8 Sep Kajeng Kliwon Pamelastali/Watu Gunung runtuh Pura Penataran Agung Maha Gotra Tirta Harum Sri Srengga Nyalian Banjarrangkan Klungkung

30 Sep Paid-Paidan Pura Dalem Seme Jawa Marga Tabanan

1 Oct Urip 2 Oct Patetegan 3 Oct Pengeradanan 4 Oct Hari Saraswati Pura Pasek Tangkas Dalang TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Sayan Bongkasa Abian SemalPura Watu Gunung BimaPura Agung Jagat Karana SurabayaPura Aditya Jaya Rawa Mangun Jakarta TimurPura Pemekasan Banyuning Timur BulelengPura Agung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi Jawa BaratPura Kawitan Bendesa Aban Baturning Mambal Abiansemal

5 Oct Banyu Pinaruh 6 Oct Soma ribek Pura Jati JembranaPura Kawitan Batu Gaing BangliPura Tirta Wening SurabayaPura Desa Lingga Wana Abang Karan-gasem

7 Oct Sabuh Mas 8 Oct Pagerwesi Dan Purnama Sasih Kapat Pura Labang SinduJiwa UbudPura Kehen BangliPura Wira Bhuana Magelang

Jawa TengahPura Padang Sakti Denpasar TimurPura Payogan Agung Ketewel Sukawati GianyarPura Gaduh Dauh Puri DenpasarPura Masceti Tampak SiringPura Dalem Ularan Tatasan Kaja DenpasarPura Siwa Tohjiwa Penebel TabananPura Luhur Giri Slaka Alas Purwo BanyuwangiPura Sada Kaba-kaba Kediri TabananPura Gunung Lebah UbudPura Puseh Ketewel SukawatiPura Dalem Cemara Serangan DenpasarPura penataran Agung Bhatara Tiga Sakti BesakihPura Meru Cakra LombokPura Lempuyang Madya KarangasemPura Penerejon Kintamani BangliPura Pulaki BulelengPura Gunung Lebah UbudPura Thirta Negari KarangasemPura Thirta Empul Tampak SiringPura Penataran Agung TegalalangPura Luhuring Akasa Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Desa Denjalan Batuyang BatubulanPura Puseh Werdi Agung Sulawesi UtaraPura Pasraman Suci Renon DenpasarPura Penataran Bumi Agung TMII JakartaPura Luhur Waisnawa BulelengPura Ulun Danu Songan Batur KintamaniPura Agung Surya Bhuana Jaya Pura PapuaPura Gumang Bugbug KarangasemPura Taman Sari Busung Biu Busung Biu Buleleng

13 Oct Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 18 Oct Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya Sidakarya Denpasar

Pura Pasek Gelgel Pedungan DenpasarPura Agung Pasek Tangguntiti TabananPura Agung Pasek Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Tangkas Kediri TabananPura Kerta Banyuning Barat BulelengPura Dalem Tenggaling Sangguan SingapaduPura Kawitan Arya Wangbang Pinatih Peguyangan SingarajaPura Bujangga Waisnawa JembranaPura Taman Bubuan Seririt SingarajaPura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur MengwiPura Dalem Pingit TegalalangPura Ida Ratu Pande BesakihPura Penataran Agung Pinatih Tulikup GianyarPura Kumuda Saraswati UbudPura Batur Arya Sudimara TabananPura Dalem Majapahit Marga TabananPura Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati

19 Oct redite Umanis Ukir Pura Sanggah Gede Dukuh Sagening Tegal Tugu Gianyar

22 Oct Buda Cemeng Ukir Pura Pajenengan kawitan Arya Tauman Gelgel KlungkungPura Pasar Agung BesakihPura Pasek Bendesa Pasar Badung Legian KutaPura Gde Gunung Agung Munggu Badung

23 Oct Tilem Sasih Kapat

24 Oct Hari Bhatara Sri 28 Oct Anggara Kasih Kulantir dan Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan

IBP

KUTA - Haven’t got any program on Saturday night? Simply come to Garamerica Lounge at The Sunset Bali Hotel & Restaurant, Kuta. The hotel offering spacious rooms with high speed internet throughout the hotel area also provides free music entertainment. Featuring the theme ‘Saturday Night Jamming’ all the guests are welcomed to enjoy and play music or sing along with the Sunsetter’s Band.

This program is held every Saturday, starting at 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Target market is the youth and adults belonging to music lovers. “Sunsetter’s Band is a band whose personnel consist of the staff of the Sunset Hotel and Garamerica Restaurant,” said General Manager, Dewa Tirta S.

After launching the program of The Sunset Hotel, many guests, both the in-house guests and walk-in guests, came and enjoyed the music. When the music event was held, the Garamerica Restaurant served Chicken Wings, Fish and Chips, Pancakes with Ice Cream, Cappuccino, Fresh Juice and others. “The menus are offered at affordable price starting from IDR 9,000,” he added.

A 20-percent discount at all foods and beverages is specially provided for students. To get it, they must present their student identity card or make a reserva-tion at 0361 761 910 or email: fb.sunsetbalihotel.com. “Indeed this event is set every Saturday night,” said Dewa Tirta.

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Saturday Night Jamming at Garamerica Restaurant

Based on the tracking and case exploration carried out by the activists caring for AIDS, NGOs and the Buleleng Regional AIDS Mitigation Commission (KPAD), it was found that the transmission of HIV/AIDS cases affected the family as well. A family at one of the villages in Eastern Buleleng was declared positive to HIV/AIDS and had died. After the inci-dent, another case was discovered again about two weeks ago. The case causing the death of a family

consisting of the father, mother and eight-month-old toddler was also found in Buleleng.

As information collected in the field, the case began when the hus-band was known to have died after declared positive to HIV/AIDS infection. From this incident, the activists immediately performed a search and explored the case comprehensively. As a result, the HIV/AIDS virus was known to have transmitted to his wife who had given birth to her son, so that

the virus transmission was through the delivery process that could not be prevented.

Chairman of the Regional AIDS Mitigation Commission (KPAD) doubling as Deputy Regent of Buleleng, Nyoman Sutjidra, said on Tuesday (Sep 23) that the case involving a family affected by the HIV/AIDS had been quite alarm-ing. Such a case also occurred at one of the villages in the western region of Buleleng about six months ago. The father and mother had died of positive HIV/AIDS. The family only left a child who was still attending school. After-ward, the child got the assistance from the HIV/AIDS activists and regularly received anti-retroviral (ARV) drug to increase its life ex-pectancy. Results of the search by the AIDS activists with the KPAD Buleleng indicated that the spread of HIV/AIDS was mostly through

heterosexual intercourse and trans-mission by the father. The father had the behavior of often making risky sexual intercourse and did it with multiple partners.

“I have received the reports from the fellow activists. Obviously, this is very worrying because the fam-ily suffers a hazardous disease. More seriously, the father likes having risky sexual intercourse so that he transmits the HIV/AIDS to his wife,” he said.

The deputy regent having the background of the obstetrician added that to prevent the HIV/AIDS transmission in Buleleng he promised to immediately gather the headmen and chief of custom-ary village across the Buleleng County. From this meeting, his party requested the lower authori-ties to increase surveillance against migrant population and prevent hidden practices of prostitution

in Northern Bali. Supervision against the migrant population should be done through legal raid conducted jointly with police and local village officials. “We will ask the headmen, including the chief of customary village, to tighten and oversee the migrants, so the possibility of hidden practices of prostitution can be prevented,” he added.

Meanwhile, the data of the KPAD Buleleng indicated that the HIV/AIDS transmission in June 2014 was recorded to reach 2,080 cases. The number of positive HIV/AIDS transmission increased by 37 cases from the case in May 2014 amounting to 2,043 cases. The increasing positive finding was alleged to have been kindled by the rampant exodus of com-mercial sex workers from the ter-ritory of South Bali and East Java to Buleleng. (mud)

Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - Recent dry season in Klungkung region results in a fire at a number of points. This time, the fire case broke out on Santang Hill, Buayang ham-let, Gunaksa, Dawan, Tuesday afternoon (Sep 23). The fire suddenly appeared and burned grass weeds growing around the hillside. It was unclear what triggered the fire on the dried grass weeds. Surely, the fire incident made the villagers of Buay-ang anxious. Moreover, on the hillside followed the Dalem Santang Mangurah Goa Temple.

Not only that, two fire trucks of Klung-kung County had been deployed to the San-tang hillside to extinguish the fire around 6:00 p.m. The measure was taken because the fire already spread and approached the temple located on the hillside. “Yeah, we just knew the fire coming down this afternoon. So, we immediately contacted the Fire Brigade for asking help extinguish the fire,” said one of the temple supporting devotees named Nengah Arianta.

According to this Deputy Chairman of the Klungkung House, the fire was known to spread down the hill around 4:00 p.m. Of course, it caused the residents to be anxious because there was a temple under-neath. Moreover, the Dalem Mangurah Goa

Temple was still under construction. The roof of some shrines such as the piasan and pengaruman was made of palm fiber mate-rial. “Since the fire was down, we asked for the help of the firefighters so that the fire would not spread to the temple,” he said.

Meanwhile, as field observation, resi-dents worked together to help the fire fighting personnel to extinguish the fire on the Santang Hill. The fire extinguishing could not run quickly due to steep condition of the Santang Hill. So, it caused slightly difficult for firefighters to put out the fire. Residents also worried if the fire would burn the adjacent hills where some temples also existed at the location such as in the eastern hill lay the Gunung Lingga Temple as well as Mastapa and Dauh Bale Agung in the south.

Other than on Santang Hill, similar fire case also occurred at Sangkanbuana village, Klungkung. Such condition was alleged to occur due to dry season so that dry weeds could easily burn. Deputy Re-gent of Klungkung, Made Kasta, doubling as the team leader of the executing unit for disaster management called for residents to be more vigilant. At least, people were expected to wait until the fire dies when burning rubbish. On the other side, the firefighters were expected to remain alert during the dry season. (119)

HIV/AIDS cases in Buleleng

A family dies after infected by HIV/AIDSBali Post

Transmission of the HIv/AIDS hazardous virus in Buleleng is increasingly worrisome. The virus having no medicine so far is now threatening all walks of life in Northern Bali. To prevent the transmission, local government performs socialization more intensively, provides assistance for people with HIv/AIDS and prevents the entry of commercial sex workers from outside the region to Buleleng.

Santang Hill on fire

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The officers are trying to put out the fire on antang Hill, Buayang hamlet, Gunaksa, Dawan, Klungkung

314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsHealth Thursday, September 25, 2014Thursday, September 25, 2014

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WASHINGTON - Fewer than a quarter of US children prescribed medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) get the recommended behavioral therapy along with it, said a study out Monday.

The findings in the Journal of the American Medical Associa-tion (JAMA) Pediatrics examined records of more than 300,000 chil-dren from 1,516 counties across the United States who had received an ADHD prescription.

“Less than a quarter of those prescribed ADHD drugs received any talk therapy in the same year they received medication,” said the study by doctors at the nonprofit research organization RAND.

“And in 200 US counties, fewer than one in 10 children getting ADHD medication received any talk therapy.”

Treatments varied widely by geographic area, with about half of ADHD youths in Sacramento Coun-ty, California receiving behavioral therapy in addition to their meds but only 20 percent doing so in Miami-Dade County, Florida -- even though each county had about the same num-ber of licensed psychologists.

ADHD is diagnosed in about 11 percent of US boys and four percent

of US girls, making it one of the most common disorders of child-hood, according to the article.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends behavioral therapy for preschool children with ADHD, and “preferably both” medication and therapy for older

children and adolescents.“In areas of the country where

rates of use are so low, it indi-cates that many kids with private insurance who could benefit from therapy are not receiving it,” said lead author Walid Gellad, an ad-junct scientist at RAND.

Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Dr. Pepper Snapple pledged to provide smaller-sized bottles, and more water and other low- or no-calorie beverages, to the market to help bring down per-person consump-tion of their high-sugar drinks.

They also agreed to better publi-cize calorie counts on vending ma-chines, retail coolers and all drink-vending equipment controlled by the companies.

Appearing at an event organized by the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, representatives from each signed a voluntary initiative to employ marketing and consumer outreach to prod consumers to drink fewer sugary drinks and promote calorie awareness.

The goal is to cut calories from drinks by 20 percent per person within a decade.

The initiative comes as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and others struggle with flagging sales in their home market. Coca-Cola reported flat sales in North America in the most recent quarter.

Regulators in New York City, California and other venues have proposed measures to cut drink size or enhance labeling requirements.

The companies also said they would intensify awareness cam-paigns and promotion of healthier beverages in communities where there have been fewer options to often sugar-laden soft drinks.

They will retain an independent evaluator to track progress, in con-

junction with an advocacy group set up by the Clinton Foundation, founded by former president Bill Clinton, and the American Heart Association.

Public health advocates said the measures did not go far enough.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a public-interest advocacy group in Washington, said the initiative was “welcome news,” but called on the companies to drop their opposition to taxes and warn-ing labels on sugary drinks.

“We applaud President Clinton for his efforts,” the group said in a statement. “But we need much bigger and faster reductions to adequately protect the public’s health.”

Measures to tax sugary drinks “could further reduce calories in America’s beverage mix even more quickly, and would raise needed revenue for the prevention and treatment of soda-related diseases,” the group said in a statement.

Marion Nestle, a nutrition and public health professor at New York University, said the companies would have no problem reaching the 20 percent target in light of consumption trends that are already happening.

“If they really want to promote public health, they should stop fighting soda taxes and lobbying against this and other public health measures,” she said in an email message. “This is pure public rela-tions.”

AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File

In this June 27, 2012 file photo, blog writer Stephanie Klose, sips beverage as she participates in a soda taste test in New York. Coke, Pepsi and Dr Pepper on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 said they’ll work to reduce the calories Americans get from beverages by 20 percent over the next decade by more aggressively marketing smaller sizes, bottled water and diet drinks.

US beverage giants vow to cut calories

Professional football legend Jerry Rice visits PS 244Q on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014 in Flushing, NY as the Lysol Healthy Habits Coach. Rice worked with Lysol to create a Healthy Hab-its Playbook that kids and families can use to get smart on being healthy, with tips on hygiene, germ and ill-ness prevention, nutri-tion and exercise.

Jason DeCrow /Invision for Lysol


NEW YORK - US soft-drinks giants Tuesday promised to work to reduce the country’s beverage calorie consumption by 20 percent by 2025 in a campaign to counter obesity trends.

Most US kids who take ADHD meds don’t get therapy

“Businessmen must not worry about it. We will be left behind if we do not participate in the ASEAN Economic Community as with its imple-mentation, there will be zero percent tariff rate ap-plicable on imports,” the ministry’s spokesperson, Oke Nurwan, remarked here on Wednesday.

Nurwan stated that since 1992, Indonesia, as one of the founding members of the ASEAN, along with Brunei Darussalam has lowered the average tariff rate on imports from 3.64 percent in 2000 to 0.05 percent in 2012.

Currently, 99 percent of the average tariff rates are already close to zero percent and will be zero percent by 2015 following the implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community.

In addition to the application of a zero percent tariff, Indonesia has also formulated several strate-gies for securing local products such as setting up the basic structure that is necessary to understand Bahasa Indonesian.

“With regard to the trade in services, we need to prepare an easy and fundamental structure for Indonesia because not all understand Bahasa In-donesian. It is a national treatment that needs to be added,” Nurwan emphasized.

Besides being able to understand Bahasa In-donesia, Nurwan also stated that the ministry de-mands halal certification standards to be followed for all ASEAN imported products, apart from their labeling, which has been mutually agreed.

The standard of goods produced in Indonesia will also be enhanced and strengthened to improve the quality of its exports.

Bali Post

GIANYAR - A total of 3,747 very poor family (KSM) will re-ceive the assistance in the form of conditional cash transfer (PKH) with the allocation of fund dis-bursed approximately reaching IDR 6.5 trillion. However, the fund is feared not to attain the target as using the reference of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) in 2011.

Central government through the Directorate General of Social Protec-tion and Assurance, Ministry of So-cial Affairs of the RI is ready to allo-cate the assistance for the conditional cash transfer in seven subdistricts of Gianyar County in 2014. It was delivered in the technical guidance on the conditional cash transfer in the meeting room of Gianyar Social Services, Tuesday (Sep 23).

However, a representative of participants from Tampaksiring subdistrict, Dewa Dharma Putra, expressed his concerns related to the distribution of the assistance. The data used by central govern-ment referred to the data of Central Statistics Agency in 2011. It was

worried to result in social jealousy in the community, where the stan-dard of living changes occurred dynamically. “People originally recorded as very poor family may be getting better or live decent a life. On the contrary, the current very poor family may have not been recorded so they will not get any help,” he said.

In response to the matter, the rep-resentative of Directorate of Social Safety and Assurance, Ministry of Social Affairs, Dr. Oetami Dewi, said that her party would continue to use the data of the BPS in 2011 as reference, considering the data of BPS 2014 had not been received so far. She expected the poor family having not got the conditional cash transfer to be patient. “Necessar-ily, the data of BPS 2014 should have been received. Since there are many agendas in 2014 such as the legislative and presidential election, the data were temporarily delayed, while waiting for any changes in the regulation of the cabinet of the new president,” she said.

She explained the conditional cash transfer posed a program of

the central government. It aimed to help the very poor family in order to ensure the next generation could be healthy and complete the basic education (elementary to junior high school). People who were eligible to receive the conditional cash transfer included children aged 0-6 years, children under 18 years before completing their primary education and pregnant women. The assistance was given maximally worth IDR 2.74 million per very poor family. Disbursement of the fund was made four times namely in March, June, September and November. Later, all the fund distribution processes and data col-lection mechanism to the very poor family would be accompanied by a companion and the conditional cash transfer operator of each subdistrict, so that the fund granted would be used appropriately and right on target. “The poor family receiving the conditional cash transfer should meet the requirements of the social direct assistance (BLSM), public health insurance and rice for the poor,” said Oetami.

Further, she explained that the

assistance provided in November would be taken by reference to the data of Central Statistics Agency (BPS) 2011. The total number of very poor family in Gianyar reached 3,747 people. The fund allocation would be disbursed approximately IDR 6.5 trillion. Those receiving the conditional cash transfer should use the fund according the specified designations. Details of the benefits included four times antenatal care at public health center for preg-nant woman, childbirth by health workers and twice health checkup before the infant reached the age of 1 month. When the infant was in the age of 0-11 months, it got complete immunization and weight check every month. Then, it was resumed with the provision of vitamin A (6-11 months), additional immuni-zation and weight check once every 3 months (1-5 years) and weight check every month and provision of vitamin A twice a year (5-6 years). The coverage requirements during school age (7-18 years) included that it had not yet completed basic education (primary and secondary) and enrolled at school or education-

al equality, at least with 85 percent of attendance in class.

“Through this technical guid-ance, we would like to see the readiness of each region for poten-tial participants of the conditional cash transfer, ensure the commit-ment and support from the region, readiness of the supply set of the educational facilities and health as well as readiness for the first phase of relief distribution in November,” said Oetami.

The Head of the Gianyar Social Affairs, I Wayan Suardana, said the conditional cash transfer gave a positive contribution to poverty alleviation. The conditional cash transfer was expected to change the behavior of the very poor family in order to pay more attention to health and education, reduced the burden of expenditure, reduce child labor and accelerate the MDGs.

He hoped there would be a reduction in extreme poverty and hunger, the achievement of primary education, reduction of infant and child mortality, reduction of mater-nal mortality and childbirth as well as gender equality. (kmb35)

IDR 6.5 trillion of funds feared to miss target

Businessmen urged not to worry over MEA

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A seller arranged handicraft during an exhibition that took place in Jakarta. The Indonesian Trade Ministry intro-duces the ASEAN Economic Community that will be implemented by the start of 2015 to micro, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Denpasar, Bali.

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DENPASAR - The Indonesian Trade Ministry introduces the ASEAN Economic Community that will be implemented by the start of 2015 to micro, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Denpasar, Bali.

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NEW YORK — President Barack Obama is addressing the United Nations as a commander in chief overseeing a war against militants in two Middle Eastern nations, a striking shift in the trajectory of a presidency that had been focused on ending conflicts in the region.

Instead, when he speaks to the world body Wednesday, he will cast the U.S. as the linch-pin in efforts to defeat Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, officials said. After weeks of launching strikes against mili-tant targets in Iraq, Obama ex-tended the military action into Syria on Monday, joined by an unexpected coalition of five Arab nations. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates joined the U.S. in carrying out airstrikes, while Qatar played a supporting role.

The partnership with Arab countries marked a rare victory for Obama during a tough stretch in which his foreign policy has been challenged not only by the Middle East militants, but also Russia’s provocations in Ukraine and an Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Officials said Obama will also address ways the U.S. has sought to mobilize international action to resolve the Ukraine and Ebola crises as well, including getting deepening economic sanctions on Russia and dis-patching 3,000 U.S. troops to West Africa to help deal with the Ebola outbreak.

But the growing U.S. military role in the Middle East will be the centerpiece of the presi-dent’s sixth address to the U.N. General Assembly. It comes at a time when Obama had hoped to be nearing the end of the second of the two wars he inherited in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Instead, the U.S. is plunging back into military action in Iraq, as well as Syria, where Obama long has tried to avoid involve-ment in a bloody civil war now in its fourth year. The airstrikes were aimed at not only Islamic State targets but also a new al-Qaida cell that the Pentagon said was nearing the “execution phase” of a direct attack on the U.S. or Europe.

Obama will also hold his first one-on-one meeting Wednesday with new Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who took of-fice earlier this year.

An Australian Federal Police officer and a Victoria state police officer who were part of a coun-terterrorism team had asked the 18-year-old to come to a police station in Melbourne to answer questions after first drawing their attention three months ago, Vic-toria Police Chief Commissioner Ken Lay said. The trio shook hands before the man began stabbing the officers, Australian Federal Police Commander Bruce Giles said. One of the officers then shot the man dead.

The officer had no choice but to shoot, said Victoria Police As-sistant Commissioner Luke Cor-nelius. Police haven’t released the suspect’s name, but opposition

leader Bill Shorten identified him in Parliament as Numan Haider. A second knife was found on the man after he was shot, Lay said. Both officers were in stable condition Wednesday.

The man had recently exhibited behaviors that had caused police “significant concern,” Lay said, including being seen waving what appeared to be an Islamic State flag at a shopping center. Australian Federal Police Acting Commis-sioner Andrew Colvin said the man’s passport was canceled about a week ago on national security grounds.

Brett Zarb, spokesman for GPT Group that owns the Dandenong Plaza shopping center, said police

had asked the mall for security footage of Haider’s brief visit to the complex last Thursday. Zarb said Haider had been accused of displaying the Islamic State flag at around 4 p.m. that day. He did not create any disturbance, he said.

Asked about reports that the man had also threatened Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Colvin said the man had not made any “specific threats.” Abbott is en route to New York to attend a United Nations Security Council meeting on the 15,000 for-eign fighters who are in Iraq and Syria. “Obviously this indicates that there are people in our community who are capable of very extreme acts,” Abbott said in a video mes-sage from Hawaii.

A statement issued by Islamic State group spokesman Abu Mu-hammad al-Adnani and made public this week asked Muslims to use all means to kill a “disbelieving American or European — espe-cially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian or a Canadian” or others whose countries are trying to disable the group.

AP Photo/AAP Image, Julian SmithA forensic officer documents objects including a blanket at the scene of a fatal shooting at Endeavour Hills Police Station in Melbourne, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014. A suspected terrorist was shot dead and two counterterrorism police were stabbed Tuesday in a confrontation in Australia’s second largest city that some experts suspect is inspired by the Islamic State group’s call to supporters to wage terror in their home countries.

Australia terror suspect had passport canceledAssociated Press

CANBERRA — A terror suspect shot dead after he stabbed two Australian counterterrorism police officers had his passport canceled on national security grounds and had recently displayed what ap-peared to be a flag of the Islamic State group, top police officials said Wednesday. Some experts suspect Tuesday’s attack was inspired by the Islamic State group’s call to supporters to wage terrorism in their home countries.

Obama to address UN amid new Mideast strikes

AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, James Borchuck, PoolPresident Barack Obama address the group of soldiers at US Central Command (CentCom) at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014.

Bali Post

NEGARA - Tunas Harapan Kindergarten at Pangkung Languan hamlet, Yeh Sumbul vil-lage, Mendoyo, is in poor condition. Building of the kindergarten classroom along with the furniture is less worthy for learning activities and children playground. As utilizing used roof tiles, when it rains, some corners of the classroom are splashed by rainwater as it is not protected with ceiling.

Some parts of the building walls have begun to crack. Despite established in 2001, this public kindergarten could have just oc-cupied a permanent land beside the hamlet meeting hall since three years ago. Previ-ously, the kindergarten having 40 students and 3 teachers was always nomadic. Even, the kindergarten shared the building with SDN 3 Yeh Sumbul elementary school. However, after the kindergarten-elementary school was dismissed, the kindergarten currently run by the Yeh Sumbul Development Foundation was moved to the current location. Principal of the Taman Harapan Kindergarten, Yayuk Suciati, when met on Tuesday (Sep 23) said the kin-dergarten building was previously initiated by the founder of the foundation, but it was then difficult to operate because the fund was only enough for the operations of the kindergarten and teacher’s salaries. To repair the building or classroom furniture was not possible.

As seen in one of the classrooms, the wooden bench of the students was porous, while the cupboard was worn as eaten by ter-mites. Then, half of the blackboard had flaked off so that only the remaining part could be used for writing with chalk. “Benches and seats were old enough as procured in 2001. In short, they are not feasible. But we can do nothing, while the students here still need them,” said Yayuk. Likewise, the children playground had been rusty.

Actually there are three other kindergar-tens at Yeh Sumbul, but they are all under the Ministry of Religious Affairs. The only public kindergarten is the Tunas Harapan. Other than from Yeh Sumbul, some students of the kindergarten are also from other villages. The kindergarten management has been asking help for repairing the school buildings repeatedly.

One of the administrators of the Yeh Sum-bul Development Foundation, I Gede Artana, justified the condition of the public kindergar-ten. Roof tiles of the building were obtained from the former classroom of the SMPN 5 Mendoyo junior high school. Meanwhile, the building was financed by donation of the four administrators of the foundation that were in trouble. Artana doubling as hamlet chief of Yeh Satang said that of the four kindergar-tens at Yeh Sumbul, only the Tunas Harapan kindergarten had the building in alarming condition. (kmb26)

At Nyanglan village, there are about 10 businessmen who produce assorted beans and peanuts such as fried peanuts, snow peas and sprouted beans. Due to high gas price, the selling price of peanut production also increases.

One of the peanut business own-ers at Nyanglan village, Jero Ketut Surata, revealed that the selling price of fried peanut increased from IDR 25,000 to IDR 30,000 per kg, so did the price of lentils. Meanwhile, the selling price of sprouted beans rose from IDR 18,000 to IDR 20,000. “This price increase occurred after the increase in the price of the 12-kg LPG” he said when met at the location of production.

He revealed that his daily pro-duction required up to 40 tubes of 12-kg LPG. He admitted to use nine stoves for frying peanuts amounting to 500-750 kg. The total production showed a decrease when compared to before the increase in the price of peanuts.

According to one of the produc-tion workers, Ni Kadek Suryani, before the price hike of peanuts, the production could reach 1.5 tons. But since the price hike of the peanuts, the demand reduced by 50 percent. She admitted the peanut production was distributed to a number of areas such as Nusa Dua, Tabanan and Kuta. “Some custom-ers are also purchasing directly to location of the production. They mostly came from Karangasem,” she said.

The peanut produced at Nyanglan village was imported from China. By and large, the order of raw pea-nuts could reach 10 tons per week. According to her, the delivery of raw materials could not meet the needs of production at Nyangge-lan village. “The peanut imported from China is further divided with the fellow peanut producers at Nyanglan village because the raw material is limited and inappropri-ate with the capacity of produc-tion,” she added. (dwa)

Decline in demand for peanuts due to price hike of LPG Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - Price hike of the 12-kg LPG has caused the production of a number of peanut entrepreneurs at Nyanglan vil-lage to diminish. Rising production cost triggers the increase in the selling price of the peanuts produced, while the demand for peanut

IBP/Dewa FarendThe peanut production in Nyanglan Village in Klungkung Regency is affected by the increasing price of LPG

Building of public kindergarten at Yeh Sumbul apprehensive

IBP/Gus OloThe current condition of the Tunas Harapan Kindergarten at Pangkung Languan hamlet, Yeh Sumbul village, Mendoyo.

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PARIS - With low-cost airlines on the cusp of dominating Europe’s skies, turbulent times are in store for traditional carriers that are finding it hard to adapt, as the ongoing strike at Air France shows. Air France pilots are now into the second week of a strike over management plans to step up development of its budget Transavia unit where pilots are paid considerably less.

The strike has forced Europe’s second largest airline after Lufthansa to ground around half of its flights and is costing it 20 million euros ($25.7 million) per day, which Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday “represents a real danger for Air France”.

Air France-KLM has only recently recovered from a severe financial crisis at the end of 2011, thanks to a deep restructuring programme that has seen it reach pay and voluntary departure deals with employees.

In the second quarter of this year it nearly tripled operating profit to 238 million euros ($306 million) but posted a small net loss of 6.0 million euros as it had to take a 106-million-euro write-down of assets in its freight division.

But that doesn’t mean clear skies ahead for Air France, as well as other traditional carriers, as budget airlines are relentlessly expanding their mar-ket share.

“Low-cost airlines now represent between 25 and 45 percent of air

traffic in Europe, depending on the country,” said Didier Brechemier, an aviation expert at consultants Roland Berger. They are no longer minnows in the industry.

Irish low-cost airline Ryanair, with a fleet of 300 Boeing 737 medium-haul aircraft, serves 186 airports in 30 European countries.

Ryanair’s fleet is set to soon expand to 400, which would take it above Air France’s stable of 350 aircraft. Air France-KLM together have over 550 planes.

British low-cost airline easyJet is also not far behind with a fleet of 226 Airbus A320 planes, carrying out more than 1,400 flights per day on average. The low-cost model is changing how people fly.

Passengers are offered a low ticket price to be flown from one city to another, but many services previously included in the price must be paid for if desired, such as an on-board meal or a checked-in piece of luggage.

The growth of low-cost airlines “has been facilitated and accelerated by the web which has cleared away the obscurity of prices,” said Jean-Pierre Nadir, the founder of the Easy-voyage.com website which allows people to compare ticket prices.

Many people seem willing to give up frills, and maybe a little hassle, to get lower prices, which budget airlines are able to offer as they also cut other costs, usually by employing fewer staff at lower wages.

The WTO said Tuesday that its economists are now predicting 3.1 percent growth in world trade this year, down from the 4.7 percent forecast in April. They also cut their outlook for 2015 to 4 percent from the previous 5.3 percent.

The Geneva-based body said global trade stagnated in the first

six months of this year as a gradual recovery in demand for imports in developed countries was offset by declines in developing countries.

Its director-general, Roberto Azeve-do, said that “uneven growth and continuing geopolitical tensions will remain a risk for both trade and output in the second half of the year.”

Reuters

BEIJING - Chinese banks, property developers and regional governments are intensifying efforts to drag the housing market from its worst slump in two years by allowing people to buy more than one home, slashing prices and launching unorthodox promotions.

The property sector, which accounts for about 15 percent of China’s economy and directly affects some 40 industries from furniture to steel, is of increasing concern to companies and policy makers as it drags on growth.

The most powerful support measure may be yet to come.

Chinese media said on Tuesday that one of China’s top four state banks planned to discount mortgage rates by 30 percent and relax lending rules for those buying a second home.

Whether the flurry of measures can stoke growth in a sector that is crucial to the world’s second larg-est economy remains to be seen.

Even in central Beijing, one of the few cities left in China where home purchase restrictions are still in place due to record-high prices, the sector is feeling the pinch.

Lu Yanzeng, a property agent, said he had not sold a single home in two months. Business this year “is very so-so, it’s not as good as last year,” he said. “Sales of second-hand homes are slow, but new home sales are brisk.”

China’s property market, where prices surged to all-time highs for five consecutive years, is experiencing its sharpest slowdown in around two years. Average new home prices fell for a fourth consecutive month in August by 1.1 percent, mean-

ing the market is now close to wiping out gains seen over the last year. Compared to a year ago, sales as measured by floor space were down 12.4 percent.

While the slowdown in a heated market has benefited millions of Chinese, for whom soaring house prices have made home ownership a distant dream, slackening activity has also raised concerns about the health of China’s economy.

It is straining already softening domestic de-mand and pushing overall fixed-asset investment to lows not seen in nearly 14 years on a cumulative basis between January to August.

Falling home prices are also fuelling credit risks.

State news agency Xinhua said on Sunday that 32 small property developers in the city of Handan in north China have defaulted on loans that were borrowed illegally from an underground market.

That prompted the local government to arrest several executives to stem local investor panic.

No bank or official has so far confirmed media reports that mortgage rates would be lowered, partly out of fear of being criticised for reflating China’s property bubble.

But those in the market were hopeful such a move was imminent, especially since regional governments have already tried to prop up the market by abolishing housing investment limits in 40 of 46 cities.

“The unwinding of property controls by local governments should lift sales, but the effect so far isn’t obvious,” said a senior executive at a mid-sized listed developer in Beijing, who declined to be named.

“Relaxing the rules on home loans would be more effective and practical.”

REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/FilesA salesperson stands next to miniature models of new apartments on sale at the showroom in Bei-jing, in this June 24, 2014 file photo. Chinese banks, property developers and regional governments are intensifying efforts to drag the housing market from its worst slump in two years by allowing people to buy more than one home, slashing prices and launching unorthodox promotions.

China property hard sell intensifies

WTO cuts forecastsAssociated Press

BERLIN — The World Trade Organization has sharply reduced its forecast for global trade growth this year, pointing to uneven economic growth in countries including China and the U.S.

Low-cost airlines cause turbulence for European flag carriers

Largely, the dances existing in Bali do not only serve as an enter-taining art, but also as ritual dance devoted to gods. Therefore, it is not surprising if the dances in Bali are mostly performed in temples, including the Rejang Dance. This dance has many variants such as the Rejang Renteng, Rejang Bengkel, Rejang Ayodpadi, Rejang Galuh, Rejang Dewa, Rejang Palak, Re-jang Mebingin, Rejang Makitut, Rejang Haja and Rejang Negara. In Balinese community, the most popularly staged rejang dance is the Rejang Dewa. Rejang Dewa is a ritual dance of the Balinese com-munity. It is a sacred presentation to welcome and entertain the gods coming down from heaven to earth. Among the Balinese Hindu com-munity, the Rejang Dewa dance is staged in the deva yajña ritual such as temple anniversary or piodalan.

In contrast to the Sanghyang Dance denoting the dance of the gods-goddesses as well as other holy spirits entering into the body of the dancers, the Rejang Dewa is a sacred offering to gods. Dur-ing the temple ceremony, gods are invited through mantra and puja to come down from heaven, and then abide in the sacred objects like Pratima or effigy. To welcome and cheer the arrival of the gods, people then perform Rejang Dewa dance. Through the dance, people express their sincere gratitude to

gods for their willingness to come down to earth.

Rejang Dewa dance is performed by female dancers usually around a holy place or shrine, where the effi-gies are placed. The Rejang Dewa dancers generally put on the attires dominated by white and yellow colors with a headdress made of materials such as young coconut leaves. “White is a symbol of purity, while yellow is sacred just like the moon and the sun. Most of the sacred dances put on the at-tires definitely dominated by white and yellow colors,” said Kadek Suartaya, a lecturer in Philosophy and Art Criticism, in the Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI) Denpasar when met not long ago.

In performing the Rejang Dewa dance, the dancers usually make a circle in the temple or shrine court-yard. Sometimes, the dancers carry out this dance while holding hands. As a welcoming dance to gods, aside from having to be performed in sacred place like a temple, it also has the other requirements. “In the context of sacredness, Rejang Dewa dance must be danced by a girl who has not got their period yet. In the Balinese belief, if the Rejang Dewa dance is performed by women who have got their menstruation, gods and goddess will not be willing to come down to earth. This also ap-plies to the other wali dance such as the Sanghyang dance. Hence,

most of the dancers performing this dance remain at elementary school,” he added.

In terms of the type of the move-ment, the Rejang Dewa is said to be quite simple, while the tempo of its movement is slow and tender. Dominant movements used in the Rejang Dewa dance is ngembat and ngelikas or left and right movements

performed while moving forward slowly. When dancing, the dancers of Rejang Dewa generally have no dialogue or singing. Rejang Dewa dance is generally accompanied by gamelan music, although there are also accompanied by tembang or Song. Gamelan accompaniment of the Rejang Dewa dance in general is Gong Kebyar gamelan music.

Rejang Dewa dance is a ritual dance whose performance is al-ways associated with ritual, where it is mainly performed in the Deva Yajña ritual in temple. It is com-monly performed in the temple outermost courtyard located closer to the placement of ritual oblations or the other places considered to be sacred.

According to her, by inserting the waste subject into the curriculum, in this case the management and segregation of the organic and non-organic waste, she expected it could teach children to live a clean life from an early age.

She continued that based on the study tour made with headmen across Tabanan and Baturiti subdistrict to Surabaya, a lot of things could be learned. One of the lessons was that the appropriate waste processing could make money. “Hopefully, with this

visit, the headmen can get perspective about rural development by transforming waste into a blessing,” she hoped.

She continued that the success of Surabaya City could be seen from the programs that were worth serving as an example. Entourage of the regent and the headmen had the opportunity to make a visit to the processing of organic waste in the Surabaya Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP), a pilot project of green and clean village, rubbish depots and urban park. Aside from inserting waste management into the school curriculum, the Tabanan County would also hold a clean village competition in conjunction with the 521st anniversary of the Tabanan town. (kmb24)

Waste subject inserted into school curriculum

Bali Post

TABANAN - To overcome waste problem in Tabanan, the county government plans to put awareness on rubbish into the school curriculum. It was presented by the Regent of Tabanan, Ni Putu Eka Wiryastuti, Tuesday (Sep 23) after her visit to the city of Surabaya for the need of waste management.

To overcome waste problem in Ta-banan, the county government plans to put awareness on rubbish into the school curriculum.

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From page 1On the other hand, he said the presence of the ASEAN free trade was

an opportunity for the foreign exchange banks to expand their market to ASEAN. Apparently, a number of national foreign exchange banks were still constrained by business scale and turnover that had not met the requirement as specified.

“If foreign exchange banks have sufficient competitiveness to enter the ASEAN financial market, there will be open market opportunity for the regional banks and rural credit banks to take part in developing the business,” he said.

He argued the market blocking area restricting foreign banks to enter particular region in Indonesia, intended as a protection against local bank-ing business, was not an appropriate option as long as it was targeted to achieve the expansion of monetary inclusion and effectiveness of bank intermediation through the process of financial deepening. (kmb27)

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BOGOR — They are the size of a pinhead and don’t even pack a sting, but these tiny wasps are cold-blooded killers nonetheless. They work as nature’s SWAT team, neutralizing a pest that threatens to destroy one of the developing world’s most important staple foods: cassava.

The wasps are being released in Indonesia, the latest country threatened by the mealybug. It’s a white fuzzy-looking insect shaped like a pill that’s been making its way across Southeast Asia’s fields for the past six years.

But unlike in Thailand, where infestations reached some 250,000 hectares (618,000 acres) of crops grown mostly as part of the coun-try’s huge export business, cassava in Indonesia is a vital food source second only to rice. That makes the mealybug a serious threat to food security in Indonesia, which already has one of the region’s highest child malnutrition rates.

The parasitic wasps, or Anagyrus lopezi, need the mealybug to sur-vive. Females lay their eggs inside the insect and as the larvae grow, they eat the bug from the inside out, slowly killing it until there’s nothing left but its mummified shell.

On Wednesday, scientists will put 2,000 wasps into a holding cage at an affected field in Bogor, on the outskirts of Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta. They will be moni-tored to see how well they handle local conditions as they multiply to an expected 300,000 over the next month before being released into the wild to start their relentless killing spree.

It’s unclear how much damage mealybugs have already caused to

Indonesia’s crops, but infestations have been reported on the main cassava-growing island of Java and in parts of Sumatra, said Kris Wyckhuys, an entomologist at the Colombia-based International Center for Tropical Agriculture, which is helping to coordinate the release.

He said the idea is to introduce the wasps early in a pre-emptive strike because the pests if left unchecked can destroy more than 80 percent of a harvest by suck-ing the plant’s sap until it withers and dies.

Indonesia is one of the world’s top producers of cassava, planting around 1 million hectares (2.5 mil-lion acres) a year, half of which is eaten as a staple food across the sprawling archipelago of 240 mil-lion people.

The long, finger thin roots of the shrub-like plant are a major source of carbohydrates and provide an array of nutrients. Like the potato, cassava is a versatile starch that’s an essential part of daily meals across much of the developing world. In Indonesia it is boiled, fried, made into noodles, crackers and even cakes.

Known elsewhere as manioc, tapioca and yucca, it is also made into livestock feed and used as an ingredient in a variety of products worldwide, ranging from lipstick and artificial sweeteners to paint and glucose IV drips.

Portuguese traders first brought the plant from South America cen-turies ago, and many of the world’s poorest people today depend on it for survival. It grows well in bad soil conditions and doesn’t need much water, making it ideal for hot areas hit by drought.

It is especially important in Africa, which suffered a massive

mealybug attack in the 1980s. Wasps were first imported there from Paraguay and released across the continent by airplane. The method was effective, wiping out up to 95 percent of the bugs in some areas, and has been credited with averting famine and saving $20 billion.

Wyckhuys said the wasps have not created any unintended prob-lems within ecosystems since mealybugs only eat cassava and

the tiny wasps only eat mealybugs. However, he said it’s impossible to erradicate all of the pests because the wasps must keep some hosts alive in order to keep from dying out themselves.

Mealybugs, or Phenacoccus manihoti, are believed to have hitchhiked into Thailand in 2008, most likely aboard cassava cut-tings transported from Africa. But without the wasps to keep them in check, they quickly spread to Laos,

Cambodia and Vietnam.Small releases have been con-

ducted within those countries, and the wasps imported in 2009 to Thailand have also slowly migrated into neighboring countries.

The wasps have vastly im-proved the problem in Thailand, the worlds’s largest cassava exporter, but not eliminated it entirely. Sev-eral wasp releases are planned in different parts of Indonesia using insects brought from Thailand.

“The climate change in the past two decades has shown its effects, particularly in the archipelago country where the sea level has risen,” Walhi coastal and marine campaigner Ode Rakhman said on Wednesday.

He explained that the problem in coastal areas and small islands

was not about the living space is-sues created by corporate policies, or the concept of “open access,” which did not rely on the collec-tive management of coastal com-munities, but the problem is about the damage and pollution of the ecosystem.

Rakhman observed that un-

controlled mining activities and industrial waste discharges had led to the pollution of the ecosystem and degradation of the coral reefs, mangrove forests and sea-grass beds.

In addition, he noted, the climate change caused by human behavior has led to extreme weather condi-

tions and an increase in greenhouse emissions -- to 400 ppm from the safe limit of 350 ppm.

“All the three ecosystems -- of coral reefs, mangrove forests, and sea-grass beds -- are interrelated, and if one of them is damaged, it will affect the other two,” Ra-khman said.

“The rampant sea mining along the coastal areas and small islands has damaged mangrove forests, coral reefs and sea-grass beds,” he stated.

He remarked that the ecological

functions of the mangrove forests, among other things, are to protect the shoreline, prevent seawater in-trusion and protect the coral reefs and sea-grass beds from sedimen-tation. Therefore, he said, the government should give special attention to the mangrove forests to protect the coastal areas. “The government should give special attention that can help minimize the climate change effects and protect the coastal areas from erosion and rising sea-levels,” he said.

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A student at Bogor Agricultural University looks at pest pink cassava mealybugs in a laboratory in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2914. They are the size of a pinhead and don’t even pack a sting, but these tiny wasps are cold-blooded killers nonetheless.

Climate change triggers rise in sea levelAntara

JAKARTA - The extreme climate changes caused by the damages to the marine environment along the coastal areas has stimulated a rise in the sea level, according to the Indonesian Forum for Environment (Walhi).

Tiny wasp SWAT teams to protect crop

As far as she’s concerned, it’s the ideal place to raise a family. In interviews with The Associated Press, the 24-year-old Muslim con-vert explained her decision to move with her toddler to the territory controlled by the militant group, saying it offers them protection from the sex, crime, drugs and alcohol that she sees as rampant in largely secular Turkey.

“The children of that country see all this and become either murder-ers or delinquents or homosexuals or thieves,” Umi Abdullah wrote in one of several Facebook mes-sages exchanged in recent days. She said that living under Shariah, the Islamic legal code, means that her 3-year-old boy’s spiritual life is secure.

“He will know God and live

under his rules,” she said. As for the American bombs being dropped on the Islamic State group, she said: “I only fear God.”

Ummi Abdullah’s experience — the outlines of which were con-firmed by her ex-husband, Turkish authorities, and friends — illustrates the pull of the Islamic State group, the self-styled caliphate strad-dling Iraq and Syria that has sent shockwaves around the world with its bloodthirsty campaign. It also shows how, even in Turkey — one of the most modern and prosperous of the Muslim countries — entire families are dropping everything to find salvation in what Turkish aca-demic Ahmet Kasim Han describes as a “false heaven.”

Ummi Abdullah, originally from Kyrgyzstan, reached the Is-

lamic State group only last month, and her disappearance became front-page news in Turkey after her ex-husband, a 44-year-old car salesman named Sahin Aktan, went to the press in an effort to find their child.

Legions of others in Turkey have carted away family to the Islamic State group under far less public scrutiny and in much greater numbers. In one incident earlier this month, more than 50 families from various parts of Turkey slipped across the border to live under Is-lamic State, according to opposition legislator Atilla Kart.

Kart’s figure appears high, but his account is backed by a villager from Cumra, in central Turkey, who told AP that his son and his daughter-in-law are among the

massive group. The villager spoke on condition of anonymity, saying he is terrified of reprisals.

The movement of foreign fight-ers to the Islamic State group — largely consisting of alienated, angry or simply war-hungry young Muslims — has been covered extensively since the group tore across Iraq in June, capturing Mosul, threatening Baghdad and massacring prisoners. The arrival

of entire families, many but not all of them Turkish, has received less attention.

“It’s about fundamentalism,” said Han, a professor of inter-national relations at Istanbul’s Kadir Has University. The Islamic State group’s uncompromising interpretation of Islam promises parents the opportunity to raise their children free from any secular influence.

Associated Press

LISBON — Nurses in Portugal have begun a 48-hour strike over pay, working hours and what they say is an acute shortage of staff in the public health service.

The Portuguese Nurses Union says more than 80 percent of its members walked out Wednesday. Media reported the cancellation of many hospital operations and some treatments, though most appoint-ments with doctors went ahead.

A recent financial crisis com-pelled Portugal’s government to slash spending. That included pay cuts and longer hours for public employees, including nurses.

The union says many nurses have quit and joined the private sector or gone to work abroad. At the start of this year there were just under 30,000 nurses in the national health service, down from about 39,000 three years ago. The Health Ministry made no immediate comment.

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DONETSK — Mortar fire struck an apartment block in the rebel-held east Ukraine city of Donetsk overnight, yet another violation of a cease-fire between government forces and pro-Russian insurgents. While both sides said Tuesday they saw progress on the ground in fulfilling an agreement to pull back heavy artillery weapons from the front-line, on Wednesday Kiev accused the rebels of violating a cease-fire imposed Sept. 5.

“The situation remains difficult,” Col. Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, told journalists

in Kiev on Wednesday. “Ukrai-nian detachments comply with the cease-fire regime but the terrorists continue provocations,” he said, referring to the pro-Russian sepa-ratists. Lysenko also said that eight servicemen had been wounded in fighting overnight, although none were killed.

A residential building in the north of Donetsk was heavily dam-aged by shelling, destroying at least two apartments. While RIA Novosti news agency quoted the rebels as saying that two people died in the attack, nobody at the scene could confirm any civilian casualties.

That part of the city has been the subject of almost daily shelling

despite the cease-fire, as fighting centered around the government-held city airport nearby has caught many residential neighborhoods in the crossfire.

More than 3,500 people have been killed in the conflict since mid-April, the United Nations estimates, although the number of casualties is likely much higher. Much of the region’s infrastructure and industry, from airports and bridges to coal mines, have been destroyed by shelling.

The continuing shelling comes after an agreement signed Saturday called for both sides to pull back heavy artillery, setting up a buf-fer zone that would allow for the cease-fire to be more effectively enforced. While withdrawals were underway in some villages in the region, the airport and other areas have remained hotspots.

The West and Ukraine have ac-cused Moscow of propping up the rebels with arms and volunteers from the onset of the conflict. NATO has also reported Russian troops fighting on the Ukrainian territory.

Canadian Lt. Col. Jay Janzen, a NATO military spokesman, told The Associated Press on Wednes-day that NATO has witnessed “a significant pullback of Russian conventional forces from inside Ukraine,” but added that “some Russian troops still remain.” He said it was difficult to say how many were still in Ukraine because they were moving across the border which is largely controlled by the separatists.

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Smoke rises after shelling over a checkpoint marked with flag of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic in the town of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014.

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In this Friday, Sept. 19, 2014 photo, car salesman Sahin Aktan shows photos of his ex-wife Asiya Ummi Abdullah as he speaks during an interview at his lawyer’s office in Istanbul, Turkey.

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ISTANBUL — Asiya Ummi Abdullah doesn’t share the view that the Islamic State group rules over a terrorist dystopia and she isn’t scared by the American bombs falling on Raqqa, its power center in Syria.

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The world number 61, who knocked out U.S. Open semi-finalist and 13th seed Ekaterina Makarova in the second round, prevailed again in the battle of baseliners to notch argu-ably the biggest win of her career.

Having taken the first set of the third round clash on a tie-break, Bacsinszky fell 3-1 down in the second against French Open champion Sharapova. The Russian, though, struggled to rid her game of unforced errors as the 25-year-old Bacsinszky broke back to level the match, which looked to be heading for a second tiebreak.

But a 43rd error from Sharapova gifted the Swiss the vital break to win the set 7-5 and set up a quarter-

final clash with either eighth seed Caroline Wozniacki or Australia’s Casey Dellacqua.

Sharapova joined an alarming list of seeds dumped from the $2.4 million inaugural event at the early stages with only four of the 16 remaining.

World number one Serena Wil-liams was forced to retire from her second round clash on Tuesday be-cause of illness, while a back injury ended Jelena Jankovic’s run as did a thigh problem for Ana Ivanovic.

Second ranked Romanian Simo-na Halep only had herself to blame for her three set loss on Tuesday. Germany’s Angelique Kerber was one seed to find the going unusually

straightforward as she smashed past Barbora Zahlavova Strycova 6-1 6-1 in quick time on Wednesday.

The seventh seed will next face Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina, who was given a walkover to the last eight after Spain’s Garbine Muguruza, who performed so well in knocking out Halep a day earlier, withdrew because of gastritis.

France’s Alize Cornet, who was trailing Williams before the American retired on Tuesday, moved on through to the quarters with a 7-6(4) 1-6 6-3 win over Belgian wildcard Kirsten Flipkens. Cornet recovered from a break down in the third set to set up a meeting with either sixth seed Eugenie Bouchard of Canada or American Alison Riske.

Cornet’s compatriot Caroline Gar-cia, who beat Agnieszka Radwanksa in the second round, smashed 11 aces in knocking out American CoCo Vandeweghe 6-3 6-2.

Factory rider Andrea Doviz-ioso and Pramac’s Andrea Ian-none will give Ducati’s ‘evolution’ MotoGP bike its debut in this weekend’s Aragon Grand Prix.

Designated the GP14.2, the revised bike is the biggest step so far in Ducati’s rebuilding ef-fort, as it works to get back to the front of the MotoGP pack after a win drought now approaching four years.

The new bike ran for the first time in a shakedown test with Dovizioso and Iannone at Mugel-lo on Tuesday.

Satellite rider Iannone, who has been receiving increasing amounts of works assistance through 2014, gets the second evolution bike rather than Dovizioso’s current team-mate Cal Crutchlow, as the Italian is moving up to the factory team next year, when Crutchlow leaves for LCR Honda.

Ducati is currently engaged in a lengthy recovery process under new owner Audi and new team

boss Gigi Dall’Igna, who joined from Aprilia this season.

The team last won a MotoGP race at Philip Island with Casey Stoner in late 2010, but has gained ground this year, with Dovizioso qualifying on the front row four times and taking two podium finishes, and Iannone twice start-ing second.

“We are now becoming a more competitive reality and I am very happy with our progress,” said Dovizioso.

Ducati controversially chose to run under Open regulations for 2014, meaning it had to use con-trol electronics, but giving it more freedom for engine development, among other rules breaks.

It will also increase its pres-ence on the grid to six bikes in 2015, having agreed to supply the Avintia team as a second customer alongside Pramac. Avintia has so far run FTR-Kawasaki-based CRT/Open machinery in its three years at the top level.

Reuters

INCHEON, South Korea - The Qatar women’s basketball team forfeited a game at the Asian Games on Wednesday after being refused permission to wear the hijab, saying they were taking a stand against what they say is a discriminatory policy against Muslim women.

The Qatari players were asked, in accordance with International

Basketball Federation’s rules, to remove their Islamic headscarfs in order to play against Mon-golia.

However, the players refused, saying it violated their religious beliefs and they wanted to send a strong message to the sport’s gov-erning federation that the ban was unfair. “We have to take this stand,” said Ahlam Salem M. Al-Mana of Qatar. “We are here to push the international association that all

Muslim teams are ready to compete in any competition.

“We knew about the hijab ban, but we have to be here. We have to show everyone that we are ready to play, but the International Associa-tion is not ready.”

A spokesperson for the Incheon Asian Games (IAGOC) told Reuters that organisers had no alterna-tive other than to declare a forfeit because, “the rule that the players broke is International Basketball

Federation rule 4.4.2, which talks about uniforms and what players can wear.

“The technical official asked them to remove the scarf and they refused, so the game was forfeited by Qatar.” The use of hijabs has become a hot topic in sport in recent years with muslim athletes complaining that they are being discriminated against.

Human rights groups and the United Nations joined forces to

put pressure on sporting bodies to lift the bans.

Earlier this year, the Interna-tional Football Association Board (IFAB) unanimously overturned a ban on the garments, allowing soc-cer players to wear them.

They had previously been banned due to safety concerns and because they were not recognised in the laws of the game. But FIFA medical reports showed there were no safety concerns.

Qatar forfeit basketball game in hijab row

REUTERS/Max RossiDucati MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso of Italy takes a curve during the third practice session of the San Marino Grand Prix in Misano Adriatico circuit in central Italy September 13, 2014.

Dovizioso and Iannone to debut Ducati’s ‘evolution’ bike at Aragon

REUTERS/Ray StubblebineMaria Sharapova of Russia hits a return to Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark during their match at the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, August 31, 2014.

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Swiss qualifier Timea Bacsinszky continued to swipe past the seeds at the Wuhan Open on Wednesday by dumping world number four Maria Sharapova from the hard court tournament with a 7-6(3) 7-5 victory.

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Gareth Bale leveled for Ma-drid four minutes later, and Ronaldo did the rest by scoring in the 28th, 32nd, 80th and in stoppage time. Ronaldo’s latest scoring burst gave him 12 goals in all competitions this season, including a league-leading eight goals after five rounds. After losing back-to-back matches in the league, he has now helped Madrid outscore its opponents 18-4 in its last three games in all competitions.

“It was a question of the team, now things are going well,” said Ronaldo. “Thanks to my teammates for help-ing me reach this number of goals. Now we have to continue fighting to reach the top of the table.” Madrid’s win provision-ally pulled it to within one point of Valencia and Sevilla in joint second, with Barcelona another two points ahead before all

three play this round.Also Tuesday, Celta Vigo

goalkeeper Sergio Alvarez saved an 89th-minute penalty to secure a 2-1 win over Deportivo La Coruna, keeping his team undefeated and level on points with Madrid.

Elche showed some unex-pected verve to start the match at the Santiago Bernabeu, with its forwards drawing bookings for Madrid backs Dani Carvajal and Marcelo either side of its opening goal. “We were play-ing well at the start and went in front, but our celebration didn’t last very long,” Albacar said.

Bale’s glancing header from a cross by James Rodriguez equalized, and Marcelo’s ques-tionable penalty when he ap-peared to dive sent Ronaldo to the penalty spot. Ronaldo drilled in the spot kick for the lead and moments later the

Portugal forward headed in Marcelo’s cross for another goal.

He converted a second pen-alty after Mario Pasalic fouled him in the box, and the insa-tiable Ronaldo struck again after 90 minutes were up from a pass by Bale.

Navas played his first match for Madrid after Iker Casillas had started the season’s first eight games. Navas joined for €10 million ($12.85 million) after impressing last season with fellow Spanish club Le-vante and for Costa Rica at this summer’s World Cup. Besides Albacar’s penalty, he wasn’t tested.

Madrid coach Carlo Ancelot-ti said his decision to play Na-vas over Casillas had nothing to do with the jeers Casillas had received from some sections of Madrid’s fans during the previ-

ous two home games. Ancelotti did not say who would start in goal for Saturday’s match at Villarreal. “On Saturday we will see who plays at Villar-real,” he said.

In the night’s other game, Manuel “Nolito” Agudo took Joaquin Larrivey’s headed pass and fired in Celta’s opener in the fourth minute. Isaac Cuenca made it 1-1 in the 55th before

Larrivey headed in No-lito’s corner kick for the winner in the 72nd.

Haris Medunjanin had a chance to snatch a late equalizer when Celta’s Gustavo Cabral blocked Sidnei’s cross with his arm, but Alvarez pushed his spot kick wide to ensure Celta claimed the regional derby.

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Liverpool beat Middlesbrough 14-13 in a marathon penalty shootout in the third round of the League Cup on Tuesday, after Arsenal and Ever-ton both bowed out of the competition. Liverpool squeezed through after Patrick Bamford had scored a penalty for Middlesbrough in the third minute of injury time at the end of extra time to give the second-tier club a dramatic 2-2 draw at Anfield.

In the all-Premier League ties, Arsenal surren-dered a one-goal advantage to lose 2-1 to South-ampton, Swansea beat Everton 3-0 and Stoke came from a goal down to beat Sunderland 2-1. Liverpool started with Raheem Sterling, Adam Lallana and Lazar Markovic playing behind Rickie Lambert, who was captain for the evening on his full debut in place of the rested Steven Gerrard.

But it was 17-year-old debutant midfielder Jor-dan Rossiter who gave Liverpool the lead after 10 minutes, drilling in the rebound after Middlesbrough goalkeeper Jamal Blackman could only parry Lambert’s initial effort. Middlesbrough equalized in the second half when Adam Reach headed in a free kick after 62 minutes and Adam Clayton hit the post in the 85th as the visitors poured forward in a vain search for a winner before the end of regulation time.

Suso, an extra time substitute for Markovic, ap-peared to have secured Liverpool’s route to round four when he slotted past Blackman after Adam Lallana’s cross was not properly cleared in the 109th minute.

But Kolo Toure brought down Bamford in injury time after Sterling bizarrely passed the ball into a space where there was no teammate, and Bamford converted the resultant spot kick to take the game to penalties. It proved to be the longest in the com-petition’s history, requiring 30 spot kicks before

yielding a winner.Sterling missed his penalty in the first round of

the shootout, squandering the chance to win it 5-3. Instead, it took Middlesbrough’s Albert Adomah to send his second penalty wide for Liverpool to celebrate a protracted victory. “I thought it was great quality, both teams showed great composure,” Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said of the shootout. “We gave away poor goals, to be honest. At the moment, we are making too many mistakes but I can’t fault the character and the mentality of the players. Congratulations to Middlesbrough, I thought they were excellent. but it’s great for us to get through.”

Earlier, Alexis Sanchez had put Arsenal ahead with a brilliant free kick in the 14th minute at Emirates Stadium. However, Dusan Tadic leveled six minutes later with a penalty, his first goal for Southampton, after Tomas Rosicky had fouled Sadio Mane. Defender Nathaniel Clyne then lashed in a vicious strike from long range in the 40th for Southampton’s winner.

“It’s disappointing because we had a good start, but we made big errors when we had the ball,” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said. “You have to give credit to Southampton. They are a good side and they played very well tonight. I cannot fault the attitude. The reason we lost is because of our oppo-nent’s performance. It is not the players’ fault.”

Sunderland lost to Stoke despite United States striker Jozy Altidore giving it the lead after 16 minutes. Defender Marc Muniesa struck twice for Stoke, either side of halftime, with his first goals for the club.

Swansea beat Everton courtesy of goals from Nathan Dyer, Gylfi Sigurdsson and Marvin Emnes, while MK Dons, which had thrashed Manchester United 4-0 in the previous round, continued its cup run with a 2-0 victory over Bradford.

Reuters

PARIS - They lead the Ligue 1 standings, have scored 19 goals in seven games often displaying a free-flowing attacking football and their top strik-er has already found the back of the net eight times. Paris St Germain? No, Olympique de Marseille. The Provence side thrashed

Stade de Reims 5-0 away on Tuesday, their fifth straight

win after a stuttering start amid a row involving president Vincent Labrune and new coach Marcelo Bielsa.

The Argentinian was true to his ‘El Loco’ nickname when he lashed out at Labrune for “mak-ing promises he knew he could not keep” during the transfer window, also saying “the way the club is run disappoints me”. Bielsa, however, promised he would do his best and he has kept that promise.

“It is said that hard work pays off. The coach is always on our backs. A great part of our con-fidence comes from that,” said midfielder Florian Thauvin. “If OM (Marseille) continue like this and Paris does not wake up, the French champion will

perhaps not be the one we think of,” said Reims president Jean-Pierre Caillot.

PSG got off to a limping start and trail Marseille, who have 16 points, by six point ahead of their trip to promoted Caen later on Wednesday (1900GMT/5 PM ET).

The French champions have been suffering from Zlatan Ibra-himovic’s sudden dip in form, the Swede having not scored in his last two league games, which ended in disappointing draws.

Marseille striker Andre-Pierre Gignac, instead, has become the first French top flight player to score eight goals in the open-ing seven rounds of matches since David Trezeguet in the 1999/2000 season. Gignac, who has never looked that fit, can rely on the collaboration of Thauvin, France international Dimitri Payet and Ghana’s Andre Ayew up front.

“Up front, except for PSG, I can’t any team with so much potential,” Nice forward Eric Bautheac told France Football on Wednesday. “They fight like dogs. It’s the same players than last seasons but with another mentality.” There is a long road ahead and Bielsa warned that they would have to wait until they have played the top guns be-fore assessing their ambitions.

Marseille take on St Etienne at home on Sunday and the clash against arch-rivals PSG at the Parc des Princes is scheduled for Nov. 9.

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BERNE - The public has a “full right to know” the contents of the ethics investigation into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, FIFA executive committee member Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan said on Tuesday.

“In the interest of full trans-parency, I believe it is important that the much-anticipated report on the ethics investigation that is crucial to ensuring good gover-nance at FIFA is fully disclosed and open to the public,” he said on Twitter.

“This will only help the foot-ball community move ahead in reforming our institutions in the best interest of the sport,” added Prince Ali, who is the Asian vice-president on the executive committee.

“The entire football family as well as its sponsors and those who follow the game worldwide have a full right to know the con-tents of the report in the spirit of complete openness.”

FIFA’s ethics committee is investigating whether there was any corruption in the turbulent bidding process four years ago which ended in the 2018 World Cup being awarded to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar.

Former U.S. attorney Michael Garcia, FIFA’s ethics investiga-tor, recently completed his report but it has not been made public. It is now being scrutinised by German judge Hans-Joachim Eckert who heads the adjudica-tory chamber of FIFA’s ethics committee.

A final decision is not due until the spring and even then FI-FA’s ethics code, under a section

entitled “confidentiality”, states that “only the final decisions already notified to the addressees may be made public.”

On Friday, Garcia himself criticised the lack of transpar-ency surrounding his investiga-tion, adding that he was restricted by the code as to what he could make public.

“As a general matter, I think that the more that is public and the more that people can see what is done and agree with what was done, or disagree with what is done...then those issues can be resolved and the organisation can move on,” he said during a conference on sports in ethics held at FIFA headquarters.

“Beyond any particular case, the public have to have confi-dence that the process is working in a fair way.”

Ronaldo’s 4 goals leads Madrid to another routAssociated Press

BARCELONA — Cristiano Ronaldo made amends for conceding a penalty by scoring four times as he led Real Madrid to a 5-1 rout of Elche in the Spanish league on Tuesday. Ronaldo fouled Pedro Mosquera while disputing a ball in the box in the 15th minute, al-lowing Edu Albacar to stroke the penalty beyond goalkeeper Keylor Navas — who was making his debut for Madrid.

Real’s Cristiano Ronaldo holds the ball as he celebrates his four goals during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Elche at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Tues-day, Sept. 23, 2014.

FIFA exco member wants ethics investigation made public

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FRANKFURT — Mario Goetze scored two goals as Bayern Munich eased to a 4-0 victory over promoted Paderborn and moved to the top of the Bundesliga on Tuesday.

Paderborn’s hopes of achieving a huge upset were dashed quickly, as Goetze and Robert Lewandowski scored inside the first quarter of an hour. Goetze and Thomas Mueller then netted late in the match as Bayern brought down to earth the team that had come into the match as the surprise league leader.

“Bayern is in a different league from us,” Paderborn’s captain Uwe Huenemeir said. “We started well and we had some chances but Bayern is a world-class team,” Paderborn’s coach Andre Breitenreiter added. “After the first two goals we strengthened our defense. We tried to score late in the game and Bayern used the space to score.”

Paderborn did not embarrass itself despite the big defeat and wasted several chances. The small club is making its debut in the top tier and has a budget 25 times smaller than that of Bayern and is dwarfed in all aspects by the German powerhouse and defending champion.

Bayern opened a two-point lead over Mainz, which blew a two-goal advantage and had to settle for a 2-2 draw at Eintracht Frankfurt. In other matches, Schalke won 3-0 at Werder Bremen and Hoffenheim and Freiburg drew 3-3.

Paderborn’s only claim to prominence before this season was a dubious one. The club, then in the third division, was involved in one of the one of the matches manipulated by referee Robert Hoyzer in 2004 in Germany’s biggest match-fixing scandal.

This season, however, Paderborn is gaining attention for all the right reasons. By playing an aggressive press-ing game, the club with a home ground that can house only 15,000 was undefeated after four matches and leading the league on goal difference.

Bayern beats Paderborn 4-0 to take Bundesliga lead

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Marseille’s French forward Andre-Pierre Gignac gestures to supporters at the end of their League One soccer match against Rennes, at the Velodrome Stadium, in Marseille, southern France, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014.

Cruising Marseille throw down gauntlet to stuttering PSG

Arsenal out of League Cup, Liverpool advance

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Arsenal’s Lukas Podolski, right, controls the ball ahead of Southampton’s Dusan Tadic during the English League Cup soccer match between Arsenal and South-ampton at Emirates Stadium in London, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014.

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Gareth Bale leveled for Ma-drid four minutes later, and Ronaldo did the rest by scoring in the 28th, 32nd, 80th and in stoppage time. Ronaldo’s latest scoring burst gave him 12 goals in all competitions this season, including a league-leading eight goals after five rounds. After losing back-to-back matches in the league, he has now helped Madrid outscore its opponents 18-4 in its last three games in all competitions.

“It was a question of the team, now things are going well,” said Ronaldo. “Thanks to my teammates for help-ing me reach this number of goals. Now we have to continue fighting to reach the top of the table.” Madrid’s win provision-ally pulled it to within one point of Valencia and Sevilla in joint second, with Barcelona another two points ahead before all

three play this round.Also Tuesday, Celta Vigo

goalkeeper Sergio Alvarez saved an 89th-minute penalty to secure a 2-1 win over Deportivo La Coruna, keeping his team undefeated and level on points with Madrid.

Elche showed some unex-pected verve to start the match at the Santiago Bernabeu, with its forwards drawing bookings for Madrid backs Dani Carvajal and Marcelo either side of its opening goal. “We were play-ing well at the start and went in front, but our celebration didn’t last very long,” Albacar said.

Bale’s glancing header from a cross by James Rodriguez equalized, and Marcelo’s ques-tionable penalty when he ap-peared to dive sent Ronaldo to the penalty spot. Ronaldo drilled in the spot kick for the lead and moments later the

Portugal forward headed in Marcelo’s cross for another goal.

He converted a second pen-alty after Mario Pasalic fouled him in the box, and the insa-tiable Ronaldo struck again after 90 minutes were up from a pass by Bale.

Navas played his first match for Madrid after Iker Casillas had started the season’s first eight games. Navas joined for €10 million ($12.85 million) after impressing last season with fellow Spanish club Le-vante and for Costa Rica at this summer’s World Cup. Besides Albacar’s penalty, he wasn’t tested.

Madrid coach Carlo Ancelot-ti said his decision to play Na-vas over Casillas had nothing to do with the jeers Casillas had received from some sections of Madrid’s fans during the previ-

ous two home games. Ancelotti did not say who would start in goal for Saturday’s match at Villarreal. “On Saturday we will see who plays at Villar-real,” he said.

In the night’s other game, Manuel “Nolito” Agudo took Joaquin Larrivey’s headed pass and fired in Celta’s opener in the fourth minute. Isaac Cuenca made it 1-1 in the 55th before

Larrivey headed in No-lito’s corner kick for the winner in the 72nd.

Haris Medunjanin had a chance to snatch a late equalizer when Celta’s Gustavo Cabral blocked Sidnei’s cross with his arm, but Alvarez pushed his spot kick wide to ensure Celta claimed the regional derby.

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Liverpool beat Middlesbrough 14-13 in a marathon penalty shootout in the third round of the League Cup on Tuesday, after Arsenal and Ever-ton both bowed out of the competition. Liverpool squeezed through after Patrick Bamford had scored a penalty for Middlesbrough in the third minute of injury time at the end of extra time to give the second-tier club a dramatic 2-2 draw at Anfield.

In the all-Premier League ties, Arsenal surren-dered a one-goal advantage to lose 2-1 to South-ampton, Swansea beat Everton 3-0 and Stoke came from a goal down to beat Sunderland 2-1. Liverpool started with Raheem Sterling, Adam Lallana and Lazar Markovic playing behind Rickie Lambert, who was captain for the evening on his full debut in place of the rested Steven Gerrard.

But it was 17-year-old debutant midfielder Jor-dan Rossiter who gave Liverpool the lead after 10 minutes, drilling in the rebound after Middlesbrough goalkeeper Jamal Blackman could only parry Lambert’s initial effort. Middlesbrough equalized in the second half when Adam Reach headed in a free kick after 62 minutes and Adam Clayton hit the post in the 85th as the visitors poured forward in a vain search for a winner before the end of regulation time.

Suso, an extra time substitute for Markovic, ap-peared to have secured Liverpool’s route to round four when he slotted past Blackman after Adam Lallana’s cross was not properly cleared in the 109th minute.

But Kolo Toure brought down Bamford in injury time after Sterling bizarrely passed the ball into a space where there was no teammate, and Bamford converted the resultant spot kick to take the game to penalties. It proved to be the longest in the com-petition’s history, requiring 30 spot kicks before

yielding a winner.Sterling missed his penalty in the first round of

the shootout, squandering the chance to win it 5-3. Instead, it took Middlesbrough’s Albert Adomah to send his second penalty wide for Liverpool to celebrate a protracted victory. “I thought it was great quality, both teams showed great composure,” Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said of the shootout. “We gave away poor goals, to be honest. At the moment, we are making too many mistakes but I can’t fault the character and the mentality of the players. Congratulations to Middlesbrough, I thought they were excellent. but it’s great for us to get through.”

Earlier, Alexis Sanchez had put Arsenal ahead with a brilliant free kick in the 14th minute at Emirates Stadium. However, Dusan Tadic leveled six minutes later with a penalty, his first goal for Southampton, after Tomas Rosicky had fouled Sadio Mane. Defender Nathaniel Clyne then lashed in a vicious strike from long range in the 40th for Southampton’s winner.

“It’s disappointing because we had a good start, but we made big errors when we had the ball,” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said. “You have to give credit to Southampton. They are a good side and they played very well tonight. I cannot fault the attitude. The reason we lost is because of our oppo-nent’s performance. It is not the players’ fault.”

Sunderland lost to Stoke despite United States striker Jozy Altidore giving it the lead after 16 minutes. Defender Marc Muniesa struck twice for Stoke, either side of halftime, with his first goals for the club.

Swansea beat Everton courtesy of goals from Nathan Dyer, Gylfi Sigurdsson and Marvin Emnes, while MK Dons, which had thrashed Manchester United 4-0 in the previous round, continued its cup run with a 2-0 victory over Bradford.

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PARIS - They lead the Ligue 1 standings, have scored 19 goals in seven games often displaying a free-flowing attacking football and their top strik-er has already found the back of the net eight times. Paris St Germain? No, Olympique de Marseille. The Provence side thrashed

Stade de Reims 5-0 away on Tuesday, their fifth straight

win after a stuttering start amid a row involving president Vincent Labrune and new coach Marcelo Bielsa.

The Argentinian was true to his ‘El Loco’ nickname when he lashed out at Labrune for “mak-ing promises he knew he could not keep” during the transfer window, also saying “the way the club is run disappoints me”. Bielsa, however, promised he would do his best and he has kept that promise.

“It is said that hard work pays off. The coach is always on our backs. A great part of our con-fidence comes from that,” said midfielder Florian Thauvin. “If OM (Marseille) continue like this and Paris does not wake up, the French champion will

perhaps not be the one we think of,” said Reims president Jean-Pierre Caillot.

PSG got off to a limping start and trail Marseille, who have 16 points, by six point ahead of their trip to promoted Caen later on Wednesday (1900GMT/5 PM ET).

The French champions have been suffering from Zlatan Ibra-himovic’s sudden dip in form, the Swede having not scored in his last two league games, which ended in disappointing draws.

Marseille striker Andre-Pierre Gignac, instead, has become the first French top flight player to score eight goals in the open-ing seven rounds of matches since David Trezeguet in the 1999/2000 season. Gignac, who has never looked that fit, can rely on the collaboration of Thauvin, France international Dimitri Payet and Ghana’s Andre Ayew up front.

“Up front, except for PSG, I can’t any team with so much potential,” Nice forward Eric Bautheac told France Football on Wednesday. “They fight like dogs. It’s the same players than last seasons but with another mentality.” There is a long road ahead and Bielsa warned that they would have to wait until they have played the top guns be-fore assessing their ambitions.

Marseille take on St Etienne at home on Sunday and the clash against arch-rivals PSG at the Parc des Princes is scheduled for Nov. 9.

Reuters

BERNE - The public has a “full right to know” the contents of the ethics investigation into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, FIFA executive committee member Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan said on Tuesday.

“In the interest of full trans-parency, I believe it is important that the much-anticipated report on the ethics investigation that is crucial to ensuring good gover-nance at FIFA is fully disclosed and open to the public,” he said on Twitter.

“This will only help the foot-ball community move ahead in reforming our institutions in the best interest of the sport,” added Prince Ali, who is the Asian vice-president on the executive committee.

“The entire football family as well as its sponsors and those who follow the game worldwide have a full right to know the con-tents of the report in the spirit of complete openness.”

FIFA’s ethics committee is investigating whether there was any corruption in the turbulent bidding process four years ago which ended in the 2018 World Cup being awarded to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar.

Former U.S. attorney Michael Garcia, FIFA’s ethics investiga-tor, recently completed his report but it has not been made public. It is now being scrutinised by German judge Hans-Joachim Eckert who heads the adjudica-tory chamber of FIFA’s ethics committee.

A final decision is not due until the spring and even then FI-FA’s ethics code, under a section

entitled “confidentiality”, states that “only the final decisions already notified to the addressees may be made public.”

On Friday, Garcia himself criticised the lack of transpar-ency surrounding his investiga-tion, adding that he was restricted by the code as to what he could make public.

“As a general matter, I think that the more that is public and the more that people can see what is done and agree with what was done, or disagree with what is done...then those issues can be resolved and the organisation can move on,” he said during a conference on sports in ethics held at FIFA headquarters.

“Beyond any particular case, the public have to have confi-dence that the process is working in a fair way.”

Ronaldo’s 4 goals leads Madrid to another routAssociated Press

BARCELONA — Cristiano Ronaldo made amends for conceding a penalty by scoring four times as he led Real Madrid to a 5-1 rout of Elche in the Spanish league on Tuesday. Ronaldo fouled Pedro Mosquera while disputing a ball in the box in the 15th minute, al-lowing Edu Albacar to stroke the penalty beyond goalkeeper Keylor Navas — who was making his debut for Madrid.

Real’s Cristiano Ronaldo holds the ball as he celebrates his four goals during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Elche at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Tues-day, Sept. 23, 2014.

FIFA exco member wants ethics investigation made public

Associated Press

FRANKFURT — Mario Goetze scored two goals as Bayern Munich eased to a 4-0 victory over promoted Paderborn and moved to the top of the Bundesliga on Tuesday.

Paderborn’s hopes of achieving a huge upset were dashed quickly, as Goetze and Robert Lewandowski scored inside the first quarter of an hour. Goetze and Thomas Mueller then netted late in the match as Bayern brought down to earth the team that had come into the match as the surprise league leader.

“Bayern is in a different league from us,” Paderborn’s captain Uwe Huenemeir said. “We started well and we had some chances but Bayern is a world-class team,” Paderborn’s coach Andre Breitenreiter added. “After the first two goals we strengthened our defense. We tried to score late in the game and Bayern used the space to score.”

Paderborn did not embarrass itself despite the big defeat and wasted several chances. The small club is making its debut in the top tier and has a budget 25 times smaller than that of Bayern and is dwarfed in all aspects by the German powerhouse and defending champion.

Bayern opened a two-point lead over Mainz, which blew a two-goal advantage and had to settle for a 2-2 draw at Eintracht Frankfurt. In other matches, Schalke won 3-0 at Werder Bremen and Hoffenheim and Freiburg drew 3-3.

Paderborn’s only claim to prominence before this season was a dubious one. The club, then in the third division, was involved in one of the one of the matches manipulated by referee Robert Hoyzer in 2004 in Germany’s biggest match-fixing scandal.

This season, however, Paderborn is gaining attention for all the right reasons. By playing an aggressive press-ing game, the club with a home ground that can house only 15,000 was undefeated after four matches and leading the league on goal difference.

Bayern beats Paderborn 4-0 to take Bundesliga lead

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Marseille’s French forward Andre-Pierre Gignac gestures to supporters at the end of their League One soccer match against Rennes, at the Velodrome Stadium, in Marseille, southern France, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014.

Cruising Marseille throw down gauntlet to stuttering PSG

Arsenal out of League Cup, Liverpool advance

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Arsenal’s Lukas Podolski, right, controls the ball ahead of Southampton’s Dusan Tadic during the English League Cup soccer match between Arsenal and South-ampton at Emirates Stadium in London, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014.

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SINGARAJA - This expanse of ter-raced paddy field is located at the south end of Busungbiu village, approximately

39 km south of the town of Singaraja. Precisely, it perches at the verge of the Singaraja–Denpasar road section via Pupuan.

This overlay of paddy fields look very

stunning with the background of green hills. Amidst of the paddy fields lies a strand of river whose glittering water runs throughout the year. Farmer activi-ties around the paddy fields take visitors

to a natural rustic atmosphere. Near the parking area located at road side, a wooden stage is provided for visitors to enjoy a stretch of paddy fields while unwinding.

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The world number 61, who knocked out U.S. Open semi-finalist and 13th seed Ekaterina Makarova in the second round, prevailed again in the battle of baseliners to notch argu-ably the biggest win of her career.

Having taken the first set of the third round clash on a tie-break, Bacsinszky fell 3-1 down in the second against French Open champion Sharapova. The Russian, though, struggled to rid her game of unforced errors as the 25-year-old Bacsinszky broke back to level the match, which looked to be heading for a second tiebreak.

But a 43rd error from Sharapova gifted the Swiss the vital break to win the set 7-5 and set up a quarter-

final clash with either eighth seed Caroline Wozniacki or Australia’s Casey Dellacqua.

Sharapova joined an alarming list of seeds dumped from the $2.4 million inaugural event at the early stages with only four of the 16 remaining.

World number one Serena Wil-liams was forced to retire from her second round clash on Tuesday be-cause of illness, while a back injury ended Jelena Jankovic’s run as did a thigh problem for Ana Ivanovic.

Second ranked Romanian Simo-na Halep only had herself to blame for her three set loss on Tuesday. Germany’s Angelique Kerber was one seed to find the going unusually

straightforward as she smashed past Barbora Zahlavova Strycova 6-1 6-1 in quick time on Wednesday.

The seventh seed will next face Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina, who was given a walkover to the last eight after Spain’s Garbine Muguruza, who performed so well in knocking out Halep a day earlier, withdrew because of gastritis.

France’s Alize Cornet, who was trailing Williams before the American retired on Tuesday, moved on through to the quarters with a 7-6(4) 1-6 6-3 win over Belgian wildcard Kirsten Flipkens. Cornet recovered from a break down in the third set to set up a meeting with either sixth seed Eugenie Bouchard of Canada or American Alison Riske.

Cornet’s compatriot Caroline Gar-cia, who beat Agnieszka Radwanksa in the second round, smashed 11 aces in knocking out American CoCo Vandeweghe 6-3 6-2.

Factory rider Andrea Doviz-ioso and Pramac’s Andrea Ian-none will give Ducati’s ‘evolution’ MotoGP bike its debut in this weekend’s Aragon Grand Prix.

Designated the GP14.2, the revised bike is the biggest step so far in Ducati’s rebuilding ef-fort, as it works to get back to the front of the MotoGP pack after a win drought now approaching four years.

The new bike ran for the first time in a shakedown test with Dovizioso and Iannone at Mugel-lo on Tuesday.

Satellite rider Iannone, who has been receiving increasing amounts of works assistance through 2014, gets the second evolution bike rather than Dovizioso’s current team-mate Cal Crutchlow, as the Italian is moving up to the factory team next year, when Crutchlow leaves for LCR Honda.

Ducati is currently engaged in a lengthy recovery process under new owner Audi and new team

boss Gigi Dall’Igna, who joined from Aprilia this season.

The team last won a MotoGP race at Philip Island with Casey Stoner in late 2010, but has gained ground this year, with Dovizioso qualifying on the front row four times and taking two podium finishes, and Iannone twice start-ing second.

“We are now becoming a more competitive reality and I am very happy with our progress,” said Dovizioso.

Ducati controversially chose to run under Open regulations for 2014, meaning it had to use con-trol electronics, but giving it more freedom for engine development, among other rules breaks.

It will also increase its pres-ence on the grid to six bikes in 2015, having agreed to supply the Avintia team as a second customer alongside Pramac. Avintia has so far run FTR-Kawasaki-based CRT/Open machinery in its three years at the top level.

Reuters

INCHEON, South Korea - The Qatar women’s basketball team forfeited a game at the Asian Games on Wednesday after being refused permission to wear the hijab, saying they were taking a stand against what they say is a discriminatory policy against Muslim women.

The Qatari players were asked, in accordance with International

Basketball Federation’s rules, to remove their Islamic headscarfs in order to play against Mon-golia.

However, the players refused, saying it violated their religious beliefs and they wanted to send a strong message to the sport’s gov-erning federation that the ban was unfair. “We have to take this stand,” said Ahlam Salem M. Al-Mana of Qatar. “We are here to push the international association that all

Muslim teams are ready to compete in any competition.

“We knew about the hijab ban, but we have to be here. We have to show everyone that we are ready to play, but the International Associa-tion is not ready.”

A spokesperson for the Incheon Asian Games (IAGOC) told Reuters that organisers had no alterna-tive other than to declare a forfeit because, “the rule that the players broke is International Basketball

Federation rule 4.4.2, which talks about uniforms and what players can wear.

“The technical official asked them to remove the scarf and they refused, so the game was forfeited by Qatar.” The use of hijabs has become a hot topic in sport in recent years with muslim athletes complaining that they are being discriminated against.

Human rights groups and the United Nations joined forces to

put pressure on sporting bodies to lift the bans.

Earlier this year, the Interna-tional Football Association Board (IFAB) unanimously overturned a ban on the garments, allowing soc-cer players to wear them.

They had previously been banned due to safety concerns and because they were not recognised in the laws of the game. But FIFA medical reports showed there were no safety concerns.

Qatar forfeit basketball game in hijab row

REUTERS/Max RossiDucati MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso of Italy takes a curve during the third practice session of the San Marino Grand Prix in Misano Adriatico circuit in central Italy September 13, 2014.

Dovizioso and Iannone to debut Ducati’s ‘evolution’ bike at Aragon

REUTERS/Ray StubblebineMaria Sharapova of Russia hits a return to Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark during their match at the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, August 31, 2014.

Sharapova dumped out by Swiss qualifier in WuhanReuters

Swiss qualifier Timea Bacsinszky continued to swipe past the seeds at the Wuhan Open on Wednesday by dumping world number four Maria Sharapova from the hard court tournament with a 7-6(3) 7-5 victory.

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From page 1On the other hand, he said the presence of the ASEAN free trade was

an opportunity for the foreign exchange banks to expand their market to ASEAN. Apparently, a number of national foreign exchange banks were still constrained by business scale and turnover that had not met the requirement as specified.

“If foreign exchange banks have sufficient competitiveness to enter the ASEAN financial market, there will be open market opportunity for the regional banks and rural credit banks to take part in developing the business,” he said.

He argued the market blocking area restricting foreign banks to enter particular region in Indonesia, intended as a protection against local bank-ing business, was not an appropriate option as long as it was targeted to achieve the expansion of monetary inclusion and effectiveness of bank intermediation through the process of financial deepening. (kmb27)

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BOGOR — They are the size of a pinhead and don’t even pack a sting, but these tiny wasps are cold-blooded killers nonetheless. They work as nature’s SWAT team, neutralizing a pest that threatens to destroy one of the developing world’s most important staple foods: cassava.

The wasps are being released in Indonesia, the latest country threatened by the mealybug. It’s a white fuzzy-looking insect shaped like a pill that’s been making its way across Southeast Asia’s fields for the past six years.

But unlike in Thailand, where infestations reached some 250,000 hectares (618,000 acres) of crops grown mostly as part of the coun-try’s huge export business, cassava in Indonesia is a vital food source second only to rice. That makes the mealybug a serious threat to food security in Indonesia, which already has one of the region’s highest child malnutrition rates.

The parasitic wasps, or Anagyrus lopezi, need the mealybug to sur-vive. Females lay their eggs inside the insect and as the larvae grow, they eat the bug from the inside out, slowly killing it until there’s nothing left but its mummified shell.

On Wednesday, scientists will put 2,000 wasps into a holding cage at an affected field in Bogor, on the outskirts of Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta. They will be moni-tored to see how well they handle local conditions as they multiply to an expected 300,000 over the next month before being released into the wild to start their relentless killing spree.

It’s unclear how much damage mealybugs have already caused to

Indonesia’s crops, but infestations have been reported on the main cassava-growing island of Java and in parts of Sumatra, said Kris Wyckhuys, an entomologist at the Colombia-based International Center for Tropical Agriculture, which is helping to coordinate the release.

He said the idea is to introduce the wasps early in a pre-emptive strike because the pests if left unchecked can destroy more than 80 percent of a harvest by suck-ing the plant’s sap until it withers and dies.

Indonesia is one of the world’s top producers of cassava, planting around 1 million hectares (2.5 mil-lion acres) a year, half of which is eaten as a staple food across the sprawling archipelago of 240 mil-lion people.

The long, finger thin roots of the shrub-like plant are a major source of carbohydrates and provide an array of nutrients. Like the potato, cassava is a versatile starch that’s an essential part of daily meals across much of the developing world. In Indonesia it is boiled, fried, made into noodles, crackers and even cakes.

Known elsewhere as manioc, tapioca and yucca, it is also made into livestock feed and used as an ingredient in a variety of products worldwide, ranging from lipstick and artificial sweeteners to paint and glucose IV drips.

Portuguese traders first brought the plant from South America cen-turies ago, and many of the world’s poorest people today depend on it for survival. It grows well in bad soil conditions and doesn’t need much water, making it ideal for hot areas hit by drought.

It is especially important in Africa, which suffered a massive

mealybug attack in the 1980s. Wasps were first imported there from Paraguay and released across the continent by airplane. The method was effective, wiping out up to 95 percent of the bugs in some areas, and has been credited with averting famine and saving $20 billion.

Wyckhuys said the wasps have not created any unintended prob-lems within ecosystems since mealybugs only eat cassava and

the tiny wasps only eat mealybugs. However, he said it’s impossible to erradicate all of the pests because the wasps must keep some hosts alive in order to keep from dying out themselves.

Mealybugs, or Phenacoccus manihoti, are believed to have hitchhiked into Thailand in 2008, most likely aboard cassava cut-tings transported from Africa. But without the wasps to keep them in check, they quickly spread to Laos,

Cambodia and Vietnam.Small releases have been con-

ducted within those countries, and the wasps imported in 2009 to Thailand have also slowly migrated into neighboring countries.

The wasps have vastly im-proved the problem in Thailand, the worlds’s largest cassava exporter, but not eliminated it entirely. Sev-eral wasp releases are planned in different parts of Indonesia using insects brought from Thailand.

“The climate change in the past two decades has shown its effects, particularly in the archipelago country where the sea level has risen,” Walhi coastal and marine campaigner Ode Rakhman said on Wednesday.

He explained that the problem in coastal areas and small islands

was not about the living space is-sues created by corporate policies, or the concept of “open access,” which did not rely on the collec-tive management of coastal com-munities, but the problem is about the damage and pollution of the ecosystem.

Rakhman observed that un-

controlled mining activities and industrial waste discharges had led to the pollution of the ecosystem and degradation of the coral reefs, mangrove forests and sea-grass beds.

In addition, he noted, the climate change caused by human behavior has led to extreme weather condi-

tions and an increase in greenhouse emissions -- to 400 ppm from the safe limit of 350 ppm.

“All the three ecosystems -- of coral reefs, mangrove forests, and sea-grass beds -- are interrelated, and if one of them is damaged, it will affect the other two,” Ra-khman said.

“The rampant sea mining along the coastal areas and small islands has damaged mangrove forests, coral reefs and sea-grass beds,” he stated.

He remarked that the ecological

functions of the mangrove forests, among other things, are to protect the shoreline, prevent seawater in-trusion and protect the coral reefs and sea-grass beds from sedimen-tation. Therefore, he said, the government should give special attention to the mangrove forests to protect the coastal areas. “The government should give special attention that can help minimize the climate change effects and protect the coastal areas from erosion and rising sea-levels,” he said.

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A student at Bogor Agricultural University looks at pest pink cassava mealybugs in a laboratory in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2914. They are the size of a pinhead and don’t even pack a sting, but these tiny wasps are cold-blooded killers nonetheless.

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JAKARTA - The extreme climate changes caused by the damages to the marine environment along the coastal areas has stimulated a rise in the sea level, according to the Indonesian Forum for Environment (Walhi).

Tiny wasp SWAT teams to protect crop

As far as she’s concerned, it’s the ideal place to raise a family. In interviews with The Associated Press, the 24-year-old Muslim con-vert explained her decision to move with her toddler to the territory controlled by the militant group, saying it offers them protection from the sex, crime, drugs and alcohol that she sees as rampant in largely secular Turkey.

“The children of that country see all this and become either murder-ers or delinquents or homosexuals or thieves,” Umi Abdullah wrote in one of several Facebook mes-sages exchanged in recent days. She said that living under Shariah, the Islamic legal code, means that her 3-year-old boy’s spiritual life is secure.

“He will know God and live

under his rules,” she said. As for the American bombs being dropped on the Islamic State group, she said: “I only fear God.”

Ummi Abdullah’s experience — the outlines of which were con-firmed by her ex-husband, Turkish authorities, and friends — illustrates the pull of the Islamic State group, the self-styled caliphate strad-dling Iraq and Syria that has sent shockwaves around the world with its bloodthirsty campaign. It also shows how, even in Turkey — one of the most modern and prosperous of the Muslim countries — entire families are dropping everything to find salvation in what Turkish aca-demic Ahmet Kasim Han describes as a “false heaven.”

Ummi Abdullah, originally from Kyrgyzstan, reached the Is-

lamic State group only last month, and her disappearance became front-page news in Turkey after her ex-husband, a 44-year-old car salesman named Sahin Aktan, went to the press in an effort to find their child.

Legions of others in Turkey have carted away family to the Islamic State group under far less public scrutiny and in much greater numbers. In one incident earlier this month, more than 50 families from various parts of Turkey slipped across the border to live under Is-lamic State, according to opposition legislator Atilla Kart.

Kart’s figure appears high, but his account is backed by a villager from Cumra, in central Turkey, who told AP that his son and his daughter-in-law are among the

massive group. The villager spoke on condition of anonymity, saying he is terrified of reprisals.

The movement of foreign fight-ers to the Islamic State group — largely consisting of alienated, angry or simply war-hungry young Muslims — has been covered extensively since the group tore across Iraq in June, capturing Mosul, threatening Baghdad and massacring prisoners. The arrival

of entire families, many but not all of them Turkish, has received less attention.

“It’s about fundamentalism,” said Han, a professor of inter-national relations at Istanbul’s Kadir Has University. The Islamic State group’s uncompromising interpretation of Islam promises parents the opportunity to raise their children free from any secular influence.

Associated Press

LISBON — Nurses in Portugal have begun a 48-hour strike over pay, working hours and what they say is an acute shortage of staff in the public health service.

The Portuguese Nurses Union says more than 80 percent of its members walked out Wednesday. Media reported the cancellation of many hospital operations and some treatments, though most appoint-ments with doctors went ahead.

A recent financial crisis com-pelled Portugal’s government to slash spending. That included pay cuts and longer hours for public employees, including nurses.

The union says many nurses have quit and joined the private sector or gone to work abroad. At the start of this year there were just under 30,000 nurses in the national health service, down from about 39,000 three years ago. The Health Ministry made no immediate comment.

Associated Press

DONETSK — Mortar fire struck an apartment block in the rebel-held east Ukraine city of Donetsk overnight, yet another violation of a cease-fire between government forces and pro-Russian insurgents. While both sides said Tuesday they saw progress on the ground in fulfilling an agreement to pull back heavy artillery weapons from the front-line, on Wednesday Kiev accused the rebels of violating a cease-fire imposed Sept. 5.

“The situation remains difficult,” Col. Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, told journalists

in Kiev on Wednesday. “Ukrai-nian detachments comply with the cease-fire regime but the terrorists continue provocations,” he said, referring to the pro-Russian sepa-ratists. Lysenko also said that eight servicemen had been wounded in fighting overnight, although none were killed.

A residential building in the north of Donetsk was heavily dam-aged by shelling, destroying at least two apartments. While RIA Novosti news agency quoted the rebels as saying that two people died in the attack, nobody at the scene could confirm any civilian casualties.

That part of the city has been the subject of almost daily shelling

despite the cease-fire, as fighting centered around the government-held city airport nearby has caught many residential neighborhoods in the crossfire.

More than 3,500 people have been killed in the conflict since mid-April, the United Nations estimates, although the number of casualties is likely much higher. Much of the region’s infrastructure and industry, from airports and bridges to coal mines, have been destroyed by shelling.

The continuing shelling comes after an agreement signed Saturday called for both sides to pull back heavy artillery, setting up a buf-fer zone that would allow for the cease-fire to be more effectively enforced. While withdrawals were underway in some villages in the region, the airport and other areas have remained hotspots.

The West and Ukraine have ac-cused Moscow of propping up the rebels with arms and volunteers from the onset of the conflict. NATO has also reported Russian troops fighting on the Ukrainian territory.

Canadian Lt. Col. Jay Janzen, a NATO military spokesman, told The Associated Press on Wednes-day that NATO has witnessed “a significant pullback of Russian conventional forces from inside Ukraine,” but added that “some Russian troops still remain.” He said it was difficult to say how many were still in Ukraine because they were moving across the border which is largely controlled by the separatists.

AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic

Smoke rises after shelling over a checkpoint marked with flag of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic in the town of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014.

Cease-fire in eastern Ukraine violated


AP Photo/Emrah Gurel

In this Friday, Sept. 19, 2014 photo, car salesman Sahin Aktan shows photos of his ex-wife Asiya Ummi Abdullah as he speaks during an interview at his lawyer’s office in Istanbul, Turkey.

Associated Press

ISTANBUL — Asiya Ummi Abdullah doesn’t share the view that the Islamic State group rules over a terrorist dystopia and she isn’t scared by the American bombs falling on Raqqa, its power center in Syria.

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PARIS - With low-cost airlines on the cusp of dominating Europe’s skies, turbulent times are in store for traditional carriers that are finding it hard to adapt, as the ongoing strike at Air France shows. Air France pilots are now into the second week of a strike over management plans to step up development of its budget Transavia unit where pilots are paid considerably less.

The strike has forced Europe’s second largest airline after Lufthansa to ground around half of its flights and is costing it 20 million euros ($25.7 million) per day, which Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday “represents a real danger for Air France”.

Air France-KLM has only recently recovered from a severe financial crisis at the end of 2011, thanks to a deep restructuring programme that has seen it reach pay and voluntary departure deals with employees.

In the second quarter of this year it nearly tripled operating profit to 238 million euros ($306 million) but posted a small net loss of 6.0 million euros as it had to take a 106-million-euro write-down of assets in its freight division.

But that doesn’t mean clear skies ahead for Air France, as well as other traditional carriers, as budget airlines are relentlessly expanding their mar-ket share.

“Low-cost airlines now represent between 25 and 45 percent of air

traffic in Europe, depending on the country,” said Didier Brechemier, an aviation expert at consultants Roland Berger. They are no longer minnows in the industry.

Irish low-cost airline Ryanair, with a fleet of 300 Boeing 737 medium-haul aircraft, serves 186 airports in 30 European countries.

Ryanair’s fleet is set to soon expand to 400, which would take it above Air France’s stable of 350 aircraft. Air France-KLM together have over 550 planes.

British low-cost airline easyJet is also not far behind with a fleet of 226 Airbus A320 planes, carrying out more than 1,400 flights per day on average. The low-cost model is changing how people fly.

Passengers are offered a low ticket price to be flown from one city to another, but many services previously included in the price must be paid for if desired, such as an on-board meal or a checked-in piece of luggage.

The growth of low-cost airlines “has been facilitated and accelerated by the web which has cleared away the obscurity of prices,” said Jean-Pierre Nadir, the founder of the Easy-voyage.com website which allows people to compare ticket prices.

Many people seem willing to give up frills, and maybe a little hassle, to get lower prices, which budget airlines are able to offer as they also cut other costs, usually by employing fewer staff at lower wages.

The WTO said Tuesday that its economists are now predicting 3.1 percent growth in world trade this year, down from the 4.7 percent forecast in April. They also cut their outlook for 2015 to 4 percent from the previous 5.3 percent.

The Geneva-based body said global trade stagnated in the first

six months of this year as a gradual recovery in demand for imports in developed countries was offset by declines in developing countries.

Its director-general, Roberto Azeve-do, said that “uneven growth and continuing geopolitical tensions will remain a risk for both trade and output in the second half of the year.”

Reuters

BEIJING - Chinese banks, property developers and regional governments are intensifying efforts to drag the housing market from its worst slump in two years by allowing people to buy more than one home, slashing prices and launching unorthodox promotions.

The property sector, which accounts for about 15 percent of China’s economy and directly affects some 40 industries from furniture to steel, is of increasing concern to companies and policy makers as it drags on growth.

The most powerful support measure may be yet to come.

Chinese media said on Tuesday that one of China’s top four state banks planned to discount mortgage rates by 30 percent and relax lending rules for those buying a second home.

Whether the flurry of measures can stoke growth in a sector that is crucial to the world’s second larg-est economy remains to be seen.

Even in central Beijing, one of the few cities left in China where home purchase restrictions are still in place due to record-high prices, the sector is feeling the pinch.

Lu Yanzeng, a property agent, said he had not sold a single home in two months. Business this year “is very so-so, it’s not as good as last year,” he said. “Sales of second-hand homes are slow, but new home sales are brisk.”

China’s property market, where prices surged to all-time highs for five consecutive years, is experiencing its sharpest slowdown in around two years. Average new home prices fell for a fourth consecutive month in August by 1.1 percent, mean-

ing the market is now close to wiping out gains seen over the last year. Compared to a year ago, sales as measured by floor space were down 12.4 percent.

While the slowdown in a heated market has benefited millions of Chinese, for whom soaring house prices have made home ownership a distant dream, slackening activity has also raised concerns about the health of China’s economy.

It is straining already softening domestic de-mand and pushing overall fixed-asset investment to lows not seen in nearly 14 years on a cumulative basis between January to August.

Falling home prices are also fuelling credit risks.

State news agency Xinhua said on Sunday that 32 small property developers in the city of Handan in north China have defaulted on loans that were borrowed illegally from an underground market.

That prompted the local government to arrest several executives to stem local investor panic.

No bank or official has so far confirmed media reports that mortgage rates would be lowered, partly out of fear of being criticised for reflating China’s property bubble.

But those in the market were hopeful such a move was imminent, especially since regional governments have already tried to prop up the market by abolishing housing investment limits in 40 of 46 cities.

“The unwinding of property controls by local governments should lift sales, but the effect so far isn’t obvious,” said a senior executive at a mid-sized listed developer in Beijing, who declined to be named.

“Relaxing the rules on home loans would be more effective and practical.”

REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/FilesA salesperson stands next to miniature models of new apartments on sale at the showroom in Bei-jing, in this June 24, 2014 file photo. Chinese banks, property developers and regional governments are intensifying efforts to drag the housing market from its worst slump in two years by allowing people to buy more than one home, slashing prices and launching unorthodox promotions.

China property hard sell intensifies

WTO cuts forecastsAssociated Press

BERLIN — The World Trade Organization has sharply reduced its forecast for global trade growth this year, pointing to uneven economic growth in countries including China and the U.S.

Low-cost airlines cause turbulence for European flag carriers

Largely, the dances existing in Bali do not only serve as an enter-taining art, but also as ritual dance devoted to gods. Therefore, it is not surprising if the dances in Bali are mostly performed in temples, including the Rejang Dance. This dance has many variants such as the Rejang Renteng, Rejang Bengkel, Rejang Ayodpadi, Rejang Galuh, Rejang Dewa, Rejang Palak, Re-jang Mebingin, Rejang Makitut, Rejang Haja and Rejang Negara. In Balinese community, the most popularly staged rejang dance is the Rejang Dewa. Rejang Dewa is a ritual dance of the Balinese com-munity. It is a sacred presentation to welcome and entertain the gods coming down from heaven to earth. Among the Balinese Hindu com-munity, the Rejang Dewa dance is staged in the deva yajña ritual such as temple anniversary or piodalan.

In contrast to the Sanghyang Dance denoting the dance of the gods-goddesses as well as other holy spirits entering into the body of the dancers, the Rejang Dewa is a sacred offering to gods. Dur-ing the temple ceremony, gods are invited through mantra and puja to come down from heaven, and then abide in the sacred objects like Pratima or effigy. To welcome and cheer the arrival of the gods, people then perform Rejang Dewa dance. Through the dance, people express their sincere gratitude to

gods for their willingness to come down to earth.

Rejang Dewa dance is performed by female dancers usually around a holy place or shrine, where the effi-gies are placed. The Rejang Dewa dancers generally put on the attires dominated by white and yellow colors with a headdress made of materials such as young coconut leaves. “White is a symbol of purity, while yellow is sacred just like the moon and the sun. Most of the sacred dances put on the at-tires definitely dominated by white and yellow colors,” said Kadek Suartaya, a lecturer in Philosophy and Art Criticism, in the Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI) Denpasar when met not long ago.

In performing the Rejang Dewa dance, the dancers usually make a circle in the temple or shrine court-yard. Sometimes, the dancers carry out this dance while holding hands. As a welcoming dance to gods, aside from having to be performed in sacred place like a temple, it also has the other requirements. “In the context of sacredness, Rejang Dewa dance must be danced by a girl who has not got their period yet. In the Balinese belief, if the Rejang Dewa dance is performed by women who have got their menstruation, gods and goddess will not be willing to come down to earth. This also ap-plies to the other wali dance such as the Sanghyang dance. Hence,

most of the dancers performing this dance remain at elementary school,” he added.

In terms of the type of the move-ment, the Rejang Dewa is said to be quite simple, while the tempo of its movement is slow and tender. Dominant movements used in the Rejang Dewa dance is ngembat and ngelikas or left and right movements

performed while moving forward slowly. When dancing, the dancers of Rejang Dewa generally have no dialogue or singing. Rejang Dewa dance is generally accompanied by gamelan music, although there are also accompanied by tembang or Song. Gamelan accompaniment of the Rejang Dewa dance in general is Gong Kebyar gamelan music.

Rejang Dewa dance is a ritual dance whose performance is al-ways associated with ritual, where it is mainly performed in the Deva Yajña ritual in temple. It is com-monly performed in the temple outermost courtyard located closer to the placement of ritual oblations or the other places considered to be sacred.

According to her, by inserting the waste subject into the curriculum, in this case the management and segregation of the organic and non-organic waste, she expected it could teach children to live a clean life from an early age.

She continued that based on the study tour made with headmen across Tabanan and Baturiti subdistrict to Surabaya, a lot of things could be learned. One of the lessons was that the appropriate waste processing could make money. “Hopefully, with this

visit, the headmen can get perspective about rural development by transforming waste into a blessing,” she hoped.

She continued that the success of Surabaya City could be seen from the programs that were worth serving as an example. Entourage of the regent and the headmen had the opportunity to make a visit to the processing of organic waste in the Surabaya Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP), a pilot project of green and clean village, rubbish depots and urban park. Aside from inserting waste management into the school curriculum, the Tabanan County would also hold a clean village competition in conjunction with the 521st anniversary of the Tabanan town. (kmb24)

Waste subject inserted into school curriculum

Bali Post

TABANAN - To overcome waste problem in Tabanan, the county government plans to put awareness on rubbish into the school curriculum. It was presented by the Regent of Tabanan, Ni Putu Eka Wiryastuti, Tuesday (Sep 23) after her visit to the city of Surabaya for the need of waste management.

To overcome waste problem in Ta-banan, the county government plans to put awareness on rubbish into the school curriculum.

IBP/Wan

Rejang Dewa:

A Sacred Dance to Welcome Gods’ Arrival

BUSINESS

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NEW YORK — President Barack Obama is addressing the United Nations as a commander in chief overseeing a war against militants in two Middle Eastern nations, a striking shift in the trajectory of a presidency that had been focused on ending conflicts in the region.

Instead, when he speaks to the world body Wednesday, he will cast the U.S. as the linch-pin in efforts to defeat Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, officials said. After weeks of launching strikes against mili-tant targets in Iraq, Obama ex-tended the military action into Syria on Monday, joined by an unexpected coalition of five Arab nations. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates joined the U.S. in carrying out airstrikes, while Qatar played a supporting role.

The partnership with Arab countries marked a rare victory for Obama during a tough stretch in which his foreign policy has been challenged not only by the Middle East militants, but also Russia’s provocations in Ukraine and an Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Officials said Obama will also address ways the U.S. has sought to mobilize international action to resolve the Ukraine and Ebola crises as well, including getting deepening economic sanctions on Russia and dis-patching 3,000 U.S. troops to West Africa to help deal with the Ebola outbreak.

But the growing U.S. military role in the Middle East will be the centerpiece of the presi-dent’s sixth address to the U.N. General Assembly. It comes at a time when Obama had hoped to be nearing the end of the second of the two wars he inherited in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Instead, the U.S. is plunging back into military action in Iraq, as well as Syria, where Obama long has tried to avoid involve-ment in a bloody civil war now in its fourth year. The airstrikes were aimed at not only Islamic State targets but also a new al-Qaida cell that the Pentagon said was nearing the “execution phase” of a direct attack on the U.S. or Europe.

Obama will also hold his first one-on-one meeting Wednesday with new Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who took of-fice earlier this year.

An Australian Federal Police officer and a Victoria state police officer who were part of a coun-terterrorism team had asked the 18-year-old to come to a police station in Melbourne to answer questions after first drawing their attention three months ago, Vic-toria Police Chief Commissioner Ken Lay said. The trio shook hands before the man began stabbing the officers, Australian Federal Police Commander Bruce Giles said. One of the officers then shot the man dead.

The officer had no choice but to shoot, said Victoria Police As-sistant Commissioner Luke Cor-nelius. Police haven’t released the suspect’s name, but opposition

leader Bill Shorten identified him in Parliament as Numan Haider. A second knife was found on the man after he was shot, Lay said. Both officers were in stable condition Wednesday.

The man had recently exhibited behaviors that had caused police “significant concern,” Lay said, including being seen waving what appeared to be an Islamic State flag at a shopping center. Australian Federal Police Acting Commis-sioner Andrew Colvin said the man’s passport was canceled about a week ago on national security grounds.

Brett Zarb, spokesman for GPT Group that owns the Dandenong Plaza shopping center, said police

had asked the mall for security footage of Haider’s brief visit to the complex last Thursday. Zarb said Haider had been accused of displaying the Islamic State flag at around 4 p.m. that day. He did not create any disturbance, he said.

Asked about reports that the man had also threatened Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Colvin said the man had not made any “specific threats.” Abbott is en route to New York to attend a United Nations Security Council meeting on the 15,000 for-eign fighters who are in Iraq and Syria. “Obviously this indicates that there are people in our community who are capable of very extreme acts,” Abbott said in a video mes-sage from Hawaii.

A statement issued by Islamic State group spokesman Abu Mu-hammad al-Adnani and made public this week asked Muslims to use all means to kill a “disbelieving American or European — espe-cially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian or a Canadian” or others whose countries are trying to disable the group.

AP Photo/AAP Image, Julian SmithA forensic officer documents objects including a blanket at the scene of a fatal shooting at Endeavour Hills Police Station in Melbourne, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014. A suspected terrorist was shot dead and two counterterrorism police were stabbed Tuesday in a confrontation in Australia’s second largest city that some experts suspect is inspired by the Islamic State group’s call to supporters to wage terror in their home countries.

Australia terror suspect had passport canceledAssociated Press

CANBERRA — A terror suspect shot dead after he stabbed two Australian counterterrorism police officers had his passport canceled on national security grounds and had recently displayed what ap-peared to be a flag of the Islamic State group, top police officials said Wednesday. Some experts suspect Tuesday’s attack was inspired by the Islamic State group’s call to supporters to wage terrorism in their home countries.

Obama to address UN amid new Mideast strikes

AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, James Borchuck, PoolPresident Barack Obama address the group of soldiers at US Central Command (CentCom) at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014.

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NEGARA - Tunas Harapan Kindergarten at Pangkung Languan hamlet, Yeh Sumbul vil-lage, Mendoyo, is in poor condition. Building of the kindergarten classroom along with the furniture is less worthy for learning activities and children playground. As utilizing used roof tiles, when it rains, some corners of the classroom are splashed by rainwater as it is not protected with ceiling.

Some parts of the building walls have begun to crack. Despite established in 2001, this public kindergarten could have just oc-cupied a permanent land beside the hamlet meeting hall since three years ago. Previ-ously, the kindergarten having 40 students and 3 teachers was always nomadic. Even, the kindergarten shared the building with SDN 3 Yeh Sumbul elementary school. However, after the kindergarten-elementary school was dismissed, the kindergarten currently run by the Yeh Sumbul Development Foundation was moved to the current location. Principal of the Taman Harapan Kindergarten, Yayuk Suciati, when met on Tuesday (Sep 23) said the kin-dergarten building was previously initiated by the founder of the foundation, but it was then difficult to operate because the fund was only enough for the operations of the kindergarten and teacher’s salaries. To repair the building or classroom furniture was not possible.

As seen in one of the classrooms, the wooden bench of the students was porous, while the cupboard was worn as eaten by ter-mites. Then, half of the blackboard had flaked off so that only the remaining part could be used for writing with chalk. “Benches and seats were old enough as procured in 2001. In short, they are not feasible. But we can do nothing, while the students here still need them,” said Yayuk. Likewise, the children playground had been rusty.

Actually there are three other kindergar-tens at Yeh Sumbul, but they are all under the Ministry of Religious Affairs. The only public kindergarten is the Tunas Harapan. Other than from Yeh Sumbul, some students of the kindergarten are also from other villages. The kindergarten management has been asking help for repairing the school buildings repeatedly.

One of the administrators of the Yeh Sum-bul Development Foundation, I Gede Artana, justified the condition of the public kindergar-ten. Roof tiles of the building were obtained from the former classroom of the SMPN 5 Mendoyo junior high school. Meanwhile, the building was financed by donation of the four administrators of the foundation that were in trouble. Artana doubling as hamlet chief of Yeh Satang said that of the four kindergar-tens at Yeh Sumbul, only the Tunas Harapan kindergarten had the building in alarming condition. (kmb26)

At Nyanglan village, there are about 10 businessmen who produce assorted beans and peanuts such as fried peanuts, snow peas and sprouted beans. Due to high gas price, the selling price of peanut production also increases.

One of the peanut business own-ers at Nyanglan village, Jero Ketut Surata, revealed that the selling price of fried peanut increased from IDR 25,000 to IDR 30,000 per kg, so did the price of lentils. Meanwhile, the selling price of sprouted beans rose from IDR 18,000 to IDR 20,000. “This price increase occurred after the increase in the price of the 12-kg LPG” he said when met at the location of production.

He revealed that his daily pro-duction required up to 40 tubes of 12-kg LPG. He admitted to use nine stoves for frying peanuts amounting to 500-750 kg. The total production showed a decrease when compared to before the increase in the price of peanuts.

According to one of the produc-tion workers, Ni Kadek Suryani, before the price hike of peanuts, the production could reach 1.5 tons. But since the price hike of the peanuts, the demand reduced by 50 percent. She admitted the peanut production was distributed to a number of areas such as Nusa Dua, Tabanan and Kuta. “Some custom-ers are also purchasing directly to location of the production. They mostly came from Karangasem,” she said.

The peanut produced at Nyanglan village was imported from China. By and large, the order of raw pea-nuts could reach 10 tons per week. According to her, the delivery of raw materials could not meet the needs of production at Nyangge-lan village. “The peanut imported from China is further divided with the fellow peanut producers at Nyanglan village because the raw material is limited and inappropri-ate with the capacity of produc-tion,” she added. (dwa)

Decline in demand for peanuts due to price hike of LPG Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - Price hike of the 12-kg LPG has caused the production of a number of peanut entrepreneurs at Nyanglan vil-lage to diminish. Rising production cost triggers the increase in the selling price of the peanuts produced, while the demand for peanut

IBP/Dewa FarendThe peanut production in Nyanglan Village in Klungkung Regency is affected by the increasing price of LPG

Building of public kindergarten at Yeh Sumbul apprehensive

IBP/Gus OloThe current condition of the Tunas Harapan Kindergarten at Pangkung Languan hamlet, Yeh Sumbul village, Mendoyo.

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WASHINGTON - Fewer than a quarter of US children prescribed medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) get the recommended behavioral therapy along with it, said a study out Monday.

The findings in the Journal of the American Medical Associa-tion (JAMA) Pediatrics examined records of more than 300,000 chil-dren from 1,516 counties across the United States who had received an ADHD prescription.

“Less than a quarter of those prescribed ADHD drugs received any talk therapy in the same year they received medication,” said the study by doctors at the nonprofit research organization RAND.

“And in 200 US counties, fewer than one in 10 children getting ADHD medication received any talk therapy.”

Treatments varied widely by geographic area, with about half of ADHD youths in Sacramento Coun-ty, California receiving behavioral therapy in addition to their meds but only 20 percent doing so in Miami-Dade County, Florida -- even though each county had about the same num-ber of licensed psychologists.

ADHD is diagnosed in about 11 percent of US boys and four percent

of US girls, making it one of the most common disorders of child-hood, according to the article.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends behavioral therapy for preschool children with ADHD, and “preferably both” medication and therapy for older

children and adolescents.“In areas of the country where

rates of use are so low, it indi-cates that many kids with private insurance who could benefit from therapy are not receiving it,” said lead author Walid Gellad, an ad-junct scientist at RAND.

Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Dr. Pepper Snapple pledged to provide smaller-sized bottles, and more water and other low- or no-calorie beverages, to the market to help bring down per-person consump-tion of their high-sugar drinks.

They also agreed to better publi-cize calorie counts on vending ma-chines, retail coolers and all drink-vending equipment controlled by the companies.

Appearing at an event organized by the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, representatives from each signed a voluntary initiative to employ marketing and consumer outreach to prod consumers to drink fewer sugary drinks and promote calorie awareness.

The goal is to cut calories from drinks by 20 percent per person within a decade.

The initiative comes as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and others struggle with flagging sales in their home market. Coca-Cola reported flat sales in North America in the most recent quarter.

Regulators in New York City, California and other venues have proposed measures to cut drink size or enhance labeling requirements.

The companies also said they would intensify awareness cam-paigns and promotion of healthier beverages in communities where there have been fewer options to often sugar-laden soft drinks.

They will retain an independent evaluator to track progress, in con-

junction with an advocacy group set up by the Clinton Foundation, founded by former president Bill Clinton, and the American Heart Association.

Public health advocates said the measures did not go far enough.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a public-interest advocacy group in Washington, said the initiative was “welcome news,” but called on the companies to drop their opposition to taxes and warn-ing labels on sugary drinks.

“We applaud President Clinton for his efforts,” the group said in a statement. “But we need much bigger and faster reductions to adequately protect the public’s health.”

Measures to tax sugary drinks “could further reduce calories in America’s beverage mix even more quickly, and would raise needed revenue for the prevention and treatment of soda-related diseases,” the group said in a statement.

Marion Nestle, a nutrition and public health professor at New York University, said the companies would have no problem reaching the 20 percent target in light of consumption trends that are already happening.

“If they really want to promote public health, they should stop fighting soda taxes and lobbying against this and other public health measures,” she said in an email message. “This is pure public rela-tions.”

AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File

In this June 27, 2012 file photo, blog writer Stephanie Klose, sips beverage as she participates in a soda taste test in New York. Coke, Pepsi and Dr Pepper on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 said they’ll work to reduce the calories Americans get from beverages by 20 percent over the next decade by more aggressively marketing smaller sizes, bottled water and diet drinks.

US beverage giants vow to cut calories

Professional football legend Jerry Rice visits PS 244Q on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014 in Flushing, NY as the Lysol Healthy Habits Coach. Rice worked with Lysol to create a Healthy Hab-its Playbook that kids and families can use to get smart on being healthy, with tips on hygiene, germ and ill-ness prevention, nutri-tion and exercise.

Jason DeCrow /Invision for Lysol


NEW YORK - US soft-drinks giants Tuesday promised to work to reduce the country’s beverage calorie consumption by 20 percent by 2025 in a campaign to counter obesity trends.

Most US kids who take ADHD meds don’t get therapy

“Businessmen must not worry about it. We will be left behind if we do not participate in the ASEAN Economic Community as with its imple-mentation, there will be zero percent tariff rate ap-plicable on imports,” the ministry’s spokesperson, Oke Nurwan, remarked here on Wednesday.

Nurwan stated that since 1992, Indonesia, as one of the founding members of the ASEAN, along with Brunei Darussalam has lowered the average tariff rate on imports from 3.64 percent in 2000 to 0.05 percent in 2012.

Currently, 99 percent of the average tariff rates are already close to zero percent and will be zero percent by 2015 following the implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community.

In addition to the application of a zero percent tariff, Indonesia has also formulated several strate-gies for securing local products such as setting up the basic structure that is necessary to understand Bahasa Indonesian.

“With regard to the trade in services, we need to prepare an easy and fundamental structure for Indonesia because not all understand Bahasa In-donesian. It is a national treatment that needs to be added,” Nurwan emphasized.

Besides being able to understand Bahasa In-donesia, Nurwan also stated that the ministry de-mands halal certification standards to be followed for all ASEAN imported products, apart from their labeling, which has been mutually agreed.

The standard of goods produced in Indonesia will also be enhanced and strengthened to improve the quality of its exports.

Bali Post

GIANYAR - A total of 3,747 very poor family (KSM) will re-ceive the assistance in the form of conditional cash transfer (PKH) with the allocation of fund dis-bursed approximately reaching IDR 6.5 trillion. However, the fund is feared not to attain the target as using the reference of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) in 2011.

Central government through the Directorate General of Social Protec-tion and Assurance, Ministry of So-cial Affairs of the RI is ready to allo-cate the assistance for the conditional cash transfer in seven subdistricts of Gianyar County in 2014. It was delivered in the technical guidance on the conditional cash transfer in the meeting room of Gianyar Social Services, Tuesday (Sep 23).

However, a representative of participants from Tampaksiring subdistrict, Dewa Dharma Putra, expressed his concerns related to the distribution of the assistance. The data used by central govern-ment referred to the data of Central Statistics Agency in 2011. It was

worried to result in social jealousy in the community, where the stan-dard of living changes occurred dynamically. “People originally recorded as very poor family may be getting better or live decent a life. On the contrary, the current very poor family may have not been recorded so they will not get any help,” he said.

In response to the matter, the rep-resentative of Directorate of Social Safety and Assurance, Ministry of Social Affairs, Dr. Oetami Dewi, said that her party would continue to use the data of the BPS in 2011 as reference, considering the data of BPS 2014 had not been received so far. She expected the poor family having not got the conditional cash transfer to be patient. “Necessar-ily, the data of BPS 2014 should have been received. Since there are many agendas in 2014 such as the legislative and presidential election, the data were temporarily delayed, while waiting for any changes in the regulation of the cabinet of the new president,” she said.

She explained the conditional cash transfer posed a program of

the central government. It aimed to help the very poor family in order to ensure the next generation could be healthy and complete the basic education (elementary to junior high school). People who were eligible to receive the conditional cash transfer included children aged 0-6 years, children under 18 years before completing their primary education and pregnant women. The assistance was given maximally worth IDR 2.74 million per very poor family. Disbursement of the fund was made four times namely in March, June, September and November. Later, all the fund distribution processes and data col-lection mechanism to the very poor family would be accompanied by a companion and the conditional cash transfer operator of each subdistrict, so that the fund granted would be used appropriately and right on target. “The poor family receiving the conditional cash transfer should meet the requirements of the social direct assistance (BLSM), public health insurance and rice for the poor,” said Oetami.

Further, she explained that the

assistance provided in November would be taken by reference to the data of Central Statistics Agency (BPS) 2011. The total number of very poor family in Gianyar reached 3,747 people. The fund allocation would be disbursed approximately IDR 6.5 trillion. Those receiving the conditional cash transfer should use the fund according the specified designations. Details of the benefits included four times antenatal care at public health center for preg-nant woman, childbirth by health workers and twice health checkup before the infant reached the age of 1 month. When the infant was in the age of 0-11 months, it got complete immunization and weight check every month. Then, it was resumed with the provision of vitamin A (6-11 months), additional immuni-zation and weight check once every 3 months (1-5 years) and weight check every month and provision of vitamin A twice a year (5-6 years). The coverage requirements during school age (7-18 years) included that it had not yet completed basic education (primary and secondary) and enrolled at school or education-

al equality, at least with 85 percent of attendance in class.

“Through this technical guid-ance, we would like to see the readiness of each region for poten-tial participants of the conditional cash transfer, ensure the commit-ment and support from the region, readiness of the supply set of the educational facilities and health as well as readiness for the first phase of relief distribution in November,” said Oetami.

The Head of the Gianyar Social Affairs, I Wayan Suardana, said the conditional cash transfer gave a positive contribution to poverty alleviation. The conditional cash transfer was expected to change the behavior of the very poor family in order to pay more attention to health and education, reduced the burden of expenditure, reduce child labor and accelerate the MDGs.

He hoped there would be a reduction in extreme poverty and hunger, the achievement of primary education, reduction of infant and child mortality, reduction of mater-nal mortality and childbirth as well as gender equality. (kmb35)

IDR 6.5 trillion of funds feared to miss target

Businessmen urged not to worry over MEA

ANTARA FOTO/Rivan Awal Lingga

A seller arranged handicraft during an exhibition that took place in Jakarta. The Indonesian Trade Ministry intro-duces the ASEAN Economic Community that will be implemented by the start of 2015 to micro, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Denpasar, Bali.

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DENPASAR - The Indonesian Trade Ministry introduces the ASEAN Economic Community that will be implemented by the start of 2015 to micro, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Denpasar, Bali.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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Calendar Event for September 28 through October 28, 2014

8 Sep Kajeng Kliwon Pamelastali/Watu Gunung runtuh Pura Penataran Agung Maha Gotra Tirta Harum Sri Srengga Nyalian Banjarrangkan Klungkung

30 Sep Paid-Paidan Pura Dalem Seme Jawa Marga Tabanan

1 Oct Urip 2 Oct Patetegan 3 Oct Pengeradanan 4 Oct Hari Saraswati Pura Pasek Tangkas Dalang TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Sayan Bongkasa Abian SemalPura Watu Gunung BimaPura Agung Jagat Karana SurabayaPura Aditya Jaya Rawa Mangun Jakarta TimurPura Pemekasan Banyuning Timur BulelengPura Agung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi Jawa BaratPura Kawitan Bendesa Aban Baturning Mambal Abiansemal

5 Oct Banyu Pinaruh 6 Oct Soma ribek Pura Jati JembranaPura Kawitan Batu Gaing BangliPura Tirta Wening SurabayaPura Desa Lingga Wana Abang Karan-gasem

7 Oct Sabuh Mas 8 Oct Pagerwesi Dan Purnama Sasih Kapat Pura Labang SinduJiwa UbudPura Kehen BangliPura Wira Bhuana Magelang

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IBP

KUTA - Haven’t got any program on Saturday night? Simply come to Garamerica Lounge at The Sunset Bali Hotel & Restaurant, Kuta. The hotel offering spacious rooms with high speed internet throughout the hotel area also provides free music entertainment. Featuring the theme ‘Saturday Night Jamming’ all the guests are welcomed to enjoy and play music or sing along with the Sunsetter’s Band.

This program is held every Saturday, starting at 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Target market is the youth and adults belonging to music lovers. “Sunsetter’s Band is a band whose personnel consist of the staff of the Sunset Hotel and Garamerica Restaurant,” said General Manager, Dewa Tirta S.

After launching the program of The Sunset Hotel, many guests, both the in-house guests and walk-in guests, came and enjoyed the music. When the music event was held, the Garamerica Restaurant served Chicken Wings, Fish and Chips, Pancakes with Ice Cream, Cappuccino, Fresh Juice and others. “The menus are offered at affordable price starting from IDR 9,000,” he added.

A 20-percent discount at all foods and beverages is specially provided for students. To get it, they must present their student identity card or make a reserva-tion at 0361 761 910 or email: fb.sunsetbalihotel.com. “Indeed this event is set every Saturday night,” said Dewa Tirta.

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Saturday Night Jamming at Garamerica Restaurant

Based on the tracking and case exploration carried out by the activists caring for AIDS, NGOs and the Buleleng Regional AIDS Mitigation Commission (KPAD), it was found that the transmission of HIV/AIDS cases affected the family as well. A family at one of the villages in Eastern Buleleng was declared positive to HIV/AIDS and had died. After the inci-dent, another case was discovered again about two weeks ago. The case causing the death of a family

consisting of the father, mother and eight-month-old toddler was also found in Buleleng.

As information collected in the field, the case began when the hus-band was known to have died after declared positive to HIV/AIDS infection. From this incident, the activists immediately performed a search and explored the case comprehensively. As a result, the HIV/AIDS virus was known to have transmitted to his wife who had given birth to her son, so that

the virus transmission was through the delivery process that could not be prevented.

Chairman of the Regional AIDS Mitigation Commission (KPAD) doubling as Deputy Regent of Buleleng, Nyoman Sutjidra, said on Tuesday (Sep 23) that the case involving a family affected by the HIV/AIDS had been quite alarm-ing. Such a case also occurred at one of the villages in the western region of Buleleng about six months ago. The father and mother had died of positive HIV/AIDS. The family only left a child who was still attending school. After-ward, the child got the assistance from the HIV/AIDS activists and regularly received anti-retroviral (ARV) drug to increase its life ex-pectancy. Results of the search by the AIDS activists with the KPAD Buleleng indicated that the spread of HIV/AIDS was mostly through

heterosexual intercourse and trans-mission by the father. The father had the behavior of often making risky sexual intercourse and did it with multiple partners.

“I have received the reports from the fellow activists. Obviously, this is very worrying because the fam-ily suffers a hazardous disease. More seriously, the father likes having risky sexual intercourse so that he transmits the HIV/AIDS to his wife,” he said.

The deputy regent having the background of the obstetrician added that to prevent the HIV/AIDS transmission in Buleleng he promised to immediately gather the headmen and chief of custom-ary village across the Buleleng County. From this meeting, his party requested the lower authori-ties to increase surveillance against migrant population and prevent hidden practices of prostitution

in Northern Bali. Supervision against the migrant population should be done through legal raid conducted jointly with police and local village officials. “We will ask the headmen, including the chief of customary village, to tighten and oversee the migrants, so the possibility of hidden practices of prostitution can be prevented,” he added.

Meanwhile, the data of the KPAD Buleleng indicated that the HIV/AIDS transmission in June 2014 was recorded to reach 2,080 cases. The number of positive HIV/AIDS transmission increased by 37 cases from the case in May 2014 amounting to 2,043 cases. The increasing positive finding was alleged to have been kindled by the rampant exodus of com-mercial sex workers from the ter-ritory of South Bali and East Java to Buleleng. (mud)

Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - Recent dry season in Klungkung region results in a fire at a number of points. This time, the fire case broke out on Santang Hill, Buayang ham-let, Gunaksa, Dawan, Tuesday afternoon (Sep 23). The fire suddenly appeared and burned grass weeds growing around the hillside. It was unclear what triggered the fire on the dried grass weeds. Surely, the fire incident made the villagers of Buay-ang anxious. Moreover, on the hillside followed the Dalem Santang Mangurah Goa Temple.

Not only that, two fire trucks of Klung-kung County had been deployed to the San-tang hillside to extinguish the fire around 6:00 p.m. The measure was taken because the fire already spread and approached the temple located on the hillside. “Yeah, we just knew the fire coming down this afternoon. So, we immediately contacted the Fire Brigade for asking help extinguish the fire,” said one of the temple supporting devotees named Nengah Arianta.

According to this Deputy Chairman of the Klungkung House, the fire was known to spread down the hill around 4:00 p.m. Of course, it caused the residents to be anxious because there was a temple under-neath. Moreover, the Dalem Mangurah Goa

Temple was still under construction. The roof of some shrines such as the piasan and pengaruman was made of palm fiber mate-rial. “Since the fire was down, we asked for the help of the firefighters so that the fire would not spread to the temple,” he said.

Meanwhile, as field observation, resi-dents worked together to help the fire fighting personnel to extinguish the fire on the Santang Hill. The fire extinguishing could not run quickly due to steep condition of the Santang Hill. So, it caused slightly difficult for firefighters to put out the fire. Residents also worried if the fire would burn the adjacent hills where some temples also existed at the location such as in the eastern hill lay the Gunung Lingga Temple as well as Mastapa and Dauh Bale Agung in the south.

Other than on Santang Hill, similar fire case also occurred at Sangkanbuana village, Klungkung. Such condition was alleged to occur due to dry season so that dry weeds could easily burn. Deputy Re-gent of Klungkung, Made Kasta, doubling as the team leader of the executing unit for disaster management called for residents to be more vigilant. At least, people were expected to wait until the fire dies when burning rubbish. On the other side, the firefighters were expected to remain alert during the dry season. (119)

HIV/AIDS cases in Buleleng

A family dies after infected by HIV/AIDSBali Post

Transmission of the HIv/AIDS hazardous virus in Buleleng is increasingly worrisome. The virus having no medicine so far is now threatening all walks of life in Northern Bali. To prevent the transmission, local government performs socialization more intensively, provides assistance for people with HIv/AIDS and prevents the entry of commercial sex workers from outside the region to Buleleng.

Santang Hill on fire

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The officers are trying to put out the fire on antang Hill, Buayang hamlet, Gunaksa, Dawan, Klungkung

Laika’s talented animators, though, often seem to conjure their puppetry whimsy quicker than their screenwrit-ers can spin a story. That was the case with their last one, the brilliant-looking but meandering “ParaNorman,” about a boy who alone sees and uncomfortably lives with the lingering spirits of dead people, and it’s true with their latest, “The Boxtrolls.”

The film is set in the British village of Cheesebridge where cheese is the most prized currency and the town’s aristocracy — a trio of clueless men dubbed “White

Hats” for their tall head-ware — spend their time slathering over gouda. (In both location and cheese worship, Laika is intruding somewhat on the territory of its sunnier stop-motion rivals, Aardman Animation of “Wallace and Gromit.”)

The supposed scourge of Cheeseb-ridge are the Boxtrolls, little nocturnal creatures who wear discarded boxes like a turtle shell and scavenge for mechani-cal parts on nighttime streets.

Archibald Snatcher (a deliciously snarling Ben Kingsley), having promised to rid the town of the Boxtrolls, hunts

them with his existentially confused henchmen (Richard Ayoade, Nick Frost), who — in the movie’s cleverest bit — are in a quandary over whether they’ve unwittingly become bad guys. “I’m not a stooge, am I?” wonders one.

The Boxtrolls — naturally, not the monsters they’ve been made out to be — live peacefully underground, charmingly stacking themselves for bed as if preparing for UPS pickup. They mutter a little like the minions of “Despicable Me,” fleeing like springing accordions or camouflaging themselves beside a fruit cart.

Among them is a child (voiced by Isaac Hempstead Wright) they’ve raised from infancy named “Eggs” (they all take their names from their boxes, like “Fish” and “Shoe”). He begins to con-fidently explore Cheesebridge above ground, defending his Boxtroll brethren, and befriending the assertive, overlooked daughter of one of the White Hats, Win-nie (Elle Fanning).

The grubby Victorian designs overseen by directors Graham Annable (the story artist of “Para-Norman”) and Anthony Stacchi (co-director of the 2006 animated film “Open Season”) are ulti-mately a little suffocating. “Box-trolls,” loosely based on Alan Snow’s “Here Be Monsters,” belongs to a subgenre called Steampunk, a kind of Victorian fantasy full of neo-futuristic ma-chines. (It’s a little like a Tom Waits video.)

The sensibility here is prob-ably more than some small chil-dren will enjoy. Leaches, for example, don’t come standard in kids’ movies. But “The Box-trolls,” despite a rather uncer-tainly structured story by screen-writers Irena Brignull and Adam Pava, has its pleasantly demented charms.


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LOS ANGELES — Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn will star in the second season of HBO’s “True Detec-tive.” The eight-episode drama series will begin production in California this fall, the premium cable channel said Tuesday.

Farrell will play a compromised de-tective, Ray, who is divided between his loyalty to his bosses in a corrupt police department and a mobster with a hold over him.

Vince Vaughn co-stars as Frank, a

criminal whose move into legitimate business is disrupted by a business part-ner’s murder.

HBO had a critically acclaimed hit with the first season of “True Detective,” which starred the Emmy-nominated Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. The air date for the second season was not announced.

Season one of “True Detective” paired two actors known primarily for their big-screen work in a twisted, noir-ish tale. McConaughey and Harrelson played former Louisiana State Police detectives interrogated in 2012 about a

homicide case they’re shown working, in flashback, in 1995.

The crime drama provoked some grumbling when it was entered in the Emmy Awards drama series category despite its abbreviated eight-episode run and the likelihood its stars wouldn’t return for the next go-around. “True Detective” ended up losing the best drama Emmy to “Breaking Bad,” while McConaughey and Harrelson also failed to grab Emmy gold — although the former, an Oscar winner this year for “Dallas Buyers Club,” was seen as the frontrunner.

Farrell, Vaughn set for ‘True Detective’ season 2

Colin Farrell

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‘Boxtrolls’ has a demented charmAssociated Press

A spooky surrealism has been the specialty of the Oregon-based anima-tion studio Laika, the Pacific Northwest purveyors of 3-D stop-motion. The self-stylized descendants of the Brothers Grimm and Neil Gaiman (whose “Coraline” they adapted for their first of three features), Laika seems to yearn for a little more darkness, a touch of Gothic in our chil-dren’s films — a laudable and very welcome impulse that makes one inclined to celebrate their fanciful grotesqueries on intentions alone.

AP Photo/Focus Features

In this image released by Focus Features, characters Winnie, voiced by Elle Fan-ning, left, and Eggs, voiced by Isaac Hempstead Wright, appear in a scene from “The Boxtrolls.”

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Commission XI of the House of Representatives of the RI has completed a banking bill draft and specified a maximum of 40 percent for foreign share ownership in the sec-tor. This figure is still considered high because it can disrupt the national economic interests.

“We think 40 percent is still relatively high because the restriction in other countries is much lower. In the ASEAN, for example, foreign ownership has been set and should not be the majority,” said Chief of the BNI Econo-mist, Prof. Dr. Wayan Ramantha, when asked for his confirmation, Tuesday (Sep 23).

According to this professor of the Udayana University, the presence of rules prohibiting foreign investors from having a majority of share in the national banking sector aimed to maintain the economy, so that it would not be dominated, especially the strategic sectors.

“The share of bank mostly owned and controlled by a national company will make the economic turnaround in the country can be immediately felt. In other words, bank poses a significant financial intermediation and determining business entity in a country. When the intermediation of a country is de-termined by other country, then the economy will not be good,” he said.

Meanwhile, Director of the Center for Business Economic Data Analysis, Udayana University, Dr. Sudjana Budhi, stated that in the context of the ASEAN cooperation, the national foreign exchange bank should be directed to enter the ASEAN market, while the regional banks should be focused on domestic market share. Thus, there would be a wider movement space for the regional banks to take part in implementing the bank-ing services.

“Concerns on the occurrence of macro-prudence can threaten the stability of the Indonesia’s economy. This leads to failure in achieving the target of domestic banks to international market which should have been achieved if the merger is made to all foreign exchange banks in Indonesia into a single bank entity,” he said.

Remains high, foreign ownership in banking sector

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The photo shows a cashier showed dollar banknote. Commission XI of the House of Representatives of the RI has completed a banking bill draft and specified a maximum of 40 percent for foreign share ownership in the sector. This figure is still considered high because it can disrupt the national economic interests.

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