The tourists brought flowers to lay at the monument and to offer prayers to the victims of the senseless attack that had a pro-found and lasting impact on the survivors, families, and friends of the victims.

“I have come here to offer my prayers as today, we commemo-rate with great sadness the tragic event that took place in Bali on October 12, 2002, killing 202 people, including 88 Australians,” said Steve Douglas, a tourist from Australia.

The attack was the worst ter-rorist incident in the history of Indonesia, with 202 civilians dead and more than 100 wounded, for which Jemaah Islamiya, an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist organiza-tion, was held responsible.

The attack in Bali’s crowded Kuta tourist district began with

a suicide bombing inside a tour-ist bar that funneled panicking victims into the street, exposing the crowd to the full blast of a car bomb parked next to the neighbor-ing Sari Club.

Douglas noted that besides offering prayers, his visit to the Ground Zero site was to pay his respects to the victims of the Bali bombing tragedy.

The 2002 bombings and the subsequent terrorist attacks have also brought Australia and Indo-nesia closer and strengthened their resolve to eradicate the threat of violent extremism in the region and globally.

Douglas affirmed on Monday that he had the opportunity to remember those who suffered and died, and his thoughts were with all who continue to grieve over the loss of their loved ones. (ant)

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LOS ANGELES — Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is asking Republican presiden-tial candidate Donald Trump to stop using the power ballad “Dream On” at campaign events.

Attorneys for Tyler sent a second cease-and-desist letter to Trump’s campaign com-mittee on Saturday.

The letter says that Trump does “not have our client’s permission to use ‘Dream On’” or any of Tyler’s other songs and that it “gives the false impression that he is

connected with or endorses Mr. Trump’s presidential bid.”

Tyler, who is a registered Republican, attended the GOP contenders’ first debate in August.

Attorney Dina LaPolt said in a statement that the letter is not a “political” or “personal issue with Mr. Trump,” but it’s one of permis-sion and copyright.

Representatives for Trump did not im-mediately respond to request for comment. (ap)

The PG-rated epic, sold as a Peter Pan origin story and a lav-ish visual feast, has had a bumpy ride from the beginning, starting when actress Rooney Mara, who is white, was cast as Tiger Lily, who is historically Native American. The film, starring Hugh Jackman and Garrett Hedlund, also had been pushed from July to October. It has not been well-received by critics, either.

“Pan” now ranks among 2015’s biggest flops, including “Fantas-tic Four” and “Tomorrowland.” International earnings don’t look promising either. The film brought in a weak $20.5 million. For com-parison, “The Martian” earned $58.1 million.

“This had a lot going against it,” said Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst for Rentrak.

He also believes competition in the family market from the Hallow-een-themed animated feature “Ho-tel Transylvania 2” hurt “Pan.”

“Family films always have an audience, but that audience is ex-tremely fickle and hard to please, just like the kids who go to these movies,” Dergarabedian said. “You just never know what’s going to resonate.”

Sony’s high-wire spectacle “The Walk” also stumbled in its first weekend in wide release, after debuting on IMAX screens last week. The tale of Philippe Petit’s tight-rope walk between the towers of the World Trade Center earned $3.7 million this weekend, bring-ing its total to $6.4 million. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in film directed by Robert Zemeckis.

Not all was bleak at the box of-

fice, though. Ridley Scott’s space adventure “The Martian” earned a solid $37 million in its second week in theaters, nabbing the top spot once more. Its domestic total now stands at $108.7 million.

“Hotel Transylvania 2” took second place in its third weekend with $20.3 million, bumping its total to $116.8 million. “Pan” came

in at No. 3.Nancy Meyers’ workplace com-

edy “The Intern” earned $8.7 million, and the border thriller “Sicario” brought in $7.4 million, rounding out the top five.

Outside the top 10, “Steve Jobs,” the biopic of the late Apple CEO directed by Danny Boyle and writ-ten by Aaron Sorkin, opened in

four theaters in New York and Los Angeles to a powerful $520,942. Its $130,000 per-theater average ranks as the best of the year and should bode well for the film’s expansion across the next two weeks.

“This is a movie everyone’s talk-ing about, and now they’re going to be talking about it even more,” Dergarabedian said. (ap)

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This photo provided by courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures shows, Rooney Mara, left, as Tiger Lily, and Levi Miller as Peter, in a scene from the film, “Pan.” The movie releases in U.S. the-aters on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015.

‘Pan’ lacks magic at the box office; ‘The Martian’ soars

LOS ANGELES — “Pan” produced no Neverland magic at the box office. The fantasy, which cost an estimated $150 mil-lion to produce, earned $15.5 million in its opening weekend, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday making it one of the worst bombs of the year. Early tracking did not look promising for the Joe Wright-directed film but still predicted that “Pan” would open at least in the $20 million range.

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BALI’S unemployment rate is relatively low with

just 33,611 out of a total work-f o r c e of 2.4 million who are without work. The government has attempted to facilitate employment by holding job fairs, however the number of applicants has been far less then expected.

“Bali has the lowest unemployment rate in Indonesia, and this is clearly due to the stability of our economy” said Acting Spokesman for Bali’s provincial government, I Ketut Teneng, recently in Denpasar.

Teneng explained that job fairs and train-ing have been provided through the Training Center (BLK) specifically aimed at absorbing high school and college graduates into the job market.

“We have been cooperating with various employers to facilitate this process,” said Teneng. However, as IGA Sudarsana, Head of the Bali Manpower Agency, the turn outs have been low. For example, only 1,500 job applicants showed up for a job fair held at the Ngurah Rai Stadium last August, whereas 6,5000 jobs were available.

“If all the job positions could be filled, that would be very good as it would reduce employ-ment rates. However for some reason, there has been very little interest in this program from unemployed people from all regions of Bali, even though the exact figures for Denpasar have yet to be tabulated, we know that people in Gianyar have not shown much interest,” he emphasized.

Sudarsana added that his agency is now looking into why it is that so few people have shown interest in here job fairs and job train-ing programs, to find out whether it is because

people do not want to work of it is for some other reason.

“Obviously, the unemployment rate is very low so it is hard to reduce it anymore, despite efforts on the part of county and municipal governments to have these jobs filled. We must think about this together,” he explained.

Sudarsana explained that the unemployment of high school graduates in Bali is 3.18 percent, while University Graduates have a 1.43 percent rate of unemployment.

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A Japanese prays during his visit to Bali bombing memorial on the 13th anniversary of the 2002 blasts that hit the Kuta district near Denpasar on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on October 12, 2015. The 2002 blasts, blamed on the militant Jemaah Islamiyah network linked to Al-Qaeda, tore apart a busy night club strip on the resort island of Bali killing 202 people, including 88 Australians.

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MANGUPURA - Scores of foreign tourists offered prayers and flowers at the Bali Bomb Monument, known as “Ground Zero,” on Monday in memory of the victims of the October 12, 2002, explosion.

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

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, deco-rations 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 umbrel-las soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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This data indicates that the major-ity of unemployed people in Bali are educated and have competences that should make them competitive on the job market and able to start their own businesses. Are these people unem-ployed because they are too selective in choosing jobs?

According to education observer Prof. Dr. Putu Rumawan Salain, the high unemployment rates amongst educated people is in fact because they are too selective in looking for work.

“Indeed, many college graduates in Bali are too selectively in looking for jobs. Also they tend not be very creative and innovative in creating jobs for themselves. Armed with the

knowledge that they have, they should be able to find opportunities base don their major. In many cases they have very little entrepreneurship,” he lamented.

Rumawan Salain who is also Chairman of the Denpasar Education Council added that the mentality of the majority of college graduates needs to be re-oriented so as to reduce unemployment rates. Many educated people tend to vie for positions as civil servants rather than want to work in the private sector or open their own businesses. “Actually, there are a very limited number of civil servant posi-tions available,” he said.

Apart from the issue of college

graduates only wanting to work as civil servants there is also the problem of higher education programs not being designed to fit with the needs of the job market. For example, the current job market requires engineers and the like, whereas most people are graduating form philosofically oriented programs. “There seems to be a disconnection between the needs of the job market and what people are studying,” he said.

According to Rumawan Salain, this phenomenon is not unique to Bali but is true all over Indonesia. Clearly Indonesia’s higher education needs to be re-formatted. Whereas previously higher education was geared towards producing thinkers, the job market now requires it to be refocused onto producing professionals.

He added that those who have already graduated from philosophy

oriented programs still have skills that make them competitive on the job market. They do however need to equip themselves with particular skills and expertise beyond their major in college. “Higher education institutions should be briefing their graduates about the need to acquire other skills, because these institutions are after all “producers” of prospective labour,” he said.

Similar opinions were also ex-pressed by education observer, I Putu Sarjana. While university graduates have learned a lot about their field of study, they often lack other skills. As a result the creativity and innovation required to start a business is not mani-fested. “This situation is exacerbated by the persistence of our society’s’ orientation toward formalistic and beaucratic job seeking. Many people think that employment means having

an office job with particular working hours, a uniform and a clear career path. Very few people are willing to develop their entrepreneurship,” he criticized.

In order to overcome this problem, their needs to be a shift in people’s way of thinking. and entrepreneur-ship needs to be developed. In this context, higher education should be less focused on scientific aptitudes. Students should also be provided with entrepreneurship skills.

“It is time to change the mindset that says that higher education is a way of getting a job into a mentality that says that higher education is a way to later be able to create job opportuni-ties. If this mindset can be successfully changed, I am optimistic that much tougher entrepreneurs will emerge from higher education institutions,” he said. (ian)

Since 2014, unemployed rates in Bali have been steadily declining and the gov-ernment predicts that it will continue to decrease in 2016.

As revealed in the drafting of the re-gional budget for 2016, the unemployment rate is estimated to reach between 1.77

percent to 1.82 percent a decline from the 1.85 percent to 1.90 for 2015. “We appreci-ate the decline in the unemployment rate of Bali,” said a member of the Golkar Faction at the Bali House of Representatives, I.B. Gede Udiyana, some time ago. However, he also questioned about the prediction for 2016 considering the current national and international economic slowdown.

Not withstanding the fact that the Bali

regional budget for 2016 shows a deficit. “Are we still optimistic about reaching the target amid the shocks of a declining global and national economic condition? What’s more the budget for 2016 already shows a deficit,” he explained.

Chairman of the PDI-P Faction of the Bali House of Representatives, Nyoman Parta, said that the Bali provincial govern-ment needs to make more revolutionary

efforts to reduce unemployment. Especially because most of the unemployed today are high school graduates. If they are not ready to work, the government should help finance their college education.

“The provincial government should also provide soft skill training so that high school graduates that do not want to go to college can become self-suficient,” he added. (rin)

Mindset of job seeking needs to changeAntara Foto

Job seekers are looking at the announce-ment board during a job fair. The majority of unemployed people in Bali are educated and have competences that should make them competitive on the job market and able to start their own businesses.

ACCOrDING to the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, the unemployment rate for Bali in February 2015 was 1.37 percent or 33,611 people. High school students make up 3.18 percent while university graduates make up 1.43 percent.

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GIANYAR - The habit that many people have of littering into the river is still a pervasive prob-lem that has yet to be eliminated. Rubbish even piles up at some points in the rivers of Gianyar, causing silting. Many fear that this will cause flooding during the rainy season.

The streams of Bunga River at Abianbase village for example ave become filled with garbage and run through residential areas as well the Gianyar Public Market. Piles of the rubbish can be found all over and at some points extreme silting has oc-curred in the Bunga River thanks

to people throwing their trash

in the river. The piles of trash and silt will cause the river to overflow when it rains.

The large amount of rubbish is also feared to have bad impact on the health of people living around the river. Similar conditions can be found in a number of other streams of other rivers in Gianyar. “If such conditions are left unchecked, it will obviously be very detrimental to residents. Moreover, the rainy season is arriving soon,” said the Head of the Gianyar Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP), Wayan Kujus Pawitra.

According to Pawitra, the gov-ernment of Gianyar has been hold-

ing cooperation activities that seek to clean up rivers and market areas throughout the territory of Gianyar, in anticipation of the rainy season and as a way to raise public aware-ness about the need to maintain sanitary conditions in and around the river. Especially for the DKP, this sanitation movement was also conducted at Tegal Tugu village with local residents.

“We do these cleanups of the rubbish and mud sediment that has settlled on the riverbed so that the river can function normally and the river water does not overflow when it rains,” he said.

Dewa Karya, from Kelod Kauh

hamlet, Abianbase, said that every home in Abianbase is required to have a trash bin. The rubbish stored in it will then be transported to Tem-esi landfill by the DKP officers. This is an effort on the part of local resi-dents to protect the environment, especially by keeping the rivers clean. However, these actions are not enough without people being aware of of the need to maintain a clean environment -especially the rivers.

“If the maintenance is only done by people downstream, while those in the upstream area still throw rubbish into the river, any program will be useless,” he said.

Regional Secretary of Gianyar, Ida Bagus Gaga Adi Saputra, said that the upcoming rainy season is particularly concerning for the government of Gianyar, as it will affect the sanitary conditions of the river and market. For this reason, all agencies are being instructed to conduct cleanups through mutual cooperation with the local com-munity in every village.

“Keeping the environment clean is not only the duty of the govern-ment, but also of the community. Mutual cooperation is an attempt to inspire people to participate in maintaining environmental sanita-tion,” he said. (kmb25)

The advisory council of the PHDI will use the study by Sugi Lanus as input for the Sabha Pandita of the PHDI. “We feature the Benoa Bay reclamation plan in the meeting because the problem is widely at issue in the community. However, the meeting of the advisory council is only providing considerations and is not coming to any decisions (whether rejects or supports the Benoa Bay reclamation plan—Ed). Hopefully, the decision made by the priesthood council (Sabha Pandita) will in fact consider Benoa Bay as a sacred zone. That would mean that it must be protected and may not be

tampered with,” said Chairman of Sabha Walaka of the Central PHDI, Putu Wirata Dwikora.

The study made by Sugi Lanus mentions that Benoa Bay area serves as a meeting point so that it is very much sanctified by the Hindus. Benoa Bay is also surrounded by at least 18 holy points or temples. In addition, this region is also recorded as the meeting point of physical and psychical realm of Tanjung Benoa, Jimbaran, Kelan, Tuban, Pesang-garan, Benoa, Serangan and Sanur. Moreover, there is a temple in the sea there called the Dalem Segara Temple.

“Elimination of the sacred spots there would be a problem, not the building of it. There are many holy points in the area, namely about 18 temples around the Benoa Bay. This must be considered,” said Sugi Lanus.

Converting irrigation channels for paddy fields and rivers into other uses in not permitted, nor is converting a bay, because it is con-sidered taboo in various manuscript sources. In the past, Balinese people were forbidden to live in the areas that are not supposed to, such as on reclaimed rivers or paddy fields.

“I do not recommend that people

live in areas of reclaimed river be-cause it is unhealthy even though contractors claim that there are rituals to change that et cetera. Basically, such actions go against nature because they stop the flow of water. Moreover, in a larger project, like the Benoa Bay there is also the meeting point of energies belonging to six streams. I’m afraid for people at the location because the psychical (niskala) impacts are mentioned in the manuscript so this is not recommended by all the ancient teachings,” he said.

This graduate of the Balinese Department at the Udayana Uni-versity added that many bays apart form Benoa Bay are also being targeted by investors for develop-ment, because of their beauty. These include: Pegatepan Bay, Terima

Bay and Sendang Bay in North Bali. If priests allow the conversion of the Benoa Bay, similar thing will also happen to the other bays. Sugi said that he cannot imagine what will happen if all the bays in Bali become be backfilled.

“Indeed in Bali all these areas are sacred. What needs to be fur-ther considered is their intrinsic value. Is spiritual value replace-able? I think Bali has been harmed enough, so the most important thing is to improve the quality of life for humans not just to expand developments. In principle, we have to think holistically, and not oversimplify things. We need to be careful because the situation in Bali is not the same as in Singapore. Here, the psychical factor accounts for 50 percent,” he said. (kmb32)

Benoa Bay is a sacred zoneDENPASAR - The Benoa Bay reclamation plan was discussed in a meeting held by the advisory

council or Sabha Walaka of the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI), on Sunday (Oct. 11). During the discussion, the study made by Dr. Sugi Lanus about Benoa Bay area as a sacred zone was a point of refference in addressing the issue of the reclamation plan.

The Benoa Bay reclamation plan was discussed in a meeting held by the advisory council or Sabha

Walaka of the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI),

on Sunday (Oct. 11). During the discussion, the study made by

Dr. Sugi Lanus about Benoa Bay area as a sacred zone was a point

of refference in addressing the issue of the reclamation plan.

Flood preventionCounty government focuses on waste management and river siltation

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MOSCOW — Nearly 30 years after a nuclear reactor caught fire and spewed a lethal cloud of ra-diation, some species of mammals are thriving in the zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a new study says.

The study, published in the jour-nal Current Biology, found that elk, deer, wild boar and wolves are abun-dant in the 2,160-square-kilometer (835-square-mile) Polesie reserve in Belarus, which was established after the 1986 disaster. More than 20,000 people once lived in what is

now the reserve.“We’re not saying radiation is

good for animals, but we are say-ing that human interference can be more harmful to certain animal populations than radiation,” said Jim Smith, an environmental scientist at Britain’s University of Portsmouth who led the study.

To track the mammals, research-ers used aerial surveys and examined animal tracks in the snow.

Smith and his team found there was no difference in the number of large mammals living in the Polesie

reserve and in other Belarusian nature reserves. The prevalence of wolves is seven times higher than in nearby non-contaminated nature reserves, which Smith attributed to the lack of hunting in contaminated areas.

Biologist Timothy Mousseau at the University of South Carolina said Smith’s research presents an overly optimistic view of the situa-tion around Chernobyl.

“There is no evidence to suggest this area is teeming with wildlife,” said Mousseau, whose research

has focused on how radiation has affected reptile, insect and small mammal populations. These animals have struggled to make a comeback in the wake of Chernobyl and have suffered from a range of nuclear-related diseases, according to Mous-seau’s research.

The mammals in Smith’s research are constantly dispersing and have high fertility rates, factors that could also explain a robust population of certain mammal species in the Pole-sie nature reserve.

The 1986 explosion and fire sent a

cloud of radiation drifting over much of Europe and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people. Along with the Belarusian Polesie preserve, a 2,600-square-kilometer (1,000-square-mile) “exclusion zone” was established in Ukraine around the plant. That zone is almost entirely abandoned except for about 200 mostly elderly people who returned to their homes. Some workers build-ing a protective shelter around the reactor and cleaning up the waste live in the zone, but only for two weeks at a time. (ap)

The particles in the atmo-spheric haze are actually red and gray, according to scientists. But the way the particles scatter blue light is what has everyone excited about the dwarf planet

orbiting on the far fringes of our solar system, a twilight zone known more formally as the Kuiper Belt.

“Who would have expected a blue sky in the Kuiper Belt? It’s

gorgeous,” Alan Stern, the prin-cipal scientist for New Horizons, said in a NASA release about the latest images.

The blue tint can help scientists understand the size and makeup

of the haze particles surrounding Pluto, where twilight constantly reigns given the 3.6 billion-mile distance between it and the sun.

Pluto’s high-alt i tude haze seems to be comparable to that of Saturn’s moon, Titan, according to NASA, and the result of interac-tion between molecules.

In another finding Thursday, scientists have uncovered numer-

ous ice patches on Pluto’s surface. The exposed water ice appears to be, mysteriously, red.

Scientists said they are uncer-tain why the ice appears in certain places at Pluto and not others.

Launched in 2006, New Ho-rizons is now 63 million miles beyond Pluto. Johns Hopkins Uni-versity in Maryland is operating the spacecraft for NASA. (ap)

Mammals thrive in Chernobyl exclusion zone

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This image released by NASA on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, shows Charon, in en-hanced color captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft just before closest approach on July 14, 2015. Massive canyons and fractures are clearly visible on Charon, which is more than half of Pluto’s size.

Blue sky and red ice at Pluto, NASA spacecraft discovers

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The sky over Pluto may not be sunny but it’s undoubtedly blue. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft discovered Pluto’s blue sky during the historic flyby of the icy dwarf planet in July. The images of Pluto’s atmospheric haze were beamed down last week and released by NASA on Thursday.

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This July 14, 2015 photo released by NASA on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015 shows the atmosphere and surface features of Pluto, lit from behind by the sun. It was made 15 minutes after the New Horizons’ spacecraft’s closest approach.

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Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said supplies, which were suspended in the spring, recommenced earlier after the company received $234 million out of a promised $500 mil-lion prepayment from Kiev.

The deal, which was signed last month with the help of the European Union, will ensure that Ukraine will receive Russian gas for six months through March 2016.

Past gas disputes between Russia and Ukraine have led to cutoffs of

supply. One standoff in 2009 caused serious disruptions in shipments EU countries in the dead of winter. Temperatures in Ukraine can drop to as cold as -4 degrees Fahrenheit (-20 degrees Celsius) in winter, and most homes in Ukraine rely on piped gas for central heating. Last winter, Russia and Ukraine struck an emergency deal on gas prices, but that expired.

EU-sponsored talks seeking a similar accord for the coming

winter began in March. Under the deal, Russia lowered the price it charged Ukraine to the same level granted to neighboring countries, from $251 per 1,000 cubic meters to about $230.

The European Commission has pledged at least $500 million of aid to Ukraine for the gas supplies.

Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and its support for separatist rebels in the east soured relations between the two countries. Ukraine has since been trying to cut its dependence on Russia gas, buying shipments from European nations which had bought it from Russia at a lower price.(ap)

TOKYO — Two more Japanese citizens are being held in China on suspicion of spying, bringing the total number of such cases to four, Japanese media reported.

Japan and China last month acknowledged that two Japanese had been arrested in May on suspected spying charges — one in Zhejiang province and the other near the North Korean border in Liaoning province. Japan’s Foreign Ministry on Monday declined to confirm or deny the reports.

The two earlier cases were the only ones linked to spying al-legations that the Japanese government was informed of, said Kazunari Kotake, an official at the ministry’s department in charge of the safety of overseas Japanese. The government has informed Japanese visitors in China to use extra caution, Kotake said.

Japan’s national broadcaster NHK said over the weekend that the cases involve a woman in her 50s, arrested in Shanghai, and a man in his 60s, arrested in Beijing, both in June.

China enacted an anti-spying law last November, in a move experts say to increase surveillance over foreigners’ activities in the country.

The four people had businesses in or connections with China and frequently visited the country, according to Japanese media reports.

In 2010, four employees of a Japanese construction company were accused of filming a Chinese military site in Hebei province but were released within weeks.(ap)

MANILA — The race for the Philippine presidency next year has begun with the country’s vice president being the first major contender to register his candidacy to lead one of Asia’s most unwieldy democracies.

Vice President Jejomar Binay filed his certificate of candidacy on Monday before Manila’s Commission on Elections with Sen. Gregorio Honasan as his vice presi-dential running mate. The ex-army officer

is best known for helping lead a number of failed coup attempts in the 1980s.

President Benigno Aquino III’s six-year term ends in June. At least two other key contenders, Sen. Grace Poe and Interior

Secretary Mar Roxas, are expected to reg-ister their candidacies this week.

Aside from the presidency, more than 18,000 congressional and local posts will be decided in the May 9 elections.(ap)

Filipinos begin race for presidency, 18,000 other offices

Report: 2 more Japanese held in China on spy allegations

AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko

Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga bows toward the Japanese national flag prior to a press confer-ence at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015.

AP Photo/Thierry Monasse

Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak, center, speaks with the media as he arrives in front of EU headquarters in Brussels on Friday, Sept. 25, 2015.

Russia resumes gas supply to Ukraine

MOSCOW — Russia’s gas monopoly Gazprom resumed supplies to Ukraine Monday, in a development that will help the country meet its energy needs through the harsh winter months.

NEGARA - Many subak organi-zations have not been able to grow rice this year to water shortages. However farmers at Subak Yehe-mbang managed to yield a greater harvest than in previous years and have already started to reap the profits of the crops that they grew on hundreds of hectares of land.

Farmer I Ketut Budra, said that this is the greatest yield that he has ever harvest in his career as a farmer, despite the extreme dry

season. For every 100 square meters of paddy field, he has been able to produce 100 kg of grain which is an increase of 20 kg from previous harvests.

Farmers have been able to yield 12 tons of rice per hectare of paddy field and sell it for IDR 5,000 per kg whereas the cost of production is just IDR 100,000 per 100 square meters, the allowing for profits that are four times the amount of production costs. However, famers

are still constrained by the fact that rural cooperatives and middlemen seldom buy their rice because of the lack of marketing. Also sometimes rice is harvested late which reduces the quality of the grain.

Conditions in the subak areas around Jembrana and Negara sub-district are different. Chief of the subak association of Jembrana subdistrict, I Ketut Jendra, said that the current drought has made farm-ers reluctant to cultivate their un-

productive paddy fields and many have converted their paddy fields or gardens into settlements.

According to Jendra, 28 subak areas including 16 irrigated-field subaks and 12 non-irrigated field subaks with a total area of 1,250 hectares have undergone significant land conversions. It is estimated that the remaining agricultural land only amounts to 800 hectares. Pre-viously, when irrigation water was is easily available, farmers could

plant and harvest twice a year. But during recent dry seasons,

the water discharge at the Jero Pengentuh, Gelar and Palungan Batu Dam has been so small that subak members are prohibited from demanding water. To overcome the water shortage, subak members have independently dug artesian wells and get assistance from the government in order to obtain water to irrigate their paddy fields. (kmb26)

It was presented by Operations Manager of the Tanah Lot attrac-tion, Ketut Toya Adnyana, Sunday (Oct. 11). “A total of 21 CCTVs are installed at some points,” he said. It includes the area of Batu Bolong, Enjung Galuh and

parking area. Though having been added, Toya acknowledged the number of existing CCTV is not adequate and only covers 80 percent of the points of Tanah Lot area. In the future, the company plans to add approximately 5-6

units of CCTV.To increase security level, the

Tanah Lot attraction does not only set more CCTVs but also increases lifeguard personnel. Currently, the Tanah Lot has 12 lifeguards. “In the past, we had only six lifeguards, but were then added to 12 lifeguards. The newly recruited lifeguards are still in training program,” he said. The lifeguard does not only monitor tourist activities on the shoreline but also responsible for conducting patrols along the shoreline of Tanah Lot spreading some three kilome-ters. Besides, the management also commissioned the lifeguard to pa-

trol along the beaches of Tabanan at least once in two weeks. There are also the addition of six lifeguards, recreation staff in charge of provid-ing information for visitors and a security guard.

Toya added that until October 7, the tourist visit has exceeded the target of 2015 where the domestic and foreign tourists visit to Tanah Lot attraction has reached 2,412,828 people. The target in 2015 amounts to 2,367,713 people. According to Toya, dominant contributor to the surge of travelers visiting Tanah Lot is foreign travelers, while domestic traveler decreases compared to the

same period last year. “Domestic tourist visits is predicted to decline due to natural conditions. One of which is the eruption of Mount Raung that could lead to delays in domestic flights few months ago,” he said.

Seeing the data of tourist visit, Toya is optimistic that until the end of the year the total tourists visiting Tanah Lot will be able to exceed the total visits in 2014 reaching 3,125,205 people. He said that such efforts are done by promoting maximum service and prioritizing comfort and security of visitors coming to Tanah Lot. (kmb24)

Farmers at Yehembang prosper while Jembrana suffers drought

The tourists are crowd-ed in Tanah Lot during

holiday season.

Tanah Lot management increases CCTV and lifeguard

TABANAN - Coastal areas of the Tanah Lot attraction is quite hazardous because it is cliffy and having huge waves with strong currents. Such condition makes it hazardous if travelers take pictures surpassing the security line specified by the manage-ment, especially on the cliff top or going down to the beach. To avoid travelers from drowning disaster, the management has set more CCTVs in the areas considered hazardous and increased the number of lifeguard personnel.

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BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday her government had no plans to impose a tax hike to cope with a record influx of asylum seekers, firmly de-nying reports that Berlin and the European Commission were mulling a special refugee solidarity levy.

In an interview to be published by Bild newspaper on Monday, the German leader was asked to confirm that there would be no tax hikes over the refugee crisis.

“Yes, affirmative,” she replied, adding that Germany has “managed our budget well in the last few years and our economy is in a good shape”.

The Sueddeutsche Zeitung had claimed in a report Saturday that Berlin and Brussels had discussed the possibility of raising funds to cope with Europe’s biggest refugee crisis through a special tax, which could take the form of higher levies on fuel or VAT.

But Berlin swiftly denied this, with government spokesman Steffen Seibert on Saturday saying: “We want neither a tax hike in Germany nor the introduction of an EU-tax.” On Sunday, a European Com-mission spokesman also rejected the claim, saying: “There is no such proposal currently on the table or under preparation and the Commission never comments on rumours in the press.” (afp)

“OPEC is confident that it will see a more balanced market in 2016,” Badri told an oil and gas conference in Kuwait City.

“In recent months, there has been a contraction in production from non-OPEC producers and an in-crease in global demand,” he said.

However, Badri also admitted that the “market remains oversup-plied”, and insisted that stability is paramount to the crude market which faced “extremely challeng-

ing times”.The OPEC chief said market

fundamentals did not support the sharp drop in oil prices which have fallen by almost 60 percent since June 2014.

Badri said that global demand for oil is forecast to rise to 110 mil-lion barrels per day by 2040 from 93 million bpd now.

“This requires investments of $10 trillion between now and then,” he said.

Earlier Sunday, Qatar’s Energy Ministry Mohammed bin Saleh al-Sada, who is acting OPEC presi-dent, said there were signs of an oil price rise next year, adding that the oil price has “bottomed out”.

He said world GDP growth in 2016 is slated to be 3.4 percent as against an expected 3.1 percent in 2015, and that this would result in an increase in global oil demand by 1.3 to 1.5 million bpd.

Growth in supplies from non-OPEC producers over the past five years has substantially reduced in 2015 and is likely to show zero to negative growth in 2016, the state-ment said.

Venezuela -- which has been try-ing hard to persuade oil producers to cut output to boost prices -- said Thursday a technical meeting of OPEC and other crude-producing countries would take place on October 21.

Badri on Sunday confirmed the meeting would take place at an ex-pert level and that OPEC and non-OPEC producers will attend.

He said the cartel was ready to cooperate with non-OPEC produc-ers to deal with the market glut if they show a similar desire.

There were no specific recom-mendations or proposals for the technical meeting, Badri said, but

“it will be a discussion to find a solution” for the oil market.

Badri said OPEC believes the current problem in the oil market has been created by all producers, but es-pecially by non-OPEC states which raised their production sharply.

“Non-OPEC increased their output by 6.0 million barrels per day in the past six years, and OPEC believes this is the reason for the glut in the oil market,” he said.

On Friday, oil edged up in New York and slipped in London as traders booked profits from the week’s rally fuelled by hopes for oversupply relief from lower US crude production. (afp)

OPEC chief confident of a balanced oil market in 2016

KUWAIT CITY - OPEC is confident that the oil market will be “more balanced” next year as non-OPEC production has contracted and global demand is increasing, the cartel’s secre-tary general Abdullah el-Badri said Sunday.

AP Photo/Markus Schreiber

Refugees enter a train to Munich at the train station of the south German border town Passau, Germany, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she doesn’t favor threatening other European Union nations in the migration crisis after her interior minister raised the idea of cutting EU funding to those that don’t take in refugees.

Merkel says no plans to raise taxes over refugee influx

According to a source at the prison, the incident was first noticed by Mone Jala, a fellow prisoner. At that time, the witness was behind the prison clinic to do cleanup. Around 3:30 p.m., the witness intended to call his friend to do cleanup behind the clinic. When arriving behind the clinic, the witness saw the victim hanging with a rope around his neck. The victim was found in the fence of the prison clinic. Initially the wit-ness called and threw small gravel at the victim, but he did not move. Seeing the condition, the witness reported the incident to his friends and prison officer.

Other than reporting to police, the victim had also been taken to San-glah Hospital in order to get post mortem treatment. No prison authority is giving official explanation related to the allegation of hanging case. (kmb27)

AMLAPURA - A few sad stories always adorn the mass media related to the existence of the Indonesian migrant worker (TKI) work-ing as domestic workers. This makes the Head of the Karangasem Manpower Agency, I Gusti Nyoman Arya Sulang, not long ago affirmed that his institution will not facilitate the delivery of domestic workers overseas to be housemaid. His institution will only give a recommendation for workers wishing to work in tourism sector such as migrant worker in cruise ship.

All this time, Arya Sulang had a pity to see the fate of the Indonesian migrant workers that work as domestic workers overseas. Many mi-grant workers receive torture, slander ending in death penalty and some others have not been paid for years. “So, the housemaids do not come back home with money, but their name only,” he explained.

He mentioned that many Indonesian migrant workers as housemaid faced bad experiences. Currently Arya Sulang stated that his institution will only give recommendations to the residents of Karangasem wishing to work overseas on cruise ships or tourism players.

In 2015, the data at the Karangasem Manpower Agency records that a total of 276 Karangasem residents are currently working overseas on a cruise ship and as tourism players. The data show

the great opportunity to work on cruise ships. The interest of Karangasem residents to work on cruise ship is increasingly higher. In addition, he also praised the apprenticeship program to Japan working in agriculture and livestock field. Cur-rently, through the coordination of Manpower Agency his institution departed 164 people to work in Japan. “If there are people wishing to join the apprenticeship program to Japan, we will fully support them,” he said.

Currently, the Karangasem Manpower Agency has worked with 12 Private Vocational Training Institutes (LPKS) engaged in the distribution of labor to cruise ship and other tourism sectors. There is always recruitment of new workers in the two fields every year. Nevertheless, he said that the workers delivered are not arbitrary. They really have skills and are capable of being professional in their workplace overseas. The competence is prepared by the Manpower Agency. Before de-parting, they must actually be selected in terms of their mental, ability, skills and attitudes.

To note, since 2006 there is no longer Karan-gasem residents working as domestic workers overseas. However, since then, the government of Karangasem has eyed the opportunities to work on cruise ships as well as tour guides. The manpower of Karangasem becomes the largest contributor to cruise ship. (kmb31)

IBP/Yudi Karnaedi

Hundreds of tourist took part in the canoe race held in Sanur Beach. The competition is held to promote Sanur as one of the tourist destination in Bali.

A Japanese prisoner reported to die of hanging

MANGUPURA - An inmate from Japan, Morita Yuki Bin Hironobu, was found dead hanging himself behind the clinic of the Kerobokan Prison, Sunday afternoon (Oct. 11). It is not known for sure the motif of the narcotic inmate to commit such an action. As information obtained, the 40-year old man was sentenced to 18 years and has been undergoing his punishment for one year, five months and 15 days.

Manpower Agency encourages workers to cruise ship

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The beautiful cruise ship that offers many job opportunities for the Balinese.

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Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli appointed Bijaya Gachchedar, who leads one of the Madhesi ethnic groups, and Kamal Thapa, whose party is demanding Nepal be restored as a Hindu state, as his deputy prime ministers in his attempt to resolve the crisis in this Himalayan nation.

Gachchedar is leader of the Madhesi People’s Rights Forum, which is the not the main Madhesi group but has sig-nificant support in the region. The main Madhesi group has said it would continue protests.

Soon after taking the oath, Gach-chedar told reporters that he joined the government to help resolve the protests in southern Nepal.

“The issues, differences and demands of the Madhesi and other groups will be resolved by adjusting the states through amendments in the constitution,” Gach-chedar said adding the government would

get the support of all political parties to make the changes.

Oli was sworn in by President Ram Baran Yadav a day after he was elected in Parliament with support from smaller parties. Also named deputy prime min-ister was Kamal Thapa, the leader of National Democratic Party-Nepal, which wants Nepal to remain a Hindu nation rather than secular. They protested before the constitution was adopted and voted against it when Parliament approved the document last month.

Madhesis and other ethnic groups in the south have been protesting against the new constitution for weeks. The country is facing a severe fuel shortage because the Madhesi protests have blocked a key border point from India and supplies through other border points have halted. India, which has close ties to the Mad-hesis, denies there is a blockade and says drivers are afraid to enter Nepal, though

Nepal says there is no trouble at many crossings.

Scores of trucks, including fuel tank-ers, entered Nepal on Sunday and Monday from two borders points in southwestern Nepal, but the borders at south and south-east Nepal remained blocked.

Home Ministry spokesman Laxmi Dhakal said there were no problems in most of the border points but was un-able to explain why border officials on the Indian side were stopping trucks and then letting some pass.

The constitution divides Nepal into seven new states, with some borders slicing through the Madhesis’ ancestral homeland in the southern plains. The Madhesis, along with several other small ethnic groups, want the states to be larger and to be given more autonomy over lo-cal matters. Talks last week between the government and protesters made little progress.(ap)

BANGKOK — The lawyer defending two Myanmar migrants in the murders of two British tourists on a Thai resort island accused the police Monday of torturing his clients, beating them and threatening to “make them disappear” in order to extract confessions.

Allegations of police torture in this case, and in Thai-land in general, are not new, but in an interview with The Associated Press, defense lawyer Nakhon Chompuchat gave extensive details about the alleged intimidation, physical violence and threats his clients faced. The police have consistently denied they tortured the accused.

The trial in the murders of David Miller, 24, and Hannah Witheridge, 23, ended Sunday. Nakhon said the judge gave him and the prosecutor until Oct. 26 to deliver their closing statements before giving his verdict on Dec. 24.

The battered bodies of the couple were found Sept. 14 last year on the rocky shores of Koh Tao, a scenic island in the Gulf of Thailand known for its scuba div-ing. Autopsies showed that the young backpackers, who had met on the island while staying at the same hotel, both suffered severe head wounds and that Witheridge had been raped.

Two men from Myanmar, also known as Burma, working illegally on Koh Tao were arrested, and put on trial after they confessed. They later recanted their confessions.

Nakhon cited one of the defendants, Wai Phyo, as saying that police handcuffed him naked, took pictures of him and forced him to confess that he was the man caught on a closed-circuit television camera near the murder scene.

“He said that police officers flicked his genitals hard, pulled his legs apart and took photographs of him naked,” Nakhon said in a telephone interview. “They also kicked him in the back, punched him, slapped him, threatened to tie him to a rock and drop him in the sea, chop off his arms and legs, throw his body into the sea to feed the fish.”

He said the police told Wai Phyo: “’Those who don’t have passports don’t have rights. If they disappear, nobody would notice.’” Police linked Wai Phyo to the murders because of a phone that was found in the shrubs behind his room. (ap)

BERLIN — The German government says Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Turkey on Sunday for talks with the country’s leaders on terrorism, Syria and the migrant crisis.

Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said Monday that the chancellor will meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.

Seibert said the visit will focus on the countries’ “common fight against terrorism,” the situation in Syria and dealing with migrant crisis.

Germany and other European Union countries hope for help from Turkey to stem the influx of refugees and other migrants into EU member Greece. (ap)

AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha

Nepal’s newly elected prime minister Khadga Prasad Oli and former prime minister Sushil Koirala shake hands after Oli administered the oath of office to at the Presidential building in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, Oct. 12, 2015.

Nepal’s new premier names protest group leaders as deputies

KATHMANDU — Nepal’s new prime minister took the oath of office Monday and appointed the leaders of groups that are protesting the new constitution as his deputies.

Defendants in tourist murders allege torture by Thai police

Germany’s Merkel to visit Turkey on Sunday

JAKARTA - Visiting Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak pledged Sunday to help Indonesia fight forest fires blanketing Southeast Asia in haze as foreign aircraft joined operations to douse the blazes.

Najib began a two-day visit by meeting President Joko Widodo at the state palace in Bogor, West Java, to discuss a range of issues including the palm oil industry, envi-ronmental cooperation and the smog.

The regional environmental crisis has caused flights and major events to be can-celled and forced tens of thousands of peo-ple in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore to seek treatment for respiratory problems.

“We consider the haze a serious issue

as it’s a burden to Malaysians and Indo-nesians,” Najib told reporters after the meeting.

“Malaysia is prepared to increase our assistance in dousing the fires. The areas affected are widespread so certainly the challenges are very big,” he said.

The blazes flare annually during the dry season as fires are illegally set to clear land for cultivation on Indonesia’s island of Sumatra and in the Indonesian portion of Borneo island.

National disaster mitigation agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said a Malaysian CL415 Bombardier capable of scooping up to six tonnes of water from

the sea, and a Singaporean Chinook heli-copter which can pour water from a huge hanging bucket, were among the 10 aircraft used for water-bombing in South Sumatra province.

A Lockheed L100 Hercules Air Tanker with a 15-tonne capacity is expected to ar-rive in the coming days, he added.

Jakarta has deployed about 25,000 personnel and aircraft but the firefighters have been overwhelmed by the extent of the blazes.

The Indonesian government for weeks insisted it did not need international help before finally agreeing to accept the offers from several countries. (afp)

Zainul Thahar, a spokesman for the National Search and Rescue Agency, said Monday that the Eurocopter EC-130 was on a chattered flight from Samosir island in Toba Lake to North Sumatra’s capital, Medan when it was reported missing Sunday about 17 minutes after takeoff. It was carrying two

crewmen and three passengers.He said about 200 people were taking part

Monday in a search for the chopper, belong-ing to PT Penerbangan Angkasa Semesta.

It was the second recent air accident in Indonesia. Earlier this month a DHC-6 Twin Otter plane crashed in eastern Indonesia,

killing all 10 people on board.Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago na-

tion of about 250 million people, has been plagued by transportation accidents in re-cent years, including plane and train crashes and ferry sinkings. The country’s airline market is expanding rapidly but struggles to obtain qualified pilots, mechanics and air traffic controllers, and modern airport technology. (ap)

JAKARTA - The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) strengthened exchange of information on climate and weather among Southeast Asian countries to anticipate disasters, such as hur-ricanes (tropical cyclones) caused by temperature fluctuations on the Earth’s surface.

“We will integrate the entire obser-vation system, through radar and satel-lites, either nationally, regionally, and globally. We will start from Southeast Asia. With this reinforcement, Indo-nesia can anticipate tropical cyclones quickly,” Head of BMKG Andi Eka Sakya stated on the sidelines of a joint workshop WMO Integrated Global Observation System (WIGOS) for Di-saster Risk Reduction on Monday.

According to Sakya, the cooperation will be preceded by an increase in the exchange of information regarding the climate and weather among the ASE-AN countries. The database is intended to strengthen disaster risk reduction in Southeast Asian countries.

“We have exchanged information on temperature, solar radiation, wind speed, air pressure, humidity, and rainfall. Now, we need information on satellite and radar imagery data regarding the movement of clouds in the region, “he revealed.

Furthermore, he pointed out that ra-dar and satellites were used to support disaster risk mitigation efforts.

Sakya noted that the workshop will help to build an understanding on the need for data and observation in South-east Asia characterized by a strong convective region. A convective region is usually characterized by temperature changes, which have a major role in creating a tropical cyclone.

“With the same climatic character-istics, Southeast Asian countries face similar hydrometeorological disasters, such as floods, hurricanes, tropical storms, droughts, or El Nino,” he pointed out.

“With the WIGOS, we can exchange information between countries in the region,” he affirmed.

He said that the exchange of infor-mation on the weather and climate in Southeast Asia should be conducted intensively.

However, the countries should agree on the policies relating to the exchange of information.

“The WIGOS is a tool, but it had yet to discuss the rules. There are several matters that need to be agreed,” he added. (ant)

BMKG intensifies efforts to anticipate hurricanes in Asean

Helicopter goes missing with 5 people aboard

JAKARTA — A helicopter carrying five people is missing in western In-donesia in the country’s latest air mishap.

Malaysian premier vows to help Indonesia combat haze

REUTERS/Widodo S Jusuf/Antara Foto

Indonesia’s Presi-dent Joko Widodo (R) shakes hand with Malaysia’s Prime Min-ister Najib Razak at the Presi-dential Palace in Bogor, Indonesia’s West Java province, October 11, 2015, in this pic-ture taken by Antara Foto.

Dalem Balingkang Temple Doctors treating injured MotoGP rider Alex de Angelis were able to reduce his sedation on Monday and reported improvements in his condition.

The Italian was airlifted to Dok-kyo Hospital after a crash in fourth practice for the Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi on Saturday.

Initially diagnosed with mul-tiple rib and spinal fractures plus lung contusions, de Angelis was then described as being in a criti-cal condition after a further scan on Sunday revealed an intracranial hematoma.

But a MotoGP statement said his latest head and chest CT scan on Monday “reassuringly showed that the intracranial hematoma he suffered was unchanged while the contusions to his lungs are slightly resolving.

“The rider remains in a critical condition but as his sedation was reduced, he was able to talk and was oriented in time and space.

“He’ll undergo a further head CT scan in the next 48 to 72 hours to ensure the intracranial hematoma is stable while the conditions of the lungs will need further evaluation.”

Dr Michele Zasa from MotoGP’s mobile clinic has remained in Japan to assist with de Angelis’s treat-ment.

He was also visited in hospital by former riders turned MotoGP safety officials Loris Capirossi and Franco Uncini on Monday. (net)

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“We try to keep him below the 3-point line. But when he’s scoring it like he was tonight, he obviously has the capability of being able to step out there as well,” coach Byron Scott said.

‘He’s looks better and better. His timing looks great his movement looks great, and he just looks so much more fluid right now. He says he feels great, so right now we’ll

keep staying the course.”Lakers point guard D’Angelo

Russell, the second overall pick in the draft and one of seven rookies on the preseason roster, had 11 as-sists and five points in 18 minutes off the bench after sitting out a game because of a bruised glute.

“I’m looking for the team to get better,” Bryant said. “We’ve got plenty of work to do, obviously. The team is so young, and we have a lot of learning to do.”

The Lakers, playing their first preseason game at Staples Center following back-to-back losses to the Utah in Hawaii and another against Toronto at Ontario, Califor-nia, opened with a 17-2 run while Maccabi Haifa missed nine of its first 10 shots.

“The preseason is just like sum-

mer league — I don’t put a whole lot of stock into it,” Scott said. “It’s all about trying to get ready for the regular season and trying to put all your stuff in at both ends of the floor. If you win, that’s great. If you don’t, you hope you can learn from it.” The Lakers converted 15 Mac-cabi Haifa turnovers into 30 points. The visitors scored 23 points off 22 Lakers turnovers.

“Offensively, we moved the ball pretty well and got 30 assists, which is pretty good,” Scott said. “But we also had 22 turnovers, so we’ve got to do a much better job of taking care of the ball against pressure. I thought a lot of our turnovers were just carelessness.” Reserve Reggie Buckner had 20 points and seven rebounds for Maccabi Haifa.

Only one of its players has NBA experience - reserve forward and Los Angeles native Dijon Thomp-son, who played a combined 16 games with Phoenix and Atlanta between November 2005 and Janu-ary 2007. Thompson is back with Maccabi Haifa after spending last season with Hapoel Tel Aviv. (ap)

Kimi Raikkonen has been penalised for his last-lap Russian Grand Prix collision with Valtteri Bottas, dropping from fifth to eighth place. The loss of six points for Ferrari allows Mercedes to officially clinch the 2015 Formula 1 constructors’ champion-ship.

Raikkonen hit Bottas’s Williams while challenging for third place on the final lap, after both had passed Sergio Perez’s Force India as its tyres faded.

The collision sent Bottas straight into the barriers and out, while Raikkonen nursed his damaged car over the line in fifth place.

The stewards decided the move deserved a 10-second stop/go penalty, which was applied as a 30s time penalty post-race. Raikkonen was adamant the collision was a racing accident and that a penalty would not be fair.

“I overtook him there once before and I wasn’t too far back so I thought I would try again,” he said. “Once I decided to try I can’t back off. I don’t know if he didn’t see me at all or didn’t expect me to go there.

“I tried to turn as much inside as I could but there was nowhere to go and we collided.” But Bottas replied: “I don’t think it was a racing incident. “I didn’t see anyone there and I was in front, and then suddenly someone hits me.”

Raikkonen’s penalty elevates Daniil Kvyat into fifth place for Red Bull at his home grand prix.

In a further post-race penalty, McLaren driver Fernando Alonso has had 5s added to his race time for corner cutting at Turn 16, which he received a warning for during the grand prix. That costs McLaren a point as he falls to 11th behind Max Verstappen’s Toro Rosso. (rtr)

Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant, top, passes the ball as Maccabi Haifa’s Rene Rougeau looks on dur-ing the first half of an NBA preseason basketball game, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015, in Los Angeles.

Bryant has 21 points, Lakers rout Maccabi Haifa 126-83

LOS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant scored 21 points and Roy Hibbert had 16 rebounds, leading the Los Angeles Lakers to a 126-83 exhibition rout of Israel’s Maccabi Haifa on Sunday night. Bryant, about to begin his 20th NBA season more than nine months after undergoing right shoulder surgery, played 19 minutes and made six of 10 shots while going 4 for 6 from 3-point range.

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Raikkonen given penalty for Russian GP Valtteri Bottas clash

Doctors report improvement in condition of Alex de Angelis

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Dalem Balingkang Temple situ-ated in a remote area at the northern side of Lake Batur. It is situated on the eastern part of Penulisan Hill, some 40 kms from Bangli Town,

precisely in Pinggan Village, Kina-tamani District. The place is easy to reach with vehicles. Reaching the parking area, a guest should go on foot for some 500 meters to reach the temple.

The word Balingkang translates

King of Bali. The temple once served as the palace for the King of Bali.

Based on folklore, in the 11th century, there was a king named Sri Kesari Waradewa who had a Chinese wife, a pricess of Chung

Dynasty, Tang Ci Keng. The mar-riage between the two was told in Barong Landung Dance that still can be seen in Bali to date.

Even the palace it self has been influenced by Chinese design and architectural styles, among others,

the building of Gedong Mas and Pelinggih Ida Ratu Ayu. Chinese influence has also left Balinese old coins to have in one of the sides, Balinese characteristics, as God related symbols, which remain in use to date.

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Albania players jumped up and down and hugged each other after the final whistle, with captain Lorik Cana crying as he celebrated with teammates. “I can’t find the words to describe the happiness,” Cana said. “When I joined the Albanian national team 12-13 years ago I had so little hope I could achieve such a thing one day.”

The win set off massive celebrations in central Tirana, with thousands of Albanians gathering in the city’s main Skanderbeg Square, honking their car horns and set-ting off fireworks. “The impossible dream turned into a reality!” Prime Minister Edi Rama wrote on Twitter.

Albania opened the scoring with an own goal by Armenia defender Kamo Hovhannisyan in the ninth minute. It then added to the lead with a deflection by defender Berat Xhimshiti in the 23rd and a close-range goal by substitute Armando Sadiku in the 76th.

Albania reached 14 points with the victory, two points more than third-place Denmark, the 1992 European champion which will have to go through the play-offs to try to earn a berth at Euro 2016. Portugal, which had already clinched first place in advance, finished with a 2-1 win over nine-man Serbia, reaching 21 points from eight matches.

The top two teams in each of the nine

qualifying groups advance automatically, along with the best third-placed team. The eight remaining third-placed teams go to a playoff. Denmark had a bye this weekend and needed Albania to lose or draw its match against last-place Armenia in Yerevan.

Hovhannisyan found his own net while trying to clear the ball from in front of the goal, and Xhimshiti scored by redirecting the ball into the net after a free kick cross from the left side of the penalty area. Sadi-ku’s left-footed shot sealed the victory.

Albania did not concede a goal in its last four away matches. Without Cris-tiano Ronaldo, Portugal won its seventh consecutive qualifier by beating already eliminated Serbia in Belgrade. Portugal didn’t need to play at full strength after qualifying with the 1-0 win over Denmark last week.

Nani scored in the fifth minute after Serbia goalkeeper Vladimir Sotjkovi failed to hold a shot from Danny, and Zoran Tosic equalized in the 65th before substitute Joao Moutinho netted the winner from the top of the area in the 78th.

Serbia played the final minutes with nine men as captain Aleksandar Kolarov was sent off with a second yellow card in the 80th and Nemanja Matic received a straight red in the 81st.(ap)

COPENHAGEN — France striker Olivier Giroud received a welcome confidence boost as he scored twice Sunday in a 2-1 win over Denmark in a friendly match. The 29-year-old Arsenal forward found the net with France for the first time since last March, bagging two goals in the space of two minutes.

Giroud, who has been enduring a rough patch with this club this season, opened the scoring from Anthony Martial’s assist in the fourth minute then fired home past keeper Kasper Schmeichel from close range two minutes later. Erik Sviatchenko pulled one back for Denmark in added time.

Giroud’s brace sealed France’s fourth consecutive win. As host, France is automatically qualified for Euro 2016 while Denmark will have to go through a playoff to earn a berth at the tournament. Giroud was booed by fans after a poor showing against Serbia in September, and his problems with France were mirrored by similar struggles at Arsenal, where he is now the second-choice forward behind Theo Walcott.

“It’s always good to score goals when you’re a striker, it’s good for confidence,” Giroud said. “Ef-ficiency had been evading me for a while.” Just hours after finding out they ended third in their qualifying group behind Albania, the Danes got off to an awful start. France coach Didier Deschamps rotated his squad extensively, with only three of the players who started in the 4-0 win over Armenia midweek — Rapahael Varane, Blaize Matuidi and Antoine Griezmann — keeping their spot. Manchester United striker Anthony Martial was handed his first start upfront alongside Giroud and Girezmann. The teenager was decisive immediately, serving up a perfect pass through the Danish defense for Giroud, whose weak shot under Schmeichel’s arm was enough to put the visitors ahead in the fourth minute.

Giroud doubled France’s lead two minutes later from a rebound after Schmeichel parried his initial volley from Lucas Digne’s cross. The ball came back into Giroud’s path and he fired it into the net.

Looking apathetic and resigned, the 1992 European champions waited nearly half an hour before Nicklas Bendtner tested keeper Steve Mandanda with a long-range strike. Morten Olsen’s players put on a more aggressive display after the interval but their good spell did not last long as France regained control in the last 30 minutes. Martial created a good chance in the 63rd min-ute with a burst down the left side that left two Danish players stranded, forcing Schmeichel to a good save.

A good move from Denmark in the 68th minute saw Nicolai Joergensen beat the offside trap, but substitute Yussuf Poulsen failed to get past Mandanda. Olsen’s team looked set for a fourth consecutive match without scoring a goal when Sviatchenko gave the home fans something to cheer for with a powerful strike from the edge of the box into the top corner.

“I made a lot of changes from our last match, it’s never ideal,” Deschamps said. “We could not take our chances to kill off the match with a third goal in the second half, but we maintained the momentum.”(ap)

MADRID — He’s known as Monchi. And his method for evaluating soccer talent has Europe’s attention. Ramon Rodriguez Verdejo, who still goes by the nickname from his goalkeeping days, has become one of the most sought-after football directors in European soccer after revolutionizing Spanish club Sevilla with a scouting system that helped rescue the team from the brink of financial collapse and turned it into a perennial contender in the continent’s second-tiered competitions.

Monchi is soccer’s version of Billy Beane, the baseball general manager whose innovative methods to evaluate players helped revitalize the Oakland A’s and whose story later became a book and the movie, “Moneyball,” starring Brad Pitt.

No Hollywood blockbuster is in the works about the bald-headed Monchi, but like Beane, he has his own way of doing things and has achieved significant success despite a limited budget compared to the powerhouses of European soccer, including local rivals Real Madrid and Barcelona.

In the last decade, the club based in the southern Span-ish region of Andalucia has won eight titles: two Copa del Reys, one Spanish Supercup, one European Supercup, two UEFA Cups and the last two Europa Leagues.

Many label him one of the best soccer direc-tors in the world, and there is widespread talk that Europe’s top teams are trying to sign him. In the most recent presi-dential election at Barcelona, one of the can- didates tried to draw voters

by promising to hire Monchi if elected. Tottenham and Real

Madrid are among the teams that reportedly showed

interest in talking to the gritty general man-ager.

What everybody is after is the so-called “Monchi Method,” the scouting system that helped Sevilla discover and profit from players such as

Dani Alves, Ivan Rakitic, Julio Baptista, Sergio Ramos, Seydou Keita, Jesus Na-vas and Carlos Bacca.

Monchi is believed to have helped Sevilla earn more than 200

million euros ($225 million) in transfers in the 15 years he has been with the club. Alves, now a regular on Brazil’s national team, is seen as one of his most successful signings — being bought for 1 million euros ($1.1 million) from a small Brazilian club and sold to Barcelona for 30 million euros ($33.8 million).

“We are trying to work with a method that helps us find new talent that could benefit us on the field and also gener-ate income,” the 47-year-old Monchi said. “The biggest thing is to show our fans that this is something good for the team, that it’s not only about making money. Nobody would defend this model anywhere in the world if the team wasn’t winning titles.”

There are no novel ideas in the Monchi Method, and its goal is quite simple: Find cheap players with potential and re-sell them to bigger teams at a higher price. It’s an obvious formula for success, but not easy to achieve with the same efficiency as the always-upbeat Monchi.

So what is his method?Monchi has put together a network of scouts and soccer

specialists to watch games in leagues around the world, focusing on places where he knows his club will have a competitive edge in the transfer market. “We go looking for unknown players in places where we know the richer teams won’t go because they don’t think they will find anyone talented enough for them,” Monchi said. “We know we can’t compete with Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea, City, Juventus, Milan ... But we know that we can find these good players. We know our market and we try to take advantage of it.”

The first phase of the method begins in August, when Monchi’s staff of about 15 comes up with “11 ideal players” in the top European leagues and the lesser-known ones in Asia, South America, Africa and other places across the world.

By December, Monchi has a list of about 150 play-ers selected for each position. He and his analysts start examining players by traveling to specific matches and watching videos.

“It’s important to see how each player will react when his team is winning, when it’s losing, when it’s playing at home, away, in a decisive game. We want to avoid being surprised later on,” Monchi said. “There is really no secret. We watch a lot of football, we travel a lot, we work hard.”

By March or so, Monchi’s staff comes up with a final report, with players graded on a scale from A to E, with A indicating the best options. Monchi meets with coaches and other officials to determine the club’s strategy before starting to negotiate, and then he’s off to try to snatch the next player who could hopefully boost the team’s winning chances and finances.

“We may not have the same economic power as some other teams similar to us in Europe, like Fiorentina, Napoli, Hamburg, Lyon, but we have built something very special in the last few years, and that is our brand,” Monchi said.

“When we approach players to come to Sevilla, they know that they will be able to compete for titles, and they also immediately think about Rakitic, Alves, Keita, Ramos ... They know that here they may have a future.”(ap)

ATHENS — Romania clinched a spot in next year’s European Championship with a 3-0 away win over Faeroe Islands on Sun-day, while Greece beat Hungary 4-3 to avoid a winless qualifying campaign.

Two first-half goals by Con-stantin Bulescu secured second place in Group F for Romania, behind already qualified North-ern Ireland.

Northern Ireland drew 1-1 with Finland in Helsinki after al-lowing a late equalizer by Paulus Arajuuri. Craig Cathcart had put the visitors ahead in the 31st.

At Torshavn, Faeroe Islands, Bulescu opened the scoring in the fourth minute with a power-ful shot just inside the area after a cross from the left by Razvan Rat. Budescu’s second came from what seemed to be intended as a cross in first-half stoppage time that looped over goalkeeper Gun-nar Nielsen and into the net.

In the 83rd, Alexandru Maxim and Bogdan Stanku exchanged quick passes and Maxim beat Nielsen to cap the scoring.

Greece finally ended its miser-able run when substitute Panagi-otis Kone headed in the winner in the 86th minute.

Coach Costas Tsanas made six changes to the starting lineup from the squad that lost 3-1 to

Northern Ireland three days ago, and it seemed to quickly pay off when Costas Stafylidis opened the scoring in the fifth minute. It was Greece’s first home goal in the qualifiers.

However, Hungary soon took over and equalized in the 26th with a header by Gergo Lovrenc-sics, before Krisztian Nemeth put Hungary ahead from point-blank range in the 55th. Two minutes later, Panayiotis Tachtsidis met Petros Mantalos’ forward pass and blasted a shot from just inside the area into the net.

In the 76th, Hungary took the lead again. Zsolt Kalmar, who had en-tered the game five minutes earlier, avoided two Greek defenders and as two more closed in passed to an un-marked Nemeth for an easy goal.

However, three minutes later, Tachtsidis made a defense-split-ting pass to Costas Mitroglou who made it 3-3 before Kone scored the winner from Jose Holebas’ cross. “Definitely a bi t tersweet victory,” Tsanas said. Hungary finished third in the group and will have another chance to reach the finals through a playoff game.

“We had always planned for a third-place finish. ... Greece was unlucky not to have scored in previous games,” Hungary goal-keeper Gabor Kiraly said.(ap)

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Kosovo Albanians waving Albania’s national flag celebrate Albania’s soccer victory in Kosovo’s capital Pristina, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015. Albania won against Armenia in Yerevan and qualified for first time in its history at the Euro 2016 soccer champion-ship in France next summer.

Albania qualifies for European Championship for 1st time

YEREVAN, Armenia — Albania qualified for its first major tourna-ment by beating Armenia 3-0 on Sunday in its final qualifier for next year’s European Championship. The victory secured Albania second place in Group I, behind already qualified Portugal, and a berth at Euro 2016 in France. Denmark finished third and will have to go through a playoff to qualify.

AP Photo/Bogdan Maran

Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud celebrates after scoring against Stoke City, dur-ing their English Premier League soccer match between Arsenal and Stoke City, at Emirates Stadium, in London, Sat-urday, Sept. 12, 2015.

Giroud scores twice as France beats Denmark 2-1

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Hungary’s Akos Elek, front, is challenged by Greece’s Alex-andros Tziolis during the group F Euro 2016 qualifying match between Greece and Hungary at the Georgios Karaiskakis stadium in Piraeus port, near Athens, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015.

Romania reaches Euro 2016 with win; Greece beats Hungary

Monchi’s method: The soccer man everyone wants in Europe

In this Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011 photo, Ramon Rodriguez Verdejo “Monchi” poses for a photo at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium, in Seville, Spain.

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Albania players jumped up and down and hugged each other after the final whistle, with captain Lorik Cana crying as he celebrated with teammates. “I can’t find the words to describe the happiness,” Cana said. “When I joined the Albanian national team 12-13 years ago I had so little hope I could achieve such a thing one day.”

The win set off massive celebrations in central Tirana, with thousands of Albanians gathering in the city’s main Skanderbeg Square, honking their car horns and set-ting off fireworks. “The impossible dream turned into a reality!” Prime Minister Edi Rama wrote on Twitter.

Albania opened the scoring with an own goal by Armenia defender Kamo Hovhannisyan in the ninth minute. It then added to the lead with a deflection by defender Berat Xhimshiti in the 23rd and a close-range goal by substitute Armando Sadiku in the 76th.

Albania reached 14 points with the victory, two points more than third-place Denmark, the 1992 European champion which will have to go through the play-offs to try to earn a berth at Euro 2016. Portugal, which had already clinched first place in advance, finished with a 2-1 win over nine-man Serbia, reaching 21 points from eight matches.

The top two teams in each of the nine

qualifying groups advance automatically, along with the best third-placed team. The eight remaining third-placed teams go to a playoff. Denmark had a bye this weekend and needed Albania to lose or draw its match against last-place Armenia in Yerevan.

Hovhannisyan found his own net while trying to clear the ball from in front of the goal, and Xhimshiti scored by redirecting the ball into the net after a free kick cross from the left side of the penalty area. Sadi-ku’s left-footed shot sealed the victory.

Albania did not concede a goal in its last four away matches. Without Cris-tiano Ronaldo, Portugal won its seventh consecutive qualifier by beating already eliminated Serbia in Belgrade. Portugal didn’t need to play at full strength after qualifying with the 1-0 win over Denmark last week.

Nani scored in the fifth minute after Serbia goalkeeper Vladimir Sotjkovi failed to hold a shot from Danny, and Zoran Tosic equalized in the 65th before substitute Joao Moutinho netted the winner from the top of the area in the 78th.

Serbia played the final minutes with nine men as captain Aleksandar Kolarov was sent off with a second yellow card in the 80th and Nemanja Matic received a straight red in the 81st.(ap)

COPENHAGEN — France striker Olivier Giroud received a welcome confidence boost as he scored twice Sunday in a 2-1 win over Denmark in a friendly match. The 29-year-old Arsenal forward found the net with France for the first time since last March, bagging two goals in the space of two minutes.

Giroud, who has been enduring a rough patch with this club this season, opened the scoring from Anthony Martial’s assist in the fourth minute then fired home past keeper Kasper Schmeichel from close range two minutes later. Erik Sviatchenko pulled one back for Denmark in added time.

Giroud’s brace sealed France’s fourth consecutive win. As host, France is automatically qualified for Euro 2016 while Denmark will have to go through a playoff to earn a berth at the tournament. Giroud was booed by fans after a poor showing against Serbia in September, and his problems with France were mirrored by similar struggles at Arsenal, where he is now the second-choice forward behind Theo Walcott.

“It’s always good to score goals when you’re a striker, it’s good for confidence,” Giroud said. “Ef-ficiency had been evading me for a while.” Just hours after finding out they ended third in their qualifying group behind Albania, the Danes got off to an awful start. France coach Didier Deschamps rotated his squad extensively, with only three of the players who started in the 4-0 win over Armenia midweek — Rapahael Varane, Blaize Matuidi and Antoine Griezmann — keeping their spot. Manchester United striker Anthony Martial was handed his first start upfront alongside Giroud and Girezmann. The teenager was decisive immediately, serving up a perfect pass through the Danish defense for Giroud, whose weak shot under Schmeichel’s arm was enough to put the visitors ahead in the fourth minute.

Giroud doubled France’s lead two minutes later from a rebound after Schmeichel parried his initial volley from Lucas Digne’s cross. The ball came back into Giroud’s path and he fired it into the net.

Looking apathetic and resigned, the 1992 European champions waited nearly half an hour before Nicklas Bendtner tested keeper Steve Mandanda with a long-range strike. Morten Olsen’s players put on a more aggressive display after the interval but their good spell did not last long as France regained control in the last 30 minutes. Martial created a good chance in the 63rd min-ute with a burst down the left side that left two Danish players stranded, forcing Schmeichel to a good save.

A good move from Denmark in the 68th minute saw Nicolai Joergensen beat the offside trap, but substitute Yussuf Poulsen failed to get past Mandanda. Olsen’s team looked set for a fourth consecutive match without scoring a goal when Sviatchenko gave the home fans something to cheer for with a powerful strike from the edge of the box into the top corner.

“I made a lot of changes from our last match, it’s never ideal,” Deschamps said. “We could not take our chances to kill off the match with a third goal in the second half, but we maintained the momentum.”(ap)

MADRID — He’s known as Monchi. And his method for evaluating soccer talent has Europe’s attention. Ramon Rodriguez Verdejo, who still goes by the nickname from his goalkeeping days, has become one of the most sought-after football directors in European soccer after revolutionizing Spanish club Sevilla with a scouting system that helped rescue the team from the brink of financial collapse and turned it into a perennial contender in the continent’s second-tiered competitions.

Monchi is soccer’s version of Billy Beane, the baseball general manager whose innovative methods to evaluate players helped revitalize the Oakland A’s and whose story later became a book and the movie, “Moneyball,” starring Brad Pitt.

No Hollywood blockbuster is in the works about the bald-headed Monchi, but like Beane, he has his own way of doing things and has achieved significant success despite a limited budget compared to the powerhouses of European soccer, including local rivals Real Madrid and Barcelona.

In the last decade, the club based in the southern Span-ish region of Andalucia has won eight titles: two Copa del Reys, one Spanish Supercup, one European Supercup, two UEFA Cups and the last two Europa Leagues.

Many label him one of the best soccer direc-tors in the world, and there is widespread talk that Europe’s top teams are trying to sign him. In the most recent presi-dential election at Barcelona, one of the can- didates tried to draw voters

by promising to hire Monchi if elected. Tottenham and Real

Madrid are among the teams that reportedly showed

interest in talking to the gritty general man-ager.

What everybody is after is the so-called “Monchi Method,” the scouting system that helped Sevilla discover and profit from players such as

Dani Alves, Ivan Rakitic, Julio Baptista, Sergio Ramos, Seydou Keita, Jesus Na-vas and Carlos Bacca.

Monchi is believed to have helped Sevilla earn more than 200

million euros ($225 million) in transfers in the 15 years he has been with the club. Alves, now a regular on Brazil’s national team, is seen as one of his most successful signings — being bought for 1 million euros ($1.1 million) from a small Brazilian club and sold to Barcelona for 30 million euros ($33.8 million).

“We are trying to work with a method that helps us find new talent that could benefit us on the field and also gener-ate income,” the 47-year-old Monchi said. “The biggest thing is to show our fans that this is something good for the team, that it’s not only about making money. Nobody would defend this model anywhere in the world if the team wasn’t winning titles.”

There are no novel ideas in the Monchi Method, and its goal is quite simple: Find cheap players with potential and re-sell them to bigger teams at a higher price. It’s an obvious formula for success, but not easy to achieve with the same efficiency as the always-upbeat Monchi.

So what is his method?Monchi has put together a network of scouts and soccer

specialists to watch games in leagues around the world, focusing on places where he knows his club will have a competitive edge in the transfer market. “We go looking for unknown players in places where we know the richer teams won’t go because they don’t think they will find anyone talented enough for them,” Monchi said. “We know we can’t compete with Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea, City, Juventus, Milan ... But we know that we can find these good players. We know our market and we try to take advantage of it.”

The first phase of the method begins in August, when Monchi’s staff of about 15 comes up with “11 ideal players” in the top European leagues and the lesser-known ones in Asia, South America, Africa and other places across the world.

By December, Monchi has a list of about 150 play-ers selected for each position. He and his analysts start examining players by traveling to specific matches and watching videos.

“It’s important to see how each player will react when his team is winning, when it’s losing, when it’s playing at home, away, in a decisive game. We want to avoid being surprised later on,” Monchi said. “There is really no secret. We watch a lot of football, we travel a lot, we work hard.”

By March or so, Monchi’s staff comes up with a final report, with players graded on a scale from A to E, with A indicating the best options. Monchi meets with coaches and other officials to determine the club’s strategy before starting to negotiate, and then he’s off to try to snatch the next player who could hopefully boost the team’s winning chances and finances.

“We may not have the same economic power as some other teams similar to us in Europe, like Fiorentina, Napoli, Hamburg, Lyon, but we have built something very special in the last few years, and that is our brand,” Monchi said.

“When we approach players to come to Sevilla, they know that they will be able to compete for titles, and they also immediately think about Rakitic, Alves, Keita, Ramos ... They know that here they may have a future.”(ap)

ATHENS — Romania clinched a spot in next year’s European Championship with a 3-0 away win over Faeroe Islands on Sun-day, while Greece beat Hungary 4-3 to avoid a winless qualifying campaign.

Two first-half goals by Con-stantin Bulescu secured second place in Group F for Romania, behind already qualified North-ern Ireland.

Northern Ireland drew 1-1 with Finland in Helsinki after al-lowing a late equalizer by Paulus Arajuuri. Craig Cathcart had put the visitors ahead in the 31st.

At Torshavn, Faeroe Islands, Bulescu opened the scoring in the fourth minute with a power-ful shot just inside the area after a cross from the left by Razvan Rat. Budescu’s second came from what seemed to be intended as a cross in first-half stoppage time that looped over goalkeeper Gun-nar Nielsen and into the net.

In the 83rd, Alexandru Maxim and Bogdan Stanku exchanged quick passes and Maxim beat Nielsen to cap the scoring.

Greece finally ended its miser-able run when substitute Panagi-otis Kone headed in the winner in the 86th minute.

Coach Costas Tsanas made six changes to the starting lineup from the squad that lost 3-1 to

Northern Ireland three days ago, and it seemed to quickly pay off when Costas Stafylidis opened the scoring in the fifth minute. It was Greece’s first home goal in the qualifiers.

However, Hungary soon took over and equalized in the 26th with a header by Gergo Lovrenc-sics, before Krisztian Nemeth put Hungary ahead from point-blank range in the 55th. Two minutes later, Panayiotis Tachtsidis met Petros Mantalos’ forward pass and blasted a shot from just inside the area into the net.

In the 76th, Hungary took the lead again. Zsolt Kalmar, who had en-tered the game five minutes earlier, avoided two Greek defenders and as two more closed in passed to an un-marked Nemeth for an easy goal.

However, three minutes later, Tachtsidis made a defense-split-ting pass to Costas Mitroglou who made it 3-3 before Kone scored the winner from Jose Holebas’ cross. “Definitely a bi t tersweet victory,” Tsanas said. Hungary finished third in the group and will have another chance to reach the finals through a playoff game.

“We had always planned for a third-place finish. ... Greece was unlucky not to have scored in previous games,” Hungary goal-keeper Gabor Kiraly said.(ap)

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Kosovo Albanians waving Albania’s national flag celebrate Albania’s soccer victory in Kosovo’s capital Pristina, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015. Albania won against Armenia in Yerevan and qualified for first time in its history at the Euro 2016 soccer champion-ship in France next summer.

Albania qualifies for European Championship for 1st time

YEREVAN, Armenia — Albania qualified for its first major tourna-ment by beating Armenia 3-0 on Sunday in its final qualifier for next year’s European Championship. The victory secured Albania second place in Group I, behind already qualified Portugal, and a berth at Euro 2016 in France. Denmark finished third and will have to go through a playoff to qualify.

AP Photo/Bogdan Maran

Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud celebrates after scoring against Stoke City, dur-ing their English Premier League soccer match between Arsenal and Stoke City, at Emirates Stadium, in London, Sat-urday, Sept. 12, 2015.

Giroud scores twice as France beats Denmark 2-1

AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis

Hungary’s Akos Elek, front, is challenged by Greece’s Alex-andros Tziolis during the group F Euro 2016 qualifying match between Greece and Hungary at the Georgios Karaiskakis stadium in Piraeus port, near Athens, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015.

Romania reaches Euro 2016 with win; Greece beats Hungary

Monchi’s method: The soccer man everyone wants in Europe

In this Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011 photo, Ramon Rodriguez Verdejo “Monchi” poses for a photo at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium, in Seville, Spain.

AP Photo/Miguel Angel Morenatti

Dalem Balingkang Temple Doctors treating injured MotoGP rider Alex de Angelis were able to reduce his sedation on Monday and reported improvements in his condition.

The Italian was airlifted to Dok-kyo Hospital after a crash in fourth practice for the Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi on Saturday.

Initially diagnosed with mul-tiple rib and spinal fractures plus lung contusions, de Angelis was then described as being in a criti-cal condition after a further scan on Sunday revealed an intracranial hematoma.

But a MotoGP statement said his latest head and chest CT scan on Monday “reassuringly showed that the intracranial hematoma he suffered was unchanged while the contusions to his lungs are slightly resolving.

“The rider remains in a critical condition but as his sedation was reduced, he was able to talk and was oriented in time and space.

“He’ll undergo a further head CT scan in the next 48 to 72 hours to ensure the intracranial hematoma is stable while the conditions of the lungs will need further evaluation.”

Dr Michele Zasa from MotoGP’s mobile clinic has remained in Japan to assist with de Angelis’s treat-ment.

He was also visited in hospital by former riders turned MotoGP safety officials Loris Capirossi and Franco Uncini on Monday. (net)

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“We try to keep him below the 3-point line. But when he’s scoring it like he was tonight, he obviously has the capability of being able to step out there as well,” coach Byron Scott said.

‘He’s looks better and better. His timing looks great his movement looks great, and he just looks so much more fluid right now. He says he feels great, so right now we’ll

keep staying the course.”Lakers point guard D’Angelo

Russell, the second overall pick in the draft and one of seven rookies on the preseason roster, had 11 as-sists and five points in 18 minutes off the bench after sitting out a game because of a bruised glute.

“I’m looking for the team to get better,” Bryant said. “We’ve got plenty of work to do, obviously. The team is so young, and we have a lot of learning to do.”

The Lakers, playing their first preseason game at Staples Center following back-to-back losses to the Utah in Hawaii and another against Toronto at Ontario, Califor-nia, opened with a 17-2 run while Maccabi Haifa missed nine of its first 10 shots.

“The preseason is just like sum-

mer league — I don’t put a whole lot of stock into it,” Scott said. “It’s all about trying to get ready for the regular season and trying to put all your stuff in at both ends of the floor. If you win, that’s great. If you don’t, you hope you can learn from it.” The Lakers converted 15 Mac-cabi Haifa turnovers into 30 points. The visitors scored 23 points off 22 Lakers turnovers.

“Offensively, we moved the ball pretty well and got 30 assists, which is pretty good,” Scott said. “But we also had 22 turnovers, so we’ve got to do a much better job of taking care of the ball against pressure. I thought a lot of our turnovers were just carelessness.” Reserve Reggie Buckner had 20 points and seven rebounds for Maccabi Haifa.

Only one of its players has NBA experience - reserve forward and Los Angeles native Dijon Thomp-son, who played a combined 16 games with Phoenix and Atlanta between November 2005 and Janu-ary 2007. Thompson is back with Maccabi Haifa after spending last season with Hapoel Tel Aviv. (ap)

Kimi Raikkonen has been penalised for his last-lap Russian Grand Prix collision with Valtteri Bottas, dropping from fifth to eighth place. The loss of six points for Ferrari allows Mercedes to officially clinch the 2015 Formula 1 constructors’ champion-ship.

Raikkonen hit Bottas’s Williams while challenging for third place on the final lap, after both had passed Sergio Perez’s Force India as its tyres faded.

The collision sent Bottas straight into the barriers and out, while Raikkonen nursed his damaged car over the line in fifth place.

The stewards decided the move deserved a 10-second stop/go penalty, which was applied as a 30s time penalty post-race. Raikkonen was adamant the collision was a racing accident and that a penalty would not be fair.

“I overtook him there once before and I wasn’t too far back so I thought I would try again,” he said. “Once I decided to try I can’t back off. I don’t know if he didn’t see me at all or didn’t expect me to go there.

“I tried to turn as much inside as I could but there was nowhere to go and we collided.” But Bottas replied: “I don’t think it was a racing incident. “I didn’t see anyone there and I was in front, and then suddenly someone hits me.”

Raikkonen’s penalty elevates Daniil Kvyat into fifth place for Red Bull at his home grand prix.

In a further post-race penalty, McLaren driver Fernando Alonso has had 5s added to his race time for corner cutting at Turn 16, which he received a warning for during the grand prix. That costs McLaren a point as he falls to 11th behind Max Verstappen’s Toro Rosso. (rtr)

Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant, top, passes the ball as Maccabi Haifa’s Rene Rougeau looks on dur-ing the first half of an NBA preseason basketball game, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015, in Los Angeles.

Bryant has 21 points, Lakers rout Maccabi Haifa 126-83

LOS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant scored 21 points and Roy Hibbert had 16 rebounds, leading the Los Angeles Lakers to a 126-83 exhibition rout of Israel’s Maccabi Haifa on Sunday night. Bryant, about to begin his 20th NBA season more than nine months after undergoing right shoulder surgery, played 19 minutes and made six of 10 shots while going 4 for 6 from 3-point range.

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Raikkonen given penalty for Russian GP Valtteri Bottas clash

Doctors report improvement in condition of Alex de Angelis

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Dalem Balingkang Temple situ-ated in a remote area at the northern side of Lake Batur. It is situated on the eastern part of Penulisan Hill, some 40 kms from Bangli Town,

precisely in Pinggan Village, Kina-tamani District. The place is easy to reach with vehicles. Reaching the parking area, a guest should go on foot for some 500 meters to reach the temple.

The word Balingkang translates

King of Bali. The temple once served as the palace for the King of Bali.

Based on folklore, in the 11th century, there was a king named Sri Kesari Waradewa who had a Chinese wife, a pricess of Chung

Dynasty, Tang Ci Keng. The mar-riage between the two was told in Barong Landung Dance that still can be seen in Bali to date.

Even the palace it self has been influenced by Chinese design and architectural styles, among others,

the building of Gedong Mas and Pelinggih Ida Ratu Ayu. Chinese influence has also left Balinese old coins to have in one of the sides, Balinese characteristics, as God related symbols, which remain in use to date.

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Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli appointed Bijaya Gachchedar, who leads one of the Madhesi ethnic groups, and Kamal Thapa, whose party is demanding Nepal be restored as a Hindu state, as his deputy prime ministers in his attempt to resolve the crisis in this Himalayan nation.

Gachchedar is leader of the Madhesi People’s Rights Forum, which is the not the main Madhesi group but has sig-nificant support in the region. The main Madhesi group has said it would continue protests.

Soon after taking the oath, Gach-chedar told reporters that he joined the government to help resolve the protests in southern Nepal.

“The issues, differences and demands of the Madhesi and other groups will be resolved by adjusting the states through amendments in the constitution,” Gach-chedar said adding the government would

get the support of all political parties to make the changes.

Oli was sworn in by President Ram Baran Yadav a day after he was elected in Parliament with support from smaller parties. Also named deputy prime min-ister was Kamal Thapa, the leader of National Democratic Party-Nepal, which wants Nepal to remain a Hindu nation rather than secular. They protested before the constitution was adopted and voted against it when Parliament approved the document last month.

Madhesis and other ethnic groups in the south have been protesting against the new constitution for weeks. The country is facing a severe fuel shortage because the Madhesi protests have blocked a key border point from India and supplies through other border points have halted. India, which has close ties to the Mad-hesis, denies there is a blockade and says drivers are afraid to enter Nepal, though

Nepal says there is no trouble at many crossings.

Scores of trucks, including fuel tank-ers, entered Nepal on Sunday and Monday from two borders points in southwestern Nepal, but the borders at south and south-east Nepal remained blocked.

Home Ministry spokesman Laxmi Dhakal said there were no problems in most of the border points but was un-able to explain why border officials on the Indian side were stopping trucks and then letting some pass.

The constitution divides Nepal into seven new states, with some borders slicing through the Madhesis’ ancestral homeland in the southern plains. The Madhesis, along with several other small ethnic groups, want the states to be larger and to be given more autonomy over lo-cal matters. Talks last week between the government and protesters made little progress.(ap)

BANGKOK — The lawyer defending two Myanmar migrants in the murders of two British tourists on a Thai resort island accused the police Monday of torturing his clients, beating them and threatening to “make them disappear” in order to extract confessions.

Allegations of police torture in this case, and in Thai-land in general, are not new, but in an interview with The Associated Press, defense lawyer Nakhon Chompuchat gave extensive details about the alleged intimidation, physical violence and threats his clients faced. The police have consistently denied they tortured the accused.

The trial in the murders of David Miller, 24, and Hannah Witheridge, 23, ended Sunday. Nakhon said the judge gave him and the prosecutor until Oct. 26 to deliver their closing statements before giving his verdict on Dec. 24.

The battered bodies of the couple were found Sept. 14 last year on the rocky shores of Koh Tao, a scenic island in the Gulf of Thailand known for its scuba div-ing. Autopsies showed that the young backpackers, who had met on the island while staying at the same hotel, both suffered severe head wounds and that Witheridge had been raped.

Two men from Myanmar, also known as Burma, working illegally on Koh Tao were arrested, and put on trial after they confessed. They later recanted their confessions.

Nakhon cited one of the defendants, Wai Phyo, as saying that police handcuffed him naked, took pictures of him and forced him to confess that he was the man caught on a closed-circuit television camera near the murder scene.

“He said that police officers flicked his genitals hard, pulled his legs apart and took photographs of him naked,” Nakhon said in a telephone interview. “They also kicked him in the back, punched him, slapped him, threatened to tie him to a rock and drop him in the sea, chop off his arms and legs, throw his body into the sea to feed the fish.”

He said the police told Wai Phyo: “’Those who don’t have passports don’t have rights. If they disappear, nobody would notice.’” Police linked Wai Phyo to the murders because of a phone that was found in the shrubs behind his room. (ap)

BERLIN — The German government says Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Turkey on Sunday for talks with the country’s leaders on terrorism, Syria and the migrant crisis.

Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said Monday that the chancellor will meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.

Seibert said the visit will focus on the countries’ “common fight against terrorism,” the situation in Syria and dealing with migrant crisis.

Germany and other European Union countries hope for help from Turkey to stem the influx of refugees and other migrants into EU member Greece. (ap)

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Nepal’s newly elected prime minister Khadga Prasad Oli and former prime minister Sushil Koirala shake hands after Oli administered the oath of office to at the Presidential building in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, Oct. 12, 2015.

Nepal’s new premier names protest group leaders as deputies

KATHMANDU — Nepal’s new prime minister took the oath of office Monday and appointed the leaders of groups that are protesting the new constitution as his deputies.

Defendants in tourist murders allege torture by Thai police

Germany’s Merkel to visit Turkey on Sunday

JAKARTA - Visiting Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak pledged Sunday to help Indonesia fight forest fires blanketing Southeast Asia in haze as foreign aircraft joined operations to douse the blazes.

Najib began a two-day visit by meeting President Joko Widodo at the state palace in Bogor, West Java, to discuss a range of issues including the palm oil industry, envi-ronmental cooperation and the smog.

The regional environmental crisis has caused flights and major events to be can-celled and forced tens of thousands of peo-ple in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore to seek treatment for respiratory problems.

“We consider the haze a serious issue

as it’s a burden to Malaysians and Indo-nesians,” Najib told reporters after the meeting.

“Malaysia is prepared to increase our assistance in dousing the fires. The areas affected are widespread so certainly the challenges are very big,” he said.

The blazes flare annually during the dry season as fires are illegally set to clear land for cultivation on Indonesia’s island of Sumatra and in the Indonesian portion of Borneo island.

National disaster mitigation agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said a Malaysian CL415 Bombardier capable of scooping up to six tonnes of water from

the sea, and a Singaporean Chinook heli-copter which can pour water from a huge hanging bucket, were among the 10 aircraft used for water-bombing in South Sumatra province.

A Lockheed L100 Hercules Air Tanker with a 15-tonne capacity is expected to ar-rive in the coming days, he added.

Jakarta has deployed about 25,000 personnel and aircraft but the firefighters have been overwhelmed by the extent of the blazes.

The Indonesian government for weeks insisted it did not need international help before finally agreeing to accept the offers from several countries. (afp)

Zainul Thahar, a spokesman for the National Search and Rescue Agency, said Monday that the Eurocopter EC-130 was on a chattered flight from Samosir island in Toba Lake to North Sumatra’s capital, Medan when it was reported missing Sunday about 17 minutes after takeoff. It was carrying two

crewmen and three passengers.He said about 200 people were taking part

Monday in a search for the chopper, belong-ing to PT Penerbangan Angkasa Semesta.

It was the second recent air accident in Indonesia. Earlier this month a DHC-6 Twin Otter plane crashed in eastern Indonesia,

killing all 10 people on board.Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago na-

tion of about 250 million people, has been plagued by transportation accidents in re-cent years, including plane and train crashes and ferry sinkings. The country’s airline market is expanding rapidly but struggles to obtain qualified pilots, mechanics and air traffic controllers, and modern airport technology. (ap)

JAKARTA - The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) strengthened exchange of information on climate and weather among Southeast Asian countries to anticipate disasters, such as hur-ricanes (tropical cyclones) caused by temperature fluctuations on the Earth’s surface.

“We will integrate the entire obser-vation system, through radar and satel-lites, either nationally, regionally, and globally. We will start from Southeast Asia. With this reinforcement, Indo-nesia can anticipate tropical cyclones quickly,” Head of BMKG Andi Eka Sakya stated on the sidelines of a joint workshop WMO Integrated Global Observation System (WIGOS) for Di-saster Risk Reduction on Monday.

According to Sakya, the cooperation will be preceded by an increase in the exchange of information regarding the climate and weather among the ASE-AN countries. The database is intended to strengthen disaster risk reduction in Southeast Asian countries.

“We have exchanged information on temperature, solar radiation, wind speed, air pressure, humidity, and rainfall. Now, we need information on satellite and radar imagery data regarding the movement of clouds in the region, “he revealed.

Furthermore, he pointed out that ra-dar and satellites were used to support disaster risk mitigation efforts.

Sakya noted that the workshop will help to build an understanding on the need for data and observation in South-east Asia characterized by a strong convective region. A convective region is usually characterized by temperature changes, which have a major role in creating a tropical cyclone.

“With the same climatic character-istics, Southeast Asian countries face similar hydrometeorological disasters, such as floods, hurricanes, tropical storms, droughts, or El Nino,” he pointed out.

“With the WIGOS, we can exchange information between countries in the region,” he affirmed.

He said that the exchange of infor-mation on the weather and climate in Southeast Asia should be conducted intensively.

However, the countries should agree on the policies relating to the exchange of information.

“The WIGOS is a tool, but it had yet to discuss the rules. There are several matters that need to be agreed,” he added. (ant)

BMKG intensifies efforts to anticipate hurricanes in Asean

Helicopter goes missing with 5 people aboard

JAKARTA — A helicopter carrying five people is missing in western In-donesia in the country’s latest air mishap.

Malaysian premier vows to help Indonesia combat haze

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Indonesia’s Presi-dent Joko Widodo (R) shakes hand with Malaysia’s Prime Min-ister Najib Razak at the Presi-dential Palace in Bogor, Indonesia’s West Java province, October 11, 2015, in this pic-ture taken by Antara Foto.

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BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday her government had no plans to impose a tax hike to cope with a record influx of asylum seekers, firmly de-nying reports that Berlin and the European Commission were mulling a special refugee solidarity levy.

In an interview to be published by Bild newspaper on Monday, the German leader was asked to confirm that there would be no tax hikes over the refugee crisis.

“Yes, affirmative,” she replied, adding that Germany has “managed our budget well in the last few years and our economy is in a good shape”.

The Sueddeutsche Zeitung had claimed in a report Saturday that Berlin and Brussels had discussed the possibility of raising funds to cope with Europe’s biggest refugee crisis through a special tax, which could take the form of higher levies on fuel or VAT.

But Berlin swiftly denied this, with government spokesman Steffen Seibert on Saturday saying: “We want neither a tax hike in Germany nor the introduction of an EU-tax.” On Sunday, a European Com-mission spokesman also rejected the claim, saying: “There is no such proposal currently on the table or under preparation and the Commission never comments on rumours in the press.” (afp)

“OPEC is confident that it will see a more balanced market in 2016,” Badri told an oil and gas conference in Kuwait City.

“In recent months, there has been a contraction in production from non-OPEC producers and an in-crease in global demand,” he said.

However, Badri also admitted that the “market remains oversup-plied”, and insisted that stability is paramount to the crude market which faced “extremely challeng-

ing times”.The OPEC chief said market

fundamentals did not support the sharp drop in oil prices which have fallen by almost 60 percent since June 2014.

Badri said that global demand for oil is forecast to rise to 110 mil-lion barrels per day by 2040 from 93 million bpd now.

“This requires investments of $10 trillion between now and then,” he said.

Earlier Sunday, Qatar’s Energy Ministry Mohammed bin Saleh al-Sada, who is acting OPEC presi-dent, said there were signs of an oil price rise next year, adding that the oil price has “bottomed out”.

He said world GDP growth in 2016 is slated to be 3.4 percent as against an expected 3.1 percent in 2015, and that this would result in an increase in global oil demand by 1.3 to 1.5 million bpd.

Growth in supplies from non-OPEC producers over the past five years has substantially reduced in 2015 and is likely to show zero to negative growth in 2016, the state-ment said.

Venezuela -- which has been try-ing hard to persuade oil producers to cut output to boost prices -- said Thursday a technical meeting of OPEC and other crude-producing countries would take place on October 21.

Badri on Sunday confirmed the meeting would take place at an ex-pert level and that OPEC and non-OPEC producers will attend.

He said the cartel was ready to cooperate with non-OPEC produc-ers to deal with the market glut if they show a similar desire.

There were no specific recom-mendations or proposals for the technical meeting, Badri said, but

“it will be a discussion to find a solution” for the oil market.

Badri said OPEC believes the current problem in the oil market has been created by all producers, but es-pecially by non-OPEC states which raised their production sharply.

“Non-OPEC increased their output by 6.0 million barrels per day in the past six years, and OPEC believes this is the reason for the glut in the oil market,” he said.

On Friday, oil edged up in New York and slipped in London as traders booked profits from the week’s rally fuelled by hopes for oversupply relief from lower US crude production. (afp)

OPEC chief confident of a balanced oil market in 2016

KUWAIT CITY - OPEC is confident that the oil market will be “more balanced” next year as non-OPEC production has contracted and global demand is increasing, the cartel’s secre-tary general Abdullah el-Badri said Sunday.

AP Photo/Markus Schreiber

Refugees enter a train to Munich at the train station of the south German border town Passau, Germany, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she doesn’t favor threatening other European Union nations in the migration crisis after her interior minister raised the idea of cutting EU funding to those that don’t take in refugees.

Merkel says no plans to raise taxes over refugee influx

According to a source at the prison, the incident was first noticed by Mone Jala, a fellow prisoner. At that time, the witness was behind the prison clinic to do cleanup. Around 3:30 p.m., the witness intended to call his friend to do cleanup behind the clinic. When arriving behind the clinic, the witness saw the victim hanging with a rope around his neck. The victim was found in the fence of the prison clinic. Initially the wit-ness called and threw small gravel at the victim, but he did not move. Seeing the condition, the witness reported the incident to his friends and prison officer.

Other than reporting to police, the victim had also been taken to San-glah Hospital in order to get post mortem treatment. No prison authority is giving official explanation related to the allegation of hanging case. (kmb27)

AMLAPURA - A few sad stories always adorn the mass media related to the existence of the Indonesian migrant worker (TKI) work-ing as domestic workers. This makes the Head of the Karangasem Manpower Agency, I Gusti Nyoman Arya Sulang, not long ago affirmed that his institution will not facilitate the delivery of domestic workers overseas to be housemaid. His institution will only give a recommendation for workers wishing to work in tourism sector such as migrant worker in cruise ship.

All this time, Arya Sulang had a pity to see the fate of the Indonesian migrant workers that work as domestic workers overseas. Many mi-grant workers receive torture, slander ending in death penalty and some others have not been paid for years. “So, the housemaids do not come back home with money, but their name only,” he explained.

He mentioned that many Indonesian migrant workers as housemaid faced bad experiences. Currently Arya Sulang stated that his institution will only give recommendations to the residents of Karangasem wishing to work overseas on cruise ships or tourism players.

In 2015, the data at the Karangasem Manpower Agency records that a total of 276 Karangasem residents are currently working overseas on a cruise ship and as tourism players. The data show

the great opportunity to work on cruise ships. The interest of Karangasem residents to work on cruise ship is increasingly higher. In addition, he also praised the apprenticeship program to Japan working in agriculture and livestock field. Cur-rently, through the coordination of Manpower Agency his institution departed 164 people to work in Japan. “If there are people wishing to join the apprenticeship program to Japan, we will fully support them,” he said.

Currently, the Karangasem Manpower Agency has worked with 12 Private Vocational Training Institutes (LPKS) engaged in the distribution of labor to cruise ship and other tourism sectors. There is always recruitment of new workers in the two fields every year. Nevertheless, he said that the workers delivered are not arbitrary. They really have skills and are capable of being professional in their workplace overseas. The competence is prepared by the Manpower Agency. Before de-parting, they must actually be selected in terms of their mental, ability, skills and attitudes.

To note, since 2006 there is no longer Karan-gasem residents working as domestic workers overseas. However, since then, the government of Karangasem has eyed the opportunities to work on cruise ships as well as tour guides. The manpower of Karangasem becomes the largest contributor to cruise ship. (kmb31)

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Hundreds of tourist took part in the canoe race held in Sanur Beach. The competition is held to promote Sanur as one of the tourist destination in Bali.

A Japanese prisoner reported to die of hanging

MANGUPURA - An inmate from Japan, Morita Yuki Bin Hironobu, was found dead hanging himself behind the clinic of the Kerobokan Prison, Sunday afternoon (Oct. 11). It is not known for sure the motif of the narcotic inmate to commit such an action. As information obtained, the 40-year old man was sentenced to 18 years and has been undergoing his punishment for one year, five months and 15 days.

Manpower Agency encourages workers to cruise ship

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The beautiful cruise ship that offers many job opportunities for the Balinese.

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Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said supplies, which were suspended in the spring, recommenced earlier after the company received $234 million out of a promised $500 mil-lion prepayment from Kiev.

The deal, which was signed last month with the help of the European Union, will ensure that Ukraine will receive Russian gas for six months through March 2016.

Past gas disputes between Russia and Ukraine have led to cutoffs of

supply. One standoff in 2009 caused serious disruptions in shipments EU countries in the dead of winter. Temperatures in Ukraine can drop to as cold as -4 degrees Fahrenheit (-20 degrees Celsius) in winter, and most homes in Ukraine rely on piped gas for central heating. Last winter, Russia and Ukraine struck an emergency deal on gas prices, but that expired.

EU-sponsored talks seeking a similar accord for the coming

winter began in March. Under the deal, Russia lowered the price it charged Ukraine to the same level granted to neighboring countries, from $251 per 1,000 cubic meters to about $230.

The European Commission has pledged at least $500 million of aid to Ukraine for the gas supplies.

Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and its support for separatist rebels in the east soured relations between the two countries. Ukraine has since been trying to cut its dependence on Russia gas, buying shipments from European nations which had bought it from Russia at a lower price.(ap)

TOKYO — Two more Japanese citizens are being held in China on suspicion of spying, bringing the total number of such cases to four, Japanese media reported.

Japan and China last month acknowledged that two Japanese had been arrested in May on suspected spying charges — one in Zhejiang province and the other near the North Korean border in Liaoning province. Japan’s Foreign Ministry on Monday declined to confirm or deny the reports.

The two earlier cases were the only ones linked to spying al-legations that the Japanese government was informed of, said Kazunari Kotake, an official at the ministry’s department in charge of the safety of overseas Japanese. The government has informed Japanese visitors in China to use extra caution, Kotake said.

Japan’s national broadcaster NHK said over the weekend that the cases involve a woman in her 50s, arrested in Shanghai, and a man in his 60s, arrested in Beijing, both in June.

China enacted an anti-spying law last November, in a move experts say to increase surveillance over foreigners’ activities in the country.

The four people had businesses in or connections with China and frequently visited the country, according to Japanese media reports.

In 2010, four employees of a Japanese construction company were accused of filming a Chinese military site in Hebei province but were released within weeks.(ap)

MANILA — The race for the Philippine presidency next year has begun with the country’s vice president being the first major contender to register his candidacy to lead one of Asia’s most unwieldy democracies.

Vice President Jejomar Binay filed his certificate of candidacy on Monday before Manila’s Commission on Elections with Sen. Gregorio Honasan as his vice presi-dential running mate. The ex-army officer

is best known for helping lead a number of failed coup attempts in the 1980s.

President Benigno Aquino III’s six-year term ends in June. At least two other key contenders, Sen. Grace Poe and Interior

Secretary Mar Roxas, are expected to reg-ister their candidacies this week.

Aside from the presidency, more than 18,000 congressional and local posts will be decided in the May 9 elections.(ap)

Filipinos begin race for presidency, 18,000 other offices

Report: 2 more Japanese held in China on spy allegations

AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko

Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga bows toward the Japanese national flag prior to a press confer-ence at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015.

AP Photo/Thierry Monasse

Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak, center, speaks with the media as he arrives in front of EU headquarters in Brussels on Friday, Sept. 25, 2015.

Russia resumes gas supply to Ukraine

MOSCOW — Russia’s gas monopoly Gazprom resumed supplies to Ukraine Monday, in a development that will help the country meet its energy needs through the harsh winter months.

NEGARA - Many subak organi-zations have not been able to grow rice this year to water shortages. However farmers at Subak Yehe-mbang managed to yield a greater harvest than in previous years and have already started to reap the profits of the crops that they grew on hundreds of hectares of land.

Farmer I Ketut Budra, said that this is the greatest yield that he has ever harvest in his career as a farmer, despite the extreme dry

season. For every 100 square meters of paddy field, he has been able to produce 100 kg of grain which is an increase of 20 kg from previous harvests.

Farmers have been able to yield 12 tons of rice per hectare of paddy field and sell it for IDR 5,000 per kg whereas the cost of production is just IDR 100,000 per 100 square meters, the allowing for profits that are four times the amount of production costs. However, famers

are still constrained by the fact that rural cooperatives and middlemen seldom buy their rice because of the lack of marketing. Also sometimes rice is harvested late which reduces the quality of the grain.

Conditions in the subak areas around Jembrana and Negara sub-district are different. Chief of the subak association of Jembrana subdistrict, I Ketut Jendra, said that the current drought has made farm-ers reluctant to cultivate their un-

productive paddy fields and many have converted their paddy fields or gardens into settlements.

According to Jendra, 28 subak areas including 16 irrigated-field subaks and 12 non-irrigated field subaks with a total area of 1,250 hectares have undergone significant land conversions. It is estimated that the remaining agricultural land only amounts to 800 hectares. Pre-viously, when irrigation water was is easily available, farmers could

plant and harvest twice a year. But during recent dry seasons,

the water discharge at the Jero Pengentuh, Gelar and Palungan Batu Dam has been so small that subak members are prohibited from demanding water. To overcome the water shortage, subak members have independently dug artesian wells and get assistance from the government in order to obtain water to irrigate their paddy fields. (kmb26)

It was presented by Operations Manager of the Tanah Lot attrac-tion, Ketut Toya Adnyana, Sunday (Oct. 11). “A total of 21 CCTVs are installed at some points,” he said. It includes the area of Batu Bolong, Enjung Galuh and

parking area. Though having been added, Toya acknowledged the number of existing CCTV is not adequate and only covers 80 percent of the points of Tanah Lot area. In the future, the company plans to add approximately 5-6

units of CCTV.To increase security level, the

Tanah Lot attraction does not only set more CCTVs but also increases lifeguard personnel. Currently, the Tanah Lot has 12 lifeguards. “In the past, we had only six lifeguards, but were then added to 12 lifeguards. The newly recruited lifeguards are still in training program,” he said. The lifeguard does not only monitor tourist activities on the shoreline but also responsible for conducting patrols along the shoreline of Tanah Lot spreading some three kilome-ters. Besides, the management also commissioned the lifeguard to pa-

trol along the beaches of Tabanan at least once in two weeks. There are also the addition of six lifeguards, recreation staff in charge of provid-ing information for visitors and a security guard.

Toya added that until October 7, the tourist visit has exceeded the target of 2015 where the domestic and foreign tourists visit to Tanah Lot attraction has reached 2,412,828 people. The target in 2015 amounts to 2,367,713 people. According to Toya, dominant contributor to the surge of travelers visiting Tanah Lot is foreign travelers, while domestic traveler decreases compared to the

same period last year. “Domestic tourist visits is predicted to decline due to natural conditions. One of which is the eruption of Mount Raung that could lead to delays in domestic flights few months ago,” he said.

Seeing the data of tourist visit, Toya is optimistic that until the end of the year the total tourists visiting Tanah Lot will be able to exceed the total visits in 2014 reaching 3,125,205 people. He said that such efforts are done by promoting maximum service and prioritizing comfort and security of visitors coming to Tanah Lot. (kmb24)

Farmers at Yehembang prosper while Jembrana suffers drought

The tourists are crowd-ed in Tanah Lot during

holiday season.

Tanah Lot management increases CCTV and lifeguard

TABANAN - Coastal areas of the Tanah Lot attraction is quite hazardous because it is cliffy and having huge waves with strong currents. Such condition makes it hazardous if travelers take pictures surpassing the security line specified by the manage-ment, especially on the cliff top or going down to the beach. To avoid travelers from drowning disaster, the management has set more CCTVs in the areas considered hazardous and increased the number of lifeguard personnel.

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GIANYAR - The habit that many people have of littering into the river is still a pervasive prob-lem that has yet to be eliminated. Rubbish even piles up at some points in the rivers of Gianyar, causing silting. Many fear that this will cause flooding during the rainy season.

The streams of Bunga River at Abianbase village for example ave become filled with garbage and run through residential areas as well the Gianyar Public Market. Piles of the rubbish can be found all over and at some points extreme silting has oc-curred in the Bunga River thanks

to people throwing their trash

in the river. The piles of trash and silt will cause the river to overflow when it rains.

The large amount of rubbish is also feared to have bad impact on the health of people living around the river. Similar conditions can be found in a number of other streams of other rivers in Gianyar. “If such conditions are left unchecked, it will obviously be very detrimental to residents. Moreover, the rainy season is arriving soon,” said the Head of the Gianyar Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP), Wayan Kujus Pawitra.

According to Pawitra, the gov-ernment of Gianyar has been hold-

ing cooperation activities that seek to clean up rivers and market areas throughout the territory of Gianyar, in anticipation of the rainy season and as a way to raise public aware-ness about the need to maintain sanitary conditions in and around the river. Especially for the DKP, this sanitation movement was also conducted at Tegal Tugu village with local residents.

“We do these cleanups of the rubbish and mud sediment that has settlled on the riverbed so that the river can function normally and the river water does not overflow when it rains,” he said.

Dewa Karya, from Kelod Kauh

hamlet, Abianbase, said that every home in Abianbase is required to have a trash bin. The rubbish stored in it will then be transported to Tem-esi landfill by the DKP officers. This is an effort on the part of local resi-dents to protect the environment, especially by keeping the rivers clean. However, these actions are not enough without people being aware of of the need to maintain a clean environment -especially the rivers.

“If the maintenance is only done by people downstream, while those in the upstream area still throw rubbish into the river, any program will be useless,” he said.

Regional Secretary of Gianyar, Ida Bagus Gaga Adi Saputra, said that the upcoming rainy season is particularly concerning for the government of Gianyar, as it will affect the sanitary conditions of the river and market. For this reason, all agencies are being instructed to conduct cleanups through mutual cooperation with the local com-munity in every village.

“Keeping the environment clean is not only the duty of the govern-ment, but also of the community. Mutual cooperation is an attempt to inspire people to participate in maintaining environmental sanita-tion,” he said. (kmb25)

The advisory council of the PHDI will use the study by Sugi Lanus as input for the Sabha Pandita of the PHDI. “We feature the Benoa Bay reclamation plan in the meeting because the problem is widely at issue in the community. However, the meeting of the advisory council is only providing considerations and is not coming to any decisions (whether rejects or supports the Benoa Bay reclamation plan—Ed). Hopefully, the decision made by the priesthood council (Sabha Pandita) will in fact consider Benoa Bay as a sacred zone. That would mean that it must be protected and may not be

tampered with,” said Chairman of Sabha Walaka of the Central PHDI, Putu Wirata Dwikora.

The study made by Sugi Lanus mentions that Benoa Bay area serves as a meeting point so that it is very much sanctified by the Hindus. Benoa Bay is also surrounded by at least 18 holy points or temples. In addition, this region is also recorded as the meeting point of physical and psychical realm of Tanjung Benoa, Jimbaran, Kelan, Tuban, Pesang-garan, Benoa, Serangan and Sanur. Moreover, there is a temple in the sea there called the Dalem Segara Temple.

“Elimination of the sacred spots there would be a problem, not the building of it. There are many holy points in the area, namely about 18 temples around the Benoa Bay. This must be considered,” said Sugi Lanus.

Converting irrigation channels for paddy fields and rivers into other uses in not permitted, nor is converting a bay, because it is con-sidered taboo in various manuscript sources. In the past, Balinese people were forbidden to live in the areas that are not supposed to, such as on reclaimed rivers or paddy fields.

“I do not recommend that people

live in areas of reclaimed river be-cause it is unhealthy even though contractors claim that there are rituals to change that et cetera. Basically, such actions go against nature because they stop the flow of water. Moreover, in a larger project, like the Benoa Bay there is also the meeting point of energies belonging to six streams. I’m afraid for people at the location because the psychical (niskala) impacts are mentioned in the manuscript so this is not recommended by all the ancient teachings,” he said.

This graduate of the Balinese Department at the Udayana Uni-versity added that many bays apart form Benoa Bay are also being targeted by investors for develop-ment, because of their beauty. These include: Pegatepan Bay, Terima

Bay and Sendang Bay in North Bali. If priests allow the conversion of the Benoa Bay, similar thing will also happen to the other bays. Sugi said that he cannot imagine what will happen if all the bays in Bali become be backfilled.

“Indeed in Bali all these areas are sacred. What needs to be fur-ther considered is their intrinsic value. Is spiritual value replace-able? I think Bali has been harmed enough, so the most important thing is to improve the quality of life for humans not just to expand developments. In principle, we have to think holistically, and not oversimplify things. We need to be careful because the situation in Bali is not the same as in Singapore. Here, the psychical factor accounts for 50 percent,” he said. (kmb32)

Benoa Bay is a sacred zoneDENPASAR - The Benoa Bay reclamation plan was discussed in a meeting held by the advisory

council or Sabha Walaka of the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI), on Sunday (Oct. 11). During the discussion, the study made by Dr. Sugi Lanus about Benoa Bay area as a sacred zone was a point of refference in addressing the issue of the reclamation plan.

The Benoa Bay reclamation plan was discussed in a meeting held by the advisory council or Sabha

Walaka of the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI),

on Sunday (Oct. 11). During the discussion, the study made by

Dr. Sugi Lanus about Benoa Bay area as a sacred zone was a point

of refference in addressing the issue of the reclamation plan.

Flood preventionCounty government focuses on waste management and river siltation

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MOSCOW — Nearly 30 years after a nuclear reactor caught fire and spewed a lethal cloud of ra-diation, some species of mammals are thriving in the zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a new study says.

The study, published in the jour-nal Current Biology, found that elk, deer, wild boar and wolves are abun-dant in the 2,160-square-kilometer (835-square-mile) Polesie reserve in Belarus, which was established after the 1986 disaster. More than 20,000 people once lived in what is

now the reserve.“We’re not saying radiation is

good for animals, but we are say-ing that human interference can be more harmful to certain animal populations than radiation,” said Jim Smith, an environmental scientist at Britain’s University of Portsmouth who led the study.

To track the mammals, research-ers used aerial surveys and examined animal tracks in the snow.

Smith and his team found there was no difference in the number of large mammals living in the Polesie

reserve and in other Belarusian nature reserves. The prevalence of wolves is seven times higher than in nearby non-contaminated nature reserves, which Smith attributed to the lack of hunting in contaminated areas.

Biologist Timothy Mousseau at the University of South Carolina said Smith’s research presents an overly optimistic view of the situa-tion around Chernobyl.

“There is no evidence to suggest this area is teeming with wildlife,” said Mousseau, whose research

has focused on how radiation has affected reptile, insect and small mammal populations. These animals have struggled to make a comeback in the wake of Chernobyl and have suffered from a range of nuclear-related diseases, according to Mous-seau’s research.

The mammals in Smith’s research are constantly dispersing and have high fertility rates, factors that could also explain a robust population of certain mammal species in the Pole-sie nature reserve.

The 1986 explosion and fire sent a

cloud of radiation drifting over much of Europe and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people. Along with the Belarusian Polesie preserve, a 2,600-square-kilometer (1,000-square-mile) “exclusion zone” was established in Ukraine around the plant. That zone is almost entirely abandoned except for about 200 mostly elderly people who returned to their homes. Some workers build-ing a protective shelter around the reactor and cleaning up the waste live in the zone, but only for two weeks at a time. (ap)

The particles in the atmo-spheric haze are actually red and gray, according to scientists. But the way the particles scatter blue light is what has everyone excited about the dwarf planet

orbiting on the far fringes of our solar system, a twilight zone known more formally as the Kuiper Belt.

“Who would have expected a blue sky in the Kuiper Belt? It’s

gorgeous,” Alan Stern, the prin-cipal scientist for New Horizons, said in a NASA release about the latest images.

The blue tint can help scientists understand the size and makeup

of the haze particles surrounding Pluto, where twilight constantly reigns given the 3.6 billion-mile distance between it and the sun.

Pluto’s high-alt i tude haze seems to be comparable to that of Saturn’s moon, Titan, according to NASA, and the result of interac-tion between molecules.

In another finding Thursday, scientists have uncovered numer-

ous ice patches on Pluto’s surface. The exposed water ice appears to be, mysteriously, red.

Scientists said they are uncer-tain why the ice appears in certain places at Pluto and not others.

Launched in 2006, New Ho-rizons is now 63 million miles beyond Pluto. Johns Hopkins Uni-versity in Maryland is operating the spacecraft for NASA. (ap)

Mammals thrive in Chernobyl exclusion zone

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This image released by NASA on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, shows Charon, in en-hanced color captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft just before closest approach on July 14, 2015. Massive canyons and fractures are clearly visible on Charon, which is more than half of Pluto’s size.

Blue sky and red ice at Pluto, NASA spacecraft discovers

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The sky over Pluto may not be sunny but it’s undoubtedly blue. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft discovered Pluto’s blue sky during the historic flyby of the icy dwarf planet in July. The images of Pluto’s atmospheric haze were beamed down last week and released by NASA on Thursday.

NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP

This July 14, 2015 photo released by NASA on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015 shows the atmosphere and surface features of Pluto, lit from behind by the sun. It was made 15 minutes after the New Horizons’ spacecraft’s closest approach.

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

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, deco-rations 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 umbrel-las soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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This data indicates that the major-ity of unemployed people in Bali are educated and have competences that should make them competitive on the job market and able to start their own businesses. Are these people unem-ployed because they are too selective in choosing jobs?

According to education observer Prof. Dr. Putu Rumawan Salain, the high unemployment rates amongst educated people is in fact because they are too selective in looking for work.

“Indeed, many college graduates in Bali are too selectively in looking for jobs. Also they tend not be very creative and innovative in creating jobs for themselves. Armed with the

knowledge that they have, they should be able to find opportunities base don their major. In many cases they have very little entrepreneurship,” he lamented.

Rumawan Salain who is also Chairman of the Denpasar Education Council added that the mentality of the majority of college graduates needs to be re-oriented so as to reduce unemployment rates. Many educated people tend to vie for positions as civil servants rather than want to work in the private sector or open their own businesses. “Actually, there are a very limited number of civil servant posi-tions available,” he said.

Apart from the issue of college

graduates only wanting to work as civil servants there is also the problem of higher education programs not being designed to fit with the needs of the job market. For example, the current job market requires engineers and the like, whereas most people are graduating form philosofically oriented programs. “There seems to be a disconnection between the needs of the job market and what people are studying,” he said.

According to Rumawan Salain, this phenomenon is not unique to Bali but is true all over Indonesia. Clearly Indonesia’s higher education needs to be re-formatted. Whereas previously higher education was geared towards producing thinkers, the job market now requires it to be refocused onto producing professionals.

He added that those who have already graduated from philosophy

oriented programs still have skills that make them competitive on the job market. They do however need to equip themselves with particular skills and expertise beyond their major in college. “Higher education institutions should be briefing their graduates about the need to acquire other skills, because these institutions are after all “producers” of prospective labour,” he said.

Similar opinions were also ex-pressed by education observer, I Putu Sarjana. While university graduates have learned a lot about their field of study, they often lack other skills. As a result the creativity and innovation required to start a business is not mani-fested. “This situation is exacerbated by the persistence of our society’s’ orientation toward formalistic and beaucratic job seeking. Many people think that employment means having

an office job with particular working hours, a uniform and a clear career path. Very few people are willing to develop their entrepreneurship,” he criticized.

In order to overcome this problem, their needs to be a shift in people’s way of thinking. and entrepreneur-ship needs to be developed. In this context, higher education should be less focused on scientific aptitudes. Students should also be provided with entrepreneurship skills.

“It is time to change the mindset that says that higher education is a way of getting a job into a mentality that says that higher education is a way to later be able to create job opportuni-ties. If this mindset can be successfully changed, I am optimistic that much tougher entrepreneurs will emerge from higher education institutions,” he said. (ian)

Since 2014, unemployed rates in Bali have been steadily declining and the gov-ernment predicts that it will continue to decrease in 2016.

As revealed in the drafting of the re-gional budget for 2016, the unemployment rate is estimated to reach between 1.77

percent to 1.82 percent a decline from the 1.85 percent to 1.90 for 2015. “We appreci-ate the decline in the unemployment rate of Bali,” said a member of the Golkar Faction at the Bali House of Representatives, I.B. Gede Udiyana, some time ago. However, he also questioned about the prediction for 2016 considering the current national and international economic slowdown.

Not withstanding the fact that the Bali

regional budget for 2016 shows a deficit. “Are we still optimistic about reaching the target amid the shocks of a declining global and national economic condition? What’s more the budget for 2016 already shows a deficit,” he explained.

Chairman of the PDI-P Faction of the Bali House of Representatives, Nyoman Parta, said that the Bali provincial govern-ment needs to make more revolutionary

efforts to reduce unemployment. Especially because most of the unemployed today are high school graduates. If they are not ready to work, the government should help finance their college education.

“The provincial government should also provide soft skill training so that high school graduates that do not want to go to college can become self-suficient,” he added. (rin)

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Job seekers are looking at the announce-ment board during a job fair. The majority of unemployed people in Bali are educated and have competences that should make them competitive on the job market and able to start their own businesses.

ACCOrDING to the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, the unemployment rate for Bali in February 2015 was 1.37 percent or 33,611 people. High school students make up 3.18 percent while university graduates make up 1.43 percent.

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The tourists brought flowers to lay at the monument and to offer prayers to the victims of the senseless attack that had a pro-found and lasting impact on the survivors, families, and friends of the victims.

“I have come here to offer my prayers as today, we commemo-rate with great sadness the tragic event that took place in Bali on October 12, 2002, killing 202 people, including 88 Australians,” said Steve Douglas, a tourist from Australia.

The attack was the worst ter-rorist incident in the history of Indonesia, with 202 civilians dead and more than 100 wounded, for which Jemaah Islamiya, an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist organiza-tion, was held responsible.

The attack in Bali’s crowded Kuta tourist district began with

a suicide bombing inside a tour-ist bar that funneled panicking victims into the street, exposing the crowd to the full blast of a car bomb parked next to the neighbor-ing Sari Club.

Douglas noted that besides offering prayers, his visit to the Ground Zero site was to pay his respects to the victims of the Bali bombing tragedy.

The 2002 bombings and the subsequent terrorist attacks have also brought Australia and Indo-nesia closer and strengthened their resolve to eradicate the threat of violent extremism in the region and globally.

Douglas affirmed on Monday that he had the opportunity to remember those who suffered and died, and his thoughts were with all who continue to grieve over the loss of their loved ones. (ant)

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LOS ANGELES — Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is asking Republican presiden-tial candidate Donald Trump to stop using the power ballad “Dream On” at campaign events.

Attorneys for Tyler sent a second cease-and-desist letter to Trump’s campaign com-mittee on Saturday.

The letter says that Trump does “not have our client’s permission to use ‘Dream On’” or any of Tyler’s other songs and that it “gives the false impression that he is

connected with or endorses Mr. Trump’s presidential bid.”

Tyler, who is a registered Republican, attended the GOP contenders’ first debate in August.

Attorney Dina LaPolt said in a statement that the letter is not a “political” or “personal issue with Mr. Trump,” but it’s one of permis-sion and copyright.

Representatives for Trump did not im-mediately respond to request for comment. (ap)

The PG-rated epic, sold as a Peter Pan origin story and a lav-ish visual feast, has had a bumpy ride from the beginning, starting when actress Rooney Mara, who is white, was cast as Tiger Lily, who is historically Native American. The film, starring Hugh Jackman and Garrett Hedlund, also had been pushed from July to October. It has not been well-received by critics, either.

“Pan” now ranks among 2015’s biggest flops, including “Fantas-tic Four” and “Tomorrowland.” International earnings don’t look promising either. The film brought in a weak $20.5 million. For com-parison, “The Martian” earned $58.1 million.

“This had a lot going against it,” said Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst for Rentrak.

He also believes competition in the family market from the Hallow-een-themed animated feature “Ho-tel Transylvania 2” hurt “Pan.”

“Family films always have an audience, but that audience is ex-tremely fickle and hard to please, just like the kids who go to these movies,” Dergarabedian said. “You just never know what’s going to resonate.”

Sony’s high-wire spectacle “The Walk” also stumbled in its first weekend in wide release, after debuting on IMAX screens last week. The tale of Philippe Petit’s tight-rope walk between the towers of the World Trade Center earned $3.7 million this weekend, bring-ing its total to $6.4 million. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in film directed by Robert Zemeckis.

Not all was bleak at the box of-

fice, though. Ridley Scott’s space adventure “The Martian” earned a solid $37 million in its second week in theaters, nabbing the top spot once more. Its domestic total now stands at $108.7 million.

“Hotel Transylvania 2” took second place in its third weekend with $20.3 million, bumping its total to $116.8 million. “Pan” came

in at No. 3.Nancy Meyers’ workplace com-

edy “The Intern” earned $8.7 million, and the border thriller “Sicario” brought in $7.4 million, rounding out the top five.

Outside the top 10, “Steve Jobs,” the biopic of the late Apple CEO directed by Danny Boyle and writ-ten by Aaron Sorkin, opened in

four theaters in New York and Los Angeles to a powerful $520,942. Its $130,000 per-theater average ranks as the best of the year and should bode well for the film’s expansion across the next two weeks.

“This is a movie everyone’s talk-ing about, and now they’re going to be talking about it even more,” Dergarabedian said. (ap)

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This photo provided by courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures shows, Rooney Mara, left, as Tiger Lily, and Levi Miller as Peter, in a scene from the film, “Pan.” The movie releases in U.S. the-aters on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015.

‘Pan’ lacks magic at the box office; ‘The Martian’ soars

LOS ANGELES — “Pan” produced no Neverland magic at the box office. The fantasy, which cost an estimated $150 mil-lion to produce, earned $15.5 million in its opening weekend, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday making it one of the worst bombs of the year. Early tracking did not look promising for the Joe Wright-directed film but still predicted that “Pan” would open at least in the $20 million range.

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BALI’S unemployment rate is relatively low with

just 33,611 out of a total work-f o r c e of 2.4 million who are without work. The government has attempted to facilitate employment by holding job fairs, however the number of applicants has been far less then expected.

“Bali has the lowest unemployment rate in Indonesia, and this is clearly due to the stability of our economy” said Acting Spokesman for Bali’s provincial government, I Ketut Teneng, recently in Denpasar.

Teneng explained that job fairs and train-ing have been provided through the Training Center (BLK) specifically aimed at absorbing high school and college graduates into the job market.

“We have been cooperating with various employers to facilitate this process,” said Teneng. However, as IGA Sudarsana, Head of the Bali Manpower Agency, the turn outs have been low. For example, only 1,500 job applicants showed up for a job fair held at the Ngurah Rai Stadium last August, whereas 6,5000 jobs were available.

“If all the job positions could be filled, that would be very good as it would reduce employ-ment rates. However for some reason, there has been very little interest in this program from unemployed people from all regions of Bali, even though the exact figures for Denpasar have yet to be tabulated, we know that people in Gianyar have not shown much interest,” he emphasized.

Sudarsana added that his agency is now looking into why it is that so few people have shown interest in here job fairs and job train-ing programs, to find out whether it is because

people do not want to work of it is for some other reason.

“Obviously, the unemployment rate is very low so it is hard to reduce it anymore, despite efforts on the part of county and municipal governments to have these jobs filled. We must think about this together,” he explained.

Sudarsana explained that the unemployment of high school graduates in Bali is 3.18 percent, while University Graduates have a 1.43 percent rate of unemployment.

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A Japanese prays during his visit to Bali bombing memorial on the 13th anniversary of the 2002 blasts that hit the Kuta district near Denpasar on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on October 12, 2015. The 2002 blasts, blamed on the militant Jemaah Islamiyah network linked to Al-Qaeda, tore apart a busy night club strip on the resort island of Bali killing 202 people, including 88 Australians.

Foreign tourists offer prayers at Bali Bomb Monument

MANGUPURA - Scores of foreign tourists offered prayers and flowers at the Bali Bomb Monument, known as “Ground Zero,” on Monday in memory of the victims of the October 12, 2002, explosion.

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