Authorities had closed the Ngu-rah Rai International Airport on the resort island late Tuesday due to a large ash cloud drifting from Mount Rinjani, an active volcano on the nearby island of Lombok. Two smaller airports on Lombok island and East Java were also shut.

“The (Bali) airport remains closed until 8.45 am (0045 GMT) tomorrow (Thursday). The wind has blown the volcanic ash towards Bali in such a way that it covers the sky around the airport, making con-ditions unsuitable for flying,” Bali airport official Yulfiadi told AFP.

Airport manager Trikora Harjo said 692 flights, including 320 international ones, were cancelled between Tuesday and Thursday. Yulfiadi said 106 were scrapped on Wednesday alone.

Australian airlines Virgin Austra-lia and Jetstar cancelled all Tuesday flights, deeming conditions unsafe for flying, with Virgin also scrap-ping its roster for Wednesday.

Thousands of stranded tourists

were seen sleeping and sitting around at the airport, but Harjo said “everything’s going smoothly”.

National Disaster Management Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said the wind was blow-ing the ash in the westerly direction towards Bali. “Seismic activity and eruptions of the volcano continue at a higher intensity,” he said.

“There was an eruption this morning, where the volcano spewed ash 1,500 metres to the sky,” he added. Ash from a different volcano -- Mount Raung on Indonesia’s main island of Java -- stranded thousands of passengers on Bali for days during the peak holiday season in July.

A G R I -CULTURAL sector in Bali s e e m i n g l y

continues to get troubles. Other

than hit by drought disaster causing farmers to cry out because of crop failure, pest attack also comes after another. As a result, the position of farmers is increasingly

pinched. The other problems are their difficulty to improve production and quality of agricultural products. To overcome these issues, provincial government of Bali as well as county/municipal government are expected to establish synergies with universities, particularly those having the Faculty of Agriculture in order to empower the agricultural sector of Bali.

“In my opinion, synergy with the

universities is very urgent to em-power the agricultural sector,” said Deputy Chairman of Commission IV of the Bali House of Representa-tives, Ketut Kariyasa Adnyana.

According to this bachelor of agriculture graduating from the Udayana University, the synergy between local government and uni-versities is absolute. So, to make a binding synergy, both parties need

to sign a kind of memorandum of understanding (MoU) equipped with clauses on the obligations and responsibilities to be implemented by both parties. For example, universities have the obligation to carry out applicable research to resolve agricultural problems in Bali including the eradication of pests attacking crops, while local governments have the obligation to

disseminate and apply the results of research to farmers.

“In this context, local govern-ments surely have the obligation to provide a budget to support the implementation of research con-ducted by the universities,” said Kariyasa Adnyana.

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Man City beats Sevilla 3-1 to advance in Champions League

NEW YORK — Duets will take center stage at the American Music Awards. Luke Bryan will perform “Home Alone Tonight” with Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild, while Meghan Trainor will sing “Marvin Gaye” with Charlie Puth at the Nov. 22 show at the Microsoft The-ater in Los Angeles. Trainor will also sing her hit single “Like I’m Gonna Lose You.”

Jennifer Lopez will host the fan-voted show, to air live on ABC. Previously announced performers include One Direction, Carrie Underwood, Selena Gomez, Nick Jonas, 5 Seconds of Summer, Demi Lovato and Walk the Moon.

Taylor Swift has a leading six nominations, while Ed Sheeran and the Weekend are up for five awards each.

Trainor, Sam Smith, Nicki Minaj, Sam Hunt and Walk the Moon are nominated for three awards apiece. (ap)

The answer kicking off the lat-est James Bond film, “Spectre,” is a doozy. Beginning with the words “the dead are alive” across the screen, director Sam Mendes opens on a long shot through the Day of the Dead in Mexico City, tracking Bond (Daniel Craig), masked but unmissable in a skeleton costume, through the fes-tive throngs. He ushers a woman (Stephanie Sigman) out of the masses and into her bed, only to disrobe into a suit, step out the window and stride down the ledge. Finally spying his real prey, explosions follow, walls collapse and the resulting chase spins into a helicopter careening over a mobbed Zocalo Square.

It’s a sequence of such startling audacity (some 1,500 extra were used) and gorgeous black-on-sepia tones that a nagging desire to hit “rewind” persists through the rest of “Spectre.” Handsome and riveting as it often is, the film never again reaches such heights.

“Spectre” is Craig’s fourth Bond movie and his muscular tenure has been defined not just by his full embodiment of the character, but his overall stewardship. His ability to attract top-notch talent, in front and behind the camera, and to imbue the spy series with a seriousness of pur-pose reads in every frame.

Having ushered 007 through the Eva Green highs of “Casino Royale,” the overwrought lows of “Quantum of Solace” and the climactic extrava-gance of “Skyfall,” ‘’Spectre” finds Craig’s Bond pursuing the video-taped orders of Judi Dench’s late M in a more traditional 007 plot. Her instructions lead him to a shadowy international criminal organization led by a longtime Bond villain, Franz Oberhauser (Christoph Waltz).

The pursuit skirts the snowy

peaks of Austria, the cloak-and-danger cobblestones of Rome and the Mediterranean maze of Tangier, with enough corresponding outfit changes to stock a runway show. Bond is operating outside of MI5, where new head Max Denbigh (Andrew Scott) is overhauling the intelligence services with digital surveillance that he says will render the old-fashioned 00 program obsolete.

The surveillance reference is a mostly shallow attempt at political depth. But such self-aware conflicts between new and old now constantly bounce throughout Bond films. The mythology, fearful of showing its age, is perpetually torn down and built back up again like an ever-rebooting superhero. “Spectre,” scripted by John Logan, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, feels more like the latter. For the first time, all of Craig’s reinven-tion hasn’t carried Bond all that much further than where the spy always was — especially when it comes to the women that adorn “Spectre.”

First there’s Monica Belluci as the widow of the man Bond kills in Mexico City. He sleeps with her after picking her up at the funeral. She’s quickly dispatched for Madeleine Swann (Lea Seydoux), whose family connections bring Bond closer to the elusive Oberhauser.

Seydoux, the French actress of “Blue is the Warmest Color,” gives the film a jolt, but the romance between Swann and Bond is slight and the character is little more than Bond’s usual love interest. That said, the seductive Seydoux and the sinewy Craig make an attractive pair. When they eventually arrive at a remote Sahara outpost, they could really just stay there, handsomely smoldering in the dry heat like a Hemingway couple. (ap)

‘Spectre’ stirs, doesn’t shake old Bond formulas

Where to go when 53 years of action-scene set pieces have exhausted seemingly every exotic corner of the Earth? How much globe can a globe-trotter trot?

Jonathan Olley

In this image released by

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Columbia Pictures/EON Productions, Daniel Craig, left, and Lea

Seydoux appear in a scene from the James Bond

film, “Spec-tre.” The movie releases in U.S.

theaters on Nov. 6, 2015.

Luke Bryan, Meghan Trainor set for American

Music Awards

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Closure of Bali airport extends to Thursday

DENPASAR - Indonesia will extend the closure of Bali’s international airport to Thursday due to ash from a nearby erupting volcano, officials said Wednesday, grounding hun-dreds of flights.

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Volcanic ash billows from the crater of Mount Rinjani which is photographed from East Lombok, Indonesia, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015. Thousands of tourists are stranded on three Indonesian islands after ash from the Mount Rinjani volcano forced the closure of airports and blanketed villages and farmlands.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

The restaurant offers a remarkably cool atmosphere because it is perched in the middle of green paddy fields entertained by the sounds of beautiful nature.

Once tried, you will definitely get ad-dicted. Friendly services inspired by the values of Balinese culture will be able to create a cozy atmosphere, so that you will like eating and lingering at the Umanyar Restaurant and Agrotourism. Moreover, when having meals with the beloved one, friends or family in the afternoon you will be presented with a beautiful sunset view. The amazing yellow, red and orange colors in the west horizon slowly sinking into the trees and green paddy will create memories of its own.

The Pork Rib flagship menu a là Uman-yar is very tasty. It has advantages in the preparation process made in three times of cooking. First of all, it is soaked in Balinese seasoning, boiled with special seasoning and then grilled with rubbed seasoning. Later in the presentation, it is also served with seasoning. Thus, it offers a very characteristic flavor that will be suitable for both local and foreign tongue.

Another special menu is no less deli-cious, namely gourami served with torch ginger condiment offering a unique flavor. It uses very special hand-made coconut oil

prepared by local community. Kaffir lime freshly picked from local garden also sup-ports the delicious flavor. Other menus are gourami with coconut milk, barong goura-mi, spiced tilapia and gourami served with plecing condiment. “Foreign travelers are very fond of this cuisine,” said A.A. Istri Agung Mahadewi, the owner.

The vegetables served are also very dis-tinctive. Although they are the same as the vegetables in general, with refined spices and typical method of cooking they can offer different taste. They are the Roroban Jukut Paku, Serombotan, Plecing, Sambel Tuwung and Jukut Urab. There are also sop ayam jejeruk and gourami soup tasting good and preferred by travelers. “Our rib soup is a perfect combination of Balinese and Chinese cuisine with the presence of star anise and cloves,” added the graduate of the Food Crop Studies.

Other than food, the Umanyar Restau-rant and Agrotourism opened every day from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. also provides a variety of classical drinks. The drinks are made by in-house processing and take advantage of ingredients picked from the garden of local community. There are some 15 types of drink such as the es rujak bir, daluman, es campur kenyem manis and es cincau.

The restaurant lies in the middle of the

lotus pond and surrounded by paddy fields with plants adapted to local subak planting rotation. Sometimes, they are planted with corn, garden balsam and paddy. This restau-rant is also equipped with facilities like ga-

zebo, meeting room, fishing pond and stage. “The types of plant are always changing in conformity with the rules of subak. We are also members of the subak so that we must obey it,” said Mahadewi. (kmb)

Umanyar Restaurant and AgrotourismMANGUPUrA - Have you got a fantastic place to eat? If you have not, simply

try to come to the Umanyar restaurant and Agrotourism on Jalan raya Sibang Gede - Angantaka, Sibang Gede, Abiansemal. various menus served are very tasty and delicious and without the use of MSG.

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Now, farmers very much hope the help of local government. Moreover, the subak is located just a few meters in front of the Tampaksiring Presi-dential Palace, so that the overlay of paddy fields at the location has become a decoration before entering the palace.

As seen at Subak Saraseda of Tampaksiring village, the overlay of paddy field is dry as well as the land turns white and cracks. Paddy plants also look yellow because it never gets water and they mostly have died. “Paddy plants at Subak Saraseda are dominantly three months old, but since they are never exposed to water from the beginning they wrinkled and even died because they cannot grow,” said chief of Subak Saraseda, I Wayan Gerandung.

He stated that such dry condition

is experienced by the entire area of Subak Saraseda, reaching 20 hectares. Wayan Gerandung explained that such condition occurs due to lack of water from the springs at Pura Galiran, Manukaya Tampaksiring. “Due to prolonged dry season this year, water discharge at Pura Galiran continues to shrink. As a result, three subak areas namely the Subak Saraseda, Subak Bangketan at Manukaya Anyar village and Subak Manukaya Let relying on water irrigation are currently experi-encing drought,” he explained.

When asked about the presence of springs at Pura Tirta Empul, Wayan Gerandung said the water from the temple becoming a tourist attraction only irrigates the area of Subak Pu-lagan to the south. Subak Saraseda is located higher so that it cannot take advantage of the water source.

“Water resource of the three subak areas is experiencing drought, and now only relies on the springs at Pura Galiran,” he said.

He confirmed that a number of farmers at Subak Sareseda will ex-perience crop failure this year due to the lack of water. Currently he can only hope that the long dry season can soon end and it will rain. “If the dry season does not prolong like this, we should have harvested in next 15 days. Now, all the paddy plants do not bear fruits and farmers at this subak area suffer losses,” he complained.

Now, he is just hoping that local government can provide compensa-tion for farmers experiencing harvest failure. Moreover, Subak Saraseda is located just a few meters from the front of the Tampaksiring Presidential Pal-ace. “Yes… if possible, we hope local government can provide us assistance. Moreover, all this time the overlay of our paddy fields has become a verdant decoration before entering the presi-dential palace because it is adjacent,” he concluded. (kmb35)

According to Kariyasa Ad-nyana, both local governments and universities have actually been moving in order to em-power the agricultural sector in Bali. Unfortunately, both im-portant components supporting the successful development of agriculture seem to run inde-pendently so that the outcome is never optimal. Actually if the great potential owned by both parties can be synergized, there is great hope if it can create bet-ter condition for the agricultural development in Bali.

“As academician, the expert at universities is continuously making a research in the field of agriculture but rarely ap-plied in the community. On the other hand, local governments are rarely willing to exploit the results of research to improve the productivity of farmers in Bali. This happens because both parties have no coordination and communication or move on their own,” he deplored.

When contacted separately, a researcher and agricultural analyst of the Udayana Uni-versity, Dr. GN Alit Susanta Wirya, acknowledged that higher education institutions in Bali continuously carry out techno-logical research and develop-

ment activities because they are requirements of the three tasks of the higher education. Various studies are also conducted in the field of agriculture. Most of the research products are applicable so that they can be taken advan-tage by farmers to increase their agricultural production. Unfor-tunately, only some few results of the research are disseminated to farmers so that they cannot be utilized optimally to resolve the problems they face. “We also hope there will be synergy between local governments and universities,” he said.

He did not dismiss that syn-ergy between researchers and local governments to apply the results of research directly by farmer remains low. As a result, a lot of applicable and helpful research results to increase the productivity of their agricultural products are only on display in library.

“As researchers, we actually have an interest that the results of research made with great dif-ficulty can be adopted by farm-ers. Of course, here we need the participation of local government to disseminate and apply the re-sults of the research to farmers,” he said while adding that utiliza-tion of the results of research by universities can become one of the breakthroughs to boost the agricultural sector currently in sluggish condition. (ian)

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Kariyasa Adnyana

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Some hectares of farm land at Subak Saraseda, Tampaksiring village, are confirmed to experience crop failure due to drought. This condition has taken place due to lack of water discharge from springs at Manukaya village since three months ago.

Drought for three months

Subak in front of Tampaksiring Palace

fails to harvestGIANyAr - Some hectares of farm land at Subak Saraseda,

Tampaksiring village, are confirmed to experience crop failure due to drought. This condition has taken place due to lack of water discharge from springs at Manukaya village since three months ago.

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She giggles as the aerobics in-structor shouts -- “Swagger! Like you are going to meet someone famous!” -- then she and a dozen seniors throw shoulders back, lift their knees high and strut around the exercise studio.

Abbott is what scientists refer to as a “super-ager,” and she is taking part in a $3.2 million study that aims to uncover the secrets to staying sharp and healthy into old age.

While some hunt for medications to treat or prevent dementia, others, like University of Miami neuropsy-

chologist David Loewenstein, are interested in why some people are spared altogether.

“I study Alzheimer’s disease, but if we want to unlock the mysteries of the brain we also have to know why some people age successfully,” said Loewenstein.

The five-year study funded by the National Institutes of Health is open to people age 63 to 100 who have not been diagnosed with de-mentia, and who are either in good mental shape or have early signs of memory failure, known as mild cognitive decline.

Loewenstein is particularly in-trigued with how some people seem to be able to fend off memory loss, whether by genetic, environmental or other means.

He cites studies involving autopsies on people 85 and above -- a population in which about one in three suffers from dementia.

Nearly another third of this age group have post-mortems that reveal significant hallmarks of dementia -- known as plaques and tangles in the brain -- but seemed just fine while alive.

“How can people function at these higher levels? Science has not been able to answer that,” said Loewenstein.

“And that is what we are trying to figure out.”

Of the 100 people enrolled in Loewenstein’s study so far, more than 40 live at East Ridge, a re-tirement village that resembles a typical suburban neighborhood in south Florida, with wild pea-cocks roaming beneath the palm trees, people driving around the manicured grounds on golf carts, and rows of single-story homes divided into multiple apartment units.

Such tranquility does not come cheap. Residents must pay $111,000 up front, then a monthly rent of $2,700 or more, depending on the size of their living space.

Soon after arriving seven years

ago, Gwen North, a retired kinder-garten teacher who appears decades younger than her age of 85, took on the responsibility of running the thrift store.

“I work probably six days a week,” she said, happily.

At age 86, her husband Art is known as the go-to-guy around town -- perpetually ready to chat, share information, or fix electronics that have broken.

Art and Gwen have already taken memory tests and are giving samples of their spinal fluid so that it can be studied for the earliest biological markers of aging. They have even arranged to donate their brains for further study after they die. (afp)

‘Super-agers’ study may reveal secrets to staying young

RIO DE JANEIRO - Once taboo, cosmetic surgery for Brazilian men is advancing at a rapid pace, with one male going under the knife every two minutes, experts said in an article Sunday.

Plastic surgery quadrupled among men from 72,000 to 276,000 opera-tions annually from 2009 to 2014, a study by the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery said.

That’s an average of 31.5 opera-tions per hour, according to an article on the study in the newspaper Estado de Sao Paulo.

The main reason for the change is cultural, with a lowering of bias against men undergoing these procedures, S.P Luiz Henrique Ishida, director of SBCP, told Estado.

“Additionally, in Brazil, cosmetic surgery is seen as a popular process and the country is a world leader in this field,” he added.

Last year, 712,902 cosmetic pro-cedures were performed across the country, with participation by men climbing from 12 percent of the total in 2009 to 22.5 percent in 2014.

The most popular operation for males is breast reduction with 80 percent of surgeries performed on adolescents, followed by liposuction and eyelid procedures, according to SBCP.

Most patients are between the age of 20 and 50, but a larger portion of seniors still in the workforce may be contributing to the rise.

“A tired look is seen as a negative thing in the labor market,” said the director of SBCP, which comprises some 5,800 surgeons.

“There are patients who are 70 who have operations because they have an active social life or to appear more compatible with their partner” who is younger, he said. (afp)

MIAMI - Mary Helen Abbott, 77, paints her lips bright pink, still smokes the occasional cigarette, keeps up on all the gossip at the retirement home and wears a short skirt to fitness class.

One cosmetic surgery every two minutes for Brazil men

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Once taboo, cosmetic surgery for Brazilian men is advancing at a rapid pace, with one male going under the knife every two minutes, experts said in an article Sunday.

Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, known in India as “Chotta Rajan,” has been on Interpol’s most wanted list for two decades. He was ar-rested Oct. 25 when he arrived at Bali’s airport from Sydney.

He was to have been deported Tuesday night from Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport.

Police Maj. Pande Sugiarta said the deportation was delayed until

Wednesday because of volcanic ash spewing from Mount Rinjan on nearby Lombok Island.

Nikalje, who was carrying a passport with the alias Mohan Kumar, was arrested based on a notice from Interpol and following a tip from Australian authorities in Canberra, police said.

Nikalje, 56, told Indonesian police that he had been hiding in

Australia for seven years and flew to Bali for a vacation.

Indian Interpol officials ac-companied by diplomats from the Indian Consulate in Denpasar investigated Nikalje and arranged his deportation.

Indian media have reported that Nikalje was accused of involvement in several mafia killings and other crimes in his homeland.

Bali police spokesman Col. Heri Wiyanto said Nikalje had refused to answer all questions about his alleged crimes. (ap)

AMLAPURA - Declaration of Bugbug village into the Globally Im-portant Agriculture Heritage System (GIAHS) of the FAO seems increas-ingly to become a reality. Bugbug village is eyed on by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as having unique regional character-istic. As one of the old villages in Bali, so far it is able to preserve the nyegara-gunung or seaward-moun-tainward farming concept based on the Tri Hita Karana.

As the part of the GIAHS site as-sessment, the FAO team eventually came down to location to Bugbug village, last weekend.

The Head of the Karangasem De-velopment Planning Board (Bappe-da), I Ketut Sedana Mertha, said that the GIAHS team of the FAO based in Rome, Italy was led by Dr. Na-gata accompanied by Prof. Dr. Hadi Susilo Arifin (a lecturer of the Bogor Agricultural University) and a lec-turer of the Faculty of Agriculture, Udayana University. The team came to Bugbug village to make an assess-ment as a follow up of the proposal submitted by the GIAHS Indonesia delegation team to the Secretariat of the FAO in Rome.

To note, the determination of Bug-bug village as a GIAHS model in In-donesia because it has regional char-acteristic that may be the only one in Indonesia. At that time, based on the assessment results by the IPB Bogor, the existence of agricultural system at Bugbug village is very complete. Among others, there are irrigated or paddy field agriculture with its subak organization, non-irrigated ag-riculture or plantation, farm, marine activities with its fishermen group as well as the unique and very powerful customary village because Bugbug village as one of the old villages in Bali still preserves various traditional and customary activities.

“The nyegara-gunung agricultur-al concept based on Tri Hita Karana

stays to be preserved and imple-mented at Bugbug. It is inseparable from the endeavor of local residents to include it in the protection of local customary village,” affirmed Sedana Merta. Dr. Nagata through Dr. Hadi Susilo delivered that other than the assessment of GIAHS location at Bugbug village, the FAO GIAHS team also conducted an assessment to Seraya village being famous for its corn cultivation and Sibetan vil-lage with its snakefruit orchard and panoramic view of paddy fields.

Results of this assessment will be utilized as reference to make perfect the GIAHS reconstruction proposed

by Karangasem. Furthermore, the proposal will be proposed back to the FAO in Rome.

“After that, the FAO Secretariat will establish a steering committee consisting of three countries and scientist group of three people that will make a decision on the determi-nation,” said Dr. Hadi Susilo.

Regional Secretary of Karan-gasem, Adnya Mulyadi, said that after determining Bugbug village as a candidate location of the GIAHS, some local government programs have been implemented such as the construction and improvement of ag-ricultural infrastructure, institutional

strengthening of local farmer groups, subak and fishermen, improvement of farmer resources through counseling and provision of agricultural financ-ing through grants and loans.

Besides, it also helps the market-ing through cooperatives. Another is through regulation, namely by controlling land conversion through the making of Regional Bylaw (Perda) on Determination of Ev-ergreen Paddy Fields and Sustain-able Food Agricultural Land. With this effort, Karangasem hopes that Bugbug village can be designated as the FAO GIAHS.

Before the arrival of the FAO GI-

AHS assessment team, the FAO team already visited Bugbug village on November 21, 2014, after the Deputy for Community Empowerment Af-fairs of the Ministry of Human De-velopment and Cultural Affairs filed Bugbug village as one of the models for Natural Resources Management Based on Community Empowerment or the FAO GIAHS.

The Regent of Karangasem at that time, I Wayan Geredeg, already flew to Rome on July 7-12, 2015 to meet the invitation of the FAO to describe about the conditions of Bugbug village in the initiation of the FAO GIAHS. (kmb31)

Deportation of Indian fugitive delayed

AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati

Indian fugitive Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, known in India as “Chotta Rajan,” left, is escorted by plain-clothed police offi-cers for questioning in Bali, Indonesia, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015. The deportation of an alleged Indian crime boss being held on Indonesia’s Bali Island was delayed Tuesday by the closure of the airport because of volcanic ash, police said.

DENPASAR — The deportation of an alleged Indian crime boss being held on Indonesia’s Bali Island was delayed Tuesday by the closure of the airport because of volcanic ash, police said.

Bugbug village draws attention of FAO

IBP/Bagiarta

Bugbug village is eyed on by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as having unique regional haracteristic. As one of the old villages in Bali, so far it is able to preserve the nyegara-gunung or seaward-mountainward farming concept based on the Tri Hita Karana.

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As a result, a joint statement was canceled. Both host Malaysia and U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter discounted the significance of the failure, which reflected a split with China and other Asian nations over the South China Sea issue.

“I had no expectation there would be agreement,” Carter told a news conference, adding that the important point was that the South China Sea was a “persistent topic” of the conference. “Everybody raised it,” he said.

Carter defended U.S. Navy pa-trols in the contested waters that China objects to, saying the U.S. has been sailing in the South China Sea for decades to the benefit of regional security and economic prosperity. He said he planned to go aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt transiting the South China Sea on Thursday, accompanied by his Malaysian counterpart, Hisham-muddin Hussein, as a symbol of the United States’ commitment to promoting stability and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region.

What’s new and problematic, Carter said, is China’s land recla-mation and militarization of reefs and islets.

“What we sign on the joint dec-laration is not going to resolve the issue of duplicating claims nor is it going to wish vessels that are in the South China Sea away,” Hisham-

muddin said.He said that “our concerns are

more real ... unintended accidents at the high sea, which can spiral into something worse and that we must avoid.” The Southeast Asian group-ing will continue to engage China and the U.S. to ensure peace and stability in the region, he said.

Singapore Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen said that the dispute over the joint declaration was due to “differences in phrasing and interpretation.” But he said “all countries agreed on the freedom of navigation and all countries accepted international laws and norms.”

In a statement issued by the host country, Malaysia said the meeting noted the importance of the early conclusion of the code of conduct in the South China Sea — a set of rules meant to govern behavior in the disputed waters — “in order to build mutual trust and confidence, and maintain peace, security and stability in the region.” China has so far dragged its feet in conclud-ing discussions on the code of conduct.

American officials traveling with Carter said that China, which like the United States is not a member of the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations but was attending the defense ministers’ meeting as an invited partner, was

adamant that the meeting’s final public statement omit any men-tion of the South China Sea. The Americans argued that it would be better to make no joint statement at all rather than issue one that omitted mention of the contentious South China Sea issue.

China’s claims in the South China Sea are disputed by several countries in the region, including

Malaysia.At his news conference, Carter

was asked about his meeting Tues-day with Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan, where Chang told Carter that there is a “bottom line” to China’s patience with challenges to its territorial claims in the South China Sea.

Carter noted that in a September visit to the White House, Chinese

President Xi Jinping said he has no intention of pursuing militarization of the artificial islands his country is creating in the South China Sea.

“That’s the fundamental point,” Carter said, indicating the U.S. in-tends to hold Xi to his word. “We all must mean what we say,” he said. Carter said he has accepted an invitation by China to visit Beijing next spring. (ap)

BUCHAREST, Romania — Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced the resignation of his government Wednesday follow-ing huge protests in the wake of a nightclub fire that killed more than 30 people.

“I’m handing in my mandate, I’m resigning, and implicitly my government too,” Ponta said in a statement. He said he would stay on until a new government is in place.

“I am obliged to take note of the legitimate grievances which exist in society,” said Ponta. “I hope hand-ing in my and my government’s mandate will satisfy the demands of protesters.”

President Klaus Iohannis will name a prime minister to form a

new government, which needs to be approved by Parliament. If this fails twice, early elections will be called. Romania is scheduled to hold parliamentary elections in December 2016.

The mayor of the district in the Romanian capital where the night-club is located, Cristian Popescu Piedone, also resigned Wednesday, saying he is morally guilty for the deadliest fire in Romania’s his-tory.

Piedone said: “I assume the moral blame. As for the legal (blame) I will leave it to justice to pronounce.” He came under pres-sure to step down following mass protests through the city Tuesday night, with more than 20,000 dem-onstrators blaming widespread

corruption for the deadly blaze on Friday night.

Witnesses said the fire broke out during a heavy-metal concert in the basement club when a spark ignited foam decor, sending pan-icked people stampeding for the single exit. The death toll stands at 32, with some 130 still hospitalized, dozens of them in serious or critical condition.

Deputy leader of the opposition Liberal Party, Catalin Predoiu, hailed the resignations. “This is a victory of the street. It is a lesson for all politicians,” he said.

Thousands took to the streets the night before in a spontaneous protest calling for the resignation of Ponta, Interior Minister Gabriel Oprea and Piedone.(ap)

Romanian government resigns following protests

AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda

Romanians fill the Calea Victoriei, a main avenue of the Ro-manian capital, during a large protest in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015.

China sea tensions stop joint statement at Asia defense meet

KUALA LUMPUR — Divisions within Asia over China’s claims in the disputed South China Sea spilled over Wednesday to a meeting of U.S. and Asian defense ministers, where China insisted the group make no public mention of the strategic waters in a joint declaration intended as a public display of unity.

AP Photo/Andy Wong

A worker is silhouetted as he cleans a window near mannequins on display at a shopping mall in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015.

NEGARA - Trucks carrying fish in some road sections at Pengambengan is complained and protested again by residents. Fish transporting trucks have made the roads slippery and often claim casualties. “I have fallen down for several times due to slippery road especially when cornering,” said Imam, one of the residents, Monday afternoon (Nov. 2).

It is said the trucks transporting fish without lining tarp causes water and oil to drip onto the road. Ultimately this condition makes the road slippery and prone to accidents. The issue has not got any solution for long time. Residents hope there will be a solution so that the road will be safer.

The Head of the Jembrana Trans-portation Agency, IGN Putra Riyadi, said on Tuesday (Nov. 3) that he has had time to gather entrepreneurs from Pengambengan and asked for their commitment to keeping the conve-nience of residents while delivering fish to factory. “Later we will make a raid and disseminate an appeal so that the trucks look for solutions and the water of fish will no longer splat-ter onto the roads. Besides, we hope the trucks do not exceed the capacity when transporting fish,” said Putra Ri-yadi accompanied by his staff, Wayan Sujana.

Previously, the Group Head of Pengambengan Fish Carrier who is also Chairman of the BPD Pengam-bengan, H. Yahya, said his group has consulted to road transportation agency related to the problem. He said the solution was to install a tarp. But the problem is that the tarp is torn when arriving at factory as it is drawn with hook. “Indeed, the cost does not cover,” he explained.

He said it is a dilemma because if they are cracked down on and prohibited, they will strike so that the fish will not be transported to factory and all parties will lose. His group is said to still be trying to find a solution. When installing fiber or fish box, the fish cannot be withdrawn.

Until now, he said there are 30 active trucks transporting fish to factories. Previously, the Head of the Jembrana Marine, Fisheries and For-estry Agency, Made Maharimbawa, already warned the truck drivers and employers at Pengambengan.

The agency even threatened if they are stubborn and the problems are not addressed, the route permit of carrying fish for the truck in the minapolitan core area of Pengambengan village will be revoked. The trucks have caused the road slippery so that it often leads to accidents. (kmb)

The regional botanical garden to be built is named the Jagatnatha Botanical Garden. Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of the botanical garden development was carried out by Regent I Putu Artha and the Head of the LIPI Iskandar Zulkarnain, Mon-day (Nov. 2) at Wisma Wijah Loka of the Eka Karya Botanical Garden Tabanan witnessed by Deputy Re-gent of Jembrana Made Kembang Hartawan, a number of LIPI high officials and the agency heads of the government of Jembrana.

The LIPI Head, Iskandar Zulkar-nain, said that so far the botanical garden is only known as a tourist attraction, but actually it also has a much higher value like plant conser-vation inside and outside the botani-cal gardens. In botanical garden, we can save rare species or the species of plants around us. By preserving the species we can certainly prevent injustice to our future generations. “In some places in Java some plant species are already extinct and noth-ing is left. It is an injustice to the next generations,” said Zulkarnain.

The botanical garden itself has a variety of functions for the long term and short term, and the five main functions of the botanical

garden are as conservation for rare and endangered species, as a research site—meaning that after preserving they are then studied in relation to the benefits, as venue of education, as venue of recreation and economic empowerment of lo-cal communities, as seen in the Eka Karya Botanical Garden.

The Jagatnatha Botanical Gar-den has a different type among the botanical gardens commonly located on highlands. It is a kind of lowland and urban botanical garden resembling the one in Purwodadi having warm climate. The Jagat-natha Botanical Garden spreading across an area of eight hectares is much smaller than the Purwodadi Botanical Garden with an area of 87 hectares. “To us, the area is not a problem because we have actually ever seen a botanical garden in Eu-rope in the area of one hectare only. Most importantly, the function can be maximal,” added Zulkarnain.

In Indonesia, there are five bo-tanical gardens managed directly by the LIPI, such as the Bogor Bo-tanical Gardens, Cibodas Botanical Garden, Purwodadi Botanical Gar-den, Eka Karya Botanical Garden and Eco Park Bogor. As for regional botanic garden, so far there have

been 22 botanical gardens through-out Indonesia. In 2015 it is initiated five regional botanical gardens and Jembrana is the first county in Bali having such a botanical garden.

Its source of fund is taken from the budget of the ministry and or institutions, regional budget and other legitimate non-binding sources. Construction of the Jagat-natha Botanical Garden is targeted to complete in five years. Never-theless, there is possibility if the government of Jembrana is strongly committed it can be accomplished within three years.

Regent Artha has great hope related to the construction of the re-gional botanical garden. “Hopeful-ly, the construction of this regional botanical garden can help improve the economy of surrounding com-munities. Later on, we hope that travelers coming from the Island of Java, will not just be passing through Jembrana, but also drop in and have recreation in the Jagatna-tha Botanical Garden. In addition, we can introduce the potential of tourism and culinary treasure of Jembrana,” said Artha.

Other than serving as tourist at-traction, Artha also advised that the plant species to be planted in the Jagatnatha Botanical Garden will have something to do with facilities of Balinese ceremonies and healing that can be preserved and studied for the benefit of society. “I am targeting the development of this botanical garden can last for three years,” he added. (kmb26)

AMLAPURA - Retention ba-sin project in Karangasem is not effective to address water crisis for residents at barren villages in Karangasem. As evidence, more than 12 retention basin projects have been established in Karan-gasem, but residents still face water crisis in dry season.

It was delivered by two legisla-tors of the Karangasem House of Representatives, Gede Dauh Su-prapta and Nengah Rinten, a few days ago in Karangasem. Dauh Suprapta from Tianyar Barat, Kubu, said that residents at barren vil-lage in Kubu and other villages in Karangasem constantly face clean water crisis beyond rainy season. He asked the water pipeline project of Telaga Waja to be streamed because the project has spent hundreds of billions of rupiahs. “We hope the Te-laga Waja water pipeline project can quickly drain water. Our residents at Kubu located away from wells on the beach are screaming due to clean water crisis beyond rainy season,” said Dauh Suprapta.

Legislator Nengah Rinten from Bantas hamlet, Baturinggit, Kubu, said that a retention basin was established at the foot of Mount Agung at Bantas about seven years

ago. However, the water has long run out. When the water remains available, it can only be taken advantage by a few families in the vicinity.

Residents of Bantas and sur-rounding areas have faced water crisis since a few months ago. They are forced to purchase clean water at quite expensive price due to urgent need for drinking, cook-ing, washing face and drinking for cattle. There is also water assistance from certain agencies. However, the clean water is insufficient to support all the residents. He hoped the water supply from pipeline project can be optimized, so that it can ease people’s burden in the mountains and desolate village during dry season.

On the other hand, the Chief Executive of the Karangasem Di-saster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), Ida Ketut Arimbawa, delivered two days ago in Karangasem that the agency has made cooperation with the BPBD Bali and other agencies to distribute clean water assistance. A few days ago at Nawa Kerti vil-lage, Abang, was distributed 10,000 liters of clean water to 55 families. It poses the aid of the BPBD Karan-gasem and BPBD Bali. (013)

Retention basin ineffectiveResidents still face clean water crisis

Transportation Agency holds fish truck raid

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The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of the botanical garden development was done by Regent I Putu Artha(left) and the Head of the LIPI Iskandar Zulkarnain, Monday

Jembrana to have first regional botanical garden in Bali

NEGARA - The government of Jembxrana will have a new tourist destination in the form of the regional botanical gar-den. In contrast to botanical garden owned by the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) managed by central government, the Jembrana Botanical Garden is the first regional botanical garden in Bali managed by local government whose stage is assisted by the LIPI.

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SEOUL — Hyundai Motor Co. said Wednesday it has launched a premium car brand named after its Genesis sedan to boost earnings and its share of the fast-growing global market for luxury vehicles.

South Korea’s largest automaker said that the Genesis brand begins with two sedans, including the namesake upscale car launched two years ago and a large flagship sedan slated for release next month.

It will add four more models including a sports coupe and sports utility vehicles by 2020.

The company began preparing for the brand in 2004. Hyundai had planned to launch it when it released the first Genesis sedan in 2008 but postponed because the global financial crisis dented sales of luxury cars.

Hyundai was the only major au-tomaker without a separate luxury brand.

The announcement is a “new start” for Hyundai, said Chung Euisun, a vice chairman and grand-

son of the company’s founder.Even though luxury cars account

for just 10 percent of global auto sales, they set technology and de-sign trends for the overall automo-bile industry and their sales growth has outpaced mainstream cars.

Hyundai hired Luc Donckerwol-ke, former chief designer at Bentley who also previously worked at Lamborghini and Audi, to work on Genesis models as well as Hyundai cars starting early next year.

The move comes after Hyundai’s latest quarterly profit slid to the lowest in five years.

Its sales in China dropped sharp-ly this year, like other foreign auto brands in China, due to heightened competition from Chinese carmak-ers. The automaker’s underestima-tion of strong demand for SUVs and a cheap Japanese yen that boosted rivals Toyota and Honda also con-tributed to its weak performance.

In South Korea, the company faced competition from German and Japanese cars. (ap)

Financial information company Markit says Wednesday that its composite purchasing managers’ index — a broad gauge of eco-nomic activity encompassing both the manufacturing and services sectors — rose to 53.9 points in October from the four-month low of 53.6 in September.

Anything above 50 indicates expansion and according to Markit October’s figure points to quarterly growth of 0.4 percent.

Markit’s chief economist Chris Williamson says the survey con-firms “steady but still somewhat lackluster” economic growth.

Of the four big eurozone countries, Spain is experiencing the highest rate of growth, with France once again proving to be the laggard. (ap)

SHANGHAI - China has set a deadline of this year to link trad-ing between the Shenzhen stock exchange and the Hong Kong market, the central bank chief said, following a similar connection with the Shanghai bourse.

China launched a landmark “stock connect” between Shang-hai and its special administrative region of Hong Kong in late 2014, opening up its closeted share market to the outside world and giving foreign investors access to Chinese companies not quoted elsewhere.

Trading through the Shanghai-Hong Kong link was initially lacklustre, although it later picked up during a huge rally in Chinese stocks before a bubble burst.

“The Shenzhen-Hong Kong connect will be launched this year, which shows China’s capital market opening a new route to link with the world,” Zhou Xiaochuan, head of the People’s Bank of China, said in an article posted on the PBoC

website on Tuesday.The southern boom town of

Shenzhen borders Hong Kong. As China’s second exchange, its bourse mainly trades small companies and technology stocks.

But the PBoC later updated the posting, clarifying that the article was based on an internal speech that Zhou delivered in May -- before the stock market bubble popped in June.

The Hong Kong exchange said in a statement the proposal was still subject to regulatory approval and no agreement had been entered into.

Still, investors cheered the news on Wednesday. The Shenzhen index surged 5.12 percent and the Shang-hai market jumped 4.31 percent, helped by hopes for economic re-forms and the market linkage.

“This is giving a big psychologi-cal boost to the Chinese stock mar-kets,” Ronald Wan, Hong Kong-based chief executive officer at Partners Capital International, told

Bloomberg News.“But optimism may wane soon,

given what has happened to the Hong Kong-Shanghai Connect,” he said.

The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect, which allows the equivalent of $3.8 billion a day in cross-border transactions, enables international investors to trade selected stocks on Shanghai’s tightly restricted exchange and lets mainland investors buy shares in Hong Kong.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said in March the country would launch a connect programme be-tween Shenzhen and Hong Kong “at an appropriate time” in a push for financial reforms, but gave no timetable.

The launch of the scheme was widely expected to be delayed after the plunges in Chinese stocks shook global markets. The bench-mark Shanghai index is down more than 30 percent from its June peak. (afp)

Hyundai Motor launches luxury car brand

China plans to link Shenzhen, HK stock markets in 2015

Eurozone displaying ‘steady but lackluster growth’

AP Photo/Michael Probst, File

LONDON — A closely monitored survey is showing that the 19-country eurozone economy is growing steadily but that there’s no sign of any marked lift-off despite a big stimulus from the European Central Bank.

In this Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015 file photo, Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, stands next to a copy of a 20 euro banknote in Frankfurt, Ger-many. A closely monitored survey is showing that the 19-country eurozone economy is growing steadily but that there’s no sign of any marked lift-off despite a big stimulus from the European Central Bank.

Nine kid gamelan troupes in Buleleng participated in the Utsawa Merdangga Gong Kebyar or gong ke-byar festival on the outdoor stage of the former Buleleng Harbor, Tuesday (Nov. 3). The troupes displayed their quality in playing gamelan face to face in the event featuring the theme Mana Madawa standing for mental revolution heading for hu-man noble nature.

The Utsawa Merdangga has been long enough be-coming an annual event in Buleleng to preserve cul-tural heritage of their ances-tors. It is inseparable from the belief that gong kebyar was created in Buleleng in 1914. First appearance of the gong kebyar art was made at a location between Bungkulan and Jagaraga village, Sawan.

In this Utsawa Merdan-gga Gong Kebyar, each gamelan troupe presented four gamelan compositions namely the tabuh pisan le-lambatan, Wiranjaya Dance gamelan music, creation gamelan and traditional games gamelan music. The kid gong kebyar troupe from Bontihing village also appears as a companion gamelan troupe.

The Head of the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Gede Suyasa, accompanied by the Art Section Head Wayan Sujana said that the kid gamelan troupe partici-pating in the event get prior-ity to display their creativ-ity in playing gong kebyar composition becoming an ancestral heritage. “This event serves as a medium for children to play gong kebyar gamelan music. The more often making performance, the better they will love the art heritage of the ancestors,” he said.

According to Sujana, all the participants performed their whole show. All the elements, like gamelan musi-cians, dancers, coaches and judges must be the native to Buleleng. Besides, the gamelan players are also obliged to use gong pacek instrument. (mud)

Headman of Wanasari, Ida Bagus Komang Widiana, accompanied by chief of Subak Babakan, I Wayan Yasa Giri, explained that the mouse hunt is taken after performing psy-chical (niskala) measure but it does not work to reduce mouse attacks at Subak Babakan in the second planting season of 2015. Psychical measure is taken by saying prayers at temples like the Pura Puseh of Wanasari, Tabanan Palace, Pura Pekendungan, Pura Batukaru, Pura Batu Lumbung and representation of Pura Besakih.

“This psychical measure is meant to request a reduction of mouse population. However, it remains rampant so that it is then decided to perform mouse hunt en masse,” said Widiana. He continued that

mice have started attacking subak areas at Wanasari village since last August. As a result, the harvest of farmers only reached 50-60 percent, while the rest has been destroyed and devoured by mice. At Wanasari village there are three subak organi-zations, namely the Subak Periukti, Subak Babakan and Subak Gung-gunan. All the areas are attacked by mice and so far only two subak areas namely the Subak Periukti and Subak Babakan that have performed mouse hunt.

Yasa Giri added that Subak Babakan has a land area of 48 hectares with 120 farmers divided into four subgroups or tempek. The mass mouse hunt system is carried out to reduce mouse population at Subak Babakan so that the rice in

the next planting season will not be damaged by this animal also named Jero Ketut. “Anticipative measure to curb mouse population is meant so that in the next growing season the number can at least reduce and the damage to the rice crop will not happen,” explained Yasa Giri.

He continued that his institu-tion has anticipated by appealing to farmers to set traps with poison when knowing the mouse attacks at Subak Periukti. “When hearing a mouse attack at Subak Periukti, I appeal to farmers to set poison. In fact, it is not effective and the harvest only reaches about 50-60 percent,” he said. On that account, since the poison trap does not work, the subak eventually decided to apply mass hunt system through demolition of active mouse hole. So, the active hole of the mouse is given sulfuric fumigation. Hope-fully, the mouse inside the hole will go out or die. The mouse com-ing out of the hole will be hunted together.

Aside from mouse attack, Giri Yasa also told that farmers also face water crisis in this planting season, so that farmers do not dare to plant having been scheduled this November. Subak Babakan is one of the subak areas in Tabanan that can do planting season three times a year. However, in 2015, it can only do twice where in the last planting season farmers suffered losses due to mouse attack. “The third plant-ing season stays uncertain due to waiting for rain. Now, there is still no water,” said Giri Yasa.

Commander of the Tabanan Subdistrict Military, Yudha Wicak-sono, explained that the activity could catch around 100 mice. He estimated that many mice died in the hole. “These mice go out one hour after the fumigation. Hundreds of mice can be captured while some others might die inside,” he explained. The Indonesian Military (TNI) deployed some 20 personnel to help residents do the mouse hunt at Subak Babakan. (kmb24)

Gong Kebyar Festival in Buleleng

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The mouse hunt is carried out to reduce the populatiaon of mouse in Subak Babakan at Wanasari village, Tabanan

Mouse hunt at Subak Babakan, hundreds die

TABANAN - After the Subak Periukti held mouse hunt en masse, similar activity was also carried out by Subak Babakan at Wanasari village, recently. Approximately 100 people consist-ing of subak members, residents and military personnel came down and joined the mouse hunt. As the result, hundreds of mice could be eliminated.

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Air traffic is regularly disrupted by volcanic eruptions in Indonesia, which sits on a belt of seismic activ-ity running around the basin of the Pacific Ocean and is home to the highest number of active volcanoes

in the world, around 130.The main concern for airlines

regarding volcanic ash is not that it can affect visibility but rather that it could damage jet engines, according to experts.

Ash turns into molten glass when it is sucked into aircraft engines and in extreme cases can cause them to shut down. (afp)

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The quake struck at a depth of 14km kilometres (8.5 miles) under the Alor Sea at about 10:44 (0345

GMT), roughly 77km from the East Timorese capital of Dili, the US Geological Survey said.

A disaster agency official in Alor, a remote string of islands closest to the epicentre, said the quake was felt strongly in the district for almost two minutes. “We heard at least one building collapsed,” Marthen Daud Ndaumanu Kalabahi told AFP.

“We are still trying to reach re-

mote areas where there is no (phone) connection to see if there is any dam-age or victims.”

Indonesia’s national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said the quake did not trigger a tsunami but sent people fleeing in Alor.

“Some people panicked and scat-tered,” he said via text message, but added he had heard no reports of ca-sualties or property damage so far.

Indonesia sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire” where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent seismic and volcanic activity. (afp)

JAKARTA - Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan officially launched a sea toll program at the Tanjung Priok seaport on Wednesday.

Three ships are deployed to serve freight on three routes as part of the implementation of the sea toll program outlined in the 2015 budget.

The first route coded “T-1” covers Tanjung Perak-Tual-Fak fak-Kaimana-Timika-Kaimana-Fak fak-Tual-Tg. Perak and is served by MV Caraka Jaya Niaga III-32.

The second route coded “T-4” covers Tg. Priok-Biak-Serui-Na-bire-Wasior-Manokwari-Wasior-Nabire-Serui-Blak-Tg. Pnok and is served by MV Caraka Jaya Niaga III-22.

The third route coded “T-6” covers Tg. Priok-Kijang-Natuna-Kijang-Tg. Priok and is served by MV Caraka Jaya Niaga III-4.

The government has allocated Rp30 billion to subsidize the operations of the three freight lin-ers for the November-December 2015 period.

In accordance with the Pub-lic Service Obligation (PSO) for Freight budget this year, the government has allocated Rp257,907,959,000 in funds along with six ships for the implementation of the sea toll program.

The regular operations of the

freight liners are expected to guarantee the smooth supply of food items and goods in remote areas and to ensure that the in-habitants of eastern Indonesia’s remote areas can have better ac-cess to food items and goods at affordable prices similar to the people living in western Indone-sian regions.

The minister is optimistic that the sea toll program would help to reduce the price of food items and goods by 30 percent in the eastern regions of Indonesia.

In the meantime, macroecono-mist from the Universi ty of Kristen Artha Wacana Kupang Dr James Adam had earlier raised criticism, claiming that no prog-ress had been made in the imple-mentation of the sea toll program a year after its launch by Presi-dent Joko Widodo (Jokowi).

“I even see it as a total failure, whereas it was a priority program of Jokowi during his presidential election campaign,” Dr James remarked in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, on Oct. 27.

He described the program as a “very good” concept to reclaim Indonesia’s position as a mari-time nation.

“Unfortunately, the implemen-tation is not up to expectation. Certainly, the problem does not lie in the implementation as it would require the participation of the private sector,” he added. (ant)

JAKARTA - Indonesian Mili-tary (TNI) Commander General Ga-tot Nurmantyo tendered an apology here on Wednesday for the shooting incident on Tuesday afternoon that led to the death of a civilian mo-torist in Cibinong, West Java. “As the TNI commander, I apologize

for the fatal shooting in which a member of my force was involved. This must not recur,” he informed journalists at the State Palace here when questioned about the incident in which 40-year-old Marsim alias Japra was killed.

General Nurmantyo said he had

ordered the military police to con-duct an investigation to thoroughly probe this case and to court martial the military personnel involved in the criminal act against the civilian. The investigation process should be open and transparent to the public.

Thus, the people can directly

witness the trial process, so that they will know the verdict reached by the panel of judges, he pointed out.

The general affirmed that the army personnel who shot dead the civilian in Cibinong, Bogor District, West Java Province, on Tuesday afternoon, would be dismissed from

the TNI. According to local media re-

ports, the suspect, identified as Sec-ond Sergeant YH, shot Marsim after the motorbike he was riding might have scrapped YH’s car on Mayor Oking Road in front of Ciriung fuel station. (ant)

Powerful quake hits eastern Indonesia, reports of minor damageJAKARTA - A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck

eastern Indonesia on Wednesday, US seismologists said, with some reports of minor property damage but no casualties re-corded so far.

Military chief aplogizes for Cibinong fatal shooting incident

ANTARA FOTO/Didik Suhartono

Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan officially launched a sea toll program at the Tanjung Priok seaport on Wednesday.

Transportation minister launches sea toll program

The ruling Justice and Develop-ment Party, or AKP, which Erdogan founded and continues to lead from behind the scenes, scored a stunning victory in a parliamen-tary election Sunday, gaining back the majority it lost in a previous election just five months ago. The surprise win marked a turnaround for Erdogan, allowing him to move ahead with plans to consolidate his grip on Turkish politics.

The president has limited con-stitutional powers and Erdogan has long been pushing for constitutional changes that would give him the ability to govern. The prospect has

irked opponents who are already troubled by his ever-increasing authoritarian tendencies and often-polarizing rhetoric.

Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin told reporters that Erdogan believes a presidential system giving the head of state sweeping powers would make Turkey “jump up a league.”

“What is the best model for us? Taking into consideration the results of the Nov. 1 election, this is something that will be settled by asking the people,” Kalin said.

“This debate cannot be consid-ered independently from the people.

If the mechanism is a referendum then a referendum can take place,” Kalin added.

The party, however, is still 13 seats short of the 330 required to call a referendum on any consti-tutional change. Kalin did not say how those limitations can be over-come and it was not clear if the AKP would seek the support of other par-ties represented in parliament.

Kalin insisted that Erdogan wanted the system because he strongly believes it would be the best for Turkey and not for personal gains.

“Tayyip Erdogan has already made history. He is already a strong leader. He is also a strong leader in the people’s hearts,” Kalin said. “This is not a debate that should be pulled toward his person.”(ap)

LONDON — North Korea says the United States needs to end its “nuclear-based threats and blackmail” and respond to the North’s recent dip-lomatic overture to formally end the decades-old Korean conflict. Fighting ended in 1953 without a peace treaty, leaving North and South Korea still technically at war.

Speaking in an interview Tuesday in London with Associated Press Television News, senior North Korean Foreign Ministry official Jong Tong Hak said a permanent peace settlement on the Korean Peninsula first requires a North Korean-U.S. agreement.

Discussing North Korea’s view of the root cause of tensions, he blamed what he described as “the U.S. gov-ernment’s decades of hostile policies against the DPRK and its endless nuclear-based threats, blackmail and manipulative schemes.” North Korea’s official name is the Demo-cratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea, or DPRK.

He said Washington provides “strategic nuclear weapons” to South Korea, “in other words the nuclear-powered aircraft carriers it always pushes (toward the DPRK) and the strategic nuclear bombers it always has flying in the skies above the south-ern part of the Korean Peninsula.” Jong said a compromise to break the impasse requires decisive action by Washington.

“The issue of signing a peace treaty between the DPRK and the United States depends on the policy determi-nations of the U.S. administration,”

he said, adding that Washington must “make a policy decision to respect our republic’s sovereignty and end the decades-long hostility between the DPRK and the U.S. to guarantee peace in the Korean Peninsula.”

Last month, Sung Kim, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, described the North’s latest proposal for treaty negotiations as “disingenu-ous.” The two sides’ positions are so deeply at odds that it can seem like a chicken-or-egg situation.

Washington’s position — which is in line with ally South Korea — is that it is only open to talks on easing sanctions if the North makes it clear it is willing to negotiate an end to its nuclear program, stop developing long-range missiles that could reach foreign targets and live up to other international agreements.

North Korea, for its part, maintains that it must have a deterrent to counter the threat of a U.S. attack — nuclear or otherwise. The U.S. Congress, mean-while, is mulling whether the North should be designated a state sponsor of terrorism. That designation was lifted in 2008 during negotiations on its nuclear program that stalled soon after. Among the allegations was that North Korean-supplied rockets had been used against Israel by fighters from the militant group Hamas.

North Korea likes to point out that the U.S. has 28,500 troops stationed in South Korea. There are no foreign military bases in North Korea, though China was a key North Korea ally dur-ing the Korean War. (ap)

LONDON — British police and spies will get new powers to comb through citizens’ online activity under a new law regulating cyber-snooping.

The Investigatory Powers Bill, being published Wednesday, is designed to regulate authorities’ ac-cess to Internet activity. It replaces

a patchwork of laws, some dating from the Web’s infancy.

Home Secretary Theresa May has insisted that the government “will not be giving powers to go through people’s browsing history,” and says the law will contain safe-guards against abuse.

But civil liberties groups are

alarmed by reports that the govern-ment will make Internet service providers keep records of users’ Web and social media activity for a year so that they can be accessed as part of criminal or terrorist investigations. The bill has to be approved by Parliament before it becomes law. (ap)

AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

Senior North Korean Foreign Ministry official Jong Tong Hak poses before an interview with APTN in London, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015. North Korea says the United States needs to end its “nu-clear blackmail“ and respond to Pyongyang’s recent diplomatic overture to formally end the decades-old Korean conflict.

North Korea says bold action by US could open path to treaty

Turkey: Erdogan to revive bid for

executive presidentANKARA — Turkey could hold a referendum on consti-

tutional changes for a new political system, reviving a highly contentious push to increase the powers of the president, an aide to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday.

AP Photo/Presidential Press Service, Pool

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu attend a meeting at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015.

Britain seeks greater access to citizens’ online activity

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This park is originally met one pool only which is very Ghostlike and very secret called by Di Dirah and this pool at the pe-riod of I Gusti Gede Putu King (1849-1893) governance with his brother of Gde Oka (1849-1890) that the around of this pool is functioned as place of exile for the man who alleged to run the black magic (leak). At the period of I Gusti Bagus Jelantik gov-ernance which start to lead the Karangasem Kingdom in the year 1909, this pool area is extended and developed by some pools and also luxury building Bale Gili with European style (modern style), later then it is given the name called Taman Sukasada/Sukasada Park Ujung Karangasem, that is estimate made in the year of twentieth.

This park is strategically located in the coastal side, south part of Karangasem town and founding a lot of wellspring around the area. If seen from the history aspect, most of all omissions from Karangasem Empire both for Lombok Island and also exist in Bali, altogether area consisted by the pool and Gili building which is exist in the middle of pool like Mayura and Narmada Park which are existing in west part of Lombok Island.

We can say that this Sukasada Park as a mascot of tourist destinations in east part of Bali. King of Karangasem I Gusti Bagus Jelantik who is known as Anak Agung An-glurah Ketut Karangasem is a Statesman, Man of letters as well as an architect. He has created a lot of building, not only in the form of park but he also done some building which are exist in Puri Agung Karangasem (Karangasem Palace) like gateway which is looking like pagoda.

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The Mavericks went almost 4 minutes without a basket after Dirk Nowitzki hit a 3-pointer for an 86-82 lead. Nowitzki finished with 18 points.

DeMar DeRozan scored 20 points, and Luis Scola had 19 points and 12 rebounds for the Raptors, who opened with three straight wins two other times in their first 20 seasons. Atlanta’s Jeff Teague had 26 points and nine assists to lead the Hawks to a 98-92 win at the Miami Heat.

Al Horford scored 17 points and Paul Millsap had 12 points and 10 rebounds for Atlanta, which has won four straight following a season-opening loss.

Hassan Whiteside finished with

23 points and 14 rebounds for Miami, doing so on 11-for-12 shooting. According to STATS, Whiteside was the third Heat cen-ter to shoot at least 11 for 12 and block four shots in a game, joining Alonzo Mourning and Shaquille O’Neal.

In Los Angeles, Kenneth Faried had 28 points and 15 rebounds, and Danilo Gallinari got 14 of his 21 points in the second half of the Denver Nuggets’ 120-109 victory over the winless Lakers.

J.J. Hickson scored 17 points in the Nuggets’ fifth consecutive win over the Lakers at Staples Center since November 2012. Faried domi-nated the low post, went 10 for 13 and hit all eight of his free throws

in Denver’s 10th win over Los An-geles in the last 11 meetings.

The Memphis Grizzlies bounced back from an embarrassing loss to down the Sacramento Kings 103-89 as Zach Randolph had 20 points and 11 rebounds.

The Grizzlies were eager to re-bound after a club-worst, 50-point loss Monday to the defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors. The Grizzlies were outscored 72-27 in the middle two quarters and set a team low for shooting (27.1 per-cent). Mike Conley had 14 points and six assists for Memphis, and Courtney Lee also scored 14.

In other games, Jeremy Lamb scored 20 points on 9-of-10 shoot-ing and Nicolas Batum added 18 as the Charlotte Hornets cruised past the Chicago Bulls 130-105 for their first victory of the season, the Orlando Magic beat the New Orleans Pelicans 103-94 and the Detroit Pacers were 94-82 winners over the Detroit Pistons. (ap)

PARIS — No wonder Novak Djokovic looked awkward in the early rallies of his opening match at the Paris Masters. The top-ranked Serb, a two-time defending champion in Paris, was playing his first indoor match in a year — and on a revamped court at a refurbished venue.

That did not prevent him from advancing to the third round in straight sets, extending his winning streak to 18 matches with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Thomaz Bellucci on Tuesday.

“It was a good test,” said Djok-ovic, who is bidding to become the first player to win six Masters 1000 titles in one season this week. “With new facilities, of course, and new color (blue) of the court, it took a little bit of time to really get used to it and adjust.”

Djokovic’s previous indoor match was November last year in London, where he ended his season by clinching the title at the ATP World Tour Finals. He has been in tremendous form since, compiling a 74-5 match record — including 27-1 at Grand Slam tournaments — and is guaranteed to finish the year at the No. 1 spot for the fourth time in the last five years. The 10-time major champion will face 14th-seeded Gilles Simon in the third round.

In the city where he failed to achieve a career Grand Slam ear-lier this year — losing to Stan Wawrinka in the French Open final — top-seeded Djokovic struggled with his first serve early on and was broken in the 5th game when Bel-lucci unleashed a forehand attack down the line that the Serb could not return.

The left-handed Brazilian im-pressed spectators at the Palais Omnisports with a mix of deep groundstrokes and deft sliced shots, yet was unable to hold his serve in the next game, with Djokovic start-

ing to dictate from the baseline.The 40th-ranked Bellucci fought

hard to stay in the match, fending off a break point in the 8th game, but crumbled when his rival applied the pressure again to make the de-cisive break at love after hitting a passing shot straight at his rival, a forehand down the line and a back-handed drop shot volley.

Bellucci was then undone by two consecutive mistakes in the eighth game of the second set that gave Djokovic the break he needed to wrap up the match. “I have had a few things that I could have done better tonight,” Djokovic said. “But again, all in all, it was a very solid match.”

Facing Bernard Tomic in his opening game, Wawrinka raised his game when needed to reach the third round.

Wawrinka, seeking to become the first player to win Roland Gar-ros and the Paris Masters in the same year since Andre Agassi in 1999, saved all five break points and hit 13 aces to progress with a 6-3, 7-6 (6) win.

The fourth-seeded Swiss had to come from 5-2 down in the tie-breaker before sealing the match when the 18th-ranked Tomic hit two consecutive unforced errors.

“I was not in a good position, that’s for sure,” Wawrinka said. “I played one good point, aggressive, then he missed an easy forehand, and you’re back.” Wawrinka will next face either 15th-seeded Feli-ciano Lopez or Viktor Troicki.

David Ferrer, the 2012 cham-pion, also progressed to the third round by beating Alexandr Dogol-polov 6-2, 6-2.

The eighth-seeded Ferrer, who has qualified for the ATP finals, did not face a single break point. Next up for the 2012 champion will be either 12th-seeded Marin Cilic or Grigor Dimitrov. (ap)

AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez

Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry (7) celebrates scoring a basket against the Dallas Mavericks late in the second half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, in Dallas. Lowry lead all scoring with 27-points in the 102-91 Raptors win.

Lowry, Raptors start 4-0 for 1st time, beating Mavs 102-91

DALLAS — Kyle Lowry scored 27 points as the Toronto Raptors spoiled the home opener in Dallas, beating the Mav-ericks 102-91 on Tuesday for the first 4-0 start in club history. The Raptors took the lead for good on a 12-0 run that started in the middle of the fourth quarter. Jonas Valanciunas had six of his 16 points during the decisive stretch.

Djokovic extends winning streak at Paris Masters

AP Photo/Andy Wong

Novak Djokovic of Serbia uses a mobile phone to take a selfie with spectators after winning the first round men’s singles match against Simone Bolelli of Italy in the China Open tennis tournament at the National Tennis Stadium in Beijing, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015.

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Sevilla’s Benoit Tremoulinas scored for the hosts in the 25th, only for former Sevilla forward Je-sus Navas to pass for Wilfried Bony to take City’s third in the 36th.

Even without the injured Sergio Aguero and David Silva, City eased to the win — guided by Sterling who tormented Sevilla’s defense

with his speed and flair on the left flank until substituted in the 73rd.

“I think we played one of our best games,” said City manager Manuel Pellegrini. “The score didn’t even reflect what happened on the pitch, we could have scored five or six.” City moved into first place in Group D with nine points

with two games left, one point ahead of Juventus. Sevilla has three and can’t overtake City because of their head-to-head record.

In the other group game, Ju-ventus drew 1-1 at Borussia Mo-enchengladbach. Moenchengla-dbach is last with two points and was eliminated.

City went ahead when Sterling met Fernandinho’s through ball and used one soft touch to slot the ball past goalkeeper Sergio Rico. Ster-ling manufactured City’s second goal by tenaciously fighting for a long ball that he had initially lost

to Jorge “Coke” Andujar.Sterling pressured and pounced

on Coke’s poor back pass before laying off for Bony. Rico saved his shot but watched his rebound fall for Fernandinho to head home. Navas, who played 10 years for his boyhood club, was cheered by the Sevilla faithful before kickoff.

But the former fan favorite helped further deflate the crowd at Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium when he hit the post in the 13th. “The love the fans showed me is mutual, I always have them in my heart,” Navas said after the match. “But now I only want to

help my team win.”City continued to create shots

with ease, but Coke made amends for his earlier error by attacking in City’s area before lifting a short cross back for Tremoulinas to head in. The goal appeared to revive Sevilla and two minutes later only a great one-handed save by Joe Hart kept Grzegorz Krychowiak from leveling the score.

But Navas helped snuff out the response when he picked out Bony and sent in a low pass for the striker to volley between the helpless Rico and the near post. (ap)

MANCHESTER — Wayne Rooney ended Manchester United’s 404-minute goal drought on Tuesday, clinching a 1-0 victory over CSKA Moscow and sending the team top of its Champions League group. Since scoring in the Russian capital in last month’s 1-1 draw, United had gone through three domestic games without hitting the net — with Rooney particu-larly wasteful.

The United captain squandered a golden chance in front of goal at Old Trafford before meeting Jesse Lingard’s cross with a header in the 79th minute.

“We had to just keep grinding at them, keep digging away and thank-fully the chance came at the end and we got the goal,” Rooney said. “A lot of teams we play against now defend deep with all their players. It’s tough to break that down. We tried to get the early goal and when that doesn’t hap-pen it becomes more difficult.”

Rooney is now level with United’s second highest scorer Denis Law on 237 goals as he chases Bobby Charl-ton’s record of 249. “Denis Law is a legend at this club,” the 30-year-old Rooney said.

United has a one-point lead at the top of Group B over PSV Eindhoven, which beat Wolfsburg 2-0.

“It is unbelievable because we have created at least 12 chances and we have to wait a long time,” United manager Louis van Gaal said. “Before that they could have scored ... and then it’s a dif-

ferent match. I am very happy because we played very well.”

Even though Rooney silenced those jeers with a goal, Van Gaal still has a long way to go to prove his doubters wrong and show he can pair good re-sults with enterprising, attacking foot-ball. Before kickoff, fans yelled “attack, attack, attack” as the players came out and the hosts obliged initially.

United threw everything at CSKA. Anthony Martial, playing up front, squared to Rooney, who dragged a vol-ley narrowly wide. United continued to waste chances in the second half.

CSKA threw on striker Seydou Doumbia, who would have scored had goalkeeper David de Gea not collected Ahmed Musa’s cross just before the Ivorian could nod in. Then in the 66th minute, there were protests from the United fans when Van Gaal replaced Martial with Marouane Fellaini.

Boos rang out when the board show-ing Martial’s number was raised by the fourth official. After the Frenchman had left the field, United supporters sang his name before yelling “We’re Man. United, we want to attack.”

United continued to flounder in front of goal. Rooney could not get the ball out from underneath his feet with the goal gaping.

But then finally the breakthrough came. Michael Carrick floated a pass over the back four, Lingard squared first time and Rooney headed in before embarking upon a wild celebration in front of the Stretford End. (ap)

NEW YORK — A Brazil-ian FIFA official who was a key organizer of the 2014 World Cup in his home country pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to U.S. charges stemming from a sprawling brib-ery case that has scandalized the soccer world.

Jose Maria Marin appeared in federal court in Brooklyn fol-lowing his extradition from Swit-zerland, where he was arrested in May along with five other FIFA officials in a dawn raid on a luxury hotel in Zurich. A judge agreed to release the 83-year-old defendant on $15 million bond and allow him live with tight restrictions in a New York apart-ment valued at $3.5 million until his case is resolved.

A haggard-looking Marin lis-tened to the proceeding through an interpreter. He slumped down

in a chair while lawyers remained standing in front of the bench discussing his bail conditions. He later rose for a long embrace with his wife, who was required to sign the bond.

The couple left the courtroom without speaking to reporters. Marin’s lawyer, Charles Still-man, said he and his client would be “preparing to deal with the charges.” In July, another high-ranking FIFA official, Cayman Islands banker Jeffrey Webb, appeared in the courthouse to enter a not guilty plea and was released on $10 million bond. The five remaining defendants in Switzerland are fighting ex-tradition.

The FIFA officials are among 14 people named in a U.S. in-dictment alleging they plotted to arrange bribes of more than

$150 million tied to the award of broadcasting and hosting rights for the World Cup and other tour-naments over a 24-year period.

Marin was appointed to head the 2014 World Cup local or-ganizing committee after the resignation of Ricardo Teixeira, who was implicated in a previous FIFA scandal for taking million-dollar kickbacks from World Cup broadcasting deals.

He also succeeded Teixeira, a longtime FIFA executive com-mittee member, as president of Brazilian football’s governing body in 2012. He held that posi-tion until last April.

Brazil was humiliated in a semifinal of the 32-nation World Cup, losing 7-1 to Germany. Ger-many went on to beat Argentina 1-0 after extra time in the final. (ap)

ZURICH — FIFA says the Palestinian soccer association will not host two World Cup qualifying matches this month for security reasons.

The decision followed meet-ings Tuesday in the Palestinian territory “after which the Pales-tinian government confirmed that it could no longer guarantee the

safety and security around the matches in question.”

A home match against Saudi Arabia, originally scheduled for last month and then Thursday in Ramallah, has been postponed a second time.

The Saudi association had refused to play in Ramallah, seeming to want to avoid go-

ing through Israeli security checks.

FIFA says the match will now be played Monday and the Pal-estinian federation will “provide details on the neutral ground in Asia” to host it. A Nov. 12 quali-fying match against Malaysia will also be played on neutral ground. (ap)

VIENNA — Austria coach Marcel Koller has named three newcomers in the squad for this month’s friendly against Switzerland.

Koller has included Altach goal-

keeper Andreas Lukse, Frosinone midfielder Robert Gucher and Mat-tersburg forward Karim Onisiwo in his 23-man squad announced on Tuesday.

Lukse and Onisiwo replace Robert Almer and Martin Harnik, who have both been ruled out for months with knee problems. Gucher takes the place of Rapid Vienna’s Stefan Schwab,

who has been left out of the squad.Koller says captain Christian Fuchs

and midfielder Julian Baumgartlinger are expected to recover in time from injuries. Austria will travel to Alicante,

Spain, for a six-day training camp before playing Switzerland in Vienna on Nov. 17. Both teams have qualified for the 2016 European Championship in France. (ap)

Austria coach calls up 3 newcomers for Switzerland game

AP Photo/Miguel Angel Morenatti

Manchester City’s Fernandinho celebrates after scoring his team’s 2nd goal during the Group D

Champions League soccer match between Sevilla and Manchester City at the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan

stadium in Seville, Spain, Tuesday Nov. 3, 2015.

Man City beats Sevilla 3-1 to advance in Champions League

SEVILLE — Raheem Sterling scored his first Champions League goal to help Manchester City seal its place in the round of 16 with a dominant 3-1 win at Sevilla on Tuesday. The 20-year-old forward got City going with an opening goal in the eighth minute before he won the ball to help Fernandinho double the advantage in the 11th.

FIFA rules Palestinians cannot host 2 World Cup qualifiers

AP Photo/Mary Altaffer

Jose Maria Marin, center, leaves federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, in New York. The Brazilian FIFA official who was a key organizer of the 2014 World Cup in his home country pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to U.S. charges stemming from a sprawling bribery case that has scandalized the soccer world.

Extradited FIFA official pleads not guilty in New York court

AP Photo/Jon Super

Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney celebrates scoring the opening goal during the Champions League Group B soccer match between Manchester United and CSKA Moskva at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015.

Rooney ends United’s goal drought to seal

1-0 win vs CSKA

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Sevilla’s Benoit Tremoulinas scored for the hosts in the 25th, only for former Sevilla forward Je-sus Navas to pass for Wilfried Bony to take City’s third in the 36th.

Even without the injured Sergio Aguero and David Silva, City eased to the win — guided by Sterling who tormented Sevilla’s defense

with his speed and flair on the left flank until substituted in the 73rd.

“I think we played one of our best games,” said City manager Manuel Pellegrini. “The score didn’t even reflect what happened on the pitch, we could have scored five or six.” City moved into first place in Group D with nine points

with two games left, one point ahead of Juventus. Sevilla has three and can’t overtake City because of their head-to-head record.

In the other group game, Ju-ventus drew 1-1 at Borussia Mo-enchengladbach. Moenchengla-dbach is last with two points and was eliminated.

City went ahead when Sterling met Fernandinho’s through ball and used one soft touch to slot the ball past goalkeeper Sergio Rico. Ster-ling manufactured City’s second goal by tenaciously fighting for a long ball that he had initially lost

to Jorge “Coke” Andujar.Sterling pressured and pounced

on Coke’s poor back pass before laying off for Bony. Rico saved his shot but watched his rebound fall for Fernandinho to head home. Navas, who played 10 years for his boyhood club, was cheered by the Sevilla faithful before kickoff.

But the former fan favorite helped further deflate the crowd at Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium when he hit the post in the 13th. “The love the fans showed me is mutual, I always have them in my heart,” Navas said after the match. “But now I only want to

help my team win.”City continued to create shots

with ease, but Coke made amends for his earlier error by attacking in City’s area before lifting a short cross back for Tremoulinas to head in. The goal appeared to revive Sevilla and two minutes later only a great one-handed save by Joe Hart kept Grzegorz Krychowiak from leveling the score.

But Navas helped snuff out the response when he picked out Bony and sent in a low pass for the striker to volley between the helpless Rico and the near post. (ap)

MANCHESTER — Wayne Rooney ended Manchester United’s 404-minute goal drought on Tuesday, clinching a 1-0 victory over CSKA Moscow and sending the team top of its Champions League group. Since scoring in the Russian capital in last month’s 1-1 draw, United had gone through three domestic games without hitting the net — with Rooney particu-larly wasteful.

The United captain squandered a golden chance in front of goal at Old Trafford before meeting Jesse Lingard’s cross with a header in the 79th minute.

“We had to just keep grinding at them, keep digging away and thank-fully the chance came at the end and we got the goal,” Rooney said. “A lot of teams we play against now defend deep with all their players. It’s tough to break that down. We tried to get the early goal and when that doesn’t hap-pen it becomes more difficult.”

Rooney is now level with United’s second highest scorer Denis Law on 237 goals as he chases Bobby Charl-ton’s record of 249. “Denis Law is a legend at this club,” the 30-year-old Rooney said.

United has a one-point lead at the top of Group B over PSV Eindhoven, which beat Wolfsburg 2-0.

“It is unbelievable because we have created at least 12 chances and we have to wait a long time,” United manager Louis van Gaal said. “Before that they could have scored ... and then it’s a dif-

ferent match. I am very happy because we played very well.”

Even though Rooney silenced those jeers with a goal, Van Gaal still has a long way to go to prove his doubters wrong and show he can pair good re-sults with enterprising, attacking foot-ball. Before kickoff, fans yelled “attack, attack, attack” as the players came out and the hosts obliged initially.

United threw everything at CSKA. Anthony Martial, playing up front, squared to Rooney, who dragged a vol-ley narrowly wide. United continued to waste chances in the second half.

CSKA threw on striker Seydou Doumbia, who would have scored had goalkeeper David de Gea not collected Ahmed Musa’s cross just before the Ivorian could nod in. Then in the 66th minute, there were protests from the United fans when Van Gaal replaced Martial with Marouane Fellaini.

Boos rang out when the board show-ing Martial’s number was raised by the fourth official. After the Frenchman had left the field, United supporters sang his name before yelling “We’re Man. United, we want to attack.”

United continued to flounder in front of goal. Rooney could not get the ball out from underneath his feet with the goal gaping.

But then finally the breakthrough came. Michael Carrick floated a pass over the back four, Lingard squared first time and Rooney headed in before embarking upon a wild celebration in front of the Stretford End. (ap)

NEW YORK — A Brazil-ian FIFA official who was a key organizer of the 2014 World Cup in his home country pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to U.S. charges stemming from a sprawling brib-ery case that has scandalized the soccer world.

Jose Maria Marin appeared in federal court in Brooklyn fol-lowing his extradition from Swit-zerland, where he was arrested in May along with five other FIFA officials in a dawn raid on a luxury hotel in Zurich. A judge agreed to release the 83-year-old defendant on $15 million bond and allow him live with tight restrictions in a New York apart-ment valued at $3.5 million until his case is resolved.

A haggard-looking Marin lis-tened to the proceeding through an interpreter. He slumped down

in a chair while lawyers remained standing in front of the bench discussing his bail conditions. He later rose for a long embrace with his wife, who was required to sign the bond.

The couple left the courtroom without speaking to reporters. Marin’s lawyer, Charles Still-man, said he and his client would be “preparing to deal with the charges.” In July, another high-ranking FIFA official, Cayman Islands banker Jeffrey Webb, appeared in the courthouse to enter a not guilty plea and was released on $10 million bond. The five remaining defendants in Switzerland are fighting ex-tradition.

The FIFA officials are among 14 people named in a U.S. in-dictment alleging they plotted to arrange bribes of more than

$150 million tied to the award of broadcasting and hosting rights for the World Cup and other tour-naments over a 24-year period.

Marin was appointed to head the 2014 World Cup local or-ganizing committee after the resignation of Ricardo Teixeira, who was implicated in a previous FIFA scandal for taking million-dollar kickbacks from World Cup broadcasting deals.

He also succeeded Teixeira, a longtime FIFA executive com-mittee member, as president of Brazilian football’s governing body in 2012. He held that posi-tion until last April.

Brazil was humiliated in a semifinal of the 32-nation World Cup, losing 7-1 to Germany. Ger-many went on to beat Argentina 1-0 after extra time in the final. (ap)

ZURICH — FIFA says the Palestinian soccer association will not host two World Cup qualifying matches this month for security reasons.

The decision followed meet-ings Tuesday in the Palestinian territory “after which the Pales-tinian government confirmed that it could no longer guarantee the

safety and security around the matches in question.”

A home match against Saudi Arabia, originally scheduled for last month and then Thursday in Ramallah, has been postponed a second time.

The Saudi association had refused to play in Ramallah, seeming to want to avoid go-

ing through Israeli security checks.

FIFA says the match will now be played Monday and the Pal-estinian federation will “provide details on the neutral ground in Asia” to host it. A Nov. 12 quali-fying match against Malaysia will also be played on neutral ground. (ap)

VIENNA — Austria coach Marcel Koller has named three newcomers in the squad for this month’s friendly against Switzerland.

Koller has included Altach goal-

keeper Andreas Lukse, Frosinone midfielder Robert Gucher and Mat-tersburg forward Karim Onisiwo in his 23-man squad announced on Tuesday.

Lukse and Onisiwo replace Robert Almer and Martin Harnik, who have both been ruled out for months with knee problems. Gucher takes the place of Rapid Vienna’s Stefan Schwab,

who has been left out of the squad.Koller says captain Christian Fuchs

and midfielder Julian Baumgartlinger are expected to recover in time from injuries. Austria will travel to Alicante,

Spain, for a six-day training camp before playing Switzerland in Vienna on Nov. 17. Both teams have qualified for the 2016 European Championship in France. (ap)

Austria coach calls up 3 newcomers for Switzerland game

AP Photo/Miguel Angel Morenatti

Manchester City’s Fernandinho celebrates after scoring his team’s 2nd goal during the Group D

Champions League soccer match between Sevilla and Manchester City at the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan

stadium in Seville, Spain, Tuesday Nov. 3, 2015.

Man City beats Sevilla 3-1 to advance in Champions League

SEVILLE — Raheem Sterling scored his first Champions League goal to help Manchester City seal its place in the round of 16 with a dominant 3-1 win at Sevilla on Tuesday. The 20-year-old forward got City going with an opening goal in the eighth minute before he won the ball to help Fernandinho double the advantage in the 11th.

FIFA rules Palestinians cannot host 2 World Cup qualifiers

AP Photo/Mary Altaffer

Jose Maria Marin, center, leaves federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, in New York. The Brazilian FIFA official who was a key organizer of the 2014 World Cup in his home country pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to U.S. charges stemming from a sprawling bribery case that has scandalized the soccer world.

Extradited FIFA official pleads not guilty in New York court

AP Photo/Jon Super

Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney celebrates scoring the opening goal during the Champions League Group B soccer match between Manchester United and CSKA Moskva at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015.

Rooney ends United’s goal drought to seal

1-0 win vs CSKA

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AMLAPURA - Taman Sukasada or Sukasada Park is a beautiful park with big fish pond surrounds the old Karangasem Empire heritage building which is used by the Karangasem’s King for day relaxation or meeting place in their era. It is located in Ujung Countryside about 5 Km from Amlapura town.

This park is originally met one pool only which is very Ghostlike and very secret called by Di Dirah and this pool at the pe-riod of I Gusti Gede Putu King (1849-1893) governance with his brother of Gde Oka (1849-1890) that the around of this pool is functioned as place of exile for the man who alleged to run the black magic (leak). At the period of I Gusti Bagus Jelantik gov-ernance which start to lead the Karangasem Kingdom in the year 1909, this pool area is extended and developed by some pools and also luxury building Bale Gili with European style (modern style), later then it is given the name called Taman Sukasada/Sukasada Park Ujung Karangasem, that is estimate made in the year of twentieth.

This park is strategically located in the coastal side, south part of Karangasem town and founding a lot of wellspring around the area. If seen from the history aspect, most of all omissions from Karangasem Empire both for Lombok Island and also exist in Bali, altogether area consisted by the pool and Gili building which is exist in the middle of pool like Mayura and Narmada Park which are existing in west part of Lombok Island.

We can say that this Sukasada Park as a mascot of tourist destinations in east part of Bali. King of Karangasem I Gusti Bagus Jelantik who is known as Anak Agung An-glurah Ketut Karangasem is a Statesman, Man of letters as well as an architect. He has created a lot of building, not only in the form of park but he also done some building which are exist in Puri Agung Karangasem (Karangasem Palace) like gateway which is looking like pagoda.

Taman Sukasada Ujung

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The Mavericks went almost 4 minutes without a basket after Dirk Nowitzki hit a 3-pointer for an 86-82 lead. Nowitzki finished with 18 points.

DeMar DeRozan scored 20 points, and Luis Scola had 19 points and 12 rebounds for the Raptors, who opened with three straight wins two other times in their first 20 seasons. Atlanta’s Jeff Teague had 26 points and nine assists to lead the Hawks to a 98-92 win at the Miami Heat.

Al Horford scored 17 points and Paul Millsap had 12 points and 10 rebounds for Atlanta, which has won four straight following a season-opening loss.

Hassan Whiteside finished with

23 points and 14 rebounds for Miami, doing so on 11-for-12 shooting. According to STATS, Whiteside was the third Heat cen-ter to shoot at least 11 for 12 and block four shots in a game, joining Alonzo Mourning and Shaquille O’Neal.

In Los Angeles, Kenneth Faried had 28 points and 15 rebounds, and Danilo Gallinari got 14 of his 21 points in the second half of the Denver Nuggets’ 120-109 victory over the winless Lakers.

J.J. Hickson scored 17 points in the Nuggets’ fifth consecutive win over the Lakers at Staples Center since November 2012. Faried domi-nated the low post, went 10 for 13 and hit all eight of his free throws

in Denver’s 10th win over Los An-geles in the last 11 meetings.

The Memphis Grizzlies bounced back from an embarrassing loss to down the Sacramento Kings 103-89 as Zach Randolph had 20 points and 11 rebounds.

The Grizzlies were eager to re-bound after a club-worst, 50-point loss Monday to the defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors. The Grizzlies were outscored 72-27 in the middle two quarters and set a team low for shooting (27.1 per-cent). Mike Conley had 14 points and six assists for Memphis, and Courtney Lee also scored 14.

In other games, Jeremy Lamb scored 20 points on 9-of-10 shoot-ing and Nicolas Batum added 18 as the Charlotte Hornets cruised past the Chicago Bulls 130-105 for their first victory of the season, the Orlando Magic beat the New Orleans Pelicans 103-94 and the Detroit Pacers were 94-82 winners over the Detroit Pistons. (ap)

PARIS — No wonder Novak Djokovic looked awkward in the early rallies of his opening match at the Paris Masters. The top-ranked Serb, a two-time defending champion in Paris, was playing his first indoor match in a year — and on a revamped court at a refurbished venue.

That did not prevent him from advancing to the third round in straight sets, extending his winning streak to 18 matches with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Thomaz Bellucci on Tuesday.

“It was a good test,” said Djok-ovic, who is bidding to become the first player to win six Masters 1000 titles in one season this week. “With new facilities, of course, and new color (blue) of the court, it took a little bit of time to really get used to it and adjust.”

Djokovic’s previous indoor match was November last year in London, where he ended his season by clinching the title at the ATP World Tour Finals. He has been in tremendous form since, compiling a 74-5 match record — including 27-1 at Grand Slam tournaments — and is guaranteed to finish the year at the No. 1 spot for the fourth time in the last five years. The 10-time major champion will face 14th-seeded Gilles Simon in the third round.

In the city where he failed to achieve a career Grand Slam ear-lier this year — losing to Stan Wawrinka in the French Open final — top-seeded Djokovic struggled with his first serve early on and was broken in the 5th game when Bel-lucci unleashed a forehand attack down the line that the Serb could not return.

The left-handed Brazilian im-pressed spectators at the Palais Omnisports with a mix of deep groundstrokes and deft sliced shots, yet was unable to hold his serve in the next game, with Djokovic start-

ing to dictate from the baseline.The 40th-ranked Bellucci fought

hard to stay in the match, fending off a break point in the 8th game, but crumbled when his rival applied the pressure again to make the de-cisive break at love after hitting a passing shot straight at his rival, a forehand down the line and a back-handed drop shot volley.

Bellucci was then undone by two consecutive mistakes in the eighth game of the second set that gave Djokovic the break he needed to wrap up the match. “I have had a few things that I could have done better tonight,” Djokovic said. “But again, all in all, it was a very solid match.”

Facing Bernard Tomic in his opening game, Wawrinka raised his game when needed to reach the third round.

Wawrinka, seeking to become the first player to win Roland Gar-ros and the Paris Masters in the same year since Andre Agassi in 1999, saved all five break points and hit 13 aces to progress with a 6-3, 7-6 (6) win.

The fourth-seeded Swiss had to come from 5-2 down in the tie-breaker before sealing the match when the 18th-ranked Tomic hit two consecutive unforced errors.

“I was not in a good position, that’s for sure,” Wawrinka said. “I played one good point, aggressive, then he missed an easy forehand, and you’re back.” Wawrinka will next face either 15th-seeded Feli-ciano Lopez or Viktor Troicki.

David Ferrer, the 2012 cham-pion, also progressed to the third round by beating Alexandr Dogol-polov 6-2, 6-2.

The eighth-seeded Ferrer, who has qualified for the ATP finals, did not face a single break point. Next up for the 2012 champion will be either 12th-seeded Marin Cilic or Grigor Dimitrov. (ap)

AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez

Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry (7) celebrates scoring a basket against the Dallas Mavericks late in the second half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, in Dallas. Lowry lead all scoring with 27-points in the 102-91 Raptors win.

Lowry, Raptors start 4-0 for 1st time, beating Mavs 102-91

DALLAS — Kyle Lowry scored 27 points as the Toronto Raptors spoiled the home opener in Dallas, beating the Mav-ericks 102-91 on Tuesday for the first 4-0 start in club history. The Raptors took the lead for good on a 12-0 run that started in the middle of the fourth quarter. Jonas Valanciunas had six of his 16 points during the decisive stretch.

Djokovic extends winning streak at Paris Masters

AP Photo/Andy Wong

Novak Djokovic of Serbia uses a mobile phone to take a selfie with spectators after winning the first round men’s singles match against Simone Bolelli of Italy in the China Open tennis tournament at the National Tennis Stadium in Beijing, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015.

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Air traffic is regularly disrupted by volcanic eruptions in Indonesia, which sits on a belt of seismic activ-ity running around the basin of the Pacific Ocean and is home to the highest number of active volcanoes

in the world, around 130.The main concern for airlines

regarding volcanic ash is not that it can affect visibility but rather that it could damage jet engines, according to experts.

Ash turns into molten glass when it is sucked into aircraft engines and in extreme cases can cause them to shut down. (afp)

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The quake struck at a depth of 14km kilometres (8.5 miles) under the Alor Sea at about 10:44 (0345

GMT), roughly 77km from the East Timorese capital of Dili, the US Geological Survey said.

A disaster agency official in Alor, a remote string of islands closest to the epicentre, said the quake was felt strongly in the district for almost two minutes. “We heard at least one building collapsed,” Marthen Daud Ndaumanu Kalabahi told AFP.

“We are still trying to reach re-

mote areas where there is no (phone) connection to see if there is any dam-age or victims.”

Indonesia’s national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said the quake did not trigger a tsunami but sent people fleeing in Alor.

“Some people panicked and scat-tered,” he said via text message, but added he had heard no reports of ca-sualties or property damage so far.

Indonesia sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire” where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent seismic and volcanic activity. (afp)

JAKARTA - Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan officially launched a sea toll program at the Tanjung Priok seaport on Wednesday.

Three ships are deployed to serve freight on three routes as part of the implementation of the sea toll program outlined in the 2015 budget.

The first route coded “T-1” covers Tanjung Perak-Tual-Fak fak-Kaimana-Timika-Kaimana-Fak fak-Tual-Tg. Perak and is served by MV Caraka Jaya Niaga III-32.

The second route coded “T-4” covers Tg. Priok-Biak-Serui-Na-bire-Wasior-Manokwari-Wasior-Nabire-Serui-Blak-Tg. Pnok and is served by MV Caraka Jaya Niaga III-22.

The third route coded “T-6” covers Tg. Priok-Kijang-Natuna-Kijang-Tg. Priok and is served by MV Caraka Jaya Niaga III-4.

The government has allocated Rp30 billion to subsidize the operations of the three freight lin-ers for the November-December 2015 period.

In accordance with the Pub-lic Service Obligation (PSO) for Freight budget this year, the government has allocated Rp257,907,959,000 in funds along with six ships for the implementation of the sea toll program.

The regular operations of the

freight liners are expected to guarantee the smooth supply of food items and goods in remote areas and to ensure that the in-habitants of eastern Indonesia’s remote areas can have better ac-cess to food items and goods at affordable prices similar to the people living in western Indone-sian regions.

The minister is optimistic that the sea toll program would help to reduce the price of food items and goods by 30 percent in the eastern regions of Indonesia.

In the meantime, macroecono-mist from the Universi ty of Kristen Artha Wacana Kupang Dr James Adam had earlier raised criticism, claiming that no prog-ress had been made in the imple-mentation of the sea toll program a year after its launch by Presi-dent Joko Widodo (Jokowi).

“I even see it as a total failure, whereas it was a priority program of Jokowi during his presidential election campaign,” Dr James remarked in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, on Oct. 27.

He described the program as a “very good” concept to reclaim Indonesia’s position as a mari-time nation.

“Unfortunately, the implemen-tation is not up to expectation. Certainly, the problem does not lie in the implementation as it would require the participation of the private sector,” he added. (ant)

JAKARTA - Indonesian Mili-tary (TNI) Commander General Ga-tot Nurmantyo tendered an apology here on Wednesday for the shooting incident on Tuesday afternoon that led to the death of a civilian mo-torist in Cibinong, West Java. “As the TNI commander, I apologize

for the fatal shooting in which a member of my force was involved. This must not recur,” he informed journalists at the State Palace here when questioned about the incident in which 40-year-old Marsim alias Japra was killed.

General Nurmantyo said he had

ordered the military police to con-duct an investigation to thoroughly probe this case and to court martial the military personnel involved in the criminal act against the civilian. The investigation process should be open and transparent to the public.

Thus, the people can directly

witness the trial process, so that they will know the verdict reached by the panel of judges, he pointed out.

The general affirmed that the army personnel who shot dead the civilian in Cibinong, Bogor District, West Java Province, on Tuesday afternoon, would be dismissed from

the TNI. According to local media re-

ports, the suspect, identified as Sec-ond Sergeant YH, shot Marsim after the motorbike he was riding might have scrapped YH’s car on Mayor Oking Road in front of Ciriung fuel station. (ant)

Powerful quake hits eastern Indonesia, reports of minor damageJAKARTA - A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck

eastern Indonesia on Wednesday, US seismologists said, with some reports of minor property damage but no casualties re-corded so far.

Military chief aplogizes for Cibinong fatal shooting incident

ANTARA FOTO/Didik Suhartono

Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan officially launched a sea toll program at the Tanjung Priok seaport on Wednesday.

Transportation minister launches sea toll program

The ruling Justice and Develop-ment Party, or AKP, which Erdogan founded and continues to lead from behind the scenes, scored a stunning victory in a parliamen-tary election Sunday, gaining back the majority it lost in a previous election just five months ago. The surprise win marked a turnaround for Erdogan, allowing him to move ahead with plans to consolidate his grip on Turkish politics.

The president has limited con-stitutional powers and Erdogan has long been pushing for constitutional changes that would give him the ability to govern. The prospect has

irked opponents who are already troubled by his ever-increasing authoritarian tendencies and often-polarizing rhetoric.

Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin told reporters that Erdogan believes a presidential system giving the head of state sweeping powers would make Turkey “jump up a league.”

“What is the best model for us? Taking into consideration the results of the Nov. 1 election, this is something that will be settled by asking the people,” Kalin said.

“This debate cannot be consid-ered independently from the people.

If the mechanism is a referendum then a referendum can take place,” Kalin added.

The party, however, is still 13 seats short of the 330 required to call a referendum on any consti-tutional change. Kalin did not say how those limitations can be over-come and it was not clear if the AKP would seek the support of other par-ties represented in parliament.

Kalin insisted that Erdogan wanted the system because he strongly believes it would be the best for Turkey and not for personal gains.

“Tayyip Erdogan has already made history. He is already a strong leader. He is also a strong leader in the people’s hearts,” Kalin said. “This is not a debate that should be pulled toward his person.”(ap)

LONDON — North Korea says the United States needs to end its “nuclear-based threats and blackmail” and respond to the North’s recent dip-lomatic overture to formally end the decades-old Korean conflict. Fighting ended in 1953 without a peace treaty, leaving North and South Korea still technically at war.

Speaking in an interview Tuesday in London with Associated Press Television News, senior North Korean Foreign Ministry official Jong Tong Hak said a permanent peace settlement on the Korean Peninsula first requires a North Korean-U.S. agreement.

Discussing North Korea’s view of the root cause of tensions, he blamed what he described as “the U.S. gov-ernment’s decades of hostile policies against the DPRK and its endless nuclear-based threats, blackmail and manipulative schemes.” North Korea’s official name is the Demo-cratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea, or DPRK.

He said Washington provides “strategic nuclear weapons” to South Korea, “in other words the nuclear-powered aircraft carriers it always pushes (toward the DPRK) and the strategic nuclear bombers it always has flying in the skies above the south-ern part of the Korean Peninsula.” Jong said a compromise to break the impasse requires decisive action by Washington.

“The issue of signing a peace treaty between the DPRK and the United States depends on the policy determi-nations of the U.S. administration,”

he said, adding that Washington must “make a policy decision to respect our republic’s sovereignty and end the decades-long hostility between the DPRK and the U.S. to guarantee peace in the Korean Peninsula.”

Last month, Sung Kim, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, described the North’s latest proposal for treaty negotiations as “disingenu-ous.” The two sides’ positions are so deeply at odds that it can seem like a chicken-or-egg situation.

Washington’s position — which is in line with ally South Korea — is that it is only open to talks on easing sanctions if the North makes it clear it is willing to negotiate an end to its nuclear program, stop developing long-range missiles that could reach foreign targets and live up to other international agreements.

North Korea, for its part, maintains that it must have a deterrent to counter the threat of a U.S. attack — nuclear or otherwise. The U.S. Congress, mean-while, is mulling whether the North should be designated a state sponsor of terrorism. That designation was lifted in 2008 during negotiations on its nuclear program that stalled soon after. Among the allegations was that North Korean-supplied rockets had been used against Israel by fighters from the militant group Hamas.

North Korea likes to point out that the U.S. has 28,500 troops stationed in South Korea. There are no foreign military bases in North Korea, though China was a key North Korea ally dur-ing the Korean War. (ap)

LONDON — British police and spies will get new powers to comb through citizens’ online activity under a new law regulating cyber-snooping.

The Investigatory Powers Bill, being published Wednesday, is designed to regulate authorities’ ac-cess to Internet activity. It replaces

a patchwork of laws, some dating from the Web’s infancy.

Home Secretary Theresa May has insisted that the government “will not be giving powers to go through people’s browsing history,” and says the law will contain safe-guards against abuse.

But civil liberties groups are

alarmed by reports that the govern-ment will make Internet service providers keep records of users’ Web and social media activity for a year so that they can be accessed as part of criminal or terrorist investigations. The bill has to be approved by Parliament before it becomes law. (ap)

AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

Senior North Korean Foreign Ministry official Jong Tong Hak poses before an interview with APTN in London, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015. North Korea says the United States needs to end its “nu-clear blackmail“ and respond to Pyongyang’s recent diplomatic overture to formally end the decades-old Korean conflict.

North Korea says bold action by US could open path to treaty

Turkey: Erdogan to revive bid for

executive presidentANKARA — Turkey could hold a referendum on consti-

tutional changes for a new political system, reviving a highly contentious push to increase the powers of the president, an aide to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday.

AP Photo/Presidential Press Service, Pool

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu attend a meeting at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015.

Britain seeks greater access to citizens’ online activity

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SEOUL — Hyundai Motor Co. said Wednesday it has launched a premium car brand named after its Genesis sedan to boost earnings and its share of the fast-growing global market for luxury vehicles.

South Korea’s largest automaker said that the Genesis brand begins with two sedans, including the namesake upscale car launched two years ago and a large flagship sedan slated for release next month.

It will add four more models including a sports coupe and sports utility vehicles by 2020.

The company began preparing for the brand in 2004. Hyundai had planned to launch it when it released the first Genesis sedan in 2008 but postponed because the global financial crisis dented sales of luxury cars.

Hyundai was the only major au-tomaker without a separate luxury brand.

The announcement is a “new start” for Hyundai, said Chung Euisun, a vice chairman and grand-

son of the company’s founder.Even though luxury cars account

for just 10 percent of global auto sales, they set technology and de-sign trends for the overall automo-bile industry and their sales growth has outpaced mainstream cars.

Hyundai hired Luc Donckerwol-ke, former chief designer at Bentley who also previously worked at Lamborghini and Audi, to work on Genesis models as well as Hyundai cars starting early next year.

The move comes after Hyundai’s latest quarterly profit slid to the lowest in five years.

Its sales in China dropped sharp-ly this year, like other foreign auto brands in China, due to heightened competition from Chinese carmak-ers. The automaker’s underestima-tion of strong demand for SUVs and a cheap Japanese yen that boosted rivals Toyota and Honda also con-tributed to its weak performance.

In South Korea, the company faced competition from German and Japanese cars. (ap)

Financial information company Markit says Wednesday that its composite purchasing managers’ index — a broad gauge of eco-nomic activity encompassing both the manufacturing and services sectors — rose to 53.9 points in October from the four-month low of 53.6 in September.

Anything above 50 indicates expansion and according to Markit October’s figure points to quarterly growth of 0.4 percent.

Markit’s chief economist Chris Williamson says the survey con-firms “steady but still somewhat lackluster” economic growth.

Of the four big eurozone countries, Spain is experiencing the highest rate of growth, with France once again proving to be the laggard. (ap)

SHANGHAI - China has set a deadline of this year to link trad-ing between the Shenzhen stock exchange and the Hong Kong market, the central bank chief said, following a similar connection with the Shanghai bourse.

China launched a landmark “stock connect” between Shang-hai and its special administrative region of Hong Kong in late 2014, opening up its closeted share market to the outside world and giving foreign investors access to Chinese companies not quoted elsewhere.

Trading through the Shanghai-Hong Kong link was initially lacklustre, although it later picked up during a huge rally in Chinese stocks before a bubble burst.

“The Shenzhen-Hong Kong connect will be launched this year, which shows China’s capital market opening a new route to link with the world,” Zhou Xiaochuan, head of the People’s Bank of China, said in an article posted on the PBoC

website on Tuesday.The southern boom town of

Shenzhen borders Hong Kong. As China’s second exchange, its bourse mainly trades small companies and technology stocks.

But the PBoC later updated the posting, clarifying that the article was based on an internal speech that Zhou delivered in May -- before the stock market bubble popped in June.

The Hong Kong exchange said in a statement the proposal was still subject to regulatory approval and no agreement had been entered into.

Still, investors cheered the news on Wednesday. The Shenzhen index surged 5.12 percent and the Shang-hai market jumped 4.31 percent, helped by hopes for economic re-forms and the market linkage.

“This is giving a big psychologi-cal boost to the Chinese stock mar-kets,” Ronald Wan, Hong Kong-based chief executive officer at Partners Capital International, told

Bloomberg News.“But optimism may wane soon,

given what has happened to the Hong Kong-Shanghai Connect,” he said.

The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect, which allows the equivalent of $3.8 billion a day in cross-border transactions, enables international investors to trade selected stocks on Shanghai’s tightly restricted exchange and lets mainland investors buy shares in Hong Kong.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said in March the country would launch a connect programme be-tween Shenzhen and Hong Kong “at an appropriate time” in a push for financial reforms, but gave no timetable.

The launch of the scheme was widely expected to be delayed after the plunges in Chinese stocks shook global markets. The bench-mark Shanghai index is down more than 30 percent from its June peak. (afp)

Hyundai Motor launches luxury car brand

China plans to link Shenzhen, HK stock markets in 2015

Eurozone displaying ‘steady but lackluster growth’

AP Photo/Michael Probst, File

LONDON — A closely monitored survey is showing that the 19-country eurozone economy is growing steadily but that there’s no sign of any marked lift-off despite a big stimulus from the European Central Bank.

In this Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015 file photo, Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, stands next to a copy of a 20 euro banknote in Frankfurt, Ger-many. A closely monitored survey is showing that the 19-country eurozone economy is growing steadily but that there’s no sign of any marked lift-off despite a big stimulus from the European Central Bank.

Nine kid gamelan troupes in Buleleng participated in the Utsawa Merdangga Gong Kebyar or gong ke-byar festival on the outdoor stage of the former Buleleng Harbor, Tuesday (Nov. 3). The troupes displayed their quality in playing gamelan face to face in the event featuring the theme Mana Madawa standing for mental revolution heading for hu-man noble nature.

The Utsawa Merdangga has been long enough be-coming an annual event in Buleleng to preserve cul-tural heritage of their ances-tors. It is inseparable from the belief that gong kebyar was created in Buleleng in 1914. First appearance of the gong kebyar art was made at a location between Bungkulan and Jagaraga village, Sawan.

In this Utsawa Merdan-gga Gong Kebyar, each gamelan troupe presented four gamelan compositions namely the tabuh pisan le-lambatan, Wiranjaya Dance gamelan music, creation gamelan and traditional games gamelan music. The kid gong kebyar troupe from Bontihing village also appears as a companion gamelan troupe.

The Head of the Buleleng Culture and Tourism Agency, Gede Suyasa, accompanied by the Art Section Head Wayan Sujana said that the kid gamelan troupe partici-pating in the event get prior-ity to display their creativ-ity in playing gong kebyar composition becoming an ancestral heritage. “This event serves as a medium for children to play gong kebyar gamelan music. The more often making performance, the better they will love the art heritage of the ancestors,” he said.

According to Sujana, all the participants performed their whole show. All the elements, like gamelan musi-cians, dancers, coaches and judges must be the native to Buleleng. Besides, the gamelan players are also obliged to use gong pacek instrument. (mud)

Headman of Wanasari, Ida Bagus Komang Widiana, accompanied by chief of Subak Babakan, I Wayan Yasa Giri, explained that the mouse hunt is taken after performing psy-chical (niskala) measure but it does not work to reduce mouse attacks at Subak Babakan in the second planting season of 2015. Psychical measure is taken by saying prayers at temples like the Pura Puseh of Wanasari, Tabanan Palace, Pura Pekendungan, Pura Batukaru, Pura Batu Lumbung and representation of Pura Besakih.

“This psychical measure is meant to request a reduction of mouse population. However, it remains rampant so that it is then decided to perform mouse hunt en masse,” said Widiana. He continued that

mice have started attacking subak areas at Wanasari village since last August. As a result, the harvest of farmers only reached 50-60 percent, while the rest has been destroyed and devoured by mice. At Wanasari village there are three subak organi-zations, namely the Subak Periukti, Subak Babakan and Subak Gung-gunan. All the areas are attacked by mice and so far only two subak areas namely the Subak Periukti and Subak Babakan that have performed mouse hunt.

Yasa Giri added that Subak Babakan has a land area of 48 hectares with 120 farmers divided into four subgroups or tempek. The mass mouse hunt system is carried out to reduce mouse population at Subak Babakan so that the rice in

the next planting season will not be damaged by this animal also named Jero Ketut. “Anticipative measure to curb mouse population is meant so that in the next growing season the number can at least reduce and the damage to the rice crop will not happen,” explained Yasa Giri.

He continued that his institu-tion has anticipated by appealing to farmers to set traps with poison when knowing the mouse attacks at Subak Periukti. “When hearing a mouse attack at Subak Periukti, I appeal to farmers to set poison. In fact, it is not effective and the harvest only reaches about 50-60 percent,” he said. On that account, since the poison trap does not work, the subak eventually decided to apply mass hunt system through demolition of active mouse hole. So, the active hole of the mouse is given sulfuric fumigation. Hope-fully, the mouse inside the hole will go out or die. The mouse com-ing out of the hole will be hunted together.

Aside from mouse attack, Giri Yasa also told that farmers also face water crisis in this planting season, so that farmers do not dare to plant having been scheduled this November. Subak Babakan is one of the subak areas in Tabanan that can do planting season three times a year. However, in 2015, it can only do twice where in the last planting season farmers suffered losses due to mouse attack. “The third plant-ing season stays uncertain due to waiting for rain. Now, there is still no water,” said Giri Yasa.

Commander of the Tabanan Subdistrict Military, Yudha Wicak-sono, explained that the activity could catch around 100 mice. He estimated that many mice died in the hole. “These mice go out one hour after the fumigation. Hundreds of mice can be captured while some others might die inside,” he explained. The Indonesian Military (TNI) deployed some 20 personnel to help residents do the mouse hunt at Subak Babakan. (kmb24)

Gong Kebyar Festival in Buleleng

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The mouse hunt is carried out to reduce the populatiaon of mouse in Subak Babakan at Wanasari village, Tabanan

Mouse hunt at Subak Babakan, hundreds die

TABANAN - After the Subak Periukti held mouse hunt en masse, similar activity was also carried out by Subak Babakan at Wanasari village, recently. Approximately 100 people consist-ing of subak members, residents and military personnel came down and joined the mouse hunt. As the result, hundreds of mice could be eliminated.

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As a result, a joint statement was canceled. Both host Malaysia and U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter discounted the significance of the failure, which reflected a split with China and other Asian nations over the South China Sea issue.

“I had no expectation there would be agreement,” Carter told a news conference, adding that the important point was that the South China Sea was a “persistent topic” of the conference. “Everybody raised it,” he said.

Carter defended U.S. Navy pa-trols in the contested waters that China objects to, saying the U.S. has been sailing in the South China Sea for decades to the benefit of regional security and economic prosperity. He said he planned to go aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt transiting the South China Sea on Thursday, accompanied by his Malaysian counterpart, Hisham-muddin Hussein, as a symbol of the United States’ commitment to promoting stability and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region.

What’s new and problematic, Carter said, is China’s land recla-mation and militarization of reefs and islets.

“What we sign on the joint dec-laration is not going to resolve the issue of duplicating claims nor is it going to wish vessels that are in the South China Sea away,” Hisham-

muddin said.He said that “our concerns are

more real ... unintended accidents at the high sea, which can spiral into something worse and that we must avoid.” The Southeast Asian group-ing will continue to engage China and the U.S. to ensure peace and stability in the region, he said.

Singapore Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen said that the dispute over the joint declaration was due to “differences in phrasing and interpretation.” But he said “all countries agreed on the freedom of navigation and all countries accepted international laws and norms.”

In a statement issued by the host country, Malaysia said the meeting noted the importance of the early conclusion of the code of conduct in the South China Sea — a set of rules meant to govern behavior in the disputed waters — “in order to build mutual trust and confidence, and maintain peace, security and stability in the region.” China has so far dragged its feet in conclud-ing discussions on the code of conduct.

American officials traveling with Carter said that China, which like the United States is not a member of the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations but was attending the defense ministers’ meeting as an invited partner, was

adamant that the meeting’s final public statement omit any men-tion of the South China Sea. The Americans argued that it would be better to make no joint statement at all rather than issue one that omitted mention of the contentious South China Sea issue.

China’s claims in the South China Sea are disputed by several countries in the region, including

Malaysia.At his news conference, Carter

was asked about his meeting Tues-day with Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan, where Chang told Carter that there is a “bottom line” to China’s patience with challenges to its territorial claims in the South China Sea.

Carter noted that in a September visit to the White House, Chinese

President Xi Jinping said he has no intention of pursuing militarization of the artificial islands his country is creating in the South China Sea.

“That’s the fundamental point,” Carter said, indicating the U.S. in-tends to hold Xi to his word. “We all must mean what we say,” he said. Carter said he has accepted an invitation by China to visit Beijing next spring. (ap)

BUCHAREST, Romania — Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced the resignation of his government Wednesday follow-ing huge protests in the wake of a nightclub fire that killed more than 30 people.

“I’m handing in my mandate, I’m resigning, and implicitly my government too,” Ponta said in a statement. He said he would stay on until a new government is in place.

“I am obliged to take note of the legitimate grievances which exist in society,” said Ponta. “I hope hand-ing in my and my government’s mandate will satisfy the demands of protesters.”

President Klaus Iohannis will name a prime minister to form a

new government, which needs to be approved by Parliament. If this fails twice, early elections will be called. Romania is scheduled to hold parliamentary elections in December 2016.

The mayor of the district in the Romanian capital where the night-club is located, Cristian Popescu Piedone, also resigned Wednesday, saying he is morally guilty for the deadliest fire in Romania’s his-tory.

Piedone said: “I assume the moral blame. As for the legal (blame) I will leave it to justice to pronounce.” He came under pres-sure to step down following mass protests through the city Tuesday night, with more than 20,000 dem-onstrators blaming widespread

corruption for the deadly blaze on Friday night.

Witnesses said the fire broke out during a heavy-metal concert in the basement club when a spark ignited foam decor, sending pan-icked people stampeding for the single exit. The death toll stands at 32, with some 130 still hospitalized, dozens of them in serious or critical condition.

Deputy leader of the opposition Liberal Party, Catalin Predoiu, hailed the resignations. “This is a victory of the street. It is a lesson for all politicians,” he said.

Thousands took to the streets the night before in a spontaneous protest calling for the resignation of Ponta, Interior Minister Gabriel Oprea and Piedone.(ap)

Romanian government resigns following protests

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Romanians fill the Calea Victoriei, a main avenue of the Ro-manian capital, during a large protest in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015.

China sea tensions stop joint statement at Asia defense meet

KUALA LUMPUR — Divisions within Asia over China’s claims in the disputed South China Sea spilled over Wednesday to a meeting of U.S. and Asian defense ministers, where China insisted the group make no public mention of the strategic waters in a joint declaration intended as a public display of unity.

AP Photo/Andy Wong

A worker is silhouetted as he cleans a window near mannequins on display at a shopping mall in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015.

NEGARA - Trucks carrying fish in some road sections at Pengambengan is complained and protested again by residents. Fish transporting trucks have made the roads slippery and often claim casualties. “I have fallen down for several times due to slippery road especially when cornering,” said Imam, one of the residents, Monday afternoon (Nov. 2).

It is said the trucks transporting fish without lining tarp causes water and oil to drip onto the road. Ultimately this condition makes the road slippery and prone to accidents. The issue has not got any solution for long time. Residents hope there will be a solution so that the road will be safer.

The Head of the Jembrana Trans-portation Agency, IGN Putra Riyadi, said on Tuesday (Nov. 3) that he has had time to gather entrepreneurs from Pengambengan and asked for their commitment to keeping the conve-nience of residents while delivering fish to factory. “Later we will make a raid and disseminate an appeal so that the trucks look for solutions and the water of fish will no longer splat-ter onto the roads. Besides, we hope the trucks do not exceed the capacity when transporting fish,” said Putra Ri-yadi accompanied by his staff, Wayan Sujana.

Previously, the Group Head of Pengambengan Fish Carrier who is also Chairman of the BPD Pengam-bengan, H. Yahya, said his group has consulted to road transportation agency related to the problem. He said the solution was to install a tarp. But the problem is that the tarp is torn when arriving at factory as it is drawn with hook. “Indeed, the cost does not cover,” he explained.

He said it is a dilemma because if they are cracked down on and prohibited, they will strike so that the fish will not be transported to factory and all parties will lose. His group is said to still be trying to find a solution. When installing fiber or fish box, the fish cannot be withdrawn.

Until now, he said there are 30 active trucks transporting fish to factories. Previously, the Head of the Jembrana Marine, Fisheries and For-estry Agency, Made Maharimbawa, already warned the truck drivers and employers at Pengambengan.

The agency even threatened if they are stubborn and the problems are not addressed, the route permit of carrying fish for the truck in the minapolitan core area of Pengambengan village will be revoked. The trucks have caused the road slippery so that it often leads to accidents. (kmb)

The regional botanical garden to be built is named the Jagatnatha Botanical Garden. Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of the botanical garden development was carried out by Regent I Putu Artha and the Head of the LIPI Iskandar Zulkarnain, Mon-day (Nov. 2) at Wisma Wijah Loka of the Eka Karya Botanical Garden Tabanan witnessed by Deputy Re-gent of Jembrana Made Kembang Hartawan, a number of LIPI high officials and the agency heads of the government of Jembrana.

The LIPI Head, Iskandar Zulkar-nain, said that so far the botanical garden is only known as a tourist attraction, but actually it also has a much higher value like plant conser-vation inside and outside the botani-cal gardens. In botanical garden, we can save rare species or the species of plants around us. By preserving the species we can certainly prevent injustice to our future generations. “In some places in Java some plant species are already extinct and noth-ing is left. It is an injustice to the next generations,” said Zulkarnain.

The botanical garden itself has a variety of functions for the long term and short term, and the five main functions of the botanical

garden are as conservation for rare and endangered species, as a research site—meaning that after preserving they are then studied in relation to the benefits, as venue of education, as venue of recreation and economic empowerment of lo-cal communities, as seen in the Eka Karya Botanical Garden.

The Jagatnatha Botanical Gar-den has a different type among the botanical gardens commonly located on highlands. It is a kind of lowland and urban botanical garden resembling the one in Purwodadi having warm climate. The Jagat-natha Botanical Garden spreading across an area of eight hectares is much smaller than the Purwodadi Botanical Garden with an area of 87 hectares. “To us, the area is not a problem because we have actually ever seen a botanical garden in Eu-rope in the area of one hectare only. Most importantly, the function can be maximal,” added Zulkarnain.

In Indonesia, there are five bo-tanical gardens managed directly by the LIPI, such as the Bogor Bo-tanical Gardens, Cibodas Botanical Garden, Purwodadi Botanical Gar-den, Eka Karya Botanical Garden and Eco Park Bogor. As for regional botanic garden, so far there have

been 22 botanical gardens through-out Indonesia. In 2015 it is initiated five regional botanical gardens and Jembrana is the first county in Bali having such a botanical garden.

Its source of fund is taken from the budget of the ministry and or institutions, regional budget and other legitimate non-binding sources. Construction of the Jagat-natha Botanical Garden is targeted to complete in five years. Never-theless, there is possibility if the government of Jembrana is strongly committed it can be accomplished within three years.

Regent Artha has great hope related to the construction of the re-gional botanical garden. “Hopeful-ly, the construction of this regional botanical garden can help improve the economy of surrounding com-munities. Later on, we hope that travelers coming from the Island of Java, will not just be passing through Jembrana, but also drop in and have recreation in the Jagatna-tha Botanical Garden. In addition, we can introduce the potential of tourism and culinary treasure of Jembrana,” said Artha.

Other than serving as tourist at-traction, Artha also advised that the plant species to be planted in the Jagatnatha Botanical Garden will have something to do with facilities of Balinese ceremonies and healing that can be preserved and studied for the benefit of society. “I am targeting the development of this botanical garden can last for three years,” he added. (kmb26)

AMLAPURA - Retention ba-sin project in Karangasem is not effective to address water crisis for residents at barren villages in Karangasem. As evidence, more than 12 retention basin projects have been established in Karan-gasem, but residents still face water crisis in dry season.

It was delivered by two legisla-tors of the Karangasem House of Representatives, Gede Dauh Su-prapta and Nengah Rinten, a few days ago in Karangasem. Dauh Suprapta from Tianyar Barat, Kubu, said that residents at barren vil-lage in Kubu and other villages in Karangasem constantly face clean water crisis beyond rainy season. He asked the water pipeline project of Telaga Waja to be streamed because the project has spent hundreds of billions of rupiahs. “We hope the Te-laga Waja water pipeline project can quickly drain water. Our residents at Kubu located away from wells on the beach are screaming due to clean water crisis beyond rainy season,” said Dauh Suprapta.

Legislator Nengah Rinten from Bantas hamlet, Baturinggit, Kubu, said that a retention basin was established at the foot of Mount Agung at Bantas about seven years

ago. However, the water has long run out. When the water remains available, it can only be taken advantage by a few families in the vicinity.

Residents of Bantas and sur-rounding areas have faced water crisis since a few months ago. They are forced to purchase clean water at quite expensive price due to urgent need for drinking, cook-ing, washing face and drinking for cattle. There is also water assistance from certain agencies. However, the clean water is insufficient to support all the residents. He hoped the water supply from pipeline project can be optimized, so that it can ease people’s burden in the mountains and desolate village during dry season.

On the other hand, the Chief Executive of the Karangasem Di-saster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), Ida Ketut Arimbawa, delivered two days ago in Karangasem that the agency has made cooperation with the BPBD Bali and other agencies to distribute clean water assistance. A few days ago at Nawa Kerti vil-lage, Abang, was distributed 10,000 liters of clean water to 55 families. It poses the aid of the BPBD Karan-gasem and BPBD Bali. (013)

Retention basin ineffectiveResidents still face clean water crisis

Transportation Agency holds fish truck raid

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The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of the botanical garden development was done by Regent I Putu Artha(left) and the Head of the LIPI Iskandar Zulkarnain, Monday

Jembrana to have first regional botanical garden in Bali

NEGARA - The government of Jembxrana will have a new tourist destination in the form of the regional botanical gar-den. In contrast to botanical garden owned by the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) managed by central government, the Jembrana Botanical Garden is the first regional botanical garden in Bali managed by local government whose stage is assisted by the LIPI.

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She giggles as the aerobics in-structor shouts -- “Swagger! Like you are going to meet someone famous!” -- then she and a dozen seniors throw shoulders back, lift their knees high and strut around the exercise studio.

Abbott is what scientists refer to as a “super-ager,” and she is taking part in a $3.2 million study that aims to uncover the secrets to staying sharp and healthy into old age.

While some hunt for medications to treat or prevent dementia, others, like University of Miami neuropsy-

chologist David Loewenstein, are interested in why some people are spared altogether.

“I study Alzheimer’s disease, but if we want to unlock the mysteries of the brain we also have to know why some people age successfully,” said Loewenstein.

The five-year study funded by the National Institutes of Health is open to people age 63 to 100 who have not been diagnosed with de-mentia, and who are either in good mental shape or have early signs of memory failure, known as mild cognitive decline.

Loewenstein is particularly in-trigued with how some people seem to be able to fend off memory loss, whether by genetic, environmental or other means.

He cites studies involving autopsies on people 85 and above -- a population in which about one in three suffers from dementia.

Nearly another third of this age group have post-mortems that reveal significant hallmarks of dementia -- known as plaques and tangles in the brain -- but seemed just fine while alive.

“How can people function at these higher levels? Science has not been able to answer that,” said Loewenstein.

“And that is what we are trying to figure out.”

Of the 100 people enrolled in Loewenstein’s study so far, more than 40 live at East Ridge, a re-tirement village that resembles a typical suburban neighborhood in south Florida, with wild pea-cocks roaming beneath the palm trees, people driving around the manicured grounds on golf carts, and rows of single-story homes divided into multiple apartment units.

Such tranquility does not come cheap. Residents must pay $111,000 up front, then a monthly rent of $2,700 or more, depending on the size of their living space.

Soon after arriving seven years

ago, Gwen North, a retired kinder-garten teacher who appears decades younger than her age of 85, took on the responsibility of running the thrift store.

“I work probably six days a week,” she said, happily.

At age 86, her husband Art is known as the go-to-guy around town -- perpetually ready to chat, share information, or fix electronics that have broken.

Art and Gwen have already taken memory tests and are giving samples of their spinal fluid so that it can be studied for the earliest biological markers of aging. They have even arranged to donate their brains for further study after they die. (afp)

‘Super-agers’ study may reveal secrets to staying young

RIO DE JANEIRO - Once taboo, cosmetic surgery for Brazilian men is advancing at a rapid pace, with one male going under the knife every two minutes, experts said in an article Sunday.

Plastic surgery quadrupled among men from 72,000 to 276,000 opera-tions annually from 2009 to 2014, a study by the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery said.

That’s an average of 31.5 opera-tions per hour, according to an article on the study in the newspaper Estado de Sao Paulo.

The main reason for the change is cultural, with a lowering of bias against men undergoing these procedures, S.P Luiz Henrique Ishida, director of SBCP, told Estado.

“Additionally, in Brazil, cosmetic surgery is seen as a popular process and the country is a world leader in this field,” he added.

Last year, 712,902 cosmetic pro-cedures were performed across the country, with participation by men climbing from 12 percent of the total in 2009 to 22.5 percent in 2014.

The most popular operation for males is breast reduction with 80 percent of surgeries performed on adolescents, followed by liposuction and eyelid procedures, according to SBCP.

Most patients are between the age of 20 and 50, but a larger portion of seniors still in the workforce may be contributing to the rise.

“A tired look is seen as a negative thing in the labor market,” said the director of SBCP, which comprises some 5,800 surgeons.

“There are patients who are 70 who have operations because they have an active social life or to appear more compatible with their partner” who is younger, he said. (afp)

MIAMI - Mary Helen Abbott, 77, paints her lips bright pink, still smokes the occasional cigarette, keeps up on all the gossip at the retirement home and wears a short skirt to fitness class.

One cosmetic surgery every two minutes for Brazil men

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Once taboo, cosmetic surgery for Brazilian men is advancing at a rapid pace, with one male going under the knife every two minutes, experts said in an article Sunday.

Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, known in India as “Chotta Rajan,” has been on Interpol’s most wanted list for two decades. He was ar-rested Oct. 25 when he arrived at Bali’s airport from Sydney.

He was to have been deported Tuesday night from Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport.

Police Maj. Pande Sugiarta said the deportation was delayed until

Wednesday because of volcanic ash spewing from Mount Rinjan on nearby Lombok Island.

Nikalje, who was carrying a passport with the alias Mohan Kumar, was arrested based on a notice from Interpol and following a tip from Australian authorities in Canberra, police said.

Nikalje, 56, told Indonesian police that he had been hiding in

Australia for seven years and flew to Bali for a vacation.

Indian Interpol officials ac-companied by diplomats from the Indian Consulate in Denpasar investigated Nikalje and arranged his deportation.

Indian media have reported that Nikalje was accused of involvement in several mafia killings and other crimes in his homeland.

Bali police spokesman Col. Heri Wiyanto said Nikalje had refused to answer all questions about his alleged crimes. (ap)

AMLAPURA - Declaration of Bugbug village into the Globally Im-portant Agriculture Heritage System (GIAHS) of the FAO seems increas-ingly to become a reality. Bugbug village is eyed on by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as having unique regional character-istic. As one of the old villages in Bali, so far it is able to preserve the nyegara-gunung or seaward-moun-tainward farming concept based on the Tri Hita Karana.

As the part of the GIAHS site as-sessment, the FAO team eventually came down to location to Bugbug village, last weekend.

The Head of the Karangasem De-velopment Planning Board (Bappe-da), I Ketut Sedana Mertha, said that the GIAHS team of the FAO based in Rome, Italy was led by Dr. Na-gata accompanied by Prof. Dr. Hadi Susilo Arifin (a lecturer of the Bogor Agricultural University) and a lec-turer of the Faculty of Agriculture, Udayana University. The team came to Bugbug village to make an assess-ment as a follow up of the proposal submitted by the GIAHS Indonesia delegation team to the Secretariat of the FAO in Rome.

To note, the determination of Bug-bug village as a GIAHS model in In-donesia because it has regional char-acteristic that may be the only one in Indonesia. At that time, based on the assessment results by the IPB Bogor, the existence of agricultural system at Bugbug village is very complete. Among others, there are irrigated or paddy field agriculture with its subak organization, non-irrigated ag-riculture or plantation, farm, marine activities with its fishermen group as well as the unique and very powerful customary village because Bugbug village as one of the old villages in Bali still preserves various traditional and customary activities.

“The nyegara-gunung agricultur-al concept based on Tri Hita Karana

stays to be preserved and imple-mented at Bugbug. It is inseparable from the endeavor of local residents to include it in the protection of local customary village,” affirmed Sedana Merta. Dr. Nagata through Dr. Hadi Susilo delivered that other than the assessment of GIAHS location at Bugbug village, the FAO GIAHS team also conducted an assessment to Seraya village being famous for its corn cultivation and Sibetan vil-lage with its snakefruit orchard and panoramic view of paddy fields.

Results of this assessment will be utilized as reference to make perfect the GIAHS reconstruction proposed

by Karangasem. Furthermore, the proposal will be proposed back to the FAO in Rome.

“After that, the FAO Secretariat will establish a steering committee consisting of three countries and scientist group of three people that will make a decision on the determi-nation,” said Dr. Hadi Susilo.

Regional Secretary of Karan-gasem, Adnya Mulyadi, said that after determining Bugbug village as a candidate location of the GIAHS, some local government programs have been implemented such as the construction and improvement of ag-ricultural infrastructure, institutional

strengthening of local farmer groups, subak and fishermen, improvement of farmer resources through counseling and provision of agricultural financ-ing through grants and loans.

Besides, it also helps the market-ing through cooperatives. Another is through regulation, namely by controlling land conversion through the making of Regional Bylaw (Perda) on Determination of Ev-ergreen Paddy Fields and Sustain-able Food Agricultural Land. With this effort, Karangasem hopes that Bugbug village can be designated as the FAO GIAHS.

Before the arrival of the FAO GI-

AHS assessment team, the FAO team already visited Bugbug village on November 21, 2014, after the Deputy for Community Empowerment Af-fairs of the Ministry of Human De-velopment and Cultural Affairs filed Bugbug village as one of the models for Natural Resources Management Based on Community Empowerment or the FAO GIAHS.

The Regent of Karangasem at that time, I Wayan Geredeg, already flew to Rome on July 7-12, 2015 to meet the invitation of the FAO to describe about the conditions of Bugbug village in the initiation of the FAO GIAHS. (kmb31)

Deportation of Indian fugitive delayed

AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati

Indian fugitive Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, known in India as “Chotta Rajan,” left, is escorted by plain-clothed police offi-cers for questioning in Bali, Indonesia, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015. The deportation of an alleged Indian crime boss being held on Indonesia’s Bali Island was delayed Tuesday by the closure of the airport because of volcanic ash, police said.

DENPASAR — The deportation of an alleged Indian crime boss being held on Indonesia’s Bali Island was delayed Tuesday by the closure of the airport because of volcanic ash, police said.

Bugbug village draws attention of FAO

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Bugbug village is eyed on by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as having unique regional haracteristic. As one of the old villages in Bali, so far it is able to preserve the nyegara-gunung or seaward-mountainward farming concept based on the Tri Hita Karana.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

The restaurant offers a remarkably cool atmosphere because it is perched in the middle of green paddy fields entertained by the sounds of beautiful nature.

Once tried, you will definitely get ad-dicted. Friendly services inspired by the values of Balinese culture will be able to create a cozy atmosphere, so that you will like eating and lingering at the Umanyar Restaurant and Agrotourism. Moreover, when having meals with the beloved one, friends or family in the afternoon you will be presented with a beautiful sunset view. The amazing yellow, red and orange colors in the west horizon slowly sinking into the trees and green paddy will create memories of its own.

The Pork Rib flagship menu a là Uman-yar is very tasty. It has advantages in the preparation process made in three times of cooking. First of all, it is soaked in Balinese seasoning, boiled with special seasoning and then grilled with rubbed seasoning. Later in the presentation, it is also served with seasoning. Thus, it offers a very characteristic flavor that will be suitable for both local and foreign tongue.

Another special menu is no less deli-cious, namely gourami served with torch ginger condiment offering a unique flavor. It uses very special hand-made coconut oil

prepared by local community. Kaffir lime freshly picked from local garden also sup-ports the delicious flavor. Other menus are gourami with coconut milk, barong goura-mi, spiced tilapia and gourami served with plecing condiment. “Foreign travelers are very fond of this cuisine,” said A.A. Istri Agung Mahadewi, the owner.

The vegetables served are also very dis-tinctive. Although they are the same as the vegetables in general, with refined spices and typical method of cooking they can offer different taste. They are the Roroban Jukut Paku, Serombotan, Plecing, Sambel Tuwung and Jukut Urab. There are also sop ayam jejeruk and gourami soup tasting good and preferred by travelers. “Our rib soup is a perfect combination of Balinese and Chinese cuisine with the presence of star anise and cloves,” added the graduate of the Food Crop Studies.

Other than food, the Umanyar Restau-rant and Agrotourism opened every day from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. also provides a variety of classical drinks. The drinks are made by in-house processing and take advantage of ingredients picked from the garden of local community. There are some 15 types of drink such as the es rujak bir, daluman, es campur kenyem manis and es cincau.

The restaurant lies in the middle of the

lotus pond and surrounded by paddy fields with plants adapted to local subak planting rotation. Sometimes, they are planted with corn, garden balsam and paddy. This restau-rant is also equipped with facilities like ga-

zebo, meeting room, fishing pond and stage. “The types of plant are always changing in conformity with the rules of subak. We are also members of the subak so that we must obey it,” said Mahadewi. (kmb)

Umanyar Restaurant and AgrotourismMANGUPUrA - Have you got a fantastic place to eat? If you have not, simply

try to come to the Umanyar restaurant and Agrotourism on Jalan raya Sibang Gede - Angantaka, Sibang Gede, Abiansemal. various menus served are very tasty and delicious and without the use of MSG.

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Now, farmers very much hope the help of local government. Moreover, the subak is located just a few meters in front of the Tampaksiring Presi-dential Palace, so that the overlay of paddy fields at the location has become a decoration before entering the palace.

As seen at Subak Saraseda of Tampaksiring village, the overlay of paddy field is dry as well as the land turns white and cracks. Paddy plants also look yellow because it never gets water and they mostly have died. “Paddy plants at Subak Saraseda are dominantly three months old, but since they are never exposed to water from the beginning they wrinkled and even died because they cannot grow,” said chief of Subak Saraseda, I Wayan Gerandung.

He stated that such dry condition

is experienced by the entire area of Subak Saraseda, reaching 20 hectares. Wayan Gerandung explained that such condition occurs due to lack of water from the springs at Pura Galiran, Manukaya Tampaksiring. “Due to prolonged dry season this year, water discharge at Pura Galiran continues to shrink. As a result, three subak areas namely the Subak Saraseda, Subak Bangketan at Manukaya Anyar village and Subak Manukaya Let relying on water irrigation are currently experi-encing drought,” he explained.

When asked about the presence of springs at Pura Tirta Empul, Wayan Gerandung said the water from the temple becoming a tourist attraction only irrigates the area of Subak Pu-lagan to the south. Subak Saraseda is located higher so that it cannot take advantage of the water source.

“Water resource of the three subak areas is experiencing drought, and now only relies on the springs at Pura Galiran,” he said.

He confirmed that a number of farmers at Subak Sareseda will ex-perience crop failure this year due to the lack of water. Currently he can only hope that the long dry season can soon end and it will rain. “If the dry season does not prolong like this, we should have harvested in next 15 days. Now, all the paddy plants do not bear fruits and farmers at this subak area suffer losses,” he complained.

Now, he is just hoping that local government can provide compensa-tion for farmers experiencing harvest failure. Moreover, Subak Saraseda is located just a few meters from the front of the Tampaksiring Presidential Pal-ace. “Yes… if possible, we hope local government can provide us assistance. Moreover, all this time the overlay of our paddy fields has become a verdant decoration before entering the presi-dential palace because it is adjacent,” he concluded. (kmb35)

According to Kariyasa Ad-nyana, both local governments and universities have actually been moving in order to em-power the agricultural sector in Bali. Unfortunately, both im-portant components supporting the successful development of agriculture seem to run inde-pendently so that the outcome is never optimal. Actually if the great potential owned by both parties can be synergized, there is great hope if it can create bet-ter condition for the agricultural development in Bali.

“As academician, the expert at universities is continuously making a research in the field of agriculture but rarely ap-plied in the community. On the other hand, local governments are rarely willing to exploit the results of research to improve the productivity of farmers in Bali. This happens because both parties have no coordination and communication or move on their own,” he deplored.

When contacted separately, a researcher and agricultural analyst of the Udayana Uni-versity, Dr. GN Alit Susanta Wirya, acknowledged that higher education institutions in Bali continuously carry out techno-logical research and develop-

ment activities because they are requirements of the three tasks of the higher education. Various studies are also conducted in the field of agriculture. Most of the research products are applicable so that they can be taken advan-tage by farmers to increase their agricultural production. Unfor-tunately, only some few results of the research are disseminated to farmers so that they cannot be utilized optimally to resolve the problems they face. “We also hope there will be synergy between local governments and universities,” he said.

He did not dismiss that syn-ergy between researchers and local governments to apply the results of research directly by farmer remains low. As a result, a lot of applicable and helpful research results to increase the productivity of their agricultural products are only on display in library.

“As researchers, we actually have an interest that the results of research made with great dif-ficulty can be adopted by farm-ers. Of course, here we need the participation of local government to disseminate and apply the re-sults of the research to farmers,” he said while adding that utiliza-tion of the results of research by universities can become one of the breakthroughs to boost the agricultural sector currently in sluggish condition. (ian)

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Kariyasa Adnyana

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Some hectares of farm land at Subak Saraseda, Tampaksiring village, are confirmed to experience crop failure due to drought. This condition has taken place due to lack of water discharge from springs at Manukaya village since three months ago.

Drought for three months

Subak in front of Tampaksiring Palace

fails to harvestGIANyAr - Some hectares of farm land at Subak Saraseda,

Tampaksiring village, are confirmed to experience crop failure due to drought. This condition has taken place due to lack of water discharge from springs at Manukaya village since three months ago.

Authorities had closed the Ngu-rah Rai International Airport on the resort island late Tuesday due to a large ash cloud drifting from Mount Rinjani, an active volcano on the nearby island of Lombok. Two smaller airports on Lombok island and East Java were also shut.

“The (Bali) airport remains closed until 8.45 am (0045 GMT) tomorrow (Thursday). The wind has blown the volcanic ash towards Bali in such a way that it covers the sky around the airport, making con-ditions unsuitable for flying,” Bali airport official Yulfiadi told AFP.

Airport manager Trikora Harjo said 692 flights, including 320 international ones, were cancelled between Tuesday and Thursday. Yulfiadi said 106 were scrapped on Wednesday alone.

Australian airlines Virgin Austra-lia and Jetstar cancelled all Tuesday flights, deeming conditions unsafe for flying, with Virgin also scrap-ping its roster for Wednesday.

Thousands of stranded tourists

were seen sleeping and sitting around at the airport, but Harjo said “everything’s going smoothly”.

National Disaster Management Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said the wind was blow-ing the ash in the westerly direction towards Bali. “Seismic activity and eruptions of the volcano continue at a higher intensity,” he said.

“There was an eruption this morning, where the volcano spewed ash 1,500 metres to the sky,” he added. Ash from a different volcano -- Mount Raung on Indonesia’s main island of Java -- stranded thousands of passengers on Bali for days during the peak holiday season in July.

A G R I -CULTURAL sector in Bali s e e m i n g l y

continues to get troubles. Other

than hit by drought disaster causing farmers to cry out because of crop failure, pest attack also comes after another. As a result, the position of farmers is increasingly

pinched. The other problems are their difficulty to improve production and quality of agricultural products. To overcome these issues, provincial government of Bali as well as county/municipal government are expected to establish synergies with universities, particularly those having the Faculty of Agriculture in order to empower the agricultural sector of Bali.

“In my opinion, synergy with the

universities is very urgent to em-power the agricultural sector,” said Deputy Chairman of Commission IV of the Bali House of Representa-tives, Ketut Kariyasa Adnyana.

According to this bachelor of agriculture graduating from the Udayana University, the synergy between local government and uni-versities is absolute. So, to make a binding synergy, both parties need

to sign a kind of memorandum of understanding (MoU) equipped with clauses on the obligations and responsibilities to be implemented by both parties. For example, universities have the obligation to carry out applicable research to resolve agricultural problems in Bali including the eradication of pests attacking crops, while local governments have the obligation to

disseminate and apply the results of research to farmers.

“In this context, local govern-ments surely have the obligation to provide a budget to support the implementation of research con-ducted by the universities,” said Kariyasa Adnyana.

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Man City beats Sevilla 3-1 to advance in Champions League

NEW YORK — Duets will take center stage at the American Music Awards. Luke Bryan will perform “Home Alone Tonight” with Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild, while Meghan Trainor will sing “Marvin Gaye” with Charlie Puth at the Nov. 22 show at the Microsoft The-ater in Los Angeles. Trainor will also sing her hit single “Like I’m Gonna Lose You.”

Jennifer Lopez will host the fan-voted show, to air live on ABC. Previously announced performers include One Direction, Carrie Underwood, Selena Gomez, Nick Jonas, 5 Seconds of Summer, Demi Lovato and Walk the Moon.

Taylor Swift has a leading six nominations, while Ed Sheeran and the Weekend are up for five awards each.

Trainor, Sam Smith, Nicki Minaj, Sam Hunt and Walk the Moon are nominated for three awards apiece. (ap)

The answer kicking off the lat-est James Bond film, “Spectre,” is a doozy. Beginning with the words “the dead are alive” across the screen, director Sam Mendes opens on a long shot through the Day of the Dead in Mexico City, tracking Bond (Daniel Craig), masked but unmissable in a skeleton costume, through the fes-tive throngs. He ushers a woman (Stephanie Sigman) out of the masses and into her bed, only to disrobe into a suit, step out the window and stride down the ledge. Finally spying his real prey, explosions follow, walls collapse and the resulting chase spins into a helicopter careening over a mobbed Zocalo Square.

It’s a sequence of such startling audacity (some 1,500 extra were used) and gorgeous black-on-sepia tones that a nagging desire to hit “rewind” persists through the rest of “Spectre.” Handsome and riveting as it often is, the film never again reaches such heights.

“Spectre” is Craig’s fourth Bond movie and his muscular tenure has been defined not just by his full embodiment of the character, but his overall stewardship. His ability to attract top-notch talent, in front and behind the camera, and to imbue the spy series with a seriousness of pur-pose reads in every frame.

Having ushered 007 through the Eva Green highs of “Casino Royale,” the overwrought lows of “Quantum of Solace” and the climactic extrava-gance of “Skyfall,” ‘’Spectre” finds Craig’s Bond pursuing the video-taped orders of Judi Dench’s late M in a more traditional 007 plot. Her instructions lead him to a shadowy international criminal organization led by a longtime Bond villain, Franz Oberhauser (Christoph Waltz).

The pursuit skirts the snowy

peaks of Austria, the cloak-and-danger cobblestones of Rome and the Mediterranean maze of Tangier, with enough corresponding outfit changes to stock a runway show. Bond is operating outside of MI5, where new head Max Denbigh (Andrew Scott) is overhauling the intelligence services with digital surveillance that he says will render the old-fashioned 00 program obsolete.

The surveillance reference is a mostly shallow attempt at political depth. But such self-aware conflicts between new and old now constantly bounce throughout Bond films. The mythology, fearful of showing its age, is perpetually torn down and built back up again like an ever-rebooting superhero. “Spectre,” scripted by John Logan, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, feels more like the latter. For the first time, all of Craig’s reinven-tion hasn’t carried Bond all that much further than where the spy always was — especially when it comes to the women that adorn “Spectre.”

First there’s Monica Belluci as the widow of the man Bond kills in Mexico City. He sleeps with her after picking her up at the funeral. She’s quickly dispatched for Madeleine Swann (Lea Seydoux), whose family connections bring Bond closer to the elusive Oberhauser.

Seydoux, the French actress of “Blue is the Warmest Color,” gives the film a jolt, but the romance between Swann and Bond is slight and the character is little more than Bond’s usual love interest. That said, the seductive Seydoux and the sinewy Craig make an attractive pair. When they eventually arrive at a remote Sahara outpost, they could really just stay there, handsomely smoldering in the dry heat like a Hemingway couple. (ap)

‘Spectre’ stirs, doesn’t shake old Bond formulas

Where to go when 53 years of action-scene set pieces have exhausted seemingly every exotic corner of the Earth? How much globe can a globe-trotter trot?

Jonathan Olley

In this image released by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/

Columbia Pictures/EON Productions, Daniel Craig, left, and Lea

Seydoux appear in a scene from the James Bond

film, “Spec-tre.” The movie releases in U.S.

theaters on Nov. 6, 2015.

Luke Bryan, Meghan Trainor set for American

Music Awards

To overcome issues in agricultural sector Government asked to team up with universities

Closure of Bali airport extends to Thursday

DENPASAR - Indonesia will extend the closure of Bali’s international airport to Thursday due to ash from a nearby erupting volcano, officials said Wednesday, grounding hun-dreds of flights.

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Volcanic ash billows from the crater of Mount Rinjani which is photographed from East Lombok, Indonesia, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015. Thousands of tourists are stranded on three Indonesian islands after ash from the Mount Rinjani volcano forced the closure of airports and blanketed villages and farmlands.