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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Jackson, Timberlake dazzle Billboard Music Awards Associated Press Writer

The King of Pop and a likely successor, Justin Timberlake, ruled the Billboard Music Awards — though Michael Jackson made a splash via hologram and Timberlake accepted his awards via video from overseas while on tour. A hologram of Jackson made its debut Sunday, mirroring the late icon’s signature dance moves as some members of the audience became emotional. Timberlake won seven prizes, including top artist and Billboard 200 album.

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Jennifer Lopez performs on stage at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, May 18, 2014, in Las Vegas.

“All the other finalists, Miley, Imagine Dragons, Bruno, Katy, I love you guys, it’s not a competition, but if it is, I won!” Timberlake exclaimed, dancing with his band. The Jackson hologram performed “Slave to the Rhythm,” a song from Jackson’s new posthumous album “Xscape,” along with a plethora of background dancers. It was easily the biggest moment at the awards show in Las Vegas.

“We tried to do as best we could what we thought Michael would have loved, and those of us who knew Michael really well, we had a good perspective on it,” Epic Records CEO L.A. Reid said backstage. Reid worked on the album and released it. “ Robin Thicke, who won four awards including top Hot 100 song for “Blurred Lines,” debuted a new song called “Get Her Back,” aiming to win over his actresswife Paula Patton after they announced in February they were separating. He sang on bended knee and ended with the line: “I gotta get her back tonight.”

The night featured a number of collaborative performances, including an explosive duet from Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert, while double winner Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line were crowd favorites when they performed “This Is How We Roll.”

Miley Cyrus performed The Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” with Wayne Coyne

Prince Charles, Camilla arrive in Canada for tour

Associated Press Writer

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, have arrived in Canada on the first leg of a four-day tour.

It is the 17th visit to Canada for the Prince of Wales and the third for the duchess.

Charles and Camilla were greeted by nearly two dozen dignitaries at Halifax’s airport on Sunday. They are visiting Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Manitoba. The royal couple last visited Canada in 2012 to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Queen Elizabeth II is Canada’s titular head of state. Canada is a member of the British Commonwealth of former colonies.

Canadians were thrilled when Prince William and his wife, Kate, traveled across the country in 2011 on their first official trip as a married couple.

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of the Flaming Lips remotely from the United Kingdom, where she was on tour.

“I have to of course thank all of my amazing fans. ... Thank you everybody for making this (expletive) possible — oops I’m on ABC, sorry,” she said when accepting top streaming artist, sticking out her tongue at the end.

Katy Perry, who won top female artist, also performed remotely. Lorde was a double winner, taking home trophies for best new artist and rock song for the ubiquitous hit “Royals.” The New Zealand singer performed her new hit “Tennis Court” in her signature black — and showcased her signature twitchy dance moves.

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Not Published We, the International Bali Post woul like to apologize in advance because we will not be published on Wednesday and Thursday due to Galungan Day

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Bank Indonesia (BI) for Region III Bali-Nusra anticipated the increasing needs of the community for currency associated with the celebration of Galungan and Kuningan.

The demand for currency in this year’s celebration is estimated to increase by about 17 percent or IDR 821 billion.

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Galungan, BI prepares IDR 821 billion of currency DENPASAR - Bank Indonesia (BI) for Region III Bali-Nusra anticipated the increasing needs of the community for currency associated with the celebration of Galungan and Kuningan. The demand for currency in this year’s celebration is estimated to increase by about 17 percent or IDR 821 billion.

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Prince Charles and his wife Camilla are directed to their car by Justice Minister Peter MacKay as they arrive at the airport in Halifax, Canada, as they start a fourday tour of three provinces on Sunday, May 18, 2014.

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“We have provided a stock of currency in sufficient quantities, both in terms of quantity and denominations of money,” said Representative Head of Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali-Nusra, Benny

Siswanto.

According to him, in previous years, the celebration of Galungan and Kuningan in Bali did not show a very significant effect on the demand for currency. In 2013, the

demand for currency in relation to Galungan and Kuningan reached IDR 702 billion.

“The increase in the need for currency in May 2014, other than caused by the celebration of Galungan and Kuningan, is also influenced by the preparation for the payment of salaries, and the need of banking to fill in the ATMs related to a number of holidays in May,” he explained.

It was revealed by Benny Siswanto in line with the Bank

Indonesia’s call for banks to maintain the availability of cash at their ATMs, especially during the few days off.

“In order to meet the cash needs for the people of Bali, we have prepared money exchange services in various counties in Bali,” he said.

In a cash transaction, Benny Siswanto urged the public to raise concern over the crime of counterfeit money circulating in the community. Armed with the method by ‘inspecting the printing quality,

feeling the texture and holding the bill up to the light,’ communities were expected to better understand the characteristics of genuine rupiah.

“In addition to providing cash support, we and other banking institutions continuously support to meet the transaction needs of the community through payment system instruments such as clearing and Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS), which are more secure, reliable and fast,” he said. (kmb27)

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Management of Galiran Market remains chaotic Bali Post

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The policeman wearing zebra costum is giving brochure regarding traffic safety

Traffic accident increases

Tightened, traffic supervision on holidays Bali Post

GIANYAR - Within the past month, dozens of people died of traffic accidents on the highway of Gianyar Police jurisdiction. To that end, over the next three weeks, the Gianyar Police traffic unit focused its attention on the discipline of road users. One of them is by tightening the current traffic supervision during the celebration of Galungan and Kuningan.

It was revealed on Sunday (May 18) by the Gianyar Police Traffic Affairs Chief and his staff amidst the activity to hand out roses, chocolates and stickers to motorists. All road users passing in front of the Gianyar Police were stopped by uniformed police officers. A number of police personnel with the attribute of traffic discipline pioneer, miss traffic and others played the role like cartoon

of zebra cross and participated in distributing souvenirs.

The Gianyar Police Traffic Affairs Chief, Ni Putu Sugiartini, said that a number of motorists who violated were instantly getting coaching. Meanwhile, the disciplinary riders were rewarded with roses or chocolates as the achievement. The activities were undertaken in conjunction with the socialization of Sympathetic Operation 2014. It

was intended to diminish the very high traffic accident rate in the last month in Gianyar region.

She mentioned that in April 2014, the total traffic accident reached 34 cases where 12 people died in vain. Until the mid-May 2014, the traffic accident had occurred for 13 times, where 4 people died. Of that amount, most of the scenes actually happened in the rural road sections and with the frequent time of occurrence in the morning, she said.

To that end, police attempted to intensify the dissemination so as to raise the awareness of traffic discipline, especially on entering the atmosphere of Galungan and Kuningan, the traffic violations often increased as well. (kmb16)

SEMARAPURA - Ahead of Galungan and Kuningan, the Regent of Klungkung Nyoman Suwirta, visited the Galiran Market, Sunday (Mary 18). During his visit, the regent seemed disappointed because management of Galiran Market was still in shambles. In addition, relevant agencies were judged not ready to anticipate the situation in the market area ahead of Galungan because the condition was increasingly crowded because it was without control.

Initially, the regent received many complaints from the public ahead of Galungan regarding the problems in the market and outside the market. Before entering into the market, the situation had been seen crowded because no one controlled the traffic. Upon entering into the market area, the regent criticized the parking situation that was increasingly crowded because it was not regulated by the officers.

“From the beginning, I’ve warned in order to come down to the market ahead of Galungan. Parking space can not suffice, so it should be directed to terminal,” he explained.

Ahead of Galungan, consumer transactions with traders in the Galiran Market definitely jumped.

Afterward, the regent looked around the market. He found the water storage tower on the east side of the market leaked so it was very dangerous for visitors. Not to mention the market area seemed unkempt and not maximized due to poor management and lacked of hygiene. “The Galiran Market is really a new building, but looks like an old one,” he said.

When arriving inside the market building, the regent from Ceningan Island had not been satisfied yet because the arrangement of all traders did not meet the expectation.

As a result, his party was going to rearrange the location of every trader and make a thorough assessment of the market management. Lately, the condition was increasingly chaotic so that it hampered consumer access leading to the alley connecting to other stalls. Based on the results of observation, his party planned to add some janitors and discipline the layout of commodities owned by traders.

The regent also lamented that ahead of Galungan the related agencies did not make a market inspection. Actually it was necessary to avoid the surge in the prices of goods outside the fairness limit. In addition, it was also intended to prevent the sale of expired food and a variety of other considerations. Regent judged that relevant agencies such as the Cooperative, SMEs, Industry and Trade Agency, the Transportation Agency, the Communication and Informatics Agency could synergize one another to prepare themselves to resolve the problems ahead of Galungan.

Besides, the regent also found quite a lot of traders in the market building even selling their goods outside the building, especially the traders of young coconut leaf, coconut and other ritual materials. His party asked the management to immediately make improvement. Meanwhile, the principle matters such as rearranging the circulation of traders would be made after a thorough evaluation. The regent also requested to immediately prepare the terminal area for additional parking space of Galiran Market. Then, the piles of building debris should be dredged immediately

by Public Works so that the parking area would be getting wider. (kmb31)

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Inna Grand Bali Beach

SANUR - Inna Grand Bali Beach is situated on the long white sandy beach of Sanur, Bali’s most popular area and shaded by coconut palm, from the luxurious ten-storey central tower building, the highest in Bali, landscaped tropical garden and cottages spread out over 45 hectares land.

Originally opened on 1 November 1966, re-launched, after major upgrading, on 4 October 1993. INNA Grand Bali Beach is the most complete resort complex in Bali, featuring state-of-the-art visitor facilities, but also numerous artistic amenities that bring to life the cultural excellence of the Balinese people and their many talented neighbors.

Inna Grand Bali Beach offers a good value and genuine hospitality. The east facing location provides guests with the best opportunity to see magical Bali sunrise. 523 room in 3 types of accommodation; 100 cottages, 197 rooms of 4 blocks two storey buildings and 226 rooms of a ten storey Tower Wing, including a Presidential Suite and spacious suites. All rooms have individually controllable air conditioning, humidity control, private bath/shower, satellite TV, fridge/mini bar, hair dyer, tea & coffee making facility, in-house movie channel, international direct dial telephones, bathrobes, balcony or terrace. Tower Wing rooms also have in room safes and card key door locks.

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Calendar Event for March 5 through May 21, 2014 5 Mar Hari Urip 6 Mar Hari Patetegan 7 Mar Pengeradanan Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Kabayan Penebel Tabanan 8 Mar Saraswati Pura Pasek tangkas Gempinis Dalang Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Sayan Abiansemal Pura Watu Gunung Bima Pura Agung Jagat Karana Surabaya Pura Aditya Jaya Jakarta Pura Pemaksan Banyuning Timur Pura Agung Wira Loka Cimahi Jawa Barat 9 Mar Hari Banyu Pinaruh 10 Mar Soma Ribek Pura Jati Jembrana Pura Kawitan Bayu Gaiyang Bangli Tirta Wening Surabaya Pura Desa Lingga Wana Abang Karangasem 11 Mar Sabuh Mas 12 Mar Hari Pagerwesi Pura Labang Sindu JiwaUbud Pura Kehen Bangli Pura Wira Bhuana Magelang Jawa tengah Pura Padang Sakti Denpasar Timur Pura Payogan Agung Ketewel Gianyar Pura Gaduh Pangiasan Dauh Puri Denpasar Pura Masceti Tampak Siring Pura Dalem Ularan Denpasar Pura Siwa Penebel Tabanan Pura Luhur Sliki Banyuwangi Pura Gunung Lebah Ubud Pura Puseh Sukawati 15 Mar Purnama Sasih Kesanga Pura Nataran Sasih Pejeng Gianyar Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung lebah Batur Kintamani 17 Mar Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 22 Mar Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya

Denpasar Pura Agung Pasek Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuning Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling Singapadu Gianyar Pura Bhujangga Jembrana Pura Dalem pingit Tegalalang Pura Penataran Pande Pandean Mengwi Pura Ida Ratu Pande Besakih Pura Penataran AGung Tulikup Pura Kumuda Saraswati Ubud Pura Batur Arya Tabanan 23 Mar Radite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar 26 Mar Buda Cemeng Ukir Pura Pajenengan Kawitan Arya Gelgel Kelungkung Pura Pasar Agung Besakih Pura Pasek Bendesa Legian Kuta Badung Pura Gde Gunung Agung Munggu Badung Pura Puseh Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Peruncak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Krobokan Badung Pura Kereban Langit Mengwi Badung 28 Mar Melasti Pakiyisan Ke Segara Pura Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga 30 Mar Tilem Kesanga Tawur Agung 31 Mar Hari Raya Nyepi 1 May Buda Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan

2 May Bhatara Sri Ida Ratu Geng Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Besakih Ida Ratu Raja Puraus Besakih Merajan Saloding Besakih 6 May Anggara Kasih Juluwangi Pura Thirta Harum Tegal Wangi Bangli Pura Baratan Baturiti Pura Batu Klotok Klungkung

Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari Tabanan Pura Ibu Wanagiri Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Manik Bingin Dukuh Sidemen 7 May Pura Penataran Gana Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Gede Pande Bangli Pura Puncak Sari Sangeh Abian Semal Pura Puseh Penegil Dharma Kubu Tambahan Bangli Pura Dalem Maya Blahbatuh Gianyar Pura Linggih Betara Kayu Selem Penataran Agung Besakih 13 May Purnama Sasih Jiyestha Pura Dwija Warsa Malang Pura Pucak Tinggah Angsri Baturiti Pura Kawitan Luhur Bhujangga Jati Luwih Penebel Pura Kawitan Batur Pande Tonja Tonja Denpasar Pura Penataran Agung Sidemen Karangasem Pura Maospahit Grenceng Denpasar 15 May Sugihan Jawa Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Tangkas Klungkung Pura Siang Kangin Peninjoan Tembuku Bangli Pura Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Besakih 16 May Sugihan Bali Dan Kajeng Kliwon 18 May Penyekeban 19 May Penyajaan Galungan 20 May Penampahan Galungan 21 May Hari Raya Galungan Pura Wakika Kupang NTT Pura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTB Pura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri Tabanan Pura Atambuananta Kutamba NTT Pura Webananta Kupang NTT Pura Giripati Mulawarman Pontianak Pura Mustika Dharma Cijantung Jakarta Timur

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

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

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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Science

Israeli team designs prosthetic fin to save turtle

Associated Press Writer

MICHMORET, Israel — A badly injured sea turtle’s prospects are looking up — thanks to a new prosthetic fin designed by an Israeli team and modeled after the wings of a U.S. fighter jet. The green sea turtle, named “Hofesh,” the Hebrew word for “freedom,” was caught in a fishing net off Israel’s Mediterranean coast in early 2009. With his two left flippers badly wounded, rescuers had to amputate, leaving him with a pair of stumps that made it difficult to swim.

Yaniv Levy, director of Israel’s Sea Turtle Rescue Center, said Hofesh was initially fitted with a diver’s fin, but it provided little relief and he bumped into things as he tried to swim.

Shlomi Gez, an industrial design student at Jerusalem’s Hadassah College, read about the animal on the Internet and wanted to help.

He designed a prosthetic based on a fish’s dorsal fin. The contraption provided some improvement, but Hofesh still had trouble breathing and rising to the surface.

Then, inspired by the design of Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-22 Raptor warplane, Gez designed a new prosthetic with two fins. The device, somewhat resembling the aircraft’s wings, was strapped onto Hofesh’s back on Thursday, allowing him to move easily around his tank. “I discovered it worked bet-

ter than one fin on the back,” Gez explained. “With two fins, he keeps relatively balanced, even above the water.”

Levy said that Hofesh will never be able to return to the wild. But he shares a tank with a blind female turtle named Tsurit, and researchers are optimistic the pair will mate, potentially adding to the local population of the endangered green sea turtles. He said it is difficult to say exactly how old the two turtles are, but they are estimated to be between the ages of 20 and 25, and approaching the age of sexual maturity.

“We have great plans for this guy,” Levy said. “They will never go back to the wild, but their offspring will be released the minute they hatch and go immediately into the sea and live normally in the wild,” he added.

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Galungan Penjor Penjor is a tall, curved bamboo pole decorated with yellow coconut leaves, pala bungkah (roots - sweet potato or cassava), pala gantung (fruit - cucumbers, oranges, bananas), pala wija (cereal - rice, corn), plawa (leaves), traditional cakes, 11 Chinese coins, and a small shrine with some offerings.. This is one of the media used by Hindus in Bali as part of almost every important ceremony, especially for the anniversary temple celebrations.

The penjor symbolizes the mountain and the mountain itself is the symbol of the universe. Therefore, for the Balinese the penjor is synonymous with Mount Agung, the highest and holiest mountain in Bali.

The aim of erecting penjors at Galungan is to show devotion to God in His manifestation as Hyang Giri Pati (the God of the mountain). During Galungan celebrations, each family erects a penjor outside their gate, which makes the whole neighborhood look splendid.

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The Balinese traditional irrigation system of Subak is in serious need of help from the business community in order to optimally improve the income and welfare of the farmers.

Subak needs government’ support, business community Antara

DENPASAR - The Balinese traditional irrigation system of Subak is in serious need of help from the business community in order to optimally improve the income and welfare of the farmers.

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In this photo taken Thursday, May 15, 2014, the green sea turtle, named “Hofesh,” the Hebrew word for “freedom,” swims with a prosthetic fin at the Sea Turtle Rescue Center in Michmoret, Israel.

SpaceX Dragon returns to Earth from space station Associated Press Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — The commercial cargo ship Dragon returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Sunday, bringing back nearly 2 tons of science experiments and old equipment for NASA. SpaceX’s Dragon splashed into the Pacific, just five hours after leaving the orbiting lab.

“Welcome home, Dragon!” the California-based company said via Twitter.

After a one-month visit, the SpaceX cargo ship was set loose Sunday morning.

Astronaut Steven Swanson, the station commander, released it using the big robot arm as the craft zoomed more than 260 miles above the South Pacific.

“Very nice to have a vehicle that can take your science, equipment and maybe someday even humans back to Earth,” Swanson told Mission Control.

The SpaceX Dragon is the only supply ship capable of returning items to Earth. The others burn up on re-entry. This was the fourth Dragon to bring back space station goods, with 3,500 pounds (1,600 kilograms) aboard; it came down off Mexico’s Baja California coast.

NASA is paying SpaceX and Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp. to make station deliveries. Orbital is next up, next month. Russia, Europe and Japan also make occasional shipments. SpaceX also is competing for the right to ferry station astronauts, perhaps as early as 2017. The Dragon rocketed to the space station on April 18 with a full load and arrived at the orbiting lab two days later.

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This photo provided by SpaceX shows SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft splashing down after it successfully completed the CRS 3 mission for NASA, landing safely, Sunday, May 18, 2014, in the Pacific Ocean with 3,500 pounds of ISS cargo.

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The Subak business community has a huge potential to help the farmers and their organizations to develop and improve the traditional irrigation system in a sustainable manner.

“Unfortunately, the farmers have not yet fully exploited this potential in order to improve their income and welfare,” Chairman of Subak Research Center at Udayana University Professor Wayan Windia stated in Denpasar, Bali, on Sunday.

He noted that the Subak farmers need the assistance of the business community to help them develop advanced technology to produce good-quality fertilizers and seeds for improving the Subak irrigation system.

With the assistance of the business community, Windia claimed that in the future, Subak will be strengthened by a social power through economic and business activities, such as cooperatives and agrotourism.

“The business community is needed to develop the Subak agricultural system into an agrotourism destination,” he emphasized.

But, there are rising concerns that ubiquitous land conversions on the Bali island resort will sooner or later eliminate this traditional agricultural system if prompt measures are not taken.

Agricultural land conversion into villas and hotels in Bali to boost tourism and other businesses is growing

at an alarming rate and threatening not only the local ecology but also productive farmlands where the Subak irrigation system is applied.

Uncontrolled land conversion in some parts of Bali has resulted in an ecological imbalance and degradation leading to the destruction of Subak.

Therefore, Windia of Udayana University has pointed out that the destruction of Subak will affect all aspects of life on the paradise island.

“The destruction of Subak due to the use of land for purposes other than agriculture has long been discussed, but it has never been addressed completely,” Windia recently remarked in Denpasar.

He added that if Subak is destroyed in Bali then the Balinese culture that has been passed on from one generation to the next will also disappear sooner or later.

“The destruction of Subak will impact all the economic sectors in Bali because they are all interrelated,” he added, explaining that the economic sectors, particularly tourism, on the island are based on the local culture and tradition.

But he stated that in reality, the tourism sector has destroyed the agricultural area and Subak.

Besides this, Windia explained that the elimination of the Sedahan-Agung institution has weakened

the Subak irrigation method.

The Sedahan-Agung institution was established in the 1970s in every sub-district for its officials to coordinate the activities of Subak in order to help the heads of Subak solve their problems and to collect land tax from Subak farmers.

However, following the implementation of a central government regulation, the Sedahan-Agung institution was eliminated, as a result of which no officials from the institution can solve the problems pertaining to Subak.

The dean of Dwijendra University’s Faculty of Agriculture noted that ecotourism development is based on natural attractions with regard to supporting rural and cultural tourism.

He further emphasized that ecotourism encompasses several important aspects, such as sightseeing tours, natural environment, local community involvement, local culture, and sustainability of the environment.

Gede Sedana then explained that Subak has various roles and functions to ensure food security, to control flood and erosion, and to maintain biological diversity.

He further stated that the government should pay serious attention to Subak and three other areas that have been listed by the UNESCO in its World Heritage List.

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Wangaya Hospital handles seven HIV-positive pregnant women Bali Post

DENPASAR - Transmission of HIV does not only afflict people with high risk. Even, infants belonging to the low-risk community can also be infected if they are still in the womb of the HIV-infected mother.

However, the potential of a mother to pass on HIV to her baby is about 30 percent. On that account, to prevent HIV infection in the mother to child, it had been launched a program known as the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transfer (PMTCT). One of the government hospitals having this PMTCT program is Wangaya Hospital.

According to an obstetrician and gynecologist at the Wangaya Hospital, AA Eka Wardani, from January to April there were 33 pregnant women who underwent screening tests for HIV. Seven mothers in the investigations were found to

have HIV positive. She continued the maternal HIV screening test on housewife made during pregnancy examination was to determine the health status of the mother. Other than HIV, the sexually transmitted infection test was also recom-

mended for pregnant women.

If the examination showed a HIV positive, it would be determined a proper dose of ARV for the mother. Antiretroviral therapy with a prescribed dose would be given to pregnant mother until

her childbirth. The therapy was intended to suppress the HIV virus in the mother’s body so as to reduce the possibility of transmission to the fetus.

The childbirth should be performed by cesarean section because the transmission of HIV virus in infants could occur in the birth canal. Thus, to reduce contact, the birth of a baby should be made by cesarean section.

To find out whether a baby was infected by HIV or not, it had to be waited until its age reached 18 months. In 2014, only the Wangaya

Hospital that could handle two births of HIV-infected pregnant women.

Eka added the HIV test could not only be carried out at the Obgyn Polyclinic of Wangaya Hospital but also at the community health centers. Nevertheless, only few housewives wanted to do a HIV test, whereas the test was important to determine whether there was HIV infection or not and to prevent the other sexually transmitted diseases.

Thus, the fetus did not get infected and could be born in a healthy condition. (san)

Fishery Agency plants dozens of shellfish houses

Bali Post

SINGARAJA - After successfully planting fish house (hexadome) at a number of locations in the waters of Buleleng, the Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Resources planted dozens of shells (bio-reef). Such bio-reef planting was undertaken on Saturday (May 17) and ended on Sunday (May 18) by involving dozens divers in North Bali.

The Head of Buleleng Fisheries and Marine Resources, Nyoman Sutrisna, said the planting of dozens of bio-reefs after his party received the assistance from the Research and Development, Ministry of Maritime and Fisheries Resources. With the assistance, the Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Resources determined the Kerobokan Beach (Sawan Subdistrict) and Kaliasem Beach (Banjar subdistrict) as the planting site of the bioreef. “From the results of the study and technical analysis, we plant a total of 46 bio-reefs on Kerobokan Beach and the remaining 29 bio-reefs are planted on Kaliasem Beach,” he said.

According to Sutrisna, the bio-reef concept was first applied in the waters in Buleleng. All this time, the planting of coral reefs using the fish-dome or fish house technology spent too much, while the use of bio-reef technology was cheaper. It was enabled because the bio-reef only used the materials such as coconut shells and then was gummed with cement at the bottom of the sea. In addition, this new technology was also more environmentally friendly.

“Economically, it is more costeffective than making fish-dome. But, based on the experience the fish-dome has been already proved. Now, we try to apply another new technology.

Hopefully, this can have a positive impact on fishermen at Kaliasem and Kerobokan,” he explained. (kmb38)

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S. Korea’s president pushes for end of coast guard Associated Press Writer

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s president announced plans Monday to disband the coast guard and root out corruption and collusion between regulators and shipping companies that furious citizens believe led to a ferry disaster last month that left more than 300 people dead or missing.

President Park Geun-hye’s first televised address to the nation since the April 16 sinking began with a deep bow and ended with her tearfully reading the names of passengers and crew who died trying to save others. With her approval ratings plummeting ahead of mayoral and governor elections in about two weeks, the speech sought to acknowledge widespread anger over government failures as well as chart a path forward.

Most of the victims were students from a single high school near Seoul who were traveling to the southern tourist island of Jeju. “We failed to rescue students who we could have

saved,” Park said. “The ultimate responsibility for not properly dealing with this incident is mine.”

Park has apologized before, but critics have called for her to formally address the nation and respond to claims that incompetence, corruption and bad leadership doomed the ferry and those trapped inside it.

In Monday’s speech, Park decried the accumulation of “widespread abnormal practices” that she said triggered the sinking.

A focus was the coast guard, which has been under growing public criticism over allegations of poor coordination and slow searchand-rescue work during the initial

stages of the sinking. Park called the coast guard’s rescue operations a failure and said she would push for legislation that would transfer its responsibilities to the National Police Agency and a new government safety agency she plans to establish.

She said the new agency would also take over maritime traffic controlling responsibilities, currently held by the Ocean Ministry, and safety and security responsibilities, held by the Ministry of Security and Public Administration.

Park Kwang-on, a spokesman for the main opposition party, said the plan to disband the coast guard gives the impression that the government is shifting all the responsibility for the sinking to the coast guard. “The diagnosis (of the problem) is insufficient and the remedy is inadequate,” he said. The president’s plans require parliamentary approval, according to her office.

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Relatives of victims of the sunken ferry Sewol watch South Korean President Park Geun-hye bow to the nation during a televised addressed, it at a gymnasium in Jindo, South Korea, Monday, May 19, 2014.

Chinese ship to map seabed in search for MH370 Associated Press Writer

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The hexadome which will be put in the sea

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FILE - In this April 8, 2014 file photo, a school utility worker mops a mural depicting the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at the Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino High School campus at Makati city east of Manila, Philippines.

CANBERRA, Australia — A Chinese navy survey ship will start mapping the seabed off the west Australian coast this week as part of the latest phase in the search for the Malaysian airliner, officials said Monday.

Chinese, Australian and Malaysian authorities met at the west coast port city of Fremantle at the weekend and agreed that the Chinese ship Zhu Kezhen will conduct a bathymetric survey of the Indian Ocean floor as directed by Australian air crash investigators, Australia’s Joint Agency Coordination Center said in a statement.

The Canberra-based center said the ship was scheduled to sail for the survey area on Wednesday, weather permitting. Officials believe the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that vanished with 239 passengers and crew on March 8 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing veered far off course and crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.

After an initial air and seabed search failed to find any trace of the wreckage, authorities this month announced a new phase over a vastly expanded seabed search area covering 60,000 square kilometers (23,000 square miles). The new phase also involves mapping of the seabed where depths and topography are in parts largely unknown.

Negotiations are underway to contract powerful sonar equipment to scour the seabed for wreckage that could be in water more than 7 kilometers (23,000 feet) deep.

The original ocean floor search of an area of less than 400 square kilometers (155 square miles) where a sound consistent with aircraft black box was thought to have emanated was conducted by a U.S. Navy unmanned sub, the Bluefin 21, near its 4.5 kilometer (2.8 mile) depth limit.

The Bluefin 21 had continued searching an ever widening area until a communications problem was discovered last week involving the transponders on the sub and the Australian navy ship that tows it, Ocean Shield.

The center said the Ocean Shield arrived on Sunday at the Australian west coast port of Geraldton, where preparations were underway to install spare transponder parts to both the ship and sub.

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Thai economy shrinks Agence France-Presse

BANGKOK - Thailand’s economy shrank 0.6 percent year-onyear in January-March, data showed Monday, as the festering political crisis eroded consumer confidence and frightened off tourists.

The contraction is the first since the last three months of 2011, when the country was hit by massive flooding, and comes as opposition protesters press for the nation’s senate to remove a battered caretaker government.

With the protests deep into their sixth month, Southeast Asia’s second biggest economy remains without a fully functioning government, cramping state spending and investment in key infrastructure projects.

The National Economic and Social Development Board also slashed its growth outlook for the whole of 2014, forecasting 1.5-2.5 percent expansion compared to a previous estimate of 3.0-4.0 percent.

It said jittery consumers reduced spending during the first quarter “due to increasing concerns over the domestic political situation”.

A prime minister was toppled this month, while 28 people have been killed and hundreds wounded in street violence since November.

The turmoil has take the sheen off the nation’s “Teflon Thailand” reputation -- a reference to its economic resilience despite eight years of political upheaval as well as the devastating floods in 2011.

Consumer confidence has slumped to its lowest level in more

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than a decade and tourist arrivals dipped by around eight or nine percent in February and March.

Foreign investors meanwhile are nervously watching the political crisis unfold.

“The stakes are rising,” Capital Economics warned in a briefing note. “Private-sector confidence is likely to remain dire until there are at least some signs that the crisis is moving towards a resolution.

“And without a functional government, public spending will stay shackled,” it added.

Anti-government protesters are pressing for the senate, the upper house of parliament, to boot out the embattled government of caretaker Prime Minister Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan and appoint a new leader.

But Niwattumrong, who replaced toppled leader Yingluck Shinawatra on May 7, insists he still holds the authority to push for elections to find a way through the stalemate.

Senators, at least a quarter of whom are avowed critics of Yingluck’s billionaire brother Thaksin, are mulling the case for invoking a clause in the constitution to appoint a leader.

Critics say such a move has no legal basis, while pro-government “Red Shirt” supporters have threatened to rally in Bangkok if the elected government is dumped,

HONG KONG - Asian markets broadly fell Monday despite an uptick on Wall Street, while traders keep an eye on the release of key indicators out of China and Japan later in the week.

Tokyo lost 0.64 percent, or 90.15 points, to finish at 14,006.44, Sydney eased 1.28 percent, or 70 points, to 5409.0 and Shanghai tumbled 1.05 percent, or 21.32 points, to 2,005.18.

Seoul closed flat, edging up 1.7

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Bali Culinary Bazaar becomes magnet to draw travelers

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DENPASAR - In the globalization era, people almost want everything instantaneously, including in the matter of culinary needs. Balinese people also start favoring fast food and instant food, while ignoring their traditional cuisines. Actually, Balinese cuisines are considered as one of leading tourism products. As a result, many travelers from various countries deliberately come to Bali just to taste the culinary delights served with distinctive spicy flavor.

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Deliciousness of Balinese cuisines was indicated by the smile of satisfaction on the face of dozens of local and international travelers dropping at the Bali Culinary Bazaar in Shankara Resto on Jalan Danau Tamblingan, Sanur, Denpasar, Sunday (May 18). The event was followed by six traders featuring Cendol the Kraton, Warung Mira, Lawar Kebo Mang Bo, Warung Jukut Undis, Betutu Bali Ning Dewata and Lawar Kambing.

One of the Bali Culinary Bazaar participants, Ida Ayu Sri, was deeply helped by the implementation of Balinese Culinary Bazaar because dozens of travelers came to the booth of Lawar Kebo Mang Bo owned by this housewife from Sangeh, Abiansemal. “I have participated in similar event twice at Shankara Resto. Now, I can make good sales and widely known.

Even, some travelers deliberately came to my food stall at Sangeh,”

In the globalization era, people almost want everything instantaneously, including in the matter of culinary needs.

she said.

A representative of the Indonesian Business Women Association (IWAPI) of Bali, Yoseva Listyati, said that her party strongly supported the activity because it promoted Balinese culinary tradition as well as provided the opportunities for small traders to introduce various culinary preparations owned by some regions in Bali.

“Shankara is excellent. It is intended to inspire them in order to further develop their own independent business. Moreover, they highlight Balinese cuisines that must indeed be preserved.

So, we really appreciate this effort,” she said. Her party had made various efforts to promote the entrepreneurs in Bali.

Moreover, according to her, Balinese culinary treasures were potential to be promoted in international arena. “What tempting in Bali is the uniqueness with different culinary items such as the betutu, lawar and sate lilit.

All of these could be introduced to travelers and will certainly become an attraction to them,” she said. (nik)

Lake Batur contaminated by domestic waste

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A vendor selling cold drink pushes her cart away to shade from sun heat in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand’s economy shrank 0.6 percent year-on-year in January-March, data showed Monday, as the festering political crisis eroded consumer confidence and frightened off tourists.

raising fears of street clashes between political foes.

A meeting Monday between the caretaker premier and senators

opposed to his government ended without agreement.

“The government confirmed that they will not resign, because

they say it will be unlawful,” Senator Wanchai Sornsiri, an appointed member of the upper chamber, told reporters.

Asia shares mostly down points to 2,015.14 and Hong Kong also ended almost unchanged, edging down 8.41 points to 22,704.50.

US shares finished slightly higher on Friday after upbeat earnings from retailers JC Penney and Nordstrom, while the Commerce Department said overall housing starts rose 13.2 percent in April from March.

The Dow rose 0.27 percent, the S&P 500 added 0.37 percent and the Nasdaq gained 0.52 percent.

Japanese traders were given a

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lift on Monday by figures showing machinery orders, a leading indicator of corporate capital spending in the country, jumped 19.1 percent on-month in March.

The figure beat forecasts of a 6.2 percent rise as firms stocked up ahead of the introduction of a sales tax hike on April 1.

With few catalysts to drive buying, investors are looking to the release of Japanese trade data on Wednesday as well as the Bank of Japan’s latest policy meeting.

Thursday will see HSBC re-

lease its preliminary results on May manufacturing activity in China, with analysts hoping for signs of a pick-up in the world’s number two economy.

The British banking giant will also unveil its early results for the eurozone and United States later in the day.

On foreign exchange markets Monday, the dollar was at 101.39 yen compared with 101.54 yen.

The euro bought $1.3715 and 139.09 yen against $1.3695 and 139.08 yen.

Oil prices edged higher following the outbreak of violence in crude producer Libya after a rogue general attempted a coup, raising concerns about potential supply disruptions, analysts said.

The US benchmark, West Texas Intermediate for delivery in June, rose 56 cents to $102.58 in afternoon trade, while Brent North Sea crude for July rose 40 cents to $110.15.

Gold fetched $1,296.90 an ounce at 0800 GMT compared with $1,293.51 late Thursday.

BANGLI - Lake Batur which has been the source of water for some regions in Bali all this time is not only experiencing sedimentation problems resulting in the overflow of lake water. Water condition of the Lake Batur also suffers waste pollution. One of which is the domestic waste pollution as the result of bathing, washing and toilet activities of village household living around the lake.

The Environmental Control Division Head, Bangli Environment Agency (BLH), Gusti Laksana, said on Sunday (May 18) the water pollution of Lake Batur due to domestic waste for this time was quite alarming because some of the villagers on the edge of the lake still disposed their waste by flowing directly to the lake, without any filtration process. “The waste pollution is severe enough because the whole wastewater directly comes into the lake, without any filtration process,” said Laksana.

However, though contaminated by waste, such condition was quite difficult to prove. In plain eyes, the

Lake Batur water pollution due to domestic waste was invisible. To prove it, the water sample of Lake Batur must be passed through laboratory test.

To overcome this, the Environment Agency was still designing an installation of communal wastewater treatment plant (IPAL) at Buahan village. It was made at the village because it was located on the edge of the lake and admitted to be one of the villages whose people still disposed domestic waste directly into the lake.

“The communal installation wastewater plant is a kind of multi tiered tub. Later on, the communal wastewater plant installation will hold the household waste in a reservoir. The wastewater will be filtered first, and after quality of the water meets the standards, it will be discharged into the lake,” he explained.

The communal wastewater treatment plant was ascertained to accommodate domestic waste from all households at Buahan. Other than building a wastewater treatment plant, his party also made cooperation with waste bank to cope

with the presence of plastic waste pollution. So, the plastic waste in the community was expected to no longer pollute the lake, but could generate cash.

In the future, the government planned to build a communal wastewater treatment plant at several other villages on the edge of the lake. It was done to prevent worsening lake pollution occurred all this time.

“As planned, it will be carried out gradually. Later on all the villages on the lakeside would be made the wastewater treatment plant in turn. But the first one would be built at Buahan village because it is the most severe. The other villages still have waste absorption so it does not directly drain to the lake,” he explained.

Meanwhile, related to the handling program of Lake Batur, his party was still attending the handling program with provincial Environment Agency and the Ministry of the Environment. The water overflow handling in the Lake Batur was planned to be carried out by mud dredging started in 2014 up to five years to come. (ina)

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Lake Batur which has been the source of water for some regions in Bali all this time is not only experiencing sedimentation problems resulting in the overflow of lake water.

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Merriam-Webster adds ‘selfie,’ more to dictionary Associated Press Writer

AP Photo/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with upper parliament chamber speaker Valentina Matviyenko prior to the Security Council meeting in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi on Monday, May 19, 2014.

Putin orders troops near Ukraine to return home

NEW YORK — The latest edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary has added 150 new words, from “selfie” to “poutine.” Many of the words and terms relate to digital life and social media — spoiler alert, hashtag and tweep — while others are food-driven, including the Vietnamese staple pho and turducken, a boneless chicken stuffed into a boneless duck stuffed into a boneless turkey.

Merriam-Webster relies on a network of observers who track down word usage. Three or four senior editors make the final selections.

E-waste made it into the update. So did e freegan, one who scavenges for free food in store and restaurant trash bins as a way to reduce consumption of resources. Other new words in the Merriam-Webster Collegiate, along with the lookup database at Merriam-webster.com: Poutine, a French Canadian snack or side dish of french fries covered with brown gravy and cheese curds; steampunk, a literary genre with dress-up followers that mashes up 19th-century Victorian or Edwardian societies with steam-powered technology; unfriend, which joins defriend; and hot spot, a place where Wi-Fi is available.

And still more: crowdfunding, big data, baby bump, digital divide, dubstep, fangirl and gamification, the process of adding game-like elements to something to encourage participation.

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MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops deployed in regions near Ukraine to return to their home bases, the Kremlin said Monday. The move appears to indicate Putin’s intention to de-escalate the crisis over Ukraine, the worst in Russia’s relations with the West since the end of the Cold War. The West has protested the deployment of 40,000 Russian troops near the border with Ukraine, seeing it as a possible preparation for grabbing more land after the annexation of Crimea in March.

Putin has previously said he has ordered troops to return from the area near the Ukraine border, but the United States and NATO have said they see no sign of a pullout and have threatened more sanctions if Russia tries to derail Ukraine’s

presidential vote set for Sunday.

The Russian Defense Ministry insisted that there were no buildup near the border, saying that the troops in the regions in western Russia are involved in regular training.

Putin went one step further Monday, ordering Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to pull out forces involved in such training in the Rostov, Belgorod and Bryansk regions, according to a statement released by the Kremlin.

Putin also voiced support for round tables in Ukraine, which were held last week under a peace plan brokered by Switzerland, which currently chairs the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

He urged the Ukrainian authorities to immediately end a military operation in eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian army and police have sought to put down a pro-Russian rebellion in the east.

CANBERRA, Australia — Prime Minister Tony Abbott shrugged off opinion polls on Monday that show his government’s popularity had plummeted since the release of its tough first budget. Two separate polls taken since Abbott’s government last week released a cost-cutting blueprint for the next fiscal year show the ruling conservative coalition’s popularity now trailing the center-left Labor Party opposition.

The government plans to raise taxes, reduce welfare and shed public service jobs to reduce a deficit forecast to reach 49.9 billion Australian dollars ($46.7 billion) in the current fiscal year ending June 30.

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INDONESIA President appoints new chief economic minister Antara

JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday installed National Economic Committee (KEN) Chairman Chairul Tanjung to replace Hatta Rajasa as the new coordinating minister for economy.

Hatta Rajasa, a potential running mate of presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto of the Gerindra party, had tendered his resignation in line with the regulation.

Chairul Tanjung, who owns the Indonesian unit of Carrefour hypermarket and is known for his proximity to the president, was installed by Yudhoyono at the state palace.

Earlier, the president reiterated that Chairul Tanjung has the skills and strong commitment to boost the country’s economic growth.

Chairul is not a newcomer in the field of economic management, he stated, adding that as the chairman of the National Economic Committee (KEN), Chairul has supported the government and has contributed by handling economic problems.

“KEN is not a forum of academicians, but a place of congregation for business leaders and economists.

I believe Chairul Tanjung has succeeded in bringing together several business leaders and economists,” he emphasized.

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The AMKRI delegation was received by the Indonesian ambassador to Russia and Bellarus, Djauhari Oratmangun, at Wisma Duta on May 14, and in the meeting the ambassador expressed appreciation of AMKRIs participation in the FIDExpo, saying it will help the Indonesian governments efforts to increase not only political but also economic cooperation between Indonesia and Russia.

He said the Indonesian people in general still had a wrong perception of Russia as a communist country. “Russia has already transformed, it is more open. So, it is time for us to change the perception,” he remarked.Meanwhile, AMKRI general chairman Soenoto expressed his appreciation to the ambassador for receiving his delegation and facilitating AMKRIs visit to Moscow to participate in the FIDExpo.

According to AMKRI, the worlds furniture export currently is US$124 billion and US$40 billion of it is contributed by China and other ASEAN member countries, including Vietnam which accounts for around US$4.5 billion.

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Indonesian presidential candidate Joko Widodo, left, and his running mate Jusuf Kalla hold the national Red-White flag as they listen to the national anthem after declaring their candidacy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, May 19, 2014. Indonesia will hold its presidential election on July 9.

Jokowi choose JK as running Indonesian furniture seeking market at Russia mate for presidential election

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In this May 15, 2014 photo, “Yooper,” one of the 150 new words appearing in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and the company’s free online database appears on page 1454 of the printed edition of the dictionary in New York.

Australian prime minister shrugs off poor polls Associated Press Writer

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The government also plans to strip AU$80 billion from hospitals and schools over a decade, shifting the costs to the states and raising the prospect of an increase in Australia’s 10 percent consumption tax. “There are some very tough decisions in this budget, but we’re not doing them to make ourselves popular; we’re doing them to get our country back on track,” Abbott told reporters.

“Every government that brings in a tough budget suffers a hit in the polls.”

The results of the respected Newspoll and Nielsen surveys are likely to harden opposition to some of the budget measures by Labor and minor parties who have the power to block them in the Senate.

The Newspoll found Abbott’s government, which came

to power in a landslide election victory in September, was now trailing the opposition 45 percent to 55 percent on the question of who respondents would vote for at the next election. Nielsen put the gap wider at 44 percent to 56 percent. Newspoll found 48 percent of respondents believe the budget was bad for Australia. Nielsen found 74 percent of respondents thought they would be worse off and 63 percent branded the budget unfair.

Both polls were based on random nationwide telephone surveys over the weekend. Newspoll surveyed 1,216 voters and Nielsen, 1,400 voters. Both polls had a margin of error less than 3 percent. The budget is the toughest since former conservative Prime Minister John Howard’s first budget in 1996.

JAKARTA - Seven Indonesian furniture and handicraft companies have taken part in the “FIDExpo International Furniture Exhibition” in Moscow in an effort to expand their markets to Russia. The companies grouped under the Indonesian Furniture and Handicraft Association (AMKRI) had used the opportunity to explore the Russian furniture market, which is currently growing, according to a press release by the Indonesian embassy in Moscow.

CV Vina Arya Furniture, PT Erlangga B.N.H., PT Koloni Timur, PT Hartco Utama, PT Property Asset Mandiri and CV Yudhistira participated in the exhibition on May 12-15 and had displayed their products produced by craftsmen in Semarang, Kudus, Solo and Cirebon.

Seeing the enthusiasm of the visitors in Moscow, AMKRI plans to use the event as an entry point for Indonesian craftsmen to market their products by participating in it more actively in the future.

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JAKARTA - Indonesia’s presidential frontrunner on Monday picked a popular former vice president seen as a formidable political operator as his running mate for elections in July.

Joko Widodo, who won widespread admiration during his time as Jakarta governor due to his common touch, selected Jusuf Kalla (JK), 72, as his vice presidential candidate.

Analysts say picking a veteran politician is a wise move for Widodo, known by his nickname of “Jokowi”. Recent polls have shown a Widodo-Kalla ticket would secure a comfortable lead.

While Widodo, 52, has been hailed as a break from previous leaders with deep roots in the autocratic Suharto era, he has never had a role in national politics.

“We are convinced that both of us can bring a movement of change to this country that we

love,” said Widodo, as he announced Kalla as his running mate in front of a cheering crowd at Jakarta’s Gedung Joang museum housing exhibits from the country’s independence struggle.

Prabowo Subianto of the Gerindra party, an ex-general accused of human rights abuses during the era of dictator Suharto, is expected to be the only other person who will contest the presidency.

Kalla, a wealthy businessman and chairman of the Indonesian Red Cross, was vice president during current President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s first term in office, from 2004 to 2009.

He has argued that he was a key actor behind many of the achievements of that period, from the fight against corruption to a reduction in deadly attacks by Islamist militants.

“Jokowi really needs someone who can help him out, who has experience in governing and the bureaucracy,” said Yunarto Wijaya

from pollster Charta Politika.

Widodo, from the main opposition Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), has long been in the lead in opinion polls before the July 9 presidential election, and surveys show him doing best when Kalla is his running mate.

Widodo has become a political phenomenon since being elected Jakarta governor in 2012. He has temporarily stepped aside from his post as governor to contest the election.

He rose to prominence after serving as mayor of a small town on the main island of Java and has won many admirers with his down-to-earth style.

However Widodo’s hopes of an easy ride to the presidency were dealt a blow at legislative elections in April, which set the stage for the presidential polls.

His PDI-P did not do as well as expected, meaning the party has had to form a larger coalition than it might have liked to put Widodo forward for the presidency.

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Rossi ‘Lorenzo frustrated’, Marquez ‘fun is faster’

Jorge Lorenzo looked to have the best chance of challenging Marc Marquez for victory in Sunday’s Le Mans MotoGP. Although sixth on the grid, the Movistar Yamaha rider had been the only rider to beat Marquez during a track session prior to the race and set more sub 1m 34s laps than any other rider in warm-up. Add in use of Lorenzo’s more favoured soft rear tyre and a podium looked the bare minimum possible.

Japanese Cave IBP

SEMARAPURA - Japanese Cave consisting of 16 openings was made on the cliff wall alongside the Semarapura- Denpasar road section, right over the Bubuh River. The cave located at the Northern and Southern tip are standing alone caves. Meanwhile, the 14 other caves are interconnected one another by

a hallway. Interestingly, these very strategic Japanese caves are memorabilia of colonial era. In front of them, people can see attractive scenery with the flowing sound of Bubuh River. Location of the Japanese Cave can be reached easily because it is situated alongside the Denpasar-Semarapura road section, precisely at Koripan Hamlet, Banjarangkan Village, Banjarangkan Subdistrict.

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Spanish MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of the Repsol Honda Team, left, leads the race ahead of Italian MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi of Movistar Yamaha Team, right, during the MotoGP World Championship race at the Bugatti race track in Le Mans, western France, Sunday, May 18, 2014.

Instead the double world champion, who came within four points of defeating Marquez last year, could only manage a lacklustre sixth position. Afterwards, team-mate and Le Mans runner-up Valentino Rossi was asked for his opinion on Lorenzo’s situation, which has seen the Spaniard make his worst start to a premier-class campaign with just one podium from five rounds.

“I understand a little bit Jorge because personally I am in a different situation, so for me to arrive on the podium and stay behind Marc’s is acceptable. I know that I can try to fight with him, but I am more relaxed,” explained seven time champion Rossi, who has rebuilt his form at Yamaha after two miserable seasons at Ducati.

“For Jorge it is different, because Jorge wants to win. Last year, for me, Lorenzo did some races that were impressive - the best of his career - even though he didn’t win the championship.

“But this year with Marc having more experience and riding like this, and at this moment technically

the Honda is a little bit better than the Yamaha. So for Jorge it is a bit frustrating because he knows it is quite impossible and he doesn’t want to arrive second. “He is not happy. So maybe for this reason he has some problems.”

Marquez agreed that Lorenzo does not seem happy on the bike and feels that in turn is impacting on his performances. “For me the key is that if you want to be fast you need to enjoy it on the bike. Like Valentino said, he is enjoying just riding the bike. When you enjoy it you are faster,” said Marquez, undefeated so far in 2014.

“It looks like Lorenzo is struggling a little bit more, but I think he will find a way and when he will start again to enjoy it on the bike he will be fast. But if you don’t enjoy it, it is impossible.” Lorenzo is fifth in the championship and already 80 points behind Marquez. Rossi is third in the standings.

Speaking after the race Lorenzo said: “Today I didn’t ride well and also the setting that I thought was better in the warm-up, with this temperature, was worse.”

Pacers pull away from Heat 107-96 to take 1-0 lead Associated Press Writer

INDIANAPOLIS — Paul George scored 24 points, David West had 19, and the Indiana Pacers protected their home court with a 107-96 victory over the Miami Heat on Sunday to take a 1-0 lead in the Eastern Conference finals. Indiana led wire-to-wire and never even gave the Heat a chance to tie the score after starting the game with a 5-0 lead.

Game 2 is Tuesday in Indiana. The home team has won all five meetings this season. Dwyane Wade scored 27 points and LeBron James had 25 for the two-time defending NBA champions, who lost for only the second time in 10 playoff games.

Indiana had a 30-point first quarter for the first time since Feb. 27, extended the lead to 19 in the third and Miami couldn’t get closer than nine the rest of the way.

For months, people wondered what happened to the Indiana team that dominated the first half of the NBA season.

On Sunday, those Pacers suddenly

reappeared. Indiana swarmed the glass, exploited its size advantage, knocked down early 3-pointers with regularity and defended well enough to force the Heat to play catch-up the entire game. The fans that occasionally serenaded them with boos during the first two rounds of the playoffs spent most of the first half on their feet and finished the game with repeated chants of “Beat the Heat! Beat the Heat!”

All five of Indiana’s starters and backup C.J. Watson reached double figures as the Pacers produced their highest point total of the postseason. Indiana has lost Game 1 at home in its first two playoff series, but it was obvious right from the start that this game would be different.

George Hill scored the first five points to give the Pacers the lead, which they extended to 20-10. They spent the rest of the game either pulling away or fending off Miami challenges.

When the Heat trimmed the deficit to 30-24 after one and eventually to 4137 midway through the second quarter,

Lance Stephenson scored four points in a 5-0 run to make it 46-37. When James again cut the deficit to 50-45 with backto-back baskets late in the second, the Pacers closed the half with five straight points to make it 55-45.

Then the Pacers poured it on. Roy Hibbert and West scored eight of Indiana’s first 14 points to open the second half, making it 69-52. James and Wade again rallied the Heat, getting Miami within 81-70 late in the third and 83-74 early in the fourth. The Pacers used a 7-0 spurt to rebuild a 102-84 lead and closed it out at the free throw line.

Miami Heat forward LeBron James (6) watches Indiana Pacers forward Paul George (24) hit the floor as guard C.J. Watson (32) defends during the first half of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals NBA basketball playoff series Sunday, May 18, 2014, in Indianapolis.

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MILAN — Juventus celebrated its third straight Serie A title with a 3-0 home victory over Cagliari on Sunday to reach 102 points for the season, a record in the major European leagues.

Antonio Conte’s side had already broken the Serie A points record but ensured it moved into triple figures by also becoming the first Italian side to win all its home games. for a team photo with their children before kickoff while the trophy presentation and an open-top bus parade took place after the match.

Juventus clinched the title two weeks ago.

Later, Parma beat Livorno 2-0 to take the final Europa League qualifying spot after Torino missed a stoppage-time penalty and drew 2-2 at Fiorentina. Substitute Amauri headed both goals in for Parma.

“I have no words,” an emotional Amauri said. “During the week I was hoping to get this goal and I managed to do it, I’m happy for my family and for the fans. ... These are the rewards after putting in the

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US seeking 1st WCup goal Over 60 injured at Osasuna from a forward since 2002 after railing collapses

Juventus beats Cagliari to set new points record “It is an incredible and historic feat, which we have achieved all together,” Conte said. “What the players, staff and club have done is something incredible. They have been extraordinarily special and I will never stop thanking them.

“Sometimes you forget that victory is an exception, not normality.

These lads have achieved something unique together: it will be difficult to repeat the 102 points. All future comparisons will be made with this squad.”

Andrea Pirlo, Fernando Llorente and Claudio Marchisio scored in a party atmosphere at Juventus Stadium. Juventus players posed

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hard work, now I want to play in the Europa League.” AC Milan won 2-1 at home to Sassuolo — in a match which saw three red cards — but finished a point behind Parma.

Hellas Verona also had faint hopes of reaching Europe but lost 5-1 at Napoli. In other games, it was: Genoa 1, Roma 0; Catania 2, Atalanta 1; Lazio 1, Bologna 0; and Chievo Verona 2, Inter Milan 1. Pirlo fired Juventus into the lead in the ninth minute with one of his trademark free kicks, although it was awarded as an own goal by Marco Silvestri as it hit the crossbar before going in off the goalkeeper’s back.

Juventus doubled its lead six

Juventus midfielder Andrea Pirlo scores during a Serie A soccer match between Juventus and Cagliari at the Juventus stadium, in Turin, Italy, Sunday, May 18, 2014.

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minutes later when the defense failed to clear after Leonardo Bonucci flicked on Pirlo’s corner and Llorente tapped in for his 18th goal of the season. Marchisio scored a spectacular third, controlling the ball with his back to goal before flicking it up and firing it home with a swiveling volley.

At the start of the second half a huge banner was unveiled bearing Conte’s face and the words “Without you we won’t go far ... because you are the best and have Juve in your heart.” Conte, who has yet to commit his future to the club, was given a standing ovation when he emerged for the trophy presentation, moving his wife to tears.

Juventus was unable to parade the trophy around the pitch. As soon as the trophy was lifted, fans invaded the pitch — prompting players, their families and coach-

ing staff to run to the dressing room. It appeared as if Parma’s European hopes were about to be dashed when Torino was awarded a last-gasp penalty after Facundo Roncaglia fouled Barreto.

However, Antonio Rosati saved Alessio Cerci’s spot kick to set off celebrations among the Parma players and fans and leave the Italy forward in tears “I think suffering is part of Torino fans’ DNA,” Torino coach Giampiero Ventura said.

“I think it was an important year and we missed the chance to go to Europe with the draw last week and missing a penalty tonight.

“I’ve seen (Roberto) Baggio and (Franco) Baresi crying, it’s part of football to see players crying on the pitch, now Cerci is crying too.

But only those who don’t dare, who don’t do, don’t make mistakes. Cerci should be more than proud of having done an extraordinary match.”

Associated Press Writer

Associated Press Writer

STANFORD, California — It’s been 12 years since a U.S. forward scored in a World Cup. Brian McBride’s goal against Mexico during a 2002 second-round match in South Korea helped the Americans advance to the quarterfinals in their best showing since 1930. The U.S. has eight goals in the two World Cups since then, seven by midfielders Landon Donovan, Clint Dempsey and Michael Bradley, plus an owngoal against Italy.

“I didn’t realize that,” Chris Wondolowski, who is among the forwards vying for a spot in the squad, said before a training session Sunday. “If a forward scores, we’ll be happy. If a defender scores a hat trick, we’ll be just as happy.” As the Americans prepare for next month’s tournament in Brazil, pressure for goals will be on Jozy Altidore and Dempsey.

Altidore has 21 goals for the U.S. and last summer became the first American to score in five straight international matches. But he struggled in his first season with Sunderland in the Premier League, getting just two goals in 38 games.

It mirrored his slump four years ago, when he had only two goals in 30 matches during a one-season loan to Hull. He started all four matches for the U.S. at the 2010 World Cup, at age 20. In 2011-12, he scored 20 goals for AZ Alkmaar in the Netherlands and added 31 the following season, setting a record for an American with a European club.

That earned him a big-money transfer to the Premier League. And then came another drought. “We have guys in abundance that can get the job done,” he said. “I think we’ll be fine. The most important thing we have to get ready for is to be able to be a team that’s hard to beat, because we’re going to be playing a lot of talent.”

U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann

PAMPLONA, Spain — A railing collapsed as fans celebrated a goal during Osasuna’s home match against Real Betis on Sunday, leaving more than 60 spectators injured as they tumbled forward.

The incident at Osasuna’s packed Sadar Stadium occurred after Oriol Riera scored in the 12th minute. Celebrating fans were leaning and sitting on the metal barrier when it gave way. Dozens of people fell, with some crashing on top of those in front of them while others tumbled off the edge and to the ground.

Several people were attended to on the pitch by medical staff, with at least two taken away on stretchers.

The club said that a total of 68 people were hurt. One man suffered a broken leg. The match was delayed for 35 minutes before play restarted.

Osasuna was relegated to the second division despite winning the match 2-1 on the season’s last day.

Leon retain Mexican title by winning ‘family’ final Reuters

AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File

FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2013, file photo, United States’ Landon Donovan celebrates after scoring a goal against Mexico during the second half of a World Cup qualifying soccer match in Columbus, Ohio. dropped Altidore from a pair of qualifiers in October 2012 after a troublesome May-June camp followed by a poor match against Jamaica.

Klinsmann challenged Altidore, knowing he could do much better.

But, at least publicly, Klinsmann says now he is unconcerned about the lack of goals.

“Still, we see Jozy in his development phase,” he said last week.

“Jozy is not built yet. Jozy has not reached his potential yet. Our job,

as coaches, is to help him reach his highest potential. I think the next two months will be a big part of that next learning curve for Jozy Altidore.

I’ve always said that he has upside.

He hasn’t shown it yet in different places, maybe.”

Dempsey, 31, replaced Carlos Bocanegra as the American captain last year. His profile rose while at Fulham from 2006-12 when he scored 60 goals, including 23 during his final season.

Belgian side Zulte Waregem to his 24-man squad although Bossut could find himself cut from the final 23 in two weeks’ time.

Chelsea’s Thibaut Courtois, loaned out to newly crowned Spanish champions Atletico Madrid for the past three seasons, is Belgium’s clear number one, followed by Liverpool’s Simon Mignolet.

Third choice Koen Casteels broke

his shin in early April and has been given until the start of June to prove he has recovered, failing which his spot will go to Bossut. Proto was the original stand-in.

Belgium, appearing in the World Cup for the first time since 2002, will hold training camps and play friendlies against Luxembourg and Sweden before the final 23-man squad is named on June 2.

MEXICO CITY - Leon retained their Mexican league crown with a 2-0 second leg win on Sunday and a 4-3 aggregate victory over Pachuca in the final played between two teams owned by the same financial group.

Multi-millionaire magnate Carlos Slim holds a majority 30 percent share in the Pachuca Group which owns both finalists. Jesus Martinez, president of the group and the Pachuca team, lost to his son Jesus Martinez Murguia, who is Leon chairman.

Argentine striker Mauro Boselli was credited with the crucial goal that took the Clausura final, second leg into extra time in the 66th minute at the Hidalgo after Pachuca had won Thursday’s first leg 3-2. Pachuca’s veteran former Mexico goalkeeper Oscar Perez dived to parry Boselli’s header but the ball bounced in off his body.

Defender Juan Ignacio Gonzalez scored the clincher for Leon, led by Mexico World Cup captain Rafael Marquez and coached by Uruguayan Gustavo Matosas, well into extra time, heading in Luis Montes’s corner.

“This is crazy, I’m very happy, my body’s full of knocks but you just have to keep pushing and we came through. You can never stop trying and this became evident once again,” Gonzalez told TV Azteca.

The champions lifted their seventh league title and became the first team to win the double of Apertura and Clausura in the same season.

UNAM Pumas won back-to-back titles with the 2004 Clausura followed by the following season’s Apertura when they were coached by former Real Madrid and Mexico striker Hugo Sanchez. Pachuca’s Ecuador World Cup striker Enner Valencia was top scorer of the championship with 18 goals after his brace in the first leg of the final.

Belgium forced to find stand-in keeper again Reuters

BRUSSELS - Belgium coach Marc Wilmots has been forced to call up yet another reserve goalkeeper after Anderlecht number one Silvio Proto broke his arm in the final match of the Belgian league season on Sunday.

Wilmots said in a tweet that he would add Sammy Bossut, 28, of

AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo

Leon’s Willian Yarbrough, celebrates after his teammate Mauro Boselli scored against Pachuca during the Mexican soccer league final match in Pachuca, Sunday, May 18, 2014.

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MILAN — Juventus celebrated its third straight Serie A title with a 3-0 home victory over Cagliari on Sunday to reach 102 points for the season, a record in the major European leagues.

Antonio Conte’s side had already broken the Serie A points record but ensured it moved into triple figures by also becoming the first Italian side to win all its home games. for a team photo with their children before kickoff while the trophy presentation and an open-top bus parade took place after the match.

Juventus clinched the title two weeks ago.

Later, Parma beat Livorno 2-0 to take the final Europa League qualifying spot after Torino missed a stoppage-time penalty and drew 2-2 at Fiorentina. Substitute Amauri headed both goals in for Parma.

“I have no words,” an emotional Amauri said. “During the week I was hoping to get this goal and I managed to do it, I’m happy for my family and for the fans. ... These are the rewards after putting in the

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Juventus beats Cagliari to set new points record “It is an incredible and historic feat, which we have achieved all together,” Conte said. “What the players, staff and club have done is something incredible. They have been extraordinarily special and I will never stop thanking them.

“Sometimes you forget that victory is an exception, not normality.

These lads have achieved something unique together: it will be difficult to repeat the 102 points. All future comparisons will be made with this squad.”

Andrea Pirlo, Fernando Llorente and Claudio Marchisio scored in a party atmosphere at Juventus Stadium. Juventus players posed

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hard work, now I want to play in the Europa League.” AC Milan won 2-1 at home to Sassuolo — in a match which saw three red cards — but finished a point behind Parma.

Hellas Verona also had faint hopes of reaching Europe but lost 5-1 at Napoli. In other games, it was: Genoa 1, Roma 0; Catania 2, Atalanta 1; Lazio 1, Bologna 0; and Chievo Verona 2, Inter Milan 1. Pirlo fired Juventus into the lead in the ninth minute with one of his trademark free kicks, although it was awarded as an own goal by Marco Silvestri as it hit the crossbar before going in off the goalkeeper’s back.

Juventus doubled its lead six

Juventus midfielder Andrea Pirlo scores during a Serie A soccer match between Juventus and Cagliari at the Juventus stadium, in Turin, Italy, Sunday, May 18, 2014.

AP Photo/Massimo Pinca

minutes later when the defense failed to clear after Leonardo Bonucci flicked on Pirlo’s corner and Llorente tapped in for his 18th goal of the season. Marchisio scored a spectacular third, controlling the ball with his back to goal before flicking it up and firing it home with a swiveling volley.

At the start of the second half a huge banner was unveiled bearing Conte’s face and the words “Without you we won’t go far ... because you are the best and have Juve in your heart.” Conte, who has yet to commit his future to the club, was given a standing ovation when he emerged for the trophy presentation, moving his wife to tears.

Juventus was unable to parade the trophy around the pitch. As soon as the trophy was lifted, fans invaded the pitch — prompting players, their families and coach-

ing staff to run to the dressing room. It appeared as if Parma’s European hopes were about to be dashed when Torino was awarded a last-gasp penalty after Facundo Roncaglia fouled Barreto.

However, Antonio Rosati saved Alessio Cerci’s spot kick to set off celebrations among the Parma players and fans and leave the Italy forward in tears “I think suffering is part of Torino fans’ DNA,” Torino coach Giampiero Ventura said.

“I think it was an important year and we missed the chance to go to Europe with the draw last week and missing a penalty tonight.

“I’ve seen (Roberto) Baggio and (Franco) Baresi crying, it’s part of football to see players crying on the pitch, now Cerci is crying too.

But only those who don’t dare, who don’t do, don’t make mistakes. Cerci should be more than proud of having done an extraordinary match.”

Associated Press Writer

Associated Press Writer

STANFORD, California — It’s been 12 years since a U.S. forward scored in a World Cup. Brian McBride’s goal against Mexico during a 2002 second-round match in South Korea helped the Americans advance to the quarterfinals in their best showing since 1930. The U.S. has eight goals in the two World Cups since then, seven by midfielders Landon Donovan, Clint Dempsey and Michael Bradley, plus an owngoal against Italy.

“I didn’t realize that,” Chris Wondolowski, who is among the forwards vying for a spot in the squad, said before a training session Sunday. “If a forward scores, we’ll be happy. If a defender scores a hat trick, we’ll be just as happy.” As the Americans prepare for next month’s tournament in Brazil, pressure for goals will be on Jozy Altidore and Dempsey.

Altidore has 21 goals for the U.S. and last summer became the first American to score in five straight international matches. But he struggled in his first season with Sunderland in the Premier League, getting just two goals in 38 games.

It mirrored his slump four years ago, when he had only two goals in 30 matches during a one-season loan to Hull. He started all four matches for the U.S. at the 2010 World Cup, at age 20. In 2011-12, he scored 20 goals for AZ Alkmaar in the Netherlands and added 31 the following season, setting a record for an American with a European club.

That earned him a big-money transfer to the Premier League. And then came another drought. “We have guys in abundance that can get the job done,” he said. “I think we’ll be fine. The most important thing we have to get ready for is to be able to be a team that’s hard to beat, because we’re going to be playing a lot of talent.”

U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann

PAMPLONA, Spain — A railing collapsed as fans celebrated a goal during Osasuna’s home match against Real Betis on Sunday, leaving more than 60 spectators injured as they tumbled forward.

The incident at Osasuna’s packed Sadar Stadium occurred after Oriol Riera scored in the 12th minute. Celebrating fans were leaning and sitting on the metal barrier when it gave way. Dozens of people fell, with some crashing on top of those in front of them while others tumbled off the edge and to the ground.

Several people were attended to on the pitch by medical staff, with at least two taken away on stretchers.

The club said that a total of 68 people were hurt. One man suffered a broken leg. The match was delayed for 35 minutes before play restarted.

Osasuna was relegated to the second division despite winning the match 2-1 on the season’s last day.

Leon retain Mexican title by winning ‘family’ final Reuters

AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File

FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2013, file photo, United States’ Landon Donovan celebrates after scoring a goal against Mexico during the second half of a World Cup qualifying soccer match in Columbus, Ohio. dropped Altidore from a pair of qualifiers in October 2012 after a troublesome May-June camp followed by a poor match against Jamaica.

Klinsmann challenged Altidore, knowing he could do much better.

But, at least publicly, Klinsmann says now he is unconcerned about the lack of goals.

“Still, we see Jozy in his development phase,” he said last week.

“Jozy is not built yet. Jozy has not reached his potential yet. Our job,

as coaches, is to help him reach his highest potential. I think the next two months will be a big part of that next learning curve for Jozy Altidore.

I’ve always said that he has upside.

He hasn’t shown it yet in different places, maybe.”

Dempsey, 31, replaced Carlos Bocanegra as the American captain last year. His profile rose while at Fulham from 2006-12 when he scored 60 goals, including 23 during his final season.

Belgian side Zulte Waregem to his 24-man squad although Bossut could find himself cut from the final 23 in two weeks’ time.

Chelsea’s Thibaut Courtois, loaned out to newly crowned Spanish champions Atletico Madrid for the past three seasons, is Belgium’s clear number one, followed by Liverpool’s Simon Mignolet.

Third choice Koen Casteels broke

his shin in early April and has been given until the start of June to prove he has recovered, failing which his spot will go to Bossut. Proto was the original stand-in.

Belgium, appearing in the World Cup for the first time since 2002, will hold training camps and play friendlies against Luxembourg and Sweden before the final 23-man squad is named on June 2.

MEXICO CITY - Leon retained their Mexican league crown with a 2-0 second leg win on Sunday and a 4-3 aggregate victory over Pachuca in the final played between two teams owned by the same financial group.

Multi-millionaire magnate Carlos Slim holds a majority 30 percent share in the Pachuca Group which owns both finalists. Jesus Martinez, president of the group and the Pachuca team, lost to his son Jesus Martinez Murguia, who is Leon chairman.

Argentine striker Mauro Boselli was credited with the crucial goal that took the Clausura final, second leg into extra time in the 66th minute at the Hidalgo after Pachuca had won Thursday’s first leg 3-2. Pachuca’s veteran former Mexico goalkeeper Oscar Perez dived to parry Boselli’s header but the ball bounced in off his body.

Defender Juan Ignacio Gonzalez scored the clincher for Leon, led by Mexico World Cup captain Rafael Marquez and coached by Uruguayan Gustavo Matosas, well into extra time, heading in Luis Montes’s corner.

“This is crazy, I’m very happy, my body’s full of knocks but you just have to keep pushing and we came through. You can never stop trying and this became evident once again,” Gonzalez told TV Azteca.

The champions lifted their seventh league title and became the first team to win the double of Apertura and Clausura in the same season.

UNAM Pumas won back-to-back titles with the 2004 Clausura followed by the following season’s Apertura when they were coached by former Real Madrid and Mexico striker Hugo Sanchez. Pachuca’s Ecuador World Cup striker Enner Valencia was top scorer of the championship with 18 goals after his brace in the first leg of the final.

Belgium forced to find stand-in keeper again Reuters

BRUSSELS - Belgium coach Marc Wilmots has been forced to call up yet another reserve goalkeeper after Anderlecht number one Silvio Proto broke his arm in the final match of the Belgian league season on Sunday.

Wilmots said in a tweet that he would add Sammy Bossut, 28, of

AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo

Leon’s Willian Yarbrough, celebrates after his teammate Mauro Boselli scored against Pachuca during the Mexican soccer league final match in Pachuca, Sunday, May 18, 2014.

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Rossi ‘Lorenzo frustrated’, Marquez ‘fun is faster’

Jorge Lorenzo looked to have the best chance of challenging Marc Marquez for victory in Sunday’s Le Mans MotoGP. Although sixth on the grid, the Movistar Yamaha rider had been the only rider to beat Marquez during a track session prior to the race and set more sub 1m 34s laps than any other rider in warm-up. Add in use of Lorenzo’s more favoured soft rear tyre and a podium looked the bare minimum possible.

Japanese Cave IBP

SEMARAPURA - Japanese Cave consisting of 16 openings was made on the cliff wall alongside the Semarapura- Denpasar road section, right over the Bubuh River. The cave located at the Northern and Southern tip are standing alone caves. Meanwhile, the 14 other caves are interconnected one another by

a hallway. Interestingly, these very strategic Japanese caves are memorabilia of colonial era. In front of them, people can see attractive scenery with the flowing sound of Bubuh River. Location of the Japanese Cave can be reached easily because it is situated alongside the Denpasar-Semarapura road section, precisely at Koripan Hamlet, Banjarangkan Village, Banjarangkan Subdistrict.

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Spanish MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of the Repsol Honda Team, left, leads the race ahead of Italian MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi of Movistar Yamaha Team, right, during the MotoGP World Championship race at the Bugatti race track in Le Mans, western France, Sunday, May 18, 2014.

Instead the double world champion, who came within four points of defeating Marquez last year, could only manage a lacklustre sixth position. Afterwards, team-mate and Le Mans runner-up Valentino Rossi was asked for his opinion on Lorenzo’s situation, which has seen the Spaniard make his worst start to a premier-class campaign with just one podium from five rounds.

“I understand a little bit Jorge because personally I am in a different situation, so for me to arrive on the podium and stay behind Marc’s is acceptable. I know that I can try to fight with him, but I am more relaxed,” explained seven time champion Rossi, who has rebuilt his form at Yamaha after two miserable seasons at Ducati.

“For Jorge it is different, because Jorge wants to win. Last year, for me, Lorenzo did some races that were impressive - the best of his career - even though he didn’t win the championship.

“But this year with Marc having more experience and riding like this, and at this moment technically

the Honda is a little bit better than the Yamaha. So for Jorge it is a bit frustrating because he knows it is quite impossible and he doesn’t want to arrive second. “He is not happy. So maybe for this reason he has some problems.”

Marquez agreed that Lorenzo does not seem happy on the bike and feels that in turn is impacting on his performances. “For me the key is that if you want to be fast you need to enjoy it on the bike. Like Valentino said, he is enjoying just riding the bike. When you enjoy it you are faster,” said Marquez, undefeated so far in 2014.

“It looks like Lorenzo is struggling a little bit more, but I think he will find a way and when he will start again to enjoy it on the bike he will be fast. But if you don’t enjoy it, it is impossible.” Lorenzo is fifth in the championship and already 80 points behind Marquez. Rossi is third in the standings.

Speaking after the race Lorenzo said: “Today I didn’t ride well and also the setting that I thought was better in the warm-up, with this temperature, was worse.”

Pacers pull away from Heat 107-96 to take 1-0 lead Associated Press Writer

INDIANAPOLIS — Paul George scored 24 points, David West had 19, and the Indiana Pacers protected their home court with a 107-96 victory over the Miami Heat on Sunday to take a 1-0 lead in the Eastern Conference finals. Indiana led wire-to-wire and never even gave the Heat a chance to tie the score after starting the game with a 5-0 lead.

Game 2 is Tuesday in Indiana. The home team has won all five meetings this season. Dwyane Wade scored 27 points and LeBron James had 25 for the two-time defending NBA champions, who lost for only the second time in 10 playoff games.

Indiana had a 30-point first quarter for the first time since Feb. 27, extended the lead to 19 in the third and Miami couldn’t get closer than nine the rest of the way.

For months, people wondered what happened to the Indiana team that dominated the first half of the NBA season.

On Sunday, those Pacers suddenly

reappeared. Indiana swarmed the glass, exploited its size advantage, knocked down early 3-pointers with regularity and defended well enough to force the Heat to play catch-up the entire game. The fans that occasionally serenaded them with boos during the first two rounds of the playoffs spent most of the first half on their feet and finished the game with repeated chants of “Beat the Heat! Beat the Heat!”

All five of Indiana’s starters and backup C.J. Watson reached double figures as the Pacers produced their highest point total of the postseason. Indiana has lost Game 1 at home in its first two playoff series, but it was obvious right from the start that this game would be different.

George Hill scored the first five points to give the Pacers the lead, which they extended to 20-10. They spent the rest of the game either pulling away or fending off Miami challenges.

When the Heat trimmed the deficit to 30-24 after one and eventually to 4137 midway through the second quarter,

Lance Stephenson scored four points in a 5-0 run to make it 46-37. When James again cut the deficit to 50-45 with backto-back baskets late in the second, the Pacers closed the half with five straight points to make it 55-45.

Then the Pacers poured it on. Roy Hibbert and West scored eight of Indiana’s first 14 points to open the second half, making it 69-52. James and Wade again rallied the Heat, getting Miami within 81-70 late in the third and 83-74 early in the fourth. The Pacers used a 7-0 spurt to rebuild a 102-84 lead and closed it out at the free throw line.

Miami Heat forward LeBron James (6) watches Indiana Pacers forward Paul George (24) hit the floor as guard C.J. Watson (32) defends during the first half of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals NBA basketball playoff series Sunday, May 18, 2014, in Indianapolis.

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Merriam-Webster adds ‘selfie,’ more to dictionary Associated Press Writer

AP Photo/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with upper parliament chamber speaker Valentina Matviyenko prior to the Security Council meeting in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi on Monday, May 19, 2014.

Putin orders troops near Ukraine to return home

NEW YORK — The latest edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary has added 150 new words, from “selfie” to “poutine.” Many of the words and terms relate to digital life and social media — spoiler alert, hashtag and tweep — while others are food-driven, including the Vietnamese staple pho and turducken, a boneless chicken stuffed into a boneless duck stuffed into a boneless turkey.

Merriam-Webster relies on a network of observers who track down word usage. Three or four senior editors make the final selections.

E-waste made it into the update. So did e freegan, one who scavenges for free food in store and restaurant trash bins as a way to reduce consumption of resources. Other new words in the Merriam-Webster Collegiate, along with the lookup database at Merriam-webster.com: Poutine, a French Canadian snack or side dish of french fries covered with brown gravy and cheese curds; steampunk, a literary genre with dress-up followers that mashes up 19th-century Victorian or Edwardian societies with steam-powered technology; unfriend, which joins defriend; and hot spot, a place where Wi-Fi is available.

And still more: crowdfunding, big data, baby bump, digital divide, dubstep, fangirl and gamification, the process of adding game-like elements to something to encourage participation.

Associated Press

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops deployed in regions near Ukraine to return to their home bases, the Kremlin said Monday. The move appears to indicate Putin’s intention to de-escalate the crisis over Ukraine, the worst in Russia’s relations with the West since the end of the Cold War. The West has protested the deployment of 40,000 Russian troops near the border with Ukraine, seeing it as a possible preparation for grabbing more land after the annexation of Crimea in March.

Putin has previously said he has ordered troops to return from the area near the Ukraine border, but the United States and NATO have said they see no sign of a pullout and have threatened more sanctions if Russia tries to derail Ukraine’s

presidential vote set for Sunday.

The Russian Defense Ministry insisted that there were no buildup near the border, saying that the troops in the regions in western Russia are involved in regular training.

Putin went one step further Monday, ordering Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to pull out forces involved in such training in the Rostov, Belgorod and Bryansk regions, according to a statement released by the Kremlin.

Putin also voiced support for round tables in Ukraine, which were held last week under a peace plan brokered by Switzerland, which currently chairs the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

He urged the Ukrainian authorities to immediately end a military operation in eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian army and police have sought to put down a pro-Russian rebellion in the east.

CANBERRA, Australia — Prime Minister Tony Abbott shrugged off opinion polls on Monday that show his government’s popularity had plummeted since the release of its tough first budget. Two separate polls taken since Abbott’s government last week released a cost-cutting blueprint for the next fiscal year show the ruling conservative coalition’s popularity now trailing the center-left Labor Party opposition.

The government plans to raise taxes, reduce welfare and shed public service jobs to reduce a deficit forecast to reach 49.9 billion Australian dollars ($46.7 billion) in the current fiscal year ending June 30.

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INDONESIA President appoints new chief economic minister Antara

JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday installed National Economic Committee (KEN) Chairman Chairul Tanjung to replace Hatta Rajasa as the new coordinating minister for economy.

Hatta Rajasa, a potential running mate of presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto of the Gerindra party, had tendered his resignation in line with the regulation.

Chairul Tanjung, who owns the Indonesian unit of Carrefour hypermarket and is known for his proximity to the president, was installed by Yudhoyono at the state palace.

Earlier, the president reiterated that Chairul Tanjung has the skills and strong commitment to boost the country’s economic growth.

Chairul is not a newcomer in the field of economic management, he stated, adding that as the chairman of the National Economic Committee (KEN), Chairul has supported the government and has contributed by handling economic problems.

“KEN is not a forum of academicians, but a place of congregation for business leaders and economists.

I believe Chairul Tanjung has succeeded in bringing together several business leaders and economists,” he emphasized.

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The AMKRI delegation was received by the Indonesian ambassador to Russia and Bellarus, Djauhari Oratmangun, at Wisma Duta on May 14, and in the meeting the ambassador expressed appreciation of AMKRIs participation in the FIDExpo, saying it will help the Indonesian governments efforts to increase not only political but also economic cooperation between Indonesia and Russia.

He said the Indonesian people in general still had a wrong perception of Russia as a communist country. “Russia has already transformed, it is more open. So, it is time for us to change the perception,” he remarked.Meanwhile, AMKRI general chairman Soenoto expressed his appreciation to the ambassador for receiving his delegation and facilitating AMKRIs visit to Moscow to participate in the FIDExpo.

According to AMKRI, the worlds furniture export currently is US$124 billion and US$40 billion of it is contributed by China and other ASEAN member countries, including Vietnam which accounts for around US$4.5 billion.

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Indonesian presidential candidate Joko Widodo, left, and his running mate Jusuf Kalla hold the national Red-White flag as they listen to the national anthem after declaring their candidacy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, May 19, 2014. Indonesia will hold its presidential election on July 9.

Jokowi choose JK as running Indonesian furniture seeking market at Russia mate for presidential election

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In this May 15, 2014 photo, “Yooper,” one of the 150 new words appearing in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and the company’s free online database appears on page 1454 of the printed edition of the dictionary in New York.

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The government also plans to strip AU$80 billion from hospitals and schools over a decade, shifting the costs to the states and raising the prospect of an increase in Australia’s 10 percent consumption tax. “There are some very tough decisions in this budget, but we’re not doing them to make ourselves popular; we’re doing them to get our country back on track,” Abbott told reporters.

“Every government that brings in a tough budget suffers a hit in the polls.”

The results of the respected Newspoll and Nielsen surveys are likely to harden opposition to some of the budget measures by Labor and minor parties who have the power to block them in the Senate.

The Newspoll found Abbott’s government, which came

to power in a landslide election victory in September, was now trailing the opposition 45 percent to 55 percent on the question of who respondents would vote for at the next election. Nielsen put the gap wider at 44 percent to 56 percent. Newspoll found 48 percent of respondents believe the budget was bad for Australia. Nielsen found 74 percent of respondents thought they would be worse off and 63 percent branded the budget unfair.

Both polls were based on random nationwide telephone surveys over the weekend. Newspoll surveyed 1,216 voters and Nielsen, 1,400 voters. Both polls had a margin of error less than 3 percent. The budget is the toughest since former conservative Prime Minister John Howard’s first budget in 1996.

JAKARTA - Seven Indonesian furniture and handicraft companies have taken part in the “FIDExpo International Furniture Exhibition” in Moscow in an effort to expand their markets to Russia. The companies grouped under the Indonesian Furniture and Handicraft Association (AMKRI) had used the opportunity to explore the Russian furniture market, which is currently growing, according to a press release by the Indonesian embassy in Moscow.

CV Vina Arya Furniture, PT Erlangga B.N.H., PT Koloni Timur, PT Hartco Utama, PT Property Asset Mandiri and CV Yudhistira participated in the exhibition on May 12-15 and had displayed their products produced by craftsmen in Semarang, Kudus, Solo and Cirebon.

Seeing the enthusiasm of the visitors in Moscow, AMKRI plans to use the event as an entry point for Indonesian craftsmen to market their products by participating in it more actively in the future.

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JAKARTA - Indonesia’s presidential frontrunner on Monday picked a popular former vice president seen as a formidable political operator as his running mate for elections in July.

Joko Widodo, who won widespread admiration during his time as Jakarta governor due to his common touch, selected Jusuf Kalla (JK), 72, as his vice presidential candidate.

Analysts say picking a veteran politician is a wise move for Widodo, known by his nickname of “Jokowi”. Recent polls have shown a Widodo-Kalla ticket would secure a comfortable lead.

While Widodo, 52, has been hailed as a break from previous leaders with deep roots in the autocratic Suharto era, he has never had a role in national politics.

“We are convinced that both of us can bring a movement of change to this country that we

love,” said Widodo, as he announced Kalla as his running mate in front of a cheering crowd at Jakarta’s Gedung Joang museum housing exhibits from the country’s independence struggle.

Prabowo Subianto of the Gerindra party, an ex-general accused of human rights abuses during the era of dictator Suharto, is expected to be the only other person who will contest the presidency.

Kalla, a wealthy businessman and chairman of the Indonesian Red Cross, was vice president during current President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s first term in office, from 2004 to 2009.

He has argued that he was a key actor behind many of the achievements of that period, from the fight against corruption to a reduction in deadly attacks by Islamist militants.

“Jokowi really needs someone who can help him out, who has experience in governing and the bureaucracy,” said Yunarto Wijaya

from pollster Charta Politika.

Widodo, from the main opposition Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), has long been in the lead in opinion polls before the July 9 presidential election, and surveys show him doing best when Kalla is his running mate.

Widodo has become a political phenomenon since being elected Jakarta governor in 2012. He has temporarily stepped aside from his post as governor to contest the election.

He rose to prominence after serving as mayor of a small town on the main island of Java and has won many admirers with his down-to-earth style.

However Widodo’s hopes of an easy ride to the presidency were dealt a blow at legislative elections in April, which set the stage for the presidential polls.

His PDI-P did not do as well as expected, meaning the party has had to form a larger coalition than it might have liked to put Widodo forward for the presidency.

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Thai economy shrinks Agence France-Presse

BANGKOK - Thailand’s economy shrank 0.6 percent year-onyear in January-March, data showed Monday, as the festering political crisis eroded consumer confidence and frightened off tourists.

The contraction is the first since the last three months of 2011, when the country was hit by massive flooding, and comes as opposition protesters press for the nation’s senate to remove a battered caretaker government.

With the protests deep into their sixth month, Southeast Asia’s second biggest economy remains without a fully functioning government, cramping state spending and investment in key infrastructure projects.

The National Economic and Social Development Board also slashed its growth outlook for the whole of 2014, forecasting 1.5-2.5 percent expansion compared to a previous estimate of 3.0-4.0 percent.

It said jittery consumers reduced spending during the first quarter “due to increasing concerns over the domestic political situation”.

A prime minister was toppled this month, while 28 people have been killed and hundreds wounded in street violence since November.

The turmoil has take the sheen off the nation’s “Teflon Thailand” reputation -- a reference to its economic resilience despite eight years of political upheaval as well as the devastating floods in 2011.

Consumer confidence has slumped to its lowest level in more

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than a decade and tourist arrivals dipped by around eight or nine percent in February and March.

Foreign investors meanwhile are nervously watching the political crisis unfold.

“The stakes are rising,” Capital Economics warned in a briefing note. “Private-sector confidence is likely to remain dire until there are at least some signs that the crisis is moving towards a resolution.

“And without a functional government, public spending will stay shackled,” it added.

Anti-government protesters are pressing for the senate, the upper house of parliament, to boot out the embattled government of caretaker Prime Minister Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan and appoint a new leader.

But Niwattumrong, who replaced toppled leader Yingluck Shinawatra on May 7, insists he still holds the authority to push for elections to find a way through the stalemate.

Senators, at least a quarter of whom are avowed critics of Yingluck’s billionaire brother Thaksin, are mulling the case for invoking a clause in the constitution to appoint a leader.

Critics say such a move has no legal basis, while pro-government “Red Shirt” supporters have threatened to rally in Bangkok if the elected government is dumped,

HONG KONG - Asian markets broadly fell Monday despite an uptick on Wall Street, while traders keep an eye on the release of key indicators out of China and Japan later in the week.

Tokyo lost 0.64 percent, or 90.15 points, to finish at 14,006.44, Sydney eased 1.28 percent, or 70 points, to 5409.0 and Shanghai tumbled 1.05 percent, or 21.32 points, to 2,005.18.

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Bali Culinary Bazaar becomes magnet to draw travelers

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DENPASAR - In the globalization era, people almost want everything instantaneously, including in the matter of culinary needs. Balinese people also start favoring fast food and instant food, while ignoring their traditional cuisines. Actually, Balinese cuisines are considered as one of leading tourism products. As a result, many travelers from various countries deliberately come to Bali just to taste the culinary delights served with distinctive spicy flavor.

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Deliciousness of Balinese cuisines was indicated by the smile of satisfaction on the face of dozens of local and international travelers dropping at the Bali Culinary Bazaar in Shankara Resto on Jalan Danau Tamblingan, Sanur, Denpasar, Sunday (May 18). The event was followed by six traders featuring Cendol the Kraton, Warung Mira, Lawar Kebo Mang Bo, Warung Jukut Undis, Betutu Bali Ning Dewata and Lawar Kambing.

One of the Bali Culinary Bazaar participants, Ida Ayu Sri, was deeply helped by the implementation of Balinese Culinary Bazaar because dozens of travelers came to the booth of Lawar Kebo Mang Bo owned by this housewife from Sangeh, Abiansemal. “I have participated in similar event twice at Shankara Resto. Now, I can make good sales and widely known.

Even, some travelers deliberately came to my food stall at Sangeh,”

In the globalization era, people almost want everything instantaneously, including in the matter of culinary needs.

she said.

A representative of the Indonesian Business Women Association (IWAPI) of Bali, Yoseva Listyati, said that her party strongly supported the activity because it promoted Balinese culinary tradition as well as provided the opportunities for small traders to introduce various culinary preparations owned by some regions in Bali.

“Shankara is excellent. It is intended to inspire them in order to further develop their own independent business. Moreover, they highlight Balinese cuisines that must indeed be preserved.

So, we really appreciate this effort,” she said. Her party had made various efforts to promote the entrepreneurs in Bali.

Moreover, according to her, Balinese culinary treasures were potential to be promoted in international arena. “What tempting in Bali is the uniqueness with different culinary items such as the betutu, lawar and sate lilit.

All of these could be introduced to travelers and will certainly become an attraction to them,” she said. (nik)

Lake Batur contaminated by domestic waste

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A vendor selling cold drink pushes her cart away to shade from sun heat in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand’s economy shrank 0.6 percent year-on-year in January-March, data showed Monday, as the festering political crisis eroded consumer confidence and frightened off tourists.

raising fears of street clashes between political foes.

A meeting Monday between the caretaker premier and senators

opposed to his government ended without agreement.

“The government confirmed that they will not resign, because

they say it will be unlawful,” Senator Wanchai Sornsiri, an appointed member of the upper chamber, told reporters.

Asia shares mostly down points to 2,015.14 and Hong Kong also ended almost unchanged, edging down 8.41 points to 22,704.50.

US shares finished slightly higher on Friday after upbeat earnings from retailers JC Penney and Nordstrom, while the Commerce Department said overall housing starts rose 13.2 percent in April from March.

The Dow rose 0.27 percent, the S&P 500 added 0.37 percent and the Nasdaq gained 0.52 percent.

Japanese traders were given a

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lift on Monday by figures showing machinery orders, a leading indicator of corporate capital spending in the country, jumped 19.1 percent on-month in March.

The figure beat forecasts of a 6.2 percent rise as firms stocked up ahead of the introduction of a sales tax hike on April 1.

With few catalysts to drive buying, investors are looking to the release of Japanese trade data on Wednesday as well as the Bank of Japan’s latest policy meeting.

Thursday will see HSBC re-

lease its preliminary results on May manufacturing activity in China, with analysts hoping for signs of a pick-up in the world’s number two economy.

The British banking giant will also unveil its early results for the eurozone and United States later in the day.

On foreign exchange markets Monday, the dollar was at 101.39 yen compared with 101.54 yen.

The euro bought $1.3715 and 139.09 yen against $1.3695 and 139.08 yen.

Oil prices edged higher following the outbreak of violence in crude producer Libya after a rogue general attempted a coup, raising concerns about potential supply disruptions, analysts said.

The US benchmark, West Texas Intermediate for delivery in June, rose 56 cents to $102.58 in afternoon trade, while Brent North Sea crude for July rose 40 cents to $110.15.

Gold fetched $1,296.90 an ounce at 0800 GMT compared with $1,293.51 late Thursday.

BANGLI - Lake Batur which has been the source of water for some regions in Bali all this time is not only experiencing sedimentation problems resulting in the overflow of lake water. Water condition of the Lake Batur also suffers waste pollution. One of which is the domestic waste pollution as the result of bathing, washing and toilet activities of village household living around the lake.

The Environmental Control Division Head, Bangli Environment Agency (BLH), Gusti Laksana, said on Sunday (May 18) the water pollution of Lake Batur due to domestic waste for this time was quite alarming because some of the villagers on the edge of the lake still disposed their waste by flowing directly to the lake, without any filtration process. “The waste pollution is severe enough because the whole wastewater directly comes into the lake, without any filtration process,” said Laksana.

However, though contaminated by waste, such condition was quite difficult to prove. In plain eyes, the

Lake Batur water pollution due to domestic waste was invisible. To prove it, the water sample of Lake Batur must be passed through laboratory test.

To overcome this, the Environment Agency was still designing an installation of communal wastewater treatment plant (IPAL) at Buahan village. It was made at the village because it was located on the edge of the lake and admitted to be one of the villages whose people still disposed domestic waste directly into the lake.

“The communal installation wastewater plant is a kind of multi tiered tub. Later on, the communal wastewater plant installation will hold the household waste in a reservoir. The wastewater will be filtered first, and after quality of the water meets the standards, it will be discharged into the lake,” he explained.

The communal wastewater treatment plant was ascertained to accommodate domestic waste from all households at Buahan. Other than building a wastewater treatment plant, his party also made cooperation with waste bank to cope

with the presence of plastic waste pollution. So, the plastic waste in the community was expected to no longer pollute the lake, but could generate cash.

In the future, the government planned to build a communal wastewater treatment plant at several other villages on the edge of the lake. It was done to prevent worsening lake pollution occurred all this time.

“As planned, it will be carried out gradually. Later on all the villages on the lakeside would be made the wastewater treatment plant in turn. But the first one would be built at Buahan village because it is the most severe. The other villages still have waste absorption so it does not directly drain to the lake,” he explained.

Meanwhile, related to the handling program of Lake Batur, his party was still attending the handling program with provincial Environment Agency and the Ministry of the Environment. The water overflow handling in the Lake Batur was planned to be carried out by mud dredging started in 2014 up to five years to come. (ina)

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Lake Batur which has been the source of water for some regions in Bali all this time is not only experiencing sedimentation problems resulting in the overflow of lake water.

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Wangaya Hospital handles seven HIV-positive pregnant women Bali Post

DENPASAR - Transmission of HIV does not only afflict people with high risk. Even, infants belonging to the low-risk community can also be infected if they are still in the womb of the HIV-infected mother.

However, the potential of a mother to pass on HIV to her baby is about 30 percent. On that account, to prevent HIV infection in the mother to child, it had been launched a program known as the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transfer (PMTCT). One of the government hospitals having this PMTCT program is Wangaya Hospital.

According to an obstetrician and gynecologist at the Wangaya Hospital, AA Eka Wardani, from January to April there were 33 pregnant women who underwent screening tests for HIV. Seven mothers in the investigations were found to

have HIV positive. She continued the maternal HIV screening test on housewife made during pregnancy examination was to determine the health status of the mother. Other than HIV, the sexually transmitted infection test was also recom-

mended for pregnant women.

If the examination showed a HIV positive, it would be determined a proper dose of ARV for the mother. Antiretroviral therapy with a prescribed dose would be given to pregnant mother until

her childbirth. The therapy was intended to suppress the HIV virus in the mother’s body so as to reduce the possibility of transmission to the fetus.

The childbirth should be performed by cesarean section because the transmission of HIV virus in infants could occur in the birth canal. Thus, to reduce contact, the birth of a baby should be made by cesarean section.

To find out whether a baby was infected by HIV or not, it had to be waited until its age reached 18 months. In 2014, only the Wangaya

Hospital that could handle two births of HIV-infected pregnant women.

Eka added the HIV test could not only be carried out at the Obgyn Polyclinic of Wangaya Hospital but also at the community health centers. Nevertheless, only few housewives wanted to do a HIV test, whereas the test was important to determine whether there was HIV infection or not and to prevent the other sexually transmitted diseases.

Thus, the fetus did not get infected and could be born in a healthy condition. (san)

Fishery Agency plants dozens of shellfish houses

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SINGARAJA - After successfully planting fish house (hexadome) at a number of locations in the waters of Buleleng, the Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Resources planted dozens of shells (bio-reef). Such bio-reef planting was undertaken on Saturday (May 17) and ended on Sunday (May 18) by involving dozens divers in North Bali.

The Head of Buleleng Fisheries and Marine Resources, Nyoman Sutrisna, said the planting of dozens of bio-reefs after his party received the assistance from the Research and Development, Ministry of Maritime and Fisheries Resources. With the assistance, the Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Resources determined the Kerobokan Beach (Sawan Subdistrict) and Kaliasem Beach (Banjar subdistrict) as the planting site of the bioreef. “From the results of the study and technical analysis, we plant a total of 46 bio-reefs on Kerobokan Beach and the remaining 29 bio-reefs are planted on Kaliasem Beach,” he said.

According to Sutrisna, the bio-reef concept was first applied in the waters in Buleleng. All this time, the planting of coral reefs using the fish-dome or fish house technology spent too much, while the use of bio-reef technology was cheaper. It was enabled because the bio-reef only used the materials such as coconut shells and then was gummed with cement at the bottom of the sea. In addition, this new technology was also more environmentally friendly.

“Economically, it is more costeffective than making fish-dome. But, based on the experience the fish-dome has been already proved. Now, we try to apply another new technology.

Hopefully, this can have a positive impact on fishermen at Kaliasem and Kerobokan,” he explained. (kmb38)

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S. Korea’s president pushes for end of coast guard Associated Press Writer

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s president announced plans Monday to disband the coast guard and root out corruption and collusion between regulators and shipping companies that furious citizens believe led to a ferry disaster last month that left more than 300 people dead or missing.

President Park Geun-hye’s first televised address to the nation since the April 16 sinking began with a deep bow and ended with her tearfully reading the names of passengers and crew who died trying to save others. With her approval ratings plummeting ahead of mayoral and governor elections in about two weeks, the speech sought to acknowledge widespread anger over government failures as well as chart a path forward.

Most of the victims were students from a single high school near Seoul who were traveling to the southern tourist island of Jeju. “We failed to rescue students who we could have

saved,” Park said. “The ultimate responsibility for not properly dealing with this incident is mine.”

Park has apologized before, but critics have called for her to formally address the nation and respond to claims that incompetence, corruption and bad leadership doomed the ferry and those trapped inside it.

In Monday’s speech, Park decried the accumulation of “widespread abnormal practices” that she said triggered the sinking.

A focus was the coast guard, which has been under growing public criticism over allegations of poor coordination and slow searchand-rescue work during the initial

stages of the sinking. Park called the coast guard’s rescue operations a failure and said she would push for legislation that would transfer its responsibilities to the National Police Agency and a new government safety agency she plans to establish.

She said the new agency would also take over maritime traffic controlling responsibilities, currently held by the Ocean Ministry, and safety and security responsibilities, held by the Ministry of Security and Public Administration.

Park Kwang-on, a spokesman for the main opposition party, said the plan to disband the coast guard gives the impression that the government is shifting all the responsibility for the sinking to the coast guard. “The diagnosis (of the problem) is insufficient and the remedy is inadequate,” he said. The president’s plans require parliamentary approval, according to her office.

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Relatives of victims of the sunken ferry Sewol watch South Korean President Park Geun-hye bow to the nation during a televised addressed, it at a gymnasium in Jindo, South Korea, Monday, May 19, 2014.

Chinese ship to map seabed in search for MH370 Associated Press Writer

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The hexadome which will be put in the sea

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FILE - In this April 8, 2014 file photo, a school utility worker mops a mural depicting the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at the Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino High School campus at Makati city east of Manila, Philippines.

CANBERRA, Australia — A Chinese navy survey ship will start mapping the seabed off the west Australian coast this week as part of the latest phase in the search for the Malaysian airliner, officials said Monday.

Chinese, Australian and Malaysian authorities met at the west coast port city of Fremantle at the weekend and agreed that the Chinese ship Zhu Kezhen will conduct a bathymetric survey of the Indian Ocean floor as directed by Australian air crash investigators, Australia’s Joint Agency Coordination Center said in a statement.

The Canberra-based center said the ship was scheduled to sail for the survey area on Wednesday, weather permitting. Officials believe the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that vanished with 239 passengers and crew on March 8 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing veered far off course and crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.

After an initial air and seabed search failed to find any trace of the wreckage, authorities this month announced a new phase over a vastly expanded seabed search area covering 60,000 square kilometers (23,000 square miles). The new phase also involves mapping of the seabed where depths and topography are in parts largely unknown.

Negotiations are underway to contract powerful sonar equipment to scour the seabed for wreckage that could be in water more than 7 kilometers (23,000 feet) deep.

The original ocean floor search of an area of less than 400 square kilometers (155 square miles) where a sound consistent with aircraft black box was thought to have emanated was conducted by a U.S. Navy unmanned sub, the Bluefin 21, near its 4.5 kilometer (2.8 mile) depth limit.

The Bluefin 21 had continued searching an ever widening area until a communications problem was discovered last week involving the transponders on the sub and the Australian navy ship that tows it, Ocean Shield.

The center said the Ocean Shield arrived on Sunday at the Australian west coast port of Geraldton, where preparations were underway to install spare transponder parts to both the ship and sub.

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Israeli team designs prosthetic fin to save turtle

Associated Press Writer

MICHMORET, Israel — A badly injured sea turtle’s prospects are looking up — thanks to a new prosthetic fin designed by an Israeli team and modeled after the wings of a U.S. fighter jet. The green sea turtle, named “Hofesh,” the Hebrew word for “freedom,” was caught in a fishing net off Israel’s Mediterranean coast in early 2009. With his two left flippers badly wounded, rescuers had to amputate, leaving him with a pair of stumps that made it difficult to swim.

Yaniv Levy, director of Israel’s Sea Turtle Rescue Center, said Hofesh was initially fitted with a diver’s fin, but it provided little relief and he bumped into things as he tried to swim.

Shlomi Gez, an industrial design student at Jerusalem’s Hadassah College, read about the animal on the Internet and wanted to help.

He designed a prosthetic based on a fish’s dorsal fin. The contraption provided some improvement, but Hofesh still had trouble breathing and rising to the surface.

Then, inspired by the design of Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-22 Raptor warplane, Gez designed a new prosthetic with two fins. The device, somewhat resembling the aircraft’s wings, was strapped onto Hofesh’s back on Thursday, allowing him to move easily around his tank. “I discovered it worked bet-

ter than one fin on the back,” Gez explained. “With two fins, he keeps relatively balanced, even above the water.”

Levy said that Hofesh will never be able to return to the wild. But he shares a tank with a blind female turtle named Tsurit, and researchers are optimistic the pair will mate, potentially adding to the local population of the endangered green sea turtles. He said it is difficult to say exactly how old the two turtles are, but they are estimated to be between the ages of 20 and 25, and approaching the age of sexual maturity.

“We have great plans for this guy,” Levy said. “They will never go back to the wild, but their offspring will be released the minute they hatch and go immediately into the sea and live normally in the wild,” he added.

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Galungan Penjor Penjor is a tall, curved bamboo pole decorated with yellow coconut leaves, pala bungkah (roots - sweet potato or cassava), pala gantung (fruit - cucumbers, oranges, bananas), pala wija (cereal - rice, corn), plawa (leaves), traditional cakes, 11 Chinese coins, and a small shrine with some offerings.. This is one of the media used by Hindus in Bali as part of almost every important ceremony, especially for the anniversary temple celebrations.

The penjor symbolizes the mountain and the mountain itself is the symbol of the universe. Therefore, for the Balinese the penjor is synonymous with Mount Agung, the highest and holiest mountain in Bali.

The aim of erecting penjors at Galungan is to show devotion to God in His manifestation as Hyang Giri Pati (the God of the mountain). During Galungan celebrations, each family erects a penjor outside their gate, which makes the whole neighborhood look splendid.

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The Balinese traditional irrigation system of Subak is in serious need of help from the business community in order to optimally improve the income and welfare of the farmers.

Subak needs government’ support, business community Antara

DENPASAR - The Balinese traditional irrigation system of Subak is in serious need of help from the business community in order to optimally improve the income and welfare of the farmers.

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In this photo taken Thursday, May 15, 2014, the green sea turtle, named “Hofesh,” the Hebrew word for “freedom,” swims with a prosthetic fin at the Sea Turtle Rescue Center in Michmoret, Israel.

SpaceX Dragon returns to Earth from space station Associated Press Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — The commercial cargo ship Dragon returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Sunday, bringing back nearly 2 tons of science experiments and old equipment for NASA. SpaceX’s Dragon splashed into the Pacific, just five hours after leaving the orbiting lab.

“Welcome home, Dragon!” the California-based company said via Twitter.

After a one-month visit, the SpaceX cargo ship was set loose Sunday morning.

Astronaut Steven Swanson, the station commander, released it using the big robot arm as the craft zoomed more than 260 miles above the South Pacific.

“Very nice to have a vehicle that can take your science, equipment and maybe someday even humans back to Earth,” Swanson told Mission Control.

The SpaceX Dragon is the only supply ship capable of returning items to Earth. The others burn up on re-entry. This was the fourth Dragon to bring back space station goods, with 3,500 pounds (1,600 kilograms) aboard; it came down off Mexico’s Baja California coast.

NASA is paying SpaceX and Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp. to make station deliveries. Orbital is next up, next month. Russia, Europe and Japan also make occasional shipments. SpaceX also is competing for the right to ferry station astronauts, perhaps as early as 2017. The Dragon rocketed to the space station on April 18 with a full load and arrived at the orbiting lab two days later.

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This photo provided by SpaceX shows SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft splashing down after it successfully completed the CRS 3 mission for NASA, landing safely, Sunday, May 18, 2014, in the Pacific Ocean with 3,500 pounds of ISS cargo.

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The Subak business community has a huge potential to help the farmers and their organizations to develop and improve the traditional irrigation system in a sustainable manner.

“Unfortunately, the farmers have not yet fully exploited this potential in order to improve their income and welfare,” Chairman of Subak Research Center at Udayana University Professor Wayan Windia stated in Denpasar, Bali, on Sunday.

He noted that the Subak farmers need the assistance of the business community to help them develop advanced technology to produce good-quality fertilizers and seeds for improving the Subak irrigation system.

With the assistance of the business community, Windia claimed that in the future, Subak will be strengthened by a social power through economic and business activities, such as cooperatives and agrotourism.

“The business community is needed to develop the Subak agricultural system into an agrotourism destination,” he emphasized.

But, there are rising concerns that ubiquitous land conversions on the Bali island resort will sooner or later eliminate this traditional agricultural system if prompt measures are not taken.

Agricultural land conversion into villas and hotels in Bali to boost tourism and other businesses is growing

at an alarming rate and threatening not only the local ecology but also productive farmlands where the Subak irrigation system is applied.

Uncontrolled land conversion in some parts of Bali has resulted in an ecological imbalance and degradation leading to the destruction of Subak.

Therefore, Windia of Udayana University has pointed out that the destruction of Subak will affect all aspects of life on the paradise island.

“The destruction of Subak due to the use of land for purposes other than agriculture has long been discussed, but it has never been addressed completely,” Windia recently remarked in Denpasar.

He added that if Subak is destroyed in Bali then the Balinese culture that has been passed on from one generation to the next will also disappear sooner or later.

“The destruction of Subak will impact all the economic sectors in Bali because they are all interrelated,” he added, explaining that the economic sectors, particularly tourism, on the island are based on the local culture and tradition.

But he stated that in reality, the tourism sector has destroyed the agricultural area and Subak.

Besides this, Windia explained that the elimination of the Sedahan-Agung institution has weakened

the Subak irrigation method.

The Sedahan-Agung institution was established in the 1970s in every sub-district for its officials to coordinate the activities of Subak in order to help the heads of Subak solve their problems and to collect land tax from Subak farmers.

However, following the implementation of a central government regulation, the Sedahan-Agung institution was eliminated, as a result of which no officials from the institution can solve the problems pertaining to Subak.

The dean of Dwijendra University’s Faculty of Agriculture noted that ecotourism development is based on natural attractions with regard to supporting rural and cultural tourism.

He further emphasized that ecotourism encompasses several important aspects, such as sightseeing tours, natural environment, local community involvement, local culture, and sustainability of the environment.

Gede Sedana then explained that Subak has various roles and functions to ensure food security, to control flood and erosion, and to maintain biological diversity.

He further stated that the government should pay serious attention to Subak and three other areas that have been listed by the UNESCO in its World Heritage List.

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Management of Galiran Market remains chaotic Bali Post

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The policeman wearing zebra costum is giving brochure regarding traffic safety

Traffic accident increases

Tightened, traffic supervision on holidays Bali Post

GIANYAR - Within the past month, dozens of people died of traffic accidents on the highway of Gianyar Police jurisdiction. To that end, over the next three weeks, the Gianyar Police traffic unit focused its attention on the discipline of road users. One of them is by tightening the current traffic supervision during the celebration of Galungan and Kuningan.

It was revealed on Sunday (May 18) by the Gianyar Police Traffic Affairs Chief and his staff amidst the activity to hand out roses, chocolates and stickers to motorists. All road users passing in front of the Gianyar Police were stopped by uniformed police officers. A number of police personnel with the attribute of traffic discipline pioneer, miss traffic and others played the role like cartoon

of zebra cross and participated in distributing souvenirs.

The Gianyar Police Traffic Affairs Chief, Ni Putu Sugiartini, said that a number of motorists who violated were instantly getting coaching. Meanwhile, the disciplinary riders were rewarded with roses or chocolates as the achievement. The activities were undertaken in conjunction with the socialization of Sympathetic Operation 2014. It

was intended to diminish the very high traffic accident rate in the last month in Gianyar region.

She mentioned that in April 2014, the total traffic accident reached 34 cases where 12 people died in vain. Until the mid-May 2014, the traffic accident had occurred for 13 times, where 4 people died. Of that amount, most of the scenes actually happened in the rural road sections and with the frequent time of occurrence in the morning, she said.

To that end, police attempted to intensify the dissemination so as to raise the awareness of traffic discipline, especially on entering the atmosphere of Galungan and Kuningan, the traffic violations often increased as well. (kmb16)

SEMARAPURA - Ahead of Galungan and Kuningan, the Regent of Klungkung Nyoman Suwirta, visited the Galiran Market, Sunday (Mary 18). During his visit, the regent seemed disappointed because management of Galiran Market was still in shambles. In addition, relevant agencies were judged not ready to anticipate the situation in the market area ahead of Galungan because the condition was increasingly crowded because it was without control.

Initially, the regent received many complaints from the public ahead of Galungan regarding the problems in the market and outside the market. Before entering into the market, the situation had been seen crowded because no one controlled the traffic. Upon entering into the market area, the regent criticized the parking situation that was increasingly crowded because it was not regulated by the officers.

“From the beginning, I’ve warned in order to come down to the market ahead of Galungan. Parking space can not suffice, so it should be directed to terminal,” he explained.

Ahead of Galungan, consumer transactions with traders in the Galiran Market definitely jumped.

Afterward, the regent looked around the market. He found the water storage tower on the east side of the market leaked so it was very dangerous for visitors. Not to mention the market area seemed unkempt and not maximized due to poor management and lacked of hygiene. “The Galiran Market is really a new building, but looks like an old one,” he said.

When arriving inside the market building, the regent from Ceningan Island had not been satisfied yet because the arrangement of all traders did not meet the expectation.

As a result, his party was going to rearrange the location of every trader and make a thorough assessment of the market management. Lately, the condition was increasingly chaotic so that it hampered consumer access leading to the alley connecting to other stalls. Based on the results of observation, his party planned to add some janitors and discipline the layout of commodities owned by traders.

The regent also lamented that ahead of Galungan the related agencies did not make a market inspection. Actually it was necessary to avoid the surge in the prices of goods outside the fairness limit. In addition, it was also intended to prevent the sale of expired food and a variety of other considerations. Regent judged that relevant agencies such as the Cooperative, SMEs, Industry and Trade Agency, the Transportation Agency, the Communication and Informatics Agency could synergize one another to prepare themselves to resolve the problems ahead of Galungan.

Besides, the regent also found quite a lot of traders in the market building even selling their goods outside the building, especially the traders of young coconut leaf, coconut and other ritual materials. His party asked the management to immediately make improvement. Meanwhile, the principle matters such as rearranging the circulation of traders would be made after a thorough evaluation. The regent also requested to immediately prepare the terminal area for additional parking space of Galiran Market. Then, the piles of building debris should be dredged immediately

by Public Works so that the parking area would be getting wider. (kmb31)

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Calendar Event for March 5 through May 21, 2014 5 Mar Hari Urip 6 Mar Hari Patetegan 7 Mar Pengeradanan Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Kabayan Penebel Tabanan 8 Mar Saraswati Pura Pasek tangkas Gempinis Dalang Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Sayan Abiansemal Pura Watu Gunung Bima Pura Agung Jagat Karana Surabaya Pura Aditya Jaya Jakarta Pura Pemaksan Banyuning Timur Pura Agung Wira Loka Cimahi Jawa Barat 9 Mar Hari Banyu Pinaruh 10 Mar Soma Ribek Pura Jati Jembrana Pura Kawitan Bayu Gaiyang Bangli Tirta Wening Surabaya Pura Desa Lingga Wana Abang Karangasem 11 Mar Sabuh Mas 12 Mar Hari Pagerwesi Pura Labang Sindu JiwaUbud Pura Kehen Bangli Pura Wira Bhuana Magelang Jawa tengah Pura Padang Sakti Denpasar Timur Pura Payogan Agung Ketewel Gianyar Pura Gaduh Pangiasan Dauh Puri Denpasar Pura Masceti Tampak Siring Pura Dalem Ularan Denpasar Pura Siwa Penebel Tabanan Pura Luhur Sliki Banyuwangi Pura Gunung Lebah Ubud Pura Puseh Sukawati 15 Mar Purnama Sasih Kesanga Pura Nataran Sasih Pejeng Gianyar Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung lebah Batur Kintamani 17 Mar Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 22 Mar Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya

Denpasar Pura Agung Pasek Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuning Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling Singapadu Gianyar Pura Bhujangga Jembrana Pura Dalem pingit Tegalalang Pura Penataran Pande Pandean Mengwi Pura Ida Ratu Pande Besakih Pura Penataran AGung Tulikup Pura Kumuda Saraswati Ubud Pura Batur Arya Tabanan 23 Mar Radite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar 26 Mar Buda Cemeng Ukir Pura Pajenengan Kawitan Arya Gelgel Kelungkung Pura Pasar Agung Besakih Pura Pasek Bendesa Legian Kuta Badung Pura Gde Gunung Agung Munggu Badung Pura Puseh Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Peruncak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Krobokan Badung Pura Kereban Langit Mengwi Badung 28 Mar Melasti Pakiyisan Ke Segara Pura Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga 30 Mar Tilem Kesanga Tawur Agung 31 Mar Hari Raya Nyepi 1 May Buda Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan

2 May Bhatara Sri Ida Ratu Geng Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Besakih Ida Ratu Raja Puraus Besakih Merajan Saloding Besakih 6 May Anggara Kasih Juluwangi Pura Thirta Harum Tegal Wangi Bangli Pura Baratan Baturiti Pura Batu Klotok Klungkung

Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari Tabanan Pura Ibu Wanagiri Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Manik Bingin Dukuh Sidemen 7 May Pura Penataran Gana Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Gede Pande Bangli Pura Puncak Sari Sangeh Abian Semal Pura Puseh Penegil Dharma Kubu Tambahan Bangli Pura Dalem Maya Blahbatuh Gianyar Pura Linggih Betara Kayu Selem Penataran Agung Besakih 13 May Purnama Sasih Jiyestha Pura Dwija Warsa Malang Pura Pucak Tinggah Angsri Baturiti Pura Kawitan Luhur Bhujangga Jati Luwih Penebel Pura Kawitan Batur Pande Tonja Tonja Denpasar Pura Penataran Agung Sidemen Karangasem Pura Maospahit Grenceng Denpasar 15 May Sugihan Jawa Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Tangkas Klungkung Pura Siang Kangin Peninjoan Tembuku Bangli Pura Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Besakih 16 May Sugihan Bali Dan Kajeng Kliwon 18 May Penyekeban 19 May Penyajaan Galungan 20 May Penampahan Galungan 21 May Hari Raya Galungan Pura Wakika Kupang NTT Pura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTB Pura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri Tabanan Pura Atambuananta Kutamba NTT Pura Webananta Kupang NTT Pura Giripati Mulawarman Pontianak Pura Mustika Dharma Cijantung Jakarta Timur

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

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

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Jackson, Timberlake dazzle Billboard Music Awards Associated Press Writer

The King of Pop and a likely successor, Justin Timberlake, ruled the Billboard Music Awards — though Michael Jackson made a splash via hologram and Timberlake accepted his awards via video from overseas while on tour. A hologram of Jackson made its debut Sunday, mirroring the late icon’s signature dance moves as some members of the audience became emotional. Timberlake won seven prizes, including top artist and Billboard 200 album.

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Jennifer Lopez performs on stage at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, May 18, 2014, in Las Vegas.

“All the other finalists, Miley, Imagine Dragons, Bruno, Katy, I love you guys, it’s not a competition, but if it is, I won!” Timberlake exclaimed, dancing with his band. The Jackson hologram performed “Slave to the Rhythm,” a song from Jackson’s new posthumous album “Xscape,” along with a plethora of background dancers. It was easily the biggest moment at the awards show in Las Vegas.

“We tried to do as best we could what we thought Michael would have loved, and those of us who knew Michael really well, we had a good perspective on it,” Epic Records CEO L.A. Reid said backstage. Reid worked on the album and released it. “ Robin Thicke, who won four awards including top Hot 100 song for “Blurred Lines,” debuted a new song called “Get Her Back,” aiming to win over his actresswife Paula Patton after they announced in February they were separating. He sang on bended knee and ended with the line: “I gotta get her back tonight.”

The night featured a number of collaborative performances, including an explosive duet from Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert, while double winner Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line were crowd favorites when they performed “This Is How We Roll.”

Miley Cyrus performed The Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” with Wayne Coyne

Prince Charles, Camilla arrive in Canada for tour

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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, have arrived in Canada on the first leg of a four-day tour.

It is the 17th visit to Canada for the Prince of Wales and the third for the duchess.

Charles and Camilla were greeted by nearly two dozen dignitaries at Halifax’s airport on Sunday. They are visiting Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Manitoba. The royal couple last visited Canada in 2012 to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Queen Elizabeth II is Canada’s titular head of state. Canada is a member of the British Commonwealth of former colonies.

Canadians were thrilled when Prince William and his wife, Kate, traveled across the country in 2011 on their first official trip as a married couple.

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of the Flaming Lips remotely from the United Kingdom, where she was on tour.

“I have to of course thank all of my amazing fans. ... Thank you everybody for making this (expletive) possible — oops I’m on ABC, sorry,” she said when accepting top streaming artist, sticking out her tongue at the end.

Katy Perry, who won top female artist, also performed remotely. Lorde was a double winner, taking home trophies for best new artist and rock song for the ubiquitous hit “Royals.” The New Zealand singer performed her new hit “Tennis Court” in her signature black — and showcased her signature twitchy dance moves.

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Bank Indonesia (BI) for Region III Bali-Nusra anticipated the increasing needs of the community for currency associated with the celebration of Galungan and Kuningan.

The demand for currency in this year’s celebration is estimated to increase by about 17 percent or IDR 821 billion.

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Galungan, BI prepares IDR 821 billion of currency DENPASAR - Bank Indonesia (BI) for Region III Bali-Nusra anticipated the increasing needs of the community for currency associated with the celebration of Galungan and Kuningan. The demand for currency in this year’s celebration is estimated to increase by about 17 percent or IDR 821 billion.

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Prince Charles and his wife Camilla are directed to their car by Justice Minister Peter MacKay as they arrive at the airport in Halifax, Canada, as they start a fourday tour of three provinces on Sunday, May 18, 2014.

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“We have provided a stock of currency in sufficient quantities, both in terms of quantity and denominations of money,” said Representative Head of Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali-Nusra, Benny

Siswanto.

According to him, in previous years, the celebration of Galungan and Kuningan in Bali did not show a very significant effect on the demand for currency. In 2013, the

demand for currency in relation to Galungan and Kuningan reached IDR 702 billion.

“The increase in the need for currency in May 2014, other than caused by the celebration of Galungan and Kuningan, is also influenced by the preparation for the payment of salaries, and the need of banking to fill in the ATMs related to a number of holidays in May,” he explained.

It was revealed by Benny Siswanto in line with the Bank

Indonesia’s call for banks to maintain the availability of cash at their ATMs, especially during the few days off.

“In order to meet the cash needs for the people of Bali, we have prepared money exchange services in various counties in Bali,” he said.

In a cash transaction, Benny Siswanto urged the public to raise concern over the crime of counterfeit money circulating in the community. Armed with the method by ‘inspecting the printing quality,

feeling the texture and holding the bill up to the light,’ communities were expected to better understand the characteristics of genuine rupiah.

“In addition to providing cash support, we and other banking institutions continuously support to meet the transaction needs of the community through payment system instruments such as clearing and Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS), which are more secure, reliable and fast,” he said. (kmb27)