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Ariana Grande, youngest ever Coachella headliner, reunites NSYNC

INDIO - Ariana Grande became the youngest ever act to headline Coachella in her Sunday night performance featuring a coterie of high-profile guests including a reunion of 1990s boy band NSYNC. The 25-year-old pop phenom also invited rapper Nicki Minaj onstage before throwing back to hip hop classics, bringing out Sean “Diddy” Combs and Mase for a touching tribute to both the recently slain rapper Nipsey Hussle and her ex-boyfriend Mac Miller, who committed suicide last September.

Grande is just the fourth woman to headline Coachella, a sundrenched trendsetting festival in the desert of California that will run through the same lineup again next weekend, save for an exclusive Easter Sunday performance by Kanye West.

The top billing is a feather in Grande’s cap after a year that saw the former child star permeate the public consciousness as she shattered record after record and released two hit albums.

She kicked off the show with her hit celebrating sexual pleasure “God Is a Woman,” and shortly thereafter performed “Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored”, which features a deep cut sample

from NSYNC’s 2000 album “No Strings Attached.”

Four of NSYNC’s five former members came together for the occasion, though Justin Timberlake -- who found fame in his own right after the band broke up -- was noticeably absent.

But the four who turned up delighted the audience and Grande herself -- who would’ve barely been in primary school when the group peaked -- with the pop star saying: “I’ve been rehearsing my whole... life for this moment!”

The performers then did a rendition of the 1997 classic “Tearin’ Up My Heart,” nailing the original choreography.

Technical difficulties struck when Minaj joined Grande onstage to an eruption of cheers to perform their joint smashes “Side to Side” and “Bang Bang.”

A botched rap from Minaj saw the two awkwardly bop back and forth, with Grande saying “We can’t hear anything” several times, before using her four-octave range to try and move on from the snafu.

A clip of the incident quickly became the stuff of memes, with captions like: “Me And My Best Friend During Our Oral Presentation That We Forgot About.” (afp)

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This file photo taken on August 1, 2018, shows French rapper Booba (L) on May 19, 2014, in Cannes, southern France, and French rapper Kaaris (R) on March 25, 2015, in Paris.

French rappers set date for 2m-euro cage fight

PARIS - Two feuding French rappers have said they will settle their differences with a two million-euro cage fight in Switzerland in December.

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Bitter rivals Booba and Kaaris ended up behind bars last August after a running battle between their entourages shut down part of a Paris airport. Kaaris, 39, posted a video of himself signing the contract for the fight while he nonchalantly ate some chicken and chips with the hashtag, “The rule is that there will be no rules.”

Booba quickly took to social media to mock his rival.

“He’s signed, he’s signed,” he

said. “I wanted (the fight) to happen earlier but the diva and actress wouldn’t have it. The important thing is that it happens.”

The ultra-violent sport of MMA (mixed martial arts) is still banned in France, so the fight will take place in Geneva.

The winner will take home 1.5 million euros ($1.7 million), while the loser will get a third of that, the promoters confirmed Monday.

While the Ivory Coast-born

Kaaris has promised he will drink his rival’s blood, Booba, aka Elie Yaffa, has replied in kind. “I will (expletive) beat you to death, you son of a bitch,” he wrote.

The rappers’ long-running dispute has sparked hilarity on social media. A month in solitary confinement following the brawl at Orly airport, heavy fines and the threat of 18 months more behind bars have done nothing to cool their animosity. (afp)

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Indonesian election officials transport ballot boxes to a remote village by boat along a river in Manggamat, Southern Aceh province on April 16, 2019, on the eve of the country’s general elections. From sending ballot boxes by elephant in Sumatra to keeping voters safe in Papua’s rebel territory, Indonesia is pulling out all the stops for one of the world’s biggest one-day polls across a vast archipelago of 260 million.

Planes, rebels and elephants: Indonesia gears up for jumbo polls

From sending ballot boxes by elephant in Sumatra to keeping voters safe in Papua’s rebel territory, Indonesia is pulling out all the stops for one of the world’s biggest one-day polls across a vast archipelago of 260 million.

into the boxes to protect millions of ballot papers in a tropical country used to pounding rainstorms.

On Wednesday, over 190 million registered voters in the Muslim-majority country will cast their votes in just eight hours of polling, with the election commission battling torrential downpours, voter fraud and damaging cyber attacks.

And if that wasn’t hard enough, the world’s third-largest democracy behind India and the United States is staging a first for its twodecade-old system, which rose from the ashes of a military-backed dictatorship: holding presidential, parliamentary and local polls all in one day.

“This is a very big country so we’ll do our best,” Arief Budi-

- ‘Communal voting’ A record 245,000 candidates are vying for public office, with current president Joko Widodo facing off against ex-general Prabowo Subianto for the top job.

The polls kick off early Wednesday at over 800,000 plus ballot stations staffed by millions of election officials, starting in easternmost Papua where a separatist insurgency has simmered for decades.

Security will be tight in parts of the mountainous region after rebels massacred more than a dozen employees at a state-backed contractor in December. Violence also erupted as election material was delivered

man, the commission’s chief, told a recent gathering of journalists and diplomats. “But we’re very busy this year.” He’s not kidding.

Calling on four-legged transport, motorbikes, speedboats and planes, officials have been distributing cardboard ballot boxes -- guarded by armed security staff -- to every corner of the 4,800 kilometre (3,000 miles) long archipelago, which is home to hundreds of ethnic groups and languages.

While elephants carried ballot boxes through Sumatra’s Aceh province, horses were used to reach to remote communities in the southeast corner of Java island.

“The path is muddy during the rainy season so we need to use horses to transport election material,” said Suhartanto, the police chief in Tempurejo sub-district, who goes by one name.

The lightweight ballot boxes -- replacing metal ones used in previous polls -- are up to the job, Budiman insisted, declaring them to be “very strong”. “You can sprinkle water on them -- but not a flood,” he said. This was confirmed this week near Jakarta when hundreds of spoiled boxes were left in a muddy heap after torrential rain flooded a storage warehouse.

Plastic bags are being inserted

before local polls last year, resulting in the deaths of several police and election officials.

But armed rebels aren’t the only election challenge in Papua, which shares an island border with independent Papua New Guinea.

Voters in parts of the mineralrich region use a communal voting system called “noken”, in which a village head collects votes and represents the group at the ballot box.

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Site and rite exhibition, an effort to awaken Bali heritages

DENPASAR-The rampant demolition of a number of valuable areas or buildings better known as heritages, such as temple, shrines and others is increasingly worrying lately. For this reason, the observers and site lovers will narrate the site and rites in the spiritual vigor to be packaged in the form of photo, painting and video exhibitions. Site lovers belonging to the members of the Bakti Pertiwi Jati (BPJ) Foundation will hold a site exhibition entitled “Three Spiritual Areas of Bali” that will be held at Denpasar Art Space (DAS) Denpasar, on April 25 to May 9, 2019.

Head of the BPJ Bali, Made Bakti Wiyasa, revealed the exhibition is sparked after a long journey. It is part of an effort to raise awareness of Balinese people to be more concerned about the values or spirit of their ancestral heritage.

“The emergence of the idea of caring for the sites originated from concerns over the demolition of the sacred area where the communities indeed want to repair but having no knowledge at hand.

They do not pay attention to the value of the site that actually can be done through restoration, instead of replacing it with new materials. This is very worrying for our ancestors,” said Bakti when confirmed on Monday (Apr. 15).

He explained that with the motto “Love Archipelagic Heritage – Greetings for the Sites – Rites Run Sustainably” is used as a narrative in the discourse of waking up, establishing and maintaining the sense of love for ancestral cultural heritage, arousing real motion to maintain the roots of Balinese civilization. The discourse of sustainability and the strengthening of the roots of civilization as a source of national identity and the archipelagic love source are echoed intensely by young Balinese to support the government in promoting culture according to the Law of Cultural Preservation No. 11/2010.

“Young people and Bali Heritage Lover are a collection of lovers of ancient sites having groomed their movements officially and established the Bakti Pertiwi Jati Foundation (BPJ),” he said.

Bakti added the exhibition will showcase hundreds of works in the form of photos and paintings that reintroduce the noble values of Balinese culture to the people. Moreover, the exhibition is said to have received positive support from various parties, especially the regional government. Various exhibition preparations are being carried out by site lovers. “Hopefully, when it is organized the community can mutually share and learn the spirit,” he added.

Based on observation and data collection of BPJ Bali in various regions in Bali, many things are found to be worrying. Bali is so easy and many ancient sites of hundreds of years old in the form of ancestral heritage have lost. Moreover, Bali has experienced a heritage disaster which is actually carried out by its own cultural inheritors. Some of the heritage disasters are caused by natural disasters, such as earthquakes and rainfall which cause damages to the structure and temples. (win)

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Indonesian electoral workers load ballot boxes into a truck to be distributed to polling stations in Bali, Indonesia, Saturday, April 13, 2019. The world’s third-largest democracy is gearing up to hold its legislative and presidential elections on April 17.

Electoral Commission bans from taking selfie in voting booth

SEMARAPURA - Ahead of the simultaneous election voting on Wednesday (Apr. 17), the Klungkung Electoral Commission reaffirmed the voting mechanism, the task of the Voting Committee Group (KPPS) to the vote counting process. One of the serious concerns is the prohibition of taking selfie when voting. Head of Klungkung Electoral Commission, Gusti Lanang Mega Saskara, confirmed on Monday (Apr. 15) that when in the voting booth voters are not allowed to take selfie in order to show off their choice.

According to Lanang Mega Saskara, since entering the polling station, all documentation activities have been banned. Taking selfie when casting ballot can violate the six election principles namely directly, publicly, freely, confidentially, honestly and fairly. In addition, taking selfie when voting, the penalty can be entered into the criminal domain. This is in accordance with Regulation of Electoral Commission No.3 on Voting and Vote Counting in Election and the KPPS Guidebook.

“We ask the voters not to take selfie in the voting booth as it belongs to the criminal domain. We have confirmed to the KPPS so as to pay attention to the ban,” said Lanang Mega Saskara, when met at Paksebali village, Dawan.

In anticipation, when voting, the voters’ cellphone will be secured first by KPPS officers. In addition, an appeal will also be installed around the polling station to place the cellphone before voting. “As the matter of selfie, we actually organize a selfie competition, but not at the polling station but outside the polling

station. The selfie photo should be sent to the website of Klungkung Electoral Commission,” he said firmly.

This prohibition is set forth in Article 42 of the Electoral Commission Regulation No. 3/2019 concerning Voting and Vote Counting in the Elections. The article states that voters are prohibited from documenting their voting rights in the voting booth as referred to in Article 41. Meanwhile, the explanation regarding the sanctions is also stated in the Law No. 7/2017 concerning the Elections. Documenting choices can be an indication of money politics. It will become evidence of the application of criminal sanctions as stipulated in article 523. The criminal sanction is a two-year sentence and a fine of IDR 24 million.

This prohibition is in line with the clause of Article 38 paragraph (1) point d of the Regulation of Electoral Commission No. 3/2019 that the Chief of the Voting Committee Group (KPPS) warns and prohibits voters from carrying cellphone and or other image recording

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devices to the voting booths. Documentation can just be done during the vote counting. This is set forth in Article 52 paragraph (7) and (8) of Electoral Commission Regulation No. 9/2019 concerning Amendment to Electoral Commission Regulation No. 3/2019.

The article reads that witnesses, polling station supervisors, election monitors or the public present at the vote counting meeting are given the opportunity to document the uncut C-1 model form for presidential and vice presidential election, central, provincial and district House of Representatives as well regional representative council. This can be done after being signed by the KPPS, as well as the copy of the A.3-KPU form, Model A.4-KPU and Model A.DPK-KPU after the voting meeting and vote counting ends. The documentation can be in the form of photos or videos.

“Every violation in the polling station will become the authority of the Electoral Supervisory Board (Bawaslu) to take action. Besides, every TPS also has its own supervisor,” he explained. (kmb31)

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Tonight! Ryoshi House of Jazz presents the ever legendary Rio Sidik who makes his appearance every Monday night at 9pm. The fun continues on Fridays with a slew of local and international jazz artists to liven up your start to the weekend.

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As Bali’s longest-standing Japanese restaurant for the past 20 years, Ryoshi continues to win over the hearts and minds of those who keep returning for great music and good food at great prices.

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World’s largest plane makes first test flight

WASHINGTON - The world’s largest airplane -- a Stratolaunch behemoth with two fuselages and six Boeing 747 engines -- made its first test flight on Saturday in California.

The mega jet carried out its maiden voyage over the Mojave desert.

It is designed to carry into space, and drop, a rocket that would in turn ignite to deploy satellites.

It is supposed to provide a more flexible way to deploy satellites than

vertical takeoff rockets because this way all you need is a long runway for takeoff.

It was built by an engineering company called Scaled Composites.

The aircraft is so big its wing span is longer than a football field,

or about 1.5 times that of an Airbus A380.

Specifically, the wing span is 117 meters; that of an Airbus A380 is just under 80.

The plane flew Saturday for about two and a half hours, Strato-

launch said. Until now, it had just carried out tests on the ground.

It hit a top speed of 304 kilometers per hour (189 mph) and reached an altitude of 17,000 feet, or 5,182 meters.

“What a fantastic first flight,” said Jean Floyd, CEO of Stratolaunch.

“Today’s flight furthers our mis-

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sion to provide a flexible alternative to ground launched systems,” he added.

Stratolaunch was financed by Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft as a way to get into the market for launching small satellites.

But Allen died in October of last year so the future of the company is uncertain.(afp)

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The agricultural sector is realized to no longer benefits households. Based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, the contribution of agricultural sector to GRDP (gross regional domestic product) has decreased dramatically.

As no longer profitable

It is designed to carry into space, and drop, a rocket that would in turn ignite to deploy satellites.

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Scientists unveil ‘first’ 3D print of heart with human tissue, vessels ISRAEL - Scientists in Israel unveiled a 3D print of a heart with human tissue and vessels on Monday, calling it a first and a “major medical breakthrough” that advances possibilities for transplants.

The heart, about the size of a rabbit’s, marked “the first time anyone anywhere has successfully engineered and printed an entire heart replete with cells, blood vessels, ventricles and chambers,” said Tel Aviv University’s Tal Dvir, who led the project.

“People have managed to 3D-print the structure of a heart in the past, but not with cells or with blood vessels,” he said.

But the scientists said many challenges remain before fully working 3D printed hearts will be available for transplant into patients.

Journalists were shown a 3D print of a heart about the size of a cherry at Tel Aviv University on Monday as the researchers announced their findings, published in the journal Advanced Science.

Researchers must now teach the printed hearts “to behave” like real ones. Then they plan to transplant them into animal models, said Dvir.

“Maybe, in 10 years, there will be organ printers in the finest hospitals around the world, and these procedures will be conducted routinely,” he said.

But he said hospitals would likely start with simpler organs than hearts. (afp) Scientists in Israel unveil first 3D print of heart with human tissue.

Agriculture must collaborate with tourism

DENPASAR — The agricultural sector is realized to no longer benefits households. Based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, the contribution of agricultural sector to GRDP (gross regional domestic product) has decreased dramatically. In 2010, the contribution was recorded at 17.2 percent, while in 2018, the contribution decreased by only 13.8 percent, only one seventh of the total GRDP. Critical condition of Bali’s agriculture is also reflected in the number of agricultural households which also dropped dramatically. In 2003, the number of agricultural households in Bali reached 492,394. In 2013, the remaining number of agricultural households in Bali was 408,233. This means the number of agricultural households reduced 17.09 percent, while the decreases in the past 10 years reached 8,416 agricultural households reduced every year. “This confirms the agricultural players in

Bali have lost their enthusiasm,” said Adi Nugroho, Head of the Bali Statistics Agency (BPS).

An academician from the Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Udayana University (Unud), Prof. Dr. I Ketut Satriawan recently stated that land tenure by farmers is still limited. This means that in terms of economic scale it is profitable but not sufficient for the needs of their families. So, the benefits obtained by farmers are not sufficient for their overall needs.

On the one hand, due to the limited

land area, the farming profession is no longer the main job. “Agriculture is number two. Then, farmers will look for other jobs that are more profitable,” he said. Meanwhile, his farming job is worked on by someone else or the hire laborers to work on their farm.

After creating agricultural products, they cannot be processed into the next derivative product due to quantity problems. In addition, there are also constraints on distance and inadequate access to connect agricultural products to one another to

be processed into new derivative products. “For example, there are certain results located far apart. Then, it cannot be put together as a raw material processed into the next derivative product so that the fresh products, such as oranges or snakefruits during the harvest season cannot become marketed thoroughly,” he explained.

Sustainability of agricultural products is also an obstacle related to supply to the market because the market wants certainty of supply and sustainability.

With this condition, farmers smartly think by pursuing the work of farmers but cannot fully live it and they will instinctively seek the better one.

To revive the agricultural sector, it must collaborate with tourism because tourism is the leading sector that pro-

NEGARA - After the temporary waste disposal site (TPS) at the waterway bend of Lelateng village, Negara and made into 3R (reuse, reduce and recycle) temporary waste disposal, more and more garbage are piling up in the waterway on Jalan Danau Toba, Lelateng.

Based on daily observations, the garbage looks to stagnate in the waterway located in the west side of Jalan Danau Toba. Moreover, the garbage

also piles up on the roadside.

“I don’t know who is throwing garbage here so that it almost every day piles up. The garbage washed away by the waterways is originated from the upstream and from the market,” according to several residents on Monday (Apr. 15).

Meanwhile, the temporary disposal site in the corner of the waterway is now functioned as 3R temporary disposal site. Moreover, the old build-

ing of temporary waste disposal site is now taken advantage for selling clear soup even though it often closes. The 3R temporary waste disposal site built by the Environment and Sanitation Agency has not yet functioned.

Headman of Lelateng, Kade Suardana, when asked for his confirmation on Monday afternoon admitted that a lot of garbage came from upstream from Baler Bale Agung, Banjar Tengah and then empties out into

Lelateng.

According to him, actually his government has tried to find a solution by making insulation at each border.

Then, the Environment Agency officers cleaned it up. However, since the handling is not optimal it resulted in floods and the garbage overflowed onto the road after heavy rain. “As a result, many residents protest and open the seals so that the garbage flows into the estuary. Well, it accu-

duces good income for Bali today.

According to him, here is required a synergy between the agricultural sector and the tourism sector. The agricultural sector from the business side provides limited benefits, due to limited land tenure.

If the agriculture can be synergized with tourism sector, the agricultural sector can be one of the tourist destinations or attractions such as agrotourism. Then, there will be added value obtained from the tourism sector, higher than just the agriculture producing raw materials. “Like civet coffee, if sold conventionally and traditionally, the price is not more than IDR 5,000 but in agro tourism it can be sold for IDR 50,000,” he said. (kmb42)

mulates here, in the waterway of Jalan Danau Toba,” he explained.

For the management of the 3R temporary waste disposal site, he said to be still waiting for the help of the Viar tricycle transporting the garbage from people’s homes. This will be conditioned by the Waste Bank committee. “Maybe a month later the Waste Bank can operate. For the time being, it has not been optimal,” he explained. (kmb)

Garbage accumulates at Lelateng waterway

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Pump installation to anticipate floods at Seminyak nearly completed

MANGUPURA - To anticipate floods on Jalan Dewi Kunti II Seminyak, the Bali-Penida River Agency (BWS) has anticipated the installation of a flood pump at Kedampang Creek. Moreover, the installation is now almost completed.

Technical Coordinator of River and Coastal Area 1, I Nyoman Sugiartana, when confirmed on Monday (Apr. 15), the installation of pumps has been carried out since February and is currently being installed with hydraulic for automatic doors for maintenance. Currently, it is just waiting for the pump test that will be conducted at the end of April. Overall, the implementation of the activity has reached 95 percent, namely the construction of aquator pump, flood doors, while jet pump for horizontal pump has been installed. “At the end of April we schedule there will be a pump trial related to aqua jetpam, control doors, whether they function properly as a whole,” he said.

He said with the existence of the two pumps having a magnitude of 1,500 m3 per second, the condition of rainwater inundation on Jalan Dewi Kunti II will be able to flow when the water discharge in Mati River is also high. All this time, waterway condition of the Mati River is admitted to be higher than the Kedampang Creek. As a result, the channel of Kedampang Creek cannot drain the water, especially when the water discharge of Mati River is higher.

Meanwhile, the arrangement in the downstream of Mati River, namely in estuary of Mati River, right in the Patasari Kuta area, will

soon be completed. Moreover, the process is faster than the initial estimation. According to the contractor’s Quality Surveyor, Komang Sri Adhikarya, until last Sunday (Apr. 14), the progress of the project’s realization already reached 89.6 percent of the planned 53.9 percent.

This means it experienced a deviation of around 35 7 percent.

Sri added that the project is for the budget year 2017-2019, while the remaining workmanship includes the finishing work for the embankment road inspection, paving and Bali style railing, operational houses, generator house and river channel excavation or normalization. For control houses, it will be located in the right of the groove near the weir. Meanwhile, the sedimentation dredging is carried out continuously after the road access to the opposite is closed. “It is for those in the groove and in the dam area. For normalization, the Selok Estuary has been worked on,” he said when confirmed, on Monday (Apr. 15).

Meanwhile, the weir having been worked on since last February was already completed in March. Later, this movable weir will be used to stem seawater so as not to enter the riverbank, as well as the river water flow to the sea will not get hampered. Thus, with the presence of movable weir, the condition of Mati River will become stable. “Operations and maintenance of the weir in the downstream of Mati River will lie in the Bali-Penida River Agency and the maintenance period for this project will last for 365 calendar days,” he concluded. (kmb23)

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All this time, waterway condition of the Mati River is admitted to be higher than the Kedampang Creek. As a result, the channel of Kedampang Creek cannot drain the water, especially when the water discharge of Mati River is higher.

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Masked merriment: Sacred Laos ‘ancestors’ honoured for new year

LUANG PRABANG - Barefoot and cloaked in swinging bamboo ropes, two masked performers dressed as Laos’ legendary “ancestors” walk the streets of Luang Prabang on an annual outing for raucous new year celebrations drawing hundreds of worshippers to the normally sleepy city.

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Bunker of Sanglah Hospital accomplishes

Queue of radiotherapy patient will reduce

DENPASAR - Bunker of Sanglah Hospital has been accomplished. The thick-walled building with the thickness of 1.20 meters is built to install Linear Accelerator (Linac) device. With the presence of Linac, the radiotherapy line of cancer patients will decrease. The radiotherapy queue at Sanglah Hospital reaches 590 patients. A radiation oncology specialist in one day can serve 40-50 patients of radiotherapy.

Spokesperson of Sanglah Hospital, Dewa Ketut Kresna, stated that with the presence of cobalt and Linac, the handling of the line of cancer radiotherapy patients will be faster. “The line rate of radiotherapy is very high. With the addition of this Linac device, we are confident that we can cut the line,” he said.

This Linac radiotherapy service is for the first time in Bali and even Eastern Indonesia. Other than Sanglah Hospital, no hospitals are said to not have such device. “This service is clearly a blessing especially for the Balinese people. So far, the community has been referred to outside of Bali to get this service such as to Surabaya and Jakarta.

If Linac has been operated here, it means that our health care facilities in Bali are more complete,” he explained.

The bunker building has indeed been completed this year but the Linac device has not available yet. “It will be procured this year and so will the other supporting items,” he said on Monday (Apr. 15). Procurement of Linac is said to be only one because the price is quite expensive. This Linac radiotherapy service is predicted to operate this year after all the devices are installed.

Previously, Sanglah Hospital had sent 2 doctors to attend radiotherapy specialist education so that today there are 3 radiotherapy specialists. This is carried out in the context of human resources preparation to support Linac radiotherapy services. In addition to the radiotherapy specialist, Sanglah Hospital is also said to be preparing radiographers to operate the devices. “We will recruit additional

radiographers,” he added.

Previously, therapeutic services for cancer patients in Sanglah Hospital were carried out with cobalt and brachia therapy, while the use of Linac device was only applied for certain indications.

“In principle, cobalt and Linac have the same function,” he said.

However, on cobalt the radiation continues even though the device is not used.

On the contrary, on the Linac, if it is turned off, it will not emit radiation, making it more energy efficient and safer. “Cobalt is a simpler engine and needs cheaper operating costs. Meanwhile, on Linac, if the power plant is not turned on, well ... there is no radiation. The quality of the radiation beam is sharper, coherent and the engine is more complex and more sophisticated,” he concluded. (kmb42)

Revellers splash water on the pair and their gold-studded masked lion cub during the annual procession at the height of the city’s days-long holiday celebrating the Buddhist new year.

Some revellers wait all year to catch a glimpse of the procession, which stems from Laos folklore.

As legend goes, Laos’ heavenly king put out a call for earthly volunteers to cut a massive vine which was blocking farmers from growing rice and vegetables.

No one offered until an elderly couple -- Pou Nyer (grandfather) and Nyar Nyer (grandmother) -- said they would do it, despite knowing such a difficult task would end in their deaths.

After they were killed by the giant vine, the king called on Laotians to forever worship the couple and their lion cub, and they are now believed to be the country’s ancestral protectors.

Today two male performers represent the sacred duo and two more their lion cub, with the costumes and masks coming out just once a year for a parade that ends with a dance at the glimmering golden Wat Xien Thong temple, one of the country’s oldest and most scared, on the banks of the Mekong River.

When the festivities are over, the costumes are carefully returned to a special chest in a temple across town dubbed the “sanctuary of the divinities”, where they will rest for the

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This photograph taken on April 15, 2019 shows men dressed as the legendary ancestors “Pou Nyer” and “Nyar Nyer” and their guardian lion “Singkheo Singkham” dancing at the Wat Xiengthong Buddhist temple to mark the Laos New Year or “Pi Mai” celebrations in Luang Prabang. next 12 months.

The procession is the culmination of days of merrymaking in the UNESCO-listed city, a tourist hub that drew more than 755,000 visitors last year, according to Laos official data.

Elsewhere in town, elephants are dressed

up and paraded through the streets and alms are offered at sunrise to orange-robed monks in the city’s ornate temples.

And on the sandy banks of the river, worshippers carve knee-high sand stupas decorated with images of beloved monks and holy flowers.

For some, the annual celebrations are reason enough to book a trip.

“I planned my trip to see the Laos new year ... it’s my first time,” French tourist Couelle Guillaume told AFP. “It was unique to see ... different culture and ethnicities.” (afp)

Papa roach: Chinese farmer breeds bugs for the table

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This picture taken on March 25, 2019 shows cockroaches eating feed at a roach farm in Yibin, China’s southwestern Sichuan province.

YIBIN - As farmer Li Bingcai opened the door to his cockroach farm in southwest China, an insect the size of a dart flew into his face. Picking the critter off his forehead, he tossed it back into the dark room where some 10 million more of its kind scurried around, housed in wooden frames perched on shelves.

The six-legged creatures may be a bugbear for most, but Li and other breeders in China are turning them into a niche business.

Some sell cockroaches for medicinal purposes, as animal feed or to get rid of food waste.

Li breeds them for something else: food for human consumption.

A restaurant down the road from his small facility fries them up in famously spicy Sichuan sauce for the gutsier eaters.

“People don’t believe how good it is until they try some,” Li told AFP, putting a live one into his mouth as others crawled all over the place and people visiting.

Known colloquially as American cockroaches, the Periplaneta americana is one of the largest species and are consumed for a variety of ailments: stomach ulcers, respiratory tract problems, and even simply as a tonic.

“The greatest effect of cockroaches are that they have great immunity, which is why humans

will absorb its benefits after eating them,” Li said, noting that in China cockroaches are dubbed “Little Strong” because they can live for days even after being cut in half.

Tucked at the edge of bamboocovered mountains in Yibin, Li’s facility is a nondescript single-storey former farmhouse surrounded by crop fields and livestock farms.

The breeding area is roughly the size of a badminton court, with windows sealed off with netting to prevent any great escapes.

Security is paramount: In 2013, some one million cockroaches escaped a farm in eastern Jiangsu province roamed free after their greenhouse was destroyed. (afp)

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Goldman Sachs earnings drop amid weak trading

Goldman Sachs reported a drop in firstquarter earnings on declines in its trading business and as it set aside more funds for bad loans in its growing consumer business.

The financial giant saw net income plunge to $2.1 billion, down 20.3 percent from the same period of last year. At the same time revenues fell 12.7 percent to $8.8 billion.

Goldman encountered sharp declines in key trading divisions, such as equities and bonds. Market conditions improved from the prior quarter, but volatility was low, crimping activity, the investment bank said.

A bright spot was financial advising for mergers and acquisitions where it scored

a boost in revenues, while underwriting revenues fell.

Goldman, which has ramped up its consumer lending business through its online savings accounts, credit cards and other ventures, set aside $224 million for credit losses.

“We are pleased with our performance

in the first quarter, especially in the context of a muted start to the year,” said Chief Executive David Solomon. “We are focused on new opportunities to grow and diversify our business mix and serve a broader range of clients globally.”

Goldman’s share prices rose 0.2 percent to $208.22 in pre-market trading. (afp)

UK found to be hottest investment destination despite Brexit

LONDON - Brexit may be causing all sorts of uncertainty in Britain but it doesn’t seem to be putting off foreign investors.

In a survey on corporate deal-making published Monday, consulting and accounting firm EY says Britain is the top investment destination in the world for the first time in the report’s 10-year history — overtaking the United States, which has held the top spot since 2014.

The pound’s fall since the June 2016 vote to leave the European Union has made British assets cheaper, but Steve Krouskos, a global vice chair at EY, notes Britain also remains an “open environment for foreign investors” even in the midst of the Brexit chaos. That culture, he said, is reinforced by the English language, a skilled workforce, and a strong technology base.

Those long-standing strengths have helped Britain recover as a place to do business since the shock of the June 2016 referendum, which saw the country narrowly vote to leave the EU. With so much uncertainty surrounding the future of the British economy, the country slumped down EY’s rankings. In the October 2016 survey, Britain was as low as seventh.

There have been a number of high-profile investments in Britain over the past year, including Comcast’s purchase of satellite broadcaster Sky for around 30 billion pounds (currently $39 billion) and Coca-Cola’s takeover of Costa Coffee for near 4 billion pounds ($5.2 billion).

Krouskos said he hasn’t encountered executives who want Britain to crash out of the EU without a deal and that the remainder are “split down the middle” between those who want the country to leave the bloc smoothly with a deal and those who want Brexit stopped.

Britain’s exit from the EU, originally scheduled for March 29, has been delayed until Oct. 31, though it could happen sooner should British lawmakers back the withdrawal agreement that Prime Minister Theresa May negotiated with the EU. Fol-

Semarapura Festival IV Lasts on April 28 – May 2

Regent of Klungkung, I Nyoman Suwirta, accompanied by Deputy Regent I Made Kasta attended the preparation meeting of the Semarapura Festival IV in the Praja Mandala Meeting Room at the office of Klungkung regent on Monday (Mar. 18). Regent Suwirta wanted to finalize the preparation so that later on the implementation can run smoothly and beneficially.

Head of the Klungkung Tourism Office, I Nengah Sukasta, conveyed the Semarapura Festival is a festival held by the Klungkung district government with a greater target for community empowerment coalesced into the MSMEs (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises).

Besides, it is also meant to maximize the promotion of tourist destinations and city tour programs as one of the prominent program of the Klung-

kung district government.

The Semarapura Festival IV will be held on April 28 to May 2.

On that occasion, Regent Suwirta hoped that by the end of March the preparation for the Semarapura Festival can have been completed.

Information about this festival must also be disseminated both through electronic media and print media.

Meanwhile, Regent Suwirta asked the Klungkung Education

Agency to also display Gong Kebyar that will later be staged at the Bali Arts Festival. By that way, the Gong Kebyar of Klungkung envoy can be corrected earlier. He also requested the Jegeg-Bagus Klungkung beauty pageant held at the Semarapura IV Festival can be added with one more category namely Entrepreneur Ambassador. He hoped the Entrepreneur Ambassador can be the mascot of

Klungkung entrepreneur.

Semarapura Festival IV will feature the Telek Jumpai Dance presented by students in Klungkung district. Telek Dance will be danced by junior high and high school students, in collaboration with the Bali provincial government.

Regent Suwirta requested that in the performance of the Telek dance can be accompanied barong in four directions.

Regent Suwirta also asked the committee to report the amount of transactions taking place during the Semarapura Festival. They include the transaction in culinary

stands, MSMEs, exhibitions and other stands. This is done to find out the extent of visitors’ interest when visiting the Semarapura Festival IV. At the end of the preparatory meeting, Regent Suwirta requested the committee to be able to coordinate well in terms of preparation and implementation of the Semarapura Festival IV. Thus, the preparation and implementation can run well.

Relevant agencies must also communicate well, and show off their cooperation to make the Klungkung district government’s prestigious annual event successful. (kmb)

Fried Red Rice Offers Savory Taste AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

A British Union flag is flown behind a European Union flag during demonstrations near Parliament in London, Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Just days away from a no-deal Brexit, European Union leaders meet Wednesday to discuss granting the United Kingdom a new delay to its departure from the bloc. lowing three defeats in Parliaments, May opted to ask for an extension rather than crash out of the bloc, a scenario that many politicians and business leaders say could lead to a deep recession as tariffs are slapped on British exports and other restrictions are imposed on trade.

EY found that global interest in mergers and acquisitions is at a 10-year high as managers try to adapt to technological change, with 59% of companies planning a deal in

the next year, up from 52% a year ago.

The improvement appears at odds with a slowdown in the global economy. Last week, the International Monetary Fund cut its global growth forecast for this year to 3.3% from 3.5%, largely because of trade tensions, particularly between China and the U.S. Krouskos said the mood among executives is better than the growth forecasts suggest.

“The increase in acquisition appetite is a clear indication that executives are focused

on their pursuit of growth, underpinned by high expectations of their own future performance,” he said.

“There is uncertainty in the market, but for many, disruption is driving M&A rather than stalling it — deals are a means to reshape portfolios at an accelerated pace and futureproof businesses.”

EY surveyed 2,900 senior executives across 47 countries in February and March 2019. (ap)

Do you enjoy fried rice of white rice ingredients? Well, it has been a commonplace! How about tasting a dish of fried rice made from red rice ingredients. It is something new. Other than offering delicious flavor, this type of fried rice is also low in cholesterol and very good for health. Moreover, when combined with Balinese spices, it must be tempting to immediately try it. The fried rice found in one of the restaurants in Ubud is combined with local and international nuances.

Rice is indeed the target for people to consume, especially those wishing to reduce cholesterol. This red rice is also ingredient in food

stalls to restaurants on the Island of the Gods. Including in tourism areas, this serving is an attractive offer for tourists. “Carbohydrates in brown rice do exist, but in low sugar content, so they are chosen especially for those desiring to reduce sugar consumption,” Chef UNAME Restaurant Ubud, I Wayan Partana.

Partana said that to give a sensational flavor, the brown rice is cooked with Balinese spices (base genep) which accentuate the flavor of garlic and aromatic ginger.

Then, add bulun baon leaf, kluwek and Moringa leaves as vegetables mixed in the cooking process and added with chicken meat to give a

distinctive local flavor. “Vegetables added give a slightly bitter and savory taste and an acidic sensation with extra kluwek or pangium,” he explained.

The types of vegetables used are also rich in benefits for the body that function as medicine, especially bulun baon. The cooking only takes advantage of a little oil so that it causes the fried rice to have low fat. For additional condiment, it is made from cut tomatoes, green cayenne pepper, sprouts, avocados and lime juice that can provide international-style food. “There are poached eggs to provide additional delight when savoring fried rice,” he concluded. (kmb)

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It is a challenge to the concept of direct voting and a headache for local officials who have tried -- and failed -- to change the fraud-prone system in a country where vote buying is already rife.

“Usually, voters choose candidates who are from their village or family,” said Papua’s election commission head Theodorus Kossay.

“Also, what often happens is that the number of votes that are actually filed can be different from what was agreed upon by the group, which leads to cheating.”

Meanwhile, police on the tourist hotspot of Bali this week scuffled with a small group of Papuans who staged a rally calling for people not to cast a ballot.

- Hack attacks Training millions of electoral officers -- many working an election for the first time -- has been another challenge.

A few staff at each station were trained, and then expected to teach the rest of their colleagues, as tens of millions of voters work out who to vote for among the sea of candidates.

“The biggest challenge is doing voter education,” Budiman said. “The first key if you want to have fair elections is by building trust” with voters, he added.

To that end, a mobile phone app was created by the commission to give Indonesians -- including technology friendly millenials -- details about every candidate and their policies.

The agency, which has discounted opposition claims of millions of voter-list irregularities, is also battling repeated cyber attacks that threaten to disrupt the vote.

Some were purportedly launched by hackers in Russia and China, though it declined to confirm those claims. “They could be Indonesian, they could be from overseas or any country,” Budiman said. “But we’ll handle it all.” (afp)

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Halal ink: Muslim-majority Indonesia set for polls

BAKU - Seals waddling along the waterfront were once a common sight in Baku Bay, the Caspian Sea home of Azerbaijan’s capital.

Not anymore. Of the more than one million seals which inhabited the shores and islands of the Caspian a century ago fewer than 10 percent remain, and the species has been declared endangered.

Azer Garayev, the head of the Azerbaijan Society for the Protection of Animals, says the seals have for decades been suffering from over-hunting and the effects of industrial pollution.

In 2003, his group found 750 seal carcasses in just one month.

“It was not normal,” but no one looked into the issue, the 57-year-old activist said. “The seal is a sign of all the major environmental problems (in the Caspian).”

Bordered by Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan, the Caspian is the world’s largest inland body of water, about the size of Japan.

As well as the seals and other endemic species including Caspian turtles and the famed beluga sturgeon, the sea boasts vast energy reserves, estimated at 50 billion barrels of oil and 300,000 billion cubic metres of natural gas.

Pollution from the extraction of that oil and gas, along with declining water levels due to climate change, pose a threat to many species and put the future of the sea itself at risk.

- Oil and water The UN Environment Programme has warned that the Caspian “suffers from an enormous burden of pollution from oil extraction and refining, offshore oil fields, radioactive wastes from nuclear power plants and huge volumes of untreated sewage and industrial waste introduced mainly by the Volga River”.

A few kilometres (miles) from downtown Baku, fishermen along the seashore watch small drops of oil appearing on the surface of the sea and spreading in varicoloured strains. “Some fish seem to prefer polluted water, so they tend to congregate here,” said 26-year-old Rashad.

“The water is dirty,” he said, displaying a plastic bag that was caught on his fish hook. Besides fishermen like Rashad, the entire caviar industry is in danger as a result of the pollution.

The Caspian Sea used to be home to one of the world’s largest population of sturgeons, but it has declined by more than 90 percent over the last three generations, the World Wildlife Fund said in 2016. (afp)

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Dipping their fingers in halal ink to prevent double voting, Indonesians cast their ballots Wednesday in a bitterly contested presidential election, with the main rival to incumbent Joko Widodo already threatening to challenge the result over voter-fraud claims.

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Smoke billows as flames burn through the roof of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral on April 15, 2019, in the French capital Paris.

Billionaires and private donors mobilise to rebuild Notre-Dame

PARIS - Billionaires and private donors pledged hundreds of millions of euros on Tuesday to help rebuild Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris which has been devastated by fire.

President Emmanuel Macron has vowed the emblematic monument will be rebuilt after its spire and roof collapsed Monday night in a blaze thought to be linked to extensive renovation work.

French billionaire Bernard Arnault announced Tuesday that he and the LVMH luxury conglomerate he controls would give 200 million euros ($226 million) for the reconstruction efforts.

The pledge came after Arnault’s crosstown rival Kering, the fashion group founded by fellow billionaire Francois Pinault, offered 100 million euros to help “completely rebuild Notre-Dame”.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo also said Tuesday that the city would unlock 50 million euros, and would propose holding an international donors’ conference in the coming weeks to coordinate the pledges to restore the gothic architectural masterpiece.

The privately run French Heritage Foundation has already launched a call for donations on its website -- www.fondationpatrimoine.org -- while several pages were set up on the Leetchi fundraising portal.

The Ile-de-France region comprising the greater Paris region is

to provide another 10 million euros.

- Wooden beams offered Specialised craftsmen and rare materials are also expected to be needed to restore the monument, which welcomes more than 13 million visitors each year -- an average of more than 35,000 people a day.

The head of a French lumber company told FranceInfo radio that it was ready to offer the best oak beams available to rebuild the intricate lattice that supported the now-destroyed roof, known as the “Forest”.

“The work will surely take years, decades even, but it will require thousands of cubic metres of wood. We’ll have to find the best specimens, with large diameters,” Sylvain Charlois of the Charlois group in Murlin, central France, told the radio station.

The United Nations’ Paris-based cultural agency UNESCO has also promised to stand “at France’s side” to restore the site, which it declared a world heritage site in 1991.

“We are already in contact with experts and ready to dispatch an urgent mission to evaluate the damage, save what can be saved and start elaborating measures for the short- and medium-term,”

The Muslim-majority nation’s biggest-ever polls -- with more than 190 million voters and 245,000 candidates vying for the presidency, parliament and local positions -- is largely a referendum on Widodo’s infrastructure-driven bid to rev up Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

But, looming in the background, two decades of democratic gains are at risk of being eroded, analysts said, as the military creeps back into civilian life under Widodo, and his trailing rival Prabowo Subianto, a former general, eyes reforms that harken back to the Suharto dictatorship.

If he loses, Subianto’s camp has already warned it will challenge the results over voter-list irregularities.

“It’s high stakes in this election,” said Evan Laksmana, a senior researcher at the Jakarta-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies.

“We simply don’t know what (Subianto) would do if he won and we don’t know if the institutional constraints in place would contain him.”

- Halal ink Voting starts at 7:00 am local time Wednesday (2200 GMT Tuesday) in easternmost Papua and ends at 1:00 pm at the other end of the country in Sumatra.

Ballots will be cast at more than 800,000 polling booths across the volcano-dotted country, from the tip of jungle-clad Sumatra and

heavily populated Java island to beach paradise Bali and far-flung Sumbawa.

Voters will punch holes in ballots -- to make clear their candidate choice -- and then dip a finger in Muslim-approved halal ink, a measure to prevent double-voting in a graft-riddled country where ballot buying is rife.

A series of so-called “quick counts” are expected to give a reliable indication of the presidential winner later Wednesday. Official results are not expected until May. Most polls show the 57-year-old Widodo holding a double-digit lead over Subianto, 67, setting up a repeat of their 2014 contest, which Widodo won despite an unsuccessful court challenge over his narrow victory.

The race has been punctuated by bitter mudslinging between the two camps, religion-driven identity politics and a slew of fake news online that threatens to sway millions of undecided voters.

- ‘Pragmatism over principle’Widodo campaigned on his ambitious drive to build roads, airports and other infrastructure, including Jakarta’s first mass-rapid-transit system.

But his rights record has been criticised owing to an uptick in discriminatory attacks on religious and other minorities, including a small LGBT community, as Islamic hardliners become more vocal in public life. “(Widodo) has chosen pragmatism over principle on issues of Islamism and pluralism,” said Dave McRae, a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne’s Asia

UNESCO’s secretary general Audrey Azoulay said in a statement Tuesday.

- Done in years? The painstaking renovation work is likely to cost hundreds of millions of euros over several years, if not decades, though experts breathed sighs of relief that the damage was not even worse.

But many officials were urging the government to mobilise the resources to quickly restore the cathedral.

“Since yesterday I’ve been hearing that it will take a decade, what nonsense!” former culture minister Jack Lang told AFP outside the church on Tuesday.

He called instead for an ambitious three-year project to rebuild the destroyed roof and its towering spire, which collapsed as a burning ember around two hours after the blaze erupted.

“You have to set a short deadline, as we’ve done in the past with other exceptional works,” he said.

The gothic edifice had been undergoing an 11-million-euro ($12.4-million) overhaul financed by the French state to repair damage inflicted by time, pollution and the weather. (afp)

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In this Monday, April 15, 2019 photo, Workers prepare ballot boxes for distribution ahead of April 17 elections in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Nearly 193 million Indonesians are eligible to vote in presidential and legislative elections on Wednesday.

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Widodo, a practising Muslim, blunted criticism that he was anti-Islam by appointing influential cleric Ma’ruf Amin as his running mate.

But victory for Widodo and Amin -- known for his disparaging views towards minorities -- could be the latest knock to Indonesia’s reputation for moderate Islam.

“There is a longstanding track record of very conservative views,” Kevin O’Rourke, an Indonesiabased political risk analyst, said of Amin. “It’s inevitable that will affect policy making.”

Subianto -- joined by running mate Sandiaga Uno, a 49-year-old wealthy financier -- has run on a fiery nationalist ticket.

He courted Islamic hardliners, promised a boost to military and defence spending and, taking a page from US President Donald Trump, vowed to put “Indonesia first” as he pledged to review billions of dollars in Chinese investment.

Subianto’s presidential ambitions have long been dogged by strong ties to the Suharto family and a chequered past.

He ordered the abduction of democracy activists as the authoritarian regime collapsed in 1998, and was accused of committing atrocities in East Timor.

- ‘Low probability, high impact’ Widodo’s own cabinet is stuffed with Suharto-era figures, and he raised eyebrows by agreeing to give civilian government jobs to military brass. But “there is no grand design for Jokowi to bring back military rule”, Laksmana said.

Subianto, however, is a military man keen to roll back reforms that ushered in direct presidential elections, analysts said.

That has raised questions about what an upset victory for the retired general could mean for a system that is supported by most Indonesians.

“Democracy itself would be very much at stake,” O’Rourke said.

“This is a low probability scenario, but one with very high impact.”

Many Indonesians just want a peaceful power transition -- regardless of the winner. “I hope there’s no hostility,” said 53-year-old Untung Sri Rejeki. “No matter who becomes our next president.”(afp)

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DENPASAR - Puputan Square, or Lapangan Puputan, is an urban park located in the centre of Denpasar with a very tragic and violent history. Now, the park is used by local Denpasar residents as an urban green space, but more than 100 years ago it was the site of an enormous, bloody puputan, or mass suicide ritual. The park is a regular stop for many tourists exploring Denpasar, and is an interesting location to learn more about the history of the Balinese, and their struggles against the Dutch colonisers.

Highlights Puputan Square Monument – The central focus point of Puputan Square, and the initial attraction for many visitors, is the monument that commemorates the 1906 Puputan Bandung massacre. The enormous monument shows a Balinese family in a hero’s pose, holding traditional Balinese weapons like kris and spears that proved completely useless against Dutch firepower. There is also a woman holding jewels, as a reminder of the many women who threw their valuables to the Dutch to mock them on their arrival at the palace.

The monument is a remembrance of what the Balinese consider to be an example of resistance to foreign aggression, a good indicator of the cultural pride of the Balinese people of the time. The Park – Most locals, and indeed many tourists,

find that even after seeing the monument there remains much to be done at Puputan Park. The park is most busy at lunchtime during the week, and at sunset most days, with office workers, Denpasar youths and families. Sports and fitness classes occur regularly, and there are a number of oversized chess boards to play on.

Around Puputan Park – Puputan Park is located very centrally in Denpasar, and within a short

walk visitors will find a number of other tourist and cultural attractions worth exploring. These include the Bandung Market (Bali’s largest produce market), Jagatnata Temple, offering unlimited access even to foreign visitors, and the Bali Museum, where the full history of the Balinese can be better explored.

Prices Puputan Square is free to enter, although if you’re driving yourself

you can expect to pay between Rp. 2,000 – Rp. 5,000 for parking.

Guides At Puputan Park – As is often that case in Bali, many visitors to Puputan Park have noted that upon their arrival they were pursued by men claiming to be guides. The park itself is not very big, and a guide is absolutely not required to fully enjoy the area and learn the history. Read up before your visit if you want, but don’t feel pressured into hiring a supposedly

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Food At Puputan Park – It is quite common for local Balinese people and visitors to enjoy a picnic at the park, particularly on the weekends and in the evenings.

Although you are able to bring your own food to the area, there are a number of small warung setups that sell snack food, as well as women who walk around selling a variety of food and beverage items.

Prices can be haggled.

Transport Walking: If you’re already in the central area of Denpasar, walking to Puputan Square is very easy.

Simply follow the main road Jalan Gajah Mada until you reach the Jalan Udayana turn off at the roundabout. You will be able to see the park from here.

Car/Motorcycle: Traffic in Denpasar can get heavy, particularly in the afternoons and on weekends, but it is still easy to get around the city and access Puputan Park.

Parking is also available on site, although cars might struggle on weekends. (IBP/net)

Tokyo 2020 Olympics marathon to start earlier to avoid extreme heat.

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Olympic marathons to beat deadly heat with 6am start

TOKYO - The Tokyo 2020 Olympic marathons will start at 6:00am, organisers announced Tuesday, after doctors warned of deadly medical emergencies in the Japanese capital’s stifling summer heat.

The men’s 50km race walk will start even earlier, at 5:30am, with organisers saying they had taken medical advice into account in timetabling the events.

The scheduling decisions were taken “after discussions with medical teams and stakeholders and considering the well-being of athletes”, Tokyo 2020 sports director Koji Murofushi told reporters.

Other sports, including rugby sevens, triathlon and mountain biking have also seen schedules shifted to avoid the worst of potentially blistering temperatures for the July 24 to August 9 Games.

Games organisers had already said the marathons would start “between 5:30am and 6am” after a heatwave that struck the country last summer, prompting Japanese medics to warn that running the race in mid-morning could “lead to deaths” from heatstroke.

The last time Japan hosted the Summer Olympics, in 1964, the competition was held in October to avoid the hot summer conditions.

Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto said the possibility of extreme weather conditions, ranging from typhoons to heatwaves, was a “major issue” for the Games and International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach has also voiced concern.

- ‘Super Saturday’ Tokyo has considered a range of options to counteract the heat, including the adoption of daylight saving, a proposal that gained little traction.

But other countermeasures such as solar-blocking paint on roads and mobile misting stations are planned, with Muto admitting that there had been a knock-on impact on the $12.6 billion budget.

There are plans for a special centre to monitor extreme weather and warn of potential emergencies including the risk of heatstroke, even recommending evacuation if necessary.

Head of the IOC Tokyo 2020 coordinating committee John Coates said in a recent visit to Tokyo that medics had recommended “a list of about 20 precautions they think we should take and they are not going to be free”.

Last summer, Tokyo sweated through several deadly heatwaves and Japan was also battered by a series of typhoons that caused death, destruction and delay.

At one point, the mercury touched a record 41 Celsius (105.8 Fahrenheit). The hottest day of Olympic competition in history was recorded at the 2004 Athens Games when temperatures soared to 36C (97F). (afp)

MONTE CARLO - Rafael Nadal offered a low-key appraisal Monday of his chances for a recordextending 12th Monte Carlo Masters title as he prepares to return from his latest injury lay-off.

The 32-year-old Spaniard, whose bad knees and constant stoppages from competition have defined his career as king of clay, was extremely hesitant to even rate his chances as he gets set to face Roberto Bautista Agut in Wednesday’s second round start.

“I cant give you any feeling, it’s been a rough year and a half for me,” Nadal said ahead of his first match since withdrawing with another knee injury prior to an Indian Wells semi-final against Roger Federer last month.

“It’s tough for me to get a clear view of how I am. It’s all hard for me personally.”

Nadal has a vast number of ranking points to defend on clay after lifting titles in a spectacular 2018 run at Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Rome and Roland Garros.

His only other trophy during a season in which he did not play at all after the US Open came on hard court in Toronto, where he beat young gun Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final.

“It’s been hard for me personally,” Nadal said of his latest physical setback.

“Now the work of every day is to improve, (make) small improvements in every practice.

“It’s important for me to have a good practice before the tournament starts and then try to be competitive for the first round. “it’s gonna be a tough one (match with Bautista Agut), so

let’s see.”

Nadal is seeded second here behind Novak Djokovic, who is hoping to build for the French Open as he attempts to complete a personal sweep by winning his fourth straight Grand Slam title.

While Bautista Agut fought back to beat Australian John Millman 3-6, 6-1, 6-1, Denis Shapovalov’s 20th birthday celebrations fell flat as he lost 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 to German Jan-Lennard Struff.

Fifteenth seed Shapovalov has yet to claim a win in the Principality after losing in the first round a year ago to Tsitsipas.

The nearly two-hour effort was marred by 10 double-faults from the Canadian youngster, who was broken six times.

German Philipp Kohlschreiber beat Taro Daniel 6-1, 6-3 to line up against top seed Novak Djokovic; Belgian 16th seed David Goffin made short work of Argentine Guido Andreozzi 6-1, 6-4.

Italy’s Fabio Fognini thrilled fans from across the nearby border with his 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 comeback defeat of Andrey Rublev.

Russian 10th seed Daniil Medvedev advanced easily over Portugal’s Joao Sousa 6-1, 6-1, but Hungarian Marton Fucsovics dumped out Nikolaz Basilashvili, the 12th seed, 7-5, 3-6, 6-1.

Britain’s Kyle Edmund was dumped out after leading a set and 3-0 as Argentine Diego Schwartzman rallied for a 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 victory.

After establishing his lead, Edmund proceeded to lose nine games on the trot to trail 3-0 in the final set on his way out of the tournament. (afp)

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Rejection by foster family fuelled my career - De Bruyne

Belgian star Kevin de Bruyne has acknowledged that being rejected by a foster family as a teenager fuelled his footballing success.

The 27-year-old attacking midfielder, who on Wednesday will be pivotal as Manchester City aim to stay on track for a quadruple this season in overhauling Tottenham’s 1-0 first leg lead in their Champions League quarter-final clash, has bounced back from two knee injuries this season to the kind of form he has regularly displayed since City paid £54million ($70.6million) to German side VfL Wolfsburg for him in 2015.

However, it may never have come to pass like that but for the deep hurt he suffered aged 15 at the hands of the family in Genk who took him in when he was with the club’s academy.

“That year went by, and I was doing well in school, doing well in football. No fights. No problems,” he told The Players Tribune. “At the end of the year, I packed my bags and said goodbye to my foster family.

“They said: ‘We’ll see you after the break. Have a good summer.’”

De Bruyne said his sense of serenity

was shattered hours later.

“As soon as I got back to my parents’ house, I walked in the door and could see that my mother was crying,” he said. “I thought maybe somebody had died or something. I said, ‘What’s the problem?’ “And my mother said the words that probably shaped my whole life.

“She said: ‘They don’t want you to come back. The foster family don’t want you there anymore’.

“I said: ‘What? Why?’ and she said: ‘Because of who you are. They said you’re too quiet. They can’t interact with you. They said you were difficult’.”

- ‘They had really hurt me’ De Bruyne, who admitted his negative pre-conceived ideas about City team-mate Raheem Sterling were wide of the mark and in fact he is “one of the nicest most humble guys” in the sport, said he took his immediate angst out on the football.

“One thing really stuck with me.

‘Because of who you are’. The words kept repeating in my head,” he said.

“I kicked the ball against the fence for hours.

“And I remember at some point I actually said out loud, ‘Everything is going to be OK. In two months, I’m going to be in the first team. “No matter what, I am not coming back home a failure. No matter what’.”

Such was his success -- he scored five goals for the second team after coming on as a substitute -- the foster family sheepishly approached him again.

“The woman came up to me like everything was a big misunderstanding,” said De Bruyne. “Maybe I should’ve found it funny, but at the time it wasn’t funny to me. They had really hurt me.

“So I said, ‘No. You threw me in the garbage. Now I’m doing well and you want me back?’

“In the end, I should have just said thank you. That experience was the fuel for my career.”(afp)

Bayern won’t exceed 100 mn euro mark for a player: Hoeness Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness ruled out breaking the 100 million euros ($113 million) mark this summer and said he would buy French striker Kylian Mbappe “immediately” if he had the money.

Bayern are planning a major squad overhaul this summer, and have already confirmed the signings of

Guenter SCHIFFMANN / AFP

Bayern Munich’s President Uli Hoeness (2nd R) and Bayern Munich’s CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (R) celebrate the opening goal during the German first division Bundesliga football match between FC Bayern Munich and BVB Borussia Dortmund in Munich, southern Germany, on April 6, 2019.

French World Cup winners Benjamin Pavard and Lucas Hernandez.

In an interview with German news agency DPA on Tuesday, Hoeness admitted that, in an ideal world, he would love to sign another French World Cup winner, Paris Saint-Germain’s 20-year-old star.

“I would sign Mbappe straight away, he is a top player.

But we don’t have the money for him,” said Hoeness.

The Bayern president ruled out spending 100 million euros on a single player in the summer transfer window, but suggested that Bayern may break that figure in the future.

“There definitely won’t be a 100 million euro transfer this year, but I have to admit that ten years ago, I couldn’t have imagined spending 80 million,” he said.

The sum of 80 million euros was what Bayern paid to sign Hernandez from Atletico Madrid, a figure nearly double that of their previous record transfer -- fellow Frenchman Corentin Tolisso.

In 22-year-old Kingsley Coman, Bayern have yet another Gallic talent in their emerging generation.

On Tuesday, club legend Lothar Matthaeus backed Coman and Serge Gnabry, 23, to follow in the footsteps of departing veterans Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery, who are both out of contract at the end of June.

“Coman and Gnabry are both quick, good dribblers and dangerous in front of goal,” Matthaeus wrote in his column for Sky Sports, adding that “legendary” veterans Robben and Ribery would not be missed.(afp)

Manchester City’s Belgian midfielder Kevin De Bruyne takes part in a team training session at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in north London, on April 8, 2019 on the eve of their UEFA Champions League quarter final first leg football match against Tottenham Hotspur.

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Arsenal edge past 10-man Watford, move into top four

Arsenal moved into the Premier League top four, but made hard work of seeing off 10-man Watford 1-0 thanks to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s fortunate early opener on Monday.

Aubameyang profited from an error by Watford goalkeeper Ben Foster as he blasted an attempted clearance in off the Gabon international.

Watford captain Troy Deeney was then shown a straight red card after just 11 minutes, but the Gunners failed to make the most of their man advantage and were fortunate as the hosts twice hit the woodwork.

However, Unai Emery’s men held out for a first clean sheet away from home in the Premier League this season to move ahead of Chelsea on goal difference into fourth. “We didn’t control the match like I wanted,” admitted Emery.

“The team was anxious because they could (have) taken some moment. The most important for us is to score the second goal, which we didn’t do.”

Arsenal also edge to within a point of north London rivals Tottenham and two clear of Manchester United in the four-way battle for the two remaining Champions League places behind Liverpool and Manchester City.

FA Cup finalists Watford were already shorn of the man who helped book their place at Wembley against Manchester City next month as Gerard Deulofeu missed out through injury and Javi Gracia’s side did themselves little favours early on.

Firstly, Foster dallied as Aubameyang closed in to concede a comical opener.

“I’ve said sorry to the lads,” said Foster. “I have tried to drag it on to my left and pass it out but before I knew it he (Aubameyang) was bloody on me.

“In hindsight you have to get rid as quick as you can, even if it goes into row Z. “I am definitely not a modern goalie. They can’t score from row Z.” And within seconds, Deeney was punished for what the referee saw as an elbow into the face of Lucas Torreira.

“If it is a foul I have a doubt, maybe a yellow card but (a) red card, I don’t understand why the referee did it,” argued Watford boss Javi Gracia.

However, the 10 men were still causing problems to a defensively vulnerable Arsenal at the other end.

Craig Cathcart’s shot was turned onto the post by Bernd Leno and the German goalkeeper was also a full stretch to turn an Etienne Capoue free-kick behind.

Emery introduced Mesut Ozil at half-time in an attempt to improve Arsenal’s final ball with so much space to counter-attack into, but to little avail.

Alex Iwobi looked to have provided the perfect cross to pick out Henrikh Mkhitaryan, but Foster made amends for his earlier error by spreading himself to make a brilliant save from the Armenian. Arsenal’s terrible away record is why they face such a tight battle to secure Champions League football next season.

And they could have thrown just a second away league win since November away as Adam Masina crashed a 25-yard strike off the crossbar before Andre Gray miscontrolled Daryl Janmaat’s pass when clean through on Leno.

Gray was then denied by a last-ditch challenge from Ainsley Maitland-Niles after rounding Leno, but without the firepower of Deulofeu and Deeney, Watford’s brave effort fell just short.(afp)

Arsenal’s Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang gestures to supporters on the pitch after the English Premier League football match between Watford and Arsenal at Vicarage Road Stadium in Watford, north of London on April 15, 2019. Arsenal won the game 1-0.

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Rejection by foster family fuelled my career - De Bruyne

Belgian star Kevin de Bruyne has acknowledged that being rejected by a foster family as a teenager fuelled his footballing success.

The 27-year-old attacking midfielder, who on Wednesday will be pivotal as Manchester City aim to stay on track for a quadruple this season in overhauling Tottenham’s 1-0 first leg lead in their Champions League quarter-final clash, has bounced back from two knee injuries this season to the kind of form he has regularly displayed since City paid £54million ($70.6million) to German side VfL Wolfsburg for him in 2015.

However, it may never have come to pass like that but for the deep hurt he suffered aged 15 at the hands of the family in Genk who took him in when he was with the club’s academy.

“That year went by, and I was doing well in school, doing well in football. No fights. No problems,” he told The Players Tribune. “At the end of the year, I packed my bags and said goodbye to my foster family.

“They said: ‘We’ll see you after the break. Have a good summer.’”

De Bruyne said his sense of serenity

was shattered hours later.

“As soon as I got back to my parents’ house, I walked in the door and could see that my mother was crying,” he said. “I thought maybe somebody had died or something. I said, ‘What’s the problem?’ “And my mother said the words that probably shaped my whole life.

“She said: ‘They don’t want you to come back. The foster family don’t want you there anymore’.

“I said: ‘What? Why?’ and she said: ‘Because of who you are. They said you’re too quiet. They can’t interact with you. They said you were difficult’.”

- ‘They had really hurt me’ De Bruyne, who admitted his negative pre-conceived ideas about City team-mate Raheem Sterling were wide of the mark and in fact he is “one of the nicest most humble guys” in the sport, said he took his immediate angst out on the football.

“One thing really stuck with me.

‘Because of who you are’. The words kept repeating in my head,” he said.

“I kicked the ball against the fence for hours.

“And I remember at some point I actually said out loud, ‘Everything is going to be OK. In two months, I’m going to be in the first team. “No matter what, I am not coming back home a failure. No matter what’.”

Such was his success -- he scored five goals for the second team after coming on as a substitute -- the foster family sheepishly approached him again.

“The woman came up to me like everything was a big misunderstanding,” said De Bruyne. “Maybe I should’ve found it funny, but at the time it wasn’t funny to me. They had really hurt me.

“So I said, ‘No. You threw me in the garbage. Now I’m doing well and you want me back?’

“In the end, I should have just said thank you. That experience was the fuel for my career.”(afp)

Bayern won’t exceed 100 mn euro mark for a player: Hoeness Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness ruled out breaking the 100 million euros ($113 million) mark this summer and said he would buy French striker Kylian Mbappe “immediately” if he had the money.

Bayern are planning a major squad overhaul this summer, and have already confirmed the signings of

Guenter SCHIFFMANN / AFP

Bayern Munich’s President Uli Hoeness (2nd R) and Bayern Munich’s CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (R) celebrate the opening goal during the German first division Bundesliga football match between FC Bayern Munich and BVB Borussia Dortmund in Munich, southern Germany, on April 6, 2019.

French World Cup winners Benjamin Pavard and Lucas Hernandez.

In an interview with German news agency DPA on Tuesday, Hoeness admitted that, in an ideal world, he would love to sign another French World Cup winner, Paris Saint-Germain’s 20-year-old star.

“I would sign Mbappe straight away, he is a top player.

But we don’t have the money for him,” said Hoeness.

The Bayern president ruled out spending 100 million euros on a single player in the summer transfer window, but suggested that Bayern may break that figure in the future.

“There definitely won’t be a 100 million euro transfer this year, but I have to admit that ten years ago, I couldn’t have imagined spending 80 million,” he said.

The sum of 80 million euros was what Bayern paid to sign Hernandez from Atletico Madrid, a figure nearly double that of their previous record transfer -- fellow Frenchman Corentin Tolisso.

In 22-year-old Kingsley Coman, Bayern have yet another Gallic talent in their emerging generation.

On Tuesday, club legend Lothar Matthaeus backed Coman and Serge Gnabry, 23, to follow in the footsteps of departing veterans Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery, who are both out of contract at the end of June.

“Coman and Gnabry are both quick, good dribblers and dangerous in front of goal,” Matthaeus wrote in his column for Sky Sports, adding that “legendary” veterans Robben and Ribery would not be missed.(afp)

Manchester City’s Belgian midfielder Kevin De Bruyne takes part in a team training session at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in north London, on April 8, 2019 on the eve of their UEFA Champions League quarter final first leg football match against Tottenham Hotspur.

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Arsenal edge past 10-man Watford, move into top four

Arsenal moved into the Premier League top four, but made hard work of seeing off 10-man Watford 1-0 thanks to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s fortunate early opener on Monday.

Aubameyang profited from an error by Watford goalkeeper Ben Foster as he blasted an attempted clearance in off the Gabon international.

Watford captain Troy Deeney was then shown a straight red card after just 11 minutes, but the Gunners failed to make the most of their man advantage and were fortunate as the hosts twice hit the woodwork.

However, Unai Emery’s men held out for a first clean sheet away from home in the Premier League this season to move ahead of Chelsea on goal difference into fourth. “We didn’t control the match like I wanted,” admitted Emery.

“The team was anxious because they could (have) taken some moment. The most important for us is to score the second goal, which we didn’t do.”

Arsenal also edge to within a point of north London rivals Tottenham and two clear of Manchester United in the four-way battle for the two remaining Champions League places behind Liverpool and Manchester City.

FA Cup finalists Watford were already shorn of the man who helped book their place at Wembley against Manchester City next month as Gerard Deulofeu missed out through injury and Javi Gracia’s side did themselves little favours early on.

Firstly, Foster dallied as Aubameyang closed in to concede a comical opener.

“I’ve said sorry to the lads,” said Foster. “I have tried to drag it on to my left and pass it out but before I knew it he (Aubameyang) was bloody on me.

“In hindsight you have to get rid as quick as you can, even if it goes into row Z. “I am definitely not a modern goalie. They can’t score from row Z.” And within seconds, Deeney was punished for what the referee saw as an elbow into the face of Lucas Torreira.

“If it is a foul I have a doubt, maybe a yellow card but (a) red card, I don’t understand why the referee did it,” argued Watford boss Javi Gracia.

However, the 10 men were still causing problems to a defensively vulnerable Arsenal at the other end.

Craig Cathcart’s shot was turned onto the post by Bernd Leno and the German goalkeeper was also a full stretch to turn an Etienne Capoue free-kick behind.

Emery introduced Mesut Ozil at half-time in an attempt to improve Arsenal’s final ball with so much space to counter-attack into, but to little avail.

Alex Iwobi looked to have provided the perfect cross to pick out Henrikh Mkhitaryan, but Foster made amends for his earlier error by spreading himself to make a brilliant save from the Armenian. Arsenal’s terrible away record is why they face such a tight battle to secure Champions League football next season.

And they could have thrown just a second away league win since November away as Adam Masina crashed a 25-yard strike off the crossbar before Andre Gray miscontrolled Daryl Janmaat’s pass when clean through on Leno.

Gray was then denied by a last-ditch challenge from Ainsley Maitland-Niles after rounding Leno, but without the firepower of Deulofeu and Deeney, Watford’s brave effort fell just short.(afp)

Arsenal’s Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang gestures to supporters on the pitch after the English Premier League football match between Watford and Arsenal at Vicarage Road Stadium in Watford, north of London on April 15, 2019. Arsenal won the game 1-0.

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Subdued Nadal enters the unknown in Monte Carlo

DENPASAR - Puputan Square, or Lapangan Puputan, is an urban park located in the centre of Denpasar with a very tragic and violent history. Now, the park is used by local Denpasar residents as an urban green space, but more than 100 years ago it was the site of an enormous, bloody puputan, or mass suicide ritual. The park is a regular stop for many tourists exploring Denpasar, and is an interesting location to learn more about the history of the Balinese, and their struggles against the Dutch colonisers.

Highlights Puputan Square Monument – The central focus point of Puputan Square, and the initial attraction for many visitors, is the monument that commemorates the 1906 Puputan Bandung massacre. The enormous monument shows a Balinese family in a hero’s pose, holding traditional Balinese weapons like kris and spears that proved completely useless against Dutch firepower. There is also a woman holding jewels, as a reminder of the many women who threw their valuables to the Dutch to mock them on their arrival at the palace.

The monument is a remembrance of what the Balinese consider to be an example of resistance to foreign aggression, a good indicator of the cultural pride of the Balinese people of the time. The Park – Most locals, and indeed many tourists,

find that even after seeing the monument there remains much to be done at Puputan Park. The park is most busy at lunchtime during the week, and at sunset most days, with office workers, Denpasar youths and families. Sports and fitness classes occur regularly, and there are a number of oversized chess boards to play on.

Around Puputan Park – Puputan Park is located very centrally in Denpasar, and within a short

walk visitors will find a number of other tourist and cultural attractions worth exploring. These include the Bandung Market (Bali’s largest produce market), Jagatnata Temple, offering unlimited access even to foreign visitors, and the Bali Museum, where the full history of the Balinese can be better explored.

Prices Puputan Square is free to enter, although if you’re driving yourself

you can expect to pay between Rp. 2,000 – Rp. 5,000 for parking.

Guides At Puputan Park – As is often that case in Bali, many visitors to Puputan Park have noted that upon their arrival they were pursued by men claiming to be guides. The park itself is not very big, and a guide is absolutely not required to fully enjoy the area and learn the history. Read up before your visit if you want, but don’t feel pressured into hiring a supposedly

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Food At Puputan Park – It is quite common for local Balinese people and visitors to enjoy a picnic at the park, particularly on the weekends and in the evenings.

Although you are able to bring your own food to the area, there are a number of small warung setups that sell snack food, as well as women who walk around selling a variety of food and beverage items.

Prices can be haggled.

Transport Walking: If you’re already in the central area of Denpasar, walking to Puputan Square is very easy.

Simply follow the main road Jalan Gajah Mada until you reach the Jalan Udayana turn off at the roundabout. You will be able to see the park from here.

Car/Motorcycle: Traffic in Denpasar can get heavy, particularly in the afternoons and on weekends, but it is still easy to get around the city and access Puputan Park.

Parking is also available on site, although cars might struggle on weekends. (IBP/net)

Tokyo 2020 Olympics marathon to start earlier to avoid extreme heat.

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Olympic marathons to beat deadly heat with 6am start

TOKYO - The Tokyo 2020 Olympic marathons will start at 6:00am, organisers announced Tuesday, after doctors warned of deadly medical emergencies in the Japanese capital’s stifling summer heat.

The men’s 50km race walk will start even earlier, at 5:30am, with organisers saying they had taken medical advice into account in timetabling the events.

The scheduling decisions were taken “after discussions with medical teams and stakeholders and considering the well-being of athletes”, Tokyo 2020 sports director Koji Murofushi told reporters.

Other sports, including rugby sevens, triathlon and mountain biking have also seen schedules shifted to avoid the worst of potentially blistering temperatures for the July 24 to August 9 Games.

Games organisers had already said the marathons would start “between 5:30am and 6am” after a heatwave that struck the country last summer, prompting Japanese medics to warn that running the race in mid-morning could “lead to deaths” from heatstroke.

The last time Japan hosted the Summer Olympics, in 1964, the competition was held in October to avoid the hot summer conditions.

Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto said the possibility of extreme weather conditions, ranging from typhoons to heatwaves, was a “major issue” for the Games and International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach has also voiced concern.

- ‘Super Saturday’ Tokyo has considered a range of options to counteract the heat, including the adoption of daylight saving, a proposal that gained little traction.

But other countermeasures such as solar-blocking paint on roads and mobile misting stations are planned, with Muto admitting that there had been a knock-on impact on the $12.6 billion budget.

There are plans for a special centre to monitor extreme weather and warn of potential emergencies including the risk of heatstroke, even recommending evacuation if necessary.

Head of the IOC Tokyo 2020 coordinating committee John Coates said in a recent visit to Tokyo that medics had recommended “a list of about 20 precautions they think we should take and they are not going to be free”.

Last summer, Tokyo sweated through several deadly heatwaves and Japan was also battered by a series of typhoons that caused death, destruction and delay.

At one point, the mercury touched a record 41 Celsius (105.8 Fahrenheit). The hottest day of Olympic competition in history was recorded at the 2004 Athens Games when temperatures soared to 36C (97F). (afp)

MONTE CARLO - Rafael Nadal offered a low-key appraisal Monday of his chances for a recordextending 12th Monte Carlo Masters title as he prepares to return from his latest injury lay-off.

The 32-year-old Spaniard, whose bad knees and constant stoppages from competition have defined his career as king of clay, was extremely hesitant to even rate his chances as he gets set to face Roberto Bautista Agut in Wednesday’s second round start.

“I cant give you any feeling, it’s been a rough year and a half for me,” Nadal said ahead of his first match since withdrawing with another knee injury prior to an Indian Wells semi-final against Roger Federer last month.

“It’s tough for me to get a clear view of how I am. It’s all hard for me personally.”

Nadal has a vast number of ranking points to defend on clay after lifting titles in a spectacular 2018 run at Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Rome and Roland Garros.

His only other trophy during a season in which he did not play at all after the US Open came on hard court in Toronto, where he beat young gun Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final.

“It’s been hard for me personally,” Nadal said of his latest physical setback.

“Now the work of every day is to improve, (make) small improvements in every practice.

“It’s important for me to have a good practice before the tournament starts and then try to be competitive for the first round. “it’s gonna be a tough one (match with Bautista Agut), so

let’s see.”

Nadal is seeded second here behind Novak Djokovic, who is hoping to build for the French Open as he attempts to complete a personal sweep by winning his fourth straight Grand Slam title.

While Bautista Agut fought back to beat Australian John Millman 3-6, 6-1, 6-1, Denis Shapovalov’s 20th birthday celebrations fell flat as he lost 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 to German Jan-Lennard Struff.

Fifteenth seed Shapovalov has yet to claim a win in the Principality after losing in the first round a year ago to Tsitsipas.

The nearly two-hour effort was marred by 10 double-faults from the Canadian youngster, who was broken six times.

German Philipp Kohlschreiber beat Taro Daniel 6-1, 6-3 to line up against top seed Novak Djokovic; Belgian 16th seed David Goffin made short work of Argentine Guido Andreozzi 6-1, 6-4.

Italy’s Fabio Fognini thrilled fans from across the nearby border with his 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 comeback defeat of Andrey Rublev.

Russian 10th seed Daniil Medvedev advanced easily over Portugal’s Joao Sousa 6-1, 6-1, but Hungarian Marton Fucsovics dumped out Nikolaz Basilashvili, the 12th seed, 7-5, 3-6, 6-1.

Britain’s Kyle Edmund was dumped out after leading a set and 3-0 as Argentine Diego Schwartzman rallied for a 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 victory.

After establishing his lead, Edmund proceeded to lose nine games on the trot to trail 3-0 in the final set on his way out of the tournament. (afp)

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Seals, caviar and oil: Caspian Sea faces pollution threat

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It is a challenge to the concept of direct voting and a headache for local officials who have tried -- and failed -- to change the fraud-prone system in a country where vote buying is already rife.

“Usually, voters choose candidates who are from their village or family,” said Papua’s election commission head Theodorus Kossay.

“Also, what often happens is that the number of votes that are actually filed can be different from what was agreed upon by the group, which leads to cheating.”

Meanwhile, police on the tourist hotspot of Bali this week scuffled with a small group of Papuans who staged a rally calling for people not to cast a ballot.

- Hack attacks Training millions of electoral officers -- many working an election for the first time -- has been another challenge.

A few staff at each station were trained, and then expected to teach the rest of their colleagues, as tens of millions of voters work out who to vote for among the sea of candidates.

“The biggest challenge is doing voter education,” Budiman said. “The first key if you want to have fair elections is by building trust” with voters, he added.

To that end, a mobile phone app was created by the commission to give Indonesians -- including technology friendly millenials -- details about every candidate and their policies.

The agency, which has discounted opposition claims of millions of voter-list irregularities, is also battling repeated cyber attacks that threaten to disrupt the vote.

Some were purportedly launched by hackers in Russia and China, though it declined to confirm those claims. “They could be Indonesian, they could be from overseas or any country,” Budiman said. “But we’ll handle it all.” (afp)

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Halal ink: Muslim-majority Indonesia set for polls

BAKU - Seals waddling along the waterfront were once a common sight in Baku Bay, the Caspian Sea home of Azerbaijan’s capital.

Not anymore. Of the more than one million seals which inhabited the shores and islands of the Caspian a century ago fewer than 10 percent remain, and the species has been declared endangered.

Azer Garayev, the head of the Azerbaijan Society for the Protection of Animals, says the seals have for decades been suffering from over-hunting and the effects of industrial pollution.

In 2003, his group found 750 seal carcasses in just one month.

“It was not normal,” but no one looked into the issue, the 57-year-old activist said. “The seal is a sign of all the major environmental problems (in the Caspian).”

Bordered by Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan, the Caspian is the world’s largest inland body of water, about the size of Japan.

As well as the seals and other endemic species including Caspian turtles and the famed beluga sturgeon, the sea boasts vast energy reserves, estimated at 50 billion barrels of oil and 300,000 billion cubic metres of natural gas.

Pollution from the extraction of that oil and gas, along with declining water levels due to climate change, pose a threat to many species and put the future of the sea itself at risk.

- Oil and water The UN Environment Programme has warned that the Caspian “suffers from an enormous burden of pollution from oil extraction and refining, offshore oil fields, radioactive wastes from nuclear power plants and huge volumes of untreated sewage and industrial waste introduced mainly by the Volga River”.

A few kilometres (miles) from downtown Baku, fishermen along the seashore watch small drops of oil appearing on the surface of the sea and spreading in varicoloured strains. “Some fish seem to prefer polluted water, so they tend to congregate here,” said 26-year-old Rashad.

“The water is dirty,” he said, displaying a plastic bag that was caught on his fish hook. Besides fishermen like Rashad, the entire caviar industry is in danger as a result of the pollution.

The Caspian Sea used to be home to one of the world’s largest population of sturgeons, but it has declined by more than 90 percent over the last three generations, the World Wildlife Fund said in 2016. (afp)

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Dipping their fingers in halal ink to prevent double voting, Indonesians cast their ballots Wednesday in a bitterly contested presidential election, with the main rival to incumbent Joko Widodo already threatening to challenge the result over voter-fraud claims.

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Smoke billows as flames burn through the roof of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral on April 15, 2019, in the French capital Paris.

Billionaires and private donors mobilise to rebuild Notre-Dame

PARIS - Billionaires and private donors pledged hundreds of millions of euros on Tuesday to help rebuild Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris which has been devastated by fire.

President Emmanuel Macron has vowed the emblematic monument will be rebuilt after its spire and roof collapsed Monday night in a blaze thought to be linked to extensive renovation work.

French billionaire Bernard Arnault announced Tuesday that he and the LVMH luxury conglomerate he controls would give 200 million euros ($226 million) for the reconstruction efforts.

The pledge came after Arnault’s crosstown rival Kering, the fashion group founded by fellow billionaire Francois Pinault, offered 100 million euros to help “completely rebuild Notre-Dame”.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo also said Tuesday that the city would unlock 50 million euros, and would propose holding an international donors’ conference in the coming weeks to coordinate the pledges to restore the gothic architectural masterpiece.

The privately run French Heritage Foundation has already launched a call for donations on its website -- www.fondationpatrimoine.org -- while several pages were set up on the Leetchi fundraising portal.

The Ile-de-France region comprising the greater Paris region is

to provide another 10 million euros.

- Wooden beams offered Specialised craftsmen and rare materials are also expected to be needed to restore the monument, which welcomes more than 13 million visitors each year -- an average of more than 35,000 people a day.

The head of a French lumber company told FranceInfo radio that it was ready to offer the best oak beams available to rebuild the intricate lattice that supported the now-destroyed roof, known as the “Forest”.

“The work will surely take years, decades even, but it will require thousands of cubic metres of wood. We’ll have to find the best specimens, with large diameters,” Sylvain Charlois of the Charlois group in Murlin, central France, told the radio station.

The United Nations’ Paris-based cultural agency UNESCO has also promised to stand “at France’s side” to restore the site, which it declared a world heritage site in 1991.

“We are already in contact with experts and ready to dispatch an urgent mission to evaluate the damage, save what can be saved and start elaborating measures for the short- and medium-term,”

The Muslim-majority nation’s biggest-ever polls -- with more than 190 million voters and 245,000 candidates vying for the presidency, parliament and local positions -- is largely a referendum on Widodo’s infrastructure-driven bid to rev up Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

But, looming in the background, two decades of democratic gains are at risk of being eroded, analysts said, as the military creeps back into civilian life under Widodo, and his trailing rival Prabowo Subianto, a former general, eyes reforms that harken back to the Suharto dictatorship.

If he loses, Subianto’s camp has already warned it will challenge the results over voter-list irregularities.

“It’s high stakes in this election,” said Evan Laksmana, a senior researcher at the Jakarta-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies.

“We simply don’t know what (Subianto) would do if he won and we don’t know if the institutional constraints in place would contain him.”

- Halal ink Voting starts at 7:00 am local time Wednesday (2200 GMT Tuesday) in easternmost Papua and ends at 1:00 pm at the other end of the country in Sumatra.

Ballots will be cast at more than 800,000 polling booths across the volcano-dotted country, from the tip of jungle-clad Sumatra and

heavily populated Java island to beach paradise Bali and far-flung Sumbawa.

Voters will punch holes in ballots -- to make clear their candidate choice -- and then dip a finger in Muslim-approved halal ink, a measure to prevent double-voting in a graft-riddled country where ballot buying is rife.

A series of so-called “quick counts” are expected to give a reliable indication of the presidential winner later Wednesday. Official results are not expected until May. Most polls show the 57-year-old Widodo holding a double-digit lead over Subianto, 67, setting up a repeat of their 2014 contest, which Widodo won despite an unsuccessful court challenge over his narrow victory.

The race has been punctuated by bitter mudslinging between the two camps, religion-driven identity politics and a slew of fake news online that threatens to sway millions of undecided voters.

- ‘Pragmatism over principle’Widodo campaigned on his ambitious drive to build roads, airports and other infrastructure, including Jakarta’s first mass-rapid-transit system.

But his rights record has been criticised owing to an uptick in discriminatory attacks on religious and other minorities, including a small LGBT community, as Islamic hardliners become more vocal in public life. “(Widodo) has chosen pragmatism over principle on issues of Islamism and pluralism,” said Dave McRae, a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne’s Asia

UNESCO’s secretary general Audrey Azoulay said in a statement Tuesday.

- Done in years? The painstaking renovation work is likely to cost hundreds of millions of euros over several years, if not decades, though experts breathed sighs of relief that the damage was not even worse.

But many officials were urging the government to mobilise the resources to quickly restore the cathedral.

“Since yesterday I’ve been hearing that it will take a decade, what nonsense!” former culture minister Jack Lang told AFP outside the church on Tuesday.

He called instead for an ambitious three-year project to rebuild the destroyed roof and its towering spire, which collapsed as a burning ember around two hours after the blaze erupted.

“You have to set a short deadline, as we’ve done in the past with other exceptional works,” he said.

The gothic edifice had been undergoing an 11-million-euro ($12.4-million) overhaul financed by the French state to repair damage inflicted by time, pollution and the weather. (afp)

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In this Monday, April 15, 2019 photo, Workers prepare ballot boxes for distribution ahead of April 17 elections in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Nearly 193 million Indonesians are eligible to vote in presidential and legislative elections on Wednesday.

Institute.

Widodo, a practising Muslim, blunted criticism that he was anti-Islam by appointing influential cleric Ma’ruf Amin as his running mate.

But victory for Widodo and Amin -- known for his disparaging views towards minorities -- could be the latest knock to Indonesia’s reputation for moderate Islam.

“There is a longstanding track record of very conservative views,” Kevin O’Rourke, an Indonesiabased political risk analyst, said of Amin. “It’s inevitable that will affect policy making.”

Subianto -- joined by running mate Sandiaga Uno, a 49-year-old wealthy financier -- has run on a fiery nationalist ticket.

He courted Islamic hardliners, promised a boost to military and defence spending and, taking a page from US President Donald Trump, vowed to put “Indonesia first” as he pledged to review billions of dollars in Chinese investment.

Subianto’s presidential ambitions have long been dogged by strong ties to the Suharto family and a chequered past.

He ordered the abduction of democracy activists as the authoritarian regime collapsed in 1998, and was accused of committing atrocities in East Timor.

- ‘Low probability, high impact’ Widodo’s own cabinet is stuffed with Suharto-era figures, and he raised eyebrows by agreeing to give civilian government jobs to military brass. But “there is no grand design for Jokowi to bring back military rule”, Laksmana said.

Subianto, however, is a military man keen to roll back reforms that ushered in direct presidential elections, analysts said.

That has raised questions about what an upset victory for the retired general could mean for a system that is supported by most Indonesians.

“Democracy itself would be very much at stake,” O’Rourke said.

“This is a low probability scenario, but one with very high impact.”

Many Indonesians just want a peaceful power transition -- regardless of the winner. “I hope there’s no hostility,” said 53-year-old Untung Sri Rejeki. “No matter who becomes our next president.”(afp)

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Goldman Sachs earnings drop amid weak trading

Goldman Sachs reported a drop in firstquarter earnings on declines in its trading business and as it set aside more funds for bad loans in its growing consumer business.

The financial giant saw net income plunge to $2.1 billion, down 20.3 percent from the same period of last year. At the same time revenues fell 12.7 percent to $8.8 billion.

Goldman encountered sharp declines in key trading divisions, such as equities and bonds. Market conditions improved from the prior quarter, but volatility was low, crimping activity, the investment bank said.

A bright spot was financial advising for mergers and acquisitions where it scored

a boost in revenues, while underwriting revenues fell.

Goldman, which has ramped up its consumer lending business through its online savings accounts, credit cards and other ventures, set aside $224 million for credit losses.

“We are pleased with our performance

in the first quarter, especially in the context of a muted start to the year,” said Chief Executive David Solomon. “We are focused on new opportunities to grow and diversify our business mix and serve a broader range of clients globally.”

Goldman’s share prices rose 0.2 percent to $208.22 in pre-market trading. (afp)

UK found to be hottest investment destination despite Brexit

LONDON - Brexit may be causing all sorts of uncertainty in Britain but it doesn’t seem to be putting off foreign investors.

In a survey on corporate deal-making published Monday, consulting and accounting firm EY says Britain is the top investment destination in the world for the first time in the report’s 10-year history — overtaking the United States, which has held the top spot since 2014.

The pound’s fall since the June 2016 vote to leave the European Union has made British assets cheaper, but Steve Krouskos, a global vice chair at EY, notes Britain also remains an “open environment for foreign investors” even in the midst of the Brexit chaos. That culture, he said, is reinforced by the English language, a skilled workforce, and a strong technology base.

Those long-standing strengths have helped Britain recover as a place to do business since the shock of the June 2016 referendum, which saw the country narrowly vote to leave the EU. With so much uncertainty surrounding the future of the British economy, the country slumped down EY’s rankings. In the October 2016 survey, Britain was as low as seventh.

There have been a number of high-profile investments in Britain over the past year, including Comcast’s purchase of satellite broadcaster Sky for around 30 billion pounds (currently $39 billion) and Coca-Cola’s takeover of Costa Coffee for near 4 billion pounds ($5.2 billion).

Krouskos said he hasn’t encountered executives who want Britain to crash out of the EU without a deal and that the remainder are “split down the middle” between those who want the country to leave the bloc smoothly with a deal and those who want Brexit stopped.

Britain’s exit from the EU, originally scheduled for March 29, has been delayed until Oct. 31, though it could happen sooner should British lawmakers back the withdrawal agreement that Prime Minister Theresa May negotiated with the EU. Fol-

Semarapura Festival IV Lasts on April 28 – May 2

Regent of Klungkung, I Nyoman Suwirta, accompanied by Deputy Regent I Made Kasta attended the preparation meeting of the Semarapura Festival IV in the Praja Mandala Meeting Room at the office of Klungkung regent on Monday (Mar. 18). Regent Suwirta wanted to finalize the preparation so that later on the implementation can run smoothly and beneficially.

Head of the Klungkung Tourism Office, I Nengah Sukasta, conveyed the Semarapura Festival is a festival held by the Klungkung district government with a greater target for community empowerment coalesced into the MSMEs (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises).

Besides, it is also meant to maximize the promotion of tourist destinations and city tour programs as one of the prominent program of the Klung-

kung district government.

The Semarapura Festival IV will be held on April 28 to May 2.

On that occasion, Regent Suwirta hoped that by the end of March the preparation for the Semarapura Festival can have been completed.

Information about this festival must also be disseminated both through electronic media and print media.

Meanwhile, Regent Suwirta asked the Klungkung Education

Agency to also display Gong Kebyar that will later be staged at the Bali Arts Festival. By that way, the Gong Kebyar of Klungkung envoy can be corrected earlier. He also requested the Jegeg-Bagus Klungkung beauty pageant held at the Semarapura IV Festival can be added with one more category namely Entrepreneur Ambassador. He hoped the Entrepreneur Ambassador can be the mascot of

Klungkung entrepreneur.

Semarapura Festival IV will feature the Telek Jumpai Dance presented by students in Klungkung district. Telek Dance will be danced by junior high and high school students, in collaboration with the Bali provincial government.

Regent Suwirta requested that in the performance of the Telek dance can be accompanied barong in four directions.

Regent Suwirta also asked the committee to report the amount of transactions taking place during the Semarapura Festival. They include the transaction in culinary

stands, MSMEs, exhibitions and other stands. This is done to find out the extent of visitors’ interest when visiting the Semarapura Festival IV. At the end of the preparatory meeting, Regent Suwirta requested the committee to be able to coordinate well in terms of preparation and implementation of the Semarapura Festival IV. Thus, the preparation and implementation can run well.

Relevant agencies must also communicate well, and show off their cooperation to make the Klungkung district government’s prestigious annual event successful. (kmb)

Fried Red Rice Offers Savory Taste AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

A British Union flag is flown behind a European Union flag during demonstrations near Parliament in London, Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Just days away from a no-deal Brexit, European Union leaders meet Wednesday to discuss granting the United Kingdom a new delay to its departure from the bloc. lowing three defeats in Parliaments, May opted to ask for an extension rather than crash out of the bloc, a scenario that many politicians and business leaders say could lead to a deep recession as tariffs are slapped on British exports and other restrictions are imposed on trade.

EY found that global interest in mergers and acquisitions is at a 10-year high as managers try to adapt to technological change, with 59% of companies planning a deal in

the next year, up from 52% a year ago.

The improvement appears at odds with a slowdown in the global economy. Last week, the International Monetary Fund cut its global growth forecast for this year to 3.3% from 3.5%, largely because of trade tensions, particularly between China and the U.S. Krouskos said the mood among executives is better than the growth forecasts suggest.

“The increase in acquisition appetite is a clear indication that executives are focused

on their pursuit of growth, underpinned by high expectations of their own future performance,” he said.

“There is uncertainty in the market, but for many, disruption is driving M&A rather than stalling it — deals are a means to reshape portfolios at an accelerated pace and futureproof businesses.”

EY surveyed 2,900 senior executives across 47 countries in February and March 2019. (ap)

Do you enjoy fried rice of white rice ingredients? Well, it has been a commonplace! How about tasting a dish of fried rice made from red rice ingredients. It is something new. Other than offering delicious flavor, this type of fried rice is also low in cholesterol and very good for health. Moreover, when combined with Balinese spices, it must be tempting to immediately try it. The fried rice found in one of the restaurants in Ubud is combined with local and international nuances.

Rice is indeed the target for people to consume, especially those wishing to reduce cholesterol. This red rice is also ingredient in food

stalls to restaurants on the Island of the Gods. Including in tourism areas, this serving is an attractive offer for tourists. “Carbohydrates in brown rice do exist, but in low sugar content, so they are chosen especially for those desiring to reduce sugar consumption,” Chef UNAME Restaurant Ubud, I Wayan Partana.

Partana said that to give a sensational flavor, the brown rice is cooked with Balinese spices (base genep) which accentuate the flavor of garlic and aromatic ginger.

Then, add bulun baon leaf, kluwek and Moringa leaves as vegetables mixed in the cooking process and added with chicken meat to give a

distinctive local flavor. “Vegetables added give a slightly bitter and savory taste and an acidic sensation with extra kluwek or pangium,” he explained.

The types of vegetables used are also rich in benefits for the body that function as medicine, especially bulun baon. The cooking only takes advantage of a little oil so that it causes the fried rice to have low fat. For additional condiment, it is made from cut tomatoes, green cayenne pepper, sprouts, avocados and lime juice that can provide international-style food. “There are poached eggs to provide additional delight when savoring fried rice,” he concluded. (kmb)

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Pump installation to anticipate floods at Seminyak nearly completed

MANGUPURA - To anticipate floods on Jalan Dewi Kunti II Seminyak, the Bali-Penida River Agency (BWS) has anticipated the installation of a flood pump at Kedampang Creek. Moreover, the installation is now almost completed.

Technical Coordinator of River and Coastal Area 1, I Nyoman Sugiartana, when confirmed on Monday (Apr. 15), the installation of pumps has been carried out since February and is currently being installed with hydraulic for automatic doors for maintenance. Currently, it is just waiting for the pump test that will be conducted at the end of April. Overall, the implementation of the activity has reached 95 percent, namely the construction of aquator pump, flood doors, while jet pump for horizontal pump has been installed. “At the end of April we schedule there will be a pump trial related to aqua jetpam, control doors, whether they function properly as a whole,” he said.

He said with the existence of the two pumps having a magnitude of 1,500 m3 per second, the condition of rainwater inundation on Jalan Dewi Kunti II will be able to flow when the water discharge in Mati River is also high. All this time, waterway condition of the Mati River is admitted to be higher than the Kedampang Creek. As a result, the channel of Kedampang Creek cannot drain the water, especially when the water discharge of Mati River is higher.

Meanwhile, the arrangement in the downstream of Mati River, namely in estuary of Mati River, right in the Patasari Kuta area, will

soon be completed. Moreover, the process is faster than the initial estimation. According to the contractor’s Quality Surveyor, Komang Sri Adhikarya, until last Sunday (Apr. 14), the progress of the project’s realization already reached 89.6 percent of the planned 53.9 percent.

This means it experienced a deviation of around 35 7 percent.

Sri added that the project is for the budget year 2017-2019, while the remaining workmanship includes the finishing work for the embankment road inspection, paving and Bali style railing, operational houses, generator house and river channel excavation or normalization. For control houses, it will be located in the right of the groove near the weir. Meanwhile, the sedimentation dredging is carried out continuously after the road access to the opposite is closed. “It is for those in the groove and in the dam area. For normalization, the Selok Estuary has been worked on,” he said when confirmed, on Monday (Apr. 15).

Meanwhile, the weir having been worked on since last February was already completed in March. Later, this movable weir will be used to stem seawater so as not to enter the riverbank, as well as the river water flow to the sea will not get hampered. Thus, with the presence of movable weir, the condition of Mati River will become stable. “Operations and maintenance of the weir in the downstream of Mati River will lie in the Bali-Penida River Agency and the maintenance period for this project will last for 365 calendar days,” he concluded. (kmb23)

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All this time, waterway condition of the Mati River is admitted to be higher than the Kedampang Creek. As a result, the channel of Kedampang Creek cannot drain the water, especially when the water discharge of Mati River is higher.

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Masked merriment: Sacred Laos ‘ancestors’ honoured for new year

LUANG PRABANG - Barefoot and cloaked in swinging bamboo ropes, two masked performers dressed as Laos’ legendary “ancestors” walk the streets of Luang Prabang on an annual outing for raucous new year celebrations drawing hundreds of worshippers to the normally sleepy city.

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Sanglah Hospital

Bunker of Sanglah Hospital accomplishes

Queue of radiotherapy patient will reduce

DENPASAR - Bunker of Sanglah Hospital has been accomplished. The thick-walled building with the thickness of 1.20 meters is built to install Linear Accelerator (Linac) device. With the presence of Linac, the radiotherapy line of cancer patients will decrease. The radiotherapy queue at Sanglah Hospital reaches 590 patients. A radiation oncology specialist in one day can serve 40-50 patients of radiotherapy.

Spokesperson of Sanglah Hospital, Dewa Ketut Kresna, stated that with the presence of cobalt and Linac, the handling of the line of cancer radiotherapy patients will be faster. “The line rate of radiotherapy is very high. With the addition of this Linac device, we are confident that we can cut the line,” he said.

This Linac radiotherapy service is for the first time in Bali and even Eastern Indonesia. Other than Sanglah Hospital, no hospitals are said to not have such device. “This service is clearly a blessing especially for the Balinese people. So far, the community has been referred to outside of Bali to get this service such as to Surabaya and Jakarta.

If Linac has been operated here, it means that our health care facilities in Bali are more complete,” he explained.

The bunker building has indeed been completed this year but the Linac device has not available yet. “It will be procured this year and so will the other supporting items,” he said on Monday (Apr. 15). Procurement of Linac is said to be only one because the price is quite expensive. This Linac radiotherapy service is predicted to operate this year after all the devices are installed.

Previously, Sanglah Hospital had sent 2 doctors to attend radiotherapy specialist education so that today there are 3 radiotherapy specialists. This is carried out in the context of human resources preparation to support Linac radiotherapy services. In addition to the radiotherapy specialist, Sanglah Hospital is also said to be preparing radiographers to operate the devices. “We will recruit additional

radiographers,” he added.

Previously, therapeutic services for cancer patients in Sanglah Hospital were carried out with cobalt and brachia therapy, while the use of Linac device was only applied for certain indications.

“In principle, cobalt and Linac have the same function,” he said.

However, on cobalt the radiation continues even though the device is not used.

On the contrary, on the Linac, if it is turned off, it will not emit radiation, making it more energy efficient and safer. “Cobalt is a simpler engine and needs cheaper operating costs. Meanwhile, on Linac, if the power plant is not turned on, well ... there is no radiation. The quality of the radiation beam is sharper, coherent and the engine is more complex and more sophisticated,” he concluded. (kmb42)

Revellers splash water on the pair and their gold-studded masked lion cub during the annual procession at the height of the city’s days-long holiday celebrating the Buddhist new year.

Some revellers wait all year to catch a glimpse of the procession, which stems from Laos folklore.

As legend goes, Laos’ heavenly king put out a call for earthly volunteers to cut a massive vine which was blocking farmers from growing rice and vegetables.

No one offered until an elderly couple -- Pou Nyer (grandfather) and Nyar Nyer (grandmother) -- said they would do it, despite knowing such a difficult task would end in their deaths.

After they were killed by the giant vine, the king called on Laotians to forever worship the couple and their lion cub, and they are now believed to be the country’s ancestral protectors.

Today two male performers represent the sacred duo and two more their lion cub, with the costumes and masks coming out just once a year for a parade that ends with a dance at the glimmering golden Wat Xien Thong temple, one of the country’s oldest and most scared, on the banks of the Mekong River.

When the festivities are over, the costumes are carefully returned to a special chest in a temple across town dubbed the “sanctuary of the divinities”, where they will rest for the

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This photograph taken on April 15, 2019 shows men dressed as the legendary ancestors “Pou Nyer” and “Nyar Nyer” and their guardian lion “Singkheo Singkham” dancing at the Wat Xiengthong Buddhist temple to mark the Laos New Year or “Pi Mai” celebrations in Luang Prabang. next 12 months.

The procession is the culmination of days of merrymaking in the UNESCO-listed city, a tourist hub that drew more than 755,000 visitors last year, according to Laos official data.

Elsewhere in town, elephants are dressed

up and paraded through the streets and alms are offered at sunrise to orange-robed monks in the city’s ornate temples.

And on the sandy banks of the river, worshippers carve knee-high sand stupas decorated with images of beloved monks and holy flowers.

For some, the annual celebrations are reason enough to book a trip.

“I planned my trip to see the Laos new year ... it’s my first time,” French tourist Couelle Guillaume told AFP. “It was unique to see ... different culture and ethnicities.” (afp)

Papa roach: Chinese farmer breeds bugs for the table

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This picture taken on March 25, 2019 shows cockroaches eating feed at a roach farm in Yibin, China’s southwestern Sichuan province.

YIBIN - As farmer Li Bingcai opened the door to his cockroach farm in southwest China, an insect the size of a dart flew into his face. Picking the critter off his forehead, he tossed it back into the dark room where some 10 million more of its kind scurried around, housed in wooden frames perched on shelves.

The six-legged creatures may be a bugbear for most, but Li and other breeders in China are turning them into a niche business.

Some sell cockroaches for medicinal purposes, as animal feed or to get rid of food waste.

Li breeds them for something else: food for human consumption.

A restaurant down the road from his small facility fries them up in famously spicy Sichuan sauce for the gutsier eaters.

“People don’t believe how good it is until they try some,” Li told AFP, putting a live one into his mouth as others crawled all over the place and people visiting.

Known colloquially as American cockroaches, the Periplaneta americana is one of the largest species and are consumed for a variety of ailments: stomach ulcers, respiratory tract problems, and even simply as a tonic.

“The greatest effect of cockroaches are that they have great immunity, which is why humans

will absorb its benefits after eating them,” Li said, noting that in China cockroaches are dubbed “Little Strong” because they can live for days even after being cut in half.

Tucked at the edge of bamboocovered mountains in Yibin, Li’s facility is a nondescript single-storey former farmhouse surrounded by crop fields and livestock farms.

The breeding area is roughly the size of a badminton court, with windows sealed off with netting to prevent any great escapes.

Security is paramount: In 2013, some one million cockroaches escaped a farm in eastern Jiangsu province roamed free after their greenhouse was destroyed. (afp)

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World’s largest plane makes first test flight

WASHINGTON - The world’s largest airplane -- a Stratolaunch behemoth with two fuselages and six Boeing 747 engines -- made its first test flight on Saturday in California.

The mega jet carried out its maiden voyage over the Mojave desert.

It is designed to carry into space, and drop, a rocket that would in turn ignite to deploy satellites.

It is supposed to provide a more flexible way to deploy satellites than

vertical takeoff rockets because this way all you need is a long runway for takeoff.

It was built by an engineering company called Scaled Composites.

The aircraft is so big its wing span is longer than a football field,

or about 1.5 times that of an Airbus A380.

Specifically, the wing span is 117 meters; that of an Airbus A380 is just under 80.

The plane flew Saturday for about two and a half hours, Strato-

launch said. Until now, it had just carried out tests on the ground.

It hit a top speed of 304 kilometers per hour (189 mph) and reached an altitude of 17,000 feet, or 5,182 meters.

“What a fantastic first flight,” said Jean Floyd, CEO of Stratolaunch.

“Today’s flight furthers our mis-

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sion to provide a flexible alternative to ground launched systems,” he added.

Stratolaunch was financed by Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft as a way to get into the market for launching small satellites.

But Allen died in October of last year so the future of the company is uncertain.(afp)

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The agricultural sector is realized to no longer benefits households. Based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, the contribution of agricultural sector to GRDP (gross regional domestic product) has decreased dramatically.

As no longer profitable

It is designed to carry into space, and drop, a rocket that would in turn ignite to deploy satellites.

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Scientists unveil ‘first’ 3D print of heart with human tissue, vessels ISRAEL - Scientists in Israel unveiled a 3D print of a heart with human tissue and vessels on Monday, calling it a first and a “major medical breakthrough” that advances possibilities for transplants.

The heart, about the size of a rabbit’s, marked “the first time anyone anywhere has successfully engineered and printed an entire heart replete with cells, blood vessels, ventricles and chambers,” said Tel Aviv University’s Tal Dvir, who led the project.

“People have managed to 3D-print the structure of a heart in the past, but not with cells or with blood vessels,” he said.

But the scientists said many challenges remain before fully working 3D printed hearts will be available for transplant into patients.

Journalists were shown a 3D print of a heart about the size of a cherry at Tel Aviv University on Monday as the researchers announced their findings, published in the journal Advanced Science.

Researchers must now teach the printed hearts “to behave” like real ones. Then they plan to transplant them into animal models, said Dvir.

“Maybe, in 10 years, there will be organ printers in the finest hospitals around the world, and these procedures will be conducted routinely,” he said.

But he said hospitals would likely start with simpler organs than hearts. (afp) Scientists in Israel unveil first 3D print of heart with human tissue.

Agriculture must collaborate with tourism

DENPASAR — The agricultural sector is realized to no longer benefits households. Based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, the contribution of agricultural sector to GRDP (gross regional domestic product) has decreased dramatically. In 2010, the contribution was recorded at 17.2 percent, while in 2018, the contribution decreased by only 13.8 percent, only one seventh of the total GRDP. Critical condition of Bali’s agriculture is also reflected in the number of agricultural households which also dropped dramatically. In 2003, the number of agricultural households in Bali reached 492,394. In 2013, the remaining number of agricultural households in Bali was 408,233. This means the number of agricultural households reduced 17.09 percent, while the decreases in the past 10 years reached 8,416 agricultural households reduced every year. “This confirms the agricultural players in

Bali have lost their enthusiasm,” said Adi Nugroho, Head of the Bali Statistics Agency (BPS).

An academician from the Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Udayana University (Unud), Prof. Dr. I Ketut Satriawan recently stated that land tenure by farmers is still limited. This means that in terms of economic scale it is profitable but not sufficient for the needs of their families. So, the benefits obtained by farmers are not sufficient for their overall needs.

On the one hand, due to the limited

land area, the farming profession is no longer the main job. “Agriculture is number two. Then, farmers will look for other jobs that are more profitable,” he said. Meanwhile, his farming job is worked on by someone else or the hire laborers to work on their farm.

After creating agricultural products, they cannot be processed into the next derivative product due to quantity problems. In addition, there are also constraints on distance and inadequate access to connect agricultural products to one another to

be processed into new derivative products. “For example, there are certain results located far apart. Then, it cannot be put together as a raw material processed into the next derivative product so that the fresh products, such as oranges or snakefruits during the harvest season cannot become marketed thoroughly,” he explained.

Sustainability of agricultural products is also an obstacle related to supply to the market because the market wants certainty of supply and sustainability.

With this condition, farmers smartly think by pursuing the work of farmers but cannot fully live it and they will instinctively seek the better one.

To revive the agricultural sector, it must collaborate with tourism because tourism is the leading sector that pro-

NEGARA - After the temporary waste disposal site (TPS) at the waterway bend of Lelateng village, Negara and made into 3R (reuse, reduce and recycle) temporary waste disposal, more and more garbage are piling up in the waterway on Jalan Danau Toba, Lelateng.

Based on daily observations, the garbage looks to stagnate in the waterway located in the west side of Jalan Danau Toba. Moreover, the garbage

also piles up on the roadside.

“I don’t know who is throwing garbage here so that it almost every day piles up. The garbage washed away by the waterways is originated from the upstream and from the market,” according to several residents on Monday (Apr. 15).

Meanwhile, the temporary disposal site in the corner of the waterway is now functioned as 3R temporary disposal site. Moreover, the old build-

ing of temporary waste disposal site is now taken advantage for selling clear soup even though it often closes. The 3R temporary waste disposal site built by the Environment and Sanitation Agency has not yet functioned.

Headman of Lelateng, Kade Suardana, when asked for his confirmation on Monday afternoon admitted that a lot of garbage came from upstream from Baler Bale Agung, Banjar Tengah and then empties out into

Lelateng.

According to him, actually his government has tried to find a solution by making insulation at each border.

Then, the Environment Agency officers cleaned it up. However, since the handling is not optimal it resulted in floods and the garbage overflowed onto the road after heavy rain. “As a result, many residents protest and open the seals so that the garbage flows into the estuary. Well, it accu-

duces good income for Bali today.

According to him, here is required a synergy between the agricultural sector and the tourism sector. The agricultural sector from the business side provides limited benefits, due to limited land tenure.

If the agriculture can be synergized with tourism sector, the agricultural sector can be one of the tourist destinations or attractions such as agrotourism. Then, there will be added value obtained from the tourism sector, higher than just the agriculture producing raw materials. “Like civet coffee, if sold conventionally and traditionally, the price is not more than IDR 5,000 but in agro tourism it can be sold for IDR 50,000,” he said. (kmb42)

mulates here, in the waterway of Jalan Danau Toba,” he explained.

For the management of the 3R temporary waste disposal site, he said to be still waiting for the help of the Viar tricycle transporting the garbage from people’s homes. This will be conditioned by the Waste Bank committee. “Maybe a month later the Waste Bank can operate. For the time being, it has not been optimal,” he explained. (kmb)

Garbage accumulates at Lelateng waterway

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Site and rite exhibition, an effort to awaken Bali heritages

DENPASAR-The rampant demolition of a number of valuable areas or buildings better known as heritages, such as temple, shrines and others is increasingly worrying lately. For this reason, the observers and site lovers will narrate the site and rites in the spiritual vigor to be packaged in the form of photo, painting and video exhibitions. Site lovers belonging to the members of the Bakti Pertiwi Jati (BPJ) Foundation will hold a site exhibition entitled “Three Spiritual Areas of Bali” that will be held at Denpasar Art Space (DAS) Denpasar, on April 25 to May 9, 2019.

Head of the BPJ Bali, Made Bakti Wiyasa, revealed the exhibition is sparked after a long journey. It is part of an effort to raise awareness of Balinese people to be more concerned about the values or spirit of their ancestral heritage.

“The emergence of the idea of caring for the sites originated from concerns over the demolition of the sacred area where the communities indeed want to repair but having no knowledge at hand.

They do not pay attention to the value of the site that actually can be done through restoration, instead of replacing it with new materials. This is very worrying for our ancestors,” said Bakti when confirmed on Monday (Apr. 15).

He explained that with the motto “Love Archipelagic Heritage – Greetings for the Sites – Rites Run Sustainably” is used as a narrative in the discourse of waking up, establishing and maintaining the sense of love for ancestral cultural heritage, arousing real motion to maintain the roots of Balinese civilization. The discourse of sustainability and the strengthening of the roots of civilization as a source of national identity and the archipelagic love source are echoed intensely by young Balinese to support the government in promoting culture according to the Law of Cultural Preservation No. 11/2010.

“Young people and Bali Heritage Lover are a collection of lovers of ancient sites having groomed their movements officially and established the Bakti Pertiwi Jati Foundation (BPJ),” he said.

Bakti added the exhibition will showcase hundreds of works in the form of photos and paintings that reintroduce the noble values of Balinese culture to the people. Moreover, the exhibition is said to have received positive support from various parties, especially the regional government. Various exhibition preparations are being carried out by site lovers. “Hopefully, when it is organized the community can mutually share and learn the spirit,” he added.

Based on observation and data collection of BPJ Bali in various regions in Bali, many things are found to be worrying. Bali is so easy and many ancient sites of hundreds of years old in the form of ancestral heritage have lost. Moreover, Bali has experienced a heritage disaster which is actually carried out by its own cultural inheritors. Some of the heritage disasters are caused by natural disasters, such as earthquakes and rainfall which cause damages to the structure and temples. (win)

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Indonesian electoral workers load ballot boxes into a truck to be distributed to polling stations in Bali, Indonesia, Saturday, April 13, 2019. The world’s third-largest democracy is gearing up to hold its legislative and presidential elections on April 17.

Electoral Commission bans from taking selfie in voting booth

SEMARAPURA - Ahead of the simultaneous election voting on Wednesday (Apr. 17), the Klungkung Electoral Commission reaffirmed the voting mechanism, the task of the Voting Committee Group (KPPS) to the vote counting process. One of the serious concerns is the prohibition of taking selfie when voting. Head of Klungkung Electoral Commission, Gusti Lanang Mega Saskara, confirmed on Monday (Apr. 15) that when in the voting booth voters are not allowed to take selfie in order to show off their choice.

According to Lanang Mega Saskara, since entering the polling station, all documentation activities have been banned. Taking selfie when casting ballot can violate the six election principles namely directly, publicly, freely, confidentially, honestly and fairly. In addition, taking selfie when voting, the penalty can be entered into the criminal domain. This is in accordance with Regulation of Electoral Commission No.3 on Voting and Vote Counting in Election and the KPPS Guidebook.

“We ask the voters not to take selfie in the voting booth as it belongs to the criminal domain. We have confirmed to the KPPS so as to pay attention to the ban,” said Lanang Mega Saskara, when met at Paksebali village, Dawan.

In anticipation, when voting, the voters’ cellphone will be secured first by KPPS officers. In addition, an appeal will also be installed around the polling station to place the cellphone before voting. “As the matter of selfie, we actually organize a selfie competition, but not at the polling station but outside the polling

station. The selfie photo should be sent to the website of Klungkung Electoral Commission,” he said firmly.

This prohibition is set forth in Article 42 of the Electoral Commission Regulation No. 3/2019 concerning Voting and Vote Counting in the Elections. The article states that voters are prohibited from documenting their voting rights in the voting booth as referred to in Article 41. Meanwhile, the explanation regarding the sanctions is also stated in the Law No. 7/2017 concerning the Elections. Documenting choices can be an indication of money politics. It will become evidence of the application of criminal sanctions as stipulated in article 523. The criminal sanction is a two-year sentence and a fine of IDR 24 million.

This prohibition is in line with the clause of Article 38 paragraph (1) point d of the Regulation of Electoral Commission No. 3/2019 that the Chief of the Voting Committee Group (KPPS) warns and prohibits voters from carrying cellphone and or other image recording

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devices to the voting booths. Documentation can just be done during the vote counting. This is set forth in Article 52 paragraph (7) and (8) of Electoral Commission Regulation No. 9/2019 concerning Amendment to Electoral Commission Regulation No. 3/2019.

The article reads that witnesses, polling station supervisors, election monitors or the public present at the vote counting meeting are given the opportunity to document the uncut C-1 model form for presidential and vice presidential election, central, provincial and district House of Representatives as well regional representative council. This can be done after being signed by the KPPS, as well as the copy of the A.3-KPU form, Model A.4-KPU and Model A.DPK-KPU after the voting meeting and vote counting ends. The documentation can be in the form of photos or videos.

“Every violation in the polling station will become the authority of the Electoral Supervisory Board (Bawaslu) to take action. Besides, every TPS also has its own supervisor,” he explained. (kmb31)

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As Bali’s longest-standing Japanese restaurant for the past 20 years, Ryoshi continues to win over the hearts and minds of those who keep returning for great music and good food at great prices.

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Ariana Grande, youngest ever Coachella headliner, reunites NSYNC

INDIO - Ariana Grande became the youngest ever act to headline Coachella in her Sunday night performance featuring a coterie of high-profile guests including a reunion of 1990s boy band NSYNC. The 25-year-old pop phenom also invited rapper Nicki Minaj onstage before throwing back to hip hop classics, bringing out Sean “Diddy” Combs and Mase for a touching tribute to both the recently slain rapper Nipsey Hussle and her ex-boyfriend Mac Miller, who committed suicide last September.

Grande is just the fourth woman to headline Coachella, a sundrenched trendsetting festival in the desert of California that will run through the same lineup again next weekend, save for an exclusive Easter Sunday performance by Kanye West.

The top billing is a feather in Grande’s cap after a year that saw the former child star permeate the public consciousness as she shattered record after record and released two hit albums.

She kicked off the show with her hit celebrating sexual pleasure “God Is a Woman,” and shortly thereafter performed “Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored”, which features a deep cut sample

from NSYNC’s 2000 album “No Strings Attached.”

Four of NSYNC’s five former members came together for the occasion, though Justin Timberlake -- who found fame in his own right after the band broke up -- was noticeably absent.

But the four who turned up delighted the audience and Grande herself -- who would’ve barely been in primary school when the group peaked -- with the pop star saying: “I’ve been rehearsing my whole... life for this moment!”

The performers then did a rendition of the 1997 classic “Tearin’ Up My Heart,” nailing the original choreography.

Technical difficulties struck when Minaj joined Grande onstage to an eruption of cheers to perform their joint smashes “Side to Side” and “Bang Bang.”

A botched rap from Minaj saw the two awkwardly bop back and forth, with Grande saying “We can’t hear anything” several times, before using her four-octave range to try and move on from the snafu.

A clip of the incident quickly became the stuff of memes, with captions like: “Me And My Best Friend During Our Oral Presentation That We Forgot About.” (afp)

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This file photo taken on August 1, 2018, shows French rapper Booba (L) on May 19, 2014, in Cannes, southern France, and French rapper Kaaris (R) on March 25, 2015, in Paris.

French rappers set date for 2m-euro cage fight

PARIS - Two feuding French rappers have said they will settle their differences with a two million-euro cage fight in Switzerland in December.

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Bitter rivals Booba and Kaaris ended up behind bars last August after a running battle between their entourages shut down part of a Paris airport. Kaaris, 39, posted a video of himself signing the contract for the fight while he nonchalantly ate some chicken and chips with the hashtag, “The rule is that there will be no rules.”

Booba quickly took to social media to mock his rival.

“He’s signed, he’s signed,” he

said. “I wanted (the fight) to happen earlier but the diva and actress wouldn’t have it. The important thing is that it happens.”

The ultra-violent sport of MMA (mixed martial arts) is still banned in France, so the fight will take place in Geneva.

The winner will take home 1.5 million euros ($1.7 million), while the loser will get a third of that, the promoters confirmed Monday.

While the Ivory Coast-born

Kaaris has promised he will drink his rival’s blood, Booba, aka Elie Yaffa, has replied in kind. “I will (expletive) beat you to death, you son of a bitch,” he wrote.

The rappers’ long-running dispute has sparked hilarity on social media. A month in solitary confinement following the brawl at Orly airport, heavy fines and the threat of 18 months more behind bars have done nothing to cool their animosity. (afp)

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Indonesian election officials transport ballot boxes to a remote village by boat along a river in Manggamat, Southern Aceh province on April 16, 2019, on the eve of the country’s general elections. From sending ballot boxes by elephant in Sumatra to keeping voters safe in Papua’s rebel territory, Indonesia is pulling out all the stops for one of the world’s biggest one-day polls across a vast archipelago of 260 million.

Planes, rebels and elephants: Indonesia gears up for jumbo polls

From sending ballot boxes by elephant in Sumatra to keeping voters safe in Papua’s rebel territory, Indonesia is pulling out all the stops for one of the world’s biggest one-day polls across a vast archipelago of 260 million.

into the boxes to protect millions of ballot papers in a tropical country used to pounding rainstorms.

On Wednesday, over 190 million registered voters in the Muslim-majority country will cast their votes in just eight hours of polling, with the election commission battling torrential downpours, voter fraud and damaging cyber attacks.

And if that wasn’t hard enough, the world’s third-largest democracy behind India and the United States is staging a first for its twodecade-old system, which rose from the ashes of a military-backed dictatorship: holding presidential, parliamentary and local polls all in one day.

“This is a very big country so we’ll do our best,” Arief Budi-

- ‘Communal voting’ A record 245,000 candidates are vying for public office, with current president Joko Widodo facing off against ex-general Prabowo Subianto for the top job.

The polls kick off early Wednesday at over 800,000 plus ballot stations staffed by millions of election officials, starting in easternmost Papua where a separatist insurgency has simmered for decades.

Security will be tight in parts of the mountainous region after rebels massacred more than a dozen employees at a state-backed contractor in December. Violence also erupted as election material was delivered

man, the commission’s chief, told a recent gathering of journalists and diplomats. “But we’re very busy this year.” He’s not kidding.

Calling on four-legged transport, motorbikes, speedboats and planes, officials have been distributing cardboard ballot boxes -- guarded by armed security staff -- to every corner of the 4,800 kilometre (3,000 miles) long archipelago, which is home to hundreds of ethnic groups and languages.

While elephants carried ballot boxes through Sumatra’s Aceh province, horses were used to reach to remote communities in the southeast corner of Java island.

“The path is muddy during the rainy season so we need to use horses to transport election material,” said Suhartanto, the police chief in Tempurejo sub-district, who goes by one name.

The lightweight ballot boxes -- replacing metal ones used in previous polls -- are up to the job, Budiman insisted, declaring them to be “very strong”. “You can sprinkle water on them -- but not a flood,” he said. This was confirmed this week near Jakarta when hundreds of spoiled boxes were left in a muddy heap after torrential rain flooded a storage warehouse.

Plastic bags are being inserted

before local polls last year, resulting in the deaths of several police and election officials.

But armed rebels aren’t the only election challenge in Papua, which shares an island border with independent Papua New Guinea.

Voters in parts of the mineralrich region use a communal voting system called “noken”, in which a village head collects votes and represents the group at the ballot box.

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