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Why Meryl Streep won’t play Princess Leia in ‘Star Wars: Episode IX’

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Dwayne Johnson praised for opening up about his battle with depression: ‘I was crying constantly’ LOS ANGELES - Thanks to a slew of hit comedies, Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson has transitioned from pro wrestling tough guy to Hollywood teddy bear and beloved funnyman. Now he’s showing fans a different side.

In an interview with the Express, the action hero spoke candidly about his personal mental health struggles.

According to the Rampage star, his “absolute worst time” came after his dreams of pursuing a football career crumbled — he was cut from the Canadian Football League’s Calgary Stampeders in 1995 — and his girlfriend ended their relationship.

“Struggle and pain is real,” he said of that dark time. “I was devastated and depressed.

“I reached a point where I didn’t want to do a thing or go anywhere,” he added. “I was crying constantly.”

It’s not the first time Johnson has addressed mental health in his

family. In February, he posted an Instagram message detailing his mother Ata’s suicide attempt when he was 15.

“She got out of the car on Interstate 65 in Nashville and walked into oncoming traffic,” the 45-yearold actor told his fans. “Big rigs and cars were swerving out of the way. I grabbed her and pulled her back on the gravel shoulder of the road.”

Though he has now found success on both personal and professional levels — the father of two is expecting another child with longtime girlfriend Lauren Hashian, and is one of the highest-paid actors in the world — Johnson says it’s “important to not forget the tough times.“ “We both healed but we’ve always got to do our best to pay attention when other people are in pain,” he said about showing empathy to others in similar situations.

“We have to help them through it and remind them they are not alone.” (net)

LOS ANGELES - Meryl Streep is an actress who can seemingly resurrect any cultural icon, from Margaret Thatcher to Julia Child — but will Princess Leia be one of them? An online petition calling for the 21-time Oscar nominee to replace Carrie Fisher in Star Wars: Episode IX has gained a surprising amount of steam, with more than 8,900 supporters. The petition’s author, who goes by the handle Chill M, argues that the role of Leia is too important to be dropped in the final installment of the new Skywalker trilogy, even though Fisher (who created the role in 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope) died before shooting began.

“As the fans of Star Wars and Carrie Fisher, we really want Leia to shine in Episode IX and we certainly do not want her to be written out of the film abruptly without a reasonable plot,” writes the petition’s author. “Therefore, recasting Leia is a more ideal option for us and we believe that Meryl Streep is an ideal candidate to play Leia.”

The author’s argument is based both on Streep’s many accolades as an actress and her friendship with Fisher, plus the fact that she played a character based on Fisher in Postcards from the Edge, Mike Nichols’s adaptation of Fisher’s semiautobiographical novel.

Unfortunately for the petition’s supporters, Streep is not planning any trips to a galaxy far, far away.

A rep for Streep told Entertainment Tonight that rumors that she is in consideration for the role of Princess Leia are “untrue.” That’s no shock, considering that Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy has stated outright that Leia will not appear in Episode IX. Though the princess turned general was originally going to be a “really significant” part of the story, according to producer Kennedy, Fisher’s death necessitated script changes. “We pretty much started over,” she told Entertainment

Weekly in April of last year.

Granted, Episode IX has been through numerous script changes since Fisher’s death, as well as a change of director from Colin Trevorrow to J.J. Abrams of The Force Awakens. But such a weighty decision as Leia’s fate is unlikely to change from draft to draft. In addition to Kennedy’s assurance that Fisher will not appear in Episode IX, Disney CEO

Bob Iger has stated that Fisher will not be resurrected digitally (as her younger self was for Rogue One).

Recasting hasn’t officially been ruled out — but considering Fisher’s devoted fan base, the tragedy of her unexpected death, and the fact that she played Leia in five previous Star Wars movies, recasting the role would cause a controversy that Lucasfilm certainly isn’t interested in igniting. (net)

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Invalid votes take 2nd place in Egypt election

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi’s victory in last week’s election was never in doubt, but the vote produced a surprise runner-up — an unusually large number of invalid ballots, suggesting a possible protest vote against el-Sisi or the election itself. Official figures released Monday by the election commission gave el-Sisi 97 per cent of the vote, securing him a second, four-year term in office following an election in which he ran virtually unopposed. His sole challenger, Moussa Mustafa Moussa, a little-known politician who made no effort to challenge him, received 656,534 votes, or 2.92 per cent.

Moussa’s tally was outdone by the 1.76 million invalid ballots, which would have amounted to 7.27 per cent of votes cast, a considerably higher percentage than in the last two presidential elections: 4.07 per cent in 2014 and 3.1 per cent in the 2012 runoff.

Critics denounced the latest election as a farce because a string of potentially serious challengers were either forced out of the race or arrested. Moussa stepped in the last minute to spare the government the

embarrassment of a one-candidate election that would have resembled the referendums long held by the region’s autocrats.

Authorities went to great lengths to encourage turnout, hoping to lend the vote credibility. In the end, turnout was 41.05 per cent, down from 47.45 per cent when el-Sisi won his first election in 2014. Egypt’s Sisi cruising to reelection victory, but with lower voter turnout It’s impossible to know how

many voters deliberately spoiled their ballots. But some may have bristled at the lack of competition, or the election commission’s threat to impose a fine on anyone who boycotted the vote, under a law that has been rarely enforced.

“I had made up my mind not to vote, but I went to the polls at the last minute when they threatened to make us pay 500 pounds ($36) if we don’t,” said Mohammed Mustafa, an unemployed, 26-yearold university graduate from Cairo.

“I invalidated my vote because it was not really an election. El-Sisi knew he was going to win before it began.”

Imad Hussein, the editor of the Al-Shorouk newspaper and an elSisi supporter, said the president’s campaign should “quietly and thoroughly” study the significance of the spoiled ballots.

Safe protest vote “Those invalidators have sent a message that must be read and answered. We can say that we now have in Egypt a party called the ‘invalidators,’ who receive more votes than the leaders of existing political parties.”

Invalidating votes may have been seen as a relatively safe way to protest el-Sisi, who has waged

a sweeping crackdown on dissent and banned all unauthorized demonstrations. A string of potentially serious candidates were arrested or withdrew from the race, citing intimidation. A coalition of eight Egyptian opposition parties and some 150 pro-democracy public figures had called for a boycott of the vote, calling it an “absurdity” befitting “old and crude dictatorships.”

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Perancak Temple

A battle to dismiss Ngurah Raksasa

PERANCAK Temple is located at the southern tip of Jembrana subdistrict, exactly on the coastal area of Perancak village.

This temple is one of the dang kahyangan temples or a temple to tribute ancient sages located in Bali. It is closely related to other similar temples in Jembrana such as the Rambutsiwi, Jati, Prapat Agung, and Majapahit Temple. Dhang Hyang Nirartha or Pedanda Sakti Wawu Rauh from Java Island when entering this area should fight against the powerful ruler of Tanjung Ketapang or Perancak at that time named I Gusti Ngurah Raksasa.

According to a number of literati and priests of Perancak Temple, the temple whose anniversary falls on Budha Umanis Medangsia

is inseparable from Dang Hyang Nirartha when came to Bali. Before Nirartha came to Jembrana, Perancak or Tanjung Ketapang had been

ruled by I Gusti Ngurah Raksasa.

On arrival at Perancak through the estuary of Perancak directly facing the southern sea, the ruler of Perancak, Gusti Ngurah Raksasa tested the ability of Dhang Hyang Nirartha.

He was asked to be subject to the rules that every immigrant had to obey, namely worshipping him manifested through the great stone of worship in the region. At that time, they mutually showed off the shakti power (magical power) as requested by Ngurah Raksasa and this was fulfilled by Nirartha.

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Perancak Temple

However, before completing the worship, the stone used as a shrine broke into pieces. After that, Ngurah Raksasa acknowledged the power of Dang Hyang Nirartha and the arrogant nature of the Perancak ruler finally dissolved.

Ngurah Raksasa then moved northward of the hill. Because of his presence, surrounding people then named the region as Sawe Raksasa until now. According to stories, the name Sawe was originally from the soul referred to Gusti Ngurah Raksasa, the predecessor of Perancak. Until these days, in the area of Perancak Temple is also built the Perancak Temple sanctum for the descendants of Ngurah Raksasa.

Additionally, there are two crocodile statues at the entrance to Perancak Temple. According to some temple priests at Perancak, the statue describes the situation of Perancak estuary at the time where swamps were filled with dozens of crocodiles. Formerly, the land of the current temple was a swamp area.

Bali government also helps secure the Perancak estuary from erosion by constructing revetment. In the temple area, there is also a Wajo well used for beji or source of holy water. Previously, the Perancak estuary was the entrance of immigrants including the Bugis sailors who sought to trade. They landed in the estuary and the well was used for their drinking water source. In order not to use salty or brackish water, the merchants from Wajo (South Sulawesi) also helped make the well. When the well was completed, the water was not salty

or brackish, whereas the well is located in the middle of the mouth of the river and the sea. Until now, based on the guidance of Dhang Hyang Nirartha the water is used as holy water source (beji).

Every temple anniversary (pujawali), six villages nearby are involved as supporting devotees (pengempon) of Perancak Temple, namely Perancak, Budeng, Air Kuning, Dangin Tukadaya and Sangkaragung. The Wajo well is taken advantage as holy water source needed during the ceremonies at local temple. Water for purificatory rite of ritual paraphernalia is also taken from the well located about 400 meters west of the Perancak Temple.

This area is also called Taman Temple (Beji Temple). Location of the temple has moved up to twice. Until now, in the outermost courtyard of the temple there are still some buildings that have not been built.

He also explained about the miracle on the pujawali several years ago coinciding with prolonged drought. At that time, the well water was dry, so that temple priests and ritual committee had been made confused because before the pujawali procession there must be a purificatory rite in the Wajo well. Finally, the ritual committee decided to carry water, but when the procession was carried out whereas the water had been carried with a bucket, a magical incident occurred where the well contained water. So, the water in the bucket prepared was not utilized. Strangely, once the ritual was over and the water was taken, the well dried out again. (olo)

Closer look at waste processing at Temesi landfill

GIANYAR - Thousands of cubic of garbage in Gianyar district are sent to Temesi landfill every day. Thankfully, the landfill has owned a Mitra Gianyar Bagus Waste Bank that processes waste into compost fertilizer.

Manager of Mitra Gianyar Bagus Waste Bank, I Wayan Cakra, said the waste bank was established in 2014 with the Decree of Gianyar Regent. The waste bank managed under the Pemilihan Sampah Temesi Foundation processes waste into compost every day. “Actually, composting has been going on since 2004. Well, this compost processing then developed into

a business unit of Mitra Gianyar Bagus Waste Bank,” he said.

Ironically, the garbage disposed to landfill has not been sorted out, between organic and non-organic.

So, his foundation must re-do the sorting by mobilizing 73 workers.

“Of the 73 people, 50 people are outsourcing workers of composting, while 23 others are local people of Temesi belonging to the worker of the waste bank,” he said.

Dozens of the workers do this every day by sorting out, namely conjuring up the organic waste into compost and non-organic waste is collected to be sold to the

waste bank. “Garbage in the form of plastic, cardboard and bottles is purchased by waste bank to be further sold to collectors from Java for recycling, while the organic waste is converted into compost and sold to the community,” he said.

In addition to being constrained by waste sorting, Cakra complained about harmful garbage that is difficult to be recycled such as tampon, pampers and spring bed. “They cannot be processed or recycled, so this type of garbage must be stockpiled in particular landfill at Temesi as they can damage the environment,” he said. (kmb35)

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Jimbaran Bay Beach Resort & Spa Supports beach cleanup activity

JIMBARAN Bay Beach Resort & Spa showed its care for the environment once again by carrying out another beach clean-up on Saturday (Mar. 31). All the staff members of the Jimbaran Bay Beach Resort & Spa, along with members of Kedonganan Beach fishermen and BPKP2K Kedonganan worked together to cleanup all the garbage on Kedonganan Beach..

The beach clean-up was a follow-up to the previous cleanup that was recently held in celebration of “National Waste Day” and aimed to created a clean and comfortable environment for visitors to the beach. Having a clean Bali has a positive impact on long-term- investment and promotes a positive image of Bali as a worthy tourist destination in the eyes of the world community. Bali’s beaches are currently considered to be in a state of emergency given the large amount of both

organic and non-organic garbage scattered on these beautiful shores which causes tourists to be uncomfortable.

The Jimbaran Bay Beach Resort & Spa will continue to conduct regular beach clean-ups on Kedonganan Beach with the assistance of heavy equipment provided by BPKP2K Kedonganan. “Hopefully this will help the government reach their goal of a waster-free Bali”, said Christian Gumala, General Manager of the Jimbaran Bay Beach Resort & Spa. Jimbaran Bay Beach Resort & Spa is the newest property managed by Prabu Management and was opened in June 2016.

It offers 118 elegant and comfortable rooms with 11 unique room types which are named after Balinese dances such as Manukrawa, Panyembrama, Trunajaya, Puspanjali, Condong, Gopala, Pendet, Legong, Legong Keraton, Janger and Kecak.

Located on the tranquil beachside, the resort is equipped

with a variety of luxurious and classy hotel facilities such as a large swimming pool with a bar, the Shark Restaurant offering Asian food and international food, Baruna Sky Lounge rooftop on the fifth floor with beautiful sunset view, The Lotus Spa offering a variety of body treatments and massages, the spacious Baroque ballroom and the Segara Meeting Room that is a comfortable place to hold formal or casual meetings. The resort is designed with a perfect blend of traditional Balinese and modern aesthetics.

Jimbaran Bay Beach Resort & Spa is located in Kedonganan village that is famous for its fishing activities and the beautiful Kedonganan white sandy beach. The resort is just 15 minutes from Ngurah Rai Airport and is perfect for a relaxing getaway or as a venue for hosting business meetings, wedding receptions, birthday parties and other special events.

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Google’s self-driving Waymo cars will be picking you up soon

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AUSTIN - A self-driving car from Google (GOOG, GOOGL) may be coming to a street near you. But you won’t be able to buy it, and you’ll have to wait longer to get a ride if snow regularly features in your city’s winter forecasts.

John Krafcik, CEO of of Google’s self-driving car unit Waymo, laid out the company’s ambitions and its potential obstacles in two SXSW appearances at SXSW, an onstage interview with Vice News correspondent Evan McMorris-Santoro and an evening chat with comedian Adam Carolla recorded for Carolla’s podcast.

The potential promise here is huge — safer roads for everyone, and consequence-free napping behind the wheel for people willing to pay about what a human-driven Uber or Lyft costs today. But you may need to get over the notion of traditional car ownership along the way.

The promise of self-driving cars

“We’re working to build the world’s most experienced driver,” Krafcik said in opening his sales pitch. “Everything that we learn in one of our cars gets passed to all of our cars.”

Waymo’s software has already driven 5 million miles in U.S. cities, including an “early rider” test in Phoenix using modified Chrysler (FCAU) Pacifica minivans that began taking signups last April. Waymo has since grown confident enough to remove the self-driving-car equivalent of training wheels: a human “safety driver” at the wheel as a backup.

Powering the vehicle’s self-driving capabilities is an array of cameras, radar and Lidar sensors, many on the car’s roof, which detect everything nearby from other vehicles and pedestrians to cyclists.

At the evening event, Krafcik displayed a Lidar view of the event venue, a bar on the east side of Austin, showing people as glowing outlines. Seeing himself lit up as if by radiation, Carolla joked “I think I just got testicular cancer, so thanks for that.”

In both talks, Krafcik emphasized that Waymo’s cars aren’t connected — they don’t need a 5G wireless link to go anywhere. “The car has everything it needs to drive on the car itself,” he told McMorris-Santoro. “There are no signals coming from outer space or something telling it to turn right.”

The resulting ride may not be too exciting but is safe. “It doesn’t speed,” Krafcik added. “It’s very persnickety about following the rules.”

The Waymo system also thinks well ahead, which he said invalidated the question of how a car would decide which pedestrian to hit in a crash. “We can see three football fields down the road,” he said. “We would come to a stop before we ran into these folks.”

He added that the software does have “a hierarchy of concern” about the relative vulnerability of other road users. Presumably, an awareness that humans are squishier than cars would at least direct it to take out a Prius before a pedestrian.

Tuesday evening, Krafcik cited another benefit. “Just a few of those cars provide a really good example for human drivers to follow,” he said, citing studies showing people drove better after the addition of autonomous cars.

When and how much

Waymo’s system represents a major advance over the semi-autonomous systems of Tesla (TSLA) and GM’s (GM) Cadillac subsidiary, both of which demand continued human attention. Krafcik said passengers quickly set aside hangups over needing to trust a computer completely — a Waymo clip shows Phoenix testers taking selfies and naps.

Waymo plans to have service in every major metropolitan area by 2028, with thousands of cars driving themselves by 2020.

Its rollout will begin across sunnier climates first, though. “Snow and ice are challenging for our current system.” Krafcik said Tuesday morning. For example, the car’s sensors don’t have defrosters, although the next revision will add them.

But even then, Krafcik cautioned that Waymo cars won’t be able to cope with the sort of weather — blizzards, torrential rain storms — that keep self-aware humans off the roads.

In the same vein, he asked that states refrain from regulating Waymo’s software more strictly than the human sort, notwithstanding anxiety about artificial intelligence. “Hold us to the same standards as human drivers,” he requested.

Waymo will offer these cars as a service, telling Carolla that a ride would cost about the same as an Uber or Lyft: “a couple of bucks a mile.”

Waymo has no plan to make or sell cars itself. “We’ve always considered ourselves, in this space, as enablers of the incumbents,” Krafcik said in the morning. For instance, Avis (CAR) and AutoNation (AN) help to maintain the company’s minivans. (net)

Since the road along the bridge to the south collapsed, there have been far less tourists visiting Tegunungan waterfalls.

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Tegenungan waterfalls management hopes that collpased road can be fixed soon

GIANYAR - Those who manage the Tegenungan waterfalls in Kemenuh village hope the collapsed road in Sukawati village that leads to the waterfalls can be repaired soon. “Currently the waterfalls can only be reached from Batuan”, said chief of Tegenungan, Gusti Raka, on Friday (Mar. 30).

Since the road along the bridge to the south collapsed, there have been far less tourists visiting Tegunungan waterfalls. “We have seen a decline of local visitors of about 50 percent. Usually many people come here for Banyupinaruh, but this yeas there were very few visitors”, he said. The number of foreign visitors has however remained stable at around 1,800 to 2,000 people per day.

The foreign tourists who visit the waterfalls are mostly part of organized tours that include watching the barong dance,

passing through Batuan then coming to the waterfalls after visiting Kintamani. These buses have been using the road north of Tegenungan”, he explained.

Nevertheless, Raka still hopes that the southern road to Tegenungan can be repaired soon and that a revetment will be put in place to prevent landslides in futur. “We hope the government can work on it as soon as possible”, he added.

Head of the Gianyar Public Works and Spatial Planning Agency (PUPR), Nyoman Nuadi, however explained that the road will not be able to be repaired in 2018 as the disaster that caused the damage occurred after the regional budget plan (APBD) allocations were decided. It will take too long to wait for the budget amendment. “The solution is to propose that the road be repaired using funds from the regional budget plan 2019. I have already submitted a proposal for

the repairs”, said Nuadi.

His agency also tried to coordinate with the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Gianyar to request a budget for raod repair from the central government because the damage was caused by a natural disaster. So far, his agency has applied for assistance to the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB). “If we do not receive funding from the central government, then we must rely in the main regional budget plan 2019”, he explained.

Based on the results of a survey conducted by the Public Works, the budget required for hate road repair is about IDR 40 billion. Since the damaged road is steep, the repairs must be made all the way to the bottom. Raka is asking the local community to be patient. “Please be patient, the government will definitely make repairs”, he said. (kmb35)

Maintaining the light of life in the digital age

Book launch for Jean Couteau’s Myth, Magic and Mystery in Bali

THIS year, Bali was once again rated amongst the very best tourist destinations in the world and even as the top destination by one large online site. To anyone who has visited the Island of the Gods this comes as no surprise as there seems to be no end of things to refresh the spirit, mind and body on this island of a thousand temples.

Although there are all manner of tourist facilities from the most luxurious to the most simple and ample beautiful places to visit and interesting things to do, it is not easy to explain just what it is that makes Bali so enjoyable.

When asked what he thinks makes Bali so appealing to so many people, tourist transport service provider and painter Pak RInula

responded by saying: “Here we call it tasku (divine vibration) I think it is because so many Balinese people are focused on maintaining the light of life that people just feel good here”.

Although many visitors may choose to visit Bali simply for the ease of general enjoyment offered by the tourism sector here, the unparalleled popularity of this island as a tourist destination is more likely thanks to what locals refer to as “tasku” - this vibration that touches the heart but which cannot itself be seen.

Within the present context of massive commercial development taking place in Bali as a bid to draw even more visitors to this enchanted island, it is perhaps worth explor-

ing what “maintaining the light of life” looks like is practice. Because, apart from the intrinsic value of taksu itself -without this light, it is unlikely that fancy hotels and high tech amusement alone will be able to compete for the interest of tourists.

Exploring this unique aspect of Bali is exactly what French writer, art critique and cultural investigator Jean Couteau has been doing for over 30 years. Art is clearly an important aspect of life in Bali as it relates to religious customs and general world view, however it is perhaps less the end product that attracts tourists and more the reason that so much art is produced here that in fact attracts visitors.

It is these unseen aspects of art in

Bali that Jean Couteau has been exploring and putting into beautifully strung together words for the last 3 decades.

Amongst many other written works, Couteau has been writing a monthly column for Bali Now magazine for the last ten years. PT. Phoenix Communications Publisher Alistari Spiers approached him with the idea of putting together a book of these writings as a way to share some of this valuable insight with a broader readership. Myth Magic and Mystery In Bali is the title of the book that brings together 25 of these articles along with photographs by Ida Bagus Putra Adnyana and paintings by I Ketut Budiana that together provide an invaluable glimpse into “how the

light of life” is maintained in Bali and also how it is challenged.

During the official book launch of Myth Magic and Mystery in Bali that took place on March 27th at Sudakara Art Space in Sanur, accompanied by an exhibition of photographs and paintings, Alistair Spiers explained that: “Bali Now chose to put together a relatively small book so that many people could have access to insight into fundamental aspects of Bali that may not be accessible to the casual visitor”. Bali Now, he said, generally seeks to portray the distinct culture of Bali in a way that promotes the unique values of the people of this island as the this is what makes Bali such a popular tourist attraction. (kmb)

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Ten vocational schools unable to hold independent exam

GIANYAR — A total of 5,140 students of vocational schools (SMK) from 29 schools took the first computer-based national examination (UNBK) of day one in Gianyar district on Monday (Apr. 2). Unfortunately, not all vocational schools in this region can implement the UNBK independently. Approximately ten private vocational schools have to join with other schools to implement the national exam this time.

This was expressed by the Unit Head of Gianyar High and Vocational School (SMA/SMK), I Wayan Adi Sucita. He said there are three schools becoming the venue of the vocational school computerbased exam, namely the SMPN 1 Gianyar junior high school, SMAN 1 Payangan high school and SMK SMR Ubud. “A total of ten schools attend the computer-based national exam at these three schools,” he said.

He explained the national exam at SMPN 1 Gianyar is followed

by SMK PGRI 2 Gianyar with 65 students, SMK Par Budaya Bedulu (155 students), SMK Maharishi (47 students) and SMK Saraswati Sukawati (31 students). Besides, there are also SMK Singamandawa

(5 students), SMK Saraswati 1(3 students) and SMK Saraswati 3 (5 students). “The total number of participants at SMPN 1 Gianyar amounts to 311 students,” he said.

Meanwhile, computer room of SMAN 1 Payangan is only borrowed by students of SMK Negeri 2 Tegallalang for the implementation of national exam. Then, computer room at SMK SMSR Ubud is borrowed by students of SMK Santi Yoga and SMK P. Sila Candra. “The ten schools just borrow a room to another school for the computer-based national exam, while 19 other schools can implement it independently,” he explained.

He said the ten schools that cannot implement the national exam

independently are entirely private schools, so that his unit cannot do much to propose the procurement of computer-based national exam facilities. “All state vocational schools in Gianyar can have implemented their computer-based national exam independently,” he said.

As previously reported, Chairman of PGRI Gianyar, I Wayan Gabra, explained the first national exam was held for vocational school students on April 2 to 5, while national exam for high school is scheduled on April 9 to 12. “Prior to the implementation of the national exam, each vocational school and high school has held national exam synchronization,” he said. (kmb35)

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South Korea is deploying hyper-precise missiles to protect Seoul from North Korea

SEOUL - South Korea’s government would like nothing better than a peaceful, no-drama relationship with North Korea, and the administration of President Moon Jae-in clearly hopes that new talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un may de-escalate tensions. However, Seoul must also must prepare for the possibility of a second Korean war, and especially mitigate the damage that could be caused to the capital itself, which lies a little over thirty miles south of the Demilitarized Zone.

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Viral in social media, a photo of student camping at Tuluk Biyu Temple

BANGLI - Social media were surprised by the photo broadcast of students camping inside Pucak Tuluk Biyu Temple area in Mount Abang, Suter village, Kintamani. On the photo caption in circulation, the tourist alleged to have contaminated the temple sanctity is a student.

Of the three photos circulating on social media, a photo shows a blue tent standing right in front of a shrine. Around the tents are seen some people suspected to be students and the locals. Meanwhile, another photo shows a man cleaning up the tent. Allegedly the tent was cleared after students caught camping in the tent rebuked by local residents.

Chief of LWG Abang Erawang, Nengah Suratnata, when confirmed last Monday justified the information about the circulation of student photos camping in the temple area. He acknowledged the location in the photo is indeed true at the Tuluk Biyu Batur Temple. However, he claimed not to know for sure when it happened as he just got the information on Monday afternoon.

He explained that according to the procedures imposed by the management, every tourist wishing to climb to the Mount Abang area will be given direction about the location that can be used for camping.

The directions are given when visitors or travelers make registration in the post.

In the appeal given, the management will usually not allow female visitors who are menstruating to climb because the Mount Abang area is made sacred. Along the road to the peak of Mount Abang, there are a number of temples very much sanctified by society.

With the occurrence of student camping in the area of Pucak Tuluk Biyu Temple Batur as in the photos circulating in social media, Suratnata admitted that his side will increase the supervision and appeal to visitors. His management will also install and replace the signboard where camping is allowed. Besides, he will spread the appeal in cooperation with various parties. (kmb40)

MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATacMS) North Korea maintain hundreds of long-range Koksan 170-millimeter self-propelled guns, and 240- and 300-millimeter multiple rocket launchers capable of striking Seoul. Further back, it has an arsenal of short-range tactical ballistic missiles patterned on Soviet Scud and Tochka missiles, such as the Hwasong-5 and -6 and the Kn-02. Situated in caves, tunnels and hardened artillery sites, the guns and rockets could inflict significant damage on civilian and military targets and prove difficult to destroy with conventional counterbattery fire.

This was illustrated when North Korean artillery bombarded the island of Yeonpyeong in November 23, 2010, killing four. A battery of six South Korean K9 Thunder howitzers returned fire with eighty 155-millimeter shells, but it remains disputed whether that counterbattery barrage was at all effective.

As a result, the South Korean government announced it would fund development of a ground-

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launched precision-strike missile specially designed to rapidly take out North Korean artillery systems in their hardened encasements. The South Korean Agency for Defense Development partnered with the Hanwha Corporation, and spent three years and the equivalent of around $418 million developing the new weapon.

South Korea already has licensebuilt an arsenal of over two hundred MGM-140 ATACMS missiles, which can be fired from an M270 multiple-rocket-launcher vehicle and strike targets up to 190 miles away. However, the ATACMS is both too expensive and insufficiently accurate to counter the hundreds of North Korean artillery systems entrenched for a crossborder bombardment.

Korean journalist Lim Changwon characterizes this new Korean Tactical Surface-to-Surface Missile as “a simplified version of the MGM-140”, which it visually resembles. Though the KTSSM-1 has a shorter range of just seventyfive miles—still adequate for the

counterbattery role—its GPSguidance system is five times more precise, with half of all shots landing within a two-meter radius of the target, instead of ten meters for the ATACMS. The KTSSM-1 “Artillery Killer” consists of a fixed launcher that can discharge all four of its tactical ballistic missiles in a matter of seconds. Reportedly, the launcher and missiles combined cost roughly $1.9 million each. The missile’s shaped thermal warhead would allow it to penetrate up to 1.5 meters of intervening concrete, and a graphic at a defense expo suggests the missile can maneuver to enter the mouth of a cave.

The Republic of Korea military has released a video of a KTSSM test that shows the ballistic missile effortlessly penetrating the ceiling of an underground bunker, triggering a massive Michael Bay–style fireball that consumes the entire subterranean complex from within.

According to a Korean military spokesperson, the KTSSM-1 would be used to silence Koksan guns and 240-millimeter MRL systems along the DMZ. However, the government also announced it had developed a second KTSSM-2 system for attacking larger, fixed missile assets.

There is limited information available on the KTSSM-2, but it reportedly is a self-propelled system and disposes of two types of munitions: a Block I missile employing a thermal penetrating warhead, and a Block II that utilizes unitary high-explosive payloads.

According to the South Korean military, the KTSSM-2 would be tasked with blasting KN-09 three-hundred-millimeter multiplerocket launchers and Kn-02 tactical ballistic-missile launchers, a reverse-engineered Russian Tochka ballistic missile. (net)

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An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard during a restrictions in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, April 2, 2018. A security clampdown and a strike sponsored by separatists fighting against Indian rule Monday shut most of Indian-administered Kashmir a day after deadly protests and fierce fighting killed 16 combatants and four civilians.

Kashmir shut by strike, security day after deadly fighting

SRINAGAR - A security clampdown and a strike sponsored by separatists fighting against Indian rule shut down most of Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday, a day after deadly protests and fierce fighting killed 16 combatants and four civilians.

Armed police and paramilitary soldiers in riot gear fanned out across the region and patrolled streets in anticipation of anti-India protests and clashes.

Authorities also imposed a curfew in some towns in southern Kashmir and in the old parts of the disputed region’s main city of Srinagar, the urban center of protests and clashes against Indian rule.

Shops and businesses closed in other areas where no security restrictions were in place. Separatist leaders who challenge India’s sovereignty over Kashmir called for a shutdown on Monday and Tuesday to protest the killings.

Authorities shut schools and colleges and canceled university exams in an attempt to stop protests by students.

Despite the suspension of classes, anti-India protests erupted at the University of Kashmir, where many students gathered in the main campus in Srinagar and shouted slogans such as “Go India, go back” and demanded an end of Indian rule over the region.

Officials also halted train services and cut cellphone internet access in the most restive towns, and reduced connection speeds in other parts of the Kashmir Valley, a common government practice aimed at calming tensions and preventing anti-India demonstrations from being organized.

Troops laid steel barricades and razor wire on roads and intersections to cut off neighborhoods as authorities anticipated widespread protests.

At least 13 rebels and three Indian army soldiers were killed in Sunday’s fighting in three gunbattles in southern Kashmir, where a new generation of rebels have revived militancy and challenged New Delhi’s rule with guns and effective use of social media.

As the fighting raged, large antiIndia protests erupted in several parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir and at least four civilians were killed and dozens injured.

Residents said government troops fired live ammunition and shotgun pellets into the crowds of mostly young protesters, causing injuries. They also said one of the civilians who died in southern Shopian near a gunbattle on Sunday was being used as a human shield against rebels by the Indian army.

An army officer, who declined to be named in keeping with army regulations, rejected the accusation and said the civilian was killed in the crossfire with insurgents.

In the past, such allegations have rarely been probed, and some accused military officials have been rewarded. According to hospital officials, many of the injured were hit by shotgun pellets in the eyes, causing widespread anger across Kashmir. In 2016, Srinagar’s main hospital alone received hundreds of patients who had been injured in their eyes and blinded by shotgun pellets after some of the biggest protests against Indian rule in response to the killing of a charismatic young rebel leader, Burhan Wani. (net)

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BUSINESS Britain’s factories report rise in production for March

LONDON - Surprise monthly increase comes despite sector experiencing its weakest quarter in a year.

Shaking off concerns that heavy snowfall from the “beast from the east” would trigger a slowdown, the UK manufacturing sector maintained a steady pace of growth in March.

The Markit/Cips UK manufacturing PMI barometer of factory sentiment showed activity jumped to 55.1 from 55 in February, beating economists’ forecasts for a fall in the growth rate. A figure above 50 indicates expansion on the index, which is used by the Bank of England to monitor the health of the economy.

The latest PMI figures show manufacturing production rose for the 20th successive month, as companies continued to report solid inflows of new work from both domestic and overseas markets.

But the performance completes a relatively weak quarter for the industry after a mini-boom at the end of last year.

Rob Dobson, a director at IHS Markit, said the latest reading suggested overall production growth would fall by more than half in the first quarter compared with the final three months of 2017. Manufacturing output growth had remained steadily above 1% towards the end of last year but may have fallen to about 0.5%, according to economists.

“The key question is whether growth can now be sustained, albeit at a lower level, into the coming months,” Dobson said.

There are already some positive signs, with the survey of manufacturers used for compiling the PMI figures showing almost 55% of companies forecast that output will be higher in 12 months’ time.

The rate of growth also remains fairly strong by past standards, which experts said should help the economy to overcome weak high street spending in the first few months of 2018. (afp)

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Belulang Hot Springs Believed to Cure Diseases

Belulang hot springs, located at Mengesta customary village, Penebel, Tabanan (about16 km north of Tabanan) can now be accessed through a paved road,instead of the rocky road that used to challenge visitors.

Local community leader, Nengah Sudana, explained that although the hot springs have been there for a long time, it used ot be very hard to get there due to the severly damaged road that led to them. Since 2014 however the road has been paved making it much easier for people to enjoy the hot spiorngs. There are in fact many hot springs in Betulang, but the largest one is located near Batu Panes Temple in the middle of some rice fields.

According to Sudana, the advantage of Belulang hot springs is that it can cure certain diseases. “So, in addition to refreshing, many travelers also come to the hot spring for treatment,” he said. On that account, the Belulang hot springs are also closely related to a series of spiritual tourism. Sudana explained that if guests wishing to recover from illnesses, before taking a bath they usually say prayers at the Batu Panes Temple. Afterwards, they take a bath in the Belulang hot springs, just 50 meters away from the temple. “Many guests are cured like those having stroke coming here for treatment,” he said.

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Every day, the tourist visit to Belulang hot springs reaches about 100 people. Although remaining to be dominated by domestic travelers, this attraction will be crowded during holidays. Admission ticket is not too

expensive. Foreign traveler is charged at IDR 10,000 and domestic traveler at IDR 5,000.

“Travelers can take a bath as long as they like, not limited by time,” said Sudana.

Other than shower, at the Belulang hot

spring is also provided with two pools for visitors to enjoy the hot springs. When visitors are hungry or wishing to buy souvenirs, around the hot springs has been available food stalls made of bamboo. (kmb)

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Ryanair reveals worst gender pay gap in airline industry Median hourly pay among UK staff is 71.8% lower for women with bonus pay 3% lower. Only eight of Ryanair’s 554 UK-based pilots are female, while women make up more than two-thirds of

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earners at the budget airline.

The figure is among the most imbalanced yet reported in any sector, about four times the UK average and outstripping that of easyJet, whose 45% gap had attracted widespread criticism.

Median hourly pay among Ryanair’s 1,182 UK staff is 71.8% lower for women (67% lower on mean hourly pay), while median bonus pay for women was 3% lower (with a mean difference of 21%).

With most of Ryanair’s management and administration based in Ireland and excluded from the figures – including its chief executive, Michael O’Leary, and its all-male senior management board – more than 95% of the firm’s UK-based staff are pilots or cabin crew. Only eight of Ryanair’s 554 UK-based pilots are female,

while women make up more than two-thirds of the low-paid cabin crew.

Ryanair said: “Like all airlines, our gender pay in the UK is materially affected by the relatively low numbers of female pilots in the aviation industry. “In recent years, the number of female pilots applying to Ryanair has increased and we are committed to developing this welcome trend. It is a feature of the aviation industry that more males than females choose to enter the pilot profession.”

Ryanair has yet to spell out what steps it will take to recruit more women into higher paid positions.

The second worst figure among airlines is Jet2.com, with a median gap of 49.7% (mean 53.5%) while the best is British Airways, with a median of 10% (mean 35%) – a figure likely to reflect higher-paid,

long-standing crew as well as a relatively large non-flying UKbased staff.

EasyJet, one of the first airlines to report, has pledged that at least one in five of its new pilot recruits will be women by 2020. Its new chief executive, Johan Lundgren, who took a £34,000 pay cut to match the salary of his predecessor Carolyn McCall this year, said he wanted to make a personal commitment as the airline attempted to address the imbalance.

According to easyJet’s staff surveys, most male pilots had decided on their career before the age of 11, while most of their female pilots had not been encouraged to think of it as a career until after school.

Last month, the airline announced a partnership with Girlguiding that includes sponsoring the new aviation badge for Brownies. (afp)

A side from nature and culture, Bali also offers a spiritual tourism because it has several historic places sanctified by the Hindu community. One of them is the Mengening Temple at Saraseda village, Tampaksiring, Gianyar.

This attraction offers a cool and beautiful atmosphere. Those that can read the signs of nature will feel something different resulting in tranquility.

Inside the temple, there is a spring used as a place to invoke holy water as a means of ceremony for Balinese Hindus. Besides, there is a pool that can be used for selfcleaning. It is divided into two, namely a special bathing pool for men and women.

Before entering the bathing pool, visitors are advised to use cloth and then step down some stairs to get to the pool. Local people are accustomed to using the pool for bathing, self-cleaning. Moreover, on certain holidays, many Balinese Hindus come to the temple to do self-purificatory rite to get rid of spiritual impurities.

Local people visit the temple almost every afternoon to bathe with friends or family. “We bathe here

almost every day. The atmosphere is cool and the water is fresh, so that the body and mind feel fresh as well. We love the atmosphere in this peaceful and quiet temple.

When bathing, we usually offer some offerings to invoke salvation,” said a local resident.

Mengening Temple implements the tri mandala or three horizontal spatial dimension concept, namely the nista mandala (outermost), madya mandala (middle) and uttama mandala (innermost courtyard).

In the outermost courtyard of the Mengening Temple sits a garden with pancaka tirtha. This garden is used as a place of self-purification by local deities. In some places, there is also a source of holy water commonly taken by the community for ritual purposes.

According to the temple attendant, the spring of holy water includes the Tirtha Keben, Tirtha Sudamala, Tirtha Melela, Tirtha Soka, Tirtha Megelung, Tirtha Tunggang and Tirtha Telaga Waja.

Meanwhile, in the area of Pancaka tirtha garden sits the Tirtha Parisuda, Tirtha Pengelukatan, Tirtha Pengulapan, Tirtha Keris and Tirtha Kamaning. Visitors are

not allowed to bathe in the springs to prevent the water from receding and disappearing.

In the middle courtyard there are some buildings such as gamelan pavilion, wooden split drum (kulkul) tower, Bale Pegambahan and Bale Pegat. Then, the innermost courtyard consists of some shrines including three-tiered meru shrine as the abode of Ida Bathara Prasada Agung, the chamber is the abode of deities of Gunung Kawi, Limas shrine for deity of Tirta Empul, Pemaruman, Bale Saka Ulu as the abode of Lord Shiva, Paselang pavilion, Bale Pecanangan and Bale Penganteb.

In the chronicle of Mengening Temple of Tampaksiring is not clearly stated when the temple was established. According to local people, Mengening Temple was predicted to be established during the reign of King Masula-Masuli at Pejeng. He has his own story so that he got to Pejeng. MasulaMasuli was previously named I Sula and I Suli. They are male and female couple born from troktokan of ivory coconut at Besakih region.

I Sula and I Suli were then invited

by I Sangkul Putih.

I Sula and I Suli made all the gods come down to watch both children. Moreover, Goddess Bhyahpara and Goddess Danu finally asked Lord Jagatnatha so that Dukuh Sangkul Putih wanted to bring I Sula and I Suli to Pejeng.

When arrived at Pejeng, Sinuhun named them Masula-Masuli. This name is given in connection with the twin birth.

During the reign of King Masula-Masuli, the Mengening Temple was only made some improve-

ments. He appointed an architect who really knew about the concept of temples and buildings with the Hindu concept as advised by Bhagawan Wiswa Karma. King Masula-Masuli appointed Empu Kuturan to make improvement to several buildings at Mengening Temple. In addition, in the reign of King Masula-Masuli it is reaffirmed the name of deity abiding in the shrine of Prasada Agung namely Ida Batara Hyang Maha Suci Nirmala. (kmb)

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Migrant caravan heading to U.S. border puts Mexico in tough spot with Trump

IXTEPEC - In some of the Mexican towns playing host to a “caravan” of more than 1,200 Central American migrants heading to the U.S. border, the welcome mat has been rolled out despite President Donald Trump’s call for Mexican authorities to stop them.

Local officials have offered lodging in town squares and empty warehouses or arranged transport for the migrants, participants in a journey organized by the immigrant advocacy group Pueblo Sin Fronteras. The officials have conscripted buses, cars, ambulances and police trucks. But the help may not be entirely altruistic.

“The authorities want us to leave their cities,” said Rodrigo Abeja, an organizer from Pueblo Sin Fronteras. “They’ve been helping us, in part to speed the massive group out of their jurisdictions.”

At some point this spring, the caravan’s 2,000-mile (3,200-km) journey that began at Tapachula near the Guatemalan border on March 25 will end at the U.S. border, where some of its members will apply for asylum, while others will attempt to sneak into the United States.

So far the Mexican federal government has provided little guidance on how to handle the migrants but Abeja worries that local reactions will change.

“There’s a lot of pressure from authorities to stop the caravan because of Donald Trump’s reaction,” he said.

Trump railed on Twitter against the caravan on Monday, accusing Mexico of “doing very little, if not NOTHING” to stop the flow of immigrants crossing the U.S. border illegally. “They must stop the big

drug and people flows, or I will stop their cash cow, NAFTA,” he concluded.

Mexico’s interior minister Alfonso Navarrete did not directly address the caravan, but he wrote on Twitter that he spoke to the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Monday, and that the two had “agreed to analyze the best ways to attend to the flows of migrants in accordance with the laws of each country.”

Mexico must walk a delicate line with the United States as the countries are in the midst of renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) along with Canada. At the same time, Mexican leftwing presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has an 18-point lead ahead of the July 1 election, according to a poll published on Monday.

A Lopez Obrador victory could usher in a Mexican government less accommodating toward the United States on both trade and immigration issues.

Mexican Senator Angelica de la Pena, who presides over the Senate’s human rights commission, told Reuters that Mexico should protect migrants’ rights despite the pressure from Trump.

Former President Vicente Fox called for Mexican officials to take a stand against Trump’s attacks. Trump keeps “blackmailing, offending and denigrating Mexico and Mexicans,” he wrote on Twitter on Monday.

Under Mexican law, Central Americans who enter Mexico legally are generally allowed to move freely through the country, even if their goal is to cross illegally into the United States. (net)

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Paddleboarder critically injured in shark attack near Hawaii beach

HAWAII - A 25-year-old man paddleboarding off a beach in Hawaii was rushed to a local hospital with critical injuries Saturday after he was bumped off his board by a shark and attacked.

The unidentified stand-up paddleboarder was pulled from the water by a safety team from the Kukio Golf and Beach Club on the Big Island’s popular Kona Coast near the Four Seasons Hualalai Resort.

“They had heard a scream from the ocean and they took a four-man canoe out to find a male individual who had been bumped off his paddleboard about 100 to 150 yards offshore,” Fire Capt. Michael Grace told Honolulu Fox affiliate KHON-TV. The local paddleboarder was out with his father when the morning attack occurred.

Team members and bystanders on shore applied tourniquets to severe injuries on his right hand and leg as they awaited paramedics, according to Grace.

The victim was airlifted to

North Hawaii Community Hospital, where he underwent surgery.

WTHR-TV and NTD-TV were reporting that he lost a limb.

Officials had posted signs warning of sharks spotted in the water before the attack and shut down the beach on Saturday.

It’s the first shark attack on the Big Island since 2015, according to state statistics, though there have been attacks off other islands of Hawaii since then.

Between 2007 and 2016, 65 people were attacked by sharks in the state, according to data from the International Shark Attack File.

Nineteen of those attacks occurred off the Big Island.

Florida leads the country in shark attacks. From 2007 to 2016, there were 244 unprovoked shark attacks in Florida, 39 in South Carolina and 33 off the California coast. There have been a total of 766 attacks around the globe in that time; 449 of those occurred in the U.S. (net)

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to bolster the number of invalid votes so he gets the message that there are things we are unhappy about.” He cited the poor state of public education as an example.

El-Sissi has won international praise for enacting long overdue economic reforms, like slashing subsidies of basic goods and allowing the currency to float. But the reforms sent prices soaring, adding to the hardships endured by Egypt’s poor and middle class. He has touted a number of megaprojects aimed at rebuilding and expanding the country’s infrastructure, but their effects have yet to be felt by most Egyptians.

Prominent Egyptians call for boycott of upcoming election Abdel Fattah el-Sisi now without an opponent in Egypt’s election Dandrawy el-Hawary, who strongly supports el-Sisi, offered a different explanation for the invalid ballots, saying they reflected Egyptians’ excessive love for their leader.

Local media, which is dominated by pro-government commentators, portrayed voting as a national obligation and any criticism of the election as part of a foreign plot to undermine stability. Echoing the official line, elHawary speculated that some voters had unintentionally spoiled their ballots by writing “We love you, el-Sisi” or “We are behind you” on them.

“They did not help their favourite candidate by increasing the number of votes he won, but in fact raised the number of invalid votes, which traitors at home and abroad are trying to use to attack President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi.” (afp)

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After the 2012 and 2014 elections, images circulated on social media showing deliberately spoiled ballots. One voter penciled in the words “My vote is for you, Batman,” while another wrote in the name of a famous belly dancer. After this year’s election, an image circulated of a write-in vote for Liverpool’s Egyptian star striker Mohammed Salah, a hometown celebrity.

Michael W. Hanna, an Egypt expert at the New York-based Century Foundation, said one would have expected people to register their disapproval by staying home. “But the key factor is that many people, such as government employees, were effectively coerced into voting. As such, spoiling ballots represents the only means for expressing dissent or opposition,” he said.

Ahmed Abd Rabou, an Egyptian political scientist currently teaching at the University of Denver, said the invalidated votes were “a rejection of the election’s lack of competition, which is the banner headline of this vote.”

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Cairo pharmacist Khaled el-Fiqy, who is in his mid-50s, had hoped a high number of invalid ballots would send a message. “I wanted to participate in the election because I care about Egypt’s future,” he said.

“But I invalidated my ballot because, although I support el-Sisi, I wanted

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Don`t be easily deceived by swarm of flying issues: Jokowi

MALANG - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) calls on the people not to be easily deceived by the swarm of flying issues seeking to instill pessimism. “Ours is a very big nation, but often we are not aware of it. From the beginning Indonesia has been a big nation with its diversity and this is a gift from God,” Jokowi said at the Malang Islamic University, East Java, on Thursday.

Addressing General Study on “Islam of Archipelago and Integrity of the Unitary State of The Republic of Indonesia to bring to reality Peaceful Indonesia, Jokowi said

Indonesia has become a reference for study of “unity in diversity”. “Indonesia has become a reference by other countries because of the success of the nation in fostering the principle

Non-active SE Sulawesi governor gets 12 years in jail for corruption JAKARTA - The Jakarta Corruption Court on Wednesday night sentenced nonactive Southeast Sulawesi governor Nur Alam to 12 years` imprisonment and fined him Rp1 billion or face another six months in jail for being involved in a corruption case. The panel of judges, led by Diah Siti Basariah, with Duta Baskara, Sunarso, Sigit Herman Binaji and Joko Subagyo as members also agreed to require Nur Alam to pay Rp2.7 billion in replacement fund and revoke his political rights for five years after serving his jail term.

“If the defendant cannot afford to pay the replacement fund one month after the

court`s verdict has fixed legal force, the public prosecutor will confiscate his wealth to cover the replacement fund. And if the defendant has not adequate wealth, then he will be sentenced to another five years in jail,” judge Diah said.

Nur Alam was found guilty of issuing dubious mining licenses which have inflicted Rp1.59 trillion in state losses and receiving a gratification of Rp40.268 billion.

The sentence is six years lighter than that sought by the public prosecutors who have demanded that the defendant be sentenced to 18 years in jail and fined Rp1 billion or face another 1 year`s imprisonment.(ant)

of unity in diversity,” he said.

He said, as a keynote speaker, Indonesia is made up of 714 tribes with 1,100 local languages, larger than most other countries.

He said the larger a nation the more challenges it would face, but a big nation should not falter and get pessimistic in facing any problem.

“Don`t let yourself be provoked by unfounded issues like Indonesia to be disinte-

grated, communism and foreign henchmen,” he said. Earlier this month, Jokowi`s most potential rival facing the forthcoming presidential election Prabowo Subianto issued a controversial statement that Indonesia would cease to exist in 2030.

The general chairman of the Gerindra Party, quoting a fiction, predicted the dissolution of the country in the next 12 years. Later he said he was only issuing a warning. (ant)

Indonesia foils transnational drug smuggling attempt

PEKANBARU - The National Drugs Agency (BNN) has foiled a transnational attempt to smuggle “Chatinone” from Malaysia into Dumai City in Riau Province.

“The arrest was made two days ago. The joint officers of BNN and the Indonesian Customs have seized four sacks of Cathinone, with a total weight of 70 kilograms,” Head of the Precaution and Measurement Division of Riau BNN Senior Commissioner Adjunct Haldun stated here on Thursday.

According to Haldun, the seizure was a follow-up of an earlier investigation conducted by the agency in Jakarta. The BNN and customs personnel conducted further investigation on Tuesday. The smugglers at-

tempted to bring the Chatinone consignment to Jakarta through Dumai City.

“The drug dealer sent Chatinone from Malaysia to Dumai before it was taken to Jakarta,” Haldun added. However, Haldun noted that the Chatinone was not circulated in Dumai City.

“We did not find Chatinone in Riau Province,” he remarked. Chatinone is a type of narcotics produced from Khat leaves.

The Chatinone substance can be produced through a synthetic process and will have a double impact on the users.

The misuse of synthetic Chatinone is potentially harmful to users and similar to psychotropic substances.The use of Chatinone can have a stronger impact than ecstasy.(ant)

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Jemeluk Bay AMLAPURA - Jemeluk Bay Underwater Gallery is an underwater garden filled with sunken sculptures off the coast of Amed Beach in East Bali. The sculptures feature an overgrowth of corals that have bloomed into a magnificent underwater attraction for divers in the area. Among the sculptures here are the works of Indonesian artists. The underwater gallery is overseen by UK-based ‘eco art’ group The Marine Foundation together with several environmental NGOs. A longstanding underwater feature here includes a working underwater letterbox, where you can post a card back home on your dive.

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LONDON - Deontay Wilder is ready to travel across the Atlantic to face Britain’s Anthony Joshua in a bout to determine the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, the American’s co-manager said Monday.

Joshua called out Wilder immediately after a 12-round points win over New Zealand’s Joseph Parker in Cardiff on Saturday that saw him add the World Boxing Organisation belt to the International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Association titles he already held.

That win, his first professional

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success that did not come by way of knockout, saw London 2012 gold medallist Joshua extend his unbeaten record in the paid ranks to 21 wins from as many bouts.

But that still leaves World Boxing Council champion Wilder, unbeaten in 40 professional contests.

Eddie Hearn, Joshua’s promoter,

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Finkel said he would be prepared for the fight to go ahead at London’s 90,000-capacity Wembley Stadium.

“Assuming it will be Wembley Stadium in the summer, we are ready, and if they are ready as they say they are, we want to get it done.

We want the fight, they want the fight, the public wants the fight.

There is nothing to stop it going ahead.”

Finkel, a veteran of the boxing scene, added: “When I had (Mike) Tyson and (Evander) Holyfield, I

picked up the phone. That’s all we need to do here.

“We are ready. Let’s make the fight.”

Hearn, speaking after Joshua’s unanimous points defeat of Parker, said: “I will present the deal to Anthony but it has to be the right deal.

“It’s not really about Wilder, it is about us. We will sit down over the next couple of weeks and plan out the rest of 2018. It’s his (Joshua’s) call on how many times he wants to fight this year.” (net)

Sebastian Vettel admits he is ‘a bit sad’ at decision to drop grid girls

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insisted after the Parker fight that Wilder’s camp “don’t want” a unification bout.

But Shelly Finkel, Wilder’s comanager, told Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper on Monday: “We are really glad that Anthony Joshua said for the first time ‘I will fight Deontay next...’ and we believe he is a man of his word. Deontay accepts the challenge.

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SEBASTIAN Vettel has admitted he is “a bit sad” at Formula 1’s decision to no longer use grid girls for the new season as part of a number of new changes brought in by new owners Liberty Media.

The move to drop the practice of having scantily clad women standing in front of the cars before grands prix came in January after F1 decided its “does not resonate with our brand values and clearly is at odds with modern day societal norms”.

Liberty’s other major change was delaying race start times by 10 minutes to allow some TV schedulers more time to build-up to the race, instead of starting the race on the hour as previously done.

Vettel was critical in 2015 during the Monaco Grand Prix, when grid girls were replaced with male models, and admitted he is still unsure why they were dropped permanently this season. However, he did stress that it does not affect

him too much either way. “I think I’m a traditionalist and I like to hold on to certain things,” Vettel said. “There’s a lot of things I’m not a specialist in and I don’t need to understand.

“I’m confused why the races start later, a bit sad that there are no more grid girls but other than that not many changes yet. From a driving point of view there’s obviously not that much that has changed.” (net)

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David de Gea ‘set to sign £350,000-perweek five-year deal’ at Man United

Man United goalkeeper David de Gea is set to sign a £350,000-per-week five-year deal at club

MANCHESTER - Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea is set to sign a £350,000-per-week five-year deal at the club.

Spaniard De Gea, who joined United from Atletico Madrid in 2011, has been the subject of long-term speculation linking him with a move back to Spain. A switch to Real Madrid broke down in 2015 due to an administrative error.

He has continually been linked to the Bernabeu since but is contracted at United until 2019.

If he signs the new contract, De Gea will be behind Alexis Sanchez as the club’s second-highest-ever earner.

Just last week De Gea admitted he does not feel he has the same ‘respect and adoration’ in his homeland

Spain as he does in England.

‘In England I have a great affection and respect that I do not notice so much here,’ he said, And now United are optimistic of keeping the shotstopper on their books.

‘The club want it sorted. It has to be done in their eyes,’ a United insider said.

‘They want David to go to the World Cup and come back knowing everything is settled.

‘Zlatan leaving has freed up more wiggle room on wages and United don’t want to drag it out.

‘They want to show the world that David won’t be leaving for anywhere. It’s a real statement.’

De Gea will be looking to keep out rivals Manchester City on Saturday to prevent them from winning the league title. (afp)

The Bayern Munich forward has bounced back this season, with the comedic character crediting a new arrival at the Muller household for his form There are plenty of anecdotal stories in the golfing world about how professional players tend to perform better after becoming fathers, with scientific studies actually showing that men also have hormonal changes after their partners give birth.

Becoming a father is a huge event in many men’s lives, and can change how they approach things including their careers as they gain more focus following a drop in testosterone levels. Recently, Thomas Muller saw an upturn in his performances for both Bayern Munich and Germany, which actually tied in with a new arrival at the Muller household.

Muller’s wife Lisa is an equestrian athlete, and the pair own many horses together. In early March, they welcomed a new foal into their lives and the 28-year-old celebrated that with one of his best performances of the season, scoring one and assisting two goals against Freiburg.

After the game, the jovial German pinpointed exactly where the performance had come from - the Mullers’ new arrival!

“I was definitely geed up today,” Muller told reports in the mixed zone. “My first foal of the season was born into the world last night. I feel as though I have become a father!”

Despite Jupp Heynckes heavily rotating the Bayern Munich starting XI to focus on winning another treble, Muller has played every minute since his new foal was born.

That included an assist in Bayern’s 3-1 second-leg win over Besiktas to send them into the Champions League quarter-finals and a goal and assist in the 6-0 rout of rivals Borussia Dortmund on Saturday.

Muller was also in stunning form for Germany during the international break, scoring the equaliser in the World Cup warmup with Spain. The attacking midfielder picked up a pass from Sami Khedira in the centre of the park and then fired a thunderbolt from 35 yards which left David de Gea no chance. It was Muller’s 38th goal in 90 appearances for his country, and came at exactly the right time as Joachim Low assesses his squad for Russia.

Before the Raumdeuter Renais-

sance of 2017-18, Muller appeared to be in decline. There were even murmurs in Munich that the boyhood Bayern fan could be on his way out of the Allianz Arena, with clubs in England eager to pounce on any instability.

After scoring 20 league goals in 2015-16, Muller travelled to France for the European Championships.

There he was expected to lead his country to another major title having won the World Cup in 2014 and finished second to James Rodriguez in the race for the Golden Boot at that tournament.

Instead of glory, came the worse period of his career. He failed to find the net once during the tournament and even missed from the spot during the penalty shootout victory over Italy in the quarter-finals. He was anonymous against France in the semi-final as an Antoine Griezmann double put the hosts through.

Muller’s return to Munich failed to see him turn things around. By March 2017, he had scored just one league goal despite plenty of opportunities under Carlo Ancelotti.

Despite his unhappiness, Bayern refused to sell one of their most popular players, and he remained at the club as the transfer window closed.

At the start of the season, it looked as if the slump was continuing past the summer. Muller was benched for Bayern’s second game of the season and then again for the Champions League clash with Anderlecht. By the end of September, he had scored just one goal. But two additions helped turn things around.

Firstly, a 3-0 defeat to PSG in Europe brought an end to Ancelotti’s time in Bavaria and returned the retired Heynckes to the hotseat.

The 72-year-old solved the dressing room crisis at the club and began to find the best in Muller once more, retaining him as the club’s captain.

Then, Thomas and Lisa welcomed their new foal to further improve the forward’s mood.

Back was the entertaining extroverted character whose crazy antics spawned a thousand gifs on Bayern’s official twitter accounts, while on the pitch the ramdeuter was reborn.

With Muller now back to his best and Bayern just one win away from the Bundesliga title, the new foal’s ‘father’ could be welcoming another arrival before the end of the season: His second Champions League winner’s medal. (afp)

Allegri to Move Abroad TURIN - The Italian coach has been linked to Chelsea and Arsenal in recent months and has confirmed he will be looking to move abroad for his next job Massimiliano Allegri has confirmed he will move to another country to look for his next job after he leaves Juventus.

The Italian coach is aiming to win a fourth consecutive Serie A title with the Bianconeri, adding to the Scudetto he won in a prior stint at AC Milan.

The 50-year-old has been the

subject of interest from Premier League sides recently. Chelsea are said to want him to succeed Antonio Conte at Stamford Bridge, just as he did in Turin, due to the latter’s struggles this season. Meanwhile, London rivals Arsenal are said to eye him as a potential replacement for Arsene Wenger.

Although he stayed quiet on his next move, the former Napoli player intends to expand his horizons by going abroad after his sustained success in his homeland.

“Certainly I will go abroad,” Al-

legri told The Telegraph. “In Italy, finished.” Allegri sees himself as an “instinctive” coach, instead of relying too much on statistics or tactics. “I could never be a coach who mainly focuses on tactics or analytics because I am more instinctive,” he said.

“The coach, in my opinion, bases his decisions on sensations, on perceptions.

“Otherwise it would be enough to sit in front of the computer and football would be like a PlayStation. And that is not what I am. “In football there are a lot of people who try to reach perfection with figures, with tactics but it’s impossible because there are too many

variables.”

Allegri is hoping to guide his side towards another Champions League final this season when they meet Real Madrid in the quarters, but it took a tense tie against Tottenham Hotspur to make it this far. After surrendering a 2-0 lead to draw with Spurs at home, Juve came from behind to beat Mauricio Pochettino’s men in the second leg, turning the tie around with two goals in the space of three minutes. And Al-

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legri insists that he saw the small window of opportunity and told his side to capitalise on it.”But I knew that during the match there was a period of maybe 15 or 20 minutes where they will concede goals. That’s why I told my players to stay very focused, very targeted, because we had to exploit that. And that’s what they did.

“I had a clear idea in my mind what we had to do considering we had no strikers on the bench, just full-backs.” (afp)

‘Salah wouldn’t get into the Real Madrid or Barcelona team!’

The Liverpool forward has been in amazing form this season, but Charlie Adam does not believe he would play for either Spanish super club Liverpool sensation Mohamed Salah would not get a game at Real Madrid or Barcelona, according to former Reds midfielder Charlie Adam.

Salah has been heavily linked with a massive move to La Liga after a sensational debut season at Anfield.

The Egypt international has scored 37 goals in 42 appearances across all competitions, and equalled a record held by Cristiano Ronaldo and Robin van Persie on Saturday when he scored in his 21st game of the Premier League season to give the Reds a 2-1 win at Crystal Palace.

Nevertheless, Adam, who spent one season at Liv-

erpool after joining the club from Blackpool in 2011, does not believe that Salah is good enough to work his way into the elite Spanish sides.

Speaking to TalkSport, he said: “Where’s he going to go? It’s difficult for him, where does he go?

“Will he get a game at Real Madrid? Will he get a game at Barcelona? “I don’t think he would.

I think he will stay there.” Salah has scored the same amount of goals as Madrid star Ronaldo this season, while he has also netted two more than Lionel Messi.

The Reds face Manchester City at Anfield in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final on Wednesday before facing Merseyside rivals Everton in the Premier League on Saturday. (afp)

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David de Gea ‘set to sign £350,000-perweek five-year deal’ at Man United

Man United goalkeeper David de Gea is set to sign a £350,000-per-week five-year deal at club

MANCHESTER - Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea is set to sign a £350,000-per-week five-year deal at the club.

Spaniard De Gea, who joined United from Atletico Madrid in 2011, has been the subject of long-term speculation linking him with a move back to Spain. A switch to Real Madrid broke down in 2015 due to an administrative error.

He has continually been linked to the Bernabeu since but is contracted at United until 2019.

If he signs the new contract, De Gea will be behind Alexis Sanchez as the club’s second-highest-ever earner.

Just last week De Gea admitted he does not feel he has the same ‘respect and adoration’ in his homeland

Spain as he does in England.

‘In England I have a great affection and respect that I do not notice so much here,’ he said, And now United are optimistic of keeping the shotstopper on their books.

‘The club want it sorted. It has to be done in their eyes,’ a United insider said.

‘They want David to go to the World Cup and come back knowing everything is settled.

‘Zlatan leaving has freed up more wiggle room on wages and United don’t want to drag it out.

‘They want to show the world that David won’t be leaving for anywhere. It’s a real statement.’

De Gea will be looking to keep out rivals Manchester City on Saturday to prevent them from winning the league title. (afp)

The Bayern Munich forward has bounced back this season, with the comedic character crediting a new arrival at the Muller household for his form There are plenty of anecdotal stories in the golfing world about how professional players tend to perform better after becoming fathers, with scientific studies actually showing that men also have hormonal changes after their partners give birth.

Becoming a father is a huge event in many men’s lives, and can change how they approach things including their careers as they gain more focus following a drop in testosterone levels. Recently, Thomas Muller saw an upturn in his performances for both Bayern Munich and Germany, which actually tied in with a new arrival at the Muller household.

Muller’s wife Lisa is an equestrian athlete, and the pair own many horses together. In early March, they welcomed a new foal into their lives and the 28-year-old celebrated that with one of his best performances of the season, scoring one and assisting two goals against Freiburg.

After the game, the jovial German pinpointed exactly where the performance had come from - the Mullers’ new arrival!

“I was definitely geed up today,” Muller told reports in the mixed zone. “My first foal of the season was born into the world last night. I feel as though I have become a father!”

Despite Jupp Heynckes heavily rotating the Bayern Munich starting XI to focus on winning another treble, Muller has played every minute since his new foal was born.

That included an assist in Bayern’s 3-1 second-leg win over Besiktas to send them into the Champions League quarter-finals and a goal and assist in the 6-0 rout of rivals Borussia Dortmund on Saturday.

Muller was also in stunning form for Germany during the international break, scoring the equaliser in the World Cup warmup with Spain. The attacking midfielder picked up a pass from Sami Khedira in the centre of the park and then fired a thunderbolt from 35 yards which left David de Gea no chance. It was Muller’s 38th goal in 90 appearances for his country, and came at exactly the right time as Joachim Low assesses his squad for Russia.

Before the Raumdeuter Renais-

sance of 2017-18, Muller appeared to be in decline. There were even murmurs in Munich that the boyhood Bayern fan could be on his way out of the Allianz Arena, with clubs in England eager to pounce on any instability.

After scoring 20 league goals in 2015-16, Muller travelled to France for the European Championships.

There he was expected to lead his country to another major title having won the World Cup in 2014 and finished second to James Rodriguez in the race for the Golden Boot at that tournament.

Instead of glory, came the worse period of his career. He failed to find the net once during the tournament and even missed from the spot during the penalty shootout victory over Italy in the quarter-finals. He was anonymous against France in the semi-final as an Antoine Griezmann double put the hosts through.

Muller’s return to Munich failed to see him turn things around. By March 2017, he had scored just one league goal despite plenty of opportunities under Carlo Ancelotti.

Despite his unhappiness, Bayern refused to sell one of their most popular players, and he remained at the club as the transfer window closed.

At the start of the season, it looked as if the slump was continuing past the summer. Muller was benched for Bayern’s second game of the season and then again for the Champions League clash with Anderlecht. By the end of September, he had scored just one goal. But two additions helped turn things around.

Firstly, a 3-0 defeat to PSG in Europe brought an end to Ancelotti’s time in Bavaria and returned the retired Heynckes to the hotseat.

The 72-year-old solved the dressing room crisis at the club and began to find the best in Muller once more, retaining him as the club’s captain.

Then, Thomas and Lisa welcomed their new foal to further improve the forward’s mood.

Back was the entertaining extroverted character whose crazy antics spawned a thousand gifs on Bayern’s official twitter accounts, while on the pitch the ramdeuter was reborn.

With Muller now back to his best and Bayern just one win away from the Bundesliga title, the new foal’s ‘father’ could be welcoming another arrival before the end of the season: His second Champions League winner’s medal. (afp)

Allegri to Move Abroad TURIN - The Italian coach has been linked to Chelsea and Arsenal in recent months and has confirmed he will be looking to move abroad for his next job Massimiliano Allegri has confirmed he will move to another country to look for his next job after he leaves Juventus.

The Italian coach is aiming to win a fourth consecutive Serie A title with the Bianconeri, adding to the Scudetto he won in a prior stint at AC Milan.

The 50-year-old has been the

subject of interest from Premier League sides recently. Chelsea are said to want him to succeed Antonio Conte at Stamford Bridge, just as he did in Turin, due to the latter’s struggles this season. Meanwhile, London rivals Arsenal are said to eye him as a potential replacement for Arsene Wenger.

Although he stayed quiet on his next move, the former Napoli player intends to expand his horizons by going abroad after his sustained success in his homeland.

“Certainly I will go abroad,” Al-

legri told The Telegraph. “In Italy, finished.” Allegri sees himself as an “instinctive” coach, instead of relying too much on statistics or tactics. “I could never be a coach who mainly focuses on tactics or analytics because I am more instinctive,” he said.

“The coach, in my opinion, bases his decisions on sensations, on perceptions.

“Otherwise it would be enough to sit in front of the computer and football would be like a PlayStation. And that is not what I am. “In football there are a lot of people who try to reach perfection with figures, with tactics but it’s impossible because there are too many

variables.”

Allegri is hoping to guide his side towards another Champions League final this season when they meet Real Madrid in the quarters, but it took a tense tie against Tottenham Hotspur to make it this far. After surrendering a 2-0 lead to draw with Spurs at home, Juve came from behind to beat Mauricio Pochettino’s men in the second leg, turning the tie around with two goals in the space of three minutes. And Al-

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legri insists that he saw the small window of opportunity and told his side to capitalise on it.”But I knew that during the match there was a period of maybe 15 or 20 minutes where they will concede goals. That’s why I told my players to stay very focused, very targeted, because we had to exploit that. And that’s what they did.

“I had a clear idea in my mind what we had to do considering we had no strikers on the bench, just full-backs.” (afp)

‘Salah wouldn’t get into the Real Madrid or Barcelona team!’

The Liverpool forward has been in amazing form this season, but Charlie Adam does not believe he would play for either Spanish super club Liverpool sensation Mohamed Salah would not get a game at Real Madrid or Barcelona, according to former Reds midfielder Charlie Adam.

Salah has been heavily linked with a massive move to La Liga after a sensational debut season at Anfield.

The Egypt international has scored 37 goals in 42 appearances across all competitions, and equalled a record held by Cristiano Ronaldo and Robin van Persie on Saturday when he scored in his 21st game of the Premier League season to give the Reds a 2-1 win at Crystal Palace.

Nevertheless, Adam, who spent one season at Liv-

erpool after joining the club from Blackpool in 2011, does not believe that Salah is good enough to work his way into the elite Spanish sides.

Speaking to TalkSport, he said: “Where’s he going to go? It’s difficult for him, where does he go?

“Will he get a game at Real Madrid? Will he get a game at Barcelona? “I don’t think he would.

I think he will stay there.” Salah has scored the same amount of goals as Madrid star Ronaldo this season, while he has also netted two more than Lionel Messi.

The Reds face Manchester City at Anfield in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final on Wednesday before facing Merseyside rivals Everton in the Premier League on Saturday. (afp)

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Bay, offers shore and boat diving with great visibility down to 25 metres. The currents are mild, making it a wonderful diving destination. Fantastic coral formations, a huge variety of tropical fish, and occasional sightings of green sea turtles are among its top features. The Jemeluk Bay Underwater Gallery is an additional bonus with its artificial reef. The “living sea sculptures” include a giant baby head, beautiful Hindu apsara water nymphs, mermaids, treasure chests, a Balinese barong, and many others. You can purchase waterproof postcards from local dive shops along the coast, then dive, search for the unique underwater letterbox and post your card. Look for a big yellow dive buoy in the middle of the area, it’s usually about 20 feet straight down from there. (net)

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LONDON - Deontay Wilder is ready to travel across the Atlantic to face Britain’s Anthony Joshua in a bout to determine the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, the American’s co-manager said Monday.

Joshua called out Wilder immediately after a 12-round points win over New Zealand’s Joseph Parker in Cardiff on Saturday that saw him add the World Boxing Organisation belt to the International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Association titles he already held.

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success that did not come by way of knockout, saw London 2012 gold medallist Joshua extend his unbeaten record in the paid ranks to 21 wins from as many bouts.

But that still leaves World Boxing Council champion Wilder, unbeaten in 40 professional contests.

Eddie Hearn, Joshua’s promoter,

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Finkel said he would be prepared for the fight to go ahead at London’s 90,000-capacity Wembley Stadium.

“Assuming it will be Wembley Stadium in the summer, we are ready, and if they are ready as they say they are, we want to get it done.

We want the fight, they want the fight, the public wants the fight.

There is nothing to stop it going ahead.”

Finkel, a veteran of the boxing scene, added: “When I had (Mike) Tyson and (Evander) Holyfield, I

picked up the phone. That’s all we need to do here.

“We are ready. Let’s make the fight.”

Hearn, speaking after Joshua’s unanimous points defeat of Parker, said: “I will present the deal to Anthony but it has to be the right deal.

“It’s not really about Wilder, it is about us. We will sit down over the next couple of weeks and plan out the rest of 2018. It’s his (Joshua’s) call on how many times he wants to fight this year.” (net)

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insisted after the Parker fight that Wilder’s camp “don’t want” a unification bout.

But Shelly Finkel, Wilder’s comanager, told Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper on Monday: “We are really glad that Anthony Joshua said for the first time ‘I will fight Deontay next...’ and we believe he is a man of his word. Deontay accepts the challenge.

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Grid girl for Sebastian Vettel in 2017 season, Ferrari SF16-H.

SEBASTIAN Vettel has admitted he is “a bit sad” at Formula 1’s decision to no longer use grid girls for the new season as part of a number of new changes brought in by new owners Liberty Media.

The move to drop the practice of having scantily clad women standing in front of the cars before grands prix came in January after F1 decided its “does not resonate with our brand values and clearly is at odds with modern day societal norms”.

Liberty’s other major change was delaying race start times by 10 minutes to allow some TV schedulers more time to build-up to the race, instead of starting the race on the hour as previously done.

Vettel was critical in 2015 during the Monaco Grand Prix, when grid girls were replaced with male models, and admitted he is still unsure why they were dropped permanently this season. However, he did stress that it does not affect

him too much either way. “I think I’m a traditionalist and I like to hold on to certain things,” Vettel said. “There’s a lot of things I’m not a specialist in and I don’t need to understand.

“I’m confused why the races start later, a bit sad that there are no more grid girls but other than that not many changes yet. From a driving point of view there’s obviously not that much that has changed.” (net)

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Migrant caravan heading to U.S. border puts Mexico in tough spot with Trump

IXTEPEC - In some of the Mexican towns playing host to a “caravan” of more than 1,200 Central American migrants heading to the U.S. border, the welcome mat has been rolled out despite President Donald Trump’s call for Mexican authorities to stop them.

Local officials have offered lodging in town squares and empty warehouses or arranged transport for the migrants, participants in a journey organized by the immigrant advocacy group Pueblo Sin Fronteras. The officials have conscripted buses, cars, ambulances and police trucks. But the help may not be entirely altruistic.

“The authorities want us to leave their cities,” said Rodrigo Abeja, an organizer from Pueblo Sin Fronteras. “They’ve been helping us, in part to speed the massive group out of their jurisdictions.”

At some point this spring, the caravan’s 2,000-mile (3,200-km) journey that began at Tapachula near the Guatemalan border on March 25 will end at the U.S. border, where some of its members will apply for asylum, while others will attempt to sneak into the United States.

So far the Mexican federal government has provided little guidance on how to handle the migrants but Abeja worries that local reactions will change.

“There’s a lot of pressure from authorities to stop the caravan because of Donald Trump’s reaction,” he said.

Trump railed on Twitter against the caravan on Monday, accusing Mexico of “doing very little, if not NOTHING” to stop the flow of immigrants crossing the U.S. border illegally. “They must stop the big

drug and people flows, or I will stop their cash cow, NAFTA,” he concluded.

Mexico’s interior minister Alfonso Navarrete did not directly address the caravan, but he wrote on Twitter that he spoke to the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Monday, and that the two had “agreed to analyze the best ways to attend to the flows of migrants in accordance with the laws of each country.”

Mexico must walk a delicate line with the United States as the countries are in the midst of renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) along with Canada. At the same time, Mexican leftwing presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has an 18-point lead ahead of the July 1 election, according to a poll published on Monday.

A Lopez Obrador victory could usher in a Mexican government less accommodating toward the United States on both trade and immigration issues.

Mexican Senator Angelica de la Pena, who presides over the Senate’s human rights commission, told Reuters that Mexico should protect migrants’ rights despite the pressure from Trump.

Former President Vicente Fox called for Mexican officials to take a stand against Trump’s attacks. Trump keeps “blackmailing, offending and denigrating Mexico and Mexicans,” he wrote on Twitter on Monday.

Under Mexican law, Central Americans who enter Mexico legally are generally allowed to move freely through the country, even if their goal is to cross illegally into the United States. (net)

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Paddleboarder critically injured in shark attack near Hawaii beach

HAWAII - A 25-year-old man paddleboarding off a beach in Hawaii was rushed to a local hospital with critical injuries Saturday after he was bumped off his board by a shark and attacked.

The unidentified stand-up paddleboarder was pulled from the water by a safety team from the Kukio Golf and Beach Club on the Big Island’s popular Kona Coast near the Four Seasons Hualalai Resort.

“They had heard a scream from the ocean and they took a four-man canoe out to find a male individual who had been bumped off his paddleboard about 100 to 150 yards offshore,” Fire Capt. Michael Grace told Honolulu Fox affiliate KHON-TV. The local paddleboarder was out with his father when the morning attack occurred.

Team members and bystanders on shore applied tourniquets to severe injuries on his right hand and leg as they awaited paramedics, according to Grace.

The victim was airlifted to

North Hawaii Community Hospital, where he underwent surgery.

WTHR-TV and NTD-TV were reporting that he lost a limb.

Officials had posted signs warning of sharks spotted in the water before the attack and shut down the beach on Saturday.

It’s the first shark attack on the Big Island since 2015, according to state statistics, though there have been attacks off other islands of Hawaii since then.

Between 2007 and 2016, 65 people were attacked by sharks in the state, according to data from the International Shark Attack File.

Nineteen of those attacks occurred off the Big Island.

Florida leads the country in shark attacks. From 2007 to 2016, there were 244 unprovoked shark attacks in Florida, 39 in South Carolina and 33 off the California coast. There have been a total of 766 attacks around the globe in that time; 449 of those occurred in the U.S. (net)

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to bolster the number of invalid votes so he gets the message that there are things we are unhappy about.” He cited the poor state of public education as an example.

El-Sissi has won international praise for enacting long overdue economic reforms, like slashing subsidies of basic goods and allowing the currency to float. But the reforms sent prices soaring, adding to the hardships endured by Egypt’s poor and middle class. He has touted a number of megaprojects aimed at rebuilding and expanding the country’s infrastructure, but their effects have yet to be felt by most Egyptians.

Prominent Egyptians call for boycott of upcoming election Abdel Fattah el-Sisi now without an opponent in Egypt’s election Dandrawy el-Hawary, who strongly supports el-Sisi, offered a different explanation for the invalid ballots, saying they reflected Egyptians’ excessive love for their leader.

Local media, which is dominated by pro-government commentators, portrayed voting as a national obligation and any criticism of the election as part of a foreign plot to undermine stability. Echoing the official line, elHawary speculated that some voters had unintentionally spoiled their ballots by writing “We love you, el-Sisi” or “We are behind you” on them.

“They did not help their favourite candidate by increasing the number of votes he won, but in fact raised the number of invalid votes, which traitors at home and abroad are trying to use to attack President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi.” (afp)

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After the 2012 and 2014 elections, images circulated on social media showing deliberately spoiled ballots. One voter penciled in the words “My vote is for you, Batman,” while another wrote in the name of a famous belly dancer. After this year’s election, an image circulated of a write-in vote for Liverpool’s Egyptian star striker Mohammed Salah, a hometown celebrity.

Michael W. Hanna, an Egypt expert at the New York-based Century Foundation, said one would have expected people to register their disapproval by staying home. “But the key factor is that many people, such as government employees, were effectively coerced into voting. As such, spoiling ballots represents the only means for expressing dissent or opposition,” he said.

Ahmed Abd Rabou, an Egyptian political scientist currently teaching at the University of Denver, said the invalidated votes were “a rejection of the election’s lack of competition, which is the banner headline of this vote.”

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Central American migrants participating in a caravan heading to the U.S. take a pause from their journey in Matias Romero, Oaxaca, Mexico April 2, 2018.

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Cairo pharmacist Khaled el-Fiqy, who is in his mid-50s, had hoped a high number of invalid ballots would send a message. “I wanted to participate in the election because I care about Egypt’s future,” he said.

“But I invalidated my ballot because, although I support el-Sisi, I wanted

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Don`t be easily deceived by swarm of flying issues: Jokowi

MALANG - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) calls on the people not to be easily deceived by the swarm of flying issues seeking to instill pessimism. “Ours is a very big nation, but often we are not aware of it. From the beginning Indonesia has been a big nation with its diversity and this is a gift from God,” Jokowi said at the Malang Islamic University, East Java, on Thursday.

Addressing General Study on “Islam of Archipelago and Integrity of the Unitary State of The Republic of Indonesia to bring to reality Peaceful Indonesia, Jokowi said

Indonesia has become a reference for study of “unity in diversity”. “Indonesia has become a reference by other countries because of the success of the nation in fostering the principle

Non-active SE Sulawesi governor gets 12 years in jail for corruption JAKARTA - The Jakarta Corruption Court on Wednesday night sentenced nonactive Southeast Sulawesi governor Nur Alam to 12 years` imprisonment and fined him Rp1 billion or face another six months in jail for being involved in a corruption case. The panel of judges, led by Diah Siti Basariah, with Duta Baskara, Sunarso, Sigit Herman Binaji and Joko Subagyo as members also agreed to require Nur Alam to pay Rp2.7 billion in replacement fund and revoke his political rights for five years after serving his jail term.

“If the defendant cannot afford to pay the replacement fund one month after the

court`s verdict has fixed legal force, the public prosecutor will confiscate his wealth to cover the replacement fund. And if the defendant has not adequate wealth, then he will be sentenced to another five years in jail,” judge Diah said.

Nur Alam was found guilty of issuing dubious mining licenses which have inflicted Rp1.59 trillion in state losses and receiving a gratification of Rp40.268 billion.

The sentence is six years lighter than that sought by the public prosecutors who have demanded that the defendant be sentenced to 18 years in jail and fined Rp1 billion or face another 1 year`s imprisonment.(ant)

of unity in diversity,” he said.

He said, as a keynote speaker, Indonesia is made up of 714 tribes with 1,100 local languages, larger than most other countries.

He said the larger a nation the more challenges it would face, but a big nation should not falter and get pessimistic in facing any problem.

“Don`t let yourself be provoked by unfounded issues like Indonesia to be disinte-

grated, communism and foreign henchmen,” he said. Earlier this month, Jokowi`s most potential rival facing the forthcoming presidential election Prabowo Subianto issued a controversial statement that Indonesia would cease to exist in 2030.

The general chairman of the Gerindra Party, quoting a fiction, predicted the dissolution of the country in the next 12 years. Later he said he was only issuing a warning. (ant)

Indonesia foils transnational drug smuggling attempt

PEKANBARU - The National Drugs Agency (BNN) has foiled a transnational attempt to smuggle “Chatinone” from Malaysia into Dumai City in Riau Province.

“The arrest was made two days ago. The joint officers of BNN and the Indonesian Customs have seized four sacks of Cathinone, with a total weight of 70 kilograms,” Head of the Precaution and Measurement Division of Riau BNN Senior Commissioner Adjunct Haldun stated here on Thursday.

According to Haldun, the seizure was a follow-up of an earlier investigation conducted by the agency in Jakarta. The BNN and customs personnel conducted further investigation on Tuesday. The smugglers at-

tempted to bring the Chatinone consignment to Jakarta through Dumai City.

“The drug dealer sent Chatinone from Malaysia to Dumai before it was taken to Jakarta,” Haldun added. However, Haldun noted that the Chatinone was not circulated in Dumai City.

“We did not find Chatinone in Riau Province,” he remarked. Chatinone is a type of narcotics produced from Khat leaves.

The Chatinone substance can be produced through a synthetic process and will have a double impact on the users.

The misuse of synthetic Chatinone is potentially harmful to users and similar to psychotropic substances.The use of Chatinone can have a stronger impact than ecstasy.(ant)

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BUSINESS Britain’s factories report rise in production for March

LONDON - Surprise monthly increase comes despite sector experiencing its weakest quarter in a year.

Shaking off concerns that heavy snowfall from the “beast from the east” would trigger a slowdown, the UK manufacturing sector maintained a steady pace of growth in March.

The Markit/Cips UK manufacturing PMI barometer of factory sentiment showed activity jumped to 55.1 from 55 in February, beating economists’ forecasts for a fall in the growth rate. A figure above 50 indicates expansion on the index, which is used by the Bank of England to monitor the health of the economy.

The latest PMI figures show manufacturing production rose for the 20th successive month, as companies continued to report solid inflows of new work from both domestic and overseas markets.

But the performance completes a relatively weak quarter for the industry after a mini-boom at the end of last year.

Rob Dobson, a director at IHS Markit, said the latest reading suggested overall production growth would fall by more than half in the first quarter compared with the final three months of 2017. Manufacturing output growth had remained steadily above 1% towards the end of last year but may have fallen to about 0.5%, according to economists.

“The key question is whether growth can now be sustained, albeit at a lower level, into the coming months,” Dobson said.

There are already some positive signs, with the survey of manufacturers used for compiling the PMI figures showing almost 55% of companies forecast that output will be higher in 12 months’ time.

The rate of growth also remains fairly strong by past standards, which experts said should help the economy to overcome weak high street spending in the first few months of 2018. (afp)

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Belulang Hot Springs Believed to Cure Diseases

Belulang hot springs, located at Mengesta customary village, Penebel, Tabanan (about16 km north of Tabanan) can now be accessed through a paved road,instead of the rocky road that used to challenge visitors.

Local community leader, Nengah Sudana, explained that although the hot springs have been there for a long time, it used ot be very hard to get there due to the severly damaged road that led to them. Since 2014 however the road has been paved making it much easier for people to enjoy the hot spiorngs. There are in fact many hot springs in Betulang, but the largest one is located near Batu Panes Temple in the middle of some rice fields.

According to Sudana, the advantage of Belulang hot springs is that it can cure certain diseases. “So, in addition to refreshing, many travelers also come to the hot spring for treatment,” he said. On that account, the Belulang hot springs are also closely related to a series of spiritual tourism. Sudana explained that if guests wishing to recover from illnesses, before taking a bath they usually say prayers at the Batu Panes Temple. Afterwards, they take a bath in the Belulang hot springs, just 50 meters away from the temple. “Many guests are cured like those having stroke coming here for treatment,” he said.

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Every day, the tourist visit to Belulang hot springs reaches about 100 people. Although remaining to be dominated by domestic travelers, this attraction will be crowded during holidays. Admission ticket is not too

expensive. Foreign traveler is charged at IDR 10,000 and domestic traveler at IDR 5,000.

“Travelers can take a bath as long as they like, not limited by time,” said Sudana.

Other than shower, at the Belulang hot

spring is also provided with two pools for visitors to enjoy the hot springs. When visitors are hungry or wishing to buy souvenirs, around the hot springs has been available food stalls made of bamboo. (kmb)

Mengening Temple, a Spiritual Destination in Gianyar

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Ryanair reveals worst gender pay gap in airline industry Median hourly pay among UK staff is 71.8% lower for women with bonus pay 3% lower. Only eight of Ryanair’s 554 UK-based pilots are female, while women make up more than two-thirds of

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earners at the budget airline.

The figure is among the most imbalanced yet reported in any sector, about four times the UK average and outstripping that of easyJet, whose 45% gap had attracted widespread criticism.

Median hourly pay among Ryanair’s 1,182 UK staff is 71.8% lower for women (67% lower on mean hourly pay), while median bonus pay for women was 3% lower (with a mean difference of 21%).

With most of Ryanair’s management and administration based in Ireland and excluded from the figures – including its chief executive, Michael O’Leary, and its all-male senior management board – more than 95% of the firm’s UK-based staff are pilots or cabin crew. Only eight of Ryanair’s 554 UK-based pilots are female,

while women make up more than two-thirds of the low-paid cabin crew.

Ryanair said: “Like all airlines, our gender pay in the UK is materially affected by the relatively low numbers of female pilots in the aviation industry. “In recent years, the number of female pilots applying to Ryanair has increased and we are committed to developing this welcome trend. It is a feature of the aviation industry that more males than females choose to enter the pilot profession.”

Ryanair has yet to spell out what steps it will take to recruit more women into higher paid positions.

The second worst figure among airlines is Jet2.com, with a median gap of 49.7% (mean 53.5%) while the best is British Airways, with a median of 10% (mean 35%) – a figure likely to reflect higher-paid,

long-standing crew as well as a relatively large non-flying UKbased staff.

EasyJet, one of the first airlines to report, has pledged that at least one in five of its new pilot recruits will be women by 2020. Its new chief executive, Johan Lundgren, who took a £34,000 pay cut to match the salary of his predecessor Carolyn McCall this year, said he wanted to make a personal commitment as the airline attempted to address the imbalance.

According to easyJet’s staff surveys, most male pilots had decided on their career before the age of 11, while most of their female pilots had not been encouraged to think of it as a career until after school.

Last month, the airline announced a partnership with Girlguiding that includes sponsoring the new aviation badge for Brownies. (afp)

A side from nature and culture, Bali also offers a spiritual tourism because it has several historic places sanctified by the Hindu community. One of them is the Mengening Temple at Saraseda village, Tampaksiring, Gianyar.

This attraction offers a cool and beautiful atmosphere. Those that can read the signs of nature will feel something different resulting in tranquility.

Inside the temple, there is a spring used as a place to invoke holy water as a means of ceremony for Balinese Hindus. Besides, there is a pool that can be used for selfcleaning. It is divided into two, namely a special bathing pool for men and women.

Before entering the bathing pool, visitors are advised to use cloth and then step down some stairs to get to the pool. Local people are accustomed to using the pool for bathing, self-cleaning. Moreover, on certain holidays, many Balinese Hindus come to the temple to do self-purificatory rite to get rid of spiritual impurities.

Local people visit the temple almost every afternoon to bathe with friends or family. “We bathe here

almost every day. The atmosphere is cool and the water is fresh, so that the body and mind feel fresh as well. We love the atmosphere in this peaceful and quiet temple.

When bathing, we usually offer some offerings to invoke salvation,” said a local resident.

Mengening Temple implements the tri mandala or three horizontal spatial dimension concept, namely the nista mandala (outermost), madya mandala (middle) and uttama mandala (innermost courtyard).

In the outermost courtyard of the Mengening Temple sits a garden with pancaka tirtha. This garden is used as a place of self-purification by local deities. In some places, there is also a source of holy water commonly taken by the community for ritual purposes.

According to the temple attendant, the spring of holy water includes the Tirtha Keben, Tirtha Sudamala, Tirtha Melela, Tirtha Soka, Tirtha Megelung, Tirtha Tunggang and Tirtha Telaga Waja.

Meanwhile, in the area of Pancaka tirtha garden sits the Tirtha Parisuda, Tirtha Pengelukatan, Tirtha Pengulapan, Tirtha Keris and Tirtha Kamaning. Visitors are

not allowed to bathe in the springs to prevent the water from receding and disappearing.

In the middle courtyard there are some buildings such as gamelan pavilion, wooden split drum (kulkul) tower, Bale Pegambahan and Bale Pegat. Then, the innermost courtyard consists of some shrines including three-tiered meru shrine as the abode of Ida Bathara Prasada Agung, the chamber is the abode of deities of Gunung Kawi, Limas shrine for deity of Tirta Empul, Pemaruman, Bale Saka Ulu as the abode of Lord Shiva, Paselang pavilion, Bale Pecanangan and Bale Penganteb.

In the chronicle of Mengening Temple of Tampaksiring is not clearly stated when the temple was established. According to local people, Mengening Temple was predicted to be established during the reign of King Masula-Masuli at Pejeng. He has his own story so that he got to Pejeng. MasulaMasuli was previously named I Sula and I Suli. They are male and female couple born from troktokan of ivory coconut at Besakih region.

I Sula and I Suli were then invited

by I Sangkul Putih.

I Sula and I Suli made all the gods come down to watch both children. Moreover, Goddess Bhyahpara and Goddess Danu finally asked Lord Jagatnatha so that Dukuh Sangkul Putih wanted to bring I Sula and I Suli to Pejeng.

When arrived at Pejeng, Sinuhun named them Masula-Masuli. This name is given in connection with the twin birth.

During the reign of King Masula-Masuli, the Mengening Temple was only made some improve-

ments. He appointed an architect who really knew about the concept of temples and buildings with the Hindu concept as advised by Bhagawan Wiswa Karma. King Masula-Masuli appointed Empu Kuturan to make improvement to several buildings at Mengening Temple. In addition, in the reign of King Masula-Masuli it is reaffirmed the name of deity abiding in the shrine of Prasada Agung namely Ida Batara Hyang Maha Suci Nirmala. (kmb)

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Ten vocational schools unable to hold independent exam

GIANYAR — A total of 5,140 students of vocational schools (SMK) from 29 schools took the first computer-based national examination (UNBK) of day one in Gianyar district on Monday (Apr. 2). Unfortunately, not all vocational schools in this region can implement the UNBK independently. Approximately ten private vocational schools have to join with other schools to implement the national exam this time.

This was expressed by the Unit Head of Gianyar High and Vocational School (SMA/SMK), I Wayan Adi Sucita. He said there are three schools becoming the venue of the vocational school computerbased exam, namely the SMPN 1 Gianyar junior high school, SMAN 1 Payangan high school and SMK SMR Ubud. “A total of ten schools attend the computer-based national exam at these three schools,” he said.

He explained the national exam at SMPN 1 Gianyar is followed

by SMK PGRI 2 Gianyar with 65 students, SMK Par Budaya Bedulu (155 students), SMK Maharishi (47 students) and SMK Saraswati Sukawati (31 students). Besides, there are also SMK Singamandawa

(5 students), SMK Saraswati 1(3 students) and SMK Saraswati 3 (5 students). “The total number of participants at SMPN 1 Gianyar amounts to 311 students,” he said.

Meanwhile, computer room of SMAN 1 Payangan is only borrowed by students of SMK Negeri 2 Tegallalang for the implementation of national exam. Then, computer room at SMK SMSR Ubud is borrowed by students of SMK Santi Yoga and SMK P. Sila Candra. “The ten schools just borrow a room to another school for the computer-based national exam, while 19 other schools can implement it independently,” he explained.

He said the ten schools that cannot implement the national exam

independently are entirely private schools, so that his unit cannot do much to propose the procurement of computer-based national exam facilities. “All state vocational schools in Gianyar can have implemented their computer-based national exam independently,” he said.

As previously reported, Chairman of PGRI Gianyar, I Wayan Gabra, explained the first national exam was held for vocational school students on April 2 to 5, while national exam for high school is scheduled on April 9 to 12. “Prior to the implementation of the national exam, each vocational school and high school has held national exam synchronization,” he said. (kmb35)

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South Korea is deploying hyper-precise missiles to protect Seoul from North Korea

SEOUL - South Korea’s government would like nothing better than a peaceful, no-drama relationship with North Korea, and the administration of President Moon Jae-in clearly hopes that new talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un may de-escalate tensions. However, Seoul must also must prepare for the possibility of a second Korean war, and especially mitigate the damage that could be caused to the capital itself, which lies a little over thirty miles south of the Demilitarized Zone.

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Viral in social media, a photo of student camping at Tuluk Biyu Temple

BANGLI - Social media were surprised by the photo broadcast of students camping inside Pucak Tuluk Biyu Temple area in Mount Abang, Suter village, Kintamani. On the photo caption in circulation, the tourist alleged to have contaminated the temple sanctity is a student.

Of the three photos circulating on social media, a photo shows a blue tent standing right in front of a shrine. Around the tents are seen some people suspected to be students and the locals. Meanwhile, another photo shows a man cleaning up the tent. Allegedly the tent was cleared after students caught camping in the tent rebuked by local residents.

Chief of LWG Abang Erawang, Nengah Suratnata, when confirmed last Monday justified the information about the circulation of student photos camping in the temple area. He acknowledged the location in the photo is indeed true at the Tuluk Biyu Batur Temple. However, he claimed not to know for sure when it happened as he just got the information on Monday afternoon.

He explained that according to the procedures imposed by the management, every tourist wishing to climb to the Mount Abang area will be given direction about the location that can be used for camping.

The directions are given when visitors or travelers make registration in the post.

In the appeal given, the management will usually not allow female visitors who are menstruating to climb because the Mount Abang area is made sacred. Along the road to the peak of Mount Abang, there are a number of temples very much sanctified by society.

With the occurrence of student camping in the area of Pucak Tuluk Biyu Temple Batur as in the photos circulating in social media, Suratnata admitted that his side will increase the supervision and appeal to visitors. His management will also install and replace the signboard where camping is allowed. Besides, he will spread the appeal in cooperation with various parties. (kmb40)

MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATacMS) North Korea maintain hundreds of long-range Koksan 170-millimeter self-propelled guns, and 240- and 300-millimeter multiple rocket launchers capable of striking Seoul. Further back, it has an arsenal of short-range tactical ballistic missiles patterned on Soviet Scud and Tochka missiles, such as the Hwasong-5 and -6 and the Kn-02. Situated in caves, tunnels and hardened artillery sites, the guns and rockets could inflict significant damage on civilian and military targets and prove difficult to destroy with conventional counterbattery fire.

This was illustrated when North Korean artillery bombarded the island of Yeonpyeong in November 23, 2010, killing four. A battery of six South Korean K9 Thunder howitzers returned fire with eighty 155-millimeter shells, but it remains disputed whether that counterbattery barrage was at all effective.

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launched precision-strike missile specially designed to rapidly take out North Korean artillery systems in their hardened encasements. The South Korean Agency for Defense Development partnered with the Hanwha Corporation, and spent three years and the equivalent of around $418 million developing the new weapon.

South Korea already has licensebuilt an arsenal of over two hundred MGM-140 ATACMS missiles, which can be fired from an M270 multiple-rocket-launcher vehicle and strike targets up to 190 miles away. However, the ATACMS is both too expensive and insufficiently accurate to counter the hundreds of North Korean artillery systems entrenched for a crossborder bombardment.

Korean journalist Lim Changwon characterizes this new Korean Tactical Surface-to-Surface Missile as “a simplified version of the MGM-140”, which it visually resembles. Though the KTSSM-1 has a shorter range of just seventyfive miles—still adequate for the

counterbattery role—its GPSguidance system is five times more precise, with half of all shots landing within a two-meter radius of the target, instead of ten meters for the ATACMS. The KTSSM-1 “Artillery Killer” consists of a fixed launcher that can discharge all four of its tactical ballistic missiles in a matter of seconds. Reportedly, the launcher and missiles combined cost roughly $1.9 million each. The missile’s shaped thermal warhead would allow it to penetrate up to 1.5 meters of intervening concrete, and a graphic at a defense expo suggests the missile can maneuver to enter the mouth of a cave.

The Republic of Korea military has released a video of a KTSSM test that shows the ballistic missile effortlessly penetrating the ceiling of an underground bunker, triggering a massive Michael Bay–style fireball that consumes the entire subterranean complex from within.

According to a Korean military spokesperson, the KTSSM-1 would be used to silence Koksan guns and 240-millimeter MRL systems along the DMZ. However, the government also announced it had developed a second KTSSM-2 system for attacking larger, fixed missile assets.

There is limited information available on the KTSSM-2, but it reportedly is a self-propelled system and disposes of two types of munitions: a Block I missile employing a thermal penetrating warhead, and a Block II that utilizes unitary high-explosive payloads.

According to the South Korean military, the KTSSM-2 would be tasked with blasting KN-09 three-hundred-millimeter multiplerocket launchers and Kn-02 tactical ballistic-missile launchers, a reverse-engineered Russian Tochka ballistic missile. (net)

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An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard during a restrictions in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, April 2, 2018. A security clampdown and a strike sponsored by separatists fighting against Indian rule Monday shut most of Indian-administered Kashmir a day after deadly protests and fierce fighting killed 16 combatants and four civilians.

Kashmir shut by strike, security day after deadly fighting

SRINAGAR - A security clampdown and a strike sponsored by separatists fighting against Indian rule shut down most of Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday, a day after deadly protests and fierce fighting killed 16 combatants and four civilians.

Armed police and paramilitary soldiers in riot gear fanned out across the region and patrolled streets in anticipation of anti-India protests and clashes.

Authorities also imposed a curfew in some towns in southern Kashmir and in the old parts of the disputed region’s main city of Srinagar, the urban center of protests and clashes against Indian rule.

Shops and businesses closed in other areas where no security restrictions were in place. Separatist leaders who challenge India’s sovereignty over Kashmir called for a shutdown on Monday and Tuesday to protest the killings.

Authorities shut schools and colleges and canceled university exams in an attempt to stop protests by students.

Despite the suspension of classes, anti-India protests erupted at the University of Kashmir, where many students gathered in the main campus in Srinagar and shouted slogans such as “Go India, go back” and demanded an end of Indian rule over the region.

Officials also halted train services and cut cellphone internet access in the most restive towns, and reduced connection speeds in other parts of the Kashmir Valley, a common government practice aimed at calming tensions and preventing anti-India demonstrations from being organized.

Troops laid steel barricades and razor wire on roads and intersections to cut off neighborhoods as authorities anticipated widespread protests.

At least 13 rebels and three Indian army soldiers were killed in Sunday’s fighting in three gunbattles in southern Kashmir, where a new generation of rebels have revived militancy and challenged New Delhi’s rule with guns and effective use of social media.

As the fighting raged, large antiIndia protests erupted in several parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir and at least four civilians were killed and dozens injured.

Residents said government troops fired live ammunition and shotgun pellets into the crowds of mostly young protesters, causing injuries. They also said one of the civilians who died in southern Shopian near a gunbattle on Sunday was being used as a human shield against rebels by the Indian army.

An army officer, who declined to be named in keeping with army regulations, rejected the accusation and said the civilian was killed in the crossfire with insurgents.

In the past, such allegations have rarely been probed, and some accused military officials have been rewarded. According to hospital officials, many of the injured were hit by shotgun pellets in the eyes, causing widespread anger across Kashmir. In 2016, Srinagar’s main hospital alone received hundreds of patients who had been injured in their eyes and blinded by shotgun pellets after some of the biggest protests against Indian rule in response to the killing of a charismatic young rebel leader, Burhan Wani. (net)

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AUSTIN - A self-driving car from Google (GOOG, GOOGL) may be coming to a street near you. But you won’t be able to buy it, and you’ll have to wait longer to get a ride if snow regularly features in your city’s winter forecasts.

John Krafcik, CEO of of Google’s self-driving car unit Waymo, laid out the company’s ambitions and its potential obstacles in two SXSW appearances at SXSW, an onstage interview with Vice News correspondent Evan McMorris-Santoro and an evening chat with comedian Adam Carolla recorded for Carolla’s podcast.

The potential promise here is huge — safer roads for everyone, and consequence-free napping behind the wheel for people willing to pay about what a human-driven Uber or Lyft costs today. But you may need to get over the notion of traditional car ownership along the way.

The promise of self-driving cars

“We’re working to build the world’s most experienced driver,” Krafcik said in opening his sales pitch. “Everything that we learn in one of our cars gets passed to all of our cars.”

Waymo’s software has already driven 5 million miles in U.S. cities, including an “early rider” test in Phoenix using modified Chrysler (FCAU) Pacifica minivans that began taking signups last April. Waymo has since grown confident enough to remove the self-driving-car equivalent of training wheels: a human “safety driver” at the wheel as a backup.

Powering the vehicle’s self-driving capabilities is an array of cameras, radar and Lidar sensors, many on the car’s roof, which detect everything nearby from other vehicles and pedestrians to cyclists.

At the evening event, Krafcik displayed a Lidar view of the event venue, a bar on the east side of Austin, showing people as glowing outlines. Seeing himself lit up as if by radiation, Carolla joked “I think I just got testicular cancer, so thanks for that.”

In both talks, Krafcik emphasized that Waymo’s cars aren’t connected — they don’t need a 5G wireless link to go anywhere. “The car has everything it needs to drive on the car itself,” he told McMorris-Santoro. “There are no signals coming from outer space or something telling it to turn right.”

The resulting ride may not be too exciting but is safe. “It doesn’t speed,” Krafcik added. “It’s very persnickety about following the rules.”

The Waymo system also thinks well ahead, which he said invalidated the question of how a car would decide which pedestrian to hit in a crash. “We can see three football fields down the road,” he said. “We would come to a stop before we ran into these folks.”

He added that the software does have “a hierarchy of concern” about the relative vulnerability of other road users. Presumably, an awareness that humans are squishier than cars would at least direct it to take out a Prius before a pedestrian.

Tuesday evening, Krafcik cited another benefit. “Just a few of those cars provide a really good example for human drivers to follow,” he said, citing studies showing people drove better after the addition of autonomous cars.

When and how much

Waymo’s system represents a major advance over the semi-autonomous systems of Tesla (TSLA) and GM’s (GM) Cadillac subsidiary, both of which demand continued human attention. Krafcik said passengers quickly set aside hangups over needing to trust a computer completely — a Waymo clip shows Phoenix testers taking selfies and naps.

Waymo plans to have service in every major metropolitan area by 2028, with thousands of cars driving themselves by 2020.

Its rollout will begin across sunnier climates first, though. “Snow and ice are challenging for our current system.” Krafcik said Tuesday morning. For example, the car’s sensors don’t have defrosters, although the next revision will add them.

But even then, Krafcik cautioned that Waymo cars won’t be able to cope with the sort of weather — blizzards, torrential rain storms — that keep self-aware humans off the roads.

In the same vein, he asked that states refrain from regulating Waymo’s software more strictly than the human sort, notwithstanding anxiety about artificial intelligence. “Hold us to the same standards as human drivers,” he requested.

Waymo will offer these cars as a service, telling Carolla that a ride would cost about the same as an Uber or Lyft: “a couple of bucks a mile.”

Waymo has no plan to make or sell cars itself. “We’ve always considered ourselves, in this space, as enablers of the incumbents,” Krafcik said in the morning. For instance, Avis (CAR) and AutoNation (AN) help to maintain the company’s minivans. (net)

Since the road along the bridge to the south collapsed, there have been far less tourists visiting Tegunungan waterfalls.

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Tegenungan waterfalls management hopes that collpased road can be fixed soon

GIANYAR - Those who manage the Tegenungan waterfalls in Kemenuh village hope the collapsed road in Sukawati village that leads to the waterfalls can be repaired soon. “Currently the waterfalls can only be reached from Batuan”, said chief of Tegenungan, Gusti Raka, on Friday (Mar. 30).

Since the road along the bridge to the south collapsed, there have been far less tourists visiting Tegunungan waterfalls. “We have seen a decline of local visitors of about 50 percent. Usually many people come here for Banyupinaruh, but this yeas there were very few visitors”, he said. The number of foreign visitors has however remained stable at around 1,800 to 2,000 people per day.

The foreign tourists who visit the waterfalls are mostly part of organized tours that include watching the barong dance,

passing through Batuan then coming to the waterfalls after visiting Kintamani. These buses have been using the road north of Tegenungan”, he explained.

Nevertheless, Raka still hopes that the southern road to Tegenungan can be repaired soon and that a revetment will be put in place to prevent landslides in futur. “We hope the government can work on it as soon as possible”, he added.

Head of the Gianyar Public Works and Spatial Planning Agency (PUPR), Nyoman Nuadi, however explained that the road will not be able to be repaired in 2018 as the disaster that caused the damage occurred after the regional budget plan (APBD) allocations were decided. It will take too long to wait for the budget amendment. “The solution is to propose that the road be repaired using funds from the regional budget plan 2019. I have already submitted a proposal for

the repairs”, said Nuadi.

His agency also tried to coordinate with the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Gianyar to request a budget for raod repair from the central government because the damage was caused by a natural disaster. So far, his agency has applied for assistance to the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB). “If we do not receive funding from the central government, then we must rely in the main regional budget plan 2019”, he explained.

Based on the results of a survey conducted by the Public Works, the budget required for hate road repair is about IDR 40 billion. Since the damaged road is steep, the repairs must be made all the way to the bottom. Raka is asking the local community to be patient. “Please be patient, the government will definitely make repairs”, he said. (kmb35)

Maintaining the light of life in the digital age

Book launch for Jean Couteau’s Myth, Magic and Mystery in Bali

THIS year, Bali was once again rated amongst the very best tourist destinations in the world and even as the top destination by one large online site. To anyone who has visited the Island of the Gods this comes as no surprise as there seems to be no end of things to refresh the spirit, mind and body on this island of a thousand temples.

Although there are all manner of tourist facilities from the most luxurious to the most simple and ample beautiful places to visit and interesting things to do, it is not easy to explain just what it is that makes Bali so enjoyable.

When asked what he thinks makes Bali so appealing to so many people, tourist transport service provider and painter Pak RInula

responded by saying: “Here we call it tasku (divine vibration) I think it is because so many Balinese people are focused on maintaining the light of life that people just feel good here”.

Although many visitors may choose to visit Bali simply for the ease of general enjoyment offered by the tourism sector here, the unparalleled popularity of this island as a tourist destination is more likely thanks to what locals refer to as “tasku” - this vibration that touches the heart but which cannot itself be seen.

Within the present context of massive commercial development taking place in Bali as a bid to draw even more visitors to this enchanted island, it is perhaps worth explor-

ing what “maintaining the light of life” looks like is practice. Because, apart from the intrinsic value of taksu itself -without this light, it is unlikely that fancy hotels and high tech amusement alone will be able to compete for the interest of tourists.

Exploring this unique aspect of Bali is exactly what French writer, art critique and cultural investigator Jean Couteau has been doing for over 30 years. Art is clearly an important aspect of life in Bali as it relates to religious customs and general world view, however it is perhaps less the end product that attracts tourists and more the reason that so much art is produced here that in fact attracts visitors.

It is these unseen aspects of art in

Bali that Jean Couteau has been exploring and putting into beautifully strung together words for the last 3 decades.

Amongst many other written works, Couteau has been writing a monthly column for Bali Now magazine for the last ten years. PT. Phoenix Communications Publisher Alistari Spiers approached him with the idea of putting together a book of these writings as a way to share some of this valuable insight with a broader readership. Myth Magic and Mystery In Bali is the title of the book that brings together 25 of these articles along with photographs by Ida Bagus Putra Adnyana and paintings by I Ketut Budiana that together provide an invaluable glimpse into “how the

light of life” is maintained in Bali and also how it is challenged.

During the official book launch of Myth Magic and Mystery in Bali that took place on March 27th at Sudakara Art Space in Sanur, accompanied by an exhibition of photographs and paintings, Alistair Spiers explained that: “Bali Now chose to put together a relatively small book so that many people could have access to insight into fundamental aspects of Bali that may not be accessible to the casual visitor”. Bali Now, he said, generally seeks to portray the distinct culture of Bali in a way that promotes the unique values of the people of this island as the this is what makes Bali such a popular tourist attraction. (kmb)

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Perancak Temple

A battle to dismiss Ngurah Raksasa

PERANCAK Temple is located at the southern tip of Jembrana subdistrict, exactly on the coastal area of Perancak village.

This temple is one of the dang kahyangan temples or a temple to tribute ancient sages located in Bali. It is closely related to other similar temples in Jembrana such as the Rambutsiwi, Jati, Prapat Agung, and Majapahit Temple. Dhang Hyang Nirartha or Pedanda Sakti Wawu Rauh from Java Island when entering this area should fight against the powerful ruler of Tanjung Ketapang or Perancak at that time named I Gusti Ngurah Raksasa.

According to a number of literati and priests of Perancak Temple, the temple whose anniversary falls on Budha Umanis Medangsia

is inseparable from Dang Hyang Nirartha when came to Bali. Before Nirartha came to Jembrana, Perancak or Tanjung Ketapang had been

ruled by I Gusti Ngurah Raksasa.

On arrival at Perancak through the estuary of Perancak directly facing the southern sea, the ruler of Perancak, Gusti Ngurah Raksasa tested the ability of Dhang Hyang Nirartha.

He was asked to be subject to the rules that every immigrant had to obey, namely worshipping him manifested through the great stone of worship in the region. At that time, they mutually showed off the shakti power (magical power) as requested by Ngurah Raksasa and this was fulfilled by Nirartha.

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Perancak Temple

However, before completing the worship, the stone used as a shrine broke into pieces. After that, Ngurah Raksasa acknowledged the power of Dang Hyang Nirartha and the arrogant nature of the Perancak ruler finally dissolved.

Ngurah Raksasa then moved northward of the hill. Because of his presence, surrounding people then named the region as Sawe Raksasa until now. According to stories, the name Sawe was originally from the soul referred to Gusti Ngurah Raksasa, the predecessor of Perancak. Until these days, in the area of Perancak Temple is also built the Perancak Temple sanctum for the descendants of Ngurah Raksasa.

Additionally, there are two crocodile statues at the entrance to Perancak Temple. According to some temple priests at Perancak, the statue describes the situation of Perancak estuary at the time where swamps were filled with dozens of crocodiles. Formerly, the land of the current temple was a swamp area.

Bali government also helps secure the Perancak estuary from erosion by constructing revetment. In the temple area, there is also a Wajo well used for beji or source of holy water. Previously, the Perancak estuary was the entrance of immigrants including the Bugis sailors who sought to trade. They landed in the estuary and the well was used for their drinking water source. In order not to use salty or brackish water, the merchants from Wajo (South Sulawesi) also helped make the well. When the well was completed, the water was not salty

or brackish, whereas the well is located in the middle of the mouth of the river and the sea. Until now, based on the guidance of Dhang Hyang Nirartha the water is used as holy water source (beji).

Every temple anniversary (pujawali), six villages nearby are involved as supporting devotees (pengempon) of Perancak Temple, namely Perancak, Budeng, Air Kuning, Dangin Tukadaya and Sangkaragung. The Wajo well is taken advantage as holy water source needed during the ceremonies at local temple. Water for purificatory rite of ritual paraphernalia is also taken from the well located about 400 meters west of the Perancak Temple.

This area is also called Taman Temple (Beji Temple). Location of the temple has moved up to twice. Until now, in the outermost courtyard of the temple there are still some buildings that have not been built.

He also explained about the miracle on the pujawali several years ago coinciding with prolonged drought. At that time, the well water was dry, so that temple priests and ritual committee had been made confused because before the pujawali procession there must be a purificatory rite in the Wajo well. Finally, the ritual committee decided to carry water, but when the procession was carried out whereas the water had been carried with a bucket, a magical incident occurred where the well contained water. So, the water in the bucket prepared was not utilized. Strangely, once the ritual was over and the water was taken, the well dried out again. (olo)

Closer look at waste processing at Temesi landfill

GIANYAR - Thousands of cubic of garbage in Gianyar district are sent to Temesi landfill every day. Thankfully, the landfill has owned a Mitra Gianyar Bagus Waste Bank that processes waste into compost fertilizer.

Manager of Mitra Gianyar Bagus Waste Bank, I Wayan Cakra, said the waste bank was established in 2014 with the Decree of Gianyar Regent. The waste bank managed under the Pemilihan Sampah Temesi Foundation processes waste into compost every day. “Actually, composting has been going on since 2004. Well, this compost processing then developed into

a business unit of Mitra Gianyar Bagus Waste Bank,” he said.

Ironically, the garbage disposed to landfill has not been sorted out, between organic and non-organic.

So, his foundation must re-do the sorting by mobilizing 73 workers.

“Of the 73 people, 50 people are outsourcing workers of composting, while 23 others are local people of Temesi belonging to the worker of the waste bank,” he said.

Dozens of the workers do this every day by sorting out, namely conjuring up the organic waste into compost and non-organic waste is collected to be sold to the

waste bank. “Garbage in the form of plastic, cardboard and bottles is purchased by waste bank to be further sold to collectors from Java for recycling, while the organic waste is converted into compost and sold to the community,” he said.

In addition to being constrained by waste sorting, Cakra complained about harmful garbage that is difficult to be recycled such as tampon, pampers and spring bed. “They cannot be processed or recycled, so this type of garbage must be stockpiled in particular landfill at Temesi as they can damage the environment,” he said. (kmb35)

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Jimbaran Bay Beach Resort & Spa Supports beach cleanup activity

JIMBARAN Bay Beach Resort & Spa showed its care for the environment once again by carrying out another beach clean-up on Saturday (Mar. 31). All the staff members of the Jimbaran Bay Beach Resort & Spa, along with members of Kedonganan Beach fishermen and BPKP2K Kedonganan worked together to cleanup all the garbage on Kedonganan Beach..

The beach clean-up was a follow-up to the previous cleanup that was recently held in celebration of “National Waste Day” and aimed to created a clean and comfortable environment for visitors to the beach. Having a clean Bali has a positive impact on long-term- investment and promotes a positive image of Bali as a worthy tourist destination in the eyes of the world community. Bali’s beaches are currently considered to be in a state of emergency given the large amount of both

organic and non-organic garbage scattered on these beautiful shores which causes tourists to be uncomfortable.

The Jimbaran Bay Beach Resort & Spa will continue to conduct regular beach clean-ups on Kedonganan Beach with the assistance of heavy equipment provided by BPKP2K Kedonganan. “Hopefully this will help the government reach their goal of a waster-free Bali”, said Christian Gumala, General Manager of the Jimbaran Bay Beach Resort & Spa. Jimbaran Bay Beach Resort & Spa is the newest property managed by Prabu Management and was opened in June 2016.

It offers 118 elegant and comfortable rooms with 11 unique room types which are named after Balinese dances such as Manukrawa, Panyembrama, Trunajaya, Puspanjali, Condong, Gopala, Pendet, Legong, Legong Keraton, Janger and Kecak.

Located on the tranquil beachside, the resort is equipped

with a variety of luxurious and classy hotel facilities such as a large swimming pool with a bar, the Shark Restaurant offering Asian food and international food, Baruna Sky Lounge rooftop on the fifth floor with beautiful sunset view, The Lotus Spa offering a variety of body treatments and massages, the spacious Baroque ballroom and the Segara Meeting Room that is a comfortable place to hold formal or casual meetings. The resort is designed with a perfect blend of traditional Balinese and modern aesthetics.

Jimbaran Bay Beach Resort & Spa is located in Kedonganan village that is famous for its fishing activities and the beautiful Kedonganan white sandy beach. The resort is just 15 minutes from Ngurah Rai Airport and is perfect for a relaxing getaway or as a venue for hosting business meetings, wedding receptions, birthday parties and other special events.

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Why Meryl Streep won’t play Princess Leia in ‘Star Wars: Episode IX’

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Dwayne Johnson praised for opening up about his battle with depression: ‘I was crying constantly’ LOS ANGELES - Thanks to a slew of hit comedies, Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson has transitioned from pro wrestling tough guy to Hollywood teddy bear and beloved funnyman. Now he’s showing fans a different side.

In an interview with the Express, the action hero spoke candidly about his personal mental health struggles.

According to the Rampage star, his “absolute worst time” came after his dreams of pursuing a football career crumbled — he was cut from the Canadian Football League’s Calgary Stampeders in 1995 — and his girlfriend ended their relationship.

“Struggle and pain is real,” he said of that dark time. “I was devastated and depressed.

“I reached a point where I didn’t want to do a thing or go anywhere,” he added. “I was crying constantly.”

It’s not the first time Johnson has addressed mental health in his

family. In February, he posted an Instagram message detailing his mother Ata’s suicide attempt when he was 15.

“She got out of the car on Interstate 65 in Nashville and walked into oncoming traffic,” the 45-yearold actor told his fans. “Big rigs and cars were swerving out of the way. I grabbed her and pulled her back on the gravel shoulder of the road.”

Though he has now found success on both personal and professional levels — the father of two is expecting another child with longtime girlfriend Lauren Hashian, and is one of the highest-paid actors in the world — Johnson says it’s “important to not forget the tough times.“ “We both healed but we’ve always got to do our best to pay attention when other people are in pain,” he said about showing empathy to others in similar situations.

“We have to help them through it and remind them they are not alone.” (net)

LOS ANGELES - Meryl Streep is an actress who can seemingly resurrect any cultural icon, from Margaret Thatcher to Julia Child — but will Princess Leia be one of them? An online petition calling for the 21-time Oscar nominee to replace Carrie Fisher in Star Wars: Episode IX has gained a surprising amount of steam, with more than 8,900 supporters. The petition’s author, who goes by the handle Chill M, argues that the role of Leia is too important to be dropped in the final installment of the new Skywalker trilogy, even though Fisher (who created the role in 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope) died before shooting began.

“As the fans of Star Wars and Carrie Fisher, we really want Leia to shine in Episode IX and we certainly do not want her to be written out of the film abruptly without a reasonable plot,” writes the petition’s author. “Therefore, recasting Leia is a more ideal option for us and we believe that Meryl Streep is an ideal candidate to play Leia.”

The author’s argument is based both on Streep’s many accolades as an actress and her friendship with Fisher, plus the fact that she played a character based on Fisher in Postcards from the Edge, Mike Nichols’s adaptation of Fisher’s semiautobiographical novel.

Unfortunately for the petition’s supporters, Streep is not planning any trips to a galaxy far, far away.

A rep for Streep told Entertainment Tonight that rumors that she is in consideration for the role of Princess Leia are “untrue.” That’s no shock, considering that Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy has stated outright that Leia will not appear in Episode IX. Though the princess turned general was originally going to be a “really significant” part of the story, according to producer Kennedy, Fisher’s death necessitated script changes. “We pretty much started over,” she told Entertainment

Weekly in April of last year.

Granted, Episode IX has been through numerous script changes since Fisher’s death, as well as a change of director from Colin Trevorrow to J.J. Abrams of The Force Awakens. But such a weighty decision as Leia’s fate is unlikely to change from draft to draft. In addition to Kennedy’s assurance that Fisher will not appear in Episode IX, Disney CEO

Bob Iger has stated that Fisher will not be resurrected digitally (as her younger self was for Rogue One).

Recasting hasn’t officially been ruled out — but considering Fisher’s devoted fan base, the tragedy of her unexpected death, and the fact that she played Leia in five previous Star Wars movies, recasting the role would cause a controversy that Lucasfilm certainly isn’t interested in igniting. (net)

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Invalid votes take 2nd place in Egypt election

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi’s victory in last week’s election was never in doubt, but the vote produced a surprise runner-up — an unusually large number of invalid ballots, suggesting a possible protest vote against el-Sisi or the election itself. Official figures released Monday by the election commission gave el-Sisi 97 per cent of the vote, securing him a second, four-year term in office following an election in which he ran virtually unopposed. His sole challenger, Moussa Mustafa Moussa, a little-known politician who made no effort to challenge him, received 656,534 votes, or 2.92 per cent.

Moussa’s tally was outdone by the 1.76 million invalid ballots, which would have amounted to 7.27 per cent of votes cast, a considerably higher percentage than in the last two presidential elections: 4.07 per cent in 2014 and 3.1 per cent in the 2012 runoff.

Critics denounced the latest election as a farce because a string of potentially serious challengers were either forced out of the race or arrested. Moussa stepped in the last minute to spare the government the

embarrassment of a one-candidate election that would have resembled the referendums long held by the region’s autocrats.

Authorities went to great lengths to encourage turnout, hoping to lend the vote credibility. In the end, turnout was 41.05 per cent, down from 47.45 per cent when el-Sisi won his first election in 2014. Egypt’s Sisi cruising to reelection victory, but with lower voter turnout It’s impossible to know how

many voters deliberately spoiled their ballots. But some may have bristled at the lack of competition, or the election commission’s threat to impose a fine on anyone who boycotted the vote, under a law that has been rarely enforced.

“I had made up my mind not to vote, but I went to the polls at the last minute when they threatened to make us pay 500 pounds ($36) if we don’t,” said Mohammed Mustafa, an unemployed, 26-yearold university graduate from Cairo.

“I invalidated my vote because it was not really an election. El-Sisi knew he was going to win before it began.”

Imad Hussein, the editor of the Al-Shorouk newspaper and an elSisi supporter, said the president’s campaign should “quietly and thoroughly” study the significance of the spoiled ballots.

Safe protest vote “Those invalidators have sent a message that must be read and answered. We can say that we now have in Egypt a party called the ‘invalidators,’ who receive more votes than the leaders of existing political parties.”

Invalidating votes may have been seen as a relatively safe way to protest el-Sisi, who has waged

a sweeping crackdown on dissent and banned all unauthorized demonstrations. A string of potentially serious candidates were arrested or withdrew from the race, citing intimidation. A coalition of eight Egyptian opposition parties and some 150 pro-democracy public figures had called for a boycott of the vote, calling it an “absurdity” befitting “old and crude dictatorships.”

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