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‘Maleficent’ spooks box office with $70M debut

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NEW YORK — The biggest box-office debut of Angelina Jolie’s career propelled Disney’s twisted fairy tale “Maleficent” to a scary-good $70 million opening. The PG-rated fantasy beat forecasts to easily top all films over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. Though “Maleficent” was early on considered a risky endeavor for Disney that might turn away family audiences by retelling “Sleeping Beauty” from the villain’s perspective, the film emerged as a hit largely because of the draw of Jolie.

Star power has been increasingly elusive in modern Hollywood, where name-brand concepts often rule the box-office. But Jolie, in her first live-action starring role in years, drove interest for “Maleficent” despite lackluster reviews from critics. “It’s a unique thing,” said Dave Hollis, head of distribution for Disney. “Her star power transcends borders and genre.”

Seth MacFarlane’s Western comedy “A Million Ways to Die in the West” was out-gunned by “Maleficent.” The R-rated Universal release opened in third place with a tepid $17.1 million despite a starry cast of Liam Neeson, Charlize Theron and Amanda Seyfried. By contrast, MacFarlane’s “Ted” (for which he’s making a sequel) opened with $54.4 million in 2012.

Last weekend’s top film, Fox’s big-budget mutant sequel “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” dropped to second with $32.6 million.

It’s a somewhat steep decline for “Days of

Future Past,” but the film made $95.6 million internationally in its second week, good enough to push its global cumulative total passed $500 million already.

But “Maleficent” dominated the marketplace, which has seen female-leading films continually challenge the much-disputed but still prevalent notion that male stars fuel box office receipts.

“The whole movie kind of rises and sets on her performance,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak. “The concept is the character. The character is completely linked to the person playing that role.”

The film was a balancing act for Disney, which is used to churning out brighter tales.

Hollis credited the company’s marketing department for “walking the fine line” of selling the movie to families (which made up 45 percent of the audience, according to Disney) and suggesting an edginess

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This photo released by Disney shows Angelina Jolie in a scene from “Maleficent.” that would appeal to a broader audience.

“Maleficent” earned about $100 million internationally.

“If you go to Disney, the longest lines are for the scariest rides,” said Dergarabedian.

“We’re going to see more of this, where the villains are the new heroes.”

Disney has had success reimagining fairy tales in recent years with “Alice in Wonderland” ($116 million in 2010) and “Oz the Great and Powerful” ($79.1 million debut in 2013). “Maleficent” fell short of those releases, but it was made in the same lineage. Robert Stromberg, the production designer for both earlier movies, makes his

directorial debut with “Maleficent.”

Next weekend will bring a battle between Shailene Woodley in the young adult novel adaptation “The Fault in Our Stars” and Tom Cruise in the sci-fi thriller “Edge of Tomorrow.” ‘’Edge of Tomorrow” got a jump on its North America release, taking in $20 million in 28 countries over the weekend.

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‘Brady Bunch’ actress Ann B. Davis dies

The rapid development in Bali increasingly deviates from the style of Balinese architecture becoming the characteristics of the Island of the Gods. Even, the modern and minimalist architecture proliferates and goes uncontrollably.

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Emmy-winning actress Ann B. Davis, who became the country’s favorite and most famous housekeeper as the devoted Alice Nelson of “The Brady Bunch,” died Sunday at a San Antonio hospital. She was 88.

Bexar County, Texas, medical examiner’s investigator Sara Horne said Davis died Sunday morning at University Hospital.

Horne said no cause of death was available and that an autopsy was planned Monday.

Bill Frey, a retired bishop and a longtime friend of Davis, said she suffered a fall Saturday at her San Antonio home and never recovered. Frey said Davis had lived with him and his wife, Barbara, since 1976.

More than a decade before scoring as the Bradys’ loyal Alice, Davis was the razor-tongued secretary on another stalwart TV sitcom, “The Bob Cummings Show,” which brought her two Emmys. Over the years, she also appeared on Broadway and in occasional movies. Davis considered her ordinary look an asset.

“I know at least a couple hundred glamour gals who are starving in this town,” she told the Los Angeles Times in 1955, the year the Cummings show began its four-year run. “I’d rather be myself and eating.” She said she told NBC photographers not to retouch their pictures of her, but they ignored her request and “gave me eyebrows.”

Producer Sherwood Schwartz’s “The

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Buildings increasingly deviate from Balinese style AP Photo/Gus Ruelas, File

FILE - In this April 14, 2007, file photo, Florence Henderson, from left, Susan Olsen, Maureen McCormick, Lloyd Schwartz and Ann B. Davis of the television show “The Brandy Bunch” accept the Pop Culture Award during the 5th Annual TV Land Awards in Santa Monica, Calif.

Brady Bunch” debuted in 1969 and aired for five years. But like Schwartz’s other hit, “Gilligan’s Island,” it has lived on in reruns and sequels. As “The Brady Bunch” theme song reminded viewers each week, the Bradys combined two families into one. Florence Henderson played a widow raising three daughters when she met her TV husband, Robert Reed, a widower with three boys.

In her blue and white maid’s uniform,

Davis’ character, Alice Nelson, was constantly cleaning up messes large and small, and she was a mainstay of stability for the family.

“I think I’m lovable. That’s the gift God gave me,” Davis told The Associated Press in a 1993 interview. “I don’t do anything to be lovable. I have no control.” Davis’ face occupied the center square during the show’s opening credits. Her love interest was Sam the Butcher, played by Allan Melvin.

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DENPASAR - The rapid development in Bali increasingly deviates from the style of Balinese architecture becoming the characteristics of the Island of the Gods. Even, the modern and minimalist architecture proliferates and goes uncontrollably. Actually, the Regional Bylaw No.5/2005 on the building and architecture clearly states that at least the Balinese architecture should be applied in every building in Bali.

Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Badung Chapter, AA Ngurah Alit Wiraputra, considered the number of buildings having no adopted the characteristics of Bali was inseparable from the lack of oversight by provincial and county / municipal government in enforcing the Regional Bylaw No.5/2005. “Supposedly the supervision has been made from the beginning in the process of construction of a building,” said Alit Wiraputra when contacted on Saturday (May 31).

According to him, applying the concept of building and

maintaining the characteristic of Balinese architecture was not too difficult. Even, the public would be benefited by applying Balinese architecture because it had been designed in accordance with the tropical climate.

“Indeed, it is not easy to maintain the cultural identity of Bali amidst the rapid development and the impact of globalization. Balinese architecture is basically flexible, inexpensive unlike the assumption of most people and very relevant to be applied,” he said.

He hoped the hallmark of Bali should be persistently

maintained in all fields, particularly in relation to tourism sustainability. One of them was the application of Balinese architecture in buildings because it posed one of the important points in the imaging of Bali tourism.

“Utilization of Balinese architecture should start from Balinese gates as at the Ngurah Rai Airport, Benoa Harbor, Padang Bai Harbor and other entrances,” he said.

Application of Balinese architectural style at every entrance, said Alit Wiraputra, was intended in order that foreign and domestic travelers could have felt if they were in Bali when setting foot here.

“Any building in Bali, especially those at roadside including commercial buildings should also apply Balinese architectural style. On that account, the government should oversee the regulation in order to prevent the irregularities and give strict punishment to violators,” he advised.

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Residents of Buleleng customary village hold Mepedanaan ritual Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Residents of Buleleng customary village held grandiose piodalan or temple anniversary at Dalem Temple of Buleleng, Sunday (Jun 1). The ritual of pedudusan agung, ngenteg linggih and grandiose piodalan was first held since 1911. Other than regular ritual of temple anniversary, the residents also performed a unique ritual.

The ritual is known as masesanjan resumed with mapedanaan. It is believed to be a symbol of disseminating welfare blessings to people. In addition, it also poses an expression of joy of the residents that have successfully implemented the grandiose temple anniversary. To jazz up the ritual, it was also filled with competition of mounting areca nut for a number of valuable items to be contested by people joining the competition.

Ida Pedanda Dwipasandhi from Griya Liligundi amidst the worship explained if the mapedanan ritual was believed to become an event symbolizing the dissemination of prosperity to people.

In this ritual, a number of valuable items such as bracelets, rings, rice, clothes and so on were distributed to all the people attending the prayers. Those items were thrown upwards and then children, adults and parents scrambled for them. To more enliven the event, the organizer was also providing similar items competed through the areca nut climbing. The competition was followed by children. “We believe the items obtained pose the symbol of prosperity and at the same time this ritual serves as a form of joy for the implementation of successful ceremony,” he said.

Meanwhile, procession of the temple anniversary began with the presentation of pedudusan agung, ngenteg linggih and

piodalan oblation. The ritual was officiated over by Ida Pedanda Gede Made Oka from Kubutambahan, Ida Pedanda Dwipasandhi from Griya Liligundi and priests of local trinity temple of Buleleng customary village. The activity was followed by supporting devotees, tridatu and chief of Buleleng customary village.

Afterwards, it was resumed with masesanjan of the deities to the temple outermost courtyard followed by supporting devotees, tridatu and chief of Buleleng customary village. Ultimately, it was ended with the worship en masse organized after the deities took a seat at Paselang Pavilion.

Chief of supporting devotees (pengempon) of the Dalem Temple of Buleleng customary village, Nyoman Sulendra, accompanied by Chairman of Ritual Committee, Jro Dalang Nyoman Rugada, proclaimed to supporting devotees due to busy agendas at the peak of the temple anniversary they were given longer opportunity to say prayers. The prayers was opened for seven days and closed on June 8, 2014. Similarly, the committee also planned to perform the Cenkblong shadow puppet entertainment on Tuesday (Jun 3), while Calonarang operetta on Wednesday (Jun 4). (kmb38)

TABANAN - Mice attack happened at a number of paddy plants of farmers in Bali such as at Subak Ganggangan, Pagi hamlet, Senganan village (Penebel), especially ahead of the harvest season. However, it seemed not to disturb the price of rice in Bali at harvest time.

Although in terms of production it definitely decreases, the price of

unhulled rice is relatively stable in Bali.

One of the farmers at Subak Ganggangan, I Made Jonita, when met amidst the harvesting activity, Sunday (Jun 1), said the price of Balinese rice produced by farmers could reach IDR 15,000 per kilogram. Thus, one quintal would surely be worth IDR 1.5 million.

This price is much higher than the

Pandan Wangi rice that had been cultivated by some local farmers.

“The price of Pandan Wangi rice reaches IDR 10,000 per kilogram,” he said.

Admittedly, Balinese rice had advantages compared to other varieties. Other than having a relatively higher price, the shape of rice ear was red and having a distinct advantage. “On that account,

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JAKARTA - Following the success Indonesia’s first Alana in Surabaya, Archipelago International is now gearing up to open three more Alana properties in Yogyakarta, Solo and Sentul, Bogor.

Meaning “fair, beautiful or offering” in Hawaiian, the boutique Alana Hotels are designed in a way that is both sophisticated and inviting for travelers who appreciate style, high-end amenities and personalized service.

The Alana Hotels set themselves apart by presenting an extra dimension of escapism, namely the chance to experience a lifestyle that is glamorous, fashionable and draped in exclusivity.

Yogyakarta will welcome the opening of The Alana Hotel & Residence in September. Featuring 269 rooms and suites, the

hotel is stylishly designed in the signature Alana Hotel way. It will feature 7 meeting rooms, a coffee shop, a lounge, an outdoor swimming pool, a spa and a gym, as well as a grand ballroom capable of accommodating up to 1600 persons. The hotel is located in the heart of Mataram City, Yogyakarta’s most up and coming area consisting of top notch Convention Centers and expansive lifestyle malls. It will also be close to Adi Sucipto, Borobudur, Malioboro and the city center.

Set to open its doors in Solo in mid 2015, the upcoming The Alana Adi Sucipto - Solo hotel will feature 248 rooms and suites. The hotel will also hold a number of convenient facilities, like 5 meeting rooms, a coffee shop, a swimming pool & kid’s pool as well as a gym, spa and a ballroom fit for up to 800 guests.

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Pura Sakenan Serangan Denpasar Pura Dalem Pahuman Bhujangga Penatih Denpasar Timur Pura Alas Harum Batur Kintamani Pura Alas Angker Munduk Kintamani Pura Dalem Kawitan Empuaji Klungkung

The Mepedanaan Ritual which was held in Buleleng Customary Village.

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farmers at Subak Ganggangan remain to preserve the rice variety.

Despite attacked by mice, the price remains stable, only the production declines,” he added.

High selling price of Balinese rice was not only enjoyed by farmers, but also by harvesters. From information obtained, at least a harvester could produce one quintal with a wage of IDR 50,000. It did

not include the workers who were deployed to cut down the rice straw after the harvest. Even, only armed with a sickle, a worker asked to cut down the paddy stems could get a wage worth IDR 6,000 per 100 square meters. Aside from old people, the students wishing to fill in their spare time during holidays were also interested in cutting down the paddy stems. (kmb28)

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Alana Hotel to opens at Yogyakarta, Solo, and Bogor The hotel is conveniently located on Jalan Adi Sucipto, just 10 minutes from the Adi Sumarmo International airport, 15 minutes to the city center and within close proximity to Solo Grand Mall, Park Super Block Mall and major tourist destinations like the famous traditional food market.

The Alana brand will also be hitting Sentul, Bogor, with the opening of The Alana Ah Poong Sentul. The hotel will feature 271 rooms and suites, 8 meeting rooms, a coffee shop, a swimming pool, gym and spa as well as a mini ballroom for 500 persons. The hotel will be located in Sentul City, conveniently located just 20 minutes from the center of Bogor, as well as enjoying an address close to Sentul’s Jungle Land Adventurer Theme Park, the Sentul Highlands Golf Club and Pasar Ah Poong, the famous floating food court.

Calendar Event for June 1 through July 12, 2014

Mice attack Balinese paddy plants, price at harvest time stable Bali Post

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4 Jun Buda Cemeng Langkir Pura Tanah Lot Kediri Tabanan Pura Bucabe Mas Ubud Pura Puseh Desa Ganggang Canggi Batuan Pura Luhur Batur Pucangan Buahan Tabanan Pura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Dalem bangun Sakti Tamiang Kapal Dalem Bias Muntig Ped Nusa penida 8 Jun

Pura Agung Petilan Pengerebongan kesiman Denpasar Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kesiut Kangin Kerambitan Tabanan 10 Jun Anggarkasih Medangsia Pura Pesimpangan Gerya Sakti Yogaloka Lampung Selatan Pura Luhur Uluwatu Pura Bukit Pecatu Kuta badung Pura Penataran Agung Singakerta Ubud Pura Andakasa Karangasem Pura Gua Lawah Klungkung Pura Kawitan Arya Gelgel klungkung Pura Taman Ayun Mengwi Pura Suralaya Banda klungkung Pura Dalem Senapati Bebalang Bangli Pura Pasek Gaduh Blahbatuh Gianyar Pura Pasek Lurah Tutuan Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Pusering Jagat Tampaksiring

Gianyar Pura Gerya Sakti Tulikup Gianyar Pura Dalem Dauh Ubud Pura Segara Ketewel Sukawati Pura Mertha Sari Mas Ubud 11 Jun Pura Gede Purancak Jembrana Pura Dalem Dauma Batuan Sukawati Pura Nataran Kacang Dawa Klungkung Pura Bhatara Gede Apol Ubung Denpasar Pura Puseh Brahmana Klungkung Pura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas Tabanan Pura Dalem Sukahet Klungkung Pura Dalem MuasPahit Guwang Sukawati Pura Taman Dukuh Tegallalang Pura Desa Sanding Tampak Siring gianyar Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Batan Buah Kesiman Pura Sahab Nusa penida Pura Dalem Cemara Serangan Denpasar 12 Jun Purnama Sasih Sadha Pura Pauman Bhujangga Tonja Denpasar Pura Amertha Sari Rempoa Jakarta Selatan Pura Ulun Swi Kediri Tabanan Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitra Gianyar 15 Jun Kajeng Kliwon uwudan Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi 25 Jun Buda Kliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Padangbai Karangasem Pura Aer jeruk Sukawati Gianyar Pura Dangin Pasar Batuan Sukawati Pura Penataran Batuyang Batubulan Pura Desa Lembeng Ketewel Gianyar Pura Pasek Bendesa Kediri Tabanan Pura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati gianyar Pura Kresek Banyuning Buleleng

Pura Puseh Bebandem Karangasem Pura Sad Kahyangan Batu Swana Nusa Penida Pura Buda Kliwon Penatih Denpasar Pura Penataran Dukuh Naga Sari Bebandem Karangasem Pura Batur Sari Ubud 27 Jun Tilem Sasih Sadha Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati 30 Jun Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan Pura Pasek Gelgel Kekeran Delod Yeh Mengwi 5 Jul Tumpek krulut Pura Pasek gelgel Tengah Buleleng Pura Dalem Pemuteran Jelantik Tojan Klungkung Pura Pedarman Bhujangga Waisnawa Besakih Pura Taman Sari Penebel Tabanan Pura Benua Tarukan Besakih 9 Jul Buda Cemeng Merakih Pura Bendesa Mas Kepisah Pedungan Pura Natih Kalah Batubulan Pura Desa Silakarang Singapadu Pura Dalem Petitenget Kuta Badung Pura Dalem Pulasari Gianyar Pura Kubayan Kapisah Denpasar Selatan Pura Paibon Sumerta Denpasar Pura Pasek Lumintang Denpasar Pura Panti Penyarikan Sanding Tampak Siring Pura Pasar Agung Kediri Tabanan Pura Puaya Batuan Sukawati 11 Jul Hari Bhatara Sri

12 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Tirta Besakih Pura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati

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

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

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, 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 “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Fabien Cousteau plans 31-day underwater mission Associated Press

ISLAMORADA, Florida — Like viewers worldwide, Fabien Cousteau was entranced by his famous grandfather’s films about marine life and human exploration underwater. Now he’s adding to his family’s sea stories with a 31-day underwater expedition in the Florida Keys. Cousteau dove Sunday to Aquarius Reef Base, a school bus-sized laboratory 60 feet (18 meters) below the ocean’s surface, a few miles off Key Largo. He plans to spend more than a month living underwater with a five-person crew, making a documentary and leading science experiments on the nearby coral reef.

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This 2012 photo provided by Mission 31, Fabien Cousteau sits inside Aquarius Reef Base in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

Before their boat left an Islamorada dock Sunday morning, Cousteau and his crew said they would miss seeing the sun for more than month, but they weren’t nervous about being isolated in the undersea lab. “I imagine we’ll want to stay down once we get comfy down there,” Cousteau said. “We won’t want to come back up to the surface because it’s such a magical place.”

The idea for “Mission 31” came to Cousteau two years ago when he visited Aquarius during a fundraising push to save the lab, which federal budget cuts had threatened to permanently close. “It reminded me that I’ve always wanted to live underwater,” Cousteau said Saturday at his training base in Islamorada.

“Mission 31” builds on the legacy of Conshelf II, the 30-day underwater living experiment in the Red Sea that Jacques Cousteau filmed in 1963 for his Oscar-winning documentary “World Without Sun.” The younger Cousteau can do something his grandfather could not: broadcast the entire adventure live online and communicate with the public through social media and video chats with classrooms on land.

“For the first time I’m able to invite the world on a Cousteau expedition in real time,” said Cousteau, who has filmed documentaries on sharks and other marine life.

Jacques Cousteau was revered worldwide for exploring the ocean in a multitude of documentaries and books, as well as

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This 1971 image provided

by NASA shows Apollo 17 astronauts, Harrison “Jack” Schmitt, left, and an unidentified man, training with the lunar roving vehicle on the Big Island of Hawaii.

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Michele Youngs: Balinese cuisine has million tastes

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DENPASAR - The champion of Indonesian Food Competition held by Indonesian Embassy in US Michele Youngs along with her friends such as Widjiono Yono Purnomo come to Shankara Resto on Danau Toba Street no 7 Sanur on Sunday June 1st.

She came to the restaurant to join an event entitled Luvinary adventure a million taste one Indonesia from Banten to Bali.

Also attended the event is the founder of Luvinary (Love Indonesian Culinary) Robert Manan, the President of Indonesian Chef Association Henry Alexie Bloem, chefs from throughout Indonesia and US who won the trip to Bali.

for pioneering the advanced scuba diving techniques used at Aquarius. While he developed underwater living experiments out of the belief that an overpopulated world might drive humans to live in the oceans, interest in the habitats waned through the decades until Aquarius was the last underwater research lab. His grandson believes interest in the oceans is reviving as climate change threatens to disrupt life on land.

“Whether you care about economics, in your personal life or your business life, whether you care about your health or your child’s health, whether you care about saving creatures, it all pertains to making sure that our oceans are healthy. And our oceans are not,” Cousteau said.

Throughout the expedition, Florida International University and Northeastern University researchers will study the effects of climate change and pollution on the coral reef. The crew will experiment with new technology that uses sonar to create threedimensional video images, allowing them to gather data and footage without lights that would disrupt the fish.

Diving with a Cousteau helps bring more attention to the scientific work being performed at Aquarius, said Andy Shantz, an FIU researcher who will spend half the month living and working at the base.

“These are really important issues and to be able to bring that out and get a bit of a spotlight on the research and the science behind it is awesome,” Shantz said.

Decades-old photos emerge of Apollo training

HONOLULU — Before Apollo astronauts went to the moon, they went to Hawaii to train on the Big Island’s lunar-like landscapes.

Now, decades-old photos are surfacing of astronauts scooping up Hawaii’s soil and riding across volcanic fields in a “moon buggy” vehicle.

The Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems, a Hawaii state agency, is displaying the photos at its Hilo headquarters. Rob Kelso, the agency’s executive director, found the images at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Astronauts from Apollo missions 13 through 17 trained in Hawaii as did some back up crews, Kelso said.

Some training was on Mauna Kea volcano, where glacial runoff crushed and refined rock into powder. Astronauts also trained on recent lava flows.

Today, robots are tested on the Big Island for moon and Mars missions.

In recent years, engineers have tested technology to pull oxygen out of the island’s dirt, which is volcanic basalt like the Martian and lunar soil. Future missions could use this technology to extract oxygen from the land instead of taking it along. The oxygen could be used for breathing, to make fuel or for other purposes.

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Various menus presented in the event such as be kebo, betutu, sate dan rawon kambing, jukut undis, lawar, sambel bongkot, dawet.

There are also vegetarian dishes and special menus from Shankara.

The dishes served in the Sunday Market received positive respond from the guests.

Michele said that she already tasted the culinary from various cities in Indonesia such as Banten, Jakarta, Bogor, Bandung, and Yogyakarta but Balinese cuisine is different. Balinese dish rich with flavor due to the various ingredients in it.

“Balinese dishes are made using multiple techniques. The ingredients and spices are completely penetrates the meat. It made the dishes have million tastes,” she added.

The similar statement also said by the Ambassador of Indonesian Cuisine in US Widjiono Yono Purnomo. He said that Balinese cuisine has different characteristic compare to the dish from other places. The taste is vast because it is made from many ingredients and spices. “Balinese cuisine is

special. It is familiar to the tongue of everyone, even the one from US, Europe and Asian. The tourists are fond of Balinese dishes because of the taste,” he added.

Henry Bloem explained that Michele and her colleague already try many kind of food, started from the small sellers on the side of the street up to fancy restaurant in five stars hotels. The great taste of Balinese food gives the idea to make a competition specializing on Balinese cuisine in the future.

“Everyone give great appreciation during this event. They think that the great taste of Balinese cuisine make it qualified to be competed in US,” Henry said. He also supported the Sunday Market held in Shankara because it can accommodate the chefs in Bali to introduce their dishes and find new colleagues. The visitors also will receive benefit because by coming to one place, they can find various delicious cuisines. “The Balinese cuisine bazaar and Sunday market are great ideas and it can give many benefit to many people,” Henry explained. (ram)

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The champion of Indonesian Food Competition held by Indonesian Embassy in US Michele Youngs along with her friends such as Widjiono Yono Purnomo come to Shankara Resto on Danau Toba Street no 7 Sanur on Sunday June 1st.

Government to build 14 coal export seaports Antara

NUSA DUA - The government will immediately build 14 coal export seaports in Sumatra and Kalimantan to monitor coal exports, Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry’s Director General of Minerals and Coal Dr R. Sukhyar remarked on Monday.

“The 14 ports will also help to curb illegal coal exports,” he stated while opening the 20th Coaltrans Asia coal industry conference.

Sukhyar admitted that there was still a discrepancy in data on coal exports at the ministry of energy

and mineral resources and the directorate general of customs and excise as a result of which the value of royalty received by the state was not optimal.

Seven ports will be developed in Sumatra and seven others in Kalimantan based upon the locations of coal mining industries in the regions.

Sukhyar noted that the development of coal export ports will utilize the existing infrastructure so that the related costs can be reduced.

The plan is part of a cooperation project between the Ministry of En-

ergy and Mineral Resources and the Ministry of Transportation, while the implementation will be carried out by the Ministry of Transportation, he pointed out.

Sukhyar hoped that the special coal ports can balance domestic needs and exports. The domestic needs of coal this year is forecast to reach 95.5 million tons, up from merely 65 million tons last year.

According to Sukhyar, the increasing domestic demand can still be met as the target of national coal production this year has been set at 390-420 million tons.

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Balinese queue up to get into a temple during a ‘Kuningan’ prayer in Bali, Indonesia on Saturday, May, 31, 2014. Kuningan marks the last day of Galungan celebrations, one of Balinese Hinduism’s biggest religious ceremonies.

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Robusta and arabica dominate coffee production in Buleleng

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SINGARAJA - Potential of coffee plantations in Buleleng County is one of the best products in Bali. Climatic condition at high altitudes in some areas is suitable to develop the robusta and arabica coffee variety. Both potential coffee varieties are still becoming focus for the local economy each year with the harvest season occurred in June to July.

The Head of Buleleng Forestry and Plantation Agency, I Ketut Nerda, said the potential of coffee development posed an added value for the region on certain height like Buleleng. Some subdistricts becoming the producers of robusta coffee included the Busungbiu, while the arabica coffee was produced by Sukasada. Furthermore, the robusta coffee produced by farmers in Buleleng reached 6,215 tons per year, while arabica coffee reached 767 tons per year. “Only two types of coffee varieties are grown in Buleleng, namely the robusta and arabica. Production of robusta coffee in Buleleng reaches 700 kg per hectare while the arabica coffee reaches 302 kg per hectare,” said Nerda, Sunday (Jun 1).

The development of potential owned by coffee farmers in Buleleng was still limited on the arabica and robusta coffee.

However, many coffee farmers had not produced civet coffee, whereas the market demand was so attractive. “We have not been able to monitor the progress of civet coffee. Sometimes there are also farmers still collecting individually the civet coffee.

Civet coffee cultivation in Buleleng has not developed as in other regions because the development of civet coffee requires a special area,” he said.

Meanwhile, Nerda said the human resources development of coffee farmers in Buleleng still continued to be done gradually. This happened considering the higher public interest in cultivating coffee plant. “Its growth is quite significant. Today, many people are interested in growing coffee. As at Wanagiri, there has been fund from the Ministry of Agriculture to help the development of coffee in Buleleng in 2014. The amount of our budget has not been ascertained, but the area of coffee plantation to be receiving the assistance reaches about 400 hectares,” he said.

The data indicate the area of Buleleng reached 1365.99 km2, while the area of arabica coffee plantations in Buleleng reaches 2,714 hectares and robusta coffee reaches 10,765 hectares. Nerda explained the public were invited to popularize the tradition of enjoying local coffee production. “Hopefully, people can attune to drink coffee as it has been running naturally. Buleleng region has been unlike the region of Aceh where almost all night the coffee shops are always crowded by coffee lovers. Nevertheless, coffee is still dominantly favored at coffee shops,” he explained. (dgk)

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Day after Kuningan

Aside from swimming, visitors can also sit and enjoy the quiet atmosphere of the calmwaved beach while enjoying roasted corn, toast and other refreshment widely sold by residents of the two neighboring villages. In addition, the traveling visitors can also fish at a number of points.

In this area, the water recreation has started to develop. It is marked by the presence of some rental companies offering canoes, inner tubes, duck boat and banana boat. With a budget of IDR 10,000 to IDR 15,000, visitors are able to paddle a canoe in the gently sloping beach for an hour. Meanwhile, the rental of duck boat and banana boat is more expensive reaching tens of thousands of rupiahs per hour.

I Made Wisata or familiarly called Kadekan, a resident of Baktiseraga, Buleleng, operating a canoe rental on the Penimbangan Beach, said last Sunday that every feast holiday and national holiday many visitors came to the beach.

He gave an example that on Galungan and the day after Kuningan the number of visitors usu-

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Ukraine says insurgents attack border guards People gather for a rally in Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, June 1, 2014.

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Penimbangan Beach thronged by visitors SINGARAJA - Apparently it has become a habit every time to celebrate the Kuningan festivity. After busy performing the Kuningan worship, the residents in Buleleng took advantage of the feast holiday for visiting tourist attraction in Buleleng. Even, virtually all of the tourist attractions in North Bali were flooded by visitors.

One of the most favorite places visited during the feast holiday is the Penimbangan Beach. Many visitors started to throng this tourist area from Sunday morning (Jun 1) because on Saturday (May 31) local residents were still busy undertaking ritual worship.

This tourist attraction is located on the border of two villages namely the Pemaron village and Baktiseraga village, Buleleng.

From Lovina tourist area, it will take visitors some 20 minutes by car or motorcycle towards the east. Meanwhile, if visitors come from the direction of Singaraja town, the Penimbangan Beach region can be reached within approximately 15 minutes.

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LUCKNOW, India — Police used water cannons to disperse hundreds of women who were protesting Monday against a rise in violence against women in the northern Indian state where two teenagers were gang-raped last week and later found hanging from a tree. The protesters in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh state, were demonstrating outside the office of the top elected official, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, demanding that he crack down on an increasing number of rape and other attacks on women and girls.

Hundreds of police officers, including female officers, pushed and shoved the protesters before deploying water cannons to disperse them.

The protesters also demanded that the government curb police indifference, which they said was encouraging attacks on women.

Police failed to take any action when the father of one of the girls reported to police that the two cousins were missing. Two police officers were fired for dereliction of duty after the girls were found gang-raped and killed.

One of their fathers said police took more than 12 hours to respond to his report that the girls were missing. He said if the police had acted promptly, they could have been rescued. Yadav has recommended a federal inquiry, but his government has been widely accused of a lackadaisical approach toward women’s safety.

India has a long history of tolerance of sexual violence, but the attack on the girls has caused outrage across the nation. Activists and ordinary people said it was as if nothing had changed since the December 2012 fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman aboard a moving bus in New Delhi, India’s capital.

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ally increased when compared to usual days.

They were not only the residents of Buleleng, but a group of visitors from outside Buleleng.

In addition, there were also visitors from Java, Jakarta and other big cities. “On normal days, the busiest visit occurs on Sunday, but since coinciding with the day after Kuningan it is quite crowded. This condition is the same as on Umanis Galungan where many visitors got difficulty to get parking space due to abundant visitors,” he said.

Due to crowded visitors, added Wisata, the rental of swimming equipment was in demand. A number of inflated tires, dozens of canoes boards and live jackets were rented by visitors. Tires and canoe board was rented at IDR 10,000 per hour. From the results of swimming equipment rental, Wisata and his wife earned up to IDR 1 million. Meanwhile, on usual days he could only earn IDR 200,000. “Despite crowded visitors, the presence of competitors offering the same services has caused his turnover to reduce,” he added. (kmb38)

DONETSK, Ukraine — Hundreds of armed insurgents attacked a border guards’ camp in eastern Ukraine Monday, a spokesman said. Serhiy Astakhov told The Associated Press by telephone that five rebels were killed and eight injured in the continuing attack on the camp in Luhansk, a major city not far from the Russian border, according to a preliminary assessment. Seven servicemen were injured, three seriously.

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Members of the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) shout slogans during a protest against the gang rape of two teenage girls, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, May 31, 2014.

The initial attack by around 100 insurgents was met by firing from the border guards, and the number of attackers swelled to around 400 a few hours later. Astakhov said the fighting was continuing, and that the Ukrainian forces sent an airplane to the area but still had been unable to quell the attack. Vladislav Seleznyov, press secretary for Ukraine’s operation against the rebels in the east, described the base as an important coordinating node for border guards across the province, and said the attack may have been an attempt to disrupt communications.

Seleznyov also said that there was another rebel attack Monday on a government checkpoint in Slovyansk, a city in the Donetsk region that has been an epicenter

of the pro-Russian movement. He said that rebels had mined a number of power plants in Slovyansk, which he claimed would be detonated if the government were to move on the city. For weeks, Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine has been the scene of deadly clashes between government troops and pro-Russian insurgents.

Months of protests during last fall and winter drove pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych to flee the country. Many in Ukraine’s east are suspicious of the new pro-Western government in Kiev, and protests in favor of greater independence from the Ukrainian capital soon turned into a separatist movement as the Luhansk and Donetsk regions declared independence following hastily called

referenda.

The conflict between Ukrainian government forces and proRussian insurgents in eastern Ukraine escalated markedly in the past week, with rebels attempting to seize a major airport and the shooting-down of a Ukrainian military helicopter.

In Moscow, the Russian defense ministry announced on Monday a military exercise involving the launch of high-precision missiles.

The ministry said the maneuvers of the Western Military District will continue through Thursday and will involve the deployment of Iskander surface-to-surface missiles. Moscow didn’t specify the areas where the exercise will be held and made no mention of the situation in Ukraine.

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EPA seeks to cut power plant carbon by 30 percent

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday will roll out a plan to cut earth-warming pollution from power plants by 30 percent by 2030, setting in motion one of the most significant actions to address global warming in U.S. history.

The rule, which is expected to be final next year, will set the first national limits on carbon dioxide, the chief gas linked to global warming from the nation’s power plants. They are the largest source of greenhouse gases in the U.S., accounting for about a third of the annual emissions that make the U.S. the second largest contributor to global warming on the planet.

The Environmental Protection Agency regulation is a centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s plans to reduce the pollution linked to global warming, a step that the administration hopes will get other countries to act when negotiations on a new international treaty resume next year.

Despite concluding in 2009 that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare, a finding that triggered their regulation under the 1970 Clean Air Act, it has taken years for the administration to take on the nation’s fleet of power plants.

In December 2010, the Obama administration announced a “modest pace” for setting greenhouse gas standards for power plants, setting a May 2012 deadline.

Obama put them on the fast track last summer when he announced his climate action plan and a renewed commitment to climate change after the issue went dormant during his re-election campaign.

“The purpose of this rule is to really close the loophole on carbon pollution, reduce emissions as we’ve done with lead, arsenic and mercury and improve the health of

the American people and unleash a new economic opportunity,” said Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, which has drafted a plan that informed the EPA proposal.

Yet the rule carries significant political and legal risks, by further diminishing coal’s role in producing U.S. electricity and offering options for pollution reductions far afield from the power plant, such as increased efficiency. Once the dominant source of energy in the U.S., coal now supplies just under 40 percent of the nation’s electricity, as it has been replaced by booming supplies of natural gas and renewable sources such as wind and solar.

“Today’s proposal from the EPA could singlehandedly eliminate this competitive advantage by removing reliable and abundant sources of energy from our nation’s energy mix,” Jay Timmons, president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, said in a statement issued Sunday.

EPA data shows that the nation’s power plants have reduced carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 13 percent since 2005, or about halfway to the goal the administration will set Monday. The agency is aiming to have about 26 percent cut by 2020, but states will get some leeway in trying to meet that target.

But with coal-fired power plants already beleaguered by cheap natural gas prices and other environmental regulations, experts on

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Standardpen held national coloring competition

Oil prices rose Monday on the prospect of increased demand from China after data showed an improvement in manufacturing.

Benchmark U.S. oil for July delivery was up

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DENPASAR - For the first time, Standardpen Industries, a company that produce pen and other writing products from Indonesia, held a national coloring competition. The company that recently launched Oil Pastel Pascola, held the competition at Atrium Lippo Mall, Kuta. The winner of this national competition will have a chance to go to Johorbahru, Malaysia.

According to Marketing Manager of Standardpen Industries, Niken D. Mahanani, this competition have been held in 12 cities in Indonesia, including Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tanggerang, Bekasi (Jabodetabek), Sumatera, East Java, West Java, Central Java, Bali, and Sulawesi.

“Through this competition, we would like to give a chance for children to grow their creativity in coloring and drawing. We also would like to give talented children an appreciation for their hard work and creativity so they will improve their talent and skill,” she explained.

She said that this competition were able to draw 18 thousand participants in 12 cities. This competition, she claimed, was the first competition that has many winners. From each city, there were 2 winners, where they have a chance to go to Legoland with their parent. The totals of people that will be going to Legoland are 48 people.

From Bali, the winner of elementary school category is Rayna Wahyu Bhinadhari, meanwhile from kindergarten; I Wayan Natha Wiryawan gets the first place. They both win after competed with 2,000 participants that followed this competition.

Niken added Pascola is the first oil pastel that produces entirely in Indonesia. Standardpen produced this product since 2011, from research and development, choosing raw materials and production. Pascola use non-toxic materials so it is safe to be use by children. “We have the commitment to produce good quality products and showing to international market that Indonesian product have good quality and become wellknown around the world,” she asserted. (kmb18)

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Nusa Penida Beach filled with debris during rainy season. Nusa Penida subdistrict is increasingly highlighted. It is in harmony with the seriousness of local government to develop the tourism area.

Klungkung County is now preparing Nusa Penida Festival, an effort to open a new heaven of tourist destination in Bali.

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SEMARAPURA - Nusa Penida subdistrict is increasingly highlighted. It is in harmony with the seriousness of local government to develop the tourism area. Klungkung County is now preparing Nusa Penida Festival, an effort to open a new heaven of tourist destination in Bali. However, Klungkung seems unready to face the negative impacts of tourism development. At least it can be seen from the tourism development in the region of Lembongan and Jungut Batu.

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This photo taken May 5, 2014 shows a pickup truck driving down a road of the Homer City Generating Station in Homer City, Pa. The Obama administration on Monday will roll out a plan to cut earth-warming pollution from power plants by 30 percent by 2030, setting in motion one of the most significant actions to address global warming in U.S. history.

Sunday said getting to 30 percent won’t be easy. The EPA is expected to offer a range of options to states to meet targets that will based on where they get their electricity and how much carbon dioxide they emit in the process.

While some states will be al-

lowed to emit more and others less, overall the reduction will be 30 percent nationwide.

The options include making power plants more efficient, reducing the frequency at which coalfired power plants supply power to the grid, and investing in more

renewable, low-carbon sources of energy. In addition, states could enhance programs aimed at reducing demand by making households and businesses more energy-efficient.

Each of those categories will have a separate target tailor-made for each state.

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58 cents to $103.29 a barrel at 0630 GMT in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 87 cents to close at $102.71 on Friday.

Chinese data showed Sunday that manufacturing grew for the third consecutive

month in May, suggesting a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy is stabilizing.

The China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said that its monthly manufacturing index rose to 50.8 points in May on a

100-point scale on which numbers above 50 show activity expanding. It was the index’s highest level this year.

Brent crude, a benchmark for international oils, added 34 cents to $109.75 a barrel in London.

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Children competed in national coloring competition that held by Standarpen. For the first time, Standardpen Industries, a company that produce pen and other writing products from Indonesia, held a national coloring competition.

Regent of Klungkung, Nyoman Suwirta, in the press conference on Sunday (Jun 1) in relation to the preparation of the Nusa Penida Festival said that Nusa Penida with the cluster of three islands developed naturally. The share of local government was still considered low. According to the regent, local authorities actually had a duty to open investment opportunity in the region. Then, it governed the flow of incoming investment. “Now, we see if the tourism runs without control, the Culture and Tourism Agency does not seriously build Nusa Penida,” he said. As a result, the tourism developed blindly just at one location, while other locations was still far left behind. This indicated if Klungkung remained unready to face the adverse effects of tourism development.

In addition, according to the regent, the local community should also be involved in every program.

They should not be let just be a spectator. “I actually asked the structure of the Nusa Penida Festival committee to be re-arranged. I do not want if the event is handled

by a ‘red plate’ committee.’ Please involve local communities. They know better about the region,” he explained.

In order to anticipate the tourism development, Suwirta affirmed to have prepared a number of attempts. His party had already owned a team of tourism consultant.

For every investment, the regent would only issue a principle permit with strict requirements. “Investors should have clear intentions. When investors purchase a piece of land, they must explain about the land utilization and when they start building. Definitely, we do not want if the development gets stagnant.

Without complying with our terms and conditions, we obviously reject it. County government must learn from the conditions of Lembongan and Jungut Batu,” he said.

Additionally, in terms of regulation, his party also claimed to have put the overall review budget of the detailed spatial planning (RDTR) in the amendment of regional budget.

The faster the completion of the regulation, the investment designed would more easily enter and ac-

celerate the development. Other than Jungut Batu and Lembongan, according to him, the arrangement was also made to other tourism area. However, the arrangement in the two regions was increasingly difficult because the violations were massive and had long occurred.

Such condition had lasted for a dozen years. Today, the tourism could not only rely solely on the nature without the involvement of government. Thus, it was necessary to make breakthrough that could generate, develop and organize.

As an embryo, the Nusa Penida Festival was expected to open up new insights into the potential of Nusa Penida. Other than developing the sense of belonging to Nusa Penida, the event could also introduce a variety of classical sacred arts. It had clear purpose namely to draw investors to invest, empower communities and increase regional revenues. To note, Nusa Penida was visited by at least 260,000 travelers every year. However, the figure only covered the visit to the area of Lembongan and Jungut Batu. (kmb31)

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South Korea rescues North Koreans drifting off coast Associated Press

SEOUL — South Korea has rescued three North Koreans who were drifting off the east coast of South Korea on Saturday.

Seoul’s Unification Ministry said Monday in a statement that two of the men said they wanted to stay in South Korea and one said he wished to return to the North. A ministry press official who refused to be identified because of office

DAMASCUS, Syria — A Syrian official and activists say dozens of people have been killed or wounded over the past three days in steppedup rebel attacks on governmentheld areas in the northern city of Aleppo.

The attacks are the latest ahead of the country’s presidential election on Tuesday, a highly contentious vote amid a civil war that has killed more than 160,000 people.

The Syrian opposition and its

Western allies have denounced the balloting as a sham. President Bashar Assad is widely expected to win a third seven-year term.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday that 50 people have been killed in Aleppo since Saturday.

Syria’s Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi said 20 people were killed on Saturday alone.

Rebels have threatened to disrupt the voting in opposition-held areas.

Swiss-made solar plane makes maiden flight

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BERLIN — A Swiss-made solarpowered aircraft has made a successful inaugural flight as its makers prepare for what they hope will be the first round-the-world solar flight.

The Solar Impulse 2 team said the aircraft spent 2 hours and 17 minutes in the air above western Switzerland early Monday. They plan several other flights over the coming months.

The Solar Impulse 2 is a bigger

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and better version of a single-seat prototype that first took flight five years ago. Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, the project’s founders, say it theoretically can stay airborne indefinitely.

The plane soaks up energy from the sun through some 17,200 solar cells that cover its massive wings, which span 72 meters (236 feet).

Piccard and Borschberg hope to fly the aircraft around the world next year.

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German test pilot Markus Scherdel steers the solar-powered Solar Impulse 2 aircraft for its maiden flight at its base in Payerne, Switzerland Monday, June 2, 2014.

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JAKARTA - The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) said Indonesia suffered a deficit of US$1.97 billion in international trade in April as against a surplus of US$673.2 million in March.

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Members of the Portuguese police arrive to guard an area in Praia da Luz, near Lagos, June 2, 2014. Police investigating the 2007 disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann on Monday have sealed off an area of scrubland in the Portuguese resort where the three-yearold went missing.

Police prepare for search in Madeleine McCann case Associated Press Writer

LISBON, Portugal — Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann cordoned off Monday an area of scrubland near where the British girl vanished seven years ago.

Officers placed yellow-andwhite police tape around the waste ground, which is mostly level and slightly larger than a soccer field, and were expected to conduct a forensic examination of the area in coming days. Officials have previously said detectives may use excavators, dogs and groundpenetrating radar as they scrutinize the terrain.

Officials made no immediate comment on Monday’s developments. Cases that are under investigation in Portugal are covered by a judicial secrecy law, which forbids the release of information.

The scrubland is about 300 meters (330 yards) from the Praia da Luz resort in southern Portugal where Madeleine vanished from her family’s vacation apartment in May 2007, shortly before her fourth birthday. The area was searched in the days following her disappearance.

Authorities in Portugal and Britain said recently they would conduct new searches in coming weeks after reviewing the case file and a new public appeal for information.

Portuguese police closed the case in 2008 because authorities

had detected no crime. The public prosecutor’s office in Lisbon last year reopened the investigation, saying new leads emerged during the case review though it did not elaborate.

British police launched Operation Grange in 2011 to try to find out what happened to Madeleine.

British detectives have been sifting through the Portuguese case files and say they have identified new avenues of investigation. Among other things, they have compiled a record of cases involving sexual assaults on children in the area between 2004 and 2010.

wisdom of Bali.

“Now, Indonesia including Bali embraces unlawful habit such as like breaking laws or doing unethically. Even, the unscrupulous officials who know the rules also like breaking the rules,” he said.

According to him, the rampant violations in the development in Bali happened because the regulations were not implemented strictly. “As solution for the development, the investors and the community must prioritize the ethics and aesthetics. The county government and customary village should act firmly pursuant to noble values of Hinduism,” he said.

He explained the noble teaching of Hindu needing to be considered

in the development included the Tri Hita Karana (three sources of happiness), Tri Mandala (horizontal spatial division), upstream-downstream, Nyegara-Gunung (seaward-mountainward orientation), Segara Kertih (sea purification), Danu Kertih (lake purification), Wana Kertih (forest purification), local wisdom, traditional Balinese architecture and others.

“In Bali, we have many grandiose ceremonies, but do not understand about the meaning, even the behavior has deviated.

On that account, it is required an introspection to uphold the truth.

Do not let the Artha (wealth) and Kama (passion) defeat the Dharma (truth),” he said. (kmb27)

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He added that all components and tourism stakeholders should have the same awareness to keep the implementation of the Balinese culture. The role of government alone would never be enough without being accompanied with awareness of public and stakeholders.

A lecturer of the Tourism Faculty, Udayana University, I Putu Anom, also recognized that as a Balinese he really complained with rampant and uncontrolled development, either breaking the green belt, the borderline of beaches, lakes, culture or local

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rules said it wasn’t clear when the men left North Korea or what they were doing. The official didn’t know if the men were on a boat or drifting on their own.

Seoul says Pyongyang has asked in a telephone call that Seoul immediately return all three crewmembers.

The one North Korean crewmember will be sent back to the North on Tuesday.

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Indonesia’s exports fell 5.92 percent to US$14.29 billion in April from US$15.19 billion in March 2014, Head of BPS Suryamin told reporters on Monday.

He noted that oil and gas exports made up US$2.63 billion of the total exports in value with other commodities accounting for US$11.66 billion.

He said imports surged to US$16.26 billion in April or an increase of 11.93 percent from US$14.52 billion in March. The imports included US$3.69 billion

in oil and gas with other commodities accounting for US$12.56 billion.

Meanwhile, the country’s inflation was 0.16 percent in May as against a deflation of 0.02 percent in April.

Suryamin attributed the inflation to high food price hike. “The

prices of manufactured foods, cigarettes and tobacco were the biggest contributors to the price hike,” he said.

The inflation in May brought the country’s total inflation to 1.56 percent in the first five months of the year. Year-on-year, inflation in May was 7.32 percent.

Bale scores legions of fans in Indonesia

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J A K A RTA - R e a l M a d r i d midfielder Gareth Bale wooed hundreds of Indonesian fans on Sunday in a personal promotional tour of Jakarta on the back of his team’s Champions League glory.

Fans cheered wildly as the Welshman kicked a soccer ball from a stage into a crowd of around 1,000 at the massive Gelora Bung Karno sports stadium in the Indonesian capital.

He thanked the crowd for turning out and said it was “an honour to be invited” to the event, which included a football coaching clinic for young people.

“Hopefully a lot of young people in the crowd here today can work hard, practise football and be a professional one day,” he said.

Bale is enjoying a boost to his fame following Real’s win in last

Saturday’s Champions League final, in which he scored a crucial goal in extra time to defeat Atletico Madrid.

His performance was widely seen as vindication for Real, which reportedly paid a worldrecord 100 million euros ($136.3 million) to have the player transferred from Tottenham.

British media reported that Bale would receive about 2.5 million pounds ($4.2 million) for the two-day Indonesian tour and would be “treated like royalty” in Indonesia, a football-crazed nation of 250 million people.

Fans paid three million rupiah ($258) to take part in a meetand-greet session with Bale on Saturday, and women swooned at the sight of the footballer.

“He’s handsome, he’s good looking and he’s the best football player,” said 18-year-old Astuti, who goes by one name.

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Real Madrid midfielder Gareth Bale wooed hundreds of Indonesian fans on Sunday in a personal promotional tour of Jakarta on the back of his team’s Champions League glory.

Jokowi-JK pair not to supervise places of worship Antara

JAKARTA - Presidential candidate, Joko Widodo and his running mate, Jusuf Kalla (Jokowi-JK pair) have no intentions of deploying intelligence officials to supervise places of worship, noted their success team’s spokesman Abdul Kadir Karding.

“Having intelligence officials

supervise places of worship is not the way that Jokowi and Kalla will opt for, and neither will they be present with authoritarian and new order style,” Karding stated.

The spokesman remarked that the Jokowi-JK pair has no intentions of using places of worship for political purposes, and therefore, he

requested the Prabowo-Hatta team to remain calm.

“Both Jokowi and Kalla respect the sanctity of places of worship, and they believe that whoever uses them as a platform to incite hatred will not be supported by the people,” Karding stressed.

Therefore, the politician from the

National Awakening Party (PKB) called on the General Elections Commission (KPU), Election Supervisory Board (Bawaslu), and the law enforcement body to proactively prevent places of worship from being used to stage black campaigns.

Further, Karding added that mosques are holy places and should

not be used as sites for black campaigns.

“Jokowi and Kalla have no intentions of tarnishing the image of mosques by using them as a platform for their campaigns, although Kalla is the chairman of the Indonesian Council of Mosques,” he reiterated.

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Djokovic destroys Tsonga to reach Paris last eight

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PARIS - World No. 2 Novak Djokovic of Serbia continued his stroll through the French Open draw when he destroyed local favourite Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-1 6-4 6-1 on Sunday to reach the quarter-finals.

Djokovic, chasing the only grand slam title to elude him, was never troubled by the 13th-seeded Tsonga, who suffered an embarrassing defeat in 89 minutes one year after making it to the last four in Paris.

BANGLI - Dalem Balingkang Temple situated in a remote area at the northern side of Lake Batur. It is situated on the eastern part of Penulisan Hill, some 40 kms from Bangli Town, precisely in Pinggan Village, Kinatamani District. The place is easy to reach with vehicles.

Reaching the parking area, a guest should go on foot for some 500 meters to reach the temple.

The word Balingkang translates King of Bali. The temple once served as the palace for the King of Bali. Based on folklore, in the 11th century, there was a king named Sri Kesari Waradewa who had a Chinese wife, a pricess of Chung Dynasty, Tang Ci Keng.

The marriage between the two was told in Barong Landung Dance that still can be seen in Bali to date.

Even the palace it self has been influenced by Chinese design and architectural styles, among others, the building of Gedong Mas and Pelinggih Ida Ratu Ayu. Chinese influence has also left Balinese old coins to have in one of the sides, Balinese characteristics, as God related symbols, which remain in use to date.

The Frenchman’s ordeal ended on the first match point when he sent a backhand long as Djokovic reached the quarter-finals of a grand slam for the 20th consecutive time. He will next face Canadian eighth seed Milos Raonic.

In 2012, Djokovic needed five sets to see off Tsonga in the quarterfinals and the Serbian had no intention of letting that happen again.

“The performance was great from the start till the end. I came with the exact level of intensity that I was looking for before the start of the match,” said Djokovic, who converted seven of nine break points.

“Two years ago was kind of a similar situation where I started very well, won the set 6-1 and I was 4-2 up and then he managed to come back. Then we had the tough

match and that ended up in five sets,” he told reporters. “I didn’t want the similar scenario.”

Tsonga paid the price for poor preparations having lost in the second round at the Madrid Masters and the third round at the Rome Masters last month. “It does hurt.

After the match, I mean, I had lots of thoughts in my mind. But I have to continue. I need to hang on,” he said.

REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

Novak Djokovic of Serbia returns a backhand to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France during their men’s singles match at the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris June 1, 2014.

Marquez ‘nearly crashed in every corner’ IBP/File Photo

MotoGP champion Marc Marquez continued his perfect season at a dramatic Italian Grand Prix, decided in his favour by a last lap pass and 0.123s victory over Jorge Lorenzo. It was the closest of Mar-

quez’s six victories this year, all from pole, with the Repsol Honda star staying glued to Lorenzo’s rear wheel before making his first move for the lead on lap 17 of 23.

That triggered the start of a re-

lentless back-and-forth battle, Marquez often making use of a long sixth gear to slipstream past the Yamaha rider on the home straight, only for Lorenzo to repass him on the brakes. In total, the pair exchanged

the lead eleven times over the final seven laps.

“In the middle of the race the front tyre was closing and moving a lot under braking, because I was on the limit. Here at this circuit Yamaha were really strong,” said Marquez. “When I passed Jorge the first time I knew immediately that he would come back.” Also on Marquez’s mind was the fact that Mugello 2013 was the scene of his only race fall in MotoGP. “I overtook Dani [Pedrosa] around the same time last year and within one or two laps I had crashed. The feeling with the bike was more or less the same, a bit of a floating feeling at the rear. So I thought it was too much risk and I decided that I would only push 100% again on the final lap and that was the key to win the race.

“It was a great battle but this time I only enjoyed it when I passed the finish line because Jorge was so strong and I was pushing, nearly crashed in every corner. It was so difficult. We had some small contact which got my attention and REUTERS/Max Rossi

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Honda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of Spain (R) races with second classified and compatriot Yamaha Jorge Lorenzo on his way to win the Italian Grand Prix in Mugello circuit in central Italy June 1, 2014.

after that we did a really nice battle and on the last lap I pushed to try to overtake at the end of the straight and open a small gap.” That victory pass was the last of numerous slipstream moves, planned by Marquez and his team before the race.

“We changed sixth gear for the race because if you have a Yamaha in front they have a lot of corner speed, so you might not be close enough to overtake on the brakes,” explained Marquez. “So our strategy was to overtake on the straight with the slipstream. For that reason we changed the gear a little bit. But on the first lap when I was alone [without the slipstream] the bike was a little bit slower and the Ducati of Iannone overtook me.”

The only other race this season that compares with the Mugello battle was a 0.259s victory over Lorenzo’s team-mate Valentino Rossi at round one in Qatar.

“It’s difficult to say which race was hardest,” said Marquez. “Every situation in every circuit is different.

Here I felt more prepared to fight because my physical condition was 100% and in Qatar maybe I was struggling a little bit [after breaking a leg in the winter].

“But anyway both riders are so great. Valentino has his strongest points, Jorge has his strongest points.

With every rider you need to use a different strategy.” Home star Rossi finished third on Sunday, 2.7s from Marquez, having climbed swiftly from tenth place on the grid.

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Germany show rustiness in draw with feisty Cameroon

Associated Press Writer

MIAMI (AP) — Few England players will be feeling the heat as much as Wayne Rooney o n t h e t e a m ’s pre-World Cup stop in Miami. The closer it gets to the

MOENCHENGLADBACH, Germany - World Cup contenders Germany came from a goal down to draw 2-2 with hard-working Cameroon on Sunday in their penultimate game before this month’s tournament in Brazil, showing they still have work to do to fine-tune their title challenge. The Germans, who play Armenia on June 6 in their final warm-up, looked some way off top form as they seek to end an 18-year trophy drought, missing several key players including captain Philipp Lahm and first-choice keeper Manuel Neuer. almost got off to a perfect start when Mesut Ozil, completely unmarked in front of goal, somehow managed to shoot wide seconds after the kickoff.

The Germans, drawn with Ghana, the United States and Portugal in Group G, came close again as attacking midfielder Mario Goetze, playing as a lone striker, sent in a low drive which was turned on to the post by Cameroon keeper Charles Itandje.

QUICK PACE Cameroon, playing hosts Brazil, Croatia and Mexico in Group A, had trouble containing their opponents’ pace down the wings and needed to wait around 20 minutes before Samuel Eto’o got a shot on target. A series of tough tackles from the Africans threw the hosts off balance and gave the visitors the initiative.

German keeper Roman Weidenfeller was called into action late in the first half, making a superb save in the 39th minute when Eto’o sent Benjamin Moukandjo clear and he also blocked a close-range Joel Matip effort.

Cameroon stunned the Germans in the 62nd minute when Eto’o’s shot was saved

by Weidenfeller but the forward was in the right place to tap in a subsequent cross.

Their joy was short-lived, however,

Wo r l d Cup, the greater the pressure on the striker to produce the kind of performances for England that earned him the most lucrative contract in Manchester United history last season.

Rooney, who collects more than $20 million a year at United, has scored 38 goals in 89 England appearances since bursting onto the scene as a teenager. But he has now gone four matches on international duty without scoring.

No wonder the country is so concerned about its star striker’s struggles with just two weeks before England opens its World Cup campaign against Italy in Brazil.

England coach Roy Hodgson, though, is trying to ensure Rooney is not burdened by the expectations in a country which has not won the World Cup since 1966 — or even reached the semifinals in 24 years.

“I think it’s a bit sad that the country is so Wayne Rooney-

with Thomas Mueller charging into the box to head in a Jerome Boateng cross four minutes later and Andre Schuerrle tapping in after a surging run by substitute Lukas Podolski.

But Cameroon refused to lie down and Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting confirmed his outstanding form this season with Mainz 05, picking up the ball outside the box and drilling an unstoppable left-foot shot past Weidenfeller in the 78th minute.

“We did not do it very well tonight,” Mueller said. “We made it hard for ourselves. We should have taken an earlier lead and then we also dropped our pace late in the first half.” “That’s not good because at the World Cup we have to be focused over 90 minutes.

There is still work to be done.”

BRIDGEVIEW, Illinois — Landon Donovan scored in the 74th minute to give the Los Angeles Galaxy a 1-1 draw with the Chicago Fire in Major League Soccer on Sunday.

Donovan has scored three goals in two games since he was left off the U.S. World Cup squad.

Robbie Keane set up the goal after taking the ball from Fire midfielder Chris Ritter. The Galaxy’s Robbie Rogers tracked down the ball to the right of the goal and fed the wide-open Dono-

van on the left.

Fire captain Jeff Larentowicz converted a penalty in the 68th minute.

At Portland, Oregon, Pedro Morales scored from a pair of penalties as Vancouver held off Portland 4-3.

Erik Hurtado and Jordan Harvey also scored for the Whitecaps, who beat the Timbers for the first time since the two teams joined the MLS in 2011.

The loss ended a six-match unbeaten streak for the Timbers, who got goals from Maximiliano

Urruti, Gaston Fernandez and Will Johnson.

Colorado’s Deshorn Brown scored two goals in the Rapids ’ 3 -0 victory over the Houston Dynamo.

Kamani Hill scored C o l o r a d o ’s other goal.

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obsessed,” Hodgson said ahead of the team’s arrival on Sunday in Miami for two World Cup warmup matches. “I don’t think Wayne sets himself up to be anything other than a very important member of the squad who tries his best at all times.”

Is his best enough these days?

The 28-year-old Rooney should be at his footballing peak, but some pundits are already questioning whether Hodgson should cast aside the country’s most recognizable player. Paul Scholes, Rooney’s former teammate for England and United, issued a plea to Hodgson through a blog to consider putting the forward on the bench against Italy if his “form doesn’t get up to scratch.”

W h i l e Rooney is likely to start at one of the two games i n Miami — against Honduras on Saturday rather than Ecuador on Wednesday — his starting spot on June 14 against Italy no longer seems so certain. Hodgson didn’t name Rooney as one of his guaranteed picks for the Manaus game when asked about his options this weekend.

“In the back positions we have a pretty clear idea of what we want,” Hodgson said. “Once you get past Steven Gerrard in midfield, there

are five positions to fill. I think there are plenty of options there and we could do well with a number of those options.”

Rooney will be traveling to Brazil next Saturday night from Miami still searching for his

first World Cup goal, having failed to find the net in Germany in 2006 and four years later in South Africa. No other England striker has gone eight games at a World Cup without contributing a goal.

AP Photo/Matt Dunham

England’s Wayne Rooney shouts instructions to a teammate during the international friendly soccer match between England and Peru at Wembley Stadium in London, Friday, May 30, 2014.

Teams, fans counting down to World Cup

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Donovan scores, Galaxy draw with Fire 1-1 Associated Press

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Rooney feeling heat as England arrives in Miami

Reuters

Germany coach Joachim Loew, who on Monday will name his final 23-man squad, said the game highlighted the work they still need to do. “This was a good opponent, a tough test against strong, physical players,” Loew told reporters.

“One could see that we lacked a bit of freshness but that’s normal after our 10-day training camp. But we have seen that there are things we still need to do, that’s clear.”

“We were not good in our passing game and that got us into trouble repeatedly. We had some chances but we lack the final finish. We need to find that efficiency we have been missing for some time. We currently take too many chances to score.”

Cameroon’s German coach Volker Finke was satisfied with his team’s performance, saying eight or nine players from Sunday’s game would be starting in their group match against Mexico. “There are still things to improve but the result was very good four our confidence,” he said.

He also said he was happy to see leading striker Samuel Eto’o, who tapped in for the lead, perform well despite a knee problem.

“I am happy Eto’o was able to play for as much as he did tonight,” he said.

“We will wait for tomorrow to see how his knee has reacted to it.” Loew’s side

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AP Photo/Michael Probst

Germany’s Thomas Mueller, right, and Cameroon’s Cedric Djeugoue challenge for the ball during a soccer friendly match between Germany and Cameroon in Moenchengladbach, Germany, Sunday, June 1, 2014.

RIO DE JANEIRO — It’s just 10 days away. The World Cup’s opening match is coming June 12 in Sao Paulo, and the final days before soccer’s most important tournament have seen a flurry of on- and off-field action. Anger over the billions being spent by Brazil to host the World Cup continues to fuel protests, although they are far smaller than anti-government demonstrations last June that saw a million people out on a single night.

Indigenous protesters clashed with police in the capital city of Brasilia outside the new stadium that will host Cup matches. They wore traditional dress and some held soccer balls on which they wrote anti-World Cup slogans.

Some had bows and arrows, and one officer was wounded in the leg with an arrow as tear gas wafted over the protest. Still, excitement is building among soccer fans around

the globe.

In Bangladesh, poor children played spirited, impromptu matches, no doubt imaging themselves as future soccer stars. In Brazil’s Amazon jungle, members of an indigenous tribe played in a village near the city of Manaus, one of the Cup’s host cities. Also in the Amazon, young barefoot boys played soccer in the ruins of a rubber baron’s villa near the town of Paricatuba.

The San Gabriel Archangel church in Mexico City offered encouragement to the country’s team by displaying a glass case with a statue of the baby Jesus wearing a miniature replica of the squad’s uniform. Teams taking part in the tournament prepared for their matches, both in workouts and in “friendly” games against other national teams.

Neymar led workouts for Brazil’s squad near a mountain town north of Rio. Other team members

like Thiago Silva, Paulinho and Maicon exercised hard on stationary bikes, preparing their legs for the marathon, monthlong tournament.

But friendly matches proved disastrous for some players. Italian midfielder Riccardo Montolivo and Mexico’s Luis Montes, also a

midfielder, each broke a leg in their games and will miss the Cup. Brazilian authorities rushed to put finishing touches on stadiums, airports and other infrastructure for the Cup, much of which simply won’t be finished before an estimated 300,000 foreigners arrive for the tournament.

AP Photo/Eraldo Peres

In this May 30, 2014, photo, boy walks with a representation of a Brazilian national flag through the Santa Luzia favela, ahead of fellow residents in a protest against the money spent on preparations for the upcoming World Cup, in Brasilia, Brazil.

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Germany show rustiness in draw with feisty Cameroon

Associated Press Writer

MIAMI (AP) — Few England players will be feeling the heat as much as Wayne Rooney o n t h e t e a m ’s pre-World Cup stop in Miami. The closer it gets to the

MOENCHENGLADBACH, Germany - World Cup contenders Germany came from a goal down to draw 2-2 with hard-working Cameroon on Sunday in their penultimate game before this month’s tournament in Brazil, showing they still have work to do to fine-tune their title challenge. The Germans, who play Armenia on June 6 in their final warm-up, looked some way off top form as they seek to end an 18-year trophy drought, missing several key players including captain Philipp Lahm and first-choice keeper Manuel Neuer. almost got off to a perfect start when Mesut Ozil, completely unmarked in front of goal, somehow managed to shoot wide seconds after the kickoff.

The Germans, drawn with Ghana, the United States and Portugal in Group G, came close again as attacking midfielder Mario Goetze, playing as a lone striker, sent in a low drive which was turned on to the post by Cameroon keeper Charles Itandje.

QUICK PACE Cameroon, playing hosts Brazil, Croatia and Mexico in Group A, had trouble containing their opponents’ pace down the wings and needed to wait around 20 minutes before Samuel Eto’o got a shot on target. A series of tough tackles from the Africans threw the hosts off balance and gave the visitors the initiative.

German keeper Roman Weidenfeller was called into action late in the first half, making a superb save in the 39th minute when Eto’o sent Benjamin Moukandjo clear and he also blocked a close-range Joel Matip effort.

Cameroon stunned the Germans in the 62nd minute when Eto’o’s shot was saved

by Weidenfeller but the forward was in the right place to tap in a subsequent cross.

Their joy was short-lived, however,

Wo r l d Cup, the greater the pressure on the striker to produce the kind of performances for England that earned him the most lucrative contract in Manchester United history last season.

Rooney, who collects more than $20 million a year at United, has scored 38 goals in 89 England appearances since bursting onto the scene as a teenager. But he has now gone four matches on international duty without scoring.

No wonder the country is so concerned about its star striker’s struggles with just two weeks before England opens its World Cup campaign against Italy in Brazil.

England coach Roy Hodgson, though, is trying to ensure Rooney is not burdened by the expectations in a country which has not won the World Cup since 1966 — or even reached the semifinals in 24 years.

“I think it’s a bit sad that the country is so Wayne Rooney-

with Thomas Mueller charging into the box to head in a Jerome Boateng cross four minutes later and Andre Schuerrle tapping in after a surging run by substitute Lukas Podolski.

But Cameroon refused to lie down and Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting confirmed his outstanding form this season with Mainz 05, picking up the ball outside the box and drilling an unstoppable left-foot shot past Weidenfeller in the 78th minute.

“We did not do it very well tonight,” Mueller said. “We made it hard for ourselves. We should have taken an earlier lead and then we also dropped our pace late in the first half.” “That’s not good because at the World Cup we have to be focused over 90 minutes.

There is still work to be done.”

BRIDGEVIEW, Illinois — Landon Donovan scored in the 74th minute to give the Los Angeles Galaxy a 1-1 draw with the Chicago Fire in Major League Soccer on Sunday.

Donovan has scored three goals in two games since he was left off the U.S. World Cup squad.

Robbie Keane set up the goal after taking the ball from Fire midfielder Chris Ritter. The Galaxy’s Robbie Rogers tracked down the ball to the right of the goal and fed the wide-open Dono-

van on the left.

Fire captain Jeff Larentowicz converted a penalty in the 68th minute.

At Portland, Oregon, Pedro Morales scored from a pair of penalties as Vancouver held off Portland 4-3.

Erik Hurtado and Jordan Harvey also scored for the Whitecaps, who beat the Timbers for the first time since the two teams joined the MLS in 2011.

The loss ended a six-match unbeaten streak for the Timbers, who got goals from Maximiliano

Urruti, Gaston Fernandez and Will Johnson.

Colorado’s Deshorn Brown scored two goals in the Rapids ’ 3 -0 victory over the Houston Dynamo.

Kamani Hill scored C o l o r a d o ’s other goal.

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obsessed,” Hodgson said ahead of the team’s arrival on Sunday in Miami for two World Cup warmup matches. “I don’t think Wayne sets himself up to be anything other than a very important member of the squad who tries his best at all times.”

Is his best enough these days?

The 28-year-old Rooney should be at his footballing peak, but some pundits are already questioning whether Hodgson should cast aside the country’s most recognizable player. Paul Scholes, Rooney’s former teammate for England and United, issued a plea to Hodgson through a blog to consider putting the forward on the bench against Italy if his “form doesn’t get up to scratch.”

W h i l e Rooney is likely to start at one of the two games i n Miami — against Honduras on Saturday rather than Ecuador on Wednesday — his starting spot on June 14 against Italy no longer seems so certain. Hodgson didn’t name Rooney as one of his guaranteed picks for the Manaus game when asked about his options this weekend.

“In the back positions we have a pretty clear idea of what we want,” Hodgson said. “Once you get past Steven Gerrard in midfield, there

are five positions to fill. I think there are plenty of options there and we could do well with a number of those options.”

Rooney will be traveling to Brazil next Saturday night from Miami still searching for his

first World Cup goal, having failed to find the net in Germany in 2006 and four years later in South Africa. No other England striker has gone eight games at a World Cup without contributing a goal.

AP Photo/Matt Dunham

England’s Wayne Rooney shouts instructions to a teammate during the international friendly soccer match between England and Peru at Wembley Stadium in London, Friday, May 30, 2014.

Teams, fans counting down to World Cup

Associated Press

Donovan scores, Galaxy draw with Fire 1-1 Associated Press

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Rooney feeling heat as England arrives in Miami

Reuters

Germany coach Joachim Loew, who on Monday will name his final 23-man squad, said the game highlighted the work they still need to do. “This was a good opponent, a tough test against strong, physical players,” Loew told reporters.

“One could see that we lacked a bit of freshness but that’s normal after our 10-day training camp. But we have seen that there are things we still need to do, that’s clear.”

“We were not good in our passing game and that got us into trouble repeatedly. We had some chances but we lack the final finish. We need to find that efficiency we have been missing for some time. We currently take too many chances to score.”

Cameroon’s German coach Volker Finke was satisfied with his team’s performance, saying eight or nine players from Sunday’s game would be starting in their group match against Mexico. “There are still things to improve but the result was very good four our confidence,” he said.

He also said he was happy to see leading striker Samuel Eto’o, who tapped in for the lead, perform well despite a knee problem.

“I am happy Eto’o was able to play for as much as he did tonight,” he said.

“We will wait for tomorrow to see how his knee has reacted to it.” Loew’s side

International

AP Photo/Michael Probst

Germany’s Thomas Mueller, right, and Cameroon’s Cedric Djeugoue challenge for the ball during a soccer friendly match between Germany and Cameroon in Moenchengladbach, Germany, Sunday, June 1, 2014.

RIO DE JANEIRO — It’s just 10 days away. The World Cup’s opening match is coming June 12 in Sao Paulo, and the final days before soccer’s most important tournament have seen a flurry of on- and off-field action. Anger over the billions being spent by Brazil to host the World Cup continues to fuel protests, although they are far smaller than anti-government demonstrations last June that saw a million people out on a single night.

Indigenous protesters clashed with police in the capital city of Brasilia outside the new stadium that will host Cup matches. They wore traditional dress and some held soccer balls on which they wrote anti-World Cup slogans.

Some had bows and arrows, and one officer was wounded in the leg with an arrow as tear gas wafted over the protest. Still, excitement is building among soccer fans around

the globe.

In Bangladesh, poor children played spirited, impromptu matches, no doubt imaging themselves as future soccer stars. In Brazil’s Amazon jungle, members of an indigenous tribe played in a village near the city of Manaus, one of the Cup’s host cities. Also in the Amazon, young barefoot boys played soccer in the ruins of a rubber baron’s villa near the town of Paricatuba.

The San Gabriel Archangel church in Mexico City offered encouragement to the country’s team by displaying a glass case with a statue of the baby Jesus wearing a miniature replica of the squad’s uniform. Teams taking part in the tournament prepared for their matches, both in workouts and in “friendly” games against other national teams.

Neymar led workouts for Brazil’s squad near a mountain town north of Rio. Other team members

like Thiago Silva, Paulinho and Maicon exercised hard on stationary bikes, preparing their legs for the marathon, monthlong tournament.

But friendly matches proved disastrous for some players. Italian midfielder Riccardo Montolivo and Mexico’s Luis Montes, also a

midfielder, each broke a leg in their games and will miss the Cup. Brazilian authorities rushed to put finishing touches on stadiums, airports and other infrastructure for the Cup, much of which simply won’t be finished before an estimated 300,000 foreigners arrive for the tournament.

AP Photo/Eraldo Peres

In this May 30, 2014, photo, boy walks with a representation of a Brazilian national flag through the Santa Luzia favela, ahead of fellow residents in a protest against the money spent on preparations for the upcoming World Cup, in Brasilia, Brazil.

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Djokovic destroys Tsonga to reach Paris last eight

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PARIS - World No. 2 Novak Djokovic of Serbia continued his stroll through the French Open draw when he destroyed local favourite Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-1 6-4 6-1 on Sunday to reach the quarter-finals.

Djokovic, chasing the only grand slam title to elude him, was never troubled by the 13th-seeded Tsonga, who suffered an embarrassing defeat in 89 minutes one year after making it to the last four in Paris.

BANGLI - Dalem Balingkang Temple situated in a remote area at the northern side of Lake Batur. It is situated on the eastern part of Penulisan Hill, some 40 kms from Bangli Town, precisely in Pinggan Village, Kinatamani District. The place is easy to reach with vehicles.

Reaching the parking area, a guest should go on foot for some 500 meters to reach the temple.

The word Balingkang translates King of Bali. The temple once served as the palace for the King of Bali. Based on folklore, in the 11th century, there was a king named Sri Kesari Waradewa who had a Chinese wife, a pricess of Chung Dynasty, Tang Ci Keng.

The marriage between the two was told in Barong Landung Dance that still can be seen in Bali to date.

Even the palace it self has been influenced by Chinese design and architectural styles, among others, the building of Gedong Mas and Pelinggih Ida Ratu Ayu. Chinese influence has also left Balinese old coins to have in one of the sides, Balinese characteristics, as God related symbols, which remain in use to date.

The Frenchman’s ordeal ended on the first match point when he sent a backhand long as Djokovic reached the quarter-finals of a grand slam for the 20th consecutive time. He will next face Canadian eighth seed Milos Raonic.

In 2012, Djokovic needed five sets to see off Tsonga in the quarterfinals and the Serbian had no intention of letting that happen again.

“The performance was great from the start till the end. I came with the exact level of intensity that I was looking for before the start of the match,” said Djokovic, who converted seven of nine break points.

“Two years ago was kind of a similar situation where I started very well, won the set 6-1 and I was 4-2 up and then he managed to come back. Then we had the tough

match and that ended up in five sets,” he told reporters. “I didn’t want the similar scenario.”

Tsonga paid the price for poor preparations having lost in the second round at the Madrid Masters and the third round at the Rome Masters last month. “It does hurt.

After the match, I mean, I had lots of thoughts in my mind. But I have to continue. I need to hang on,” he said.

REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

Novak Djokovic of Serbia returns a backhand to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France during their men’s singles match at the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris June 1, 2014.

Marquez ‘nearly crashed in every corner’ IBP/File Photo

MotoGP champion Marc Marquez continued his perfect season at a dramatic Italian Grand Prix, decided in his favour by a last lap pass and 0.123s victory over Jorge Lorenzo. It was the closest of Mar-

quez’s six victories this year, all from pole, with the Repsol Honda star staying glued to Lorenzo’s rear wheel before making his first move for the lead on lap 17 of 23.

That triggered the start of a re-

lentless back-and-forth battle, Marquez often making use of a long sixth gear to slipstream past the Yamaha rider on the home straight, only for Lorenzo to repass him on the brakes. In total, the pair exchanged

the lead eleven times over the final seven laps.

“In the middle of the race the front tyre was closing and moving a lot under braking, because I was on the limit. Here at this circuit Yamaha were really strong,” said Marquez. “When I passed Jorge the first time I knew immediately that he would come back.” Also on Marquez’s mind was the fact that Mugello 2013 was the scene of his only race fall in MotoGP. “I overtook Dani [Pedrosa] around the same time last year and within one or two laps I had crashed. The feeling with the bike was more or less the same, a bit of a floating feeling at the rear. So I thought it was too much risk and I decided that I would only push 100% again on the final lap and that was the key to win the race.

“It was a great battle but this time I only enjoyed it when I passed the finish line because Jorge was so strong and I was pushing, nearly crashed in every corner. It was so difficult. We had some small contact which got my attention and REUTERS/Max Rossi

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Honda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of Spain (R) races with second classified and compatriot Yamaha Jorge Lorenzo on his way to win the Italian Grand Prix in Mugello circuit in central Italy June 1, 2014.

after that we did a really nice battle and on the last lap I pushed to try to overtake at the end of the straight and open a small gap.” That victory pass was the last of numerous slipstream moves, planned by Marquez and his team before the race.

“We changed sixth gear for the race because if you have a Yamaha in front they have a lot of corner speed, so you might not be close enough to overtake on the brakes,” explained Marquez. “So our strategy was to overtake on the straight with the slipstream. For that reason we changed the gear a little bit. But on the first lap when I was alone [without the slipstream] the bike was a little bit slower and the Ducati of Iannone overtook me.”

The only other race this season that compares with the Mugello battle was a 0.259s victory over Lorenzo’s team-mate Valentino Rossi at round one in Qatar.

“It’s difficult to say which race was hardest,” said Marquez. “Every situation in every circuit is different.

Here I felt more prepared to fight because my physical condition was 100% and in Qatar maybe I was struggling a little bit [after breaking a leg in the winter].

“But anyway both riders are so great. Valentino has his strongest points, Jorge has his strongest points.

With every rider you need to use a different strategy.” Home star Rossi finished third on Sunday, 2.7s from Marquez, having climbed swiftly from tenth place on the grid.

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South Korea rescues North Koreans drifting off coast Associated Press

SEOUL — South Korea has rescued three North Koreans who were drifting off the east coast of South Korea on Saturday.

Seoul’s Unification Ministry said Monday in a statement that two of the men said they wanted to stay in South Korea and one said he wished to return to the North. A ministry press official who refused to be identified because of office

DAMASCUS, Syria — A Syrian official and activists say dozens of people have been killed or wounded over the past three days in steppedup rebel attacks on governmentheld areas in the northern city of Aleppo.

The attacks are the latest ahead of the country’s presidential election on Tuesday, a highly contentious vote amid a civil war that has killed more than 160,000 people.

The Syrian opposition and its

Western allies have denounced the balloting as a sham. President Bashar Assad is widely expected to win a third seven-year term.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday that 50 people have been killed in Aleppo since Saturday.

Syria’s Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi said 20 people were killed on Saturday alone.

Rebels have threatened to disrupt the voting in opposition-held areas.

Swiss-made solar plane makes maiden flight

Associated Press Writer

BERLIN — A Swiss-made solarpowered aircraft has made a successful inaugural flight as its makers prepare for what they hope will be the first round-the-world solar flight.

The Solar Impulse 2 team said the aircraft spent 2 hours and 17 minutes in the air above western Switzerland early Monday. They plan several other flights over the coming months.

The Solar Impulse 2 is a bigger

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and better version of a single-seat prototype that first took flight five years ago. Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, the project’s founders, say it theoretically can stay airborne indefinitely.

The plane soaks up energy from the sun through some 17,200 solar cells that cover its massive wings, which span 72 meters (236 feet).

Piccard and Borschberg hope to fly the aircraft around the world next year.

AP Photo/Denis Balibouse,Pool

German test pilot Markus Scherdel steers the solar-powered Solar Impulse 2 aircraft for its maiden flight at its base in Payerne, Switzerland Monday, June 2, 2014.

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JAKARTA - The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) said Indonesia suffered a deficit of US$1.97 billion in international trade in April as against a surplus of US$673.2 million in March.

REUTERS/Carlos Vidigal

Members of the Portuguese police arrive to guard an area in Praia da Luz, near Lagos, June 2, 2014. Police investigating the 2007 disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann on Monday have sealed off an area of scrubland in the Portuguese resort where the three-yearold went missing.

Police prepare for search in Madeleine McCann case Associated Press Writer

LISBON, Portugal — Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann cordoned off Monday an area of scrubland near where the British girl vanished seven years ago.

Officers placed yellow-andwhite police tape around the waste ground, which is mostly level and slightly larger than a soccer field, and were expected to conduct a forensic examination of the area in coming days. Officials have previously said detectives may use excavators, dogs and groundpenetrating radar as they scrutinize the terrain.

Officials made no immediate comment on Monday’s developments. Cases that are under investigation in Portugal are covered by a judicial secrecy law, which forbids the release of information.

The scrubland is about 300 meters (330 yards) from the Praia da Luz resort in southern Portugal where Madeleine vanished from her family’s vacation apartment in May 2007, shortly before her fourth birthday. The area was searched in the days following her disappearance.

Authorities in Portugal and Britain said recently they would conduct new searches in coming weeks after reviewing the case file and a new public appeal for information.

Portuguese police closed the case in 2008 because authorities

had detected no crime. The public prosecutor’s office in Lisbon last year reopened the investigation, saying new leads emerged during the case review though it did not elaborate.

British police launched Operation Grange in 2011 to try to find out what happened to Madeleine.

British detectives have been sifting through the Portuguese case files and say they have identified new avenues of investigation. Among other things, they have compiled a record of cases involving sexual assaults on children in the area between 2004 and 2010.

wisdom of Bali.

“Now, Indonesia including Bali embraces unlawful habit such as like breaking laws or doing unethically. Even, the unscrupulous officials who know the rules also like breaking the rules,” he said.

According to him, the rampant violations in the development in Bali happened because the regulations were not implemented strictly. “As solution for the development, the investors and the community must prioritize the ethics and aesthetics. The county government and customary village should act firmly pursuant to noble values of Hinduism,” he said.

He explained the noble teaching of Hindu needing to be considered

in the development included the Tri Hita Karana (three sources of happiness), Tri Mandala (horizontal spatial division), upstream-downstream, Nyegara-Gunung (seaward-mountainward orientation), Segara Kertih (sea purification), Danu Kertih (lake purification), Wana Kertih (forest purification), local wisdom, traditional Balinese architecture and others.

“In Bali, we have many grandiose ceremonies, but do not understand about the meaning, even the behavior has deviated.

On that account, it is required an introspection to uphold the truth.

Do not let the Artha (wealth) and Kama (passion) defeat the Dharma (truth),” he said. (kmb27)

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He added that all components and tourism stakeholders should have the same awareness to keep the implementation of the Balinese culture. The role of government alone would never be enough without being accompanied with awareness of public and stakeholders.

A lecturer of the Tourism Faculty, Udayana University, I Putu Anom, also recognized that as a Balinese he really complained with rampant and uncontrolled development, either breaking the green belt, the borderline of beaches, lakes, culture or local

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rules said it wasn’t clear when the men left North Korea or what they were doing. The official didn’t know if the men were on a boat or drifting on their own.

Seoul says Pyongyang has asked in a telephone call that Seoul immediately return all three crewmembers.

The one North Korean crewmember will be sent back to the North on Tuesday.

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Indonesia’s exports fell 5.92 percent to US$14.29 billion in April from US$15.19 billion in March 2014, Head of BPS Suryamin told reporters on Monday.

He noted that oil and gas exports made up US$2.63 billion of the total exports in value with other commodities accounting for US$11.66 billion.

He said imports surged to US$16.26 billion in April or an increase of 11.93 percent from US$14.52 billion in March. The imports included US$3.69 billion

in oil and gas with other commodities accounting for US$12.56 billion.

Meanwhile, the country’s inflation was 0.16 percent in May as against a deflation of 0.02 percent in April.

Suryamin attributed the inflation to high food price hike. “The

prices of manufactured foods, cigarettes and tobacco were the biggest contributors to the price hike,” he said.

The inflation in May brought the country’s total inflation to 1.56 percent in the first five months of the year. Year-on-year, inflation in May was 7.32 percent.

Bale scores legions of fans in Indonesia

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J A K A RTA - R e a l M a d r i d midfielder Gareth Bale wooed hundreds of Indonesian fans on Sunday in a personal promotional tour of Jakarta on the back of his team’s Champions League glory.

Fans cheered wildly as the Welshman kicked a soccer ball from a stage into a crowd of around 1,000 at the massive Gelora Bung Karno sports stadium in the Indonesian capital.

He thanked the crowd for turning out and said it was “an honour to be invited” to the event, which included a football coaching clinic for young people.

“Hopefully a lot of young people in the crowd here today can work hard, practise football and be a professional one day,” he said.

Bale is enjoying a boost to his fame following Real’s win in last

Saturday’s Champions League final, in which he scored a crucial goal in extra time to defeat Atletico Madrid.

His performance was widely seen as vindication for Real, which reportedly paid a worldrecord 100 million euros ($136.3 million) to have the player transferred from Tottenham.

British media reported that Bale would receive about 2.5 million pounds ($4.2 million) for the two-day Indonesian tour and would be “treated like royalty” in Indonesia, a football-crazed nation of 250 million people.

Fans paid three million rupiah ($258) to take part in a meetand-greet session with Bale on Saturday, and women swooned at the sight of the footballer.

“He’s handsome, he’s good looking and he’s the best football player,” said 18-year-old Astuti, who goes by one name.

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Real Madrid midfielder Gareth Bale wooed hundreds of Indonesian fans on Sunday in a personal promotional tour of Jakarta on the back of his team’s Champions League glory.

Jokowi-JK pair not to supervise places of worship Antara

JAKARTA - Presidential candidate, Joko Widodo and his running mate, Jusuf Kalla (Jokowi-JK pair) have no intentions of deploying intelligence officials to supervise places of worship, noted their success team’s spokesman Abdul Kadir Karding.

“Having intelligence officials

supervise places of worship is not the way that Jokowi and Kalla will opt for, and neither will they be present with authoritarian and new order style,” Karding stated.

The spokesman remarked that the Jokowi-JK pair has no intentions of using places of worship for political purposes, and therefore, he

requested the Prabowo-Hatta team to remain calm.

“Both Jokowi and Kalla respect the sanctity of places of worship, and they believe that whoever uses them as a platform to incite hatred will not be supported by the people,” Karding stressed.

Therefore, the politician from the

National Awakening Party (PKB) called on the General Elections Commission (KPU), Election Supervisory Board (Bawaslu), and the law enforcement body to proactively prevent places of worship from being used to stage black campaigns.

Further, Karding added that mosques are holy places and should

not be used as sites for black campaigns.

“Jokowi and Kalla have no intentions of tarnishing the image of mosques by using them as a platform for their campaigns, although Kalla is the chairman of the Indonesian Council of Mosques,” he reiterated.

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EPA seeks to cut power plant carbon by 30 percent

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday will roll out a plan to cut earth-warming pollution from power plants by 30 percent by 2030, setting in motion one of the most significant actions to address global warming in U.S. history.

The rule, which is expected to be final next year, will set the first national limits on carbon dioxide, the chief gas linked to global warming from the nation’s power plants. They are the largest source of greenhouse gases in the U.S., accounting for about a third of the annual emissions that make the U.S. the second largest contributor to global warming on the planet.

The Environmental Protection Agency regulation is a centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s plans to reduce the pollution linked to global warming, a step that the administration hopes will get other countries to act when negotiations on a new international treaty resume next year.

Despite concluding in 2009 that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare, a finding that triggered their regulation under the 1970 Clean Air Act, it has taken years for the administration to take on the nation’s fleet of power plants.

In December 2010, the Obama administration announced a “modest pace” for setting greenhouse gas standards for power plants, setting a May 2012 deadline.

Obama put them on the fast track last summer when he announced his climate action plan and a renewed commitment to climate change after the issue went dormant during his re-election campaign.

“The purpose of this rule is to really close the loophole on carbon pollution, reduce emissions as we’ve done with lead, arsenic and mercury and improve the health of

the American people and unleash a new economic opportunity,” said Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, which has drafted a plan that informed the EPA proposal.

Yet the rule carries significant political and legal risks, by further diminishing coal’s role in producing U.S. electricity and offering options for pollution reductions far afield from the power plant, such as increased efficiency. Once the dominant source of energy in the U.S., coal now supplies just under 40 percent of the nation’s electricity, as it has been replaced by booming supplies of natural gas and renewable sources such as wind and solar.

“Today’s proposal from the EPA could singlehandedly eliminate this competitive advantage by removing reliable and abundant sources of energy from our nation’s energy mix,” Jay Timmons, president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, said in a statement issued Sunday.

EPA data shows that the nation’s power plants have reduced carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 13 percent since 2005, or about halfway to the goal the administration will set Monday. The agency is aiming to have about 26 percent cut by 2020, but states will get some leeway in trying to meet that target.

But with coal-fired power plants already beleaguered by cheap natural gas prices and other environmental regulations, experts on

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Standardpen held national coloring competition

Oil prices rose Monday on the prospect of increased demand from China after data showed an improvement in manufacturing.

Benchmark U.S. oil for July delivery was up

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DENPASAR - For the first time, Standardpen Industries, a company that produce pen and other writing products from Indonesia, held a national coloring competition. The company that recently launched Oil Pastel Pascola, held the competition at Atrium Lippo Mall, Kuta. The winner of this national competition will have a chance to go to Johorbahru, Malaysia.

According to Marketing Manager of Standardpen Industries, Niken D. Mahanani, this competition have been held in 12 cities in Indonesia, including Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tanggerang, Bekasi (Jabodetabek), Sumatera, East Java, West Java, Central Java, Bali, and Sulawesi.

“Through this competition, we would like to give a chance for children to grow their creativity in coloring and drawing. We also would like to give talented children an appreciation for their hard work and creativity so they will improve their talent and skill,” she explained.

She said that this competition were able to draw 18 thousand participants in 12 cities. This competition, she claimed, was the first competition that has many winners. From each city, there were 2 winners, where they have a chance to go to Legoland with their parent. The totals of people that will be going to Legoland are 48 people.

From Bali, the winner of elementary school category is Rayna Wahyu Bhinadhari, meanwhile from kindergarten; I Wayan Natha Wiryawan gets the first place. They both win after competed with 2,000 participants that followed this competition.

Niken added Pascola is the first oil pastel that produces entirely in Indonesia. Standardpen produced this product since 2011, from research and development, choosing raw materials and production. Pascola use non-toxic materials so it is safe to be use by children. “We have the commitment to produce good quality products and showing to international market that Indonesian product have good quality and become wellknown around the world,” she asserted. (kmb18)

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Nusa Penida Beach filled with debris during rainy season. Nusa Penida subdistrict is increasingly highlighted. It is in harmony with the seriousness of local government to develop the tourism area.

Klungkung County is now preparing Nusa Penida Festival, an effort to open a new heaven of tourist destination in Bali.

Klungkung unready to face negative impacts of tourism Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - Nusa Penida subdistrict is increasingly highlighted. It is in harmony with the seriousness of local government to develop the tourism area. Klungkung County is now preparing Nusa Penida Festival, an effort to open a new heaven of tourist destination in Bali. However, Klungkung seems unready to face the negative impacts of tourism development. At least it can be seen from the tourism development in the region of Lembongan and Jungut Batu.

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This photo taken May 5, 2014 shows a pickup truck driving down a road of the Homer City Generating Station in Homer City, Pa. The Obama administration on Monday will roll out a plan to cut earth-warming pollution from power plants by 30 percent by 2030, setting in motion one of the most significant actions to address global warming in U.S. history.

Sunday said getting to 30 percent won’t be easy. The EPA is expected to offer a range of options to states to meet targets that will based on where they get their electricity and how much carbon dioxide they emit in the process.

While some states will be al-

lowed to emit more and others less, overall the reduction will be 30 percent nationwide.

The options include making power plants more efficient, reducing the frequency at which coalfired power plants supply power to the grid, and investing in more

renewable, low-carbon sources of energy. In addition, states could enhance programs aimed at reducing demand by making households and businesses more energy-efficient.

Each of those categories will have a separate target tailor-made for each state.

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58 cents to $103.29 a barrel at 0630 GMT in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 87 cents to close at $102.71 on Friday.

Chinese data showed Sunday that manufacturing grew for the third consecutive

month in May, suggesting a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy is stabilizing.

The China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said that its monthly manufacturing index rose to 50.8 points in May on a

100-point scale on which numbers above 50 show activity expanding. It was the index’s highest level this year.

Brent crude, a benchmark for international oils, added 34 cents to $109.75 a barrel in London.

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Children competed in national coloring competition that held by Standarpen. For the first time, Standardpen Industries, a company that produce pen and other writing products from Indonesia, held a national coloring competition.

Regent of Klungkung, Nyoman Suwirta, in the press conference on Sunday (Jun 1) in relation to the preparation of the Nusa Penida Festival said that Nusa Penida with the cluster of three islands developed naturally. The share of local government was still considered low. According to the regent, local authorities actually had a duty to open investment opportunity in the region. Then, it governed the flow of incoming investment. “Now, we see if the tourism runs without control, the Culture and Tourism Agency does not seriously build Nusa Penida,” he said. As a result, the tourism developed blindly just at one location, while other locations was still far left behind. This indicated if Klungkung remained unready to face the adverse effects of tourism development.

In addition, according to the regent, the local community should also be involved in every program.

They should not be let just be a spectator. “I actually asked the structure of the Nusa Penida Festival committee to be re-arranged. I do not want if the event is handled

by a ‘red plate’ committee.’ Please involve local communities. They know better about the region,” he explained.

In order to anticipate the tourism development, Suwirta affirmed to have prepared a number of attempts. His party had already owned a team of tourism consultant.

For every investment, the regent would only issue a principle permit with strict requirements. “Investors should have clear intentions. When investors purchase a piece of land, they must explain about the land utilization and when they start building. Definitely, we do not want if the development gets stagnant.

Without complying with our terms and conditions, we obviously reject it. County government must learn from the conditions of Lembongan and Jungut Batu,” he said.

Additionally, in terms of regulation, his party also claimed to have put the overall review budget of the detailed spatial planning (RDTR) in the amendment of regional budget.

The faster the completion of the regulation, the investment designed would more easily enter and ac-

celerate the development. Other than Jungut Batu and Lembongan, according to him, the arrangement was also made to other tourism area. However, the arrangement in the two regions was increasingly difficult because the violations were massive and had long occurred.

Such condition had lasted for a dozen years. Today, the tourism could not only rely solely on the nature without the involvement of government. Thus, it was necessary to make breakthrough that could generate, develop and organize.

As an embryo, the Nusa Penida Festival was expected to open up new insights into the potential of Nusa Penida. Other than developing the sense of belonging to Nusa Penida, the event could also introduce a variety of classical sacred arts. It had clear purpose namely to draw investors to invest, empower communities and increase regional revenues. To note, Nusa Penida was visited by at least 260,000 travelers every year. However, the figure only covered the visit to the area of Lembongan and Jungut Batu. (kmb31)

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Robusta and arabica dominate coffee production in Buleleng

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SINGARAJA - Potential of coffee plantations in Buleleng County is one of the best products in Bali. Climatic condition at high altitudes in some areas is suitable to develop the robusta and arabica coffee variety. Both potential coffee varieties are still becoming focus for the local economy each year with the harvest season occurred in June to July.

The Head of Buleleng Forestry and Plantation Agency, I Ketut Nerda, said the potential of coffee development posed an added value for the region on certain height like Buleleng. Some subdistricts becoming the producers of robusta coffee included the Busungbiu, while the arabica coffee was produced by Sukasada. Furthermore, the robusta coffee produced by farmers in Buleleng reached 6,215 tons per year, while arabica coffee reached 767 tons per year. “Only two types of coffee varieties are grown in Buleleng, namely the robusta and arabica. Production of robusta coffee in Buleleng reaches 700 kg per hectare while the arabica coffee reaches 302 kg per hectare,” said Nerda, Sunday (Jun 1).

The development of potential owned by coffee farmers in Buleleng was still limited on the arabica and robusta coffee.

However, many coffee farmers had not produced civet coffee, whereas the market demand was so attractive. “We have not been able to monitor the progress of civet coffee. Sometimes there are also farmers still collecting individually the civet coffee.

Civet coffee cultivation in Buleleng has not developed as in other regions because the development of civet coffee requires a special area,” he said.

Meanwhile, Nerda said the human resources development of coffee farmers in Buleleng still continued to be done gradually. This happened considering the higher public interest in cultivating coffee plant. “Its growth is quite significant. Today, many people are interested in growing coffee. As at Wanagiri, there has been fund from the Ministry of Agriculture to help the development of coffee in Buleleng in 2014. The amount of our budget has not been ascertained, but the area of coffee plantation to be receiving the assistance reaches about 400 hectares,” he said.

The data indicate the area of Buleleng reached 1365.99 km2, while the area of arabica coffee plantations in Buleleng reaches 2,714 hectares and robusta coffee reaches 10,765 hectares. Nerda explained the public were invited to popularize the tradition of enjoying local coffee production. “Hopefully, people can attune to drink coffee as it has been running naturally. Buleleng region has been unlike the region of Aceh where almost all night the coffee shops are always crowded by coffee lovers. Nevertheless, coffee is still dominantly favored at coffee shops,” he explained. (dgk)

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Police use water cannons on Indian rape protesters

Day after Kuningan

Aside from swimming, visitors can also sit and enjoy the quiet atmosphere of the calmwaved beach while enjoying roasted corn, toast and other refreshment widely sold by residents of the two neighboring villages. In addition, the traveling visitors can also fish at a number of points.

In this area, the water recreation has started to develop. It is marked by the presence of some rental companies offering canoes, inner tubes, duck boat and banana boat. With a budget of IDR 10,000 to IDR 15,000, visitors are able to paddle a canoe in the gently sloping beach for an hour. Meanwhile, the rental of duck boat and banana boat is more expensive reaching tens of thousands of rupiahs per hour.

I Made Wisata or familiarly called Kadekan, a resident of Baktiseraga, Buleleng, operating a canoe rental on the Penimbangan Beach, said last Sunday that every feast holiday and national holiday many visitors came to the beach.

He gave an example that on Galungan and the day after Kuningan the number of visitors usu-

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Ukraine says insurgents attack border guards People gather for a rally in Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, June 1, 2014.

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Penimbangan Beach thronged by visitors SINGARAJA - Apparently it has become a habit every time to celebrate the Kuningan festivity. After busy performing the Kuningan worship, the residents in Buleleng took advantage of the feast holiday for visiting tourist attraction in Buleleng. Even, virtually all of the tourist attractions in North Bali were flooded by visitors.

One of the most favorite places visited during the feast holiday is the Penimbangan Beach. Many visitors started to throng this tourist area from Sunday morning (Jun 1) because on Saturday (May 31) local residents were still busy undertaking ritual worship.

This tourist attraction is located on the border of two villages namely the Pemaron village and Baktiseraga village, Buleleng.

From Lovina tourist area, it will take visitors some 20 minutes by car or motorcycle towards the east. Meanwhile, if visitors come from the direction of Singaraja town, the Penimbangan Beach region can be reached within approximately 15 minutes.

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LUCKNOW, India — Police used water cannons to disperse hundreds of women who were protesting Monday against a rise in violence against women in the northern Indian state where two teenagers were gang-raped last week and later found hanging from a tree. The protesters in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh state, were demonstrating outside the office of the top elected official, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, demanding that he crack down on an increasing number of rape and other attacks on women and girls.

Hundreds of police officers, including female officers, pushed and shoved the protesters before deploying water cannons to disperse them.

The protesters also demanded that the government curb police indifference, which they said was encouraging attacks on women.

Police failed to take any action when the father of one of the girls reported to police that the two cousins were missing. Two police officers were fired for dereliction of duty after the girls were found gang-raped and killed.

One of their fathers said police took more than 12 hours to respond to his report that the girls were missing. He said if the police had acted promptly, they could have been rescued. Yadav has recommended a federal inquiry, but his government has been widely accused of a lackadaisical approach toward women’s safety.

India has a long history of tolerance of sexual violence, but the attack on the girls has caused outrage across the nation. Activists and ordinary people said it was as if nothing had changed since the December 2012 fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman aboard a moving bus in New Delhi, India’s capital.

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ally increased when compared to usual days.

They were not only the residents of Buleleng, but a group of visitors from outside Buleleng.

In addition, there were also visitors from Java, Jakarta and other big cities. “On normal days, the busiest visit occurs on Sunday, but since coinciding with the day after Kuningan it is quite crowded. This condition is the same as on Umanis Galungan where many visitors got difficulty to get parking space due to abundant visitors,” he said.

Due to crowded visitors, added Wisata, the rental of swimming equipment was in demand. A number of inflated tires, dozens of canoes boards and live jackets were rented by visitors. Tires and canoe board was rented at IDR 10,000 per hour. From the results of swimming equipment rental, Wisata and his wife earned up to IDR 1 million. Meanwhile, on usual days he could only earn IDR 200,000. “Despite crowded visitors, the presence of competitors offering the same services has caused his turnover to reduce,” he added. (kmb38)

DONETSK, Ukraine — Hundreds of armed insurgents attacked a border guards’ camp in eastern Ukraine Monday, a spokesman said. Serhiy Astakhov told The Associated Press by telephone that five rebels were killed and eight injured in the continuing attack on the camp in Luhansk, a major city not far from the Russian border, according to a preliminary assessment. Seven servicemen were injured, three seriously.

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Members of the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) shout slogans during a protest against the gang rape of two teenage girls, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, May 31, 2014.

The initial attack by around 100 insurgents was met by firing from the border guards, and the number of attackers swelled to around 400 a few hours later. Astakhov said the fighting was continuing, and that the Ukrainian forces sent an airplane to the area but still had been unable to quell the attack. Vladislav Seleznyov, press secretary for Ukraine’s operation against the rebels in the east, described the base as an important coordinating node for border guards across the province, and said the attack may have been an attempt to disrupt communications.

Seleznyov also said that there was another rebel attack Monday on a government checkpoint in Slovyansk, a city in the Donetsk region that has been an epicenter

of the pro-Russian movement. He said that rebels had mined a number of power plants in Slovyansk, which he claimed would be detonated if the government were to move on the city. For weeks, Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine has been the scene of deadly clashes between government troops and pro-Russian insurgents.

Months of protests during last fall and winter drove pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych to flee the country. Many in Ukraine’s east are suspicious of the new pro-Western government in Kiev, and protests in favor of greater independence from the Ukrainian capital soon turned into a separatist movement as the Luhansk and Donetsk regions declared independence following hastily called

referenda.

The conflict between Ukrainian government forces and proRussian insurgents in eastern Ukraine escalated markedly in the past week, with rebels attempting to seize a major airport and the shooting-down of a Ukrainian military helicopter.

In Moscow, the Russian defense ministry announced on Monday a military exercise involving the launch of high-precision missiles.

The ministry said the maneuvers of the Western Military District will continue through Thursday and will involve the deployment of Iskander surface-to-surface missiles. Moscow didn’t specify the areas where the exercise will be held and made no mention of the situation in Ukraine.

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Fabien Cousteau plans 31-day underwater mission Associated Press

ISLAMORADA, Florida — Like viewers worldwide, Fabien Cousteau was entranced by his famous grandfather’s films about marine life and human exploration underwater. Now he’s adding to his family’s sea stories with a 31-day underwater expedition in the Florida Keys. Cousteau dove Sunday to Aquarius Reef Base, a school bus-sized laboratory 60 feet (18 meters) below the ocean’s surface, a few miles off Key Largo. He plans to spend more than a month living underwater with a five-person crew, making a documentary and leading science experiments on the nearby coral reef.

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This 2012 photo provided by Mission 31, Fabien Cousteau sits inside Aquarius Reef Base in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

Before their boat left an Islamorada dock Sunday morning, Cousteau and his crew said they would miss seeing the sun for more than month, but they weren’t nervous about being isolated in the undersea lab. “I imagine we’ll want to stay down once we get comfy down there,” Cousteau said. “We won’t want to come back up to the surface because it’s such a magical place.”

The idea for “Mission 31” came to Cousteau two years ago when he visited Aquarius during a fundraising push to save the lab, which federal budget cuts had threatened to permanently close. “It reminded me that I’ve always wanted to live underwater,” Cousteau said Saturday at his training base in Islamorada.

“Mission 31” builds on the legacy of Conshelf II, the 30-day underwater living experiment in the Red Sea that Jacques Cousteau filmed in 1963 for his Oscar-winning documentary “World Without Sun.” The younger Cousteau can do something his grandfather could not: broadcast the entire adventure live online and communicate with the public through social media and video chats with classrooms on land.

“For the first time I’m able to invite the world on a Cousteau expedition in real time,” said Cousteau, who has filmed documentaries on sharks and other marine life.

Jacques Cousteau was revered worldwide for exploring the ocean in a multitude of documentaries and books, as well as

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This 1971 image provided

by NASA shows Apollo 17 astronauts, Harrison “Jack” Schmitt, left, and an unidentified man, training with the lunar roving vehicle on the Big Island of Hawaii.

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Michele Youngs: Balinese cuisine has million tastes

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DENPASAR - The champion of Indonesian Food Competition held by Indonesian Embassy in US Michele Youngs along with her friends such as Widjiono Yono Purnomo come to Shankara Resto on Danau Toba Street no 7 Sanur on Sunday June 1st.

She came to the restaurant to join an event entitled Luvinary adventure a million taste one Indonesia from Banten to Bali.

Also attended the event is the founder of Luvinary (Love Indonesian Culinary) Robert Manan, the President of Indonesian Chef Association Henry Alexie Bloem, chefs from throughout Indonesia and US who won the trip to Bali.

for pioneering the advanced scuba diving techniques used at Aquarius. While he developed underwater living experiments out of the belief that an overpopulated world might drive humans to live in the oceans, interest in the habitats waned through the decades until Aquarius was the last underwater research lab. His grandson believes interest in the oceans is reviving as climate change threatens to disrupt life on land.

“Whether you care about economics, in your personal life or your business life, whether you care about your health or your child’s health, whether you care about saving creatures, it all pertains to making sure that our oceans are healthy. And our oceans are not,” Cousteau said.

Throughout the expedition, Florida International University and Northeastern University researchers will study the effects of climate change and pollution on the coral reef. The crew will experiment with new technology that uses sonar to create threedimensional video images, allowing them to gather data and footage without lights that would disrupt the fish.

Diving with a Cousteau helps bring more attention to the scientific work being performed at Aquarius, said Andy Shantz, an FIU researcher who will spend half the month living and working at the base.

“These are really important issues and to be able to bring that out and get a bit of a spotlight on the research and the science behind it is awesome,” Shantz said.

Decades-old photos emerge of Apollo training

HONOLULU — Before Apollo astronauts went to the moon, they went to Hawaii to train on the Big Island’s lunar-like landscapes.

Now, decades-old photos are surfacing of astronauts scooping up Hawaii’s soil and riding across volcanic fields in a “moon buggy” vehicle.

The Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems, a Hawaii state agency, is displaying the photos at its Hilo headquarters. Rob Kelso, the agency’s executive director, found the images at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Astronauts from Apollo missions 13 through 17 trained in Hawaii as did some back up crews, Kelso said.

Some training was on Mauna Kea volcano, where glacial runoff crushed and refined rock into powder. Astronauts also trained on recent lava flows.

Today, robots are tested on the Big Island for moon and Mars missions.

In recent years, engineers have tested technology to pull oxygen out of the island’s dirt, which is volcanic basalt like the Martian and lunar soil. Future missions could use this technology to extract oxygen from the land instead of taking it along. The oxygen could be used for breathing, to make fuel or for other purposes.

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Various menus presented in the event such as be kebo, betutu, sate dan rawon kambing, jukut undis, lawar, sambel bongkot, dawet.

There are also vegetarian dishes and special menus from Shankara.

The dishes served in the Sunday Market received positive respond from the guests.

Michele said that she already tasted the culinary from various cities in Indonesia such as Banten, Jakarta, Bogor, Bandung, and Yogyakarta but Balinese cuisine is different. Balinese dish rich with flavor due to the various ingredients in it.

“Balinese dishes are made using multiple techniques. The ingredients and spices are completely penetrates the meat. It made the dishes have million tastes,” she added.

The similar statement also said by the Ambassador of Indonesian Cuisine in US Widjiono Yono Purnomo. He said that Balinese cuisine has different characteristic compare to the dish from other places. The taste is vast because it is made from many ingredients and spices. “Balinese cuisine is

special. It is familiar to the tongue of everyone, even the one from US, Europe and Asian. The tourists are fond of Balinese dishes because of the taste,” he added.

Henry Bloem explained that Michele and her colleague already try many kind of food, started from the small sellers on the side of the street up to fancy restaurant in five stars hotels. The great taste of Balinese food gives the idea to make a competition specializing on Balinese cuisine in the future.

“Everyone give great appreciation during this event. They think that the great taste of Balinese cuisine make it qualified to be competed in US,” Henry said. He also supported the Sunday Market held in Shankara because it can accommodate the chefs in Bali to introduce their dishes and find new colleagues. The visitors also will receive benefit because by coming to one place, they can find various delicious cuisines. “The Balinese cuisine bazaar and Sunday market are great ideas and it can give many benefit to many people,” Henry explained. (ram)

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The champion of Indonesian Food Competition held by Indonesian Embassy in US Michele Youngs along with her friends such as Widjiono Yono Purnomo come to Shankara Resto on Danau Toba Street no 7 Sanur on Sunday June 1st.

Government to build 14 coal export seaports Antara

NUSA DUA - The government will immediately build 14 coal export seaports in Sumatra and Kalimantan to monitor coal exports, Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry’s Director General of Minerals and Coal Dr R. Sukhyar remarked on Monday.

“The 14 ports will also help to curb illegal coal exports,” he stated while opening the 20th Coaltrans Asia coal industry conference.

Sukhyar admitted that there was still a discrepancy in data on coal exports at the ministry of energy

and mineral resources and the directorate general of customs and excise as a result of which the value of royalty received by the state was not optimal.

Seven ports will be developed in Sumatra and seven others in Kalimantan based upon the locations of coal mining industries in the regions.

Sukhyar noted that the development of coal export ports will utilize the existing infrastructure so that the related costs can be reduced.

The plan is part of a cooperation project between the Ministry of En-

ergy and Mineral Resources and the Ministry of Transportation, while the implementation will be carried out by the Ministry of Transportation, he pointed out.

Sukhyar hoped that the special coal ports can balance domestic needs and exports. The domestic needs of coal this year is forecast to reach 95.5 million tons, up from merely 65 million tons last year.

According to Sukhyar, the increasing domestic demand can still be met as the target of national coal production this year has been set at 390-420 million tons.

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Balinese queue up to get into a temple during a ‘Kuningan’ prayer in Bali, Indonesia on Saturday, May, 31, 2014. Kuningan marks the last day of Galungan celebrations, one of Balinese Hinduism’s biggest religious ceremonies.

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SINGARAJA - Residents of Buleleng customary village held grandiose piodalan or temple anniversary at Dalem Temple of Buleleng, Sunday (Jun 1). The ritual of pedudusan agung, ngenteg linggih and grandiose piodalan was first held since 1911. Other than regular ritual of temple anniversary, the residents also performed a unique ritual.

The ritual is known as masesanjan resumed with mapedanaan. It is believed to be a symbol of disseminating welfare blessings to people. In addition, it also poses an expression of joy of the residents that have successfully implemented the grandiose temple anniversary. To jazz up the ritual, it was also filled with competition of mounting areca nut for a number of valuable items to be contested by people joining the competition.

Ida Pedanda Dwipasandhi from Griya Liligundi amidst the worship explained if the mapedanan ritual was believed to become an event symbolizing the dissemination of prosperity to people.

In this ritual, a number of valuable items such as bracelets, rings, rice, clothes and so on were distributed to all the people attending the prayers. Those items were thrown upwards and then children, adults and parents scrambled for them. To more enliven the event, the organizer was also providing similar items competed through the areca nut climbing. The competition was followed by children. “We believe the items obtained pose the symbol of prosperity and at the same time this ritual serves as a form of joy for the implementation of successful ceremony,” he said.

Meanwhile, procession of the temple anniversary began with the presentation of pedudusan agung, ngenteg linggih and

piodalan oblation. The ritual was officiated over by Ida Pedanda Gede Made Oka from Kubutambahan, Ida Pedanda Dwipasandhi from Griya Liligundi and priests of local trinity temple of Buleleng customary village. The activity was followed by supporting devotees, tridatu and chief of Buleleng customary village.

Afterwards, it was resumed with masesanjan of the deities to the temple outermost courtyard followed by supporting devotees, tridatu and chief of Buleleng customary village. Ultimately, it was ended with the worship en masse organized after the deities took a seat at Paselang Pavilion.

Chief of supporting devotees (pengempon) of the Dalem Temple of Buleleng customary village, Nyoman Sulendra, accompanied by Chairman of Ritual Committee, Jro Dalang Nyoman Rugada, proclaimed to supporting devotees due to busy agendas at the peak of the temple anniversary they were given longer opportunity to say prayers. The prayers was opened for seven days and closed on June 8, 2014. Similarly, the committee also planned to perform the Cenkblong shadow puppet entertainment on Tuesday (Jun 3), while Calonarang operetta on Wednesday (Jun 4). (kmb38)

TABANAN - Mice attack happened at a number of paddy plants of farmers in Bali such as at Subak Ganggangan, Pagi hamlet, Senganan village (Penebel), especially ahead of the harvest season. However, it seemed not to disturb the price of rice in Bali at harvest time.

Although in terms of production it definitely decreases, the price of

unhulled rice is relatively stable in Bali.

One of the farmers at Subak Ganggangan, I Made Jonita, when met amidst the harvesting activity, Sunday (Jun 1), said the price of Balinese rice produced by farmers could reach IDR 15,000 per kilogram. Thus, one quintal would surely be worth IDR 1.5 million.

This price is much higher than the

Pandan Wangi rice that had been cultivated by some local farmers.

“The price of Pandan Wangi rice reaches IDR 10,000 per kilogram,” he said.

Admittedly, Balinese rice had advantages compared to other varieties. Other than having a relatively higher price, the shape of rice ear was red and having a distinct advantage. “On that account,

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JAKARTA - Following the success Indonesia’s first Alana in Surabaya, Archipelago International is now gearing up to open three more Alana properties in Yogyakarta, Solo and Sentul, Bogor.

Meaning “fair, beautiful or offering” in Hawaiian, the boutique Alana Hotels are designed in a way that is both sophisticated and inviting for travelers who appreciate style, high-end amenities and personalized service.

The Alana Hotels set themselves apart by presenting an extra dimension of escapism, namely the chance to experience a lifestyle that is glamorous, fashionable and draped in exclusivity.

Yogyakarta will welcome the opening of The Alana Hotel & Residence in September. Featuring 269 rooms and suites, the

hotel is stylishly designed in the signature Alana Hotel way. It will feature 7 meeting rooms, a coffee shop, a lounge, an outdoor swimming pool, a spa and a gym, as well as a grand ballroom capable of accommodating up to 1600 persons. The hotel is located in the heart of Mataram City, Yogyakarta’s most up and coming area consisting of top notch Convention Centers and expansive lifestyle malls. It will also be close to Adi Sucipto, Borobudur, Malioboro and the city center.

Set to open its doors in Solo in mid 2015, the upcoming The Alana Adi Sucipto - Solo hotel will feature 248 rooms and suites. The hotel will also hold a number of convenient facilities, like 5 meeting rooms, a coffee shop, a swimming pool & kid’s pool as well as a gym, spa and a ballroom fit for up to 800 guests.

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Pura Sakenan Serangan Denpasar Pura Dalem Pahuman Bhujangga Penatih Denpasar Timur Pura Alas Harum Batur Kintamani Pura Alas Angker Munduk Kintamani Pura Dalem Kawitan Empuaji Klungkung

The Mepedanaan Ritual which was held in Buleleng Customary Village.

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farmers at Subak Ganggangan remain to preserve the rice variety.

Despite attacked by mice, the price remains stable, only the production declines,” he added.

High selling price of Balinese rice was not only enjoyed by farmers, but also by harvesters. From information obtained, at least a harvester could produce one quintal with a wage of IDR 50,000. It did

not include the workers who were deployed to cut down the rice straw after the harvest. Even, only armed with a sickle, a worker asked to cut down the paddy stems could get a wage worth IDR 6,000 per 100 square meters. Aside from old people, the students wishing to fill in their spare time during holidays were also interested in cutting down the paddy stems. (kmb28)

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4 Jun Buda Cemeng Langkir Pura Tanah Lot Kediri Tabanan Pura Bucabe Mas Ubud Pura Puseh Desa Ganggang Canggi Batuan Pura Luhur Batur Pucangan Buahan Tabanan Pura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Dalem bangun Sakti Tamiang Kapal Dalem Bias Muntig Ped Nusa penida 8 Jun

Pura Agung Petilan Pengerebongan kesiman Denpasar Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kesiut Kangin Kerambitan Tabanan 10 Jun Anggarkasih Medangsia Pura Pesimpangan Gerya Sakti Yogaloka Lampung Selatan Pura Luhur Uluwatu Pura Bukit Pecatu Kuta badung Pura Penataran Agung Singakerta Ubud Pura Andakasa Karangasem Pura Gua Lawah Klungkung Pura Kawitan Arya Gelgel klungkung Pura Taman Ayun Mengwi Pura Suralaya Banda klungkung Pura Dalem Senapati Bebalang Bangli Pura Pasek Gaduh Blahbatuh Gianyar Pura Pasek Lurah Tutuan Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Pusering Jagat Tampaksiring

Gianyar Pura Gerya Sakti Tulikup Gianyar Pura Dalem Dauh Ubud Pura Segara Ketewel Sukawati Pura Mertha Sari Mas Ubud 11 Jun Pura Gede Purancak Jembrana Pura Dalem Dauma Batuan Sukawati Pura Nataran Kacang Dawa Klungkung Pura Bhatara Gede Apol Ubung Denpasar Pura Puseh Brahmana Klungkung Pura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas Tabanan Pura Dalem Sukahet Klungkung Pura Dalem MuasPahit Guwang Sukawati Pura Taman Dukuh Tegallalang Pura Desa Sanding Tampak Siring gianyar Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Batan Buah Kesiman Pura Sahab Nusa penida Pura Dalem Cemara Serangan Denpasar 12 Jun Purnama Sasih Sadha Pura Pauman Bhujangga Tonja Denpasar Pura Amertha Sari Rempoa Jakarta Selatan Pura Ulun Swi Kediri Tabanan Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitra Gianyar 15 Jun Kajeng Kliwon uwudan Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi 25 Jun Buda Kliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Padangbai Karangasem Pura Aer jeruk Sukawati Gianyar Pura Dangin Pasar Batuan Sukawati Pura Penataran Batuyang Batubulan Pura Desa Lembeng Ketewel Gianyar Pura Pasek Bendesa Kediri Tabanan Pura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati gianyar Pura Kresek Banyuning Buleleng

Pura Puseh Bebandem Karangasem Pura Sad Kahyangan Batu Swana Nusa Penida Pura Buda Kliwon Penatih Denpasar Pura Penataran Dukuh Naga Sari Bebandem Karangasem Pura Batur Sari Ubud 27 Jun Tilem Sasih Sadha Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati 30 Jun Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan Pura Pasek Gelgel Kekeran Delod Yeh Mengwi 5 Jul Tumpek krulut Pura Pasek gelgel Tengah Buleleng Pura Dalem Pemuteran Jelantik Tojan Klungkung Pura Pedarman Bhujangga Waisnawa Besakih Pura Taman Sari Penebel Tabanan Pura Benua Tarukan Besakih 9 Jul Buda Cemeng Merakih Pura Bendesa Mas Kepisah Pedungan Pura Natih Kalah Batubulan Pura Desa Silakarang Singapadu Pura Dalem Petitenget Kuta Badung Pura Dalem Pulasari Gianyar Pura Kubayan Kapisah Denpasar Selatan Pura Paibon Sumerta Denpasar Pura Pasek Lumintang Denpasar Pura Panti Penyarikan Sanding Tampak Siring Pura Pasar Agung Kediri Tabanan Pura Puaya Batuan Sukawati 11 Jul Hari Bhatara Sri

12 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Tirta Besakih Pura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati

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

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

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, 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 “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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NEW YORK — The biggest box-office debut of Angelina Jolie’s career propelled Disney’s twisted fairy tale “Maleficent” to a scary-good $70 million opening. The PG-rated fantasy beat forecasts to easily top all films over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. Though “Maleficent” was early on considered a risky endeavor for Disney that might turn away family audiences by retelling “Sleeping Beauty” from the villain’s perspective, the film emerged as a hit largely because of the draw of Jolie.

Star power has been increasingly elusive in modern Hollywood, where name-brand concepts often rule the box-office. But Jolie, in her first live-action starring role in years, drove interest for “Maleficent” despite lackluster reviews from critics. “It’s a unique thing,” said Dave Hollis, head of distribution for Disney. “Her star power transcends borders and genre.”

Seth MacFarlane’s Western comedy “A Million Ways to Die in the West” was out-gunned by “Maleficent.” The R-rated Universal release opened in third place with a tepid $17.1 million despite a starry cast of Liam Neeson, Charlize Theron and Amanda Seyfried. By contrast, MacFarlane’s “Ted” (for which he’s making a sequel) opened with $54.4 million in 2012.

Last weekend’s top film, Fox’s big-budget mutant sequel “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” dropped to second with $32.6 million.

It’s a somewhat steep decline for “Days of

Future Past,” but the film made $95.6 million internationally in its second week, good enough to push its global cumulative total passed $500 million already.

But “Maleficent” dominated the marketplace, which has seen female-leading films continually challenge the much-disputed but still prevalent notion that male stars fuel box office receipts.

“The whole movie kind of rises and sets on her performance,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak. “The concept is the character. The character is completely linked to the person playing that role.”

The film was a balancing act for Disney, which is used to churning out brighter tales.

Hollis credited the company’s marketing department for “walking the fine line” of selling the movie to families (which made up 45 percent of the audience, according to Disney) and suggesting an edginess

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This photo released by Disney shows Angelina Jolie in a scene from “Maleficent.” that would appeal to a broader audience.

“Maleficent” earned about $100 million internationally.

“If you go to Disney, the longest lines are for the scariest rides,” said Dergarabedian.

“We’re going to see more of this, where the villains are the new heroes.”

Disney has had success reimagining fairy tales in recent years with “Alice in Wonderland” ($116 million in 2010) and “Oz the Great and Powerful” ($79.1 million debut in 2013). “Maleficent” fell short of those releases, but it was made in the same lineage. Robert Stromberg, the production designer for both earlier movies, makes his

directorial debut with “Maleficent.”

Next weekend will bring a battle between Shailene Woodley in the young adult novel adaptation “The Fault in Our Stars” and Tom Cruise in the sci-fi thriller “Edge of Tomorrow.” ‘’Edge of Tomorrow” got a jump on its North America release, taking in $20 million in 28 countries over the weekend.

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‘Brady Bunch’ actress Ann B. Davis dies

The rapid development in Bali increasingly deviates from the style of Balinese architecture becoming the characteristics of the Island of the Gods. Even, the modern and minimalist architecture proliferates and goes uncontrollably.

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Emmy-winning actress Ann B. Davis, who became the country’s favorite and most famous housekeeper as the devoted Alice Nelson of “The Brady Bunch,” died Sunday at a San Antonio hospital. She was 88.

Bexar County, Texas, medical examiner’s investigator Sara Horne said Davis died Sunday morning at University Hospital.

Horne said no cause of death was available and that an autopsy was planned Monday.

Bill Frey, a retired bishop and a longtime friend of Davis, said she suffered a fall Saturday at her San Antonio home and never recovered. Frey said Davis had lived with him and his wife, Barbara, since 1976.

More than a decade before scoring as the Bradys’ loyal Alice, Davis was the razor-tongued secretary on another stalwart TV sitcom, “The Bob Cummings Show,” which brought her two Emmys. Over the years, she also appeared on Broadway and in occasional movies. Davis considered her ordinary look an asset.

“I know at least a couple hundred glamour gals who are starving in this town,” she told the Los Angeles Times in 1955, the year the Cummings show began its four-year run. “I’d rather be myself and eating.” She said she told NBC photographers not to retouch their pictures of her, but they ignored her request and “gave me eyebrows.”

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FILE - In this April 14, 2007, file photo, Florence Henderson, from left, Susan Olsen, Maureen McCormick, Lloyd Schwartz and Ann B. Davis of the television show “The Brandy Bunch” accept the Pop Culture Award during the 5th Annual TV Land Awards in Santa Monica, Calif.

Brady Bunch” debuted in 1969 and aired for five years. But like Schwartz’s other hit, “Gilligan’s Island,” it has lived on in reruns and sequels. As “The Brady Bunch” theme song reminded viewers each week, the Bradys combined two families into one. Florence Henderson played a widow raising three daughters when she met her TV husband, Robert Reed, a widower with three boys.

In her blue and white maid’s uniform,

Davis’ character, Alice Nelson, was constantly cleaning up messes large and small, and she was a mainstay of stability for the family.

“I think I’m lovable. That’s the gift God gave me,” Davis told The Associated Press in a 1993 interview. “I don’t do anything to be lovable. I have no control.” Davis’ face occupied the center square during the show’s opening credits. Her love interest was Sam the Butcher, played by Allan Melvin.

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DENPASAR - The rapid development in Bali increasingly deviates from the style of Balinese architecture becoming the characteristics of the Island of the Gods. Even, the modern and minimalist architecture proliferates and goes uncontrollably. Actually, the Regional Bylaw No.5/2005 on the building and architecture clearly states that at least the Balinese architecture should be applied in every building in Bali.

Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Badung Chapter, AA Ngurah Alit Wiraputra, considered the number of buildings having no adopted the characteristics of Bali was inseparable from the lack of oversight by provincial and county / municipal government in enforcing the Regional Bylaw No.5/2005. “Supposedly the supervision has been made from the beginning in the process of construction of a building,” said Alit Wiraputra when contacted on Saturday (May 31).

According to him, applying the concept of building and

maintaining the characteristic of Balinese architecture was not too difficult. Even, the public would be benefited by applying Balinese architecture because it had been designed in accordance with the tropical climate.

“Indeed, it is not easy to maintain the cultural identity of Bali amidst the rapid development and the impact of globalization. Balinese architecture is basically flexible, inexpensive unlike the assumption of most people and very relevant to be applied,” he said.

He hoped the hallmark of Bali should be persistently

maintained in all fields, particularly in relation to tourism sustainability. One of them was the application of Balinese architecture in buildings because it posed one of the important points in the imaging of Bali tourism.

“Utilization of Balinese architecture should start from Balinese gates as at the Ngurah Rai Airport, Benoa Harbor, Padang Bai Harbor and other entrances,” he said.

Application of Balinese architectural style at every entrance, said Alit Wiraputra, was intended in order that foreign and domestic travelers could have felt if they were in Bali when setting foot here.

“Any building in Bali, especially those at roadside including commercial buildings should also apply Balinese architectural style. On that account, the government should oversee the regulation in order to prevent the irregularities and give strict punishment to violators,” he advised.

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