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Screen legend Diane Keaton opens up about age, marriage and Hollywood LOS ANGELES - Diane Keaton claims to be one of the fortunate ones: as the screen legend reflects on age, marriage, and nearly half a century of working in Hollywood, she says that she’s never felt sexually harassed.

“Never. Maybe I just wasn’t harassment material,” said Keaton, who has 68 screen credits since her 1970 debut in the comedy “Lovers and Other Strangers.”

The 72-year-old’s big screen appearances include “The Godfather” (1972) and its sequels, two “Father of the Bride” movies in the 1990s with Steve Martin and “Something’s Gotta Give” with Jack Nicholson (2003), for which she won a Golden Globe.

But the actress truly made her mark co-starring in eight Woody Allen movies, from “Play in Again Sam” (1972) to “Manhattan Murder Mystery” (1993).

She won her best actress Oscar for starring in “Annie Hall” (1977) with Allen and was nominated a further three times.

Keaton and Allen were lovers for a time, and when they broke up they remained friends and work partners.

As the Hollywood sexual harassment scandals detonated in late 2017, cascading from producer Harvey Weinstein to heavyweight actors like Kevin Spacey, old accusations of child sex abuse against Allen by his adoptive daughter Dylan resurfaced.

“Woody Allen is my friend and I continue to believe him,” Keaton tweeted in January 2018.

For all her confidence and bravado, Keaton preferred simply not to talk about the controversial actor and director -- and did not answer a question about whether she’d work with him again. (afp)

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Liverpool ‘giants’ stun Barca to make Champions League final Vincenzo PINTO / AFP

Actors impersonating Star Wars movie’s characters pose on the Rome’s Spanish Steps during an event to mark the Star Wars Day in Rome on May 4, 2019.

Disney sets dates for next three ‘Star Wars’ films from 2022

LOS ANGELES - Following its merger with Fox, Disney on Tuesday sketched out its future plans for two of its most towering franchises -- the “Star Wars” saga and “Avatar.”

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(L-R) Pam Grier, Diane Keaton and Celia Weston attend the premiere of STX’s “Poms” at Regal LA Live on May 01, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.

Three new as-yet untitled “Star Wars” films will hit the big screen every other year just before Christmas starting in 2022, the megastudio announced.

That means that there could be a three-year wait between the December release of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” the final film in the original series begun in 1977, and the next big-screen “Star Wars” flick.

Several “Star Wars” projects are in the works, including a trilogy

by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the creators of HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” and a separate trilogy by “Last Jedi” director Rian Johnson.

A spokeswoman for Disney, contacted by AFP, did not offer ad-

ditional details about the upcoming scheduled films, which will expand upon the cinematic universe created by George Lucas.

Disney paid $4 billion for Lucasfilm in 2012.

In September last year, Disney CEO Bob Iger admitted after the lackluster performance of “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” a one-off film in the franchise, that the “Star Wars” release schedule was too frenetic.

After six films in 38 years, from 1977 to 2005, the rhythm had picked up considerably.

A total of four films came in rapid succession, from the release of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” in 2015 to “Solo” in May 2018.

“I made the timing decision, and as I look back, I think the mistake

that I made -- I take the blame -- was a little too much, too fast,” Iger told The Hollywood Reporter last year. Meanwhile, the studio pushed back its plans for the next films in director James Cameron’s uber-successful “Avatar” franchise -- one of the biggest prizes for Disney in the Fox merger.

“Avatar 2” will come a year later than expected in December 2021, followed by “Avatar 3” in 2023, “Avatar 4” in 2025 and “Avatar 5” in 2027.

“Avatar” remains the top-grossing film of all time, with $2.79 billion in worldwide box office sales, but superhero extravaganza “Avengers: Endgame” is hot on its heels at $2.24 billion and rapidly climbing. (afp)

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Liverpool produced one of the most stunning comebacks in Champions League history to beat Barcelona 4-0 and progress to the final for the second consecutive year on Tuesday as stand-in striker Divock Origi and substitute Georginio Wijnaldum both scored twice.

Liverpool went into the match at Anfield trailing 3-0 from the first leg and deprived of injured star attacking duo Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino.

However, Origi -- making a rare start -- and substitute Wijnaldum both netted twice as Barca for the second season in succession surrendered a three-goal first-leg lead to exit the Champions League.

“With any other team I wouldn’t think it was possible. They are really mentality giants,” Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said.

“It is unbelievable the season we had, the games we had, the injuries we had now.

“Going out there and putting in a performance like this on the pitch is unbelievable.

I am really

proud to be the manager of this team. “What they did tonight was really special. I will remember it forever.” Liverpool will face either Dutch side Ajax or Premier League rivals Tottenham in the final on June 1 in Madrid and will likely be favourites to be crowned European champions for the sixth time.

The Reds’ stunning victory brought back memories of when they last lifted the trophy in 2005 when they overturned a 3-0 halftime deficit in the final against AC Milan in Istanbul.

However, Klopp underlined the importance of his side writing their own history even if their bid for a first Premier League title for 29 years falls short behind Manchester City this weekend.

“We believed in this chance, we didn’t compare it with Istanbul or whatever,” added Klopp. “We want to create our own history. We need new chapters obviously and the boys did it.” Despite the despondency of losing Salah and Firmino, Klopp’s men never lost faith and were accompanied by a typically raucous Anfield atmosphere for a European night. Origi would almost certainly not have started had Salah and Firmino been fit.

But the 24-year-old Belgian has made a habit of scoring important goals in Liverpool’s title challenge and had his first ever in the Champions League on seven minutes on the rebound after Marc-Andre ter Stegen had denied Jordan Henderson’s initial effort.

“We know this club is the mix of atmosphere, emotion, desire and football quality. You cut off one

and it doesn’t work, we know that,” Klopp said.

“This club has a big heart. The heart was pounding like crazy, you could hear it and feel it all over the world. I am so happy we could give the people this experience.”

- Barca collapse again Barcelona boss Ernesto Valverdewas left to face up to the second major European embarrassment of his time in charge. The Spanish champions blew a 4-1 first-leg lead to bow out at the quarter-finals against Roma last year.

“The most hurtful thing is to repeat it,” said Valverde, who may struggle to hold on to his job despite guiding Barca to two La Liga titles.

“When you have a collapse of this nature we will have a few horrible days ahead.” His side were left to rue not taking their chances in the first half after weathering Liverpool’s early burst.

Lionel Messi had seemingly turned the tie in the Catalans’ favour late in the first leg with a brilliant free-kick and his first effort was tipped over by Alisson Becker before the Brazilian denied his international teammate Philippe Coutinho.

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Liverpool’s Dutch midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum (C) celebrates after scoring their third goal during the UEFA Champions league semi-final second leg football match between Liverpool and Barcelona at Anfield in Liverpool, north west England on May 7, 2019.

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Bali’s economy grows negatively

Only 4 out of 13 business sectors grow positively

DENPASAR - Bali’s economy grew 5.94 percent in the first quarter of 2019 (yoy). Meanwhile, in quarter to quarter it grew negatively (-1.51 percent) because most of the business sectors in the first quarter of 2019 compared to the previous quarter did not show the best performance. Of the 13 business sectors, only 4 business sector showed positive growth.

Division Head of Regional Balance Sheet and Statistical Analysis at the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali Province, Agus Gede Hendrayana, said that in the first quarter of 2019 Bali’s economy had indeed grown negatively compared to the fourth quarter of 2018 because it had not been peak season. “The first quarter indeed tends to be minus except for the first quarter of 2018, where the number has increased,” he said on Monday (May 6).

Considering that Bali’s economy is dominated by tourism, its growth is inseparable from tourist visits both domestic tourists and foreign tourists. In the meantime, in the first quarter of 2019, Bali tourism sector only grew 3 percent, different from the previous year in which it grew a dozen percent.

Aside from tourism, the other sector whose contribution is large enough to the economy of Bali is agriculture. However, in the first quarter, the growth was negative because rice plants also grew declining whereas they usually grew quite well in the first quarter.

Air transportation also has a major contribution to the Bali’s economy because of air transportation tourists can go in and out of Bali. It is noted that international arrivals have grown quite well, but domestic arrivals are not as good as the first quarter of 2018 (yoy).

Of the 13 business sectors, only 5 sectors were positive, namely financial and insurance services, the highest growth was 4.15 percent, the manufacturing industry grew 2.58 percent, information and communication grew 1.28 percent, health services sector and social activities. “Actually, in the previous several quarters, the financial and insurance services business sector recorded a slowing growth, and in the first quarter of 2019 (qtq) is recorded to face the highest growth,” he added. In the meantime, in year-of-year, 3 business sectors experienced growth namely processing industry, government administration and construction.

In addition to economic growth, BPS also released the unemployment rate in Bali. Head of BPS Bali, Adi Nugroho, added that open unemployment rate in Bali based on the February 2019 national labor force survey is 1.19 percent.

“There is only about 1 person unemployment among the 100 workforce,” he said during the official release of statistics on Monday (May 6). The workforce is a population aged 10 years and over who is ready to get a job.

This unemployment rate increased 0.86 percent when compared to February 2018 (yoy). “Bali’s unemployment rate is less than 1 per 100 workforces, but now it has increased 1.19 percent,” he added.

This unemployment rate is dominated by graduates of vocational school (SMK), Diploma I, II, and III, each of which are 2.01 percent and 2.86 percent. Meanwhile, the business sector that absorbs the most labor is agriculture, with the percentage of 21.64 followed by trade of 18.22 percent.

The absorption of labor from the trade business sector has also decreased due to switching to work in the agricultural sector. (kmb42)

PHDI to invite community leaders and high priests

BANGLI - Pros and cons in the community related to the plan of the regent of Bangli to make marigold as the mascot of Bangli district returns to emerge. This was following the implementation of the Focus Group Discussion (FGD) to finalize the plan for making the mascot on Monday (May 6).

Responding to the pros and cons related to the selection of the mascot in the community, Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) of Bangli Chapter specifically plans to hold a meeting by involving Brahmin priest (sulinggih), temple priests, and community leaders.

Chairman of PHDI Bangli, Nyoman Sukra, revealed on Tuesday (May 7) that so far it had received a lot of input from the Bangli community regarding the mascot of Bangli. Inputs coming through WhatsApp as well as social media tend to disagree with the reason for choosing marigold as Bangli’s

mascot. To prevent the pros and cons from dragging on in the community, he also took the initiative to hold a meeting with the leaders so as to get input officially. “Later on, we will make this input into a basis for providing recommendations to the regent of Bangli,” he said.

Sukra said that a district mascot must be able to arouse the enthusiasm and pride of the community. “Now, before officially appointing the mascot, we have been laughed at, used to make fun and we are harassed. Prior to deciding, it has given impression like that. What happens if it has been decided? We are worried that Bangli people will be getting apprehensive, not proud of, but they even become insecure,” he said.

Furthermore, he said while attending the FGD at the office of Bangli regent last Monday, Sukra claimed that he had given many inputs regarding the selection of mascot. According to him, the yel-

low marigold does not match with Bangli. Philosophically, Bangli tends to be black. “Yellow color is suitable for the west direction. In Bangli, the color is black. So, we are proud of the black clothes and red hibiscus,” he said.

Although hibiscus has been used as the mascot of Gianyar, Sukra said it is still possible for Bangli to use red hibiscus. Alternatively, if Bangli cannot use red hibiscus, according to him Bangli can still use water lily as the flower mascot of Bangli.

“Water lily is suitable because it fits the life of the Bangli community.

It is grappling from under the mud and penetrating the water to provide balance. So, our life has three dimensional aspects. Thus, it has a philosophy,” he explained.

Sukra also disagreed with the selection of marigold as the mascot because this flower grows fast and easily goes faded as well. He did not want the Bangli community is like

that. Besides, according to literature not all marigolds can be used for saying prayers at temples. Moreover, there is a prohibition of using marigold to sprinkle holy water.

According to him, if it does not have to use flower as the mascot, it is better for the Bangli district to choose Kintamani dogs as the mascot.

Not much different opinion is also conveyed by a humanist from Susut, Bangli, I Gede Agus Darma Putra. He said the Hindu Youth Association (Peradah) facilitated by the Bangli House of Representatives a few months ago actually had the chance to hold discussion regarding the selection of a suitable mascot for Bangli. In the discussion, a proposal emerged to use water lily as the mascot of Bangli.

In addition to water lily, a proposal also appeared for the use of red bellyache bush. Darma Putra said that historically, according to the previous parents’ narrative,

Bangli was once filled with red bellyache bush. “So that, in my opinion, this flower is representative to be chosen for the mascot. If we have to really choose flower for the mascot,” explained the man who is also a lecturer at the IHDN Bangli.

He said that when making a mascot, the government is advised to choose something that has high philosophical value. In addition to flowers, another option that can be used is mountain, lake or Kintamani dog. “If we really must choose a flower, we can use water lily or red bellyache bush. In addition to flowers, we can use mountains, lakes or Kintamani dogs that are characteristic of Bangli.

However, it will have an impact technically namely the difficulties in making the dance and its philosophical explanation in order to become logical. The problem is only in the explanation,” he added. (kmb40)

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INTERCONTINENTAL BALI RESORT UNVEILS THE SUNSET COCKTAIL COLLECTION BY GRÉTAR MATTHIASSON

Sunset Beach Bar & Grill at InterContinental Bali Resort has teamed with up with 2018 International Bartenders Association in Short Cocktails, Grétar Matthiasson, to create the exclusive Sunset Cocktails Collection. Taking inspiration from the abundance of tropical fruit on the island as well as selected ingredients from his native country of Iceland, Grétar crafted unique delectable drinks with a global twist.

The mixology artist has invigorated the cocktail mix category with its high-quality standards following three principles: Eliminating high

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fructose syrup and unnecessary artificial ingredients; using natural fruits and juices; and developing perfectly balanced flavour profiles.

The drinks also feature lighter spirits like rum and tequila that incorporate fruity and fizzy mixers as well as fresh herbs like mint and basil. Packaged in artfully designed glasses, the mixes and ingredients are available at an accessible price point.

The Sunset Cocktails Collection and their curated mixes and bar ingredients include: 1) Perfect Pineapple: tropical adaptation of his award winning

cocktail (perfect peach) at the IBA world championships in 2018.

2) Green Monkey: Inspired by the monkey statues around InterContinental Bali Resort and lush greenery of Bali, and using one of Grétar’s favorite ingredients: basil.

3) Flowers on the Beach: crafted with the palate of ladies in mind, this cocktail is made of aromatic fruits, garnished with tropical flowers and served in a beautiful this stem martini glass.

4) Watermelon Forest: A simple cocktail with refreshment in mind.

Grétar added a twist with bourbon whisky instead of the commonly

used combination of rum. Served in a bamboo highball and garnished with plenty of mint, turn this cocktail into a tropical forest 5) Passion to Fashion: passion fruit has become extremely popular in his native Iceland, as the tropical flavor help the people escape the long winters. Slight bitterness of Amaretto (almond liqueur) gives this drink the elegance of the dominant sweet & sour flavor of the fruit. Served in an Oaked chardonnay to bring out the aromatics of Balinese passion fruit.

6) Spicy Mary: Originally conceived as a Christmas cocktail, it

turned out to be one of Grétar’s most popular recipes over the years.

It’s herbal, aromatic and fresh so goes well with all occasion.

“Bartending and making my own recipes is one of my biggest passions – followed closely by cooking. These two hobbies go really well together. I’m thrilled to work with the team at Sunset Bar at InterContinental Bali Resort to create this special cocktails collection and we certainly hope that people will like it”, said Grétar.

The cocktails collection is now available at Sunset Beach Bar & Grill, InterContinental Bali Resort.

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Sunscreens may enter bloodstream, but health effect unknown, study finds

SEVERAL active ingredients in popular sunscreens are absorbed into the body rather than just sitting on the skin, a new government study finds.

In a Food and Drug Administration experiment, researchers determined that far higher levels of these ingredients are absorbed into people’s systems than the amount considered benign enough to avoid safety testing — in some cases, as much as 40 times higher than the threshold amount, according to the study published in JAMA. At present, no one knows whether the chemicals tested by the FDA are harmful when there is systemic exposure, the researchers noted. Their study included a request to manufacturers to study the safety of the chemicals. The four ingredients in question are avobenzone, oxybenzone, octocrylene and ecamsule. The FDA recently said that the four chemicals needed to be researched by manufacturers before they were considered generally safe and effective.

“Just because they are absorbed doesn’t mean they are unsafe,” said study coauthor Dr. Theresa Michele, director of the division of nonprescription drug products at the FDA. “That’s why we are asking for additional data.”

The new study isn’t the first to suggest that sunscreen ingredients might find their way into the body from the skin. There have been

reports of these chemicals being found in breast milk.

While waiting for studies to be done on the chemicals in question, Michele recommends that people continue to protect their skin from the sun. The active ingredients in sunscreens protect the skin by reflecting, absorbing, and/or scattering ultraviolet radiation.

“These products are used to prevent skin cancer,” Michele said.

“It’s very important from a public health perspective that people use them, especially as skin cancer rates are increasing. Right now, we know that there are benefits from these products and we don’t know if there are any harms.”

Michele also encourages that people use other methods in addition to sunscreen to protect their skin from sun exposure. People “need to use sunscreen with other sun protecting measures, such as wearing protective clothing and sunglasses and staying out of the sun at peak hours,” she said.

Before the new study, no one knew the level of systemic exposure resulting from sunscreen use.

To address that question, Michele and her colleagues recruited 24 healthy volunteers who were randomly assigned to receive one of

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Several active ingredients in popular sunscreens are absorbed into the body rather than just sitting on the skin, a new government study finds.

four sunscreens, which included two sprays, one lotion and one cream.

The volunteers were asked to slather the sunscreen on all parts of the body that would not be covered by a swimsuit four times a day for four days, a regimen that reflects the instructions on sunscreen labels. Over a period of seven days, 30 blood samples were collected from each volunteer.

In order for sunscreen companies to avoid safety testing of the chemicals in their products, no more than 0.5 ng/mL of the active ingredients can be absorbed into the body. When the researchers analyzed the amount of these chemicals in the blood samples, they found all at higher levels than that threshold. The biggest difference was for oxybenzone, which was found to exceed 20ng/mL on day seven of the study.

Because no one knows how systemic absorption of the active ingredients in sunscreen might affect health, experts weren’t sure how to counsel patients who might be worried about their impact.

“All four of the sunscreens in all formulations were absorbed at higher levels than the threshold,” said Dr. Emily Newsom, an assistant clinical professor of dermatology at the University of California, Los Angeles. “At this point, we’re not sure what that means.”

What we do know is that UV rays damage the skin and the risk of skin cancer is higher without sunscreen, Newsom said. “So sunscreen should still be used given the epidemic of UV-related skin cancer,” she said. “Our concern is that the public will hear this and stop protecting their skin from sun damage.”

Just because these chemicals have been shown to be absorbed into the body doesn’t mean they are causing harm, according to Elizabeth Platz, a professor, and Dr. Martin D. Abeloff, a scholar in cancer prevention and the deputy chair of the department of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

That’s why there’s been a call for studies that will investigate the impact of the chemicals when they are absorbed systemically, Platz said. (net)

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Taking selfie on Devil Tear cliff of Lembongan

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The flesh-eating bacteria is commonly found in water, which is why doctors tell people to remove their contacts before hopping in the shower or a swimming pool.

Eye doctor shares graphic pictures to warn against sleeping in contacts

THE last thing most people want to do is get out of bed and take out their contacts, but stomachchurning photos of an eye ulcer that developed after one person slept with soft contact lenses in might change your mind.

The pictures, which have been viewed over 30 million times, were posted to Facebook by Dr. Patrick Vollmer, an ophthalmologist at the Vita Eye Clinic in Shelby, North Carolina.

Volmer explains that the patient developed a pseudomonas bacterial infection that lead to an ulcer.

The condition described is called contact lens-related Pseudomonas keratitisis, an inflammation of the cornea. It is a medical emergency and can cause permanent blindness if not treated immediately with antibiotics.

“Despite treatment, the patient is very likely to suffer some loss of vision,” Volmer said.

The Pseudomonas microbe is present everywhere, mainly in soil, plants, animals and water. It likes warm, moist environments and tends to infect people with compromised immune systems, though any healthy individual can become infected under the right circumstances.

The flesh-eating bacteria is commonly found in water, which is why doctors tell people to remove their contacts before hopping in the shower or a swimming pool.

“I don’t ever recommend sleeping in any brand of SOFT contact lenses. The risks outweigh the benefits every time,” Vollmer said on Facebook. “It takes seconds to remove your contacts but a potential lifetime of irreversible damage if you choose to leave them in.

People need to see these images and remind themselves/family/ friends to also be aware of contact lens misuse.”

Around a third of people who wear contact lenses have reported sleeping or napping in them. People

who do have six to eight times the risk of developing eye infections, according to an Aug. 16 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The design of contact lenses makes it easier for people to develop infections. Contacts need to lay directly on the eye, but this allows bacteria and viruses to easily become trapped. When people don’t take their contacts out, the germs fester. Sleeping in contacts prevents the eye from being able heal itself.

“Although extended wear contact lenses are safer for continuous use overnight then they were years ago, they can still set up the eye for troublesome and even damaging infections if worn while sleeping,” said Dr. John Torres, NBC News’ medical correspondent. “Manufacturers and the FDA have approved some contacts for overnight use, but many eye doctors recommend removing them before going to bed anyway to prevent any of these issues.”

“If left in overnight, it’s very important to follow the manufacturer’s direction for cleaning and disposing of the lenses carefully and to follow up with your eye doctor if you notice any pain, discharge, redness or vision changes,” Torres added.

Some lenses are approved by the Food and Drug Administration for overnight wear, but even those are associated with an increased risk for infection when worn overnight.

These overnight-wear lenses are considered class 3 medical devices, those that have the greatest risk of harm.

Pseudomonas infections are rare and may not represent the typical infections most eye doctors see.

Emergency eye infections occur in 1 in every 500 contact lens users.

For context, an estimated 45 million Americans wear contact lenses according to the CDC. (net)

An Indian tourist vanishes after being dragged by waves

SEMARAPURA — Ferocious waves around the Batu Belek Cliff or known by tourists as the Devil Tear, Kawan hamlet, Lembongan, Nusa Penida, returned to claim casualty on Tuesday (May 7). A foreign tourist from India, Kausal Aditya, 24, immediately disappeared from the top of the cliff after being struck by the fierce waves rising up the cliff.

A search effort has been made, but until Tuesday afternoon it was fruitless.

Spokesman of Klungkung Police, I Putu Gede Ardana, delivered that victim with his friend Agrawal Kshitiz, 31, was temporarily staying at Villa Kusuma Abianta Lembongan.

After arriving at the place by motorbike, they took selfie on the edge of the Devil Tear Cliff Lembongan village, around 10:20. Cliff expanse at the location has indeed become one of the favorite spots for taking photos.

Suddenly a big wave crashed him from behind to make the victim fall down and was then dragged by sea current.

Some other residents were shocked by the incident. The victim appeared several times on the sea surface. However, he later sank. “Other residents at that time were not able to provide help because the cliffs are steep and the waves are big,” he said, while saying Kshitiz could survive.

To find the victim, a member of the Nusa Penida Water Police at Jungut Batu, Nengah Sukarma, immediately con-

tacted the Denpasar Search and Rescue Office. According to the information obtained from one of the witnesses, Ketut Sudiarsa, 31, a resident of Jungut Batu who saw the incident, Agrawal Kshitiz survived and only suffered minor injuries.

He was immediately taken to East Medical Care at Lembongan to get medical treatment due to injuries. Meanwhile, Kausal Aditya increasingly dragged into the sea. The witness said the victim had surfaced and then sank and disappeared.

Following the report, Head of the Denpasar Search and Rescue Office, Hari Adi Purnomo, through Section Head of Operations dan Alert, Ida Bagus Surya Wiryawan, ordered 1 Rescue Post Team for the Nusa Penida Alert Unit and 1 Rescue Team from the Denpasar SAR Office to use the RIB (Rigid Inflatable Boat) to conduct a search. The team moved from Benoa Harbor directly to Nusa Lembongan waters and combed around the scene of the incident up to a temporary radius of about 1-2 nautical miles.

Section Head of Operation and Alert who directly led the SAR operation stated that until 18:00 the search results for foreigner with the Passport Number K8042740 remained nil, while the search for him was suspended because it was dark. “Weather situation in the field is quite supportive.

Unfortunately, the RIB could not get too close to the edge of the cliff because there are many sharp corals,” he said.

Devil Tear’s coastal slope located adjacent to Dream Beach tourist attraction has claimed quite a lot fatality because big waves often come suddenly while at the beginning

it is very calm. Ardana asked tourists and other residents to be more careful when they are in that place. Don’t get too close to the edge of the cliff, so as not to endanger yourself for taking selfie. (kmb31)

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Tourists and other residents asked to be more careful when they are in Devil Tear’s coastal slope.

Don’t get too close to the edge of the cliff.

Bridge collapses, three Subak Palian members get buried One survives and two killed

TABANAN — Three members of Subak Palian, Puseh hamlet, Perean, Baturiti, plunged into the river and were buried by bridge material which was broken down while being backfilled on Tuesday (May 7). One person survived because he was only half buried, while two others were killed. Moreover, the evacuation process of one of the victims took around five hours because the position of the victim was buried unknown. Material of the broken bridge is in the form of reinforced concrete and mud.

The three victims, I Made Budi,

50, and I Ketut Sudana, 50, were killed, while I Wayan Dampuk, 60, survived and suffered abrasions on the legs.

As seen in the field, evacuation could only be done manually, even heavy equipment brought in must return because it could not reach the scene. The evacuation process was also assisted by the Bali Police Headquarters team carrying concrete breakers, assisted by TRC of Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Tabanan, Indonesian Military and National Police and local residents. Members of

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Three members of Subak Palian, Puseh hamlet, Perean, Baturiti, plunged into the river and were buried by bridge material which was broken down while being backfilled.

the local subak seemed to fill the scene to take a closer look at the evacuation process of one of their colleagues.

Like I Nyoman Riyem, 70, a member of Subak Palian who claimed to be almost a victim, recounted that before the incident, the member of Subak Palian had done mutual assistance since 7:30 to backfill the bridge. The bridge is indeed being repaired and elevated by about one meter by means of landfill first because the previous condition of the bridge decreased and had sharp corners. Having worked for thirty minutes, suddenly the middle of the bridge broke down and collapsed. Three residents working at the top of the bridge at that time immediately plunged and were crushed by the material.

Meanwhile, the others could save themselves. Other residents immediately took help manually.

Riyem said that condition of the bridge collapsed very deeply and caused only two people who dared to go down to evacuate before the BPBD and police officers arrived.

“At first, all residents helped Ketut Sudana, who only saw off his hands, and later Wayan Dampuk

because he was only half buried, but unfortunately Sudana died on the way to the Semara Ratih Hospital,” he said.

From the narrative of a number of subak members, the bridge connecting Puseh hamlet Perean to the Bunyuh hamlet, Perean, located in west of Dayang Temple was built around 2008, and was repaired in 2012 with a bridge length of approximately 6.30 meters, and broke down about 3 meters. The iron used to make the bridge is very small, sizing around 10 tests and is minimal with a distance of about 10 cm. Likewise the concrete bridge is very thin with a thickness of about 5 cm, while the soil load of the backfill is too heavy with a thickness of about 50 cm. And the night before the incident, he said, there was quite heavy rain at Perean village and the land under the bridge was suspected of being unstable.

Headman of Perean, I Nyoman Sunantra, admitted to feel devastated by the disaster having befallen the residents of his village. Moreover, the enthusiasm of subak members in the community service activities to repair bridges is very high for three days. “Since

this is self-supporting, we involved residents to repair the bridge, seeing the sharp cornering condition it is going to be raised in order to be slightly flat. Unfortunately, a disaster seemed to come,” he said.

Meanwhile, the sobs of the family of I Made Budi were broken when the victim who was finally evacuated at 12:30 and taken to funeral home. The victim’s wife, Ni Made Nyadri, could not see the body of her husband who had been lying rigidly. She even fainted.

Not only the family, the subak members and customary villagers have also been waiting for the bodies to arrive at funeral home.

Many residents even participated in the bathing process of the victims’ bodies remaining to be filled with mud. After cleaning, Budi’s body was finally taken to Bale Dangin.

On that occasion, the Head of the Tabanan Social Service, I Nyoman Gede Gunawan, accompanied by the Head of BPBD Tabanan, Gusti Sucita, visited the homes of residents who were victims of the broken bridge at the village one by one. In addition to the form of condolence, the relevant ranks also handed over assistance to the families of the victims. (kmb28)

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Portrait on overloaded Kerobokan Prison

Iceland turns carbon dioxide to rock for cleaner air

Overcapacity up to 1367 occupants, a block averagely occupied by 120 people

SMALL kampong or the miniature of the outside world is now synonymous with the occupancy of the Kerobokan Prison.

In the largest prison in Bali, as of May 6, 2019, it is inhabited by 1,690 people. They have the status as detainees and inmates.

Looking at these figures, of course the outside community will think whether the Kerobokan Prison can accommodate the totally 1,690 detainees and inmates.

The area of Kerobokan Prison is currently around 3.8 hectares. In addition to office buildings, there are square, hospital, places of worship, and other public facilities. Chief of Kerobokan Prison, Tonny Nainggolan, stated on Tuesday (May 7) that currently the prison has 14 blocks with 122 rooms. If calculated, each room is occupied by 13 people, or one block is occupied by 120 people. Indeed it is apprehensive because when it was confirmed about the capacity of Kerobokan Prison, Chief Nainggolan said that Kerobokan Prison only has the capacity of 323 people. In conclusion, it is now in overcapacity as inhabited by up to 1,367 people.

All this time, Kerobokan Prison receives many gossips almost every week regarding the guards getting involved in drugs, prohibited goods coming into prison, and the arrest of drug offenders claiming that their distributors are from inside the prison, not to mention mobile phones can get into prisons, and other classic problems. The risk is indeed unavoidable by Tony Nainggolan.

He has tried to conduct supervision to carry out inspection at all times by inviting police, Indonesian Military, National Narcotics Agency (BNN) and other external parties. Chief of prison has agreed with one goal that

drugs must be eradicated and those involved are imprisoned.

Unfortunately, sometimes the warden is also fooled. This is indisputable with the finding of items that are not feasible in prison. To oversee the 1,690 detainees and prisoners, currently there are 149 employees at Kerobokan Prison. But they must be divided into several shifts because the Kerobokan Prison is guarded 24 hours a day. According to Chief Tonny Nainggolan, the number of guarding teams for each shift involves 16 people. “Three officers are on duty at the main door,” he explained.

As seen, indeed the guarding at the prison is very tight. Examination is using a machine and done manually. Visitors are even not allowed to bring along items into the prison.

The procedures, at first visitors must be recorded administratively (clear identity). Secondly, when entering they must pass the inspection with a detector machine. Luggage must pass through the engine, like when entering the airport. And after passing the engine, visitors are not able to directly jump, but pass through two more gates and it is guarded by officers and checked again manually. If visitors are carrying an item, it must be entrusted and they are given an identity card. But the fact is that from super tight supervision, there

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Kerobokan Prison are still people that have escaped.

Due to limited number of officers is not comparable to the number of prisoners and detainees, Kerobokan Prison then tries to find a solution by transferring prisoners or often referred to as relocation.

Chief of Kerobokan Prison, Tonny Nainggolan, accompanied

by Section Head for the Coaching of Prisoners, Ni Putu Nyoman Budi Utami, said that during 2019, from January to May 6, 2019, her party had ‘screened’ 146 prisoners. Ten inmates screened were relocated to Nusa Kambangan Prison, while the rest are in other prisons.

Now, there are only 1,690 people left (data as of May 6, 2019). Of these,

732 are detainees and 958 others are inmates. Of that number, 887 people were sentenced to more than one year and five people were sentenced to life. Currently, the Kerobokan Prison has no death row inmates and no terrorism convicts. The occupants are mostly those getting involved in drug cases reaching 1,071 people with 422 detainees and 649 inmates. The second was followed by theft cases reaching 279 people, embezzlement of 63 people, protection of 51 people, murder cases of 38 people, the rest are corruption, health cases, domestic violence, gambling, decency, robbery etc. (see table).

Still from the Kerobokan Prison, the ‘community’ or the inmates are

not necessarily occupied by indigenous people but there are also some foreigners in Kerobokan Prison.

Their number reaches 80 foreigners. They are mostly involved in drug cases, and other crimes such as skimming. In terms of age, the 1,680 inmates of Kerobokan Prison are adults, and 10 are children. Every major holiday (religious day) and national day like August 17, Kerobokan Prison usually proposes remission for inmates that have showed off good behavior. In terms of religion, 42 people are Buddhists, Islam (780), Hindu (578); Catholics (99), Protestants (160), Confucius (1), and the rest have not yet recorded. (asa)

14 hospitals propose claim of more than IDR 4.2 billion

Only IDR 883 million recommended by BPKP

DENPASAR - The handling of refugees from the Mount Agung eruption left problems. Primarily, it is related to hospital claims that have not been paid since 2017. During emergency response condition, hospitals are indeed asked to serve sick refugees by free of charge.

“I also received a claim letter from Sanjiwani Hospital of Gianyar yesterday. Actually, when it comes to handle refugees in the category of sickness that we submit or delegate to some hospitals, it is actually in an emergency response condition,” said the Head of the BPBD Bali, I Made Rentin, when confirmed on Tuesday (May 7).

According to the rules in disaster

management, Rentin continued, when there is an emergency response statement, the funds used are on call or ready-to-use funds (DSP). Since there are still payment obligations during the current normal conditions, his agency must coordinate and report back to the BNPB. Besides, it is also coordinated with the BPBD Karangasem because the emergency response decision was issued by the Regent of Karangasem.

“The process when we still have arrears, we need to sit together. In other words, who has the obligation? When we use the rules in an emergency response position, of course the time has passed,” he

explained.

According to Rentin, there are 14 hospitals applied for claims for health care costs for victims of the Mount Agung eruption. The total claims submitted during the period September 2017 to February 2018 reached IDR 4,207,077,402. However, only IDR 883,022,800 which according to the review results of the BPKP can be believed to be truth and can be submitted as a ready-touse fund (DSP) to National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB). The remainder is corrected because the patient data are not equipped with a unique NIK of IDR 1,319,275,701, health cost claims beyond the emergency response period amounted

to IDR 1,773,960,901, and there are non-refugee patients from disaster-prone areas (KRB) of IDR 230,818,000.

“Proposal for a health claim application according to the recommendation of the Bali Representative of BPKP (amounting to IDR 883 million—Ed) has been submitted by BPBD Karangasem to BNPB. The rest will be discussed in the meeting on May 14 together by the Karangasem government,” he added.

Meanwhile, the 14 hospitals filing the claim applications are Karangasem Hospital, Klungkung Hospital, Wangaya Hospital, Sanglah Hospital, Bali Mental Hospi-

tal, Bangli Hospital, Mangusada Hospital, Sanjiwani Hospital, Tabanan Hospital, Negara Hospital, Buleleng Hospital, Kerta Usada Hospital, Ari Canti Hospital, and Bhayangkara Trijata Hospital.

At least, there are 5 hospitals having zero claims after being corrected by the BPKP. They are Bali Mental Hospital with initial claims of IDR 440,470,800; Negara Hospital with initial claims of IDR 5,773,400; Kerta Usada Hospital with initial claims of IDR 3,991,200; Ari Canti Hospital with initial claims of IDR 6,704,000, and Bhayangkara Trijata Hospital with an initial claim of IDR 3,949,200. (kmb32)

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New space race to bring satellite internet to the world

WASHINGTON - Anxiety has set in across the space industry ever since the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, revealed Project Kuiper: a plan to put 3,236 satellites in orbit to provide high-speed internet across the globe.

Offering broadband internet coverage to digital deserts is also the goal of the company OneWeb, which is set to start building two satellites a day this summer in Florida, for a constellation of over 600 expected to be operational by 2021 Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX is equally active: it’s just received a clearance to put 12,000 satellites in orbit at various altitudes in the Starlink constellation.

Not to mention other projects in the pipeline that have less funding or are not yet as defined.

Is there even enough space for three, four, five or more spacebased internet providers?

At the Satellite 2019 international conference in Washington this week, professionals from the sector said they feared an expensive bloodbath -- especially if Bezos, the founder of Amazon, decides to crush the competition with ultralow prices.

“Jeff Bezos is rich enough to put you out of business,” said Matt Desch, the CEO of Iridium Communications.

Iridium knows all about bankruptcy. The company launched a satellite phone in the 1990s -- a brick-like set that cost $3,000 with call rates of $3 a minute. Barely

anyone subscribed at the dawn of the mobile era.

The firm eventually relaunched itself and has just finished renewing its entire constellation: 66 satellites offering connectivity, but not broadband, with 100 percent global coverage to institutional clients including ships, planes, militaries and businesses.

“The problem with satellites, it’s billions of dollars of investments,” said Desch.

And if “you spend billions and you get it wrong, you end up creating sort of a nuclear winter for the whole industry for 10 years. We did that,” he added.

“These guys coming in, I wish them really well... I hope they don’t take 30 years to become successful like we did.”

- Streaming on the plane Having internet beamed in from space is more of a priority for isolated zones than it is for cities, where users have fiber optic or cable connections. With satellite constellations, it doesn’t matter where you are in the world: an antenna is all you need to get broadband.

“It’s just like having a very tall cell tower,” said Al Tadros of Maxar, which builds satellites.

The other advantage of the newly announced constellations are their relatively low orbit, which is important for reducing latency, key in curbing lag in video calls or games, for example.

Isolated areas may be where the technology is required, but there may not be enough customers to make the endeavor profitable.

That’s why OneWeb has lowered its sights and will first target providing internet services to planes (imagine getting Netflix on your next long haul) or to ships, where there is a huge demand.

“The challenge in monetizing is being able to get through those first few years, where you have to put in all your capital expenses, but not being able to get enough revenues to keep you afloat,” Shagun Sachdeva, a senior analyst at Northern Sky Research, told AFP. Sachdeva expects most of the companies to die off, adding that the market will eventually have room for “maybe two” and that space-delivered internet services won’t be commonplace for at least five to 10 years.

Amazon is only just getting off the ground, and faces the hurdle of acquiring rights to the frequency spectrum. (afp)

ICELAND - In the heart of Iceland’s volcano country, 21st-century alchemists are transforming carbon dioxide into rock for eternity, cleaning the air of harmful emissions that cause global warming.

The technology mimics, in accelerated format, a natural process that can take thousands of years, injecting CO2 into porous basalt rock where it mineralises, capturing it forever.

“With this method we have actually changed the time scale dramatically,” says geologist Sandra Osk Snaebjornsdottir.

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas emitted in large quantities by Iceland’s transport sector, industries and volcanoes.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is promoting various carbon capture and storage (CCS) methods in a bid to limit the rise in average temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Snaebjornsdottir is working on Iceland’s CarbFix project with researchers and engineers from utility company Reykjavik Energy, the University of Iceland, France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Columbia University in the United States.

- Petrified in two years In Iceland, a country of geysers, glaciers and volcanoes, at least half of the energy produced comes from geothermal sources.

That’s a bonanza for CarbFix researchers, who’ve turned the Hellisheidi geothermal power plant -- one of the world’s biggest -- into their own laboratory.

The plant, located on the Hengill volcano in southwestern Iceland, sits on a layer of basalt rock formed

from cooled lava, and has access to virtually unlimited amounts of water. The plant pumps up the water underneath the volcano to run six turbines providing electricity and heat to the capital, Reykjavik, about 30 kilometres (18 miles) away.

The CO2 from the plant is meanwhile captured from the steam, liquified into condensate, then dissolved in large amounts of water.

“So basically we are just making soda water out of the CO2,” says project director Edda Sif Aradottir.

The fizzy water is piped several kilometres to an area where grey, igloo-shaped domes dot a lunar-like landscape.

Here the fizzy water is injected under high pressure into the rock 1,000 metres (3,300 feet) under the ground.

The solution fills the rock’s cavities and begins the solidification process -- a chemical reaction that occurs when the gas comes in contact with the calcium, magnesium and iron in the basalt.

“Almost all of the injected CO2 was mineralised within two years in our pilot injection,” Snaebjornsdottir says.

Once the CO2 is turned to rock, it’s pretty much captured there for good.

“If you have a volcanic eruption... and you heat up the rock to very high temperatures, then some of the mineral will break down and maybe dissolve in water,” says University of Iceland geochemist Sigurdur Gislason.

But, he noted, “this is the safest and most stable form of storing carbon”.

The last volcanic eruption here was a thousand years ago. (afp)

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Jukut Paku Cliff Temple, a Place to Practice Yoga and Meditation

BUSINESS Qatar allocates $480 mn in aid to Palestinians Qatar said Tuesday it had allocated $480 million in aid to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority to support education and health services and provide urgent humanitarian relief.

The authority led by president Mahmud Abbas has been hit by the cutting of two of its leading sources of revenues.

Washington has ended all bilateral US aid in response to the Palestinians’ severing of contacts after it recognised the disputed city of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in 2017.

A row with Israel has meanwhile led to a halt to transfers of customs duties it levies on goods destined for Palestinian markets.

Both Abbas and the leader of Hamas, the rival Palestinian faction which controls the Gaza Strip, welcomed the Qatari announcement.

“The state of Qatar has allocated $300 million in the form of grants and loans to support the health and education sectors’ budgets with the Palestinian Authority,” the official Qatar News Agency said.

It said Doha had also allocated another $180 million in “urgent relief and humanitarian aid and in support of UN programmes in Palestine.” Aid will also go to the power sector to ensure supplies are not interrupted.

In a statement on official Palestinian news agency Wafa, Abbas thanked the emirate for its financial assistance, which he said would “contribute to alleviating and supporting the burdens of our people.”

Hamas leader Ismail Haniya said the aid was “a continuation of the unwavering Qatari stances that support the Palestinian people.”

In February, Israel February decided to deduct around $10 million a month from the customs duty it collects on behalf of the Palestinians, corresponding to the amount it said they paid families of prisoners or directly to inmates serving time in Israeli jails.

The Palestinians responded by saying they would refuse any funds where unilateral deductions had been made. Israel sees the payments to those who have carried out attacks against Israelis as encouraging further violence.

The Palestinian Authority describes the payments as a form of welfare, while the Palestinian public regards prisoners jailed

by Israel as national heroes.

Gas-rich Qatar is a major aid donor to the Palestinians, both to Abbas’s West Bank-based Palestinian Authority and to the rival Gaza administration of Islamist group Hamas.

In November, the Gulf state, which is a longtime Hamas ally, committed to providing around $15 million a month in aid to Gaza over six months.(afp)

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GIANYAR - If you have more time, come and pray to the Jukut Paku Cliff Temple, a historical site having been designated as a cultural heritage. It is located at Jukut Paku hamlet, Singakerta, Ubud, Gianyar, or around 35 minutes’ drive from Denpasar city. Some people often choose it to be a place for yoga and meditation.

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An employee stands at the entrance of the Beirut Stock Exchange in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, May 6, 2019. The exchange said it is suspending trading due to the open strike declared by the employees of Lebanon’s central bank. Hundreds of Lebanese public employees are on strike amid concerns that their salaries and benefits might be cut as the government discusses an austerity budget.

Lebanon stock trading suspended over central bank strike

BEIRUT - The Beirut Stock Exchange suspended trading on Monday due to an open-ended strike declared by the employees of Lebanon’s central bank, adding to the country’s economic crisis as the government discusses an austerity budget to avoid an economic crash.

The ongoing strike by the Central Bank of Lebanon employees began Friday and has raised concerns it could paralyze the country’s banking sector, which relies on the central bank for transactions as well as liquidity.

Thousands of Lebanese public employees are on strike amid fears that their salaries and benefits would be cut as part of strict austerity measures to reduce a ballooning budget deficit and massive national debt. They include employees at Beirut’s port, Social National Security Fund and the main state-run landline telephone company.

Professors and instructors of the stateowned Lebanese University also announced an open strike starting Tuesday.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri warned

against strikes that paralyze the work of state institutions and issued a memorandum in which he called for legal measures to be taken against employees who hold or call for such strikes.

A statement posted earlier on Beirut’s stock market’s website said the clearance and settlement of transactions cannot be done on time “during the period of open strike.” It said trading was suspended indefinitely “in order to protect the interest of all investors.”

Lebanon’s economy is struggling with soaring debts, rising unemployment and slow growth. A soaring debt of $85 billion — equivalent to about 150 percent of gross domestic product — and unemployment believed to be around 36 percent are

compounding concerns that the country will finally cave in economically.

Hariri’s government is debating an austerity budget and key reforms with the aim of unlocking billions of dollars in pledged foreign assistance. Protests have criticized the planned measures.

The government aims to reduce the percentage of the budget deficit compared with the gross domestic product.

Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil told reporters Monday that he insists the tax on interest payments at Lebanese banks be raised from 7 to 10 percent.

The call to raise the tax on interest payments has angered bankers, who warn that such steps could affect capital flow into Lebanon. (ap)

This historic site sits on a steep slope. The existence of this cliff temple is protected by the Bali Archaeological Heritage Preservation Service as an ancient relic. From the village road, then follow the concrete road next to hamlet hall towards Wos River. Next, go down the stairs until you reach the location of the cliff temple.

Temple area offers very clean, beautiful and cool atmosphere. Understandably, this cultural heritage area is often used by tourists to do tracking (sightseeing) or spiritual tourism activities. Around the Wos River, it grows large and small local trees, thus adding to the calm atmosphere. In the sculpted cliff area of ??the temple called the Jukut Paku Cliff Temple. Its height is less than three meters, but the type of building of the temple is not monumental as is the temple found on Gunung Kawi.

Meanwhile, on the left and right side of the temple there is niche (like a cave), like the place of meditation.

To the right of the temple, there is a shower having clean and clear water, while on the left is a place to put offerings. Wos River has slightly great stream and along the river pathway deliberately cleaned for visitors.

According to local residents, the Jukut Paku Temple is a place to worship ‘deities abiding at the Jukut Paku Cliff Temple’ to ask for salvation. Jukut Paku Temple is still a place considered to have religious value for the local community. This temple also has a series of piodalan or temple festival falling on Anggara Kasih Medangsia, along with the piodalan at the Penataran Temple of Jukut Paku hamlet.

On the temple festival, people will put offerings in the form of suci, peras, daksina, soroan, pengambean, and sesantun. In addition to worshiping the deities, the construction of the Jukut Paku Temple is believed to be the place where ancestral spirits have merged with their goddess. (kmb)

Some people often choose Jukut Paku Cliff Temple to be a place for yoga and meditation.

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In an instant, basic foods at low-cost market are sold out

DENPASAR — When entering the month of Ramadhan, Denpasar Industry and Trade Agency (Disperindag) and other relevant agencies held a low-cost market. This activity is carried out to maintain price stability during the Ramadan.

This cheap market took place in Wanasari hamlet, Dauh Puri Kaja village, North Denpasar subdistrict, Tuesday (May 7).

From the morning after it was opened, the community seemed alternately to buy commodities in the low-cost market. A number of main commodities of daily necessities on offer were sold out in just a matter of hours. The low-cost market operations this time is meant to stabilize prices of staples during Ramadhan month. The Re-

gional Inflation Monitoring Team (TPID) and the Denpasar Industry and Trade Agency collaborated with Pertamina, PPI, Bulog, and distributors supply various kinds of staple foods.

Some of the commodities offered include Kita rice (medium) of 5 kg for IDR 50,000 / 5kg, medium rice for IDR 42,500 / 5kg. The price of Kita oil is IDR 11,000 / liter and Blue Triangle flour is for IDR 7,500 / kg. Meanwhile, local sugar costs IDR 11,000 / kg. In addition, other commodities are also sold such as eggs for IDR 14,000 / 10 pieces, shallot at IDR 28,000 / kg along with various fruits.

Acting Head of the Denpasar Industry and Trade Agency, I.B. Anom Suniem, stated that routine

low-cost market activities ahead of the religious holidays is commitment of the Denpasar City government under the direction of the Mayor of Denpasar I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra, together with the Deputy Mayor of Denpasar IGN Jaya Negara to the public in order to get the price of basic food cheaper than the market price, moreover, it is related to Ramadan.

“This low-cost market will be implemented in every sub-district so that people can shop cheaply with quality goods. We hope the community will utilize the cheap market having been implemented by the Denpasar government through the TPID Denpasar so the price stability ahead of religious holidays can be maintained,” he

said.

The existence of a cheap market is expected to become a solution for the community in order to get a cheaper price than the market price. Besides, through this cheap market, it can help the government in stabilizing the prices of basic commodities ahead of the celebration of holidays.

“The low price offered is also a form of CSR. Hopefully, the low-cost market held by the Denpasar government with the TPID and Denpasar Industry and Trade Agency can help people get cheaper prices from the market and help stabilize prices and prevent inflation from happening before the holiday,” he hoped.

In addition, he will also hold

a low-cost market in four subdistricts, namely on Wednesday (May 8) on vacant land in the west of Pidada Market, Ubung; on Thursday (May 9) on vacant land on Jalan Tulip, Sumerta Kaja village; on Friday (May 10) at Kertagraha courtyard, Kesiman Kertalangu village; on Monday (May 13) on vacant land in the north side of Public Health Center III, Jalan Gelogor Carik, Pemogan village; on Tuesday (May 14) at the Weda Sari Mosque courtyard, Padangsambian Kaja village; on Thursday (May 16) on the Mosque courtyard, Jalan Buru, Dauh Puri village; and on Friday (May 17) in Kertawijaya Shopping Complex, Jalan Diponegoro, Dauh Puri village. (kmb12)

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Armed British police officers stand on duty ahead of a Changing of the Guard ceremony outside Windsor Castle in Windsor, west of London on May 7, 2019, the day after the announcement that Britain’s Meghan, Duchess of Sussex had given birth to a son.

World awaits first glimpse of Meghan’s royal baby

LONDON - Britain’s Prince Harry and wife Meghan will show their baby son off to the world on Wednesday amid fevered suspense for British royal watchers desperate for a glimpse.

A visibly relieved Harry, 34, announced on Monday the arrival of the couple’s firstborn, who will be seventh in the line to the British throne.

The mother and proud father, who said his son was “absolutely to-die-for”, will release a photograph of their new arrival later Wednesday.

The couple announced the birth of the seven-pound, three-ounce (3.26-kilogram) baby -- “It’s a BOY!” -- to their 6.5 million followers on Instagram.

Prince Charles, on a visit to Germany on Tuesday, said he was “obviously delighted”and “impatient” to see his fourth grandchild.

The heir to the British throne, speaking in German, said he would see the baby “in the coming days when things are calmer”.

Crowds gathered outside Windsor Castle, west of London, on Monday and Tuesday to wish them well.

It was a rare piece of good news for a nation consumed by the endless Brexit drama, giving a chance to celebrate royal traditions -- this time with a young American twist.

“I want to see how he’ll look. As Meghan is mixed race, I’m curious”, said Zahra Kibue, 34, who lived in Kenya before moving to England a few years ago.

Former US TV star Meghan, 37, has created a fresh buzz around the century-old House of Windsor, but has also made waves with her modernising ways.

She raised eyebrows by closing her own car door -- a task usually performed by aides -- and has ignored tradition by keeping the birth private and well away from the prying media’s eyes.

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- ‘Crazy’ name speculation -

Most UK media assumed that Meghan had opted for a home delivery, but The Daily Mail reported that those plans were “dashed as she was secretly whisked to a London hospital on Sunday by Harry and his Scotland Yard security team”. The Sun, a competing tabloid, said Meghan ended up being secretly rushed to a £15,000-a-night ($20,000, 17,500-euro) London hospital before giving birth “at exactly sunrise”.

Either way, Harry’s brother William, two years his senior and with three children of his own, offered cautious words of congratulation.

“I’m very pleased and glad to welcome my brother to the sleep deprivation society that is parenting,” William said with a grin.

The remaining suspense revolves around what the new arrival will be called, with bookies busy for months before the birth.

“It’s been crazy,” Amy Jones, a spokeswoman for Paddy Power bookmakers, told AFP. “Now that the baby has arrived, everyone is backing the name Alexander.”

UK royal names are normally chosen from a relatively restricted pool of those used by past kings and queens.

But Meghan and Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are anything but normal royals.

“Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to choose UNUSUAL name for baby that UNIFIES the US and UK,” The Daily Express wrote, sparking a wild guessing game on Twitter filled with puns and jokes.

Perhaps only half in jest, bookies were offering 250-1 odds on the boy being named Donald, in honour of US President Trump.

Although the couple received congratulations from former US first lady Michelle Obama, the White House remained silent. (afp)

ing to left-back.

Wijnaldum’s impact was massive. He was picked out by Trent Alexander-Arnold’s low cross and drilled under Ter Stegen. And from Liverpool’s next attack, Xherdan Shaqiri picked out Wijnaldum to head home at the Kop end. “Once

again we showed that everything is possible in football,” said Wijnaldum.

“I was really angry at the manager that he put me on the bench but I had to do something to help the team when I came on.”

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Jerusalem’s dilemma over hordes of stray cats

JERUSALEM - A dozen cats wake up in cages stacked on top of one another, a pungent odour in the air, while in a room next door two vets work diligently.

Captured in the streets of Jerusalem by city workers or brought in by residents, at least 15 cats a day are sterilised at the municipal veterinary centre.

But experts say that is far too few to stabilise the city’s burgeoning street cat population and allay fears about the impact on its environment and ecosystem from the felines.

The concentration of stray cats in the Holy City is among the highest in the Middle East or even the world, experts say.

With nearly 2,000 cats per square kilometre (mile), it has a total of some 240,000, in a city of more than 900,000 residents, the Israeli official in charge of its veterinarian services, Asaf Bril, said.

Only a large-scale, rapid programme to sterilise some 80 percent of the cats within a six-month period would be capable of bringing the population under control, he said.

“To achieve that result, 25 clinics like mine would be needed to sterilise 500 cats per day,” he said, at the veterinary services centre, a collection of fading buildings on the edge of Jerusalem.

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Reducing the cats’ access to their

main source of food is another option for bringing the stray population under control.

The hordes of cats find most of their food in rubbish bins that sometimes overflow, especially in mainly Palestinian east Jerusalem, which Israel occupied in the SixDay War of 1967 and later annexed.

Israel considers the entire city its capital, though public services in parts of east Jerusalem are noticeably poorer than in the mainly Jewish western sector.

The city council recently launched a plan to modernise rubbish collection, moving some bins underground and therefore depriving the cats of the food source.

“Ultimately, underground rubbish bins that reduce the availability of food for cats are the only solution to control the size of the population,” Amir Balaban, of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, said.

But not everyone backs the idea of food deprivation.

Jerusalem’s newly elected mayor, Moshe Lion, announced in January the creation of feeding stations around the city, with the food in granule form notably, and budgeted 100,000 shekels ($28,000, 24,000 euros) a year for the scheme.

The decision aims to provide a transition that is clean and more controlled between the current, free-for-all access to the bins and their eventual removal. (afp)

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Jerusalem municipal veterinary centre employee Ahmed Abu Sinenh attempts to lure stray cats into a cage with food so that they can be sterilised on March 7, 2019. order as Coutinho, who cost £142 million ($186 million) when moving from Liverpool to Barcelona in January 2018, was replaced for the second time in the tie.

The change briefly had an impact, but Barca were inexplicably caught cold from a quick Alexander-Arnold

corner 11 minutes from time that picked out Origi completely unmarked to fire high past Ter Stegen.

“A genius moment,” Klopp of Alexander-Arnold’s quick thinking.

“I saw the ball flying in the net and had no idea who took the corner and who scored the goal.” (afp)

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22 million Eid holidaymakers to travel by public transportation

BANDUNG - The government has predicted that more than 22.83 million Eid al-Fitr holidaymakers will travel by public transportation this year, up 4 percent compared to last year.

“Based on the results of our survey, 4.4 million (holidaymakers) choose to travel by bus,” Director General of Land Transportation of the Transportation Ministry Budi Setyadi said at a coordination meeting on Eid-al-Fitr transportation 2019 here on Tuesday.

Setyadi said 2.4 million holidaymakers opt to travel by train, 1.4 million by plane, 4.3 million by private cars and 940 thousand by motorcycles.

“Until now, motorcyclists still dominate Java’s northern coastal highway during the homecoming period,” he said.

Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said this year’s homecoming is themed “safe and harmonious homecoming” in accordance with President Joko Widodo’s directives. As such, the public will feel secure during their travel.

To that end, the government will impose one-way traffic to anticipate congestion due to the influx of holidaymakers travelling from Jakarta and its surroundings to West Java and Central Java.

This year, an increasing number of homebound travellers are choosing to use the Trans Java toll road.

By imposing one-way traffic, he expressed hope that more vehicles will be able to travel on the Trans Java toll road and at a higher speed, thus cutting short the time taken for holidaymakers from Jakarta and its surroundings to reach their hometowns - The government has predicted that more than 22.83 million Eid al-Fitr holidaymakers will travel by public transportation this year, up 4 percent compared to last year.

“Based on the results of our survey, 4.4 million (holidaymakers) choose to travel by bus,” Director General of Land Transportation of the Transportation Ministry Budi Setyadi said at a coordination meeting on Eid-al-Fitr transportation 2019 here on Tuesday.

Setyadi said 2.4 million holidaymakers opt to travel by train, 1.4 million by plane, 4.3 million by private cars and 940 thousand by motorcycles. “Until now, motorcyclists still dominate Java’s northern coastal highway during the homecoming period,” he said.

Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said this year’s homecoming is themed “safe and harmonious homecoming” in accordance with President Joko Widodo’s directives. As such, the public will feel secure during their travel.

To that end, the government will impose one-way traffic to anticipate congestion due to the influx of holidaymakers travelling from Jakarta and its surroundings to West Java and Central Java.

This year, an increasing number of homebound travellers are choosing to use the Trans Java toll road.

By imposing one-way traffic, he expressed hope that more vehicles will be able to travel on the Trans Java toll road and at a higher speed, thus cutting short the time taken for holidaymakers from Jakarta and its surroundings to reach their hometowns. (afp)

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This picture taken on May 7, 2019 shows Mount Sinabung volcano spewing thick volcanic ash, as seen from Karo. Mount Sinabung on Sumatra island -- which has been rumbling since 2010 and saw a deadly eruption in 2016 -- spewed the thick plume after activity picked up recent days.

Indonesia’s Mt. Sinabung shoots column of smoke and ash into sky

An Indonesian volcano erupted Tuesday, sending a massive column of ash and smoke 2,000 metres (6,500 feet) into the air, coating local villages in debris. Mount Sinabung on Sumatra island -- which has been rumbling since 2010 and saw a deadly eruption in 2016 -- spewed the thick plume after activity picked up recent days.

Disaster agency officials said the eruption has the “potential” to affect flights, but it had not issued a formal notice for planes to avoid the area.

Local residents living along rivers near the crater were advised to be on alert for possible lava flows.

There were no reports of injuries or deaths after the latest eruption and the disaster agency did not

issue an evacuation order. No one lives inside a previously announced no-go zone around the volcano.

Sinabung roared back to life in 2010 for the first time in 400 years.

After another period of inactivity it erupted once more in 2013, and has remained highly active since. In 2016, seven people died in one of Sinabung’s eruptions, while a 2014 eruption killed 16.

Last year, a volcano in the strait between Java and Sumatra islands erupted, causing an underwater landslide that unleashed a tsunami which killed over 400 people.

Indonesia is home to around 130 active volcanoes due to its position on the “Ring of Fire”, a belt of tectonic plate boundaries circling the Pacific Ocean where frequent seismic activity occurs. (afp)

Former home minister faces KPK interrogation over e-ID graft case JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) interrogated ex-home affairs minister Gamawan Fauzi as witness in connection with its investigation into alleged corruption in the country’s electronic identity card (e-ID) procurement project.

Fauzi faced the anti-graft

agency’s grilling as a witness for Markus Nari, a Golkar Party legislator, named a suspect in the graft case.

“I will be interrogated for Markus Nari,” Fauzi remarked on arrival at the KPK building here on Wednesday.

Nari was charged with perjury and allegedly attempting

to hinder the Commission’s investigation into the e-ID graft case involving two convicts: the Home Ministry’s official Irman and his fellow mate, Sugiharto.

He is alleged to have acted in a way so as to intimidate trial witness -- former Hanura Party lawmaker Miryam S. Haryani -- into recanting her testimony.

Nari was also named a suspect for his involvement in the procurement of e-ID during the 2011-2013 period.

The anti-graft body has placed Nari in detention following interrogation by investigators over a case of graft that led to the state incurring losses reaching Rp 2.3 trillion (US$161 million).

Nari is guilty of marking up the budget for an e-ID project at the House of Representatives. He is alleged to have accepted Rp4 billion from Irman.

The Jakarta Corruption Court found Irman and Sugiharto guilty in the case in July 2017. Presently, the duo are serving a 15year jail term. (ant)

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Bagus Agro Pelaga

BADUNG - In support of the regional government’s plan to develop the northern part of Badung Regency as an agribusiness and agro tourism area, Bagus Agro Pelaga has built a new tourist attraction where visitors may enjoy outstanding vistas of fruit, flower and vegetable farming while having fun. This modern agro tourism spot is spread out over 18 hectares of land, where more than 17 hectares is used for free chemical farming.

To minimize water use, Bagus Agro Pelaga utilizes a drip irrigation system, which is quite different than the Balinese Subak system that relies on intensive water use.

The drip irrigation system enables precise water delivery and can adjust water for particular plants, thereby increasing water efficiency. Lies over a lush tranquil forest, in the mountain range of Pucak Mangu situated on 750 meters above sea level, the new

tourist attraction in Bali built in Agricultural concept based on the Tri Hita Karana, the original Balinese Culture. This modern agro tourism spot is spread out over 18 hectares of land at Pelaga village in the Petang district.

The fresh mountain air and magnificent panorama surrounding the organic farm adorned with various colorful flowers and tropical fruits and vegetables, which apply a drip irrigation system, a differ-

ent system instead of the Subak.

The drip irrigation system enables precise water delivery and can adjust water for particular plants, thereby increasing water efficiency.

To support the Organic Farming System applied in this area, cattle have been developed as well, where cows, pigs, domestic chickens and some variety of fishes are raised.

The fresh and natural atmosphere around the ’emeraldish’ panorama of the hilly forest adorned by

pure river and waterfalls creates a fantastic camping site that offers unforgettable experience and adventure. There are five restaurants that can accommodate up to 300 people for lunch or dinner. The capacities of each restaurant are 50 people for the Terrace Restaurant, 80 people for each Fine Dining Restaurants (2 buildings), and more than 150 people can be accommodated in the Wantilan Halls.

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Raptors crush Sixers, Nuggets rout Blazers to gain NBA series edge

LOS ANGELES - The Toronto Raptors dismantled the Philadelphia 76ers and the Denver Nuggets dominated Portland Tuesday to take commanding leads in their NBA playoff series.

The Raptors overpowered the 76ers 125-89 to take a 3-2 lead in their best-of-seven Eastern Conference second-round series.

With 76ers star center Joel Embiid ailing, Toronto took full advantage on their home floor and can book a place in the Eastern Conference finals with a victory in game six in Philadelphia on Thursday.

The Nuggets, led by Nikola Jokic’s 25 points and 19 rebounds, defeated the Trail Blazers 12498 for a 3-2 series lead and will also try to wrap up their Western Conference clash on the road on Thursday.

Six Nuggets players scored in double figures and four scored at least 16 points.

Paul Millsap scored 12 of his 24 in the first quarter as Denver bolted to a 31-25 lead.

Jamal Murray scored 11 of his 18 in the second quarter, helping Denver break open the game with a burst of three straight baskets that pushed the Nuggets’ lead to 61-43 and Denver, who never trailed, were away.

“In this series he’s been phenomenal,” Denver coach Mike Malone said of Murray. “He’s impacted the game in so many ways: scoring, playmaking and rebounding, and I think he’s playing some pretty good defense as well.”

Damian Lillard scored 22 points for the Trail Blazers, who face an elimination game for the first time in this post-season.

Rodney Hood and Zach Collins scored 14 points each off the bench, but CJ McCollum was the only other Portland starter in double figures with 12 points.

Portland missed 12 straight shots in the third, connecting on just seven of 28 from the floor in the period to head into the fourth quarter trailing 93-65.

They couldn’t get the deficit below 20 points in the final frame.

In a hard-fought series between closely matched teams, Malone said, it was a notable achievement.

“For us to come out here tonight and build a 30-point lead and play the defense that we did for three and a half quarters was remarkable,” he said.

- Siakam shines In Toronto’s big win, forward Pascal Siakam scored 25 points to lead six Raptors players in double figures.

Star forward Kawhi Leonard scored 21 points and grabbed 13 rebounds and was able to rest the majority of the fourth quarter as the Raptors dominated every phase of the contest.

The outcome was enough to make Philadelphia’s center Embiid feel even worse than the upper respiratory infection that appeared to hinder him.

Embiid scored 13 points with six rebounds and also coughed up a game-high eight turnovers. With their star struggling, none of his

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Kawhi Leonard #2 of the Toronto Raptors battles for a rebound with Greg Monroe #55 and Mike Scott #1 of the Philadelphia 76ers in the first half during Game Five of the second round of the 2019 NBA Playoffs at Scotiabank Arena on May 7, 2019 in Toronto, Canada. teammates could fill the void.

Toronto led 64-43 by halftime -thanks to a 37-17 second quarter.

The 76ers showed signs of life when they opened the second half on a 10-2 scoring run, but the challenge proved short-lived.

Leonard, who punctuated the second quarter with a massive dunk, delivered another big jam to close out the third and send the Raptors into the final frame up 92-70.

Toronto would stretch the lead to 40 points -- 123-83 -- on Norman Powell’s dunk with 2:24 to play.

“I was certainly not expecting that kind of game tonight,” said Raptors coach Nick Nurse. “Obviously we’re certainly happy with the result. We did a lot of good things.”

Kyle Lowry scored 19 points, Danny Green had 17 and Spanish big man Marc Gasol contributed 11 for the Raptors, who can clinch the

series on Thursday in Philadelphia.

Serge Ibaka scored 10 points for Toronto, despite needing stitches after taking an inadvertent elbow to the forehead from Leonard in the first quarter.

Jimmy Butler scored 22 points and handed out seven assists for the 76ers.

Sixers guard Ben Simmons connected on three-of-five shots from the field to finish with seven points and five turnovers. (afp)

KUALA LUMPUR - Badminton star Lee Chong Wei will miss the World Championships in August after falling down the rankings following a prolonged absence due to cancer, an official said Wednesday. It means the Malaysian former world number one loses the chance to win the world title for the first time, and deals another blow to his fading hopes of competing in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Michelle Chai, general manager of the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM), said Lee -- currently ranked 113 in the world -would not play in the championships in Switzerland from August 19-25.

“Lee Chong Wei won’t take part in the world championship as he currently does not qualify on merit,” she told AFP. A country can send a maximum of two players who are inside the world top 150 and there are two Malaysians currently above Lee -- Lee Zii Jia and Liew Daren.

BAM president Norza Zakaria confirmed the body would endorse players based on rankings released at the end of April.

“As we know, Chong Wei is not part of the list and he is still working on his fitness,” he was quoted as saying by The Star newspaper.

“The priority for Chong Wei

now is for him to recover from his ailments, so let’s focus on that first.”

The triple Olympic silver medallist has been out since July last year when he was diagnosed with early-stage nose cancer.

The 36-year-old endured a tough treatment programme in Taiwan but opted not to retire and resumed training in January.

He skipped the All England Open in March and the Malaysia Open in April -- both tournaments where he had hoped to make a comeback -- and will also miss this month’s Sudirman Cup mixed-team event in China. (afp)

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Japanese veteran Hasebe: the unsung hero of Frankfurt’s fairytale

‘It’s very painful’: Valverde rocked by Barca collapse Ernesto Valverde admitted Barcelona had only themselves to blame for their “terrible” Champions League semi-final collapse at Liverpool on Tuesday.

Barca were blown away on an incredible night at Anfield as Liverpool won 4-0 to overturn a threegoal first-leg defeat.

Liverpool are only the third team in the history of the European Cup to recover from such a large semi-final deficit.

Barca boss Valverde conceded his players failed to match Liverpool’s intensity and lost their cool after the Reds scored twice in quick succession in the second half to level the tie on aggregate.

“Things got on top of us after those two quick goals. We didn’t manage to get on the scoresheet and they rolled us over really,” he said. “It’s a terrible result for our fans and for ourselves. It’s really, really unfortunate, but credit to Liverpool.

“They started really well, and they pinned us back. Early goal, we reacted well after that. “We managed to control things a little bit in the second part of the first half. We had half-chances to score.

“We tried to sit a little bit deeper, but the tie ended for us with the fourth goal. We couldn’t respond.”

It was a second successive Champions League humiliation for Barca after they squandered a 4-1 first-leg lead in

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From Serbian goalscorer Luka Jovic to French striker Sebastien Haller, Eintracht Frankfurt’s unlikely run to the Europa League semi-finals this year has shone the spotlight on a number of young attacking talents in the ranks of the Bundesliga club.

Yet if Frankfurt are to defy the odds and overcome Chelsea in their semi-final second leg at Stamford Bridge on Thursday, they will also need the experience and defensive leadership of Japanese elder statesman Makoto Hasebe. While Jovic and others have turned heads with their tenacious pressing and explosive form in front of goal, former Japan captain Hasebe has been the unsung hero keeping the ship steady at the back.

The 35-year-old has played in every single minute of Frankfurt’s Europa League campaign this season. Though he rarely grabs the headlines, he is an invaluable asset for coach Adi Huetter. “Makoto is like a bottle of wine: the older he gets, the better he becomes,” Huetter told Kicker magazine earlier this year.

“He is an absolutely key player for our team.”

Hasebe, who captained Japan at three World Cups between 2010 and 2018, has remained a major figure at Eintracht since retiring from international football last year. As a central defender and occasional defensive midfielder, he brings crucial stability to Frankfurt’s often explosive style of football.

He played a key role in Frankfurt’s odds-defying German Cup triumph last season, and was voted Asian International Footballer of the Year at the AFC Awards in 2018.

the quarter-finals last season, going out on away goals to Roma after losing the return 3-0.

Valverde has just led Barca to another Spanish title, but he was asked if the collapse at Anfield would undermine his position at the Camp Nou. “I do not know how it’s going to affect me, here we are, the coach has to take responsibility,” he said.

“It’s very painful for us, especially for our people, it’s the second year they’ve come back like that. “When you have a battle like tonight, you’re going to go through some really tough few days, like all our fans as well.

“You’re going to suffer. That’s what it is like. You have to go through this penitence and we’ve not got long to go until the end of the league season.

“We’ve got the Copa del Rey final (against Valencia) still to fight for and we’ve got to really finish the season well on a high after this. “But at the moment we’re blown away, it’s terrible.”

The Catalan club haven’t won the Champions League since 2015. Barcelona midfielder Sergio Busquets was quick to say sorry for one of the most chastening results in their history.

“I apologise to the fans because after the Rome thing, it happens again, it is very hard to fall like that with a good result in the first leg,” Busquets said. (afp)

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Barcelona’s Argentinian striker Lionel Messi reacts after losing the UEFA Champions league semi-final second leg football match between Liverpool and Barcelona at Anfield in Liverpool, north west England on May 7, 2019.

Aside from a brief injury absence in December, he has also been a stalwart of a successful Bundesliga campaign in which Frankfurt are targeting a top four finish and their first ever

qualification for the Champions League. Huetter, who replaced Niko Kovac as Frankfurt coach at the beginning of the season, told Kicker that he was amazed by Makoto’s onfield discipline. “In the two and a half months up until his injury, I didn’t see him make one mistake, on or off the ball,” he said.

“He has an amazing eye for through balls and can also anticipate balls very early in defence.” “I am not surprised that he was given the award last year, he absolutely deserved it.”

Hasebe played under German coach Guido Buchwald at J-League club Urawa Red Diamonds, and later won the AFC Champions League with the club in 2007. His success earned him a move to Germany, where he won the Bundesliga title with Wolfsburg in 2009.

After a brief spell at N u r e m b e rg , h e j o i n e d Frankfurt in 2014, and

has since made 166 appearances for the club.

Speaking to the Bundesliga website last month, Hasebe claimed that his versatility is the key to his success in Germany. “It’s important to be able to adapt, I can play in lots of different positions,” he said.

Having already snagged a league and cup winner’s medal in Germany, Hasebe now hopes to go one step further by winning the Europa League with Frankfurt this season.

On their last legs at the end of a gruelling season, Frankfurt are underdogs against Chelsea, and will need Hasebe’s experience more than ever if they are to spring a surprise. “ We n e e d t o k e e p concentrating and stay humble,” he said. For Hasebe at least, the man who makes no mistakes, and allows others to shine, concentration and humility shouldn’t be a problem. (afp)

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Leverkusen’s German forward Kevin Volland (R) and Frankfurt’s Japanese midfielder Makoto Hasebe vie for the ball during the German first division Bundesliga football match Bayer Leverkusen vs Eintracht Frankfurt in Leverkusen, western Germany on May 5, 2019.

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Arsenal’s Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang plays a pass during the UEFA Europa League semi final, first leg, football match between Arsenal and Valencia at the Emirates Stadium in London on May 2, 2019.

Arsenal lean on Lacazette, Aubameyang to save their season

Arsenal’s collapse at the business end of the Premier League season means the success or failure of Unai Emery’s first campaign now solely depends on lifting the Europa League and as a result sealing Champions League football. The Gunners travel to Emery’s old club Valencia on Thursday defending a 3-1 semi-final, first leg lead given to them by star strikers Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang at the Emirates last week.

Arsenal’s awful record on the road this season will give the Spanish side plenty of encouragement that they can overturn a two-goal deficit.

Emery’s men conceded three times in losing at Wolves and Leicester in their last two away league games and were also defeated at BATE Borisov and Rennes before turning Europa League ties around at the Emirates.

Attack may therefore be the visitors’ best form of defence in the cauldron of the Mestalla and Arsenal are at least getting what they paid for from Lacazette and Aubameyang.

“We played against two strikers that are very good which is why they cost the millions that they did,” said Valencia coach Marcelino Garcia Toral. “With the slightest error they punish you.”

Arsenal have taken one point from their last four Premier League games to realistically end their chances of a top-four finish and the first leg against Valencia could easily have gone the same way as Marcelino’s men scored an early away goal and led the Gunners to a merry dance for the first 20 minutes.

However, one moment of magic turned the tie as Lacazette played in Aubameyang, who paused, left Neto, Ezequiel Garay and Facundo Roncaglia on the floor before squaring for his strike partner to roll into an empty net. Lacazette added his second eight minutes later and Aubameyang’s late strike

gave Arsenal the two-goal cushion they may well need.

- Wenger’s boys -

The Londoners’ first season without Arsene Wenger for 22 years has been dogged by many of the same defensive problems suffered by the Frenchman towards the end of his reign. But Wenger’s final two big signings have come good as club record fees were paid for Lacazette in the summer of 2017 and Aubameyang in January 2018.

After a difficult first six months in England, many thought Aubameyang’s arrival was ominous for Lacazette’s longevity at the club, but the two have formed a fine partnership on and off the field. Only Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah has scored more Premier League goals than Aubameyang’s 20, but it is Lacazette who won the club’s player of the year prize for his all round contribution with 18 goals and 12 assists.

Those figures are all the more impressive as they have often had to battle for just one starting spot. Both players have voiced their displeasure at Emery’s reluctance throughout the campaign to play with two strikers. “You know that I like to play with two strikers but I don’t want to say it,” admitted Aubameyang, while Lacazette conceded to French television station RMC he “could be even happier” if he started more regularly.

“Every player wants to play each match for 90 minutes, but as a manager I need to use the player in the best moment,” said Emery in defence of his decisions throughout the season.

“Sometimes our performances are better with both, but sometimes our big performances are better with only one, and after they make an impact replacing another striker.”

Given the problems Emery is trying to patch up at the other end, the Gunners are likely to need the firepower of both to ensure they make it to Baku to try and save their season next month. (afp)

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Japanese veteran Hasebe: the unsung hero of Frankfurt’s fairytale

‘It’s very painful’: Valverde rocked by Barca collapse Ernesto Valverde admitted Barcelona had only themselves to blame for their “terrible” Champions League semi-final collapse at Liverpool on Tuesday.

Barca were blown away on an incredible night at Anfield as Liverpool won 4-0 to overturn a threegoal first-leg defeat.

Liverpool are only the third team in the history of the European Cup to recover from such a large semi-final deficit.

Barca boss Valverde conceded his players failed to match Liverpool’s intensity and lost their cool after the Reds scored twice in quick succession in the second half to level the tie on aggregate.

“Things got on top of us after those two quick goals. We didn’t manage to get on the scoresheet and they rolled us over really,” he said. “It’s a terrible result for our fans and for ourselves. It’s really, really unfortunate, but credit to Liverpool.

“They started really well, and they pinned us back. Early goal, we reacted well after that. “We managed to control things a little bit in the second part of the first half. We had half-chances to score.

“We tried to sit a little bit deeper, but the tie ended for us with the fourth goal. We couldn’t respond.”

It was a second successive Champions League humiliation for Barca after they squandered a 4-1 first-leg lead in

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From Serbian goalscorer Luka Jovic to French striker Sebastien Haller, Eintracht Frankfurt’s unlikely run to the Europa League semi-finals this year has shone the spotlight on a number of young attacking talents in the ranks of the Bundesliga club.

Yet if Frankfurt are to defy the odds and overcome Chelsea in their semi-final second leg at Stamford Bridge on Thursday, they will also need the experience and defensive leadership of Japanese elder statesman Makoto Hasebe. While Jovic and others have turned heads with their tenacious pressing and explosive form in front of goal, former Japan captain Hasebe has been the unsung hero keeping the ship steady at the back.

The 35-year-old has played in every single minute of Frankfurt’s Europa League campaign this season. Though he rarely grabs the headlines, he is an invaluable asset for coach Adi Huetter. “Makoto is like a bottle of wine: the older he gets, the better he becomes,” Huetter told Kicker magazine earlier this year.

“He is an absolutely key player for our team.”

Hasebe, who captained Japan at three World Cups between 2010 and 2018, has remained a major figure at Eintracht since retiring from international football last year. As a central defender and occasional defensive midfielder, he brings crucial stability to Frankfurt’s often explosive style of football.

He played a key role in Frankfurt’s odds-defying German Cup triumph last season, and was voted Asian International Footballer of the Year at the AFC Awards in 2018.

the quarter-finals last season, going out on away goals to Roma after losing the return 3-0.

Valverde has just led Barca to another Spanish title, but he was asked if the collapse at Anfield would undermine his position at the Camp Nou. “I do not know how it’s going to affect me, here we are, the coach has to take responsibility,” he said.

“It’s very painful for us, especially for our people, it’s the second year they’ve come back like that. “When you have a battle like tonight, you’re going to go through some really tough few days, like all our fans as well.

“You’re going to suffer. That’s what it is like. You have to go through this penitence and we’ve not got long to go until the end of the league season.

“We’ve got the Copa del Rey final (against Valencia) still to fight for and we’ve got to really finish the season well on a high after this. “But at the moment we’re blown away, it’s terrible.”

The Catalan club haven’t won the Champions League since 2015. Barcelona midfielder Sergio Busquets was quick to say sorry for one of the most chastening results in their history.

“I apologise to the fans because after the Rome thing, it happens again, it is very hard to fall like that with a good result in the first leg,” Busquets said. (afp)

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Barcelona’s Argentinian striker Lionel Messi reacts after losing the UEFA Champions league semi-final second leg football match between Liverpool and Barcelona at Anfield in Liverpool, north west England on May 7, 2019.

Aside from a brief injury absence in December, he has also been a stalwart of a successful Bundesliga campaign in which Frankfurt are targeting a top four finish and their first ever

qualification for the Champions League. Huetter, who replaced Niko Kovac as Frankfurt coach at the beginning of the season, told Kicker that he was amazed by Makoto’s onfield discipline. “In the two and a half months up until his injury, I didn’t see him make one mistake, on or off the ball,” he said.

“He has an amazing eye for through balls and can also anticipate balls very early in defence.” “I am not surprised that he was given the award last year, he absolutely deserved it.”

Hasebe played under German coach Guido Buchwald at J-League club Urawa Red Diamonds, and later won the AFC Champions League with the club in 2007. His success earned him a move to Germany, where he won the Bundesliga title with Wolfsburg in 2009.

After a brief spell at N u r e m b e rg , h e j o i n e d Frankfurt in 2014, and

has since made 166 appearances for the club.

Speaking to the Bundesliga website last month, Hasebe claimed that his versatility is the key to his success in Germany. “It’s important to be able to adapt, I can play in lots of different positions,” he said.

Having already snagged a league and cup winner’s medal in Germany, Hasebe now hopes to go one step further by winning the Europa League with Frankfurt this season.

On their last legs at the end of a gruelling season, Frankfurt are underdogs against Chelsea, and will need Hasebe’s experience more than ever if they are to spring a surprise. “ We n e e d t o k e e p concentrating and stay humble,” he said. For Hasebe at least, the man who makes no mistakes, and allows others to shine, concentration and humility shouldn’t be a problem. (afp)

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Leverkusen’s German forward Kevin Volland (R) and Frankfurt’s Japanese midfielder Makoto Hasebe vie for the ball during the German first division Bundesliga football match Bayer Leverkusen vs Eintracht Frankfurt in Leverkusen, western Germany on May 5, 2019.

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Arsenal’s Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang plays a pass during the UEFA Europa League semi final, first leg, football match between Arsenal and Valencia at the Emirates Stadium in London on May 2, 2019.

Arsenal lean on Lacazette, Aubameyang to save their season

Arsenal’s collapse at the business end of the Premier League season means the success or failure of Unai Emery’s first campaign now solely depends on lifting the Europa League and as a result sealing Champions League football. The Gunners travel to Emery’s old club Valencia on Thursday defending a 3-1 semi-final, first leg lead given to them by star strikers Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang at the Emirates last week.

Arsenal’s awful record on the road this season will give the Spanish side plenty of encouragement that they can overturn a two-goal deficit.

Emery’s men conceded three times in losing at Wolves and Leicester in their last two away league games and were also defeated at BATE Borisov and Rennes before turning Europa League ties around at the Emirates.

Attack may therefore be the visitors’ best form of defence in the cauldron of the Mestalla and Arsenal are at least getting what they paid for from Lacazette and Aubameyang.

“We played against two strikers that are very good which is why they cost the millions that they did,” said Valencia coach Marcelino Garcia Toral. “With the slightest error they punish you.”

Arsenal have taken one point from their last four Premier League games to realistically end their chances of a top-four finish and the first leg against Valencia could easily have gone the same way as Marcelino’s men scored an early away goal and led the Gunners to a merry dance for the first 20 minutes.

However, one moment of magic turned the tie as Lacazette played in Aubameyang, who paused, left Neto, Ezequiel Garay and Facundo Roncaglia on the floor before squaring for his strike partner to roll into an empty net. Lacazette added his second eight minutes later and Aubameyang’s late strike

gave Arsenal the two-goal cushion they may well need.

- Wenger’s boys -

The Londoners’ first season without Arsene Wenger for 22 years has been dogged by many of the same defensive problems suffered by the Frenchman towards the end of his reign. But Wenger’s final two big signings have come good as club record fees were paid for Lacazette in the summer of 2017 and Aubameyang in January 2018.

After a difficult first six months in England, many thought Aubameyang’s arrival was ominous for Lacazette’s longevity at the club, but the two have formed a fine partnership on and off the field. Only Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah has scored more Premier League goals than Aubameyang’s 20, but it is Lacazette who won the club’s player of the year prize for his all round contribution with 18 goals and 12 assists.

Those figures are all the more impressive as they have often had to battle for just one starting spot. Both players have voiced their displeasure at Emery’s reluctance throughout the campaign to play with two strikers. “You know that I like to play with two strikers but I don’t want to say it,” admitted Aubameyang, while Lacazette conceded to French television station RMC he “could be even happier” if he started more regularly.

“Every player wants to play each match for 90 minutes, but as a manager I need to use the player in the best moment,” said Emery in defence of his decisions throughout the season.

“Sometimes our performances are better with both, but sometimes our big performances are better with only one, and after they make an impact replacing another striker.”

Given the problems Emery is trying to patch up at the other end, the Gunners are likely to need the firepower of both to ensure they make it to Baku to try and save their season next month. (afp)

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Bagus Agro Pelaga

BADUNG - In support of the regional government’s plan to develop the northern part of Badung Regency as an agribusiness and agro tourism area, Bagus Agro Pelaga has built a new tourist attraction where visitors may enjoy outstanding vistas of fruit, flower and vegetable farming while having fun. This modern agro tourism spot is spread out over 18 hectares of land, where more than 17 hectares is used for free chemical farming.

To minimize water use, Bagus Agro Pelaga utilizes a drip irrigation system, which is quite different than the Balinese Subak system that relies on intensive water use.

The drip irrigation system enables precise water delivery and can adjust water for particular plants, thereby increasing water efficiency. Lies over a lush tranquil forest, in the mountain range of Pucak Mangu situated on 750 meters above sea level, the new

tourist attraction in Bali built in Agricultural concept based on the Tri Hita Karana, the original Balinese Culture. This modern agro tourism spot is spread out over 18 hectares of land at Pelaga village in the Petang district.

The fresh mountain air and magnificent panorama surrounding the organic farm adorned with various colorful flowers and tropical fruits and vegetables, which apply a drip irrigation system, a differ-

ent system instead of the Subak.

The drip irrigation system enables precise water delivery and can adjust water for particular plants, thereby increasing water efficiency.

To support the Organic Farming System applied in this area, cattle have been developed as well, where cows, pigs, domestic chickens and some variety of fishes are raised.

The fresh and natural atmosphere around the ’emeraldish’ panorama of the hilly forest adorned by

pure river and waterfalls creates a fantastic camping site that offers unforgettable experience and adventure. There are five restaurants that can accommodate up to 300 people for lunch or dinner. The capacities of each restaurant are 50 people for the Terrace Restaurant, 80 people for each Fine Dining Restaurants (2 buildings), and more than 150 people can be accommodated in the Wantilan Halls.

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Raptors crush Sixers, Nuggets rout Blazers to gain NBA series edge

LOS ANGELES - The Toronto Raptors dismantled the Philadelphia 76ers and the Denver Nuggets dominated Portland Tuesday to take commanding leads in their NBA playoff series.

The Raptors overpowered the 76ers 125-89 to take a 3-2 lead in their best-of-seven Eastern Conference second-round series.

With 76ers star center Joel Embiid ailing, Toronto took full advantage on their home floor and can book a place in the Eastern Conference finals with a victory in game six in Philadelphia on Thursday.

The Nuggets, led by Nikola Jokic’s 25 points and 19 rebounds, defeated the Trail Blazers 12498 for a 3-2 series lead and will also try to wrap up their Western Conference clash on the road on Thursday.

Six Nuggets players scored in double figures and four scored at least 16 points.

Paul Millsap scored 12 of his 24 in the first quarter as Denver bolted to a 31-25 lead.

Jamal Murray scored 11 of his 18 in the second quarter, helping Denver break open the game with a burst of three straight baskets that pushed the Nuggets’ lead to 61-43 and Denver, who never trailed, were away.

“In this series he’s been phenomenal,” Denver coach Mike Malone said of Murray. “He’s impacted the game in so many ways: scoring, playmaking and rebounding, and I think he’s playing some pretty good defense as well.”

Damian Lillard scored 22 points for the Trail Blazers, who face an elimination game for the first time in this post-season.

Rodney Hood and Zach Collins scored 14 points each off the bench, but CJ McCollum was the only other Portland starter in double figures with 12 points.

Portland missed 12 straight shots in the third, connecting on just seven of 28 from the floor in the period to head into the fourth quarter trailing 93-65.

They couldn’t get the deficit below 20 points in the final frame.

In a hard-fought series between closely matched teams, Malone said, it was a notable achievement.

“For us to come out here tonight and build a 30-point lead and play the defense that we did for three and a half quarters was remarkable,” he said.

- Siakam shines In Toronto’s big win, forward Pascal Siakam scored 25 points to lead six Raptors players in double figures.

Star forward Kawhi Leonard scored 21 points and grabbed 13 rebounds and was able to rest the majority of the fourth quarter as the Raptors dominated every phase of the contest.

The outcome was enough to make Philadelphia’s center Embiid feel even worse than the upper respiratory infection that appeared to hinder him.

Embiid scored 13 points with six rebounds and also coughed up a game-high eight turnovers. With their star struggling, none of his

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Kawhi Leonard #2 of the Toronto Raptors battles for a rebound with Greg Monroe #55 and Mike Scott #1 of the Philadelphia 76ers in the first half during Game Five of the second round of the 2019 NBA Playoffs at Scotiabank Arena on May 7, 2019 in Toronto, Canada. teammates could fill the void.

Toronto led 64-43 by halftime -thanks to a 37-17 second quarter.

The 76ers showed signs of life when they opened the second half on a 10-2 scoring run, but the challenge proved short-lived.

Leonard, who punctuated the second quarter with a massive dunk, delivered another big jam to close out the third and send the Raptors into the final frame up 92-70.

Toronto would stretch the lead to 40 points -- 123-83 -- on Norman Powell’s dunk with 2:24 to play.

“I was certainly not expecting that kind of game tonight,” said Raptors coach Nick Nurse. “Obviously we’re certainly happy with the result. We did a lot of good things.”

Kyle Lowry scored 19 points, Danny Green had 17 and Spanish big man Marc Gasol contributed 11 for the Raptors, who can clinch the

series on Thursday in Philadelphia.

Serge Ibaka scored 10 points for Toronto, despite needing stitches after taking an inadvertent elbow to the forehead from Leonard in the first quarter.

Jimmy Butler scored 22 points and handed out seven assists for the 76ers.

Sixers guard Ben Simmons connected on three-of-five shots from the field to finish with seven points and five turnovers. (afp)

KUALA LUMPUR - Badminton star Lee Chong Wei will miss the World Championships in August after falling down the rankings following a prolonged absence due to cancer, an official said Wednesday. It means the Malaysian former world number one loses the chance to win the world title for the first time, and deals another blow to his fading hopes of competing in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Michelle Chai, general manager of the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM), said Lee -- currently ranked 113 in the world -would not play in the championships in Switzerland from August 19-25.

“Lee Chong Wei won’t take part in the world championship as he currently does not qualify on merit,” she told AFP. A country can send a maximum of two players who are inside the world top 150 and there are two Malaysians currently above Lee -- Lee Zii Jia and Liew Daren.

BAM president Norza Zakaria confirmed the body would endorse players based on rankings released at the end of April.

“As we know, Chong Wei is not part of the list and he is still working on his fitness,” he was quoted as saying by The Star newspaper.

“The priority for Chong Wei

now is for him to recover from his ailments, so let’s focus on that first.”

The triple Olympic silver medallist has been out since July last year when he was diagnosed with early-stage nose cancer.

The 36-year-old endured a tough treatment programme in Taiwan but opted not to retire and resumed training in January.

He skipped the All England Open in March and the Malaysia Open in April -- both tournaments where he had hoped to make a comeback -- and will also miss this month’s Sudirman Cup mixed-team event in China. (afp)

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Armed British police officers stand on duty ahead of a Changing of the Guard ceremony outside Windsor Castle in Windsor, west of London on May 7, 2019, the day after the announcement that Britain’s Meghan, Duchess of Sussex had given birth to a son.

World awaits first glimpse of Meghan’s royal baby

LONDON - Britain’s Prince Harry and wife Meghan will show their baby son off to the world on Wednesday amid fevered suspense for British royal watchers desperate for a glimpse.

A visibly relieved Harry, 34, announced on Monday the arrival of the couple’s firstborn, who will be seventh in the line to the British throne.

The mother and proud father, who said his son was “absolutely to-die-for”, will release a photograph of their new arrival later Wednesday.

The couple announced the birth of the seven-pound, three-ounce (3.26-kilogram) baby -- “It’s a BOY!” -- to their 6.5 million followers on Instagram.

Prince Charles, on a visit to Germany on Tuesday, said he was “obviously delighted”and “impatient” to see his fourth grandchild.

The heir to the British throne, speaking in German, said he would see the baby “in the coming days when things are calmer”.

Crowds gathered outside Windsor Castle, west of London, on Monday and Tuesday to wish them well.

It was a rare piece of good news for a nation consumed by the endless Brexit drama, giving a chance to celebrate royal traditions -- this time with a young American twist.

“I want to see how he’ll look. As Meghan is mixed race, I’m curious”, said Zahra Kibue, 34, who lived in Kenya before moving to England a few years ago.

Former US TV star Meghan, 37, has created a fresh buzz around the century-old House of Windsor, but has also made waves with her modernising ways.

She raised eyebrows by closing her own car door -- a task usually performed by aides -- and has ignored tradition by keeping the birth private and well away from the prying media’s eyes.

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- ‘Crazy’ name speculation -

Most UK media assumed that Meghan had opted for a home delivery, but The Daily Mail reported that those plans were “dashed as she was secretly whisked to a London hospital on Sunday by Harry and his Scotland Yard security team”. The Sun, a competing tabloid, said Meghan ended up being secretly rushed to a £15,000-a-night ($20,000, 17,500-euro) London hospital before giving birth “at exactly sunrise”.

Either way, Harry’s brother William, two years his senior and with three children of his own, offered cautious words of congratulation.

“I’m very pleased and glad to welcome my brother to the sleep deprivation society that is parenting,” William said with a grin.

The remaining suspense revolves around what the new arrival will be called, with bookies busy for months before the birth.

“It’s been crazy,” Amy Jones, a spokeswoman for Paddy Power bookmakers, told AFP. “Now that the baby has arrived, everyone is backing the name Alexander.”

UK royal names are normally chosen from a relatively restricted pool of those used by past kings and queens.

But Meghan and Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are anything but normal royals.

“Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to choose UNUSUAL name for baby that UNIFIES the US and UK,” The Daily Express wrote, sparking a wild guessing game on Twitter filled with puns and jokes.

Perhaps only half in jest, bookies were offering 250-1 odds on the boy being named Donald, in honour of US President Trump.

Although the couple received congratulations from former US first lady Michelle Obama, the White House remained silent. (afp)

ing to left-back.

Wijnaldum’s impact was massive. He was picked out by Trent Alexander-Arnold’s low cross and drilled under Ter Stegen. And from Liverpool’s next attack, Xherdan Shaqiri picked out Wijnaldum to head home at the Kop end. “Once

again we showed that everything is possible in football,” said Wijnaldum.

“I was really angry at the manager that he put me on the bench but I had to do something to help the team when I came on.”

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Jerusalem’s dilemma over hordes of stray cats

JERUSALEM - A dozen cats wake up in cages stacked on top of one another, a pungent odour in the air, while in a room next door two vets work diligently.

Captured in the streets of Jerusalem by city workers or brought in by residents, at least 15 cats a day are sterilised at the municipal veterinary centre.

But experts say that is far too few to stabilise the city’s burgeoning street cat population and allay fears about the impact on its environment and ecosystem from the felines.

The concentration of stray cats in the Holy City is among the highest in the Middle East or even the world, experts say.

With nearly 2,000 cats per square kilometre (mile), it has a total of some 240,000, in a city of more than 900,000 residents, the Israeli official in charge of its veterinarian services, Asaf Bril, said.

Only a large-scale, rapid programme to sterilise some 80 percent of the cats within a six-month period would be capable of bringing the population under control, he said.

“To achieve that result, 25 clinics like mine would be needed to sterilise 500 cats per day,” he said, at the veterinary services centre, a collection of fading buildings on the edge of Jerusalem.

- Going underground -

Reducing the cats’ access to their

main source of food is another option for bringing the stray population under control.

The hordes of cats find most of their food in rubbish bins that sometimes overflow, especially in mainly Palestinian east Jerusalem, which Israel occupied in the SixDay War of 1967 and later annexed.

Israel considers the entire city its capital, though public services in parts of east Jerusalem are noticeably poorer than in the mainly Jewish western sector.

The city council recently launched a plan to modernise rubbish collection, moving some bins underground and therefore depriving the cats of the food source.

“Ultimately, underground rubbish bins that reduce the availability of food for cats are the only solution to control the size of the population,” Amir Balaban, of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, said.

But not everyone backs the idea of food deprivation.

Jerusalem’s newly elected mayor, Moshe Lion, announced in January the creation of feeding stations around the city, with the food in granule form notably, and budgeted 100,000 shekels ($28,000, 24,000 euros) a year for the scheme.

The decision aims to provide a transition that is clean and more controlled between the current, free-for-all access to the bins and their eventual removal. (afp)

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Jerusalem municipal veterinary centre employee Ahmed Abu Sinenh attempts to lure stray cats into a cage with food so that they can be sterilised on March 7, 2019. order as Coutinho, who cost £142 million ($186 million) when moving from Liverpool to Barcelona in January 2018, was replaced for the second time in the tie.

The change briefly had an impact, but Barca were inexplicably caught cold from a quick Alexander-Arnold

corner 11 minutes from time that picked out Origi completely unmarked to fire high past Ter Stegen.

“A genius moment,” Klopp of Alexander-Arnold’s quick thinking.

“I saw the ball flying in the net and had no idea who took the corner and who scored the goal.” (afp)

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22 million Eid holidaymakers to travel by public transportation

BANDUNG - The government has predicted that more than 22.83 million Eid al-Fitr holidaymakers will travel by public transportation this year, up 4 percent compared to last year.

“Based on the results of our survey, 4.4 million (holidaymakers) choose to travel by bus,” Director General of Land Transportation of the Transportation Ministry Budi Setyadi said at a coordination meeting on Eid-al-Fitr transportation 2019 here on Tuesday.

Setyadi said 2.4 million holidaymakers opt to travel by train, 1.4 million by plane, 4.3 million by private cars and 940 thousand by motorcycles.

“Until now, motorcyclists still dominate Java’s northern coastal highway during the homecoming period,” he said.

Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said this year’s homecoming is themed “safe and harmonious homecoming” in accordance with President Joko Widodo’s directives. As such, the public will feel secure during their travel.

To that end, the government will impose one-way traffic to anticipate congestion due to the influx of holidaymakers travelling from Jakarta and its surroundings to West Java and Central Java.

This year, an increasing number of homebound travellers are choosing to use the Trans Java toll road.

By imposing one-way traffic, he expressed hope that more vehicles will be able to travel on the Trans Java toll road and at a higher speed, thus cutting short the time taken for holidaymakers from Jakarta and its surroundings to reach their hometowns - The government has predicted that more than 22.83 million Eid al-Fitr holidaymakers will travel by public transportation this year, up 4 percent compared to last year.

“Based on the results of our survey, 4.4 million (holidaymakers) choose to travel by bus,” Director General of Land Transportation of the Transportation Ministry Budi Setyadi said at a coordination meeting on Eid-al-Fitr transportation 2019 here on Tuesday.

Setyadi said 2.4 million holidaymakers opt to travel by train, 1.4 million by plane, 4.3 million by private cars and 940 thousand by motorcycles. “Until now, motorcyclists still dominate Java’s northern coastal highway during the homecoming period,” he said.

Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said this year’s homecoming is themed “safe and harmonious homecoming” in accordance with President Joko Widodo’s directives. As such, the public will feel secure during their travel.

To that end, the government will impose one-way traffic to anticipate congestion due to the influx of holidaymakers travelling from Jakarta and its surroundings to West Java and Central Java.

This year, an increasing number of homebound travellers are choosing to use the Trans Java toll road.

By imposing one-way traffic, he expressed hope that more vehicles will be able to travel on the Trans Java toll road and at a higher speed, thus cutting short the time taken for holidaymakers from Jakarta and its surroundings to reach their hometowns. (afp)

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This picture taken on May 7, 2019 shows Mount Sinabung volcano spewing thick volcanic ash, as seen from Karo. Mount Sinabung on Sumatra island -- which has been rumbling since 2010 and saw a deadly eruption in 2016 -- spewed the thick plume after activity picked up recent days.

Indonesia’s Mt. Sinabung shoots column of smoke and ash into sky

An Indonesian volcano erupted Tuesday, sending a massive column of ash and smoke 2,000 metres (6,500 feet) into the air, coating local villages in debris. Mount Sinabung on Sumatra island -- which has been rumbling since 2010 and saw a deadly eruption in 2016 -- spewed the thick plume after activity picked up recent days.

Disaster agency officials said the eruption has the “potential” to affect flights, but it had not issued a formal notice for planes to avoid the area.

Local residents living along rivers near the crater were advised to be on alert for possible lava flows.

There were no reports of injuries or deaths after the latest eruption and the disaster agency did not

issue an evacuation order. No one lives inside a previously announced no-go zone around the volcano.

Sinabung roared back to life in 2010 for the first time in 400 years.

After another period of inactivity it erupted once more in 2013, and has remained highly active since. In 2016, seven people died in one of Sinabung’s eruptions, while a 2014 eruption killed 16.

Last year, a volcano in the strait between Java and Sumatra islands erupted, causing an underwater landslide that unleashed a tsunami which killed over 400 people.

Indonesia is home to around 130 active volcanoes due to its position on the “Ring of Fire”, a belt of tectonic plate boundaries circling the Pacific Ocean where frequent seismic activity occurs. (afp)

Former home minister faces KPK interrogation over e-ID graft case JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) interrogated ex-home affairs minister Gamawan Fauzi as witness in connection with its investigation into alleged corruption in the country’s electronic identity card (e-ID) procurement project.

Fauzi faced the anti-graft

agency’s grilling as a witness for Markus Nari, a Golkar Party legislator, named a suspect in the graft case.

“I will be interrogated for Markus Nari,” Fauzi remarked on arrival at the KPK building here on Wednesday.

Nari was charged with perjury and allegedly attempting

to hinder the Commission’s investigation into the e-ID graft case involving two convicts: the Home Ministry’s official Irman and his fellow mate, Sugiharto.

He is alleged to have acted in a way so as to intimidate trial witness -- former Hanura Party lawmaker Miryam S. Haryani -- into recanting her testimony.

Nari was also named a suspect for his involvement in the procurement of e-ID during the 2011-2013 period.

The anti-graft body has placed Nari in detention following interrogation by investigators over a case of graft that led to the state incurring losses reaching Rp 2.3 trillion (US$161 million).

Nari is guilty of marking up the budget for an e-ID project at the House of Representatives. He is alleged to have accepted Rp4 billion from Irman.

The Jakarta Corruption Court found Irman and Sugiharto guilty in the case in July 2017. Presently, the duo are serving a 15year jail term. (ant)

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Jukut Paku Cliff Temple, a Place to Practice Yoga and Meditation

BUSINESS Qatar allocates $480 mn in aid to Palestinians Qatar said Tuesday it had allocated $480 million in aid to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority to support education and health services and provide urgent humanitarian relief.

The authority led by president Mahmud Abbas has been hit by the cutting of two of its leading sources of revenues.

Washington has ended all bilateral US aid in response to the Palestinians’ severing of contacts after it recognised the disputed city of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in 2017.

A row with Israel has meanwhile led to a halt to transfers of customs duties it levies on goods destined for Palestinian markets.

Both Abbas and the leader of Hamas, the rival Palestinian faction which controls the Gaza Strip, welcomed the Qatari announcement.

“The state of Qatar has allocated $300 million in the form of grants and loans to support the health and education sectors’ budgets with the Palestinian Authority,” the official Qatar News Agency said.

It said Doha had also allocated another $180 million in “urgent relief and humanitarian aid and in support of UN programmes in Palestine.” Aid will also go to the power sector to ensure supplies are not interrupted.

In a statement on official Palestinian news agency Wafa, Abbas thanked the emirate for its financial assistance, which he said would “contribute to alleviating and supporting the burdens of our people.”

Hamas leader Ismail Haniya said the aid was “a continuation of the unwavering Qatari stances that support the Palestinian people.”

In February, Israel February decided to deduct around $10 million a month from the customs duty it collects on behalf of the Palestinians, corresponding to the amount it said they paid families of prisoners or directly to inmates serving time in Israeli jails.

The Palestinians responded by saying they would refuse any funds where unilateral deductions had been made. Israel sees the payments to those who have carried out attacks against Israelis as encouraging further violence.

The Palestinian Authority describes the payments as a form of welfare, while the Palestinian public regards prisoners jailed

by Israel as national heroes.

Gas-rich Qatar is a major aid donor to the Palestinians, both to Abbas’s West Bank-based Palestinian Authority and to the rival Gaza administration of Islamist group Hamas.

In November, the Gulf state, which is a longtime Hamas ally, committed to providing around $15 million a month in aid to Gaza over six months.(afp)

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GIANYAR - If you have more time, come and pray to the Jukut Paku Cliff Temple, a historical site having been designated as a cultural heritage. It is located at Jukut Paku hamlet, Singakerta, Ubud, Gianyar, or around 35 minutes’ drive from Denpasar city. Some people often choose it to be a place for yoga and meditation.

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An employee stands at the entrance of the Beirut Stock Exchange in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, May 6, 2019. The exchange said it is suspending trading due to the open strike declared by the employees of Lebanon’s central bank. Hundreds of Lebanese public employees are on strike amid concerns that their salaries and benefits might be cut as the government discusses an austerity budget.

Lebanon stock trading suspended over central bank strike

BEIRUT - The Beirut Stock Exchange suspended trading on Monday due to an open-ended strike declared by the employees of Lebanon’s central bank, adding to the country’s economic crisis as the government discusses an austerity budget to avoid an economic crash.

The ongoing strike by the Central Bank of Lebanon employees began Friday and has raised concerns it could paralyze the country’s banking sector, which relies on the central bank for transactions as well as liquidity.

Thousands of Lebanese public employees are on strike amid fears that their salaries and benefits would be cut as part of strict austerity measures to reduce a ballooning budget deficit and massive national debt. They include employees at Beirut’s port, Social National Security Fund and the main state-run landline telephone company.

Professors and instructors of the stateowned Lebanese University also announced an open strike starting Tuesday.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri warned

against strikes that paralyze the work of state institutions and issued a memorandum in which he called for legal measures to be taken against employees who hold or call for such strikes.

A statement posted earlier on Beirut’s stock market’s website said the clearance and settlement of transactions cannot be done on time “during the period of open strike.” It said trading was suspended indefinitely “in order to protect the interest of all investors.”

Lebanon’s economy is struggling with soaring debts, rising unemployment and slow growth. A soaring debt of $85 billion — equivalent to about 150 percent of gross domestic product — and unemployment believed to be around 36 percent are

compounding concerns that the country will finally cave in economically.

Hariri’s government is debating an austerity budget and key reforms with the aim of unlocking billions of dollars in pledged foreign assistance. Protests have criticized the planned measures.

The government aims to reduce the percentage of the budget deficit compared with the gross domestic product.

Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil told reporters Monday that he insists the tax on interest payments at Lebanese banks be raised from 7 to 10 percent.

The call to raise the tax on interest payments has angered bankers, who warn that such steps could affect capital flow into Lebanon. (ap)

This historic site sits on a steep slope. The existence of this cliff temple is protected by the Bali Archaeological Heritage Preservation Service as an ancient relic. From the village road, then follow the concrete road next to hamlet hall towards Wos River. Next, go down the stairs until you reach the location of the cliff temple.

Temple area offers very clean, beautiful and cool atmosphere. Understandably, this cultural heritage area is often used by tourists to do tracking (sightseeing) or spiritual tourism activities. Around the Wos River, it grows large and small local trees, thus adding to the calm atmosphere. In the sculpted cliff area of ??the temple called the Jukut Paku Cliff Temple. Its height is less than three meters, but the type of building of the temple is not monumental as is the temple found on Gunung Kawi.

Meanwhile, on the left and right side of the temple there is niche (like a cave), like the place of meditation.

To the right of the temple, there is a shower having clean and clear water, while on the left is a place to put offerings. Wos River has slightly great stream and along the river pathway deliberately cleaned for visitors.

According to local residents, the Jukut Paku Temple is a place to worship ‘deities abiding at the Jukut Paku Cliff Temple’ to ask for salvation. Jukut Paku Temple is still a place considered to have religious value for the local community. This temple also has a series of piodalan or temple festival falling on Anggara Kasih Medangsia, along with the piodalan at the Penataran Temple of Jukut Paku hamlet.

On the temple festival, people will put offerings in the form of suci, peras, daksina, soroan, pengambean, and sesantun. In addition to worshiping the deities, the construction of the Jukut Paku Temple is believed to be the place where ancestral spirits have merged with their goddess. (kmb)

Some people often choose Jukut Paku Cliff Temple to be a place for yoga and meditation.

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In an instant, basic foods at low-cost market are sold out

DENPASAR — When entering the month of Ramadhan, Denpasar Industry and Trade Agency (Disperindag) and other relevant agencies held a low-cost market. This activity is carried out to maintain price stability during the Ramadan.

This cheap market took place in Wanasari hamlet, Dauh Puri Kaja village, North Denpasar subdistrict, Tuesday (May 7).

From the morning after it was opened, the community seemed alternately to buy commodities in the low-cost market. A number of main commodities of daily necessities on offer were sold out in just a matter of hours. The low-cost market operations this time is meant to stabilize prices of staples during Ramadhan month. The Re-

gional Inflation Monitoring Team (TPID) and the Denpasar Industry and Trade Agency collaborated with Pertamina, PPI, Bulog, and distributors supply various kinds of staple foods.

Some of the commodities offered include Kita rice (medium) of 5 kg for IDR 50,000 / 5kg, medium rice for IDR 42,500 / 5kg. The price of Kita oil is IDR 11,000 / liter and Blue Triangle flour is for IDR 7,500 / kg. Meanwhile, local sugar costs IDR 11,000 / kg. In addition, other commodities are also sold such as eggs for IDR 14,000 / 10 pieces, shallot at IDR 28,000 / kg along with various fruits.

Acting Head of the Denpasar Industry and Trade Agency, I.B. Anom Suniem, stated that routine

low-cost market activities ahead of the religious holidays is commitment of the Denpasar City government under the direction of the Mayor of Denpasar I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra, together with the Deputy Mayor of Denpasar IGN Jaya Negara to the public in order to get the price of basic food cheaper than the market price, moreover, it is related to Ramadan.

“This low-cost market will be implemented in every sub-district so that people can shop cheaply with quality goods. We hope the community will utilize the cheap market having been implemented by the Denpasar government through the TPID Denpasar so the price stability ahead of religious holidays can be maintained,” he

said.

The existence of a cheap market is expected to become a solution for the community in order to get a cheaper price than the market price. Besides, through this cheap market, it can help the government in stabilizing the prices of basic commodities ahead of the celebration of holidays.

“The low price offered is also a form of CSR. Hopefully, the low-cost market held by the Denpasar government with the TPID and Denpasar Industry and Trade Agency can help people get cheaper prices from the market and help stabilize prices and prevent inflation from happening before the holiday,” he hoped.

In addition, he will also hold

a low-cost market in four subdistricts, namely on Wednesday (May 8) on vacant land in the west of Pidada Market, Ubung; on Thursday (May 9) on vacant land on Jalan Tulip, Sumerta Kaja village; on Friday (May 10) at Kertagraha courtyard, Kesiman Kertalangu village; on Monday (May 13) on vacant land in the north side of Public Health Center III, Jalan Gelogor Carik, Pemogan village; on Tuesday (May 14) at the Weda Sari Mosque courtyard, Padangsambian Kaja village; on Thursday (May 16) on the Mosque courtyard, Jalan Buru, Dauh Puri village; and on Friday (May 17) in Kertawijaya Shopping Complex, Jalan Diponegoro, Dauh Puri village. (kmb12)

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Portrait on overloaded Kerobokan Prison

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Overcapacity up to 1367 occupants, a block averagely occupied by 120 people

SMALL kampong or the miniature of the outside world is now synonymous with the occupancy of the Kerobokan Prison.

In the largest prison in Bali, as of May 6, 2019, it is inhabited by 1,690 people. They have the status as detainees and inmates.

Looking at these figures, of course the outside community will think whether the Kerobokan Prison can accommodate the totally 1,690 detainees and inmates.

The area of Kerobokan Prison is currently around 3.8 hectares. In addition to office buildings, there are square, hospital, places of worship, and other public facilities. Chief of Kerobokan Prison, Tonny Nainggolan, stated on Tuesday (May 7) that currently the prison has 14 blocks with 122 rooms. If calculated, each room is occupied by 13 people, or one block is occupied by 120 people. Indeed it is apprehensive because when it was confirmed about the capacity of Kerobokan Prison, Chief Nainggolan said that Kerobokan Prison only has the capacity of 323 people. In conclusion, it is now in overcapacity as inhabited by up to 1,367 people.

All this time, Kerobokan Prison receives many gossips almost every week regarding the guards getting involved in drugs, prohibited goods coming into prison, and the arrest of drug offenders claiming that their distributors are from inside the prison, not to mention mobile phones can get into prisons, and other classic problems. The risk is indeed unavoidable by Tony Nainggolan.

He has tried to conduct supervision to carry out inspection at all times by inviting police, Indonesian Military, National Narcotics Agency (BNN) and other external parties. Chief of prison has agreed with one goal that

drugs must be eradicated and those involved are imprisoned.

Unfortunately, sometimes the warden is also fooled. This is indisputable with the finding of items that are not feasible in prison. To oversee the 1,690 detainees and prisoners, currently there are 149 employees at Kerobokan Prison. But they must be divided into several shifts because the Kerobokan Prison is guarded 24 hours a day. According to Chief Tonny Nainggolan, the number of guarding teams for each shift involves 16 people. “Three officers are on duty at the main door,” he explained.

As seen, indeed the guarding at the prison is very tight. Examination is using a machine and done manually. Visitors are even not allowed to bring along items into the prison.

The procedures, at first visitors must be recorded administratively (clear identity). Secondly, when entering they must pass the inspection with a detector machine. Luggage must pass through the engine, like when entering the airport. And after passing the engine, visitors are not able to directly jump, but pass through two more gates and it is guarded by officers and checked again manually. If visitors are carrying an item, it must be entrusted and they are given an identity card. But the fact is that from super tight supervision, there

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Kerobokan Prison are still people that have escaped.

Due to limited number of officers is not comparable to the number of prisoners and detainees, Kerobokan Prison then tries to find a solution by transferring prisoners or often referred to as relocation.

Chief of Kerobokan Prison, Tonny Nainggolan, accompanied

by Section Head for the Coaching of Prisoners, Ni Putu Nyoman Budi Utami, said that during 2019, from January to May 6, 2019, her party had ‘screened’ 146 prisoners. Ten inmates screened were relocated to Nusa Kambangan Prison, while the rest are in other prisons.

Now, there are only 1,690 people left (data as of May 6, 2019). Of these,

732 are detainees and 958 others are inmates. Of that number, 887 people were sentenced to more than one year and five people were sentenced to life. Currently, the Kerobokan Prison has no death row inmates and no terrorism convicts. The occupants are mostly those getting involved in drug cases reaching 1,071 people with 422 detainees and 649 inmates. The second was followed by theft cases reaching 279 people, embezzlement of 63 people, protection of 51 people, murder cases of 38 people, the rest are corruption, health cases, domestic violence, gambling, decency, robbery etc. (see table).

Still from the Kerobokan Prison, the ‘community’ or the inmates are

not necessarily occupied by indigenous people but there are also some foreigners in Kerobokan Prison.

Their number reaches 80 foreigners. They are mostly involved in drug cases, and other crimes such as skimming. In terms of age, the 1,680 inmates of Kerobokan Prison are adults, and 10 are children. Every major holiday (religious day) and national day like August 17, Kerobokan Prison usually proposes remission for inmates that have showed off good behavior. In terms of religion, 42 people are Buddhists, Islam (780), Hindu (578); Catholics (99), Protestants (160), Confucius (1), and the rest have not yet recorded. (asa)

14 hospitals propose claim of more than IDR 4.2 billion

Only IDR 883 million recommended by BPKP

DENPASAR - The handling of refugees from the Mount Agung eruption left problems. Primarily, it is related to hospital claims that have not been paid since 2017. During emergency response condition, hospitals are indeed asked to serve sick refugees by free of charge.

“I also received a claim letter from Sanjiwani Hospital of Gianyar yesterday. Actually, when it comes to handle refugees in the category of sickness that we submit or delegate to some hospitals, it is actually in an emergency response condition,” said the Head of the BPBD Bali, I Made Rentin, when confirmed on Tuesday (May 7).

According to the rules in disaster

management, Rentin continued, when there is an emergency response statement, the funds used are on call or ready-to-use funds (DSP). Since there are still payment obligations during the current normal conditions, his agency must coordinate and report back to the BNPB. Besides, it is also coordinated with the BPBD Karangasem because the emergency response decision was issued by the Regent of Karangasem.

“The process when we still have arrears, we need to sit together. In other words, who has the obligation? When we use the rules in an emergency response position, of course the time has passed,” he

explained.

According to Rentin, there are 14 hospitals applied for claims for health care costs for victims of the Mount Agung eruption. The total claims submitted during the period September 2017 to February 2018 reached IDR 4,207,077,402. However, only IDR 883,022,800 which according to the review results of the BPKP can be believed to be truth and can be submitted as a ready-touse fund (DSP) to National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB). The remainder is corrected because the patient data are not equipped with a unique NIK of IDR 1,319,275,701, health cost claims beyond the emergency response period amounted

to IDR 1,773,960,901, and there are non-refugee patients from disaster-prone areas (KRB) of IDR 230,818,000.

“Proposal for a health claim application according to the recommendation of the Bali Representative of BPKP (amounting to IDR 883 million—Ed) has been submitted by BPBD Karangasem to BNPB. The rest will be discussed in the meeting on May 14 together by the Karangasem government,” he added.

Meanwhile, the 14 hospitals filing the claim applications are Karangasem Hospital, Klungkung Hospital, Wangaya Hospital, Sanglah Hospital, Bali Mental Hospi-

tal, Bangli Hospital, Mangusada Hospital, Sanjiwani Hospital, Tabanan Hospital, Negara Hospital, Buleleng Hospital, Kerta Usada Hospital, Ari Canti Hospital, and Bhayangkara Trijata Hospital.

At least, there are 5 hospitals having zero claims after being corrected by the BPKP. They are Bali Mental Hospital with initial claims of IDR 440,470,800; Negara Hospital with initial claims of IDR 5,773,400; Kerta Usada Hospital with initial claims of IDR 3,991,200; Ari Canti Hospital with initial claims of IDR 6,704,000, and Bhayangkara Trijata Hospital with an initial claim of IDR 3,949,200. (kmb32)

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New space race to bring satellite internet to the world

WASHINGTON - Anxiety has set in across the space industry ever since the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, revealed Project Kuiper: a plan to put 3,236 satellites in orbit to provide high-speed internet across the globe.

Offering broadband internet coverage to digital deserts is also the goal of the company OneWeb, which is set to start building two satellites a day this summer in Florida, for a constellation of over 600 expected to be operational by 2021 Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX is equally active: it’s just received a clearance to put 12,000 satellites in orbit at various altitudes in the Starlink constellation.

Not to mention other projects in the pipeline that have less funding or are not yet as defined.

Is there even enough space for three, four, five or more spacebased internet providers?

At the Satellite 2019 international conference in Washington this week, professionals from the sector said they feared an expensive bloodbath -- especially if Bezos, the founder of Amazon, decides to crush the competition with ultralow prices.

“Jeff Bezos is rich enough to put you out of business,” said Matt Desch, the CEO of Iridium Communications.

Iridium knows all about bankruptcy. The company launched a satellite phone in the 1990s -- a brick-like set that cost $3,000 with call rates of $3 a minute. Barely

anyone subscribed at the dawn of the mobile era.

The firm eventually relaunched itself and has just finished renewing its entire constellation: 66 satellites offering connectivity, but not broadband, with 100 percent global coverage to institutional clients including ships, planes, militaries and businesses.

“The problem with satellites, it’s billions of dollars of investments,” said Desch.

And if “you spend billions and you get it wrong, you end up creating sort of a nuclear winter for the whole industry for 10 years. We did that,” he added.

“These guys coming in, I wish them really well... I hope they don’t take 30 years to become successful like we did.”

- Streaming on the plane Having internet beamed in from space is more of a priority for isolated zones than it is for cities, where users have fiber optic or cable connections. With satellite constellations, it doesn’t matter where you are in the world: an antenna is all you need to get broadband.

“It’s just like having a very tall cell tower,” said Al Tadros of Maxar, which builds satellites.

The other advantage of the newly announced constellations are their relatively low orbit, which is important for reducing latency, key in curbing lag in video calls or games, for example.

Isolated areas may be where the technology is required, but there may not be enough customers to make the endeavor profitable.

That’s why OneWeb has lowered its sights and will first target providing internet services to planes (imagine getting Netflix on your next long haul) or to ships, where there is a huge demand.

“The challenge in monetizing is being able to get through those first few years, where you have to put in all your capital expenses, but not being able to get enough revenues to keep you afloat,” Shagun Sachdeva, a senior analyst at Northern Sky Research, told AFP. Sachdeva expects most of the companies to die off, adding that the market will eventually have room for “maybe two” and that space-delivered internet services won’t be commonplace for at least five to 10 years.

Amazon is only just getting off the ground, and faces the hurdle of acquiring rights to the frequency spectrum. (afp)

ICELAND - In the heart of Iceland’s volcano country, 21st-century alchemists are transforming carbon dioxide into rock for eternity, cleaning the air of harmful emissions that cause global warming.

The technology mimics, in accelerated format, a natural process that can take thousands of years, injecting CO2 into porous basalt rock where it mineralises, capturing it forever.

“With this method we have actually changed the time scale dramatically,” says geologist Sandra Osk Snaebjornsdottir.

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas emitted in large quantities by Iceland’s transport sector, industries and volcanoes.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is promoting various carbon capture and storage (CCS) methods in a bid to limit the rise in average temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Snaebjornsdottir is working on Iceland’s CarbFix project with researchers and engineers from utility company Reykjavik Energy, the University of Iceland, France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Columbia University in the United States.

- Petrified in two years In Iceland, a country of geysers, glaciers and volcanoes, at least half of the energy produced comes from geothermal sources.

That’s a bonanza for CarbFix researchers, who’ve turned the Hellisheidi geothermal power plant -- one of the world’s biggest -- into their own laboratory.

The plant, located on the Hengill volcano in southwestern Iceland, sits on a layer of basalt rock formed

from cooled lava, and has access to virtually unlimited amounts of water. The plant pumps up the water underneath the volcano to run six turbines providing electricity and heat to the capital, Reykjavik, about 30 kilometres (18 miles) away.

The CO2 from the plant is meanwhile captured from the steam, liquified into condensate, then dissolved in large amounts of water.

“So basically we are just making soda water out of the CO2,” says project director Edda Sif Aradottir.

The fizzy water is piped several kilometres to an area where grey, igloo-shaped domes dot a lunar-like landscape.

Here the fizzy water is injected under high pressure into the rock 1,000 metres (3,300 feet) under the ground.

The solution fills the rock’s cavities and begins the solidification process -- a chemical reaction that occurs when the gas comes in contact with the calcium, magnesium and iron in the basalt.

“Almost all of the injected CO2 was mineralised within two years in our pilot injection,” Snaebjornsdottir says.

Once the CO2 is turned to rock, it’s pretty much captured there for good.

“If you have a volcanic eruption... and you heat up the rock to very high temperatures, then some of the mineral will break down and maybe dissolve in water,” says University of Iceland geochemist Sigurdur Gislason.

But, he noted, “this is the safest and most stable form of storing carbon”.

The last volcanic eruption here was a thousand years ago. (afp)

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Sunscreens may enter bloodstream, but health effect unknown, study finds

SEVERAL active ingredients in popular sunscreens are absorbed into the body rather than just sitting on the skin, a new government study finds.

In a Food and Drug Administration experiment, researchers determined that far higher levels of these ingredients are absorbed into people’s systems than the amount considered benign enough to avoid safety testing — in some cases, as much as 40 times higher than the threshold amount, according to the study published in JAMA. At present, no one knows whether the chemicals tested by the FDA are harmful when there is systemic exposure, the researchers noted. Their study included a request to manufacturers to study the safety of the chemicals. The four ingredients in question are avobenzone, oxybenzone, octocrylene and ecamsule. The FDA recently said that the four chemicals needed to be researched by manufacturers before they were considered generally safe and effective.

“Just because they are absorbed doesn’t mean they are unsafe,” said study coauthor Dr. Theresa Michele, director of the division of nonprescription drug products at the FDA. “That’s why we are asking for additional data.”

The new study isn’t the first to suggest that sunscreen ingredients might find their way into the body from the skin. There have been

reports of these chemicals being found in breast milk.

While waiting for studies to be done on the chemicals in question, Michele recommends that people continue to protect their skin from the sun. The active ingredients in sunscreens protect the skin by reflecting, absorbing, and/or scattering ultraviolet radiation.

“These products are used to prevent skin cancer,” Michele said.

“It’s very important from a public health perspective that people use them, especially as skin cancer rates are increasing. Right now, we know that there are benefits from these products and we don’t know if there are any harms.”

Michele also encourages that people use other methods in addition to sunscreen to protect their skin from sun exposure. People “need to use sunscreen with other sun protecting measures, such as wearing protective clothing and sunglasses and staying out of the sun at peak hours,” she said.

Before the new study, no one knew the level of systemic exposure resulting from sunscreen use.

To address that question, Michele and her colleagues recruited 24 healthy volunteers who were randomly assigned to receive one of

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Several active ingredients in popular sunscreens are absorbed into the body rather than just sitting on the skin, a new government study finds.

four sunscreens, which included two sprays, one lotion and one cream.

The volunteers were asked to slather the sunscreen on all parts of the body that would not be covered by a swimsuit four times a day for four days, a regimen that reflects the instructions on sunscreen labels. Over a period of seven days, 30 blood samples were collected from each volunteer.

In order for sunscreen companies to avoid safety testing of the chemicals in their products, no more than 0.5 ng/mL of the active ingredients can be absorbed into the body. When the researchers analyzed the amount of these chemicals in the blood samples, they found all at higher levels than that threshold. The biggest difference was for oxybenzone, which was found to exceed 20ng/mL on day seven of the study.

Because no one knows how systemic absorption of the active ingredients in sunscreen might affect health, experts weren’t sure how to counsel patients who might be worried about their impact.

“All four of the sunscreens in all formulations were absorbed at higher levels than the threshold,” said Dr. Emily Newsom, an assistant clinical professor of dermatology at the University of California, Los Angeles. “At this point, we’re not sure what that means.”

What we do know is that UV rays damage the skin and the risk of skin cancer is higher without sunscreen, Newsom said. “So sunscreen should still be used given the epidemic of UV-related skin cancer,” she said. “Our concern is that the public will hear this and stop protecting their skin from sun damage.”

Just because these chemicals have been shown to be absorbed into the body doesn’t mean they are causing harm, according to Elizabeth Platz, a professor, and Dr. Martin D. Abeloff, a scholar in cancer prevention and the deputy chair of the department of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

That’s why there’s been a call for studies that will investigate the impact of the chemicals when they are absorbed systemically, Platz said. (net)

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Taking selfie on Devil Tear cliff of Lembongan

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The flesh-eating bacteria is commonly found in water, which is why doctors tell people to remove their contacts before hopping in the shower or a swimming pool.

Eye doctor shares graphic pictures to warn against sleeping in contacts

THE last thing most people want to do is get out of bed and take out their contacts, but stomachchurning photos of an eye ulcer that developed after one person slept with soft contact lenses in might change your mind.

The pictures, which have been viewed over 30 million times, were posted to Facebook by Dr. Patrick Vollmer, an ophthalmologist at the Vita Eye Clinic in Shelby, North Carolina.

Volmer explains that the patient developed a pseudomonas bacterial infection that lead to an ulcer.

The condition described is called contact lens-related Pseudomonas keratitisis, an inflammation of the cornea. It is a medical emergency and can cause permanent blindness if not treated immediately with antibiotics.

“Despite treatment, the patient is very likely to suffer some loss of vision,” Volmer said.

The Pseudomonas microbe is present everywhere, mainly in soil, plants, animals and water. It likes warm, moist environments and tends to infect people with compromised immune systems, though any healthy individual can become infected under the right circumstances.

The flesh-eating bacteria is commonly found in water, which is why doctors tell people to remove their contacts before hopping in the shower or a swimming pool.

“I don’t ever recommend sleeping in any brand of SOFT contact lenses. The risks outweigh the benefits every time,” Vollmer said on Facebook. “It takes seconds to remove your contacts but a potential lifetime of irreversible damage if you choose to leave them in.

People need to see these images and remind themselves/family/ friends to also be aware of contact lens misuse.”

Around a third of people who wear contact lenses have reported sleeping or napping in them. People

who do have six to eight times the risk of developing eye infections, according to an Aug. 16 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The design of contact lenses makes it easier for people to develop infections. Contacts need to lay directly on the eye, but this allows bacteria and viruses to easily become trapped. When people don’t take their contacts out, the germs fester. Sleeping in contacts prevents the eye from being able heal itself.

“Although extended wear contact lenses are safer for continuous use overnight then they were years ago, they can still set up the eye for troublesome and even damaging infections if worn while sleeping,” said Dr. John Torres, NBC News’ medical correspondent. “Manufacturers and the FDA have approved some contacts for overnight use, but many eye doctors recommend removing them before going to bed anyway to prevent any of these issues.”

“If left in overnight, it’s very important to follow the manufacturer’s direction for cleaning and disposing of the lenses carefully and to follow up with your eye doctor if you notice any pain, discharge, redness or vision changes,” Torres added.

Some lenses are approved by the Food and Drug Administration for overnight wear, but even those are associated with an increased risk for infection when worn overnight.

These overnight-wear lenses are considered class 3 medical devices, those that have the greatest risk of harm.

Pseudomonas infections are rare and may not represent the typical infections most eye doctors see.

Emergency eye infections occur in 1 in every 500 contact lens users.

For context, an estimated 45 million Americans wear contact lenses according to the CDC. (net)

An Indian tourist vanishes after being dragged by waves

SEMARAPURA — Ferocious waves around the Batu Belek Cliff or known by tourists as the Devil Tear, Kawan hamlet, Lembongan, Nusa Penida, returned to claim casualty on Tuesday (May 7). A foreign tourist from India, Kausal Aditya, 24, immediately disappeared from the top of the cliff after being struck by the fierce waves rising up the cliff.

A search effort has been made, but until Tuesday afternoon it was fruitless.

Spokesman of Klungkung Police, I Putu Gede Ardana, delivered that victim with his friend Agrawal Kshitiz, 31, was temporarily staying at Villa Kusuma Abianta Lembongan.

After arriving at the place by motorbike, they took selfie on the edge of the Devil Tear Cliff Lembongan village, around 10:20. Cliff expanse at the location has indeed become one of the favorite spots for taking photos.

Suddenly a big wave crashed him from behind to make the victim fall down and was then dragged by sea current.

Some other residents were shocked by the incident. The victim appeared several times on the sea surface. However, he later sank. “Other residents at that time were not able to provide help because the cliffs are steep and the waves are big,” he said, while saying Kshitiz could survive.

To find the victim, a member of the Nusa Penida Water Police at Jungut Batu, Nengah Sukarma, immediately con-

tacted the Denpasar Search and Rescue Office. According to the information obtained from one of the witnesses, Ketut Sudiarsa, 31, a resident of Jungut Batu who saw the incident, Agrawal Kshitiz survived and only suffered minor injuries.

He was immediately taken to East Medical Care at Lembongan to get medical treatment due to injuries. Meanwhile, Kausal Aditya increasingly dragged into the sea. The witness said the victim had surfaced and then sank and disappeared.

Following the report, Head of the Denpasar Search and Rescue Office, Hari Adi Purnomo, through Section Head of Operations dan Alert, Ida Bagus Surya Wiryawan, ordered 1 Rescue Post Team for the Nusa Penida Alert Unit and 1 Rescue Team from the Denpasar SAR Office to use the RIB (Rigid Inflatable Boat) to conduct a search. The team moved from Benoa Harbor directly to Nusa Lembongan waters and combed around the scene of the incident up to a temporary radius of about 1-2 nautical miles.

Section Head of Operation and Alert who directly led the SAR operation stated that until 18:00 the search results for foreigner with the Passport Number K8042740 remained nil, while the search for him was suspended because it was dark. “Weather situation in the field is quite supportive.

Unfortunately, the RIB could not get too close to the edge of the cliff because there are many sharp corals,” he said.

Devil Tear’s coastal slope located adjacent to Dream Beach tourist attraction has claimed quite a lot fatality because big waves often come suddenly while at the beginning

it is very calm. Ardana asked tourists and other residents to be more careful when they are in that place. Don’t get too close to the edge of the cliff, so as not to endanger yourself for taking selfie. (kmb31)

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Tourists and other residents asked to be more careful when they are in Devil Tear’s coastal slope.

Don’t get too close to the edge of the cliff.

Bridge collapses, three Subak Palian members get buried One survives and two killed

TABANAN — Three members of Subak Palian, Puseh hamlet, Perean, Baturiti, plunged into the river and were buried by bridge material which was broken down while being backfilled on Tuesday (May 7). One person survived because he was only half buried, while two others were killed. Moreover, the evacuation process of one of the victims took around five hours because the position of the victim was buried unknown. Material of the broken bridge is in the form of reinforced concrete and mud.

The three victims, I Made Budi,

50, and I Ketut Sudana, 50, were killed, while I Wayan Dampuk, 60, survived and suffered abrasions on the legs.

As seen in the field, evacuation could only be done manually, even heavy equipment brought in must return because it could not reach the scene. The evacuation process was also assisted by the Bali Police Headquarters team carrying concrete breakers, assisted by TRC of Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Tabanan, Indonesian Military and National Police and local residents. Members of

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Three members of Subak Palian, Puseh hamlet, Perean, Baturiti, plunged into the river and were buried by bridge material which was broken down while being backfilled.

the local subak seemed to fill the scene to take a closer look at the evacuation process of one of their colleagues.

Like I Nyoman Riyem, 70, a member of Subak Palian who claimed to be almost a victim, recounted that before the incident, the member of Subak Palian had done mutual assistance since 7:30 to backfill the bridge. The bridge is indeed being repaired and elevated by about one meter by means of landfill first because the previous condition of the bridge decreased and had sharp corners. Having worked for thirty minutes, suddenly the middle of the bridge broke down and collapsed. Three residents working at the top of the bridge at that time immediately plunged and were crushed by the material.

Meanwhile, the others could save themselves. Other residents immediately took help manually.

Riyem said that condition of the bridge collapsed very deeply and caused only two people who dared to go down to evacuate before the BPBD and police officers arrived.

“At first, all residents helped Ketut Sudana, who only saw off his hands, and later Wayan Dampuk

because he was only half buried, but unfortunately Sudana died on the way to the Semara Ratih Hospital,” he said.

From the narrative of a number of subak members, the bridge connecting Puseh hamlet Perean to the Bunyuh hamlet, Perean, located in west of Dayang Temple was built around 2008, and was repaired in 2012 with a bridge length of approximately 6.30 meters, and broke down about 3 meters. The iron used to make the bridge is very small, sizing around 10 tests and is minimal with a distance of about 10 cm. Likewise the concrete bridge is very thin with a thickness of about 5 cm, while the soil load of the backfill is too heavy with a thickness of about 50 cm. And the night before the incident, he said, there was quite heavy rain at Perean village and the land under the bridge was suspected of being unstable.

Headman of Perean, I Nyoman Sunantra, admitted to feel devastated by the disaster having befallen the residents of his village. Moreover, the enthusiasm of subak members in the community service activities to repair bridges is very high for three days. “Since

this is self-supporting, we involved residents to repair the bridge, seeing the sharp cornering condition it is going to be raised in order to be slightly flat. Unfortunately, a disaster seemed to come,” he said.

Meanwhile, the sobs of the family of I Made Budi were broken when the victim who was finally evacuated at 12:30 and taken to funeral home. The victim’s wife, Ni Made Nyadri, could not see the body of her husband who had been lying rigidly. She even fainted.

Not only the family, the subak members and customary villagers have also been waiting for the bodies to arrive at funeral home.

Many residents even participated in the bathing process of the victims’ bodies remaining to be filled with mud. After cleaning, Budi’s body was finally taken to Bale Dangin.

On that occasion, the Head of the Tabanan Social Service, I Nyoman Gede Gunawan, accompanied by the Head of BPBD Tabanan, Gusti Sucita, visited the homes of residents who were victims of the broken bridge at the village one by one. In addition to the form of condolence, the relevant ranks also handed over assistance to the families of the victims. (kmb28)

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Bali’s economy grows negatively

Only 4 out of 13 business sectors grow positively

DENPASAR - Bali’s economy grew 5.94 percent in the first quarter of 2019 (yoy). Meanwhile, in quarter to quarter it grew negatively (-1.51 percent) because most of the business sectors in the first quarter of 2019 compared to the previous quarter did not show the best performance. Of the 13 business sectors, only 4 business sector showed positive growth.

Division Head of Regional Balance Sheet and Statistical Analysis at the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali Province, Agus Gede Hendrayana, said that in the first quarter of 2019 Bali’s economy had indeed grown negatively compared to the fourth quarter of 2018 because it had not been peak season. “The first quarter indeed tends to be minus except for the first quarter of 2018, where the number has increased,” he said on Monday (May 6).

Considering that Bali’s economy is dominated by tourism, its growth is inseparable from tourist visits both domestic tourists and foreign tourists. In the meantime, in the first quarter of 2019, Bali tourism sector only grew 3 percent, different from the previous year in which it grew a dozen percent.

Aside from tourism, the other sector whose contribution is large enough to the economy of Bali is agriculture. However, in the first quarter, the growth was negative because rice plants also grew declining whereas they usually grew quite well in the first quarter.

Air transportation also has a major contribution to the Bali’s economy because of air transportation tourists can go in and out of Bali. It is noted that international arrivals have grown quite well, but domestic arrivals are not as good as the first quarter of 2018 (yoy).

Of the 13 business sectors, only 5 sectors were positive, namely financial and insurance services, the highest growth was 4.15 percent, the manufacturing industry grew 2.58 percent, information and communication grew 1.28 percent, health services sector and social activities. “Actually, in the previous several quarters, the financial and insurance services business sector recorded a slowing growth, and in the first quarter of 2019 (qtq) is recorded to face the highest growth,” he added. In the meantime, in year-of-year, 3 business sectors experienced growth namely processing industry, government administration and construction.

In addition to economic growth, BPS also released the unemployment rate in Bali. Head of BPS Bali, Adi Nugroho, added that open unemployment rate in Bali based on the February 2019 national labor force survey is 1.19 percent.

“There is only about 1 person unemployment among the 100 workforce,” he said during the official release of statistics on Monday (May 6). The workforce is a population aged 10 years and over who is ready to get a job.

This unemployment rate increased 0.86 percent when compared to February 2018 (yoy). “Bali’s unemployment rate is less than 1 per 100 workforces, but now it has increased 1.19 percent,” he added.

This unemployment rate is dominated by graduates of vocational school (SMK), Diploma I, II, and III, each of which are 2.01 percent and 2.86 percent. Meanwhile, the business sector that absorbs the most labor is agriculture, with the percentage of 21.64 followed by trade of 18.22 percent.

The absorption of labor from the trade business sector has also decreased due to switching to work in the agricultural sector. (kmb42)

PHDI to invite community leaders and high priests

BANGLI - Pros and cons in the community related to the plan of the regent of Bangli to make marigold as the mascot of Bangli district returns to emerge. This was following the implementation of the Focus Group Discussion (FGD) to finalize the plan for making the mascot on Monday (May 6).

Responding to the pros and cons related to the selection of the mascot in the community, Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) of Bangli Chapter specifically plans to hold a meeting by involving Brahmin priest (sulinggih), temple priests, and community leaders.

Chairman of PHDI Bangli, Nyoman Sukra, revealed on Tuesday (May 7) that so far it had received a lot of input from the Bangli community regarding the mascot of Bangli. Inputs coming through WhatsApp as well as social media tend to disagree with the reason for choosing marigold as Bangli’s

mascot. To prevent the pros and cons from dragging on in the community, he also took the initiative to hold a meeting with the leaders so as to get input officially. “Later on, we will make this input into a basis for providing recommendations to the regent of Bangli,” he said.

Sukra said that a district mascot must be able to arouse the enthusiasm and pride of the community. “Now, before officially appointing the mascot, we have been laughed at, used to make fun and we are harassed. Prior to deciding, it has given impression like that. What happens if it has been decided? We are worried that Bangli people will be getting apprehensive, not proud of, but they even become insecure,” he said.

Furthermore, he said while attending the FGD at the office of Bangli regent last Monday, Sukra claimed that he had given many inputs regarding the selection of mascot. According to him, the yel-

low marigold does not match with Bangli. Philosophically, Bangli tends to be black. “Yellow color is suitable for the west direction. In Bangli, the color is black. So, we are proud of the black clothes and red hibiscus,” he said.

Although hibiscus has been used as the mascot of Gianyar, Sukra said it is still possible for Bangli to use red hibiscus. Alternatively, if Bangli cannot use red hibiscus, according to him Bangli can still use water lily as the flower mascot of Bangli.

“Water lily is suitable because it fits the life of the Bangli community.

It is grappling from under the mud and penetrating the water to provide balance. So, our life has three dimensional aspects. Thus, it has a philosophy,” he explained.

Sukra also disagreed with the selection of marigold as the mascot because this flower grows fast and easily goes faded as well. He did not want the Bangli community is like

that. Besides, according to literature not all marigolds can be used for saying prayers at temples. Moreover, there is a prohibition of using marigold to sprinkle holy water.

According to him, if it does not have to use flower as the mascot, it is better for the Bangli district to choose Kintamani dogs as the mascot.

Not much different opinion is also conveyed by a humanist from Susut, Bangli, I Gede Agus Darma Putra. He said the Hindu Youth Association (Peradah) facilitated by the Bangli House of Representatives a few months ago actually had the chance to hold discussion regarding the selection of a suitable mascot for Bangli. In the discussion, a proposal emerged to use water lily as the mascot of Bangli.

In addition to water lily, a proposal also appeared for the use of red bellyache bush. Darma Putra said that historically, according to the previous parents’ narrative,

Bangli was once filled with red bellyache bush. “So that, in my opinion, this flower is representative to be chosen for the mascot. If we have to really choose flower for the mascot,” explained the man who is also a lecturer at the IHDN Bangli.

He said that when making a mascot, the government is advised to choose something that has high philosophical value. In addition to flowers, another option that can be used is mountain, lake or Kintamani dog. “If we really must choose a flower, we can use water lily or red bellyache bush. In addition to flowers, we can use mountains, lakes or Kintamani dogs that are characteristic of Bangli.

However, it will have an impact technically namely the difficulties in making the dance and its philosophical explanation in order to become logical. The problem is only in the explanation,” he added. (kmb40)

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INTERCONTINENTAL BALI RESORT UNVEILS THE SUNSET COCKTAIL COLLECTION BY GRÉTAR MATTHIASSON

Sunset Beach Bar & Grill at InterContinental Bali Resort has teamed with up with 2018 International Bartenders Association in Short Cocktails, Grétar Matthiasson, to create the exclusive Sunset Cocktails Collection. Taking inspiration from the abundance of tropical fruit on the island as well as selected ingredients from his native country of Iceland, Grétar crafted unique delectable drinks with a global twist.

The mixology artist has invigorated the cocktail mix category with its high-quality standards following three principles: Eliminating high

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fructose syrup and unnecessary artificial ingredients; using natural fruits and juices; and developing perfectly balanced flavour profiles.

The drinks also feature lighter spirits like rum and tequila that incorporate fruity and fizzy mixers as well as fresh herbs like mint and basil. Packaged in artfully designed glasses, the mixes and ingredients are available at an accessible price point.

The Sunset Cocktails Collection and their curated mixes and bar ingredients include: 1) Perfect Pineapple: tropical adaptation of his award winning

cocktail (perfect peach) at the IBA world championships in 2018.

2) Green Monkey: Inspired by the monkey statues around InterContinental Bali Resort and lush greenery of Bali, and using one of Grétar’s favorite ingredients: basil.

3) Flowers on the Beach: crafted with the palate of ladies in mind, this cocktail is made of aromatic fruits, garnished with tropical flowers and served in a beautiful this stem martini glass.

4) Watermelon Forest: A simple cocktail with refreshment in mind.

Grétar added a twist with bourbon whisky instead of the commonly

used combination of rum. Served in a bamboo highball and garnished with plenty of mint, turn this cocktail into a tropical forest 5) Passion to Fashion: passion fruit has become extremely popular in his native Iceland, as the tropical flavor help the people escape the long winters. Slight bitterness of Amaretto (almond liqueur) gives this drink the elegance of the dominant sweet & sour flavor of the fruit. Served in an Oaked chardonnay to bring out the aromatics of Balinese passion fruit.

6) Spicy Mary: Originally conceived as a Christmas cocktail, it

turned out to be one of Grétar’s most popular recipes over the years.

It’s herbal, aromatic and fresh so goes well with all occasion.

“Bartending and making my own recipes is one of my biggest passions – followed closely by cooking. These two hobbies go really well together. I’m thrilled to work with the team at Sunset Bar at InterContinental Bali Resort to create this special cocktails collection and we certainly hope that people will like it”, said Grétar.

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Screen legend Diane Keaton opens up about age, marriage and Hollywood LOS ANGELES - Diane Keaton claims to be one of the fortunate ones: as the screen legend reflects on age, marriage, and nearly half a century of working in Hollywood, she says that she’s never felt sexually harassed.

“Never. Maybe I just wasn’t harassment material,” said Keaton, who has 68 screen credits since her 1970 debut in the comedy “Lovers and Other Strangers.”

The 72-year-old’s big screen appearances include “The Godfather” (1972) and its sequels, two “Father of the Bride” movies in the 1990s with Steve Martin and “Something’s Gotta Give” with Jack Nicholson (2003), for which she won a Golden Globe.

But the actress truly made her mark co-starring in eight Woody Allen movies, from “Play in Again Sam” (1972) to “Manhattan Murder Mystery” (1993).

She won her best actress Oscar for starring in “Annie Hall” (1977) with Allen and was nominated a further three times.

Keaton and Allen were lovers for a time, and when they broke up they remained friends and work partners.

As the Hollywood sexual harassment scandals detonated in late 2017, cascading from producer Harvey Weinstein to heavyweight actors like Kevin Spacey, old accusations of child sex abuse against Allen by his adoptive daughter Dylan resurfaced.

“Woody Allen is my friend and I continue to believe him,” Keaton tweeted in January 2018.

For all her confidence and bravado, Keaton preferred simply not to talk about the controversial actor and director -- and did not answer a question about whether she’d work with him again. (afp)

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Disney sets dates for next three ‘Star Wars’ films from 2022

LOS ANGELES - Following its merger with Fox, Disney on Tuesday sketched out its future plans for two of its most towering franchises -- the “Star Wars” saga and “Avatar.”

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(L-R) Pam Grier, Diane Keaton and Celia Weston attend the premiere of STX’s “Poms” at Regal LA Live on May 01, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.

Three new as-yet untitled “Star Wars” films will hit the big screen every other year just before Christmas starting in 2022, the megastudio announced.

That means that there could be a three-year wait between the December release of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” the final film in the original series begun in 1977, and the next big-screen “Star Wars” flick.

Several “Star Wars” projects are in the works, including a trilogy

by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the creators of HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” and a separate trilogy by “Last Jedi” director Rian Johnson.

A spokeswoman for Disney, contacted by AFP, did not offer ad-

ditional details about the upcoming scheduled films, which will expand upon the cinematic universe created by George Lucas.

Disney paid $4 billion for Lucasfilm in 2012.

In September last year, Disney CEO Bob Iger admitted after the lackluster performance of “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” a one-off film in the franchise, that the “Star Wars” release schedule was too frenetic.

After six films in 38 years, from 1977 to 2005, the rhythm had picked up considerably.

A total of four films came in rapid succession, from the release of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” in 2015 to “Solo” in May 2018.

“I made the timing decision, and as I look back, I think the mistake

that I made -- I take the blame -- was a little too much, too fast,” Iger told The Hollywood Reporter last year. Meanwhile, the studio pushed back its plans for the next films in director James Cameron’s uber-successful “Avatar” franchise -- one of the biggest prizes for Disney in the Fox merger.

“Avatar 2” will come a year later than expected in December 2021, followed by “Avatar 3” in 2023, “Avatar 4” in 2025 and “Avatar 5” in 2027.

“Avatar” remains the top-grossing film of all time, with $2.79 billion in worldwide box office sales, but superhero extravaganza “Avengers: Endgame” is hot on its heels at $2.24 billion and rapidly climbing. (afp)

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Liverpool produced one of the most stunning comebacks in Champions League history to beat Barcelona 4-0 and progress to the final for the second consecutive year on Tuesday as stand-in striker Divock Origi and substitute Georginio Wijnaldum both scored twice.

Liverpool went into the match at Anfield trailing 3-0 from the first leg and deprived of injured star attacking duo Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino.

However, Origi -- making a rare start -- and substitute Wijnaldum both netted twice as Barca for the second season in succession surrendered a three-goal first-leg lead to exit the Champions League.

“With any other team I wouldn’t think it was possible. They are really mentality giants,” Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said.

“It is unbelievable the season we had, the games we had, the injuries we had now.

“Going out there and putting in a performance like this on the pitch is unbelievable.

I am really

proud to be the manager of this team. “What they did tonight was really special. I will remember it forever.” Liverpool will face either Dutch side Ajax or Premier League rivals Tottenham in the final on June 1 in Madrid and will likely be favourites to be crowned European champions for the sixth time.

The Reds’ stunning victory brought back memories of when they last lifted the trophy in 2005 when they overturned a 3-0 halftime deficit in the final against AC Milan in Istanbul.

However, Klopp underlined the importance of his side writing their own history even if their bid for a first Premier League title for 29 years falls short behind Manchester City this weekend.

“We believed in this chance, we didn’t compare it with Istanbul or whatever,” added Klopp. “We want to create our own history. We need new chapters obviously and the boys did it.” Despite the despondency of losing Salah and Firmino, Klopp’s men never lost faith and were accompanied by a typically raucous Anfield atmosphere for a European night. Origi would almost certainly not have started had Salah and Firmino been fit.

But the 24-year-old Belgian has made a habit of scoring important goals in Liverpool’s title challenge and had his first ever in the Champions League on seven minutes on the rebound after Marc-Andre ter Stegen had denied Jordan Henderson’s initial effort.

“We know this club is the mix of atmosphere, emotion, desire and football quality. You cut off one

and it doesn’t work, we know that,” Klopp said.

“This club has a big heart. The heart was pounding like crazy, you could hear it and feel it all over the world. I am so happy we could give the people this experience.”

- Barca collapse again Barcelona boss Ernesto Valverdewas left to face up to the second major European embarrassment of his time in charge. The Spanish champions blew a 4-1 first-leg lead to bow out at the quarter-finals against Roma last year.

“The most hurtful thing is to repeat it,” said Valverde, who may struggle to hold on to his job despite guiding Barca to two La Liga titles.

“When you have a collapse of this nature we will have a few horrible days ahead.” His side were left to rue not taking their chances in the first half after weathering Liverpool’s early burst.

Lionel Messi had seemingly turned the tie in the Catalans’ favour late in the first leg with a brilliant free-kick and his first effort was tipped over by Alisson Becker before the Brazilian denied his international teammate Philippe Coutinho.

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Liverpool’s Dutch midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum (C) celebrates after scoring their third goal during the UEFA Champions league semi-final second leg football match between Liverpool and Barcelona at Anfield in Liverpool, north west England on May 7, 2019.