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Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj, Beyonce win big at BET Awards Janet Jackson accepts the ultimate icon: music dance visual award at the BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Sunday, June 28, 2015, in Los Angeles.

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LOS ANGELES - Though she was absent, Beyonce won three BET Awards, including video of the year for “7/11,” while Chris Brown and Nicki Minaj also won multiple awards at the all-star show Sunday night.

But the show was less about the awards — video of the year didn’t even make the live broadcast — as performances stole the night.

As Janet Jackson entered the stage at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, Brown screamed loudly, Minaj whipped out her phone to record the moment and Laverne Cox was teary-eyed. The pop star was honored with the Ultimate Icon: Music Dance Visual Award as she made one of her first public performances in sometime as she readies a new album and tour this fall.

“It’s been a very long moment to this journey ... my heart is so full,” Jackson said to the audience, which included her mother and father.

An impressive Ciara, Jason Derulo and Tinashe paid tribute to the 49-yearold veteran by mimicking her signature dance moves.

“Twenty five years ago we created ‘Rhythm Nation,’ hoping the world would be a better place, but today there’s even more to be done,” Jackson said.

Jackson wasn’t the only show stopper Sunday: Diddy dropped it like it’s hot at the awards show — figuratively and literally. Brown performed multiple times, and won best male R&B/pop artist and the fandemonium award.

And as Anthony Hamilton and Gary Clark Jr. performed while photos of celebrities who died appeared on screen, a montage of the nine people who were gunned down at a church in Charleston earlier this month closed the performance.

“Black-ish” actors Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross won over the crowd with back-to-back jokes, including one about Rachel Dolezal, the former president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP. “Is white really the new black,” Anderson sang as two photos of Dolezal — one old, the other recent — appeared on screen.

Anderson also dressed as British singer Sam Smith, who won best new

artist but didn’t attend the awards show.

“Sam Smith isn’t here tonight because he’s white and he didn’t think he would win at the BET Awards,” Anderson said as the audience burst into laughter.

Rihanna, who debuted a 1-minute clip of her new music video for “B---Better Have My Money,” was among the A-listers who sat in the audience, and she sang along during Omarion and Brown’s performance of the pop hit, “Post to Be.” Alicia Keys surprised the crowd when she joined The Weeknd to sing his hit, “Earned It.” Smokey Robinson received the Lifetime Achievement Award, performed a medley of his hits and earned a standing ovation from the audience when he spoke about Hollywood and humility.

Ne-Yo, Robin Thicke and rising singer Tori Kelly paid tribute to the icon.

Minaj, who won the fan-voted viewer’s choice award, brought her mom onstage when she collected her sixth consecutive best female hip-hop artist award. Beyonce’s wins included best female R&B/pop artist and video director of the year. (ap)

Entertainment

‘Ted 2’ lags behind ‘Jurassic World,’ ‘Inside Out’

LOS ANGELES — A foulmouthed Teddy bear is no match for a pack of dinosaurs. Seth MacFarlane’s “Ted 2” opened far under expectations with $32.9 million, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday, ceding the top two spots to holdovers “Jurassic World” and “Inside Out.” While $32.9 million is a solid opening for an R-rated comedy, bigger things were expected from “Ted 2,” which cost a reported $68 million to produce.

The Universal Pictures sequel was expected to earn somewhere in the $50 million range going into its debut weekend, thanks to the record-setting precedent of the first film, which earned $54.4 million in 2012.

In addition to mediocre reviews, perhaps the initial intrigue around a raunchy stuffed animal has worn off a bit.

“It’s hard to maintain that hyper level of excitement once people have seen the talking Teddy bear,” Rentrak’s Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian said.

“In comedy, it’s about inventiveness, newness and the shock

value of something original.”

Universal’s domestic distribution head, Nick Carpou, said that the positive response from exit polls indicates a promising life for the movie in the weeks ahead.

“Jurassic World,” also a Universal film, narrowly held the top spot for the third weekend in a row with a mighty $54.2 million, pushing it past the $500 million mark domestically — only the fifth film to do so in history.

Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out,” meanwhile, finished at a close No. 2, earning $52.1 million — only a 42 percent drop from its first weekend in theaters.

Dergarabedian marveled at the consistency of “Jurassic World” and “Inside Out.” “These are no flash-in-thepan movies. Both are delivering exactly what audiences want,” he said.

Overall, the box office is still booming, up 7 percent from last year. With “Magic Mike XXL” and “Terminator Genisys” set to open Wednesday in advance of the holiday weekend, things are only going to heat up. (ap)

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Tuesday, June 30, 2015 Cigarettes or spark suspected in Taiwan fire that burned 498

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A look at the teams that made the semifinals

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Climate top item for Obama sit-down with Brazil leader

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Villas rampant on coastal areas, permit should issued selectively

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In this file image released by Disney-Pixar, characters, from left, Anger, voiced by Lewis Black, Disgust, voiced by Mindy Kaling, Joy, voiced by Amy Poehler, Fear, voiced by Bill Hader, and Sadness, voiced by Phyllis Smith appear in a scene from “Inside Out.”

Exoticism of coastal area is the main attraction for travelers. So, it is no wonder if the development of supporting tourism facilities in the form of hotels, restaurants and villas invades many coastal areas. This phenomenon also occurs in Gianyar.

GIANYAR - Exoticism of coastal area is the main attraction for travelers. So, it is no wonder if the development of supporting tourism facilities in the form of hotels, restaurants and villas invades many coastal areas. This phenomenon also occurs in Gianyar. Today, tourist accommodation chiefly villas have been flourishing.

Luxurious villas can be found everywhere such as on Ketewel Beach, Purnama Beach, Cucukan Beach and Saba Beach. The overlay of black sandy beach and local atmosphere being away from crowds has made the locations so favorite after the villa development.

According to information, not all the villas in the coastal areas are commercialized. Some of them are

privately used by the owner.

Chairman of Commission II of the Gianyar House, Wayan Gede Sudarta, revealed that some points of the beach owned by Gianyar spanning along 20 km have been occupied by villa buildings. This needs to get special attention considering the coastal region has an important function, not only economically but also for socio-re-

ligious activities and environmental preservation.

Environmentally, he added, keeping the coastal borderlines free from buildings is an absolute thing. Do not let the coastal areas be increasingly eroded by human activities.

“When talking about coastal area development, the most important thing is keeping the coastal borderline. This must be done by all walks of life,” said Sudarta.

He further said that all kinds of tourist accommodation development should pay attention to the carrying capacity of the environment and spatial planning. In this case, the government should focus

on giving attention to spatial planning. If the government issues to many permits of tourist accommodation, he worried that it will reduce the appeal of coastal areas in Gianyar. On that account, the government is asked to issue permits selectively.

In addition to eliminating the impression of nature conservation, such tourist accommodation development is also worried to cause a variety of environmental pollutions. Moreover, the accommodation has not been equipped with sewage treatment system.

“Permit of the environment must be complete, whether it is the

environmental impact analysis or environmental monitoring effort or environmental management effort (UKL/UPL). Obviously, in the near future we in the Commission II with the Commission I will monitor directly to the field mainly the development on the coastal areas,” he said. (kmb25) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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Yoga gym fever spreads to Jembrana

Lebih beach Festival held on lebih Beach, Gianyar

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Lebih Beach Festival crowded with visitors

GIANYAR - Lebih Beach Festival (LBF) is held again this year. The LBF has entered the fifth implementation and lasted for two days namely on Saturday (Jun. 27) and Sunday (Jul. 28). Various activities were held in order to raise the tourism potential of Lebih area.

Chairman of the LBF V Committee, Wayan Agus Muliana, revealed that a number of problems and constraints are faced in the LBF implementation this time. However, it can be overcome due to the support of community leaders and government.

According to him, a variety of exciting activities graced the LBF V. They included the activities like beach clean-up action, the release of turtle hatchlings, paddle for peace, netting competition, fishing competition, surfing contest, parade of dance and music and photo exhibitions. Interestingly, the paddle

for peace involved the surfers of Lebih village. The action of local surfers coalesced into the community of Lebih Surf Club (LSC) grabbed the attention of visitors to the beach.

The moment of LBF moment is vivaciously greeted by the public. Since the first day of the LBF, various activities held on Lebih Beach were always crowded with visitors. They were not only following the activities taking place, but also thronging the area of culinary tourism on the local beach.

A local community leader, Gde Yudantara, said that Lebih village actually has a great po-

tential in the development of tourism sector. The potential includes the marine, culinary to arts and cultural field. In the future, the potential will always be continuously explored and developed so that they can provide positive benefits for the development and Lebih village communities in particular.

“Hopefully, the Lebih village can be persistently developed.

One of which is through the quality improvement of the LBF activities. With this kind of event we wished the Lebih village could be known more widely, mainly by travelers,” he said. (kmb25)

NEGARA - Yoga gym exercises having already gone global are also favored by Jembrana community.

The gym believed to improve fitness and reduce stress is introduced to elementary and secondary school teachers in Jembrana.

Hundreds of elementary school teachers attended the basic level of yoga training at the courtyard of the Bung Karno Cultural Hall, Sunday morning (Jun. 28). The event was also attended and joined

by Deputy Regent of Jembrana I Made Kembang Hartawan. One of the participants, Gusti Putu Arsana, 52, admitted to have been quite familiar with the movement of the yoga exercises.

According to him, he has got great benefits after participating in the yoga exercises all this time. At his age, the body feels more flexible and bodily aches disappear.

During approximately an hour they are taught basic exercise of

the Yoga Surya Namaskara. As the name implies, this exercise is done in the morning so that all the participants can fuse with the world’s largest energy source, namely the sun.

Deputy Regent Kembang Hartawan said that yoga has now become a world’s trend and been universal. In metropolis, people are willing to spend much money to learn it. The simple movements of yoga exercise are not only good for physical health but also for controlling the mind and emotions.

After getting a basic yoga exercise, teachers are expected to transfer it to their students at schools. So, the reverberations of the yoga gym will not only occur in particular circles.

According to Kembang, the yoga gym is not a religious teaching because the movement is universal so that it can be studied by anyone regardless of belief. (kmb26)

BANGLI - As one of the tourist destinations in Bali, Bangli needs to set up a tourist information center (TIC). With the presence of the TIC, every traveler making a visit to Bangli will not only know about the beautiful panorama of Mount Batur and Lake Batur, but also the attractions and potential owned by several villages in Bangli.

According to Operations Manager of the Abang Erawang tourist attraction, Nengah Suratnata, the TIC in Bangli is actually very important for travelers. From the TIC, travelers making a visit to Bangli will know clearly about the ins and outs of tourist destinations ranging from attractions and potentials owned by Bangli. “Guests coming to Bangli will not only know about Mount Batur and Lake Batur only but also the attractions and potentials possessed by several other villages,” he said when met recently.

According to Suratnata, the TIC is appropriate to be established in the region of Kintamani because it has become a famous tourist area in Bangli. Suratnata who has been so far a tourism facilitator of the Ministry of Tourism said that

actually the central government through the Ministry of Tourism has an intention to help establish a TIC in Kintamani, Bangli. Related to this plan, the government of Bangli is only required to provide an area of 20 x 20 meters. “Actually I have submitted this matter to the Bangli Culture and Tourism. I’ve even sent it via email in early June.

However, until now there has been no response,” he said.

In the meantime, the Head of the Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Adnyana, when asked for his confirmation claimed to have never received information regarding the ministerial plan to help establish a TIC in Bangli as submitted by Suratnata. Adnyana claimed that actually there has been a tourist information center in Bangli. However, the TIC in Bangli remains in same office as the information center of the Batur Volcano Museum.

The TIC meant by Adnyana carries complete information about tourist attractions in Kintamani. On that account, according to Adnyana, currently Bangli does not need to establish a TIC because it will be useless. (kmb40)

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Celebrate Galungan, Kuningan at InterContinental

JIMBARAN - Intercontinental Bali Resort invites guests and visitors to celebrate the Balinese Hindu festival of Galungan and Kuningan at two cultural evenings with traditional food and dance performances under the stars.

If you’re fortunate enough to be in Bali this year between 15th and 25th July, you will see the streets lined with ‘Penjor’ – slender, eight-metre-high, gracefully arching bamboo poles, festooned with colourful flowers, fruit, unhusked rice and palm frond ornamentation. These gorgeous all-natural decorations are displayed in celebration of ‘Galungan,’ the island’s most important festival, which occurs every 210 days, and signifies the victory of Virtue (Dharma) over Evil (Adharma).

During this time, the ancestral spirits and Balinese deities descend to Earth to be honoured.

The tenth day after Galungan, which is known as ‘Kuningan,’ marks

the end of the festival, and is believed to be the day when the spirits ascend back to heaven. Preparations for the ten-day festival will begin several days in advance when each Balinese family will create and place a penjor outside their gate, which makes the whole neighbourhood look splendid.

Much work also goes into the making of lawar, a spicy hash of raw meat, grated coconut, vegetables and pig’s blood, traditionally prepared at the roadside by the men of each village.

This year, Wednesday 15th July marks the first day of Galungan, and you will see people dressed in their finest clothes bearing elaborate offerings to their temple of origin. The day after

Galungan is called ‘Manis Galungan,’ this is the day that the Balinese dedicate to visiting relatives and spending time with their families.

On Kuningan Day, the final day of the festival, the Balinese will make farewell offerings for the ancestors.

These include yellow rice (Kuningan is derived from the word ‘kuning’ meaning yellow), which is placed in a small coconut leaf bowl. The yellow rice is a symbol of gratitude to God for life, joy, wealth, health and prosperity. The celebration usually takes place before noon, and in some villages, you will see ‘barongs’ or ‘ngelawangs’ – lion like creatures – going from house to house followed

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by kids playing traditional Balinese music instruments. The custom is to give the barong an offering of some money after which it will dance and bless the house and family.

InterContinental Bali Resort will be celebrating Galungan on Wednesday 15th July, from 7 pm onwards, with a special Archipelago Dinner & Kecak Dance, featuring a buffet feast and a

magical evening of music and dance.

Additionally, in celebration of Kuningan on Saturday 25th July, the resort will be hosting the Spirit of Bali event at which you can relish a feast of traditional Balinese cuisine with yellow rice as its centrepiece, accompanied by ‘Okokan,’ ‘Tektekan’ and ‘Calonarang’ sacred dance rituals from 7 pm onwards.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Wishing on a shooting star in Japan with man-made meteors

TOKYO - Fancy a meteor shower racing across the night sky to mark your birthday?

One Japanese start-up is hoping to deliver shooting stars on demand and choreograph the cosmos.

And, say scientists, it’s not just about painting huge pictures on the night-sky that would be visible to millions of people; artificial meteors could help us to understand a lot more about Earth’s atmosphere.

Lena Okajima, who holds a doctorate in astronomy, says her company -- ALE -- is intending to launch a micro satellite that can eject shooting stars at exactly the right time and place to put on a celestial show.

“I’m thinking of streams of meteors that are rare in nature,” Okajima told AFP in an interview.

“It is artificial but I want to make really beautiful ones that can impress viewers,” she said.

In collaboration with scientists and engineers at Japanese universities, the ALE team is developing a satellite that will orbit the Earth and eject dozens of balls, a few centimetres (an inch) in diameter, at a time.

These balls -- whose chemical formula is a closely-guarded secret -- will race through the atmosphere at around 7-8 kilometres (up to five miles) a second, glowing brightly from the friction created by smashing into the air.

Although it sounds fast, that is considerably slower than naturallyoccurring meteors -- chunks of material that either broke away from a planet or never managed to form one in the first place -- which can hurtle through the atmosphere at up to 80 kilometres a second.

Tinkering with the ingredients should mean that it is possible to change the colour of each bright streak, says Okajima, offering the

possibility of a multi-coloured flotilla of shooting stars.

The stars are expected to shine for several seconds before they are completely burned up -- well before they fall low enough to pose any danger to anything on Earth.

“People may eventually become tired of seeing shooting stars if they come alone. But they could be coupled with events on the ground,” Okajima said.

“Making the sky a screen is this project’s biggest attraction as entertainment. It’s a space display.”

Tests on the secret formula space pellets carried out with Shinsuke Abe, aerospace engineering associate professor at Nihon University, show they would even burn brightly enough to be seen over the light-polluted metropolis of Tokyo.

Unless, of course, it’s cloudy.

But, says Okajima, the release can be called off up to 100 minutes before the appointed launch -- perhaps allowing party organisers to reschedule for another night when the weather is better.

Beautiful it might be, but it won’t

come cheap; each shooting star would cost around a million yen ($8,100), as the company tries to make back more than one billion yen price tag for the development and launch of the micro satellite.

That satellite, which is currently at the design stage, is a 50 centimetre (20 inch) cube that will orbit the Earth at an altitude of around 400500 kilometres (250-310 miles), on a north-south heading.

The satellite will only have a limited lifespan, says aerospace engineer Takeo Watanabe of Teikyo Universi-

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Margriet named suspect in Engeline murder case DENPASAR - The Bali Police on Sunday named Margriet Megawe a suspect in the Engeline murder case as the investigation team has collected enough evidence.

“The investigation team has named Mrs MM (Margriet Megawe) a suspect based on ample initial evidence,” Bali Police Chief Inspector General Ronny Sompie said.

He, however, refused to elaborate the evidence which led to suspicion that Engeline, 8, was killed by her own foster mother, Margriet, 60.

“We are not in a court, so I will not discuss it,” Sompie said.

The evidence was based on the findings of forensic experts from

ty, explaining that after a few months it will crash through the atmosphere and burn up in a blaze of light.

For Hironori Sahara, associate professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University’s aerospace engineering department, the project offers a rare chance to observe a part of the atmosphere about which little is known.

The altitude at which the artificial stars will burst to life -- above 60 kilometres up -- is too high for balloons and too low for spacecraft, so it is difficult to study. (afp)

Sanglah Public Hospital in Denpasar, and the forensic laboratory teams of the Bali Police as well as the Police Headquarters in Jakarta after they had searched the criminal scene in Margriet’s house in Denpasar.

Earlier, the police have named Agustinus, who worked in Margriet’s house as a helper, as the only suspect in the murder case.

The police discovered the body of Angeline on June 10 buried in the backyard of the house of Margriet, after she reportedly went missing on May 16, 2015.

The tragic death of a second grade student of an elementary school has drawn a lot of sympathy from across the country. (ant)

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Tourists enjoyed a kind of water sport in the Serangan Island waters which is around ten kilometers away from the center of Denpasar.

2,000 Chinese tourists enjoy water sport

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DENPASAR - A total of 2,000 Chinese tourists enjoyed a kind of water sport in the Serangan Island waters which is around ten kilometers away from the center of Denpasar, Bali province, a spokesman has said.

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Fancy a meteor shower racing across the night sky to mark your birthday? One Japanese start-up is hoping to deliver shooting stars on demand and choreograph the cosmos.

Weather patterns that bring heat more frequent WASHINGTON — Daily weather patterns have changed in recent decades, making eastern North America, Europe and western Asia more prone to nastier summer heatwaves that go beyond global warming, a new U.S. study finds.

A team of climate scientists at Stanford University in California looked at weather patterns since 1979 and found changes in frequency and strength in parts of the world, according to a study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. These are the types of

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weather patterns with stationary high and low pressure systems that you see on weather forecasts, which is different than gradual warming from man-made climate change.

The team studied the kind of upper air patterns that “sort of amplifies the warming trend,” said study lead author Daniel Horton.

The study doesn’t attempt to explain why these changes are happening. But in general they fit a theory that has gained momentum in climate science that says

melting sea ice in the Arctic has sometimes altered the way the jet stream flows, contributing to extreme weather such as deadly storms and hurricanes, outside experts said.

In many cases, including the eastern U.S. and western Asia in summer, some of these changes have become even more noticeable since 1990, the same period in which Arctic sea ice has gone through a rapid decline, the study found.

“There are more of them each

summer and on average they are lasting longer and the longest are lasting longer,” Horton said.

That pattern shift is even stronger in the summer in Europe and western Asia, Horton and co-author Noah Diffenbaugh found.

The patterns Horton and Diffenbaugh studied are different from the one responsible for the current southeastern U.S. heatwave, Horton said. But the weather patterns were the type responsible for heatwaves that killed more than 50,000 people in western Russia in

2010 and more than 70,000 people Europe in 2003, the study said.

In winter, weather pattern shifts have occurred that made extremely cold snaps in central Asia even worse, Horton said. But the study also found an increase in the weather patterns associated with weaker extreme cold snaps in western Asian winters.

Diffenbaugh said the changes could be a result of random chance, or a side effect of climate change and melting sea ice as others have theorized. (ap)

“Many of Chinese tourists played the water sport due to its beautiful location and privacy,” Marketing Manager of Dive and Water Sport agency Wayan Dana said at the Melasti Beach.

The Serangan Island is located in the south of Sanur beach, with an area of approximately 73 hectares which can be reached by land and sea, he said.

The Serangan Island is a breeding location for green turtle (known as Turtle Island), and those who want to visit the island could use a boat to Sanur, Suwung or from Tanjung Benoa.

According to him, the Serangan Island has a very unfortunate mangrove ecosystem, and now the local residents will plant new mangrove seedlings to preserve the nature.

Chinese visitors still dominates 80 percent of the foreign

tourists coming who play the Water Sports compared to that

of tourists from Japan, Australia and Europe. (ant)

Police conducted crime scene investigation at Megawe residence on Monday, June 29, 2015. The Bali Police on Sunday named Margriet Megawe a suspect in the Engeline murder case as the investigation team has collected enough evidence.

The 37th Bali Art Festival Tuesday, June 30, 2015 Time

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Event

11.00 Ayodya Stage

14.00 Ratna Stage

17.00 Angsoka Stage

Classical Jegog Karawitan performances

by Purwa Gira Troupe Taman Panasar exhibition by Klenong Dalem Sumerta Troupe, Denpasar Sabu Raijua Regency, NTT performances

20.00 Wantilan

20.00

Ksirarnawa Hall

Children Pupet performances by Restu Budaya Lambing Troupe Documentary film about Bali

20.00 Ardha Candra

Women Gong Kebyar parade by Gita Raeswari Troupe and Cudamani Troupe

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Dozens of dogs vaccinated, hundreds eliminated GIANYAR - The outbreak of rabies becomes a concern of the government of Gianyar. The Gianyar Livestock Agency has been deployed on a regular basis. From April to June 2015, the findings have detected ten positive cases of canine rabies scattered throughout the Gianyar region. Anticipative measures have been made by vaccinating up to tens of thousands of dogs and eliminating hundreds of dogs.

Coordinator of the Rabies Mitigation Officers of the Gianyar Livestock Agency, I Gusti Ngurah Dibia Presasta, said that early detection effort continues to be made by the Gianyar Livestock Agency against some positive cases of canine rabies. As the result, the data collected from April to June 26 recorded ten cases of dogs tested positive for rabies. “Until now, we have noted there are ten positive cases of canine rabies,” he said.

He revealed that the ten positive cases of canine rabies occurred at eight villages, like the Sayan village (Ubud), Tampaksiring village, Pupuan village, Taro village, Batuan Kaler, Guwang, Sukawati, and the area of Buruan village. So, by looking at the case, the location indeed has spread in several subdistricts in Gianyar. “One case averagely occurs at each village. Only a few villages are detected to have two dogs suffering from rabies,” he added.

Related to the case, its ranks immediately implemented emergency mass vaccination by targeting the whole pet dogs of residents at the ten locations, including wild dogs. Based on data from April 17 until today, a total of 14,735 dogs have been vaccinated at eight villages declared to have positive rabies dog. As for the elimination, so far 312 dogs have been eliminated. “We do not do elimination haphazardly.

The elimination of stray dogs will only be done if there is a request from a village,” he added.

Elimination was done in the area of Buruan village some time ago. According to him, the elimination is done based on request of local village apparatus. Definitely it is preceded with mass vaccination for pet dogs of residents, and the dogs were given a marker in the form of necklace. “As in Buruan, we did the elimination to dogs owned by residents from the morning till late in the afternoon. The elimination was then carried out in the afternoon. Only few dogs were eliminated and they are entirely wild dogs whose owners are unknown,” he added.

Related to the eight villages declared to have positive dogs suffering from rabies, his party immediately established the village as a red zone. “Currently, the vaccination program remains to continue. In the meantime, the elimination is only done if there is a request from headman, especially for wild dogs,” he concluded. (kmb35)

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FILE - In this April 11, 2015, file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and Brazilian President Dilma Vana Rousseff shake hands during their bilateral meeting at the Summit of the Americas in Panama City, Panama. Rousseff visits Washington and will meet with Obama on June 29 and 30.

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The workers are working to make water reservoir in Pacung village, Tejakula subdistrict, Singaraja

Five reservoirs built to resolve clean water crisis

SINGARAJA - In this dry season, the residents of Pacung village, Tejakula subdistrict, apparently no longer have to face clean water crisis like the drought in previous years. It is enabled because the village government managed to build a water network by utilizing funds from central government as well as the government of Bali and Buleleng with a total budget of IDR 4.8 billion in the fiscal year 2014.

Currently, about 500 families at the village have enjoyed clean water for daily use and irrigating farmland, so that they keep producing despite entering into dry season.

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The dog vaccination is done to prevent the spread of rabies.

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During dry season a year ago, a total of 363 family faced clean water crisis. Of that number, 233 families are categorized into poor families. Addressing this issue, local government then attempted to allocate funds through the village allocation village (ADD) and at the same time the central and provincial government of Bali also disbursed fund assistance, so that it accumulated in a total amount of IDR 4.8 billion. It is then used

to build reservoirs to further drain water taken from water seepage of the irrigation channel owned

by Melulung village of Kintamani Bangli.

Headman of Pacung, I Made Yasa, said on Monday that since the village received funding from the government, it managed to build five reservoirs to hold water.

They locate at Alassari hamlet, Kubu Anyar hamlet and Antasari hamlet. In the meantime, each

reservoir has the capacity of 300 liters of water.

As the topography of the area is hilly, it is a bit difficult to drain water from the reservoir to people’s homes. Moreover, the pipeline installed is even damaged due to high water pressure from the reservoir.

On this condition, residents must take water to the reservoir having been built at strategic locations.

A reservoir has the capacity of 100 liters, while the other four reservoirs respectively can accommodate 50 liters of clean water.

“We had built a pipeline to a house, but at the end of the distribution pipe burst because the water pressure was so high. In addition, the terrain of our village is too hilly, so that it is a bit difficult for us to install pipeline to people’s homes,” he said. (kmb38)

Climate top item for Obama sit-down with Brazil leader WASHINGTON — The issue of climate change and steps to slow its progress are expected to dominate the agenda when President Barack Obama and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff meet at the White House, but the leaders will also be striving to show they’ve smoothed things over following revelations that Brazil was a target of American spy programs.

Rousseff arrives at the White House on Monday for dinner with Obama. They meet again Tuesday for more formal talks and a joint White House news conference. “I would fully expect that climate and the environment will be an important part of the agenda,” said deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes.

The meeting comes six months before world leaders gather at a United Nations-sponsored conference in Paris in December to finalize a climate treaty. Obama has argued that a gradually warming planet could worsen social tensions and political instability worldwide, in addition to harming the U.S. Countries are making their positions on climate change clear ahead of the Paris talks. The U.S. already has announced a 2025 deadline to reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases by 26 percent to 28 percent below 2005 levels. It was unclear whether Rousseff would announce her country’s targets while in

Washington.

Regardless, Rhodes billed the meeting as “another key milestone on the road to Paris.” Obama has engaged various counterparts on the issue, including the leaders of China and India, Rhodes noted. Climate change was also a major focus when leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized nations, including Obama, met in Germany in early June and agreed that the world should move away from using fossil fuels by the end of the century. Burning oil, gas and coal produces carbon dioxide, which traps the sun’s heat and warms the atmosphere.

The Obama-Rousseff meeting comes nearly two years after she canceled a rare state visit planned for October 2013 to protest revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency had spied on her communications. Reports also said the NSA had hacked the computer network of the state-owned oil company Petrobras and had collected data

on billions of emails and telephone calls that passed through Brazil, which is an important hub for transAtlantic fiber optic cables.

Rousseff canceled the state visit, an honor generally reserved for close U.S. allies, to address public outrage over the spying as she prepared to run for re-election in 2014.

Brazil’s first female president started her second term in January — Vice President Joe Biden attended her inauguration — but she since has been weighed down by low approval ratings, her country’s poor economic performance and a massive corruption scandal involving Petrobras. Rousseff served on the company’s board, but has not been implicated in the scandal. Tens of thousands of Brazilians filled streets across the country earlier this year to protest her leadership.

The timing of Rousseff’s trip is coincidental and was settled months ago; Obama announced it when the two met on the sidelines of a summit in Panama in April. But for Rousseff, being seen warmly received by an American president coming off one of the best weeks of his time in office could help her back home. (ap)

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UK will prosecute ex-pol with dementia with child sex crimes

LONDON — British prosecutors have reversed their position and will charge a former lawmaker who now has severe dementia with sex crimes against children.

The Crown Prosecution Service said Monday that a judge and jury would conduct a “trial of the facts” in the case of 86-year-old Greville Janner, although his illness means he likely will not be convicted or punished.

Police and child abuse victims expressed outrage when prosecutors announced in April that they would not charge Janner over alleged offenses against boys several decades ago, even though there was enough evidence to prosecute. Prosecutors said his Alzheimer’s meant he was not fit to stand trial.

But after his alleged victims complained, prosecutors decided “it was in the public interest to bring proceedings before the court.” Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders said deciding whether to prosecute had been “an extremely difficult and borderline case because of the strong arguments on both sides.” She said it was “a matter of real regret” that Janner had not been prosecuted sooner.

Janner was a Labour Party lawmaker from 1970-97, later serving in the House of Lords. He is accused of 22 offenses in the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s, most involving boys in children’s homes in Janner’s central England constituency. His family says he is innocent.

Liz Dux, a lawyer who represents some of the alleged victims, said he clients were delighted by the decision.

“They have felt deeply frustrated by the criminal justice system,” she said. “However, this decision has given them more hope of finally establishing the truth.”(ap)

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FILE - This is a bSept. 10, 1996 file photo of British politician Greville Janner. British prosecutors have reversed their position and say they will charge a former lawmaker Greville Janner who now has severe dementia with sex crimes against children.

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Framework for China-led international bank signed

BEIJING - Countries from five continents formally signed up Monday to the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank -- a potential rival to the Washington-based World Bank -- as Beijing steps up its global diplomatic and economic role.

Australia was the first country to sign the articles of association creating the AIIB’s legal framework at a ceremony in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, an AFP journalist saw, followed by 49 other founding members.

Seven more are expected to do so by the end of the year.

The bank will have a share capital of $100 billion, with $20 billion paid in initially, the document showed.

The signing “is an embodiment of the concrete action and efforts made by all countries in the spirit of solidarity, openness, inclusion and cooperation”, Chinese President Xi Jinping said after the ceremony.

Signalling China’s central role at the bank, he added: “Now we are willing to listen to your views and proposals.”

The AIIB has been viewed by some as a rival to the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, and the United States and Japan -- the world’s largest and third-largest economies, respectively -- have notably declined to join.

Earlier this month, former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke rebuked US lawmakers for effectively encouraging the AIIB’s formation by blocking reforms giving developing nations a greater say in the IMF. Beijing will be by far the largest AIIB shareholder at about 30 percent, the articles of association posted on the website of China’s finance ministry showed.

India is the second biggest at 8.4 percent with Russia third on 6.5 percent.

Among non-Asian participants, Germany is the largest shareholder with 4.5 percent, followed by France with 3.4 percent and Brazil on 3.2 percent.

The AIIB is expected to go into operation later this year and its headquarters will be in Beijing, despite calls from Indonesia that it be based in Jakarta, further cementing China’s prominence in the institution.

But all financial terms in the agreement are in US dollars, rather than China’s currency, the renminbi, and the bank’s working language will be English.

Only 50 of the 57 countries that have applied for founding membership signed up in Beijing on Monday, and the finance ministry said the remainder -- Denmark, Kuwait, Malaysia, Philippines, Poland, South Africa and Thailand -- have yet to ratify the necessary agreements.

Washington sought to dissuade its allies from taking part but European countries including Britain, France and Germany have rushed to sign up as they seek to bolster ties with the world’s second-largest economy.

There are some concerns over transparency of the lender, which will fund infrastructure in Asia, as well as worries that a resurgent Beijing will use it to push its own geopolitical and economic interests. (afp)

Courtesy of Project Clean Uluwatu

The Gerry Lopez Yoga and Talk Story at the Uluwatu Surf Villas raised over 124 million rupiah for Project Clean Uluwatu, the local environmental organization working to keep Uluwatu clean and beautiful.

Gery Lopez raised 124 milion Pensioners queue outside banks rupiah for “Clean Uluwatu” AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris

Elderly people, who usually get their pensions at the end of the month, wait outside a closed bank in Athens, Monday, June 29, 2015.

on 1st day of capital control ATHENS — Banks and ATM machines were shut throughout Greece Monday on the first day of capital controls, a dramatic twist in the country’s five-year financial saga.

Despite the closures, pensioners lined up just after dawn at bank branches hoping they would have access to their pensions, which were due to be paid Monday.

The bank closures came after Greeks rushed to ATMs over the weekend to withdraw money following Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ surprise call for a referendum on creditor proposals for the reforms Greece should take to gain access to blocked bailout funds.

The referendum has been set for Sunday, and the government has been advocating Greeks vote against the proposals.

The capital controls are meant to staunch the flow of money out of Greek banks and spur the country’s creditors to offer concessions before Greece’s international bailout program expires

Tuesday.

Once that happens, Greece loses access to the remaining 7.2 billion euros of rescue loans, and is unlikely to be able to meet a 1.6 billion-euro debt repayment to the International Monetary Fund due the same day.

The accelerating crisis has thrown into question Greece’s financial future and continued membership in the 19-nation shared euro currency — and even the European Union.

Asian stock markets sank with indexes in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney down more than 2 percent. Oil prices and the euro also fell. The Athens Stock Exchange remained closed.

Overnight, massive queues formed at gas stations, with worried motorists seeking to fill up their tanks and pay with credit cards while they were still being accepted.

The government announced bank transaction restrictions late Sunday night, limiting daily withdrawals to 60 euros ($67) per person per ATM card. Automatic teller machines were expected to

reopen later Monday, while banks would remain shut for at least six days.

Although credit and cash card transactions have not been restricted, in practice most retailers were not accepting card transactions Monday morning.

Many of Greece’s retirees don’t have bank cards and collect their pensions directly from the bank tellers. Long lines of elderly Greeks formed at neighborhood bank branches, despite them being told the banks would not open for the day.

Deputy Minister of State Terence Quick said special arrangements would be made for pensions. Speaking on private Antenna television, he said retirees would be allowed to access their full pensions in cash due to the fact that many don’t have bank cards.

Under the bank transaction restrictions, electronic transfers and bill payments are allowed, but only within the country. The government also stressed the controls would not affect foreign tourists, who would have no limits on cash withdrawals with foreign bank cards. (ap)

ULUWATU - The Gerry Lopez Yoga and Talk Story at the Uluwatu Surf Villas raised over 124 million rupiah for Project Clean Uluwatu, the local environmental organization working to keep Uluwatu clean and beautiful.

In his first visit in decades to the fabled surf break he helped pioneer, Gerry returned to the Bukit Monday evening, June 15th. As a dedicated yogi for over 40 years, he hosted a Yin Yoga session under a spectacular Bali sunset atop the cliff at the Uluwatu Surf Villas.

After a healthy dinner donated by Alchemy of Ubud and the local Lands End Cafe, Gerry narrated a slideshow of his early adventures to Uluwatu and surrounding iconic breaks, also offering his insights and words of wisdom on surfing and life.

Narrating countless original photographs from Dick Hoole, Dana Edmunds, Dan Merkle and Don King dating as far back as back as 1970s, Gerry told his story of the early days surfing Indonesia - getting lost among the thickets and shrubbery trying to find Uluwatu; rickety bemo rides from Kuta, the scarcity of water on the Bukit, and 16 hour boat rides to G-Land.

With over 300 guests in attendance, this event was a huge success. “It goes to show that PCU has a strong following and that people care about the environmental issues facing Uluwatu,” comments PCU project manager Curtis Lowe.

A key figure of the history of Uluwatu,

Gerry Lopez reflected upon the past and had these insightful words on the current waves of change approaching Bali: “In 1974, the first time I came to Bali, I found very few surfers at Uluwatu and waves of a quality and consistency that I had never experienced before. The surf combined with the languid lifestyle of Kuta Beach plus the genuine and enviable contentment of the Balinese people kept me returning year after year on a regular basis. What attracted me also brought more and more people and as the surfing world grew so did the crowds at Uluwatu.

In the beginning, there were no plastic containers; water, drinks and food came in glass bottles, on plates or maybe banana leaves that would be reused or easily disposed of. Trash was dumped in the ravines, rain washed it out to sea and once again man used the ocean to clean up his mess. This worked, more or less, if the waste was organic but then came plastic containers and more people. Without the infrastructure to support the rapidly escalating usage, the raw sewage and garbage issues reached critical mass in a short time.

Project Clean Uluwatu is the initial effort directed toward dealing with this ever growing problem and for the moment it has the edge.

The attractiveness of the waves, the lifestyle and the Balinese people is still as great as it ever was. It does, however, continue to bring visitors in increasing numbers and the wake they leave as they pass is not small. Please support the continuing undertakings of PCU as they tackle this monumental task. We all have a responsibility to protect our natural resources for future generations to enjoy as we have and Uluwatu is an extraordinary treasure that deserves our best efforts.“ This was the most important fundraiser of the year for Project Clean Uluwatu. All the proceeds will go towards the continuation of waste water treatment, rubbish removal, recycling, composting, community gardening, and the completion of a waste water garden facility, which further purifies waste water and sewerage after it has passed through the bio tanks.

Finally, the proceeds will help PCU address future development near the surf break, thus ensuring the protection of the beach, reef, and ocean. PCU executive Tim Russo concluded: “We were so lucky to have the support from Gerry Lopez to do the yin yoga session and talk story for the 3rd annual pcu fundraiser.

The timing worked out perfect and it was an awesome opportunity to reflect on the rich culture and history that Uluwatu has become famous for and to reaffirm why people need to act now to protect this beach for future generations”. (r)

Jaja gadang tain temuati is one of the traditional cakes of community in Bali. It is called jaja gadang tain temuati because it is green (gadang) and has the shape of small round worm excrement (tain temuati). This very tender and sweet cake exudes a very typical flavor. Moreover, it is very safe to consume because the ingredients and coloring agent are made of organic substance.

The main ingredient is rice flour mixed with green leaf extract produced by daun suji or dracaena leaf. It is used to make the cake look greenish as well as engender a delicious flavor, and fragrance. To serve the cake, it is put onto a small dish and then sprinkled with grated coconut and brown sugar sauce.

On days of yore, the cake was presented with a tekor (dishshaped banana leaf). This cake is usually served when people held grandiose religious ceremonies (engaging villagers). But now, the traditional cake is very rare.

Aside from being difficult and complicated preparation, the ingredient in use is also of selected rice processed manually.

Preparations: first of all, the selected rice is soaked with clean water for about 6 hours. After that, the rice is made into flour by means of crushing. The flour is then clenched into the shape of balls. Then, steam all the batters until cooked or for 15 minutes.

Take out the cooked flour and then mixed with the extract of dracaena leaf and give a small amount of starch to make it sticky. Unlike in the past, to make the batter sticky people usually used cassava.

Later on, the flour batter is crushed and kneaded until refined. Subsequently, the batter is formed by using coconut shell mold having many small holes.

This mold is put on the flour and then driven while rolling it. From the holes of coconut shell mold will come out a cake resembling the earth worm excrement. Afterward, the cake is placed on a banana leaf and then steamed again for about 15 minutes.

When having cooked, the cake is taken out and cooled. For the presentation, the cake should be removed from the banana leaves one by one. Then, put them on the plate and sprinkle with grated coconut and brown sugar sauce.

To sprinkle the sugar, use banana leaf whose end has been torn up resembling a brush. Having sprinkled it evenly, the cake is ready to serve. (kmb)

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France has expelled 12 radical imams, preachers this year PARIS — France’s top security official says the government has expelled 12 radical imams and preachers since the beginning of the year and a total of 40 since 2012.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told Europe 1 radio that France will not tolerate “preachers of hatred.”

He spoke three days after Yassin Salhi was accused of beheading his boss and then trying to cause an ex-

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Police investigators inspect the stage area after an accidental explosion during a music concert at the Formosa Water Park in New Taipei City, Taiwan, early Sunday, June 28, 2015. A fire on a music stage spread into a crowd of spectators at a Saturday night party at a Taiwan water park, injuring more than 500 people, authorities said Sunday.

Cigarettes or spark suspected in Taiwan fire that burned 498

TAIPEI — Investigators in Taiwan were focusing Monday on the possibility that a cigarette butt or spark caused the blaze that burned 498 people at a weekend water park party when colored powder sprayed from the stage caught fire.

More than 400 people remained hospitalized, including 202 in serious condition, city officials said. Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported one death, a 20-year-old woman with burns to 90 percent of her body who was taken off life support with her family’s consent. It said her 12-yearold brother also had burns on 90 percent of his body.

Police recommended criminal charges against the organizer of Saturday’s party, as well as two technicians, at the Formosa Fun Coast theme park in suburban Taipei.

“It’s still not clear what happened, but there were a number of people smoking and the weather was warm,” New Taipei City news department head Lin Chieh-yu said. Temperatures around greater Taipei topped 36 degrees Celsius (96.8 F) before the party.

The three tons of colored starchbased powder bought by the organizers from Tai Won, a seller in the island’s southern county of Yunlin, were flammable, said Chou Hui-fang, a representative of the seller. She said the buyer was informed about the risk of fire.

“Whether it’s corn starch or flour starch, this kind of stuff, no matter how

long it’s been around, if it’s in dense quantities and if it’s hot, it can catch fire,” Chou said. She said her 4-yearold company has been questioned by police and health officials but was not considered at fault.

“We didn’t know what the buyers were going to do with it or how much they would use,” she said. “It might have been supplies for a whole year.”

Taiwan Premier Mao Chi-kuo on Sunday banned use of the powder at future private events. Colored powder is often thrown on revelers during the annual Holi celebrations in India and Nepal, a Hindu festival. The powder at Saturday’s party was made in Taiwan, Chou said. The water park was ordered to close after the fire.

Taiwan police recommended charges of professional neglect and public endangerment for party organizer Lu Chung-chi, who was arrested but released on bail of 1 million Taiwan dollars (US$32,000) and restricted from leaving the island, a New Taipei City police spokesman said. Local media photos showed Lu kneeling on the ground to apologize, pledging to take full responsibility.

Police also recommended charges for the stage hardware technician and

the person responsible for shooting off the powder. Each was given bail of 300,000 Taiwan dollars. Officers questioned two others involved in the event but did not recommend charges, said Yan Bo-jen, news liaison with the Luzhou Precinct of New Taipei City Police Department. Prosecutors have also seized the assets of the water park and of the party organizers, the city news official said.

The powder ignited along the ground, mainly burning people’s lower bodies, said Wang Wei-sheng, a liaison with the New Taipei City fire department command center.

Taiwan university student Liang Sheng-kai said flaming powder hit his legs, apparently catching fire after it was sprayed from a concert stage into the front row where he was standing.

With the park’s water features several hundred meters (yards) away, too far to douse the fire or ease burns, people screamed and panicked to find exits as balls of fire surged from the ground, he said. He said the right and left sides of the stage were blocked.

“It was very messy and a lot of people fell over or got knocked down,” said Liang, 20, who is staying in a Taipei hospital for burn treatment. (ap)

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plosion at a U.S.-owned gas factory.

He had been flagged in 2006 for ties to radical Muslims, but surveillance was lifted in 2008.

The Air Products plant reopened on Monday. Executives there say Salhi made regular deliveries for the plant and had an entry badge.

Authorities are searching for possible international links after he sent a photo of the victim to a contact in Syria. (ap)

Putin urges all to fight Islamic State, backs Syria’s Assad MOSCOW — In a surprise meeting with Syria’s foreign minister, Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged his support Monday for Syrian President Bashar Assad and called on all Middle East nations to join forces to fight Islamic State militants.

The war in Syria, which began with protests in March 2011, has killed more than 220,000 people.

Russia, which has traditionally strong ties to Syria, has been seen as a key to a peaceful solution and has previously rebuffed suggestions that Assad’s resignation could help end the war.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem held talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday then was whisked to the Kremlin to meet with Putin.

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Putin as telling the Syrian envoy that Russia’s “policy to support Syria, the Syrian leadership and the Syrian people remains unchanged.”

Putin also urged other Middle East countries to help Syria fight the armed Islamic factions that now control parts of the Syrian capital and large parts of the city’s suburbs.

Putin said Moscow’s contacts with the countries in the region, including with Turkey and Saudi Arabia, “show that everyone wants to contribute to fight this evil,” he said referring to Islamic State militants.

He exhorted all nations in the region, whatever their relations with Syria are, to “pull their efforts together” to fight Islamic militants. (ap)

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Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Mualem, right, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s Kremlin, Russia on Monday, June 29, 2015.

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An Indonesian soldier mans a check point on a road leading to the area marked as danger zone on the slopes of Mount Sinabung in Sibintun, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunday, June 28, 2015. The volcano has spewed hot lava almost daily since its alert status was raised early this month to the highest level. Thousands of villagers whose homes are in the danger zone have been evacuated since then to safer areas.

Weakening economy caused by reliance on commodities JAKARTA - Indonesia’s economy has been weakening due to continued dependence on the country’s commodities, an official of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) said on Sunday.

“The Indonesian economy, which recorded growth the last 10 years, is now weakening because we have been ‘trapped’ by benefits from commodities for a long time and have forgotten how to develop industries and infrastructure,” Deputy Chairman of Banking and Financial Affairs of Kadin Rosan P. Roeslani stated.

Therefore, Indonesia should realize its infrastructural and industrial development plans soon to revitalize the country’s economic development, he emphasized, adding that infrastructure and industries were the primary instruments of growth of both national and regional economies.

Speaking at a coordination meeting with the Kadin office of East Nusa Tenggara in Kupang on Sunday, Roeslani had pointed out that dependence on prices of commodities will not support economic stability as they largely depended on the market and international demand.

This means that self-reliance cannot be established in the future and for the economic stability of the nation.

“The issues we are facing currently should encourage us to review them to ensure economic

development. We should realize our infrastructural and industrial development projects soon and not believe that it is too late to begin,” Roeslani remarked.

Furthermore, Chief Economic Affairs Minister Sofyan Djalil stressed the importance of boosting investment, including in the infrastructure sector, to help advance the country’s economic development.

Expediting the realization of investments in the next five years is expected to help improve the country’s economic growth.

“If we can realize the investment target of Rp5.6 thousand trillion in the coming five years, there will be relatively high economic growth,” the coordinating minister for economic affairs affirmed.

Djalil further noted that the government was optimistic that economic growth in the next few years will be supported by government projects, the private sector, and national investment.

Therefore, according to the minister, the government is implementing measures to enhance economic growth through the development of infrastructure and investments, to support industries in various regions across the country.

“However, we continue to hope for economic progress, expeditious infrastructural development, and speedy economic growth,” he admitted. (ant)

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Fast solutions needed to overcome economic downturn

JAKARTA - Director of the Madani Nusantara Institute Prof. Nanat Fatah Nasir highlighted the need for swift solutions, such as a cabinet reshuffle in order to overcome the country’s economic downturns.

“The economic condition is increasingly weakening. If no immediate solution is found, it could lead to a serious economic crisis similar to the one that occurred in 1998,” Natsir said on Monday.

Natsir, who is also the presidium chairman of the Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals Association (ICMI) and former rector of the Bandung-based Islamic State University (UIN), stated that one of the fast solutions to combating the weakening economic condition of the country is to reshuffle

the ministers handling economic and legal affairs.

However, he pointed out that the reshuffle can be done not only on the ministers responsible for economic and legal affairs but also on the ministers handling other sectors, particularly those ministers who are not working maximally.

However, he affirmed that reshuffling is the prerogative right of President Joko Widodo, and it is his decision to revamp the cabinet.

The issue of cabinet reshuffle resurfaced after the president hinted that he did not intend to replace his ministers.

In an evening Iftar with the leadership of the House of Representatives (DPR) on Tuesday, June 23, the president emphasized that the ministers were now working and should not be disturbed with various discourses, including reshuffle.

The president reiterated that he alone was aware of the track record of the ministers. (ant)

Status of Mt. Raung increased to alert JEMBER - The status of Mount Raung, located at the border of Bondowoso and Banyuwangi, East Java, has been raised from Standby (Level III) to Alert (Level II), an official stated.

“The status of Mount Raung

has been raised from Standby to Alert effective today from 9 a.m. local time, due to increased volcanic activity,” Head of Observation and Research Volcano Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) Gede

Swastika remarked when contacted from Jember on Monday.

Gede noted that the agency has been monitoring the 3,332meter high volcano for the past two weeks, and the frequency of tremors has increased. (ant)

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The status of Mount Raung, located at the border of Bondowoso and Banyuwangi, East Java, has been raised from Standby (Level III) to Alert (Level II), an official stated.

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Justin Gatlin, center, wins the 200meter ahead of Isiah Young, left, and Wallace Spearmon at the U.S. Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Ore., Sunday, June 28, 2015. Young finished second and Spearmon took third.

Gatlin wins 200 with fastest time ever at US championships

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There is a stone containing the footprints whose size exceeds the size of an ordinary human foot and it is believed to belong to Kebo Iwa. At the time of making the staircase, the stone is said to move by itself in accordance with the will of Kebo Iwa. Uniquely, every time of stepping down the stone staircase, its number is always different. When counting them for again and again, the amount will not be the same.

In the niche can be found several sculptures such as a stone board carved with the motif of a pot. In the meantime, in the Pengukur-

Ukuran temple can be found several carved stones and a stone door that reads Saka Year 1116 or be equal to 1194 AD. In the inscription is mentioned the name Dharmaanyar and this may be the former name of the temple.

To support the tourism sector, this Goa Garba tourist attraction has been equipped with facilities like a spacious parking lot. Although most of the population around the Goa Garba has livelihood as farmers, they have intelligent mind, so that the ancient relics can be preserved well.

EUGENE, Ore. — Moments after crossing the finish line, Justin Gatlin turned to his left and pointed at the clock to make sure everyone noticed what he just did. Hard to miss that time. Somewhere, a certain Jamaican sprinter is no doubt hearing about it, too.

Gatlin breezed to the 200-meter title at the U.S. championships in a meet-record 19.57 seconds Sunday.

He dominated a race in which he had the lead coming off the turn. It was all over after that, given how he has been running lately and that his legs were feeling particularly fresh.

“I wanted to go out and make a statement and that’s what I did today,” Gatlin said. “That’s probably one of the best races I’ve had.” Training partner Isiah Young was second, 0.36 seconds behind, and 30-year-old Wallace Spearmon third as he rounds back up to speed after sports hernia surgery.

In the women’s 200, Oregon standout Jenna Prandini won in 22.20. Candyce McGrone was second and Jeneba Tarmoh third.

Gatlin shattered his previous best of 19.68, which he set last July in Monaco and then matched last month here at Hayward Field. Tyson Gay, the 100 winner who skipped the 200, set the previous meet record of 19.62 in 2007.

And just so you know: Michael Johnson has the American record (19.32) and Usain Bolt the world record (19.19). “I’m just honored to say I’m on that short list of Americans who have ran that fast,” Gatlin said.

The 33-year-old Gatlin was so quick in the opening round that his competitors were jokingly telling him to slow it down. He was simply eager to begin because he skipped the 100 because he had an automatic bye into the world championships courtesy of his Diamond League title.

He’s now set up for a showdown in both events with Bolt in Beijing later this summer. First, though, some rest.

Running that time left him drained.

“My body has never been there before,” said Gatlin, the controversial sprinter who returned in 2010 after serving a four-year doping ban. “It hurt. “But I’m feeling really good now.”

Soon, it’s back to work for Gatlin in an effort to catch Bolt, who skipped Jamaican nationals because he has automatic byes into both events as the world champion.

“A lot of sprinters are waking up and saying, ‘It’s time to fight back.

It’s time to work hard and bear that American flag with honor,’” Gatlin said. Spearmon returns to the Bird’s Nest in Beijing, a place that doesn’t hold pleasant memories. He captured bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics before being disqualified for stepping outside his lane. “Unfinished work,” Spearmon said. (ap)

LONDON - Petra Kvitova is not the type to talk herself up even if she does arrive at Wimbledon as the defending champion. Instead the powerful Czech second seed said world number one Serena Williams has a great chance to complete a calendar year grand slam this year, having already bagged the Australian Open and French Open titles.

“I think that Serena has really great chances to do it. I think she is really a big champion. She’s always trying to find a good form for the important points. “We’ll see. I think that she’s really in the good way.”

No other player apart from Serena or sister Venus, who also has five Wimbledon titles, has retained the Wimbledon crown in the last 19 years, but Kvitova appears stronger mentally than when she stormed through the pack to win in 2011.

Ranked second in the world she beat Serena in Madrid this year on her way to the title having taken a break earlier in the season, missing the Indian Wells and Miami tournaments to re-charge her batteries for the slams. “I think a lot of athletes want to have a break, but they didn’t do it,” Kvitova told reporters.

“But anyway, I mean, I feel much better than before. I’m really happy to be back on the court to play tennis, to really do what I love. That’s the important thing. “I think it was a really tough decision for me to miss the two big tournaments during March. I’m glad that I did it.”

Kvitova faces big-hitting Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands in the first round on Tuesday, when she hopes to have shaken off a cold that forced her to pull out of the Eastbourne championships last week. “I hope on Tuesday I will be ready 100 percent, but of course, I missed a few days practice. But that’s how it is,” she said. (rtr)

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Republic’s Czech Petra Kvitova during practice

No motorhomes for riders? We’ll use them for staff, say Sky

PARIS - Motorhomes may be banned for riders on the Tour de France as the International Cycling Union (UCI) looks to preserve the fairness between the teams, Team Sky have the intention on taking them to the race for their staff.

“We’ll allow the staff in the

motorhomes,” team manager Dave Brailsford said on Monday as he named his nine-man squad for the Tour.

The move, he explained, will free up hotel rooms and allow some riders to enjoy a full room for themselves while they usually sleep

in twin rooms in hotels provided by organisers.

“In all road stage races on the international calendar the organisers must cover the subsistence expenses of the teams from the night before the start to the final day,” the UCI’s management committee said

in a statement earlier this month.

“Riders must stay in the hotels provided by the organiser throughout the entire duration of the race.

The decision was made in order to reaffirm absolute fairness between all riders.” Sky tried out the motorhome setup with Richie Porte in

last month’s Giro d’Italia.

Brailsford feels some hotels provided this year were “not great” and says that being able to sleep in familiar surroundings would help to improve the daily recovery process as “sport science is massive on sleep at the moment”. (rtr)

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Chile’s Jara gets three-match ban for finger incident

MONTREAL — A look that the four teams playing in the semifinals at the Women’s World Cup. Germany faces the United States on Tuesday in Montreal, while Japan goes up against England on Wednesday in Edmonton, Alberta. The winners go to Vancouver, British Columbia, for the final at BC Place on July 5, the losers head to the consolation game on July 4 at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium.

GERMANY: Germany is the top-ranked team in the world. The Germans have been to every Women’s World Cup since it started in 1991, winning in 2003 and ‘07. The team was shaken in 2011 when it failed to make it to the final on home soil. The Germans were dispatched in the quarterfinals by eventual champion Japan.

Germany finished atop its group with wins over Ivory Coast and Thailand and a 1-all draw with Norway.

The team defeated No. 5 Sweden 4-1 in the round of 16. The team was tested in the quarterfinals by third-ranked France, but prevailed 5-4 on penalty kicks after a 1-1 tie.

“The next task at hand will not be any easier. But we are among the best four teams in the world,” coach Silvia Neid said through a translator. “It makes us feel good, and maybe there is some more life in us.”

Germany leads all teams in the competition with 20 total goals; Celia Sasic has six while Anja Mittag has five. Nadine Angerer, a former FIFA Player of the year who was the first goalkeeper to win the award, has nine saves. The Germans have allowed three goals.

UNITED STATES: The United States is ranked No. 2, having fallen out Japan’s Mizuho Sakaguchi (6) and Rumi Utsugi (13) celebrate their win over Australia during in FIFA Women’s World Cup quarter-final action in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Saturday Jun 27, 2015.

of the top spot late last year after a six-year stint at No. 1.

The U.S. women have also been to every World Cup, winning the first in 1991 and then again in 1999. The Americans are the only team to have reached the semifinals in all seven tournaments. The United States came close to claiming a third title four years ago, but fell to Japan in the final on penalty kicks.

Forward Alex Morgan was a breakout star as a super sub Germany.

In the so-called Group of Death in Canada, the United States defeated Australia and Nigeria, and played to a scoreless draw against Sweden and former head coach Pia Sundhage.

The Americans defeated Colombia 2-0 to open the knockout stage, then finally looked to all be on the same page with a 1-0 victory over China in the quarterfinals.

“It’s just going to be a great matchup. This is what this tournament’s all about,” defender Ali Krieger said about Germany. “This why train our entire lives, and what we train our entire lives for. These are the moments. And we’re all so excited to play.”

The consistent U.S. strength throughout the tournament has been its defense: Hope Solo has posted four straight shutouts and the Americans have not allowed a goal in 423 minutes. JAPAN: Japan, ranked No. 4 in the world, is the defending champion at the World Cup. The Japanese defeated the United States on penalty kicks in a tense final four years ago in Germany, becoming the first Asian team to win the tournament. It was the first time Japan had advanced past the quarterfinals. Like the Americans and the Germans, Japan has been to every World Cup since the women’s tournament started in 1991.

Japan is the only team in the semifinals that has won all five of its matches in Canada. In the quarterfinals, a late goal from 22-year-old substitute Mana Iwabuchi gave the team a 1-0 victory over Australia.

“The emotion that we created in 2011 we certainly would like to be able to recreate that for the Japanese people,” Japan coach Norio Sasaki said through a translator. Attacking midfielder Homare Sawa is playing in her record sixth World Cup. She started playing with the national team when she was just 15, scoring four goals in her debut match. The 36-year-old says this will be her last World Cup. Japan plays with a white teddy bear on its bench, to honor teammate Kozue Ando, who broke her left ankle in the World Cup opener against Switzerland when she got caught up with Swiss goalkeeper Gaelle Thalmann.

ENGLAND: At No. 6, England is the lowest ranked team remaining in the World Cup. The Lionesses have advanced to the semifinals for the first time in the team’s history. This is England’s fourth World Cup; the team made it to the quarterfinals in each of its previous three appearances.

The Lionesses opened the tournament with a 1-0 loss to France, but they’ve since put up four consecutive 2-1 victories, beating Mexico, Colombia, Norway and finally host Canada on Saturday.

“We’re going to bring it. We’re going to really front up this Japanese team and make their life as difficult as we can,” England coach Mark Sampson said.

English striker Jodie Taylor is also known to American fans: She played at Oregon State from 2004-07, and she plays for the NWSL’s Portland Thorns alongside Canada’s Christine Sinclair, Germany’s Nadine Angerer and U.S. star Alex Morgan. The team also has Royal support. Prince William, commenting via the Kennsington Palace Twitter account, wrote Sunday: “As President of the FA I’m thrilled to see the England women progress to the semis for the first time. This team is making history and I can’t wait to see them in action against Japan. The Lionesses are doing their country proud.” (ap)

Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP

Brazil’s Douglas Costa confirms Bayern interest BERLIN - Brazil international Douglas Costa on Monday confirmed an interest by the German champions Bayer Munich to sign him but said there was no deal yet.

The 24-year-old attacking midfielder, who plays for Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukraine, said talks had taken place between his club and the Bavarians.

The Bundesliga champions are eager to sign him as an option on the wings and an eye on the future with speedy wingers Franck Ribery nursing a months-long injury and Arjen Robben turning 32 in January.

“Discussions have been held between my club and Bayern. But as we speak I know of nothing more than an interest from Bayern,” he told Sport

Bild magazine.

Several German media had rushed to announce a deal with the player a week ago but it has yet to materialise.

“I was focused on the Copa America.

After this I will talk with my agent,” said Douglas.

Brazil were eliminated by Paraguay on penalties in the quarter-finals of the tournament on Saturday. (rtr)

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Brazilian soccer team head coach Dunga attends a training session at Estadio Ester Roa in Concepcion, Chile, June 26, 2015.

Brazil face familiar post-mortem after early Copa exit SAO PAULO - Brazil’s Copa America exit against Paraguay has plunged them into the doldrums again and sparked a well-worn debate about how to restore the national side to its former glory.

A year after they were hammered 7-1 by Germany in the World Cup, the post-mortem following another tournament exit is going over some familiar ground. The diagnosis -- like a year ago -- is that with few truly great players and a chaotic domestic game, the system needs remodelling from the ground up.

“Getting knocked out on penalties again can’t hide the reality,” newspaper columnist Juca Kfouri wrote in the Folha de S.Paulo on Sunday.

“We lack players, we lack a team, we lack a coach, while at the top there is an excess of incompetence.”

Kfouri, like many other fans, blames the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) and Dunga, the coach who took over two weeks after their World Cup

humiliation last year.

Dunga’s position does not seem in danger after Saturday’s 4-3 penalty shootout defeat by Paraguay, but he is hardly popular. His defensive playing style and a lack of personal charm in what is one of the country’s highest-profile jobs have won him few friends. The same could be said for the CBF. The organisation was criticised after the 7-1 Germany defeat for not pausing to take stock and for failing to understand that Brazilian football has gone backwards.

Critics called in vain for wholesale changes, with a revamped and slimmed down domestic calendar, new blood at the head of the CBF, and an independent league system run by the clubs.

According to former great Tostao, a member of the 1970 World Cup winning team, the cause of Brazil’s current problems lies with a new generation of players that lacks the mercurial talents of the past.

“In addition to scant individual and collective quality, the selecao lives with the complex of enormous expectation and responsibility created

by Brazilian football’s history,” he wrote in the Folha de S.Paulo.

“Players who have no great star quality lack confidence and emotional balance in decisive games. They bottled it.”

Dunga blamed the defeat on a virus he said struck down some players before the match but added that the loss would toughen up his young squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers, which begin in October.

Brazil have never failed to qualify for the World Cup and the pressure this time around will be great.

“This tournament was very important in getting players used to playing the qualifiers,” the coach said moments after the loss. “We wanted to win but it was a great lesson for the qualifiers and that is our main priority.” (rtr)

SANTIAGO - Chile defender Gonzalo Jara will miss the rest of the Copa America after being suspended for three matches on Sunday for sticking his finger up an opponent’s backside and feigning injury during a match.

CONMEBOL, the governing body of South American football, said in a statement it was suspending Jara for “unsporting behaviour”. It also fined the Chilean FA $7,500.

Jara will miss Chile’s semi-final clash with Peru on Monday and, depending on the result of that match, either the final or third-place playoff.

He will also be ineligible for Chile’s opening match of the qualifying campaign for the 2018 World Cup. Television images from Chile’s quarter-final against Uruguay showed Jara grabbing the backside of Uruguay striker Edinson Cavani and sticking his finger up it.

Cavani responded by gently pushing Jara away but the Chilean fell to the ground as if he had been punched.

The referee booked both players. It was Cavani’s second yellow card and he was sent off.

TALKING POINT

Jara’s gesture was the main talking point from the match and has been dubbed “the finger of God” in Chile,

an echo of Argentina captain Diego Maradona’s infamous “hand of God” goal from the 1986 World Cup. Uruguay had a second player dismissed in the closing stages of the match, prompting a fracas involving most of the players on the pitch, the coaching staff, the match officials and even a touchline cameraman.

Both teams lodged complaints with CONMEBOL. Speaking shortly before the verdict was made public, Chile coach Jorge Sampaoli said the handling of the case set a dangerous precedent.

“If we’re going to start lodging complaints that don’t have anything to do with the referee’s match report it’s going to get very complicated because we are going to have different analyses after every match,” he told a news conference.

“We’re going to have to be clear from now on that everyone will be judged in the same way, because if this is a precedent and leads to a suspension on the basis of a post-match complaint, everyone’s going to start doing it.”

Uruguay’s FA welcomed the verdict and said it would work to defend its seven national team players accused

by Chile of aggressive behaviour towards them and the match officials.

CONMEBOL will deal with that complaint after the Copa. (rtr)

Spanish league appeals FIFA switch of 2022 World Cup dates

LAUSANNE — The Spanish football league is challenging FIFA’s to switch the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to November-December. The Court of Arbitration for Sport says the Spanish league (LFP) has filed an appeal against the FIFA decision, which avoids the Qatari summer heat.

The court has not set a hearing date. A November-December tournament would shut down top European leagues for eight peak weeks and

require more summer fixtures.

It is the first formal legal challenge to moving the World Cup in Qatar from the traditional June-July slot.

FIFA’s executive committee approved the change in March, 18 months after requesting a global consultation. The Spanish league is a member of the European Professional Football Leagues group, which was consulted.

FIFA rejected a European clubs and leagues proposal to play in May-June.

Spanish sports newspaper As quoted LFP President Javier Tebas as saying he had filed the lawsuit “in defense of the interests of the clubs that are contributing to the international teams.”

According to As, Tebas submitted three independent expert reports to CAS which concluded that the LFP would lose 65 million euros ($71.6 million) by moving the World Cup to the winter. Calls to the LFP went unanswered Sunday. (ap)

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Uruguay’s Edinson Cavani gestures as Chile’s Gonzalo Jara covers his face while sitting on the pitch during their quarterfinals Copa America 2015 soccer match at the National Stadium in Santiago, Chile, June 24, 2015.

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Chile’s Jara gets three-match ban for finger incident

MONTREAL — A look that the four teams playing in the semifinals at the Women’s World Cup. Germany faces the United States on Tuesday in Montreal, while Japan goes up against England on Wednesday in Edmonton, Alberta. The winners go to Vancouver, British Columbia, for the final at BC Place on July 5, the losers head to the consolation game on July 4 at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium.

GERMANY: Germany is the top-ranked team in the world. The Germans have been to every Women’s World Cup since it started in 1991, winning in 2003 and ‘07. The team was shaken in 2011 when it failed to make it to the final on home soil. The Germans were dispatched in the quarterfinals by eventual champion Japan.

Germany finished atop its group with wins over Ivory Coast and Thailand and a 1-all draw with Norway.

The team defeated No. 5 Sweden 4-1 in the round of 16. The team was tested in the quarterfinals by third-ranked France, but prevailed 5-4 on penalty kicks after a 1-1 tie.

“The next task at hand will not be any easier. But we are among the best four teams in the world,” coach Silvia Neid said through a translator. “It makes us feel good, and maybe there is some more life in us.”

Germany leads all teams in the competition with 20 total goals; Celia Sasic has six while Anja Mittag has five. Nadine Angerer, a former FIFA Player of the year who was the first goalkeeper to win the award, has nine saves. The Germans have allowed three goals.

UNITED STATES: The United States is ranked No. 2, having fallen out Japan’s Mizuho Sakaguchi (6) and Rumi Utsugi (13) celebrate their win over Australia during in FIFA Women’s World Cup quarter-final action in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Saturday Jun 27, 2015.

of the top spot late last year after a six-year stint at No. 1.

The U.S. women have also been to every World Cup, winning the first in 1991 and then again in 1999. The Americans are the only team to have reached the semifinals in all seven tournaments. The United States came close to claiming a third title four years ago, but fell to Japan in the final on penalty kicks.

Forward Alex Morgan was a breakout star as a super sub Germany.

In the so-called Group of Death in Canada, the United States defeated Australia and Nigeria, and played to a scoreless draw against Sweden and former head coach Pia Sundhage.

The Americans defeated Colombia 2-0 to open the knockout stage, then finally looked to all be on the same page with a 1-0 victory over China in the quarterfinals.

“It’s just going to be a great matchup. This is what this tournament’s all about,” defender Ali Krieger said about Germany. “This why train our entire lives, and what we train our entire lives for. These are the moments. And we’re all so excited to play.”

The consistent U.S. strength throughout the tournament has been its defense: Hope Solo has posted four straight shutouts and the Americans have not allowed a goal in 423 minutes. JAPAN: Japan, ranked No. 4 in the world, is the defending champion at the World Cup. The Japanese defeated the United States on penalty kicks in a tense final four years ago in Germany, becoming the first Asian team to win the tournament. It was the first time Japan had advanced past the quarterfinals. Like the Americans and the Germans, Japan has been to every World Cup since the women’s tournament started in 1991.

Japan is the only team in the semifinals that has won all five of its matches in Canada. In the quarterfinals, a late goal from 22-year-old substitute Mana Iwabuchi gave the team a 1-0 victory over Australia.

“The emotion that we created in 2011 we certainly would like to be able to recreate that for the Japanese people,” Japan coach Norio Sasaki said through a translator. Attacking midfielder Homare Sawa is playing in her record sixth World Cup. She started playing with the national team when she was just 15, scoring four goals in her debut match. The 36-year-old says this will be her last World Cup. Japan plays with a white teddy bear on its bench, to honor teammate Kozue Ando, who broke her left ankle in the World Cup opener against Switzerland when she got caught up with Swiss goalkeeper Gaelle Thalmann.

ENGLAND: At No. 6, England is the lowest ranked team remaining in the World Cup. The Lionesses have advanced to the semifinals for the first time in the team’s history. This is England’s fourth World Cup; the team made it to the quarterfinals in each of its previous three appearances.

The Lionesses opened the tournament with a 1-0 loss to France, but they’ve since put up four consecutive 2-1 victories, beating Mexico, Colombia, Norway and finally host Canada on Saturday.

“We’re going to bring it. We’re going to really front up this Japanese team and make their life as difficult as we can,” England coach Mark Sampson said.

English striker Jodie Taylor is also known to American fans: She played at Oregon State from 2004-07, and she plays for the NWSL’s Portland Thorns alongside Canada’s Christine Sinclair, Germany’s Nadine Angerer and U.S. star Alex Morgan. The team also has Royal support. Prince William, commenting via the Kennsington Palace Twitter account, wrote Sunday: “As President of the FA I’m thrilled to see the England women progress to the semis for the first time. This team is making history and I can’t wait to see them in action against Japan. The Lionesses are doing their country proud.” (ap)

Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP

Brazil’s Douglas Costa confirms Bayern interest BERLIN - Brazil international Douglas Costa on Monday confirmed an interest by the German champions Bayer Munich to sign him but said there was no deal yet.

The 24-year-old attacking midfielder, who plays for Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukraine, said talks had taken place between his club and the Bavarians.

The Bundesliga champions are eager to sign him as an option on the wings and an eye on the future with speedy wingers Franck Ribery nursing a months-long injury and Arjen Robben turning 32 in January.

“Discussions have been held between my club and Bayern. But as we speak I know of nothing more than an interest from Bayern,” he told Sport

Bild magazine.

Several German media had rushed to announce a deal with the player a week ago but it has yet to materialise.

“I was focused on the Copa America.

After this I will talk with my agent,” said Douglas.

Brazil were eliminated by Paraguay on penalties in the quarter-finals of the tournament on Saturday. (rtr)

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Brazilian soccer team head coach Dunga attends a training session at Estadio Ester Roa in Concepcion, Chile, June 26, 2015.

Brazil face familiar post-mortem after early Copa exit SAO PAULO - Brazil’s Copa America exit against Paraguay has plunged them into the doldrums again and sparked a well-worn debate about how to restore the national side to its former glory.

A year after they were hammered 7-1 by Germany in the World Cup, the post-mortem following another tournament exit is going over some familiar ground. The diagnosis -- like a year ago -- is that with few truly great players and a chaotic domestic game, the system needs remodelling from the ground up.

“Getting knocked out on penalties again can’t hide the reality,” newspaper columnist Juca Kfouri wrote in the Folha de S.Paulo on Sunday.

“We lack players, we lack a team, we lack a coach, while at the top there is an excess of incompetence.”

Kfouri, like many other fans, blames the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) and Dunga, the coach who took over two weeks after their World Cup

humiliation last year.

Dunga’s position does not seem in danger after Saturday’s 4-3 penalty shootout defeat by Paraguay, but he is hardly popular. His defensive playing style and a lack of personal charm in what is one of the country’s highest-profile jobs have won him few friends. The same could be said for the CBF. The organisation was criticised after the 7-1 Germany defeat for not pausing to take stock and for failing to understand that Brazilian football has gone backwards.

Critics called in vain for wholesale changes, with a revamped and slimmed down domestic calendar, new blood at the head of the CBF, and an independent league system run by the clubs.

According to former great Tostao, a member of the 1970 World Cup winning team, the cause of Brazil’s current problems lies with a new generation of players that lacks the mercurial talents of the past.

“In addition to scant individual and collective quality, the selecao lives with the complex of enormous expectation and responsibility created

by Brazilian football’s history,” he wrote in the Folha de S.Paulo.

“Players who have no great star quality lack confidence and emotional balance in decisive games. They bottled it.”

Dunga blamed the defeat on a virus he said struck down some players before the match but added that the loss would toughen up his young squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers, which begin in October.

Brazil have never failed to qualify for the World Cup and the pressure this time around will be great.

“This tournament was very important in getting players used to playing the qualifiers,” the coach said moments after the loss. “We wanted to win but it was a great lesson for the qualifiers and that is our main priority.” (rtr)

SANTIAGO - Chile defender Gonzalo Jara will miss the rest of the Copa America after being suspended for three matches on Sunday for sticking his finger up an opponent’s backside and feigning injury during a match.

CONMEBOL, the governing body of South American football, said in a statement it was suspending Jara for “unsporting behaviour”. It also fined the Chilean FA $7,500.

Jara will miss Chile’s semi-final clash with Peru on Monday and, depending on the result of that match, either the final or third-place playoff.

He will also be ineligible for Chile’s opening match of the qualifying campaign for the 2018 World Cup. Television images from Chile’s quarter-final against Uruguay showed Jara grabbing the backside of Uruguay striker Edinson Cavani and sticking his finger up it.

Cavani responded by gently pushing Jara away but the Chilean fell to the ground as if he had been punched.

The referee booked both players. It was Cavani’s second yellow card and he was sent off.

TALKING POINT

Jara’s gesture was the main talking point from the match and has been dubbed “the finger of God” in Chile,

an echo of Argentina captain Diego Maradona’s infamous “hand of God” goal from the 1986 World Cup. Uruguay had a second player dismissed in the closing stages of the match, prompting a fracas involving most of the players on the pitch, the coaching staff, the match officials and even a touchline cameraman.

Both teams lodged complaints with CONMEBOL. Speaking shortly before the verdict was made public, Chile coach Jorge Sampaoli said the handling of the case set a dangerous precedent.

“If we’re going to start lodging complaints that don’t have anything to do with the referee’s match report it’s going to get very complicated because we are going to have different analyses after every match,” he told a news conference.

“We’re going to have to be clear from now on that everyone will be judged in the same way, because if this is a precedent and leads to a suspension on the basis of a post-match complaint, everyone’s going to start doing it.”

Uruguay’s FA welcomed the verdict and said it would work to defend its seven national team players accused

by Chile of aggressive behaviour towards them and the match officials.

CONMEBOL will deal with that complaint after the Copa. (rtr)

Spanish league appeals FIFA switch of 2022 World Cup dates

LAUSANNE — The Spanish football league is challenging FIFA’s to switch the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to November-December. The Court of Arbitration for Sport says the Spanish league (LFP) has filed an appeal against the FIFA decision, which avoids the Qatari summer heat.

The court has not set a hearing date. A November-December tournament would shut down top European leagues for eight peak weeks and

require more summer fixtures.

It is the first formal legal challenge to moving the World Cup in Qatar from the traditional June-July slot.

FIFA’s executive committee approved the change in March, 18 months after requesting a global consultation. The Spanish league is a member of the European Professional Football Leagues group, which was consulted.

FIFA rejected a European clubs and leagues proposal to play in May-June.

Spanish sports newspaper As quoted LFP President Javier Tebas as saying he had filed the lawsuit “in defense of the interests of the clubs that are contributing to the international teams.”

According to As, Tebas submitted three independent expert reports to CAS which concluded that the LFP would lose 65 million euros ($71.6 million) by moving the World Cup to the winter. Calls to the LFP went unanswered Sunday. (ap)

REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

Uruguay’s Edinson Cavani gestures as Chile’s Gonzalo Jara covers his face while sitting on the pitch during their quarterfinals Copa America 2015 soccer match at the National Stadium in Santiago, Chile, June 24, 2015.

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Champion Kvitova talks up title rival Serena

Justin Gatlin, center, wins the 200meter ahead of Isiah Young, left, and Wallace Spearmon at the U.S. Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Ore., Sunday, June 28, 2015. Young finished second and Spearmon took third.

Gatlin wins 200 with fastest time ever at US championships

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Goa Garba IBP GIANYAR - If you are a spiritualist, try to feel the vibration of the magical temple of Goa Garba or Garba Cave. Aura of the cave is so pronounced. People who aim to meditate and gain knowledge often come to this cave. This Goa Garba ancient relic is located beneath the Pengukur-Ukuran Temple estimated to have been built around the twelfth century AD during the reign of King Jayapangus.

Goa Garba is located at Sawegunung hamlet, Pejeng village, Tampaksiring subdistrict, Gianyar.

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By car, it is about 50 minutes away or about 34 km from Denpasar.

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Goa Garba is located beneath the Pengukur-Ukuran Temple. The temple was formerly used as a school for the kings of Bali.

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right on the bank of the Pakerisan River. Based on information of local residents, Goa Garba is a hermitage niche carved on the wall of cliff edge of the Pakerisan River. On top of this hermitage lie a number of pools and showers where at pool side sits a hole leading to a cave.

To achieve this cultural heritage, visitor must first visit a neat entrance gate with nicely arranged stairs made of river stone. Meanwhile, the entrance gate is made of sand stone.

It is said that the cave was made by Kebo Iwa, a Balinese vice regent having supernatural power.

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There is a stone containing the footprints whose size exceeds the size of an ordinary human foot and it is believed to belong to Kebo Iwa. At the time of making the staircase, the stone is said to move by itself in accordance with the will of Kebo Iwa. Uniquely, every time of stepping down the stone staircase, its number is always different. When counting them for again and again, the amount will not be the same.

In the niche can be found several sculptures such as a stone board carved with the motif of a pot. In the meantime, in the Pengukur-

Ukuran temple can be found several carved stones and a stone door that reads Saka Year 1116 or be equal to 1194 AD. In the inscription is mentioned the name Dharmaanyar and this may be the former name of the temple.

To support the tourism sector, this Goa Garba tourist attraction has been equipped with facilities like a spacious parking lot. Although most of the population around the Goa Garba has livelihood as farmers, they have intelligent mind, so that the ancient relics can be preserved well.

EUGENE, Ore. — Moments after crossing the finish line, Justin Gatlin turned to his left and pointed at the clock to make sure everyone noticed what he just did. Hard to miss that time. Somewhere, a certain Jamaican sprinter is no doubt hearing about it, too.

Gatlin breezed to the 200-meter title at the U.S. championships in a meet-record 19.57 seconds Sunday.

He dominated a race in which he had the lead coming off the turn. It was all over after that, given how he has been running lately and that his legs were feeling particularly fresh.

“I wanted to go out and make a statement and that’s what I did today,” Gatlin said. “That’s probably one of the best races I’ve had.” Training partner Isiah Young was second, 0.36 seconds behind, and 30-year-old Wallace Spearmon third as he rounds back up to speed after sports hernia surgery.

In the women’s 200, Oregon standout Jenna Prandini won in 22.20. Candyce McGrone was second and Jeneba Tarmoh third.

Gatlin shattered his previous best of 19.68, which he set last July in Monaco and then matched last month here at Hayward Field. Tyson Gay, the 100 winner who skipped the 200, set the previous meet record of 19.62 in 2007.

And just so you know: Michael Johnson has the American record (19.32) and Usain Bolt the world record (19.19). “I’m just honored to say I’m on that short list of Americans who have ran that fast,” Gatlin said.

The 33-year-old Gatlin was so quick in the opening round that his competitors were jokingly telling him to slow it down. He was simply eager to begin because he skipped the 100 because he had an automatic bye into the world championships courtesy of his Diamond League title.

He’s now set up for a showdown in both events with Bolt in Beijing later this summer. First, though, some rest.

Running that time left him drained.

“My body has never been there before,” said Gatlin, the controversial sprinter who returned in 2010 after serving a four-year doping ban. “It hurt. “But I’m feeling really good now.”

Soon, it’s back to work for Gatlin in an effort to catch Bolt, who skipped Jamaican nationals because he has automatic byes into both events as the world champion.

“A lot of sprinters are waking up and saying, ‘It’s time to fight back.

It’s time to work hard and bear that American flag with honor,’” Gatlin said. Spearmon returns to the Bird’s Nest in Beijing, a place that doesn’t hold pleasant memories. He captured bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics before being disqualified for stepping outside his lane. “Unfinished work,” Spearmon said. (ap)

LONDON - Petra Kvitova is not the type to talk herself up even if she does arrive at Wimbledon as the defending champion. Instead the powerful Czech second seed said world number one Serena Williams has a great chance to complete a calendar year grand slam this year, having already bagged the Australian Open and French Open titles.

“I think that Serena has really great chances to do it. I think she is really a big champion. She’s always trying to find a good form for the important points. “We’ll see. I think that she’s really in the good way.”

No other player apart from Serena or sister Venus, who also has five Wimbledon titles, has retained the Wimbledon crown in the last 19 years, but Kvitova appears stronger mentally than when she stormed through the pack to win in 2011.

Ranked second in the world she beat Serena in Madrid this year on her way to the title having taken a break earlier in the season, missing the Indian Wells and Miami tournaments to re-charge her batteries for the slams. “I think a lot of athletes want to have a break, but they didn’t do it,” Kvitova told reporters.

“But anyway, I mean, I feel much better than before. I’m really happy to be back on the court to play tennis, to really do what I love. That’s the important thing. “I think it was a really tough decision for me to miss the two big tournaments during March. I’m glad that I did it.”

Kvitova faces big-hitting Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands in the first round on Tuesday, when she hopes to have shaken off a cold that forced her to pull out of the Eastbourne championships last week. “I hope on Tuesday I will be ready 100 percent, but of course, I missed a few days practice. But that’s how it is,” she said. (rtr)

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Republic’s Czech Petra Kvitova during practice

No motorhomes for riders? We’ll use them for staff, say Sky

PARIS - Motorhomes may be banned for riders on the Tour de France as the International Cycling Union (UCI) looks to preserve the fairness between the teams, Team Sky have the intention on taking them to the race for their staff.

“We’ll allow the staff in the

motorhomes,” team manager Dave Brailsford said on Monday as he named his nine-man squad for the Tour.

The move, he explained, will free up hotel rooms and allow some riders to enjoy a full room for themselves while they usually sleep

in twin rooms in hotels provided by organisers.

“In all road stage races on the international calendar the organisers must cover the subsistence expenses of the teams from the night before the start to the final day,” the UCI’s management committee said

in a statement earlier this month.

“Riders must stay in the hotels provided by the organiser throughout the entire duration of the race.

The decision was made in order to reaffirm absolute fairness between all riders.” Sky tried out the motorhome setup with Richie Porte in

last month’s Giro d’Italia.

Brailsford feels some hotels provided this year were “not great” and says that being able to sleep in familiar surroundings would help to improve the daily recovery process as “sport science is massive on sleep at the moment”. (rtr)

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France has expelled 12 radical imams, preachers this year PARIS — France’s top security official says the government has expelled 12 radical imams and preachers since the beginning of the year and a total of 40 since 2012.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told Europe 1 radio that France will not tolerate “preachers of hatred.”

He spoke three days after Yassin Salhi was accused of beheading his boss and then trying to cause an ex-

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Police investigators inspect the stage area after an accidental explosion during a music concert at the Formosa Water Park in New Taipei City, Taiwan, early Sunday, June 28, 2015. A fire on a music stage spread into a crowd of spectators at a Saturday night party at a Taiwan water park, injuring more than 500 people, authorities said Sunday.

Cigarettes or spark suspected in Taiwan fire that burned 498

TAIPEI — Investigators in Taiwan were focusing Monday on the possibility that a cigarette butt or spark caused the blaze that burned 498 people at a weekend water park party when colored powder sprayed from the stage caught fire.

More than 400 people remained hospitalized, including 202 in serious condition, city officials said. Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported one death, a 20-year-old woman with burns to 90 percent of her body who was taken off life support with her family’s consent. It said her 12-yearold brother also had burns on 90 percent of his body.

Police recommended criminal charges against the organizer of Saturday’s party, as well as two technicians, at the Formosa Fun Coast theme park in suburban Taipei.

“It’s still not clear what happened, but there were a number of people smoking and the weather was warm,” New Taipei City news department head Lin Chieh-yu said. Temperatures around greater Taipei topped 36 degrees Celsius (96.8 F) before the party.

The three tons of colored starchbased powder bought by the organizers from Tai Won, a seller in the island’s southern county of Yunlin, were flammable, said Chou Hui-fang, a representative of the seller. She said the buyer was informed about the risk of fire.

“Whether it’s corn starch or flour starch, this kind of stuff, no matter how

long it’s been around, if it’s in dense quantities and if it’s hot, it can catch fire,” Chou said. She said her 4-yearold company has been questioned by police and health officials but was not considered at fault.

“We didn’t know what the buyers were going to do with it or how much they would use,” she said. “It might have been supplies for a whole year.”

Taiwan Premier Mao Chi-kuo on Sunday banned use of the powder at future private events. Colored powder is often thrown on revelers during the annual Holi celebrations in India and Nepal, a Hindu festival. The powder at Saturday’s party was made in Taiwan, Chou said. The water park was ordered to close after the fire.

Taiwan police recommended charges of professional neglect and public endangerment for party organizer Lu Chung-chi, who was arrested but released on bail of 1 million Taiwan dollars (US$32,000) and restricted from leaving the island, a New Taipei City police spokesman said. Local media photos showed Lu kneeling on the ground to apologize, pledging to take full responsibility.

Police also recommended charges for the stage hardware technician and

the person responsible for shooting off the powder. Each was given bail of 300,000 Taiwan dollars. Officers questioned two others involved in the event but did not recommend charges, said Yan Bo-jen, news liaison with the Luzhou Precinct of New Taipei City Police Department. Prosecutors have also seized the assets of the water park and of the party organizers, the city news official said.

The powder ignited along the ground, mainly burning people’s lower bodies, said Wang Wei-sheng, a liaison with the New Taipei City fire department command center.

Taiwan university student Liang Sheng-kai said flaming powder hit his legs, apparently catching fire after it was sprayed from a concert stage into the front row where he was standing.

With the park’s water features several hundred meters (yards) away, too far to douse the fire or ease burns, people screamed and panicked to find exits as balls of fire surged from the ground, he said. He said the right and left sides of the stage were blocked.

“It was very messy and a lot of people fell over or got knocked down,” said Liang, 20, who is staying in a Taipei hospital for burn treatment. (ap)

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plosion at a U.S.-owned gas factory.

He had been flagged in 2006 for ties to radical Muslims, but surveillance was lifted in 2008.

The Air Products plant reopened on Monday. Executives there say Salhi made regular deliveries for the plant and had an entry badge.

Authorities are searching for possible international links after he sent a photo of the victim to a contact in Syria. (ap)

Putin urges all to fight Islamic State, backs Syria’s Assad MOSCOW — In a surprise meeting with Syria’s foreign minister, Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged his support Monday for Syrian President Bashar Assad and called on all Middle East nations to join forces to fight Islamic State militants.

The war in Syria, which began with protests in March 2011, has killed more than 220,000 people.

Russia, which has traditionally strong ties to Syria, has been seen as a key to a peaceful solution and has previously rebuffed suggestions that Assad’s resignation could help end the war.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem held talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday then was whisked to the Kremlin to meet with Putin.

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Putin as telling the Syrian envoy that Russia’s “policy to support Syria, the Syrian leadership and the Syrian people remains unchanged.”

Putin also urged other Middle East countries to help Syria fight the armed Islamic factions that now control parts of the Syrian capital and large parts of the city’s suburbs.

Putin said Moscow’s contacts with the countries in the region, including with Turkey and Saudi Arabia, “show that everyone wants to contribute to fight this evil,” he said referring to Islamic State militants.

He exhorted all nations in the region, whatever their relations with Syria are, to “pull their efforts together” to fight Islamic militants. (ap)

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Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Mualem, right, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s Kremlin, Russia on Monday, June 29, 2015.

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An Indonesian soldier mans a check point on a road leading to the area marked as danger zone on the slopes of Mount Sinabung in Sibintun, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunday, June 28, 2015. The volcano has spewed hot lava almost daily since its alert status was raised early this month to the highest level. Thousands of villagers whose homes are in the danger zone have been evacuated since then to safer areas.

Weakening economy caused by reliance on commodities JAKARTA - Indonesia’s economy has been weakening due to continued dependence on the country’s commodities, an official of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) said on Sunday.

“The Indonesian economy, which recorded growth the last 10 years, is now weakening because we have been ‘trapped’ by benefits from commodities for a long time and have forgotten how to develop industries and infrastructure,” Deputy Chairman of Banking and Financial Affairs of Kadin Rosan P. Roeslani stated.

Therefore, Indonesia should realize its infrastructural and industrial development plans soon to revitalize the country’s economic development, he emphasized, adding that infrastructure and industries were the primary instruments of growth of both national and regional economies.

Speaking at a coordination meeting with the Kadin office of East Nusa Tenggara in Kupang on Sunday, Roeslani had pointed out that dependence on prices of commodities will not support economic stability as they largely depended on the market and international demand.

This means that self-reliance cannot be established in the future and for the economic stability of the nation.

“The issues we are facing currently should encourage us to review them to ensure economic

development. We should realize our infrastructural and industrial development projects soon and not believe that it is too late to begin,” Roeslani remarked.

Furthermore, Chief Economic Affairs Minister Sofyan Djalil stressed the importance of boosting investment, including in the infrastructure sector, to help advance the country’s economic development.

Expediting the realization of investments in the next five years is expected to help improve the country’s economic growth.

“If we can realize the investment target of Rp5.6 thousand trillion in the coming five years, there will be relatively high economic growth,” the coordinating minister for economic affairs affirmed.

Djalil further noted that the government was optimistic that economic growth in the next few years will be supported by government projects, the private sector, and national investment.

Therefore, according to the minister, the government is implementing measures to enhance economic growth through the development of infrastructure and investments, to support industries in various regions across the country.

“However, we continue to hope for economic progress, expeditious infrastructural development, and speedy economic growth,” he admitted. (ant)

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Fast solutions needed to overcome economic downturn

JAKARTA - Director of the Madani Nusantara Institute Prof. Nanat Fatah Nasir highlighted the need for swift solutions, such as a cabinet reshuffle in order to overcome the country’s economic downturns.

“The economic condition is increasingly weakening. If no immediate solution is found, it could lead to a serious economic crisis similar to the one that occurred in 1998,” Natsir said on Monday.

Natsir, who is also the presidium chairman of the Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals Association (ICMI) and former rector of the Bandung-based Islamic State University (UIN), stated that one of the fast solutions to combating the weakening economic condition of the country is to reshuffle

the ministers handling economic and legal affairs.

However, he pointed out that the reshuffle can be done not only on the ministers responsible for economic and legal affairs but also on the ministers handling other sectors, particularly those ministers who are not working maximally.

However, he affirmed that reshuffling is the prerogative right of President Joko Widodo, and it is his decision to revamp the cabinet.

The issue of cabinet reshuffle resurfaced after the president hinted that he did not intend to replace his ministers.

In an evening Iftar with the leadership of the House of Representatives (DPR) on Tuesday, June 23, the president emphasized that the ministers were now working and should not be disturbed with various discourses, including reshuffle.

The president reiterated that he alone was aware of the track record of the ministers. (ant)

Status of Mt. Raung increased to alert JEMBER - The status of Mount Raung, located at the border of Bondowoso and Banyuwangi, East Java, has been raised from Standby (Level III) to Alert (Level II), an official stated.

“The status of Mount Raung

has been raised from Standby to Alert effective today from 9 a.m. local time, due to increased volcanic activity,” Head of Observation and Research Volcano Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) Gede

Swastika remarked when contacted from Jember on Monday.

Gede noted that the agency has been monitoring the 3,332meter high volcano for the past two weeks, and the frequency of tremors has increased. (ant)

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The status of Mount Raung, located at the border of Bondowoso and Banyuwangi, East Java, has been raised from Standby (Level III) to Alert (Level II), an official stated.

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Framework for China-led international bank signed

BEIJING - Countries from five continents formally signed up Monday to the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank -- a potential rival to the Washington-based World Bank -- as Beijing steps up its global diplomatic and economic role.

Australia was the first country to sign the articles of association creating the AIIB’s legal framework at a ceremony in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, an AFP journalist saw, followed by 49 other founding members.

Seven more are expected to do so by the end of the year.

The bank will have a share capital of $100 billion, with $20 billion paid in initially, the document showed.

The signing “is an embodiment of the concrete action and efforts made by all countries in the spirit of solidarity, openness, inclusion and cooperation”, Chinese President Xi Jinping said after the ceremony.

Signalling China’s central role at the bank, he added: “Now we are willing to listen to your views and proposals.”

The AIIB has been viewed by some as a rival to the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, and the United States and Japan -- the world’s largest and third-largest economies, respectively -- have notably declined to join.

Earlier this month, former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke rebuked US lawmakers for effectively encouraging the AIIB’s formation by blocking reforms giving developing nations a greater say in the IMF. Beijing will be by far the largest AIIB shareholder at about 30 percent, the articles of association posted on the website of China’s finance ministry showed.

India is the second biggest at 8.4 percent with Russia third on 6.5 percent.

Among non-Asian participants, Germany is the largest shareholder with 4.5 percent, followed by France with 3.4 percent and Brazil on 3.2 percent.

The AIIB is expected to go into operation later this year and its headquarters will be in Beijing, despite calls from Indonesia that it be based in Jakarta, further cementing China’s prominence in the institution.

But all financial terms in the agreement are in US dollars, rather than China’s currency, the renminbi, and the bank’s working language will be English.

Only 50 of the 57 countries that have applied for founding membership signed up in Beijing on Monday, and the finance ministry said the remainder -- Denmark, Kuwait, Malaysia, Philippines, Poland, South Africa and Thailand -- have yet to ratify the necessary agreements.

Washington sought to dissuade its allies from taking part but European countries including Britain, France and Germany have rushed to sign up as they seek to bolster ties with the world’s second-largest economy.

There are some concerns over transparency of the lender, which will fund infrastructure in Asia, as well as worries that a resurgent Beijing will use it to push its own geopolitical and economic interests. (afp)

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The Gerry Lopez Yoga and Talk Story at the Uluwatu Surf Villas raised over 124 million rupiah for Project Clean Uluwatu, the local environmental organization working to keep Uluwatu clean and beautiful.

Gery Lopez raised 124 milion Pensioners queue outside banks rupiah for “Clean Uluwatu” AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris

Elderly people, who usually get their pensions at the end of the month, wait outside a closed bank in Athens, Monday, June 29, 2015.

on 1st day of capital control ATHENS — Banks and ATM machines were shut throughout Greece Monday on the first day of capital controls, a dramatic twist in the country’s five-year financial saga.

Despite the closures, pensioners lined up just after dawn at bank branches hoping they would have access to their pensions, which were due to be paid Monday.

The bank closures came after Greeks rushed to ATMs over the weekend to withdraw money following Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ surprise call for a referendum on creditor proposals for the reforms Greece should take to gain access to blocked bailout funds.

The referendum has been set for Sunday, and the government has been advocating Greeks vote against the proposals.

The capital controls are meant to staunch the flow of money out of Greek banks and spur the country’s creditors to offer concessions before Greece’s international bailout program expires

Tuesday.

Once that happens, Greece loses access to the remaining 7.2 billion euros of rescue loans, and is unlikely to be able to meet a 1.6 billion-euro debt repayment to the International Monetary Fund due the same day.

The accelerating crisis has thrown into question Greece’s financial future and continued membership in the 19-nation shared euro currency — and even the European Union.

Asian stock markets sank with indexes in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney down more than 2 percent. Oil prices and the euro also fell. The Athens Stock Exchange remained closed.

Overnight, massive queues formed at gas stations, with worried motorists seeking to fill up their tanks and pay with credit cards while they were still being accepted.

The government announced bank transaction restrictions late Sunday night, limiting daily withdrawals to 60 euros ($67) per person per ATM card. Automatic teller machines were expected to

reopen later Monday, while banks would remain shut for at least six days.

Although credit and cash card transactions have not been restricted, in practice most retailers were not accepting card transactions Monday morning.

Many of Greece’s retirees don’t have bank cards and collect their pensions directly from the bank tellers. Long lines of elderly Greeks formed at neighborhood bank branches, despite them being told the banks would not open for the day.

Deputy Minister of State Terence Quick said special arrangements would be made for pensions. Speaking on private Antenna television, he said retirees would be allowed to access their full pensions in cash due to the fact that many don’t have bank cards.

Under the bank transaction restrictions, electronic transfers and bill payments are allowed, but only within the country. The government also stressed the controls would not affect foreign tourists, who would have no limits on cash withdrawals with foreign bank cards. (ap)

ULUWATU - The Gerry Lopez Yoga and Talk Story at the Uluwatu Surf Villas raised over 124 million rupiah for Project Clean Uluwatu, the local environmental organization working to keep Uluwatu clean and beautiful.

In his first visit in decades to the fabled surf break he helped pioneer, Gerry returned to the Bukit Monday evening, June 15th. As a dedicated yogi for over 40 years, he hosted a Yin Yoga session under a spectacular Bali sunset atop the cliff at the Uluwatu Surf Villas.

After a healthy dinner donated by Alchemy of Ubud and the local Lands End Cafe, Gerry narrated a slideshow of his early adventures to Uluwatu and surrounding iconic breaks, also offering his insights and words of wisdom on surfing and life.

Narrating countless original photographs from Dick Hoole, Dana Edmunds, Dan Merkle and Don King dating as far back as back as 1970s, Gerry told his story of the early days surfing Indonesia - getting lost among the thickets and shrubbery trying to find Uluwatu; rickety bemo rides from Kuta, the scarcity of water on the Bukit, and 16 hour boat rides to G-Land.

With over 300 guests in attendance, this event was a huge success. “It goes to show that PCU has a strong following and that people care about the environmental issues facing Uluwatu,” comments PCU project manager Curtis Lowe.

A key figure of the history of Uluwatu,

Gerry Lopez reflected upon the past and had these insightful words on the current waves of change approaching Bali: “In 1974, the first time I came to Bali, I found very few surfers at Uluwatu and waves of a quality and consistency that I had never experienced before. The surf combined with the languid lifestyle of Kuta Beach plus the genuine and enviable contentment of the Balinese people kept me returning year after year on a regular basis. What attracted me also brought more and more people and as the surfing world grew so did the crowds at Uluwatu.

In the beginning, there were no plastic containers; water, drinks and food came in glass bottles, on plates or maybe banana leaves that would be reused or easily disposed of. Trash was dumped in the ravines, rain washed it out to sea and once again man used the ocean to clean up his mess. This worked, more or less, if the waste was organic but then came plastic containers and more people. Without the infrastructure to support the rapidly escalating usage, the raw sewage and garbage issues reached critical mass in a short time.

Project Clean Uluwatu is the initial effort directed toward dealing with this ever growing problem and for the moment it has the edge.

The attractiveness of the waves, the lifestyle and the Balinese people is still as great as it ever was. It does, however, continue to bring visitors in increasing numbers and the wake they leave as they pass is not small. Please support the continuing undertakings of PCU as they tackle this monumental task. We all have a responsibility to protect our natural resources for future generations to enjoy as we have and Uluwatu is an extraordinary treasure that deserves our best efforts.“ This was the most important fundraiser of the year for Project Clean Uluwatu. All the proceeds will go towards the continuation of waste water treatment, rubbish removal, recycling, composting, community gardening, and the completion of a waste water garden facility, which further purifies waste water and sewerage after it has passed through the bio tanks.

Finally, the proceeds will help PCU address future development near the surf break, thus ensuring the protection of the beach, reef, and ocean. PCU executive Tim Russo concluded: “We were so lucky to have the support from Gerry Lopez to do the yin yoga session and talk story for the 3rd annual pcu fundraiser.

The timing worked out perfect and it was an awesome opportunity to reflect on the rich culture and history that Uluwatu has become famous for and to reaffirm why people need to act now to protect this beach for future generations”. (r)

Jaja gadang tain temuati is one of the traditional cakes of community in Bali. It is called jaja gadang tain temuati because it is green (gadang) and has the shape of small round worm excrement (tain temuati). This very tender and sweet cake exudes a very typical flavor. Moreover, it is very safe to consume because the ingredients and coloring agent are made of organic substance.

The main ingredient is rice flour mixed with green leaf extract produced by daun suji or dracaena leaf. It is used to make the cake look greenish as well as engender a delicious flavor, and fragrance. To serve the cake, it is put onto a small dish and then sprinkled with grated coconut and brown sugar sauce.

On days of yore, the cake was presented with a tekor (dishshaped banana leaf). This cake is usually served when people held grandiose religious ceremonies (engaging villagers). But now, the traditional cake is very rare.

Aside from being difficult and complicated preparation, the ingredient in use is also of selected rice processed manually.

Preparations: first of all, the selected rice is soaked with clean water for about 6 hours. After that, the rice is made into flour by means of crushing. The flour is then clenched into the shape of balls. Then, steam all the batters until cooked or for 15 minutes.

Take out the cooked flour and then mixed with the extract of dracaena leaf and give a small amount of starch to make it sticky. Unlike in the past, to make the batter sticky people usually used cassava.

Later on, the flour batter is crushed and kneaded until refined. Subsequently, the batter is formed by using coconut shell mold having many small holes.

This mold is put on the flour and then driven while rolling it. From the holes of coconut shell mold will come out a cake resembling the earth worm excrement. Afterward, the cake is placed on a banana leaf and then steamed again for about 15 minutes.

When having cooked, the cake is taken out and cooled. For the presentation, the cake should be removed from the banana leaves one by one. Then, put them on the plate and sprinkle with grated coconut and brown sugar sauce.

To sprinkle the sugar, use banana leaf whose end has been torn up resembling a brush. Having sprinkled it evenly, the cake is ready to serve. (kmb)

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Dozens of dogs vaccinated, hundreds eliminated GIANYAR - The outbreak of rabies becomes a concern of the government of Gianyar. The Gianyar Livestock Agency has been deployed on a regular basis. From April to June 2015, the findings have detected ten positive cases of canine rabies scattered throughout the Gianyar region. Anticipative measures have been made by vaccinating up to tens of thousands of dogs and eliminating hundreds of dogs.

Coordinator of the Rabies Mitigation Officers of the Gianyar Livestock Agency, I Gusti Ngurah Dibia Presasta, said that early detection effort continues to be made by the Gianyar Livestock Agency against some positive cases of canine rabies. As the result, the data collected from April to June 26 recorded ten cases of dogs tested positive for rabies. “Until now, we have noted there are ten positive cases of canine rabies,” he said.

He revealed that the ten positive cases of canine rabies occurred at eight villages, like the Sayan village (Ubud), Tampaksiring village, Pupuan village, Taro village, Batuan Kaler, Guwang, Sukawati, and the area of Buruan village. So, by looking at the case, the location indeed has spread in several subdistricts in Gianyar. “One case averagely occurs at each village. Only a few villages are detected to have two dogs suffering from rabies,” he added.

Related to the case, its ranks immediately implemented emergency mass vaccination by targeting the whole pet dogs of residents at the ten locations, including wild dogs. Based on data from April 17 until today, a total of 14,735 dogs have been vaccinated at eight villages declared to have positive rabies dog. As for the elimination, so far 312 dogs have been eliminated. “We do not do elimination haphazardly.

The elimination of stray dogs will only be done if there is a request from a village,” he added.

Elimination was done in the area of Buruan village some time ago. According to him, the elimination is done based on request of local village apparatus. Definitely it is preceded with mass vaccination for pet dogs of residents, and the dogs were given a marker in the form of necklace. “As in Buruan, we did the elimination to dogs owned by residents from the morning till late in the afternoon. The elimination was then carried out in the afternoon. Only few dogs were eliminated and they are entirely wild dogs whose owners are unknown,” he added.

Related to the eight villages declared to have positive dogs suffering from rabies, his party immediately established the village as a red zone. “Currently, the vaccination program remains to continue. In the meantime, the elimination is only done if there is a request from headman, especially for wild dogs,” he concluded. (kmb35)

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FILE - In this April 11, 2015, file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and Brazilian President Dilma Vana Rousseff shake hands during their bilateral meeting at the Summit of the Americas in Panama City, Panama. Rousseff visits Washington and will meet with Obama on June 29 and 30.

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The workers are working to make water reservoir in Pacung village, Tejakula subdistrict, Singaraja

Five reservoirs built to resolve clean water crisis

SINGARAJA - In this dry season, the residents of Pacung village, Tejakula subdistrict, apparently no longer have to face clean water crisis like the drought in previous years. It is enabled because the village government managed to build a water network by utilizing funds from central government as well as the government of Bali and Buleleng with a total budget of IDR 4.8 billion in the fiscal year 2014.

Currently, about 500 families at the village have enjoyed clean water for daily use and irrigating farmland, so that they keep producing despite entering into dry season.

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The dog vaccination is done to prevent the spread of rabies.

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During dry season a year ago, a total of 363 family faced clean water crisis. Of that number, 233 families are categorized into poor families. Addressing this issue, local government then attempted to allocate funds through the village allocation village (ADD) and at the same time the central and provincial government of Bali also disbursed fund assistance, so that it accumulated in a total amount of IDR 4.8 billion. It is then used

to build reservoirs to further drain water taken from water seepage of the irrigation channel owned

by Melulung village of Kintamani Bangli.

Headman of Pacung, I Made Yasa, said on Monday that since the village received funding from the government, it managed to build five reservoirs to hold water.

They locate at Alassari hamlet, Kubu Anyar hamlet and Antasari hamlet. In the meantime, each

reservoir has the capacity of 300 liters of water.

As the topography of the area is hilly, it is a bit difficult to drain water from the reservoir to people’s homes. Moreover, the pipeline installed is even damaged due to high water pressure from the reservoir.

On this condition, residents must take water to the reservoir having been built at strategic locations.

A reservoir has the capacity of 100 liters, while the other four reservoirs respectively can accommodate 50 liters of clean water.

“We had built a pipeline to a house, but at the end of the distribution pipe burst because the water pressure was so high. In addition, the terrain of our village is too hilly, so that it is a bit difficult for us to install pipeline to people’s homes,” he said. (kmb38)

Climate top item for Obama sit-down with Brazil leader WASHINGTON — The issue of climate change and steps to slow its progress are expected to dominate the agenda when President Barack Obama and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff meet at the White House, but the leaders will also be striving to show they’ve smoothed things over following revelations that Brazil was a target of American spy programs.

Rousseff arrives at the White House on Monday for dinner with Obama. They meet again Tuesday for more formal talks and a joint White House news conference. “I would fully expect that climate and the environment will be an important part of the agenda,” said deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes.

The meeting comes six months before world leaders gather at a United Nations-sponsored conference in Paris in December to finalize a climate treaty. Obama has argued that a gradually warming planet could worsen social tensions and political instability worldwide, in addition to harming the U.S. Countries are making their positions on climate change clear ahead of the Paris talks. The U.S. already has announced a 2025 deadline to reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases by 26 percent to 28 percent below 2005 levels. It was unclear whether Rousseff would announce her country’s targets while in

Washington.

Regardless, Rhodes billed the meeting as “another key milestone on the road to Paris.” Obama has engaged various counterparts on the issue, including the leaders of China and India, Rhodes noted. Climate change was also a major focus when leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized nations, including Obama, met in Germany in early June and agreed that the world should move away from using fossil fuels by the end of the century. Burning oil, gas and coal produces carbon dioxide, which traps the sun’s heat and warms the atmosphere.

The Obama-Rousseff meeting comes nearly two years after she canceled a rare state visit planned for October 2013 to protest revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency had spied on her communications. Reports also said the NSA had hacked the computer network of the state-owned oil company Petrobras and had collected data

on billions of emails and telephone calls that passed through Brazil, which is an important hub for transAtlantic fiber optic cables.

Rousseff canceled the state visit, an honor generally reserved for close U.S. allies, to address public outrage over the spying as she prepared to run for re-election in 2014.

Brazil’s first female president started her second term in January — Vice President Joe Biden attended her inauguration — but she since has been weighed down by low approval ratings, her country’s poor economic performance and a massive corruption scandal involving Petrobras. Rousseff served on the company’s board, but has not been implicated in the scandal. Tens of thousands of Brazilians filled streets across the country earlier this year to protest her leadership.

The timing of Rousseff’s trip is coincidental and was settled months ago; Obama announced it when the two met on the sidelines of a summit in Panama in April. But for Rousseff, being seen warmly received by an American president coming off one of the best weeks of his time in office could help her back home. (ap)

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UK will prosecute ex-pol with dementia with child sex crimes

LONDON — British prosecutors have reversed their position and will charge a former lawmaker who now has severe dementia with sex crimes against children.

The Crown Prosecution Service said Monday that a judge and jury would conduct a “trial of the facts” in the case of 86-year-old Greville Janner, although his illness means he likely will not be convicted or punished.

Police and child abuse victims expressed outrage when prosecutors announced in April that they would not charge Janner over alleged offenses against boys several decades ago, even though there was enough evidence to prosecute. Prosecutors said his Alzheimer’s meant he was not fit to stand trial.

But after his alleged victims complained, prosecutors decided “it was in the public interest to bring proceedings before the court.” Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders said deciding whether to prosecute had been “an extremely difficult and borderline case because of the strong arguments on both sides.” She said it was “a matter of real regret” that Janner had not been prosecuted sooner.

Janner was a Labour Party lawmaker from 1970-97, later serving in the House of Lords. He is accused of 22 offenses in the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s, most involving boys in children’s homes in Janner’s central England constituency. His family says he is innocent.

Liz Dux, a lawyer who represents some of the alleged victims, said he clients were delighted by the decision.

“They have felt deeply frustrated by the criminal justice system,” she said. “However, this decision has given them more hope of finally establishing the truth.”(ap)

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FILE - This is a bSept. 10, 1996 file photo of British politician Greville Janner. British prosecutors have reversed their position and say they will charge a former lawmaker Greville Janner who now has severe dementia with sex crimes against children.

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Wishing on a shooting star in Japan with man-made meteors

TOKYO - Fancy a meteor shower racing across the night sky to mark your birthday?

One Japanese start-up is hoping to deliver shooting stars on demand and choreograph the cosmos.

And, say scientists, it’s not just about painting huge pictures on the night-sky that would be visible to millions of people; artificial meteors could help us to understand a lot more about Earth’s atmosphere.

Lena Okajima, who holds a doctorate in astronomy, says her company -- ALE -- is intending to launch a micro satellite that can eject shooting stars at exactly the right time and place to put on a celestial show.

“I’m thinking of streams of meteors that are rare in nature,” Okajima told AFP in an interview.

“It is artificial but I want to make really beautiful ones that can impress viewers,” she said.

In collaboration with scientists and engineers at Japanese universities, the ALE team is developing a satellite that will orbit the Earth and eject dozens of balls, a few centimetres (an inch) in diameter, at a time.

These balls -- whose chemical formula is a closely-guarded secret -- will race through the atmosphere at around 7-8 kilometres (up to five miles) a second, glowing brightly from the friction created by smashing into the air.

Although it sounds fast, that is considerably slower than naturallyoccurring meteors -- chunks of material that either broke away from a planet or never managed to form one in the first place -- which can hurtle through the atmosphere at up to 80 kilometres a second.

Tinkering with the ingredients should mean that it is possible to change the colour of each bright streak, says Okajima, offering the

possibility of a multi-coloured flotilla of shooting stars.

The stars are expected to shine for several seconds before they are completely burned up -- well before they fall low enough to pose any danger to anything on Earth.

“People may eventually become tired of seeing shooting stars if they come alone. But they could be coupled with events on the ground,” Okajima said.

“Making the sky a screen is this project’s biggest attraction as entertainment. It’s a space display.”

Tests on the secret formula space pellets carried out with Shinsuke Abe, aerospace engineering associate professor at Nihon University, show they would even burn brightly enough to be seen over the light-polluted metropolis of Tokyo.

Unless, of course, it’s cloudy.

But, says Okajima, the release can be called off up to 100 minutes before the appointed launch -- perhaps allowing party organisers to reschedule for another night when the weather is better.

Beautiful it might be, but it won’t

come cheap; each shooting star would cost around a million yen ($8,100), as the company tries to make back more than one billion yen price tag for the development and launch of the micro satellite.

That satellite, which is currently at the design stage, is a 50 centimetre (20 inch) cube that will orbit the Earth at an altitude of around 400500 kilometres (250-310 miles), on a north-south heading.

The satellite will only have a limited lifespan, says aerospace engineer Takeo Watanabe of Teikyo Universi-

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Margriet named suspect in Engeline murder case DENPASAR - The Bali Police on Sunday named Margriet Megawe a suspect in the Engeline murder case as the investigation team has collected enough evidence.

“The investigation team has named Mrs MM (Margriet Megawe) a suspect based on ample initial evidence,” Bali Police Chief Inspector General Ronny Sompie said.

He, however, refused to elaborate the evidence which led to suspicion that Engeline, 8, was killed by her own foster mother, Margriet, 60.

“We are not in a court, so I will not discuss it,” Sompie said.

The evidence was based on the findings of forensic experts from

ty, explaining that after a few months it will crash through the atmosphere and burn up in a blaze of light.

For Hironori Sahara, associate professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University’s aerospace engineering department, the project offers a rare chance to observe a part of the atmosphere about which little is known.

The altitude at which the artificial stars will burst to life -- above 60 kilometres up -- is too high for balloons and too low for spacecraft, so it is difficult to study. (afp)

Sanglah Public Hospital in Denpasar, and the forensic laboratory teams of the Bali Police as well as the Police Headquarters in Jakarta after they had searched the criminal scene in Margriet’s house in Denpasar.

Earlier, the police have named Agustinus, who worked in Margriet’s house as a helper, as the only suspect in the murder case.

The police discovered the body of Angeline on June 10 buried in the backyard of the house of Margriet, after she reportedly went missing on May 16, 2015.

The tragic death of a second grade student of an elementary school has drawn a lot of sympathy from across the country. (ant)

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Tourists enjoyed a kind of water sport in the Serangan Island waters which is around ten kilometers away from the center of Denpasar.

2,000 Chinese tourists enjoy water sport

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DENPASAR - A total of 2,000 Chinese tourists enjoyed a kind of water sport in the Serangan Island waters which is around ten kilometers away from the center of Denpasar, Bali province, a spokesman has said.

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Fancy a meteor shower racing across the night sky to mark your birthday? One Japanese start-up is hoping to deliver shooting stars on demand and choreograph the cosmos.

Weather patterns that bring heat more frequent WASHINGTON — Daily weather patterns have changed in recent decades, making eastern North America, Europe and western Asia more prone to nastier summer heatwaves that go beyond global warming, a new U.S. study finds.

A team of climate scientists at Stanford University in California looked at weather patterns since 1979 and found changes in frequency and strength in parts of the world, according to a study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. These are the types of

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weather patterns with stationary high and low pressure systems that you see on weather forecasts, which is different than gradual warming from man-made climate change.

The team studied the kind of upper air patterns that “sort of amplifies the warming trend,” said study lead author Daniel Horton.

The study doesn’t attempt to explain why these changes are happening. But in general they fit a theory that has gained momentum in climate science that says

melting sea ice in the Arctic has sometimes altered the way the jet stream flows, contributing to extreme weather such as deadly storms and hurricanes, outside experts said.

In many cases, including the eastern U.S. and western Asia in summer, some of these changes have become even more noticeable since 1990, the same period in which Arctic sea ice has gone through a rapid decline, the study found.

“There are more of them each

summer and on average they are lasting longer and the longest are lasting longer,” Horton said.

That pattern shift is even stronger in the summer in Europe and western Asia, Horton and co-author Noah Diffenbaugh found.

The patterns Horton and Diffenbaugh studied are different from the one responsible for the current southeastern U.S. heatwave, Horton said. But the weather patterns were the type responsible for heatwaves that killed more than 50,000 people in western Russia in

2010 and more than 70,000 people Europe in 2003, the study said.

In winter, weather pattern shifts have occurred that made extremely cold snaps in central Asia even worse, Horton said. But the study also found an increase in the weather patterns associated with weaker extreme cold snaps in western Asian winters.

Diffenbaugh said the changes could be a result of random chance, or a side effect of climate change and melting sea ice as others have theorized. (ap)

“Many of Chinese tourists played the water sport due to its beautiful location and privacy,” Marketing Manager of Dive and Water Sport agency Wayan Dana said at the Melasti Beach.

The Serangan Island is located in the south of Sanur beach, with an area of approximately 73 hectares which can be reached by land and sea, he said.

The Serangan Island is a breeding location for green turtle (known as Turtle Island), and those who want to visit the island could use a boat to Sanur, Suwung or from Tanjung Benoa.

According to him, the Serangan Island has a very unfortunate mangrove ecosystem, and now the local residents will plant new mangrove seedlings to preserve the nature.

Chinese visitors still dominates 80 percent of the foreign

tourists coming who play the Water Sports compared to that

of tourists from Japan, Australia and Europe. (ant)

Police conducted crime scene investigation at Megawe residence on Monday, June 29, 2015. The Bali Police on Sunday named Margriet Megawe a suspect in the Engeline murder case as the investigation team has collected enough evidence.

The 37th Bali Art Festival Tuesday, June 30, 2015 Time

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11.00 Ayodya Stage

14.00 Ratna Stage

17.00 Angsoka Stage

Classical Jegog Karawitan performances

by Purwa Gira Troupe Taman Panasar exhibition by Klenong Dalem Sumerta Troupe, Denpasar Sabu Raijua Regency, NTT performances

20.00 Wantilan

20.00

Ksirarnawa Hall

Children Pupet performances by Restu Budaya Lambing Troupe Documentary film about Bali

20.00 Ardha Candra

Women Gong Kebyar parade by Gita Raeswari Troupe and Cudamani Troupe

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Yoga gym fever spreads to Jembrana

Lebih beach Festival held on lebih Beach, Gianyar

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Lebih Beach Festival crowded with visitors

GIANYAR - Lebih Beach Festival (LBF) is held again this year. The LBF has entered the fifth implementation and lasted for two days namely on Saturday (Jun. 27) and Sunday (Jul. 28). Various activities were held in order to raise the tourism potential of Lebih area.

Chairman of the LBF V Committee, Wayan Agus Muliana, revealed that a number of problems and constraints are faced in the LBF implementation this time. However, it can be overcome due to the support of community leaders and government.

According to him, a variety of exciting activities graced the LBF V. They included the activities like beach clean-up action, the release of turtle hatchlings, paddle for peace, netting competition, fishing competition, surfing contest, parade of dance and music and photo exhibitions. Interestingly, the paddle

for peace involved the surfers of Lebih village. The action of local surfers coalesced into the community of Lebih Surf Club (LSC) grabbed the attention of visitors to the beach.

The moment of LBF moment is vivaciously greeted by the public. Since the first day of the LBF, various activities held on Lebih Beach were always crowded with visitors. They were not only following the activities taking place, but also thronging the area of culinary tourism on the local beach.

A local community leader, Gde Yudantara, said that Lebih village actually has a great po-

tential in the development of tourism sector. The potential includes the marine, culinary to arts and cultural field. In the future, the potential will always be continuously explored and developed so that they can provide positive benefits for the development and Lebih village communities in particular.

“Hopefully, the Lebih village can be persistently developed.

One of which is through the quality improvement of the LBF activities. With this kind of event we wished the Lebih village could be known more widely, mainly by travelers,” he said. (kmb25)

NEGARA - Yoga gym exercises having already gone global are also favored by Jembrana community.

The gym believed to improve fitness and reduce stress is introduced to elementary and secondary school teachers in Jembrana.

Hundreds of elementary school teachers attended the basic level of yoga training at the courtyard of the Bung Karno Cultural Hall, Sunday morning (Jun. 28). The event was also attended and joined

by Deputy Regent of Jembrana I Made Kembang Hartawan. One of the participants, Gusti Putu Arsana, 52, admitted to have been quite familiar with the movement of the yoga exercises.

According to him, he has got great benefits after participating in the yoga exercises all this time. At his age, the body feels more flexible and bodily aches disappear.

During approximately an hour they are taught basic exercise of

the Yoga Surya Namaskara. As the name implies, this exercise is done in the morning so that all the participants can fuse with the world’s largest energy source, namely the sun.

Deputy Regent Kembang Hartawan said that yoga has now become a world’s trend and been universal. In metropolis, people are willing to spend much money to learn it. The simple movements of yoga exercise are not only good for physical health but also for controlling the mind and emotions.

After getting a basic yoga exercise, teachers are expected to transfer it to their students at schools. So, the reverberations of the yoga gym will not only occur in particular circles.

According to Kembang, the yoga gym is not a religious teaching because the movement is universal so that it can be studied by anyone regardless of belief. (kmb26)

BANGLI - As one of the tourist destinations in Bali, Bangli needs to set up a tourist information center (TIC). With the presence of the TIC, every traveler making a visit to Bangli will not only know about the beautiful panorama of Mount Batur and Lake Batur, but also the attractions and potential owned by several villages in Bangli.

According to Operations Manager of the Abang Erawang tourist attraction, Nengah Suratnata, the TIC in Bangli is actually very important for travelers. From the TIC, travelers making a visit to Bangli will know clearly about the ins and outs of tourist destinations ranging from attractions and potentials owned by Bangli. “Guests coming to Bangli will not only know about Mount Batur and Lake Batur only but also the attractions and potentials possessed by several other villages,” he said when met recently.

According to Suratnata, the TIC is appropriate to be established in the region of Kintamani because it has become a famous tourist area in Bangli. Suratnata who has been so far a tourism facilitator of the Ministry of Tourism said that

actually the central government through the Ministry of Tourism has an intention to help establish a TIC in Kintamani, Bangli. Related to this plan, the government of Bangli is only required to provide an area of 20 x 20 meters. “Actually I have submitted this matter to the Bangli Culture and Tourism. I’ve even sent it via email in early June.

However, until now there has been no response,” he said.

In the meantime, the Head of the Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Adnyana, when asked for his confirmation claimed to have never received information regarding the ministerial plan to help establish a TIC in Bangli as submitted by Suratnata. Adnyana claimed that actually there has been a tourist information center in Bangli. However, the TIC in Bangli remains in same office as the information center of the Batur Volcano Museum.

The TIC meant by Adnyana carries complete information about tourist attractions in Kintamani. On that account, according to Adnyana, currently Bangli does not need to establish a TIC because it will be useless. (kmb40)

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Celebrate Galungan, Kuningan at InterContinental

JIMBARAN - Intercontinental Bali Resort invites guests and visitors to celebrate the Balinese Hindu festival of Galungan and Kuningan at two cultural evenings with traditional food and dance performances under the stars.

If you’re fortunate enough to be in Bali this year between 15th and 25th July, you will see the streets lined with ‘Penjor’ – slender, eight-metre-high, gracefully arching bamboo poles, festooned with colourful flowers, fruit, unhusked rice and palm frond ornamentation. These gorgeous all-natural decorations are displayed in celebration of ‘Galungan,’ the island’s most important festival, which occurs every 210 days, and signifies the victory of Virtue (Dharma) over Evil (Adharma).

During this time, the ancestral spirits and Balinese deities descend to Earth to be honoured.

The tenth day after Galungan, which is known as ‘Kuningan,’ marks

the end of the festival, and is believed to be the day when the spirits ascend back to heaven. Preparations for the ten-day festival will begin several days in advance when each Balinese family will create and place a penjor outside their gate, which makes the whole neighbourhood look splendid.

Much work also goes into the making of lawar, a spicy hash of raw meat, grated coconut, vegetables and pig’s blood, traditionally prepared at the roadside by the men of each village.

This year, Wednesday 15th July marks the first day of Galungan, and you will see people dressed in their finest clothes bearing elaborate offerings to their temple of origin. The day after

Galungan is called ‘Manis Galungan,’ this is the day that the Balinese dedicate to visiting relatives and spending time with their families.

On Kuningan Day, the final day of the festival, the Balinese will make farewell offerings for the ancestors.

These include yellow rice (Kuningan is derived from the word ‘kuning’ meaning yellow), which is placed in a small coconut leaf bowl. The yellow rice is a symbol of gratitude to God for life, joy, wealth, health and prosperity. The celebration usually takes place before noon, and in some villages, you will see ‘barongs’ or ‘ngelawangs’ – lion like creatures – going from house to house followed

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by kids playing traditional Balinese music instruments. The custom is to give the barong an offering of some money after which it will dance and bless the house and family.

InterContinental Bali Resort will be celebrating Galungan on Wednesday 15th July, from 7 pm onwards, with a special Archipelago Dinner & Kecak Dance, featuring a buffet feast and a

magical evening of music and dance.

Additionally, in celebration of Kuningan on Saturday 25th July, the resort will be hosting the Spirit of Bali event at which you can relish a feast of traditional Balinese cuisine with yellow rice as its centrepiece, accompanied by ‘Okokan,’ ‘Tektekan’ and ‘Calonarang’ sacred dance rituals from 7 pm onwards.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj, Beyonce win big at BET Awards Janet Jackson accepts the ultimate icon: music dance visual award at the BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Sunday, June 28, 2015, in Los Angeles.

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LOS ANGELES - Though she was absent, Beyonce won three BET Awards, including video of the year for “7/11,” while Chris Brown and Nicki Minaj also won multiple awards at the all-star show Sunday night.

But the show was less about the awards — video of the year didn’t even make the live broadcast — as performances stole the night.

As Janet Jackson entered the stage at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, Brown screamed loudly, Minaj whipped out her phone to record the moment and Laverne Cox was teary-eyed. The pop star was honored with the Ultimate Icon: Music Dance Visual Award as she made one of her first public performances in sometime as she readies a new album and tour this fall.

“It’s been a very long moment to this journey ... my heart is so full,” Jackson said to the audience, which included her mother and father.

An impressive Ciara, Jason Derulo and Tinashe paid tribute to the 49-yearold veteran by mimicking her signature dance moves.

“Twenty five years ago we created ‘Rhythm Nation,’ hoping the world would be a better place, but today there’s even more to be done,” Jackson said.

Jackson wasn’t the only show stopper Sunday: Diddy dropped it like it’s hot at the awards show — figuratively and literally. Brown performed multiple times, and won best male R&B/pop artist and the fandemonium award.

And as Anthony Hamilton and Gary Clark Jr. performed while photos of celebrities who died appeared on screen, a montage of the nine people who were gunned down at a church in Charleston earlier this month closed the performance.

“Black-ish” actors Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross won over the crowd with back-to-back jokes, including one about Rachel Dolezal, the former president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP. “Is white really the new black,” Anderson sang as two photos of Dolezal — one old, the other recent — appeared on screen.

Anderson also dressed as British singer Sam Smith, who won best new

artist but didn’t attend the awards show.

“Sam Smith isn’t here tonight because he’s white and he didn’t think he would win at the BET Awards,” Anderson said as the audience burst into laughter.

Rihanna, who debuted a 1-minute clip of her new music video for “B---Better Have My Money,” was among the A-listers who sat in the audience, and she sang along during Omarion and Brown’s performance of the pop hit, “Post to Be.” Alicia Keys surprised the crowd when she joined The Weeknd to sing his hit, “Earned It.” Smokey Robinson received the Lifetime Achievement Award, performed a medley of his hits and earned a standing ovation from the audience when he spoke about Hollywood and humility.

Ne-Yo, Robin Thicke and rising singer Tori Kelly paid tribute to the icon.

Minaj, who won the fan-voted viewer’s choice award, brought her mom onstage when she collected her sixth consecutive best female hip-hop artist award. Beyonce’s wins included best female R&B/pop artist and video director of the year. (ap)

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‘Ted 2’ lags behind ‘Jurassic World,’ ‘Inside Out’

LOS ANGELES — A foulmouthed Teddy bear is no match for a pack of dinosaurs. Seth MacFarlane’s “Ted 2” opened far under expectations with $32.9 million, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday, ceding the top two spots to holdovers “Jurassic World” and “Inside Out.” While $32.9 million is a solid opening for an R-rated comedy, bigger things were expected from “Ted 2,” which cost a reported $68 million to produce.

The Universal Pictures sequel was expected to earn somewhere in the $50 million range going into its debut weekend, thanks to the record-setting precedent of the first film, which earned $54.4 million in 2012.

In addition to mediocre reviews, perhaps the initial intrigue around a raunchy stuffed animal has worn off a bit.

“It’s hard to maintain that hyper level of excitement once people have seen the talking Teddy bear,” Rentrak’s Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian said.

“In comedy, it’s about inventiveness, newness and the shock

value of something original.”

Universal’s domestic distribution head, Nick Carpou, said that the positive response from exit polls indicates a promising life for the movie in the weeks ahead.

“Jurassic World,” also a Universal film, narrowly held the top spot for the third weekend in a row with a mighty $54.2 million, pushing it past the $500 million mark domestically — only the fifth film to do so in history.

Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out,” meanwhile, finished at a close No. 2, earning $52.1 million — only a 42 percent drop from its first weekend in theaters.

Dergarabedian marveled at the consistency of “Jurassic World” and “Inside Out.” “These are no flash-in-thepan movies. Both are delivering exactly what audiences want,” he said.

Overall, the box office is still booming, up 7 percent from last year. With “Magic Mike XXL” and “Terminator Genisys” set to open Wednesday in advance of the holiday weekend, things are only going to heat up. (ap)

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In this file image released by Disney-Pixar, characters, from left, Anger, voiced by Lewis Black, Disgust, voiced by Mindy Kaling, Joy, voiced by Amy Poehler, Fear, voiced by Bill Hader, and Sadness, voiced by Phyllis Smith appear in a scene from “Inside Out.”

Exoticism of coastal area is the main attraction for travelers. So, it is no wonder if the development of supporting tourism facilities in the form of hotels, restaurants and villas invades many coastal areas. This phenomenon also occurs in Gianyar.

GIANYAR - Exoticism of coastal area is the main attraction for travelers. So, it is no wonder if the development of supporting tourism facilities in the form of hotels, restaurants and villas invades many coastal areas. This phenomenon also occurs in Gianyar. Today, tourist accommodation chiefly villas have been flourishing.

Luxurious villas can be found everywhere such as on Ketewel Beach, Purnama Beach, Cucukan Beach and Saba Beach. The overlay of black sandy beach and local atmosphere being away from crowds has made the locations so favorite after the villa development.

According to information, not all the villas in the coastal areas are commercialized. Some of them are

privately used by the owner.

Chairman of Commission II of the Gianyar House, Wayan Gede Sudarta, revealed that some points of the beach owned by Gianyar spanning along 20 km have been occupied by villa buildings. This needs to get special attention considering the coastal region has an important function, not only economically but also for socio-re-

ligious activities and environmental preservation.

Environmentally, he added, keeping the coastal borderlines free from buildings is an absolute thing. Do not let the coastal areas be increasingly eroded by human activities.

“When talking about coastal area development, the most important thing is keeping the coastal borderline. This must be done by all walks of life,” said Sudarta.

He further said that all kinds of tourist accommodation development should pay attention to the carrying capacity of the environment and spatial planning. In this case, the government should focus

on giving attention to spatial planning. If the government issues to many permits of tourist accommodation, he worried that it will reduce the appeal of coastal areas in Gianyar. On that account, the government is asked to issue permits selectively.

In addition to eliminating the impression of nature conservation, such tourist accommodation development is also worried to cause a variety of environmental pollutions. Moreover, the accommodation has not been equipped with sewage treatment system.

“Permit of the environment must be complete, whether it is the

environmental impact analysis or environmental monitoring effort or environmental management effort (UKL/UPL). Obviously, in the near future we in the Commission II with the Commission I will monitor directly to the field mainly the development on the coastal areas,” he said. (kmb25) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.