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LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winner Christian Bale -- best known for his star turn as Batman in the

blockbuster “Dark Knight” films -- will play Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in an upcom-ing biopic.

“We needed the best actor on the board in a certain age range and that’s Chris Bale,” the film’s screenwriter Aaron Sorkin said, in an interview with Bloomberg Television posted online Thursday.

Sorkin, who won an Academy Award for his screenplay for “The Social Net-work” about Facebook and its co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, said giving the lead role to Bale was an easy call.

“He didn’t have to audition,” said Sor-kin, although the writer said “there was

a meeting” before the British-born actor was given the part.

“He has more words to say in this movie than most people have in three movies combined,” said Sorkin, who is writing the script for Sony Pictures based on the 2011 biography “Steve Jobs,” by Walter Isaacson.

“There isn’t a scene or a frame that he’s not in. So it’s an extremely difficult part and he is going to crush it,” Sorkin said.

The Apple inventor’s storied life already has been ren-dered on the big screen in last year’s drama “Jobs” starring Ashton Kutcher, which received lukewarm reviews.

Bale received a best supporting actor Oscar in 2011 for his role in the “The Fighter,” in which he plays the older brother of a washed-up boxer struggling to revive his career.

The actor had a breakout performance as the lead actor in the 2000 movie “American Psycho,” and also earned a lead actor Oscar nomination for his turn in last year’s “American Hustle.”

The 29-year-old -- probably best known for the Hollywood block-buster “Pirates of the Caribbean” films -- will take on the lead role in the tale of love, lust, betrayal and guilt, which will officially open on October 29, 2015.

Knightley will play Therese, who has made peace with her loveless marriage to a weak man when she embarks on a passionate affair

that ends in tragedy.The adaptation -- based on the 19th century novel -- is

by Helen Edmundson, and the production will be directed by Evan Cabnet.

Knightley first rose to prominence in Britain with the smash-hit film “Bend It Like Beckham.” She was nomi-nated for a best actress Oscar in 2006 for her portrayal of Elizabeth in “Pride and Prejudice.”

She made her West End debut in London with Mo-liere’s “The Misanthrope” in 2009.

Keira Knightley to make Broadway debut in 2015Agence France-Press

NEW YORK - British actress Keira Knightley will make her Broadway debut next year, starring in a new adaptation of the Emile Zola novel “Therese Raquin,” New York’s Round-about Theatre Company an-nounced Thurs-day.

Joel Ryan/Invision/AP

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“Since 2009, the Lake Batur has become a national priority because it has already been quite high polluted lake. Although in 2013 showed a decline in pollution or there has been a recovery, but con-dition of the lake is still relatively polluted,” said the Head of Con-

servation and Natural Resources, the Bali Environment Agency, Ida Bagus Badraka.

Badraka added, in addition to pesticides, domestic waste as well as toilet waste, the pollution in the Lake Batur was also caused by livestock farming and fisheries in the form of

floating net cages. As a result, the pollution could not be maximally reduced. So far, his party had at-tempted a communal septic tank and made biogas from livestock manure so that the waste was not directly discharged into the lake.

“Pollution in Lake Batur is in-deed the most severe because it is more complex, let alone a floating net cage whose growth is remark-able. This causes higher pollution due to the existence of feed materi-als and others that can fertilize the lake water,” he explained.

Meanwhile, added Badraka, the Lake Beratan and Lake Buyan were

polluted due to some agricultural activities at the surrounding areas using pesticides and herbicides. In Lake Beratan, the pollution was also coupled by tourism activity related to the use of boats consum-ing gasoline or diesel fuel.

“In the upcoming year 2015, we will also propose the Lake Beratan and Lake Buyan to central govern-ment to be included in the national priorities in two stages, as in the case of Lake Batur of the first stage. Lake Beratan will be worked on first and then followed by Lake Buyan. Where possible, both will be worked on simultaneously,” he explained.

Badraka hoped that all elements of society and related offices in the province and the county to work together in tackling pollu-tion of the lakes. Moreover, there was only one lake, namely Lake Tamblingan, whose condition was relatively better than the other three lakes. Badraka added that Lake Tamblingan actually started to lead to pollution.

“Anyway Tamblingan has start-ed to get polluted. If left unchecked, the pollution of the lake will affect the water supply, especially to the surrounding community,” he con-cluded. (kmb32)

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

The file photo shows the view of Buyan Lake at Buleleng Regency. Three of the four lakes in Bali namely the Lake Batur, Lake Beratan and Lake Buyan are polluted. Mean-while, another lake, namely the Lake Tamblingan, also begins to get polluted like the three other lakes.

Three out of four lakes polluted

Clean water supply at risk

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Three of the four lakes in Bali namely the Lake Batur, Lake Beratan and Lake Buyan are polluted. Meanwhile, another lake, namely the Lake Tamblingan, also begins to get polluted like the three other lakes. The most severe pollution happens to Lake Batur due to the use of fertilizer, pesticides, domestic waste and bathroom waste.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Calendar Event for September 28 through October 28, 2014

8 Sep Kajeng Kliwon Pamelastali/Watu Gunung runtuh

Pura Penataran Agung Maha GotraTirta Harum Sri SrenggaNyalian Banjarrangkan Klungkung30 Sep Paid-PaidanPura Dalem Seme JawaMarga Tabanan

1 Oct Urip2 Oct Patetegan3 Oct Pengeradanan

4 Oct Hari Saraswati

Pura Pasek Tangkas Dalang TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Sayan BongkasaAbian SemalPura Watu Gunung BimaPura Agung Jagat Karana SurabayaPura Aditya Jaya Rawa MangunJakarta TimurPura Pemekasan Banyuning TimurBulelengPura Agung Wira Lokha Natha CimahiJawa BaratPura Kawitan Bendesa Aban BaturningMambal Abiansemal

5 Oct Banyu Pinaruh

6 Oct Soma ribek

Pura Jati JembranaPura Kawitan Batu Gaing BangliPura Tirta Wening SurabayaPura Desa Lingga Wana Abang Karan-gasem

7 Oct Sabuh Mas

8 Oct Pagerwesi Dan Purnama Sasih Kapat

Pura Labang SinduJiwa Ubud

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

13 Oct Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan

18 Oct Tumpek Landep

Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem SidakaryaSidakarya DenpasarPura Pasek Gelgel Pedungan DenpasarPura Agung Pasek Tangguntiti TabananPura Agung Pasek Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Tangkas Kediri TabananPura Kerta Banyuning Barat BulelengPura Dalem Tenggaling SangguanSingapaduPura Kawitan Arya Wangbang PinatihPeguyangan SingarajaPura Bujangga Waisnawa JembranaPura Taman Bubuan Seririt SingarajaPura Penataran Pande Dalem BaturMengwiPura Dalem Pingit TegalalangPura Ida Ratu Pande BesakihPura Penataran Agung Pinatih TulikupGianyarPura Kumuda Saraswati UbudPura Batur Arya Sudimara TabananPura Dalem Majapahit Marga TabananPura Linggih Pajenengan Ida DalemTarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati

19 Oct redite Umanis Ukir

Pura Sanggah Gede Dukuh Sagening TegalTugu Gianyar

22 Oct Buda Cemeng Ukir

Pura Pajenengan kawitan Arya TaumanGelgel KlungkungPura Pasar Agung BesakihPura Pasek Bendesa Pasar Badung LegianKutaPura Gde Gunung Agung MungguBadung

23 Oct Tilem Sasih Kapat24 Oct Hari Bhatara Sri28 Oct Anggara Kasih Kulantir danKajeng Kliwon Enyitan

Bali PostSEMARAPURA - Long dry season does not

only fail the harvest of rice crops, but also sweet corn at the village of Satra, Gelgel to Tangkas, Klungkung. Dozens of the corn plants were suddenly damaged, where the stalk looked to shrink. As a result, the expanse of corn plants cannot bear fruit.

The most serious condition is experienced by farmers at Subak Toya Cau, Gelgel village. As a result, people will only see the growing high plants, but they never bear fruit. One of the local farmers, Ketut Ledang, 60, said that such con-dition almost happened to throughout his corn acreage. Actually, at such age the plant should grow flowers and bear fruit to be harvested soon. “However, only the stalk grows well while it does not bear fruit,” he said.

The damage did not occur due to lack for fer-tilization or water, but it was dominantly caused by very hot weather throughout this long dry season. Actually his party had performed spray-ing but it seemed not to work well. However, the results were still heavily damaged.

Unavoidably such condition led to harvest failure to all crops around the cultivated area. Aside from corn, similar condition also happened to chili and balsam flowers. As a result, he was forced to cut down the whole corn plants for fodder. He said the damage to corn crop acreage on his land and that of his friends was due to mump. Prolonged dry season had triggered the disease increas-ingly violent and attacked almost all corns. Thus, the corn could not bear fruit but only bloomed, and then died. Such disease was often experienced by farmers in the subak

area. He asserted that such condition already occurred around the fourth and fifth month in Balinese calendar (mid-September to mid-November). “However, this year is the most severe,” he complained.

Meanwhile, another farmer at Satra vil-lage, Sujani, said that no fruits could be har-vested due to such condition. Then, farmers suffered huge losses. On the 1,000 square meters of land, the production cost reached more than IDR 5 million. Since the planting, he had never harvested at all. Even, other than being damaged due to weather condition like this, the price also dropped in the market. When facing the adverse condition, farmers expected a subsidy from the local government to reduce the burden of their losses.

The area of Jalan Bypass Ida Bagus Mantra, from Lepang village eastward to Kusamba, Klungkung, has become the center of sweet corn cultivation area in Bali. The acreage reaches tens of hectares. It is supported by soil fertility and adequate nutrients for corn plants demanded by many people from all walks of life. Ev en, many corn fields were contracted directly by sweet corn collectors from Denpasar when the corn began to grow. Meanwhile, some areas are also directly managed by farmers having adequate capital. When contracted directly to collectors, all the production costs are usually given by collectors ranging from the fertilizer and the maintenance.

Sweet corn products of Klungkung are usu-ally marketed in Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar and Karangasem. Several hectares of other corn acreages are also conveyed to meet the needs of consumers in Tabanan. (kmb31)

The Head of Gianyar HIV/AIDS Mitigation Commis-sion, Made Mahayastra, said on Sunday (Oct 26) the indi-cation on a deliberate attempt to spread the HIV virus could cause an explosion of HIV/AIDS cases in Gianyar. Nev-ertheless, his party guaranteed that people with HIV/AIDS in Gianyar would not spread it deliberately because they had received intensive assistance from volunteers and activists. “We’ve made an approach to every HIV infected victim,” he said.

To anticipate the HIV vi-rus, Mahayastra doubling as Deputy Regent of Gianyar had increased coordination with activists and volunteers in order to intensify the dissemi-nation and coordination. In ad-dition, his party also increased

the outreach to all schools in Gianyar County. “We are targeting schools and coop-eration with NGOs to make socialization and prevention,” he said while appealing to the youth in order to anticipate the newly known women.

As information, the data of the Bali Health Agency handed over to KPAK Gian-yar indicated that cumulative finding of the HIV/AIDS cases from 1987 to June 2014 amounted to 9,365 people living with HIV/AIDS in Bali. Denpasar had the most findings namely 3,811 cases followed by Buleleng (1,702 cases) and Badung (1,378 cases). Meanwhile, Gianyar lay in fourth position with 707 findings, with 270 cases of AIDS sufferer and 437 cases of HIV sufferer.

Finding of the case also continued to show an increase each year, where in 2011 was recorded to reach 405 cases of HIV/AIDS, increased to 446 in 2012 and increased again in 2013 to 582 cases. Then, until June 2014 it increased significantly to 707 cases. Even, this figure was expected to continuously grow until the end of the year.

However, based on the finding of the case by July 2013, a total of 30 underage children were infected by HIV/AIDS where three chil-dren belonged to 5-14 years old group. The highest case happened to the age range of 1-4 years old amounting to 19 children. More ironically, eight infants of less than one year old have been infected by HIV/AIDS. (kmb35)

IBP/File Photo

HIV/AIDS’ counselors gathered to discuss explosion of cases in Bali.

Beware of HIV explosions in GianyarBali Post

GIANyAr - A rumor mentioning that two AIDS-infected women wishing to spread HIv virus to teenagers and man masher has resulted in a concern to many people. Moreover, Gianyar ranked fourth in terms of the number of HIv/AIDS sufferers in Bali has caused the HIv/AIDS Mitigation Commission (KPAK) of Gianyar to continuously improve counseling and supervision in anticipation of the HIv virus.

Prolonged dry season Dozens hectares

of corn plants damaged

IBP/Bagiartha

Long dry season does not only fail the harvest of rice crops, but also sweet corn at the village of Satra, Gelgel to Tangkas, Klungkung. Dozens of the corn plants were suddenly damaged, where the stalk looked to shrink. As a result, the expanse of corn plants cannot bear fruit.

The competing chefs, bartend-ers and baristas were representa-tives from Archipelago’s eclectic Bali hotel collection which com-prises 18 hotels & villas. Held on Saturday, October 18, 2014 at the Aston Ungasan Hotel & Convention Center, the event has attracted much enthusiasm from practitioners and foodies as well as students and job seekers who eagerly applied for employment opportunities with Indonesia’s largest hotel group.

During the cooking competi-tion, each participant was asked to prepare a 2 course meal consisting of a seafood based appetizer and a meat based main course. The proud winners where I Made Sudarmadi

and Dwi Mahendra Saputra , both Senior Chefs with the Aston Un-gasan Hotel & Convention Center, whose creations excelled through a straight forward simplicity, good taste and the maximization of lo-cally produced ingredients .

The Bartender Competition, was won by Ni Luh Putu Eka Tari from the Kamuela Sanur Villas & Suites which comes to no surprise given the Kamuela’s popular Cara-mel Restaurant and Bar which has a loyal mostly European and quite demanding clientele. The title for Archipelago Bali’s best Barista went to I Gusti Bagus Putra Sesana from the five-star Grand Aston Bali Beach Resort.

“The Archipelago Culinary Fes-

tive has become a regular annual highlight. It succeeds in showcas-ing our local talent and motivating our Balinese associates to aspire to new heights. As the largest em-ployer on the island it has become increasingly important for us to foster team spirit and a friendly but competitive environment and to recognize overachievers while simultaneously addressing young upcoming job seekers showing them that while employment in the tourism industry might come with hard work and long hours it has definitely its rewards and can result in a satisfying and fulfilling carrier “ said Winston Hanes, Ar-chipelago’s Bali based Regional General Manager. IBP/Courtesy of Archipelago International

The 4th Archipelago culinary festive 2014IBP

DENPASAr - The 4th Archipelago Culinary Fest 2014 & Job Fair is an annual cooking, barista and bar mixing competition combined with a mass recruiting event held in Bali by Archipelago International, one of Indonesia’s leading hotel operators with a portfolio of more than 90 hotels, resorts and serviced residences in Indonesia, Philippines and Malaysia.

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Bali Post

GIANYAR - Though no rain and no flooding, the color of wa-ter flowing at the Tegenungan Waterfall, Kemenuh village, Su-kawati subdistrict, was murky. It was also a question raised by a number of travelers coming to the Tegenungan Waterfall tour-ist attraction. They were made to question when seeing the Tegenungan Waterfall looking brownish and murky.

On Sunday (Oct 26), tourist visit to Tegenungan Waterfall was quite crowded. Even, the staff at ticket counter recognized that visiting guests to the tourist attraction reached a daily aver-age of 50 people. Such crowded arrival occurred between 12:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m.

Unfortunately, the quite great potential of Tegenungan nature tourism owned by Gian-yar County was in apprehensive condition. Travelers wishing to

see the beautiful Tegenungan Waterfall were disturbed by the condition of the polluted water. Allegedly, the pollution was caused by sandstone quarry activities in the upstream area, around the Petanu streams at Kemenuh village, Sukawati. “Murky color of the water is the case happening for a long time, after the last Eid,” said one of the traders at Tegenun-gan area.

Similar condition was also recognized by one of the tour-ist guides, Ngakan Bona, who often escorted travelers to the Tegenungan Waterfall. He had repeatedly escorted travelers to the waterfall and found the water condition murky and light brown. The murkiness seemed to look a little better. On nor-mal days, the water sometimes looked murkier and browner, he said.

Admittedly, one of the visi-tors also questioned about such

water condition and he was forced to answer with a lie where the murky water was said to happen due to a repair project to a cliff at the upstream area. Such a reason had to be given as the reason of rain was not possible, considering the weather was fine and it did not rain at all. “We have to tell lies to travelers that it happens due to cliff repair so that they will not complain,” he said.

For this condition, as the tourism practitioner such condi-tion was certainly very worrying for him. Amidst the environ-mental conservation discourse conducted by Gianyar govern-ment, on the one hand, there was the fact related to the en-vironmental degradation that could create a bad image on the environment in Gianyar in the eyes of world community because the Tegenungan Water-fall was visited by many foreign travelers. (kmb16)

Made Sugianta, 40, a visitor from Denpasar, who happened to come with his family said that he had come to Yeh Sanih springs for two times. He noticed that some facilities were still not complete and functioning optimally, including the structure of lazy river where the water in the lazy river was still not flowing and only slightly flooded the pool. “We have visited this spring with family for the second time. Now, the Yeh Sanih spring is good enough, even though the facilities are not yet complete. The lazy river still looks not optimal, the water is just stagnant without flowing water,” he said.

He added the pool revetment made from stone should be leveled because the stones tended to be slippery and they were considered quite dangerous for visitors, espe-cially young children. “If possible, the pool revetment must be leveled. When stones are stacked in natural shape, it will allow a lot of moss to grow and make them slippery. Just now my son got slipped. Thank-

fully, he was fine,” he added.Meanwhile, the Head of Bule-

leng Culture and Tourism Agency, Ketut Warkadea, explained that the development of Yeh Sanih Spring was still in the process and the management was delegated to Yeh Sanih customary village. Never-theless, he did not dismiss if the water discharge of the pool tended to diminish and did not function optimally. “We indeed admit if the water discharge of Yeh Sanih is small. Moreover, the condition of the old pool experiences many leaks. Supposedly it is the duty of the Yeh Sanih management to restore so that the water discharge will be maximal,” he said.

Warkadea said the improvement plan and funding support had been allocated at the beginning of 2014. “Indeed, the local government al-ready allocated a restoration fund for Yeh Sanih spring early 2014. Approximately it reached IDR 500 million,” he said.

The development of Yeh Sanih was expected to increase the do-

IBP/Dewa Kusuma

Construction of lazy river at Yeh Sanih springs, in Kubutambahan subdistrict is still not functioning optimally. The utilization of lazy river that should be drained with water flow on a regular basis is even not maximized.

Local government needs optimizing management of Yeh Sanih springs

Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Construction of lazy river at Yeh Sanih springs, in Kubutambahan subdistrict is still not functioning optimally. The utilization of lazy river that should be drained with water flow on a regular basis is even not maximized. As a result, visitors still faithfully utilize the main pool located in the middle area.

mestic and foreign tourist visits. He revealed that it required a repair in stages related to the supporting facilities and infrastructure. “We do not know about the future plan

related to the repair of Yeh Sanih tourist attraction. It is required a breakwater to protect the sea water from entering the pool and lazy river from the north. Recently, the

project contractor was fined at IDR 40 million due to lack for volume or the workmanship did not match the time limit and the results of the project work,” he said. (dgk)

Water at Tegenungan Waterfall turned murky

IBP/Agung Dharmada

Though no rain and no flooding, the col-or of water flowing at the Tegenungan Waterfall, Kemenuh village, Sukawati subdistrict, was murky.

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Nearly 50 years ago, scientists found bones of two large, powerful dinosaur arms in Mongolia and figured they had discovered a fearsome critter with killer claws.

Now scientists have found the rest of the dinosaur and have new descrip-tions for it: goofy and weird.

The beast probably lumbered along on two legs like a cross between TV dinosaur Barney and Jar Jar Binks of Star Wars fame. It was 16 feet (5 meters) tall and 36 feet (11 meters) long, weighing seven tons, with a duckbill on its head and a hump-like sail on its back. Throw in those killer claws, tufts of feathers here and there, and no teeth — and try not to snicker.

And if that’s not enough, it ate like a giant vacuum cleaner.That’s Deinocheirus mirificus, which means “terrible hands that look

peculiar.” It is newly reimagined after a full skeleton was found in Mongolia and described in a paper released Wednesday by the journal Nature. Some 70 million years old, it’s an ancestral relative of the modern ostrich and belongs to the dinosaur family often called ostrich dinosaurs.

“Deinocheirus turned out to be one the weirdest dinosaurs beyond our imagination,” study lead author Yuong-Nam Lee, director of the Geological Museum in Daejeon, South Korea, said in an email.

When scientists in 1965 found the first forearm bones — nearly 8 feet long — many of them envisioned “a creature that would strike terror in people,” said University of Maryland dinosaur expert Thomas Holtz Jr, who wasn’t part of the study. “Now it’s a creature that would strike bemusement, amazement.”

And yes, he said, “it’s pretty goofy.”The find is tremendous but is a cautionary tale about jumping to conclu-

sions without enough evidence, said University of Chicago dinosaur expert Paul Sereno, who wasn’t part of the discovery.

It also reminds us that evolution isn’t always what we think, Sereno said.

“This is evolution in a dinosaur — not a mammal — world,” Sereno said in email. “The starting point is a two-legged animal looking somewhat like a fuzzy-feathered ostrich. Now you want to get really big and suck up lots of soft vegetation. In the end you look like a goofy Michelin ostrich with fuzz and a tail — not a cow.”

Lee figures the tilted wide hips and massive feet show that Deinocheirus was a slow mover and probably grew so big to escape from being regularly feasted on by bigger dinosaurs.

It had a beak that could eat plants, but it also had a massive tongue that created suction for vacuuming up food from the bottoms of streams, lakes and ponds, Lee wrote.

Originally Lee’s team couldn’t find the dinosaur’s skull, but a tip from an-other researcher led them to recover it from the private market in Germany.

Some kids will soon adopt this dinosaur as their favorite, Holtz said, “and those are kids with a sense of humor.”Scientists described the world’s

highest known Ice Age settlements, two archaeological sites about 2.8 miles (4.5 km) above sea level and about 12,000 years old packed with artifacts including a rock shelter, stone tools, animal bones, food rem-nants and primitive artwork.

“What this tells us is that hunter-gatherers were capable of colonizing a very extreme environment, the high Andes, despite the challenges at the end of the Ice Age,” said archaeologist Kurt Rademaker of Germany’s University of Tübingen, who led the study published in the journal Science.

“And they did so quite success-fully. It pushes back the date of initial entry of humans to this kind of elevation.”

The sites in an Andean locale called the Pucuncho Basin were oc-cupied by small numbers of people, probably only in the dozens.

“Bands of hunter-gatherers are small and not many could fit into the rock shelter, perhaps just a few families,” said University of Maine archaeologist Dan Sandweiss, an-

other of the researchers.The researchers said the sites

show high-altitude human habitation was occurring nearly a millennium earlier than previously known.

“We look at the challenges and we say, ‘Why would you do that when you could just live somewhere else?’” Rademaker said. “Whatever reason they initially went up there, there were reasons to stay despite the challenges.”

At that altitude, temperatures averaged 37 degrees Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius), solar radiation was high and oxygen was low. But there also were animals like vicuña and guanaco - llama relatives - and taruca deer to hunt, the rock shelter, water in streams, bogs and wetlands, and stone like obsidian to make tools.

The tools included spear points, scrapers for working animal hides and implements for cutting and butchering. “A lot of the stone tools seem to be all about hunt-ing and processing of animals,” Rademaker said.

The ceilings of the natural rock

shelters were blackened with soot from fires. The researchers found an abundance of animal bones as well as potato-like starchy tubers that apparently were gathered from lower elevations.

There also was art on the walls of the rock shelters including red ochre pictographs of animals, with some entire wall sections painted red.

“We don’t know whether they date back to the earliest occupation of the site,” Rademaker said.

An open-air site called Pucuncho 14,300 feet (4,355 meters) above sea level yielded hundreds of tools. The Cuncaicha rock shelter featured two alcoves and likely served as a base camp at 14,700 feet (4,480 meters).

Some experts think people need to acquire genetic adaptations over many thousands of years to with-stand such altitudes. But the fact that people colonized these sites only about 2,000 years after humans first entered South America may suggest otherwise.

“We have to re-examine that idea,” Rademaker said.

REUTERS/Kurt Rademaker

Cunchaicha rock shelter in Peruvian Andes is shown in this handout image released on Oc-tober 22, 2014. In a bleak, treeless landscape high in the southern Peruvian Andes, bands of intrepid Ice Age people hunkered down in rudimentary dwellings and withstood frigid weather, thin air and other hardships.

Ice Age people dwelled high in Peru’s AndesReuters

WASHINGTON - In a bleak, treeless landscape high in the southern Peruvian Andes, bands of intrepid Ice Age people hunkered down in rudimentary dwellings and withstood frigid weather, thin air and other hardships.

Goofy dinosaur blends Barney and Jar Jar Binks

AP Photo/Michael Skrepnick

This undated handout image provided by Michael Skrep-nick, Dinosaurs in Art, Nature Publishing Group, shows a Deinocheirus.

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BANGLI - The fire in bamboo forest occurred at Kayubihi hamlet/village, Bangli, Sunday (Oct 26). To anticipate the fire from spreading, a unit of fire truck of Bangli government was de-ployed at the scene. The fire scorching around half hectare of bamboo forest was triggered by fire used by the bam-boo collector to shoo bees nesting in the bamboo.

The Head of Bangli Regional Di-saster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), Wayan Sugiarta, when asked for his confirmation said the bamboo forest on fire was owned by one of the local residents, I Nengah Cindra. The fire oc-curred around 11:30 a.m. To anticipate the spread of fire especially in the dry

season this time, the extinguishing ef-fort was immediately taken by residents led by local hamlet chief. To speed up the extinguishing process, a unit of fire truck belonging to the Bangli govern-ment was deployed to put out the fire. With such an effort, the fire could just be extinguished around 2:00 p.m. “Due to the incident, the area of bamboo for-est on fire reached approximately half hectare,” he said.

When asked about the cause of the fire, Sugiarta said it was triggered by negligence. Prior to the fire, the bam-boo collector wanted to shoo some bees nesting in the bamboo by using fire. But unexpectedly, the fire was difficult to control until it magnified and burned the bamboo trees in the vicinity. (ina)

Chief of Tulang Nyuh customary village, Nengah Sudarna, when met at his home on Sunday (Oct 26), said the villa development process had been going on since two months ago. He claimed to have made a site inspection. Initially, the location of villa construction was known to be on behalf of Wayan Sabda. Appar-ently, having been traced, the land spreading across approximately 6,000 square meters was sold to one of the investors whose identity was hidden by local workers.”When I checked, in fact it has not owned a permit from local government. Meanwhile, it did not make any coordination with local customary village,” said Sudarna.

He emphasized that his party did not prohibit any investors from developing at the village. However, at least the investors should comply with the awig-awig or bylaw of the local customary village. Moreover, the development activities used the facilities owned by customary village like the road to the project. Local residents finally protested after the road along some 1 km was made severely damaged as the proj-

ect vehicles buzzed about every day. To avoid any problems between the residents and the project owner, he admitted to have made coordination with the village authority and the Klungkung Integrated Licensing Office. Both parties stated to have not issued any recommendations or license for the villa development.

The customary village finally sent a letter of complaint to the Integrated Licensing Office and Municipal Police. In essence, the letter con-tained that the villa establishment was without coordination with lo-cal customary village. Besides, the location was considered too close to the Dalem Temple of Tegak village, precisely in the area of Subak Abian Gunung Sari. The villa building was about 200 meters from the Dalem Temple and 300 meters from the Puseh Temple. The customary vil-lage also immediately reported the party alleged to build the project, known as Jaelani Nariyanti after get-ting information from the workers. “Responding to our complaint, the Municipal Police have come down and discontinued the project works last week. But, later the project

started to do its activities again,” he said when accompanying to the project location.

His party urged the villa con-struction to comply with the cus-tomary village bylaw and the rules of local government. If the workers were still stubborn, his party would report it directly to the judiciary team to discipline this week. In addition, his party would also im-mediately organize a meeting of

Tulang Nyuh customary village. When inspecting the location, the villa construction was just limited to the making of foundation on the area of about 0.60 hectare. Approximately 11 workers were still casting the project foundation. No one dared to give information about the villa development. The workers just smiled when asked by reporters.

The stubborn workers were quite

surprising because the Municipal Police had time to reprimand in order to stop the project works. However, the workers still contin-ued their activities. Chairman of the Klungkung Judiciary Team, Made Kasta, when contacted on Sunday said that the villa construc-tion was not licensed. He asserted that his party would immediately come down to the project location. (kmb31)

Unlicensed, residents protest against villa developmentBali Post

SEMARAPURA - Residents of Tulang Nyuh customary village, Selat village, Klungkung protested against the construction of villa at local village. It happened because the villa construction was done without permission, either from the local customary village or local government. The project was once reported to Municipal Police and the activities were stopped. However, the workers remained to actively build the foundation of the villa.

IBP/BagiartaResidents of Tulang Nyuh customary village, Selat village, Klungkung protested against the construction of villa at local village. It happened because the villa construction was done without permission, either from the local customary village or local government.

Intend to shoo bees, half hectare of bamboo forest on fire

IBP/SwasrinaThe fire in bamboo forest occurred at Kayubihi hamlet/village, Bangli, Sunday (Oct 26). To anticipate the fire from spreading, a unit of fire truck of Bangli government was deployed at the scene.

After scraping by with 51.6 per-cent of the vote in a runoff against center-right challenger Aecio Neves on Sunday, Rousseff spoke of na-tional reconciliation as she seeks to restart a stagnant economy, push po-litical reform through a fragmented congress where she now has less support, and respond to widespread popular demands to improve woeful public services. These frustrations sparked angry street demonstrations just a year ago.

In her victory speech, Rous-seff said “dialogue” was the first promise for her second term — but it remains to be seen how much the opposition will cede to her ideas of a statist economy given that growth has stalled, though she has managed to keep unemployment at record lows.

The president said she under-stood demands for a more efficient, less corrupt government. “That’s why I want to be a much better president than I have been until now,” she said after the election results were announced.

During the Workers’ Party time in power, the government has en-acted expansive social programs that have helped pull millions of Brazilians out of poverty and into the middle class, transforming the lives of the poor.

But the globe’s seventh-largest economy has underperformed since 2011, with some fearing it could put the social gains at risk.

“Dilma has social inclusion on her side, but the macroeconomic policies during her first four years in office have been very weak,” said

Carlos Pereira, a political analyst at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil’s leading think tank. “Infla-tion has returned, the country is in a technical recession and public spending is out of control. It is less likely she will be able to offer so-cial inclusion and macroeconomic stability at the same time.”

The choice between Rousseff and Neves split Brazilians into two camps — those who thought only the president would continue to protect the poor and advance social inclusion versus those who were certain that only the contender’s market-friendly economic policies could see Brazil return to solid growth.

Rousseff and Neves fought bit-terly to convince voters that they could deliver on both growth and social advances. This year’s cam-paign was widely considered the most acrimonious since Brazil’s return to democracy in 1985, a battle between the only two par-ties to have held the presidency since 1995.

Associated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE — A few thousand protesters allied with Haiti’s opposition marched through the capital on Sunday demanding the chance to vote in legislative and local elections that are three years late, among other grievances.

Placard-waving demonstrators started their rally in the downtown slum of Bel Air, burning piles of rum-soaked wood and hold-ing up their voting cards to show they were ready to cast ballots. Some carried placards showing the bespectacled image of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who is confined to his home in a Port-au-Prince suburb amid a war of wills with a Haitian judge investigating corruption allegations against him.

Earlier this year, President Michel Mar-telly called for legislative and municipal elections overdue since late 2011 to take place on Sunday. But the vote has been postponed due to an ongoing stalemate over an electoral law between the government and six opposition senators.

“We came out today to vote but there is no place to vote,” said Wilson Paulo, an un-employed 65-year-old shantytown resident as he stood next to a small fire burning in the middle of a trash-strewn road. Another election protest took place in the northern

city of Cap-Haitien.Martelly’s draft electoral law has been

languishing in the Senate for over 200 days even though the terms of 10 senators expire in mid-January and the country has faced mounting pressure from the U.N. and U.S. to organize the vote before Parliament is dissolved. Voters need to elect one-third of Haiti’s 30-member Senate and fill numerous other posts across the nation of roughly 10 million people.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe said the electoral stalemate is “embarrassing” for the country. He blamed the opposition senators, noting that in order to hold an election the Parliament must first authorize an electoral law.

“They have never been able to convene a session to put the vote forward. This is unfair to the people, this spinning in place and not wanting to provide the law for the election by a group of six extremist senators,” Lamothe said Saturday during a Cabinet retreat in a south coast town.

But the six opposition senators deny they’ve been holding up the elections and are instead defending the Haitian Con-stitution. They have been complaining of exclusion and unfair advantages by the government, along with other opposition figures.

Challenges face Brazil president after re-election

AP Photo/Eraldo PeresBrazil’s President Dilma Rousseff celebrates her victory at a hotel in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014. Official results showed Sunday that President Rousseff defeated opposition candidate Aecio Neves of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, and was re-elected Brazil’s president.

Associated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was re-elected by the narrowest margin in three decades, handing her left-leaning Workers’ Party its weakest mandate as it confronts some of the country’s biggest challenges in years.

Protesters rally in Haiti capital demanding vote

AP Photo/Dieu Nalio CheryDemonstrators march during an anti-government protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014. A few thousand protesters allied with Haiti’s opposition marched through neighborhoods of the capital demanding the chance to vote in legislative and local elec-tions that are three years late, among other grievances.

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Gianyar County has now had a newly es-tablished tourist attraction. Known as Taman Nusa, it offers captivating scenery. It is sur-rounded by cliffs and lush tropical forest with the views of sea, mountains and the overlay of terraced rice fields. Meanwhile, its entrance gates are unique that will take visitors into the atmosphere of ancient time deeply exuding traditional culture and civilization.

It is located on Jalan Taman Bali, Blahpane Klod hamlet, Sidan village, about 25 km east of Denpasar. This tourist attraction offers a panorama of tropical nature of the Indone-sia graced with cultural tourism, customs, traditional houses and museums to the art crafts of Indonesian society in the present and past time.

President Director of the Taman Nusa, Santoso Senangsyah, said the idea of the al-ternative tourist attraction in Bali originated from his concerns about the condition of the Indonesian culture that was increasingly

marginalized today. It was less enthused by younger generation and impressed that no one cared. “Departing from the phenom-enon, it then appears the idea to establish a center for cultural preservation of the na-tion,” he said.

The tourist attraction performing its soft opening earlier this year was built as a cul-tural tourism park of Indonesia doubling as the presentation of Bali for Indonesia and the world. “We hope, the Taman Nusa can serve as a means of tourist attraction, education, conservation and research on the Indonesian culture,” he hoped. Through the Taman Nusa, explained Santosa, his party wanted to feature the existence of cultural heritage to the world community. Visitors were invited to explore the panorama of the time passage of Indone-sia from the ancient time to the pre-history, the kingdom era of the archipelago, cultural village, until Indonesia attained its indepen-dence. (kmb)

The Head of Bangli Revenue Services, Ketut Riang, when met recently admitted that several res-taurants in Kintamani stated to dis-continue their operation. Through-out 2014, at least three to four restaurants also declared to end its operation. As many restaurants closed in Kintamani, automatically the regionally generated revenue of Bangli from hotel and restaurant tax sector reduced.

Riang admitted the bankruptcy of a number of restaurants in Kintamani was kindled by the existence of tariff war among the restaurateurs. To stop the condi-tion, his party claimed to be unable to do much. Local government could not restrict the price sold to travelers.

At separate location, Chairman of the Indonesia Hotels and Restau-rants Association (PHRI) of Bangli Chapter, Ketut Putranata, said that the tariff war had become one of the causes making few restaurants in Kintamani closed. However, according to him, the main cause

was the unclear spatial planning of Kintamani.

Many restaurants went bankrupt in the area because the view on sale was hampered by buildings of restaurants located on the east side of the road. As a result, the restau-rants standing on the west side of the road did not get the view and they no longer had an appeal. He believed it was one of the impacts that triggered many capital owners to increasingly build a restaurant on the east side of the ravine bor-derline and neglected the spatial plan rules. “I hope this situation can end here without any further destruction. Without a good will of the parties involved in the construc-tion, especially when seeing the current condition, I am pessimistic that tourism development towards the better condition for all parties will be difficult to materialize,” he explained.

Related to many restaurants choosing to commit tariff war, he claimed that all this time the PHRI was difficult enough to invite the

restaurateurs and find solutions to the problems. His party got dif-ficulty to invite them, let alone sit together to talk about the problem. “Employers do not have awareness

of looking for solutions for the problem at hand. We want that all parties are benefited, not harmed. However, this good intention seems to have not been realized,” said

Putranata. It was exacerbated by the fact that local government seemed to close its eyes and didn’t care about the condition of tourism in Kintamani. (ina)

Bali Post

DENPASAR - A shooting case by air-soft gun occurred at Laplap hamlet, East Denpasar, Saturday (Oct 25). The victim was identified to have the initial As and he was shot by KS due to having an argument when meeting at restaurant. As a result of the offense, KS was then detained at the East Denpasar Police.

“We are still processing the case and the suspect has been arrested. The evidence has also been secured. There is information if they want to resolve the case peacefully,” said the Chief of East Denpasar Police, Wimboko, Sunday (Oct 26).

Chief of the Criminal Investigation Unit, Dony Bayuanggoro, added that the victim and perpetrator initially met at a food stall. Since they previously had an unresolved problem, they were then engaged in a quarrel. However, the quarrel did not last long and the two men went home.

“The victim lives at Laplap hamlet,

while the perpetrator lives at Gunung hamlet, Penatih village, Denpasar,” said Donny.

A few minutes later, the perpetrator looked for the victim to his home. When arriving at his home and met with the victim around 02:00 in the morning, the perpetrator shot him with an airsoft gun. Fortunately, the victim dodged and the shot afflicted his temple. “Temple of the victim was injured as a result of the shot. After that, the perpetrator ran away,” he said.

After receiving the report on the inci-dent, police officers came down directly to the scene. In addition, some investiga-tors looked for the perpetrator at his home accompanied by the local hamlet chief. KS was directly arrested and taken to police station, including the evidence.

Chief of Criminal Investigator regret-ted the incident whereas the case could be resolved amicably or through legal solution. Possession of a weapon without a permit was also prohibited, let alone to be abused. (kmb36)

Arguing at food stall ends in shooting

Taman NusaA cultural park with Indonesia panorama

Worrying, tariff war of restaurants in KintamaniBali Post

BANGLI - More and more hotels and restaurants throughout the area of Kintamani tourism area choose to close and cease their opera-tion. Unfair competition marked by tariff war is considered to be one of the triggers of such bankruptcy. Although it has become a protracted classical problem in Bangli, so far there has been no attempt made the businesses and government to find the solutions to the problem.

IBP/File PhotoTourists ate at one of restaurants in Kintamani. More and more hotels and restaurants throughout the area of Kintamani tourism area choose to close and cease their operation.

Australian Trade Minister An-drew Robb said officials had laid the groundwork for the conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal, which would en-compass 40 percent of the global economy.

“Over the course of our weekend meeting, we have spent a consider-able portion of our time in one-on-one discussions,” said Robb, who hosted the Australian leg of the discussions in Sydney.

“That has allowed us to make further progress in the negotiations on market access for goods, services and investment.

“We consider that the shape of an ambitious, comprehensive, high-standard and balanced deal is crystallising.”

The TPP deal has been the subject of discussions for several years, with negotiations slowing while the United States and To-kyo debate key details, including

Japanese tariffs on agricultural imports and US access to Japan’s auto market.

Even so, US President Barack Obama said in June he hoped to have an agreement on framing the deal by November, when he is expected in the region for talks, including the G20 summit in Bris-bane.

Robb said negotiators were mak-ing “significant progress” in both the market access and trade and investment rules discussions, and were to consult within their own countries and with each other to “resolve outstanding issues”.

Despite the developments, the US and Japan’s trade representa-

tives said there were still differences between their nations over access to each other’s markets.

Japanese Economy Minister Akira Amari said their bilateral talks, including one on Monday morning, had made “considerable progress, but still some important issues are remaining”.

“At this point in time, we cannot say that there is a clear prospect of US-Japan market access negotia-tions to be concluded,” Amari added through a translator.

US Trade Representative Mi-chael Froman echoed his sentiments and said their negotiating teams were working together to “try and bridge the remaining differences”,

particularly in the agriculture and auto sectors.

Bilateral discussions between the US, Japan and larger nations such as Mexico and Canada were also a sensitive issue for smaller participants, New Zealand’s Trade Minister Tim Groser said.

“They are to understand and have a very careful appreciation that a sweetheart deal that just is made in Tokyo and Washington... will cause immense disruption to this negotia-tion,” he said.

The 12 prospective TPP mem-bers are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam.

Associated Press

TOKYO — Toyota kept its lead over rivals Volkswagen and General Motors as the world’s top-selling automaker in the first nine months of the year, Monday reporting record sales of 7.615 million vehicles, up nearly 3 percent from the previous year.

Volkswagen said earlier this month it sold 7.40 million vehicles for January-September, barely edging out Gen-eral Motors Co. in the closely watched auto sales race. GM reported sales of 7.372 million cars and trucks worldwide earlier this month.

Japanese automaker Toyota was in first place in the first half with sales of almost 5.1 million. It finished first last year with a record 9.98 million sales, and is projecting annual sales of 10.2 million vehicles this year. That would be an auto industry record.

Toyota, which makes the Camry sedan, Prius hybrid and Lexus luxury models, is doing well despite difficulties in its home Japanese market, where a rise in the sales tax has dampened spending overall, especially auto purchases.

Toyota has publicly played down its spot at the top, saying its focus is on delivering good cars, one at a time.

But the competition is intense. The three automakers have been close on each other’s heels, competing not only in de-veloped markets such as the U.S. and Europe, but also in the emerging markets of China and the rest of Asia.

Volkswagen, which nudged GM out of second in the first half of the year, stayed ahead of the Detroit automaker even though GM had its best third-quarter global sales since 1980, led by strong sales in China and growth in North America.

GM does not give annual sales projections, but Volkswagen has said it might deliver 10 million vehicles this year.

General Motors was the No. 1 selling automaker for more than seven decades before losing the title to Toyota in 2008. GM retook the sales crown in 2011, when Toyota’s production was hurt by the quake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

Toyota made a comeback in 2012, and kept that lead in 2013. GM is going strong despite issuing massive recalls this year totaling more than 30 million vehicles.

Toyota also underwent a massive recall debacle in the U.S., announcing recall after recall starting in 2009.

Japanese automakers, including Toyota, are also embroiled in an unfolding global recall problem, this time over faulty air bags made by Japanese supplier Takata Corp.

Pan-Pacific trade pact taking shapeAgence France-Presse

SYDNEY - The shape of an ambitious pan-Pacific trade agreement was “crystallising”, trade ministers said Monday, although the United States and Japan remain divided over market access.

Toyota at top in global vehicle sales over VW, GM

AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, FileIn this Wednesday, May 8, 2013 file photo, a Toyota Motor Corp.,’s model is on display at the automaker’s Tokyo head office in Tokyo. Toyota kept its lead over rivals against rivals Volkswagen and General Motors as the world’s top-selling automaker in the first three quarters of the year.

BUSINESS

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Sleep has eluded Clemente Ro-driguez Moreno, 46, since his 19-year-old son Christian disappeared with his classmates. Each night Rodriguez returns to his home close to the Raul Isidro Burgos school in Tixtla and his mind races. “What will come of them? We don’t know if he’s eating, if he’s injured, if they’re hitting him.”

The families’ lives have been upended since police in the town of Iguala, allegedly on the mayor’s orders, attacked the students to stop them from interrupting a speech by the mayor’s wife on Sept. 26. Both the mayor and his wife are fugitives, along with the police chief.

Three students, including one later found with the skin peeled off his face, and three people unrelated to the attack, died in a series of ini-tial attacks. Investigators say the rest of the students were driven off to a police station, later turned over to the drug gang Guerreros Unidos and have not been heard from since.

Everything since has been a nightmare, said a 57-year-old farmer from Ayutla who spoke on condition of anonymity as a precaution against reprisals. He walks his 19-year-old son’s campus in the Ayotzinapa neighborhood in a daze.

“I don’t sleep for the thinking,” he said, fingering a foil packet of sleeping pills prescribed by a doctor who came by to help. “I don’t feel like I’m living life.”

His family has few resources, he said, and his son came to the school because the students support themselves. That’s what he said they were doing that afternoon in Iguala, soliciting donations.

Staring at the photograph of his son after a march to demand the return of the missing, the farmer spoke one moment of the anguish of not knowing. His eyes welled with tears and he bit his lower lip. Next flashed an anger that has been building over weeks. He said he’s tired of a corrupt government that has always scorned poor farmers. He wants the guilty to pay. “If they don’t give them to us, we’ll have

Associated Press

Dozens of residents in a rural area of Hawaii were placed on alert as flowing lava from an erupting volcano continued to advance.

Authorities on Sunday said lava flow on the Big Island of Hawaii had advanced about 250 yards (230 meters) since Saturday morning and was moving at the rate of about 10 to 15 yards (9 to 13.5 meters) an hour, consistent with its advancement in recent days.

The flow front passed through a predominantly Buddhist cem-etery, covering grave sites in the mostly rural region of Puna, and was roughly a half-mile (800 meters) from Pahoa Village Road, the main street of Pahoa.

Darryl Oliveira, director of civil defense for Hawaii County, told reporters during a late Sunday morning teleconference that the nearest home was at least 300 yards (275 meters) from the flow front.

Residents in the nearest home said they could see the flow front from their balcony and were prepared to evacuate when the time came, Oliveira said.

Residents in the flow path have been told to complete all neces-sary preparations by Tuesday for a possible evacuation. The timeline could change, based on the flow rate.

Oliveira estimated there were at least 50 to 60 structures, including homes and businesses, in the area most likely to be impacted.

Associated Press

TALLINN, Estonia — Estonia’s finance minister says he will step down over a public uproar sparked by remarks he made on an ethnic Russian colleague earlier this week. Reform Party member Jurgen Ligi, 55, called the Social Democrat Education Minister Jevgeni Os-sinovski “an immigrant’s son from the pink party” in a Facebook post Wednesday.

Ossinovski represents Estonia’s ethnic-Russian minority that makes up a quarter of the Baltic country’s population of 1.3 million, and Ligi’s comments were seen as degrading by both Russian speakers and ethnic Estonians.

Ligi tendered his resignation to Prime Minister Taavi Roivas Sunday, saying he wanted to give the government coalition of the conservative Reform Party and center-left Social Democrats a chance to work “in peace.” It was not immediately known who would replace Ligi.

Families of missing Mexican students still waitingAssociated Press

TIXTLA, Mexico — Night is the most difficult time at the rural teachers college, where fami-lies have stayed on thin, bare mattresses in classrooms since 43 students went missing a month ago. The day’s distractions of meals, meetings and marches end, and the parents are left with their thoughts, questions and a simmering rage.

to proceed another way, with more resistance,” he said.

There was so much confusion in those early days, said Valentin Cornelio Gonzalez, a 30-year old farmer from the municipality of Tecoanapa who dropped everything to travel to the school, where his brother-in-law, 19-year-old Abel Garcia Hernandez, is enrolled. Was the attack at the school or in Iguala? Were the attackers police or cartel gunmen? How many students were missing?

Some gaps have since been filled,

but the gaping one, the one families care most about, remains a void, de-spite the arrest and interrogation of more than 50 suspects. So Gonzalez, clad in well-worn leather sandals, has been marching —in the state capital of Chilpancingo, in Acapul-co, in Mexico City — demanding an answer. When he first arrived at the school he and other relatives spent a fruitless day searching around Ig-uala. They feared for their safety, but fault the government for not doing enough: “They’re not looking for them like they should.”

AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2014 photo, a man places a missing persons’ poster offering 1,000,000.00 Mexican pesos or about 74,000.00 U.S. dollars, leading to information on 43 college students who went missing, in Chilpancingo, Mexico.

Minister resigns over Facebook comments

Hawaii volcano lava prompts evacuation concerns

AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey

In this Oct. 24, 2014 photo from the U.S. Geological Survey, the lava flow from Kilauea Volcano that began June 27 is seen as it crossed Apa?a Street near Cemetery Road near the town of Pahoa on the Big Island of Hawaii.

AntaraJAKARTA - Newly-appointed Foreign Affairs Minister (FM) Retno Mar-

sudi has stated she was waiting for President Joko Widodo’s directives related to three international agenda in the second week of November 2014.

“There will be three submits, namely the APEC Summit in Beijing on November 10-11, the ASEAN Summit in Myanmar on November 12-13 and the G20 Summit in Australia on November 15-16. I think those are among the issues the President will raise at the first cabinet meeting. Let’s await what the President’s directives will be,” Retno said following the announcement of President Joko Widodo’s cabinet lineup on the yard of the Merdeka Palace here on Sunday evening.

President Joko Widodo is slated to hold the first cabinet meeting after inducting all ministers of the “work cabinet” on Monday.

Retno said she would discuss a number of programs after the first cabinet meeting. “He (the President) said this is work cabinet. After the inaugura-tion of the cabinet lineup there will be no other words than work and work,” she said.

Retno who is career diplomat said she was contacted by former deputy of the Jokowi-JK transition team Andi Widjajanto on Saturday (Oct 18) and met President Jokowi on Monday night.

“On Saturday at 06.00 p.m. The Hague time I was phoned by Mr Andi asking me to meet Mr Jokowi immediately. I tried to get a ticket that night. On Monday afternoon I arrived in Jakarta. At 05.15 p.m. Mr Andi phoned me again to meet the President at midnight on Monday,” she said. Retno is the first Indonesian woman to hold the post of foreign affairs minister.

After the inauguration, Presi-dent held the first cabinet meet-ing.

Earlier, the Corruption Eradi-cation Commission (KPK) stated that they will soon brief 34 new ministers of President Joko Widodo’s cabinet so that they will have common understanding about the anti-graft body. “The President wants the KPK to brief all the ministers,” KPK Deputy Chairman Adnan Pandu Praja said on Sunday.

This way the ministers would be aware of the KPK’s strategic position, he said.

No date has been set for the briefing, he said.

Pandu refused to comment on the appointment of Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle

(PDIP) politician Yasonna H Laoly as law and human rights minister.

“I am sorry I don’t know him well,” he said.

Indonesia Corruption Watch ( ICW) resea rche r Emerson Yuntho has asked the public to keep watch for the appointment of the PDIP politician as law and human rights minister.

“If a politician fills the post of law and human rights minister, the interests of politicians will most likely dominate the minis-try,” Emerson said.

ICW noted that several cases involved law and human rights ministers from political parties, including the use of funds in the ministry’s account to disburse the fund of former president

Soeharto’s son, Tommy Soeharto, and the raising of fund for a po-litical party through legal entity administration system project.

“If that is the case, the govern-ment’s image will be on the line,” he added.

Emerson expressed hope that the new minister of law and hu-man rights would support the KPK.

Yasonna Hamonangan Laoly was formerly a member of the North Sumatra Provincial Leg-islative Council from 1999 to 2004, member of the House of Representatives (DPR) from 2004 to 2009, deputy chairman of the House Budget Committee in 2013 and chief of the PDIP fac-tion in the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR).

Antara

JAKARTA - Newly appointed Minister of Transportation Ignasius Jonan was asked to generate the strong public policy in line with his current capacity after engaging in corporation affairs.

“Jonan who is expert in the railway company PT KAI (Kereta Api In-donesia), only has expertise in corporate ranks, but a strong public policy is needed in this ‘Work Cabinet’,” chairman of the Indonesian Transportation Community Danang Parikesit said.

According to Danang, in effort to generate strong public policy, Jonan should be able to coordinate and communicate with the related ministers such as Chief of National Development Planning Agency Andrinof Chaniago and Minister of State Owned Enterprises Rini Soemarno.

Danang further said that the public policy should take side with the public transport that has been designed in the working group of the Work Cabinet of Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla’s government.

The public transport especially in urban areas should meet 45 to 60 percent demand of mass transport in large amounts, he said.

Danang also said, as the Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla’s government stick to the maritime axis program, Jonan should also generate strong public policy on the sea transportation. Jonan replaced Major General (ret.) Evert Ernest Mangindaan (of former President Yudhoyono`s cabinet).

In addition, Jonan has been named the best Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Indonesia 2014 by SWA business magazine for successfully bringing the state railway company PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) back on track, from a losing firm to a profitable enterprise. Some of his breakthrough was the improvement of train service by the implementation of the electronic ticketing and sterilization of stations from merchants and beggars, turning the face of trains stations clean and neat.

Jonan was awarded The Best CEO BUMN (State-Owned Enterprises) in 2013 by the SOE Minister Dahlan Iskan.

President Jokowi inaugurates cabinet ministers

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Indonesian President Joko Widodo, front row center, and his deputy Jusuf Kalla, front row second right, pose for photographers with the newly appointed cabinet ministers after their the inauguration ceremony at the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014.

AntaraJAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) inaugurates his cabinet ministers on Monday

at the Presidential Palace. The inauguration of a total of 30 ministers and four coordinating ministers was attended by First Lady Iriana Jokowi, wife of Vice President Mufidah Jusuf Kalla, Chairman of the House of Representatives (DPR) Setya Novanto, Chairman of the Regional Representative Council (DPD) Irman Gusman, Chairman of the People’s Consultative Assem-bly (MPR) Zulkifli Hassan, Chairman of the Constitutional Court Hamdan Zoelva, and other high-ranking government officials.

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A strong finish at the Paris Masters and the ATP World Tour Finals could see him end the year as number one for the first time since 2009 -- proof that his skills are not in decline despite the advancing years and two sets of twins.

“It would be very special, you can’t say it’s not important, world number one, it’s what it’s all about really, together with some tournaments you really care about,” Federer told the ATP’s official television channel after his 51-minute thrashing of Goffin.

“With the year I’ve had and the amount of finals I’ve played, the level of tennis I’ve played, I’m really pleased that I have a shot at being there. “But I’m sure Novak will be very motivated. It’s going to be interesting weeks ahead.”

Federer, whose 302 weeks as world number one is a record, as is his streak of 237 consecu-tive weeks atop the rankings, is less than 500 points behind Djokovic with a combined 2,500 points up for grabs in Paris and London.

Djokovic won both of those titles last year and therefore cannot significantly add to his

haul as he will be defending points, while Federer lost in the semi-finals at both events and can potentially close the gap.

Federer was at his majestic best at times against Goffin, the Belgian who has rediscov-ered his best form since Wimbledon, winning 43 out of 45 matches, including on the Chal-lenger Tour, to rocket up the world standings.

He was never in with a chance against Federer though as the local boy delighted his fans with a faultless display to take his career title tally to 82 and extend his winning streak to 12 matches after his title in Shanghai. The first two of those wins came as Federer helped steer Switzerland into the Davis Cup final against France.

Switzerland’s Roger Federer raises the tro-phy after winning his final match against

Belgium’s David Goffin at the Swiss Indoors ATP tennis tournament in Basel

October 26, 2014.

Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez victorious in punishing race held in stifling heat at Sepang to raise prospect of new premier class record at Valencia in November. Marquez overcame a poor start to pass Movistar Yamaha riders Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi to clinch his 12th victory of the season, equalling Aussie Doohan’s feat from 1997.

The Repsol Honda rider can now smash Doohan’s record in Spain next month and says his win in the Malaysian MotoGP will make his job that little bit easier at Valencia. “In Valencia I don’t want any pres-sure, I just want to enjoy; here I tried 100% because I knew if I did another crash or bad race then in Va-lencia the pressure would be higher, but after the victory here I will be free in Valencia,” said Marquez.

“I will try to give a really good show to all my fans and try to enjoy.” The stifling heat at Sepang pushed the riders to the limit physi-cally and Marquez admitted the race presented a gruelling test of fitness.

“It was a really, really difficult race, especially for the physical conditions, and especially in the beginning because I did a mistake in the first corner,” he said.

“I braked too late and I was go-ing wide and then I touched with Jorge and I lost many positions. I pushed really hard on the first two laps to overtake the riders and after that when I closed on the Yamaha riders I was trying to cool down the brakes, cool down the tyres.

“The on the last seven or eight laps I tried my usual tactical race because in Australia I tried a dif-ferent one and it was no good!” he added.

“I tried to overtake them and give 100% but it was really difficult because it was really hot under the helmet but I’m very happy to come back at the top and to equal Mick Doohan’s record.” After winning eleven of the opening twelve races, Marquez had gone four races with-out a win.

“It was a long time ago, the last victory was in Silverstone. But there were different situations. We got a lot of experience during the second half of the season and I was able to take more risks because of the championship advantage.

“But to come back to the top is really nice. It was my target this weekend and we did it. It means when we concentrate only for the race and don’t do stupid things then we can fight for victory.”

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BASEL - Roger Federer has his sights set on ending the year as the world’s top-ranked player after the 33-year-old claimed his fifth title of the year in his home town on Sunday. The 17-times grand slam champion outclassed David Goffin 6-2 6-2 to win the Swiss Indoor tournament in Basel for a sixth time, moving ever closer to Serbian Novak Djokovic at the top of the rankings in the process.

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Marquez: Pressure has eased for Valencia record bid

REUTERS/Olivia HarrisHonda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of Spain celebrates as he wins the Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix at Sepang International Circuit near Kuala Lumpur October 26, 2014.

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UBUD - Campuhan Ridge Walk is a free and easy nature trek, popular among repeat visitors to the central highland town of Ubud. The area provides a great retreat from the more hectic southern parts of the island, but this trail presents an even more pristine outback to escape from the con-temporary boutique, guesthouse

and restaurant-lined Jalan Raya Ubud. While the hike lets you enjoy cool fresh air and probably the most gorgeous hillside vista in the region, it also allows you to shed off some calories too with its nine-kilometre hill track.

Getting to the starting point is relatively easy. Those staying at the Warwick Ibah Luxury Villas and Spa have the best starting point to the Campuhan Ridge

Walk, as the main access is a concrete path just down from this boutique hotel’s main entrance. Smaller letterings under the sig-nage of the Warwick Ibah, bears “Going to The Hill” with an arrow pointing left, and as soon as you take on this path, the verdant sur-roundings of the Campuhan Valley immediately come to sight, lined by dense tropical foliage.

A small bridge over the re-

vered Campuhan River leads to the majestic Pura Gunung Lebah temple complex. Signs before the temple clearly show the directions to follow along the route, which borders the eastern walls of the temple. These intricately carved walls and the towering ‘meru’ tiers of the shrines visible from the path provide an exotic and cultural touch to the beginning of this nature walk. You might meet a few fellow trekkers on their way back from their earlier jog, but most of the time you’ll have the path to your own.

A few hundred meters and up the slopes from the temple, the view widens to reveal the vast hills that make up the valley hinterland. The best time to enjoy the Cam-puhan Ridge Walk is early morn-ing and late afternoon, when the temperature is cool and when the skies show their best hues during sunrise and sunset. Slopes as far as the eye can see are an undulating sea of green, covered in tall reed grass, which at times are harvested by the locals for thatched roofing that is typical in traditional Bali-nese architecture.

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AC Milan drew 1-1 at home to Fioren-tina in the evening match. Fernando Llorente scored his first goal of the season after Arturo Vidal had given Juventus the lead.

“It’s a special day for me because it’s my first goal of the season and I couldn’t wait to get it,” Llorente said. “It’ll defi-nitely help me a lot from now on to keep helping the team. “It’s not easy scoring from corners because the defenders are jostling you. I couldn’t wait for a delivery like that to come my way to score and get off the mark.”

Juventus moved three points clear of Roma, which drew at Sampdoria on Sat-urday. Defending champion Juventus had seen its advantage cut after dropping its first points of the season against Sassuolo. Massimiliano Allegri’s team endured further disappointment when it fell to a second successive Champions League defeat at Olympiakos.

Elsewhere, Genoa came back against 10-man Chievo Verona to ruin coach

Rolando Maran’s debut, Udinese beat Atalanta 2-0, and Lazio deafeated Torino 2-1. Juventus dominated but failed to create any real opportunities until shortly after the half hour when Carlos Tevez surged forward on the counter to set up Vidal for an angled drive into the bottom corner.

Llorente headed in Andrea Pirlo’s corner in the 64th minute to all but seal the match. Substitute Sebastian Giovinco saw a strike from outside the area crash off the post in the final minute.

Napoli coach Rafa Benitez was feeling the pressure, and days earlier the team bus had been attacked by disgruntled fans fol-lowing a 2-0 defeat to Young Boys in the Europa League. Matters went from bad to worse when Emil Hallfredsson gave Verona the lead after just 26 seconds, dedicating the goal to his father who died earlier this month.

However, Marek Hamsik scored his first league goals of the season either side of halftime to put Napoli in front. Nico

Lopez leveled for Verona but Higuain also got off the mark to restore the home side’s advantage and completed his hat trick with a stoppage-time penalty after Hallfredsson fouled Dries Mertens.

The Argentine thought he had completed his treble earlier on but had a goal wrongly ruled out for offside. Jose Callejon, who also hit the post late on, netted Napoli’s fourth goal.

“This victory has given an im-portant sign,” Napoli coach Rafa Benitez said. “I liked almost every-thing tonight, I say almost because we can and will improve more.

“(Hamsik and Higuain) are two champions. Marek has shown that he can score and play well in any role. Gonzalo could have even scored four goals tonight. I have always had confidence in these guys and in this group. We can achieve important results this year too.”

Juventus beats Palermo 2-0 to extend Serie A lead

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Napoli’s José Callejón cel-ebrates after scoring during

a Serie A soccer match between Napoli and Torino, at the San Paolo stadium in

Naples, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014.

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Juventus beat Palermo 2-0 Sunday to move three points clear at the top of Serie A and bring a disappoint-ing week to a close. Gonzalo Higuain scored a hat trick as Napoli came from behind to defeat Hellas Verona 6-2, while Inter Milan won 1-0 at 10-man Cesena to alleviate some of the pressure on their respective managers.

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MANCHESTER - Jose Mourin-ho shared the honours with former mentor Louis van Gaal as his Chelsea side drew at Manchester United in the Premier league on Sunday, but there was no doubt which of the pair was happier with the 1-1 result.

Leading through Didier Drog-ba’s header early in the second half, Chelsea never looked like surrendering the lead until Robin van Persie fired home in stoppage time after Thibaut Courtois could only parry a powerful Marouane Fellaini header.

Mourinho, at the post-match press conference, declined to com-ment on referee Phil Dowd’s deci-sion to send off Branislav Ivanovic for a second foul on Angel Di Maria and award the free kick that led to United’s equaliser.

But he made clear the result was a disappointment. “We are not happy with a point,” he said, summing up the game as “a good Manchester United but a very good Chelsea”. “My feeling is that we had a good first half and a fantastic second half,” he said, praising the “evolution” of his team since last season.

Van Gaal looked the more cheer-ful of the two bosses, even though he said it was not United’s most impressive showing since he took charge at the start of the season.

“I said to the boys it was not our best performance and that’s a pity, because at this moment you have to show yourself against the better teams,” he said. “We have created a lot of chances, much more than Chelsea.”

Communication LapseVan Gaal blamed a “lack of

communications” for the defensive lapse that allowed Drogba to soar at the near post and head home from a corner early in the second half. The Dutchman said his players had “lost our head” for 10 or 15 minutes, during which Chelsea might have scored a second, before coming back fighting.

“Chelsea is the best club in Europe, I think, who can kill the game,” he said. “Nevertheless we created one or two chances and we scored a goal.”

Van Gaal was adamant that Ivanovic’s red card, which led to the free kick that provided United’s equaliser, was deserved. “I have seen it on television. Ivanovic kicked him (Di Maria) twice -- not once but twice (on) the ankles. You can say maybe the first time is coincidence but the second time no,” he said.

But he was also tough on his own captain Robin Van Persie, standing in for the suspended Wayne Rooney, for earning a booking with an over-exuberant goal celebration.

“You have seen he did a stupid reaction after the goal. You can be excited but you don’t have to pull off your shirt because then you have a yellow card, it’s not so smart,” he said.

As Van Persie fired the equaliser and was buried under a scrum of delighted United players, Mourinho turned away shaking his head. But at the final whistle he sportingly embraced Van Gaal -- and added a generous tribute later.

“They (United) have one of the best managers in the world... He’s one of that group. He’s a great coach, he’s a great manager, I think they’re in great hands,” Mourinho told reporters. “The same way I had last year to build... Louis, with time, will make a fantastic team.”

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PARIS — Midfielder Yoann Gourcuff scored his third goal in two games as third-place Lyon beat Marseille 1-0 on Sunday, ending the French league leader’s bid to win a club record ninth straight league game. Gourcuff, once hailed as the natural successor to famed France midfielder Zinedine Zidane, has been beset by loss of form and injuries since joining Lyon four years ago.

But he followed up his brace against Montpellier last weekend with an accomplished finish in the 65th minute to break Marseille’s resistance.

Striker Alexandre Lacazette picked him out on the right of the penalty area, and Gourcuff skipped past midfielder Giannelli Imbula with

a lovely turn before firing a powerful shot under the crossbar.

“It’s always annoying to lose. It’s a bit of a paradox because we conceded this goal when we were playing at our best,” Marseille goalkeeper Steve Mandanda said. “We were up against a good team but we didn’t control the ball as well as we usually do. We didn’t close them down enough. Our run has come to an end, but we still have a few points in hand.”

Marseille’s loss leaves it four points ahead of Paris Saint-Ger-main. Lyon is five points behind. “We studied the way they play and we tried to cause them problems. They had won eight games in a row,” Lyon midfielder Maxime Gonalons said. “They’re a great team and they came here with a lot of ambition. So we put in

a great performance. We didn’t give up.”

Forward Clinton N’Jie almost made it 2-0 late on but goalkeeper Steve Mandanda saved his effort. Marseille forward Andre-Pierre Gignac, the league’s top scorer with 10 league goals, was kept largely quiet.

Shortly after defender Brice Djadjedje went off injured fol-lowing a clash of heads, winger Florian Thauvin missed a good chance for the home side in the 38th when he just failed to get on the end of a promising cross from Ghana forward Andre Ayew.

Ayew had earlier gone close when his curling shot was palmed away by goalie Anthony Lopes. The win moves Lyon above Saint-Etienne on goal difference.

Reuters

MADRID - Sevilla drew level on points with Bar-celona at the top of La Liga when they snatched a 2-1 comeback victory at home to Villarreal, while champi-ons Atletico Madrid won 1-0 in a bad-tempered clash at Getafe on Sunday.

Villarreal thought they had secured the points at the Sanchez Pizjuan when Luciano Vietto clipped the ball superbly over home goalkeeper Beto in the 79th minute.

However, with the home fans roaring encouragement Sevilla stormed back to equalise through Denis Suarez in the 88th and Carlos Bacca sealed the win with a pen-alty in added time, awarded when Giovani Dos Santos tripped Benoit Tremoulinas.

Sevilla won the Europa League last season and have made their best-ever start to a La Liga campaign, al-though it remains to be seen whether they can sustain their form long enough to mount a genuine title chal-lenge. Last season, Atletico were the first team apart from Real Madrid or Barca to win the league since Valencia in 2004 and Real, the European champions, look in especially ominous form.

“We didn’t play our best football but the team put in

the maximum effort,” Bacca told reporters. “They scored a goal, a good goal, but we never gave up,” added the Colombian.

“Sevilla were very good even if perhaps we lacked a bit of efficiency with the final pass. We are second (on goal difference) but with our feet on the ground.”

With nine matches played, Barcelona, beaten 3-1 at Real in Saturday’s ‘Clasico’, and Sevilla each have 22 points, with Real in third on 21. Atletico have 20 points in fifth after a close-range effort from striker Mario Mandzukic five minutes before halftime se-cured victory at Getafe.

The club based in the Madrid suburbs lost de-fender Alexis to a straight red card after a clash with Mandzukic in the 58th minute, one of several unsavoury incidents during the game.

Valencia also have 20 points in fourth, above Atletico on goal difference, after they celebrated their imminent takeover by Singapore billionaire Peter Lim with a 3-1 win at home to Elche on Saturday.

In Sunday’s other games, Malaga thrashed visiting Rayo Vallecano 4-0 and Espanyol were held to a 0-0 draw at home to promoted Deportivo La Coruna.

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MEXICO CITY — Relegation-threatened Chivas secured a vital point with a 3-3 draw against Tijuana on Sunday in the Mexican first division. America remains top of the league despite losing 3-2 to Queretaro, while Atlas defeated Puebla 2-1 to move within two points of the lead after the four-teenth round.

In other weekend games, Santos Laguna drew 1-1 with Pumas, Cruz

Azul beat Morelia 3-1, Chiapas overcame Veracruz 2-1, Tigres drew 2-2 with Monterrey, Pachuca against Leones Negros ended 0-0, and Leon defeated Toluca 3-2.

Tijuana’s Alfedo Moreno opened the scoring in the 24th minute, but Omar Bravo equalized in the 35th and scored again nine minutes later. Moreno struck from close range to level in the 54th and Dario Bene-detto headed a goal from a corner ten minutes later. A stoppage time header from Jair Pereira snatched a

draw for the home team.Queretaro’s Camilo Sanvezzo

opened the scoring in the 25th and William da Silva netted another a minute before half time. America took advantage of Ricardo Osorio’s expulsion with goals from Oribe Peralta in the 66th and Luis Men-doza eight minutes later.

Sanvezzo’s subtle flick handed Queretaro the victory in the last minute of the game, and made him the league’s current leading scorer, with ten goals.

Sevilla climb to La Liga summit

Chivas earns vital draw in Mexican league

Gourcuff strikes to end Marseille’s winning streak

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Lyon’s Yoann Gourcuff, second right, celebrates with his teammates after he scored a goal against Marseille during their French League One soccer match at Gerland stadium, in Lyon, central France, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014.

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Manchester United’s Robin van Persie removes his shirt as he celebrates after scoring an equalising goal against Chelsea, during the English Premier League soccer match between Man-chester United and Chelsea at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Sunday Oct. 26, 2014. The game finished 1-1.

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AC Milan drew 1-1 at home to Fioren-tina in the evening match. Fernando Llorente scored his first goal of the season after Arturo Vidal had given Juventus the lead.

“It’s a special day for me because it’s my first goal of the season and I couldn’t wait to get it,” Llorente said. “It’ll defi-nitely help me a lot from now on to keep helping the team. “It’s not easy scoring from corners because the defenders are jostling you. I couldn’t wait for a delivery like that to come my way to score and get off the mark.”

Juventus moved three points clear of Roma, which drew at Sampdoria on Sat-urday. Defending champion Juventus had seen its advantage cut after dropping its first points of the season against Sassuolo. Massimiliano Allegri’s team endured further disappointment when it fell to a second successive Champions League defeat at Olympiakos.

Elsewhere, Genoa came back against 10-man Chievo Verona to ruin coach

Rolando Maran’s debut, Udinese beat Atalanta 2-0, and Lazio deafeated Torino 2-1. Juventus dominated but failed to create any real opportunities until shortly after the half hour when Carlos Tevez surged forward on the counter to set up Vidal for an angled drive into the bottom corner.

Llorente headed in Andrea Pirlo’s corner in the 64th minute to all but seal the match. Substitute Sebastian Giovinco saw a strike from outside the area crash off the post in the final minute.

Napoli coach Rafa Benitez was feeling the pressure, and days earlier the team bus had been attacked by disgruntled fans fol-lowing a 2-0 defeat to Young Boys in the Europa League. Matters went from bad to worse when Emil Hallfredsson gave Verona the lead after just 26 seconds, dedicating the goal to his father who died earlier this month.

However, Marek Hamsik scored his first league goals of the season either side of halftime to put Napoli in front. Nico

Lopez leveled for Verona but Higuain also got off the mark to restore the home side’s advantage and completed his hat trick with a stoppage-time penalty after Hallfredsson fouled Dries Mertens.

The Argentine thought he had completed his treble earlier on but had a goal wrongly ruled out for offside. Jose Callejon, who also hit the post late on, netted Napoli’s fourth goal.

“This victory has given an im-portant sign,” Napoli coach Rafa Benitez said. “I liked almost every-thing tonight, I say almost because we can and will improve more.

“(Hamsik and Higuain) are two champions. Marek has shown that he can score and play well in any role. Gonzalo could have even scored four goals tonight. I have always had confidence in these guys and in this group. We can achieve important results this year too.”

Juventus beats Palermo 2-0 to extend Serie A lead

AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta

Napoli’s José Callejón cel-ebrates after scoring during

a Serie A soccer match between Napoli and Torino, at the San Paolo stadium in

Naples, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014.

Associated Press

Juventus beat Palermo 2-0 Sunday to move three points clear at the top of Serie A and bring a disappoint-ing week to a close. Gonzalo Higuain scored a hat trick as Napoli came from behind to defeat Hellas Verona 6-2, while Inter Milan won 1-0 at 10-man Cesena to alleviate some of the pressure on their respective managers.

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MANCHESTER - Jose Mourin-ho shared the honours with former mentor Louis van Gaal as his Chelsea side drew at Manchester United in the Premier league on Sunday, but there was no doubt which of the pair was happier with the 1-1 result.

Leading through Didier Drog-ba’s header early in the second half, Chelsea never looked like surrendering the lead until Robin van Persie fired home in stoppage time after Thibaut Courtois could only parry a powerful Marouane Fellaini header.

Mourinho, at the post-match press conference, declined to com-ment on referee Phil Dowd’s deci-sion to send off Branislav Ivanovic for a second foul on Angel Di Maria and award the free kick that led to United’s equaliser.

But he made clear the result was a disappointment. “We are not happy with a point,” he said, summing up the game as “a good Manchester United but a very good Chelsea”. “My feeling is that we had a good first half and a fantastic second half,” he said, praising the “evolution” of his team since last season.

Van Gaal looked the more cheer-ful of the two bosses, even though he said it was not United’s most impressive showing since he took charge at the start of the season.

“I said to the boys it was not our best performance and that’s a pity, because at this moment you have to show yourself against the better teams,” he said. “We have created a lot of chances, much more than Chelsea.”

Communication LapseVan Gaal blamed a “lack of

communications” for the defensive lapse that allowed Drogba to soar at the near post and head home from a corner early in the second half. The Dutchman said his players had “lost our head” for 10 or 15 minutes, during which Chelsea might have scored a second, before coming back fighting.

“Chelsea is the best club in Europe, I think, who can kill the game,” he said. “Nevertheless we created one or two chances and we scored a goal.”

Van Gaal was adamant that Ivanovic’s red card, which led to the free kick that provided United’s equaliser, was deserved. “I have seen it on television. Ivanovic kicked him (Di Maria) twice -- not once but twice (on) the ankles. You can say maybe the first time is coincidence but the second time no,” he said.

But he was also tough on his own captain Robin Van Persie, standing in for the suspended Wayne Rooney, for earning a booking with an over-exuberant goal celebration.

“You have seen he did a stupid reaction after the goal. You can be excited but you don’t have to pull off your shirt because then you have a yellow card, it’s not so smart,” he said.

As Van Persie fired the equaliser and was buried under a scrum of delighted United players, Mourinho turned away shaking his head. But at the final whistle he sportingly embraced Van Gaal -- and added a generous tribute later.

“They (United) have one of the best managers in the world... He’s one of that group. He’s a great coach, he’s a great manager, I think they’re in great hands,” Mourinho told reporters. “The same way I had last year to build... Louis, with time, will make a fantastic team.”

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PARIS — Midfielder Yoann Gourcuff scored his third goal in two games as third-place Lyon beat Marseille 1-0 on Sunday, ending the French league leader’s bid to win a club record ninth straight league game. Gourcuff, once hailed as the natural successor to famed France midfielder Zinedine Zidane, has been beset by loss of form and injuries since joining Lyon four years ago.

But he followed up his brace against Montpellier last weekend with an accomplished finish in the 65th minute to break Marseille’s resistance.

Striker Alexandre Lacazette picked him out on the right of the penalty area, and Gourcuff skipped past midfielder Giannelli Imbula with

a lovely turn before firing a powerful shot under the crossbar.

“It’s always annoying to lose. It’s a bit of a paradox because we conceded this goal when we were playing at our best,” Marseille goalkeeper Steve Mandanda said. “We were up against a good team but we didn’t control the ball as well as we usually do. We didn’t close them down enough. Our run has come to an end, but we still have a few points in hand.”

Marseille’s loss leaves it four points ahead of Paris Saint-Ger-main. Lyon is five points behind. “We studied the way they play and we tried to cause them problems. They had won eight games in a row,” Lyon midfielder Maxime Gonalons said. “They’re a great team and they came here with a lot of ambition. So we put in

a great performance. We didn’t give up.”

Forward Clinton N’Jie almost made it 2-0 late on but goalkeeper Steve Mandanda saved his effort. Marseille forward Andre-Pierre Gignac, the league’s top scorer with 10 league goals, was kept largely quiet.

Shortly after defender Brice Djadjedje went off injured fol-lowing a clash of heads, winger Florian Thauvin missed a good chance for the home side in the 38th when he just failed to get on the end of a promising cross from Ghana forward Andre Ayew.

Ayew had earlier gone close when his curling shot was palmed away by goalie Anthony Lopes. The win moves Lyon above Saint-Etienne on goal difference.

Reuters

MADRID - Sevilla drew level on points with Bar-celona at the top of La Liga when they snatched a 2-1 comeback victory at home to Villarreal, while champi-ons Atletico Madrid won 1-0 in a bad-tempered clash at Getafe on Sunday.

Villarreal thought they had secured the points at the Sanchez Pizjuan when Luciano Vietto clipped the ball superbly over home goalkeeper Beto in the 79th minute.

However, with the home fans roaring encouragement Sevilla stormed back to equalise through Denis Suarez in the 88th and Carlos Bacca sealed the win with a pen-alty in added time, awarded when Giovani Dos Santos tripped Benoit Tremoulinas.

Sevilla won the Europa League last season and have made their best-ever start to a La Liga campaign, al-though it remains to be seen whether they can sustain their form long enough to mount a genuine title chal-lenge. Last season, Atletico were the first team apart from Real Madrid or Barca to win the league since Valencia in 2004 and Real, the European champions, look in especially ominous form.

“We didn’t play our best football but the team put in

the maximum effort,” Bacca told reporters. “They scored a goal, a good goal, but we never gave up,” added the Colombian.

“Sevilla were very good even if perhaps we lacked a bit of efficiency with the final pass. We are second (on goal difference) but with our feet on the ground.”

With nine matches played, Barcelona, beaten 3-1 at Real in Saturday’s ‘Clasico’, and Sevilla each have 22 points, with Real in third on 21. Atletico have 20 points in fifth after a close-range effort from striker Mario Mandzukic five minutes before halftime se-cured victory at Getafe.

The club based in the Madrid suburbs lost de-fender Alexis to a straight red card after a clash with Mandzukic in the 58th minute, one of several unsavoury incidents during the game.

Valencia also have 20 points in fourth, above Atletico on goal difference, after they celebrated their imminent takeover by Singapore billionaire Peter Lim with a 3-1 win at home to Elche on Saturday.

In Sunday’s other games, Malaga thrashed visiting Rayo Vallecano 4-0 and Espanyol were held to a 0-0 draw at home to promoted Deportivo La Coruna.

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MEXICO CITY — Relegation-threatened Chivas secured a vital point with a 3-3 draw against Tijuana on Sunday in the Mexican first division. America remains top of the league despite losing 3-2 to Queretaro, while Atlas defeated Puebla 2-1 to move within two points of the lead after the four-teenth round.

In other weekend games, Santos Laguna drew 1-1 with Pumas, Cruz

Azul beat Morelia 3-1, Chiapas overcame Veracruz 2-1, Tigres drew 2-2 with Monterrey, Pachuca against Leones Negros ended 0-0, and Leon defeated Toluca 3-2.

Tijuana’s Alfedo Moreno opened the scoring in the 24th minute, but Omar Bravo equalized in the 35th and scored again nine minutes later. Moreno struck from close range to level in the 54th and Dario Bene-detto headed a goal from a corner ten minutes later. A stoppage time header from Jair Pereira snatched a

draw for the home team.Queretaro’s Camilo Sanvezzo

opened the scoring in the 25th and William da Silva netted another a minute before half time. America took advantage of Ricardo Osorio’s expulsion with goals from Oribe Peralta in the 66th and Luis Men-doza eight minutes later.

Sanvezzo’s subtle flick handed Queretaro the victory in the last minute of the game, and made him the league’s current leading scorer, with ten goals.

Sevilla climb to La Liga summit

Chivas earns vital draw in Mexican league

Gourcuff strikes to end Marseille’s winning streak

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Lyon’s Yoann Gourcuff, second right, celebrates with his teammates after he scored a goal against Marseille during their French League One soccer match at Gerland stadium, in Lyon, central France, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014.

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Manchester United’s Robin van Persie removes his shirt as he celebrates after scoring an equalising goal against Chelsea, during the English Premier League soccer match between Man-chester United and Chelsea at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Sunday Oct. 26, 2014. The game finished 1-1.

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A strong finish at the Paris Masters and the ATP World Tour Finals could see him end the year as number one for the first time since 2009 -- proof that his skills are not in decline despite the advancing years and two sets of twins.

“It would be very special, you can’t say it’s not important, world number one, it’s what it’s all about really, together with some tournaments you really care about,” Federer told the ATP’s official television channel after his 51-minute thrashing of Goffin.

“With the year I’ve had and the amount of finals I’ve played, the level of tennis I’ve played, I’m really pleased that I have a shot at being there. “But I’m sure Novak will be very motivated. It’s going to be interesting weeks ahead.”

Federer, whose 302 weeks as world number one is a record, as is his streak of 237 consecu-tive weeks atop the rankings, is less than 500 points behind Djokovic with a combined 2,500 points up for grabs in Paris and London.

Djokovic won both of those titles last year and therefore cannot significantly add to his

haul as he will be defending points, while Federer lost in the semi-finals at both events and can potentially close the gap.

Federer was at his majestic best at times against Goffin, the Belgian who has rediscov-ered his best form since Wimbledon, winning 43 out of 45 matches, including on the Chal-lenger Tour, to rocket up the world standings.

He was never in with a chance against Federer though as the local boy delighted his fans with a faultless display to take his career title tally to 82 and extend his winning streak to 12 matches after his title in Shanghai. The first two of those wins came as Federer helped steer Switzerland into the Davis Cup final against France.

Switzerland’s Roger Federer raises the tro-phy after winning his final match against

Belgium’s David Goffin at the Swiss Indoors ATP tennis tournament in Basel

October 26, 2014.

Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez victorious in punishing race held in stifling heat at Sepang to raise prospect of new premier class record at Valencia in November. Marquez overcame a poor start to pass Movistar Yamaha riders Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi to clinch his 12th victory of the season, equalling Aussie Doohan’s feat from 1997.

The Repsol Honda rider can now smash Doohan’s record in Spain next month and says his win in the Malaysian MotoGP will make his job that little bit easier at Valencia. “In Valencia I don’t want any pres-sure, I just want to enjoy; here I tried 100% because I knew if I did another crash or bad race then in Va-lencia the pressure would be higher, but after the victory here I will be free in Valencia,” said Marquez.

“I will try to give a really good show to all my fans and try to enjoy.” The stifling heat at Sepang pushed the riders to the limit physi-cally and Marquez admitted the race presented a gruelling test of fitness.

“It was a really, really difficult race, especially for the physical conditions, and especially in the beginning because I did a mistake in the first corner,” he said.

“I braked too late and I was go-ing wide and then I touched with Jorge and I lost many positions. I pushed really hard on the first two laps to overtake the riders and after that when I closed on the Yamaha riders I was trying to cool down the brakes, cool down the tyres.

“The on the last seven or eight laps I tried my usual tactical race because in Australia I tried a dif-ferent one and it was no good!” he added.

“I tried to overtake them and give 100% but it was really difficult because it was really hot under the helmet but I’m very happy to come back at the top and to equal Mick Doohan’s record.” After winning eleven of the opening twelve races, Marquez had gone four races with-out a win.

“It was a long time ago, the last victory was in Silverstone. But there were different situations. We got a lot of experience during the second half of the season and I was able to take more risks because of the championship advantage.

“But to come back to the top is really nice. It was my target this weekend and we did it. It means when we concentrate only for the race and don’t do stupid things then we can fight for victory.”

Federer wins Basel title, eyes world top spotReuters

BASEL - Roger Federer has his sights set on ending the year as the world’s top-ranked player after the 33-year-old claimed his fifth title of the year in his home town on Sunday. The 17-times grand slam champion outclassed David Goffin 6-2 6-2 to win the Swiss Indoor tournament in Basel for a sixth time, moving ever closer to Serbian Novak Djokovic at the top of the rankings in the process.

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Marquez: Pressure has eased for Valencia record bid

REUTERS/Olivia HarrisHonda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of Spain celebrates as he wins the Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix at Sepang International Circuit near Kuala Lumpur October 26, 2014.

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UBUD - Campuhan Ridge Walk is a free and easy nature trek, popular among repeat visitors to the central highland town of Ubud. The area provides a great retreat from the more hectic southern parts of the island, but this trail presents an even more pristine outback to escape from the con-temporary boutique, guesthouse

and restaurant-lined Jalan Raya Ubud. While the hike lets you enjoy cool fresh air and probably the most gorgeous hillside vista in the region, it also allows you to shed off some calories too with its nine-kilometre hill track.

Getting to the starting point is relatively easy. Those staying at the Warwick Ibah Luxury Villas and Spa have the best starting point to the Campuhan Ridge

Walk, as the main access is a concrete path just down from this boutique hotel’s main entrance. Smaller letterings under the sig-nage of the Warwick Ibah, bears “Going to The Hill” with an arrow pointing left, and as soon as you take on this path, the verdant sur-roundings of the Campuhan Valley immediately come to sight, lined by dense tropical foliage.

A small bridge over the re-

vered Campuhan River leads to the majestic Pura Gunung Lebah temple complex. Signs before the temple clearly show the directions to follow along the route, which borders the eastern walls of the temple. These intricately carved walls and the towering ‘meru’ tiers of the shrines visible from the path provide an exotic and cultural touch to the beginning of this nature walk. You might meet a few fellow trekkers on their way back from their earlier jog, but most of the time you’ll have the path to your own.

A few hundred meters and up the slopes from the temple, the view widens to reveal the vast hills that make up the valley hinterland. The best time to enjoy the Cam-puhan Ridge Walk is early morn-ing and late afternoon, when the temperature is cool and when the skies show their best hues during sunrise and sunset. Slopes as far as the eye can see are an undulating sea of green, covered in tall reed grass, which at times are harvested by the locals for thatched roofing that is typical in traditional Bali-nese architecture.

Campuhan ridge walk

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Sleep has eluded Clemente Ro-driguez Moreno, 46, since his 19-year-old son Christian disappeared with his classmates. Each night Rodriguez returns to his home close to the Raul Isidro Burgos school in Tixtla and his mind races. “What will come of them? We don’t know if he’s eating, if he’s injured, if they’re hitting him.”

The families’ lives have been upended since police in the town of Iguala, allegedly on the mayor’s orders, attacked the students to stop them from interrupting a speech by the mayor’s wife on Sept. 26. Both the mayor and his wife are fugitives, along with the police chief.

Three students, including one later found with the skin peeled off his face, and three people unrelated to the attack, died in a series of ini-tial attacks. Investigators say the rest of the students were driven off to a police station, later turned over to the drug gang Guerreros Unidos and have not been heard from since.

Everything since has been a nightmare, said a 57-year-old farmer from Ayutla who spoke on condition of anonymity as a precaution against reprisals. He walks his 19-year-old son’s campus in the Ayotzinapa neighborhood in a daze.

“I don’t sleep for the thinking,” he said, fingering a foil packet of sleeping pills prescribed by a doctor who came by to help. “I don’t feel like I’m living life.”

His family has few resources, he said, and his son came to the school because the students support themselves. That’s what he said they were doing that afternoon in Iguala, soliciting donations.

Staring at the photograph of his son after a march to demand the return of the missing, the farmer spoke one moment of the anguish of not knowing. His eyes welled with tears and he bit his lower lip. Next flashed an anger that has been building over weeks. He said he’s tired of a corrupt government that has always scorned poor farmers. He wants the guilty to pay. “If they don’t give them to us, we’ll have

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Dozens of residents in a rural area of Hawaii were placed on alert as flowing lava from an erupting volcano continued to advance.

Authorities on Sunday said lava flow on the Big Island of Hawaii had advanced about 250 yards (230 meters) since Saturday morning and was moving at the rate of about 10 to 15 yards (9 to 13.5 meters) an hour, consistent with its advancement in recent days.

The flow front passed through a predominantly Buddhist cem-etery, covering grave sites in the mostly rural region of Puna, and was roughly a half-mile (800 meters) from Pahoa Village Road, the main street of Pahoa.

Darryl Oliveira, director of civil defense for Hawaii County, told reporters during a late Sunday morning teleconference that the nearest home was at least 300 yards (275 meters) from the flow front.

Residents in the nearest home said they could see the flow front from their balcony and were prepared to evacuate when the time came, Oliveira said.

Residents in the flow path have been told to complete all neces-sary preparations by Tuesday for a possible evacuation. The timeline could change, based on the flow rate.

Oliveira estimated there were at least 50 to 60 structures, including homes and businesses, in the area most likely to be impacted.

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TALLINN, Estonia — Estonia’s finance minister says he will step down over a public uproar sparked by remarks he made on an ethnic Russian colleague earlier this week. Reform Party member Jurgen Ligi, 55, called the Social Democrat Education Minister Jevgeni Os-sinovski “an immigrant’s son from the pink party” in a Facebook post Wednesday.

Ossinovski represents Estonia’s ethnic-Russian minority that makes up a quarter of the Baltic country’s population of 1.3 million, and Ligi’s comments were seen as degrading by both Russian speakers and ethnic Estonians.

Ligi tendered his resignation to Prime Minister Taavi Roivas Sunday, saying he wanted to give the government coalition of the conservative Reform Party and center-left Social Democrats a chance to work “in peace.” It was not immediately known who would replace Ligi.

Families of missing Mexican students still waitingAssociated Press

TIXTLA, Mexico — Night is the most difficult time at the rural teachers college, where fami-lies have stayed on thin, bare mattresses in classrooms since 43 students went missing a month ago. The day’s distractions of meals, meetings and marches end, and the parents are left with their thoughts, questions and a simmering rage.

to proceed another way, with more resistance,” he said.

There was so much confusion in those early days, said Valentin Cornelio Gonzalez, a 30-year old farmer from the municipality of Tecoanapa who dropped everything to travel to the school, where his brother-in-law, 19-year-old Abel Garcia Hernandez, is enrolled. Was the attack at the school or in Iguala? Were the attackers police or cartel gunmen? How many students were missing?

Some gaps have since been filled,

but the gaping one, the one families care most about, remains a void, de-spite the arrest and interrogation of more than 50 suspects. So Gonzalez, clad in well-worn leather sandals, has been marching —in the state capital of Chilpancingo, in Acapul-co, in Mexico City — demanding an answer. When he first arrived at the school he and other relatives spent a fruitless day searching around Ig-uala. They feared for their safety, but fault the government for not doing enough: “They’re not looking for them like they should.”

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FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2014 photo, a man places a missing persons’ poster offering 1,000,000.00 Mexican pesos or about 74,000.00 U.S. dollars, leading to information on 43 college students who went missing, in Chilpancingo, Mexico.

Minister resigns over Facebook comments

Hawaii volcano lava prompts evacuation concerns

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In this Oct. 24, 2014 photo from the U.S. Geological Survey, the lava flow from Kilauea Volcano that began June 27 is seen as it crossed Apa?a Street near Cemetery Road near the town of Pahoa on the Big Island of Hawaii.

AntaraJAKARTA - Newly-appointed Foreign Affairs Minister (FM) Retno Mar-

sudi has stated she was waiting for President Joko Widodo’s directives related to three international agenda in the second week of November 2014.

“There will be three submits, namely the APEC Summit in Beijing on November 10-11, the ASEAN Summit in Myanmar on November 12-13 and the G20 Summit in Australia on November 15-16. I think those are among the issues the President will raise at the first cabinet meeting. Let’s await what the President’s directives will be,” Retno said following the announcement of President Joko Widodo’s cabinet lineup on the yard of the Merdeka Palace here on Sunday evening.

President Joko Widodo is slated to hold the first cabinet meeting after inducting all ministers of the “work cabinet” on Monday.

Retno said she would discuss a number of programs after the first cabinet meeting. “He (the President) said this is work cabinet. After the inaugura-tion of the cabinet lineup there will be no other words than work and work,” she said.

Retno who is career diplomat said she was contacted by former deputy of the Jokowi-JK transition team Andi Widjajanto on Saturday (Oct 18) and met President Jokowi on Monday night.

“On Saturday at 06.00 p.m. The Hague time I was phoned by Mr Andi asking me to meet Mr Jokowi immediately. I tried to get a ticket that night. On Monday afternoon I arrived in Jakarta. At 05.15 p.m. Mr Andi phoned me again to meet the President at midnight on Monday,” she said. Retno is the first Indonesian woman to hold the post of foreign affairs minister.

After the inauguration, Presi-dent held the first cabinet meet-ing.

Earlier, the Corruption Eradi-cation Commission (KPK) stated that they will soon brief 34 new ministers of President Joko Widodo’s cabinet so that they will have common understanding about the anti-graft body. “The President wants the KPK to brief all the ministers,” KPK Deputy Chairman Adnan Pandu Praja said on Sunday.

This way the ministers would be aware of the KPK’s strategic position, he said.

No date has been set for the briefing, he said.

Pandu refused to comment on the appointment of Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle

(PDIP) politician Yasonna H Laoly as law and human rights minister.

“I am sorry I don’t know him well,” he said.

Indonesia Corruption Watch ( ICW) resea rche r Emerson Yuntho has asked the public to keep watch for the appointment of the PDIP politician as law and human rights minister.

“If a politician fills the post of law and human rights minister, the interests of politicians will most likely dominate the minis-try,” Emerson said.

ICW noted that several cases involved law and human rights ministers from political parties, including the use of funds in the ministry’s account to disburse the fund of former president

Soeharto’s son, Tommy Soeharto, and the raising of fund for a po-litical party through legal entity administration system project.

“If that is the case, the govern-ment’s image will be on the line,” he added.

Emerson expressed hope that the new minister of law and hu-man rights would support the KPK.

Yasonna Hamonangan Laoly was formerly a member of the North Sumatra Provincial Leg-islative Council from 1999 to 2004, member of the House of Representatives (DPR) from 2004 to 2009, deputy chairman of the House Budget Committee in 2013 and chief of the PDIP fac-tion in the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR).

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JAKARTA - Newly appointed Minister of Transportation Ignasius Jonan was asked to generate the strong public policy in line with his current capacity after engaging in corporation affairs.

“Jonan who is expert in the railway company PT KAI (Kereta Api In-donesia), only has expertise in corporate ranks, but a strong public policy is needed in this ‘Work Cabinet’,” chairman of the Indonesian Transportation Community Danang Parikesit said.

According to Danang, in effort to generate strong public policy, Jonan should be able to coordinate and communicate with the related ministers such as Chief of National Development Planning Agency Andrinof Chaniago and Minister of State Owned Enterprises Rini Soemarno.

Danang further said that the public policy should take side with the public transport that has been designed in the working group of the Work Cabinet of Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla’s government.

The public transport especially in urban areas should meet 45 to 60 percent demand of mass transport in large amounts, he said.

Danang also said, as the Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla’s government stick to the maritime axis program, Jonan should also generate strong public policy on the sea transportation. Jonan replaced Major General (ret.) Evert Ernest Mangindaan (of former President Yudhoyono`s cabinet).

In addition, Jonan has been named the best Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Indonesia 2014 by SWA business magazine for successfully bringing the state railway company PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) back on track, from a losing firm to a profitable enterprise. Some of his breakthrough was the improvement of train service by the implementation of the electronic ticketing and sterilization of stations from merchants and beggars, turning the face of trains stations clean and neat.

Jonan was awarded The Best CEO BUMN (State-Owned Enterprises) in 2013 by the SOE Minister Dahlan Iskan.

President Jokowi inaugurates cabinet ministers

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Indonesian President Joko Widodo, front row center, and his deputy Jusuf Kalla, front row second right, pose for photographers with the newly appointed cabinet ministers after their the inauguration ceremony at the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014.

AntaraJAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) inaugurates his cabinet ministers on Monday

at the Presidential Palace. The inauguration of a total of 30 ministers and four coordinating ministers was attended by First Lady Iriana Jokowi, wife of Vice President Mufidah Jusuf Kalla, Chairman of the House of Representatives (DPR) Setya Novanto, Chairman of the Regional Representative Council (DPD) Irman Gusman, Chairman of the People’s Consultative Assem-bly (MPR) Zulkifli Hassan, Chairman of the Constitutional Court Hamdan Zoelva, and other high-ranking government officials.

On transportation sector Minister Jonan urged to generate strong public policy

FM awaits President’s directives on three summits

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Gianyar County has now had a newly es-tablished tourist attraction. Known as Taman Nusa, it offers captivating scenery. It is sur-rounded by cliffs and lush tropical forest with the views of sea, mountains and the overlay of terraced rice fields. Meanwhile, its entrance gates are unique that will take visitors into the atmosphere of ancient time deeply exuding traditional culture and civilization.

It is located on Jalan Taman Bali, Blahpane Klod hamlet, Sidan village, about 25 km east of Denpasar. This tourist attraction offers a panorama of tropical nature of the Indone-sia graced with cultural tourism, customs, traditional houses and museums to the art crafts of Indonesian society in the present and past time.

President Director of the Taman Nusa, Santoso Senangsyah, said the idea of the al-ternative tourist attraction in Bali originated from his concerns about the condition of the Indonesian culture that was increasingly

marginalized today. It was less enthused by younger generation and impressed that no one cared. “Departing from the phenom-enon, it then appears the idea to establish a center for cultural preservation of the na-tion,” he said.

The tourist attraction performing its soft opening earlier this year was built as a cul-tural tourism park of Indonesia doubling as the presentation of Bali for Indonesia and the world. “We hope, the Taman Nusa can serve as a means of tourist attraction, education, conservation and research on the Indonesian culture,” he hoped. Through the Taman Nusa, explained Santosa, his party wanted to feature the existence of cultural heritage to the world community. Visitors were invited to explore the panorama of the time passage of Indone-sia from the ancient time to the pre-history, the kingdom era of the archipelago, cultural village, until Indonesia attained its indepen-dence. (kmb)

The Head of Bangli Revenue Services, Ketut Riang, when met recently admitted that several res-taurants in Kintamani stated to dis-continue their operation. Through-out 2014, at least three to four restaurants also declared to end its operation. As many restaurants closed in Kintamani, automatically the regionally generated revenue of Bangli from hotel and restaurant tax sector reduced.

Riang admitted the bankruptcy of a number of restaurants in Kintamani was kindled by the existence of tariff war among the restaurateurs. To stop the condi-tion, his party claimed to be unable to do much. Local government could not restrict the price sold to travelers.

At separate location, Chairman of the Indonesia Hotels and Restau-rants Association (PHRI) of Bangli Chapter, Ketut Putranata, said that the tariff war had become one of the causes making few restaurants in Kintamani closed. However, according to him, the main cause

was the unclear spatial planning of Kintamani.

Many restaurants went bankrupt in the area because the view on sale was hampered by buildings of restaurants located on the east side of the road. As a result, the restau-rants standing on the west side of the road did not get the view and they no longer had an appeal. He believed it was one of the impacts that triggered many capital owners to increasingly build a restaurant on the east side of the ravine bor-derline and neglected the spatial plan rules. “I hope this situation can end here without any further destruction. Without a good will of the parties involved in the construc-tion, especially when seeing the current condition, I am pessimistic that tourism development towards the better condition for all parties will be difficult to materialize,” he explained.

Related to many restaurants choosing to commit tariff war, he claimed that all this time the PHRI was difficult enough to invite the

restaurateurs and find solutions to the problems. His party got dif-ficulty to invite them, let alone sit together to talk about the problem. “Employers do not have awareness

of looking for solutions for the problem at hand. We want that all parties are benefited, not harmed. However, this good intention seems to have not been realized,” said

Putranata. It was exacerbated by the fact that local government seemed to close its eyes and didn’t care about the condition of tourism in Kintamani. (ina)

Bali Post

DENPASAR - A shooting case by air-soft gun occurred at Laplap hamlet, East Denpasar, Saturday (Oct 25). The victim was identified to have the initial As and he was shot by KS due to having an argument when meeting at restaurant. As a result of the offense, KS was then detained at the East Denpasar Police.

“We are still processing the case and the suspect has been arrested. The evidence has also been secured. There is information if they want to resolve the case peacefully,” said the Chief of East Denpasar Police, Wimboko, Sunday (Oct 26).

Chief of the Criminal Investigation Unit, Dony Bayuanggoro, added that the victim and perpetrator initially met at a food stall. Since they previously had an unresolved problem, they were then engaged in a quarrel. However, the quarrel did not last long and the two men went home.

“The victim lives at Laplap hamlet,

while the perpetrator lives at Gunung hamlet, Penatih village, Denpasar,” said Donny.

A few minutes later, the perpetrator looked for the victim to his home. When arriving at his home and met with the victim around 02:00 in the morning, the perpetrator shot him with an airsoft gun. Fortunately, the victim dodged and the shot afflicted his temple. “Temple of the victim was injured as a result of the shot. After that, the perpetrator ran away,” he said.

After receiving the report on the inci-dent, police officers came down directly to the scene. In addition, some investiga-tors looked for the perpetrator at his home accompanied by the local hamlet chief. KS was directly arrested and taken to police station, including the evidence.

Chief of Criminal Investigator regret-ted the incident whereas the case could be resolved amicably or through legal solution. Possession of a weapon without a permit was also prohibited, let alone to be abused. (kmb36)

Arguing at food stall ends in shooting

Taman NusaA cultural park with Indonesia panorama

Worrying, tariff war of restaurants in KintamaniBali Post

BANGLI - More and more hotels and restaurants throughout the area of Kintamani tourism area choose to close and cease their opera-tion. Unfair competition marked by tariff war is considered to be one of the triggers of such bankruptcy. Although it has become a protracted classical problem in Bangli, so far there has been no attempt made the businesses and government to find the solutions to the problem.

IBP/File PhotoTourists ate at one of restaurants in Kintamani. More and more hotels and restaurants throughout the area of Kintamani tourism area choose to close and cease their operation.

Australian Trade Minister An-drew Robb said officials had laid the groundwork for the conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal, which would en-compass 40 percent of the global economy.

“Over the course of our weekend meeting, we have spent a consider-able portion of our time in one-on-one discussions,” said Robb, who hosted the Australian leg of the discussions in Sydney.

“That has allowed us to make further progress in the negotiations on market access for goods, services and investment.

“We consider that the shape of an ambitious, comprehensive, high-standard and balanced deal is crystallising.”

The TPP deal has been the subject of discussions for several years, with negotiations slowing while the United States and To-kyo debate key details, including

Japanese tariffs on agricultural imports and US access to Japan’s auto market.

Even so, US President Barack Obama said in June he hoped to have an agreement on framing the deal by November, when he is expected in the region for talks, including the G20 summit in Bris-bane.

Robb said negotiators were mak-ing “significant progress” in both the market access and trade and investment rules discussions, and were to consult within their own countries and with each other to “resolve outstanding issues”.

Despite the developments, the US and Japan’s trade representa-

tives said there were still differences between their nations over access to each other’s markets.

Japanese Economy Minister Akira Amari said their bilateral talks, including one on Monday morning, had made “considerable progress, but still some important issues are remaining”.

“At this point in time, we cannot say that there is a clear prospect of US-Japan market access negotia-tions to be concluded,” Amari added through a translator.

US Trade Representative Mi-chael Froman echoed his sentiments and said their negotiating teams were working together to “try and bridge the remaining differences”,

particularly in the agriculture and auto sectors.

Bilateral discussions between the US, Japan and larger nations such as Mexico and Canada were also a sensitive issue for smaller participants, New Zealand’s Trade Minister Tim Groser said.

“They are to understand and have a very careful appreciation that a sweetheart deal that just is made in Tokyo and Washington... will cause immense disruption to this negotia-tion,” he said.

The 12 prospective TPP mem-bers are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam.

Associated Press

TOKYO — Toyota kept its lead over rivals Volkswagen and General Motors as the world’s top-selling automaker in the first nine months of the year, Monday reporting record sales of 7.615 million vehicles, up nearly 3 percent from the previous year.

Volkswagen said earlier this month it sold 7.40 million vehicles for January-September, barely edging out Gen-eral Motors Co. in the closely watched auto sales race. GM reported sales of 7.372 million cars and trucks worldwide earlier this month.

Japanese automaker Toyota was in first place in the first half with sales of almost 5.1 million. It finished first last year with a record 9.98 million sales, and is projecting annual sales of 10.2 million vehicles this year. That would be an auto industry record.

Toyota, which makes the Camry sedan, Prius hybrid and Lexus luxury models, is doing well despite difficulties in its home Japanese market, where a rise in the sales tax has dampened spending overall, especially auto purchases.

Toyota has publicly played down its spot at the top, saying its focus is on delivering good cars, one at a time.

But the competition is intense. The three automakers have been close on each other’s heels, competing not only in de-veloped markets such as the U.S. and Europe, but also in the emerging markets of China and the rest of Asia.

Volkswagen, which nudged GM out of second in the first half of the year, stayed ahead of the Detroit automaker even though GM had its best third-quarter global sales since 1980, led by strong sales in China and growth in North America.

GM does not give annual sales projections, but Volkswagen has said it might deliver 10 million vehicles this year.

General Motors was the No. 1 selling automaker for more than seven decades before losing the title to Toyota in 2008. GM retook the sales crown in 2011, when Toyota’s production was hurt by the quake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

Toyota made a comeback in 2012, and kept that lead in 2013. GM is going strong despite issuing massive recalls this year totaling more than 30 million vehicles.

Toyota also underwent a massive recall debacle in the U.S., announcing recall after recall starting in 2009.

Japanese automakers, including Toyota, are also embroiled in an unfolding global recall problem, this time over faulty air bags made by Japanese supplier Takata Corp.

Pan-Pacific trade pact taking shapeAgence France-Presse

SYDNEY - The shape of an ambitious pan-Pacific trade agreement was “crystallising”, trade ministers said Monday, although the United States and Japan remain divided over market access.

Toyota at top in global vehicle sales over VW, GM

AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, FileIn this Wednesday, May 8, 2013 file photo, a Toyota Motor Corp.,’s model is on display at the automaker’s Tokyo head office in Tokyo. Toyota kept its lead over rivals against rivals Volkswagen and General Motors as the world’s top-selling automaker in the first three quarters of the year.

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Bali Post

BANGLI - The fire in bamboo forest occurred at Kayubihi hamlet/village, Bangli, Sunday (Oct 26). To anticipate the fire from spreading, a unit of fire truck of Bangli government was de-ployed at the scene. The fire scorching around half hectare of bamboo forest was triggered by fire used by the bam-boo collector to shoo bees nesting in the bamboo.

The Head of Bangli Regional Di-saster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), Wayan Sugiarta, when asked for his confirmation said the bamboo forest on fire was owned by one of the local residents, I Nengah Cindra. The fire oc-curred around 11:30 a.m. To anticipate the spread of fire especially in the dry

season this time, the extinguishing ef-fort was immediately taken by residents led by local hamlet chief. To speed up the extinguishing process, a unit of fire truck belonging to the Bangli govern-ment was deployed to put out the fire. With such an effort, the fire could just be extinguished around 2:00 p.m. “Due to the incident, the area of bamboo for-est on fire reached approximately half hectare,” he said.

When asked about the cause of the fire, Sugiarta said it was triggered by negligence. Prior to the fire, the bam-boo collector wanted to shoo some bees nesting in the bamboo by using fire. But unexpectedly, the fire was difficult to control until it magnified and burned the bamboo trees in the vicinity. (ina)

Chief of Tulang Nyuh customary village, Nengah Sudarna, when met at his home on Sunday (Oct 26), said the villa development process had been going on since two months ago. He claimed to have made a site inspection. Initially, the location of villa construction was known to be on behalf of Wayan Sabda. Appar-ently, having been traced, the land spreading across approximately 6,000 square meters was sold to one of the investors whose identity was hidden by local workers.”When I checked, in fact it has not owned a permit from local government. Meanwhile, it did not make any coordination with local customary village,” said Sudarna.

He emphasized that his party did not prohibit any investors from developing at the village. However, at least the investors should comply with the awig-awig or bylaw of the local customary village. Moreover, the development activities used the facilities owned by customary village like the road to the project. Local residents finally protested after the road along some 1 km was made severely damaged as the proj-

ect vehicles buzzed about every day. To avoid any problems between the residents and the project owner, he admitted to have made coordination with the village authority and the Klungkung Integrated Licensing Office. Both parties stated to have not issued any recommendations or license for the villa development.

The customary village finally sent a letter of complaint to the Integrated Licensing Office and Municipal Police. In essence, the letter con-tained that the villa establishment was without coordination with lo-cal customary village. Besides, the location was considered too close to the Dalem Temple of Tegak village, precisely in the area of Subak Abian Gunung Sari. The villa building was about 200 meters from the Dalem Temple and 300 meters from the Puseh Temple. The customary vil-lage also immediately reported the party alleged to build the project, known as Jaelani Nariyanti after get-ting information from the workers. “Responding to our complaint, the Municipal Police have come down and discontinued the project works last week. But, later the project

started to do its activities again,” he said when accompanying to the project location.

His party urged the villa con-struction to comply with the cus-tomary village bylaw and the rules of local government. If the workers were still stubborn, his party would report it directly to the judiciary team to discipline this week. In addition, his party would also im-mediately organize a meeting of

Tulang Nyuh customary village. When inspecting the location, the villa construction was just limited to the making of foundation on the area of about 0.60 hectare. Approximately 11 workers were still casting the project foundation. No one dared to give information about the villa development. The workers just smiled when asked by reporters.

The stubborn workers were quite

surprising because the Municipal Police had time to reprimand in order to stop the project works. However, the workers still contin-ued their activities. Chairman of the Klungkung Judiciary Team, Made Kasta, when contacted on Sunday said that the villa construc-tion was not licensed. He asserted that his party would immediately come down to the project location. (kmb31)

Unlicensed, residents protest against villa developmentBali Post

SEMARAPURA - Residents of Tulang Nyuh customary village, Selat village, Klungkung protested against the construction of villa at local village. It happened because the villa construction was done without permission, either from the local customary village or local government. The project was once reported to Municipal Police and the activities were stopped. However, the workers remained to actively build the foundation of the villa.

IBP/BagiartaResidents of Tulang Nyuh customary village, Selat village, Klungkung protested against the construction of villa at local village. It happened because the villa construction was done without permission, either from the local customary village or local government.

Intend to shoo bees, half hectare of bamboo forest on fire

IBP/SwasrinaThe fire in bamboo forest occurred at Kayubihi hamlet/village, Bangli, Sunday (Oct 26). To anticipate the fire from spreading, a unit of fire truck of Bangli government was deployed at the scene.

After scraping by with 51.6 per-cent of the vote in a runoff against center-right challenger Aecio Neves on Sunday, Rousseff spoke of na-tional reconciliation as she seeks to restart a stagnant economy, push po-litical reform through a fragmented congress where she now has less support, and respond to widespread popular demands to improve woeful public services. These frustrations sparked angry street demonstrations just a year ago.

In her victory speech, Rous-seff said “dialogue” was the first promise for her second term — but it remains to be seen how much the opposition will cede to her ideas of a statist economy given that growth has stalled, though she has managed to keep unemployment at record lows.

The president said she under-stood demands for a more efficient, less corrupt government. “That’s why I want to be a much better president than I have been until now,” she said after the election results were announced.

During the Workers’ Party time in power, the government has en-acted expansive social programs that have helped pull millions of Brazilians out of poverty and into the middle class, transforming the lives of the poor.

But the globe’s seventh-largest economy has underperformed since 2011, with some fearing it could put the social gains at risk.

“Dilma has social inclusion on her side, but the macroeconomic policies during her first four years in office have been very weak,” said

Carlos Pereira, a political analyst at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil’s leading think tank. “Infla-tion has returned, the country is in a technical recession and public spending is out of control. It is less likely she will be able to offer so-cial inclusion and macroeconomic stability at the same time.”

The choice between Rousseff and Neves split Brazilians into two camps — those who thought only the president would continue to protect the poor and advance social inclusion versus those who were certain that only the contender’s market-friendly economic policies could see Brazil return to solid growth.

Rousseff and Neves fought bit-terly to convince voters that they could deliver on both growth and social advances. This year’s cam-paign was widely considered the most acrimonious since Brazil’s return to democracy in 1985, a battle between the only two par-ties to have held the presidency since 1995.

Associated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE — A few thousand protesters allied with Haiti’s opposition marched through the capital on Sunday demanding the chance to vote in legislative and local elections that are three years late, among other grievances.

Placard-waving demonstrators started their rally in the downtown slum of Bel Air, burning piles of rum-soaked wood and hold-ing up their voting cards to show they were ready to cast ballots. Some carried placards showing the bespectacled image of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who is confined to his home in a Port-au-Prince suburb amid a war of wills with a Haitian judge investigating corruption allegations against him.

Earlier this year, President Michel Mar-telly called for legislative and municipal elections overdue since late 2011 to take place on Sunday. But the vote has been postponed due to an ongoing stalemate over an electoral law between the government and six opposition senators.

“We came out today to vote but there is no place to vote,” said Wilson Paulo, an un-employed 65-year-old shantytown resident as he stood next to a small fire burning in the middle of a trash-strewn road. Another election protest took place in the northern

city of Cap-Haitien.Martelly’s draft electoral law has been

languishing in the Senate for over 200 days even though the terms of 10 senators expire in mid-January and the country has faced mounting pressure from the U.N. and U.S. to organize the vote before Parliament is dissolved. Voters need to elect one-third of Haiti’s 30-member Senate and fill numerous other posts across the nation of roughly 10 million people.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe said the electoral stalemate is “embarrassing” for the country. He blamed the opposition senators, noting that in order to hold an election the Parliament must first authorize an electoral law.

“They have never been able to convene a session to put the vote forward. This is unfair to the people, this spinning in place and not wanting to provide the law for the election by a group of six extremist senators,” Lamothe said Saturday during a Cabinet retreat in a south coast town.

But the six opposition senators deny they’ve been holding up the elections and are instead defending the Haitian Con-stitution. They have been complaining of exclusion and unfair advantages by the government, along with other opposition figures.

Challenges face Brazil president after re-election

AP Photo/Eraldo PeresBrazil’s President Dilma Rousseff celebrates her victory at a hotel in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014. Official results showed Sunday that President Rousseff defeated opposition candidate Aecio Neves of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, and was re-elected Brazil’s president.

Associated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was re-elected by the narrowest margin in three decades, handing her left-leaning Workers’ Party its weakest mandate as it confronts some of the country’s biggest challenges in years.

Protesters rally in Haiti capital demanding vote

AP Photo/Dieu Nalio CheryDemonstrators march during an anti-government protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014. A few thousand protesters allied with Haiti’s opposition marched through neighborhoods of the capital demanding the chance to vote in legislative and local elec-tions that are three years late, among other grievances.

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Bali Post

GIANYAR - Though no rain and no flooding, the color of wa-ter flowing at the Tegenungan Waterfall, Kemenuh village, Su-kawati subdistrict, was murky. It was also a question raised by a number of travelers coming to the Tegenungan Waterfall tour-ist attraction. They were made to question when seeing the Tegenungan Waterfall looking brownish and murky.

On Sunday (Oct 26), tourist visit to Tegenungan Waterfall was quite crowded. Even, the staff at ticket counter recognized that visiting guests to the tourist attraction reached a daily aver-age of 50 people. Such crowded arrival occurred between 12:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m.

Unfortunately, the quite great potential of Tegenungan nature tourism owned by Gian-yar County was in apprehensive condition. Travelers wishing to

see the beautiful Tegenungan Waterfall were disturbed by the condition of the polluted water. Allegedly, the pollution was caused by sandstone quarry activities in the upstream area, around the Petanu streams at Kemenuh village, Sukawati. “Murky color of the water is the case happening for a long time, after the last Eid,” said one of the traders at Tegenun-gan area.

Similar condition was also recognized by one of the tour-ist guides, Ngakan Bona, who often escorted travelers to the Tegenungan Waterfall. He had repeatedly escorted travelers to the waterfall and found the water condition murky and light brown. The murkiness seemed to look a little better. On nor-mal days, the water sometimes looked murkier and browner, he said.

Admittedly, one of the visi-tors also questioned about such

water condition and he was forced to answer with a lie where the murky water was said to happen due to a repair project to a cliff at the upstream area. Such a reason had to be given as the reason of rain was not possible, considering the weather was fine and it did not rain at all. “We have to tell lies to travelers that it happens due to cliff repair so that they will not complain,” he said.

For this condition, as the tourism practitioner such condi-tion was certainly very worrying for him. Amidst the environ-mental conservation discourse conducted by Gianyar govern-ment, on the one hand, there was the fact related to the en-vironmental degradation that could create a bad image on the environment in Gianyar in the eyes of world community because the Tegenungan Water-fall was visited by many foreign travelers. (kmb16)

Made Sugianta, 40, a visitor from Denpasar, who happened to come with his family said that he had come to Yeh Sanih springs for two times. He noticed that some facilities were still not complete and functioning optimally, including the structure of lazy river where the water in the lazy river was still not flowing and only slightly flooded the pool. “We have visited this spring with family for the second time. Now, the Yeh Sanih spring is good enough, even though the facilities are not yet complete. The lazy river still looks not optimal, the water is just stagnant without flowing water,” he said.

He added the pool revetment made from stone should be leveled because the stones tended to be slippery and they were considered quite dangerous for visitors, espe-cially young children. “If possible, the pool revetment must be leveled. When stones are stacked in natural shape, it will allow a lot of moss to grow and make them slippery. Just now my son got slipped. Thank-

fully, he was fine,” he added.Meanwhile, the Head of Bule-

leng Culture and Tourism Agency, Ketut Warkadea, explained that the development of Yeh Sanih Spring was still in the process and the management was delegated to Yeh Sanih customary village. Never-theless, he did not dismiss if the water discharge of the pool tended to diminish and did not function optimally. “We indeed admit if the water discharge of Yeh Sanih is small. Moreover, the condition of the old pool experiences many leaks. Supposedly it is the duty of the Yeh Sanih management to restore so that the water discharge will be maximal,” he said.

Warkadea said the improvement plan and funding support had been allocated at the beginning of 2014. “Indeed, the local government al-ready allocated a restoration fund for Yeh Sanih spring early 2014. Approximately it reached IDR 500 million,” he said.

The development of Yeh Sanih was expected to increase the do-

IBP/Dewa Kusuma

Construction of lazy river at Yeh Sanih springs, in Kubutambahan subdistrict is still not functioning optimally. The utilization of lazy river that should be drained with water flow on a regular basis is even not maximized.

Local government needs optimizing management of Yeh Sanih springs

Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Construction of lazy river at Yeh Sanih springs, in Kubutambahan subdistrict is still not functioning optimally. The utilization of lazy river that should be drained with water flow on a regular basis is even not maximized. As a result, visitors still faithfully utilize the main pool located in the middle area.

mestic and foreign tourist visits. He revealed that it required a repair in stages related to the supporting facilities and infrastructure. “We do not know about the future plan

related to the repair of Yeh Sanih tourist attraction. It is required a breakwater to protect the sea water from entering the pool and lazy river from the north. Recently, the

project contractor was fined at IDR 40 million due to lack for volume or the workmanship did not match the time limit and the results of the project work,” he said. (dgk)

Water at Tegenungan Waterfall turned murky

IBP/Agung Dharmada

Though no rain and no flooding, the col-or of water flowing at the Tegenungan Waterfall, Kemenuh village, Sukawati subdistrict, was murky.

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Nearly 50 years ago, scientists found bones of two large, powerful dinosaur arms in Mongolia and figured they had discovered a fearsome critter with killer claws.

Now scientists have found the rest of the dinosaur and have new descrip-tions for it: goofy and weird.

The beast probably lumbered along on two legs like a cross between TV dinosaur Barney and Jar Jar Binks of Star Wars fame. It was 16 feet (5 meters) tall and 36 feet (11 meters) long, weighing seven tons, with a duckbill on its head and a hump-like sail on its back. Throw in those killer claws, tufts of feathers here and there, and no teeth — and try not to snicker.

And if that’s not enough, it ate like a giant vacuum cleaner.That’s Deinocheirus mirificus, which means “terrible hands that look

peculiar.” It is newly reimagined after a full skeleton was found in Mongolia and described in a paper released Wednesday by the journal Nature. Some 70 million years old, it’s an ancestral relative of the modern ostrich and belongs to the dinosaur family often called ostrich dinosaurs.

“Deinocheirus turned out to be one the weirdest dinosaurs beyond our imagination,” study lead author Yuong-Nam Lee, director of the Geological Museum in Daejeon, South Korea, said in an email.

When scientists in 1965 found the first forearm bones — nearly 8 feet long — many of them envisioned “a creature that would strike terror in people,” said University of Maryland dinosaur expert Thomas Holtz Jr, who wasn’t part of the study. “Now it’s a creature that would strike bemusement, amazement.”

And yes, he said, “it’s pretty goofy.”The find is tremendous but is a cautionary tale about jumping to conclu-

sions without enough evidence, said University of Chicago dinosaur expert Paul Sereno, who wasn’t part of the discovery.

It also reminds us that evolution isn’t always what we think, Sereno said.

“This is evolution in a dinosaur — not a mammal — world,” Sereno said in email. “The starting point is a two-legged animal looking somewhat like a fuzzy-feathered ostrich. Now you want to get really big and suck up lots of soft vegetation. In the end you look like a goofy Michelin ostrich with fuzz and a tail — not a cow.”

Lee figures the tilted wide hips and massive feet show that Deinocheirus was a slow mover and probably grew so big to escape from being regularly feasted on by bigger dinosaurs.

It had a beak that could eat plants, but it also had a massive tongue that created suction for vacuuming up food from the bottoms of streams, lakes and ponds, Lee wrote.

Originally Lee’s team couldn’t find the dinosaur’s skull, but a tip from an-other researcher led them to recover it from the private market in Germany.

Some kids will soon adopt this dinosaur as their favorite, Holtz said, “and those are kids with a sense of humor.”Scientists described the world’s

highest known Ice Age settlements, two archaeological sites about 2.8 miles (4.5 km) above sea level and about 12,000 years old packed with artifacts including a rock shelter, stone tools, animal bones, food rem-nants and primitive artwork.

“What this tells us is that hunter-gatherers were capable of colonizing a very extreme environment, the high Andes, despite the challenges at the end of the Ice Age,” said archaeologist Kurt Rademaker of Germany’s University of Tübingen, who led the study published in the journal Science.

“And they did so quite success-fully. It pushes back the date of initial entry of humans to this kind of elevation.”

The sites in an Andean locale called the Pucuncho Basin were oc-cupied by small numbers of people, probably only in the dozens.

“Bands of hunter-gatherers are small and not many could fit into the rock shelter, perhaps just a few families,” said University of Maine archaeologist Dan Sandweiss, an-

other of the researchers.The researchers said the sites

show high-altitude human habitation was occurring nearly a millennium earlier than previously known.

“We look at the challenges and we say, ‘Why would you do that when you could just live somewhere else?’” Rademaker said. “Whatever reason they initially went up there, there were reasons to stay despite the challenges.”

At that altitude, temperatures averaged 37 degrees Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius), solar radiation was high and oxygen was low. But there also were animals like vicuña and guanaco - llama relatives - and taruca deer to hunt, the rock shelter, water in streams, bogs and wetlands, and stone like obsidian to make tools.

The tools included spear points, scrapers for working animal hides and implements for cutting and butchering. “A lot of the stone tools seem to be all about hunt-ing and processing of animals,” Rademaker said.

The ceilings of the natural rock

shelters were blackened with soot from fires. The researchers found an abundance of animal bones as well as potato-like starchy tubers that apparently were gathered from lower elevations.

There also was art on the walls of the rock shelters including red ochre pictographs of animals, with some entire wall sections painted red.

“We don’t know whether they date back to the earliest occupation of the site,” Rademaker said.

An open-air site called Pucuncho 14,300 feet (4,355 meters) above sea level yielded hundreds of tools. The Cuncaicha rock shelter featured two alcoves and likely served as a base camp at 14,700 feet (4,480 meters).

Some experts think people need to acquire genetic adaptations over many thousands of years to with-stand such altitudes. But the fact that people colonized these sites only about 2,000 years after humans first entered South America may suggest otherwise.

“We have to re-examine that idea,” Rademaker said.

REUTERS/Kurt Rademaker

Cunchaicha rock shelter in Peruvian Andes is shown in this handout image released on Oc-tober 22, 2014. In a bleak, treeless landscape high in the southern Peruvian Andes, bands of intrepid Ice Age people hunkered down in rudimentary dwellings and withstood frigid weather, thin air and other hardships.

Ice Age people dwelled high in Peru’s AndesReuters

WASHINGTON - In a bleak, treeless landscape high in the southern Peruvian Andes, bands of intrepid Ice Age people hunkered down in rudimentary dwellings and withstood frigid weather, thin air and other hardships.

Goofy dinosaur blends Barney and Jar Jar Binks

AP Photo/Michael Skrepnick

This undated handout image provided by Michael Skrep-nick, Dinosaurs in Art, Nature Publishing Group, shows a Deinocheirus.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Calendar Event for September 28 through October 28, 2014

8 Sep Kajeng Kliwon Pamelastali/Watu Gunung runtuh

Pura Penataran Agung Maha GotraTirta Harum Sri SrenggaNyalian Banjarrangkan Klungkung30 Sep Paid-PaidanPura Dalem Seme JawaMarga Tabanan

1 Oct Urip2 Oct Patetegan3 Oct Pengeradanan

4 Oct Hari Saraswati

Pura Pasek Tangkas Dalang TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Sayan BongkasaAbian SemalPura Watu Gunung BimaPura Agung Jagat Karana SurabayaPura Aditya Jaya Rawa MangunJakarta TimurPura Pemekasan Banyuning TimurBulelengPura Agung Wira Lokha Natha CimahiJawa BaratPura Kawitan Bendesa Aban BaturningMambal Abiansemal

5 Oct Banyu Pinaruh

6 Oct Soma ribek

Pura Jati JembranaPura Kawitan Batu Gaing BangliPura Tirta Wening SurabayaPura Desa Lingga Wana Abang Karan-gasem

7 Oct Sabuh Mas

8 Oct Pagerwesi Dan Purnama Sasih Kapat

Pura Labang SinduJiwa Ubud

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

13 Oct Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan

18 Oct Tumpek Landep

Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem SidakaryaSidakarya DenpasarPura Pasek Gelgel Pedungan DenpasarPura Agung Pasek Tangguntiti TabananPura Agung Pasek Selemadeg TabananPura Pasek Tangkas Kediri TabananPura Kerta Banyuning Barat BulelengPura Dalem Tenggaling SangguanSingapaduPura Kawitan Arya Wangbang PinatihPeguyangan SingarajaPura Bujangga Waisnawa JembranaPura Taman Bubuan Seririt SingarajaPura Penataran Pande Dalem BaturMengwiPura Dalem Pingit TegalalangPura Ida Ratu Pande BesakihPura Penataran Agung Pinatih TulikupGianyarPura Kumuda Saraswati UbudPura Batur Arya Sudimara TabananPura Dalem Majapahit Marga TabananPura Linggih Pajenengan Ida DalemTarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati

19 Oct redite Umanis Ukir

Pura Sanggah Gede Dukuh Sagening TegalTugu Gianyar

22 Oct Buda Cemeng Ukir

Pura Pajenengan kawitan Arya TaumanGelgel KlungkungPura Pasar Agung BesakihPura Pasek Bendesa Pasar Badung LegianKutaPura Gde Gunung Agung MungguBadung

23 Oct Tilem Sasih Kapat24 Oct Hari Bhatara Sri28 Oct Anggara Kasih Kulantir danKajeng Kliwon Enyitan

Bali PostSEMARAPURA - Long dry season does not

only fail the harvest of rice crops, but also sweet corn at the village of Satra, Gelgel to Tangkas, Klungkung. Dozens of the corn plants were suddenly damaged, where the stalk looked to shrink. As a result, the expanse of corn plants cannot bear fruit.

The most serious condition is experienced by farmers at Subak Toya Cau, Gelgel village. As a result, people will only see the growing high plants, but they never bear fruit. One of the local farmers, Ketut Ledang, 60, said that such con-dition almost happened to throughout his corn acreage. Actually, at such age the plant should grow flowers and bear fruit to be harvested soon. “However, only the stalk grows well while it does not bear fruit,” he said.

The damage did not occur due to lack for fer-tilization or water, but it was dominantly caused by very hot weather throughout this long dry season. Actually his party had performed spray-ing but it seemed not to work well. However, the results were still heavily damaged.

Unavoidably such condition led to harvest failure to all crops around the cultivated area. Aside from corn, similar condition also happened to chili and balsam flowers. As a result, he was forced to cut down the whole corn plants for fodder. He said the damage to corn crop acreage on his land and that of his friends was due to mump. Prolonged dry season had triggered the disease increas-ingly violent and attacked almost all corns. Thus, the corn could not bear fruit but only bloomed, and then died. Such disease was often experienced by farmers in the subak

area. He asserted that such condition already occurred around the fourth and fifth month in Balinese calendar (mid-September to mid-November). “However, this year is the most severe,” he complained.

Meanwhile, another farmer at Satra vil-lage, Sujani, said that no fruits could be har-vested due to such condition. Then, farmers suffered huge losses. On the 1,000 square meters of land, the production cost reached more than IDR 5 million. Since the planting, he had never harvested at all. Even, other than being damaged due to weather condition like this, the price also dropped in the market. When facing the adverse condition, farmers expected a subsidy from the local government to reduce the burden of their losses.

The area of Jalan Bypass Ida Bagus Mantra, from Lepang village eastward to Kusamba, Klungkung, has become the center of sweet corn cultivation area in Bali. The acreage reaches tens of hectares. It is supported by soil fertility and adequate nutrients for corn plants demanded by many people from all walks of life. Ev en, many corn fields were contracted directly by sweet corn collectors from Denpasar when the corn began to grow. Meanwhile, some areas are also directly managed by farmers having adequate capital. When contracted directly to collectors, all the production costs are usually given by collectors ranging from the fertilizer and the maintenance.

Sweet corn products of Klungkung are usu-ally marketed in Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar and Karangasem. Several hectares of other corn acreages are also conveyed to meet the needs of consumers in Tabanan. (kmb31)

The Head of Gianyar HIV/AIDS Mitigation Commis-sion, Made Mahayastra, said on Sunday (Oct 26) the indi-cation on a deliberate attempt to spread the HIV virus could cause an explosion of HIV/AIDS cases in Gianyar. Nev-ertheless, his party guaranteed that people with HIV/AIDS in Gianyar would not spread it deliberately because they had received intensive assistance from volunteers and activists. “We’ve made an approach to every HIV infected victim,” he said.

To anticipate the HIV vi-rus, Mahayastra doubling as Deputy Regent of Gianyar had increased coordination with activists and volunteers in order to intensify the dissemi-nation and coordination. In ad-dition, his party also increased

the outreach to all schools in Gianyar County. “We are targeting schools and coop-eration with NGOs to make socialization and prevention,” he said while appealing to the youth in order to anticipate the newly known women.

As information, the data of the Bali Health Agency handed over to KPAK Gian-yar indicated that cumulative finding of the HIV/AIDS cases from 1987 to June 2014 amounted to 9,365 people living with HIV/AIDS in Bali. Denpasar had the most findings namely 3,811 cases followed by Buleleng (1,702 cases) and Badung (1,378 cases). Meanwhile, Gianyar lay in fourth position with 707 findings, with 270 cases of AIDS sufferer and 437 cases of HIV sufferer.

Finding of the case also continued to show an increase each year, where in 2011 was recorded to reach 405 cases of HIV/AIDS, increased to 446 in 2012 and increased again in 2013 to 582 cases. Then, until June 2014 it increased significantly to 707 cases. Even, this figure was expected to continuously grow until the end of the year.

However, based on the finding of the case by July 2013, a total of 30 underage children were infected by HIV/AIDS where three chil-dren belonged to 5-14 years old group. The highest case happened to the age range of 1-4 years old amounting to 19 children. More ironically, eight infants of less than one year old have been infected by HIV/AIDS. (kmb35)

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HIV/AIDS’ counselors gathered to discuss explosion of cases in Bali.

Beware of HIV explosions in GianyarBali Post

GIANyAr - A rumor mentioning that two AIDS-infected women wishing to spread HIv virus to teenagers and man masher has resulted in a concern to many people. Moreover, Gianyar ranked fourth in terms of the number of HIv/AIDS sufferers in Bali has caused the HIv/AIDS Mitigation Commission (KPAK) of Gianyar to continuously improve counseling and supervision in anticipation of the HIv virus.

Prolonged dry season Dozens hectares

of corn plants damaged

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Long dry season does not only fail the harvest of rice crops, but also sweet corn at the village of Satra, Gelgel to Tangkas, Klungkung. Dozens of the corn plants were suddenly damaged, where the stalk looked to shrink. As a result, the expanse of corn plants cannot bear fruit.

The competing chefs, bartend-ers and baristas were representa-tives from Archipelago’s eclectic Bali hotel collection which com-prises 18 hotels & villas. Held on Saturday, October 18, 2014 at the Aston Ungasan Hotel & Convention Center, the event has attracted much enthusiasm from practitioners and foodies as well as students and job seekers who eagerly applied for employment opportunities with Indonesia’s largest hotel group.

During the cooking competi-tion, each participant was asked to prepare a 2 course meal consisting of a seafood based appetizer and a meat based main course. The proud winners where I Made Sudarmadi

and Dwi Mahendra Saputra , both Senior Chefs with the Aston Un-gasan Hotel & Convention Center, whose creations excelled through a straight forward simplicity, good taste and the maximization of lo-cally produced ingredients .

The Bartender Competition, was won by Ni Luh Putu Eka Tari from the Kamuela Sanur Villas & Suites which comes to no surprise given the Kamuela’s popular Cara-mel Restaurant and Bar which has a loyal mostly European and quite demanding clientele. The title for Archipelago Bali’s best Barista went to I Gusti Bagus Putra Sesana from the five-star Grand Aston Bali Beach Resort.

“The Archipelago Culinary Fes-

tive has become a regular annual highlight. It succeeds in showcas-ing our local talent and motivating our Balinese associates to aspire to new heights. As the largest em-ployer on the island it has become increasingly important for us to foster team spirit and a friendly but competitive environment and to recognize overachievers while simultaneously addressing young upcoming job seekers showing them that while employment in the tourism industry might come with hard work and long hours it has definitely its rewards and can result in a satisfying and fulfilling carrier “ said Winston Hanes, Ar-chipelago’s Bali based Regional General Manager. IBP/Courtesy of Archipelago International

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DENPASAr - The 4th Archipelago Culinary Fest 2014 & Job Fair is an annual cooking, barista and bar mixing competition combined with a mass recruiting event held in Bali by Archipelago International, one of Indonesia’s leading hotel operators with a portfolio of more than 90 hotels, resorts and serviced residences in Indonesia, Philippines and Malaysia.

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LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winner Christian Bale -- best known for his star turn as Batman in the

blockbuster “Dark Knight” films -- will play Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in an upcom-ing biopic.

“We needed the best actor on the board in a certain age range and that’s Chris Bale,” the film’s screenwriter Aaron Sorkin said, in an interview with Bloomberg Television posted online Thursday.

Sorkin, who won an Academy Award for his screenplay for “The Social Net-work” about Facebook and its co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, said giving the lead role to Bale was an easy call.

“He didn’t have to audition,” said Sor-kin, although the writer said “there was

a meeting” before the British-born actor was given the part.

“He has more words to say in this movie than most people have in three movies combined,” said Sorkin, who is writing the script for Sony Pictures based on the 2011 biography “Steve Jobs,” by Walter Isaacson.

“There isn’t a scene or a frame that he’s not in. So it’s an extremely difficult part and he is going to crush it,” Sorkin said.

The Apple inventor’s storied life already has been ren-dered on the big screen in last year’s drama “Jobs” starring Ashton Kutcher, which received lukewarm reviews.

Bale received a best supporting actor Oscar in 2011 for his role in the “The Fighter,” in which he plays the older brother of a washed-up boxer struggling to revive his career.

The actor had a breakout performance as the lead actor in the 2000 movie “American Psycho,” and also earned a lead actor Oscar nomination for his turn in last year’s “American Hustle.”

The 29-year-old -- probably best known for the Hollywood block-buster “Pirates of the Caribbean” films -- will take on the lead role in the tale of love, lust, betrayal and guilt, which will officially open on October 29, 2015.

Knightley will play Therese, who has made peace with her loveless marriage to a weak man when she embarks on a passionate affair

that ends in tragedy.The adaptation -- based on the 19th century novel -- is

by Helen Edmundson, and the production will be directed by Evan Cabnet.

Knightley first rose to prominence in Britain with the smash-hit film “Bend It Like Beckham.” She was nomi-nated for a best actress Oscar in 2006 for her portrayal of Elizabeth in “Pride and Prejudice.”

She made her West End debut in London with Mo-liere’s “The Misanthrope” in 2009.

Keira Knightley to make Broadway debut in 2015Agence France-Press

NEW YORK - British actress Keira Knightley will make her Broadway debut next year, starring in a new adaptation of the Emile Zola novel “Therese Raquin,” New York’s Round-about Theatre Company an-nounced Thurs-day.

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“Since 2009, the Lake Batur has become a national priority because it has already been quite high polluted lake. Although in 2013 showed a decline in pollution or there has been a recovery, but con-dition of the lake is still relatively polluted,” said the Head of Con-

servation and Natural Resources, the Bali Environment Agency, Ida Bagus Badraka.

Badraka added, in addition to pesticides, domestic waste as well as toilet waste, the pollution in the Lake Batur was also caused by livestock farming and fisheries in the form of

floating net cages. As a result, the pollution could not be maximally reduced. So far, his party had at-tempted a communal septic tank and made biogas from livestock manure so that the waste was not directly discharged into the lake.

“Pollution in Lake Batur is in-deed the most severe because it is more complex, let alone a floating net cage whose growth is remark-able. This causes higher pollution due to the existence of feed materi-als and others that can fertilize the lake water,” he explained.

Meanwhile, added Badraka, the Lake Beratan and Lake Buyan were

polluted due to some agricultural activities at the surrounding areas using pesticides and herbicides. In Lake Beratan, the pollution was also coupled by tourism activity related to the use of boats consum-ing gasoline or diesel fuel.

“In the upcoming year 2015, we will also propose the Lake Beratan and Lake Buyan to central govern-ment to be included in the national priorities in two stages, as in the case of Lake Batur of the first stage. Lake Beratan will be worked on first and then followed by Lake Buyan. Where possible, both will be worked on simultaneously,” he explained.

Badraka hoped that all elements of society and related offices in the province and the county to work together in tackling pollu-tion of the lakes. Moreover, there was only one lake, namely Lake Tamblingan, whose condition was relatively better than the other three lakes. Badraka added that Lake Tamblingan actually started to lead to pollution.

“Anyway Tamblingan has start-ed to get polluted. If left unchecked, the pollution of the lake will affect the water supply, especially to the surrounding community,” he con-cluded. (kmb32)

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

The file photo shows the view of Buyan Lake at Buleleng Regency. Three of the four lakes in Bali namely the Lake Batur, Lake Beratan and Lake Buyan are polluted. Mean-while, another lake, namely the Lake Tamblingan, also begins to get polluted like the three other lakes.

Three out of four lakes polluted

Clean water supply at risk

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Three of the four lakes in Bali namely the Lake Batur, Lake Beratan and Lake Buyan are polluted. Meanwhile, another lake, namely the Lake Tamblingan, also begins to get polluted like the three other lakes. The most severe pollution happens to Lake Batur due to the use of fertilizer, pesticides, domestic waste and bathroom waste.