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Family ties test the unconventional ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’

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LOS ANGELES - After causing havoc in the universe and saving it from destruction, Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” are back in a new adventure that takes the unconventional group of friends on a quest to discover their family ties.

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Cast members (L-R) Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Pom Klementieff, Chris Pratt, Kurt Russell, Karen Gillan, director James Gunn and Michael Rooker pose as they attend a premiere of the film “Guardians of the galaxy, Vol. 2” in London, Britain, April 24, 2017.

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” which begins its international rollout on Tuesday, sees roguish thief Peter Quill, green-skinned warrior Gamora, the muscle-bound Drax, mischievous Rocket Raccoon and baby tree-alien Groot split up after being pursued by a gold-skinned villain named Ayesha.

The plot centers on Peter’s long-awaited reunion with his father, an ancient god called Ego (Kurt Russell), who is the life force of a planet, and his tense relationship with his adopted father figure, the fin-headed Yondu (Michael Rooker).

“The most compelling way to find out something about a person you’re interested in is to explore their relationships,” Chris Pratt, who plays Peter, told Reuters.

“I can’t think of too many movies or stories on the screen that have honored that type of relationship, so it’s really kind of cool if you like a contemporary family story.”

“Guardians Vol. 2,” once again written and directed by James Gunn, comes after the surprise blockbuster success of 2014’s “Guardians of the Galaxy,” which ushered in a new cadre of unlikely heroes into Disney-owned Marvel’s expanding film franchise.

Following the catastrophic events of the first

film in which Groot sacrifices himself to save the Guardians, the sequel sees the powerful tree alien as a baby sapling, changing the dynamic between the five heroes.

Baby Groot offers up comedic relief during high-stakes scenes, such as a battle with a giant monster in which the tree sapling dances his way through the chaos and delivers tiny roars.

“Having a child in the group just leads to a even bigger sense of a family,” said Dave Bautista, who plays Drax.

After spending much of the first film trying to kill each other, warring sisters Gamora (Zoe Saldana) and Nebula (Karen Gillan) find themselves in close quarters in “Guardians Vol. 2” and faced with their underlying hatred towards their adopted father Thanos.

“They went through something very traumatic and they dealt with it in different ways,” Saldana said.

Gillan added that the “angry, bitter and twisted” Nebula is more sympathetic in the sequel.

“We start to see the cracks in her exterior and we learn about her bad relationship with her father and her sister and all the layers are chipped away,” she said. (rtr)

Jessica Biel goes deep and different for messed-up ‘The Sinner’

NEW YORK - Jessica Biel got all messed up for her new TV show -- a psychological thriller in which she plays a young mother who commits a startling act of violence and can’t remember why.

Biel, 35, the wife of singer Justin Timberlake and a young mum to 2-year-old Silas, said she took the role in “The Sinner” because she wanted to be “a little nuts.”

“The Sinner,” which will be broadcast on the USA channel in August, is a far cry from Biel’s best-known work -- the “7th Heaven” drama series about

a Christian family.

“It was totally different from what I’ve done recently and in the past and I think that’s why I was probably attracted to it,” Biel told reporters at the red carpet launch of “The Sinner” at the Tribeca film festival on Tuesday.

“You just have to go really deep within yourself as a human being and find what you can relate to in this person that has this ability to, you know, act on her passions, or act on her anger or fear insecurity or pain,” she added.

Biel plays a seemingly normal mother who is triggered to stab a man to death during a family outing at the beach. The show takes a deep layered look at her mind and explores why she did it, rather than the who or the what behind the act. (rtr)

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Suspected supporters of the U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen are escorted by plainclothes police officers as they arrive at the police headquarters in Kayseri, Turkey, April 25, 2017. Picture taken April 25, 2017.

Turkey says detains 1,000 “secret imams” in police purge Turkey purge

In addition to 2,500 journalists, largely from private media outlets, who have lost their jobs since the attempted coup in Turkey in July, more than 100,000 others have been reported arrested, removed, or suspended from their public sector jobs.

SUSPENDED OR REMOVED

Jessica Biel attends the screening of “The Sinner,” during the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, at SVA Theatre on Tuesday, April 25, 2017, in New York.

MINISTRY OR SECTOR

PERSONNEL

Education/ academia Police

51,776 41,793 22,163

Health and Interior 11,988

Armed Forces

8,999

Justice*

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Sports Banking and Finance

28 Kopi Made Jl. Raya Puputan No. 106 Dps 29 Dimsum Manan Jl. Raya Niti Mandala Renon No 148 30 Furama Jl. Raya Niti Mandala No. 148 Renon 31 Warung Subah Renon Jl. Mohamad Yamin No.18 32 Ayam Betutu khas Gilimanuk Jl. Merdeka No.88 Renon 33 Bali Bakery Jl. Hayam Wuruk 184 Denpasar

2,393 2,110

Media

525

PM office

257

Governors

246

Intelligence

100

Others

TOTAL SUSPENDED OR REMOVED

145,221

FORMALLY ARRESTED (Including non-civil servants)

40,000

1,892

*Includes military judges.

Note: All military judges and prosecutors in the country placed under investigation.

Source: Reuters, Turkish media reports Staff, 27/04/2017

ANKARA - Turkish authorities said they had arrested more than a thousand “secret Imams” who had infiltrated police forces on behalf of a U.S.-based cleric accused by President Tayyip Erdogan of trying to topple him last July. The nationwide sweep was one of the largest operations in months against suspected supporters of the cleric, Fethullah Gulen, a former ally of Erdogan. Gulen denies any part in the coup led by military officers.

Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said the overnight crackdown targeted a Gulen network “that infiltrated our police force, called ‘secret imams’.

“One thousand and nine secret imams have been detained so far in 72 provinces, and the operation is ongoing,” he told reporters in Ankara. Another 9,103 personnel from Turkey’s police force were suspended on Wednesday, police headquarters in Ankara said in a statement on its web site, citing alleged links with Gulen’s network.

In the aftermath of the failed July coup, authorities arrested 40,000 people and sacked or suspended 120,000 from a wide

range of professions including soldiers, police, teachers and public servants, over alleged links with terrorist groups.

NEW PRESIDENTIAL POWERS The latest detentions came 10 days after voters narrowly backed plans to expand Erdogan’s already wide powers in a referendum which opposition parties and European election observers said was marred by irregularities. The referendum bitterly divided Turkey.

Erdogan’s critics fear a further drift into authoritarianism, with a leader they see as bent on eroding modern Turkey’s democracy and secular foundations.

Erdogan argues that strengthening the presidency will avert instability associated with coalition governments, at a time when Turkey faces problems including security threats from Islamist and Kurdish militants.

“In Turkey, there was an attempted coup with a goal of toppling the government and destroying the state,” he told Reuters in an interview late on Tuesday.

“We are trying to cleanse members of FETO inside the armed forces, inside the judiciary and inside the police,” he said, using an acronym for the label, Gulenist Terrorist Organisation, which the government has given to Gulen’s supporters.

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Law on forestry interpreted partially

Forests in Bali get threatened to be plotted out

DENPASAR - Complaints over backfilling activities on the western coast of Tanjung Benoa to Bali police is denied to have relation to the rejection against Benoa Bay reclamation by the community including chief of Tanjung Benoa customary village. Bali forestry agency even criticized the chief of customary village and his lawyer using the law No.41/1999 article 67 paragraph 1 letter (b) on forestry as justification of such activities.

“If interpreting partially the rules of forest management and made it as justification, the forest in Bali can be plotted out later on. There is another barrage to be delivered. It is a pity the public is trapped by partial information. I’d like to affirm that the matter of forest management has its own rules,” said Head of the Bali Forestry Agency, IGN Wiranatha, when met at his office on Wednesday (Apr. 26).

Wiranatha added that location of the backfilling is still in the area of Ngurah Rai grand forest park (Tahura), not belong to the territory of customary village. In contrast, Ngurah Rai grand forest park is a conservation area having been established by the state with all the rules. That is why reporting to Bali police is purely law enforcement for violations in the forestry field. “There is no criminalization. If wishing to deny, it’s better to be done before the court,” he added.

Wiranatha also poked the reason expressed by chief of Tanjung Benoa customary village that does the backfilling because of wishing to save Tanjung Benoa from abrasion and to arrange the dirty mangrove forest area because of garbage. It said the previous government had also stated so in particular regarding the garbage. That is why there is a larger plan prepared namely the Benoa Bay reclamation and the management of Ngurah Rai grand forest park. For

the bigger plan, it is indeed working with investors due to needing a lot of fund.

“The physical handling (is in cooperation with investors), but the content therein does not negate people. Since it is a great job, we cannot work on it by a hoe. So, obviously it will accommodate all the existing interests. It should be heard,” he explained.

Nevertheless, Wiranatha denied if the reporting is related to the rejection against the Benoa Bay reclamation by the people and chief of Tanjung Benoa customary village. If the customary village first submitted a permit to the forestry agency, the backfilling activities may be allowed. Of course, it is after going through some stages of study. “We will also report those in favor of the reclamation if they are wrong,” he said.

As previously reported, lawyer of the chief of Tanjung Benoa customary village, I Made Ariel Suardana, revealed that under Law No. 41/1999 article 67 paragraph 1 letter (b) concerning forestry mentions that customary law community as long as it exists and is acknowledged is entitled to do forest management activity based on customary law and not contrary to law.

“So, I do not think what is being accused makes sense. I think the complaint to Bali police is alleged to weaken the movement to reject the Benoa Bay reclamation. In addition, there is an effort to criminalize customary apparatuses that reject reclamation and there is an effort to divert the issue. I have confidence there is an attempt to criminalize the goodwill of customary community,” he said.

Tahura gets pressed

The data of Bali forestry agency indicate the mangrove the forest area of Bali spreads across the area of 2,244.99 hectares. Meanwhile, outside the forest area, the mangrove

forest amounts to 755.01 hectares. Mangrove forest within forest areas spread over the Ngurah Rai grand forest park covering 1,373.5 hectares, Nusa Lembongan protected forest (202 hectares), Budeng production forest (66.99 hectares) and West Bali National Park Forest (602.5 hectares). In the meantime, mangrove forest outside forest area spreads in area of Perancak (Jembrana), Banyuwedang and Sumberklampok (Buleleng) and Nusa Ceningan (Klungkung). On average, the mangrove condition is good, except in the Ngurah Rai grand forest park facing critical condition of approximately 10 percent.

The agency classifies four problems in the Ngurah Rai grand forest park. Firstly, there is forest security disruption in the form of encroachment of forest area spreading from Sanur Kauh to Tanjung Benoa and certification in forest area.

The second problem is pollution due to garbage disposal, waste of concrete, residue of shipyard (fiber glass), chicken industry waste and waste disposal of fish processing factory; thirdly, overlapping forest area with PT. Pelindo III (Persero); and fourthly, forest destruction because in the area there are waters where mangrove is difficult to grow.

Pursuant to the records of the forestry agency in 2015, there are only 16 certificates in the grand forest park area of 3.340 hectares. However, today it has grown to 54 certificates overlapping with forest areas. Although the area reduces to 19,853 square meters per September 2016. On the other hand, there is a plan to exchange the area of grand forest park between the forest areas in Pudut Island and surrounding areas that are not overgrown with mangroves outside the forest.

However, the plan rolling out in 2015 is still under process at the ministry of environment and forestry. The exchange plan has also been blamed as an effort of the government to smooth the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. (kmb36)

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Full of Color and Happiness during Appreciation Night by TAUZIA Hotels in Bali

Appreciation Night is an annual event held by TAUZIA Hotels in Bali to appreciate travel agents, corporate, government and media for their support throughout the year.

The theme of this year event is “Colorful” to represent happiness with a lot of entertainments such as dance, music with lighting attraction, games and door prizes.

The event is held on Friday, 21 April 2017 at Wedding Chapel - HARRIS Hotel & Residences Sunset Road attended by more than 300 guests.

Apart from variant choices of local cuisine and international cuisine that promote healthy lifestyle and also available for all guests to enjoy; the melodious music also played to warm the ambience. “Since we (TAUZIA Hotels) established our first hotel in Bali, we have been very fortunate in building close relationships with travel agents, corporate clients, government clients and media.” said Arnauld Kindt - as The Advisor of TAUZIA Appreciation Night Committee and also the Cluster General Manager of TAUZIA Bali. “No matter

what the occasion, TAUZIA Hotels will always welcome you with a friendly smile and strive to provide you with the best service.”

This event is not only to appreciate travel agents, corporate, government and media, but also to strengthen the relationship between TAUZIA Hotels with the guests.

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This Brand’s Leggings Always Sell Out—and So Will Its New Swimsuits

The freshest dresses from Bridal Fashion Week

NEW YORK - It’s true: Some elements of weddings can feel a bit cliché. After all, there are a lot of traditions when it comes to planning nuptials, and with so many Pinterest boards to share, it’s only natural that some ideas overlap. But the nine unique wedding outfits below might spark some fresh concepts of your own.

This year’s New York Bridal Fashion Week brought everything from extreme ball gowns to simple jumpsuits among the latest creative designs. But of them all, our picks below offer something special. These are just the kind of dresses (and pants!) that forgo the expected and bring a little extra something to your wedding day. (IBP/net)

TOO often, swimwear tends to fall into one of two categories: functional (i.e., the stuff you wear to swim laps in) and fashionable (i.e., the stuff you wear to Instagram on the beach).

It’s a rare occasion when a suit falls in the middle of this Venn diagram, letting you feel like an athlete—or at least a person who tries to get the gym every once in a while—while looking cute enough to keep on all day.

But leave it to ADAY, the two-year-old direct-toconsumer activewear brand behind some of our favorite work-to-workout leggings, to come up with two styles that not only check those boxes, but they are environmentally-conscious and versatile to boot. Today, the label is launching its firstever swim collection—a one-piece called the For the Win Swimsuit ($125) and a bikini called the It Takes Two Piece ($105 for the set), both of which come in two colorways—which the team encourages styling as a bodysuit and bralette when you’re not taking a dip.

The one-piece and the two-piece swimsuits are two fundamental pieces in a woman’s wardrobe, so it was only natural for us to create pieces that could also serve as the foundation of an outfit,” says co-founder Meg He. “We wanted these silhouettes to cater to our customers’ different preferences and also provide them with a variety of styling choices.”

The brand stayed true to its signature seasonless palette with two neutral options—a navy-and-white (reversible!) one-piece and a white-and-grey bikini—and introduced a pop of bright green in the second colorway of each style, a nod to the recycled polyamide fabric used to make the suits.

While the swimsuits feature the same bonded seams that have made ADAY’s leggings so popular, the category presented a new challenge: the suits had to be as form-fitting as possible, while still looking streamlined and staying in place.

“Usually, seams are used to contour and shape around the body, but for the FTW Swimsuit, we wanted to minimize seams and keep the suit lightweight and abrasion-free,” says designer and product developer Millie Maidens.

“So, we used our signature bonding technique that is soft on the body and stronger than any sewn seams, making the garment much more durable.” Likewise, the paneled bikini bottoms feature two layers of fabric at the center front, but only one at the sides and edges, minimizing bulk while maintaining coverage. (IBP/net)

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Maternal mortality cases still occur yearly

District govt prepares birth waiting home

BANGLI - Maternal mortality cases in Bangli district continue to occur every year. Based on the data owned by the Bangli health agency within the past three years, the maternal mortality cases show a fluctuating number. On average, the maternal mortality cases occur in pregnant women of childbearing age.

Division Head of Public Health at the Bangli Health Agency, Nyoman Arsana, with permission from the Head of the Bangli Health Agency, Nengah Nadi, said on Tuesday (Apr. 25) that based on the data at hand, the maternal mortality in 2014 amounted to four people. In 2015, the number has increased by six people and in 2016 dropped to three people.

“This year, there is one case only,” he said accompanied by his staff, Ketut Yasmin.

Of the many cases of maternal mortality in Bangli, they mostly happened due to obstetric factors such as childbirth (the period after childbirth) and bleeding. There are also several cases of maternal mortality due to non-obstetrical factors.

According to Arsana, when compared to the calculation of national targets (MDGS), the maternal mortality in Bangli is relatively small. Nevertheless, the agency still strives to prevent the maternal mortality rate in Bangli to reach zero.

The current effort is making a manual book of maternal and neonatal matters as a guideline for all village midwives.

This reference carries explanations on how to handle and the actions to be taken when the case occurs in the process

of childbirth. “Each case has been provided with its own action. For example, when bleeding occurs in birth process, midwife must take action by installing an infusion and then rush patient to hospital,” he explained.

Aside from preparing reference, to prevent maternal mortality cases, the health agency currently provides a birth waiting home (RTK). In accordance with the Regent Decree No. 440/146/2017, the RTK located on Jalan Ngurah Rai near Bangli Hospital is intended for pregnant women, maternal mothers, postpartum mother and newborns that live away from health facilities and referral health facilities, high-risk pregnant woman living away from health facilities that require definitive treatment, postpartum women with high risk living away from health facilities or referral health facilities as well as newborns that have health complications living away from health facilities and referral health facilities.

“There are four rooms that can be used for free,” he said.

He continued that for pregnant women, maternal mothers and postpartum women taking advantage of the RTK will be given facilities like food, drink and snacks for a certain time limit. For example, pregnant women experiencing obstetric complications that require definitive handling to wait for control at health facility will be covered for a maximum of three days. If it is still needed, pregnant women are still allowed to use the RTK facility for several days, but excluding food and drink facilities.

“We have disseminated these to village midwives. And later on April 28, we will disseminate again to all headmen,” said Arsana. (kmb40)

Nengah Nadi

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Greenhouse gases having an impact on global warming

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Carbon dioxide is not only contributed by motor vehicle fumes, but also by some household appliances which might have been unexpected before.

CARBON dioxide (CO2) is one of the greenhouse gases having an impact on global warming.

Carbon dioxide is not only contributed by motor vehicle fumes, but also by some household appliances which might have been unexpected before.

For instance, it is emitted by the use of rice cooker, hair dryer and other equipment using electricity.

“Every usage of rice cooker will produce 24.4 grams of carbon dioxide. Then, one-hour usage of hair dryer will produce approximately 24.1 grams of carbon dioxide,” said the Head of Bali Environment Agency, Gede Suarjana, in Denpasar, on Tuesday (Apr. 25).

According to Suarjana, the greenhouse gases from household appliances are more than those produced by motorcycles or cars. Each motor vehicle contributes to about 0.24 gram of carbon dioxide for one way. Nevertheless, motorcycles and cars should still be used as efficiently as possible because currently the number of vehicles in Bali has reached 3.5 million units.

“When people use electricity like in rice cookers, ironing, motorcycles and cars, of course there is a lot of carbon dioxide flying into the air that causes global warming,” he explained.

Suarjana continued that during Nyepi holiday Bali can save greenhouse gases up to about 1245 million grams within 24 hours. “If Nyepi is frequently held, it means that Bali will reduce the greenhouse effect a lot,” he added.

Suarjana added that the greenhouse effect caused by global warming has led the weather to become erratic. Rainy and dry season becomes difficult to be predicted and plants do not bear fruits during their season. Not to mention, the presence of acid rain as a result of greenhouse gases can cause trees to be withered.

“This is a global influence. What about the mitigation? Well ... please reduce electricity utilization, change ordinary light bulbs into LED and reduce the use vehicles. If not effective, do not use vehicle,” he advised. (kmb32)

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Development nearly completed Lokapaksa-Ringdikit suspension bridge claimed to last 10 years SINGARAJA - Construction of a suspension bridge connecting Lokapaksa village to Ringdikit village, Seririt, as one of the ways to facilitate access of tens of SDN 5 Ringdikit elementary school students has almost finished. Handover from the contractor to the Bali provincial government is planned to take place later this month. The bridge spending the budget worth hundreds of millions of rupiahs can hold for ten years.

As monitoring on Wednesday (Apr. 26), the bridge having the length of hundreds of meters and 1.25 meters width has just been entering the casting process at the end, precisely the frame resting on the piers. Meanwhile, the installation of deck and suspension cable has been completely finished.

Project coordinator, Wayan Sumindra, explained that the bridge construction is directly funded by the provincial government of Bali through the public works agency with the budget of IDR 150 million and targeted to be submitted by the end of this month. It is inseparable from the construction having been almost completed. Wooden deck of the bridge is claimed to last about ten years. “This wood is indeed special for the bridge and can last for ten years, while the framework can last longer than that,” he said.

The use of suspension technique, he continued, spanning over the Sabha River will not be affected by flooding. It enables students and community to still be able to pass even though when it rains. “It’s already quite high and has been calculated with the height of the flood when it rains,” he added.

Meanwhile, one of the local residents, Komang Cilik, assessed that construction of the suspension bridge is quite appropriate to apply. All this time, a total of 44 students have to cross the river with quite swift streams when going to school.

It is very worrying when it rains. “When children have not come home from school and it is cloudy, we are very worried.

They are forced to wait here (in the river—Ed), worrying about something bad to happen,” he said.

Pursuant to the information obtained, the bridge has been built since early March. During the workmanship process, it has been constrained by rain causing the volume of river water to increase. (kmb45)

appropriate with the regulation of minister of health (PMK) No.9 /2014 and opens acupuncture services without having service permit.

In the meantime, maternity services are entirely handled by all (unlicensed) midwives and the apprenticing midwives. The clinic handles 30 deliveries per month but does not have pediatric as well obstetric and gynecologic consultants and so do medical records of obstetrics in the name of physician in practice.

In the medical records of childbirth stage, there are no names of licensed midwives mentioned as a helper; not all obstetric services are equipped with SOPs and fixed procedures in delivery room are not complete.

According to records, there are no infant, perinatal, neonatal and maternal mortalities within the past two years. However, several reports in referral hospitals indicate if there are maternal and infant mortality after being referred by Bumi Sehat Clinic as the treatments are not in

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Push for S.China Sea code stirs ASEAN suspicions about Beijing’s endgame MANILA - China’s support for finalising a code of conduct in the hotly contested South China Sea is generating some hope in Southeast Asia of settling disputes, but those working out the terms remain unconvinced of Beijing’s sincerity.

Signing China up to a legally binding and enforceable code for the strategic waterway has long been a goal for claimant members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).

But given the continued building and arming of its artificial islands in the South China Sea, Beijing’s recently expressed desire to work with ASEAN to complete a framework this year has been met with scepticism and suspicion.

“Some of us in ASEAN believe this is just another ploy by China to buy time,” said one senior diplomat familiar with the talks.

“China is expectedly stalling until it has completely attained its strategic objectives... What need is there for the green grass when the horse is dead?”

The framework seeks to advance a 2002 Declaration of Conduct (DOC) of Parties in the South China Sea, which commits to following the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), ensuring freedom of navigation and overflight, and “refraining from action of inhabiting on the presently uninhabited islands, reefs, shoals, cays, and other features”.

But the DOC was not stuck to, especially by China, which has built seven islands in the Spratly archipelago. It is now capable of deploying combat planes on three reclaimed reefs, where radars and surface-to-air missile systems have also been installed, according to the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative think tank.

Beijing insists its activities are for defence purposes, in areas it considers its waters. Malaysia, Taiwan, Brunei, Vietnam and the Philippines, however, all claim some or all of the resource-rich waterway and its myriad of shoals, reefs and islands. (rtr)

The Lokapaksa-Ringdikit suspension bridge

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Bumi Sehat Clinic violates rules of Indonesian health standards DENPASAR - Bumi Sehat Clinic managed by the Bumi Sehat Foundation is considered not to meet the Indonesian health care standards.

The Bali and Gianyar health agency supervise the clinic located in Ubud on Tuesday (Apr. 25).

Head of the Bali Health Agency, Ketut Suarjaya, said that the clinic has violated Indonesian health regulations such as the absence of clinic profile, clinic signboard, documents on clinic coordinator as well as the environmental management effort (UKL)/environmental monitoring effort (UPL) permit.

The clinic with eight treatment beds has two physicians of general practitioner along with their practice license and (licensed) three midwives. Meanwhile, the license of seven other midwives is still under process and three midwives are apprenticing.

The clinic has one analyst but having no license. Besides, it has no pharmacist and standard operating procedure (SOP) of services and layout of the clinical service is not

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accordance with SOP. “Obstetric devices (antidote and ergometrine) are not complete; delivery room does not meet the designation requirements; and there is no sterilizator,” he explained.

Overall, the services are not in accordance with clinic service standards referring to the regulation of minister of health (PMK) No.9/2014 both in terms of standards, human resources and spatial arrangement.

Suarjaya questioned about the appreciation to Mrs. Robin Lim, as founder of the foundation, who received an award recently. “To help the poor, we have health financing for all Balinese people whose cost is covered by local government in the form of Jamkesda (regional health insurance) whose name is the Bali Mandara health insurance (JKBM),” he explained.

His agency also received a report that Mrs. Robin is a foreigner coming with a tourist visa. “She has no working permit and has violated the Law No.36/2009 on Health

and Law No.36/2014 on Health Officer,” he said.

In 2015, the clinic she built contributed to the death of pregnant women. According to him, those playing major role for the health of mother and children are village midwives spreading across 716 villages, 120 midwives in public health center, midwives of auxiliary public health center, hospitals and other health workers having worked hard to reduce maternal mortality and infant mortality rate.

Moreover, from the supervision by health agency team, Mrs. Robin disagrees with the infant immunization program posing a national program. “It is not the clinic in Ubud whose scope is small. We have hundreds of health clinics in Bali,” he said.

Manager of Bumi Sehat Clinic, Eka Yuliani, said that Robin Lim does not work in Bumi Sehat Clinic but only serves as the initiator.

Therefore, if Robin Lim does not have a health work permit, she does not violate the rules because she

does not handle patient.

“Indeed, she is not working here.

All the employees in the Bumi Sehat are local people, Robin Lim just serves as the initiator since long time ago, not become an employee here.

She is not in Indonesia so that the status is not working,” she explained when contacted by phone recently.

She added that all physicians and employees at the Bumi Sehat Clinic have got license and since 2017 the Bumi Sehat Clinic has a license as premier clinic from BPPT Gianyar with the recommendation of Gianyar health agency. In relation to the maternal mortality mentioned to have occurred at the Bumi Sehat Clinic, she told that the data are in the office.

“To my knowledge, I have never heard maternal mortality at Bumi Sehat. If necessary, we will refer the patients. There has been no maternal mortality. Usually, we will refer the patients. If they died at hospital, it is a different case. I have to open the file about the matter,” she said. (kmb42)

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Chinese structures are pictured in Subi Reef at disputed South China Sea, April 21, 2017.

S.Korea, U.S. warn of punishment for N.Korea; U.S. stresses sanctions

SEOUL - South Korea and the United States agreed on Thursday on “swift punitive measures” against North Korea in the event of more provocation, although the United States signalled sanctions and diplomatic pressure were its priorities for now.

As a standoff escalated over North

Korea’s nuclear weapons and longrange ballistic missiles, South Korea said the deployment of a U.S. antimissile defense system was moving ahead effectively a day after angry protests against the battery and fierce opposition to it from China.

“The two sides pledged that in the event of additional strategic

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A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor (R) is seen in Seongju, South Korea, April 26, 2017. Picture taken April 26, 2017.

provocation by the North to swiftly take punitive measures including a new U.N. Security Council resolution that are unbearable for the North,” the South’s presidential office said after its national security adviser, Kim Kwan-jin, held a phone call with his U.S. counterpart, H. R. McMaster.

The United States and North Korea have been stepping up warnings to each other in recent weeks over North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons and missiles in defiance of U.N. resolutions.

North Korea’s nuclear and missile threat is perhaps the most serious security challenge confronting U.S. President Donald Trump. He has vowed to stop it from being able to hit the United States with a nuclear missile.

Though it has warned “all options are on the table”, Trump’s administration said on Wednesday it aimed to push North Korea into dismantling its weapons programmes through tougher sanctions and diplomatic pressure, and it remained open to talks.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats described North Korea as “an urgent national security threat and top foreign policy priority”.

The U.S. signal of a willingness to exhaust non-military avenues came as the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group approached Korean waters, where it will join the USS Michigan nuclear submarine.

North Korea says it needs to develop weapons to defend itself and has vowed to strike the United States and its Asian allies at the first sign of any attack on it.

PROTESTS South Korea on Wednesday moved parts of a U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, missile defense system to its deployment site, on what had been a golf course, about 250 km (155 miles) south of the capital, Seoul, signalling a faster installation of the system.

Several hundred South Korean villagers protested near the site, hurling water bottles at vehicles moving the parts in.

The top U.S. Commander in the

Pacific Admiral Harry Harris said on Wednesday the THAAD system would be operational “in coming days” bolstering the ability to defend the U.S. ally and the 28,500 U.S. troops stationed there.

The United States and South Korea agreed last year to deploy the THAAD to counter the threat of missile launches by North Korea. They say it is solely aimed at defending against North Korea.

But China says the system’s advanced radar can penetrate deep into its territory and undermine its security, while it will do little to deter the North, and is adamant in its opposition.

Influential Chinese tabloid, the Global Times, run by the Communist Party’s official People’s Daily, in a harshly worded editorial denounced South Korea’s decision to move ahead with the THAAD deployment saying it undermined China’s effort to ease tensions on the peninsula.

“South Korea must pay the price for its arrogance. Seoul, by turning the peninsula into a powder keg together with the North, is playing with fire,” it said. (rtr)

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BUSINESS Fed, wary of inflation, could lean against Trump tax cut WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s plan to slash business and household taxes could shift the U.S. economy into higher gear, but it may have one effect the White House would not welcome - interest rates ratcheted higher than expected by a wary central bank.

The Trump administration says hundreds of billions of dollars fed into the economy via deep cuts in business taxes and more generous exemptions for individuals will unleash a wave of investment and make the U.S. economy more competitive than ever.

But the plan, if approved in the form Trump officials outlined on Wednesday, could add inflationary fuel to an economy already running near full capacity, a risk Federal Reserve officials have been warning about since Trump got elected.

Confronted with the prospect of massive cuts that would slash the corporate tax rate to 15 percent from 35 percent and overhaul the personal tax code, Fed officials will need to start debating if they can maintain a measured pace of rate hikes or they might need to move faster, say analysts and economists who follow the U.S. central bank.

The Fed aims to hold inflation at around 2 percent, and is close to that threshold, with its target short term rate expected to rise two more times, to about 1.5 percentage points, by the end of the year.

Trump has said he hopes low rates will continue, a potential source of friction with the Fed if officials do decide they need to move faster because of his policies.

An estimated up to $700 billion a year in tax cuts could threaten to derail such a scenario, especially if not all of that money finds its way into productive investments, or drives price and wage hikes. “The

premise is that all the tax savings get plowed into high-return investments to generate growth. But if they don’t and they just get churned around into M&A and other financial engineering things, it’s even worse because you’re raising risks elsewhere in the economy,” said Mark Mazur, former U.S. treasury assistant secretary for tax policy during the Obama administration, now head of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center in Washington.

Uncertainty as to whether and in what shape the plan will get implemented adds to other challenges the Fed faces in trying to chart its course over the next several months.

LOOMING THREATS The threat of a government shutdown and renewed debate over the federal debt ceiling late this summer or early in the fall will test both the new administration and the Fed’s ability to set its policy course. Republican and Democratic lawmakers need to pass a series of bills to keep the government running, but are sparring over issues such as whether to fund a border wall with Mexico.

Government closures, forced budget cuts, and a tense 2013 debt ceiling debate have thrown the Fed off course before, dragging down economic growth and idling hundreds of thousands of workers.

Taken together, the coming discussions will be critical for the Fed and for world markets looking for proof Trump can oversee

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FILE PHOTO: U.S. National Economic Director Gary Cohn (L) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin end their breifing after unveiling the Trump administration’s tax reform proposal in the White House briefing room in Washington, U.S, April 26, 2017. a functioning government, said David Stockton, a former Fed research director now with the Peterson Institute of International Economics.

“If you have a shutdown followed by a serious flirtation with default...some of the optimism built into household and business confidence could deflate and deflate pretty quickly,” Stockton said. “If all of a sudden it begins to look like even with one party in control nothing seems to be happening, it could be a shock.”

For the Fed, those would be self-inflicted wounds in an otherwise calm economic environment.

From healthy corporate profits to strong consumer confidence and

geopolitical developments like the recent French election results, events have been breaking in favor of steady U.S. growth and job gains - and a gradual pace of Fed rate increases.

Policymakers currently foresee two more rate increases this year, a view investors largely accept in how they have priced different securities. So far, policymakers have been hesitant to mold their thinking too much around speculation about what Trump might do because details have been scant and Congress’ reaction uncertain.

With the scope of the tax plan now revealed and fiscal deadlines on the horizon, that is now likely to

change - for better or worse.

Though the Republicans now control both the White House and the Congress, there is no guarantee they will easily reach agreement on either spending or tax plans, or on the debt ceiling. Divisions in the GOP doomed Trump’s first stab at healthcare overhaul, and some Republican lawmakers are likely to oppose either raising the debt limit or cutting taxes too much because of the larger deficits that would produce.

“The next few months are going to be make or break. They are going to have to show they are going to get something done,” said IHS Markit economist Chris Christopher.(rtr)

UK tourism set for boost from weak pound and “staycationers” - survey

LONDON - The British hotel and leisure industry is set for a bumper year as a weak pound boosts demand from foreign tourists and deters Britons from travelling abroad, a survey by Barclays showed on Thursday.

Nearly two-thirds of international holidaymakers surveyed by the bank said they were more interested in

holidaying in the UK compared with this time last year. The top driver of this was the weaker pound, cited by 31 percent, while greater spending power was cited by 30 percent.

“2017 looks set to be a strong year for the British hospitality sector with both domestic and international visitors increasingly intent on spending more time here,”

Mike Saul, head of hospitality and leisure at Barclays, said.

“The impact of a weak sterling, at least temporarily, has boosted the UK’s international appeal.”

The weaker pound means that Britons conversely get less bang for their buck abroad, and rising inflation is also fuelling demand from domestic holidaymakers.

Nearly a third of UK holidaymakers expected to spend more of their holiday time in Britain this year, and 38 percent of those who cited cost as a factor said that the weaker pound had made holidays in the UK preferable to going abroad.

The pound is down around 15 percent since Britain voted to leave the European Union. Out of interna-

tional holidaymakers, 31 percent said they were more likely to visit Britain than before the referendum last June, although about a half of those asked said the vote had no impact on their likelihood of making a trip.

The Barclays report surveyed almost 10,000 guests from the UK, continental Europe, the US, Middle East, Asia and Australia.(rtr)

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Cetho Temple in Karanganyar, Heritage of Hindu Kingdom Becomes a Tourist Attraction

Cetho Temple is one of the tourist attractions thronged by many domestic and foreign travelers lately. It is located at Cetho hamlet, Gumeng, Jenawi, Karanganyar, Central Java. Located on highland with various local plants, tea plantations, onions and others make it have a cool atmosphere offering a very beautiful panorama.

View of the mountains from around the temple area looks very beautiful. There are Mount Merbabu and Mount Merapi. Besides, visitors are also presented with a wide view of Surakarta City and Karanganyar City spreading below. Especially at night, visitors will be pampers with beautiful view of sparkling street lighting and home lighting.

Domestic travelers mainly those from the Island of the Gods (Bali) often take advantage of this historic place to perform spiritual tourism activities. As on Wednesday (Apr. 19), Regent of Badung, Nyoman Giri Prasta, with his entourage on the sidelines of the activities of Development Information Week (PIP) in Kudus and Bantul district did joint prayers at the temple resembling a stepped pyramid, while foreign travelers only perpetuated the existing moment.

Harsono, a tourism officer at local village, said that every day there are always travelers visiting the Cetho Temple tourist attraction. On national holidays, domestic travelers from Surabaya and other cities

in Java usually visit this temple and so do foreign travelers. “This month, the foreign tourists visit can be counted on fingers, but different from June where foreign travelers throng this attraction,” he said.

The temple complex is usually taken advantage by the locals as well as Hindu pilgrims to say prayers. In addition, this temple also poses a hermitage for the people remaining to practice ancient Javanese religious tradition.

Priest of Cetho Temple said that at the time of piodalan or temple festival there are unique activities becoming the main attraction to travelers. The festival held every 210 days precisely on Anggara Kasih Medangsia is followed by all pilgrims living at Cetho hamlet, not only the Hindus, but also the Muslim and Christian residents. They perform spiritual activities based on the customs of Cetho hamlet that work in mutual help.

Cetho hamlet is inhabited by 100 family heads. Seventy families practicing Hinduism firstly present pejati offerings containing

Mouth-watering Rambutan Salad Really Tempts

Have you ever tasted rambutan salad? Having tried, you will definitely get addicted because this kind of salad is relatively new.

However, it has been already familiar among young people. Other than tasting chewy and sweet, rambutan salad is also very easy to make.

Youngsters that like to hang out are fond of making it. Moreover, on Hindu feast, young people must have tried this salad.

No one can make sure, when this rambutan salad first appeared and who made it. This rambutan salad became famous when it appears in social media. Youngsters take advantage of technology to tease their friends. They prepare very neatly and attractively, so that many people are tempted to taste it. Well, it is just like a magnet, people have vied to make it though never tasted it before.

Rambutan salad does have a different taste. Other than being chewy, the flesh also tastes sweet.

Moreover, the water of its salad tastes very sweet. Certainly, it is naturally sweet. Lime sliced into circular pieces makes this salad distinctive, apart from looking beautiful. If wishing to get spicy flavor, you just need to add chili to taste.

The ingredients are rambutan and lime, while the seasonings include (white) sugar, salt and chili.

Indeed it tastes delicious, but do not eat this salad too much, because it can result in fever and cough. In this case, people are encouraged to control themselves so that do not be complacent in the enjoyment.

How to prepare it? First of all, exfoliate the skin of rambutan and then put into the basin. After that, add some salt, chili and white sugar and stir until blended (can be finely grounded).

Add a lemon having been squeezed, so that it will be watery. Flesh of the rambutan and spices are then mixed together and stir to get well blended.

Furthermore, thinly slice the lime ??and put on the flesh of rambutan. Now, it is ready to be served! (kmb)

roasted chicken. The offerings are made by each family head. After being presented, they undertake joint meals. As requirement, each family head is not allowed to enjoy their respective roasted chicken, but must enjoy the one made by another family head. “Until now, this tradition remains sustainable as a form of tolerance among the people,” said Harsono.

Historically, Cetho Temple in Karanganyar was built around the fifteenth century at

the end of the Majapahit Hindu Kingdom.

Cetho Temple was found by a Dutch archaeologist named Van de Vlies around 1842.

When first found, the condition of Cetho Temple was very apprehensive where there were only 14 terraces with the rock conditions having been covered by moss. Later, the restoration was made by Humardani, a personal assistant to President Soeharto in 1970. (kmb)

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Hooded youths in Venezuela mar opposition efforts at peaceful protest

CARACAS - Protesters blocked a highway in Venezuela’s capital Caracas for nearly eight hours this week in an effort to show the opposition’s dedication to civil disobedience as their main tool to resist President Nicolas Maduro.

But by the end of the afternoon, hooded youths had filled the highway with burning debris, looted a government storage site, torched two trucks and stolen medical equipment from an ambulance.

“This is no peaceful protest, they’re damaging something that belongs to the state and could be used to help one of their own family members,” said Wilbani Leon, head of a paramedic team that services Caracas highways, showing the damage to the ambulance.

Anti-government demonstrations entering their fourth week are being marred by street violence despite condemnation by opposition leaders and clear instructions that the protests should be peaceful.

Such daytime violence also increasingly presages late-night looting of businesses in working-class areas of Caracas, a sign that political protests could extend into broad disruptions of public order driven by growing hunger.

The opposition’s so-far unsuccessful struggle to contain its violent factions has helped Maduro depict it as a group of thugs plotting to overthrow him the way opposition leaders briefly ousted late socialist leader Hugo Chavez in 2002.

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, VIOLENT PROTEST

The unrest has killed at least 29 people so far and was triggered by a Supreme Court decision in March to briefly assume powers of the opposition Congress.

Maduro’s opponents say the former bus driver and union leader who took office four years ago has turned into a dictator.

The vast majority of demonstrators shun the violence that usually starts when marches are winding down or after security forces break up protests.

That gives way to small groups of protesters, many with faces covered, who set fire to trash and rip gates off private establishments or drag sheet metal from construction sites to build barricades.

They clash with security forces in confused melees.

Police and troops break up the demonstrations by firing copious amounts of tear gas that often floods nearby apartment buildings and in some cases health clinics.

The opposition has blamed the disturbances on infiltrators planted by the ruling Socialist Party to delegitimize protests, which demand Maduro hold delayed elections and respect the autonomy of the opposition-run Congress.

But even before rallies devolve into street violence, tensions frequently surface between demonstrators seeking peaceful civil disobedience and those looking for confrontation - some of whom are ordinary Venezuelans angry over chronic product shortages and triple-digit inflation. (rtr)

reached the Americas by about 130,000 years ago, far earlier than previously known.

The researchers called five rudimentary tools -- hammerstones and anvils -- discovered in San Diego County alongside fossil bones

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Paleontologist Don Swanson points at rock fragments near a large horizontal mastodon tusk fragment at the San Diego Natural History Museum in San Diego, California, U.S., in this handout photo received April 26, 2017.

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The president compared the struggle against Gulen with the state’s battle against Islamic State

and Kurdish PKK militants, who are designated terrorist organisations by Turkey, the European Union and the United States.

“We are going to keep up the fight in terms of democracy, fundamental rights and liberties, but at

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Demonstrators build barricades during a rally against Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela April 24, 2017.

from the prehistoric elephant relative compelling evidence, though circumstantial, for the presence of either our species or an extinct cousin like Neanderthals.

San Diego Natural History Museum paleontologist Tom Deméré said until now the oldest widely accepted date for human presence in the New World was 14,000 to 15,000 years ago, making the San Diego site nearly 10 times older.

The finding would radically rewrite the understanding of when humans reached the New World, through some scientists not involved in the study voiced skepticism.

“If the date of 130,000 years old is genuine, then this is one of the biggest discoveries in American archeology,” University of Southampton paleolithic archeologist John McNabb, who was not involved in the research and called himself “still a little skeptical.”

No human skeletal remains were found. But the stone tools’ wear and impact marks and the way in which

mastodon limb bones and molars were broken, apparently in a deliberate manner shortly after the animal’s death, convinced the researchers humans were responsible. They performed experiments using comparable tools on elephant bones and produced similar fracture patterns.

“People were here breaking up the limb bones of this mastodon, removing some of the big, thick pieces of mastodon limb bones, probably to make tools out of, and they may have also been extracting some of the marrow for food,” said archeologist Steven Holen of the Center for American Paleolithic Research in South Dakota.

U.S. Geological Survey geologist James Paces used state-of-theart dating methods to determine the mastodon bones, tooth enamel and tusks were 131,000 years old, plus or minus about 9,000 years.

Some skeptics suggested alternative explanations about the material excavated beginning in 1992 at a freeway construction site, suggesting the bones may

have been broken recently by heavy construction equipment rather than by ancient humans.

the same time we are going to keep up the fight against PKK, FETO and other terrorist organizations such as Daesh (Islamic State),” he said. “We will continue down this path in a very committed fashion.”

Mass detentions immediately

after the attempted coup were supported by many Turks, who agreed with Erdogan when he blamed Gulen for orchestrating the putsch which killed 240 people, mostly civilians. But criticism mounted as the arrests widened.

Many relatives of those detained or sacked since July say they have nothing to do with the armed attempt to overthrow the government, and are victims of a purge designed to solidify Erdogan’s control. (rtr)

‘HARD TO ARGUE’

The researchers defended their conclusions, published in the journal Nature. “It’s hard to argue with the clear and remarkable evidence that we can see in all of this material,” said archeologist Richard Fullagar of Australia’s University of Wollongong, calling the conclusions “truly incontrovertible.”

Our species, Homo sapiens, first appeared in Africa about 200,000 years ago and later spread worldwide. Timing of the New World arrival has been contentious. Genetic data suggests it was roughly 23,000 years ago, though archeological evidence is lacking.

The researchers said the humans at the site could have been Homo sapiens or an extinct species such as Neanderthals, already known to have lived in Siberia, or Denisovans, known from only scant remains. (rtr)

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Indonesian president’s coalition shows fractures, exit poll shows

JAKARTA - A polarising election for Jakarta governor saw Islamic identity politics come to the fore and exposed fractures in Indonesian president Joko Widodo’s fragile ruling coalition, an exit poll has revealed.

California fossils, stone tools may rewrite New World human history

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Widodo’s political ally Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the ethnic Chinese Christian incumbent, was resoundingly defeated by Muslim rival Anies Baswedan in a vote seen as a litmus test of the secular traditions of the world’s largest Muslim-majority country.

Unpublished data from an exit poll by Litbang Kompas, which Reuters reviewed, found “same religion” was by far the most common reason why voters supported the victor. Just under 34 per cent of the 1,289 respondents surveyed at 400 polling stations across the Indonesian capital cited religion as the primary reason for backing Baswedan, followed by 14.9 per

cent who cited “being with the common people”.

“The biggest share of Anies supporters based their choice on similarity in religion and ethnicity,” said Bestian Nainggolan, a researcher at Litbang Kompas, a leading pollster. “Programmes and performance were not a dominant consideration.”

The exit poll also showed voters who were allied to political parties in Widodo’s unwieldy parliamentary coalition, often rejected Purnama - a key ally of the president.

The trends in the Jakarta race are being closely scrutinized for pointers in the next presidential election in 2019, when Prabowo

Subianto, who backed Baswedan, may again challenge President Widodo. Subianto lost the 2014 contest to Widodo.

Before he won the presidency in 2014, Widodo was the governor in Jakarta and Purnama his deputy.

Widodo, the first Indonesian leader to come from outside the political and military establishment, relies on an unstable coalition of parties in parliament needed to pass his reform programme.

DIDN’T MOBILIZE VOTERS

Supporters of the United Development Party (PPP) and the National Awakening Party (PKB), two Islamic parties in Widodo’s coalition, mostly voted for Baswedan - despite the parties formal backing for the incumbent governor. Just 29 per cent of PKB supporters, and 11 per cent of PPP loyalists, supported Purnama, known by his nickname Ahok.

“It’s hard to know if the leaders of these two parties were serious about supporting Ahok or they just wanted the money, the funding for the campaign,” said Ade Armando, a researcher at SMRC. “They did not do a lot to mobilise their supporters.”

More worrying still for the president were the voting patterns of supporters of two bigger parties in his coalition - Hanura and Golkar - that also supposedly backed Purnama. Just 38 per cent of supporters of Hanura, the party of Widodo’s co-ordinating minister for security Wiranto, backed Purnama, the poll found. Six out of 10 supporters of Golkar, the party of Vice President Jusuf Kalla, voted for him.

Golkar, the party created by former authoritarian president Suharto, is Indonesia’s second largest. As a delighted Baswedan declared victory on Wednesday, he was flanked by Aburizal Bakrie, a former Golkar chairman. Also with him was Erwin Aksa, another Golkar figure and Kalla’s nephew.

NO VOTE FOR NON-MUSLIM

A blunt-talking reformer, Purnama enjoyed soaring public approval as governor for policies targeting infrastructure, flood mitigation, waste management and corruption eradication in Indonesia’s teeming, clogged capital. That support - at least when it came to voting intentions - dramatically reversed in October after Purnama was accused of insulting a passage of the Koran

Indonesian President Joko Widodo

interpreted by some as prohibiting Muslims from voting for those of other faiths.

Amid large, well-funded rallies in November and December, where hundreds of thousands of protesters heard calls for his imprisonment, Purnama - widely known by his nickname Ahok - was put on trial for blasphemy.

A little over a week ago, pollster SMRC found 76 per cent approved of Purnama’s performance as governor, while 48 per cent said they would vote for him.

The divide between Purnama’s performance rating as governor and voter approval could be explained by the potency of the message that Muslims could not support a Christian candidate, SMRC’s Armando said.

While the Jakarta election points to the rising influence of conservative Islam in Indonesian politics, and his ally defeated under extraordinary circumstances, Widodo remains personally popular.

“The vote (Wednesday) was not a rejection of him or his policies — rather, other factors were at play,” political risk consultancy Eurasia Group said in a research note. (rtr)

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Kedonganan Seafood Restaurants MANGUPURA - Kedonganan seafood cafés and restaurants line the coast of the namesake fishing village, serving the day’s catch fresh from the sea, while you can enjoy ocean views with your feet in the sand. The dining destination is only half a kilometre north of the popular Jimbaran Bay, otherwise known as Muaya Beach. Sumptuous grilled seafood feasts, paired with Bali’s dramatic sunsets, is the main draw of the seafood restaurants in Kedonganan. It offers a large variety to choose from, and while most feature a reasonable price range, some venues within the cluster are upmarket with fresh, modern designs and refined settings. Some venues are open early for lunch, others in time for sunset and until late. These venues offer fresh-grilled seafood served at neat parasol-shaded or candlelit tables spread out on the sand. The strip of Kedonganan seafood cafés and restaurants are positioned at a good distance to Ngurah Rai International Airport’s landing strip; providing a unique evening backdrop but with jet sounds only faintly audible. Gently lapping waves, distant boat lights on the water and the glimmering airport runway lights to your right all combine to provide a wonderful alfresco dining experience under

the stars. There are over a dozen different venues in Kedonganan, which provide a great variety to choose from and with ample parking space available.

Take your pick!

Most of the Kedonganan seafood cafés and restaurants feature indoor and outdoor seating options. Each strives to offer something a bit different to its neighbour, be it the atmosphere, setup, entertainment features or, most of all, the signature homemade barbecue marinades and sambal dip recipes.

The seafood variety is similar: red snapper, grouper, calamari, lobster, crabs, clams, shrimps and prawns, and selections of local salad mixes and western-style sides. A common serving of a ‘Balinese seafood platter’ package normally consists of grilled fish, clams, fish satays, prawn or crab, stir-fried snake beans, a basket of steamed rice and a bowl of fish soup, ranging between IDR 150,000 and 300,000. Ice-cold Bintang or fresh-cut coconut washes your meals down perfectly.

Preparation options for a la carte items aren’t limited to the grill. For example, you can have your snapper steamed, stir-fried, or you can opt for the traditional banana leaf-wrapped ‘pepes’ style

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Sharapova marks comeback from ban with win over Vinci

STUTTGART - Former world number one Maria Sharapova made a winning comeback to the tour on Wednesday following her 15-month doping ban, beating Italian Roberta Vinci in straight sets in the first round of the Stuttgart Grand Prix.

for a local dining experience.

Some higher-end venues also feature western menu options, and a bar with a great selection of cocktails to accompany your predinners and sunsets.

No, it’s Not Jimbaran!

Upon inquiring about ‘the best

place to enjoy seafood at sunset in Bali’, your hotel concierge and local tips might lead you to the seafood cafes on Muaya Beach. However, make your turn into the village of Kedonganan, famous for its fisherman’s landing site and adjacent bustling fish market. In fact, this is the

island’s main source of fresh daily local catches, and where local restaurant owners and fivestar chefs come to handpick their prized seafood. The cluster of Kedonganan seafood cafes and restaurants are only a short distance from the fish market and landing site. (IBP/net)

The 30-year-old Russian, a three-times winner on Stuttgart’s clay courts, received a controversial wild card for the German tournament, having had no ranking points after more than a year out following her suspension.

She had a nervous start in front of a supportive crowd but quickly found her strokes and her trademark shrieks to power past the world number 36 7-5 6-3 and set up a second-round clash against fellow Russian Ekaterina Makarova.

“It’s the best feeling in the world. To know I would be walking back into the arena was very special,” Sharapova said in a courtside interview. “I was waiting

for this moment for a long time.”

She added: “When I am on the court, because I have been doing it for so long, even though you are rusty and trying to get a rhythm, you try to block everything out. I am a competitor by nature. That’s when I am at my best.”

Sharapova has also received invitations to play in Madrid and Rome and will find out in May whether she will be given a wild card for the French Open.

Some players, including Vinci, have criticised the wild card awards, saying a doping offender should have to start from scratch and build up their ranking by playing in the lower tournaments again.

“I am not an individual that’s

angry or bitter. I let things go,” she told a post-match news conference. “I am being offered wild cards from tournament directors.

I am not getting a wild card to receive a trophy or a gold platter.

“I still have to go through matches and win them.”

REDUCED BAN Sharapova’s initial two-year suspension was reduced to 15 months after she tested positive at the 2016 Australian Open for meldonium, a medication the Russian had been taking within the rules but which was then reclassified as a banned drug.

“It’s important to play, points, games, sets. It is a journey that officially starts today and I look forward to playing as many matches as I can,” said Sharapova, the second highest paid female athlete last year according to Forbes. (rtr)

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SOCHI - Formula One champions Mercedes have led every lap of every Russian Grand Prix since the race made its debut around Sochi’s Olympic Park in 2014 but Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel will aim to break that streak this weekend.

The four times world champion is enjoying his best start to a season since he was at Red Bull in 2011, leading Lewis Hamilton by seven points after two wins and a second place from the first three races.

Another win, at the street circuit where the German finished second in 2015, would signal Ferrari’s best opening four races since 2008.

“Things start to click and hopefully that sort of success now in the first couple of races helps us to build up some sort of momentum that maybe these guys (Mercedes) had in the past,” said Vettel after winning in Bahrain on April 16.

Hamilton, presented with the winner’s trophy

by Russian president Vladimir Putin in 2014 and 2015 before now-retired Mercedes team mate and champion Nico Rosberg won from pole position last year, felt the pain in Bahrain.

“We’re going to push hard together, re-gather as a team and come back fighting,” he said after collecting a time penalty and finishing second.

Mercedes, who still look faster over a single lap in qualifying, have done plenty of homework since then but recognise they have a battle on their hands.

“In this season with these new regulations, you can’t take anything for granted,” said team boss Toto Wolff.

“The trophies of previous years don’t guarantee that we’ll be winning in Russia when you

have a very fierce competitor like we do in Ferrari. We’ll take it one step at a time...”

Hamilton saw team mate Valtteri Bottas take a career first pole position in Bahrain and the Finn has a good track record in Sochi too, setting aside a last lap collision with Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen in 2015 while battling for third place.

Bottas set the first fastest lap of his career there in 2014, on his way to third place, and it is a layout that he likes.

“I have always been comfortable there so we will see. It’s a completely different type of track again, completely different kind of temperatures, different asphalt so many different things. We’ll see,” he said.

Red Bull, the only team to beat Mercedes last season, have yet to reach the podium in Sochi but both Australian Daniel Ricciardo and Dutch teenager Max Verstappen are hoping for more excitement this time with cars loading more Gforces than previously.

“I expect this year for the track to be grippy and with these cars it should be quite fast,” said Ricciardo. “I would say it’s going to be more enjoyable than it has been so I’m looking forward to that.”

Behind them, Force India’s Sergio Perez is chasing his 14th successive scoring finish while Sauber and McLaren have yet to open their accounts for the season.

Toro Rosso’s Spanish driver Carlos Sainz has a three-place grid penalty for his Bahrain collision with Williams’ Canadian rookie Lance Stroll, who has yet to see the chequered flag. (rtr)

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Mexico’s Pachuca players hold up the trophy after winning the CONCACAF Champions Cup against Tigres.

Pachuca lift CONCACAF title after 1-0 win over Tigres

MEXICO CITY - A late goal from Franco Jara gave Pachuca a 1-0 win over Tigres on Wednesday and helped the Mexican side to their fifth CONCACAF Champions League title with a 2-1 aggregate victory. With 83 minutes gone, a long-range shot slipped from the hands of Tigres goalkeeper Nahuel Guzman and Jara nipped in to side-foot the ball home from eight yards out.

Tigres’ French striker Andre-Pierre Gignac scored with less than a minute of injury time left but the goal that would have taken the game to extra-time was chalked off for offside. The two teams tied the first leg 1-1 in Monterrey last week.

“It was tough but we deserved it, Pachuca are always going to give 100 percent to get these results,” Pachuca midfielder Jorge Hernandez told Fox Sports moments after the final whistle.

Both sides had chances to win what was a scrappy and hotly-contested game, with Gignac smacking the bar with a ferocious 30-yard drive after 33 minutes

Spurs must have bigger dreams than beating Arsenal

Real Madrid, Barcelona still neck and neck after big wins

and Jara heading straight at Guzman a minute before half time. The turning point of the game might have been the sending off of Tigres’s combative midfielder Guido Pizarro for a second bookable offence after 78 minutes.

Moments later Jara got the winner and there was no way back for a Tigres side that have been dominant domestically but unable to add an international title to their list of honours. Pachuca’s victory marks the ninth consecutive time that a Mexican club has won the competition.

Their win at a packed Hidalgo stadium extended the club’s unbeaten home record to 31 games and meant they will represent the CONCACAF region at the World Club Cup in United Arab Emirates later this year.

Pachuca previously won the CONCACAF Champions League in 2002, 2007, 2008 and 2010 and have appeared in the World Club Cup three times previously.

The CONCACAF Champions League started in August last year and featured 24 teams from North America, Central America and the Caribbean. (rtr)

BARCELONA - Real Madrid thrashed Deportivo La Coruna 6-2 to stay level with Barcelona at the top of La Liga on Wednesday after the Catalans crushed Osasuna 7-1, condemning the minnows to relegation. Lionel Messi, Andre Gomes and Paco Alcacer scored twice each and Javier Mascherano netted his first goal for the club from the penalty spot as Barcelona built on Sunday’s Clasico victory.

Real, though, showed they would not be easily toppled. Zinedine Zidane made nine changes for the trip to the Riazor but Madrid’s reserves still made light work of Depor, with Isco running the show and finding the net along with James Rodriguez, who hit a brace, Alvaro Morata, Lucas Vazquez and substitute Casemiro.

Madrid have 78 points from 33 games, while Barcelona have the same tally from one game more.

Osasuna, rooted in 20th place, were relegated after 17th-placed Leganes beat Las Palmas 3-0 to move 12 points clear of the bottom club, an insurmountable total with four games to go because of their inferior head-to-head record.

“We had to win. We have suffered a lot since January. We’ve lacked both points and luck, and when that’s the case it’s hard to turn things around,” said Osasuna coach Petar Vasiljevic. Messi opened the scoring with a mazy dribble capped with a neat chip over goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu before Gomes volleyed home Ivan Rakitic’s cross to

double the lead.

Roberto Torres whipped in a free kick just after halftime to drag his team back into the match before Barcelona ran riot with a flurry of goals.

“I think it was a complete performance,” said Barcelona coach Luis Enrique. “When they got back to 2-1, which was the worst moment because they’re back in the game and you never know, we were able to put our foot on the accelerator and close the game out.

“The way we played, we deserved to win by a large margin.”

Madrid deserved much the same against Depor after dominating from the start. It took Alvaro Morata just 52 seconds to find the net after being played in by Isco with James Rodriguez slamming home the second from a Lucas Vazquez cross.

Florin Andone scored from close range, stabbing home Gael Kakuta’s cross-shot in the 35th minute, to give his side a glimmer of hope but nine minutes later Vazquez scored Madrid’s third.

Rodriguez and Isco struck before Joselu’s header gave Depor fans some late cheer but Casemiro had the last word and restored Madrid’s four-goal lead in the 87th minute.

“Isco was phenomenal,” said Zidane. “He does things on the pitch that not everybody can. The fans congratulated him, I am happy for him, for the work he does. When he has to play he always does his job.” (rtr)

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi celebrates a goal.

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Tottenham’s Christian Eriksen celebrates scoring their first goal

Action Images via Reuters / Matthew Childs

Wales’ Taylor banned for two games after leg-breaking tackle Wales defender Neil Taylor has been banned for two international matches after his wild tackle left Republic of Ireland’s Seamus Coleman with a double leg fracture in last month’s World Cup qualifier.

Ireland fullback Coleman left the field on a stretcher, with an oxygen mask on his face, after Taylor recklessly clattered into him on 68 minutes of the encounter. Taylor, who was immediately sent off, will miss Wales’ next two World Cup qualifiers against Serbia and Austria.

“Following a meeting of FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee, the FAW can confirm that Neil Taylor has been suspended for two matches,” the Welsh FA said in a statement.

Everton’s Coleman, who underwent surgery on the injury, could be out of action for up to a year. (rtr)

Neil Taylor is sent off for his tackle on Seamus Coleman

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Tottenham Hotspur look destined to finish above Arsenal for the first time in more than 20 years this season but manager Mauricio Pochettino wants his side to focus on the big picture rather than be consumed with north London bragging rights.

Arsenal have mocked their rivals for years by celebrating St Totteringham’s Day, the moment when Spurs can no longer overtake them in the league.

Spurs were close to breaking the run last season but ended third, one spot below Arsenal, after winning two of their last seven fixtures.

This season, however, they are on an eight-game winning streak in the league and are just four points behind leaders Chelsea with five games left.

Spurs are also 14 points above Arsenal, who they host on Sunday.

A Spurs victory will ensure they finish above their rivals for the first time since the 1994/95 season. “We know what Arsenal means, this game,” Pochettino said.

“Our challenge now is to try and reduce the gap to Chelsea again and think about bigger things than only to be above Arsenal.

“For one day, to win big trophies and achieve big things, your mentality must be bigger. You must think about bigger dreams.”

Tottenham, who won 1-0 at Crystal Palace on Wednesday, are unbeaten in their 17 league fixtures at White Hart Lane this season while Arsenal have lost four of their last five away games in the league. (rtr)

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Mexico’s Pachuca players hold up the trophy after winning the CONCACAF Champions Cup against Tigres.

Pachuca lift CONCACAF title after 1-0 win over Tigres

MEXICO CITY - A late goal from Franco Jara gave Pachuca a 1-0 win over Tigres on Wednesday and helped the Mexican side to their fifth CONCACAF Champions League title with a 2-1 aggregate victory. With 83 minutes gone, a long-range shot slipped from the hands of Tigres goalkeeper Nahuel Guzman and Jara nipped in to side-foot the ball home from eight yards out.

Tigres’ French striker Andre-Pierre Gignac scored with less than a minute of injury time left but the goal that would have taken the game to extra-time was chalked off for offside. The two teams tied the first leg 1-1 in Monterrey last week.

“It was tough but we deserved it, Pachuca are always going to give 100 percent to get these results,” Pachuca midfielder Jorge Hernandez told Fox Sports moments after the final whistle.

Both sides had chances to win what was a scrappy and hotly-contested game, with Gignac smacking the bar with a ferocious 30-yard drive after 33 minutes

Spurs must have bigger dreams than beating Arsenal

Real Madrid, Barcelona still neck and neck after big wins

and Jara heading straight at Guzman a minute before half time. The turning point of the game might have been the sending off of Tigres’s combative midfielder Guido Pizarro for a second bookable offence after 78 minutes.

Moments later Jara got the winner and there was no way back for a Tigres side that have been dominant domestically but unable to add an international title to their list of honours. Pachuca’s victory marks the ninth consecutive time that a Mexican club has won the competition.

Their win at a packed Hidalgo stadium extended the club’s unbeaten home record to 31 games and meant they will represent the CONCACAF region at the World Club Cup in United Arab Emirates later this year.

Pachuca previously won the CONCACAF Champions League in 2002, 2007, 2008 and 2010 and have appeared in the World Club Cup three times previously.

The CONCACAF Champions League started in August last year and featured 24 teams from North America, Central America and the Caribbean. (rtr)

BARCELONA - Real Madrid thrashed Deportivo La Coruna 6-2 to stay level with Barcelona at the top of La Liga on Wednesday after the Catalans crushed Osasuna 7-1, condemning the minnows to relegation. Lionel Messi, Andre Gomes and Paco Alcacer scored twice each and Javier Mascherano netted his first goal for the club from the penalty spot as Barcelona built on Sunday’s Clasico victory.

Real, though, showed they would not be easily toppled. Zinedine Zidane made nine changes for the trip to the Riazor but Madrid’s reserves still made light work of Depor, with Isco running the show and finding the net along with James Rodriguez, who hit a brace, Alvaro Morata, Lucas Vazquez and substitute Casemiro.

Madrid have 78 points from 33 games, while Barcelona have the same tally from one game more.

Osasuna, rooted in 20th place, were relegated after 17th-placed Leganes beat Las Palmas 3-0 to move 12 points clear of the bottom club, an insurmountable total with four games to go because of their inferior head-to-head record.

“We had to win. We have suffered a lot since January. We’ve lacked both points and luck, and when that’s the case it’s hard to turn things around,” said Osasuna coach Petar Vasiljevic. Messi opened the scoring with a mazy dribble capped with a neat chip over goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu before Gomes volleyed home Ivan Rakitic’s cross to

double the lead.

Roberto Torres whipped in a free kick just after halftime to drag his team back into the match before Barcelona ran riot with a flurry of goals.

“I think it was a complete performance,” said Barcelona coach Luis Enrique. “When they got back to 2-1, which was the worst moment because they’re back in the game and you never know, we were able to put our foot on the accelerator and close the game out.

“The way we played, we deserved to win by a large margin.”

Madrid deserved much the same against Depor after dominating from the start. It took Alvaro Morata just 52 seconds to find the net after being played in by Isco with James Rodriguez slamming home the second from a Lucas Vazquez cross.

Florin Andone scored from close range, stabbing home Gael Kakuta’s cross-shot in the 35th minute, to give his side a glimmer of hope but nine minutes later Vazquez scored Madrid’s third.

Rodriguez and Isco struck before Joselu’s header gave Depor fans some late cheer but Casemiro had the last word and restored Madrid’s four-goal lead in the 87th minute.

“Isco was phenomenal,” said Zidane. “He does things on the pitch that not everybody can. The fans congratulated him, I am happy for him, for the work he does. When he has to play he always does his job.” (rtr)

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi celebrates a goal.

REUTERS/Albert Gea

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Tottenham’s Christian Eriksen celebrates scoring their first goal

Action Images via Reuters / Matthew Childs

Wales’ Taylor banned for two games after leg-breaking tackle Wales defender Neil Taylor has been banned for two international matches after his wild tackle left Republic of Ireland’s Seamus Coleman with a double leg fracture in last month’s World Cup qualifier.

Ireland fullback Coleman left the field on a stretcher, with an oxygen mask on his face, after Taylor recklessly clattered into him on 68 minutes of the encounter. Taylor, who was immediately sent off, will miss Wales’ next two World Cup qualifiers against Serbia and Austria.

“Following a meeting of FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee, the FAW can confirm that Neil Taylor has been suspended for two matches,” the Welsh FA said in a statement.

Everton’s Coleman, who underwent surgery on the injury, could be out of action for up to a year. (rtr)

Neil Taylor is sent off for his tackle on Seamus Coleman

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Tottenham Hotspur look destined to finish above Arsenal for the first time in more than 20 years this season but manager Mauricio Pochettino wants his side to focus on the big picture rather than be consumed with north London bragging rights.

Arsenal have mocked their rivals for years by celebrating St Totteringham’s Day, the moment when Spurs can no longer overtake them in the league.

Spurs were close to breaking the run last season but ended third, one spot below Arsenal, after winning two of their last seven fixtures.

This season, however, they are on an eight-game winning streak in the league and are just four points behind leaders Chelsea with five games left.

Spurs are also 14 points above Arsenal, who they host on Sunday.

A Spurs victory will ensure they finish above their rivals for the first time since the 1994/95 season. “We know what Arsenal means, this game,” Pochettino said.

“Our challenge now is to try and reduce the gap to Chelsea again and think about bigger things than only to be above Arsenal.

“For one day, to win big trophies and achieve big things, your mentality must be bigger. You must think about bigger dreams.”

Tottenham, who won 1-0 at Crystal Palace on Wednesday, are unbeaten in their 17 league fixtures at White Hart Lane this season while Arsenal have lost four of their last five away games in the league. (rtr)

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Kedonganan Seafood Restaurants MANGUPURA - Kedonganan seafood cafés and restaurants line the coast of the namesake fishing village, serving the day’s catch fresh from the sea, while you can enjoy ocean views with your feet in the sand. The dining destination is only half a kilometre north of the popular Jimbaran Bay, otherwise known as Muaya Beach. Sumptuous grilled seafood feasts, paired with Bali’s dramatic sunsets, is the main draw of the seafood restaurants in Kedonganan. It offers a large variety to choose from, and while most feature a reasonable price range, some venues within the cluster are upmarket with fresh, modern designs and refined settings. Some venues are open early for lunch, others in time for sunset and until late. These venues offer fresh-grilled seafood served at neat parasol-shaded or candlelit tables spread out on the sand. The strip of Kedonganan seafood cafés and restaurants are positioned at a good distance to Ngurah Rai International Airport’s landing strip; providing a unique evening backdrop but with jet sounds only faintly audible. Gently lapping waves, distant boat lights on the water and the glimmering airport runway lights to your right all combine to provide a wonderful alfresco dining experience under

the stars. There are over a dozen different venues in Kedonganan, which provide a great variety to choose from and with ample parking space available.

Take your pick!

Most of the Kedonganan seafood cafés and restaurants feature indoor and outdoor seating options. Each strives to offer something a bit different to its neighbour, be it the atmosphere, setup, entertainment features or, most of all, the signature homemade barbecue marinades and sambal dip recipes.

The seafood variety is similar: red snapper, grouper, calamari, lobster, crabs, clams, shrimps and prawns, and selections of local salad mixes and western-style sides. A common serving of a ‘Balinese seafood platter’ package normally consists of grilled fish, clams, fish satays, prawn or crab, stir-fried snake beans, a basket of steamed rice and a bowl of fish soup, ranging between IDR 150,000 and 300,000. Ice-cold Bintang or fresh-cut coconut washes your meals down perfectly.

Preparation options for a la carte items aren’t limited to the grill. For example, you can have your snapper steamed, stir-fried, or you can opt for the traditional banana leaf-wrapped ‘pepes’ style

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Sharapova marks comeback from ban with win over Vinci

STUTTGART - Former world number one Maria Sharapova made a winning comeback to the tour on Wednesday following her 15-month doping ban, beating Italian Roberta Vinci in straight sets in the first round of the Stuttgart Grand Prix.

for a local dining experience.

Some higher-end venues also feature western menu options, and a bar with a great selection of cocktails to accompany your predinners and sunsets.

No, it’s Not Jimbaran!

Upon inquiring about ‘the best

place to enjoy seafood at sunset in Bali’, your hotel concierge and local tips might lead you to the seafood cafes on Muaya Beach. However, make your turn into the village of Kedonganan, famous for its fisherman’s landing site and adjacent bustling fish market. In fact, this is the

island’s main source of fresh daily local catches, and where local restaurant owners and fivestar chefs come to handpick their prized seafood. The cluster of Kedonganan seafood cafes and restaurants are only a short distance from the fish market and landing site. (IBP/net)

The 30-year-old Russian, a three-times winner on Stuttgart’s clay courts, received a controversial wild card for the German tournament, having had no ranking points after more than a year out following her suspension.

She had a nervous start in front of a supportive crowd but quickly found her strokes and her trademark shrieks to power past the world number 36 7-5 6-3 and set up a second-round clash against fellow Russian Ekaterina Makarova.

“It’s the best feeling in the world. To know I would be walking back into the arena was very special,” Sharapova said in a courtside interview. “I was waiting

for this moment for a long time.”

She added: “When I am on the court, because I have been doing it for so long, even though you are rusty and trying to get a rhythm, you try to block everything out. I am a competitor by nature. That’s when I am at my best.”

Sharapova has also received invitations to play in Madrid and Rome and will find out in May whether she will be given a wild card for the French Open.

Some players, including Vinci, have criticised the wild card awards, saying a doping offender should have to start from scratch and build up their ranking by playing in the lower tournaments again.

“I am not an individual that’s

angry or bitter. I let things go,” she told a post-match news conference. “I am being offered wild cards from tournament directors.

I am not getting a wild card to receive a trophy or a gold platter.

“I still have to go through matches and win them.”

REDUCED BAN Sharapova’s initial two-year suspension was reduced to 15 months after she tested positive at the 2016 Australian Open for meldonium, a medication the Russian had been taking within the rules but which was then reclassified as a banned drug.

“It’s important to play, points, games, sets. It is a journey that officially starts today and I look forward to playing as many matches as I can,” said Sharapova, the second highest paid female athlete last year according to Forbes. (rtr)

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SOCHI - Formula One champions Mercedes have led every lap of every Russian Grand Prix since the race made its debut around Sochi’s Olympic Park in 2014 but Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel will aim to break that streak this weekend.

The four times world champion is enjoying his best start to a season since he was at Red Bull in 2011, leading Lewis Hamilton by seven points after two wins and a second place from the first three races.

Another win, at the street circuit where the German finished second in 2015, would signal Ferrari’s best opening four races since 2008.

“Things start to click and hopefully that sort of success now in the first couple of races helps us to build up some sort of momentum that maybe these guys (Mercedes) had in the past,” said Vettel after winning in Bahrain on April 16.

Hamilton, presented with the winner’s trophy

by Russian president Vladimir Putin in 2014 and 2015 before now-retired Mercedes team mate and champion Nico Rosberg won from pole position last year, felt the pain in Bahrain.

“We’re going to push hard together, re-gather as a team and come back fighting,” he said after collecting a time penalty and finishing second.

Mercedes, who still look faster over a single lap in qualifying, have done plenty of homework since then but recognise they have a battle on their hands.

“In this season with these new regulations, you can’t take anything for granted,” said team boss Toto Wolff.

“The trophies of previous years don’t guarantee that we’ll be winning in Russia when you

have a very fierce competitor like we do in Ferrari. We’ll take it one step at a time...”

Hamilton saw team mate Valtteri Bottas take a career first pole position in Bahrain and the Finn has a good track record in Sochi too, setting aside a last lap collision with Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen in 2015 while battling for third place.

Bottas set the first fastest lap of his career there in 2014, on his way to third place, and it is a layout that he likes.

“I have always been comfortable there so we will see. It’s a completely different type of track again, completely different kind of temperatures, different asphalt so many different things. We’ll see,” he said.

Red Bull, the only team to beat Mercedes last season, have yet to reach the podium in Sochi but both Australian Daniel Ricciardo and Dutch teenager Max Verstappen are hoping for more excitement this time with cars loading more Gforces than previously.

“I expect this year for the track to be grippy and with these cars it should be quite fast,” said Ricciardo. “I would say it’s going to be more enjoyable than it has been so I’m looking forward to that.”

Behind them, Force India’s Sergio Perez is chasing his 14th successive scoring finish while Sauber and McLaren have yet to open their accounts for the season.

Toro Rosso’s Spanish driver Carlos Sainz has a three-place grid penalty for his Bahrain collision with Williams’ Canadian rookie Lance Stroll, who has yet to see the chequered flag. (rtr)

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Hooded youths in Venezuela mar opposition efforts at peaceful protest

CARACAS - Protesters blocked a highway in Venezuela’s capital Caracas for nearly eight hours this week in an effort to show the opposition’s dedication to civil disobedience as their main tool to resist President Nicolas Maduro.

But by the end of the afternoon, hooded youths had filled the highway with burning debris, looted a government storage site, torched two trucks and stolen medical equipment from an ambulance.

“This is no peaceful protest, they’re damaging something that belongs to the state and could be used to help one of their own family members,” said Wilbani Leon, head of a paramedic team that services Caracas highways, showing the damage to the ambulance.

Anti-government demonstrations entering their fourth week are being marred by street violence despite condemnation by opposition leaders and clear instructions that the protests should be peaceful.

Such daytime violence also increasingly presages late-night looting of businesses in working-class areas of Caracas, a sign that political protests could extend into broad disruptions of public order driven by growing hunger.

The opposition’s so-far unsuccessful struggle to contain its violent factions has helped Maduro depict it as a group of thugs plotting to overthrow him the way opposition leaders briefly ousted late socialist leader Hugo Chavez in 2002.

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, VIOLENT PROTEST

The unrest has killed at least 29 people so far and was triggered by a Supreme Court decision in March to briefly assume powers of the opposition Congress.

Maduro’s opponents say the former bus driver and union leader who took office four years ago has turned into a dictator.

The vast majority of demonstrators shun the violence that usually starts when marches are winding down or after security forces break up protests.

That gives way to small groups of protesters, many with faces covered, who set fire to trash and rip gates off private establishments or drag sheet metal from construction sites to build barricades.

They clash with security forces in confused melees.

Police and troops break up the demonstrations by firing copious amounts of tear gas that often floods nearby apartment buildings and in some cases health clinics.

The opposition has blamed the disturbances on infiltrators planted by the ruling Socialist Party to delegitimize protests, which demand Maduro hold delayed elections and respect the autonomy of the opposition-run Congress.

But even before rallies devolve into street violence, tensions frequently surface between demonstrators seeking peaceful civil disobedience and those looking for confrontation - some of whom are ordinary Venezuelans angry over chronic product shortages and triple-digit inflation. (rtr)

reached the Americas by about 130,000 years ago, far earlier than previously known.

The researchers called five rudimentary tools -- hammerstones and anvils -- discovered in San Diego County alongside fossil bones

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Paleontologist Don Swanson points at rock fragments near a large horizontal mastodon tusk fragment at the San Diego Natural History Museum in San Diego, California, U.S., in this handout photo received April 26, 2017.

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The president compared the struggle against Gulen with the state’s battle against Islamic State

and Kurdish PKK militants, who are designated terrorist organisations by Turkey, the European Union and the United States.

“We are going to keep up the fight in terms of democracy, fundamental rights and liberties, but at

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Demonstrators build barricades during a rally against Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela April 24, 2017.

from the prehistoric elephant relative compelling evidence, though circumstantial, for the presence of either our species or an extinct cousin like Neanderthals.

San Diego Natural History Museum paleontologist Tom Deméré said until now the oldest widely accepted date for human presence in the New World was 14,000 to 15,000 years ago, making the San Diego site nearly 10 times older.

The finding would radically rewrite the understanding of when humans reached the New World, through some scientists not involved in the study voiced skepticism.

“If the date of 130,000 years old is genuine, then this is one of the biggest discoveries in American archeology,” University of Southampton paleolithic archeologist John McNabb, who was not involved in the research and called himself “still a little skeptical.”

No human skeletal remains were found. But the stone tools’ wear and impact marks and the way in which

mastodon limb bones and molars were broken, apparently in a deliberate manner shortly after the animal’s death, convinced the researchers humans were responsible. They performed experiments using comparable tools on elephant bones and produced similar fracture patterns.

“People were here breaking up the limb bones of this mastodon, removing some of the big, thick pieces of mastodon limb bones, probably to make tools out of, and they may have also been extracting some of the marrow for food,” said archeologist Steven Holen of the Center for American Paleolithic Research in South Dakota.

U.S. Geological Survey geologist James Paces used state-of-theart dating methods to determine the mastodon bones, tooth enamel and tusks were 131,000 years old, plus or minus about 9,000 years.

Some skeptics suggested alternative explanations about the material excavated beginning in 1992 at a freeway construction site, suggesting the bones may

have been broken recently by heavy construction equipment rather than by ancient humans.

the same time we are going to keep up the fight against PKK, FETO and other terrorist organizations such as Daesh (Islamic State),” he said. “We will continue down this path in a very committed fashion.”

Mass detentions immediately

after the attempted coup were supported by many Turks, who agreed with Erdogan when he blamed Gulen for orchestrating the putsch which killed 240 people, mostly civilians. But criticism mounted as the arrests widened.

Many relatives of those detained or sacked since July say they have nothing to do with the armed attempt to overthrow the government, and are victims of a purge designed to solidify Erdogan’s control. (rtr)

‘HARD TO ARGUE’

The researchers defended their conclusions, published in the journal Nature. “It’s hard to argue with the clear and remarkable evidence that we can see in all of this material,” said archeologist Richard Fullagar of Australia’s University of Wollongong, calling the conclusions “truly incontrovertible.”

Our species, Homo sapiens, first appeared in Africa about 200,000 years ago and later spread worldwide. Timing of the New World arrival has been contentious. Genetic data suggests it was roughly 23,000 years ago, though archeological evidence is lacking.

The researchers said the humans at the site could have been Homo sapiens or an extinct species such as Neanderthals, already known to have lived in Siberia, or Denisovans, known from only scant remains. (rtr)

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Indonesian president’s coalition shows fractures, exit poll shows

JAKARTA - A polarising election for Jakarta governor saw Islamic identity politics come to the fore and exposed fractures in Indonesian president Joko Widodo’s fragile ruling coalition, an exit poll has revealed.

California fossils, stone tools may rewrite New World human history

WASHINGTON - In what may be one of the most significant discoveries ever in archeology in the Americas, researchers on Wednesday said stone tools and broken mastodon bones unearthed in California show humans had

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Widodo’s political ally Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the ethnic Chinese Christian incumbent, was resoundingly defeated by Muslim rival Anies Baswedan in a vote seen as a litmus test of the secular traditions of the world’s largest Muslim-majority country.

Unpublished data from an exit poll by Litbang Kompas, which Reuters reviewed, found “same religion” was by far the most common reason why voters supported the victor. Just under 34 per cent of the 1,289 respondents surveyed at 400 polling stations across the Indonesian capital cited religion as the primary reason for backing Baswedan, followed by 14.9 per

cent who cited “being with the common people”.

“The biggest share of Anies supporters based their choice on similarity in religion and ethnicity,” said Bestian Nainggolan, a researcher at Litbang Kompas, a leading pollster. “Programmes and performance were not a dominant consideration.”

The exit poll also showed voters who were allied to political parties in Widodo’s unwieldy parliamentary coalition, often rejected Purnama - a key ally of the president.

The trends in the Jakarta race are being closely scrutinized for pointers in the next presidential election in 2019, when Prabowo

Subianto, who backed Baswedan, may again challenge President Widodo. Subianto lost the 2014 contest to Widodo.

Before he won the presidency in 2014, Widodo was the governor in Jakarta and Purnama his deputy.

Widodo, the first Indonesian leader to come from outside the political and military establishment, relies on an unstable coalition of parties in parliament needed to pass his reform programme.

DIDN’T MOBILIZE VOTERS

Supporters of the United Development Party (PPP) and the National Awakening Party (PKB), two Islamic parties in Widodo’s coalition, mostly voted for Baswedan - despite the parties formal backing for the incumbent governor. Just 29 per cent of PKB supporters, and 11 per cent of PPP loyalists, supported Purnama, known by his nickname Ahok.

“It’s hard to know if the leaders of these two parties were serious about supporting Ahok or they just wanted the money, the funding for the campaign,” said Ade Armando, a researcher at SMRC. “They did not do a lot to mobilise their supporters.”

More worrying still for the president were the voting patterns of supporters of two bigger parties in his coalition - Hanura and Golkar - that also supposedly backed Purnama. Just 38 per cent of supporters of Hanura, the party of Widodo’s co-ordinating minister for security Wiranto, backed Purnama, the poll found. Six out of 10 supporters of Golkar, the party of Vice President Jusuf Kalla, voted for him.

Golkar, the party created by former authoritarian president Suharto, is Indonesia’s second largest. As a delighted Baswedan declared victory on Wednesday, he was flanked by Aburizal Bakrie, a former Golkar chairman. Also with him was Erwin Aksa, another Golkar figure and Kalla’s nephew.

NO VOTE FOR NON-MUSLIM

A blunt-talking reformer, Purnama enjoyed soaring public approval as governor for policies targeting infrastructure, flood mitigation, waste management and corruption eradication in Indonesia’s teeming, clogged capital. That support - at least when it came to voting intentions - dramatically reversed in October after Purnama was accused of insulting a passage of the Koran

Indonesian President Joko Widodo

interpreted by some as prohibiting Muslims from voting for those of other faiths.

Amid large, well-funded rallies in November and December, where hundreds of thousands of protesters heard calls for his imprisonment, Purnama - widely known by his nickname Ahok - was put on trial for blasphemy.

A little over a week ago, pollster SMRC found 76 per cent approved of Purnama’s performance as governor, while 48 per cent said they would vote for him.

The divide between Purnama’s performance rating as governor and voter approval could be explained by the potency of the message that Muslims could not support a Christian candidate, SMRC’s Armando said.

While the Jakarta election points to the rising influence of conservative Islam in Indonesian politics, and his ally defeated under extraordinary circumstances, Widodo remains personally popular.

“The vote (Wednesday) was not a rejection of him or his policies — rather, other factors were at play,” political risk consultancy Eurasia Group said in a research note. (rtr)

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BUSINESS Fed, wary of inflation, could lean against Trump tax cut WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s plan to slash business and household taxes could shift the U.S. economy into higher gear, but it may have one effect the White House would not welcome - interest rates ratcheted higher than expected by a wary central bank.

The Trump administration says hundreds of billions of dollars fed into the economy via deep cuts in business taxes and more generous exemptions for individuals will unleash a wave of investment and make the U.S. economy more competitive than ever.

But the plan, if approved in the form Trump officials outlined on Wednesday, could add inflationary fuel to an economy already running near full capacity, a risk Federal Reserve officials have been warning about since Trump got elected.

Confronted with the prospect of massive cuts that would slash the corporate tax rate to 15 percent from 35 percent and overhaul the personal tax code, Fed officials will need to start debating if they can maintain a measured pace of rate hikes or they might need to move faster, say analysts and economists who follow the U.S. central bank.

The Fed aims to hold inflation at around 2 percent, and is close to that threshold, with its target short term rate expected to rise two more times, to about 1.5 percentage points, by the end of the year.

Trump has said he hopes low rates will continue, a potential source of friction with the Fed if officials do decide they need to move faster because of his policies.

An estimated up to $700 billion a year in tax cuts could threaten to derail such a scenario, especially if not all of that money finds its way into productive investments, or drives price and wage hikes. “The

premise is that all the tax savings get plowed into high-return investments to generate growth. But if they don’t and they just get churned around into M&A and other financial engineering things, it’s even worse because you’re raising risks elsewhere in the economy,” said Mark Mazur, former U.S. treasury assistant secretary for tax policy during the Obama administration, now head of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center in Washington.

Uncertainty as to whether and in what shape the plan will get implemented adds to other challenges the Fed faces in trying to chart its course over the next several months.

LOOMING THREATS The threat of a government shutdown and renewed debate over the federal debt ceiling late this summer or early in the fall will test both the new administration and the Fed’s ability to set its policy course. Republican and Democratic lawmakers need to pass a series of bills to keep the government running, but are sparring over issues such as whether to fund a border wall with Mexico.

Government closures, forced budget cuts, and a tense 2013 debt ceiling debate have thrown the Fed off course before, dragging down economic growth and idling hundreds of thousands of workers.

Taken together, the coming discussions will be critical for the Fed and for world markets looking for proof Trump can oversee

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FILE PHOTO: U.S. National Economic Director Gary Cohn (L) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin end their breifing after unveiling the Trump administration’s tax reform proposal in the White House briefing room in Washington, U.S, April 26, 2017. a functioning government, said David Stockton, a former Fed research director now with the Peterson Institute of International Economics.

“If you have a shutdown followed by a serious flirtation with default...some of the optimism built into household and business confidence could deflate and deflate pretty quickly,” Stockton said. “If all of a sudden it begins to look like even with one party in control nothing seems to be happening, it could be a shock.”

For the Fed, those would be self-inflicted wounds in an otherwise calm economic environment.

From healthy corporate profits to strong consumer confidence and

geopolitical developments like the recent French election results, events have been breaking in favor of steady U.S. growth and job gains - and a gradual pace of Fed rate increases.

Policymakers currently foresee two more rate increases this year, a view investors largely accept in how they have priced different securities. So far, policymakers have been hesitant to mold their thinking too much around speculation about what Trump might do because details have been scant and Congress’ reaction uncertain.

With the scope of the tax plan now revealed and fiscal deadlines on the horizon, that is now likely to

change - for better or worse.

Though the Republicans now control both the White House and the Congress, there is no guarantee they will easily reach agreement on either spending or tax plans, or on the debt ceiling. Divisions in the GOP doomed Trump’s first stab at healthcare overhaul, and some Republican lawmakers are likely to oppose either raising the debt limit or cutting taxes too much because of the larger deficits that would produce.

“The next few months are going to be make or break. They are going to have to show they are going to get something done,” said IHS Markit economist Chris Christopher.(rtr)

UK tourism set for boost from weak pound and “staycationers” - survey

LONDON - The British hotel and leisure industry is set for a bumper year as a weak pound boosts demand from foreign tourists and deters Britons from travelling abroad, a survey by Barclays showed on Thursday.

Nearly two-thirds of international holidaymakers surveyed by the bank said they were more interested in

holidaying in the UK compared with this time last year. The top driver of this was the weaker pound, cited by 31 percent, while greater spending power was cited by 30 percent.

“2017 looks set to be a strong year for the British hospitality sector with both domestic and international visitors increasingly intent on spending more time here,”

Mike Saul, head of hospitality and leisure at Barclays, said.

“The impact of a weak sterling, at least temporarily, has boosted the UK’s international appeal.”

The weaker pound means that Britons conversely get less bang for their buck abroad, and rising inflation is also fuelling demand from domestic holidaymakers.

Nearly a third of UK holidaymakers expected to spend more of their holiday time in Britain this year, and 38 percent of those who cited cost as a factor said that the weaker pound had made holidays in the UK preferable to going abroad.

The pound is down around 15 percent since Britain voted to leave the European Union. Out of interna-

tional holidaymakers, 31 percent said they were more likely to visit Britain than before the referendum last June, although about a half of those asked said the vote had no impact on their likelihood of making a trip.

The Barclays report surveyed almost 10,000 guests from the UK, continental Europe, the US, Middle East, Asia and Australia.(rtr)

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Cetho Temple in Karanganyar, Heritage of Hindu Kingdom Becomes a Tourist Attraction

Cetho Temple is one of the tourist attractions thronged by many domestic and foreign travelers lately. It is located at Cetho hamlet, Gumeng, Jenawi, Karanganyar, Central Java. Located on highland with various local plants, tea plantations, onions and others make it have a cool atmosphere offering a very beautiful panorama.

View of the mountains from around the temple area looks very beautiful. There are Mount Merbabu and Mount Merapi. Besides, visitors are also presented with a wide view of Surakarta City and Karanganyar City spreading below. Especially at night, visitors will be pampers with beautiful view of sparkling street lighting and home lighting.

Domestic travelers mainly those from the Island of the Gods (Bali) often take advantage of this historic place to perform spiritual tourism activities. As on Wednesday (Apr. 19), Regent of Badung, Nyoman Giri Prasta, with his entourage on the sidelines of the activities of Development Information Week (PIP) in Kudus and Bantul district did joint prayers at the temple resembling a stepped pyramid, while foreign travelers only perpetuated the existing moment.

Harsono, a tourism officer at local village, said that every day there are always travelers visiting the Cetho Temple tourist attraction. On national holidays, domestic travelers from Surabaya and other cities

in Java usually visit this temple and so do foreign travelers. “This month, the foreign tourists visit can be counted on fingers, but different from June where foreign travelers throng this attraction,” he said.

The temple complex is usually taken advantage by the locals as well as Hindu pilgrims to say prayers. In addition, this temple also poses a hermitage for the people remaining to practice ancient Javanese religious tradition.

Priest of Cetho Temple said that at the time of piodalan or temple festival there are unique activities becoming the main attraction to travelers. The festival held every 210 days precisely on Anggara Kasih Medangsia is followed by all pilgrims living at Cetho hamlet, not only the Hindus, but also the Muslim and Christian residents. They perform spiritual activities based on the customs of Cetho hamlet that work in mutual help.

Cetho hamlet is inhabited by 100 family heads. Seventy families practicing Hinduism firstly present pejati offerings containing

Mouth-watering Rambutan Salad Really Tempts

Have you ever tasted rambutan salad? Having tried, you will definitely get addicted because this kind of salad is relatively new.

However, it has been already familiar among young people. Other than tasting chewy and sweet, rambutan salad is also very easy to make.

Youngsters that like to hang out are fond of making it. Moreover, on Hindu feast, young people must have tried this salad.

No one can make sure, when this rambutan salad first appeared and who made it. This rambutan salad became famous when it appears in social media. Youngsters take advantage of technology to tease their friends. They prepare very neatly and attractively, so that many people are tempted to taste it. Well, it is just like a magnet, people have vied to make it though never tasted it before.

Rambutan salad does have a different taste. Other than being chewy, the flesh also tastes sweet.

Moreover, the water of its salad tastes very sweet. Certainly, it is naturally sweet. Lime sliced into circular pieces makes this salad distinctive, apart from looking beautiful. If wishing to get spicy flavor, you just need to add chili to taste.

The ingredients are rambutan and lime, while the seasonings include (white) sugar, salt and chili.

Indeed it tastes delicious, but do not eat this salad too much, because it can result in fever and cough. In this case, people are encouraged to control themselves so that do not be complacent in the enjoyment.

How to prepare it? First of all, exfoliate the skin of rambutan and then put into the basin. After that, add some salt, chili and white sugar and stir until blended (can be finely grounded).

Add a lemon having been squeezed, so that it will be watery. Flesh of the rambutan and spices are then mixed together and stir to get well blended.

Furthermore, thinly slice the lime ??and put on the flesh of rambutan. Now, it is ready to be served! (kmb)

roasted chicken. The offerings are made by each family head. After being presented, they undertake joint meals. As requirement, each family head is not allowed to enjoy their respective roasted chicken, but must enjoy the one made by another family head. “Until now, this tradition remains sustainable as a form of tolerance among the people,” said Harsono.

Historically, Cetho Temple in Karanganyar was built around the fifteenth century at

the end of the Majapahit Hindu Kingdom.

Cetho Temple was found by a Dutch archaeologist named Van de Vlies around 1842.

When first found, the condition of Cetho Temple was very apprehensive where there were only 14 terraces with the rock conditions having been covered by moss. Later, the restoration was made by Humardani, a personal assistant to President Soeharto in 1970. (kmb)

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Development nearly completed Lokapaksa-Ringdikit suspension bridge claimed to last 10 years SINGARAJA - Construction of a suspension bridge connecting Lokapaksa village to Ringdikit village, Seririt, as one of the ways to facilitate access of tens of SDN 5 Ringdikit elementary school students has almost finished. Handover from the contractor to the Bali provincial government is planned to take place later this month. The bridge spending the budget worth hundreds of millions of rupiahs can hold for ten years.

As monitoring on Wednesday (Apr. 26), the bridge having the length of hundreds of meters and 1.25 meters width has just been entering the casting process at the end, precisely the frame resting on the piers. Meanwhile, the installation of deck and suspension cable has been completely finished.

Project coordinator, Wayan Sumindra, explained that the bridge construction is directly funded by the provincial government of Bali through the public works agency with the budget of IDR 150 million and targeted to be submitted by the end of this month. It is inseparable from the construction having been almost completed. Wooden deck of the bridge is claimed to last about ten years. “This wood is indeed special for the bridge and can last for ten years, while the framework can last longer than that,” he said.

The use of suspension technique, he continued, spanning over the Sabha River will not be affected by flooding. It enables students and community to still be able to pass even though when it rains. “It’s already quite high and has been calculated with the height of the flood when it rains,” he added.

Meanwhile, one of the local residents, Komang Cilik, assessed that construction of the suspension bridge is quite appropriate to apply. All this time, a total of 44 students have to cross the river with quite swift streams when going to school.

It is very worrying when it rains. “When children have not come home from school and it is cloudy, we are very worried.

They are forced to wait here (in the river—Ed), worrying about something bad to happen,” he said.

Pursuant to the information obtained, the bridge has been built since early March. During the workmanship process, it has been constrained by rain causing the volume of river water to increase. (kmb45)

appropriate with the regulation of minister of health (PMK) No.9 /2014 and opens acupuncture services without having service permit.

In the meantime, maternity services are entirely handled by all (unlicensed) midwives and the apprenticing midwives. The clinic handles 30 deliveries per month but does not have pediatric as well obstetric and gynecologic consultants and so do medical records of obstetrics in the name of physician in practice.

In the medical records of childbirth stage, there are no names of licensed midwives mentioned as a helper; not all obstetric services are equipped with SOPs and fixed procedures in delivery room are not complete.

According to records, there are no infant, perinatal, neonatal and maternal mortalities within the past two years. However, several reports in referral hospitals indicate if there are maternal and infant mortality after being referred by Bumi Sehat Clinic as the treatments are not in

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Push for S.China Sea code stirs ASEAN suspicions about Beijing’s endgame MANILA - China’s support for finalising a code of conduct in the hotly contested South China Sea is generating some hope in Southeast Asia of settling disputes, but those working out the terms remain unconvinced of Beijing’s sincerity.

Signing China up to a legally binding and enforceable code for the strategic waterway has long been a goal for claimant members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).

But given the continued building and arming of its artificial islands in the South China Sea, Beijing’s recently expressed desire to work with ASEAN to complete a framework this year has been met with scepticism and suspicion.

“Some of us in ASEAN believe this is just another ploy by China to buy time,” said one senior diplomat familiar with the talks.

“China is expectedly stalling until it has completely attained its strategic objectives... What need is there for the green grass when the horse is dead?”

The framework seeks to advance a 2002 Declaration of Conduct (DOC) of Parties in the South China Sea, which commits to following the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), ensuring freedom of navigation and overflight, and “refraining from action of inhabiting on the presently uninhabited islands, reefs, shoals, cays, and other features”.

But the DOC was not stuck to, especially by China, which has built seven islands in the Spratly archipelago. It is now capable of deploying combat planes on three reclaimed reefs, where radars and surface-to-air missile systems have also been installed, according to the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative think tank.

Beijing insists its activities are for defence purposes, in areas it considers its waters. Malaysia, Taiwan, Brunei, Vietnam and the Philippines, however, all claim some or all of the resource-rich waterway and its myriad of shoals, reefs and islands. (rtr)

The Lokapaksa-Ringdikit suspension bridge

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Bumi Sehat Clinic violates rules of Indonesian health standards DENPASAR - Bumi Sehat Clinic managed by the Bumi Sehat Foundation is considered not to meet the Indonesian health care standards.

The Bali and Gianyar health agency supervise the clinic located in Ubud on Tuesday (Apr. 25).

Head of the Bali Health Agency, Ketut Suarjaya, said that the clinic has violated Indonesian health regulations such as the absence of clinic profile, clinic signboard, documents on clinic coordinator as well as the environmental management effort (UKL)/environmental monitoring effort (UPL) permit.

The clinic with eight treatment beds has two physicians of general practitioner along with their practice license and (licensed) three midwives. Meanwhile, the license of seven other midwives is still under process and three midwives are apprenticing.

The clinic has one analyst but having no license. Besides, it has no pharmacist and standard operating procedure (SOP) of services and layout of the clinical service is not

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accordance with SOP. “Obstetric devices (antidote and ergometrine) are not complete; delivery room does not meet the designation requirements; and there is no sterilizator,” he explained.

Overall, the services are not in accordance with clinic service standards referring to the regulation of minister of health (PMK) No.9/2014 both in terms of standards, human resources and spatial arrangement.

Suarjaya questioned about the appreciation to Mrs. Robin Lim, as founder of the foundation, who received an award recently. “To help the poor, we have health financing for all Balinese people whose cost is covered by local government in the form of Jamkesda (regional health insurance) whose name is the Bali Mandara health insurance (JKBM),” he explained.

His agency also received a report that Mrs. Robin is a foreigner coming with a tourist visa. “She has no working permit and has violated the Law No.36/2009 on Health

and Law No.36/2014 on Health Officer,” he said.

In 2015, the clinic she built contributed to the death of pregnant women. According to him, those playing major role for the health of mother and children are village midwives spreading across 716 villages, 120 midwives in public health center, midwives of auxiliary public health center, hospitals and other health workers having worked hard to reduce maternal mortality and infant mortality rate.

Moreover, from the supervision by health agency team, Mrs. Robin disagrees with the infant immunization program posing a national program. “It is not the clinic in Ubud whose scope is small. We have hundreds of health clinics in Bali,” he said.

Manager of Bumi Sehat Clinic, Eka Yuliani, said that Robin Lim does not work in Bumi Sehat Clinic but only serves as the initiator.

Therefore, if Robin Lim does not have a health work permit, she does not violate the rules because she

does not handle patient.

“Indeed, she is not working here.

All the employees in the Bumi Sehat are local people, Robin Lim just serves as the initiator since long time ago, not become an employee here.

She is not in Indonesia so that the status is not working,” she explained when contacted by phone recently.

She added that all physicians and employees at the Bumi Sehat Clinic have got license and since 2017 the Bumi Sehat Clinic has a license as premier clinic from BPPT Gianyar with the recommendation of Gianyar health agency. In relation to the maternal mortality mentioned to have occurred at the Bumi Sehat Clinic, she told that the data are in the office.

“To my knowledge, I have never heard maternal mortality at Bumi Sehat. If necessary, we will refer the patients. There has been no maternal mortality. Usually, we will refer the patients. If they died at hospital, it is a different case. I have to open the file about the matter,” she said. (kmb42)

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Chinese structures are pictured in Subi Reef at disputed South China Sea, April 21, 2017.

S.Korea, U.S. warn of punishment for N.Korea; U.S. stresses sanctions

SEOUL - South Korea and the United States agreed on Thursday on “swift punitive measures” against North Korea in the event of more provocation, although the United States signalled sanctions and diplomatic pressure were its priorities for now.

As a standoff escalated over North

Korea’s nuclear weapons and longrange ballistic missiles, South Korea said the deployment of a U.S. antimissile defense system was moving ahead effectively a day after angry protests against the battery and fierce opposition to it from China.

“The two sides pledged that in the event of additional strategic

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A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor (R) is seen in Seongju, South Korea, April 26, 2017. Picture taken April 26, 2017.

provocation by the North to swiftly take punitive measures including a new U.N. Security Council resolution that are unbearable for the North,” the South’s presidential office said after its national security adviser, Kim Kwan-jin, held a phone call with his U.S. counterpart, H. R. McMaster.

The United States and North Korea have been stepping up warnings to each other in recent weeks over North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons and missiles in defiance of U.N. resolutions.

North Korea’s nuclear and missile threat is perhaps the most serious security challenge confronting U.S. President Donald Trump. He has vowed to stop it from being able to hit the United States with a nuclear missile.

Though it has warned “all options are on the table”, Trump’s administration said on Wednesday it aimed to push North Korea into dismantling its weapons programmes through tougher sanctions and diplomatic pressure, and it remained open to talks.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats described North Korea as “an urgent national security threat and top foreign policy priority”.

The U.S. signal of a willingness to exhaust non-military avenues came as the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group approached Korean waters, where it will join the USS Michigan nuclear submarine.

North Korea says it needs to develop weapons to defend itself and has vowed to strike the United States and its Asian allies at the first sign of any attack on it.

PROTESTS South Korea on Wednesday moved parts of a U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, missile defense system to its deployment site, on what had been a golf course, about 250 km (155 miles) south of the capital, Seoul, signalling a faster installation of the system.

Several hundred South Korean villagers protested near the site, hurling water bottles at vehicles moving the parts in.

The top U.S. Commander in the

Pacific Admiral Harry Harris said on Wednesday the THAAD system would be operational “in coming days” bolstering the ability to defend the U.S. ally and the 28,500 U.S. troops stationed there.

The United States and South Korea agreed last year to deploy the THAAD to counter the threat of missile launches by North Korea. They say it is solely aimed at defending against North Korea.

But China says the system’s advanced radar can penetrate deep into its territory and undermine its security, while it will do little to deter the North, and is adamant in its opposition.

Influential Chinese tabloid, the Global Times, run by the Communist Party’s official People’s Daily, in a harshly worded editorial denounced South Korea’s decision to move ahead with the THAAD deployment saying it undermined China’s effort to ease tensions on the peninsula.

“South Korea must pay the price for its arrogance. Seoul, by turning the peninsula into a powder keg together with the North, is playing with fire,” it said. (rtr)

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This Brand’s Leggings Always Sell Out—and So Will Its New Swimsuits

The freshest dresses from Bridal Fashion Week

NEW YORK - It’s true: Some elements of weddings can feel a bit cliché. After all, there are a lot of traditions when it comes to planning nuptials, and with so many Pinterest boards to share, it’s only natural that some ideas overlap. But the nine unique wedding outfits below might spark some fresh concepts of your own.

This year’s New York Bridal Fashion Week brought everything from extreme ball gowns to simple jumpsuits among the latest creative designs. But of them all, our picks below offer something special. These are just the kind of dresses (and pants!) that forgo the expected and bring a little extra something to your wedding day. (IBP/net)

TOO often, swimwear tends to fall into one of two categories: functional (i.e., the stuff you wear to swim laps in) and fashionable (i.e., the stuff you wear to Instagram on the beach).

It’s a rare occasion when a suit falls in the middle of this Venn diagram, letting you feel like an athlete—or at least a person who tries to get the gym every once in a while—while looking cute enough to keep on all day.

But leave it to ADAY, the two-year-old direct-toconsumer activewear brand behind some of our favorite work-to-workout leggings, to come up with two styles that not only check those boxes, but they are environmentally-conscious and versatile to boot. Today, the label is launching its firstever swim collection—a one-piece called the For the Win Swimsuit ($125) and a bikini called the It Takes Two Piece ($105 for the set), both of which come in two colorways—which the team encourages styling as a bodysuit and bralette when you’re not taking a dip.

The one-piece and the two-piece swimsuits are two fundamental pieces in a woman’s wardrobe, so it was only natural for us to create pieces that could also serve as the foundation of an outfit,” says co-founder Meg He. “We wanted these silhouettes to cater to our customers’ different preferences and also provide them with a variety of styling choices.”

The brand stayed true to its signature seasonless palette with two neutral options—a navy-and-white (reversible!) one-piece and a white-and-grey bikini—and introduced a pop of bright green in the second colorway of each style, a nod to the recycled polyamide fabric used to make the suits.

While the swimsuits feature the same bonded seams that have made ADAY’s leggings so popular, the category presented a new challenge: the suits had to be as form-fitting as possible, while still looking streamlined and staying in place.

“Usually, seams are used to contour and shape around the body, but for the FTW Swimsuit, we wanted to minimize seams and keep the suit lightweight and abrasion-free,” says designer and product developer Millie Maidens.

“So, we used our signature bonding technique that is soft on the body and stronger than any sewn seams, making the garment much more durable.” Likewise, the paneled bikini bottoms feature two layers of fabric at the center front, but only one at the sides and edges, minimizing bulk while maintaining coverage. (IBP/net)

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Maternal mortality cases still occur yearly

District govt prepares birth waiting home

BANGLI - Maternal mortality cases in Bangli district continue to occur every year. Based on the data owned by the Bangli health agency within the past three years, the maternal mortality cases show a fluctuating number. On average, the maternal mortality cases occur in pregnant women of childbearing age.

Division Head of Public Health at the Bangli Health Agency, Nyoman Arsana, with permission from the Head of the Bangli Health Agency, Nengah Nadi, said on Tuesday (Apr. 25) that based on the data at hand, the maternal mortality in 2014 amounted to four people. In 2015, the number has increased by six people and in 2016 dropped to three people.

“This year, there is one case only,” he said accompanied by his staff, Ketut Yasmin.

Of the many cases of maternal mortality in Bangli, they mostly happened due to obstetric factors such as childbirth (the period after childbirth) and bleeding. There are also several cases of maternal mortality due to non-obstetrical factors.

According to Arsana, when compared to the calculation of national targets (MDGS), the maternal mortality in Bangli is relatively small. Nevertheless, the agency still strives to prevent the maternal mortality rate in Bangli to reach zero.

The current effort is making a manual book of maternal and neonatal matters as a guideline for all village midwives.

This reference carries explanations on how to handle and the actions to be taken when the case occurs in the process

of childbirth. “Each case has been provided with its own action. For example, when bleeding occurs in birth process, midwife must take action by installing an infusion and then rush patient to hospital,” he explained.

Aside from preparing reference, to prevent maternal mortality cases, the health agency currently provides a birth waiting home (RTK). In accordance with the Regent Decree No. 440/146/2017, the RTK located on Jalan Ngurah Rai near Bangli Hospital is intended for pregnant women, maternal mothers, postpartum mother and newborns that live away from health facilities and referral health facilities, high-risk pregnant woman living away from health facilities that require definitive treatment, postpartum women with high risk living away from health facilities or referral health facilities as well as newborns that have health complications living away from health facilities and referral health facilities.

“There are four rooms that can be used for free,” he said.

He continued that for pregnant women, maternal mothers and postpartum women taking advantage of the RTK will be given facilities like food, drink and snacks for a certain time limit. For example, pregnant women experiencing obstetric complications that require definitive handling to wait for control at health facility will be covered for a maximum of three days. If it is still needed, pregnant women are still allowed to use the RTK facility for several days, but excluding food and drink facilities.

“We have disseminated these to village midwives. And later on April 28, we will disseminate again to all headmen,” said Arsana. (kmb40)

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Greenhouse gases having an impact on global warming

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Carbon dioxide is not only contributed by motor vehicle fumes, but also by some household appliances which might have been unexpected before.

CARBON dioxide (CO2) is one of the greenhouse gases having an impact on global warming.

Carbon dioxide is not only contributed by motor vehicle fumes, but also by some household appliances which might have been unexpected before.

For instance, it is emitted by the use of rice cooker, hair dryer and other equipment using electricity.

“Every usage of rice cooker will produce 24.4 grams of carbon dioxide. Then, one-hour usage of hair dryer will produce approximately 24.1 grams of carbon dioxide,” said the Head of Bali Environment Agency, Gede Suarjana, in Denpasar, on Tuesday (Apr. 25).

According to Suarjana, the greenhouse gases from household appliances are more than those produced by motorcycles or cars. Each motor vehicle contributes to about 0.24 gram of carbon dioxide for one way. Nevertheless, motorcycles and cars should still be used as efficiently as possible because currently the number of vehicles in Bali has reached 3.5 million units.

“When people use electricity like in rice cookers, ironing, motorcycles and cars, of course there is a lot of carbon dioxide flying into the air that causes global warming,” he explained.

Suarjana continued that during Nyepi holiday Bali can save greenhouse gases up to about 1245 million grams within 24 hours. “If Nyepi is frequently held, it means that Bali will reduce the greenhouse effect a lot,” he added.

Suarjana added that the greenhouse effect caused by global warming has led the weather to become erratic. Rainy and dry season becomes difficult to be predicted and plants do not bear fruits during their season. Not to mention, the presence of acid rain as a result of greenhouse gases can cause trees to be withered.

“This is a global influence. What about the mitigation? Well ... please reduce electricity utilization, change ordinary light bulbs into LED and reduce the use vehicles. If not effective, do not use vehicle,” he advised. (kmb32)

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Law on forestry interpreted partially

Forests in Bali get threatened to be plotted out

DENPASAR - Complaints over backfilling activities on the western coast of Tanjung Benoa to Bali police is denied to have relation to the rejection against Benoa Bay reclamation by the community including chief of Tanjung Benoa customary village. Bali forestry agency even criticized the chief of customary village and his lawyer using the law No.41/1999 article 67 paragraph 1 letter (b) on forestry as justification of such activities.

“If interpreting partially the rules of forest management and made it as justification, the forest in Bali can be plotted out later on. There is another barrage to be delivered. It is a pity the public is trapped by partial information. I’d like to affirm that the matter of forest management has its own rules,” said Head of the Bali Forestry Agency, IGN Wiranatha, when met at his office on Wednesday (Apr. 26).

Wiranatha added that location of the backfilling is still in the area of Ngurah Rai grand forest park (Tahura), not belong to the territory of customary village. In contrast, Ngurah Rai grand forest park is a conservation area having been established by the state with all the rules. That is why reporting to Bali police is purely law enforcement for violations in the forestry field. “There is no criminalization. If wishing to deny, it’s better to be done before the court,” he added.

Wiranatha also poked the reason expressed by chief of Tanjung Benoa customary village that does the backfilling because of wishing to save Tanjung Benoa from abrasion and to arrange the dirty mangrove forest area because of garbage. It said the previous government had also stated so in particular regarding the garbage. That is why there is a larger plan prepared namely the Benoa Bay reclamation and the management of Ngurah Rai grand forest park. For

the bigger plan, it is indeed working with investors due to needing a lot of fund.

“The physical handling (is in cooperation with investors), but the content therein does not negate people. Since it is a great job, we cannot work on it by a hoe. So, obviously it will accommodate all the existing interests. It should be heard,” he explained.

Nevertheless, Wiranatha denied if the reporting is related to the rejection against the Benoa Bay reclamation by the people and chief of Tanjung Benoa customary village. If the customary village first submitted a permit to the forestry agency, the backfilling activities may be allowed. Of course, it is after going through some stages of study. “We will also report those in favor of the reclamation if they are wrong,” he said.

As previously reported, lawyer of the chief of Tanjung Benoa customary village, I Made Ariel Suardana, revealed that under Law No. 41/1999 article 67 paragraph 1 letter (b) concerning forestry mentions that customary law community as long as it exists and is acknowledged is entitled to do forest management activity based on customary law and not contrary to law.

“So, I do not think what is being accused makes sense. I think the complaint to Bali police is alleged to weaken the movement to reject the Benoa Bay reclamation. In addition, there is an effort to criminalize customary apparatuses that reject reclamation and there is an effort to divert the issue. I have confidence there is an attempt to criminalize the goodwill of customary community,” he said.

Tahura gets pressed

The data of Bali forestry agency indicate the mangrove the forest area of Bali spreads across the area of 2,244.99 hectares. Meanwhile, outside the forest area, the mangrove

forest amounts to 755.01 hectares. Mangrove forest within forest areas spread over the Ngurah Rai grand forest park covering 1,373.5 hectares, Nusa Lembongan protected forest (202 hectares), Budeng production forest (66.99 hectares) and West Bali National Park Forest (602.5 hectares). In the meantime, mangrove forest outside forest area spreads in area of Perancak (Jembrana), Banyuwedang and Sumberklampok (Buleleng) and Nusa Ceningan (Klungkung). On average, the mangrove condition is good, except in the Ngurah Rai grand forest park facing critical condition of approximately 10 percent.

The agency classifies four problems in the Ngurah Rai grand forest park. Firstly, there is forest security disruption in the form of encroachment of forest area spreading from Sanur Kauh to Tanjung Benoa and certification in forest area.

The second problem is pollution due to garbage disposal, waste of concrete, residue of shipyard (fiber glass), chicken industry waste and waste disposal of fish processing factory; thirdly, overlapping forest area with PT. Pelindo III (Persero); and fourthly, forest destruction because in the area there are waters where mangrove is difficult to grow.

Pursuant to the records of the forestry agency in 2015, there are only 16 certificates in the grand forest park area of 3.340 hectares. However, today it has grown to 54 certificates overlapping with forest areas. Although the area reduces to 19,853 square meters per September 2016. On the other hand, there is a plan to exchange the area of grand forest park between the forest areas in Pudut Island and surrounding areas that are not overgrown with mangroves outside the forest.

However, the plan rolling out in 2015 is still under process at the ministry of environment and forestry. The exchange plan has also been blamed as an effort of the government to smooth the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. (kmb36)

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Full of Color and Happiness during Appreciation Night by TAUZIA Hotels in Bali

Appreciation Night is an annual event held by TAUZIA Hotels in Bali to appreciate travel agents, corporate, government and media for their support throughout the year.

The theme of this year event is “Colorful” to represent happiness with a lot of entertainments such as dance, music with lighting attraction, games and door prizes.

The event is held on Friday, 21 April 2017 at Wedding Chapel - HARRIS Hotel & Residences Sunset Road attended by more than 300 guests.

Apart from variant choices of local cuisine and international cuisine that promote healthy lifestyle and also available for all guests to enjoy; the melodious music also played to warm the ambience. “Since we (TAUZIA Hotels) established our first hotel in Bali, we have been very fortunate in building close relationships with travel agents, corporate clients, government clients and media.” said Arnauld Kindt - as The Advisor of TAUZIA Appreciation Night Committee and also the Cluster General Manager of TAUZIA Bali. “No matter

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Family ties test the unconventional ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’

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LOS ANGELES - After causing havoc in the universe and saving it from destruction, Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” are back in a new adventure that takes the unconventional group of friends on a quest to discover their family ties.

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Cast members (L-R) Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Pom Klementieff, Chris Pratt, Kurt Russell, Karen Gillan, director James Gunn and Michael Rooker pose as they attend a premiere of the film “Guardians of the galaxy, Vol. 2” in London, Britain, April 24, 2017.

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” which begins its international rollout on Tuesday, sees roguish thief Peter Quill, green-skinned warrior Gamora, the muscle-bound Drax, mischievous Rocket Raccoon and baby tree-alien Groot split up after being pursued by a gold-skinned villain named Ayesha.

The plot centers on Peter’s long-awaited reunion with his father, an ancient god called Ego (Kurt Russell), who is the life force of a planet, and his tense relationship with his adopted father figure, the fin-headed Yondu (Michael Rooker).

“The most compelling way to find out something about a person you’re interested in is to explore their relationships,” Chris Pratt, who plays Peter, told Reuters.

“I can’t think of too many movies or stories on the screen that have honored that type of relationship, so it’s really kind of cool if you like a contemporary family story.”

“Guardians Vol. 2,” once again written and directed by James Gunn, comes after the surprise blockbuster success of 2014’s “Guardians of the Galaxy,” which ushered in a new cadre of unlikely heroes into Disney-owned Marvel’s expanding film franchise.

Following the catastrophic events of the first

film in which Groot sacrifices himself to save the Guardians, the sequel sees the powerful tree alien as a baby sapling, changing the dynamic between the five heroes.

Baby Groot offers up comedic relief during high-stakes scenes, such as a battle with a giant monster in which the tree sapling dances his way through the chaos and delivers tiny roars.

“Having a child in the group just leads to a even bigger sense of a family,” said Dave Bautista, who plays Drax.

After spending much of the first film trying to kill each other, warring sisters Gamora (Zoe Saldana) and Nebula (Karen Gillan) find themselves in close quarters in “Guardians Vol. 2” and faced with their underlying hatred towards their adopted father Thanos.

“They went through something very traumatic and they dealt with it in different ways,” Saldana said.

Gillan added that the “angry, bitter and twisted” Nebula is more sympathetic in the sequel.

“We start to see the cracks in her exterior and we learn about her bad relationship with her father and her sister and all the layers are chipped away,” she said. (rtr)

Jessica Biel goes deep and different for messed-up ‘The Sinner’

NEW YORK - Jessica Biel got all messed up for her new TV show -- a psychological thriller in which she plays a young mother who commits a startling act of violence and can’t remember why.

Biel, 35, the wife of singer Justin Timberlake and a young mum to 2-year-old Silas, said she took the role in “The Sinner” because she wanted to be “a little nuts.”

“The Sinner,” which will be broadcast on the USA channel in August, is a far cry from Biel’s best-known work -- the “7th Heaven” drama series about

a Christian family.

“It was totally different from what I’ve done recently and in the past and I think that’s why I was probably attracted to it,” Biel told reporters at the red carpet launch of “The Sinner” at the Tribeca film festival on Tuesday.

“You just have to go really deep within yourself as a human being and find what you can relate to in this person that has this ability to, you know, act on her passions, or act on her anger or fear insecurity or pain,” she added.

Biel plays a seemingly normal mother who is triggered to stab a man to death during a family outing at the beach. The show takes a deep layered look at her mind and explores why she did it, rather than the who or the what behind the act. (rtr)

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Suspected supporters of the U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen are escorted by plainclothes police officers as they arrive at the police headquarters in Kayseri, Turkey, April 25, 2017. Picture taken April 25, 2017.

Turkey says detains 1,000 “secret imams” in police purge Turkey purge

In addition to 2,500 journalists, largely from private media outlets, who have lost their jobs since the attempted coup in Turkey in July, more than 100,000 others have been reported arrested, removed, or suspended from their public sector jobs.

SUSPENDED OR REMOVED

Jessica Biel attends the screening of “The Sinner,” during the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, at SVA Theatre on Tuesday, April 25, 2017, in New York.

MINISTRY OR SECTOR

PERSONNEL

Education/ academia Police

51,776 41,793 22,163

Health and Interior 11,988

Armed Forces

8,999

Justice*

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2,393 2,110

Media

525

PM office

257

Governors

246

Intelligence

100

Others

TOTAL SUSPENDED OR REMOVED

145,221

FORMALLY ARRESTED (Including non-civil servants)

40,000

1,892

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ANKARA - Turkish authorities said they had arrested more than a thousand “secret Imams” who had infiltrated police forces on behalf of a U.S.-based cleric accused by President Tayyip Erdogan of trying to topple him last July. The nationwide sweep was one of the largest operations in months against suspected supporters of the cleric, Fethullah Gulen, a former ally of Erdogan. Gulen denies any part in the coup led by military officers.

Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said the overnight crackdown targeted a Gulen network “that infiltrated our police force, called ‘secret imams’.

“One thousand and nine secret imams have been detained so far in 72 provinces, and the operation is ongoing,” he told reporters in Ankara. Another 9,103 personnel from Turkey’s police force were suspended on Wednesday, police headquarters in Ankara said in a statement on its web site, citing alleged links with Gulen’s network.

In the aftermath of the failed July coup, authorities arrested 40,000 people and sacked or suspended 120,000 from a wide

range of professions including soldiers, police, teachers and public servants, over alleged links with terrorist groups.

NEW PRESIDENTIAL POWERS The latest detentions came 10 days after voters narrowly backed plans to expand Erdogan’s already wide powers in a referendum which opposition parties and European election observers said was marred by irregularities. The referendum bitterly divided Turkey.

Erdogan’s critics fear a further drift into authoritarianism, with a leader they see as bent on eroding modern Turkey’s democracy and secular foundations.

Erdogan argues that strengthening the presidency will avert instability associated with coalition governments, at a time when Turkey faces problems including security threats from Islamist and Kurdish militants.

“In Turkey, there was an attempted coup with a goal of toppling the government and destroying the state,” he told Reuters in an interview late on Tuesday.

“We are trying to cleanse members of FETO inside the armed forces, inside the judiciary and inside the police,” he said, using an acronym for the label, Gulenist Terrorist Organisation, which the government has given to Gulen’s supporters.

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