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Ally to power broker Suu Kyi sworn in as Myanmar’s president

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US back on track in qualifying with 4-0 win over Guatemala

Duke’s own gritty struggle against bipolar disorder was equally ad-mired. She opened up about her condition at a time when such candor was unusual and she became an ac-tivist for mental health causes.

The actress, who died Tuesday at age 69, was “a warrior,” said her son, actor Sean Astin. “You watch this 4-foot-10, tiny imp of a lady who’s more powerful than the greatest military leaders in history.”

“We’re so grateful to her for liv-ing a life that generates that amount of compassion and feeling in others,” Astin told The Associated Press in reflecting on the outpouring of sen-timent from fans at the news of her death. Colleagues responded with equal passion.

“I will miss her every day but I will find comfort in the words of Helen Keller: ‘The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart,’” wrote Sara Gilbert, who starred with Duke in a TV remake of “The Miracle Worker.”

Duke died of sepsis from a rup-tured intestine in Coeur D’Alene,

Idaho, where she had lived for the past quarter-century, according to Teri Weigel, Astin’s publicist.

She astonished audiences as the young deaf-and-blind Keller first on Broadway, then in the acclaimed 1962 film version, appearing in both alongside Anne Bancroft as Helen’s teacher, Annie Sullivan (Bancroft-won an Oscar of her own).

“Her performance in ‘The Mira-cle Worker’ brought Helen Keller’s indomitable spirit to life and inspired generations to pursue careers serv-ing the deaf-blind community,” Joseph F. Bruno, chief executive of Helen Keller Services, said in a statement.

In 1963, Duke burst onto the TV scene starring in her own sitcom, “The Patty Duke Show,” which aired for three seasons. She played dual roles as identical cousins Cathy, “who’s lived most everywhere, from Zanzibar to Barclay Square” while (according to the theme song) “Patty’s only seen the sights a girl can see from Brooklyn Heights. What a crazy pair!”

In 2015, she would play twin roles again: as a pair of grandmas on

an episode of “Liv and Maddie,” a series on the Disney Channel.

Born Anna Marie Duke in the New York borough of Queens on Dec. 14, 1946, she had a difficult childhood with abusive parents. By 8 years old, she was largely under the control of husband-and-wife talent managers who kept her busy on soap operas and advertising displays.

They also supplied her with al-cohol and prescription drugs, which accentuated the effects of her undi-agnosed bipolar disorder.

In her 1988 memoir, “Call Me Anna,” Duke wrote of her condition and the diagnosis she had gotten only six years earlier, and of the subse-quent treatment that helped stabilize her life. The book became a 1990 TV film in which she starred.

With the end of “The Patty Duke Show” in 1966, which left her stereo-typed as not one, but two squeaky-clean teenagers, Duke attempted to leap into the nitty-grittiness of adult-hood in the 1967 melodrama “Valley of the Dolls,” in which she played a showbiz hopeful who falls prey to drug addiction, a broken marriage and shattered dreams.

The film, based on the best-selling Jacqueline Susann pulp novel, was critically slammed but a commercial sensation.(ap)

LOS ANGELES — “American Idol,” which gave the world Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood and Jennifer Hudson, has one more chance to mint a star before it fades into TV and music history.

Whether viewers choose a future chart-topper or trivia question re-mains to be seen. But executive pro-ducer Nigel Lythgoe, who helped translate Britain’s “Pop Idol” into the Fox version that debuted in 2002, said the farewell episode will be memorable.

“It’s going to be a rather spec-tacular show,” Lythgoe promised, with all the former winners on hand along with past contestants and “other surprises” in the two-hour finale. “It’s about the American idols, about reminding people of 15 seasons,” he said, as well as giving the final winner his or her share of the spotlight.

The contenders for the title are finalists MacKenzie Bourg, 23, of Lafayette, Louisiana; Trent Har-mon, 24, of Amory, Mississippi; La’Porsha Renae, 22, of McComb, Mississippi; and Dalton Rapattoni, 19, of Dallas.

The field will have been trimmed to three for the final competition

episode, 8-9 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 6, with the winner announced the next night, 8-10:06 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 7. Lythgoe, who exited the series in 2013, returned to produce the concluding night’s broadcast.

Clarkson, the inaugural “Idol,” is set to perform, as are Underwood and the other winners including Ruben Studdard, Fantasia, Jor-din Sparks and Scotty McCreery. Among the many contestants taking part: Clay Aiken, Chris Daughtry, Katharine McPhee, Kellie Pickler, Elliott Yamin and LaToya London.

Past “Idol” finales became known for flaunting superstars, perhaps none more important than Prince. His performance in the 2006 season-ender signaled that the show had transcended its image as overblown karaoke and become a respectable showcase for estab-lished artists.

But Lythgoe downplays the im-portance of celebrities as part of the finale — or the contest itself.

“It isn’t about big stars com-ing on and singing their record. ‘American Idol’ was never about that. It was about the young stars we created,” he said.(ap)

End of a TV era: ‘American Idol’ vows ‘spectacular’ finale

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FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2002 file photo, Kelly Clarkson, 20, of Burleson, Texas, sings “A Moment Like This,” after winning in the final episode of the first season of Fox’s television com-petition “American Idol,” in Los Angeles.

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FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2004 file photo, actress Patty Duke is honored with a star on the Hol-lywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.

Patty Duke’s talent, bravery recalled; actress dies at 69

NEW YORK — The courage that a teenage Patty Duke por-trayed on-screen as Helen Keller in “The Miracle Worker” was breathtaking and Oscar-winning.

The departure of the Brazil-ian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) increases the chances that the leftist leader will be impeached amid a massive corruption crisis and the worst recession in decades.

The PMDB decided at a leader-ship meeting that its six remaining ministers in Ms Rousseff’s cabinet and all other party members with government appointments must resign or face disciplinary proceed-

ings. The loss of Rousseff’s main co-alition partner may prompt smaller parties to abandon the government, leaving Brazil’s first female presi-dent increasingly isolated.

Ms Rousseff’s removal would pave the way for vice president Michel Temer The ousting of Ms Rousseff by Congress would pave the way for vice president Michel Temer, leader of the PMDB, to take over.

She is threatened with impeach-ment over allegations she manipu-lated government accounts to boost public spending during her election campaign in 2014.

Prosecutors have charged her predecessor and mentor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, with money launder-ing and requested his arrest in a case linked to a major corruption scandal at state oil company Petrobras, accu-sations he has denied. Ms Rousseff

has denied any wrongdoing and said efforts to unseat her amount to a coup.

ECONOMIC resilience has become a serious topic of discussion in Bali and a number of eco-nomic indicators have been getting people wor-ried. Furthermore the ever increasingly firm grip of capitalist forces from outside of Bali has made Bali’s economic defences fragile. A consortium of

local entrepreneurs is seeking to overcome these challenges by empowering the economic potential of

existing elements as one strategy to deal with the issue. Current the economy slowdown has affected almost all sectors,

including airlines, banks, automotive industries, construction and the service sector and could lead to termination of employment (PHK) for many people. The correction of various national indica-tors suggests a decline in economic resilience including slowing down of national economic growth.

Data shows a 4.79 percent growth of the economy in 2015 compared to 5.02 percent growth in 2014. Many predict that the this slowdown will persist in 2016. The flight of investment capital from Indonesia is also predicted to result in unemployment. August 2015 showed that as many as 110,000 people had lost their jobs since Febuary of the same year. The unemployment rate in August 2015 was 6.18 compared to Febuary’S 5.81 percent.

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An inflatable duck sits outside the National Congress, placed there by protesters against tax increases and corruption, organized by the Industries Federation in Brasilia, Tuesday, March 29, 2016. The duck carries a popular phrase in Portuguese that reads “I won’t pay the duck,” with the bird symbolizing the government.

Brazil’s Rousseff Isolated As Crisis Deepens

Rio - The chances of the country’s first female president be-ing impeached increases as her fragile coalition is dealt a major blow. Brazil’s embattled president Dilma Rousseff is facing a fight for her political survival after the country’s biggest party pulled out of her ruling coalition.

Consortium of local entrepreneursStrategies to build an economically independent Bali

A decline in consumer purchas-ing power that was triggered by the rise in electricity tariff of 0.14 percent and the skyrocketing price of basic food commodities are also an indicators of the slowing economy.

In response to the potential de-cline of Bali’s regional economy, young entrepreneur of Bali A.A. Arimbawa reminded the entre-preneurs of Bali that they need to start coming up with some break-through ideas. Bali’s economic independence, he said, can only be maintained if the entrepreneurs of Bali unite and remain rooted in local knowledge and wisdom. “Bali must rise by coming up with breakthrough ways of managing our economic potential. Local en-trepreneurs should gather together and begin to manage the potential of the trade, services, construction

and tourism sectors”, he said.Arimbawa added that the con-

sortium of entrepreneurs could also involve local financial institutions and Rural Credit Agencies (LPD) and the Regional Development Bank (BPD) could become part-ners of the established consortium. “It takes commitment. Other than business-people, Customary Vil-lage authorities also need to be united” he said.

The support of the government facilities will certainly facilitate the establishment of the local business-people’s consortium. Rimbawa therefor hopes that a space for co-ordination and and consultation meetings will be promoted.

Regarding the establishment of a consortium of entrepreneurs, economic expert and banker Vi-raguna Bagoes Oka, says that in order for Bali to achieve economic independence, local entrepreneurs need to collaborate and that the establishment of a consortium to strengthen business strategies is

indeed a breakthrough. He added that sincerity and unity are impor-tant keys to succeeding in such collaborations.

The consortium or entrepre-neurs, said Oka, should be directed towards support a increase of unity amongst Balinese people, so as to better manage our potential. “The consortium of local entrepreneurs should be supported with clear regulations. Regional regulations should allow for a space for local entrepreneurs to manage existing resources” said Oka. He empha-sized that empowering community based economy is a strategic way of ensuring Bali’S economic resil-ience therefore economic measures that need to be promoted are those that are community based.

“This is where the role of Bali’s local business-people in making a commitment to moving the econo-my in a direction that affects public activities is important so that the income and welfare of the people is positively affected” he said.

Chairman of the Bali Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Ka-din), A.A. Ngurah Alit Wiraputra, affirmed that Kadin Bali has made a number of recommendations to the government for community-based economic empowerment strategies including those aimed at strengthening the durability of Balinese business-people. State-owned banks and private banks in Bali should direct their CSR funds to the strengthening of local culture and wisdom. Banks should provide capital support that strengthens the economic resilience of local entrepreneurs. In terms of regula-tions, Wiraputra hopes that Bali’s government will design a rules that would require foreign investors to employe local in management positions if they want to invest in Bali. Such a regulation could easily be created provided the ex-ecutive and legislative branches of the government are committed to such a regulation. “Kadin Bali will facilitate the economic revival gen-

erated by local entrepreneurs. The establishment of a consortium by local entrepreneurs is expected to support the independence of Bali’s economy”, he said. (dir)

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Enter The Funpods at Berry GleeDENPASAR— The ‘foreigner monitoring and evalua-

tion team’ of the Municipality of Denpasar municipality conducted a raid in Kesiman Petilan and Kesiman Kerta-langu village on Tuesday (Mar. 29). The monitoring team consisting of representatives of the immigration office, police and related agencies found many foreigners with expired temporary residence permit (KITAS). “In Kertalangu, we found a total of 22 foreigners with expired visas. Almost all of their temporary residence permits were expired” said I Made Sumarsana, Division Head of the National and Com-munity Resilience for the National Unity and Political Agency (Kesbangpol) Denpasar.

The immigration officers of the team instructed the local village authority to immediately re-check the documents of foreigners liv-ing in the area and asked that the results be reported within a week to Kesbangpol. “They must immediately submit their expired temporary residence permits. Otherwise, the monitoring and evaluation team will come down again” said Sumarsana, accompanied by subdivision head of cultural and religious resilience, I.B. Andika Putra Manuaba.

Before targeting Kesiman Kertalangu, the team had raided the area of Padanggalak, Kesiman Petilan village. Of the four homes that they targeted, one would not open the door to the team even though the voice of children were heard inside the house. “This is one of our obstacle sin the field. If they do not open the door, there is nothing we can do. We must try again later” said Manuaba,

Manuabea went on to explain that such monitoring is very important for the security of foreigners who may endanger themselves by abusing their visa or permit. “Last year, a foreigner was on a holiday visit visa, but was running a business in Bali. Eventually, he was deported” said Manuaba.

A foreigner from the Netherlands named Anthonius Edward Albertus Bal who did not open the door at the time of the raid on Tuesday (Mar. 23) finally presented himself to the Kesbangpol Office in Denpasar. “He came to the office and presented his permit. In fact, his documents were complete and in order” said Manuaba. (kmb12)

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Chairman of the Bali Cham-ber of Commerce and Indus-try (Kadin), A.A. Ngurah Alit Wiraputra.

Raid on foreigners

expired KITAS found

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The raid done by the government on foreigners in Denpasar.

14 InternationalFashionThursday, March 31, 2016 3International Bali News Thursday, March 31, 2016

She’ll repeat the motion thou-sands of times over the next 12 hours as she transforms from a willowy blond artist to dark-haired Superman for viewers following along online. Twice a week, the 28-year-old turns her body into a different character for an Internet audience.

“We don’t talk about gender roles on my channel. In fact, when people say, ‘You should paint

yourself as Superwoman,’ I’m like, ‘No. I want to paint myself as Superman,’” says Pike, who, when she’s done, looks like she could have been ripped from a comic book panel.

Pike is a fan of cosplay, in which participants wear costumes to represent a character from an-ime, comic books, cartoons, video games or movies.

After sitting as a body paint

model for a friend, Pike realized she could still dress up without having to make a costume. She posted a video of her first solo effort on Reddit and it caught the attention of Twitch.tv, a live-streaming company in San Fran-cisco. “One week later, I was live streaming body paint on Twitch.” Pike started in December and already has 163,000 followers on Instagram.

She receives a little advertis-ing money but relies more on donations from viewers and from

Patreon.com, a crowdfunding site for artists. There is also cash from her fashion line, which she sells at comic conventions, as well as appearance fees. “It’s like small income from a lot of different places that add up to a mortgage payment.”

Superman is a favorite of her husband, Moose, who narrates, reads posts from her followers and runs things behind the scenes.

In between singing along to pop music and answering questions from her followers, Pike gives

step-by-step details on how she creates the character.

She was led to painting char-acters for cosplay “to get out of some mega-social anxiety. Having the fashion line, we’re going to the shows, right? I totally, 100 percent could not talk to anyone on the other side of the camera.”

Pike refers to all her creations as her “little paint children.” She said it would be boring and lonely to do the painting without an audience. “At the end, it’s a little sad to wash it off.” (ap)

Canadian artist transforms into comic characters online

Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP

In this March 19, 2016 photo, Kay Pike transforms herself using body paint and latex into Superman while live streaming at her home in Calgary, Alberta. Pike refers to all her creations as her “little paint children.” She said it would be boring and lonely to do the painting without an audience.

CALGARY — Kay Pike stands in front of a giant mirror, dabs her brush into paint and touches it to her skin.

NEGARA— The Jembrana En-vironment, Sanitation and Land-scaping Agency (LHKP) deployed 50 janitors to net and clean up garbage along the Ijogading River in West Loloan, Negara onTuesday (Mar. 29).

Head of LHKP Jembrana, Wayan Dar-win, said that his agency also wants to increase public awareness. about garbage “Actually, if members of the community are orderly and disciplined, it makes it easier for us to deal with garbage - all we would have to do is transport it” he explained.

Darwin explained that they conduct such clean-ups twice a month. “ Since we estab-lished out clean river program, we want to be serious and committed to keeping the river clean. The process of building public awareness, however takes time” he said.

Jembrana’s LHKP however still faces some challenges in conducting their clean river program, such as a shortage of gar-bage nets. “We plan to allocate more funds to this through a budgetary amendment”, he said. For 2016, a total of six, elementary school educated officers have been put on duty to clean the river.

It Darwin’s hope that the LHKP agency will continue the clean river program as public attitudes continue to be worked on. The clean river program was started last year and so far it only targets a few small rivers near the town of Negara such as Dangin Tukadaya River at the border of Dauhwaru with Dangin Tukadaya as well as the river next to Klendys Shop, Dauh-waru village, west of Dauhwaru Square.

“This year, we plan to clean up the Ijogading River. Ijogading has a special place in the hearts of the people of Jem-brana and should receive extra attention. We have therefor hired six people to clean up Ijogading River this year” said Darwin. (kmb)

MANGUPURA— Dengue fever (DBD) in Badung is increasingly

prevalent. In fact some patients at The Mangusada Hospital have has

to treated in the emergency room and maternity ward because of a storage of rooms. Based on avail-able data, 77 dengue patients have been treated so far, 62 of which were treated in the inpatient unit with another 15 in the emergency room.

In response to his visit to dengue patients at Mangusada Hospital on Tuesday (Mar.29), Deputy Regent of Badung, I Ketut Suiasa, has asked the public to help prevent dengue outbreaks by improving environmental sanitation and in-tensifying the spraying of mosquito breeding nests.

“We will provide each health centre with fogging devices and pesticide as a way to prevent den-gue outbreaks. However the public must also work to improve the sani-tation of the general environment so as to minimize the spread of the

disease” he said.In addition to preventive mea-

sure, the government of Badung also decided to build new blocks for the hospital in anticipation of a surge of patients given that this hospital not only serves people from Badung but also people from Gianyar, Tabanan, Negara and even Denpasar.

“We cannot prevent people from other districts from coming to this hospital because it not just for the people of Badung”, explained Suiasa.

The government will therefore build three more blocks: block D, F and G. Suiasa mentioned that the DED of the new building that was created in 2013 will be revised to include four floors instead of the original plan for just three floors. Currently, the building is still in the phase of sits feasible study

(FS). “We have asked the hospital to finalize their revisions to the feasibility study soon so that it can be built in 2017” he said.

This Golkar politician also apol-ogized and warned the public about the hospitals current limitations and added that they are doing their best to provide the best service to patients.

Director of Mangusada Hospital, Agus Bintang Suryadhi, confirmed that there has been a significant increase in the number of patients visiting the hospital recently. “Our emergency room is often fully oc-cupied by patients in need of treat-ment. Our bed capacity is not able to accommodate all the patients requiring hospitalization. Some of them do not want to be referred to another hospital so we are forced to care for them outside of the treat-ment rooms” he added. (kmb27)

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Fogging, one of the effort to prevent the spread of dengue fever.

Dengue fever widespread in Badung, deputy regent asks that fogging be intensified

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The cleanup of Ijogading River in Negara.

Cleaning rivers in Jembrana

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In a day full of ceremony and symbolism, Htin Kyaw was sworn in along with his two vice presi-dents and 18-member Cabinet. Suu Kyi, the face of Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement, takes on a prominent role as the country’s new foreign minister and the head of three other ministries.

The swearing in was held in an austere hall of parliament, with law-makers dressed in traditional cos-tume. A few hours later, outgoing President Thein Sein shook hands with his successor and handed him a letter officially transferring power.

While it was a momentous day in the history of this impoverished Southeast Asian country, democracy still feels incomplete. The military retains considerable power in the government and parliament, and the president himself will play second fiddle to Suu Kyi, who has repeat-edly said she will run the country from behind the scenes because the military has ensured — through a

constitutional manipulation — that she cannot be the president.

Still, the day belonged to Htin Kyaw and Suu Kyi, who sat in the front row watching her confidant become head of a government she had long aspired to lead.

“The Union Parliament has elected me as president, which is a historic moment for this country,” Htin Kyaw, 70, said in a speech after being sworn in. He pledged to work toward national reconcili-ation, peace between warring ethnic groups and improving the lives of Myanmar’s 54 million people.

Rightfully, the job belonged to Suu Kyi, who led her National League for Democracy party to a landslide win in November elec-tions, ushering in Myanmar’s first civilian government after 54 years of direct and indirect military rule.

Suu Kyi endured decades of house arrest and harassment by military rulers without ever giving up on her nonviolent campaign to

unseat them. The constitutional clause that denied her the presi-dency excludes anyone from the position who has a foreign spouse or child. Suu Kyi’s two sons are British, as was her late husband. The clause is widely seen as having been written by the military with Suu Kyi in mind.

She has repeatedly made it clear that she will run the government from behind the scenes, and in his speech on Wednesday, Htin Kyaw signaled the dominant role Suu Kyi will play in his government.

“The new parliament and new government are formed in accord with the policies of the National League for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi,” he said, and referred to the party’s goal to amend the constitution.

“I have the obligation to work toward achieving a constitution that has democratic norms and is suitable for the nation,” Htin Kyaw said. “I want to tell the new government, we must constantly try to fulfill the hope and will of the people of this country. I wish all citizens of this country a successful and peaceful life.”(ap)

ULAN BATOR — A rare public protest in Mongolia’s capital on Wednesday drew thousands of demonstrators who criticized foreign mining concessions and demanded action to prop up the tottering economy.

More than 2,000 demonstrators gathered in Ulan Bator’s Freedom Square also called for parliament to be dissolved and a new government formed over alleged corruption and the economic crisis battering the vast, landlocked nation.

Protesters say the mineral wealth that accounts for 94 percent of the nation’s exports has been exploited by foreign firms with few benefits going to Mongolia’s 3 million people, one-third of whom live in poverty.

“Our wealth is shipped outside of country. Where is that money going?” former wrestler and opposition lawmaker Battulga Khaltmaa asked the crowd assembled by an umbrella group of small political parties and civil society organizations known as Ethical Mongol.

Battulga was particularly critical of the terms extended to Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto PLC to develop the $5.4 billion Oyu Tolgoi copper mine. Talks on expanding the mine have bogged down over the government’s demand for more revenue.

Battulga and others also criticized efforts to revive the Tavan Tolgoi coal project, alleging that members of around two dozen influential families with ties to both ruling Mongolian Democratic Party and opposition Mongolian People’s Party stand to benefit the most from the deal through their ownership of shares in the Hong Kong-listed Mongolian Mining Corporation.

“This business-political group ... has already swallowed its brother, democracy,” said Erdenechimeg Luvsan, a Democratic Party lawmaker. Protesters carried banners reading “Tavan Tolgoi is public property” and “Whatever happened to democracy?”

Parliament last year blocked a proposed deal with an international consortium led by Chinese state-owned mining company Shenhua and Mongolian Mining Corporation and Japan’s Sumitomi.

New parliamentary elections are scheduled for June, but critics say the rules will ensure re-election for lawmakers with mining interests in both the ruling and opposition parties.

The global slump in commodity prices has pummeled Mongolia’s economy, impoverishing thousands of former herders who’d moved to its few cities looking for jobs. China, which receives almost 90 percent of Mongolia’s exports, also has an economy that is slowing sharply, further eroding demand for copper, coal and other exports. Foreign investment in the country has practically disappeared.

Economic growth is set to fall below 1 percent this year, down from 17.5 percent earlier in the decade.(ap)

Thousands rally in Mongolia over foreign mining concessions

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A paramilitary policeman stands guard at China’s border with Mongolia, in a sand storm in Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia, China, March 4, 2016.

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In this image taken from video, Htin Kyaw, center, and National League for Democracy party leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, attend the presidential swearing in ceremony at parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar Wednesday, March 30, 2016.

Ally to power broker Suu Kyi sworn in as Myanmar’s president

NAYPYITAW — Htin Kyaw, a trusted friend of Nobel laure-ate Aung San Suu Kyi, took over as Myanmar’s president on Wednesday, calling it a “historic moment” in the country’s long-drawn transition to democracy after decades of military rule.

KESIMAN village is still known to be very strong with the royal era. This customary village covering the Kesiman Petilan, Kesiman Kertalangu and Kesiman is known to have dozens of interrelated temples. The Kesiman Petilan alone has about 40 temples. Its villagers are known to strongly uphold their customs.

Eight days after the celebration of Kuningan festiv-ity precisely on Redite (Sunday) Pon Medangsia, the Hindus at Kesiman organize the ngerebong tradition. This is a unique tradition held open to general public that want to watch. People wishing to enjoy the unique-ness of this tradition are required to wear traditional Balinese attires and woman getting her period is not allowed to come into the temple area.

Many people interpret the word Ngerebong as ‘as-sembling.’ Besides, there is also an interpretation as spinning. People believe that on the ngerebong day is

the auspicious day where many gods gather.Center of this tradition is carried out at Petilan

Temple. So, the temple is better known as the Pengere-bongan Temple. Some people call this ngerebong an ancient tradition so that residents can be avoided from calamity or disaster. It includes the Butha Yadnya cer-emony that aims to neutralize the evil power (bhuta) in order to become good power (god) so as not to interfere with human beings, especially at Kesiman.

A customary and cultural observer, I Wayan Turun, revealed that ngerebong ceremony aims to remind the Hindus through the sacred rituals so that they can continuously maintain the harmony of human relation-ship to God, fellow human beings and nature. Hence, the ritual is also called ngurek (self-stubbing by kris dagger) that rotates around wantilan hall clockwise. Aura of the trance is very intense at this customary ritual. (kmb)

Edi Santoso is a 44 fisherman from Yogyakarta who now lives in Keta-pang hamlet in Lelateng, Negara and works on a purse seine fishing boat.

He explained that he earns between IDR 50,000 and IDR 100,000 a day working on a boat that fishes in the waters of Tabanan but that the recent

bad weather has meant a reduction in his income. Santoso has being doing this job for just over a year and said that depite the reduction in fish catch, so far he has been still been able to support his wife and 5 year child.

Recent weather has also affected traditional fishermen like the ones at who live in Yeh Kuning and

Air Kuning and use nets or angles to earn their livelihood. “Indeed when we set off from the beach the weather is fine but out at sea the weather is quite bad and the waves are very big” said Lukman, a local traditional fishermen.

Both the purse seine fisher-men and the traditional fishermen

have trouble finding fish when the weather is like this. Sometimes they will even choose not to go to sea for their own security.

“Even if we are desperate to go you to sea, it is still difficult to find fish, so many fishermen decide not to go to sea and instead repair their boats and fish-ing gear” added Lukman. (kmb26)

Weather affects fish catchesNEGARA - Both traditional fishermen and purse seine fisher-

men have been affected by recent bad weather at sea that has caused them to be catch less fish. The rough seas caused by the full moon have only exacerbated the situation.

Ngerebong, a Unique Tradition of Kesiman Village

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Barong is present during Ngerebong tradition in Kesiman.

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The fishermen are placing their boat on the beach.

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The agency said in the report that the fishing boats were hit by 17 bul-lets, including two that penetrated their cabins, in the early morning incident on March 21.

Agency chief Tsay Tzu-yaw said they were clearly not warning shots and asked Indonesia to provide an explanation. No one was injured and the boats, which arrived three days later in Singapore, were not badly damaged.

Indonesia says its patrol ship fired at the Sheng Te Tsai and the Lien I Hsing No. 116 only after they ignored repeated warnings to leave Indonesian waters in the Strait of Malacca. It says the vessels were suspected of fishing illegally and were not flying their flags.

The Taiwanese report did not comment directly on the flag claim, but included a recommendation that Taiwanese boats fly the national flag when passing through Indonesian

waters “to avoid misunderstandings occurring.’’

The agency said the Sheng Te Tsai’s voyage data recorders showed it had been sailing at 7-8 knots (13-15 kilometers per hour) around the time the incident hap-pened, a speed it said was too fast for it to have been setting nets or hauling in fish.

Diplomatically isolated by Chi-

na, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, the island’s government has reacted strongly to such inci-dents in the past to avoid percep-tions it is unable or unwilling to protect its citizens.

The death of a Taiwanese fisher-man in 2013 after his boat was fired on by the Philippine coast guard led to a brief diplomatic standoff and economic sanctions.(ant)

JAKARTA - The National Police Headquarters is ready to send personnel of its anti-terror squad Densus 88 and Mobile Brigade (Brimob) to help rescue 10 Indonesian sailors being held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf group in the Philippines.

“We are ready to help, and are even prepared to send a team of Densus and Brimob personnel,” Head of the National Police Headquarters Public Relations Division, Inspector General Anton Charliyan, said here on Tuesday.

The Indonesian police is coordinating with Interpol as part of the efforts to rescue the Indonesian sailors. “We are coordinat-ing with Interpol,” he said.

Two Indonesian-flagged vessels carrying seven tons of coal were hijacked in the Philippine waters on March 24.

“The priority now is to save the 10 Indonesians held hostage. The company (which operates the two ships) has informed the relatives of the 10 sailors being held hostage about the incident,” spokesman for the Indonesian Foreign Ministry, Arrmanatha Nasir, said.

The ministry received information about the piracy inci-dent on Monday. Since then, it has coordinated with relevant parties in Indonesia and the Philippines, including its foreign ministry.

The vessels were a tug and a barge. They were hijacked while on their way from Puting River in South Kalimantan to Batangas, South Philippines.

“We dont know exactly when the two vessels were hijacked. The owner of the vessels came to know the vessels were hijacked on March 26, 2014 when he received a phone call from someone claiming to be a member of Abu Sayyaf group,” he said.(ant)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the House of Representatives Com-mission I Mahfudz Siddiq has deplored senior Indonesian journal-ists meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, on Monday.

“The visit obviously contradicts the stand that Indonesia has maintained from the beginning of being opposed to Israeli occu-pation of Palestine and in support of Palestinian independence,” Siddiq said here on Tuesday.

Furthermore, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) reiterated the Indonesian stand at the extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held in Jakarta earlier this month.

As a matter of fact, President Jokowi has called for a boycott of Israeli products made in the West Bank.

“Israel also has never paid attention to international protests against its actions which continue to victimize Palestinian civil-ians,” he said.

He said he has no idea about the agenda of the visit that senior Indonesian journalists took Israel, particularly after Indonesia hosted the OIC summit.

He believed that Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu are worried about the stand of President Jokowi and the Indonesian government and therefore, the visit was part of their efforts to find lobbyists that can be effective.

“I also dont know how they were able to enter Israel, while two Indonesian foreign ministers, Marty Natalegawa and Retno LP Mar-sudi, were denied entry to Palestine by Israel. It is likely that they used ordinary green passports to enter Israel via Europe,” he said.

Judging by Netanyahus statement made during the meeting with the Indonesian journalists, Israel wants to start a new chapter in its relations with Indonesia. This means that the Jewish state wants new diplomatic ties with Indonesia.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said on its website that Netanyahu met with senior Indonesian journalists who came to Israel at the invitation of the ministry.(ap)

MP deplores senior Indonesian journalists` visit to Israel

Police ready to help rescue Indonesians

held hostage

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Two tuna longliners, Lien I Hsing No. 116 and Sheng Te Tsai, whose home port is in southern Taiwan, are docked at the Jurong Fishery Port in Singapore Thursday, March 24, 2016. Taiwan has demanded an explanation from Indonesia after the two Taiwanese fishing boats were allegedly fired on by an Indonesian government vessel near the Strait of Malacca.

Taiwan says Indonesia Fired on Fishermen Without Warning

Jakarta - An Indonesian government vessel gave no warning before firing on two Taiwanese fishing boats earlier this month, Taiwan’s Fisheries Agency said in a report that also denied claims that the boats were poaching in Indo-nesian waters.

China’s economic growth is seen moderating to 6.5 percent this year and 6.3 percent next year, compared to 6.9 percent last year, the ADB report said. Slower exports, a fall-ing labor supply and supply-side reforms are reshaping the world’s second-largest economy toward more domestic consumption and a further reduction in excess indus-trial capacity, it said.

The report said that India will remain one of the fastest-growing major economies, while South Asia is forecast to post the most rapid growth among sub-regions. India’s

economy is seen expanding by 7.4 percent in 2016, and 7.8 percent in 2017. Last year, India’s economy grew 7.6 percent on the back of strong public investment.

South Asia’s economic growth is projected to slightly dip to 6.9 percent this year, from 7 percent in 2015, but that is seen to accelerate to 7.3 percent in 2017.

Southeast Asia’s economy is set for stronger growth at 4.5 percent this year and 4.8 percent next year, up from 4.4 percent in 2015. The region will be led by its biggest economy, Indonesia, as it ramps

up investment in infrastructure and implements policy reforms to spur private investment.

“(China’s) growth moderation and uneven global recovery are weighing down overall growth in Asia,” said Shang-Jin Wei, ADB’s chief econo-mist. Still, the region will continue to contribute over 60 percent of total global growth, he said.

Aggregate growth in the United States, the euro area and Japan will stay at 1.8 percent in 2016 and inch up to 1.9 percent in 2017, the report said.

It also cited a United Nations’ projection that growth in the re-gion’s working-age population will be lower in 2015-2020 than in 2008-2014, and that demographic effect alone could depress develop-ing Asia’s potential growth by 0.4 percentage points.(ap)

NEW YORK — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Tuesday that the Fed still envisions only a gradual pace of interest rate increases in light of global pressures that could affect the U.S. economy.

Her comments spurred a rally on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones industrial average closing at its highest level this year.

Yellen didn’t specify a timetable for further hikes to follow the Fed’s rate increase in December from record lows. She said risks to the United States appear limited but cautioned that that assessment is subject to “considerable uncertainty.”

Speaking to the Economic Club of New York, Yellen said the central bank is monitoring a global economic slump, sharply lower oil prices and stock market turbulence, which she said have hurt some U.S. consumers and key sectors such as manufacturing.

Singling out China — the world’s second-largest economy, after the United States — Yellen noted widespread uncertainty over how well Beijing will manage a delicate slowdown in coming years.

She said that because foreign economic growth seems to have fur-ther weakened this year, the Fed will “proceed cautiously” in raising rates.

In light of her comments, most economists expect no hike at the Fed’s next policy meeting — April 26-27 — despite remarks last week from other Fed officials that had raised the possibility of a rate increase then.

Investors welcomed Yellen’s message that the Fed would move slowly in raising rates. The Dow surged nearly 98 points, or 0.6 per-cent. And the yield on the 10-year Treasury note sank to 1.80 percent from 1.89 percent.

“Despite a growing chorus of calls from even centrist-leaning of-ficials to resume raising policy rates, Chair Yellen stuck to the dov-ish script of the March meeting statement,” when the Fed expressed concerns about the global economy and kept rates unchanged, said Sal Guatieri, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets.

Yellen noted that the U.S. job market and housing recovery have lifted the economy close to full health despite the risks that remain. She observed that the economy has benefited from low long-term U.S. bor-rowing rates. Those rates have been held down by money flowing into U.S. bonds from investors, who have scaled back their expectations for the number of Fed rate hikes this year from four to two at most.(ap)

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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen addresses an Economic Club of New York luncheon, Tuesday, March 29, 2016, in New York.

AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein

In this Nov. 4, 2015 photo, a worker monitors coal being carried along conveyor ramps at a coal mine near Ordos in northern China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The annual gathering of the National People’s Congress is largely ceremonial, doing little lawmaking and instead providing a platform to publicize the Communist Party’s priorities.

ADB says Asia economy to grow 5.7 percent in 2016 and 2017

MANILA, Philippines — Softer growth prospects for China and a weak recovery in major industrial economies are expected to push down economic growth in developing Asia to 5.7 percent this year and next, below projections, the Asian Development Bank said Wednesday. The gross domestic product of the region, made up of 45 countries, grew 5.9 percent in 2015.

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San Francisco-based Uber re-portedly plans a $500 million infu-sion of new funds, apart from the $1 billion already committed over the past nine months, according to Indian newspapers. The company declined this week to comment on those reports. Meanwhile, Ola Cabs promises to add another 2,000 cars to the fleet of 26,000 it already com-mands in New Delhi, chief spokes-man Anand Subramanian said.

But it’s the ongoing legal wran-gles between the two — with each accusing the other of behaving un-ethically — that have drawn focus to the struggle for India’s $9 billion taxi industry and future growth pos-sibilities in a country with an urban population of 400 million people but few options in safe, convenient public transportation.

This month, Uber filed suit against Ola, accusing its Bangalore-based rival of hijacking its busi-ness by creating fake accounts to make bookings with Uber that it then canceled. Ola denied the al-legations, calling them ludicrous

and suggesting they were a smoke screen to hide Uber’s own troubles. Ola previously challenged Uber in court over what it said were illegal business practices. Analysts say the court battles show competition for market dominance is becoming fierce.

“It’s a tussle to capture the top spot among taxi-hailing apps and the title of No. 1,” said Jaspal Singh, founder of Valoriser Con-sultants, specializing in analysis of the transportation industry.

Smartphone taxi apps, intro-duced in India in 2010, have grown to account for 10 percent of the country’s overall taxi industry, which also includes regular cabs and three-wheeler “rickshaws.”

Ola has already bought out the upstart TaxiForSure, and both Uber and Ola offer rates below those of traditional taxis. Meanwhile, they are quickly adding new cities and customers, including car drivers increasingly fed up with traffic gridlock and difficulty finding parking on India’s overcrowded

roads.So far Ola has been dominating

the smartphone app market, with a presence in more than 100 cities and roughly half of the business, analysts say. Uber, which entered the Indian market in 2013, operates in 29 Indian cities and is anxious to expand, while myriad small players are clawing their way in.

In the latest legal action between the two, filed in the Delhi High Court, Uber demanded an injunc-tion against Ola and $7.4 million in damages. It accuses Ola — backed by Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. and hedge fund Tiger Global Man-agement LLC — of creating more than 90,000 fake accounts to book around 400,000 rides and then cancel them in an effort to disrupt Uber’s business.

The allegations are similar to those faced by Uber itself in the United States in 2014, where San Francisco-based Lyft accused Uber of booking and canceling thousands of rides. Uber denied the accusations and no legal action was filed.

The Delhi High Court will hold its next hearing in September on Uber’s lawsuit, which Ola called “frivolous and false.” (ap)

BUDAPEST — Hundreds of teachers across Hungary have walked out of class for one hour, demanding changes to official poli-cies, including cutting bureaucratic tasks, allowing greater choice in textbooks, more funds for education and reducing students’ mandatory school time.

Demonstrators outside Teleki Blanka Gymnasium formed a hu-man chain around the block, which protest leader and school principal Istvan Pukli said was to “show that we won’t allow this public

education system to take our school apart.”

The government has promised to decentralize the schools’ admin-istration and reduce curriculum contents but wants protesting teach-ers to join the official forum for debating reforms, which protesters consider illegitimate.

The walkout held early Wednes-day morning was labeled by orga-nizers as an act of civil disobedience because teachers and other public employees have very restricted strike options. (ap)

THE HAGUE — Dutch police have carried out another raid in the port city of Rotterdam, days after detaining a 32-year-old French national at the request of French authorities on suspicion of involve-ment in a “terrorist plan.”

The Dutch national prosecutor’s office said in a statement Wednes-day that the raid Tuesday night did not uncover any weapons or explosives and no suspects were arrested.

The latest raid followed an op-

eration Sunday night in which the Frenchman and three other suspects were detained by heavily armed police in Rotterdam. The suspect sought by French authorities has refused a swift transfer to France and will now go through an extradi-tion procedure.

Two other men detained Sunday, both with Algerian backgrounds, were appearing before an investi-gating judge Wednesday on charges of “involvement in a terrorist orga-nization.” (ap)

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Teachers gather in front of the Ferenc Kolcsey secondary school to demand the reconstruction of the Hungarian public education system in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, March 30. 2016.

Hungarian teachers hold walkout to protest

education policy

Dutch police carry out raid in Rotterdam;

no weapons found

Uber, Ola face off in battle for India’s booming

taxi marketNEW DELHI — Aiming to wrest control of India’s booming

taxi market, two cab-hailing smartphone apps — Uber and Ola — are promising hundreds of millions in new investment while also facing off with one another in court.

AP Photo/ Bikas Das

In this March 29, 2016 photo, Indian commuters walk past a parked Ola cab in Kolkata, India. Aiming to wrest control of India’s booming taxi market, two cab-hailing smartphone apps _ Uber and Ola _ are promising hundreds of millions in new investment while also facing off with one another in court.

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Klay Thompson followed back-to-back 40-point games with 16 as Golden State (67-7) stayed a game ahead of the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ pace during their 72-10 season. The Warriors must go 6-2 over their final eight games for the record.

Curry (356) and Thompson (255) already had the most com-bined 3-pointers by a pair of team-mates in a season. Curry, the first player in NBA history with 300 3s in a season, has eight games left to chase 400. Thompson is aiming to top Curry’s previous record of 286 3s.

Draymond Green had 15 points, 16 rebounds and nine assists to just miss back-to-back triple-doubles

in the Warriors’ 54th straight regular-season home win and 36th consecutive this season.

Elsewhere, James Harden scored 27 points as Houston ral-lied from a 20-point deficit to beat LeBron James-less Cleveland 106-100. Harden scored 18 points in the fourth quarter and Houston outscored Cleveland 35-16 in the period.

Dwight Howard’s free throw with 2:13 left put Houston ahead 95-94. Harden’s 3-pointer made it 98-94 before Kyrie Irving hit a 3-pointer with 1:30 left, making it a one-point game. Both teams missed shots on their next posses-sion, but Trevor Ariza’s 3-pointer from the corner with 17 seconds

left gave Houston a 101-97 lead.Irving scored 31 points for

Cleveland, which rested James for the night and fell to 1-3 this season without him.

In Indianapolis, Jimmy Butler made a tiebreaking jumper with 3.7 seconds left as Chicago beat Indiana 98-96 to end a four-game losing streak.

Nikola Mirotic scored 28 points as Chicago (37-37) got back to .500 and pulled within two games of Indiana for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Mirotic made seven 3-pointers, his final one tying it at 96 with 2:19 remaining.

The Pacers missed five shots in the final two minutes that would have given them the lead before the Bulls rebounded Pau Gasol’s miss with 20 seconds remaining and got the ball to Butler for his 17-footer from the right wing.(ap)

KEY BISCAYNE — Novak Djokovic rolled his eyes after a backhand found the net, shrugged after an early barrage of errors and even heard the crowd at times pulling for his opponent. None of it wound up mattering. Even when not at his sharpest, Djokovic is nearly impossible to beat.

Looking for his fifth title on Key Biscayne in six years, the world’s top player reached the quarterfinals Tuesday with a 6-3, 6-4 win over 14th-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria.

Djokovic will meet seventh-seeded Tomas Berdych — who grinded out a three-set win over 10th-seeded Richard Gasquet of France — in the Miami Open semifinals. “It was far from easy,” said Djokovic, who survived nine double-faults. “I struggled a lot.”

Djokovic moved to 25-1 on the year, 27-1 in his past 28 matches on Key Biscayne. The Serbian star also moved a step closer to be-coming the tournament’s first back-to-back-to-back winner since Andre Agassi in 2001, 2002 and 2003. He fended off 14 of the 15 break points he faced and hasn’t dropped a set so far in the tournament.

“That’s a positive, in a way,” Djokovic said of his success on break points. “I try not to get myself in those positions too much.” Thiem was no pushover, and seemed the farthest thing from intimidated.

He cranked his serve up to 141 mph, recorded 11 of the match’s first 16 winners and twice got games on Djokovic’s serve to last 10 minutes before the world No. 1 would ultimately prevail.

Perhaps it shouldn’t have been surprising, since he and Djokovic came into the day lead-ing the tour with 24 wins apiece this year.

“With one of 15 break points, you cannot beat anyone, probably,” Thiem said. “For sure, not Djokovic.”(ap)

Curry, Warriors move a victory closer to season wins record

AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry (30) dunks past Wash-ington Wizards’ Garrett Temple (17) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, March 29, 2016, in Oakland, Calif. Golden State won 102-94.

OAKLAND — Stephen Curry knocked down six 3-pointers on the way to 26 points, and the Golden State Warriors beat the Washington Wizards 102-94 on Tuesday night to stay on pace for the all-time NBA wins record.

Djokovic reaches quarterfinals at Miami Open, 6-3, 6-4

Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, serves to Dominic Thiem during their match at the Miami Open tennis tournament, Tuesday, March 29, 2016, in Key Biscayne, Fla. AP Photo/Lynne Sladky

Dreamland Beach... Woa! Who-ever coming here, the eyes will be greeted by beautiful panorama. The overlaying of white sand and a big wave presenting a fantastic view that touch every heart of tourists. This area is very clean with high cliffs in front of the beach. When the sun illuminates the sea water, it is like bluish beach. Moreover, in the afternoon, there is a dazzling sunset which can astound the tourists. The atmosfer of the beach is romantic and also very suitable for honeymoon or couple who just spend-ing holiday.

Dreamland Beach exist in the the area of Pecatu Graha, in Bukit Ung-gasan, Badung. To go there, visitors can pass Uluwatu street where it is stil one lane with Garuda Wisnu Kencana. The trip to this beach takes about 25 minutes from Ngurah Rai Airport or 45 minutes from capital city Denpasar. The visitors can go by car or motorcy-cle. Entering parking area, the visitors

only pay IDR 5.000 per vehicle. This beach offers good nuance and

comfortable situation. Usually this situation is used by surfing lover who want explore the big and wonderful wave. Tourists that coming here also enjoy the scenery while sitting down or just laying on the sand. Even, this place once used as movie set and photo shooting for prewedding. “Most tourists who coming are foreigner such as Australia, China and Hawai. they choose this place because the situation is not too crowded,” said Wayan Supadmi the owner of artshop in Dreamland.

When travelling here, the visitors can order service that offer swiming tools and umbrela. Beides, there are also souvenir shops which sell dress, hut, bracelets, neclace, beach clothes, sandal and others ornament. “If the tourists want to stay for a long period, there are cheap accomodation around here,” revealed Supadmi.(kmb)

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Clint Dempsey scored 12 minutes in and Geoff Cameron, Graham Zusi and Jozy Altidore added goals for the Americans, who risked being eliminated from the qualifying competi-tion with another loss.

“I thought we showed a lot of heart,” Dempsey said. “We showed a lot of character by dealing with a pressure situ-ation.”

In other matches, Andres Guardado and Jesus Corona

scored first-half goals as Mex-ico beat Canada 2-0 to become the first nation to clinch a berth in the six-team final round of qualifying for the North and Central American and Carib-bean region.

Following a dismal 2-0 loss at Guatemala City on Friday in which Jurgen Klinsmann played several players out of their most

comfortable positions, the U.S. head coach made five lineup changes and shifted two others into their more usual spots.

Cameron doubled the U.S. lead in the 35th minute, and Zusi, added to the roster on Sunday, added a goal just 20 seconds into the second half. Altidore capped the scoring in the 89th.

A loss would have made it virtually impossible for the U.S. to finish among the top two teams in Group C and reach the final round of qualifying, but the victory put the U.S. in good posi-tion to advance. The Americans are 27-0-2 at home in qualifying since 2001. Dempsey scored his 49th international goal, eight be-hind Landon Donovan’s Ameri-can record.

In Group C’s other game, Trinidad and Tobago won 6-0 at home against St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Sheldon Bateau scored Trinidad’s only goal in the first half before Joevin Jones, Kenwyne Jones and Kevin Molino padded the lead in the second.

Trevin Caesar then added two more goals in a three-min-ute span as time was winding down. Trinidad leads the group with 10 points, three ahead of the U.S. and four ahead of Guatemala.

In Mexico City, Guardado scored on a penalty kick in the 17th and Corona in the 45th for Mexico. Seeking its sev-enth straight World Cup berth, Mexico leads Group A with 12 points, followed by Canada and Honduras eight points back. Canada last played in the World Cup in 1986.

Elsewhere, Honduras won 2-0 over visiting El Salvador on goals by Oscar Boniek Garcia and Romell Quioto. In Group B, Costa Rica remained in the top spot after beating visiting Jamaica 3-0. Ceslo Borges, Bryan Ruiz and Johan Ven-egas all scored for the Ticos. Panama is three points back after beating Haiti 1-0 at home on Felipe Baloy’s 81st-minute goal. (ap)

ASUNCION — Brazil rallied for a 2-2 draw at Paraguay with late goals from Ricardo Oliveira and Dani Alves in a World Cup quali-fier on Tuesday. Oliveira scored in the 79th minute and Alves notched the equalizer 90 seconds into injury time to save Brazil from an embar-rassing loss.

Dario Lezcano gave Paraguay a deserved 1-0 lead in the 40th, driv-ing a 10-meter (yard) shot over the head of Brazil keeper Alisson.

Edgar Benitez made it 2-0 in the 49th on a perfectly slotted shot after Paraguay sliced up Brazil’s porous defense to get into scoring position. Brazil played without star striker Neymar and top defender David Luiz, both out with accumulated yellow cards.

Paraguay defeated Brazil the last time they played, winning 4-3 on penalties in the quarterfinals of last year’s Copa America.

Brazil has just nine points from six matches, sitting in sixth position on the table, level with Paraguay on points.

In other South American quali-fiers on Tuesday, Uruguay defeated Peru 1-0 to move level with Ec-uador, losers at Colombia 3-1, at the top of the table with 13 points, Argentina beat Bolivia 2-0 to move into third with 11 points, and Chile got a 4-1 win at Venezuela.

In Cordoba, Argentina, Gabriel Mercado scored in the 19th minute and Barcelona star Lionel Messi made it 2-0 in the 29th on a penalty to lead the Argentines to an easy victory. It was Messi’s 50th goal in international play, drawing him closer to the Argentine record of 56, set by Gabriel Batistuta.

Argentina, the 2014 World Cup runner-up, scored only two goals in its first four qualifying matches, but has scored four in its last two matches to show some life.

In Montevideo, Uruguay, Edin-son Cavani scored in the 52nd to lift Uruguay to a 1-0 victory over stubborn Peru.

In Barranquilla, Colombia, the Colombians defeated Ecuador be-hind two goals from Carlos Bacca in the 14th and 66th minutes. Sebastian Perez got the other goal for Colom-bia in the 47th, a spectacular shot as he leapt and karate-kicked the ball into the net with his right leg.

Michel Arroyo scored late in the first half for Ecuador, who lost for the first time in six group matches.

In Barinas, Venezuela, Romulo Otero gave Venezuela a 1-0 lead in the 8th minute, but Copa America champion Chile dominated from that point on, with two goals from Arturo Vidal and two more from Mauricio Pinilla.(ap)

MOre than 1,700 security personnel were on patrol Tuesday as France beat Russia on its return to the Stade de France, four months after their last home game was tar-geted by suicide bombers.

A pre-match minute of silence to remember Europe’s latest terrorist attack in Belgium served as a jar-ring reminder of the security chal-lenges facing France as it prepares to host the European Championship in less than three months.

There was also intense security in Portugal, which hosted Belgium for a friendly fixture that was hur-riedly moved from Brussels after airport and subway bombings in the city last week killed 35 people. Belgium’s players commemorated the victims by wearing special T-shirts before their 2-1 loss.

The peaceful friendly in Paris, which France won 4-2, was in

marked contrast to the night in November when its game against Germany was among the targets in coordinated attacks across the city that killed 130 people. One bystander was killed when suicide bombers blew themselves up out-side the Stade de France.

In a show of force on Tuesday, 575 police officers and 1,200 pri-vate security guards were deployed at the national stadium.

But there was much to celebrate on the field for France as N’Golo Kante marked his first start by scoring the opener, continuing the fine form that has seen Leicester surprisingly surge to the top of the Premier League.

“He played without being hung-up,” France coach Didier Des-champs. “This is just the beginning. He is building on the momentum of what he has been doing with his club at international level.”

Another Premier League sensa-tion, West Ham’s Dimitri Payet, netted directly from a free kick two minutes after coming on for France, whose other goals were supplied by Andre-Pierre Gignac and Kingsley Coman.

In Munich, Germany ended a near 21-year wait for a victory over Italy with an emphatic 4-1 win. Mario Goetze, who hasn’t played for Germany since sustaining a groin injury in October, marked his international return by heading in the second goal.

“It was simply important to be able to play again after such a long injury, simply to be able to do what’s fun for me,” Goetze said.

Toni Kroos, Mesut Ozil and Jonas Hector were also on target for the World Cup holders in what was a quick recovery following Saturday’s stunning loss to England in Berlin. (ap)

MUNICH — Mario Goetze scored on his international come-back to help Germany beat Italy for the first time in more than 20 years, a 4-1 drubbing in their friendly on Tuesday.

Goetze, who had only played 53 minutes for Bayern Munich since a groin injury sustained against Ire-land on Oct. 8, headed Germany’s second goal before the break after Toni Kroos opened the scoring.

Goetze was also involved in the third before the hour-mark, setting Julian Draxler free to cross for Jonas Hector’s first international goal. “I’m so happy. For me it was simply important to be able to play again after such a long injury, simply to be able to do what’s fun for me. Then to score as well,” Goetze said.

Mesut Ozil made it 4-0 in the 75th with a penalty conceded by

Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon.Substitute Stephan El Shaarawy

scored Italy’s consolation goal in the 83rd with a strike from dis-tance.

It was Germany’s first win over Italy at the eighth attempt since a 2-0 victory on June 21, 1995.

“We did it well. All the players fulfilled their duties well, played with a lot of discipline,” Germany coach Joachim Loew said. (ap)

MOrOCCO became the first team to qualify for next year’s African Cup of Nations with a 2-0 win over Cape Verde on Tuesday as new coach Herve Renard delivered immediate success.

Egypt is on the brink of making it to Gabon and its first Cup of Nations since 2010 following a 1-0 home win over Nige-ria in front of 40,000 people in Alexandria. That eliminated Nigeria, the 2013 African champion.

Current title holder Ivory Coast remains on course to defend its title at the 2017 finals despite being held 1-1 in Sudan.

Renard, who won African Cups as coach of Zambia in 2012 and Ivory Coast last year, took over Morocco last month. He oversaw away and home wins over Cape Verde in the last four days to ensure the North Africans won Group F with two rounds of games to spare.

Youssef El Arabi scored twice for Mo-rocco on Tuesday to leave Cape Verde, Af-rica’s top-ranked team, seeking to qualify as one of the two best second-place teams from the 13 groups. The group winners qualify automatically.

Highly-rated teenage midfielder Ramadan Sobhi scored the crucial goal for the record seven-time champion Egypt against Nigeria in the 65th minute at Alexandria’s Borg El-Arab Stadium, where a longstanding ban on fans attending games in large numbers in Egypt was temporarily lifted.

Egypt, whose national soccer team’s fortunes have dipped dramatically with the onset of political turmoil in the country, needs just a draw with Tanzania in its final qualifier in June. Egypt can even qualify if it loses that game by two goals or less.

The 18-year-old Sobhi made another vital contribution with his winner from a low shot that was deflected home through a crowd of players. He set up the equalizer in Egypt’s 1-1 draw in Nigeria at the weekend.

Egypt’s national team won its record-extending seventh title in 2010 but the one-time dominant force in African soccer was absent for the last three continental championships while football at home was marred by violent clashes that reflected the political strife in Egypt.

Nigeria has now failed to make two straight African Cups. Nigeria’s fate wasn’t helped by the withdrawal of Chad from the qualifying competition on Sunday, reducing Group G to three teams and meaning there is no chance of a place for Nigeria as one of the two best second-place teams. They have to come from groups with four teams. (ap)

US back on track in qualifying with 4-0 win over Guatemala

COLUMBUS — The United States got back on track for a berth in the 2018 World Cup, ending four nervous days with a 4-0 win over Guatemala on Tuesday.

AP Photo/Jay LaPrete

United States’ Clint Dempsey celebrates his goal against Guatemala during the first half of a World Cup qualifying soccer match Tuesday, March 29, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio.

Brazil rallies for 2-2 draw on late goals by Oliveira, Alves

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Coach Dunga of Brazil gestures during World Cup qualifying match against Paraguay, in Asuncion, Paraguay Tuesday, March 29, 2016.

Germany wins 4-1, beats Italy for 1st time in over 20 years

Security high as France returns to Paris stadium after bombs

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A french supporter wrapped in his national flag passes by police officers guarding the Stade de France stadium prior to the international friendly soccer match between France and Russia in Saint Denis, north of Paris, France, Tuesday, March 29, 2016.

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Clint Dempsey scored 12 minutes in and Geoff Cameron, Graham Zusi and Jozy Altidore added goals for the Americans, who risked being eliminated from the qualifying competi-tion with another loss.

“I thought we showed a lot of heart,” Dempsey said. “We showed a lot of character by dealing with a pressure situ-ation.”

In other matches, Andres Guardado and Jesus Corona

scored first-half goals as Mex-ico beat Canada 2-0 to become the first nation to clinch a berth in the six-team final round of qualifying for the North and Central American and Carib-bean region.

Following a dismal 2-0 loss at Guatemala City on Friday in which Jurgen Klinsmann played several players out of their most

comfortable positions, the U.S. head coach made five lineup changes and shifted two others into their more usual spots.

Cameron doubled the U.S. lead in the 35th minute, and Zusi, added to the roster on Sunday, added a goal just 20 seconds into the second half. Altidore capped the scoring in the 89th.

A loss would have made it virtually impossible for the U.S. to finish among the top two teams in Group C and reach the final round of qualifying, but the victory put the U.S. in good posi-tion to advance. The Americans are 27-0-2 at home in qualifying since 2001. Dempsey scored his 49th international goal, eight be-hind Landon Donovan’s Ameri-can record.

In Group C’s other game, Trinidad and Tobago won 6-0 at home against St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Sheldon Bateau scored Trinidad’s only goal in the first half before Joevin Jones, Kenwyne Jones and Kevin Molino padded the lead in the second.

Trevin Caesar then added two more goals in a three-min-ute span as time was winding down. Trinidad leads the group with 10 points, three ahead of the U.S. and four ahead of Guatemala.

In Mexico City, Guardado scored on a penalty kick in the 17th and Corona in the 45th for Mexico. Seeking its sev-enth straight World Cup berth, Mexico leads Group A with 12 points, followed by Canada and Honduras eight points back. Canada last played in the World Cup in 1986.

Elsewhere, Honduras won 2-0 over visiting El Salvador on goals by Oscar Boniek Garcia and Romell Quioto. In Group B, Costa Rica remained in the top spot after beating visiting Jamaica 3-0. Ceslo Borges, Bryan Ruiz and Johan Ven-egas all scored for the Ticos. Panama is three points back after beating Haiti 1-0 at home on Felipe Baloy’s 81st-minute goal. (ap)

ASUNCION — Brazil rallied for a 2-2 draw at Paraguay with late goals from Ricardo Oliveira and Dani Alves in a World Cup quali-fier on Tuesday. Oliveira scored in the 79th minute and Alves notched the equalizer 90 seconds into injury time to save Brazil from an embar-rassing loss.

Dario Lezcano gave Paraguay a deserved 1-0 lead in the 40th, driv-ing a 10-meter (yard) shot over the head of Brazil keeper Alisson.

Edgar Benitez made it 2-0 in the 49th on a perfectly slotted shot after Paraguay sliced up Brazil’s porous defense to get into scoring position. Brazil played without star striker Neymar and top defender David Luiz, both out with accumulated yellow cards.

Paraguay defeated Brazil the last time they played, winning 4-3 on penalties in the quarterfinals of last year’s Copa America.

Brazil has just nine points from six matches, sitting in sixth position on the table, level with Paraguay on points.

In other South American quali-fiers on Tuesday, Uruguay defeated Peru 1-0 to move level with Ec-uador, losers at Colombia 3-1, at the top of the table with 13 points, Argentina beat Bolivia 2-0 to move into third with 11 points, and Chile got a 4-1 win at Venezuela.

In Cordoba, Argentina, Gabriel Mercado scored in the 19th minute and Barcelona star Lionel Messi made it 2-0 in the 29th on a penalty to lead the Argentines to an easy victory. It was Messi’s 50th goal in international play, drawing him closer to the Argentine record of 56, set by Gabriel Batistuta.

Argentina, the 2014 World Cup runner-up, scored only two goals in its first four qualifying matches, but has scored four in its last two matches to show some life.

In Montevideo, Uruguay, Edin-son Cavani scored in the 52nd to lift Uruguay to a 1-0 victory over stubborn Peru.

In Barranquilla, Colombia, the Colombians defeated Ecuador be-hind two goals from Carlos Bacca in the 14th and 66th minutes. Sebastian Perez got the other goal for Colom-bia in the 47th, a spectacular shot as he leapt and karate-kicked the ball into the net with his right leg.

Michel Arroyo scored late in the first half for Ecuador, who lost for the first time in six group matches.

In Barinas, Venezuela, Romulo Otero gave Venezuela a 1-0 lead in the 8th minute, but Copa America champion Chile dominated from that point on, with two goals from Arturo Vidal and two more from Mauricio Pinilla.(ap)

MOre than 1,700 security personnel were on patrol Tuesday as France beat Russia on its return to the Stade de France, four months after their last home game was tar-geted by suicide bombers.

A pre-match minute of silence to remember Europe’s latest terrorist attack in Belgium served as a jar-ring reminder of the security chal-lenges facing France as it prepares to host the European Championship in less than three months.

There was also intense security in Portugal, which hosted Belgium for a friendly fixture that was hur-riedly moved from Brussels after airport and subway bombings in the city last week killed 35 people. Belgium’s players commemorated the victims by wearing special T-shirts before their 2-1 loss.

The peaceful friendly in Paris, which France won 4-2, was in

marked contrast to the night in November when its game against Germany was among the targets in coordinated attacks across the city that killed 130 people. One bystander was killed when suicide bombers blew themselves up out-side the Stade de France.

In a show of force on Tuesday, 575 police officers and 1,200 pri-vate security guards were deployed at the national stadium.

But there was much to celebrate on the field for France as N’Golo Kante marked his first start by scoring the opener, continuing the fine form that has seen Leicester surprisingly surge to the top of the Premier League.

“He played without being hung-up,” France coach Didier Des-champs. “This is just the beginning. He is building on the momentum of what he has been doing with his club at international level.”

Another Premier League sensa-tion, West Ham’s Dimitri Payet, netted directly from a free kick two minutes after coming on for France, whose other goals were supplied by Andre-Pierre Gignac and Kingsley Coman.

In Munich, Germany ended a near 21-year wait for a victory over Italy with an emphatic 4-1 win. Mario Goetze, who hasn’t played for Germany since sustaining a groin injury in October, marked his international return by heading in the second goal.

“It was simply important to be able to play again after such a long injury, simply to be able to do what’s fun for me,” Goetze said.

Toni Kroos, Mesut Ozil and Jonas Hector were also on target for the World Cup holders in what was a quick recovery following Saturday’s stunning loss to England in Berlin. (ap)

MUNICH — Mario Goetze scored on his international come-back to help Germany beat Italy for the first time in more than 20 years, a 4-1 drubbing in their friendly on Tuesday.

Goetze, who had only played 53 minutes for Bayern Munich since a groin injury sustained against Ire-land on Oct. 8, headed Germany’s second goal before the break after Toni Kroos opened the scoring.

Goetze was also involved in the third before the hour-mark, setting Julian Draxler free to cross for Jonas Hector’s first international goal. “I’m so happy. For me it was simply important to be able to play again after such a long injury, simply to be able to do what’s fun for me. Then to score as well,” Goetze said.

Mesut Ozil made it 4-0 in the 75th with a penalty conceded by

Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon.Substitute Stephan El Shaarawy

scored Italy’s consolation goal in the 83rd with a strike from dis-tance.

It was Germany’s first win over Italy at the eighth attempt since a 2-0 victory on June 21, 1995.

“We did it well. All the players fulfilled their duties well, played with a lot of discipline,” Germany coach Joachim Loew said. (ap)

MOrOCCO became the first team to qualify for next year’s African Cup of Nations with a 2-0 win over Cape Verde on Tuesday as new coach Herve Renard delivered immediate success.

Egypt is on the brink of making it to Gabon and its first Cup of Nations since 2010 following a 1-0 home win over Nige-ria in front of 40,000 people in Alexandria. That eliminated Nigeria, the 2013 African champion.

Current title holder Ivory Coast remains on course to defend its title at the 2017 finals despite being held 1-1 in Sudan.

Renard, who won African Cups as coach of Zambia in 2012 and Ivory Coast last year, took over Morocco last month. He oversaw away and home wins over Cape Verde in the last four days to ensure the North Africans won Group F with two rounds of games to spare.

Youssef El Arabi scored twice for Mo-rocco on Tuesday to leave Cape Verde, Af-rica’s top-ranked team, seeking to qualify as one of the two best second-place teams from the 13 groups. The group winners qualify automatically.

Highly-rated teenage midfielder Ramadan Sobhi scored the crucial goal for the record seven-time champion Egypt against Nigeria in the 65th minute at Alexandria’s Borg El-Arab Stadium, where a longstanding ban on fans attending games in large numbers in Egypt was temporarily lifted.

Egypt, whose national soccer team’s fortunes have dipped dramatically with the onset of political turmoil in the country, needs just a draw with Tanzania in its final qualifier in June. Egypt can even qualify if it loses that game by two goals or less.

The 18-year-old Sobhi made another vital contribution with his winner from a low shot that was deflected home through a crowd of players. He set up the equalizer in Egypt’s 1-1 draw in Nigeria at the weekend.

Egypt’s national team won its record-extending seventh title in 2010 but the one-time dominant force in African soccer was absent for the last three continental championships while football at home was marred by violent clashes that reflected the political strife in Egypt.

Nigeria has now failed to make two straight African Cups. Nigeria’s fate wasn’t helped by the withdrawal of Chad from the qualifying competition on Sunday, reducing Group G to three teams and meaning there is no chance of a place for Nigeria as one of the two best second-place teams. They have to come from groups with four teams. (ap)

US back on track in qualifying with 4-0 win over Guatemala

COLUMBUS — The United States got back on track for a berth in the 2018 World Cup, ending four nervous days with a 4-0 win over Guatemala on Tuesday.

AP Photo/Jay LaPrete

United States’ Clint Dempsey celebrates his goal against Guatemala during the first half of a World Cup qualifying soccer match Tuesday, March 29, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio.

Brazil rallies for 2-2 draw on late goals by Oliveira, Alves

AP Photo/Jorge Saenz

Coach Dunga of Brazil gestures during World Cup qualifying match against Paraguay, in Asuncion, Paraguay Tuesday, March 29, 2016.

Germany wins 4-1, beats Italy for 1st time in over 20 years

Security high as France returns to Paris stadium after bombs

AP Photo/Thibault Camus

A french supporter wrapped in his national flag passes by police officers guarding the Stade de France stadium prior to the international friendly soccer match between France and Russia in Saint Denis, north of Paris, France, Tuesday, March 29, 2016.

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Klay Thompson followed back-to-back 40-point games with 16 as Golden State (67-7) stayed a game ahead of the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ pace during their 72-10 season. The Warriors must go 6-2 over their final eight games for the record.

Curry (356) and Thompson (255) already had the most com-bined 3-pointers by a pair of team-mates in a season. Curry, the first player in NBA history with 300 3s in a season, has eight games left to chase 400. Thompson is aiming to top Curry’s previous record of 286 3s.

Draymond Green had 15 points, 16 rebounds and nine assists to just miss back-to-back triple-doubles

in the Warriors’ 54th straight regular-season home win and 36th consecutive this season.

Elsewhere, James Harden scored 27 points as Houston ral-lied from a 20-point deficit to beat LeBron James-less Cleveland 106-100. Harden scored 18 points in the fourth quarter and Houston outscored Cleveland 35-16 in the period.

Dwight Howard’s free throw with 2:13 left put Houston ahead 95-94. Harden’s 3-pointer made it 98-94 before Kyrie Irving hit a 3-pointer with 1:30 left, making it a one-point game. Both teams missed shots on their next posses-sion, but Trevor Ariza’s 3-pointer from the corner with 17 seconds

left gave Houston a 101-97 lead.Irving scored 31 points for

Cleveland, which rested James for the night and fell to 1-3 this season without him.

In Indianapolis, Jimmy Butler made a tiebreaking jumper with 3.7 seconds left as Chicago beat Indiana 98-96 to end a four-game losing streak.

Nikola Mirotic scored 28 points as Chicago (37-37) got back to .500 and pulled within two games of Indiana for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Mirotic made seven 3-pointers, his final one tying it at 96 with 2:19 remaining.

The Pacers missed five shots in the final two minutes that would have given them the lead before the Bulls rebounded Pau Gasol’s miss with 20 seconds remaining and got the ball to Butler for his 17-footer from the right wing.(ap)

KEY BISCAYNE — Novak Djokovic rolled his eyes after a backhand found the net, shrugged after an early barrage of errors and even heard the crowd at times pulling for his opponent. None of it wound up mattering. Even when not at his sharpest, Djokovic is nearly impossible to beat.

Looking for his fifth title on Key Biscayne in six years, the world’s top player reached the quarterfinals Tuesday with a 6-3, 6-4 win over 14th-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria.

Djokovic will meet seventh-seeded Tomas Berdych — who grinded out a three-set win over 10th-seeded Richard Gasquet of France — in the Miami Open semifinals. “It was far from easy,” said Djokovic, who survived nine double-faults. “I struggled a lot.”

Djokovic moved to 25-1 on the year, 27-1 in his past 28 matches on Key Biscayne. The Serbian star also moved a step closer to be-coming the tournament’s first back-to-back-to-back winner since Andre Agassi in 2001, 2002 and 2003. He fended off 14 of the 15 break points he faced and hasn’t dropped a set so far in the tournament.

“That’s a positive, in a way,” Djokovic said of his success on break points. “I try not to get myself in those positions too much.” Thiem was no pushover, and seemed the farthest thing from intimidated.

He cranked his serve up to 141 mph, recorded 11 of the match’s first 16 winners and twice got games on Djokovic’s serve to last 10 minutes before the world No. 1 would ultimately prevail.

Perhaps it shouldn’t have been surprising, since he and Djokovic came into the day lead-ing the tour with 24 wins apiece this year.

“With one of 15 break points, you cannot beat anyone, probably,” Thiem said. “For sure, not Djokovic.”(ap)

Curry, Warriors move a victory closer to season wins record

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Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry (30) dunks past Wash-ington Wizards’ Garrett Temple (17) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, March 29, 2016, in Oakland, Calif. Golden State won 102-94.

OAKLAND — Stephen Curry knocked down six 3-pointers on the way to 26 points, and the Golden State Warriors beat the Washington Wizards 102-94 on Tuesday night to stay on pace for the all-time NBA wins record.

Djokovic reaches quarterfinals at Miami Open, 6-3, 6-4

Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, serves to Dominic Thiem during their match at the Miami Open tennis tournament, Tuesday, March 29, 2016, in Key Biscayne, Fla. AP Photo/Lynne Sladky

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When travelling here, the visitors can order service that offer swiming tools and umbrela. Beides, there are also souvenir shops which sell dress, hut, bracelets, neclace, beach clothes, sandal and others ornament. “If the tourists want to stay for a long period, there are cheap accomodation around here,” revealed Supadmi.(kmb)

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San Francisco-based Uber re-portedly plans a $500 million infu-sion of new funds, apart from the $1 billion already committed over the past nine months, according to Indian newspapers. The company declined this week to comment on those reports. Meanwhile, Ola Cabs promises to add another 2,000 cars to the fleet of 26,000 it already com-mands in New Delhi, chief spokes-man Anand Subramanian said.

But it’s the ongoing legal wran-gles between the two — with each accusing the other of behaving un-ethically — that have drawn focus to the struggle for India’s $9 billion taxi industry and future growth pos-sibilities in a country with an urban population of 400 million people but few options in safe, convenient public transportation.

This month, Uber filed suit against Ola, accusing its Bangalore-based rival of hijacking its busi-ness by creating fake accounts to make bookings with Uber that it then canceled. Ola denied the al-legations, calling them ludicrous

and suggesting they were a smoke screen to hide Uber’s own troubles. Ola previously challenged Uber in court over what it said were illegal business practices. Analysts say the court battles show competition for market dominance is becoming fierce.

“It’s a tussle to capture the top spot among taxi-hailing apps and the title of No. 1,” said Jaspal Singh, founder of Valoriser Con-sultants, specializing in analysis of the transportation industry.

Smartphone taxi apps, intro-duced in India in 2010, have grown to account for 10 percent of the country’s overall taxi industry, which also includes regular cabs and three-wheeler “rickshaws.”

Ola has already bought out the upstart TaxiForSure, and both Uber and Ola offer rates below those of traditional taxis. Meanwhile, they are quickly adding new cities and customers, including car drivers increasingly fed up with traffic gridlock and difficulty finding parking on India’s overcrowded

roads.So far Ola has been dominating

the smartphone app market, with a presence in more than 100 cities and roughly half of the business, analysts say. Uber, which entered the Indian market in 2013, operates in 29 Indian cities and is anxious to expand, while myriad small players are clawing their way in.

In the latest legal action between the two, filed in the Delhi High Court, Uber demanded an injunc-tion against Ola and $7.4 million in damages. It accuses Ola — backed by Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. and hedge fund Tiger Global Man-agement LLC — of creating more than 90,000 fake accounts to book around 400,000 rides and then cancel them in an effort to disrupt Uber’s business.

The allegations are similar to those faced by Uber itself in the United States in 2014, where San Francisco-based Lyft accused Uber of booking and canceling thousands of rides. Uber denied the accusations and no legal action was filed.

The Delhi High Court will hold its next hearing in September on Uber’s lawsuit, which Ola called “frivolous and false.” (ap)

BUDAPEST — Hundreds of teachers across Hungary have walked out of class for one hour, demanding changes to official poli-cies, including cutting bureaucratic tasks, allowing greater choice in textbooks, more funds for education and reducing students’ mandatory school time.

Demonstrators outside Teleki Blanka Gymnasium formed a hu-man chain around the block, which protest leader and school principal Istvan Pukli said was to “show that we won’t allow this public

education system to take our school apart.”

The government has promised to decentralize the schools’ admin-istration and reduce curriculum contents but wants protesting teach-ers to join the official forum for debating reforms, which protesters consider illegitimate.

The walkout held early Wednes-day morning was labeled by orga-nizers as an act of civil disobedience because teachers and other public employees have very restricted strike options. (ap)

THE HAGUE — Dutch police have carried out another raid in the port city of Rotterdam, days after detaining a 32-year-old French national at the request of French authorities on suspicion of involve-ment in a “terrorist plan.”

The Dutch national prosecutor’s office said in a statement Wednes-day that the raid Tuesday night did not uncover any weapons or explosives and no suspects were arrested.

The latest raid followed an op-

eration Sunday night in which the Frenchman and three other suspects were detained by heavily armed police in Rotterdam. The suspect sought by French authorities has refused a swift transfer to France and will now go through an extradi-tion procedure.

Two other men detained Sunday, both with Algerian backgrounds, were appearing before an investi-gating judge Wednesday on charges of “involvement in a terrorist orga-nization.” (ap)

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Teachers gather in front of the Ferenc Kolcsey secondary school to demand the reconstruction of the Hungarian public education system in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, March 30. 2016.

Hungarian teachers hold walkout to protest

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Dutch police carry out raid in Rotterdam;

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Uber, Ola face off in battle for India’s booming

taxi marketNEW DELHI — Aiming to wrest control of India’s booming

taxi market, two cab-hailing smartphone apps — Uber and Ola — are promising hundreds of millions in new investment while also facing off with one another in court.

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In this March 29, 2016 photo, Indian commuters walk past a parked Ola cab in Kolkata, India. Aiming to wrest control of India’s booming taxi market, two cab-hailing smartphone apps _ Uber and Ola _ are promising hundreds of millions in new investment while also facing off with one another in court.

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The agency said in the report that the fishing boats were hit by 17 bul-lets, including two that penetrated their cabins, in the early morning incident on March 21.

Agency chief Tsay Tzu-yaw said they were clearly not warning shots and asked Indonesia to provide an explanation. No one was injured and the boats, which arrived three days later in Singapore, were not badly damaged.

Indonesia says its patrol ship fired at the Sheng Te Tsai and the Lien I Hsing No. 116 only after they ignored repeated warnings to leave Indonesian waters in the Strait of Malacca. It says the vessels were suspected of fishing illegally and were not flying their flags.

The Taiwanese report did not comment directly on the flag claim, but included a recommendation that Taiwanese boats fly the national flag when passing through Indonesian

waters “to avoid misunderstandings occurring.’’

The agency said the Sheng Te Tsai’s voyage data recorders showed it had been sailing at 7-8 knots (13-15 kilometers per hour) around the time the incident hap-pened, a speed it said was too fast for it to have been setting nets or hauling in fish.

Diplomatically isolated by Chi-

na, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, the island’s government has reacted strongly to such inci-dents in the past to avoid percep-tions it is unable or unwilling to protect its citizens.

The death of a Taiwanese fisher-man in 2013 after his boat was fired on by the Philippine coast guard led to a brief diplomatic standoff and economic sanctions.(ant)

JAKARTA - The National Police Headquarters is ready to send personnel of its anti-terror squad Densus 88 and Mobile Brigade (Brimob) to help rescue 10 Indonesian sailors being held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf group in the Philippines.

“We are ready to help, and are even prepared to send a team of Densus and Brimob personnel,” Head of the National Police Headquarters Public Relations Division, Inspector General Anton Charliyan, said here on Tuesday.

The Indonesian police is coordinating with Interpol as part of the efforts to rescue the Indonesian sailors. “We are coordinat-ing with Interpol,” he said.

Two Indonesian-flagged vessels carrying seven tons of coal were hijacked in the Philippine waters on March 24.

“The priority now is to save the 10 Indonesians held hostage. The company (which operates the two ships) has informed the relatives of the 10 sailors being held hostage about the incident,” spokesman for the Indonesian Foreign Ministry, Arrmanatha Nasir, said.

The ministry received information about the piracy inci-dent on Monday. Since then, it has coordinated with relevant parties in Indonesia and the Philippines, including its foreign ministry.

The vessels were a tug and a barge. They were hijacked while on their way from Puting River in South Kalimantan to Batangas, South Philippines.

“We dont know exactly when the two vessels were hijacked. The owner of the vessels came to know the vessels were hijacked on March 26, 2014 when he received a phone call from someone claiming to be a member of Abu Sayyaf group,” he said.(ant)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the House of Representatives Com-mission I Mahfudz Siddiq has deplored senior Indonesian journal-ists meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, on Monday.

“The visit obviously contradicts the stand that Indonesia has maintained from the beginning of being opposed to Israeli occu-pation of Palestine and in support of Palestinian independence,” Siddiq said here on Tuesday.

Furthermore, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) reiterated the Indonesian stand at the extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held in Jakarta earlier this month.

As a matter of fact, President Jokowi has called for a boycott of Israeli products made in the West Bank.

“Israel also has never paid attention to international protests against its actions which continue to victimize Palestinian civil-ians,” he said.

He said he has no idea about the agenda of the visit that senior Indonesian journalists took Israel, particularly after Indonesia hosted the OIC summit.

He believed that Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu are worried about the stand of President Jokowi and the Indonesian government and therefore, the visit was part of their efforts to find lobbyists that can be effective.

“I also dont know how they were able to enter Israel, while two Indonesian foreign ministers, Marty Natalegawa and Retno LP Mar-sudi, were denied entry to Palestine by Israel. It is likely that they used ordinary green passports to enter Israel via Europe,” he said.

Judging by Netanyahus statement made during the meeting with the Indonesian journalists, Israel wants to start a new chapter in its relations with Indonesia. This means that the Jewish state wants new diplomatic ties with Indonesia.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said on its website that Netanyahu met with senior Indonesian journalists who came to Israel at the invitation of the ministry.(ap)

MP deplores senior Indonesian journalists` visit to Israel

Police ready to help rescue Indonesians

held hostage

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Two tuna longliners, Lien I Hsing No. 116 and Sheng Te Tsai, whose home port is in southern Taiwan, are docked at the Jurong Fishery Port in Singapore Thursday, March 24, 2016. Taiwan has demanded an explanation from Indonesia after the two Taiwanese fishing boats were allegedly fired on by an Indonesian government vessel near the Strait of Malacca.

Taiwan says Indonesia Fired on Fishermen Without Warning

Jakarta - An Indonesian government vessel gave no warning before firing on two Taiwanese fishing boats earlier this month, Taiwan’s Fisheries Agency said in a report that also denied claims that the boats were poaching in Indo-nesian waters.

China’s economic growth is seen moderating to 6.5 percent this year and 6.3 percent next year, compared to 6.9 percent last year, the ADB report said. Slower exports, a fall-ing labor supply and supply-side reforms are reshaping the world’s second-largest economy toward more domestic consumption and a further reduction in excess indus-trial capacity, it said.

The report said that India will remain one of the fastest-growing major economies, while South Asia is forecast to post the most rapid growth among sub-regions. India’s

economy is seen expanding by 7.4 percent in 2016, and 7.8 percent in 2017. Last year, India’s economy grew 7.6 percent on the back of strong public investment.

South Asia’s economic growth is projected to slightly dip to 6.9 percent this year, from 7 percent in 2015, but that is seen to accelerate to 7.3 percent in 2017.

Southeast Asia’s economy is set for stronger growth at 4.5 percent this year and 4.8 percent next year, up from 4.4 percent in 2015. The region will be led by its biggest economy, Indonesia, as it ramps

up investment in infrastructure and implements policy reforms to spur private investment.

“(China’s) growth moderation and uneven global recovery are weighing down overall growth in Asia,” said Shang-Jin Wei, ADB’s chief econo-mist. Still, the region will continue to contribute over 60 percent of total global growth, he said.

Aggregate growth in the United States, the euro area and Japan will stay at 1.8 percent in 2016 and inch up to 1.9 percent in 2017, the report said.

It also cited a United Nations’ projection that growth in the re-gion’s working-age population will be lower in 2015-2020 than in 2008-2014, and that demographic effect alone could depress develop-ing Asia’s potential growth by 0.4 percentage points.(ap)

NEW YORK — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Tuesday that the Fed still envisions only a gradual pace of interest rate increases in light of global pressures that could affect the U.S. economy.

Her comments spurred a rally on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones industrial average closing at its highest level this year.

Yellen didn’t specify a timetable for further hikes to follow the Fed’s rate increase in December from record lows. She said risks to the United States appear limited but cautioned that that assessment is subject to “considerable uncertainty.”

Speaking to the Economic Club of New York, Yellen said the central bank is monitoring a global economic slump, sharply lower oil prices and stock market turbulence, which she said have hurt some U.S. consumers and key sectors such as manufacturing.

Singling out China — the world’s second-largest economy, after the United States — Yellen noted widespread uncertainty over how well Beijing will manage a delicate slowdown in coming years.

She said that because foreign economic growth seems to have fur-ther weakened this year, the Fed will “proceed cautiously” in raising rates.

In light of her comments, most economists expect no hike at the Fed’s next policy meeting — April 26-27 — despite remarks last week from other Fed officials that had raised the possibility of a rate increase then.

Investors welcomed Yellen’s message that the Fed would move slowly in raising rates. The Dow surged nearly 98 points, or 0.6 per-cent. And the yield on the 10-year Treasury note sank to 1.80 percent from 1.89 percent.

“Despite a growing chorus of calls from even centrist-leaning of-ficials to resume raising policy rates, Chair Yellen stuck to the dov-ish script of the March meeting statement,” when the Fed expressed concerns about the global economy and kept rates unchanged, said Sal Guatieri, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets.

Yellen noted that the U.S. job market and housing recovery have lifted the economy close to full health despite the risks that remain. She observed that the economy has benefited from low long-term U.S. bor-rowing rates. Those rates have been held down by money flowing into U.S. bonds from investors, who have scaled back their expectations for the number of Fed rate hikes this year from four to two at most.(ap)

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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen addresses an Economic Club of New York luncheon, Tuesday, March 29, 2016, in New York.

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In this Nov. 4, 2015 photo, a worker monitors coal being carried along conveyor ramps at a coal mine near Ordos in northern China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The annual gathering of the National People’s Congress is largely ceremonial, doing little lawmaking and instead providing a platform to publicize the Communist Party’s priorities.

ADB says Asia economy to grow 5.7 percent in 2016 and 2017

MANILA, Philippines — Softer growth prospects for China and a weak recovery in major industrial economies are expected to push down economic growth in developing Asia to 5.7 percent this year and next, below projections, the Asian Development Bank said Wednesday. The gross domestic product of the region, made up of 45 countries, grew 5.9 percent in 2015.

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In a day full of ceremony and symbolism, Htin Kyaw was sworn in along with his two vice presi-dents and 18-member Cabinet. Suu Kyi, the face of Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement, takes on a prominent role as the country’s new foreign minister and the head of three other ministries.

The swearing in was held in an austere hall of parliament, with law-makers dressed in traditional cos-tume. A few hours later, outgoing President Thein Sein shook hands with his successor and handed him a letter officially transferring power.

While it was a momentous day in the history of this impoverished Southeast Asian country, democracy still feels incomplete. The military retains considerable power in the government and parliament, and the president himself will play second fiddle to Suu Kyi, who has repeat-edly said she will run the country from behind the scenes because the military has ensured — through a

constitutional manipulation — that she cannot be the president.

Still, the day belonged to Htin Kyaw and Suu Kyi, who sat in the front row watching her confidant become head of a government she had long aspired to lead.

“The Union Parliament has elected me as president, which is a historic moment for this country,” Htin Kyaw, 70, said in a speech after being sworn in. He pledged to work toward national reconcili-ation, peace between warring ethnic groups and improving the lives of Myanmar’s 54 million people.

Rightfully, the job belonged to Suu Kyi, who led her National League for Democracy party to a landslide win in November elec-tions, ushering in Myanmar’s first civilian government after 54 years of direct and indirect military rule.

Suu Kyi endured decades of house arrest and harassment by military rulers without ever giving up on her nonviolent campaign to

unseat them. The constitutional clause that denied her the presi-dency excludes anyone from the position who has a foreign spouse or child. Suu Kyi’s two sons are British, as was her late husband. The clause is widely seen as having been written by the military with Suu Kyi in mind.

She has repeatedly made it clear that she will run the government from behind the scenes, and in his speech on Wednesday, Htin Kyaw signaled the dominant role Suu Kyi will play in his government.

“The new parliament and new government are formed in accord with the policies of the National League for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi,” he said, and referred to the party’s goal to amend the constitution.

“I have the obligation to work toward achieving a constitution that has democratic norms and is suitable for the nation,” Htin Kyaw said. “I want to tell the new government, we must constantly try to fulfill the hope and will of the people of this country. I wish all citizens of this country a successful and peaceful life.”(ap)

ULAN BATOR — A rare public protest in Mongolia’s capital on Wednesday drew thousands of demonstrators who criticized foreign mining concessions and demanded action to prop up the tottering economy.

More than 2,000 demonstrators gathered in Ulan Bator’s Freedom Square also called for parliament to be dissolved and a new government formed over alleged corruption and the economic crisis battering the vast, landlocked nation.

Protesters say the mineral wealth that accounts for 94 percent of the nation’s exports has been exploited by foreign firms with few benefits going to Mongolia’s 3 million people, one-third of whom live in poverty.

“Our wealth is shipped outside of country. Where is that money going?” former wrestler and opposition lawmaker Battulga Khaltmaa asked the crowd assembled by an umbrella group of small political parties and civil society organizations known as Ethical Mongol.

Battulga was particularly critical of the terms extended to Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto PLC to develop the $5.4 billion Oyu Tolgoi copper mine. Talks on expanding the mine have bogged down over the government’s demand for more revenue.

Battulga and others also criticized efforts to revive the Tavan Tolgoi coal project, alleging that members of around two dozen influential families with ties to both ruling Mongolian Democratic Party and opposition Mongolian People’s Party stand to benefit the most from the deal through their ownership of shares in the Hong Kong-listed Mongolian Mining Corporation.

“This business-political group ... has already swallowed its brother, democracy,” said Erdenechimeg Luvsan, a Democratic Party lawmaker. Protesters carried banners reading “Tavan Tolgoi is public property” and “Whatever happened to democracy?”

Parliament last year blocked a proposed deal with an international consortium led by Chinese state-owned mining company Shenhua and Mongolian Mining Corporation and Japan’s Sumitomi.

New parliamentary elections are scheduled for June, but critics say the rules will ensure re-election for lawmakers with mining interests in both the ruling and opposition parties.

The global slump in commodity prices has pummeled Mongolia’s economy, impoverishing thousands of former herders who’d moved to its few cities looking for jobs. China, which receives almost 90 percent of Mongolia’s exports, also has an economy that is slowing sharply, further eroding demand for copper, coal and other exports. Foreign investment in the country has practically disappeared.

Economic growth is set to fall below 1 percent this year, down from 17.5 percent earlier in the decade.(ap)

Thousands rally in Mongolia over foreign mining concessions

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A paramilitary policeman stands guard at China’s border with Mongolia, in a sand storm in Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia, China, March 4, 2016.

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In this image taken from video, Htin Kyaw, center, and National League for Democracy party leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, attend the presidential swearing in ceremony at parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar Wednesday, March 30, 2016.

Ally to power broker Suu Kyi sworn in as Myanmar’s president

NAYPYITAW — Htin Kyaw, a trusted friend of Nobel laure-ate Aung San Suu Kyi, took over as Myanmar’s president on Wednesday, calling it a “historic moment” in the country’s long-drawn transition to democracy after decades of military rule.

KESIMAN village is still known to be very strong with the royal era. This customary village covering the Kesiman Petilan, Kesiman Kertalangu and Kesiman is known to have dozens of interrelated temples. The Kesiman Petilan alone has about 40 temples. Its villagers are known to strongly uphold their customs.

Eight days after the celebration of Kuningan festiv-ity precisely on Redite (Sunday) Pon Medangsia, the Hindus at Kesiman organize the ngerebong tradition. This is a unique tradition held open to general public that want to watch. People wishing to enjoy the unique-ness of this tradition are required to wear traditional Balinese attires and woman getting her period is not allowed to come into the temple area.

Many people interpret the word Ngerebong as ‘as-sembling.’ Besides, there is also an interpretation as spinning. People believe that on the ngerebong day is

the auspicious day where many gods gather.Center of this tradition is carried out at Petilan

Temple. So, the temple is better known as the Pengere-bongan Temple. Some people call this ngerebong an ancient tradition so that residents can be avoided from calamity or disaster. It includes the Butha Yadnya cer-emony that aims to neutralize the evil power (bhuta) in order to become good power (god) so as not to interfere with human beings, especially at Kesiman.

A customary and cultural observer, I Wayan Turun, revealed that ngerebong ceremony aims to remind the Hindus through the sacred rituals so that they can continuously maintain the harmony of human relation-ship to God, fellow human beings and nature. Hence, the ritual is also called ngurek (self-stubbing by kris dagger) that rotates around wantilan hall clockwise. Aura of the trance is very intense at this customary ritual. (kmb)

Edi Santoso is a 44 fisherman from Yogyakarta who now lives in Keta-pang hamlet in Lelateng, Negara and works on a purse seine fishing boat.

He explained that he earns between IDR 50,000 and IDR 100,000 a day working on a boat that fishes in the waters of Tabanan but that the recent

bad weather has meant a reduction in his income. Santoso has being doing this job for just over a year and said that depite the reduction in fish catch, so far he has been still been able to support his wife and 5 year child.

Recent weather has also affected traditional fishermen like the ones at who live in Yeh Kuning and

Air Kuning and use nets or angles to earn their livelihood. “Indeed when we set off from the beach the weather is fine but out at sea the weather is quite bad and the waves are very big” said Lukman, a local traditional fishermen.

Both the purse seine fisher-men and the traditional fishermen

have trouble finding fish when the weather is like this. Sometimes they will even choose not to go to sea for their own security.

“Even if we are desperate to go you to sea, it is still difficult to find fish, so many fishermen decide not to go to sea and instead repair their boats and fish-ing gear” added Lukman. (kmb26)

Weather affects fish catchesNEGARA - Both traditional fishermen and purse seine fisher-

men have been affected by recent bad weather at sea that has caused them to be catch less fish. The rough seas caused by the full moon have only exacerbated the situation.

Ngerebong, a Unique Tradition of Kesiman Village

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Barong is present during Ngerebong tradition in Kesiman.

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The fishermen are placing their boat on the beach.

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She’ll repeat the motion thou-sands of times over the next 12 hours as she transforms from a willowy blond artist to dark-haired Superman for viewers following along online. Twice a week, the 28-year-old turns her body into a different character for an Internet audience.

“We don’t talk about gender roles on my channel. In fact, when people say, ‘You should paint

yourself as Superwoman,’ I’m like, ‘No. I want to paint myself as Superman,’” says Pike, who, when she’s done, looks like she could have been ripped from a comic book panel.

Pike is a fan of cosplay, in which participants wear costumes to represent a character from an-ime, comic books, cartoons, video games or movies.

After sitting as a body paint

model for a friend, Pike realized she could still dress up without having to make a costume. She posted a video of her first solo effort on Reddit and it caught the attention of Twitch.tv, a live-streaming company in San Fran-cisco. “One week later, I was live streaming body paint on Twitch.” Pike started in December and already has 163,000 followers on Instagram.

She receives a little advertis-ing money but relies more on donations from viewers and from

Patreon.com, a crowdfunding site for artists. There is also cash from her fashion line, which she sells at comic conventions, as well as appearance fees. “It’s like small income from a lot of different places that add up to a mortgage payment.”

Superman is a favorite of her husband, Moose, who narrates, reads posts from her followers and runs things behind the scenes.

In between singing along to pop music and answering questions from her followers, Pike gives

step-by-step details on how she creates the character.

She was led to painting char-acters for cosplay “to get out of some mega-social anxiety. Having the fashion line, we’re going to the shows, right? I totally, 100 percent could not talk to anyone on the other side of the camera.”

Pike refers to all her creations as her “little paint children.” She said it would be boring and lonely to do the painting without an audience. “At the end, it’s a little sad to wash it off.” (ap)

Canadian artist transforms into comic characters online

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In this March 19, 2016 photo, Kay Pike transforms herself using body paint and latex into Superman while live streaming at her home in Calgary, Alberta. Pike refers to all her creations as her “little paint children.” She said it would be boring and lonely to do the painting without an audience.

CALGARY — Kay Pike stands in front of a giant mirror, dabs her brush into paint and touches it to her skin.

NEGARA— The Jembrana En-vironment, Sanitation and Land-scaping Agency (LHKP) deployed 50 janitors to net and clean up garbage along the Ijogading River in West Loloan, Negara onTuesday (Mar. 29).

Head of LHKP Jembrana, Wayan Dar-win, said that his agency also wants to increase public awareness. about garbage “Actually, if members of the community are orderly and disciplined, it makes it easier for us to deal with garbage - all we would have to do is transport it” he explained.

Darwin explained that they conduct such clean-ups twice a month. “ Since we estab-lished out clean river program, we want to be serious and committed to keeping the river clean. The process of building public awareness, however takes time” he said.

Jembrana’s LHKP however still faces some challenges in conducting their clean river program, such as a shortage of gar-bage nets. “We plan to allocate more funds to this through a budgetary amendment”, he said. For 2016, a total of six, elementary school educated officers have been put on duty to clean the river.

It Darwin’s hope that the LHKP agency will continue the clean river program as public attitudes continue to be worked on. The clean river program was started last year and so far it only targets a few small rivers near the town of Negara such as Dangin Tukadaya River at the border of Dauhwaru with Dangin Tukadaya as well as the river next to Klendys Shop, Dauh-waru village, west of Dauhwaru Square.

“This year, we plan to clean up the Ijogading River. Ijogading has a special place in the hearts of the people of Jem-brana and should receive extra attention. We have therefor hired six people to clean up Ijogading River this year” said Darwin. (kmb)

MANGUPURA— Dengue fever (DBD) in Badung is increasingly

prevalent. In fact some patients at The Mangusada Hospital have has

to treated in the emergency room and maternity ward because of a storage of rooms. Based on avail-able data, 77 dengue patients have been treated so far, 62 of which were treated in the inpatient unit with another 15 in the emergency room.

In response to his visit to dengue patients at Mangusada Hospital on Tuesday (Mar.29), Deputy Regent of Badung, I Ketut Suiasa, has asked the public to help prevent dengue outbreaks by improving environmental sanitation and in-tensifying the spraying of mosquito breeding nests.

“We will provide each health centre with fogging devices and pesticide as a way to prevent den-gue outbreaks. However the public must also work to improve the sani-tation of the general environment so as to minimize the spread of the

disease” he said.In addition to preventive mea-

sure, the government of Badung also decided to build new blocks for the hospital in anticipation of a surge of patients given that this hospital not only serves people from Badung but also people from Gianyar, Tabanan, Negara and even Denpasar.

“We cannot prevent people from other districts from coming to this hospital because it not just for the people of Badung”, explained Suiasa.

The government will therefore build three more blocks: block D, F and G. Suiasa mentioned that the DED of the new building that was created in 2013 will be revised to include four floors instead of the original plan for just three floors. Currently, the building is still in the phase of sits feasible study

(FS). “We have asked the hospital to finalize their revisions to the feasibility study soon so that it can be built in 2017” he said.

This Golkar politician also apol-ogized and warned the public about the hospitals current limitations and added that they are doing their best to provide the best service to patients.

Director of Mangusada Hospital, Agus Bintang Suryadhi, confirmed that there has been a significant increase in the number of patients visiting the hospital recently. “Our emergency room is often fully oc-cupied by patients in need of treat-ment. Our bed capacity is not able to accommodate all the patients requiring hospitalization. Some of them do not want to be referred to another hospital so we are forced to care for them outside of the treat-ment rooms” he added. (kmb27)

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Fogging, one of the effort to prevent the spread of dengue fever.

Dengue fever widespread in Badung, deputy regent asks that fogging be intensified

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The cleanup of Ijogading River in Negara.

Cleaning rivers in Jembrana

A decline in consumer purchas-ing power that was triggered by the rise in electricity tariff of 0.14 percent and the skyrocketing price of basic food commodities are also an indicators of the slowing economy.

In response to the potential de-cline of Bali’s regional economy, young entrepreneur of Bali A.A. Arimbawa reminded the entre-preneurs of Bali that they need to start coming up with some break-through ideas. Bali’s economic independence, he said, can only be maintained if the entrepreneurs of Bali unite and remain rooted in local knowledge and wisdom. “Bali must rise by coming up with breakthrough ways of managing our economic potential. Local en-trepreneurs should gather together and begin to manage the potential of the trade, services, construction

and tourism sectors”, he said.Arimbawa added that the con-

sortium of entrepreneurs could also involve local financial institutions and Rural Credit Agencies (LPD) and the Regional Development Bank (BPD) could become part-ners of the established consortium. “It takes commitment. Other than business-people, Customary Vil-lage authorities also need to be united” he said.

The support of the government facilities will certainly facilitate the establishment of the local business-people’s consortium. Rimbawa therefor hopes that a space for co-ordination and and consultation meetings will be promoted.

Regarding the establishment of a consortium of entrepreneurs, economic expert and banker Vi-raguna Bagoes Oka, says that in order for Bali to achieve economic independence, local entrepreneurs need to collaborate and that the establishment of a consortium to strengthen business strategies is

indeed a breakthrough. He added that sincerity and unity are impor-tant keys to succeeding in such collaborations.

The consortium or entrepre-neurs, said Oka, should be directed towards support a increase of unity amongst Balinese people, so as to better manage our potential. “The consortium of local entrepreneurs should be supported with clear regulations. Regional regulations should allow for a space for local entrepreneurs to manage existing resources” said Oka. He empha-sized that empowering community based economy is a strategic way of ensuring Bali’S economic resil-ience therefore economic measures that need to be promoted are those that are community based.

“This is where the role of Bali’s local business-people in making a commitment to moving the econo-my in a direction that affects public activities is important so that the income and welfare of the people is positively affected” he said.

Chairman of the Bali Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Ka-din), A.A. Ngurah Alit Wiraputra, affirmed that Kadin Bali has made a number of recommendations to the government for community-based economic empowerment strategies including those aimed at strengthening the durability of Balinese business-people. State-owned banks and private banks in Bali should direct their CSR funds to the strengthening of local culture and wisdom. Banks should provide capital support that strengthens the economic resilience of local entrepreneurs. In terms of regula-tions, Wiraputra hopes that Bali’s government will design a rules that would require foreign investors to employe local in management positions if they want to invest in Bali. Such a regulation could easily be created provided the ex-ecutive and legislative branches of the government are committed to such a regulation. “Kadin Bali will facilitate the economic revival gen-

erated by local entrepreneurs. The establishment of a consortium by local entrepreneurs is expected to support the independence of Bali’s economy”, he said. (dir)

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restaurant for delicious American classics and the Glee Jr. Kids’ Club; a semi outdoor area featur-ing a free-flow playground, sand area, the kids’ pool and an indoor baby daycare unit. Everything is ready for your glee-filled fun day, so get up and get your glee on at the Berry Glee Hotel today.

Enter The Funpods at Berry GleeDENPASAR— The ‘foreigner monitoring and evalua-

tion team’ of the Municipality of Denpasar municipality conducted a raid in Kesiman Petilan and Kesiman Kerta-langu village on Tuesday (Mar. 29). The monitoring team consisting of representatives of the immigration office, police and related agencies found many foreigners with expired temporary residence permit (KITAS). “In Kertalangu, we found a total of 22 foreigners with expired visas. Almost all of their temporary residence permits were expired” said I Made Sumarsana, Division Head of the National and Com-munity Resilience for the National Unity and Political Agency (Kesbangpol) Denpasar.

The immigration officers of the team instructed the local village authority to immediately re-check the documents of foreigners liv-ing in the area and asked that the results be reported within a week to Kesbangpol. “They must immediately submit their expired temporary residence permits. Otherwise, the monitoring and evaluation team will come down again” said Sumarsana, accompanied by subdivision head of cultural and religious resilience, I.B. Andika Putra Manuaba.

Before targeting Kesiman Kertalangu, the team had raided the area of Padanggalak, Kesiman Petilan village. Of the four homes that they targeted, one would not open the door to the team even though the voice of children were heard inside the house. “This is one of our obstacle sin the field. If they do not open the door, there is nothing we can do. We must try again later” said Manuaba,

Manuabea went on to explain that such monitoring is very important for the security of foreigners who may endanger themselves by abusing their visa or permit. “Last year, a foreigner was on a holiday visit visa, but was running a business in Bali. Eventually, he was deported” said Manuaba.

A foreigner from the Netherlands named Anthonius Edward Albertus Bal who did not open the door at the time of the raid on Tuesday (Mar. 23) finally presented himself to the Kesbangpol Office in Denpasar. “He came to the office and presented his permit. In fact, his documents were complete and in order” said Manuaba. (kmb12)

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Chairman of the Bali Cham-ber of Commerce and Indus-try (Kadin), A.A. Ngurah Alit Wiraputra.

Raid on foreigners

expired KITAS found

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The raid done by the government on foreigners in Denpasar.

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Duke’s own gritty struggle against bipolar disorder was equally ad-mired. She opened up about her condition at a time when such candor was unusual and she became an ac-tivist for mental health causes.

The actress, who died Tuesday at age 69, was “a warrior,” said her son, actor Sean Astin. “You watch this 4-foot-10, tiny imp of a lady who’s more powerful than the greatest military leaders in history.”

“We’re so grateful to her for liv-ing a life that generates that amount of compassion and feeling in others,” Astin told The Associated Press in reflecting on the outpouring of sen-timent from fans at the news of her death. Colleagues responded with equal passion.

“I will miss her every day but I will find comfort in the words of Helen Keller: ‘The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart,’” wrote Sara Gilbert, who starred with Duke in a TV remake of “The Miracle Worker.”

Duke died of sepsis from a rup-tured intestine in Coeur D’Alene,

Idaho, where she had lived for the past quarter-century, according to Teri Weigel, Astin’s publicist.

She astonished audiences as the young deaf-and-blind Keller first on Broadway, then in the acclaimed 1962 film version, appearing in both alongside Anne Bancroft as Helen’s teacher, Annie Sullivan (Bancroft-won an Oscar of her own).

“Her performance in ‘The Mira-cle Worker’ brought Helen Keller’s indomitable spirit to life and inspired generations to pursue careers serv-ing the deaf-blind community,” Joseph F. Bruno, chief executive of Helen Keller Services, said in a statement.

In 1963, Duke burst onto the TV scene starring in her own sitcom, “The Patty Duke Show,” which aired for three seasons. She played dual roles as identical cousins Cathy, “who’s lived most everywhere, from Zanzibar to Barclay Square” while (according to the theme song) “Patty’s only seen the sights a girl can see from Brooklyn Heights. What a crazy pair!”

In 2015, she would play twin roles again: as a pair of grandmas on

an episode of “Liv and Maddie,” a series on the Disney Channel.

Born Anna Marie Duke in the New York borough of Queens on Dec. 14, 1946, she had a difficult childhood with abusive parents. By 8 years old, she was largely under the control of husband-and-wife talent managers who kept her busy on soap operas and advertising displays.

They also supplied her with al-cohol and prescription drugs, which accentuated the effects of her undi-agnosed bipolar disorder.

In her 1988 memoir, “Call Me Anna,” Duke wrote of her condition and the diagnosis she had gotten only six years earlier, and of the subse-quent treatment that helped stabilize her life. The book became a 1990 TV film in which she starred.

With the end of “The Patty Duke Show” in 1966, which left her stereo-typed as not one, but two squeaky-clean teenagers, Duke attempted to leap into the nitty-grittiness of adult-hood in the 1967 melodrama “Valley of the Dolls,” in which she played a showbiz hopeful who falls prey to drug addiction, a broken marriage and shattered dreams.

The film, based on the best-selling Jacqueline Susann pulp novel, was critically slammed but a commercial sensation.(ap)

LOS ANGELES — “American Idol,” which gave the world Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood and Jennifer Hudson, has one more chance to mint a star before it fades into TV and music history.

Whether viewers choose a future chart-topper or trivia question re-mains to be seen. But executive pro-ducer Nigel Lythgoe, who helped translate Britain’s “Pop Idol” into the Fox version that debuted in 2002, said the farewell episode will be memorable.

“It’s going to be a rather spec-tacular show,” Lythgoe promised, with all the former winners on hand along with past contestants and “other surprises” in the two-hour finale. “It’s about the American idols, about reminding people of 15 seasons,” he said, as well as giving the final winner his or her share of the spotlight.

The contenders for the title are finalists MacKenzie Bourg, 23, of Lafayette, Louisiana; Trent Har-mon, 24, of Amory, Mississippi; La’Porsha Renae, 22, of McComb, Mississippi; and Dalton Rapattoni, 19, of Dallas.

The field will have been trimmed to three for the final competition

episode, 8-9 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 6, with the winner announced the next night, 8-10:06 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 7. Lythgoe, who exited the series in 2013, returned to produce the concluding night’s broadcast.

Clarkson, the inaugural “Idol,” is set to perform, as are Underwood and the other winners including Ruben Studdard, Fantasia, Jor-din Sparks and Scotty McCreery. Among the many contestants taking part: Clay Aiken, Chris Daughtry, Katharine McPhee, Kellie Pickler, Elliott Yamin and LaToya London.

Past “Idol” finales became known for flaunting superstars, perhaps none more important than Prince. His performance in the 2006 season-ender signaled that the show had transcended its image as overblown karaoke and become a respectable showcase for estab-lished artists.

But Lythgoe downplays the im-portance of celebrities as part of the finale — or the contest itself.

“It isn’t about big stars com-ing on and singing their record. ‘American Idol’ was never about that. It was about the young stars we created,” he said.(ap)

End of a TV era: ‘American Idol’ vows ‘spectacular’ finale

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FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2002 file photo, Kelly Clarkson, 20, of Burleson, Texas, sings “A Moment Like This,” after winning in the final episode of the first season of Fox’s television com-petition “American Idol,” in Los Angeles.

AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File

FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2004 file photo, actress Patty Duke is honored with a star on the Hol-lywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.

Patty Duke’s talent, bravery recalled; actress dies at 69

NEW YORK — The courage that a teenage Patty Duke por-trayed on-screen as Helen Keller in “The Miracle Worker” was breathtaking and Oscar-winning.

The departure of the Brazil-ian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) increases the chances that the leftist leader will be impeached amid a massive corruption crisis and the worst recession in decades.

The PMDB decided at a leader-ship meeting that its six remaining ministers in Ms Rousseff’s cabinet and all other party members with government appointments must resign or face disciplinary proceed-

ings. The loss of Rousseff’s main co-alition partner may prompt smaller parties to abandon the government, leaving Brazil’s first female presi-dent increasingly isolated.

Ms Rousseff’s removal would pave the way for vice president Michel Temer The ousting of Ms Rousseff by Congress would pave the way for vice president Michel Temer, leader of the PMDB, to take over.

She is threatened with impeach-ment over allegations she manipu-lated government accounts to boost public spending during her election campaign in 2014.

Prosecutors have charged her predecessor and mentor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, with money launder-ing and requested his arrest in a case linked to a major corruption scandal at state oil company Petrobras, accu-sations he has denied. Ms Rousseff

has denied any wrongdoing and said efforts to unseat her amount to a coup.

ECONOMIC resilience has become a serious topic of discussion in Bali and a number of eco-nomic indicators have been getting people wor-ried. Furthermore the ever increasingly firm grip of capitalist forces from outside of Bali has made Bali’s economic defences fragile. A consortium of

local entrepreneurs is seeking to overcome these challenges by empowering the economic potential of

existing elements as one strategy to deal with the issue. Current the economy slowdown has affected almost all sectors,

including airlines, banks, automotive industries, construction and the service sector and could lead to termination of employment (PHK) for many people. The correction of various national indica-tors suggests a decline in economic resilience including slowing down of national economic growth.

Data shows a 4.79 percent growth of the economy in 2015 compared to 5.02 percent growth in 2014. Many predict that the this slowdown will persist in 2016. The flight of investment capital from Indonesia is also predicted to result in unemployment. August 2015 showed that as many as 110,000 people had lost their jobs since Febuary of the same year. The unemployment rate in August 2015 was 6.18 compared to Febuary’S 5.81 percent.

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An inflatable duck sits outside the National Congress, placed there by protesters against tax increases and corruption, organized by the Industries Federation in Brasilia, Tuesday, March 29, 2016. The duck carries a popular phrase in Portuguese that reads “I won’t pay the duck,” with the bird symbolizing the government.

Brazil’s Rousseff Isolated As Crisis Deepens

Rio - The chances of the country’s first female president be-ing impeached increases as her fragile coalition is dealt a major blow. Brazil’s embattled president Dilma Rousseff is facing a fight for her political survival after the country’s biggest party pulled out of her ruling coalition.

Consortium of local entrepreneursStrategies to build an economically independent Bali