Friday, May 30, 2014 16 Pages Number 108 6 th Year e-mail: [email protected]online: http://www.internationalbalipost.com. http://epaper.internationalbalipost.com. Price: Rp 3.000,- I N T E R N A T I O N A L DPS 23 - 32 WEATHER FORECAST PAGE 6 PAGE 8 Kerry to Snowden: ‘Man up’ and come home Nigeria comes back twice to draw 2-2 with Scotland PAGE 13 Obama’s speech gets mixed response overseas To avoid increase of Rabies cases 58 Prevention Centers set up in Bali Antara DENPASAR - The Bali provincial administration has set up at least 58 rabies prevention centers in several districts and cities in Bali to avoid the increase of rabies cases on the island. “We have prepared 58 rabies unit centers for the people to handle the dog bite in Bali,” the head of the Environment Restruc- ture and Disease Control Board, dr Gede Wira Sunetra, said. The 58 rabies centers are located across Bali including 14 units in Gianyar, 10 units in Jembrana, seven units in Badung and Buleleng each, six units in Tabanan, four units in Klung- kung and Karangasem each and three units in Bangli. “Meanwhile, we only prepare three rabies centers in Denpasar area,” Wira said. The rabies prevention centers were set up in response to the rising dog bite cases in Bali which reached 3,782 from 2013 to April 2014, he said. “The average daily dog bite cases are recorded at 126 in several districts and cities in Bali,” he said. The figure was recorded at 122 in the same period a year earlier which saw the total bite cases of 3,724, he said. He added no casualties caused by dog bites were reported in the January-April 2014. “We hope there will be no casual- ties caused by rabies cases,” he said. Wira said the office has found a potential rabies case in Buleleng District. However, it has not found any similar case in Denpasar and Badung areas. The office noted from 2013 to April 2014, there were 521 dog bite cases in Denpasar, 720 in Badung, 562 in Gianyar, 460 in Buleleng, 450 in Tabanan, 359 in Karangasem, 283 in Bangli, 216 in Klungkung and 191 in Jembrana. Signs of the dog that infected by rabies virus can be seen from the saliva amount (hipersaliva) of the animal. “Besides, the dogs that become aggressive and afraid to see water are also predicted to be infected by rabies,” he said. Wira suggested that the people immediately clean the wound after being bitten by dog and report to the center or hospital to get anti-rabies injection. “I advice the people to immediately clean their wound after being bitten by dog,” Wira said. Mass Vaccination Recently, Bali also held fifth mass vaccination program against rabies which has been ongoing across the Island of Bali since April 15, targeting 350 thousand stray dogs as part of the government’s efforts to make Bali free from rabies. Bali has resolved to become rabies-free by the year 2015, in order to maintain its reputation as the world’s most famous resort island. Nationally, the central government has targeted the entire country to be rabies-free by 2020. Over the past few years, Bali authorities have routinely carried out mass vaccination programs against rabies, target- ing strays, as well as domestic dogs. Officially launched in Gunung Sari village, Seririt, Bule- leng District, where several dog bite cases were reported recently, the fifth mass vaccination program is to continue until July 31. Rabies vaccina- tion was given to a dog during a mass vaccina- tion program that held in Denpasar. The Bali provincial administra- tion has set up at least 58 rabies preven- tion centers in several districts and cities in Bali to avoid the increase of rabies cases on the island. IBP/File Photo
Nigeria comes back twice to draw 2-2 with scotland
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Obama’s speech gets mixed response overseas
Angelou, who died Wednesday at 86, made an impact on American cul-ture that transcended her poetry and searing memoirs. She was the nation’s wise woman, a poet to presidents, an unapologetic conscience who became such a touchstone that grief over her loss poured from political leaders, celebrities and ordinary people in generous doses. “Above all, she was a storyteller — and her greatest stories were true,” President Barack Obama said.
Never hesitant to speak her mind, Angelou passionately defended the rights of women, young people and the ignored. She effortlessly traversed the worlds of literature and activism, becoming a confidante to the original civil rights leaders, their successors and the current generation.
“I’ve seen many things, I’ve learned many things,” Angelou told The As-sociated Press in 2013. “I’ve certainly
been exposed to many things and I’ve learned something: I owe it to you to tell you.”
Marc Morial, president of the Na-tional Urban League, remembered the “incredibly powerful experience” of being invited to Angelou’s home. They sat at her kitchen table for hours, Morial said, as Angelou told stories and talked about life, art, culture and humankind. “With equal parts majesty and humility, she held court — and I listened intently, absorbing every word and meaning that she had to impart,” Morial said.
A former singer and dancer — as well as once being the first black streetcar conductor in San Francisco — she also put her imprint on the new world of celebrity, mentoring Oprah Winfrey, instructing Alicia Keys in “lining out,” a call-and-response form of singing popular in Southern black
churches, acting in a television sketch with Richard Pryor, and inspiring sing-ers, authors and actors of all races and genders.
Angelou was a “phenomenal woman of insight, eloquence and artistry who gave voice to the rawness and lofti-ness of our history and our humanity,” said Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the nation’s first female speaker of the House of Represntatives.
Angelou’s talents and platforms were boundless: poetry, books, movies, the spoken word, television, a weekly SiriusXM satellite radio show and even Twitter and Facebook. She collected accolades from all portions of society: a Tony Award in 1973 for her appear-ance in the play “Look Away”; three Grammys for her spoken-word albums; an honorary National Book Award for her contributions to the literary com-munity; a National Medal of Arts; and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor.
Whether talking about the scourge of discrimination or the evil of sexism, “she has much to teach this generation and generations unborn about what it means to be an authentic person, and the power of the genuine,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson said.
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — A man was led away in handcuffs after alleg-edly attacking Brad Pitt on the red carpet at the Hollywood premiere of the movie “Maleficent.” Pitt was apparently unhurt and soon resumed signing autographs.
Witnesses saw the man from the fan area jump over a barrier on to the red carpet Wednesday at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood and rush at Pitt, touching him briefly before security guards wrestled him back across the barrier.
A police spokeswoman says the man, whose name she did not know, was arrested on suspicion of battery. Pitt kept greeting fans and walked into the theater.
Pitt’s longtime partner Angelina Jolie stars in “Maleficent,” Disney’s new live action spin on “Sleeping Beauty.”
Email messages left for represen-tatives for Pitt and Disney were not immediately returned.
Paul Morigi/AP Images for National Portrait Gallery
In this April 5, 2014 photo provided by the Nation-al Portrait Gallery, Cicely Tyson, Maya Angelou and Oprah Winfrey pose for a photo backstage at Angelou’s portrait unveiling at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington.
Maya Angelou, the nation’s wise womanAssociated Press Writer
Maya Angelou walked into a meeting of civil rights leaders discuss-ing affirmative action back in the 1990s, looked around, and put them all in their place with a single, astute observation. “She came into the room,” recalled Al Sharpton, “and she said: ‘The first problem is you don’t have women in here of equal status. We need to correct you before you can correct the country.’”
Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP
A fan is walked off carpet in handcuffs after allegedly attacking Brad Pitt at the world premiere of “Maleficent” at the El Capitan Theatre on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, in Los Angeles.
Brad Pitt attacked at ‘Maleficent’ premiere To avoid increase of Rabies cases
58 Prevention Centers set up in BaliAntara
DENPASAR - The Bali provincial administration has set up at least 58 rabies prevention centers in several districts and cities in Bali to avoid the increase of rabies cases on the island.
“We have prepared 58 rabies unit centers for the people to handle the dog bite in Bali,” the head of the Environment Restruc-ture and Disease Control Board, dr Gede Wira Sunetra, said.
The 58 rabies centers are located across Bali including 14 units in Gianyar, 10 units in Jembrana, seven units in Badung and Buleleng each, six units in Tabanan, four units in Klung-kung and Karangasem each and three units in Bangli.
“Meanwhile, we only prepare three rabies centers in Denpasar area,” Wira said.
The rabies prevention centers were set up in response to the rising dog bite cases in Bali which reached 3,782 from 2013 to April 2014, he said.
“The average daily dog bite cases are recorded at 126 in several districts and cities in Bali,” he said.
The figure was recorded at 122 in the same period a year earlier which saw the total bite cases of 3,724, he said.
He added no casualties caused by dog bites were reported
in the January-April 2014. “We hope there will be no casual-ties caused by rabies cases,” he said.
Wira said the office has found a potential rabies case in Buleleng District. However, it has not found any similar case in Denpasar and Badung areas.
The office noted from 2013 to April 2014, there were 521 dog bite cases in Denpasar, 720 in Badung, 562 in Gianyar, 460 in Buleleng, 450 in Tabanan, 359 in Karangasem, 283 in Bangli, 216 in Klungkung and 191 in Jembrana.
Signs of the dog that infected by rabies virus can be seen from the saliva amount (hipersaliva) of the animal.
“Besides, the dogs that become aggressive and afraid to see water are also predicted to be infected by rabies,” he said.
Wira suggested that the people immediately clean the wound after being bitten by dog and report to the center or hospital to get anti-rabies injection.
“I advice the people to immediately clean their wound
after being bitten by dog,” Wira said.
Mass VaccinationRecently, Bali also held fifth mass vaccination program
against rabies which has been ongoing across the Island of Bali since April 15, targeting 350 thousand stray dogs as part of the government’s efforts to make Bali free from rabies. Bali has resolved to become rabies-free by the year 2015, in order to maintain its reputation as the world’s most famous resort island. Nationally, the central government has targeted the entire country to be rabies-free by 2020.
Over the past few years, Bali authorities have routinely carried out mass vaccination programs against rabies, target-ing strays, as well as domestic dogs.
Officially launched in Gunung Sari village, Seririt, Bule-leng District, where several dog bite cases were reported recently, the fifth mass vaccination program is to continue until July 31.
Rabies vaccina-tion was given
to a dog during a mass vaccina-
tion program that held in
Denpasar. The Bali provincial
administra-tion has set
up at least 58 rabies preven-tion centers in
several districts and cities in Bali to avoid
the increase of rabies cases on
the island.
IBP/File Photo
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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.
The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.
The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.
In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
Balinese Temple Ceremony
Friday, May 30, 2014
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Calendar Event for Jun 1 through Jul 12, 2014
1 Jun Pura Sakenan Serangan DenpasarPura Dalem Pahuman Bhujangga Penatih Denpasar TimurPura Alas Harum Batur KintamaniPura Alas Angker Munduk KintamaniPura Dalem Kawitan Empuaji Klungkung
4 Jun Buda Cemeng Langkir Pura Tanah Lot Kediri TabananPura Bucabe Mas UbudPura Puseh Desa Ganggang Canggi BatuanPura Luhur Batur Pucangan Buahan TabananPura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung BesakihPura Dalem bangun Sakti Tamiang KapalDalem Bias Muntig Ped Nusa penida
8 Jun Pura Agung Petilan Pengerebongan kesi-man DenpasarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Kesiut Kangin Kerambitan Tabanan
10 Jun Anggarkasih Medangsia Pura Pesimpangan Gerya Sakti Yogaloka Lampung SelatanPura Luhur UluwatuPura Bukit Pecatu Kuta badungPura Penataran Agung Singakerta UbudPura Andakasa KarangasemPura Gua Lawah KlungkungPura Kawitan Arya Gelgel klungkungPura Taman Ayun MengwiPura Suralaya Banda klungkungPura Dalem Senapati Bebalang BangliPura Pasek Gaduh Blahbatuh GianyarPura Pasek Lurah Tutuan Kerambitan TabananPura Pusering Jagat Tampaksiring
GianyarPura Gerya Sakti Tulikup GianyarPura Dalem Dauh UbudPura Segara Ketewel SukawatiPura Mertha Sari Mas Ubud
11 Jun Pura Gede Purancak JembranaPura Dalem Dauma Batuan SukawatiPura Nataran Kacang Dawa KlungkungPura Bhatara Gede Apol Ubung DenpasarPura Puseh Brahmana KlungkungPura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas TabananPura Dalem Sukahet KlungkungPura Dalem MuasPahit Guwang SukawatiPura Taman Dukuh TegallalangPura Desa Sanding Tampak Siring gianyarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Batan Buah KesimanPura Sahab Nusa penidaPura Dalem Cemara Serangan Denpasar
12 Jun Purnama Sasih Sadha Pura Pauman Bhujangga Tonja DenpasarPura Amertha Sari Rempoa Jakarta SelatanPura Ulun Swi Kediri TabananPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitra Gianyar
15 Jun Kajeng Kliwon uwudan Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi
25 Jun Buda Kliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Padangbai KarangasemPura Aer jeruk Sukawati GianyarPura Dangin Pasar Batuan SukawatiPura Penataran Batuyang BatubulanPura Desa Lembeng Ketewel GianyarPura Pasek Bendesa Kediri TabananPura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati gianyarPura Kresek Banyuning Buleleng
Pura Puseh Bebandem KarangasemPura Sad Kahyangan Batu Swana Nusa PenidaPura Buda Kliwon Penatih DenpasarPura Penataran Dukuh Naga Sari Bebandem KarangasemPura Batur Sari Ubud
27 Jun Tilem Sasih Sadha Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati
11 Jul Hari Bhatara Sri 12 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung BesakihPura Tirta BesakihPura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati
Bali PostDENPASAR - Dengue cases
handled by Sanglah Hospital showed a double increase com-pared to the cases in previous months. According to Secretary of the Sanglah Hospital Dengue Management Team, Ken Wiras-andhi, the hospitalized patient previously reaching 6-10 cases increased to 20 cases or doubled in May.
Most of the dengue cases in Sanglah Hospital, added Ken, posed the cases that could not be handled in primary and second-ary health care and required an
advanced treatment in Sanglah Hospital as tertiary health care. As the referral system had been run-ning, the Sanglah Hospital mostly handled dengue cases requiring intensive care. “Nevertheless, the case leading to death does not happen,” he said.
Meanwhile, in the past four months, the dengue in Bali reached 3,520 cases. In April, it was recorded to reach 948 new cases respectively occurred in Buleleng with 186 cases, Jem-brana (16), Tabanan (65), Badung (210), Denpasar (346), Gianyar (47), Bangli (18), Klungkung (28)
and Karangasem (32).A pediatrician of Wangaya Hos-
pital, Wayan Retayasa, explained the dengue was very hazardous if it had reached the stage of bleed-ing and shocked condition. Cycle of the dengue itself resembled a camel’s hump. “It is a-week cycle beginning with a high temperature and then decreases to normal and gets higher again,” said Retayasa. The stage to be watched out for is when the body temperature drops and looks normal. Most patients felt to have recovered and stopped the treatment. Unwittingly, it is the phase where the bleeding
stage started to occur. When body temperature got higher again, most patients would experience shock or decreased consciousness. When reaching this stage, it would be very difficult to handle and have great potential to death.
According to Retayasa, to detect such condition, patients should routinely check the level of platelet in the blood through laboratory test. When entering a hazardous stage, patients were usually advised to be hospital-ized. Retayasa continued that dengue treatment depended on the patient’s immune system so as to
maintain the condition of the body with good nutrition and enough fluids was highly recommended.
The Head of the Bali Health Agency, Ketut Suarjaya, added if dengue included the disease having relation to lifestyle and environmental sanitation. On that account, it should be attempted there was no stagnant water that could become the nest of mosquito denoting the vector of dengue. “The dengue is caused by virus. Therefore, the endurance is also very important to prevent infection of this disease,” said Suarjaya. (san)
The rise of fresh salad traders is surely inseparable from the need for fish such as catfish or tilapia on sale. If the local fish production cannot meet such high demand, then where will they (traders—Ed) get the fish supply?
The Head of Tabanan Fishery and Maritime Affairs, I Made Subagia, explained the need for fish such as catfish and tilapia all this time was very high. To meet the needs, his party had a catfish pond participatory program where in the program the group of fish farmers (Pokdakan) had been given assistance in the form of tarpaulin, fingerling and feed by the government in which the pond making was done by farmers. Ac-cording to him, the fish cultiva-tion in the tarpaulin pond could become an alternative for busi-
ness activities of Tabanan people because it could be implemented on less productive land. In addi-tion, the production costs were also relatively affordable.
On the other hand, the market opportunity was still widely open. “To encourage the potential of fishery and maritime sector in Tabanan, the government has piloted a participatory program. The result is not bad. Even, we are also supplying catfish to Denpasar, and vice versa. In other words, we build synergy,” he explained, Tuesday (May 27).
Meanwhile, I Gede Darma Susi-la, a catfish breeder at Buruan vil-lage, Tabanan, revealed the fresh-water fishery sector had become a lucrative business for many people. It also made him leave the pig breeding and switch to catfish
aquaculture sector because based on his calculation the business was more promising.
“In pig breeding, the price is unstable. It is not good for business continuity in the long term. Even-tually, I stop the pig breeding and switch to catfish cultivation because the selling price is more stable and promising,” he said.
Darma explained the fulfill-ment of fingerlings for cultivation remained incomparable to the market demands. It was a constraint retaining the business opportunity at once. It could be imagined that Bali needed 10 tons of catfish for consumption per day, while Bali could only meet the demand for catfish for consumption only 3 tons per day.
It was no less astonishing if the need for catfish fingerlings in a
To fulfill needs, government promotes catfish cultivation in tarpaulin pond
At Sanglah Hospital, dengue case doubles
BALI with various tourism industries has been able to encourage the growth of other sec-tors, where one of which is the informal sector. Unfortunately, the informal sector with minimal capital and labor intensive is not completely filled in by Balinese people. Even, the opportunities are mostly taken by migrants. No wonder, the traders of food, drinks, construction workers and other informal sector are then ‘controlled’ by migrants. One of the examples rampantly found is the trader of fresh salad and fried fish or chicken in night markets or store porch. Most of them are migrants, although there are also some natives to Bali but their number can still be counted on fingers.
month could reach 5 million. Un-fortunately, only a small portion of the fingerling needs could be met by Bali breeders. He admitted, the catfish fingerlings had indeed a very specific problem. The condition was different from the fingerlings of tilapia and other fingerlings. It also became one of the causes kindling the small production of catfish fin-gerling over the years.
He said the catfish breeding had high risk. Similarly, such condition also happened when it was send through interisland delivery at the fingerling stage. Catfish tended to be sensitive to environment, so only a few catfish fingerlings could grow.
“Most people have mindset that catfish breeding is very easy. Actu-ally, the fingerling stage has high risk of death because this condition is very sensitive,” he said.
In this fingerling stage, he explained, catfish required a pond with specific pH level and temperature. Not to mention the condition of catfish belonging to cannibal where it was difficult to meet the needs for silk worms as its feed in Bali. Such condition increasingly reduced the amount
of fingerling production.All this time, the fulfillment
of catfish fingerling in Bali was produced by three compo-nents of business, namely the People’s Hatchery Unit (UPR), Fish Fingerling Agency owned by the government and wholesale breeder posing a businessman who brought in fingerlings from Java and channeled back to fish breeders. He predicted the total production of fingerling was only able to meet about 1-2 million heads per month.
Ultimately, the conditions made the selling price of catfish finger-ling in the market fairly stable. For instance, the price of catfish finger-ling at the level of entrepreneurs was at IDR 25 per head, while the monosex category was in the range of IDR 35 per head.
The price of ready-to-sell catfish broodstock in the market sizing 10 cm was around IDR 300,000 per head, sizing 8 cm at IDR 250,000 thousand per head and sizing 6 cm at IDR 200,000 per head. The price of ready-to-consume catfish at the level of breeder was IDR 14,000 to IDR 15,000 per kg (containing 5 heads sizing 10 cm). (bit)
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According to Tunjung, he and the other four puppet masters will perform the epic Mahabarata and Ramayana stories in the festival in China. The festival itself will be participated in by puppet mas-ters from around the world.
“The puppet festival in China is a good event to promote tradi-tional culture of Indonesia to the world especially to the young people,” said Tunjung.
Bali Post
SEMARAPURA - Balinese people increasingly lose out in competition against migrants. Tenacity of migrants in seizing the opportunities in the
IBP/Suryawan
A puppet master performed in ritual ceremony that held in Denpasar recently. Five Balinese puppet masters will attend the International Puppet Festival which will be held in Nanchong, China, from May 31 to June 7, one of the puppet master I Wayan Tunjung said.
Five puppet masters to attend puppet festival in China
AntaraGIANYAR - Five Balinese
puppet masters will attend the International Puppet Festival which will be held in Nan-chong, China, from May 31 to June 7, one of the puppet master I Wayan Tunjung said on Thursday.
To compete against migrantsBalinese need to change mindset
IBP/File Photo
Traditional fishermen are taking fishs out of their net in Kelan Beach. Balinese people increas-ingly lose out in competition against migrants. Tenacity of migrants in seizing the opportuni-ties in the micro-economy of Bali affirms that the position of Balinese people only serves as a spectator.
micro-economy of Bali affirms that the position of Balinese people only serves as a spectator. In competing against migrants, Balinese people are still difficult to change the mindset in order to be able to seize every micro-
and macro- economic opportunities existing in the region.
It was revealed by Deputy Regent of Klungkung, Made Kasta. Accord-ing to him, foresight of migrants to take advantage of any economic
opportunities around them should be appreciated. Moreover, they pursued it resiliently, so they could last up to reaching a success and rapid growth. Seeing the facts in the field, Kasta mentioned that many people had proved it. Even, many Balinese people were dependent on a wide range of businesses occupied by the migrants like the traders of fresh vegetables and fried fish or chicken proliferat-ing at every corner of the city. “It is hard to encourage Balinese people so as to follow the positive measures taken by migrants. It is difficult to change the mindset of our society,” he explained.
In addition to traders of salads, many other micro-economic opportu-nities were not exploited by the people of Bali, especially in Klungkung. Even, the making of canang oblation having become the daily activities of majority of Balinese people was also seized by migrants. More ironically, serombotan or assorted salads becom-ing the typical delicacy of Klung-kung were widely sold by migrants. “Now, the serombotan is also widely presented by many migrants. We’re getting far less competitive whereas this is our native home where we are supposed to be smarter to seize the existing opportunities,” he said.
Seeing the phenomenon, specifi-cally in the field of fisheries, Kasta had a desire to encourage the community to develop a similar business but with different packaging. One of them was that county government should encourage the fishery sector since
the beginning, where there should be efforts to increase fish production in the region such as by increasing the cultivation of fish at each village. On that account, his party recognized the production of fish in Klungkung was still lacking. Unfortunately, the ef-forts of related agencies in promoting fish production were still minimal. Even, the deputy regent highlighted 11 fish breeding ponds belonging to the Klungkung Livestock, Fishery and Maritime Affairs (PKK) around his office, had not been utilized. “We need to build an integrated system in developing the fishery sector. Do not make a lot of cultivation but no one purchase it,” he said.
Today, Klungkung remained to focus on building the fishery sector in general at the fish preservation (TPI) at Kusamba, Dawan subdis-trict, Klungkung. The capacity of local fish supply to the location was only 2 tons per day. Meanwhile, the fish preservation at Kusamba was capable of producing an average of 10-15 tons per day. As consequence, it remained dependent on fish supply from outside the region. The deputy regent admitted the efforts to build the fishery sector in Klungkung was still minimal. His party asserted there was a good attempt to boost the fishery sector on a large scale in order to meet the target in the fish preservation or aquaculture to the real sector in every rural community. “The fishery sector provides a big enough opportunity for driving a populistic economic sector,” he said. (kmb31)
Among the things industry watch-ers are envisioning are holograms in dressing rooms that will allow shoppers to try on clothes without getting un-dressed. Their homes will be equipped with smart technology that will order light bulbs before they go dark. And they’ll be able to print out a full version of coffee cups and other products using 3-D technology in stores. “Physical shopping will become a lot more fun because it’s going to have to be,” retail futurist Doug Stephens says.
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Forrester analyst Sucharita Mulpuru says stores of the future will be more about services, like day care, veterinary services and beauty services. Services that connect online and offline shop-ping could increase as well, with more drive-thru pickup and order-online, pick-up-in-store services. Checkout also will be self-service or with cashiers using computer tablets.
Some stores are taking self-service further: A store in Seattle called Hointer displays clothing not in piles or on racks but as one piece hanging at a time, like a gallery.
Shoppers just touch their smart-
phones to a coded tag on the item and then select a color and size on their phone. Technology in the store keeps track of the items, and by the time a shopper is ready to try them on, they’re already at the dressing room. If the shopper doesn’t like an item, he tosses it down a chute, which automatically removes the item from the shopper’s online shopping cart. The shopper keeps the items that he or she wants, which are purchased automatically when leaving the store, no checkout in-volved. Nadia Shouraboura, Hointer’s CEO, says once shoppers get used to the process, they’re hooked.
ON-DEMAND COUPONS
Some stores like British retailer Tesco and drugstore Duane Reade now are testing beacons, Bluetooth-enabled devices that can communicate directly with your cellphone to offer discounts, direct you to a desired product in a store or enable you to pay remotely. For example, you can walk into a drugstore where you normally buy face cream. The beacon would recognize your smartphone, connect it with past pur-chasing history and send you a text or email with a coupon for the cream.
“The more we know about custom-ers ... you can use promotions on not a macro level but a micro level,” says Kasey Lobaugh, chief retail innova-tion officer at Deloitte Consulting. A store could offer a mother 20 percent off on Mother’s Day, for example, or offer frequent buyers of paper towels a discount on bulk purchases.
3-D PRINTING
Within 10 years, 3-D printing could make a major disruption in retail, Deloitte’s Lobaugh predicts. Take a simple item like a coffee cup. Instead of producing one in China, transporting it and distributing it to retail stores, you could just download the code for the coffee cup and 3-D print it at a retail outlet or in your own home.
“That starts a dramatic change in terms of the structure of retail,” Lobaugh said. And while 3-D printing today is primarily plastic, Lobaugh says there are tests at places like MIT Media Lab and elsewhere with other materi-als, including fabric. Right now a few stores offer rudimentary 3-D-printing services, but they are very limited. He predicts the shift will come in 10 to 20 years.
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Beats Electronics’ colorful, oversized headphones serve as a fashion accessory to cool kids riding the New York City subway, but as tech companies such as Apple, Samsung and others are discovering, wearable gadgets like smartwatches and Google Glass still have a long way to go to become trendy, must-have consumer items.
Apple’s $3 billion purchase of Beats Electronics, by far the com-pany’s largest acquisition, is at least in part recognition that Beats founders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine might be able to help Apple incorporate more style and flair into its premium technology gadgets —especially a coming wave of wearable devices.
Technology companies see wearables as an important area of growth beyond smartphones and tablets, and many are slowly real-izing that if they expect people to wear gadgets —be they bracelets to monitor fitness activity, smartwatches to substitute smartphones or Internet-connected goggles— those devices must focus as much on form as function.
So far, the most noteworthy wearables have hardly been stylish. The standard Google Glass product looks more like something out of Star Trek than a fashion accessory. Fitness bands meant to be worn 24 hours a day are difficult to match with evening gowns or even a suit and tie. “I guess they are accessories, but I would not say they are high fashion,” says Alison Minton, a blogger who writes about accessories, jewelry and handbags on accessorygeneration.com. “There’s a ways to go before they could be considered high fashion in the way Chanel would be, or Prada.”
To change that, tech companies are beginning to attract top talent from the world of fashion. Apple’s move comes less than a year af-ter the iPhone and iPad inventor hired Angela Ahrendts, a respected executive who helped mold Burberry into the popular luxury brand it is today. In recent weeks, Google lured fashion and marketing execu-tive Ivy Ross, who’s worked for Calvin Klein, the Gap and Coach, to head its Google Glass unit.
“With your help, I look forward to answering the seemingly simple, but truly audacious questions Glass poses: Can technology be something that frees us up and keeps us in the moment, rather than taking us out of it? Can it help us look up and out at the world around us, and the people who share it with us?” wrote Rossin a Google Plus post.
For Ahrendts, Apple is already a luxury brand. Three years before she was hired at Apple last fall, she signaled her admiration for Apple in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
“I don’t look at Gucci or Chanel or anyone,” Ahrendts told the newspaper in 2010. “If I look to any company as a model, it’s Apple. They’re a brilliant design company working to create a lifestyle, and that’s the way I see us.”
AP Photo/Hointer
In this undated photo provided by Hointer, a woman demonstrates the Seattle store’s shop-ping technology.
What US shopping will look like in the futureAssociated Press
NEW YORK — When it comes to shopping, more Americans are skipping the stores and pulling out their smartphones and tablets. Still, there’s more on the horizon for shopping than just point-and-clicking. No one thinks physical stores are going away permanently. But because of the frenetic pace of advances in technology and online shopping, the stores that remain will likely offer amenities and services that are more about experiences and less about selling a product. Think: Apple Inc.’s stores.
Apple’s Beats buy joins tech and street-wise style
AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File
FILE - In this May 9, 2014 file photo, Beats Audio equipment is arranged for a photo next to an Apple laptop at Best Buy in Boston.
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The president who pulled U.S. troops from Iraq, avoided direct con-frontation in Syria and has tapered off the American military presence in Afghanistan seemed to be saying that the U.S. had learned that it cannot impose its will on the rest of the world, said David Livingstone, an expert in international security at London’s Chatham House. He said Obama’s words went against the “American instinct to go in hard with the military first” when crisis erupts.
“America has to be in sympathy with the world, and its leadership has been perceived to be unilateral,” he said after listening to Obama’s speech at West Point. He thought the president should have made it clear that it is im-possible to assure the safety of every American.
In the Gulf state of Qatar, Brook-ings Center director Salman Shaikh saw the speech as a boost for consen-sus, but he said broke no new ground for a president who has distanced himself from the “interventionist wars” of his predecessor, George W. Bush. “He talked about partnerships, working multilaterally, which is all to be welcomed,” Shaikh said, caution-ing that had to be balanced against “whether the U.S. is really willing to lead across the Middle East.”
Obama devoted his most muscular
language to counterterrorism, par-ticularly in Syria where Obama said extremists are spilling across borders and where a civil war has killed more than 160,000 people. Without specifying, Obama talked about more U.S. support for Syria’s moderate opposition fighting to oust President Bashar Assad.
Obama put off any hint of using force there or in Iran, where he touted a possible agreement over its nuclear program. “He was clear that this is his foreign policy legacy, he hopes, when it comes to the Middle East,” Shaikh said, adding that Obama was “relatively weak” when pressing is-sues like human rights and democracy in the region.
Boaz Ganor, an Israeli counterter-rorism expert, said Obama’s speech revealed a lack of understanding of the global threat of terrorism. He disagreed with Obama’s assertion that al-Qaida is less dangerous now.
“Maybe a 9/11 type of attack right now from a centralized al-Qaida in a lesser probability. But a decentralized al-Qaida is even more dangerous than a centralized al-Qaida because these splinter groups, these embryonic new al-Qaida organizations will emerge and will no doubt down the road try to hit the U.S. mainland and will inspire many followers in the United
States.”He said there is “a big question” on
whether the U.S. has the determina-tion to impose its will on enemies and a “small question” about whether it has the capability to do so. “You need to understand that if you are running away from terrorism, terrorism will probably come after you and chase you,” he said. “I would argue that the U.S. lost Egypt, lost Libya and diluted their influence in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries. It seems that the villains of the region have the upper hand, this is Iran and its affili-ates, and that is a very bad sign for the allies of the United States around the world.”
Concerns about terrorism also clouded the president’s message to Africa, said J. Peter Pham, the director of the Africa Center at the Washington-based Atlantic Council. The administration has emphasized Africa’s economic promise for its upcoming summit of African leaders in Washington.
“For all the desire to move on to the ‘New Africa,’ the ‘Old Africa’ of conflicts, terrorism, and other secu-rity and humanitarian concerns still consumes much of the attention that the continent and its nations receive in Washington, all too often crowding out the strategic, long-term picture.”
Associated Press Writer
CAIRO — With nearly all votes counted, Egypt’s former military chief has won a crushing victory over his sole opponent with more than 92 percent of the votes, according to results announced by his campaign early Thursday. The campaign of retired field marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said he won 23.38 million votes, with left-wing politician Hamdeen Sabahi taking 735,285. Invalid votes were 1.07 million, or nearly 350,000 more than the number of votes for the 59-year-old Sabahi.
El-Sissi’s win was never in doubt, but the career infantry of-ficer, also 59, had hoped for a strong turnout to bestow legitimacy on his ouster last July of Egypt’s first freely elected president, the Islamist Mohammed Morsi. According to el-Sissi’s campaign, the turnout nationwide was around 44 percent, even after voting was extended for a third day Wednesday — well below the nearly 52 percent turnout in the June 2012 election won by Morsi.
Still, el-Sissi can genuinely claim he comes into office with an impressive vote tally — his campaign said he won 23.38 million votes. That’s significantly more than the 13 million that Morsi won two years ago. In his final campaign TV interview last week, el-Sissi had set the bar even higher, saying he wanted more than 40 million voters — there are nearly 54 million registered voters — to cast ballots to “show the world” the extent of his popular backing.
After polls closed, his supporters held all-night celebrations in Cairo, with several thousands gathered at the central Tahrir square, birthplace of the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. They waved Egyptian flags, el-Sissi posters and danced. There were similar celebrations in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria and a string of other cities north of the capital and in the Oasis province of Fayoum southwest of Cairo.
Critics said the lack of enthusiasm at the polls was in part due to apathy among even el-Sissi supporters, knowing that his victory was a foregone conclusion. Others said it showed discontent with el-Sissi, not just among his Islamist foes but also among a broader section of the public that believes he has no concrete plans for Egypt’s woes and fears he will return Egypt to the autocratic ways of Hosni Mubarak.
The tepid turnout was particularly embarrassing because the government and media had been whipping up adulation for el-Sissi over the past 10 months, depicting him as a warrior against terror-ism and the only person able to tackle Egypt’s economic problems, high unemployment, inflation and instability.
El-Sissi’s supporters in the Egyptian media have been in a panic the past two days. Political talk show hosts and newscasters urged people to vote, warning that otherwise the Brotherhood will be encouraged to step up its challenge to the new government.
Prominent TV talk show host Amr Adeeb angrily said that by not voting, Egyptians might as well “go directly to the prison and return Mohammed Morsi to power.” “Tell him, ‘Your excellency, President Mohammed Morsi, please come out and rule us,’” he said.
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, FileFILE - In this May 22, 2010, file photo, addressing the graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, President Barack Obama outlined a foreign policy vision using diplomacy and a strong military together, in West Point, N.Y.
LONDON — President Barack Obama’s speech emphasizing soft power and alliances over military might crystallized into a single speech what many experts said Wednesday was an inevitable — and wel-come — evolution of U.S. foreign policy.
AP Photo/Lobna Tarek, El Shorouk NewspaperIn this Wednesday, May 28, 2014 photo, an election worker counts ballots at a counting center in Cairo, Egypt.
Egypt: El-Sissi wins election by landslide
Bali PostDENPASAR - Dependency of
farmers on genetically modified seeds (GMOs) and hybrid seeds, aside from making away from prosperity, will disrupt natural ecosystems. In addi-tion, farmers who cannot afford the price of the original seed will look for the counterfeit quality.
“There must be a negative impact. Actually the hybrid seed is the prod-uct of capitalist. Are farmers able to afford the price of high quality seed? Maximally they only afford the counterfeit quality,” said the owner of PT Aura International, I Kadek Agus Mulyawan, Friday (May 23).
In addition, the use of seed showed a 90-percent dependency on the intake of inorganic substances such as fertilizer, stimulant to pesticide exceeding the safety threshold for consumption. Consequently it was not eco-friendly due to excessive intake of chemicals. “When eating the crops, of course, it has a negative impact on health. Therefore, I urge to think of it because it will threaten our health and environment,” said Agus.
Agus added the two products were the result of breakthrough in biotech-
nology to boost food products and carried out in various ways, from the exposure to bacterial infiltration. Ac-cording to him, the products actually reaped many complaints because of high costs. “After harvest, the hybrid seed cannot be cultivated back. Pos-sibly, it is engineered so that farmers continue to buy and become depen-dent,” he said.
Secretary of the Indonesian Farm-ers Union (HKTI) of Bali, Dewa Nyo-man Sudita, asked the government to subsidize local breeders in Bali. There was a trend among the farmers to choose hybrid seed because it was considered more promising than local seeds. “There should be an increase in quality because as long as the local breeders are able to produce a good seed, I think it will be demanded by farmers,” he said.
According to him, the efforts of rice breeders had been widely at-tempted in Bali. One of which was made by Subak Guama. Even, there were farmers especially developing local seeds. But the current fact in-dicated that there were lots of seeds offered by the Agriculture Agency and related agencies to farmers.
“Actually, the key to these prob-lems is how local government chiefly the agency dealing with food crops provides guidance for seed breeders. Armed with the guidance or good regulation, I think the farmers will no longer depend on the seed prod-ucts from outside because the seeds produced by local farmers are not inferior,” he explained.
However, he said the government should make a regulation profiting the local seed products by subsidizing the good agricultural seeds. “The govern-ment should help farmers generate good seed and make regulations to prohibit the entrance of seeds from outside the region. By that way, I think farmers will follow,” he said.
He mentioned that many seeds produced by farmers today had been certified. Meanwhile, local breeders were not accompanied with technol-ogy and even some of them were still doing it conventionally. “In the future, we expect the government to encourage our agriculture by think-ing about how the government subsi-dizes the seeds to farmers, so that our farmers will not feel disadvantaged,” he said. (kmb36/kmb37)
Discovery of the anonymous baby corpse started with the sound of explosion heard by I Wayan Edy Wirasnawa, 27. When checking, the flames had been seen right in front of his laundry outlet. “Around 00:45 a.m., I just got back from buying gasoline. Upon arriving at home, I immediately went in and sat down in the living room. However, 15 minutes after that I heard the sound of explosion outside the home. When checked, the fire was blazing in front of my laundry outlet,” said I Wayan Edy, Monday (May 26).
Seeing the huge blaze, Wayan Edy immediately took a hose and sprayed water onto the burning trash. After extinguishing the fire, he found a bottle containing gasoline inside the dumpster and a lighter in the middle of the road. “After finding a lighter and gasoline, I think someone intentionally wanted to burn the house. So, I immediately woke up my parents to let them know,” he said.
With his parents, I Wayan Resna, 59, and Kadek Suartini, 48, he then returned to the dumpster. After extinguishing the fire, it was visible a fabric twist on a pile of burning rubbish. Having been checked, the fabric twists had been covered in maggot. “I thought it was the burning of laundry fabric. Then, I checked with my mother (Kadek Suartini—Ed). When opened slightly, the maggots were seen inside the fabric twists,” he said.
The fabric containing maggots was then lifted by Wayan Edy. Unexpectedly, after uplifted, a figure of baby girl corpse fell from the fabric twists. Allegedly, the baby girl had long died because it exuded stench. “I was shocked and told my mother if it was possibly a baby. Having been noticed, the baby was female and already smelling,” he explained.
Furthermore, he suspected a motorcyclist riding a Honda Vario with license plate DK 8805 FP stopping not far from the location where the baby was found. Being suspicious, Wayan Edy then took his motorcycle and pursued the Vario rider. As being unable to counterbalance the speed, he was left behind. “At first, I thought he was setting on fire a baby, so I chased him by a motorcycle. However, since the rider of green Honda Vario with license plate DK 8805 FP dashed in high speed, it could escape,” he explained.
Meanwhile, Mr. Yanik, who lived not far from the location, claimed to have seen a motorcyclist throwing something into the dumpster. “I saw a motorcyclist throwing something like a box in the dumpster. At that time, I did not notice because of having no suspicion. But after hearing there was a baby set to fire, I thought the motorist was the perpetrator,” he explained.
Chief of Badung Police Criminal Detective, Wisnu Wardana, when asked for his confirmation justified to have received a report on the baby set on fire at 1:30 a.m. His party immediately assigned some members to come to the scene for conducting an investigation. “After receiving a report on the baby set on fire, our team was promptly assigned to come to the scene in order to check and conduct a crime scene investigation as well as assign the members to perform a search,” he said.
Additionally, Wisnu affirmed the allegation on the burning of such poor baby was based on evidence such as a bottle containing gasoline. When asked whether the perpetrator had been identified, he answered that his party was still investigating the case. He also added if the baby had died since its birth pursuant to the doctor’s explanation. “We’re still collecting testimonies from several wit-nesses. In addition, the members continuously investigate this case. As the last information obtained from forensic physician, the baby has possibly died since its birth,” he added. (nik)
Bali PostBANGLI - A total of 30 excelled farmers across
Bangli County that would attend the National Farmer and Fisherman Forum (Penas KTNA) XIV 2014 at Kedung Pedaringin village, Kepangen subdistrict, Malang, East Java, were released by Regent Made Gianyar, Monday (May 27). They would attend the event on June 5-12, 2014. The release took place in the meeting room of the Bangli Agriculture, Plantation and Forestry Agency marked with the conferment of Bangli region’s logo by the Bangli regent to Chair-man of the Farmer and Fisherman Forum of Bangli, Ketut Mupu.
Committee Chairman of the Farmer and Fisherman Forum XIV of Bangli, I Made Pulasari, in his report said the purpose of participation in the forum was to boost motivation, excitement, and independence of fisherman and forest farmer in Bangli County in the competitive, community-based and sustainable agri-business development and systems through a mutually beneficial partnership. In the activities, fishermen and forest farmers had the opportunity to share ideas and experience in utilizing the agricultural resources avail-able in each region as well as to examine the use of technology in the evolving world of agriculture.
In the National Farmer and Fisherman Forum XIV in Malang, Bangli County sent more participants than the previous year, namely 30 excelled farmers. The addition was based on the consideration that in 2015 Bangli County would get the turn to host the Farmer and Fisherman Forum XV of Bali Province. “In other words, with the more farmers sent, they will get more information, knowledge and experience to improve the quality and quantity of the agriculture in Bangli County,” said Ari Pulasari.
Meanwhile, the Regent of Bangli, I Made Gianyar, on the occasion reminded in order the excelled farmers across Bangli County attending the National Farmer and Fisherman Forum XIV in Malang could take advantage of the opportunity well to enrich the infor-mation and knowledge about the latest agricultural development. Moreover, the touch of technology in the agricultural sector today could not be ruled out. With the use of technology, the agricultural sector continued to experience growth. “Hopefully, the participation of Bangli County in the Farmer and Fisherman Forum XIV, they will be motivated to continue to develop the agriculture in Bangli. Thus, the farmers in Bangli can be prosperous in the future through the farm,” he hoped. (ina)
A baby corpse set on fire in a dumpster
Bali PostA tragic phenomenon was found at Anggungan hamlet, Lukluk
village, Mengwi, Badung, Monday morning (May 26). To be sure, a corpse of baby was found in a dumpster on fire. It was not known who the perpetrator and the motive of such tragic action, while police are still hunting the perpetrator alleged to set on fire the unlucky baby. The corpse of such innocent baby girl was rushed to Kapal Hospital.
Bangli regent sends 30 farmers to Malang
Dependency on hybrid seeds Farmers slump chance increasing
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MOSCOW — Leaders of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan on Thursday signed an agree-ment to create the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), an al-liance intended to further boost economic and trade ties between the ex-Soviet neighbors.
Russian President Vladi-mir Putin said during talks in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, that the pact is taking their cooperation to a “new level,” while fully respecting their
sovereignty.Putin said the new union will
help provide an “attractive cen-ter of economic development” and allow the three nations to exploit their economic potential and strengthen their positions in global markets.
The new alliance is the devel-opment of the Customs Union including the same nations. In addition to free trade, it coor-dinates the members’ financial systems and regulates industrial and agricultural policies along with their labor markets and
transport systems.The deal stops short of in-
troducing a single currency and delays the creation of a common energy market.
The signing followed years of tense negotiations, and many differences have remained.
Moscow will host the top executive body of the new al-liance. Its high court will be based in Belarus, and the top financial regulator will be lo-cated in Kazakhstan.
Belarus’ authoritarian Presi-dent Alexander Lukashenko,
who has depended on cheap Rus-sian energy and other subsidies to keep the 10-million nation’s Soviet-style economy afloat, said before the signing he wasn’t fully happy with the deal, but hailed it reflected a mutually acceptable compromise.
Kazakhstan, led by auto-cratic President Nursultan Naz-arbayev, is the second larg-est country by territory and economy among the ex-Soviet nations. Nazarbayev has ma-neuvered between Russia and the West during more than two
decades in power. But Russia has little leverage over Kazakh-stan, whose energy riches and booming economy make it an equal partner.
Nazarbayev said the new pact is based on consensus. “The agreement is well-bal-anced and thorough, taking into accounts the interests of all its members,” he said.
He voiced hope that the new alliance “will become a power-ful incentive for modernizing our economies and helping making them global leaders.”
The union’s secretary Moham-ad Jabbarullah Abdul Kadir said Thursday that the state-owned airline has been mired in losses for four straight years and is now grappling with the aftermath of the Flight 370 tragedy. The jet disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board.
He said the government and airline have done their best in handling the tragedy, but CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya and his team have failed to show lead-ership in charting the airline’s future.
Mohamad Jabbarullah said staff frustration was not due to the plane crisis but had built up over the years because of management’s failure to engage employees and address internal problems. Bankruptcy isn’t an option for the airline that has 19,500 staff worldwide, he said.
“We have lost trust in the cur-rent management. Staff morale is very low due to a lack of leader-ship and direction. We need a new team with experience to turn around the airline,” he told reporters.
The union’s demand will add to pressures on Malaysia Air-
lines, which is already struggling to repair its image after Flight 370 vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. About two-thirds of the passengers were Chinese.
Airline officials couldn’t be immediately reached for com-ment.
The carrier’s first quarter loss swelled 59 percent to 443.4 mil-lion ringgit ($137.6 million), hit by a backlash in China.
Last year, the airline’s losses ballooned to 1.17 billion ringgit ($363 million), nearly three times larger than its 433 million ringgit loss in 2012.
Mohamad Jabbarullah said the union, which has about 8,000 members, is urging Prime Minis-ter Najib Razak to intervene “to rescue the airline from disinte-grating.”
The government has said it will not bail out the carrier.
The union will submit a mem-orandum to Najib soon to appeal for a new management team with strong experience in the aviation industry.
Shares of Malaysia Airlines have plunged since Flight 370 disappeared.
AP Photo/Vincent ThianA visitor looks out from the viewing gallery as Malaysia Airlines aircraft sit on the tarmac at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang, Malaysia, Tuesday, May 27, 2014.
Malaysia Airlines union calls for CEO to resignAssociated Press
KUALA LUMPUR — The union representing Malaysia Airlines employees is calling for the resignation of the airline’s chief execu-tive, saying new management is needed to revive the beleaguered flag carrier.
Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan set up EEU
Bali Post
SINGARAJA – Rice planting season this year is unlikely to pro-vide benefit for farmers at Kerobo-kan village, Sawan subdistrict. The newly planted paddy seedling is now under attack by unknown disease. Inevitably, the two-week seedlings are threatened to die. In the recent harvest season, farmers in this area suffered a loss because their paddy plant was attacked by rice seed bugs, so the harvest yield of farmers could not be sold to middlemen.
The paddy seedlings was attacked by ‘mysterious’ disease as experi-enced by farmers at Subak Kloncing, Subak Lanyahan Kerobokan and Subak Babakan Kerobokan, Sawan subdistrict. The two-week paddy plant belonging to Ciherang variety looked sere. The trunk started perish-ing due to ferocity of the disease.
Paddy field at Kerobokan village with the area of about 200 hectares had mostly been planted, but the planted seedlings dried and slowly died. Other than at Kerobokan, this mysterious disease also attacked the paddy plant of farmers at several sub-ak areas at Sawan village, Kubutam-
bahan and surrounding areas. If the disease attack could not be overcome, farmers would possibly not cultivate their land in the next planting season as running out of capital.
A local farmer, I Wayan Suana, 60, said on Tuesday (May 27) that since the planting his rice seedlings looked to grow normally. After two weeks, the leaves were sere and gradually dried. More surprisingly, the lower stem started to perish, so the seedlings were slowly dying. He tried to observe the diseases attacking the plant, but he did not find any kind of disease. Nevertheless, he suspected it was caused by adverse weather condition. “At the beginning it looked to grow normally and leaves turned green, but these days their leaves withered and dried. When observed, I could not find the disease such as leafhoppers. The paddy plants slowly died like this,” he said.
According to him, such disease often attacked when planting season arrived. Unluckily, he and other farmers were unable to resolve from the first. He suspected the disease was endemic on lowland rice fields. Likewise, it was getting worse with the asynchronous planting season, so
the disease was difficult to eradicate. For this condition, he could only sur-render because most of the rice seed-lings slowly died. It was impossible to replace the dead ones with the new ones because many seedlings had died. Moreover, the seedling reserves had been entirely planted. “I think the disease to have been endemic and the planting season was not simultane-ous, so the attack never stops. Now, the only way available is to abandon and surrender to this condition,” he explained.
Similar opinion was disclosed by another farmer, Nyoman Rentana, 30. He said the newly planted rice seedlings had begun to indicate the disease. As having not known the form of the disease, he tried to con-trol it by reducing the pool of water at each plot. Besides, he also tried to spray with poison. For this condition, he hoped the relevant technical agen-cies could help farmers overcome the disease. “Since I do not know the trigger of this disease causing gradual death, I try to handle by reducing irrigation and spraying with poison, but the paddy plants still looked withered and its leaves yellowed,” he explained. (kmb38)
Information from some residents on Monday (May 26) told if the villa on the area of 2.1 hectares did not show any activity over the years. Besides, the villa had been sealed and fitted with police line, but it had been lately removed. “I do not know the status whether it is an evidence or else,” said one of the residents. According to him, the villa was often closed but occasionally there was someone getting in by car. Alleg-edly the person was the villa man-ager. Despite no activity, the villa whose land was often mentioned in the court of the compost case was guarded by a warden.
The villa owned by a Japanese citizen, K Tsurumi, posed the partner in the compost machine originally intended for Japanese elderly citizen through annual rental system. As planned, the total building would amount to 30 units, but after the case emerged involving the villa owner, the construction was stopped. Ap-proximately, only six units of the building could have been completed and one of which had been occupied
by the owner, K Tsurumi.As revealed in the trial at that
time, the villa was sealed because there was indication of money laundering crime (TPPU) from the transaction of the land purchase re-lated to the compost machine. Aside from the land, the Mercedes-Benz E 320 series (1997) was also seized by Bali Police. So far, it was unclear about the latest progress of the case. As the result, the asset of land and villas at Pekutatan hanged fire and did not operate.
Subdistrict head of Pekutatan, Ketut Eko Susilo, when asked for his comment on the villa on Tuesday (May 27) revealed if the villa indeed had no activity. All this time, there was no operation as any other villas / hotels in Pekutatan. “There is no activity, but police line has indeed been removed and is only guarded by security,” explained the former village chief of Gilimanuk. From the information received, the land in Pekutatan had been sealed but it was unclear whether it was related to the case or not. (kmb26)
IBP/OloThe fate of Japanese Villa at Pekutatan village owned by a Japanese citizen looks to be poorly maintained.
Japanese Villa at Pekutatan hangs fireBali Post
NEGARA - The fate of Japanese Villa at Pekutatan village owned by a Japanese citizen looks to be poorly maintained. Having been sealed by Bali Police related to the allegation of money laundering (AML), no activity is seen at the villa having a number of building units. The employees have resigned.
IBP/MudiartaRice planting season this year is unlikely to provide benefit for farm-ers at Kerobokan village, Sawan subdistrict.
Attacked by diseaseHundreds hectares of paddy at risk from harvest failure
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“After the elections, we all should unite again to continue the develop-ment of the nation. We should elimi-nate the distance we have during the competition. It is not good for us to entertain grudge and animosity,” the President said when addressing a function held to observe Isra Miraj, the ascension of the Prophet Muham-mad at the Bogor Palace Wednesday night.
He said that competition among the electoral contestants should run peacefully and healthily.
“It is unwise to bequeath hatred and hostility to succeeding genera-tion. Let’s build harmony and togeth-erness among the people based on solidarity,” Yudhoyono stated.
He added: “Let’s prove that the democracy that we are building is the
democracy of Indonesia, increasingly mature and civilized democracy.”
The President also called on the electoral contestants not to insult each other and launch slanderous campaigns aimed at ruining rivals. “Religion prohibits its followers to insult and defame others.”
Yudhoyono also called on the people to support whoever is elected president so that they would work hand-in-hand in bringing progress to the nation.
“Let us pray for whoever is elected president and vice president so that they will be able to implement the mandate and heavy tasks as well as possible,” he said.
Currently, there are two presiden-tial and vice presidential candidate pairs, Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla and
the Prabowo-Hatta Rajasa, who will contest in the July 9 presidential election.
The Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla duo is supported by the Indonesian Demo-cratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), the National Democrat Party (NasDem), the National Awakening Party (PKB), and the People’s Conscience Party (Hanura) with 207 seats or 36.96 percent of the House of Representa-tives (DPR)’s 560 seats.
The Prabowo-Hatta duo is sup-ported by the Greater Indonesia Movement (Gerindra), the Golkar Party, the National Mandate Party, the Prosperous Justice Party, the United Development Party (PPP), and the Crescent and Star Party (PBB) with 292 seats or 52.14 percent in the parliament.
AntaraJAKARTA - The Jakarta provincial government is planning to al-
locate Rp3 trillion for the development of parks equipped with sports facilities in the capital.
“It is true that we will buy land to develop sports parks. This is in line with the request of the governor (Joko Widodo),” Jakarta vice governor Basuki Tjajahaja Purnama said at the Jakarta city hall on Wednesday.
“The sports parks will be built in slum areas. For the purpose, we will allocate Rp3 trillion in funds,” Ahok, as the vice governor is popularly called, added.
He made it clear that the construction of sports parks in densely populated areas in the capital was one of the ways to deal with social conflicts.
“By building the sports parks, various social conflicts such as brawls, which frequently occur in residential areas can be avoided,” he said
Hopefully, the presence of sports facilities will motivate the city dwellers to exercise, he remarked.
“Likewise, I also hope that if Jakarta has many sports facilities many children can develop their talent. The presence of the sports facilities is also expected to improve public health,” he pointed out.
AntaraJAKARTA - The governments of Indonesia and Turkey agreed to
boost cooperation in the agricultural sector especially in research and development of farm commodities.
The agriculture ministry said in a statement on Wednesday Agri-culture Minister Suswono and his Turkish counterpart Mehmed Medi Eker met to discuss the cooperation agreement on the Turkish town of Konya on Tuesday.
The two ministers also agreed to promote bilateral trade in order to meet the target for trade value of US$5 billion in 2015 set by the governments of the two countries.
Suswono said he wanted the agreement to be followed up with the forming of a working group to implement details of the agreement.
“A working group is important that the agreement could be imple-mented immediately,” he said.
The Indonesian minister said he expected there would be routine meeting at the level of senior officials to discuss the technicalities of the agreement.
Meanwhile, the Turkish Minister for Agriculture, Food and Ani-mal Husbandry Mehmed Medi Eker agreed with the need to form a working group and hoped that the agreement could be expanded in the future.
Mehmed said he believed there are many things in which the two countries could expand cooperation in the agricultural sector.
He said with the difference in seasons, Indonesia being a tropical country and Turkey a subtropical country, there are many products that could not be produced in Turkey, could be supplied by Indonesia and the other way round.
“I believe there are many aspects in the agricultural sector the two countries could cooperate in,” he added.
He said Indonesia and Turkey are active members of G-8, G-20, and the Islam Conference Organization, that there are many forums to discuss many issues including agricultural issue.
In short term the two countries could start cooperation in research and development in the agricultural sector, he said
Suswono agreed that cooperation in research and development in the agricultural sector should be implemented as soon as possible.
Based on the agreement, a cooperation agreement has been signed by the agriculture ministries of the two countries.
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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said that political competition in the upcoming presi-dential elections should run peacefully and leave no resentment so that the people could unite in developing the nation.
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JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said that political competition in the up-coming presidential elections should run peacefully and leave no resentment so that the people could unite in developing the nation.
Jakarta to allocate Rp3 trillion for sports parks
Indonesia and Turkey to boost agricultural cooperation
The former NSA contract sys-tems analyst is living in Russia on a temporary grant of asylum after leaking a massive volume of NSA documents to the media. He told anchorman Brian Williams of NBC News that he had taken action in the belief that he was serving his country in exposing the surveil-lance programs of the NSA.
“I don’t think there’s ever been any question that I’d like to go home,” Snowden said in a seg-ment of the interview broadcast Wednesday night. “Now, whether amnesty or clemency ever becomes a possibility is not for me to say. That’s a debate for the public and the government to decide. But, if I could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home.”
Kerry’s comments came before NBC aired that portion of the Snowden interview. On the mat-ter of Snowden returning, Kerry told the “Today” show on NBC: “If Mr. Snowden wants to come back to the United States, we’ll have him on a flight today.” Kerry also said, “A patriot would not run away.” Snowden told Williams that he worked undercover and overseas for the CIA and the NSA. He said he had a much larger role in U.S. intelligence than the gov-ernment has acknowledged.
“I was trained as a spy in sort of the traditional sense of the word, in that I lived and worked undercover overseas,” he said. National security adviser Susan Rice said in a CNN interview
that Snowden never worked un-dercover.
As far as the necessity for the leaks, “let him come back and make his case,” Kerry said. “If he cares so much about America and he believes in America, he should trust the American system of justice.”
Snowden said he never in-tended to be holed up in Russia but was forced to go there because Washington decided to “revoke my passport.” In response, Kerry said: “Well, for a supposedly smart guy, that’s a pretty dumb answer, after all.” “I think he’s confused,” Kerry said. “I think it’s very sad. But this is a man who has done great damage to his country.”
“We have deployed 90 staff members during the ongoing mass vaccination program,” Putu Sumantra, the head of the Bali animal husbandry and health office, said recently.
A total of 120 thousand doses of vaccines have been distributed across nine districts in Bali, while 250 thousand more doses were scheduled to arrive soon.
The system being applied during the vaccination campaign is dif-ferent from the ones used in previous campaigns. This time, officers are targeting stray dogs wandering in hilly and mountainous areas, and puppies, which were not vaccinated before.
Vaccinations will also be given to puppies as young as two weeks to protect and strengthen their immunity.
“Cats and monkeys that we encounter will also be vaccinated, but they are not our targets, because our main targets are dogs,” he reiter-ated. He called upon the cooperation of the local residents to help make the rabies-free Bali program a success.
Since January 2014, 17 dogs have been found infected with rabies in seven districts in Bali, including six cases in Buleleng. This was a significant decrease, given that last year 44 dogs were infected with rabies, particularly in Buleleng, Jembrana and Bangli.
The first fatal rabies case in Bali was found in 2008. Since then, the disease has claimed 146 lives. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s Crisis Management Centre for Animal Health conducted a mission to Bali in December of 2008.
Since 2011, FAO has been supporting Indonesia in working to rapidly control the deadly rabies virus on the island, through an innovative strategy centered on comprehensive mass vaccinations of dogs.
As a result of the programme, human rabies cases were reduced from eleven per month in 2010 to just one per month the following year. Following a mass vaccination of dogs, there was another major reduction in 2012 and 2013, bringing the number of reported cases down to only one human case in all of 2013.
The previous four mass vaccination programs, which were organized in 2010, vaccinated 95 percent of targeted dogs.
Associated Press Writer
LONDON — Almost a third of the world is now fat, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis.
Researchers found more than 2 billion people worldwide are now overweight or obese. The highest rates were in the Middle East and North Africa, where nearly 60 percent of men and 65 percent of women are heavy. The U.S. has about 13 percent of the world’s fat population, a greater percentage than any other country. China and India combined have about 15 percent.
“It’s pretty grim,” said Christopher Murray of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, who led the study. He and colleagues reviewed more than 1,700 studies covering 188 countries from 1980 to 2013. “When we realized that not a single country has had a significant decline in obesity, that tells you how hard a challenge this is.”
Murray said there was a strong link between income and obesity; as people get richer, their waistlines also tend to start bulging. He said scientists have noticed accompanying spikes in diabetes and that rates of cancers linked to weight, like pancreatic cancer, are also rising. The new report was paid for by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and published online Thursday in the journal, Lancet. Last week, the World Health Organization established a high-level commission tasked with ending childhood obesity.
“Our children are getting fatter,” Dr. Margaret Chan, WHO’s direc-tor-general, said bluntly during a speech at the agency’s annual meeting in Geneva. “Parts of the world are quite literally eating themselves to death.” Earlier this year, WHO said that no more than 5 percent of your daily calories should come from sugar.
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In this image taken from video provided by NBC News on Tuesday, May 27, 2014, Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, right, speaks to NBC News anchor Brian Williams, left, during an NBC Exclusive interview. Snowden told Williams that he worked undercover and overseas for the CIA and the NSA.
Kerry to Snowden: ‘Man up’ and come homeAssociated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday called National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden a fugitive and challenged him to “man up and come back to the United States.” Snowden says in an interview that he would like to go home.
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Keramas Beach is located at Keramas village, Blahbatuh subdistrict, Gianyar, or about 8 km east of Denpasar and about 6 km from the Gianyar town. To get there, visitors can get through Sanur which then passes Jalan Bypass Ida Bagus Mantra to the east. This beach also offers a really wonderful ambience.
Its nature remains pristine and has beautiful scenery because there are a wide overlay of green paddy fields and rows of palm trees lining along the road to the beach. The panorama will turn more beau-tiful when watching the surfers in action on the waves with their surf board. On holidays, a number of local tourists mingle with foreign tourists to relax, sunbathe or just play around or fish.
One of the assistants of stall located on the beachside preparing surfing facilities, food and drink, said the beach was the location of local community to catch fish. However, in line with the tourism develop-ment, the beach was also favored by many foreign tourists.
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It took a frantic effort just to extend the series, even with the foul-plagued LeBron James held to just seven points in 23 minutes. Chris Bosh led the Heat with 20 points, but missed a potential go-ahead 3-pointer in the closing seconds. Indiana turned a 50-41 deficit into a 64-57 lead after three quarters, then led by as many as 11 in the fourth. Miami’s last-ditch rally made it 91-90 with 16 sec-onds to go, but Indiana managed to hold on to force a Game 6.
George’s 21 fourth-quarter points were the most ever scored in one quarter of a playoff game against Miami. The previous best was 20 by the Bulls’ Michael Jordan in May 1997. “We just played. Our backs are against the wall right now so that’s all we can
do,” George said. “We were in a position that if we lost this game, we’re going home so I think that was in the backs of everybody’s minds.”
David West added 19 points for the Pacers and Roy Hibbert had 10 points and 13 rebounds. Miami will now try to clinch its fourth straight Eastern Conference title at home.
The Pacers played like a des-perate team trying to save their season. They chased shooters all over the floor, ran down loose balls, even put themselves in harm’s way. Lance Stephenson appeared to hurt his left shoulder in the third quarter after a hard fall and still finished the game. Until George came alive in the second half, it looked like the Heat would
close out the series with a fourth straight win.
But unlike Game 2, when the Pacers couldn’t stop Dwyane Wade and James late, the Pacers fended off the closing charge from the two-time defending champs — barely.
George’s incredible ability to hit big shot after big shot and a defense that refused to give the lead away late eventually saved the Pacers, and only after they twice failed to take advantage of James’ absence in the first half. The Pacers finally figured it out midway through the third. “I just felt it. I felt in rhythm. I had to be aggressive,” George said. “I tried to come out and be aggressive to start this game off and I was get-ting looks. I got hot.”
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It is not something Maria Sharapova would confess to publicly, but Serena Williams’s early downfall at the French Open means the statuesque Russian can now skip around Paris with an extra spring in her step. While Williams’ unexpected second-round exit has offered a spark of hope to the 50 women still left standing in Roland Garros, nowhere was that hope burning brighter than in the Sharapova camp on Wednesday.
As Sharapova’s 13-million plus followers on Facebook are aware, beating the younger of the Williams sisters has proved to be the one obstacle that has been insurmountable for the 27-year-old.
It has been 10 long years since Sharapova has beaten her American rival and since that joyful day in Los Angeles in 2004, the former world number one has slumped to 15 successive defeats, including in the French Open final last year.
“You always have to follow your path and always concentrate on your work and who’s ahead of you and not get worried about what’s going on,” Sharapova said after she reached the third round with a 7-5 6-2 win over Bulgaria’s Tsvetana Pironkova.
“Obviously when you go on court you’re aware of a lot of the up-sets, not just in the women but in the men, as well. “So it’s great to get a win in that type of atmosphere.” Williams’ demise carried extra significance for Sharapova as the 2012 Roland Garros champion had been on a quarter-final collision course with the American.
Instead of worrying and fretting over that possible showdown, Sharapova may now consider sending little-known Spaniard Garbine Muguruza, the conqueror of Williams, a thank-you note if she is to lift the French Open trophy for the second time in three years on June 7.
Pacers stay alive with 93-90 Game 5 win over Heat
AP Photo/Michael ConroyIndiana Pacers forward Paul George (24) shoots over Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade during the second half of Game 5 of the NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals in Indianapolis, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Indiana Pacers won 90-93.
Associated Press Writer
INDIANAPOLIS — Paul George scored 31 of his 37 points in the second half, including 21 in the fourth quarter, and almost single-handedly kept the Indiana Pacers alive in the NBA’s Eastern Conference finals with a 93-90 victory over the Miami Heat on Wednesday. The Pacers still trail 3-2 in the best-of-seven series. Game 6 will be played Friday night in Miami.
AP Photo/David VincentRussia’s Maria Sharapova blows a kiss to the public after defeating Bulgaria’s Tsvetana Pironkova during the second round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, France, Wednesday, May 28, 2014.
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Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi said the allegations did not affect him or his team. “I don’t even know where that is coming from, we don’t know what hap-pened,” said Keshi. “It’s something ridiculous, something that we don’t know where it’s coming from. We’re not gamblers, we are football players.”
Nigeria had been behind for much of the match. Scotland had taken the lead as early as the 10th minute after a shot from midfielder James Morrison was flicked over the Nigeria goalkeeper Austin Ejide by Charlie Mulgrew. Scotland then appeared to have doubled its lead in the 32nd minute but the firm header from Grant Hanley was disallowed for a foul on Ejide.
Following that let-off, Nigeria started to enjoy more possession and engineered a few chances. Its first equalizer came in the 41st minute, when forward Michael Uchebo strode forward and his shot took a big deflection off Hanley to deceive the Scotland goalkeeper Allan McGregor.
Scotland reclaimed the lead in the 52nd minute after defender Azubuike Egwuekwe put past his own goalkeeper from close range following a cross from Alan Hutton. Nigeria strove hard in the final ten minutes to get back on level terms and was eventually rewarded with Nwofor’s goal.
The buildup to the game was dominated by the alleged match-fixing. On Tuesday, The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that officers from the National Crime Agency were investigating attempts to fix Wednes-day’s match.
Keshi left many of his star players, such as midfielder John Obi Mikel and striker Emmanuel Emenike, out of the squad to face Scotland as he tried out younger players ahead of a June 2 deadline to trim his World Cup squad to the FIFA requirement of 23.
Nigeria now takes its World Cup preparations to the United States where it will meet fellow qualifiers Greece and the U.S. Nigeria, the current Africa Cup of Nations champion, is in Group F alongside Argentina, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iran. It begins its campaign in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba against Iran on June 16.
Associated Press Writer
TAMPA, Florida — Malcolm Glazer, the self-made billionaire who led the takeover of English football’s Manchester United and owned the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buc-caneers, has died. He was 85. The Bucs said Glazer died Wednesday. The reclusive Palm Beach, Florida, businessman had been in failing health since April 2006 when a pair of strokes left him with impaired speech and limited mobility in his right arm and leg.
Glazer raised his profile in 2005 with a $1.47 billion takeover of
Manchester United that was bitterly opposed by fans of one of the world’s richest football clubs. Before that, his unobtrusive management style helped transform the Bucs from a laughingstock into a model franchise that in 2003 won the Super Bowl 48-21 over the Oakland Raiders. “The thoughts of everyone at Manchester United are with the family tonight,” the team said in a statement
Born Aug. 25, 1928, in Rochester, New York, the son of a watch-parts salesman, Glazer began working for the family business when he was 8 and took over the operation as a teen-ager when his father died in 1943.
As president and CEO of First Allied Corp., the holding company for the family business interests, he invested in mobile-home parks, restaurants, food service equipment, marine protein, television stations, real estate, natural gas and oil pro-duction and other ventures. In March 2010, Forbes ranked him as tied for the world’s 400th richest person, es-timating his net worth at $2.4 billion. The magazine’s separate ranking of Americans put him and his family at 139th in fall 2008.
He purchased the Bucs for a then-NFL record $192 million in 1995, taking over one of the worst-
run and least successful teams in American professional sports. And while Glazer once said he probably overpaid by $50 million, the value of the team has more than qua-drupled since he assumed control. “Malcolm Glazer was the guiding force behind the building of a Super Bowl-champion organization. His dedication to the community was evident in all he did, including his leadership in bringing Super Bowls to Tampa Bay,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said.
In an era when many owners of professional teams attract nearly as much attention as the athletes,
Glazer was content to allow three of his sons handle daily operation of the Bucs and rarely granted interviews or visited the team’s offices and training facility.
But he was a fixture at Bucs games before his health declined, and he spent generously to acquire players and provide coaches and front office personnel with the resources to do their jobs. To NFL fans accustomed to the frugal ways of original Bucs owner Hugh Culverhouse, Glazer was a savior. “With our major invest-ment here, we didn’t come in here to have a loser,” Glazer said after acquiring the Bucs.
Former Man Utd owner Glazer died at 85
Nigeria comes back twice to draw 2-2 with ScotlandAssociated Press Writer
LONDON — A 90th minute strike from substitute Uche Nwofor saw Nigeria come from behind for the second time to draw 2-2 with Scotland in a friendly international match in London on Wednesday. In a match at Fulham’s home ground that had been the subject of allegations of attempted match-fixing, the forward, who had replaced Shola Ameobi in the 62nd minute, drilled the equalizer from close range following some slack Scottish defending.
Associated Press Writer
SANTIAGO, Chile — The Chil-ean miners who survived trapped underground longer than anyone else before have a message for their country’s World Cup team: Don’t fear the “group of death.” Chile has a strong squad, but in the first round it faces defending champion Spain and 2010 finalist Netherlands, as well as Australia. Just advancing out of Group B will be seen as a major success.
But for the miners who were trapped deep underground for 69 days in 2010: “Nothing is impos-sible for a Chilean.” That’s the title of their stirring television ad released Wednesday. In the Bank of Chile ad, the men return to the mouth of the mine that nearly became their rocky
grave. There, miner Mario Sep-ulveda gives a moving speech telling Chile’s team to courageously fight against all odds, remembering how the miners overcame death itself.
Then, the miners collect sand from the Atacama desert in jars that they hope to send to the team to be poured wherever they play. In the end, the group breaks into a chant of “Chi! Chi! Chi! Le! Le! Le!” — for the country’s name.
“My message to our Chile team is that we’re going to win. They have the talent and a whole country behind them and they must battle until the end,” Sepulveda, the public face of the miners, told The Associated Press. “There are harder things in life and you can conquer them. Chile will not only pass to the second round, but it will surprise everyone.”
With world-class players in-cluding Juventus midfielder Arturo Vidal and Barcelona forward Alexis Sanchez, Chile finished third in South American qualifying, had a draw with Spain and beat England in friendly matches, and lost only two of 15 games last year. Chile placed third when it hosted the 1962 World Cup. It will be playing in its second consecutive Cup, which it has never done before.
In its last two appearances, in 1998 and 2010, Chile reached the round of 16. At the 2010 Cup in South Africa, Chile beat Switzerland and Honduras and lost to eventual champion Spain 2-1 in the group stage. It then lost to Brazil 3-0 in the second round. If Chile gets through the group stage, it could again meet host Brazil in the second round.
Associated Press Writer
MEXICO CITY — Mexico got two goals from Miguel Layun to beat Israel 3-0 in a pre-World Cup friendly on Wednesday, but got a scare when starting goalkeeper Jesus Corona was injured in a collision with a teammate. Layun scored in the 42nd and 62nd minutes, and Marco Fabian added a goal in the 85th.
Corona sustained a head injury after crashing into Francisco Rodriguez and was replaced in the 70th by Guillermo Ochoa. He was the team’s starter through most of Mexico’s World Cup qualifying campaign and the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil.
“We don’t know yet what is wrong with Jesus. He is going to be tested and then we can give a status,” coach Miguel Herrera said. “I spoke briefly with him and he said that he was fine, but we need to wait.” Herrera did not rule out going on its pre-World Cup U.S. tour without him.
Mexico will play Ecuador in a friendly on Saturday in Arlington, Texas, then face Bosnia-Herzegovina on Tuesday night in Chicago and close its warm-up schedule against Portugal on June 6 in Foxborough, Massachu-setts. The team travels to Sao Paulo the next day.
Mexico plays its first World Cup match against Cameroon in Natal on June 13, followed by its likely toughest test against Brazil on June 17 in Fortaleza. The Mexicans then play Croatia on June 23 in Recife.
Mexico great Cuauhtemoc Blanco, who played in three World Cups and is the second all-time leading scorer for “el Tri,” made his final international appearance in Wednesday’s match against Israel. The 41 year-old Blanco, the only Mexican to score in three different World Cups, still plays in the Mexican league for Puebla.
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Lukasz Fabianski aims to oust Michel Vorm as Swansea City’s first choice goalkeeper after re-jecting a contract extension with Arsenal and joining their English Premier League rivals on a free transfer on Thursday.
The 29-year-old Polish inter-national signed a four-year deal, which will be activated upon the expiry of his Arsenal contract on July 1, and becomes Garry Monk’s first signing since taking over as manager in February.
“I am very happy with the move, the decision and the club,” he told the Swansea website. “For me, it was an easy decision to make.
“If I’m completely honest, the main reason I came to Swansea was because I want to be the num-ber one goalkeeper. I want to play week-in, week-out. It’s going to be a real fight, but I’m not afraid of that.”
Fabianski, who has won 21 international caps, will compete with Dutch international Vorm for a starting spot at the Liberty Sta-dium after ending his seven-year
spell at the Emirates.The injury-prone Vorm, who
underwent knee surgery in Decem-ber, was named in the Netherlands’ preliminary World Cup squad earlier this month.
Swansea also have German goalkeeper Gerhard Tremmel on their books.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger had said he had wanted to keep the goalkeeper, who was backup to first choice Wojciech Szczesny but started the FA Cup final earlier this month as the Londoners beat Hull City 3-2.
Swansea snap up Polish goalkeeper Fabianski from Arsenal
Chile miners seek to give boost to World Cup team
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Chile’s soccer players warm up during a training session in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Chile will play a friendly match with Egypt in Santiago on Friday prior to competing at the World Cup in Brazil in June.
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Mexicol’s Miguel Layun celebrates after scoring during a friendly soccer match against Israel, in Mexico City, Wednes-day, May 28, 2014.
Mexico gets 3-0 win over Israel in friendly
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Nigeria’s Michael Uchebo, left, celebrates with Azubuike Egwueke after he scores a goal during the international friendly soccer match between Nigeria and Scotland at Craven Cottage Stadium in London, Wednesday, May 28, 2014.
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Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi said the allegations did not affect him or his team. “I don’t even know where that is coming from, we don’t know what hap-pened,” said Keshi. “It’s something ridiculous, something that we don’t know where it’s coming from. We’re not gamblers, we are football players.”
Nigeria had been behind for much of the match. Scotland had taken the lead as early as the 10th minute after a shot from midfielder James Morrison was flicked over the Nigeria goalkeeper Austin Ejide by Charlie Mulgrew. Scotland then appeared to have doubled its lead in the 32nd minute but the firm header from Grant Hanley was disallowed for a foul on Ejide.
Following that let-off, Nigeria started to enjoy more possession and engineered a few chances. Its first equalizer came in the 41st minute, when forward Michael Uchebo strode forward and his shot took a big deflection off Hanley to deceive the Scotland goalkeeper Allan McGregor.
Scotland reclaimed the lead in the 52nd minute after defender Azubuike Egwuekwe put past his own goalkeeper from close range following a cross from Alan Hutton. Nigeria strove hard in the final ten minutes to get back on level terms and was eventually rewarded with Nwofor’s goal.
The buildup to the game was dominated by the alleged match-fixing. On Tuesday, The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that officers from the National Crime Agency were investigating attempts to fix Wednes-day’s match.
Keshi left many of his star players, such as midfielder John Obi Mikel and striker Emmanuel Emenike, out of the squad to face Scotland as he tried out younger players ahead of a June 2 deadline to trim his World Cup squad to the FIFA requirement of 23.
Nigeria now takes its World Cup preparations to the United States where it will meet fellow qualifiers Greece and the U.S. Nigeria, the current Africa Cup of Nations champion, is in Group F alongside Argentina, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iran. It begins its campaign in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba against Iran on June 16.
Associated Press Writer
TAMPA, Florida — Malcolm Glazer, the self-made billionaire who led the takeover of English football’s Manchester United and owned the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buc-caneers, has died. He was 85. The Bucs said Glazer died Wednesday. The reclusive Palm Beach, Florida, businessman had been in failing health since April 2006 when a pair of strokes left him with impaired speech and limited mobility in his right arm and leg.
Glazer raised his profile in 2005 with a $1.47 billion takeover of
Manchester United that was bitterly opposed by fans of one of the world’s richest football clubs. Before that, his unobtrusive management style helped transform the Bucs from a laughingstock into a model franchise that in 2003 won the Super Bowl 48-21 over the Oakland Raiders. “The thoughts of everyone at Manchester United are with the family tonight,” the team said in a statement
Born Aug. 25, 1928, in Rochester, New York, the son of a watch-parts salesman, Glazer began working for the family business when he was 8 and took over the operation as a teen-ager when his father died in 1943.
As president and CEO of First Allied Corp., the holding company for the family business interests, he invested in mobile-home parks, restaurants, food service equipment, marine protein, television stations, real estate, natural gas and oil pro-duction and other ventures. In March 2010, Forbes ranked him as tied for the world’s 400th richest person, es-timating his net worth at $2.4 billion. The magazine’s separate ranking of Americans put him and his family at 139th in fall 2008.
He purchased the Bucs for a then-NFL record $192 million in 1995, taking over one of the worst-
run and least successful teams in American professional sports. And while Glazer once said he probably overpaid by $50 million, the value of the team has more than qua-drupled since he assumed control. “Malcolm Glazer was the guiding force behind the building of a Super Bowl-champion organization. His dedication to the community was evident in all he did, including his leadership in bringing Super Bowls to Tampa Bay,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said.
In an era when many owners of professional teams attract nearly as much attention as the athletes,
Glazer was content to allow three of his sons handle daily operation of the Bucs and rarely granted interviews or visited the team’s offices and training facility.
But he was a fixture at Bucs games before his health declined, and he spent generously to acquire players and provide coaches and front office personnel with the resources to do their jobs. To NFL fans accustomed to the frugal ways of original Bucs owner Hugh Culverhouse, Glazer was a savior. “With our major invest-ment here, we didn’t come in here to have a loser,” Glazer said after acquiring the Bucs.
Former Man Utd owner Glazer died at 85
Nigeria comes back twice to draw 2-2 with ScotlandAssociated Press Writer
LONDON — A 90th minute strike from substitute Uche Nwofor saw Nigeria come from behind for the second time to draw 2-2 with Scotland in a friendly international match in London on Wednesday. In a match at Fulham’s home ground that had been the subject of allegations of attempted match-fixing, the forward, who had replaced Shola Ameobi in the 62nd minute, drilled the equalizer from close range following some slack Scottish defending.
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SANTIAGO, Chile — The Chil-ean miners who survived trapped underground longer than anyone else before have a message for their country’s World Cup team: Don’t fear the “group of death.” Chile has a strong squad, but in the first round it faces defending champion Spain and 2010 finalist Netherlands, as well as Australia. Just advancing out of Group B will be seen as a major success.
But for the miners who were trapped deep underground for 69 days in 2010: “Nothing is impos-sible for a Chilean.” That’s the title of their stirring television ad released Wednesday. In the Bank of Chile ad, the men return to the mouth of the mine that nearly became their rocky
grave. There, miner Mario Sep-ulveda gives a moving speech telling Chile’s team to courageously fight against all odds, remembering how the miners overcame death itself.
Then, the miners collect sand from the Atacama desert in jars that they hope to send to the team to be poured wherever they play. In the end, the group breaks into a chant of “Chi! Chi! Chi! Le! Le! Le!” — for the country’s name.
“My message to our Chile team is that we’re going to win. They have the talent and a whole country behind them and they must battle until the end,” Sepulveda, the public face of the miners, told The Associated Press. “There are harder things in life and you can conquer them. Chile will not only pass to the second round, but it will surprise everyone.”
With world-class players in-cluding Juventus midfielder Arturo Vidal and Barcelona forward Alexis Sanchez, Chile finished third in South American qualifying, had a draw with Spain and beat England in friendly matches, and lost only two of 15 games last year. Chile placed third when it hosted the 1962 World Cup. It will be playing in its second consecutive Cup, which it has never done before.
In its last two appearances, in 1998 and 2010, Chile reached the round of 16. At the 2010 Cup in South Africa, Chile beat Switzerland and Honduras and lost to eventual champion Spain 2-1 in the group stage. It then lost to Brazil 3-0 in the second round. If Chile gets through the group stage, it could again meet host Brazil in the second round.
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MEXICO CITY — Mexico got two goals from Miguel Layun to beat Israel 3-0 in a pre-World Cup friendly on Wednesday, but got a scare when starting goalkeeper Jesus Corona was injured in a collision with a teammate. Layun scored in the 42nd and 62nd minutes, and Marco Fabian added a goal in the 85th.
Corona sustained a head injury after crashing into Francisco Rodriguez and was replaced in the 70th by Guillermo Ochoa. He was the team’s starter through most of Mexico’s World Cup qualifying campaign and the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil.
“We don’t know yet what is wrong with Jesus. He is going to be tested and then we can give a status,” coach Miguel Herrera said. “I spoke briefly with him and he said that he was fine, but we need to wait.” Herrera did not rule out going on its pre-World Cup U.S. tour without him.
Mexico will play Ecuador in a friendly on Saturday in Arlington, Texas, then face Bosnia-Herzegovina on Tuesday night in Chicago and close its warm-up schedule against Portugal on June 6 in Foxborough, Massachu-setts. The team travels to Sao Paulo the next day.
Mexico plays its first World Cup match against Cameroon in Natal on June 13, followed by its likely toughest test against Brazil on June 17 in Fortaleza. The Mexicans then play Croatia on June 23 in Recife.
Mexico great Cuauhtemoc Blanco, who played in three World Cups and is the second all-time leading scorer for “el Tri,” made his final international appearance in Wednesday’s match against Israel. The 41 year-old Blanco, the only Mexican to score in three different World Cups, still plays in the Mexican league for Puebla.
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Lukasz Fabianski aims to oust Michel Vorm as Swansea City’s first choice goalkeeper after re-jecting a contract extension with Arsenal and joining their English Premier League rivals on a free transfer on Thursday.
The 29-year-old Polish inter-national signed a four-year deal, which will be activated upon the expiry of his Arsenal contract on July 1, and becomes Garry Monk’s first signing since taking over as manager in February.
“I am very happy with the move, the decision and the club,” he told the Swansea website. “For me, it was an easy decision to make.
“If I’m completely honest, the main reason I came to Swansea was because I want to be the num-ber one goalkeeper. I want to play week-in, week-out. It’s going to be a real fight, but I’m not afraid of that.”
Fabianski, who has won 21 international caps, will compete with Dutch international Vorm for a starting spot at the Liberty Sta-dium after ending his seven-year
spell at the Emirates.The injury-prone Vorm, who
underwent knee surgery in Decem-ber, was named in the Netherlands’ preliminary World Cup squad earlier this month.
Swansea also have German goalkeeper Gerhard Tremmel on their books.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger had said he had wanted to keep the goalkeeper, who was backup to first choice Wojciech Szczesny but started the FA Cup final earlier this month as the Londoners beat Hull City 3-2.
Swansea snap up Polish goalkeeper Fabianski from Arsenal
Chile miners seek to give boost to World Cup team
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Chile’s soccer players warm up during a training session in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Chile will play a friendly match with Egypt in Santiago on Friday prior to competing at the World Cup in Brazil in June.
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Mexicol’s Miguel Layun celebrates after scoring during a friendly soccer match against Israel, in Mexico City, Wednes-day, May 28, 2014.
Mexico gets 3-0 win over Israel in friendly
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Nigeria’s Michael Uchebo, left, celebrates with Azubuike Egwueke after he scores a goal during the international friendly soccer match between Nigeria and Scotland at Craven Cottage Stadium in London, Wednesday, May 28, 2014.
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GIANYAR - Tuas Beach or frequently called as Keramas Beach is very popular among the world surfers. Even, the beach located in the region of the arts has been well known as one of the best surfing spots since 2000. So, do not be surprised, if the water sport hobbyists both the local and foreign tourists are coming here and tested their capability on the black sandy beach.
Keramas Beach is located at Keramas village, Blahbatuh subdistrict, Gianyar, or about 8 km east of Denpasar and about 6 km from the Gianyar town. To get there, visitors can get through Sanur which then passes Jalan Bypass Ida Bagus Mantra to the east. This beach also offers a really wonderful ambience.
Its nature remains pristine and has beautiful scenery because there are a wide overlay of green paddy fields and rows of palm trees lining along the road to the beach. The panorama will turn more beau-tiful when watching the surfers in action on the waves with their surf board. On holidays, a number of local tourists mingle with foreign tourists to relax, sunbathe or just play around or fish.
One of the assistants of stall located on the beachside preparing surfing facilities, food and drink, said the beach was the location of local community to catch fish. However, in line with the tourism develop-ment, the beach was also favored by many foreign tourists.
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It took a frantic effort just to extend the series, even with the foul-plagued LeBron James held to just seven points in 23 minutes. Chris Bosh led the Heat with 20 points, but missed a potential go-ahead 3-pointer in the closing seconds. Indiana turned a 50-41 deficit into a 64-57 lead after three quarters, then led by as many as 11 in the fourth. Miami’s last-ditch rally made it 91-90 with 16 sec-onds to go, but Indiana managed to hold on to force a Game 6.
George’s 21 fourth-quarter points were the most ever scored in one quarter of a playoff game against Miami. The previous best was 20 by the Bulls’ Michael Jordan in May 1997. “We just played. Our backs are against the wall right now so that’s all we can
do,” George said. “We were in a position that if we lost this game, we’re going home so I think that was in the backs of everybody’s minds.”
David West added 19 points for the Pacers and Roy Hibbert had 10 points and 13 rebounds. Miami will now try to clinch its fourth straight Eastern Conference title at home.
The Pacers played like a des-perate team trying to save their season. They chased shooters all over the floor, ran down loose balls, even put themselves in harm’s way. Lance Stephenson appeared to hurt his left shoulder in the third quarter after a hard fall and still finished the game. Until George came alive in the second half, it looked like the Heat would
close out the series with a fourth straight win.
But unlike Game 2, when the Pacers couldn’t stop Dwyane Wade and James late, the Pacers fended off the closing charge from the two-time defending champs — barely.
George’s incredible ability to hit big shot after big shot and a defense that refused to give the lead away late eventually saved the Pacers, and only after they twice failed to take advantage of James’ absence in the first half. The Pacers finally figured it out midway through the third. “I just felt it. I felt in rhythm. I had to be aggressive,” George said. “I tried to come out and be aggressive to start this game off and I was get-ting looks. I got hot.”
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It is not something Maria Sharapova would confess to publicly, but Serena Williams’s early downfall at the French Open means the statuesque Russian can now skip around Paris with an extra spring in her step. While Williams’ unexpected second-round exit has offered a spark of hope to the 50 women still left standing in Roland Garros, nowhere was that hope burning brighter than in the Sharapova camp on Wednesday.
As Sharapova’s 13-million plus followers on Facebook are aware, beating the younger of the Williams sisters has proved to be the one obstacle that has been insurmountable for the 27-year-old.
It has been 10 long years since Sharapova has beaten her American rival and since that joyful day in Los Angeles in 2004, the former world number one has slumped to 15 successive defeats, including in the French Open final last year.
“You always have to follow your path and always concentrate on your work and who’s ahead of you and not get worried about what’s going on,” Sharapova said after she reached the third round with a 7-5 6-2 win over Bulgaria’s Tsvetana Pironkova.
“Obviously when you go on court you’re aware of a lot of the up-sets, not just in the women but in the men, as well. “So it’s great to get a win in that type of atmosphere.” Williams’ demise carried extra significance for Sharapova as the 2012 Roland Garros champion had been on a quarter-final collision course with the American.
Instead of worrying and fretting over that possible showdown, Sharapova may now consider sending little-known Spaniard Garbine Muguruza, the conqueror of Williams, a thank-you note if she is to lift the French Open trophy for the second time in three years on June 7.
Pacers stay alive with 93-90 Game 5 win over Heat
AP Photo/Michael ConroyIndiana Pacers forward Paul George (24) shoots over Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade during the second half of Game 5 of the NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals in Indianapolis, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Indiana Pacers won 90-93.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Paul George scored 31 of his 37 points in the second half, including 21 in the fourth quarter, and almost single-handedly kept the Indiana Pacers alive in the NBA’s Eastern Conference finals with a 93-90 victory over the Miami Heat on Wednesday. The Pacers still trail 3-2 in the best-of-seven series. Game 6 will be played Friday night in Miami.
AP Photo/David VincentRussia’s Maria Sharapova blows a kiss to the public after defeating Bulgaria’s Tsvetana Pironkova during the second round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, France, Wednesday, May 28, 2014.
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“After the elections, we all should unite again to continue the develop-ment of the nation. We should elimi-nate the distance we have during the competition. It is not good for us to entertain grudge and animosity,” the President said when addressing a function held to observe Isra Miraj, the ascension of the Prophet Muham-mad at the Bogor Palace Wednesday night.
He said that competition among the electoral contestants should run peacefully and healthily.
“It is unwise to bequeath hatred and hostility to succeeding genera-tion. Let’s build harmony and togeth-erness among the people based on solidarity,” Yudhoyono stated.
He added: “Let’s prove that the democracy that we are building is the
democracy of Indonesia, increasingly mature and civilized democracy.”
The President also called on the electoral contestants not to insult each other and launch slanderous campaigns aimed at ruining rivals. “Religion prohibits its followers to insult and defame others.”
Yudhoyono also called on the people to support whoever is elected president so that they would work hand-in-hand in bringing progress to the nation.
“Let us pray for whoever is elected president and vice president so that they will be able to implement the mandate and heavy tasks as well as possible,” he said.
Currently, there are two presiden-tial and vice presidential candidate pairs, Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla and
the Prabowo-Hatta Rajasa, who will contest in the July 9 presidential election.
The Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla duo is supported by the Indonesian Demo-cratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), the National Democrat Party (NasDem), the National Awakening Party (PKB), and the People’s Conscience Party (Hanura) with 207 seats or 36.96 percent of the House of Representa-tives (DPR)’s 560 seats.
The Prabowo-Hatta duo is sup-ported by the Greater Indonesia Movement (Gerindra), the Golkar Party, the National Mandate Party, the Prosperous Justice Party, the United Development Party (PPP), and the Crescent and Star Party (PBB) with 292 seats or 52.14 percent in the parliament.
AntaraJAKARTA - The Jakarta provincial government is planning to al-
locate Rp3 trillion for the development of parks equipped with sports facilities in the capital.
“It is true that we will buy land to develop sports parks. This is in line with the request of the governor (Joko Widodo),” Jakarta vice governor Basuki Tjajahaja Purnama said at the Jakarta city hall on Wednesday.
“The sports parks will be built in slum areas. For the purpose, we will allocate Rp3 trillion in funds,” Ahok, as the vice governor is popularly called, added.
He made it clear that the construction of sports parks in densely populated areas in the capital was one of the ways to deal with social conflicts.
“By building the sports parks, various social conflicts such as brawls, which frequently occur in residential areas can be avoided,” he said
Hopefully, the presence of sports facilities will motivate the city dwellers to exercise, he remarked.
“Likewise, I also hope that if Jakarta has many sports facilities many children can develop their talent. The presence of the sports facilities is also expected to improve public health,” he pointed out.
AntaraJAKARTA - The governments of Indonesia and Turkey agreed to
boost cooperation in the agricultural sector especially in research and development of farm commodities.
The agriculture ministry said in a statement on Wednesday Agri-culture Minister Suswono and his Turkish counterpart Mehmed Medi Eker met to discuss the cooperation agreement on the Turkish town of Konya on Tuesday.
The two ministers also agreed to promote bilateral trade in order to meet the target for trade value of US$5 billion in 2015 set by the governments of the two countries.
Suswono said he wanted the agreement to be followed up with the forming of a working group to implement details of the agreement.
“A working group is important that the agreement could be imple-mented immediately,” he said.
The Indonesian minister said he expected there would be routine meeting at the level of senior officials to discuss the technicalities of the agreement.
Meanwhile, the Turkish Minister for Agriculture, Food and Ani-mal Husbandry Mehmed Medi Eker agreed with the need to form a working group and hoped that the agreement could be expanded in the future.
Mehmed said he believed there are many things in which the two countries could expand cooperation in the agricultural sector.
He said with the difference in seasons, Indonesia being a tropical country and Turkey a subtropical country, there are many products that could not be produced in Turkey, could be supplied by Indonesia and the other way round.
“I believe there are many aspects in the agricultural sector the two countries could cooperate in,” he added.
He said Indonesia and Turkey are active members of G-8, G-20, and the Islam Conference Organization, that there are many forums to discuss many issues including agricultural issue.
In short term the two countries could start cooperation in research and development in the agricultural sector, he said
Suswono agreed that cooperation in research and development in the agricultural sector should be implemented as soon as possible.
Based on the agreement, a cooperation agreement has been signed by the agriculture ministries of the two countries.
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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said that political competition in the upcoming presi-dential elections should run peacefully and leave no resentment so that the people could unite in developing the nation.
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JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said that political competition in the up-coming presidential elections should run peacefully and leave no resentment so that the people could unite in developing the nation.
Jakarta to allocate Rp3 trillion for sports parks
Indonesia and Turkey to boost agricultural cooperation
The former NSA contract sys-tems analyst is living in Russia on a temporary grant of asylum after leaking a massive volume of NSA documents to the media. He told anchorman Brian Williams of NBC News that he had taken action in the belief that he was serving his country in exposing the surveil-lance programs of the NSA.
“I don’t think there’s ever been any question that I’d like to go home,” Snowden said in a seg-ment of the interview broadcast Wednesday night. “Now, whether amnesty or clemency ever becomes a possibility is not for me to say. That’s a debate for the public and the government to decide. But, if I could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home.”
Kerry’s comments came before NBC aired that portion of the Snowden interview. On the mat-ter of Snowden returning, Kerry told the “Today” show on NBC: “If Mr. Snowden wants to come back to the United States, we’ll have him on a flight today.” Kerry also said, “A patriot would not run away.” Snowden told Williams that he worked undercover and overseas for the CIA and the NSA. He said he had a much larger role in U.S. intelligence than the gov-ernment has acknowledged.
“I was trained as a spy in sort of the traditional sense of the word, in that I lived and worked undercover overseas,” he said. National security adviser Susan Rice said in a CNN interview
that Snowden never worked un-dercover.
As far as the necessity for the leaks, “let him come back and make his case,” Kerry said. “If he cares so much about America and he believes in America, he should trust the American system of justice.”
Snowden said he never in-tended to be holed up in Russia but was forced to go there because Washington decided to “revoke my passport.” In response, Kerry said: “Well, for a supposedly smart guy, that’s a pretty dumb answer, after all.” “I think he’s confused,” Kerry said. “I think it’s very sad. But this is a man who has done great damage to his country.”
“We have deployed 90 staff members during the ongoing mass vaccination program,” Putu Sumantra, the head of the Bali animal husbandry and health office, said recently.
A total of 120 thousand doses of vaccines have been distributed across nine districts in Bali, while 250 thousand more doses were scheduled to arrive soon.
The system being applied during the vaccination campaign is dif-ferent from the ones used in previous campaigns. This time, officers are targeting stray dogs wandering in hilly and mountainous areas, and puppies, which were not vaccinated before.
Vaccinations will also be given to puppies as young as two weeks to protect and strengthen their immunity.
“Cats and monkeys that we encounter will also be vaccinated, but they are not our targets, because our main targets are dogs,” he reiter-ated. He called upon the cooperation of the local residents to help make the rabies-free Bali program a success.
Since January 2014, 17 dogs have been found infected with rabies in seven districts in Bali, including six cases in Buleleng. This was a significant decrease, given that last year 44 dogs were infected with rabies, particularly in Buleleng, Jembrana and Bangli.
The first fatal rabies case in Bali was found in 2008. Since then, the disease has claimed 146 lives. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s Crisis Management Centre for Animal Health conducted a mission to Bali in December of 2008.
Since 2011, FAO has been supporting Indonesia in working to rapidly control the deadly rabies virus on the island, through an innovative strategy centered on comprehensive mass vaccinations of dogs.
As a result of the programme, human rabies cases were reduced from eleven per month in 2010 to just one per month the following year. Following a mass vaccination of dogs, there was another major reduction in 2012 and 2013, bringing the number of reported cases down to only one human case in all of 2013.
The previous four mass vaccination programs, which were organized in 2010, vaccinated 95 percent of targeted dogs.
Associated Press Writer
LONDON — Almost a third of the world is now fat, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis.
Researchers found more than 2 billion people worldwide are now overweight or obese. The highest rates were in the Middle East and North Africa, where nearly 60 percent of men and 65 percent of women are heavy. The U.S. has about 13 percent of the world’s fat population, a greater percentage than any other country. China and India combined have about 15 percent.
“It’s pretty grim,” said Christopher Murray of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, who led the study. He and colleagues reviewed more than 1,700 studies covering 188 countries from 1980 to 2013. “When we realized that not a single country has had a significant decline in obesity, that tells you how hard a challenge this is.”
Murray said there was a strong link between income and obesity; as people get richer, their waistlines also tend to start bulging. He said scientists have noticed accompanying spikes in diabetes and that rates of cancers linked to weight, like pancreatic cancer, are also rising. The new report was paid for by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and published online Thursday in the journal, Lancet. Last week, the World Health Organization established a high-level commission tasked with ending childhood obesity.
“Our children are getting fatter,” Dr. Margaret Chan, WHO’s direc-tor-general, said bluntly during a speech at the agency’s annual meeting in Geneva. “Parts of the world are quite literally eating themselves to death.” Earlier this year, WHO said that no more than 5 percent of your daily calories should come from sugar.
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In this image taken from video provided by NBC News on Tuesday, May 27, 2014, Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, right, speaks to NBC News anchor Brian Williams, left, during an NBC Exclusive interview. Snowden told Williams that he worked undercover and overseas for the CIA and the NSA.
Kerry to Snowden: ‘Man up’ and come homeAssociated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday called National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden a fugitive and challenged him to “man up and come back to the United States.” Snowden says in an interview that he would like to go home.
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MOSCOW — Leaders of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan on Thursday signed an agree-ment to create the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), an al-liance intended to further boost economic and trade ties between the ex-Soviet neighbors.
Russian President Vladi-mir Putin said during talks in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, that the pact is taking their cooperation to a “new level,” while fully respecting their
sovereignty.Putin said the new union will
help provide an “attractive cen-ter of economic development” and allow the three nations to exploit their economic potential and strengthen their positions in global markets.
The new alliance is the devel-opment of the Customs Union including the same nations. In addition to free trade, it coor-dinates the members’ financial systems and regulates industrial and agricultural policies along with their labor markets and
transport systems.The deal stops short of in-
troducing a single currency and delays the creation of a common energy market.
The signing followed years of tense negotiations, and many differences have remained.
Moscow will host the top executive body of the new al-liance. Its high court will be based in Belarus, and the top financial regulator will be lo-cated in Kazakhstan.
Belarus’ authoritarian Presi-dent Alexander Lukashenko,
who has depended on cheap Rus-sian energy and other subsidies to keep the 10-million nation’s Soviet-style economy afloat, said before the signing he wasn’t fully happy with the deal, but hailed it reflected a mutually acceptable compromise.
Kazakhstan, led by auto-cratic President Nursultan Naz-arbayev, is the second larg-est country by territory and economy among the ex-Soviet nations. Nazarbayev has ma-neuvered between Russia and the West during more than two
decades in power. But Russia has little leverage over Kazakh-stan, whose energy riches and booming economy make it an equal partner.
Nazarbayev said the new pact is based on consensus. “The agreement is well-bal-anced and thorough, taking into accounts the interests of all its members,” he said.
He voiced hope that the new alliance “will become a power-ful incentive for modernizing our economies and helping making them global leaders.”
The union’s secretary Moham-ad Jabbarullah Abdul Kadir said Thursday that the state-owned airline has been mired in losses for four straight years and is now grappling with the aftermath of the Flight 370 tragedy. The jet disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board.
He said the government and airline have done their best in handling the tragedy, but CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya and his team have failed to show lead-ership in charting the airline’s future.
Mohamad Jabbarullah said staff frustration was not due to the plane crisis but had built up over the years because of management’s failure to engage employees and address internal problems. Bankruptcy isn’t an option for the airline that has 19,500 staff worldwide, he said.
“We have lost trust in the cur-rent management. Staff morale is very low due to a lack of leader-ship and direction. We need a new team with experience to turn around the airline,” he told reporters.
The union’s demand will add to pressures on Malaysia Air-
lines, which is already struggling to repair its image after Flight 370 vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. About two-thirds of the passengers were Chinese.
Airline officials couldn’t be immediately reached for com-ment.
The carrier’s first quarter loss swelled 59 percent to 443.4 mil-lion ringgit ($137.6 million), hit by a backlash in China.
Last year, the airline’s losses ballooned to 1.17 billion ringgit ($363 million), nearly three times larger than its 433 million ringgit loss in 2012.
Mohamad Jabbarullah said the union, which has about 8,000 members, is urging Prime Minis-ter Najib Razak to intervene “to rescue the airline from disinte-grating.”
The government has said it will not bail out the carrier.
The union will submit a mem-orandum to Najib soon to appeal for a new management team with strong experience in the aviation industry.
Shares of Malaysia Airlines have plunged since Flight 370 disappeared.
AP Photo/Vincent ThianA visitor looks out from the viewing gallery as Malaysia Airlines aircraft sit on the tarmac at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang, Malaysia, Tuesday, May 27, 2014.
Malaysia Airlines union calls for CEO to resignAssociated Press
KUALA LUMPUR — The union representing Malaysia Airlines employees is calling for the resignation of the airline’s chief execu-tive, saying new management is needed to revive the beleaguered flag carrier.
Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan set up EEU
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SINGARAJA – Rice planting season this year is unlikely to pro-vide benefit for farmers at Kerobo-kan village, Sawan subdistrict. The newly planted paddy seedling is now under attack by unknown disease. Inevitably, the two-week seedlings are threatened to die. In the recent harvest season, farmers in this area suffered a loss because their paddy plant was attacked by rice seed bugs, so the harvest yield of farmers could not be sold to middlemen.
The paddy seedlings was attacked by ‘mysterious’ disease as experi-enced by farmers at Subak Kloncing, Subak Lanyahan Kerobokan and Subak Babakan Kerobokan, Sawan subdistrict. The two-week paddy plant belonging to Ciherang variety looked sere. The trunk started perish-ing due to ferocity of the disease.
Paddy field at Kerobokan village with the area of about 200 hectares had mostly been planted, but the planted seedlings dried and slowly died. Other than at Kerobokan, this mysterious disease also attacked the paddy plant of farmers at several sub-ak areas at Sawan village, Kubutam-
bahan and surrounding areas. If the disease attack could not be overcome, farmers would possibly not cultivate their land in the next planting season as running out of capital.
A local farmer, I Wayan Suana, 60, said on Tuesday (May 27) that since the planting his rice seedlings looked to grow normally. After two weeks, the leaves were sere and gradually dried. More surprisingly, the lower stem started to perish, so the seedlings were slowly dying. He tried to observe the diseases attacking the plant, but he did not find any kind of disease. Nevertheless, he suspected it was caused by adverse weather condition. “At the beginning it looked to grow normally and leaves turned green, but these days their leaves withered and dried. When observed, I could not find the disease such as leafhoppers. The paddy plants slowly died like this,” he said.
According to him, such disease often attacked when planting season arrived. Unluckily, he and other farmers were unable to resolve from the first. He suspected the disease was endemic on lowland rice fields. Likewise, it was getting worse with the asynchronous planting season, so
the disease was difficult to eradicate. For this condition, he could only sur-render because most of the rice seed-lings slowly died. It was impossible to replace the dead ones with the new ones because many seedlings had died. Moreover, the seedling reserves had been entirely planted. “I think the disease to have been endemic and the planting season was not simultane-ous, so the attack never stops. Now, the only way available is to abandon and surrender to this condition,” he explained.
Similar opinion was disclosed by another farmer, Nyoman Rentana, 30. He said the newly planted rice seedlings had begun to indicate the disease. As having not known the form of the disease, he tried to con-trol it by reducing the pool of water at each plot. Besides, he also tried to spray with poison. For this condition, he hoped the relevant technical agen-cies could help farmers overcome the disease. “Since I do not know the trigger of this disease causing gradual death, I try to handle by reducing irrigation and spraying with poison, but the paddy plants still looked withered and its leaves yellowed,” he explained. (kmb38)
Information from some residents on Monday (May 26) told if the villa on the area of 2.1 hectares did not show any activity over the years. Besides, the villa had been sealed and fitted with police line, but it had been lately removed. “I do not know the status whether it is an evidence or else,” said one of the residents. According to him, the villa was often closed but occasionally there was someone getting in by car. Alleg-edly the person was the villa man-ager. Despite no activity, the villa whose land was often mentioned in the court of the compost case was guarded by a warden.
The villa owned by a Japanese citizen, K Tsurumi, posed the partner in the compost machine originally intended for Japanese elderly citizen through annual rental system. As planned, the total building would amount to 30 units, but after the case emerged involving the villa owner, the construction was stopped. Ap-proximately, only six units of the building could have been completed and one of which had been occupied
by the owner, K Tsurumi.As revealed in the trial at that
time, the villa was sealed because there was indication of money laundering crime (TPPU) from the transaction of the land purchase re-lated to the compost machine. Aside from the land, the Mercedes-Benz E 320 series (1997) was also seized by Bali Police. So far, it was unclear about the latest progress of the case. As the result, the asset of land and villas at Pekutatan hanged fire and did not operate.
Subdistrict head of Pekutatan, Ketut Eko Susilo, when asked for his comment on the villa on Tuesday (May 27) revealed if the villa indeed had no activity. All this time, there was no operation as any other villas / hotels in Pekutatan. “There is no activity, but police line has indeed been removed and is only guarded by security,” explained the former village chief of Gilimanuk. From the information received, the land in Pekutatan had been sealed but it was unclear whether it was related to the case or not. (kmb26)
IBP/OloThe fate of Japanese Villa at Pekutatan village owned by a Japanese citizen looks to be poorly maintained.
Japanese Villa at Pekutatan hangs fireBali Post
NEGARA - The fate of Japanese Villa at Pekutatan village owned by a Japanese citizen looks to be poorly maintained. Having been sealed by Bali Police related to the allegation of money laundering (AML), no activity is seen at the villa having a number of building units. The employees have resigned.
IBP/MudiartaRice planting season this year is unlikely to provide benefit for farm-ers at Kerobokan village, Sawan subdistrict.
Attacked by diseaseHundreds hectares of paddy at risk from harvest failure
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The president who pulled U.S. troops from Iraq, avoided direct con-frontation in Syria and has tapered off the American military presence in Afghanistan seemed to be saying that the U.S. had learned that it cannot impose its will on the rest of the world, said David Livingstone, an expert in international security at London’s Chatham House. He said Obama’s words went against the “American instinct to go in hard with the military first” when crisis erupts.
“America has to be in sympathy with the world, and its leadership has been perceived to be unilateral,” he said after listening to Obama’s speech at West Point. He thought the president should have made it clear that it is im-possible to assure the safety of every American.
In the Gulf state of Qatar, Brook-ings Center director Salman Shaikh saw the speech as a boost for consen-sus, but he said broke no new ground for a president who has distanced himself from the “interventionist wars” of his predecessor, George W. Bush. “He talked about partnerships, working multilaterally, which is all to be welcomed,” Shaikh said, caution-ing that had to be balanced against “whether the U.S. is really willing to lead across the Middle East.”
Obama devoted his most muscular
language to counterterrorism, par-ticularly in Syria where Obama said extremists are spilling across borders and where a civil war has killed more than 160,000 people. Without specifying, Obama talked about more U.S. support for Syria’s moderate opposition fighting to oust President Bashar Assad.
Obama put off any hint of using force there or in Iran, where he touted a possible agreement over its nuclear program. “He was clear that this is his foreign policy legacy, he hopes, when it comes to the Middle East,” Shaikh said, adding that Obama was “relatively weak” when pressing is-sues like human rights and democracy in the region.
Boaz Ganor, an Israeli counterter-rorism expert, said Obama’s speech revealed a lack of understanding of the global threat of terrorism. He disagreed with Obama’s assertion that al-Qaida is less dangerous now.
“Maybe a 9/11 type of attack right now from a centralized al-Qaida in a lesser probability. But a decentralized al-Qaida is even more dangerous than a centralized al-Qaida because these splinter groups, these embryonic new al-Qaida organizations will emerge and will no doubt down the road try to hit the U.S. mainland and will inspire many followers in the United
States.”He said there is “a big question” on
whether the U.S. has the determina-tion to impose its will on enemies and a “small question” about whether it has the capability to do so. “You need to understand that if you are running away from terrorism, terrorism will probably come after you and chase you,” he said. “I would argue that the U.S. lost Egypt, lost Libya and diluted their influence in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries. It seems that the villains of the region have the upper hand, this is Iran and its affili-ates, and that is a very bad sign for the allies of the United States around the world.”
Concerns about terrorism also clouded the president’s message to Africa, said J. Peter Pham, the director of the Africa Center at the Washington-based Atlantic Council. The administration has emphasized Africa’s economic promise for its upcoming summit of African leaders in Washington.
“For all the desire to move on to the ‘New Africa,’ the ‘Old Africa’ of conflicts, terrorism, and other secu-rity and humanitarian concerns still consumes much of the attention that the continent and its nations receive in Washington, all too often crowding out the strategic, long-term picture.”
Associated Press Writer
CAIRO — With nearly all votes counted, Egypt’s former military chief has won a crushing victory over his sole opponent with more than 92 percent of the votes, according to results announced by his campaign early Thursday. The campaign of retired field marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said he won 23.38 million votes, with left-wing politician Hamdeen Sabahi taking 735,285. Invalid votes were 1.07 million, or nearly 350,000 more than the number of votes for the 59-year-old Sabahi.
El-Sissi’s win was never in doubt, but the career infantry of-ficer, also 59, had hoped for a strong turnout to bestow legitimacy on his ouster last July of Egypt’s first freely elected president, the Islamist Mohammed Morsi. According to el-Sissi’s campaign, the turnout nationwide was around 44 percent, even after voting was extended for a third day Wednesday — well below the nearly 52 percent turnout in the June 2012 election won by Morsi.
Still, el-Sissi can genuinely claim he comes into office with an impressive vote tally — his campaign said he won 23.38 million votes. That’s significantly more than the 13 million that Morsi won two years ago. In his final campaign TV interview last week, el-Sissi had set the bar even higher, saying he wanted more than 40 million voters — there are nearly 54 million registered voters — to cast ballots to “show the world” the extent of his popular backing.
After polls closed, his supporters held all-night celebrations in Cairo, with several thousands gathered at the central Tahrir square, birthplace of the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. They waved Egyptian flags, el-Sissi posters and danced. There were similar celebrations in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria and a string of other cities north of the capital and in the Oasis province of Fayoum southwest of Cairo.
Critics said the lack of enthusiasm at the polls was in part due to apathy among even el-Sissi supporters, knowing that his victory was a foregone conclusion. Others said it showed discontent with el-Sissi, not just among his Islamist foes but also among a broader section of the public that believes he has no concrete plans for Egypt’s woes and fears he will return Egypt to the autocratic ways of Hosni Mubarak.
The tepid turnout was particularly embarrassing because the government and media had been whipping up adulation for el-Sissi over the past 10 months, depicting him as a warrior against terror-ism and the only person able to tackle Egypt’s economic problems, high unemployment, inflation and instability.
El-Sissi’s supporters in the Egyptian media have been in a panic the past two days. Political talk show hosts and newscasters urged people to vote, warning that otherwise the Brotherhood will be encouraged to step up its challenge to the new government.
Prominent TV talk show host Amr Adeeb angrily said that by not voting, Egyptians might as well “go directly to the prison and return Mohammed Morsi to power.” “Tell him, ‘Your excellency, President Mohammed Morsi, please come out and rule us,’” he said.
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, FileFILE - In this May 22, 2010, file photo, addressing the graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, President Barack Obama outlined a foreign policy vision using diplomacy and a strong military together, in West Point, N.Y.
LONDON — President Barack Obama’s speech emphasizing soft power and alliances over military might crystallized into a single speech what many experts said Wednesday was an inevitable — and wel-come — evolution of U.S. foreign policy.
AP Photo/Lobna Tarek, El Shorouk NewspaperIn this Wednesday, May 28, 2014 photo, an election worker counts ballots at a counting center in Cairo, Egypt.
Egypt: El-Sissi wins election by landslide
Bali PostDENPASAR - Dependency of
farmers on genetically modified seeds (GMOs) and hybrid seeds, aside from making away from prosperity, will disrupt natural ecosystems. In addi-tion, farmers who cannot afford the price of the original seed will look for the counterfeit quality.
“There must be a negative impact. Actually the hybrid seed is the prod-uct of capitalist. Are farmers able to afford the price of high quality seed? Maximally they only afford the counterfeit quality,” said the owner of PT Aura International, I Kadek Agus Mulyawan, Friday (May 23).
In addition, the use of seed showed a 90-percent dependency on the intake of inorganic substances such as fertilizer, stimulant to pesticide exceeding the safety threshold for consumption. Consequently it was not eco-friendly due to excessive intake of chemicals. “When eating the crops, of course, it has a negative impact on health. Therefore, I urge to think of it because it will threaten our health and environment,” said Agus.
Agus added the two products were the result of breakthrough in biotech-
nology to boost food products and carried out in various ways, from the exposure to bacterial infiltration. Ac-cording to him, the products actually reaped many complaints because of high costs. “After harvest, the hybrid seed cannot be cultivated back. Pos-sibly, it is engineered so that farmers continue to buy and become depen-dent,” he said.
Secretary of the Indonesian Farm-ers Union (HKTI) of Bali, Dewa Nyo-man Sudita, asked the government to subsidize local breeders in Bali. There was a trend among the farmers to choose hybrid seed because it was considered more promising than local seeds. “There should be an increase in quality because as long as the local breeders are able to produce a good seed, I think it will be demanded by farmers,” he said.
According to him, the efforts of rice breeders had been widely at-tempted in Bali. One of which was made by Subak Guama. Even, there were farmers especially developing local seeds. But the current fact in-dicated that there were lots of seeds offered by the Agriculture Agency and related agencies to farmers.
“Actually, the key to these prob-lems is how local government chiefly the agency dealing with food crops provides guidance for seed breeders. Armed with the guidance or good regulation, I think the farmers will no longer depend on the seed prod-ucts from outside because the seeds produced by local farmers are not inferior,” he explained.
However, he said the government should make a regulation profiting the local seed products by subsidizing the good agricultural seeds. “The govern-ment should help farmers generate good seed and make regulations to prohibit the entrance of seeds from outside the region. By that way, I think farmers will follow,” he said.
He mentioned that many seeds produced by farmers today had been certified. Meanwhile, local breeders were not accompanied with technol-ogy and even some of them were still doing it conventionally. “In the future, we expect the government to encourage our agriculture by think-ing about how the government subsi-dizes the seeds to farmers, so that our farmers will not feel disadvantaged,” he said. (kmb36/kmb37)
Discovery of the anonymous baby corpse started with the sound of explosion heard by I Wayan Edy Wirasnawa, 27. When checking, the flames had been seen right in front of his laundry outlet. “Around 00:45 a.m., I just got back from buying gasoline. Upon arriving at home, I immediately went in and sat down in the living room. However, 15 minutes after that I heard the sound of explosion outside the home. When checked, the fire was blazing in front of my laundry outlet,” said I Wayan Edy, Monday (May 26).
Seeing the huge blaze, Wayan Edy immediately took a hose and sprayed water onto the burning trash. After extinguishing the fire, he found a bottle containing gasoline inside the dumpster and a lighter in the middle of the road. “After finding a lighter and gasoline, I think someone intentionally wanted to burn the house. So, I immediately woke up my parents to let them know,” he said.
With his parents, I Wayan Resna, 59, and Kadek Suartini, 48, he then returned to the dumpster. After extinguishing the fire, it was visible a fabric twist on a pile of burning rubbish. Having been checked, the fabric twists had been covered in maggot. “I thought it was the burning of laundry fabric. Then, I checked with my mother (Kadek Suartini—Ed). When opened slightly, the maggots were seen inside the fabric twists,” he said.
The fabric containing maggots was then lifted by Wayan Edy. Unexpectedly, after uplifted, a figure of baby girl corpse fell from the fabric twists. Allegedly, the baby girl had long died because it exuded stench. “I was shocked and told my mother if it was possibly a baby. Having been noticed, the baby was female and already smelling,” he explained.
Furthermore, he suspected a motorcyclist riding a Honda Vario with license plate DK 8805 FP stopping not far from the location where the baby was found. Being suspicious, Wayan Edy then took his motorcycle and pursued the Vario rider. As being unable to counterbalance the speed, he was left behind. “At first, I thought he was setting on fire a baby, so I chased him by a motorcycle. However, since the rider of green Honda Vario with license plate DK 8805 FP dashed in high speed, it could escape,” he explained.
Meanwhile, Mr. Yanik, who lived not far from the location, claimed to have seen a motorcyclist throwing something into the dumpster. “I saw a motorcyclist throwing something like a box in the dumpster. At that time, I did not notice because of having no suspicion. But after hearing there was a baby set to fire, I thought the motorist was the perpetrator,” he explained.
Chief of Badung Police Criminal Detective, Wisnu Wardana, when asked for his confirmation justified to have received a report on the baby set on fire at 1:30 a.m. His party immediately assigned some members to come to the scene for conducting an investigation. “After receiving a report on the baby set on fire, our team was promptly assigned to come to the scene in order to check and conduct a crime scene investigation as well as assign the members to perform a search,” he said.
Additionally, Wisnu affirmed the allegation on the burning of such poor baby was based on evidence such as a bottle containing gasoline. When asked whether the perpetrator had been identified, he answered that his party was still investigating the case. He also added if the baby had died since its birth pursuant to the doctor’s explanation. “We’re still collecting testimonies from several wit-nesses. In addition, the members continuously investigate this case. As the last information obtained from forensic physician, the baby has possibly died since its birth,” he added. (nik)
Bali PostBANGLI - A total of 30 excelled farmers across
Bangli County that would attend the National Farmer and Fisherman Forum (Penas KTNA) XIV 2014 at Kedung Pedaringin village, Kepangen subdistrict, Malang, East Java, were released by Regent Made Gianyar, Monday (May 27). They would attend the event on June 5-12, 2014. The release took place in the meeting room of the Bangli Agriculture, Plantation and Forestry Agency marked with the conferment of Bangli region’s logo by the Bangli regent to Chair-man of the Farmer and Fisherman Forum of Bangli, Ketut Mupu.
Committee Chairman of the Farmer and Fisherman Forum XIV of Bangli, I Made Pulasari, in his report said the purpose of participation in the forum was to boost motivation, excitement, and independence of fisherman and forest farmer in Bangli County in the competitive, community-based and sustainable agri-business development and systems through a mutually beneficial partnership. In the activities, fishermen and forest farmers had the opportunity to share ideas and experience in utilizing the agricultural resources avail-able in each region as well as to examine the use of technology in the evolving world of agriculture.
In the National Farmer and Fisherman Forum XIV in Malang, Bangli County sent more participants than the previous year, namely 30 excelled farmers. The addition was based on the consideration that in 2015 Bangli County would get the turn to host the Farmer and Fisherman Forum XV of Bali Province. “In other words, with the more farmers sent, they will get more information, knowledge and experience to improve the quality and quantity of the agriculture in Bangli County,” said Ari Pulasari.
Meanwhile, the Regent of Bangli, I Made Gianyar, on the occasion reminded in order the excelled farmers across Bangli County attending the National Farmer and Fisherman Forum XIV in Malang could take advantage of the opportunity well to enrich the infor-mation and knowledge about the latest agricultural development. Moreover, the touch of technology in the agricultural sector today could not be ruled out. With the use of technology, the agricultural sector continued to experience growth. “Hopefully, the participation of Bangli County in the Farmer and Fisherman Forum XIV, they will be motivated to continue to develop the agriculture in Bangli. Thus, the farmers in Bangli can be prosperous in the future through the farm,” he hoped. (ina)
A baby corpse set on fire in a dumpster
Bali PostA tragic phenomenon was found at Anggungan hamlet, Lukluk
village, Mengwi, Badung, Monday morning (May 26). To be sure, a corpse of baby was found in a dumpster on fire. It was not known who the perpetrator and the motive of such tragic action, while police are still hunting the perpetrator alleged to set on fire the unlucky baby. The corpse of such innocent baby girl was rushed to Kapal Hospital.
Bangli regent sends 30 farmers to Malang
Dependency on hybrid seeds Farmers slump chance increasing
3Friday, May 30, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsFashion Friday, May 30, 2014
According to Tunjung, he and the other four puppet masters will perform the epic Mahabarata and Ramayana stories in the festival in China. The festival itself will be participated in by puppet mas-ters from around the world.
“The puppet festival in China is a good event to promote tradi-tional culture of Indonesia to the world especially to the young people,” said Tunjung.
Bali Post
SEMARAPURA - Balinese people increasingly lose out in competition against migrants. Tenacity of migrants in seizing the opportunities in the
IBP/Suryawan
A puppet master performed in ritual ceremony that held in Denpasar recently. Five Balinese puppet masters will attend the International Puppet Festival which will be held in Nanchong, China, from May 31 to June 7, one of the puppet master I Wayan Tunjung said.
Five puppet masters to attend puppet festival in China
AntaraGIANYAR - Five Balinese
puppet masters will attend the International Puppet Festival which will be held in Nan-chong, China, from May 31 to June 7, one of the puppet master I Wayan Tunjung said on Thursday.
To compete against migrantsBalinese need to change mindset
IBP/File Photo
Traditional fishermen are taking fishs out of their net in Kelan Beach. Balinese people increas-ingly lose out in competition against migrants. Tenacity of migrants in seizing the opportuni-ties in the micro-economy of Bali affirms that the position of Balinese people only serves as a spectator.
micro-economy of Bali affirms that the position of Balinese people only serves as a spectator. In competing against migrants, Balinese people are still difficult to change the mindset in order to be able to seize every micro-
and macro- economic opportunities existing in the region.
It was revealed by Deputy Regent of Klungkung, Made Kasta. Accord-ing to him, foresight of migrants to take advantage of any economic
opportunities around them should be appreciated. Moreover, they pursued it resiliently, so they could last up to reaching a success and rapid growth. Seeing the facts in the field, Kasta mentioned that many people had proved it. Even, many Balinese people were dependent on a wide range of businesses occupied by the migrants like the traders of fresh vegetables and fried fish or chicken proliferat-ing at every corner of the city. “It is hard to encourage Balinese people so as to follow the positive measures taken by migrants. It is difficult to change the mindset of our society,” he explained.
In addition to traders of salads, many other micro-economic opportu-nities were not exploited by the people of Bali, especially in Klungkung. Even, the making of canang oblation having become the daily activities of majority of Balinese people was also seized by migrants. More ironically, serombotan or assorted salads becom-ing the typical delicacy of Klung-kung were widely sold by migrants. “Now, the serombotan is also widely presented by many migrants. We’re getting far less competitive whereas this is our native home where we are supposed to be smarter to seize the existing opportunities,” he said.
Seeing the phenomenon, specifi-cally in the field of fisheries, Kasta had a desire to encourage the community to develop a similar business but with different packaging. One of them was that county government should encourage the fishery sector since
the beginning, where there should be efforts to increase fish production in the region such as by increasing the cultivation of fish at each village. On that account, his party recognized the production of fish in Klungkung was still lacking. Unfortunately, the ef-forts of related agencies in promoting fish production were still minimal. Even, the deputy regent highlighted 11 fish breeding ponds belonging to the Klungkung Livestock, Fishery and Maritime Affairs (PKK) around his office, had not been utilized. “We need to build an integrated system in developing the fishery sector. Do not make a lot of cultivation but no one purchase it,” he said.
Today, Klungkung remained to focus on building the fishery sector in general at the fish preservation (TPI) at Kusamba, Dawan subdis-trict, Klungkung. The capacity of local fish supply to the location was only 2 tons per day. Meanwhile, the fish preservation at Kusamba was capable of producing an average of 10-15 tons per day. As consequence, it remained dependent on fish supply from outside the region. The deputy regent admitted the efforts to build the fishery sector in Klungkung was still minimal. His party asserted there was a good attempt to boost the fishery sector on a large scale in order to meet the target in the fish preservation or aquaculture to the real sector in every rural community. “The fishery sector provides a big enough opportunity for driving a populistic economic sector,” he said. (kmb31)
Among the things industry watch-ers are envisioning are holograms in dressing rooms that will allow shoppers to try on clothes without getting un-dressed. Their homes will be equipped with smart technology that will order light bulbs before they go dark. And they’ll be able to print out a full version of coffee cups and other products using 3-D technology in stores. “Physical shopping will become a lot more fun because it’s going to have to be,” retail futurist Doug Stephens says.
MORE SERVICES
Forrester analyst Sucharita Mulpuru says stores of the future will be more about services, like day care, veterinary services and beauty services. Services that connect online and offline shop-ping could increase as well, with more drive-thru pickup and order-online, pick-up-in-store services. Checkout also will be self-service or with cashiers using computer tablets.
Some stores are taking self-service further: A store in Seattle called Hointer displays clothing not in piles or on racks but as one piece hanging at a time, like a gallery.
Shoppers just touch their smart-
phones to a coded tag on the item and then select a color and size on their phone. Technology in the store keeps track of the items, and by the time a shopper is ready to try them on, they’re already at the dressing room. If the shopper doesn’t like an item, he tosses it down a chute, which automatically removes the item from the shopper’s online shopping cart. The shopper keeps the items that he or she wants, which are purchased automatically when leaving the store, no checkout in-volved. Nadia Shouraboura, Hointer’s CEO, says once shoppers get used to the process, they’re hooked.
ON-DEMAND COUPONS
Some stores like British retailer Tesco and drugstore Duane Reade now are testing beacons, Bluetooth-enabled devices that can communicate directly with your cellphone to offer discounts, direct you to a desired product in a store or enable you to pay remotely. For example, you can walk into a drugstore where you normally buy face cream. The beacon would recognize your smartphone, connect it with past pur-chasing history and send you a text or email with a coupon for the cream.
“The more we know about custom-ers ... you can use promotions on not a macro level but a micro level,” says Kasey Lobaugh, chief retail innova-tion officer at Deloitte Consulting. A store could offer a mother 20 percent off on Mother’s Day, for example, or offer frequent buyers of paper towels a discount on bulk purchases.
3-D PRINTING
Within 10 years, 3-D printing could make a major disruption in retail, Deloitte’s Lobaugh predicts. Take a simple item like a coffee cup. Instead of producing one in China, transporting it and distributing it to retail stores, you could just download the code for the coffee cup and 3-D print it at a retail outlet or in your own home.
“That starts a dramatic change in terms of the structure of retail,” Lobaugh said. And while 3-D printing today is primarily plastic, Lobaugh says there are tests at places like MIT Media Lab and elsewhere with other materi-als, including fabric. Right now a few stores offer rudimentary 3-D-printing services, but they are very limited. He predicts the shift will come in 10 to 20 years.
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Beats Electronics’ colorful, oversized headphones serve as a fashion accessory to cool kids riding the New York City subway, but as tech companies such as Apple, Samsung and others are discovering, wearable gadgets like smartwatches and Google Glass still have a long way to go to become trendy, must-have consumer items.
Apple’s $3 billion purchase of Beats Electronics, by far the com-pany’s largest acquisition, is at least in part recognition that Beats founders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine might be able to help Apple incorporate more style and flair into its premium technology gadgets —especially a coming wave of wearable devices.
Technology companies see wearables as an important area of growth beyond smartphones and tablets, and many are slowly real-izing that if they expect people to wear gadgets —be they bracelets to monitor fitness activity, smartwatches to substitute smartphones or Internet-connected goggles— those devices must focus as much on form as function.
So far, the most noteworthy wearables have hardly been stylish. The standard Google Glass product looks more like something out of Star Trek than a fashion accessory. Fitness bands meant to be worn 24 hours a day are difficult to match with evening gowns or even a suit and tie. “I guess they are accessories, but I would not say they are high fashion,” says Alison Minton, a blogger who writes about accessories, jewelry and handbags on accessorygeneration.com. “There’s a ways to go before they could be considered high fashion in the way Chanel would be, or Prada.”
To change that, tech companies are beginning to attract top talent from the world of fashion. Apple’s move comes less than a year af-ter the iPhone and iPad inventor hired Angela Ahrendts, a respected executive who helped mold Burberry into the popular luxury brand it is today. In recent weeks, Google lured fashion and marketing execu-tive Ivy Ross, who’s worked for Calvin Klein, the Gap and Coach, to head its Google Glass unit.
“With your help, I look forward to answering the seemingly simple, but truly audacious questions Glass poses: Can technology be something that frees us up and keeps us in the moment, rather than taking us out of it? Can it help us look up and out at the world around us, and the people who share it with us?” wrote Rossin a Google Plus post.
For Ahrendts, Apple is already a luxury brand. Three years before she was hired at Apple last fall, she signaled her admiration for Apple in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
“I don’t look at Gucci or Chanel or anyone,” Ahrendts told the newspaper in 2010. “If I look to any company as a model, it’s Apple. They’re a brilliant design company working to create a lifestyle, and that’s the way I see us.”
AP Photo/Hointer
In this undated photo provided by Hointer, a woman demonstrates the Seattle store’s shop-ping technology.
What US shopping will look like in the futureAssociated Press
NEW YORK — When it comes to shopping, more Americans are skipping the stores and pulling out their smartphones and tablets. Still, there’s more on the horizon for shopping than just point-and-clicking. No one thinks physical stores are going away permanently. But because of the frenetic pace of advances in technology and online shopping, the stores that remain will likely offer amenities and services that are more about experiences and less about selling a product. Think: Apple Inc.’s stores.
Apple’s Beats buy joins tech and street-wise style
AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File
FILE - In this May 9, 2014 file photo, Beats Audio equipment is arranged for a photo next to an Apple laptop at Best Buy in Boston.
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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.
The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.
The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.
In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.
Balinese Temple Ceremony
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The 210-seat restaurant is the best venue for dinner with families, friends and colleagues. The restaurant also regularly hosts leisure and business groups, who enjoy Southeast Asian feast that pleas-es their palate while holidaying in Bali. In many occasions, the restaurant has received wonderful feedback for the sumptuous buffet. The culinary team has created a buffet selection of Southeast Asian delights and comfort foods include Soup Station with choices of noodles, meatballs and savory soup broths. The most sought-after dishes are the BBQ Pork with Pineapple and Pad Thai. Every Wednesday, Starz Diner serves authentic Balinese cuisine and received great reviews for its famous Balinese Suckling Pig. Patrons are greeted by the Balinese-dressed servers and the ambiance is essentially Balinese.
New specialties introduced at Starz Diner include Roti Jala with Nyonya Chicken Curry, Slow Roast Pork Belly with Truffle Hoisin Sauce, Chicken Biryani with Saffron Basmati Rice and Mutton Stew with Chickpeas and Yoghurt.
Fantastic dinners are not complete without the tantalizing desserts. Starz Diner’s patrons enjoy signature desserts include Bubur Sago, selection of Cakes and Peranakan-style desserts. Kids menu is also available to complete treasured dinner experience at Starz Diner.
Experience the Dinner Buffet at only Rp. 150,000++/adult. One child (under 12 years old) eats for free for every one paying adult. For table reservation and group inquiries, call (+62 361) 761 869 at extension 7522 during business hours or email to [email protected].
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Starz Diner offers best buffet dinnersIBP
KUTA - Starz Diner at Hard rock Hotel Bali is known for serving one of the best buffet dinners on the island. Starz Diner offers contemporary South East Asian cuisine in casual yet vibrant surroundings.
Calendar Event for Jun 1 through Jul 12, 2014
1 Jun Pura Sakenan Serangan DenpasarPura Dalem Pahuman Bhujangga Penatih Denpasar TimurPura Alas Harum Batur KintamaniPura Alas Angker Munduk KintamaniPura Dalem Kawitan Empuaji Klungkung
4 Jun Buda Cemeng Langkir Pura Tanah Lot Kediri TabananPura Bucabe Mas UbudPura Puseh Desa Ganggang Canggi BatuanPura Luhur Batur Pucangan Buahan TabananPura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung BesakihPura Dalem bangun Sakti Tamiang KapalDalem Bias Muntig Ped Nusa penida
8 Jun Pura Agung Petilan Pengerebongan kesi-man DenpasarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Kesiut Kangin Kerambitan Tabanan
10 Jun Anggarkasih Medangsia Pura Pesimpangan Gerya Sakti Yogaloka Lampung SelatanPura Luhur UluwatuPura Bukit Pecatu Kuta badungPura Penataran Agung Singakerta UbudPura Andakasa KarangasemPura Gua Lawah KlungkungPura Kawitan Arya Gelgel klungkungPura Taman Ayun MengwiPura Suralaya Banda klungkungPura Dalem Senapati Bebalang BangliPura Pasek Gaduh Blahbatuh GianyarPura Pasek Lurah Tutuan Kerambitan TabananPura Pusering Jagat Tampaksiring
GianyarPura Gerya Sakti Tulikup GianyarPura Dalem Dauh UbudPura Segara Ketewel SukawatiPura Mertha Sari Mas Ubud
11 Jun Pura Gede Purancak JembranaPura Dalem Dauma Batuan SukawatiPura Nataran Kacang Dawa KlungkungPura Bhatara Gede Apol Ubung DenpasarPura Puseh Brahmana KlungkungPura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas TabananPura Dalem Sukahet KlungkungPura Dalem MuasPahit Guwang SukawatiPura Taman Dukuh TegallalangPura Desa Sanding Tampak Siring gianyarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Batan Buah KesimanPura Sahab Nusa penidaPura Dalem Cemara Serangan Denpasar
12 Jun Purnama Sasih Sadha Pura Pauman Bhujangga Tonja DenpasarPura Amertha Sari Rempoa Jakarta SelatanPura Ulun Swi Kediri TabananPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitra Gianyar
15 Jun Kajeng Kliwon uwudan Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi
25 Jun Buda Kliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Padangbai KarangasemPura Aer jeruk Sukawati GianyarPura Dangin Pasar Batuan SukawatiPura Penataran Batuyang BatubulanPura Desa Lembeng Ketewel GianyarPura Pasek Bendesa Kediri TabananPura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati gianyarPura Kresek Banyuning Buleleng
Pura Puseh Bebandem KarangasemPura Sad Kahyangan Batu Swana Nusa PenidaPura Buda Kliwon Penatih DenpasarPura Penataran Dukuh Naga Sari Bebandem KarangasemPura Batur Sari Ubud
27 Jun Tilem Sasih Sadha Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati
11 Jul Hari Bhatara Sri 12 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung BesakihPura Tirta BesakihPura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati
Bali PostDENPASAR - Dengue cases
handled by Sanglah Hospital showed a double increase com-pared to the cases in previous months. According to Secretary of the Sanglah Hospital Dengue Management Team, Ken Wiras-andhi, the hospitalized patient previously reaching 6-10 cases increased to 20 cases or doubled in May.
Most of the dengue cases in Sanglah Hospital, added Ken, posed the cases that could not be handled in primary and second-ary health care and required an
advanced treatment in Sanglah Hospital as tertiary health care. As the referral system had been run-ning, the Sanglah Hospital mostly handled dengue cases requiring intensive care. “Nevertheless, the case leading to death does not happen,” he said.
Meanwhile, in the past four months, the dengue in Bali reached 3,520 cases. In April, it was recorded to reach 948 new cases respectively occurred in Buleleng with 186 cases, Jem-brana (16), Tabanan (65), Badung (210), Denpasar (346), Gianyar (47), Bangli (18), Klungkung (28)
and Karangasem (32).A pediatrician of Wangaya Hos-
pital, Wayan Retayasa, explained the dengue was very hazardous if it had reached the stage of bleed-ing and shocked condition. Cycle of the dengue itself resembled a camel’s hump. “It is a-week cycle beginning with a high temperature and then decreases to normal and gets higher again,” said Retayasa. The stage to be watched out for is when the body temperature drops and looks normal. Most patients felt to have recovered and stopped the treatment. Unwittingly, it is the phase where the bleeding
stage started to occur. When body temperature got higher again, most patients would experience shock or decreased consciousness. When reaching this stage, it would be very difficult to handle and have great potential to death.
According to Retayasa, to detect such condition, patients should routinely check the level of platelet in the blood through laboratory test. When entering a hazardous stage, patients were usually advised to be hospital-ized. Retayasa continued that dengue treatment depended on the patient’s immune system so as to
maintain the condition of the body with good nutrition and enough fluids was highly recommended.
The Head of the Bali Health Agency, Ketut Suarjaya, added if dengue included the disease having relation to lifestyle and environmental sanitation. On that account, it should be attempted there was no stagnant water that could become the nest of mosquito denoting the vector of dengue. “The dengue is caused by virus. Therefore, the endurance is also very important to prevent infection of this disease,” said Suarjaya. (san)
The rise of fresh salad traders is surely inseparable from the need for fish such as catfish or tilapia on sale. If the local fish production cannot meet such high demand, then where will they (traders—Ed) get the fish supply?
The Head of Tabanan Fishery and Maritime Affairs, I Made Subagia, explained the need for fish such as catfish and tilapia all this time was very high. To meet the needs, his party had a catfish pond participatory program where in the program the group of fish farmers (Pokdakan) had been given assistance in the form of tarpaulin, fingerling and feed by the government in which the pond making was done by farmers. Ac-cording to him, the fish cultiva-tion in the tarpaulin pond could become an alternative for busi-
ness activities of Tabanan people because it could be implemented on less productive land. In addi-tion, the production costs were also relatively affordable.
On the other hand, the market opportunity was still widely open. “To encourage the potential of fishery and maritime sector in Tabanan, the government has piloted a participatory program. The result is not bad. Even, we are also supplying catfish to Denpasar, and vice versa. In other words, we build synergy,” he explained, Tuesday (May 27).
Meanwhile, I Gede Darma Susi-la, a catfish breeder at Buruan vil-lage, Tabanan, revealed the fresh-water fishery sector had become a lucrative business for many people. It also made him leave the pig breeding and switch to catfish
aquaculture sector because based on his calculation the business was more promising.
“In pig breeding, the price is unstable. It is not good for business continuity in the long term. Even-tually, I stop the pig breeding and switch to catfish cultivation because the selling price is more stable and promising,” he said.
Darma explained the fulfill-ment of fingerlings for cultivation remained incomparable to the market demands. It was a constraint retaining the business opportunity at once. It could be imagined that Bali needed 10 tons of catfish for consumption per day, while Bali could only meet the demand for catfish for consumption only 3 tons per day.
It was no less astonishing if the need for catfish fingerlings in a
To fulfill needs, government promotes catfish cultivation in tarpaulin pond
At Sanglah Hospital, dengue case doubles
BALI with various tourism industries has been able to encourage the growth of other sec-tors, where one of which is the informal sector. Unfortunately, the informal sector with minimal capital and labor intensive is not completely filled in by Balinese people. Even, the opportunities are mostly taken by migrants. No wonder, the traders of food, drinks, construction workers and other informal sector are then ‘controlled’ by migrants. One of the examples rampantly found is the trader of fresh salad and fried fish or chicken in night markets or store porch. Most of them are migrants, although there are also some natives to Bali but their number can still be counted on fingers.
month could reach 5 million. Un-fortunately, only a small portion of the fingerling needs could be met by Bali breeders. He admitted, the catfish fingerlings had indeed a very specific problem. The condition was different from the fingerlings of tilapia and other fingerlings. It also became one of the causes kindling the small production of catfish fin-gerling over the years.
He said the catfish breeding had high risk. Similarly, such condition also happened when it was send through interisland delivery at the fingerling stage. Catfish tended to be sensitive to environment, so only a few catfish fingerlings could grow.
“Most people have mindset that catfish breeding is very easy. Actu-ally, the fingerling stage has high risk of death because this condition is very sensitive,” he said.
In this fingerling stage, he explained, catfish required a pond with specific pH level and temperature. Not to mention the condition of catfish belonging to cannibal where it was difficult to meet the needs for silk worms as its feed in Bali. Such condition increasingly reduced the amount
of fingerling production.All this time, the fulfillment
of catfish fingerling in Bali was produced by three compo-nents of business, namely the People’s Hatchery Unit (UPR), Fish Fingerling Agency owned by the government and wholesale breeder posing a businessman who brought in fingerlings from Java and channeled back to fish breeders. He predicted the total production of fingerling was only able to meet about 1-2 million heads per month.
Ultimately, the conditions made the selling price of catfish finger-ling in the market fairly stable. For instance, the price of catfish finger-ling at the level of entrepreneurs was at IDR 25 per head, while the monosex category was in the range of IDR 35 per head.
The price of ready-to-sell catfish broodstock in the market sizing 10 cm was around IDR 300,000 per head, sizing 8 cm at IDR 250,000 thousand per head and sizing 6 cm at IDR 200,000 per head. The price of ready-to-consume catfish at the level of breeder was IDR 14,000 to IDR 15,000 per kg (containing 5 heads sizing 10 cm). (bit)
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Obama’s speech gets mixed response overseas
Angelou, who died Wednesday at 86, made an impact on American cul-ture that transcended her poetry and searing memoirs. She was the nation’s wise woman, a poet to presidents, an unapologetic conscience who became such a touchstone that grief over her loss poured from political leaders, celebrities and ordinary people in generous doses. “Above all, she was a storyteller — and her greatest stories were true,” President Barack Obama said.
Never hesitant to speak her mind, Angelou passionately defended the rights of women, young people and the ignored. She effortlessly traversed the worlds of literature and activism, becoming a confidante to the original civil rights leaders, their successors and the current generation.
“I’ve seen many things, I’ve learned many things,” Angelou told The As-sociated Press in 2013. “I’ve certainly
been exposed to many things and I’ve learned something: I owe it to you to tell you.”
Marc Morial, president of the Na-tional Urban League, remembered the “incredibly powerful experience” of being invited to Angelou’s home. They sat at her kitchen table for hours, Morial said, as Angelou told stories and talked about life, art, culture and humankind. “With equal parts majesty and humility, she held court — and I listened intently, absorbing every word and meaning that she had to impart,” Morial said.
A former singer and dancer — as well as once being the first black streetcar conductor in San Francisco — she also put her imprint on the new world of celebrity, mentoring Oprah Winfrey, instructing Alicia Keys in “lining out,” a call-and-response form of singing popular in Southern black
churches, acting in a television sketch with Richard Pryor, and inspiring sing-ers, authors and actors of all races and genders.
Angelou was a “phenomenal woman of insight, eloquence and artistry who gave voice to the rawness and lofti-ness of our history and our humanity,” said Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the nation’s first female speaker of the House of Represntatives.
Angelou’s talents and platforms were boundless: poetry, books, movies, the spoken word, television, a weekly SiriusXM satellite radio show and even Twitter and Facebook. She collected accolades from all portions of society: a Tony Award in 1973 for her appear-ance in the play “Look Away”; three Grammys for her spoken-word albums; an honorary National Book Award for her contributions to the literary com-munity; a National Medal of Arts; and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor.
Whether talking about the scourge of discrimination or the evil of sexism, “she has much to teach this generation and generations unborn about what it means to be an authentic person, and the power of the genuine,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson said.
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — A man was led away in handcuffs after alleg-edly attacking Brad Pitt on the red carpet at the Hollywood premiere of the movie “Maleficent.” Pitt was apparently unhurt and soon resumed signing autographs.
Witnesses saw the man from the fan area jump over a barrier on to the red carpet Wednesday at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood and rush at Pitt, touching him briefly before security guards wrestled him back across the barrier.
A police spokeswoman says the man, whose name she did not know, was arrested on suspicion of battery. Pitt kept greeting fans and walked into the theater.
Pitt’s longtime partner Angelina Jolie stars in “Maleficent,” Disney’s new live action spin on “Sleeping Beauty.”
Email messages left for represen-tatives for Pitt and Disney were not immediately returned.
Paul Morigi/AP Images for National Portrait Gallery
In this April 5, 2014 photo provided by the Nation-al Portrait Gallery, Cicely Tyson, Maya Angelou and Oprah Winfrey pose for a photo backstage at Angelou’s portrait unveiling at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington.
Maya Angelou, the nation’s wise womanAssociated Press Writer
Maya Angelou walked into a meeting of civil rights leaders discuss-ing affirmative action back in the 1990s, looked around, and put them all in their place with a single, astute observation. “She came into the room,” recalled Al Sharpton, “and she said: ‘The first problem is you don’t have women in here of equal status. We need to correct you before you can correct the country.’”
Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP
A fan is walked off carpet in handcuffs after allegedly attacking Brad Pitt at the world premiere of “Maleficent” at the El Capitan Theatre on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, in Los Angeles.
Brad Pitt attacked at ‘Maleficent’ premiere To avoid increase of Rabies cases
58 Prevention Centers set up in BaliAntara
DENPASAR - The Bali provincial administration has set up at least 58 rabies prevention centers in several districts and cities in Bali to avoid the increase of rabies cases on the island.
“We have prepared 58 rabies unit centers for the people to handle the dog bite in Bali,” the head of the Environment Restruc-ture and Disease Control Board, dr Gede Wira Sunetra, said.
The 58 rabies centers are located across Bali including 14 units in Gianyar, 10 units in Jembrana, seven units in Badung and Buleleng each, six units in Tabanan, four units in Klung-kung and Karangasem each and three units in Bangli.
“Meanwhile, we only prepare three rabies centers in Denpasar area,” Wira said.
The rabies prevention centers were set up in response to the rising dog bite cases in Bali which reached 3,782 from 2013 to April 2014, he said.
“The average daily dog bite cases are recorded at 126 in several districts and cities in Bali,” he said.
The figure was recorded at 122 in the same period a year earlier which saw the total bite cases of 3,724, he said.
He added no casualties caused by dog bites were reported
in the January-April 2014. “We hope there will be no casual-ties caused by rabies cases,” he said.
Wira said the office has found a potential rabies case in Buleleng District. However, it has not found any similar case in Denpasar and Badung areas.
The office noted from 2013 to April 2014, there were 521 dog bite cases in Denpasar, 720 in Badung, 562 in Gianyar, 460 in Buleleng, 450 in Tabanan, 359 in Karangasem, 283 in Bangli, 216 in Klungkung and 191 in Jembrana.
Signs of the dog that infected by rabies virus can be seen from the saliva amount (hipersaliva) of the animal.
“Besides, the dogs that become aggressive and afraid to see water are also predicted to be infected by rabies,” he said.
Wira suggested that the people immediately clean the wound after being bitten by dog and report to the center or hospital to get anti-rabies injection.
“I advice the people to immediately clean their wound
after being bitten by dog,” Wira said.
Mass VaccinationRecently, Bali also held fifth mass vaccination program
against rabies which has been ongoing across the Island of Bali since April 15, targeting 350 thousand stray dogs as part of the government’s efforts to make Bali free from rabies. Bali has resolved to become rabies-free by the year 2015, in order to maintain its reputation as the world’s most famous resort island. Nationally, the central government has targeted the entire country to be rabies-free by 2020.
Over the past few years, Bali authorities have routinely carried out mass vaccination programs against rabies, target-ing strays, as well as domestic dogs.
Officially launched in Gunung Sari village, Seririt, Bule-leng District, where several dog bite cases were reported recently, the fifth mass vaccination program is to continue until July 31.
