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‘Wonder Woman’ film and star live up to the name

“Wonder Woman “ has been the subject of so much superfluous fuss, it’d be easy to forget that behind all of the hand-wringing and both symbolic and real pressure to succeed there’s actually a movie meant to entertain. Yet, like the heroine at its center, “Wonder Woman” the movie rises with powerful grace above the noise. It’s not perfect, but it’s often good, sometimes great and exceptionally re-watchable.

Director Patty Jenkins’ film is so threaded with sincerity and goodness it’s a wonder how it got past the pugnacious minds responsible for what’s come before. “Wonder Woman” evokes not only the spirit of Richard Donner’s “Superman,” but also Joe Johnston’s “Captain America: The First Avenger,” while still being its own thing. Just look to the image of Gal Gadot confidently striding out alone onto an unwinnable battlefield with only a shield, a sword and a mission — and prevailing. It’s enough to give you goosebumps.

“Wonder Woman” is structured as a coming-of-age story about how Diana, the Amazonian princess, becomes Wonder Woman. It’s framed, clumsily, as an over two hour flashback provoked by a note from Bruce Wayne. Of all the stupid interconnected universe things!

Thankfully, Jenkins transitions quickly into the actual story about a naive idealist who comes to accept the complexities of mankind. From a tender age, Diana, living on the achingly idyllic island of Themyscira, dreams of being a warrior. Her mother, Queen Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen) disapproves, although she inexplicably withholds the real reason.

It’s no wonder Diana aspires to fight. She’s been told that their sole purpose is to keep the peace and destroy Ares, the god of war.

Also, and not insignificantly, the warriors led by General Antiope (Robin Wright), are some of the fiercest babes ever to grace the screen. They fly around with swords and shields, bedecked in armored mini dresses and wedged gladiator sandals that allow them to leap 50 feet in the air.

Young Diana trains in secret, and then with

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Wednesday, May 31, 2017 A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor is launched during a successful intercept test, in this undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, Missile Defense Agency.

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This image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows Gal Gadot in a scene from “Wonder Woman,” in theaters on June 2. reluctant permission, until an American spy, Steve Trevor (Chris Pine), crash lands on the island and tells the Amazons about the “war to end all wars.” Diana concludes World War I must be Ares’ doing and decides, impetuously and like so many arrogant superheroes before her, that she’s ready for battle.

In London and at the battlefront, Diana gets a crash course in humanity, from the ills (sexism, alcoholism, colonialism, racism, apathy) to the good (babies, snow, ice cream). It’s all very simplistic, but Gadot’s serious and unapologetic curiosity sells the dubious premise that a woman so versed in so many things from Socrates to the “pleasures of the flesh” could be this unaware of human flaws. Perhaps they only teach the good stuff

in Themyscira. But that’s what Trevor is there for — to help this otherworldly crusader acclimate.

Pine plays Trevor as a spiritual cousin to Indiana Jones (he even gets to goof around with an accent that immediately evokes the “tapestries” bit from “The Last Crusade”).

He’s on his own mission, to stop the comically evil Germans General Ludendorff (Danny Huston) and Doctor Poison (Elena Anaya) from prolonging the war, but it’s never a question that this is Diana’s show.

Jenkins keeps the look and feel of the film classical, as it breezes through a strong second act. But, being a DC film, “Wonder Woman” can’t help but devolve into a blurry, concrete-busting third act that feels

dispiritingly like all the rest, not to mention a baffling reveal that negates most of Diana’s growth. It’s not enough to negate the good, though, and much of that is Gadot’s doing.

She is the perfect Wonder Woman — a true blue hero who’s as believable in her bafflement of women’s fashions and social mores as she is dead-lifting a tank and swatting away machine gun fire with only her arm cuff. I never cared about Wonder Woman before. Now I do.

“Wonder Woman,” a Warner Bros. release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for “sequences of violence and action, and some suggestive content.” Running time: 141 minutes. Three stars out of four.(ap)

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“Shocked” S.Korea leader Moon orders probe into U.S. THAAD additions

SEOUL - South Korean President Moon Jae-in has ordered a probe after the Defence Ministry failed to inform him that four more launchers for the controversial U.S. THAAD anti-missile system had been brought into the country, his spokesman said on Tuesday.

The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system battery was initially deployed in March in the southeastern region of Seongju with just two of its maximum load of six launchers to counter a growing North Korean missile threat.

During his successful campaign for the May 9 presidential election, Moon called for a parliamentary review of the system, whose deployment has also infuriated China, North Korea’s lone major ally.

“President Moon said it was very shocking” to hear the four additional launchers had been installed without being reported to the new government or to the

public, presidential spokesman Yoon Young-chan told a media briefing.

Moon had campaigned on a more moderate approach to Pyongyang, calling for engagement even as the reclusive state pursues nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions and threats of more sanctions.

The U.S. military in South Korea did not have immediate comment on Moon’s comments. The South Korean military also did not immediately comment.

CHINA TENSIONS EASING Moon’s order of a probe into

the THAAD launchers came amid signs of easing tensions between major trading partners South Korea and China.

South Korea’s Jeju Air said on Tuesday China has approved a plan to double its flights to the Chinese city of Weihai from June 2.

China has been incensed over the THAAD deployment, fearing it could give the U.S. military the capability of seeing into its own missile systems, and could open the door to a wider deployment of the system, possibly in Japan and elsewhere, military analysts say.

China has denied it had discriminated against South Korean companies, which have faced product boycotts and bans on Chinese tourists visiting South Korea.

A Korean-Chinese joint drama “My Goddess, My Mom” starring South Korean actress Lee Da-hae, whose broadcast had been indefinitely delayed in China, was told

by its Chinese partner recently that it will soon be aired, according to JS Pictures, Lee’s agent.

An official at South Korean tour agency Mode Tour told Reuters it hoped China may lift a ban on selling trips to South Korea, which had been in place since March 15, as early as the second week of June.

Although there have been no official orders from the Chinese government to lift the ban, a few Chinese travel agencies have sent inquiries about package tours, he said.

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However, Lotte Group has yet to reopen any of the 74 retail stores in China it was forced to close in March after the group allowed South Korea to install the THAAD system on land it owned.

BOMBER DRILL The United States, which has 28,500 troops stationed in South Korea, has a mutual defence treaty with Seoul dating back to the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in a truce that has left the peninsula in a technical state of war.

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Building children creativity at Cardboard House

CARDBOARD House Community is creativity space founded by I Wayan Esa Dananjaya in 2014. It is meant to develop the potential of the arts, especially the arts owned by children of elementary and junior high school age. The community based at Tangguntiti hamlet, Tonja, Denpasar, utilizes used goods such as cardboard, newspaper, cans, plastic bottles and shard as the medium for their creativity.

With the touch of art, the unused materials can be transformed into artistic works of art.

“The initial idea of establishing this Cardboard House Community is underpinned by my concerns about the piles of waste thrown away. Actually, not a few of the garbage is actually used goods that can still be reused. For example, the raw materials can be used to make various types of handicrafts,” said Esa Dananjaya to Bali Post, not long ago.

According to this alumnus of the Fine Arts Study Program at the Faculty of Literature and Arts Education of IKIP PGRI Bali, the concern was motivated by his spirit to gather a number of students at the SDN 4 Tonja elementary school who have interest to pursue the arts. Initially, there were only six children wishing to join. After that, they were given intensive technical guidance related to painting by using cardboard sheets, starting from the process of drawing the shape, composing, coloring techniques to collage techniques.

“As the first measure, I just indeed introduce them to painting techniques on cardboard media or simple twodimensional field. They are also taught about the use of crayon, acrylic paint to oil paint. After they master the two dimensional painting, they are introduced to painting on the surface of bottles and other objects,”

he explained.

Apparently, he got positive response from children around his residence to the activities in the Cardboard House Community. More and more children join the community and have reached about 26 children who regularly attend the painting class. After mastering the skills of painting, they are taught to make various types of craft made from cardboard and used newspapers such as bags, wallets, hats and other craft objects.

“This community is also often invited to attend some events related to children activities, like Denpasar Rare (Kid) Festival initiated by Penggak Men Mersi in cooperation with the Denpasar municipality.

In the Denpasar Festival 2016, the Cardboard House Community also participated to enliven this annual event by creating installation work made from used mineral water bottles. Our characteristic is indeed to utilize used goods as a medium to express our creativity,” said Esa Dananjaya. He also added that a number of his students routinely participate in painting contest and get a pretty prideful achievement.

Through his Cardboard House Community, Esa Dananjaya wanted to mobilize the awareness of children from an early age to be more concerned and responsible for their environment. One of the classical problems today is the unmanaged solid waste. By utilizing some of the waste as a medium of creativity, it will surely contribute to alleviate the burden of environment. In addition, he also wanted to provide a space for children to use their free time after school activities wisely. By that way, their potential to engage in negative activities can be minimized as low as possible.

“Hopefully, the Cardboard House Community can become a positive and fun space forever for children in making them into creative and responsible for their environment,” he said. (ian)

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The community based at Tangguntiti hamlet, Tonja, Denpasar, utilizes used goods such as cardboard, newspaper, cans, plastic bottles and shard as the medium for their creativity.

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Legian’s Enchanting Secret

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The tradition of catastrophe repellent owned by Munggu village, Mengwi, Badung, did not comply with the theme set by the committee namely the government of Bali province.

Unfit for theme, mekotek tradition fails to appear in BAF

MANGUPURA - Mekotek tradition originally scheduled to appear in the 39th Bali Arts Festival (BAF) finally vanished. The tradition of catastrophe repellent owned

by Munggu village, Mengwi, Badung, did not comply with the theme set by the committee namely the government of Bali province.

Head of the Badung Culture Office, Ida Bagus Anom Bhasma, justified the matter. Appearance of this mekotek tradition will be replaced with fragmentary show entitled Tulak Tunggul. The dance describing revetment of water at Taman Ayun Temple is often displayed every piodalan or feast day at the Taman Ayun, Mengwi.

This sacred art is in accordance with the theme of BAF 2017, namely Ulun Danu that means Preserving Water as Source of Life. “Mekotekan is cancelled (to appear—Ed), so as not to deviate.

We replace it with Tulak Punggul fragmentary show telling about the dam at Taman Ayun Temple,” said I.B. Anom Bhasma on Monday (May 29).

Tulak Punggul Dance, said I.B .Anom Bhasma, will be featured in the parade along with Surfing

Dance which having been scheduled to appear at the opening of BAF on the upcoming June 10.

“This (Tulak Punggul Dance—Ed) will not appear in the BAF activities, but at the opening parade. For the parade, we will involve 800 artists,” he said.

According to him, Badung district follows all the categories set by the committee. Moreover, his agency will involve 9,000 dancers and gamelan players mostly consisting of young artists. “We involve many young people in this BAF because they will be the next generation that will pass on the art and culture in Badung,” he said.

Related to the budget, he mentioned that it reaches IDR 3 billion.

The organizing committee will also provide funding support worth IDR 250 million. “Both funding will be combined. After that, it is divided, but we give priority to mass art troupes. They are 24 art troupes of typical Badung,” he said.

As is known, mekotekan is an art having been recognized as an intangible cultural heritage. In the future, the mekotekan tradition will be registered to the UNESCO. (kmb27)

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Britain’s real-life “Iron Man” has high hopes for jet suit

SOMERSET, England, May 26 (Reuters) The British inventor of an “Iron Man”-style jet suit has lofty hopes that his project, which started out as fun experiment, could become a practical tool for industries ranging from entertainment to the military.

Richard Browning, a 38-year-old former commodities trader with little experience of engineering, developed his jet suit with the help of friends over the last 18 months. It is powered by six gas turbine engines which combined generate 800 horse-power.

“We didn’t set out to build an “Iron Man” suit – it’s just accidental,” Browning said, in reference to the highly successful trilogy of super hero films starring Robert Downey Jr. The suit’s engines are mounted on the pilot’s lower back and on each arm. It powers up using a hand-held throttle. Browning said the suit is capable of carrying a person thousands of feet in the air, and in theory could attain a speed of around 280 miles an hour (450 kph).

For safety reasons, however, Browning hovers just a few feet off the ground.

Browning, who first developed the suit in his garage, describes it as a cross between a jet ski and a Formula One car. He believes it can be adapted to be used in the military, search and rescue and theme parks - or in fact anyone who has the funds to buy one.

Browning showed off his piloting skills at a flight test on Thursday, breaking his record for speed by travelling over 30mph, covering a distance of several hundred meters.

Browning said he has received investment from a venture capitalist, and has also secured interest from entertainment giants and the British and U.S. militaries.

If man hours were taken into account, he said the suit would have cost “millions” to develop, and that the hardware alone cost a six-figure sum.

However, he said flight costs are low as around 12 litres of standard diesel is used.

Browning is not the only person to have pursued dreams of jet-powered glory. In Dubai, firefighters have showcased jet boots that allow the wearer to rise high into the air using water pressure, and French inventor Franky Zapata has created a jet-powered hover-board.

The next step in Browning’s project is the Genesis suit which he is developing with the aid of experts and investors, but challenges still remain. Specifically how to ascend safely from the ground to a height that a parachute could be deployed.

“It’s a real challenge if you have an engine failure at 50-60 feet. You’re going to really do yourself a mischief,” Browning said, adding “we’re working on a whole bunch of technology to address that, and until we do, we keep pretty low.” (rtr)

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Inventor Richard Browning of technology startup Gravity flies in his ÒDaedalusÓ jet suit at Henstridge airfield in Somerset, Britain, May 25, 2017. Picture taken May 25, 2017.

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Deceive foreigner at ATM

Gang of motorcycle taxi drivers arrested

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A 20-foot wide hole over a decommissioned plutonium-handling rail tunnel is shown at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Hanford Site, Washington, U.S., May 9, 2017.

Storage of nuclear waste poses threat to U.S., scientists warn

WASHINGTON - The reluctance of U.S. federal regulators to require operators of nuclear reactors to spend $5 billion to enhance the security of spent fuel rods stored underground threatens the country with a potential catastrophe, scientists warned on Friday.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission greatly underestimated the risk and potential contamination of a nuclear waste fire triggered by a quake or a planned attack, experts writing in the journal “Science” said.

In 2014, the NRC found the chance of a disaster caused by leaving radioactive waste in storage pools was too remote to warrant the cost of moving it to safer dry casks.

An earthquake that could trigger a radiation leak was likely less than once every 10 million years, hardly justifying the cost of about $50 million per reactor to transfer spent fuel, the NRC said in that report.

An accident at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011 was triggered by a tsunami after an earthquake.

“We think the NRC gamed their analysis essentially to get the answer they want,” said Edwin Lyman, a senior scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists and one of the authors of the article in “Science,” a magazine published by the American Association for the

Advancement of Science.

Michael Schoeppner and Frank von Hippel of Princeton University were co-authors.

On average, such a disaster could force 8 million people to evacuate and cause $2 trillion in damage in the United States, the world’s largest producer of nuclear energy, according to the report.

The commission said in a statement on Friday it stood by a staff finding last year that “the security of U.S. nuclear power plants remains extremely robust.”

Rod McCullum, senior director at the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group, said in an email that there was ample evidence that used fuel at 90 U.S. storage sites was properly managed.

The collapse of a decommissioned tunnel at a plutoniumhandling facility in Hanford, Washington, this month was a reminder of the potential risk of storing radioactive material. There was no spent fuel in the tunnel at the time and no indication anyone was exposed to radiation.

When removed from reactors, spent fuel rods are cooled under 23 feet (7 meters) of water. To reduce costs, rods are packed into vaults instead of dry storage casks, scientists wrote. If the water was drained away due to an attack or accident, the rods would burn and spew radioactive fallout. (rtr)

MANGUPURA - Various modi operandi are applied by gang of thieves disguising as motorcycle taxi drivers to steal money of foreigners at ATMs. This was experienced by Mikiko Kyo, 39, from Japan when withdrawing money in the Mandiri ATM at Circle K (CK) Legian, Kuta, on Wednesday (May 24). Her money was secretly taken by the gang consisting of I Made Suardana alias Beker, 34, I Gede Ardana, 33, I Gede Sukarmaya alias Maya, 36, and I Kadek Depin, 26.

“The thieves are specialists targeting foreigners. They share duties where one will distract victim, one resumes transactions at ATMs and another carries the stolen money,” said Chief of Kuta Police, Wayan Sumara, accompanied by mobile detective aide unit, Budi Artama, on Monday (May 29).

According to police chief, it originated from the information of village-commissioned police officer at Legian saying that at Circle K of Si Do’i intersection there were Japanese tourists whose money was stolen by visitors while withdrawing money from the ATM machine of Bank Mandiri. To follow up on the information, the operation team led by I Putu Budi Artama, mobile detective aide unit directly came to the scene. At the scene, there was still the victim accompanied by her companions.

Based on the results of interrogation against the victim, the officers obtained the characteristics of the perpetrators. From the witnesses around the Circle K were obtained the nickname of one of the perpetrators namely Beker.

“From the witness’s information, the perpetrators could be arrested. They are known in Kuta because they also have side job as motorcycle taxi drivers,” he said.

As in the results of interrogation,

the perpetrators admitted to have taken the victim’s money while withdrawing it from ATM machine of Bank Mandiri. Each perpetrator has their respective role, and when getting any results they will be divided equally.

This gang was standby at the ATM. When there are tourists in confusion to look for ATM, they will be directed to the scene by the suspect Depin. To avoid suspicion of tourists, Depin will immediately go out. “In the CK, there are many ATM machines where in each ATM there have been other perpetrators,” said Sumara.

When the victim was in front of the ATM machine, the suspect Beker approached the victim and helped press the ATM button to select the amount of transaction of IDR 2 million. When the money came out, the victim immediately put it into his bag. At that time, Beker of Karangasem origin quickly pressed the transaction button of IDR 2 million. “One of the perpetrators admitted to have diverted victim’s attention by taking him to chat,” he said.

When the money came out, Beker immediately took the money and handed over to Ardana who was right behind him. “When moving from the scene, the victim’s hand phone rang. In fact, it is mobile banking information that there is a withdrawal transaction worth IDR 2 million,” he said.

The victim immediately complained to Beker and asked the money to be returned. However, Beker claimed not to bring any money. “The money has been brought away by Ardana. This is their modus operandi to eliminate traces. We are confident they often commit this crime but the victims have not reported the incident.

Therefore, we appeal to the victims to report,” he said. (kmb36)

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A little water exposing to the soil, the conditions will become unstable and trigger landslide.

Rainfall erratic

People still asked to keep alert against disasters

BANGLI - Heavy rains since recent days have flushed Bangli and surrounding areas.

This erratic rainfall still potentially triggers landslide disaster. With this condition, the regional disaster mitigation agency (BPBD) asked residents to stay alert against natural disasters that may occur any time.

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Chief of Kuta Police, Wayan Sumara, shown the stolen money with the gang of thieves behind him.

Section Head of Disaster Mitigation and Logistics of BPBD Bangli, I Ketut Agus Sutapa, said on Monday (May 29) that in accordance with the forecast of national weather service (BMKG) Denpasar dry season has actually started this May until next October. However, this rain may have something to do with auspicious day considering there are many activities such as cremation and wedding ceremony this month.

“Scientifically, the current season belongs to dry season. Probably, this is also influenced by auspicious day as we know in Balinese calendar. Scientifically, it is just a forecast. But we do not know the desire of

God,” said Agus Sutapa.

Agus Sutapa said that the rain flushing Bangli area a few days ago caused landslide at some points, but only happened in the southern region, while in the northern region it did not rain at tall. “It only rained in the areas like Bangli and Susut subdistrict. In the northern region such as Kintamani, it did not rain at all.

This means that the rain did not occur evenly across all subdistricts,” he said.

He explained that his agency still instructs to all citizens of Bangli to remain alert against natural disasters considering that geographical area of land conditions in Bangli remains unstable. So, a little water exposing to the soil, the conditions will become unstable and trigger landslide. Despite the absence of rain, residents living near forest areas are also expected to alert against fire incident.

“We still hope the community to remain alert even though in wet and dry season. We really do not know when and where the disaster will happen,” advised Agus Sutapa. (kmb41)

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Anticipating rabies, villages asked to make bylaws

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh - A cyclone battered refugee camps in Bangladesh on Tuesday where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar have taken refuge from violence at home, as authorities moved at least 350,000 Bangladeshis out of harm’s way. Cyclone Mora struck the island of Saint Martin and Teknaf in the coastal Bangladeshi district of Cox’s Bazar, where officials said some 200,000 people were evacuated to shelters. In Chittagong district, about 150,000 people were evacuated.

SINGARAJA - Implementation of mass dog vaccination in Buleleng district as one of the anticipations against rabies has lasted three weeks.

During that period, approximately 17,000 dogs could have been vaccinated. This annual program continues to be intensified in order to be able to reach the target having been determined.

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This annual program continues to be intensified in order to be able to reach the target having been determined.

Scenery of entrance gates into Bali rated chaotic

The border area is also home to refugee camps for Rohingyas who have fled their homeland in northwest Myanmar. Shamsul Alam, a Rohingya community leader, told Reuters that damage in the camps was severe with almost all the 10,000 thatched huts in the Balukhali and Kutupalong camps destroyed.

“Most of the temporary houses in the camps have been flattened,” Alam said. Omar Farukh, a community leader in Kutupalong camp, said conditions were dire: “Now we’re in the open air.”

Cox’s Bazar district chief Mohammad Ali Hussin said at least 15,000 houses in the district had been destroyed and he had unconfirmed reports of three people killed and dozens injured, including several Rohingya refugees. Officials in Chittagong reported winds gusting up to 135 kph (85 mph), and said low-lying coastal areas were flooded by a storm surge with waves 2 metres (7 feet) high.

Flights in the area were cancelled. Last October, following a Myanmar army operation launched in response to insurgent attacks, an estimated 74,000 Rohingyas fled to Bangladesh where they joined more than 200,000 who have taken refuge there over the years.

The Bangladeshi government has estimated that in all, there are about 350,000 Rohingyas in Bangladesh. In predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, where Rohingyas are officially denied citizenship and classified as illegal immigrants, about 120,000 of them have been internally displaced by communal violence over recent years and are living in camps.

‘WE’RE WORRIED’ A U.N. official working with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh said the damage in the camps could not be assessed while the storm was raging. “Heavily pregnant women

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The entrance gates into Bali, especially after passing the identity checkpoint II of Gilimanuk or when entering the gates, signboard looks chaotic.

signboard of Jembrana government looked devastated and chaotic. A number of officers at Gilimanuk said that the signboard has been damaged almost since a year ago but there is no improvement. “If looking upward the signboard has indeed been damaged, it has been damaged since long time ago and the scenery is also ugly and chaotic,” said some motorcycle taxi drivers.

Formerly, the signboard contained a large advertisement owned by the government of Jembrana district. “I forget the

image. Obviously, it belongs to the district government,” he explained.

In the meantime, Spokesperson of the government of Jembrana district, Komang Suparta, when asked for his confirmation said that it is handled by integrated licensing office. His agency will immediately coordinate it.

On the other hand, the Head of the Jembrana Investment and Integrated Service Agency, Nengah Wartini, when asked for her confirmation via phone could not be contacted. (kmb)

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Bangladeshis push a cartload of belongings and walk homewards after spending a night at a shelter in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Tuesday, May 30, 2017. A tropical storm lashed southern Bangladesh on Tuesday, destroying hundreds of poorly built homes in some remote islands in the Bay of Bengal, officials said. No casualties were immediately reported. have been evacuated but most people in areas like Balukhali and Kutupalong makeshift settlements have stayed,” said the official, who declined to be identified. “The winds are strong and people there live in flimsy structures, so we’re worried.”

In Myanmar, about 300 houses were damaged in Rakhine State but the extent was unclear, the government said. But Bangladeshi weather officials said the cyclone was not as bad as they had feared.

“The severity was less than the ap-

prehension,” Shamsuddin Ahmed, a weather official based in Chittagong said. The cyclone was expected to weaken in Bangladesh by late morning as it moved inland towards India where authorities have warned of heavy rain in the northeastern states of Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh.

The cyclone formed after monsoon rains triggered floods and landslides in Sri Lanka, off India’s southern tip, killing at least 180 people in recent days, authorities

said, adding 99 people were missing and 112 had been injured.

In the eastern Indian state of Bihar, 24 people have been killed in recent days, either by lightning or in collapsed dwellings. While the rains bring death and destruction every year, they also underpin life across the region.

Monsoon rains arrived at on India’s southern coast on Tuesday, a weather office source said, making it the earliest since 2011 and setting India up for higher farm output and robust economic growth.(rtr)

Russia’s Putin to meet powerful Saudi prince in Moscow

Govt signboard damaged NEGARA - Gilimanuk Bay tourist area has indeed been arranged lately with the construction of the park and the Shiva Statue.

Unfortunately, the entrance gates into Bali, especially after passing the identity checkpoint II of Gilimanuk or when entering the gates, signboard looks chaotic. Since the Gilimanuk ID card checkpoint was relocated to Gilimanuk terminal, the former checkpoint area also looks dirty because it is rarely cleaned up.

As seen on Monday (May 29), the entrance gates used to display

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A total of 17,783 dogs vaccinated in 3 weeks

Head of the Buleleng Agriculture Agency, I Nyoman Swatantra, explained that starting May 8 the district officers, village cadres and A-team have continued to be deployed. Within three weeks, the joint officers could have vaccinated a total of 17,783 dogs, 69 cats and 13 monkeys.

“These data are per today (Monday—Ed). In addition to dogs, there are also cats and monkeys,” he explained on Tuesday (May 29).

The program that will run until July 31 is targeting to reach at least 70 percent or 64,000 dogs out of a total population of 91,000 heads. During the implementation, the officers are still faced with classical obstacles, namely some dogs are still let go wild. “Geographical conditions also become obstacle in this program, but we will continue to intensify the program. Dissemination to residents remains to run,” he said.

As anticipation against rabies, the vaccination is not only performed in the period of three months, but also after that. “After these three months, we will keep doing the combing,” explained Swatantra.

In addition to through vaccination, continued Swatantra, the prevention against rabies can also be done through formation of awig-awig or customary bylaw about dog maintenance. This has been applied by nine villages. Some of them are Pakisan, Munduk and Selat village. “Customary bylaw is quite effective in anticipating rabies cases. So, we hope other villages will follow the measure,” he said.

All this time, the preparation of customary bylaw remains to contain uncertain sanctions. There are still pros and cons because it is too heavy. “Indeed, we have made a reference to it, but it still requires the approval from headman and customary village chief. We continue to build this,” he concluded. (kmb45)

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Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman waves as he meets with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia April 11, 2017.

DUBAI/MOSCOW - Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on issues of mutual interest, Saudi state news agency SPA reported on Tuesday.

Both Putin and bin Salman have been instrumental behind a successful global deal which saw oil production curtailed by 1.8 million barrels per day as part of efforts to

prop up prices and reduce bloated inventories.

Last time they met in China in September on the sideline of the G20 summit. Al Arabiya TV said they will discuss the Syrian conflict, while four cooperation agreements are expected to be inked between Saudi Arabia and Russia.

Earlier on Tuesday, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak met his Saudi counterpart Khalid al-Falih and discussed situation on

global oil markets.

The meetings take place after last week the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and other large global oil producers led by Russia agreed to extend oil output cuts by another 9 months.

The markets were disappointed that the producers have to undertook more drastic measures to bring back the balance between oil supply and demand.(rtr)

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CARACAS- The president of Venezuela’s oppositionrun Congress on Monday accused Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs of “aiding and abetting the country’s dictatorial regime” following a report that it had bought $2.8 billion in bonds from the cash-strapped country. The Wall Street Journal on Sunday said Goldman paid 31 cents on the dollar for bonds issued by state oil company PDVSA that mature in 2022, or around $865 million, citing five people familiar with the transaction.

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The road repair is performed in mutual assistance by a number of residents from morning to evening.

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Peninjoan residents pave damaged road independently

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A demonstrator holds a shield that reads “Aim here, damn” during riots at a march to state Ombudsman’s office in Caracas, Venezuela May 29, 2017.

Spain inflation in line with ECB target for 1st time since December

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A restaurant worker moves the base of an umbrella as he gets the outdoor terrace ready for customers in central Madrid, Spain, May 4, 2017.

MADRID - Spanish consumer prices rose this month at their slowest rate since December, preliminary data published on Tuesday showed, placing inflation in line with the European Central Bank’s target for the first time in five months.

Inflation, harmonised to compare with other European Union member states, was 2.0 percent year-on-year in May, the National Statistics Institute (INE) said, equal to a Reuters forecast and down from a previous reading of

2.6 percent. The ECB’s inflation target is near to, or slightly below, 2 percent.

Spanish data comes ahead of the closely monitored German figure, due at 1200 GMT, which is expected to fall below the central bank’s target at 1.6 percent. Inflation for the euro zone as a whole is due on Wednesday and is also expected to have eased to 1.5 percent in May from 1.9 percent a month earlier.

Higher euro zone consumer price rises have prompted pressure on the ECB to reduce its multi-

billion-euro asset purchase plan, though policymakers said last week that inflation remains weak and the programme must continue as planned. INE data also showed Spain’s national consumer price index rose by 1.9 percent in May on an annual basis, down from 2.6 percent in April.

The fall from the previous month, to the lowest level since December, was due to a drop in fuel prices compared to rises last year and cheaper package holidays, INE said.(rtr)

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Venezuela opposition accuses Goldman Sachs of financing dictatorship

That comes as two months of opposition protests against President Nicolas Maduro have killed almost 60 people and the collapse of the country’s socialist economy has left millions of people struggling to eat.

“Goldman Sachs’ financial lifeline to the regime will serve to strengthen the brutal repression unleashed against the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans peacefully protesting for political change in the country,” wrote Julio Borges in a letter to Goldman Sachs President Lloyd Blankfein.

“Given the unconstitutional nature of Nicolas Maduro’s administration, its unwillingness to hold democratic elections and its systematic violation of human rights, I am dismayed that Goldman Sachs decided to enter this transaction.”

The letter adds that Congress will open an investigation into the transaction and that he will recommend “to any future democratic government of Venezuela not to recognize or pay these bonds.” A Goldman Sachs spokesman said the bank declined to comment.

Venezuela’s Information Ministry, which fields queries on behalf of the Finance Ministry, did not respond to requests for comment.

The bonds were not sold directly by Venezuela’s central bank but rather through an intermediary, three finance industry sources, including one from Goldman, told Reuters on Monday. “The intermediaries are in Europe,” said the source at Goldman.

With Venezuela’s inefficient state-led economic model struggling under lower oil prices, Maduro’s unpopular government has become ever more dependent on financial deals or asset sales to bring in coveted foreign exchange. Venezuela’s international reserves rose by $749 million on Thursday and Friday, reaching around $10.86 billion. That is still down around 50 percent in the last three years.(rtr)

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BANGLI - Residents of Peninjoan village, Tembuku, are forced to pave the damaged road at Penarukan hamlet independently. It is carried out because the damage to the roads occurred over the past few months do not get any repair from the government. As a result, it often claims casualties.

Repairs of the damaged road have been started by residents since last Sunday (May 29). Before being paved, residents first patched the gaping hole on the road by using cement. The road repair is performed in mutual assistance by a number of residents from morning to evening.

Wayan Mudiasa, one of the villagers who worked together to repair the road damage, revealed the road damage at Penarukan hamlet has been happening since more than three months. The condition with potholes and ascending path often causes passing motorists to fall down to get injury. “A lot of people have been victimized here.

They are mostly school students.

Recently there was a pregnant woman falling down when passing here,” he said when met last Monday.

In order to get a repair from the government, local residents

actually already delivered the condition of road damage along approximately 300 meters several months ago through the village office including legislators. Unfortunately, until now it never gets a response.

To prevent residents from becoming the victims in the road, they are finally forced to repair it independently. Materials in the form of cement, sand, asphalt and others are obtained by the community by buying with the fund collected from the community.

“The donors are the people around here who are concerned about the road damage. In addition to money, there are also donations in the form of food and beverage for residents doing the mutual assistance,” he said.

Mudiasa and other residents claimed to be surprised by the slow response of the government to residents’ complaint related to the road

damage. Residents also questioned why it is the only road section that has not been touched by the repair until now. Apart from being disappointed by the government, people doing the mutual assistance last Monday also complained about their representatives considered to be not serious in struggling for people’s aspirations. “There are three legislators from Peninjoan.

But no one of them ever comes down. Strangely, they mutually throw the responsibility quibbling it does not belong to their territory,” said Mudiasa.

When confirmed separately, the Bina Marga Division Head of the Bangli Public Works Agency, Putu Wida Gunawan, said that the damaged road at Peninjoan-Mapagan road section will be repaired this year by using regular maintenance budget. He revealed the road section was not included in the repair with hot mixed asphalt in 2015 because it was constrained by the existence of bridge to the road that cannot be passed through by heavy equipment. “However, we will include in the budget of road repair in 2018,” he added. (kmb40)

GIANYAR - The executive and legislative of Gianyar district that are indifferent to the proliferation of modern stores, such as the construction of supermarket alleged to be illegal on Jalan Raya Batubulan, Batubulan village, Sukawati, got bitter criticism from Bali legislator, Nyoman Parta. This Chairman of Commission IV of the Bali House of Representatives also asked the government of Gianyar not to keep silent in responding to this condition, and immediately curb the illegal modern store and supermarket in Gianyar district.

“I am often sought after by people who complain about and reject the modern chain stores,” said Nyoman Parta, on Monday (May 29).

He said this complaint has actually been long delivered to the government of Gianyar, but until now there is no response. There was even a plan to issue a modern store moratorium, as loudly shouted by the legislators of Gianyar district. But in reality until now there is even an omission.

“I have submitted to Regent Bharata and Deputy Mahayastra, but there is no assertiveness. The moratorium is only in discourse, but in reality it is getting more and more (modern shops and supermarkets— Ed),” said this legislator of PDI-P Party.Nyoman Parta reminded that small merchants using traditional system should be protected because they are also a place of small culinary makers to entrust their merchandise. “There are at least 5 to 7 small stalls at each hamlet. I have surveyed at in each small stalls, there are 7 to 12 other residents relying on their life. They include the makers of chips, wrapped rice, herbal drink, soy milk, incense and other Balinese snacks,” he said.

Now, modern stores spreading to every nook and cranny of village are very threatening the existence of small stalls at each hamlet.

Nyoman Parta also asked the government of Gianyar to immediately take action in addressing this condition. “Protecting small stalls is protecting the life of many people. Do not confront small stores with a chain modern stores, do not confront traditional markets with supermarkets,” he said.

Besides, he confirmed that the control against illegal modern stores and supermarkets should be done immediately. Then, do no longer issue any permits because the number of modern stores and supermarkets has exceeded the quota. “Stop the permit issuance, and crack down on the illegal ones,” he said.

Meanwhile, Chief of Gianyar Municipal Police, Cokorda Gede Agusnawa, when asked for his confirmation admitted to immediately check to the supermarket construction project alleged to be illegal on Jalan Raya Batubulan, Batubulan village, Sukawati. “Immediately, I will check it, at least tomorrow (Tuesday—Ed),” he affirmed. (kmb35)

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The construction of supermarket alleged to be illegal on Jalan Raya Batubulan.

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Philippines urges Islamist rebels to surrender as battle enters eighth day

MARAWI - The Philippine military urged Islamist militants occupying a southern city to turn themselves in on Tuesday, the eighth day of a push by security forces using armoured vehicles and firing rockets from helicopters to eliminate the gunmen.

The government says it is close to retaking Marawi from the Islamic State-linked Maute group, which seized parts of the city after a failed attempt by security forces to capture Isnilon Hapilon, the militants’ so-called emir of Southeast Asia. “We call on the remaining terrorists to surrender while there is an opportunity,” a military spokesman, BrigadierGeneral Restituto Padilla, told reporters.

As helicopters circled the lakeside city where smoke billowed out of some buildings, troops cleared rebel positions amid explosions and automatic gunfire, moving house by house and street by street. More than 100 people have been killed, most of them militants, according to the military, and most of the city’s residents have fled.

A Catholic priest held captive by the militants with a dozen other civilians appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to consider their plight and stop the military operation. Father Teresito “Chito” Soganub, vicar general of Marawi City, and the others were abducted in a cathedral last week.

“We are asking your help to please give what your enemies are asking for,” the priest said on a video clip shown on a Telegram channel used by Islamic State. “We still want to live for another day, a month and a few years, please consider us Mr President,” he said. A politician involved in efforts to evacuate residents, Zia Alonto Adiong, said authorities had cleared 85 percent of the city but reclaiming the rest would be a challenge because they were dense urban areas with trapped civilians.

“There’s an intensifying military operation that’s going on,” Adiong told a media briefing. Though most people have left, thousands are stranded, worried they could be intercepted by militants if they tried to flee.

‘LIVE ANOTHER DAY’

Martin Thalmann, deputy head of delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), said he tried,

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An evacuee carries plastic containers to fetch water as billowing smoke is seen at the site of fighting between government soldiers and Maute group in Marawi City, southern Philippines May 30, 2017. but failed to convince Islamic State affiliated insurgents and government forces to halt the violence so it can deliver aid.

“It’s so intense, it’s not possible,” Thalmann told reporters, referring to the fighting.

“There’s still a lot of people in there and of course it’s a concern that they suffer under this shelling and we wonder if all the precautions are taken.” Air strikes were aimed at “specific targets of resistance to protect our troops and hasten clearing of the city”, Padilla said, adding that “collateral damage” was being prevented.

Nearly 85,000 displaced people are staying in 38 shelter areas outside Marawi. Leaders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a separatist Muslim guerrilla group that has been in talks with the government, said they had agreed to help distribute aid after they met the president for talks.

Duterte had appealed on the weekend to rebel forces to become “soldiers of the republic” and unite to defeat the hardline Maute and allied Abu Sayyaf groups. The Maute’s ability to fight for so long will add to fears that Islamic State’s ideology is spreading in the southern Philippines and it could become a haven for militants from Southeast

Asia and beyond.

Malaysians and Indonesians were among the rebels killed.

The government believes the Maute carried out their assault before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan to capture the attention of Islamic State and earn recognition as a regional affiliate.

In the video footage, the captured priest was standing on a deserted street with ruins around him and the sound of gunfire in the background. “They simply are not asking for anything, just to withdraw your forces ... and to stop the air strikes, your air attacks, and stop the cannons,” Soganub said.

Marawi Bishop Edwin dela Pena confirmed to Reuters that it was Soganub in the video but declined to comment any further. Soganub, wearing a black shirt and trousers, said the militants had the right to practice their faith and enforce Islamic laws in the city.

Padilla said the military was aware of the video. “This is pure propaganda. The Maute group is using this to stop our clearing operations,” Padilla said. Padilla said he was confident the militants would not harm the priest because they wanted to use him to gain concessions. (rtr)

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The tiger that kill the keeper.

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South Korea’s Defence Ministry said on Tuesday it had conducted a joint drill with a U.S. supersonic B-1B Lancer bomber on Monday.

North Korea’s state media had earlier accused the United States of staging “a nuclear bomb dropping drill”.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talked to Moon by phone on Tuesday, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement, and both agreed that North Korea’s continued

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provocations were unacceptable.

Abe told Moon that dialogue for dialogue’s sake with North Korea would be meaningless, and that China’s role in exerting pressure on the North was important.

The North’s KCNA news agency reported leader Kim Jong Un

LONDON - A keeper was killed by a tiger at Hamerton Zoo Park in England, the BBC reported, and the zoo said there appeared to have been a freak accident.

The zoo, located in the county of Cambridgeshire in eastern England, said it would remained closed while there was a full investigation and it hoped to announce further details as soon as possible.

“At no point during the incident

did any animals escape their enclosures, and at no point was public safety affected in any way,” the zoo said in a statement that made no mention of a tiger. The statement said staff were too distressed to speak to reporters.

“A tiger had entered an enclosure with a keeper. Sadly the female zoo keeper died at the scene,” police said, according to the BBC. (ap)

supervised Monday’s test of a missile equipped with a new precision guidance system and an improved pre-launch automated sequence and a new mobile launch vehicle.

Kim said North Korea would develop more powerful weapons in multiple phases in accordance with

its timetable to defend North Korea against the United States.

“He expressed the conviction that it would make a greater leap forward in this spirit to send a bigger ‘gift package’ to the Yankees” in retaliation for American military provocation, KCNA quoted Kim as saying. (rtr)

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Strong Indonesia earthquake damages buildings, hurts some JAKARTA — A strong, shallow earthquake rocked Indonesia’s central Sulawesi province Monday evening, injuring at least three people and damaging some buildings and houses.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-6.8 quake was centered in a thinly populated area 79 kilometers (49 miles) southeast of the provincial capital, Palu, at a depth of 9.1 kilometers (6 miles).

The National Disaster Management Agency said buildings were damaged in Poso, a city to the southeast of the epicenter, and a number of houses and churches were damaged in nearby villages.

At least three villagers were hospitalized for head wounds, it said. The agency posted photos of damage in Poso on Twitter. One showed a collapsed building and another showed a convenience store with goods strewn on its floor but otherwise intact.

Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency recorded 14 aftershocks of up to magnitude-5.2, also at a shallow depth. Shallow earthquakes tend to cause more damage on the Earth’s surface. It said the land-based quake didn’t have any potential to cause a tsunami.

Indonesia is prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions due to its location along the Pacific “Ring of Fire.” A powerful Indian Ocean quake and tsunami in 2004 killed a total of 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia. (ap)

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People watch a film during a wedding party in Bogor, Indonesia, March 19, 2017.

Indonesian mobile cinema keeps old film format alive in digital age

JAKARTA - Indonesian entrepreneur Kamaluddin loves the gritty look of old 35-millimeter film so much that he spends most of his nights screening vintage movies at weddings and parties around Jakarta, the capital. Filmmakers and cinemas have almost completely phased out the 35-mm. format in the past decade as they switch to cheaper, better quality digital formats.

But for Kamaluddin, running a ‘mobile cinema’ means bringing nostalgia and entertainment to the city’s poorer residents. “It’s more artistic and the sound is much better than digital,” he said. “If you watch three movies in a row, you won’t feel tired, just relaxed.”

He transports a 35-mm projector and sound system, films, a screen and large tent in his truck. At the venue, usually an open field or outside the home of a customer holding a party or celebration, people gather to watch as Kamaluddin sets up his equipment. The movies usually run into the early hours of the morning, with

street vendors selling food, clothes and toys often setting up nearby, to sell their wares to the cinema-goers.

Viewers get a chance to reacquaint themselves with films from Hollywood’s golden era and movies from India’s Bollywood, long out of circulation.

Bollywood movies are hugely popular in Indonesia, especially on its islands of Bali and Java, where music and dance are heavily influenced by Indian tradition and performing arts. “This theatre is free of charge and we can watch old movies which we hardly find out there,” said one viewer, Nurul Fitriyah, as she watched an old film on a huge fabric screen.

But earnings have fallen steadily in the mobile cinema business as the younger middle class flocks to airconditioned movie theatres that offer reclining chairs, or even beds, alongside fast food and soft drinks.

“In 1997, in one night I could set up four screens in four different locations,” said Kamaluddin, who estimates a night’s work could bring in up to $300 in the old days. “Now, if I’m lucky, I can set up projectors twice a month and earn around $100 per night.” (rtr)

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Cool Hand Lue: Cavs coach keeps NBA champs calm amid chaos

Taman Festival Bali ‘ghost town’ DENPASAR - The quirkiest place on this list is an abandoned theme park, the Taman Festival Bali, which saw only a slight of its heyday in 1997, but ultimately closed down three years later due to marketing and financial problems. Now considered a ghost town, literally by some of the locals who believe that long abandoned places are eventually inhabited by spirits of the ‘unseen world’, it is a favourite photo location for photographers looking for a desolate, post apocalyptic-like setting. This is due to the still erect but deteriorated structures of its main buildings with partly collapsed roofs, and ticket booths, a theatre and dining outlets covered in dust, moss and creeper vines. Large statues and ornamental figures around the courtyards and throughout its open spaces, which now stand under dense foliage, create an eerie sight even in broad daylight. Extra caution must be taken around the crumbling buildings. (IBP/net)

CLEVELAND — Moments after the Eastern Conference championship banner was raised by the Cavaliers for the third straight time and the obligatory postgame interviews ended, Tyronn Lue slipped quietly away. Cleveland’s coach ducked into the shadows, his preferred location. “I don’t like the attention,” he said.

Griya Santrian Gallery

DENPASAR - Griya Santrian Gallery, located within the Griya Santrian boutique hotel in Sanur, is an open-air gallery that regularly hosts art exhibitions, book launches and art happenings featuring local and international artists. Easily one of the most reputable galleries of its kind in the Sanur area, it is definitely a must-visit for art and culture buffs. Almost every month, this gallery showcases various paintings and sculptures from artists who mainly focus on classical styles, with some notable living and late figures featured in the past including Syahrizal Koto, Ni Nyoman Sani, I Ketut Muja, Le Mayeur de Mempres, Auw Kok Heng and Sujana. Owned by the family who also spearheaded the annual Sanur Village Festival, the gallery has also played its part as one of the main art exhibition venues during the week-long festival, held since 2005. (IBP/net)

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But Lue, once a journeyman point guard who steered the Cavs to an NBA championship last season, has grown more accepting of his frontman role.

He’ll again be at center stage this week as Cleveland meets Golden State in the third installment of their title trilogy. If the unassuming, easygoing Lue had his preference, the teams would duke it out for the Larry O’Brien Trophy on a playground court in a stifling hot gymnasium, with only a handful of onlookers present. A student of the game, he’s old school with a fresh perspective.

Of the many juicy subplots between the Cavs and Warriors, one that frequently goes overlooked is Lue, the former assistant who has blossomed in no time into one of the league’s brightest young head coaches and a playoff savant.

He’s 28-6 in two postseasons with Cleveland. His players credit Lue’s soothing, steady influence — on and off the floor — as nearly as vital to their success as a clutch Kyrie Irving 3-pointer.

“It’s just his level of calmness no matter what’s going on,” LeBron James said following practice. “He always talks about, at the end of the day, he’s already won in life, so whatever else happens after this is extra credit. And I feel the same way. That’s why I relate to him so much. Lose here, or you win a game here, it’s like, ‘All right, cool. I’ve already done so much more than anybody ever gave me credit of doing or thought I can do, so there’s no reason to get too high or too low.’

“So it’s the even-keel mentality about our coach and it definitely helps us as players when we’re going out into a war.” Lue has been preparing for the biggest battle of his basketball career this week.

From the moment he returned home from Boston following the Cavs’ win in Game 5 of the conference finals, Lue has immersed himself in the Warriors, a virtual All-Star team featuring two league

AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File

FILE - In this April 5, 2017, file photo, Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue gestures during the fourth quarter of an NBA basketball game against the Boston Celtics, in Boston. Lue would prefer less attention, but it comes with the territory as coach of the defending NBA champions. Lue is back in the NBA Finals, and the Cavaliers acknowledge they probably wouldn’t be in position to win another title if not for Lue’s calming influence.

MVPs (Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry), a dead-eye shooter (Klay Thompson) and a triple-threat performer (Draymond Green).

Lue’s defensive strategy to this point in the playoffs has been to neutralize the opponents’ top player.

The Cavs were able to do that with Indiana’s Paul George, Toronto’s DeMar DeRozan and Boston’s Isaiah Thomas, who aggravated a hip injury in Game 2 and missed the remainder of the series. Cleveland blitzed, double-teamed and did all it could take away the other team’s offensive threat. Lue was asked if it’s more difficult to identify who that is on Golden State. “Hell yeah,” he said, his voice rising. “It’s tough.”

There are few weaknesses in these Warriors, the first team to head into the final round 12-0 and winning by an average of 16.3 points per game. “They have so many weapons,” Lue said, “having four All-Stars and now adding KD to the mix who I’ve always loved as a scorer, just how he scores so easy.

They have a lot of options. It’s going to be tough, but we have to lock into what we have to do defensively, and sometimes you can play great defense and it doesn’t work. Steph is making tough shots, Klay is making

tough shots and KD is making tough shots. But all you can do is play your defense, stick to your principles and just make it as tough as possible.”

The Cavs know Lue won’t panic.

He stayed cool last spring when Cleveland fought back from a 3-1 deficit to win its first title. Lue made subtle tweaks to his rotation, drew up key inbounds plays, then isolated Irving late in Game 7 on Curry. The Cavs All-Star guard made his now famous go-ahead, step-back 3-pointer.

Pressure intensifies in the postseason, when possessions, turnovers and rebounds are magnified. As the drama builds, Lue stays composed, setting the tone for his players.

“Throughout the postseason there’s so many different emotions,” James said. “Going high, going low. And if you’re a coach able to just stay evenkeeled throughout the whole thing, it relaxes the rest of the group.” Don’t be fooled by Lue’s cool. He can get fiery when needed.

“I always get mad when guys make shots in the first quarter, second quarter, pumping their chest and then the game on the line they miss,” Lue said. “So you’re doing all that for no reason. I always like to stay even-keeled and just play the game the right way.”(ap)

Woods apologises for DUI arrest, blames medication

Former world number one golfer Tiger Woods said an unexpected reaction to prescribed medications was to blame for his early-morning DUI arrest near his Jupiter Island home in Florida on Monday. Woods, who underwent surgery last week to relieve lingering back pain, was booked at 7:18 a.m. (1118 GMT) and released several hours later on his own recognizance, Palm Beach County Police said in an online report.

Woods said in a statement released by his spokesman that alcohol was not a factor in his arrest but apologised and added that he took full responsibility. “I want the public to know that alcohol was not involved,” he said. “What happened was an unexpected reaction to prescribed medications. I didn’t realize the mix of medications had affected me so strongly. “I would like to apologize with all my heart to my family, friends and the fans. I expect more from myself, too.”

Woods, who is second on the all-time list with 14 major titles, said he cooperated with police and wanted to thank the Jupiter Police Department and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office for their professionalism.

“I will do everything in my power to ensure this never happens again,” he added. The incident occurred less than a week after Woods expressed optimism about his future following back surgery, saying on his website that he experienced “instant relief” and had not “felt this good in years.”

Woods has previously made headlines away from the golf course. His private life unraveled in late 2009 over allegations about affairs with several women and ultimately led to the end of his marriage.

Those allegations followed a bizarre early morning car accident outside his Florida home that rapidly ballooned into a fully-fledged sex scandal which turned his previously unblemished life and career upside down. The scandal ultimately cost Woods a number of lucrative endorsement deals, while other sponsors shifted away from using him in marketing but did not end their contracts with him.

Woods, whose current sponsors include Nike, Bridgestone, Hero, Kowa, Upper Deck, and Monster Energy was ranked 12th on Forbes’ list of the highest-paid athletes in 2016, with total earnings of $45.3 million, despite missing much of the year recovering from back surgery.

A 79-time winner on the PGA Tour who was world number one for a record 683 weeks, Woods lost form in recent years due to injuries and the mastering of a new swing while his ranking has plummeted to 876 after his long spell on the sidelines. He has competed in only 19 events on the PGA Tour since the end of 2013, recording just one top-10 during that period along with seven missed cuts and three withdrawals.(rtr)

Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office/Handout via REUTERS

Tiger Eldrick Woods appears in a booking photo released by Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., May 29, 2017.

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Sp rt Barcelona name Valverde as coach BARCELONA - Barcelona named former Athletic Bilbao coach Ernesto Valverde on Monday as the successor to Luis Enrique and he will take charge of the La Liga runners-up on a two-year contract with the option of a third. Valverde, who will be officially unveiled on Thursday, played for Barcelona as a forward between 1988 and 1990 under Johan Cruyff and is one of many of the Dutchman’s former pupils to have turned to coaching upon retiring from playing.

“He’s very happy very excited, he has the ability, experience and knowledge for the job,” Barcelona President Josep Maria Bartomeu told a news conference. “He loves youth football and he has the right style to coach this club and knows how the club works. He has a high work rate, he is passionate about football and interested in working with the latest technology.”

Bartomeu thanked Luis Enrique, who rounded off his three-year tenure at Barcelona on Saturday by beating Alaves 3-1 to win the King’s Cup for a third year in a row, the ninth trophy he led the club to.

“We want to thank Luis Enrique for the work he did in this time, he was excellent in these three years. A great coach and Barcelona man is leaving us but the doors of the Nou Camp will always be open to him,” he said. The president, however, said Luis Enrique’s last season in charge, which finished with only the King’s Cup in the trophy cabinet, was a disappointment.

“We expected more from this season, we have

diagnosed what went wrong and we are very demanding of ourselves,” he added. “We were not satisfied, neither were the players, nor the coaches and directors. But now we are beginning a new era.” Valverde, 53, began his coaching career with Athletic Bilbao’s youth set-up and is the Basque club’s longest serving coach, overseeing 308 games over six years in two different spells.

As well as qualifying Athletic for Europe in five of his six years with the club, who only pick players from the Basque country, he ended a 31-year wait for a trophy by leading them to the 2015 Spanish Super Cup, beating Barcelona 5-1 on aggregate.

He also coached and played for Barca’s city rivals Espanyol, reaching the 2007 UEFA Cup final while in charge although losing to Sevilla on penalties, and won three Greek league titles and two domestic Cups with Olympiakos Piraeus.

Valverde brings two members of his coaching staff at Athletic to Barcelona, his assistant of 15 years Jon Aspiazu and fitness coach Jose Antonio Pozanco. Luis Enrique rounded off his three-year tenure at Barcelona on Saturday by beating Alaves 3-1 to win the King’s Cup for a third year in a row, the ninth trophy he led the club to.

Valverde will be thrown in at the deep end with his first competitive game in charge being against Barca’s arch-rivals and La Liga champions Real Madrid in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup at the Nou Camp in August. Before then the team will go on a pre-season tour of the United States with friendlies against Real, Manchester United and Juventus. (rtr)

AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos, File

FILE- In this Saturday, March 18, 2017 file photo, the longtime Athletic Bilbao’s head manager Ernesto Valverde gestures during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao, at San Mames stadium, in Bilbao, northern Spain. Barcelona said Monday, May 29, 2017, it has hired former player Ernesto Valverde as its new coach.

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Coach Luciano Spalletti leaves Roma likely for Inter Milan

ROME — Roma announced the departure of Luciano Spalletti on Tuesday in an expected move that frees the coach to sign with Inter Milan. “The process to appoint a new coach is now underway,” Roma said in a statement. The announcement came

two days after Spalletti guided Roma to a second-place finish in Serie A and direct entry into the Champions League.

The 58-year-old Spalletti has been in negotiations to follow former Roma sporting director Walter Sabatini to Inter. Sassuolo’s

Eusebio Di Francesco, a former Roma player, is reportedly the top choice to replace Spalletti with the Giallorossi.

Spalletti’s second stint as Roma’s coach began in January 2016.

While Roma won two Italian Cups and one Italian Super Cup dur-

ing Spalletti’s first stay at Roma, no trophies were won during his second term.

Still, Roma president Jim Pallotta thanked Spalletti and noted that “under his stewardship this season, the team has won more Serie A points and scored more goals

than any side in Roma’s history.

“We wish Luciano all the best for the future,” Pallotta added. Spalletti lost the support of many Roma fans this season over his sparing use of club captain Francesco Totti, who announced his retirement on Sunday. (ap)

Wolfsburg clinches Bundesliga survival with playoff win

Action Images via Reuters / John Sibley

Huddersfield Town’s Rajiv van La Parra celebrates after winning the Sky Bet Championship Play-Off Final and getting promoted to the Premier League

Huddersfield into Premier League after penalty drama LONDON - Huddersfield Town returned to the top flight of English football for the first time in 45 years after a nail-biting 4-3 penalty shootout win over Reading in the Championship promotion playoff final at Wembley on Monday. The game finished 0-0 after extra time and German defender Christopher Schindler struck the winning penalty for Huddersfield after Reading failed to convert their last two spot-kicks.

The win ensured at least 170 million pounds ($218 million) in guaranteed revenue for Huddersfield as a Premier League club next season.

“The prize is so big, I feel for (Reading)....but it is our turn and I think we deserve it because of the way we have done it. We give a lot of hope to smaller clubs,” Huddersfield chairman Dean Hoyle said.

Huddersfield were relegated from the old first division in 1972 and have struggled in recent years in the Championship with 16th place their best finish since returning to the second tier five years ago.

While few predicted their promotion, the Yorkshire club have a rich history and were champions of England three times during the 1920s. “This has nothing to do with

a dream. This is a reality,” defender Michael Hefele told Sky Sports.

“These guys have achieved such a big thing - such a small club to be in the best league in the world. Just crazy,” he said.

Huddersfield, coached by German David Wagner, also won their playoff semi-final, against Sheffield Wednesday, on penalties but they will feel they deserved the victory having restricted Reading to longrange efforts.

Huddersfield had missed two great chances in the opening 10 minutes when Hefele headed wide and Izzy Brown stabbed wide from point-blank range after Elias Kachunga had slipped the ball across the face of the goal. But the quality of what had promised to be an exciting game gradually declined as nerves and tiredness began to dominate and the game remained goalless after extra-time.

Reading got ahead in the shootout when Hefele’s soft effort was saved by Ali Al-Habsi but that advantage was lost when Liam Moore blasted over the bar to allowing Aaron Mooy to level at 3-3.

Huddersfield keeper Danny Ward got down well to keep out Jordan Obita’s kick and leave Schindler with the chance to start the celebrations. (rtr)

BRAUNSCHWEIG — Wolfsburg clinched Bundesliga survival by beating Eintracht Braunschweig 1-0, giving the side a 2-0 victory on aggregate in their relegation-promotion playoff on Monday. Vieirinha’s powerful strike after the break gave the visiting side a comfortable cushion, after Mario Gomez gave Wolfsburg a 1-0 win at home in the first leg.

“We achieved the absolute minimum. I can understand the players’ relief, but it’s not a success,” said Andries Jonker, Wolfsburg’s third coach of the season.

The Volkswagen-backed club was forced into the playoff after finishing third from bottom in the Bundesliga. It was the side’s lowest position since gaining promotion to the top flight in 1997.

Braunschweig, which was third in Germany’s second division, was bidding to return to the Bundesliga after its relegation in 2014.

“The Lions” lived up to coach Torsten Li-

eberknecht’s words after defeat in the first leg, “Lions bite. We’ll really bite back.” But the closest the side came to scoring was when Christoffer Nyman shot straight at Wolfsburg goalkeeper Koen Casteels early on.

Their hopes were all but ended when Vieirinha hammered Wolfsburg ahead after the break from a rebound. Braunschweig suddenly needed three goals due to Wolfsburg’s away score. The home side never looked like getting them.

Braunschweig fans stormed the pitch after the game forcing players to take cover. Riot police formed a line to protect visiting supporters, leading to an uneasy faceoff as flares were lit and hurled toward the officials.

“We had to go the changing rooms. We couldn’t celebrate,” Wolfsburg sporting director Olaf Rebbe said.

A warden had already been struck by a flare when Braunschweig fans lit pyrotechnics before the second half. (ap)

Wolfsburg’s Vieirinha celebrates scoring their first goal

Reuters / Fabian Bimmer

Roma coach Luciano Spalletti

Reuters / Alessandro Bianchi Livepic/File Photo

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Sp rt Barcelona name Valverde as coach BARCELONA - Barcelona named former Athletic Bilbao coach Ernesto Valverde on Monday as the successor to Luis Enrique and he will take charge of the La Liga runners-up on a two-year contract with the option of a third. Valverde, who will be officially unveiled on Thursday, played for Barcelona as a forward between 1988 and 1990 under Johan Cruyff and is one of many of the Dutchman’s former pupils to have turned to coaching upon retiring from playing.

“He’s very happy very excited, he has the ability, experience and knowledge for the job,” Barcelona President Josep Maria Bartomeu told a news conference. “He loves youth football and he has the right style to coach this club and knows how the club works. He has a high work rate, he is passionate about football and interested in working with the latest technology.”

Bartomeu thanked Luis Enrique, who rounded off his three-year tenure at Barcelona on Saturday by beating Alaves 3-1 to win the King’s Cup for a third year in a row, the ninth trophy he led the club to.

“We want to thank Luis Enrique for the work he did in this time, he was excellent in these three years. A great coach and Barcelona man is leaving us but the doors of the Nou Camp will always be open to him,” he said. The president, however, said Luis Enrique’s last season in charge, which finished with only the King’s Cup in the trophy cabinet, was a disappointment.

“We expected more from this season, we have

diagnosed what went wrong and we are very demanding of ourselves,” he added. “We were not satisfied, neither were the players, nor the coaches and directors. But now we are beginning a new era.” Valverde, 53, began his coaching career with Athletic Bilbao’s youth set-up and is the Basque club’s longest serving coach, overseeing 308 games over six years in two different spells.

As well as qualifying Athletic for Europe in five of his six years with the club, who only pick players from the Basque country, he ended a 31-year wait for a trophy by leading them to the 2015 Spanish Super Cup, beating Barcelona 5-1 on aggregate.

He also coached and played for Barca’s city rivals Espanyol, reaching the 2007 UEFA Cup final while in charge although losing to Sevilla on penalties, and won three Greek league titles and two domestic Cups with Olympiakos Piraeus.

Valverde brings two members of his coaching staff at Athletic to Barcelona, his assistant of 15 years Jon Aspiazu and fitness coach Jose Antonio Pozanco. Luis Enrique rounded off his three-year tenure at Barcelona on Saturday by beating Alaves 3-1 to win the King’s Cup for a third year in a row, the ninth trophy he led the club to.

Valverde will be thrown in at the deep end with his first competitive game in charge being against Barca’s arch-rivals and La Liga champions Real Madrid in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup at the Nou Camp in August. Before then the team will go on a pre-season tour of the United States with friendlies against Real, Manchester United and Juventus. (rtr)

AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos, File

FILE- In this Saturday, March 18, 2017 file photo, the longtime Athletic Bilbao’s head manager Ernesto Valverde gestures during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao, at San Mames stadium, in Bilbao, northern Spain. Barcelona said Monday, May 29, 2017, it has hired former player Ernesto Valverde as its new coach.

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Coach Luciano Spalletti leaves Roma likely for Inter Milan

ROME — Roma announced the departure of Luciano Spalletti on Tuesday in an expected move that frees the coach to sign with Inter Milan. “The process to appoint a new coach is now underway,” Roma said in a statement. The announcement came

two days after Spalletti guided Roma to a second-place finish in Serie A and direct entry into the Champions League.

The 58-year-old Spalletti has been in negotiations to follow former Roma sporting director Walter Sabatini to Inter. Sassuolo’s

Eusebio Di Francesco, a former Roma player, is reportedly the top choice to replace Spalletti with the Giallorossi.

Spalletti’s second stint as Roma’s coach began in January 2016.

While Roma won two Italian Cups and one Italian Super Cup dur-

ing Spalletti’s first stay at Roma, no trophies were won during his second term.

Still, Roma president Jim Pallotta thanked Spalletti and noted that “under his stewardship this season, the team has won more Serie A points and scored more goals

than any side in Roma’s history.

“We wish Luciano all the best for the future,” Pallotta added. Spalletti lost the support of many Roma fans this season over his sparing use of club captain Francesco Totti, who announced his retirement on Sunday. (ap)

Wolfsburg clinches Bundesliga survival with playoff win

Action Images via Reuters / John Sibley

Huddersfield Town’s Rajiv van La Parra celebrates after winning the Sky Bet Championship Play-Off Final and getting promoted to the Premier League

Huddersfield into Premier League after penalty drama LONDON - Huddersfield Town returned to the top flight of English football for the first time in 45 years after a nail-biting 4-3 penalty shootout win over Reading in the Championship promotion playoff final at Wembley on Monday. The game finished 0-0 after extra time and German defender Christopher Schindler struck the winning penalty for Huddersfield after Reading failed to convert their last two spot-kicks.

The win ensured at least 170 million pounds ($218 million) in guaranteed revenue for Huddersfield as a Premier League club next season.

“The prize is so big, I feel for (Reading)....but it is our turn and I think we deserve it because of the way we have done it. We give a lot of hope to smaller clubs,” Huddersfield chairman Dean Hoyle said.

Huddersfield were relegated from the old first division in 1972 and have struggled in recent years in the Championship with 16th place their best finish since returning to the second tier five years ago.

While few predicted their promotion, the Yorkshire club have a rich history and were champions of England three times during the 1920s. “This has nothing to do with

a dream. This is a reality,” defender Michael Hefele told Sky Sports.

“These guys have achieved such a big thing - such a small club to be in the best league in the world. Just crazy,” he said.

Huddersfield, coached by German David Wagner, also won their playoff semi-final, against Sheffield Wednesday, on penalties but they will feel they deserved the victory having restricted Reading to longrange efforts.

Huddersfield had missed two great chances in the opening 10 minutes when Hefele headed wide and Izzy Brown stabbed wide from point-blank range after Elias Kachunga had slipped the ball across the face of the goal. But the quality of what had promised to be an exciting game gradually declined as nerves and tiredness began to dominate and the game remained goalless after extra-time.

Reading got ahead in the shootout when Hefele’s soft effort was saved by Ali Al-Habsi but that advantage was lost when Liam Moore blasted over the bar to allowing Aaron Mooy to level at 3-3.

Huddersfield keeper Danny Ward got down well to keep out Jordan Obita’s kick and leave Schindler with the chance to start the celebrations. (rtr)

BRAUNSCHWEIG — Wolfsburg clinched Bundesliga survival by beating Eintracht Braunschweig 1-0, giving the side a 2-0 victory on aggregate in their relegation-promotion playoff on Monday. Vieirinha’s powerful strike after the break gave the visiting side a comfortable cushion, after Mario Gomez gave Wolfsburg a 1-0 win at home in the first leg.

“We achieved the absolute minimum. I can understand the players’ relief, but it’s not a success,” said Andries Jonker, Wolfsburg’s third coach of the season.

The Volkswagen-backed club was forced into the playoff after finishing third from bottom in the Bundesliga. It was the side’s lowest position since gaining promotion to the top flight in 1997.

Braunschweig, which was third in Germany’s second division, was bidding to return to the Bundesliga after its relegation in 2014.

“The Lions” lived up to coach Torsten Li-

eberknecht’s words after defeat in the first leg, “Lions bite. We’ll really bite back.” But the closest the side came to scoring was when Christoffer Nyman shot straight at Wolfsburg goalkeeper Koen Casteels early on.

Their hopes were all but ended when Vieirinha hammered Wolfsburg ahead after the break from a rebound. Braunschweig suddenly needed three goals due to Wolfsburg’s away score. The home side never looked like getting them.

Braunschweig fans stormed the pitch after the game forcing players to take cover. Riot police formed a line to protect visiting supporters, leading to an uneasy faceoff as flares were lit and hurled toward the officials.

“We had to go the changing rooms. We couldn’t celebrate,” Wolfsburg sporting director Olaf Rebbe said.

A warden had already been struck by a flare when Braunschweig fans lit pyrotechnics before the second half. (ap)

Wolfsburg’s Vieirinha celebrates scoring their first goal

Reuters / Fabian Bimmer

Roma coach Luciano Spalletti

Reuters / Alessandro Bianchi Livepic/File Photo

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Taman Festival Bali ‘ghost town’ DENPASAR - The quirkiest place on this list is an abandoned theme park, the Taman Festival Bali, which saw only a slight of its heyday in 1997, but ultimately closed down three years later due to marketing and financial problems. Now considered a ghost town, literally by some of the locals who believe that long abandoned places are eventually inhabited by spirits of the ‘unseen world’, it is a favourite photo location for photographers looking for a desolate, post apocalyptic-like setting. This is due to the still erect but deteriorated structures of its main buildings with partly collapsed roofs, and ticket booths, a theatre and dining outlets covered in dust, moss and creeper vines. Large statues and ornamental figures around the courtyards and throughout its open spaces, which now stand under dense foliage, create an eerie sight even in broad daylight. Extra caution must be taken around the crumbling buildings. (IBP/net)

CLEVELAND — Moments after the Eastern Conference championship banner was raised by the Cavaliers for the third straight time and the obligatory postgame interviews ended, Tyronn Lue slipped quietly away. Cleveland’s coach ducked into the shadows, his preferred location. “I don’t like the attention,” he said.

Griya Santrian Gallery

DENPASAR - Griya Santrian Gallery, located within the Griya Santrian boutique hotel in Sanur, is an open-air gallery that regularly hosts art exhibitions, book launches and art happenings featuring local and international artists. Easily one of the most reputable galleries of its kind in the Sanur area, it is definitely a must-visit for art and culture buffs. Almost every month, this gallery showcases various paintings and sculptures from artists who mainly focus on classical styles, with some notable living and late figures featured in the past including Syahrizal Koto, Ni Nyoman Sani, I Ketut Muja, Le Mayeur de Mempres, Auw Kok Heng and Sujana. Owned by the family who also spearheaded the annual Sanur Village Festival, the gallery has also played its part as one of the main art exhibition venues during the week-long festival, held since 2005. (IBP/net)

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But Lue, once a journeyman point guard who steered the Cavs to an NBA championship last season, has grown more accepting of his frontman role.

He’ll again be at center stage this week as Cleveland meets Golden State in the third installment of their title trilogy. If the unassuming, easygoing Lue had his preference, the teams would duke it out for the Larry O’Brien Trophy on a playground court in a stifling hot gymnasium, with only a handful of onlookers present. A student of the game, he’s old school with a fresh perspective.

Of the many juicy subplots between the Cavs and Warriors, one that frequently goes overlooked is Lue, the former assistant who has blossomed in no time into one of the league’s brightest young head coaches and a playoff savant.

He’s 28-6 in two postseasons with Cleveland. His players credit Lue’s soothing, steady influence — on and off the floor — as nearly as vital to their success as a clutch Kyrie Irving 3-pointer.

“It’s just his level of calmness no matter what’s going on,” LeBron James said following practice. “He always talks about, at the end of the day, he’s already won in life, so whatever else happens after this is extra credit. And I feel the same way. That’s why I relate to him so much. Lose here, or you win a game here, it’s like, ‘All right, cool. I’ve already done so much more than anybody ever gave me credit of doing or thought I can do, so there’s no reason to get too high or too low.’

“So it’s the even-keel mentality about our coach and it definitely helps us as players when we’re going out into a war.” Lue has been preparing for the biggest battle of his basketball career this week.

From the moment he returned home from Boston following the Cavs’ win in Game 5 of the conference finals, Lue has immersed himself in the Warriors, a virtual All-Star team featuring two league

AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File

FILE - In this April 5, 2017, file photo, Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue gestures during the fourth quarter of an NBA basketball game against the Boston Celtics, in Boston. Lue would prefer less attention, but it comes with the territory as coach of the defending NBA champions. Lue is back in the NBA Finals, and the Cavaliers acknowledge they probably wouldn’t be in position to win another title if not for Lue’s calming influence.

MVPs (Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry), a dead-eye shooter (Klay Thompson) and a triple-threat performer (Draymond Green).

Lue’s defensive strategy to this point in the playoffs has been to neutralize the opponents’ top player.

The Cavs were able to do that with Indiana’s Paul George, Toronto’s DeMar DeRozan and Boston’s Isaiah Thomas, who aggravated a hip injury in Game 2 and missed the remainder of the series. Cleveland blitzed, double-teamed and did all it could take away the other team’s offensive threat. Lue was asked if it’s more difficult to identify who that is on Golden State. “Hell yeah,” he said, his voice rising. “It’s tough.”

There are few weaknesses in these Warriors, the first team to head into the final round 12-0 and winning by an average of 16.3 points per game. “They have so many weapons,” Lue said, “having four All-Stars and now adding KD to the mix who I’ve always loved as a scorer, just how he scores so easy.

They have a lot of options. It’s going to be tough, but we have to lock into what we have to do defensively, and sometimes you can play great defense and it doesn’t work. Steph is making tough shots, Klay is making

tough shots and KD is making tough shots. But all you can do is play your defense, stick to your principles and just make it as tough as possible.”

The Cavs know Lue won’t panic.

He stayed cool last spring when Cleveland fought back from a 3-1 deficit to win its first title. Lue made subtle tweaks to his rotation, drew up key inbounds plays, then isolated Irving late in Game 7 on Curry. The Cavs All-Star guard made his now famous go-ahead, step-back 3-pointer.

Pressure intensifies in the postseason, when possessions, turnovers and rebounds are magnified. As the drama builds, Lue stays composed, setting the tone for his players.

“Throughout the postseason there’s so many different emotions,” James said. “Going high, going low. And if you’re a coach able to just stay evenkeeled throughout the whole thing, it relaxes the rest of the group.” Don’t be fooled by Lue’s cool. He can get fiery when needed.

“I always get mad when guys make shots in the first quarter, second quarter, pumping their chest and then the game on the line they miss,” Lue said. “So you’re doing all that for no reason. I always like to stay even-keeled and just play the game the right way.”(ap)

Woods apologises for DUI arrest, blames medication

Former world number one golfer Tiger Woods said an unexpected reaction to prescribed medications was to blame for his early-morning DUI arrest near his Jupiter Island home in Florida on Monday. Woods, who underwent surgery last week to relieve lingering back pain, was booked at 7:18 a.m. (1118 GMT) and released several hours later on his own recognizance, Palm Beach County Police said in an online report.

Woods said in a statement released by his spokesman that alcohol was not a factor in his arrest but apologised and added that he took full responsibility. “I want the public to know that alcohol was not involved,” he said. “What happened was an unexpected reaction to prescribed medications. I didn’t realize the mix of medications had affected me so strongly. “I would like to apologize with all my heart to my family, friends and the fans. I expect more from myself, too.”

Woods, who is second on the all-time list with 14 major titles, said he cooperated with police and wanted to thank the Jupiter Police Department and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office for their professionalism.

“I will do everything in my power to ensure this never happens again,” he added. The incident occurred less than a week after Woods expressed optimism about his future following back surgery, saying on his website that he experienced “instant relief” and had not “felt this good in years.”

Woods has previously made headlines away from the golf course. His private life unraveled in late 2009 over allegations about affairs with several women and ultimately led to the end of his marriage.

Those allegations followed a bizarre early morning car accident outside his Florida home that rapidly ballooned into a fully-fledged sex scandal which turned his previously unblemished life and career upside down. The scandal ultimately cost Woods a number of lucrative endorsement deals, while other sponsors shifted away from using him in marketing but did not end their contracts with him.

Woods, whose current sponsors include Nike, Bridgestone, Hero, Kowa, Upper Deck, and Monster Energy was ranked 12th on Forbes’ list of the highest-paid athletes in 2016, with total earnings of $45.3 million, despite missing much of the year recovering from back surgery.

A 79-time winner on the PGA Tour who was world number one for a record 683 weeks, Woods lost form in recent years due to injuries and the mastering of a new swing while his ranking has plummeted to 876 after his long spell on the sidelines. He has competed in only 19 events on the PGA Tour since the end of 2013, recording just one top-10 during that period along with seven missed cuts and three withdrawals.(rtr)

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Tiger Eldrick Woods appears in a booking photo released by Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., May 29, 2017.

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MARAWI - The Philippine military urged Islamist militants occupying a southern city to turn themselves in on Tuesday, the eighth day of a push by security forces using armoured vehicles and firing rockets from helicopters to eliminate the gunmen.

The government says it is close to retaking Marawi from the Islamic State-linked Maute group, which seized parts of the city after a failed attempt by security forces to capture Isnilon Hapilon, the militants’ so-called emir of Southeast Asia. “We call on the remaining terrorists to surrender while there is an opportunity,” a military spokesman, BrigadierGeneral Restituto Padilla, told reporters.

As helicopters circled the lakeside city where smoke billowed out of some buildings, troops cleared rebel positions amid explosions and automatic gunfire, moving house by house and street by street. More than 100 people have been killed, most of them militants, according to the military, and most of the city’s residents have fled.

A Catholic priest held captive by the militants with a dozen other civilians appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to consider their plight and stop the military operation. Father Teresito “Chito” Soganub, vicar general of Marawi City, and the others were abducted in a cathedral last week.

“We are asking your help to please give what your enemies are asking for,” the priest said on a video clip shown on a Telegram channel used by Islamic State. “We still want to live for another day, a month and a few years, please consider us Mr President,” he said. A politician involved in efforts to evacuate residents, Zia Alonto Adiong, said authorities had cleared 85 percent of the city but reclaiming the rest would be a challenge because they were dense urban areas with trapped civilians.

“There’s an intensifying military operation that’s going on,” Adiong told a media briefing. Though most people have left, thousands are stranded, worried they could be intercepted by militants if they tried to flee.

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Martin Thalmann, deputy head of delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), said he tried,

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An evacuee carries plastic containers to fetch water as billowing smoke is seen at the site of fighting between government soldiers and Maute group in Marawi City, southern Philippines May 30, 2017. but failed to convince Islamic State affiliated insurgents and government forces to halt the violence so it can deliver aid.

“It’s so intense, it’s not possible,” Thalmann told reporters, referring to the fighting.

“There’s still a lot of people in there and of course it’s a concern that they suffer under this shelling and we wonder if all the precautions are taken.” Air strikes were aimed at “specific targets of resistance to protect our troops and hasten clearing of the city”, Padilla said, adding that “collateral damage” was being prevented.

Nearly 85,000 displaced people are staying in 38 shelter areas outside Marawi. Leaders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a separatist Muslim guerrilla group that has been in talks with the government, said they had agreed to help distribute aid after they met the president for talks.

Duterte had appealed on the weekend to rebel forces to become “soldiers of the republic” and unite to defeat the hardline Maute and allied Abu Sayyaf groups. The Maute’s ability to fight for so long will add to fears that Islamic State’s ideology is spreading in the southern Philippines and it could become a haven for militants from Southeast

Asia and beyond.

Malaysians and Indonesians were among the rebels killed.

The government believes the Maute carried out their assault before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan to capture the attention of Islamic State and earn recognition as a regional affiliate.

In the video footage, the captured priest was standing on a deserted street with ruins around him and the sound of gunfire in the background. “They simply are not asking for anything, just to withdraw your forces ... and to stop the air strikes, your air attacks, and stop the cannons,” Soganub said.

Marawi Bishop Edwin dela Pena confirmed to Reuters that it was Soganub in the video but declined to comment any further. Soganub, wearing a black shirt and trousers, said the militants had the right to practice their faith and enforce Islamic laws in the city.

Padilla said the military was aware of the video. “This is pure propaganda. The Maute group is using this to stop our clearing operations,” Padilla said. Padilla said he was confident the militants would not harm the priest because they wanted to use him to gain concessions. (rtr)

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The tiger that kill the keeper.

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South Korea’s Defence Ministry said on Tuesday it had conducted a joint drill with a U.S. supersonic B-1B Lancer bomber on Monday.

North Korea’s state media had earlier accused the United States of staging “a nuclear bomb dropping drill”.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talked to Moon by phone on Tuesday, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement, and both agreed that North Korea’s continued

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provocations were unacceptable.

Abe told Moon that dialogue for dialogue’s sake with North Korea would be meaningless, and that China’s role in exerting pressure on the North was important.

The North’s KCNA news agency reported leader Kim Jong Un

LONDON - A keeper was killed by a tiger at Hamerton Zoo Park in England, the BBC reported, and the zoo said there appeared to have been a freak accident.

The zoo, located in the county of Cambridgeshire in eastern England, said it would remained closed while there was a full investigation and it hoped to announce further details as soon as possible.

“At no point during the incident

did any animals escape their enclosures, and at no point was public safety affected in any way,” the zoo said in a statement that made no mention of a tiger. The statement said staff were too distressed to speak to reporters.

“A tiger had entered an enclosure with a keeper. Sadly the female zoo keeper died at the scene,” police said, according to the BBC. (ap)

supervised Monday’s test of a missile equipped with a new precision guidance system and an improved pre-launch automated sequence and a new mobile launch vehicle.

Kim said North Korea would develop more powerful weapons in multiple phases in accordance with

its timetable to defend North Korea against the United States.

“He expressed the conviction that it would make a greater leap forward in this spirit to send a bigger ‘gift package’ to the Yankees” in retaliation for American military provocation, KCNA quoted Kim as saying. (rtr)

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Strong Indonesia earthquake damages buildings, hurts some JAKARTA — A strong, shallow earthquake rocked Indonesia’s central Sulawesi province Monday evening, injuring at least three people and damaging some buildings and houses.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-6.8 quake was centered in a thinly populated area 79 kilometers (49 miles) southeast of the provincial capital, Palu, at a depth of 9.1 kilometers (6 miles).

The National Disaster Management Agency said buildings were damaged in Poso, a city to the southeast of the epicenter, and a number of houses and churches were damaged in nearby villages.

At least three villagers were hospitalized for head wounds, it said. The agency posted photos of damage in Poso on Twitter. One showed a collapsed building and another showed a convenience store with goods strewn on its floor but otherwise intact.

Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency recorded 14 aftershocks of up to magnitude-5.2, also at a shallow depth. Shallow earthquakes tend to cause more damage on the Earth’s surface. It said the land-based quake didn’t have any potential to cause a tsunami.

Indonesia is prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions due to its location along the Pacific “Ring of Fire.” A powerful Indian Ocean quake and tsunami in 2004 killed a total of 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia. (ap)

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People watch a film during a wedding party in Bogor, Indonesia, March 19, 2017.

Indonesian mobile cinema keeps old film format alive in digital age

JAKARTA - Indonesian entrepreneur Kamaluddin loves the gritty look of old 35-millimeter film so much that he spends most of his nights screening vintage movies at weddings and parties around Jakarta, the capital. Filmmakers and cinemas have almost completely phased out the 35-mm. format in the past decade as they switch to cheaper, better quality digital formats.

But for Kamaluddin, running a ‘mobile cinema’ means bringing nostalgia and entertainment to the city’s poorer residents. “It’s more artistic and the sound is much better than digital,” he said. “If you watch three movies in a row, you won’t feel tired, just relaxed.”

He transports a 35-mm projector and sound system, films, a screen and large tent in his truck. At the venue, usually an open field or outside the home of a customer holding a party or celebration, people gather to watch as Kamaluddin sets up his equipment. The movies usually run into the early hours of the morning, with

street vendors selling food, clothes and toys often setting up nearby, to sell their wares to the cinema-goers.

Viewers get a chance to reacquaint themselves with films from Hollywood’s golden era and movies from India’s Bollywood, long out of circulation.

Bollywood movies are hugely popular in Indonesia, especially on its islands of Bali and Java, where music and dance are heavily influenced by Indian tradition and performing arts. “This theatre is free of charge and we can watch old movies which we hardly find out there,” said one viewer, Nurul Fitriyah, as she watched an old film on a huge fabric screen.

But earnings have fallen steadily in the mobile cinema business as the younger middle class flocks to airconditioned movie theatres that offer reclining chairs, or even beds, alongside fast food and soft drinks.

“In 1997, in one night I could set up four screens in four different locations,” said Kamaluddin, who estimates a night’s work could bring in up to $300 in the old days. “Now, if I’m lucky, I can set up projectors twice a month and earn around $100 per night.” (rtr)

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CARACAS- The president of Venezuela’s oppositionrun Congress on Monday accused Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs of “aiding and abetting the country’s dictatorial regime” following a report that it had bought $2.8 billion in bonds from the cash-strapped country. The Wall Street Journal on Sunday said Goldman paid 31 cents on the dollar for bonds issued by state oil company PDVSA that mature in 2022, or around $865 million, citing five people familiar with the transaction.

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The road repair is performed in mutual assistance by a number of residents from morning to evening.

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Peninjoan residents pave damaged road independently

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A demonstrator holds a shield that reads “Aim here, damn” during riots at a march to state Ombudsman’s office in Caracas, Venezuela May 29, 2017.

Spain inflation in line with ECB target for 1st time since December

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A restaurant worker moves the base of an umbrella as he gets the outdoor terrace ready for customers in central Madrid, Spain, May 4, 2017.

MADRID - Spanish consumer prices rose this month at their slowest rate since December, preliminary data published on Tuesday showed, placing inflation in line with the European Central Bank’s target for the first time in five months.

Inflation, harmonised to compare with other European Union member states, was 2.0 percent year-on-year in May, the National Statistics Institute (INE) said, equal to a Reuters forecast and down from a previous reading of

2.6 percent. The ECB’s inflation target is near to, or slightly below, 2 percent.

Spanish data comes ahead of the closely monitored German figure, due at 1200 GMT, which is expected to fall below the central bank’s target at 1.6 percent. Inflation for the euro zone as a whole is due on Wednesday and is also expected to have eased to 1.5 percent in May from 1.9 percent a month earlier.

Higher euro zone consumer price rises have prompted pressure on the ECB to reduce its multi-

billion-euro asset purchase plan, though policymakers said last week that inflation remains weak and the programme must continue as planned. INE data also showed Spain’s national consumer price index rose by 1.9 percent in May on an annual basis, down from 2.6 percent in April.

The fall from the previous month, to the lowest level since December, was due to a drop in fuel prices compared to rises last year and cheaper package holidays, INE said.(rtr)

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Venezuela opposition accuses Goldman Sachs of financing dictatorship

That comes as two months of opposition protests against President Nicolas Maduro have killed almost 60 people and the collapse of the country’s socialist economy has left millions of people struggling to eat.

“Goldman Sachs’ financial lifeline to the regime will serve to strengthen the brutal repression unleashed against the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans peacefully protesting for political change in the country,” wrote Julio Borges in a letter to Goldman Sachs President Lloyd Blankfein.

“Given the unconstitutional nature of Nicolas Maduro’s administration, its unwillingness to hold democratic elections and its systematic violation of human rights, I am dismayed that Goldman Sachs decided to enter this transaction.”

The letter adds that Congress will open an investigation into the transaction and that he will recommend “to any future democratic government of Venezuela not to recognize or pay these bonds.” A Goldman Sachs spokesman said the bank declined to comment.

Venezuela’s Information Ministry, which fields queries on behalf of the Finance Ministry, did not respond to requests for comment.

The bonds were not sold directly by Venezuela’s central bank but rather through an intermediary, three finance industry sources, including one from Goldman, told Reuters on Monday. “The intermediaries are in Europe,” said the source at Goldman.

With Venezuela’s inefficient state-led economic model struggling under lower oil prices, Maduro’s unpopular government has become ever more dependent on financial deals or asset sales to bring in coveted foreign exchange. Venezuela’s international reserves rose by $749 million on Thursday and Friday, reaching around $10.86 billion. That is still down around 50 percent in the last three years.(rtr)

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BANGLI - Residents of Peninjoan village, Tembuku, are forced to pave the damaged road at Penarukan hamlet independently. It is carried out because the damage to the roads occurred over the past few months do not get any repair from the government. As a result, it often claims casualties.

Repairs of the damaged road have been started by residents since last Sunday (May 29). Before being paved, residents first patched the gaping hole on the road by using cement. The road repair is performed in mutual assistance by a number of residents from morning to evening.

Wayan Mudiasa, one of the villagers who worked together to repair the road damage, revealed the road damage at Penarukan hamlet has been happening since more than three months. The condition with potholes and ascending path often causes passing motorists to fall down to get injury. “A lot of people have been victimized here.

They are mostly school students.

Recently there was a pregnant woman falling down when passing here,” he said when met last Monday.

In order to get a repair from the government, local residents

actually already delivered the condition of road damage along approximately 300 meters several months ago through the village office including legislators. Unfortunately, until now it never gets a response.

To prevent residents from becoming the victims in the road, they are finally forced to repair it independently. Materials in the form of cement, sand, asphalt and others are obtained by the community by buying with the fund collected from the community.

“The donors are the people around here who are concerned about the road damage. In addition to money, there are also donations in the form of food and beverage for residents doing the mutual assistance,” he said.

Mudiasa and other residents claimed to be surprised by the slow response of the government to residents’ complaint related to the road

damage. Residents also questioned why it is the only road section that has not been touched by the repair until now. Apart from being disappointed by the government, people doing the mutual assistance last Monday also complained about their representatives considered to be not serious in struggling for people’s aspirations. “There are three legislators from Peninjoan.

But no one of them ever comes down. Strangely, they mutually throw the responsibility quibbling it does not belong to their territory,” said Mudiasa.

When confirmed separately, the Bina Marga Division Head of the Bangli Public Works Agency, Putu Wida Gunawan, said that the damaged road at Peninjoan-Mapagan road section will be repaired this year by using regular maintenance budget. He revealed the road section was not included in the repair with hot mixed asphalt in 2015 because it was constrained by the existence of bridge to the road that cannot be passed through by heavy equipment. “However, we will include in the budget of road repair in 2018,” he added. (kmb40)

GIANYAR - The executive and legislative of Gianyar district that are indifferent to the proliferation of modern stores, such as the construction of supermarket alleged to be illegal on Jalan Raya Batubulan, Batubulan village, Sukawati, got bitter criticism from Bali legislator, Nyoman Parta. This Chairman of Commission IV of the Bali House of Representatives also asked the government of Gianyar not to keep silent in responding to this condition, and immediately curb the illegal modern store and supermarket in Gianyar district.

“I am often sought after by people who complain about and reject the modern chain stores,” said Nyoman Parta, on Monday (May 29).

He said this complaint has actually been long delivered to the government of Gianyar, but until now there is no response. There was even a plan to issue a modern store moratorium, as loudly shouted by the legislators of Gianyar district. But in reality until now there is even an omission.

“I have submitted to Regent Bharata and Deputy Mahayastra, but there is no assertiveness. The moratorium is only in discourse, but in reality it is getting more and more (modern shops and supermarkets— Ed),” said this legislator of PDI-P Party.Nyoman Parta reminded that small merchants using traditional system should be protected because they are also a place of small culinary makers to entrust their merchandise. “There are at least 5 to 7 small stalls at each hamlet. I have surveyed at in each small stalls, there are 7 to 12 other residents relying on their life. They include the makers of chips, wrapped rice, herbal drink, soy milk, incense and other Balinese snacks,” he said.

Now, modern stores spreading to every nook and cranny of village are very threatening the existence of small stalls at each hamlet.

Nyoman Parta also asked the government of Gianyar to immediately take action in addressing this condition. “Protecting small stalls is protecting the life of many people. Do not confront small stores with a chain modern stores, do not confront traditional markets with supermarkets,” he said.

Besides, he confirmed that the control against illegal modern stores and supermarkets should be done immediately. Then, do no longer issue any permits because the number of modern stores and supermarkets has exceeded the quota. “Stop the permit issuance, and crack down on the illegal ones,” he said.

Meanwhile, Chief of Gianyar Municipal Police, Cokorda Gede Agusnawa, when asked for his confirmation admitted to immediately check to the supermarket construction project alleged to be illegal on Jalan Raya Batubulan, Batubulan village, Sukawati. “Immediately, I will check it, at least tomorrow (Tuesday—Ed),” he affirmed. (kmb35)

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Anticipating rabies, villages asked to make bylaws

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh - A cyclone battered refugee camps in Bangladesh on Tuesday where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar have taken refuge from violence at home, as authorities moved at least 350,000 Bangladeshis out of harm’s way. Cyclone Mora struck the island of Saint Martin and Teknaf in the coastal Bangladeshi district of Cox’s Bazar, where officials said some 200,000 people were evacuated to shelters. In Chittagong district, about 150,000 people were evacuated.

SINGARAJA - Implementation of mass dog vaccination in Buleleng district as one of the anticipations against rabies has lasted three weeks.

During that period, approximately 17,000 dogs could have been vaccinated. This annual program continues to be intensified in order to be able to reach the target having been determined.

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This annual program continues to be intensified in order to be able to reach the target having been determined.

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The border area is also home to refugee camps for Rohingyas who have fled their homeland in northwest Myanmar. Shamsul Alam, a Rohingya community leader, told Reuters that damage in the camps was severe with almost all the 10,000 thatched huts in the Balukhali and Kutupalong camps destroyed.

“Most of the temporary houses in the camps have been flattened,” Alam said. Omar Farukh, a community leader in Kutupalong camp, said conditions were dire: “Now we’re in the open air.”

Cox’s Bazar district chief Mohammad Ali Hussin said at least 15,000 houses in the district had been destroyed and he had unconfirmed reports of three people killed and dozens injured, including several Rohingya refugees. Officials in Chittagong reported winds gusting up to 135 kph (85 mph), and said low-lying coastal areas were flooded by a storm surge with waves 2 metres (7 feet) high.

Flights in the area were cancelled. Last October, following a Myanmar army operation launched in response to insurgent attacks, an estimated 74,000 Rohingyas fled to Bangladesh where they joined more than 200,000 who have taken refuge there over the years.

The Bangladeshi government has estimated that in all, there are about 350,000 Rohingyas in Bangladesh. In predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, where Rohingyas are officially denied citizenship and classified as illegal immigrants, about 120,000 of them have been internally displaced by communal violence over recent years and are living in camps.

‘WE’RE WORRIED’ A U.N. official working with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh said the damage in the camps could not be assessed while the storm was raging. “Heavily pregnant women

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The entrance gates into Bali, especially after passing the identity checkpoint II of Gilimanuk or when entering the gates, signboard looks chaotic.

signboard of Jembrana government looked devastated and chaotic. A number of officers at Gilimanuk said that the signboard has been damaged almost since a year ago but there is no improvement. “If looking upward the signboard has indeed been damaged, it has been damaged since long time ago and the scenery is also ugly and chaotic,” said some motorcycle taxi drivers.

Formerly, the signboard contained a large advertisement owned by the government of Jembrana district. “I forget the

image. Obviously, it belongs to the district government,” he explained.

In the meantime, Spokesperson of the government of Jembrana district, Komang Suparta, when asked for his confirmation said that it is handled by integrated licensing office. His agency will immediately coordinate it.

On the other hand, the Head of the Jembrana Investment and Integrated Service Agency, Nengah Wartini, when asked for her confirmation via phone could not be contacted. (kmb)

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Bangladeshis push a cartload of belongings and walk homewards after spending a night at a shelter in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Tuesday, May 30, 2017. A tropical storm lashed southern Bangladesh on Tuesday, destroying hundreds of poorly built homes in some remote islands in the Bay of Bengal, officials said. No casualties were immediately reported. have been evacuated but most people in areas like Balukhali and Kutupalong makeshift settlements have stayed,” said the official, who declined to be identified. “The winds are strong and people there live in flimsy structures, so we’re worried.”

In Myanmar, about 300 houses were damaged in Rakhine State but the extent was unclear, the government said. But Bangladeshi weather officials said the cyclone was not as bad as they had feared.

“The severity was less than the ap-

prehension,” Shamsuddin Ahmed, a weather official based in Chittagong said. The cyclone was expected to weaken in Bangladesh by late morning as it moved inland towards India where authorities have warned of heavy rain in the northeastern states of Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh.

The cyclone formed after monsoon rains triggered floods and landslides in Sri Lanka, off India’s southern tip, killing at least 180 people in recent days, authorities

said, adding 99 people were missing and 112 had been injured.

In the eastern Indian state of Bihar, 24 people have been killed in recent days, either by lightning or in collapsed dwellings. While the rains bring death and destruction every year, they also underpin life across the region.

Monsoon rains arrived at on India’s southern coast on Tuesday, a weather office source said, making it the earliest since 2011 and setting India up for higher farm output and robust economic growth.(rtr)

Russia’s Putin to meet powerful Saudi prince in Moscow

Govt signboard damaged NEGARA - Gilimanuk Bay tourist area has indeed been arranged lately with the construction of the park and the Shiva Statue.

Unfortunately, the entrance gates into Bali, especially after passing the identity checkpoint II of Gilimanuk or when entering the gates, signboard looks chaotic. Since the Gilimanuk ID card checkpoint was relocated to Gilimanuk terminal, the former checkpoint area also looks dirty because it is rarely cleaned up.

As seen on Monday (May 29), the entrance gates used to display

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A total of 17,783 dogs vaccinated in 3 weeks

Head of the Buleleng Agriculture Agency, I Nyoman Swatantra, explained that starting May 8 the district officers, village cadres and A-team have continued to be deployed. Within three weeks, the joint officers could have vaccinated a total of 17,783 dogs, 69 cats and 13 monkeys.

“These data are per today (Monday—Ed). In addition to dogs, there are also cats and monkeys,” he explained on Tuesday (May 29).

The program that will run until July 31 is targeting to reach at least 70 percent or 64,000 dogs out of a total population of 91,000 heads. During the implementation, the officers are still faced with classical obstacles, namely some dogs are still let go wild. “Geographical conditions also become obstacle in this program, but we will continue to intensify the program. Dissemination to residents remains to run,” he said.

As anticipation against rabies, the vaccination is not only performed in the period of three months, but also after that. “After these three months, we will keep doing the combing,” explained Swatantra.

In addition to through vaccination, continued Swatantra, the prevention against rabies can also be done through formation of awig-awig or customary bylaw about dog maintenance. This has been applied by nine villages. Some of them are Pakisan, Munduk and Selat village. “Customary bylaw is quite effective in anticipating rabies cases. So, we hope other villages will follow the measure,” he said.

All this time, the preparation of customary bylaw remains to contain uncertain sanctions. There are still pros and cons because it is too heavy. “Indeed, we have made a reference to it, but it still requires the approval from headman and customary village chief. We continue to build this,” he concluded. (kmb45)

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Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman waves as he meets with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia April 11, 2017.

DUBAI/MOSCOW - Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on issues of mutual interest, Saudi state news agency SPA reported on Tuesday.

Both Putin and bin Salman have been instrumental behind a successful global deal which saw oil production curtailed by 1.8 million barrels per day as part of efforts to

prop up prices and reduce bloated inventories.

Last time they met in China in September on the sideline of the G20 summit. Al Arabiya TV said they will discuss the Syrian conflict, while four cooperation agreements are expected to be inked between Saudi Arabia and Russia.

Earlier on Tuesday, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak met his Saudi counterpart Khalid al-Falih and discussed situation on

global oil markets.

The meetings take place after last week the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and other large global oil producers led by Russia agreed to extend oil output cuts by another 9 months.

The markets were disappointed that the producers have to undertook more drastic measures to bring back the balance between oil supply and demand.(rtr)

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Britain’s real-life “Iron Man” has high hopes for jet suit

SOMERSET, England, May 26 (Reuters) The British inventor of an “Iron Man”-style jet suit has lofty hopes that his project, which started out as fun experiment, could become a practical tool for industries ranging from entertainment to the military.

Richard Browning, a 38-year-old former commodities trader with little experience of engineering, developed his jet suit with the help of friends over the last 18 months. It is powered by six gas turbine engines which combined generate 800 horse-power.

“We didn’t set out to build an “Iron Man” suit – it’s just accidental,” Browning said, in reference to the highly successful trilogy of super hero films starring Robert Downey Jr. The suit’s engines are mounted on the pilot’s lower back and on each arm. It powers up using a hand-held throttle. Browning said the suit is capable of carrying a person thousands of feet in the air, and in theory could attain a speed of around 280 miles an hour (450 kph).

For safety reasons, however, Browning hovers just a few feet off the ground.

Browning, who first developed the suit in his garage, describes it as a cross between a jet ski and a Formula One car. He believes it can be adapted to be used in the military, search and rescue and theme parks - or in fact anyone who has the funds to buy one.

Browning showed off his piloting skills at a flight test on Thursday, breaking his record for speed by travelling over 30mph, covering a distance of several hundred meters.

Browning said he has received investment from a venture capitalist, and has also secured interest from entertainment giants and the British and U.S. militaries.

If man hours were taken into account, he said the suit would have cost “millions” to develop, and that the hardware alone cost a six-figure sum.

However, he said flight costs are low as around 12 litres of standard diesel is used.

Browning is not the only person to have pursued dreams of jet-powered glory. In Dubai, firefighters have showcased jet boots that allow the wearer to rise high into the air using water pressure, and French inventor Franky Zapata has created a jet-powered hover-board.

The next step in Browning’s project is the Genesis suit which he is developing with the aid of experts and investors, but challenges still remain. Specifically how to ascend safely from the ground to a height that a parachute could be deployed.

“It’s a real challenge if you have an engine failure at 50-60 feet. You’re going to really do yourself a mischief,” Browning said, adding “we’re working on a whole bunch of technology to address that, and until we do, we keep pretty low.” (rtr)

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A 20-foot wide hole over a decommissioned plutonium-handling rail tunnel is shown at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Hanford Site, Washington, U.S., May 9, 2017.

Storage of nuclear waste poses threat to U.S., scientists warn

WASHINGTON - The reluctance of U.S. federal regulators to require operators of nuclear reactors to spend $5 billion to enhance the security of spent fuel rods stored underground threatens the country with a potential catastrophe, scientists warned on Friday.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission greatly underestimated the risk and potential contamination of a nuclear waste fire triggered by a quake or a planned attack, experts writing in the journal “Science” said.

In 2014, the NRC found the chance of a disaster caused by leaving radioactive waste in storage pools was too remote to warrant the cost of moving it to safer dry casks.

An earthquake that could trigger a radiation leak was likely less than once every 10 million years, hardly justifying the cost of about $50 million per reactor to transfer spent fuel, the NRC said in that report.

An accident at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011 was triggered by a tsunami after an earthquake.

“We think the NRC gamed their analysis essentially to get the answer they want,” said Edwin Lyman, a senior scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists and one of the authors of the article in “Science,” a magazine published by the American Association for the

Advancement of Science.

Michael Schoeppner and Frank von Hippel of Princeton University were co-authors.

On average, such a disaster could force 8 million people to evacuate and cause $2 trillion in damage in the United States, the world’s largest producer of nuclear energy, according to the report.

The commission said in a statement on Friday it stood by a staff finding last year that “the security of U.S. nuclear power plants remains extremely robust.”

Rod McCullum, senior director at the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group, said in an email that there was ample evidence that used fuel at 90 U.S. storage sites was properly managed.

The collapse of a decommissioned tunnel at a plutoniumhandling facility in Hanford, Washington, this month was a reminder of the potential risk of storing radioactive material. There was no spent fuel in the tunnel at the time and no indication anyone was exposed to radiation.

When removed from reactors, spent fuel rods are cooled under 23 feet (7 meters) of water. To reduce costs, rods are packed into vaults instead of dry storage casks, scientists wrote. If the water was drained away due to an attack or accident, the rods would burn and spew radioactive fallout. (rtr)

MANGUPURA - Various modi operandi are applied by gang of thieves disguising as motorcycle taxi drivers to steal money of foreigners at ATMs. This was experienced by Mikiko Kyo, 39, from Japan when withdrawing money in the Mandiri ATM at Circle K (CK) Legian, Kuta, on Wednesday (May 24). Her money was secretly taken by the gang consisting of I Made Suardana alias Beker, 34, I Gede Ardana, 33, I Gede Sukarmaya alias Maya, 36, and I Kadek Depin, 26.

“The thieves are specialists targeting foreigners. They share duties where one will distract victim, one resumes transactions at ATMs and another carries the stolen money,” said Chief of Kuta Police, Wayan Sumara, accompanied by mobile detective aide unit, Budi Artama, on Monday (May 29).

According to police chief, it originated from the information of village-commissioned police officer at Legian saying that at Circle K of Si Do’i intersection there were Japanese tourists whose money was stolen by visitors while withdrawing money from the ATM machine of Bank Mandiri. To follow up on the information, the operation team led by I Putu Budi Artama, mobile detective aide unit directly came to the scene. At the scene, there was still the victim accompanied by her companions.

Based on the results of interrogation against the victim, the officers obtained the characteristics of the perpetrators. From the witnesses around the Circle K were obtained the nickname of one of the perpetrators namely Beker.

“From the witness’s information, the perpetrators could be arrested. They are known in Kuta because they also have side job as motorcycle taxi drivers,” he said.

As in the results of interrogation,

the perpetrators admitted to have taken the victim’s money while withdrawing it from ATM machine of Bank Mandiri. Each perpetrator has their respective role, and when getting any results they will be divided equally.

This gang was standby at the ATM. When there are tourists in confusion to look for ATM, they will be directed to the scene by the suspect Depin. To avoid suspicion of tourists, Depin will immediately go out. “In the CK, there are many ATM machines where in each ATM there have been other perpetrators,” said Sumara.

When the victim was in front of the ATM machine, the suspect Beker approached the victim and helped press the ATM button to select the amount of transaction of IDR 2 million. When the money came out, the victim immediately put it into his bag. At that time, Beker of Karangasem origin quickly pressed the transaction button of IDR 2 million. “One of the perpetrators admitted to have diverted victim’s attention by taking him to chat,” he said.

When the money came out, Beker immediately took the money and handed over to Ardana who was right behind him. “When moving from the scene, the victim’s hand phone rang. In fact, it is mobile banking information that there is a withdrawal transaction worth IDR 2 million,” he said.

The victim immediately complained to Beker and asked the money to be returned. However, Beker claimed not to bring any money. “The money has been brought away by Ardana. This is their modus operandi to eliminate traces. We are confident they often commit this crime but the victims have not reported the incident.

Therefore, we appeal to the victims to report,” he said. (kmb36)

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A little water exposing to the soil, the conditions will become unstable and trigger landslide.

Rainfall erratic

People still asked to keep alert against disasters

BANGLI - Heavy rains since recent days have flushed Bangli and surrounding areas.

This erratic rainfall still potentially triggers landslide disaster. With this condition, the regional disaster mitigation agency (BPBD) asked residents to stay alert against natural disasters that may occur any time.

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Chief of Kuta Police, Wayan Sumara, shown the stolen money with the gang of thieves behind him.

Section Head of Disaster Mitigation and Logistics of BPBD Bangli, I Ketut Agus Sutapa, said on Monday (May 29) that in accordance with the forecast of national weather service (BMKG) Denpasar dry season has actually started this May until next October. However, this rain may have something to do with auspicious day considering there are many activities such as cremation and wedding ceremony this month.

“Scientifically, the current season belongs to dry season. Probably, this is also influenced by auspicious day as we know in Balinese calendar. Scientifically, it is just a forecast. But we do not know the desire of

God,” said Agus Sutapa.

Agus Sutapa said that the rain flushing Bangli area a few days ago caused landslide at some points, but only happened in the southern region, while in the northern region it did not rain at tall. “It only rained in the areas like Bangli and Susut subdistrict. In the northern region such as Kintamani, it did not rain at all.

This means that the rain did not occur evenly across all subdistricts,” he said.

He explained that his agency still instructs to all citizens of Bangli to remain alert against natural disasters considering that geographical area of land conditions in Bangli remains unstable. So, a little water exposing to the soil, the conditions will become unstable and trigger landslide. Despite the absence of rain, residents living near forest areas are also expected to alert against fire incident.

“We still hope the community to remain alert even though in wet and dry season. We really do not know when and where the disaster will happen,” advised Agus Sutapa. (kmb41)

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Building children creativity at Cardboard House

CARDBOARD House Community is creativity space founded by I Wayan Esa Dananjaya in 2014. It is meant to develop the potential of the arts, especially the arts owned by children of elementary and junior high school age. The community based at Tangguntiti hamlet, Tonja, Denpasar, utilizes used goods such as cardboard, newspaper, cans, plastic bottles and shard as the medium for their creativity.

With the touch of art, the unused materials can be transformed into artistic works of art.

“The initial idea of establishing this Cardboard House Community is underpinned by my concerns about the piles of waste thrown away. Actually, not a few of the garbage is actually used goods that can still be reused. For example, the raw materials can be used to make various types of handicrafts,” said Esa Dananjaya to Bali Post, not long ago.

According to this alumnus of the Fine Arts Study Program at the Faculty of Literature and Arts Education of IKIP PGRI Bali, the concern was motivated by his spirit to gather a number of students at the SDN 4 Tonja elementary school who have interest to pursue the arts. Initially, there were only six children wishing to join. After that, they were given intensive technical guidance related to painting by using cardboard sheets, starting from the process of drawing the shape, composing, coloring techniques to collage techniques.

“As the first measure, I just indeed introduce them to painting techniques on cardboard media or simple twodimensional field. They are also taught about the use of crayon, acrylic paint to oil paint. After they master the two dimensional painting, they are introduced to painting on the surface of bottles and other objects,”

he explained.

Apparently, he got positive response from children around his residence to the activities in the Cardboard House Community. More and more children join the community and have reached about 26 children who regularly attend the painting class. After mastering the skills of painting, they are taught to make various types of craft made from cardboard and used newspapers such as bags, wallets, hats and other craft objects.

“This community is also often invited to attend some events related to children activities, like Denpasar Rare (Kid) Festival initiated by Penggak Men Mersi in cooperation with the Denpasar municipality.

In the Denpasar Festival 2016, the Cardboard House Community also participated to enliven this annual event by creating installation work made from used mineral water bottles. Our characteristic is indeed to utilize used goods as a medium to express our creativity,” said Esa Dananjaya. He also added that a number of his students routinely participate in painting contest and get a pretty prideful achievement.

Through his Cardboard House Community, Esa Dananjaya wanted to mobilize the awareness of children from an early age to be more concerned and responsible for their environment. One of the classical problems today is the unmanaged solid waste. By utilizing some of the waste as a medium of creativity, it will surely contribute to alleviate the burden of environment. In addition, he also wanted to provide a space for children to use their free time after school activities wisely. By that way, their potential to engage in negative activities can be minimized as low as possible.

“Hopefully, the Cardboard House Community can become a positive and fun space forever for children in making them into creative and responsible for their environment,” he said. (ian)

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The community based at Tangguntiti hamlet, Tonja, Denpasar, utilizes used goods such as cardboard, newspaper, cans, plastic bottles and shard as the medium for their creativity.

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The tradition of catastrophe repellent owned by Munggu village, Mengwi, Badung, did not comply with the theme set by the committee namely the government of Bali province.

Unfit for theme, mekotek tradition fails to appear in BAF

MANGUPURA - Mekotek tradition originally scheduled to appear in the 39th Bali Arts Festival (BAF) finally vanished. The tradition of catastrophe repellent owned

by Munggu village, Mengwi, Badung, did not comply with the theme set by the committee namely the government of Bali province.

Head of the Badung Culture Office, Ida Bagus Anom Bhasma, justified the matter. Appearance of this mekotek tradition will be replaced with fragmentary show entitled Tulak Tunggul. The dance describing revetment of water at Taman Ayun Temple is often displayed every piodalan or feast day at the Taman Ayun, Mengwi.

This sacred art is in accordance with the theme of BAF 2017, namely Ulun Danu that means Preserving Water as Source of Life. “Mekotekan is cancelled (to appear—Ed), so as not to deviate.

We replace it with Tulak Punggul fragmentary show telling about the dam at Taman Ayun Temple,” said I.B. Anom Bhasma on Monday (May 29).

Tulak Punggul Dance, said I.B .Anom Bhasma, will be featured in the parade along with Surfing

Dance which having been scheduled to appear at the opening of BAF on the upcoming June 10.

“This (Tulak Punggul Dance—Ed) will not appear in the BAF activities, but at the opening parade. For the parade, we will involve 800 artists,” he said.

According to him, Badung district follows all the categories set by the committee. Moreover, his agency will involve 9,000 dancers and gamelan players mostly consisting of young artists. “We involve many young people in this BAF because they will be the next generation that will pass on the art and culture in Badung,” he said.

Related to the budget, he mentioned that it reaches IDR 3 billion.

The organizing committee will also provide funding support worth IDR 250 million. “Both funding will be combined. After that, it is divided, but we give priority to mass art troupes. They are 24 art troupes of typical Badung,” he said.

As is known, mekotekan is an art having been recognized as an intangible cultural heritage. In the future, the mekotekan tradition will be registered to the UNESCO. (kmb27)

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‘Wonder Woman’ film and star live up to the name

“Wonder Woman “ has been the subject of so much superfluous fuss, it’d be easy to forget that behind all of the hand-wringing and both symbolic and real pressure to succeed there’s actually a movie meant to entertain. Yet, like the heroine at its center, “Wonder Woman” the movie rises with powerful grace above the noise. It’s not perfect, but it’s often good, sometimes great and exceptionally re-watchable.

Director Patty Jenkins’ film is so threaded with sincerity and goodness it’s a wonder how it got past the pugnacious minds responsible for what’s come before. “Wonder Woman” evokes not only the spirit of Richard Donner’s “Superman,” but also Joe Johnston’s “Captain America: The First Avenger,” while still being its own thing. Just look to the image of Gal Gadot confidently striding out alone onto an unwinnable battlefield with only a shield, a sword and a mission — and prevailing. It’s enough to give you goosebumps.

“Wonder Woman” is structured as a coming-of-age story about how Diana, the Amazonian princess, becomes Wonder Woman. It’s framed, clumsily, as an over two hour flashback provoked by a note from Bruce Wayne. Of all the stupid interconnected universe things!

Thankfully, Jenkins transitions quickly into the actual story about a naive idealist who comes to accept the complexities of mankind. From a tender age, Diana, living on the achingly idyllic island of Themyscira, dreams of being a warrior. Her mother, Queen Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen) disapproves, although she inexplicably withholds the real reason.

It’s no wonder Diana aspires to fight. She’s been told that their sole purpose is to keep the peace and destroy Ares, the god of war.

Also, and not insignificantly, the warriors led by General Antiope (Robin Wright), are some of the fiercest babes ever to grace the screen. They fly around with swords and shields, bedecked in armored mini dresses and wedged gladiator sandals that allow them to leap 50 feet in the air.

Young Diana trains in secret, and then with

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Wednesday, May 31, 2017 A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor is launched during a successful intercept test, in this undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, Missile Defense Agency.

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This image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows Gal Gadot in a scene from “Wonder Woman,” in theaters on June 2. reluctant permission, until an American spy, Steve Trevor (Chris Pine), crash lands on the island and tells the Amazons about the “war to end all wars.” Diana concludes World War I must be Ares’ doing and decides, impetuously and like so many arrogant superheroes before her, that she’s ready for battle.

In London and at the battlefront, Diana gets a crash course in humanity, from the ills (sexism, alcoholism, colonialism, racism, apathy) to the good (babies, snow, ice cream). It’s all very simplistic, but Gadot’s serious and unapologetic curiosity sells the dubious premise that a woman so versed in so many things from Socrates to the “pleasures of the flesh” could be this unaware of human flaws. Perhaps they only teach the good stuff

in Themyscira. But that’s what Trevor is there for — to help this otherworldly crusader acclimate.

Pine plays Trevor as a spiritual cousin to Indiana Jones (he even gets to goof around with an accent that immediately evokes the “tapestries” bit from “The Last Crusade”).

He’s on his own mission, to stop the comically evil Germans General Ludendorff (Danny Huston) and Doctor Poison (Elena Anaya) from prolonging the war, but it’s never a question that this is Diana’s show.

Jenkins keeps the look and feel of the film classical, as it breezes through a strong second act. But, being a DC film, “Wonder Woman” can’t help but devolve into a blurry, concrete-busting third act that feels

dispiritingly like all the rest, not to mention a baffling reveal that negates most of Diana’s growth. It’s not enough to negate the good, though, and much of that is Gadot’s doing.

She is the perfect Wonder Woman — a true blue hero who’s as believable in her bafflement of women’s fashions and social mores as she is dead-lifting a tank and swatting away machine gun fire with only her arm cuff. I never cared about Wonder Woman before. Now I do.

“Wonder Woman,” a Warner Bros. release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for “sequences of violence and action, and some suggestive content.” Running time: 141 minutes. Three stars out of four.(ap)

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“Shocked” S.Korea leader Moon orders probe into U.S. THAAD additions

SEOUL - South Korean President Moon Jae-in has ordered a probe after the Defence Ministry failed to inform him that four more launchers for the controversial U.S. THAAD anti-missile system had been brought into the country, his spokesman said on Tuesday.

The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system battery was initially deployed in March in the southeastern region of Seongju with just two of its maximum load of six launchers to counter a growing North Korean missile threat.

During his successful campaign for the May 9 presidential election, Moon called for a parliamentary review of the system, whose deployment has also infuriated China, North Korea’s lone major ally.

“President Moon said it was very shocking” to hear the four additional launchers had been installed without being reported to the new government or to the

public, presidential spokesman Yoon Young-chan told a media briefing.

Moon had campaigned on a more moderate approach to Pyongyang, calling for engagement even as the reclusive state pursues nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions and threats of more sanctions.

The U.S. military in South Korea did not have immediate comment on Moon’s comments. The South Korean military also did not immediately comment.

CHINA TENSIONS EASING Moon’s order of a probe into

the THAAD launchers came amid signs of easing tensions between major trading partners South Korea and China.

South Korea’s Jeju Air said on Tuesday China has approved a plan to double its flights to the Chinese city of Weihai from June 2.

China has been incensed over the THAAD deployment, fearing it could give the U.S. military the capability of seeing into its own missile systems, and could open the door to a wider deployment of the system, possibly in Japan and elsewhere, military analysts say.

China has denied it had discriminated against South Korean companies, which have faced product boycotts and bans on Chinese tourists visiting South Korea.

A Korean-Chinese joint drama “My Goddess, My Mom” starring South Korean actress Lee Da-hae, whose broadcast had been indefinitely delayed in China, was told

by its Chinese partner recently that it will soon be aired, according to JS Pictures, Lee’s agent.

An official at South Korean tour agency Mode Tour told Reuters it hoped China may lift a ban on selling trips to South Korea, which had been in place since March 15, as early as the second week of June.

Although there have been no official orders from the Chinese government to lift the ban, a few Chinese travel agencies have sent inquiries about package tours, he said.

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However, Lotte Group has yet to reopen any of the 74 retail stores in China it was forced to close in March after the group allowed South Korea to install the THAAD system on land it owned.

BOMBER DRILL The United States, which has 28,500 troops stationed in South Korea, has a mutual defence treaty with Seoul dating back to the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in a truce that has left the peninsula in a technical state of war.

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