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Cat stationmaster Tama mourned in Japan, elevated as goddess

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Officers use floodlights, checkpoints in hunt for US escapee

A total of 519 people were injured by the fire at the Formosa Water Park in New Taipei City, according to a statement from the

city government’s health bureau. It said that 419 remained hospitalized on Sunday afternoon, about half of whom were seriously injured, in-

cluding 184 in intensive care. Apart from Taiwanese, the victims were four people from Hong Kong, two from the Chinese mainland and one each from Macau, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. The nationalities of three other foreigners were not given.

Taiwan’s Central News Agency

said that police were questioning two park workers who had launched the powder as well as the party’s on-site organizer and two techni-cians. They may face charges of professional negligence causing serious injuries and endangering the public, it said.

REUTERS/Wang Wei

Injured victims from an accidental explosion during a music concert lie on the ground at the Formosa Water Park in New Taipei City, Taiwan, June 27, 2015.

More than 500 injured as fire hits Taiwan water park party

TAIPEI — A fire on a music stage spread into a crowd of spectators at a Saturday night party at a Taiwan water park, injuring more than 500 people, including eight in critical condi-tion, authorities said Sunday.

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Author J.K. Rowling announced Friday that a new play called “Har-ry Potter and the Cursed Child” will open at London’s Palace Theatre about a year from now in the summer of 2016.

Rowling tweeted that the play explores “an untold part of Harry’s

story” and is not a prequel.The first-ever play about the

bespectacled boy wizard it is based on a new story by Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany.

The script is by Thorne, a stage and screen writer whose work includes vampire story “Let the

Right One In.” The director is Tiffany, who helmed the critically lauded war play “Black Watch” and multiple Tony Award-winning musical “Once.” The production will also feature music by British songwriter Imogen Heap.

“I’ve had countless offers to ex-tend Harry’s story over the years, but Jack, John and (producer) So-nia Friedman are a dream team!”

Rowling tweeted.Rowling has long insisted there

will be no new Harry Potter nov-els, but she has kept fans happy with spin-off works including the magical encyclopedia “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” which is set to be a film starring Eddie Redmayne.

Rowling said she thought that once audiences saw “Harry Potter

and the Cursed Child” they would agree that the stage “was the only proper medium for the story.”

Rowling’s seven Harry Potter novels have sold more than 450 million copies around the world and been made into eight success-ful films.

Tickets for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” will go on sale this fall. (ap)

NEW YORK — Rapper DMX has been arrested for failure to pay child support just as he was about to perform at Radio City Music Hall.

A spokesman for the New York City Sheriff’s Department tells WPIX-TV that the 44-year-old rapper was taken into custody Friday for several “issues out-standing.”

He said those included $400,000 worth of unpaid child support, a warrant issued by the city of White

Plains for bail jumping and a rob-bery complaint out of Newark, New Jersey. No charges have been filed in the Newark case.

The rapper’s real name is Earl Simmons. He had been scheduled to perform at the Master of Ceremony concert at Radio City.

A management company that has represented DMX did not im-mediately return an email seeking comment from The Associated Press. (ap)

LOS ANGELES — Noah Wyle and his wife welcomed a baby girl this week.

Wyle’s wife, actress Sara Wells, gave birth to Frances Harper Wyle on Monday, the actor’s spokeswoman said.

Mother and daugh-ter are doing well, and Wyle was described as being “over the moon.”

Wyle and Wells married last summer at his Santa Barbara, California, ranch. Wyle has a son and daughter from his first marriage, to Tracy Warbin.

Wyle, who gained fame in the hit medical drama “ER,” stars in TNT’s “Falling Skies,” which begins its fifth and final season Sun-day.

Wells’ TV credits include “Nip/Tuck” and “Californication.” (ap)

Harry Potter coming back, this time on stage in new playLONDON — Harry Potter is going to have a new adventure

— one that takes him from page and screen to stage.

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In this Feb. 22, 2015 file photo, Noah Wyle, left, and Sara Wells arrive at the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif. Wyle and his wife, Wells, welcomed a baby girl this week. The actress gave birth to Frances Harper Wyle on Monday, June 22, 2015, the actorâ??s spokeswoman said.

Noah Wyle, wife Sara Wells welcome baby daughter

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Rapper DMX arrested in NYC over unpaid

child support

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Iwabuchi lifts Japan to semis with 1-0 win over Australia

International2 Monday, June 29, 2015 15International Activities

Bali News Monday, June 29, 2015

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

The program which was held at 09.00 – 12.00 am was begun by Tour De Hotel, the Hotel Guide brought the children to walk along the hotel to see the environment and the facilities. The treasure hunt in the middle of the tour was one of the games that make more fun. Afterward they are brought to the Rinascimento Italian Restaurant to join the main program that was Cooking Class that was led by Chef Mertana. Funny, enthusi-asm and adorable were the facial expression on their face while enjoying the process in making the Cup cake and later on making the decoration for the cup cake. The Chil-dren and the parents were really surprised when suddenly The Chef Master Henry Alexie Bloem came to meet and greet them. In the end of the program the MC arranged the Games and Doorprize.

Iva Choriati as PR Manager Patra Jasa Bali Resort & Villas said “Fun and educa-tive were the concept of our program, we intended to choose Rinascimento Italian Restaurant for it has special ambiance while The Children and The Parents could enjoy the seaview and Swimming Pool around it. It was also easier for them to access the Swimming Pool after the program and they got special offer on that day. It was a regular program of our Calendar of event and we also have prepared the special program for the next occasion.

Cup cake painting at Patra JasaKUTA - Around 50 children from

Play group till Sixth Grade at elemen-tary school around Denpasar joined the Kids Cooking Class “Shall we cook” at Patra Jasa Bali resort & villas. The participants were really excited joining at the program which was held on Sunday, 14 June 2015.

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NEGArA - Lately, the coastal area of Perancak is prone to abra-sion so that it begins to be protected by stone revetment. As a result, fishermen formerly moored their boats on the beach must temporar-ily shift theirs to another location. Based on information, the project handled by the Bali-Penida River Agency has worked it on since the end of last May. From the observa-tion on Friday (Jun. 26), the con-struction has begun to put boulders

by heavy equipment.The revetment is built at Meka-

rsari hamlet, where some homes of residents having evacuated for few years were destroyed. Headman of Perancak, I Nyoman Wijana, said that the sharecroppers have made coordination with village authority and disseminated to lo-cal residents. It includes providing an understanding and notification to fishermen commonly mooring boats on the beach installed with

revetment. “We have assembled them in relation to the mooring of their boats and appeal to them to move their boat for a while to a safer location,” he said.

According to him, the revet-ment along approximately 220 meters spreads from the fishermen settlement previously attacked by abrasion to the area of Perancak turtle conservation group. Fisher-men are required to get used to shifting their traditional boat up

to six months during the project takes place.

Local population of Perancak mostly has profession as fisher-men. Hundreds of traditional boats are always moored on the beach. A number of them must be removed because today some beaches have been installed with concrete revet-ment. Mekarsari village is the most vulnerable area to abrasion. One of the local residents currently evacu-ating previously had land of about

2,100 square meters five years ago. Now, it only remains 500 square meters. Two other hamlets, namely the Perancak and Lemodang are also the most vulnerable to the ef-fects of seawater. Total length of the beach being prone to abrasion approximately reaches 480 meters. Along this coastal area has an advantage as a turtle nesting site. Warm beach sand becomes a favor-ite place for sea turtles to make their nests and lay eggs. (kmb26)

Although some have complete identity document, not all of them are traceable. “Once in a while, some of them have no identity card and birth certificate, whereas it is the basic rights of children. As an example of this case, Engeline, does not have a birth certificate,” she explained.

In addition, crime rate stays high enough that involve children either as perpetrators, victims or witnesses. It is the result of hetero-geneous population. She said that such a problem is indeed not easy to accomplish or realize the total child-friendly city.

“Now, it depends on the role of society, how society can control the population growth, both the natives and migrants, in order to carry out the fulfillment of children’s rights,” she said.

In essence, the child-friendly city can be realized if there is a shared commitment among relevant agencies, in this case the govern-ment and society.

“It highly depends on their desire to realize the fulfillment of chil-dren’s rights,” she said. The com-mitment should be fused between the government and the public as to realize it cannot be done alone but

must be carried out together.Child-friendly city is a city that

is familiar with children, having good transportation services, the fulfillment of children’s right, hav-ing no domestic violence as well as no violence against children in the region. “That’s what I call a good and ideal child-friendly city,” she said.

However, not all regions can comply with such conditions, but at least 70 percent of the requirements for the child-friendly city can be reached, it can already have been considered good.

Masni asserted that to get the predicate of child-friendly city, the fulfillment of children’s right must be able to be realized such as their development, right to life, right to participation, right to their needs, fulfillment of basic needs such as health and education, child-friendly family, child-friendly society and there is an organization or institu-tion that provides the opportunities to develop their talents. “All the interests of children must be given priority,” she said.

She considered, in terms of fulfillment of children’s rights in education, that the Denpasar Mu-nicipality is said to have been good

Abrasion, berthing place of traditional boats shifted

Heterogeneity, challenge to realize child-friendly city

DENPASAr - Heterogeneity of population in Denpasar be-comes one of the challenges in the realization of Denpasar into a child-friendly city. “There are challenges where the condition of urban population is heterogeneous, especially related to the difficulty to track down the total number of the urbanites,” said Chairperson of the Bali Child Protection Agency (LPA), Nyoman Masni.

although it cannot be said to be per-fect. In other words, the Denpasar Municipality has been very sup-portive in that regard. In addition, there have been many opportunities for children to play and enjoy their

free time such as through art stu-dios. “The current mayor has done much for the needs,” she said.

Other than Denpasar, Masni also assessed that Gianyar has already begun to develop and can be made

into a child-friendly town. When viewed in terms of heterogeneity, Gianyar is not as bad as the city of Denpasar. However, Gianyar has already owned a declaration on the child labor-free county. (kmb42)

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Children are looking for water to be used in their house.

3Monday, June 29, 2015 14 InternationalInternational Bali NewsTraveling Monday, June 29, 2015

The 37th Bali Art FestivalMonday, June 29, 2015

Time Place Event

11.00 Ratna Stage Art performances by Sari Yasa Troupe

14.00 Angsoka Stage Drama performances by Bakti Senang Hati Foundation, Gianyar

17.00 Ratna Stage Genggong instrument performances by Batur Sari Troupe 20.00 Ayodya Stage Innovative drama performances by Salju Group, Denpasar 20.00 Wantilan Arja parade by Tanjung Bungkak Village,

Denpasar20.00 Ardha Candra Semara Pagulingan parade by Gita

Khasta Swara Troupe, Manik Pasupati Troupe

AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli

In this Feb. 26, 2015 photo, a full-scale mock-up of a high-speed train is displayed at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif.

SACRAMENTO, California — Travelers easily whiz from city to city on high-speed trains in many parts of South America, Asia and Europe. Since the first high-speed lines began operating more than 50 years ago in Japan, they have become an essential part of transportation worldwide.

Yet the U.S. has never built a single strech of high-speed rail, which is generally defined as accommodating trains that go at least 200 mph (321 kph). And proposals to do so have been thwarted for decades.

So what’s holding America back?For starters, a much larger land mass, longer distances between

major cities and the high cost of construction. Other factors include efficient air travel, relatively low prices for gasoline and a car-based culture.

“The challenge in America is the scale of America,” said Robert Eckels, chief executive of the Texas Central High Speed Railway, a private venture that is planning a bullet train between Dallas and Houston.

In recent decades, political pressure against bullet trains has come from conservatives who argue that such systems should acquire private financial backing and prove that their operations will at minimum be cost-neutral. It’s a burden state and federal governments do not place on other huge transportation projects such as freeways and airports.

For now, the best the country can do is Amtrak’s Acela, which reaches speeds up to 150 mph on a busy route between Washington and Boston.

In an effort to jump-start high-speed rail, the Obama administration in 2009 awarded $7 billion for projects in California, Florida and Wisconsin. Republican gov-ernors in Florida and Wisconsin rejected the funding and backed out of high-speed rail plans, sending more of those dollars to California.

The list of other proposals for faster-speed rail in-cludes: linking Las Vegas with greater Los Angeles; Chicago with St. Louis; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with Pittsburgh; Oklahoma City with Tulsa; and up-grading track on a medium-speed line between Miami and Orlando.

Despite the political resistance and financial hur-dles, two projects have moved beyond the conceptual phase. One is California’s $68 billion plan for a high-speed rail network connecting Northern and Southern California. The other is the privately financed plan in central Texas.

California’s long-term financing plan relies heavily on federal money that is unlikely to materialize in a Republican-controlled Congress. But Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown remains a strong supporter, negotiating a dedicated funding stream through a separate pro-

gram that raises money from businesses as part of an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“There are some people in California who think of high-speed rail as a mysterious, very expensive, exotic technology,” Brown told report-ers last month as Japanese Prime MInister Shinzo Abe demonstrated Japanese train technology in California.

The Texas project has received much less publicity than Cali-fornia’s, yet it could become the nation’s first operating bullet train line.

Private-public partnerships in construction may be the best way to mute political criticism as well as kick-start the projects, said Andrew Goetz, a professor and faculty associate at the Intermodal Transportation Institute at the University of Denver who studies high-speed rail.

Rail proponents argue that American companies would be among the biggest beneficiaries, arguing that the lack of high-speed rail has hurt American competitiveness. The typical U.S. business traveler spends two days of travel to attend one meeting, said Andy Kunz, presi-dent and chief executive of the U.S. High Speed Rail Association.

“We’re stuck in traffic for hours. We’re dealing with horrible airlines as it deteriorates,” he said. “The whole country is getting shortchanged by this.” (ap)

Popular elsewhere, high-speed rail remains elusive in the US

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People crowded during reconstruction on Engeline’s murder case. The Indonesian police are investigating to unearth further evidence to trace possible suspects related to the death of eight-year-old Engeline whose body was recently found buried in the backyard of her home in Denpasar, Bali.

Bali Regional Police Command Chief Inspector General Ronny Somp-ie stated on Monday (June 22) that the police had so far named Agus as the only suspect in the murder case.

The Denpasar city resort police in charge of handling Angeline’s case have questioned 28 witnesses, includ-ing two experts.

Meanwhile, the Directorate of General Crimes of the Bali regional police command has named Margriet Christina Megawe, Angeline’s foster mother as the suspect on grounds of child negligence, Sompie noted.

The police have questioned 23 witnesses, including six witnesses, in connection with the child negli-gence case.

Agus and Margriet have been interrogated in separate locations in connection with their cases and also as witnesses in each other’s cases.

According to Sompie, the police had named Megawe as a suspect based on the results of the developments in Angeline’s case following the confes-sion by Agus during questioning as a witness in the child negligence case.

Although Megawe was named as a suspect in a different case, Sompie re-marked that there was a possibility that investigations could later trace back links to Angeline’s homicide case.

On Thursday (June 11), the Den-pasar chapter of the Integrated Child and Woman Empowerment Service Center (P2TP2A) reported Angeline’s negligence case to the police.

The National Police Command has lent assistance to the Denpasar city resort police in several prelimi-nary reconstruction activities at the crime scene on Jalan Sedap Malam 26, Denpasar, in a bid to collect evi-dence to find other possible suspects in the cases.

Agus’ testimonies have so far raised doubts whether he really is the murderer.

During a latest lie detector test, Agus confessed that Margriet was the killer, according to his lawyer Haposan Sihombing.

Although it was considered to be an encouraging development, the

police will not immediately name Margriet as the suspect in the murder case of Angeline since more evidence is still required.

“Ag’s (Agus) statement is encour-aging, but the investigators will not solely rely on his statement, but we also have to find other pieces of evi-dence including collecting statements from witnesses, experts, documents, and others,” Sompie explained.

The police discovered the body of Engeline on June 10 buried in the backyard of the house of her foster mother Margriet on Jalan Sedap Malam, Denpasar, after she reported-ly went missing on May 16, 2015.

The police have arrested Agus, the helper in the house, as a suspect behind Angeline’s death.

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

Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla expressed regret on hearing about the untimely death of the eight-year-old girl.

“Indeed, we certainly are very sad that a good child has been killed so cruelly,” he affirmed in Solo, Central Java, on Thursday, June 11.

The forensics team of the Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar had found a wound on Angeline’s head believed to be inflicted by a blunt object.

“Based on the results of an autopsy, we found a wound on the right side of her head that had caused her death,” Head of the Sanglah hospital’s forensic medicine installation, Dr Dudut Rusty-adi, stated in Denpasar on June 10.

Apart from the wound on her head, he said the doctors had also found other wounds on her face, neck, hand, arm, thigh, buttocks, and legs inflicted by blunt objects, but it was the wound on her head that had turned out to be fatal.

Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa attended the fu-neral of Engeline in Tegalrejo village, Banyuwangi, East Java, on Tuesday night (June 16), the native village of her birth mother.

Thousands of people welcomed

Police still investigating Engeline’s murder case

DENPASAR - The Indonesian police are investigating to un-earth further evidence to trace possible suspects related to the death of eight-year-old Engeline whose body was recently found buried in the backyard of her home in Denpasar, Bali.

the arrival of Engeline’s body, in-cluding Banyuwangi District Head Abdullah Azwar.

“We express our deepest condo-lences to Engeline,” Minister Khofi-fah informed the newsmen.

She affirmed that the case will serve as a lesson on the importance of child protection by the state and the community.

“The role of the community is paramount in preventing a case such as Engeline’s from recurring in the future,” she noted.

The body of the second daughter of Hamidah and Rosydiq was buried after prayers were held for her at the local mosque.

The National Commission for Child Protection (KPAI) has called for an in-depth investigation into the case. “The case is not yet final, and I believe that there are persons involved who are closely linked to the victim,” KPAI Chairman Arist Merdeka Sirait stated here on Friday (June 12).

Sirait is of the viewpoint that other persons apart from Agus are involved in the case, adding that although

the victim’s family member (foster mother) had been interrogated by the police, it was likely that she may be re-questioned in connection with the case.

“We fully support the investiga-tion,” he affirmed.

Engeline was adopted by Margriet when she was still three days old and since then, Hamidah, the birth mother of Angeline never saw the child, as she was not permitted according to an agreement she had made with Margriet, according to Hamidah’s relative, Supri.

He said Hamidah and Margriet did not know each other before and had met at a clinic in Canggu where Hamidah had delivered the baby.

As Hamidah could not pay the cost of delivering her baby, Margriet offered the necessary financial help and adopted the baby.

“The baby was still three days old when she was taken away by the foster mother,” he revealed.

Former chairman of the National Commission on Child Protection Seto Mulyadi visited the scene on June 26.

The police plan to collect informa-tion from the child protection activist regarding the case.

Seto arrived at 9 a.m. local time, and he left an hour later but declined to make any comment.

He express shock on learning about the case and urged all parties, including the police, to unveil the truth behind the incident.

“I am shocked and very con-cerned. All must seriously take steps to unveil the case transparently,” he emphasized.

National Police Chief General Badrodin Haiti stated that all pos-sibilities are still open during the investigation process.

“The investigation is still ongoing, and various possibilities may still emerge that can be used to initiate further investigations by our mem-bers in Bali,” he said in Bekasi, West Java. (ant)

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Franklin County Sheriff Kevin Mulverhill said late Saturday tips con-tinued to pour in and he was optimistic David Sweat would be captured, per-haps within 48 hours. “It’s going to be one of those phone calls that turns this case around,” he said.

Richard Matt — who once vowed never to be taken alive — was fatally shot Friday during an encounter with border patrol agents about 30 miles (48 kilometers) west of the prison he escaped from with Sweat on June 6. Sweat remained on the lam early Sunday, and about 1,200 searchers focused intensely on 22 square miles (56 sq. kilometers) encompassing thick forests and heavy brush around where Matt was killed.

Police hoped the solo escapee would finally succumb to the stress of little sleep, scant food and biting bugs.

“Anyone in the woods and on the run from the law so to speak is not getting a full eight hours sleep, they’re not eating well and they have to keep moving,” Mulverhill said. “He’s fatigued, tired, and he’s going to make a mistake.”

Sweat could have an even tough-er time now without someone to take turns resting with and to watch his back, Clinton County Sheriff David Favro said.

“Now it’s a one-man show and it makes it more difficult for him,” Favro said. “And I’m sure fatigue is setting in for him as well, knowing the guy he was with has already been shot.”

The manhunt broke open Friday afternoon when a person towing a camper heard a loud noise and thought a tire had blown. Finding there was no flat, the driver drove

eight miles before looking again and finding a bullet hole in the trailer. A tactical team responding to the scene of the shot smelled gunpowder inside a cabin and saw evidence that someone had fled out the back door.

A noise — perhaps a cough — ultimately did Matt in. A border patrol team discovered Matt, who was shot after failing to heed a com-mand to raise his hands.

Matt had a 20-gauge shotgun that was believed to have been taken from another cabin. The pair had apparently been relying on the remote region’s many hunting camps and seasonal dwellings for supplies.

Matt, who turned 49 the day be-fore he died, was serving 25 years to life at Clinton Correctional Facility for the killing and dismemberment of his former boss. Local residents were relieved that one killer was no longer roaming the woods, but the constant commotion of speed-ing police cruisers and helicopters pointed to the continued danger.

“Half the threat is taken care of, but obviously David Sweat is on the loose,” said Matt Maguire, who was waiting for a police escort to pick up some clothes from his house inside the search area. Maguire and his fiancee decided a week ago to stay with nearby relatives.

Sweat, 35, was serving a sen-tence of life without parole in the killing of a sheriff’s deputy in Broome County in 2002. Mulverhill said investigators believe he may be armed.

Matt and Sweat used power tools to saw through a steel cell wall and several steel steam pipes, bashed a

hole through a 2-foot-thick brick wall, squirmed through pipes and emerged from a manhole outside the prison.

While there have been no con-firmed sightings of Sweat, police said investigators saw a second set of tracks near where Matt was shot. Ultimately, how the chase ends is up to Sweat, Mulverhill said.

“If he’s willing to surrender to law enforcement then we’ll place him in handcuffs and we’ll bring him back into custody,” he said. “If he chooses to resist or he chooses not to comply, then the results are his.” (ap)

CHISINAU, Moldova — Mol-dovans were voting Sunday in local election runoffs that are being seen as a test of whether the former So-viet republic moves closer to the European Union or Russia.

The key post is for mayor of Chisinau, the capital, where pro-European incumbent Dorin Chir-toaca faces pro-Russian challenger Zinaida Greceanai, a former prime minister of the Communist Party. A low turnout in the city of one million will benefit the 59-year-old Greceanai, while a higher number

of voters will benefit Chirtoaca.“I hope we will clarify things....

and build something that is cer-tain, definitive, irreversible, for the future of Chisinau and Mol-dova,” Chirtoaca said after voting. “Residents have a great desire to see deeds and not just statements,” said Greceanai.

Runoffs were being held in 458 towns in this country of 4 million. Some 348 seats were already de-cided in the first round. Early results are expected late Sunday.

Renato Usatii, a pro-Russian

businessman, won outright on June 14 in Moldova’s second-largest city, Balti. Another pro-Russian busi-nessman, Ilan Shor, who is being probed over the disappearance of $1.5 billion from three Moldovan banks last year, also won outright in the eastern town of town of Orhei.

Moldovan officials, meanwhile, have been investigating the disap-pearance of the money from state-owned and private banks before the parliamentary election last Novem-ber. Moldova’s currency has lost 20 percent value this year. (ap)

Moldovans choose between Russia, Europe in local elections

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Zinaida Greceanai, the pro-Russian candidate for mayor of the Moldovan capital casts her ballot in a runoff for local elections in Chisinau, Moldova, Sunday, June 28, 2015.

Officers use floodlights, checkpoints in hunt for US escapee

Jason Hunter/Watertown Daily Times via AP

New York State corrections officers check vehicles along State Route 30 at the intersection with Travers Rd. in the town of Malone, N.Y. on Saturday, June 27, 2015 as the search for escaped prisoner David Sweat continues.

MALONE — Officers scouring dense and boggy woods for a surviving escaped killer took floodlights into the search area overnight, and others carrying rifles manned checkpoints and examined vehicles, opening trunks and peering into windows.

The assertion was expressed by the Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana, after leading the as-sembly at the Town Park, Friday (Jun. 26).

Furthermore, the regent said that the visitors to Town Park are growing crowded. On particular days, the townspeople dominated by the entourage of family or teenagers make the Town Park a favorite place to spend leisure time. Growing visitors must be balanced with the sanitation arrangement

especially the fountain built at the edge of the pond. All this time, the awareness of visitors to maintain pond sanitation needs to be further increased. It happens because many of them dispose of plastic waste or organic waste into the pond.

Surely this condition is disturb-ing. More severely, the pond is prone to become mosquito breeding nest, mainly amid the widespread dengue outbreak lately. Unclean condition of the pond can disturb the comfort and residents will be

easily bitten by mosquito leading to dengue. “The pond stays a place to throw rubbish by visitors hav-ing less awareness. This situation is very prone to become a nest of mosquito larvae, so that it disturbs the comfort of visitors,” he said.

To prevent the pond at the Town Park from becoming the nest of mosquito larvae, said Agus, the Buleleng Sanitation and Landscap-ing Agency (DKP) is asked to clean up more frequently. Maintenance of the water circulation in the pond can

avoid puddles made into breeding nest of dengue-transmitting mos-quito. In addition, the Sanitation Agency is also requested to add aquatic plants such as lotus. It is meant to enhance the beauty of the pond and the intentions of visitors to throw rubbish into the pond can be prevented. Besides, the smaller pond must also be filled with fresh-water fingerlings. Other than beau-tifying the pond, the ornamental fish also functions to prey mosquito larvae in the water.

“We ask the Sanitation Agency to regulate the water circulation in the pond and add more water plants. Ornamental fish can also be raised in the pond, so that the mosquito eggs or larvae happening to nest in it will be eaten by fish. Thus, it will effectively eradicate the mosquito

eggs or larvae,” he said.On the other hand, Agus said

that the public facilities such as the Singaraja Town Park are an open green space continuing to be given attention in the future. To expand the green space area in Buleleng, in 2016 the arrangement will be made in the area of the Tri Yudha Sakti Memorial Park at Sangket village, Sukasada subdistrict. Aside from complying with the law, expansion of the green space is also meant to increase the public space remaining limited lately. “This green space is necessary and we have commitment to focus on the development agenda for the city. To that end, this green open space will be continuously added because indeed it remains limited,” added Agus having auto-motive hobby. (kmb38)

GIANYAR - Monkey forest is one of the favorite attractions for travelers visiting Ubud. Moreover, during school holiday season like July and August, daily visit to monkey forest can reach thousands of travelers. However, behind the crowded visitors, there are concerns affecting the condition of the Bali monkeys.

“Ahead of July, the tourist visit indeed definitely increases but

we also think if the animals get stressed when visited by many travelers. When it is so crowded, people can only see human heads, while monkeys cannot be seen,” said Operations Manager of the Monkey Forest attraction, I Nyo-man Buana.

He said that on a normal day the tourist arrival watching the Bali monkey ranges from 1,500 to 2,000. But during holiday season like July,

August to December the number of visitors can increase two-fold. “During holiday season, it almost equals to tourist visit to Tirta Empul Temple reaching 5,000 each day,” he explained.

This high tourist arrival kindles worries if it will affect the 659 monkeys currently protected in this tourist attraction. To that end, he hoped there will be a more profound study by the academician at this

tourist object. “It remains to need a study whether in July and August, the number of visitors need to be restricted or not. This worry has actually been ever revealed by the Udayana University,” he said.

He also added that a number of research results showed that regular interactions with humans have sig-nificant influence on the behavior of monkeys. For example, the mon-keys at the Monkey Forest are more

docile and lazier. However, it will change when there is interaction with thousands of people thronging the Monkey Forest. “Results of the research have indeed showed that the monkeys here interacting on a daily basis with humans become more docile and lazier. It happens because they’ve got regular meals three times a day. Besides, some visitors sometimes also give them banana,” he said. (kmb35)

Travelers increase, monkeys feared to be stressful

Pond cleanliness of Town Park maintainedIBP/Dewa Kusuma

The pond in Town Park in Singaraja Regency

SINGARAJA - Following the rampant transmission of dengue in recent years, the government of Buleleng is more increasingly intensive to eradicate mosquito nest. To optimize the eradica-tion of mosquito breeding, the Buleleng Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP) is asked to maintain the cleanliness of pond water in a number of public places in the town of Singaraja. One of them is the Town Park fountain on Jalan Ngurah Rai Singaraja. The agency is asked to clean it more frequently, so that visitors will no longer worry about being bitten by mosquitoes nesting in the pond of the surrounding area.

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BEIJING - China’s central bank said Saturday it would again reduce interest rates by 25 basis points, its fourth such cut since November as it tries to boost growth.

The benchmark interest rate would be reduced to 4.85 percent and the deposit rate to 2 percent from Sunday, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) said on its website.

The PBoC also announced that it will cut the reserve requirement ratios (RRR) by 50 basis points for commercial banks serving rural areas, agriculture and small busi-nesses.

The PBoC has now cut interest rates four times since November and this year also reduced the

amount of cash banks must keep in reserve three times, as well as using other measures to inject liquidity into the market.

The bank said the latest moves were aimed at “stabilising growth” and “to further enhance the ef-ficiency of monetary policy to (support) economic transforma-tions” and are similar to cuts made last month.

China’s economic growth has slowed, with gross domestic prod-uct (GDP) expanding at 7.4 percent in 2014, the lowest rate in 24 years, prompting the central bank to in-tervene.

The moves have had mixed suc-cess as indicators remain subdued and domestic demand low, along

with a sharp decline in foreign trade and a continued contraction in manufacturing.

On Friday Chinese stocks plunged with Shanghai dropping 8.5 percent at one point, its biggest loss in eight years, as investors that had flooded the market on margin trading -- borrowing cash to buy stocks -- ran for the door.

Chinese equities, which more than doubled in value in the year to June 12, eventually closed down 7.40 percent, or 334.91 points, at 4,192.87, its lowest point since the start of May.

“The central bank doesn’t want a panic caused by the stock rout to spread,” Shen Jianguang, chief Asia economist at Mizuho Securi-

ties Asia Ltd. in Hong Kong told Bloomberg News.

“That would lead to financial instability.”

Bank lending expanded in May and the broader money supply also grew, the central bank said earlier this month, in a sign its efforts to loosen policy to boost growth were bearing fruit.

Domestic banks extended new loans of 900.8 billion yuan ($147.3 billion), up from 707.9 billion yuan in April, the PBoC said in a state-ment.

Total social financing -- a broad-er measure of credit in the economy -- reached 1.22 trillion yuan in May, it said, up from 1.05 trillion yuan in April.

But after a slew of weak infla-tion and trade data earlier in June, analysts predicted further easing measures.

The country’s economy ex-panded 7.0 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, slumping to a post global financial crisis low, even as Beijing took steps to bolster growth.

The government has cut the an-nual growth target for 2015 to “ap-proximately” seven percent.

“The improvement in economic growth momentum is still fragile,” Yang Zhao, Hong Kong-based chief China economist at Nomura Holdings Inc., wrote in a June 26 note. “Share market sentiment has cooled.” (afp)

A legislator of the Bali House, Nengah Tamba, said that it is very ironic that Bali is unable to meet the needs for young coconut leaf independently but many supplies must be brought in from other re-gions, namely Java and Sulawesi. This happens because the supply of young coconut leaf commodity at local level has declined due to reduced production centers.

“Galungan and Kuningan feast is getting closer and every year we always lack of young coconut leaf and banana supply by local production. They are even mostly brought in from Java so that these commodities are very expensive. What will happen to Bali uphold-ing cultural customs if we are then

faced with crisis of young coconut leaf and banana so that we must depend on supplies from outside?” asked Tamba.

Tamba, who is also the Chair-man of Commission III of the Bali House, claimed to be sad and con-cerned and even felt embarrassed with the fact that Bali still lacks of vital ritual means like young coconut leaf as it is mostly brought in from Java and other regions. To him, such condition cannot be re-garded as a trivial matter for Bali.

“Suppose there is no young co-conut leaf in Java and other regions, how can we make ritual means without leaf? Must we stop mak-ing sacrifice?” said the Democratic politician from Jembrana.

The man having a concern for the preservation of customary culture and life of Hinduism in Bali asserted that it is required a serious effort in order that Bali can independently meet the needs of the young coconut leaf resembling a basic requirement in addition to groceries. To that end, the legislator of the Democratic Party of the Bali House arouses the awareness of all parties on the need of joint move-ment to plant coconut trees. “If Bali does not want to face crisis of young coconut leaf, there must be a movement to plant coconut trees en masse across Bali. If we take a look at villages in Bali, coconut trees have been old enough and are ready to be cut down for the materials of

villas,” said the incumbent legisla-tive candidate of the Bali House from Jembrana constituency.

As a people’s representative, Tamba also encouraged the provin-cial and county/municipal govern-ment to consider the issue of young coconut leaf crisis as a serious problem and needs to be addressed by government policy. “We need to make regional bylaw (Perda) on planting coconut trees and bananas as well as other plants for ritual means,” he said.

To him, this idea may seem trivial and simple but it is important to support our existence and hold holy sacrifice (yajña) and poses the necessity of Bali in the future. This small and simple idea is very visionary and vital to support and strengthen the implementation of ritual and Hindu religious life in Bali. How can we make sacrifice if

the materials such as coconut and banana do not exist in Bali, and when available it must be brought in from Java and costs expensive? Of course, this condition will threaten Bali. Moreover, it is aggravated by the increasing proliferation of land conversion and loss of indepen-dency owned by Balinese people in organizing ritual so that all ritual means are purchased without any desire to grow by their own.

“What happens if Java and Lom-bok stop supplying young coconut leaf, do we as the Hindus stop making oblation? It should be noted and prepared because it can happen that within the next ten years we will have difficulty to get young coconut leaf. If we have prepared from now on, in next ten years we will remain safe and be able to meet the needs for young coconut leaf,” he said. (wid)

Greece’s crisis deepened Sat-urday after its European partners responded to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s call for a referendum on bailout proposals by refusing to extend a critical financial lifeline after it ends on Tuesday.

The ECB is expected to play a critical role in ensuring Greek banks have the cash to open, after long queues formed at cash ma-chines across the country at the weekend on fears capital controls would be introduced in the face of Athens’ looming default on a huge IMF repayment.

Parliamentarians late Saturday voted in favour of the referendum -- a shock announcement by radical leader Tsipras after his government rejected the latest debt deal -- say-ing it involved further austerity measures that would cause “humili-ation” to the Greek people.

The referendum on July 5 will ask Greeks to say “yes” or “no” to the measures submitted by creditors to Athens on Friday at one of the final rounds of negotiations.

In a speech before parliament’s vote, Tsipras said he was confident “the Greek people will say an em-phatic no to the ultimatum” by the country’s EU-IMF creditors, but “a big yes to European solidarity”.

Angry eurozone finance minis-

ters accused Greece of “unilater-ally” breaking off talks and said they would not extend the bailout past June 30, the same day a 1.5 billion euro ($1.7 billion) payment to the International Monetary Fund falls due.

“It was not us who walked away

from the talks, it was the Greek government that walked away,” a grim-faced Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem said after tense negotiations in Brussels.

But he added: “Our door is al-ways open.”

A week of intensive talks in Brussels ended with Greece’s creditors on Friday offering Ath-ens a five-month, 12-billion-euro extension of its rescue programme, on condition it committed to fresh

reforms.Syriza has repeatedly refused to

make cuts to pensions and changes to the VAT system demanded by Greece’s debtors -- the “troika” of the European Commission, Euro-pean Central Bank and International Monetary Fund.

EU heavyweights Germany and France insisted Saturday that Greece would remain inside the 19-country eurozone, as fears grew about the future of the single cur-

rency.“Greece remains a member of the

eurozone and Greece remains part of Europe,” said Germany’s pow-erful Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, while his French coun-terpart Michel Sapin said Greece’s “destiny” was in the euro.

But with fears the crisis could spread, the ministers later met without Greece to discuss the “consequences” of a possible “Grexit” and to insist they would “preserve the integrity and stabil-ity of the euro area” Dijsselbloem said.

“We will do everything to fight against any possible danger of contagion,” added Schaeuble in an attempt to calm global markets before they open on Monday.

Frozen out of the talks, Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis left saying: “It’s a sad day for Eu-rope, but we will overcome it.”

But he added that the refusal to grant his request to extend the bailout “will certainly damage the credibility for the Eurogroup as a democratic union and I am very much afraid the damage will be permanent”.

Greece’s negotiations with its in-ternational creditors have dragged on since January, when Tsipras’s Syriza party first took power on a promise of ending austerity mea-sures demanded by the EU and IMF in return for two bailouts worth 240 billion euros. (afp)

China central bank cuts interest rate by 25 basis points

AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis

People stand in a queue outside a bank which operates on Saturday but eventually didn’t open, in central Athens, on June 27, 2015. The European Central Bank was set to hold an emergency meeting Sunday amid mounting fears Greece’s banks will be unable to open next week, as the debt-stricken country hurtled closer towards a possible exit from the eurozone.

ECB set for Greece crisis talks as debt default looms

BRUSSELS - The European Central Bank was set to hold an emergency meeting Sunday amid mounting fears Greece’s banks will be unable to open next week, as the debt-stricken country hurtled closer towards a possible exit from the eurozone.

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Three dancers of classical Odissi dance along with three Indian musicians / vocalist on Dholak, Harmonium & Sitar performed superbly at the Bali Art Festival to the repeated applause and appreciation of overflowing Ksirarnawa Auditorium.

DENPASAR - Three dancers of classical Odissi dance along with three Indian musicians / vocalist on Dholak, Harmonium & Sitar per-formed superbly at the Bali Art Festival to the repeated applause and appreciation of overflow-ing Ksirarnawa Auditorium.

The six-member cultural troupe, led by noted danseuse, Nandini Ghosal, was deputed by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi, specifically for performing at this year’s 37th Bali Art Festival, in conjunction with the on-going Sahabat India Festival in Indonesia.

Nandini Ghosal was accompanied on stage by two other Indian dancers, Priyanka Saha and Sri-janee Chakraborty. The music and vocals were provided by Kishore Kumar Ghosh, Sukhamay Bhattacharya and Debashish Sarkar.

Nandini Ghosal is a noted exponent of Odissi dance. Besides being a dancer, choreographer & teacher, she is an accomplished actress having acted in several award-winning feature films and on television serials in India. She has performed extensively in India and abroad, including in USA, Germany, Spain, Canada & UK.

A full-fledged hour-long classical Odissi dance performance was given at the Bali Art Fes-tival on 23 June, during which they performed ‘Durga Stuti’, depicting Goddess Durga’s fight & victory over demon Mahishasura; ‘Pallavi’, rhythmic elaboration of dance with increasing music; ‘Abhinay’, acting out the story about Radha & Krishna; and, ‘Moksha’, seeking unity with God through dance.

Ghosal and accompanying artists gave an-other outstanding performance at the Bali Art Festival on 25 June in which they performed ‘Sharnkaravarnam Pallavi’ rhythmic Odissi dance and a duet with Surojit Sarkar performing Bharatanatyam dance.

Nandini Ghosal conducted a workshop at the Sanggar Langit Pancer in Kapal, Badung for the Balinese dance students, which was hugely participated in and appreciated by all. (r)

Ahead of Galungan, Bali faces young coconut leaf crisis

DENPASAR - The needs of Balinese people for young coconut leaf as a ritual means is very high. Moreover, ahead of major holidays such as Galungan and Kuningan being around the corner, the need for it will increase dramatically.

Enchanting Indian Odissi classical dance at BAF

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The remarks were the latest salvo in Indonesia’s war on narcot-ics and came after eight drug con-victs, including seven foreigners, were put to death by firing squad in April, sparking international anger.

Head of the national anti-drugs agency, Anang Iskandar, said that many Indonesian women were languishing in prisons abroad because they were “easily tricked into drug-trafficking”.

“Do not be careless in relation-ships with foreigners,” he warned in comments to reporters in Ja-karta to mark the United Nations International Day Against Drug Abuse.

“They give gifts of plane tickets,

you have just got to know them and started dating. It is easy to be tempted, you have to be careful.”

Indonesia has faced criticism for focusing heavily on the role of foreigners in the country’s drug problems, and failing to do enough to combat official complicity in the illicit trade.

However President Joko Wido-do on Friday vowed to focus more on Indonesian security officials involved in drug-dealing and pris-ons where criminals run narcotics networks from behind bars.

He also reiterated his tough stance, saying: “Drug abuse is destroying the future generation. There is no other option than to declare a war on drugs.”

Since taking office last year, Widodo has been a vocal supporter of the death penalty for drug of-fences, rejecting clemency pleas for narcotics convicts on death row.

He says dozens of people die every day due to drugs in Indone-sia but observers have questioned his claims, and believe he is more focused on looking tough and re-gaining popularity after political missteps.

French drug convict Serge At-laoui, who was originally due to be executed in April, this week lost an appeal against his death sentence and Jakarta says he has no more legal options to avoid the firing squad. (afp)

JAKARTA - A French drug convict in Indonesia has exhausted all legal options to avoid the firing squad after losing an appeal this week, Jakarta said Thursday.

A court on Monday dismissed a bid by Serge Atlaoui to challenge the president’s rejection of his plea for clemency, typically a death row convict’s final chance to avoid execution.

Atlaoui was due to be executed alongside eight other drug offenders two months ago but won a tempo-rary reprieve after Paris stepped up pressure, with Indonesian authori-ties agreeing to let an outstanding appeal run its course.

The lawyers of the Frenchman, who was arrested in 2005 in a secret drugs factory outside Jakarta, have pledged to fight on and said they are exploring other legal routes.

However Indonesian foreign ministry spokesman Arrmanatha Nasir said that Atlaoui’s latest ap-peal was “the last legal avenue”.

“As far as I know and as far as I understand, there is no more legal avenues that can be pursued on this case,” he told reporters.

Atlaoui’s lawyers could not be immediately contacted for com-ment.

Nasir said the next step in the case would be up to the attorney-general’s office, which is in charge of executions.

The office has said that Atlaoui will not be put to death during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in Muslim-majority Indonesia, which ends in mid-July.

France has mounted a campaign to save Atlaoui and following the court decision, President Francois

Hollande said France was “doing everything” to keep him alive.

Since Monday’s decision, the Indonesian government had yet to receive any communication from the French embassy in Jakarta re-lated to the matter, Nasir said.

Atlaoui had been due to face the firing squad in April with two Aus-tralians, a Brazilian, four Nigerians and an Indonesian.

The executions sparked global anger but President Joko Widodo insists convicted traffickers must be harshly punished as Indonesia is facing a drugs crisis.

Authorities accuse Atlaoui, a welder, of being a “chemist” at the secret drugs lab where he was detained. But he has maintained his innocence, claiming that he was installing machinery in what he thought was an acrylics plant. (afp)

JAKARTA - Indonesia has set up a new team to reduce noise from mosques, an official said, as places of worship go into overdrive during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

There a re approx imate ly 800,000 mosques in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation but residents living nearby have long complained that their speakers are too loud.

Places of worship become par-ticularly active during Ramadan, which this year runs from mid-June to mid-July, when Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset and mosques blare out religious ser-mons even earlier than usual.

In a new attempt to tackle the issue, Vice President Jusuf Kalla, who is also head of a body grouping many of the country’s mosques, has formed a team to take samples of noise from mosque speakers across the country, his spokesman Husain Abdullah told AFP.

“The idea is for mosques to turn down the volume a little so that the sound can be heard only by residents in the immediate area,” he said, adding that the aim was to have a “more harmonious,

melodious sound coming from mosques”.

He said that mosques also had to ensure that the sounds they produced did not overlap with noises from others nearby, say-ing there was often a “war of the loudspeakers” between places of worship in the same area which try to outdo each other by playing sermons loudly.

The new group, set up earlier this month, had collected many samples and would send a report to the vice president, who planned to sit down with Indonesia’s top Muslim clerical body and Islamic organisations and discuss how to tackle the issue.

The new group would com-plement a previous initiative, which saw around 100 teams of technicians deployed across the country to help fine-tune mosque loudspeakers and give advice on how best to arrange speakers to reduce noise.

But Abdullah admitted regu-lating noisy mosques across the world’s biggest archipelago na-tion would be tough and called on the clerical body, the Indonesian Council of Ulema, to issue a fatwa on the issue. (afp)

AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

In this Friday, June 19, 2015, file photo, Indonesian Muslim men gather during the first Friday pray of the fasting month of Ramadan at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia has set up a new team to reduce noise from mosques, an of-ficial said, as places of worship go into overdrive during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Indonesia in new bid to muffle noisy mosques

Indonesian anti-drugs chief warns against foreign boyfriends

Indonesia says death row Frenchman has no more legal options

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s anti-narcotics chief Friday warned women in the country to be care-ful when dating foreigners, suggesting they could be tricked into becoming drug mules.

The calico cat was appointed stationmaster at the Kishi station in western Japan in 2007. Donning her custom-made stationmas-ter’s cap, Tama quietly sat at the ticket gate welcoming and seeing off passengers. The cat quickly attracted tourists and became world-famous, contributing to the railway company and local economy.

Tama, who had turned 16 in April, died of a heart failure on June 22. During Sunday’s Shinto-style funeral at the station where she served, Tama became a god-dess. The Shinto religion, indig-enous to Japan and practiced by many Japanese, has a variety of gods including animals.

In one of several portraits deco-rating the altar, Tama posed in a stationmaster’s hat and a dark blue cape. Sake, as well as watermelon, apples, cabbage and other fruits and vegetables were presented to the cat. A stand outside the station

was heaped with bouquets, canned tuna and other gifts left by thou-sands of Tama fans who came to pray from around the country.

Wakayama Electric Railway President Mitsunobu Kojima thanked the cat for her achieve-ment, and said Tama will be en-shrined at a nearby cat shrine next month.

Before Tama’s arrival, the local Kishigawa Line was near-bankrupt; and the station was unmanned as it had lost its last staff. Kojima said appointing Tama as stationmaster was initially an excuse to keep the cat at the station.

“But she was really doing her job,” he said. The rest was a mir-acle, and his company’s success story also gave hope for dozens of other struggling tiny local train lines, he said. “Tama-chan really emerged like a savior, a goddess. It was truly my honor to have been able to work with her,” Kojima said in his speech. During her

tenure, Tama had contributed an estimated 1.1 billion yen ($8.9 million) to the local economy, Kojima said.

Kojima said that when he visited Tama at an animal hospital the day before she died, the cat woke up and reached out to him with her paws, as if asking for a hug, and looked straight into his eyes. He said he told Tama to get well so they can celebrate the cat’s upcom-ing 10th anniversary as a station-master, and said the cat responded with a “meow.”

Tama is a popular name for cats in Japan, where they are consid-ered spiritual animals. The word could translate as treasure, ball or spirit.

The cat had climbed the cor-porate ladder from stationmaster to “ultra-stationmaster” and vice president of the company before receiving the additional title Sun-day of “honorable eternal station-master.” (ap)

ST. LUCIA, South Africa — A conservation group plans to move seven lions from South Africa to a national park in Rwanda, where it says the lion population was wiped out 15 years ago.

The five female lions and two males will be transferred begin-ning Monday to Rwanda’s Akagera National Park by truck and plane in a journey lasting more than 24 hours, said African Parks, a South Africa-based group that runs national wildlife parks in Africa.

Cattle herders poisoned the Rwandan park’s last lions after parks were left unmanaged following Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, according to African Parks. The group manages Akagera, a Rwan-dan park on the border with Tanzania, and seven other national parks in Africa.

Two parks in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province are do-nating the lions to Rwanda. On arrival at the Akagera park, the lions will be kept in quarantine in a large enclosure for at least two weeks before they are released into the wilderness.

Yamina Karitanyi, a senior tourism official in Rwanda, said she hopes the return of lions to Akagera will attract more visi-tors. Currently, mountain gorillas are the mainstay of Rwandan wildlife tourism.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature listed the lion as vulnerable in an update this month of its “red list” of spe-cies facing survival threats. It noted lion conservation successes in southern Africa, but said lions in West Africa were critically endangered and that rapid population declines were also being recorded in East Africa.

The conservation group cited human encroachment on lion habitats as well as a decline in lion prey as reasons for the popula-tion drop. It identified a trade in lion bones and other body parts for traditional medicine in Africa as well as Asia as a growing threat. (ap)

Chika Oshima/Kyodo News via AP

A girl lays bouquets of flowers at an altar especially set up for a funeral of Tama, a cat station-master, in Kinokawa City, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, Sunday, June 28, 2015.

Cat stationmaster Tama mourned in Japan, elevated as goddess

TOKYO — Tama the stationmaster, Japan’s feline star of a struggling local railway, was mourned by company officials and fans and elevated into a goddess at a funeral Sunday.

Conservationists to move 7 lions from South Africa to Rwanda

The fire was sparked by an accidental explosion of a colored theatrical powder thrown from the stage in front of about 1,000 people, the fire agency and local media said. The powder for the one-time event called “Color Play Asia” ignited along the ground, mainly burning people’s lower bodies, said Wang Wei-sheng, a liai-son with the New Taipei City fire department command center.

Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported witnesses as saying the fire at the Formosa Water Park in New Taipei City spread quickly after powder was blown into the air.

Taiwan Premier Mao Chih-kuo announced a ban Sunday on parties that use flammable colored powder.

A total of 516 people were reported to have burn injuries as of about 11 a.m. Sunday, Wang said.

The official injury toll had risen from slightly more than 200 at midnight, because about 300 people had made their own way to hospitals. Eight people had life-threatening injuries, according to Taiwan’s Central News Agency.

The victims included four mainland Chinese and two foreign-ers. An 18-year-old from Taiwan was burned on 90 percent of her body.

Central News Agency said that police were questioning two park workers who had launched the powder as well as the party’s on-site organizer and two technicians. They may face charges of professional negligence causing serious injuries and endangering the public, it said.

The exact cause of the fire is still being investigated.Video showed rescue workers and bystanders carrying burned

and injured people on their backs, in inflatable boats and on stretch-ers to get medical treatment.

More than 400 people, many of them seriously burned, remained in hospitals Sunday after a fire spread into a crowd of spectators at a music party at a Taiwan water park, authorities said. (ap)

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SINGARAJA - Sanctuary of Jaya Prana and Layon Sari is lo-cated in a grove of Teluk Terima, Sumberklampok village, Gerok-

gak, approximately 67 km west of Singaraja town. This sanctuary retains a romantic love story like the story of Romeo and Juliet

in Europe or Sampek Engtay in China. Jaya Prana and Layon Sari is an ideal couple during the ad-ministration of Wanekeling king-

dom, Kalianget, in the past. Due to the beauty of Layon Sari, the king fell in love with her and with his wiles the king killed Jaya Prana.

Meanwhile, Layon Sari who does not want to be married by the king chooses to commit suicide after her beloved husband.

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Sanctuary of Jaya Prana

Bradley (32-1-1) controlled most of his bout against the previously unbeaten Vargas, but the former two-division champion was hurt by a hard right that nearly knocked him down. The fight went on as Bradley recovered somewhat, but referee Pat Russell apparently stopped the fight 10 seconds early, thinking the 10-second warning was the bell to end the bout. Bradley won 117-111, 116-112 and 115-112 on the scorecards, bouncing back from a winless 2014 — but not before a wild scare at the end.

Russell appeared to be deciding

that the bout was over by stoppage when he stepped in, and Vargas’ corner went into a wild celebration. Carl Moretti, the vice president of Bradley promoter Top Rank, went up to Russell immediately to find out what happened, and Russell said he thought the 10-second warning was the bell to end the fight.

The veteran referee was booed by the StubHub Center fans. Brad-ley acknowledged he was hurt by the overhand right, but said he would have survived the final 10 seconds.

The bout was Bradley’s first fight

at the famed outdoor ring south of Los Angeles since his 2013 brawl with Ruslan Provodnikov in which he overcame a concussion from the first round and survived a knock-down in the closing seconds to win a unanimous decision.

“I don’t have to defend any-thing,” Bradley said. “He landed a great shot, he hurt me, but I would have finished. Come on, I survived Provodnikov.” Vargas (26-1) said he could have won the fight if he had those 10 seconds. During Bradley’s in-ring interview, Vargas demanded a rematch. (ap)

LONDON - Being a member of tennis’ Big Four might be the burning ambition of many players but Stan Wawrinka is in no rush to join the ranks and redefine that club as the Fab Five. The man who belted down backhand bullets to crush Novak Djokovic’s French Open dream, thus denying the Serb a chance to complete his collection of grand slam titles, now owns two majors thanks to his success at Ro-land Garros earlier this month.

That is the same number of slams won by Andy Murray, one of the bona fide members of the Big Four, but Wawrinka cares little about being held in the same es-teem as the Scot, Djokovic, Roger Federer or Rafa Nadal. “Honestly I don’t try to compare myself to them or try to be part of a group. I just want to do the best I can in my career,” Wawrinka told Reuters in an interview on the players’ lawn at the All England Club as he looked forward to launching his Wimble-don campaign on Monday.

“I’m really happy with what I have done especially in the last two years because that is when it all started, with the two grand slams, the Davis Cup (title in 2014) and everything. “I’m really happy with my career,” added the Swiss, who had to wait almost until 29th birthday to get his grand slam breakthrough at the 2014 Austra-lian Open before doubling his haul in Paris. “For me it doesn’t matter if it’s the Big Four or Big Five or whatever, I don’t need that and I am not looking for that. I’m just trying to beat them when I play them, that’s it.”

“Beat them” he certainly did because just as he toppled the top two seeds to capture the Melbourne Park title 18 months ago, he again proved to be the dark destroyer in Paris. With much of the focus on whether Djokovic could win the one title he yearns for more than any other or whether nine-times champion Nadal could stretch his victories into double figures, barely anyone paid attention to what Wawrinka was doing with his wondrous backhand.

In fact his bizarre red and white checked shorts -- compared to everything from pyjamas to out-

of-fashion 1970s wallpaper -- got more column inches than the dam-age he was wielding with his racket. Celebrated rivals, however, had no choice but to take notice as first world number two Federer fell under his spell in the quarter-finals before top ranked Djokovic was also left dumbfounded in the final.

“I’m feeling great for sure. I’m really proud and happy the way I am doing it,” said Wawrinka, who became the first man outside the Big Four to win two slams since the quartet began their era of dominance a decade ago. “For me it’s been amazing to think that I won the Australian Open and the French Open by beating the number one and two players in the world. Playing my best match ever on clay this year in the final, that has given me a lot of confidence.”

His success in Paris means Wimbledon remains the one major where he has not reached at least the semi-finals. It is a blip that does not concern a man who has long lived by a Samuel Beckett mantra that is inked in italics on his left forearm: ‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.’

“French Open was also a slam where I didn’t reach the semi-finals before this year,” Wawrinka, whose tattoo was visible for all to see on his bare, tanned arm, said with a smile. “So, just like that I am try-ing to improve every year, trying to play better every year.

“Last year I played a really good tournament, losing in the quarter-finals to Roger playing a really great match. So this year I can still play my best tennis.”

Unfortunately for Wimbledon fans, Wawrinka’s famed shorts will not be on show when he plays ‘his best tennis’ due to the tournament’s strict all-white dress code. Alarm-ingly, he also hinted that those much-derided shorts may have had their last outing. “I don’t know yet what I am going to do with my (French Open) shorts. We’ll see after Wimbledon,” he laughed. “I’m going to take some time off tennis and then try to have a clear out. I have many (pairs) of those shorts. “It was great that I won the French Open because at least it’s a positive story for my shorts.” (ap)

BAKU, Azerbaijan — The head of the European Olympic Commit-tees says he expects Azerbaijan’s capital Baku to bid for the Olympics after hosting this month’s European Games.

Officially, the Azerbaijani gov-

ernment says it is waiting to analyse its hosting of the European Games, which close Sunday, before making a decision on an Olympic bid.

However, EOC head Patrick Hickey tells The Associated Press that he expects Azerbaijani officials

to “announce very shortly that they will be a bidder for the future.”

Bidders for the 2024 Olympics have until Sept. 15 to apply. Azerbai-jan bid for the 2016 and 2020 Olym-pics but was eliminated before the final vote on each occasion. (ap)

Wawrinka doesn’t want Big Four to become Fab Five

Azerbaijan tipped to bid for Olympics

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Timothy Bradley, left, connects with Jessie Vargas during a welterweight boxing match for the interim WBO title, Saturday, June 27, 2015, in Carson, Calif.

Tim Bradley survives weird finish, beats

Vargas for WBO beltCARSON, Calif. — Timothy Bradley got rocked in the final minute and survived a confusing

finish to beat Jessie Vargas by unanimous decision Saturday night, claiming the interim WBO welterweight title.

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“Her first name is Mana. And in Japanese, ‘Not yet, not yet,’ would be ‘mada,’ so (the words) are very close,” Sasaki said through a transla-tor. “And it didn’t take her too long as far as she’s concerned.”

The fourth-ranked Japanese will stay in Edmonton, where they will play England in the semifinals Wednesday. England beat Canada 2-1 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Patience and fresh legs paid off for the defending champions, as their ball-controlling style combined with the 90-degree temperatures gradually wore down the 10th-ranked Australians.

Iwabuchi had nearly scored a minute earlier, but her shot was blocked by Elise Kellond-Knight, which led to a corner kick. Though Aya Miyama’s corner kick was headed out of the penalty area, the ball bounced directly to Rumi Utsugi, who immediately sent it back toward the goal. Azusa Iwashimizu had her shot stopped by Lydia Williams, but the goalkeeper was unable to control the rebound.

The ball squirted to the left, where Iwabuchi knocked it the open side. “The difficulty was the heat,” said

Utsugi, who was named player of the match for setting up the goal. “However, throughout the game, the resolve of all members to keep it up to the end was the challenge. However, we did manage to do that.”

Japan is a perfect 5-0 in Canada, and has won eight straight since winning the 2011 tournament in Germany, when it beat the United Stated 2-2 in penalty kicks in the championship game. The Nadeshiko are now two victories from becoming the second nation to win consecutive tournaments after Germany won in 2003 and ‘07.

The Matildas go home after mak-ing their deepest run in tournament history. The 10th-ranked team won its first elimination game by upset-ting seventh-ranked Brazil in the round of 16.

“Obviously disappointed at the result, but when you look at the big scheme of things, we lost 1-0,” coach Alen Stajcic said. “It was 1-0 in the 88th minute off a scrappy corner. It’s not as if we were humiliated.” They were, however, beaten by a team that showed more composure and patience.

The Matildas exerted too much

energy chasing the ball in the first 20 minutes. And when they finally got possession, the Australians too often gave the ball right back to Japan.

“Certainly (the Japanese) were a lot more composed throughout the 90 minutes,” Stajcic said. “It’s a heart-breaking experience for all of us. But sometimes you learn the most from these experiences.” Japan has gone 4-0-1 in its past five meetings against its Asian regional rival, and is 8-1-1 in its past 10 games.

The Australians did a better job than Japan’s previous tournament opponents in bottling up the middle and pressuring the ball carrier to disrupt the Nadeshiko’s crisp, short-passing style. But the Japanese attack finally wore down Australia in the second half.

In the 77th minute, Saori Ariyoshi broke free up the middle only to have her shot blocked by Kellond-Knight. Japan had the best scoring opportu-nity of the first half. It happened in the 22nd minute off an Australian turnover.

Nahomi Kawasumi burst free up the right wing and threaded a perfect pass into the penalty area, where Shinobu Ohno punched the

ORLANDO, Fla. — For a half, it

looked as if Mexico’s “A’’ squad was suf-fering from the same malaise as the team that exited quickly

from Copa America. It took just 10 minutes in

the second half Saturday to change that perception.

Giovani Dos Santos and Javier Hernandez scored 2

minutes apart to quickly erase Mexico’s two-goal deficit in a 2-2

draw with Costa Rica in a friendly in preparation for the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Dos Santos, one of sev-eral El Tri regulars returning to the roster, scored from a sharp angle 8 minutes into the second half to finally bring the pro-Mexico crowd at the Citrus Bowl to its feet.

Hernandez, who struggled to get into Real Madrid’s lineup this season, quickly tied it with a header in the 55th minute. Carlos Esquivel, a second-half substitute, sent a cross from the right that Hernandez redirected past goalkeeper Esteban Alvarado.

Mexican defender Miguel Layun nearly won it in the 84th minute, firing a shot past Alvarado from the right about 10 yards out. The goal was disallowed, though, when Hernandez was flagged for offside in the sequence. The outburst came after Mexico coach Miguel Herrera changed formations at halftime, switching from a 5-2-3 to a 4-4-2. Defender Hector Moreno came off for Jose Juan Vazquez, who joined

with a withdrawn Dos Santos to give the squad more command in the midfield.

Though the result still extended Mexico’s winless streak to six games, including two draws and a loss at the Copa America, the second half brought encouragement as the Gold Cup’s opening matches loom in two weeks.

Dos Santos, Hernandez and goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa were among 22 fresh players called into the squad. Defender Miguel Angel Herrera was the lone holdover, and he didn’t get into Saturday’s con-test. It took just 3 1/2 minutes for Costa Rica to put the new roster on its heels, though, as David Ramirez converted the Ticos’ first venture deep into Mexico territory.

Taking a pass over the top from Joel Campbell, Ramirez dribbled into the box and struck a low shot that skipped underneath Ochoa. Costa Rica made it 2-0 in the 36th minute after a pinball sequence wound up in the back of the Mexi-can net. Ramirez’s centering pass from the left skipped off teammate Johan Venegas, then Ochoa’s hands and Layun’s leg for what was scored as an own goal.

Alvarado got the start in Costa Rica’s goal for the injured Keylor Navas, who aggravated an Achil-les injury earlier this month in a friendly against Spain. Midfielder Bryan Oviedo also is out with a broken foot, and coach Paulo Wan-chope also opted not to use striker Alvaro Saborio until the 82nd minute. (ap)

CONCEPCION — Paraguay defeated Brazil 4-3 in a penalty shoo-tout after a 1-1 draw on Saturday to advance to the semifinals of the Copa America, handing the five-time world champions yet another disappointment a year after the humiliating World Cup elimination at home. Midfielder Everton Ribeiro and striker Douglas Costa each missed in the shootout for Brazil, and Derlis Gonzalez converted the winning spot-kick for Paraguay, setting up a match against Argentina on Tuesday. Chile will face Peru on Monday in the other semifinal.

It was the second consecutive time that Paraguay eliminated Brazil on penalties in the quarterfinals of the South American tournament. It went on to lose the 2011 final to Uruguay, but now it will have another chance at its second title, and first since 1979. “Nobody believed in us but we showed that we are more united than ever, and we want more,” Gonzalez said.

About an hour after the match, Gonzalez tweeted that a family mem-ber died of a heart attack while cel-ebrating Paraguay’s victory. He posted the photo of the man who died, saying he “couldn’t believe” that it had hap-pened. While the Paraguayans will try to reach the final for the second straight time, Brazil will go home still yet to achieve a success that would help bury the memory of the humiliating 7-1 loss to Germany at its home World Cup last year. The Copa America was the first official competition for Brazil since.

Brazil disappointed from the start in Chile, where it was trying to win its third title in the past four Copa Americas. It needed a last-minute goal to beat Peru 2-1 in the opener, then lost 1-0 to Colombia in a match marked by a confrontation that led to Neymar’s four-game suspension and exit from the tournament. Brazil did beat Venezuela 2-0 in its last group match, but without playing well.

Now coach Dunga’s team will have to start focusing on the 2018 World Cup, as the South American qualifying tournament begins in October. “We know we’ll have to work hard going forward,” Dunga said. “There’s a lot to learn from what happened here.”

ZURICH - The independent chair-man of FIFA’s audit and compliance committee on Sunday weighed in on recent comments by the president of world soccer’s governing body, Sepp Blatter, that had led to speculation about his future plans.

“I call on all concerned, including Mr. Blatter, to endorse in the inter-est of the reforms unequivocally the announced changing of the guard at the top of FIFA,” audit and compli-ance chief Domenico Scala said in an emailed statement.

Blatter on June 2 said he would step down at an as-yet unscheduled special FIFA congress, but recent comments have fuelled speculation that his deci-sion was less than final. “The times of flirting with power are definitely gone,” Scala said. (rtr)

ACCRA, Ghana — The Ghana Football Association will challenge some of the findings of an inquiry which questioned how over $3.5 million meant for the team’s prepara-tions for last year’s World Cup was used. The GFA also said Saturday it was offended by the inquiry’s de-scription of an equipment manager who received a $100,000 appearance fee for the World Cup in Brazil as a “ball boy.”

A report released this month said the GFA must explain how it spent $1.5 million from FIFA and another $2 million from the state-run Ghana National Petroleum Corporation. Also, GFA President Kwesi Nyantakyi, a senior African soccer executive, should account for $200,000 given to him by the government to organize a friendly

match ahead of the World Cup, the inquiry’s report said.

In response, the GFA said that there were several “misleading and inaccurate conclusions” and it had instructed its lawyers to challenge the report’s findings in court. The GFA did not say which specific parts of the report it disagreed with, but appeared to be most upset with the description of Ismail Hamida, the national team’s kit manager, as a “ball boy.”

Hamida was one of a number of members of Ghana’s management team at the World Cup in Brazil to get $100,000 in “appearance fees,” according to the inquiry. Hamida, the players and head coach Kwesi Appiah all received $100,000, as did the mas-seuse and video analyst. “We wish to state that the commission’s descrip-tion of the kit manager or equipment

officer as a ‘ball boy’ is hideously inappropriate,” the GFA said.

The commission that drafted the report was seeking to “mock” the official, the GFA said. Following the release of the report, Ghana President John Mahama ordered an audit to investigate how the GFA spent the $3.5 million in World Cup prepara-tion money.

Mahama’s instructions also said a $200,000-payment from the govern-ment to federation head Nyantakyi for a warm-up game ahead of the tournament should be further inves-tigated “to clear any doubt of double funding and/or misappropriation of funds.”

Nyantakyi is a member of FIFA’s Associations Committee and sits on the Confederation of African Football’s top executive committee.

He is also the president of the West African Football Union.

FIFA declined to comment on the inquiry, but said Ghana’s soccer body had received its full amount of $8 million in prize money from FIFA for the 2014 World Cup.

Ghana’s campaign at the tourna-ment was chaotic, with players threatening to go on strike over unpaid bonuses. The government flew $3 million in cash to Bra-zil to keep the players playing. A quarterfinalist in 2010, Ghana was eliminated in the group stage in Brazil without win-ning a game. (ap)

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Paraguay players celebrate after winning a Copa America quarterfinal soccer match against Brazil at the Ester Roa Rebolledo Stadium in Concepcion, Chile, Saturday, June 27, 2015. Paraguay defeated Brazil 4-3 in a penalty shoot out after the game ended in a 1-1 draw.

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Paraguay again eliminates Brazil in Copa America quarters

Brazil opened the scoring with a goal by veteran striker Robinho in the 15th and maintained the lead until the 72nd minute when Gonzalez converted a penalty awarded for handball by defender Thiago Silva.

In the shootout, Ribeiro missed his penalty wide right, and Costa sent his shot over the crossbar. Veteran Para-guay striker Roque Santa Cruz had the chance to end the contest but also fired his shot high, before Gonzalez sealed victory at the second opportunity. “We’ve done something great,” Para-guay coach Ramon Dias said. “We know the quality of our rival.”

Without the suspended Neymar, Brazil again struggled to create scoring opportunities. It controlled possession but had difficulties getting close to the Paraguayan area during most of the match. Paraguay wasn’t able to threaten much, although it had a few good chances on set pieces and coun-terattacks, especially in the second half. “Unfortunately we didn’t play as well in the second half and ended

conceding a goal in a silly mistake,” Robinho said.

Paraguay’s equalizer came after Silva touched the ball with his hand while jumping to clear a cross into the area, prompting the penalty that Gonzalez converted with a firm right-footed shot into the lower right corner of Brazil goalkeeper Jefferson. Robinho had put Brazil on the board with a right-footed shot from close range after a low pass across the area by Daniel Alves.

Robinho was substituted near the end and was not available to partici-pate in the shootout. He was replaced by Ribeiro, who missed one of Brazil’s penalties. Dunga said Robinho was tired, but the veteran striker said he “wanted to stay in the match” for the shootout. Chelsea midfielder Willian also was substituted.

Dunga seemed to put some of the blame of Brazil’s loss on a viral infec-tion that affected many of the Brazilian players during the week and “limited the team’s training.” (ap)

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Mexico forward Javier Hernandez (14) kicks Costa Rico de-fender Giancarlo Gonzalez, left, while going for the ball during the second half of a friendly soccer match in Orlando, Fla., Saturday, June 27, 2015. The teams tied 2-2.

Mexico rallies to tie Costa Rica 2-2 in Orlando

Japan’s Mana Iwabuchi (16) kicks

the ball against Australia’s during second half FIFA

Women’s World Cup quarter-final action in

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Saturday Jun

27, 2015.

Iwabuchi lifts Japan to semis with 1-0 win over Australia

EDMONTON — Japanese coach Norio Sasaki couldn’t resist making a joke at Mana Iwabu-chi’s expense when explaining his decision to substitute the forward in during the second half against Australia on Saturday. Iwabuchi, Sasaki said with a laugh, went from “not yet” to right now. Some 15 minutes after entering the game, Iwabuchi scored during a scramble in front in the 87th minute to secure a 1-0 victory in the Women’s World Cup quarterfinals Saturday.

ball just over the open right side of the goal.

Some four minutes later, the Australians re-sponded off a great run by Samantha Kerr, who was bowled over by Iwashimizu, who was issued a yellow card. That set up a free kick from 25 yards out. Alanna Kennedy took the kick, but curled her shot well wide of the right post. Sa-saki was pleased with how his team didn’t let down fol-lowing several missed scor-ing chances.

“I was thinking that

even if we didn’t have a goal in 90

minutes, we would certainly do that by 120

minutes,” Sasaki said. “While we do recognize the

big growth of the Australian team in this World Cup, I think the result of this match has given confidence to the Japanese players.” (ap)

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“Her first name is Mana. And in Japanese, ‘Not yet, not yet,’ would be ‘mada,’ so (the words) are very close,” Sasaki said through a transla-tor. “And it didn’t take her too long as far as she’s concerned.”

The fourth-ranked Japanese will stay in Edmonton, where they will play England in the semifinals Wednesday. England beat Canada 2-1 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Patience and fresh legs paid off for the defending champions, as their ball-controlling style combined with the 90-degree temperatures gradually wore down the 10th-ranked Australians.

Iwabuchi had nearly scored a minute earlier, but her shot was blocked by Elise Kellond-Knight, which led to a corner kick. Though Aya Miyama’s corner kick was headed out of the penalty area, the ball bounced directly to Rumi Utsugi, who immediately sent it back toward the goal. Azusa Iwashimizu had her shot stopped by Lydia Williams, but the goalkeeper was unable to control the rebound.

The ball squirted to the left, where Iwabuchi knocked it the open side. “The difficulty was the heat,” said

Utsugi, who was named player of the match for setting up the goal. “However, throughout the game, the resolve of all members to keep it up to the end was the challenge. However, we did manage to do that.”

Japan is a perfect 5-0 in Canada, and has won eight straight since winning the 2011 tournament in Germany, when it beat the United Stated 2-2 in penalty kicks in the championship game. The Nadeshiko are now two victories from becoming the second nation to win consecutive tournaments after Germany won in 2003 and ‘07.

The Matildas go home after mak-ing their deepest run in tournament history. The 10th-ranked team won its first elimination game by upset-ting seventh-ranked Brazil in the round of 16.

“Obviously disappointed at the result, but when you look at the big scheme of things, we lost 1-0,” coach Alen Stajcic said. “It was 1-0 in the 88th minute off a scrappy corner. It’s not as if we were humiliated.” They were, however, beaten by a team that showed more composure and patience.

The Matildas exerted too much

energy chasing the ball in the first 20 minutes. And when they finally got possession, the Australians too often gave the ball right back to Japan.

“Certainly (the Japanese) were a lot more composed throughout the 90 minutes,” Stajcic said. “It’s a heart-breaking experience for all of us. But sometimes you learn the most from these experiences.” Japan has gone 4-0-1 in its past five meetings against its Asian regional rival, and is 8-1-1 in its past 10 games.

The Australians did a better job than Japan’s previous tournament opponents in bottling up the middle and pressuring the ball carrier to disrupt the Nadeshiko’s crisp, short-passing style. But the Japanese attack finally wore down Australia in the second half.

In the 77th minute, Saori Ariyoshi broke free up the middle only to have her shot blocked by Kellond-Knight. Japan had the best scoring opportu-nity of the first half. It happened in the 22nd minute off an Australian turnover.

Nahomi Kawasumi burst free up the right wing and threaded a perfect pass into the penalty area, where Shinobu Ohno punched the

ORLANDO, Fla. — For a half, it

looked as if Mexico’s “A’’ squad was suf-fering from the same malaise as the team that exited quickly

from Copa America. It took just 10 minutes in

the second half Saturday to change that perception.

Giovani Dos Santos and Javier Hernandez scored 2

minutes apart to quickly erase Mexico’s two-goal deficit in a 2-2

draw with Costa Rica in a friendly in preparation for the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Dos Santos, one of sev-eral El Tri regulars returning to the roster, scored from a sharp angle 8 minutes into the second half to finally bring the pro-Mexico crowd at the Citrus Bowl to its feet.

Hernandez, who struggled to get into Real Madrid’s lineup this season, quickly tied it with a header in the 55th minute. Carlos Esquivel, a second-half substitute, sent a cross from the right that Hernandez redirected past goalkeeper Esteban Alvarado.

Mexican defender Miguel Layun nearly won it in the 84th minute, firing a shot past Alvarado from the right about 10 yards out. The goal was disallowed, though, when Hernandez was flagged for offside in the sequence. The outburst came after Mexico coach Miguel Herrera changed formations at halftime, switching from a 5-2-3 to a 4-4-2. Defender Hector Moreno came off for Jose Juan Vazquez, who joined

with a withdrawn Dos Santos to give the squad more command in the midfield.

Though the result still extended Mexico’s winless streak to six games, including two draws and a loss at the Copa America, the second half brought encouragement as the Gold Cup’s opening matches loom in two weeks.

Dos Santos, Hernandez and goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa were among 22 fresh players called into the squad. Defender Miguel Angel Herrera was the lone holdover, and he didn’t get into Saturday’s con-test. It took just 3 1/2 minutes for Costa Rica to put the new roster on its heels, though, as David Ramirez converted the Ticos’ first venture deep into Mexico territory.

Taking a pass over the top from Joel Campbell, Ramirez dribbled into the box and struck a low shot that skipped underneath Ochoa. Costa Rica made it 2-0 in the 36th minute after a pinball sequence wound up in the back of the Mexi-can net. Ramirez’s centering pass from the left skipped off teammate Johan Venegas, then Ochoa’s hands and Layun’s leg for what was scored as an own goal.

Alvarado got the start in Costa Rica’s goal for the injured Keylor Navas, who aggravated an Achil-les injury earlier this month in a friendly against Spain. Midfielder Bryan Oviedo also is out with a broken foot, and coach Paulo Wan-chope also opted not to use striker Alvaro Saborio until the 82nd minute. (ap)

CONCEPCION — Paraguay defeated Brazil 4-3 in a penalty shoo-tout after a 1-1 draw on Saturday to advance to the semifinals of the Copa America, handing the five-time world champions yet another disappointment a year after the humiliating World Cup elimination at home. Midfielder Everton Ribeiro and striker Douglas Costa each missed in the shootout for Brazil, and Derlis Gonzalez converted the winning spot-kick for Paraguay, setting up a match against Argentina on Tuesday. Chile will face Peru on Monday in the other semifinal.

It was the second consecutive time that Paraguay eliminated Brazil on penalties in the quarterfinals of the South American tournament. It went on to lose the 2011 final to Uruguay, but now it will have another chance at its second title, and first since 1979. “Nobody believed in us but we showed that we are more united than ever, and we want more,” Gonzalez said.

About an hour after the match, Gonzalez tweeted that a family mem-ber died of a heart attack while cel-ebrating Paraguay’s victory. He posted the photo of the man who died, saying he “couldn’t believe” that it had hap-pened. While the Paraguayans will try to reach the final for the second straight time, Brazil will go home still yet to achieve a success that would help bury the memory of the humiliating 7-1 loss to Germany at its home World Cup last year. The Copa America was the first official competition for Brazil since.

Brazil disappointed from the start in Chile, where it was trying to win its third title in the past four Copa Americas. It needed a last-minute goal to beat Peru 2-1 in the opener, then lost 1-0 to Colombia in a match marked by a confrontation that led to Neymar’s four-game suspension and exit from the tournament. Brazil did beat Venezuela 2-0 in its last group match, but without playing well.

Now coach Dunga’s team will have to start focusing on the 2018 World Cup, as the South American qualifying tournament begins in October. “We know we’ll have to work hard going forward,” Dunga said. “There’s a lot to learn from what happened here.”

ZURICH - The independent chair-man of FIFA’s audit and compliance committee on Sunday weighed in on recent comments by the president of world soccer’s governing body, Sepp Blatter, that had led to speculation about his future plans.

“I call on all concerned, including Mr. Blatter, to endorse in the inter-est of the reforms unequivocally the announced changing of the guard at the top of FIFA,” audit and compli-ance chief Domenico Scala said in an emailed statement.

Blatter on June 2 said he would step down at an as-yet unscheduled special FIFA congress, but recent comments have fuelled speculation that his deci-sion was less than final. “The times of flirting with power are definitely gone,” Scala said. (rtr)

ACCRA, Ghana — The Ghana Football Association will challenge some of the findings of an inquiry which questioned how over $3.5 million meant for the team’s prepara-tions for last year’s World Cup was used. The GFA also said Saturday it was offended by the inquiry’s de-scription of an equipment manager who received a $100,000 appearance fee for the World Cup in Brazil as a “ball boy.”

A report released this month said the GFA must explain how it spent $1.5 million from FIFA and another $2 million from the state-run Ghana National Petroleum Corporation. Also, GFA President Kwesi Nyantakyi, a senior African soccer executive, should account for $200,000 given to him by the government to organize a friendly

match ahead of the World Cup, the inquiry’s report said.

In response, the GFA said that there were several “misleading and inaccurate conclusions” and it had instructed its lawyers to challenge the report’s findings in court. The GFA did not say which specific parts of the report it disagreed with, but appeared to be most upset with the description of Ismail Hamida, the national team’s kit manager, as a “ball boy.”

Hamida was one of a number of members of Ghana’s management team at the World Cup in Brazil to get $100,000 in “appearance fees,” according to the inquiry. Hamida, the players and head coach Kwesi Appiah all received $100,000, as did the mas-seuse and video analyst. “We wish to state that the commission’s descrip-tion of the kit manager or equipment

officer as a ‘ball boy’ is hideously inappropriate,” the GFA said.

The commission that drafted the report was seeking to “mock” the official, the GFA said. Following the release of the report, Ghana President John Mahama ordered an audit to investigate how the GFA spent the $3.5 million in World Cup prepara-tion money.

Mahama’s instructions also said a $200,000-payment from the govern-ment to federation head Nyantakyi for a warm-up game ahead of the tournament should be further inves-tigated “to clear any doubt of double funding and/or misappropriation of funds.”

Nyantakyi is a member of FIFA’s Associations Committee and sits on the Confederation of African Football’s top executive committee.

He is also the president of the West African Football Union.

FIFA declined to comment on the inquiry, but said Ghana’s soccer body had received its full amount of $8 million in prize money from FIFA for the 2014 World Cup.

Ghana’s campaign at the tourna-ment was chaotic, with players threatening to go on strike over unpaid bonuses. The government flew $3 million in cash to Bra-zil to keep the players playing. A quarterfinalist in 2010, Ghana was eliminated in the group stage in Brazil without win-ning a game. (ap)

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Paraguay players celebrate after winning a Copa America quarterfinal soccer match against Brazil at the Ester Roa Rebolledo Stadium in Concepcion, Chile, Saturday, June 27, 2015. Paraguay defeated Brazil 4-3 in a penalty shoot out after the game ended in a 1-1 draw.

Head of FIFA audit, compliance body weighs in on Blatter resignation

Paraguay again eliminates Brazil in Copa America quarters

Brazil opened the scoring with a goal by veteran striker Robinho in the 15th and maintained the lead until the 72nd minute when Gonzalez converted a penalty awarded for handball by defender Thiago Silva.

In the shootout, Ribeiro missed his penalty wide right, and Costa sent his shot over the crossbar. Veteran Para-guay striker Roque Santa Cruz had the chance to end the contest but also fired his shot high, before Gonzalez sealed victory at the second opportunity. “We’ve done something great,” Para-guay coach Ramon Dias said. “We know the quality of our rival.”

Without the suspended Neymar, Brazil again struggled to create scoring opportunities. It controlled possession but had difficulties getting close to the Paraguayan area during most of the match. Paraguay wasn’t able to threaten much, although it had a few good chances on set pieces and coun-terattacks, especially in the second half. “Unfortunately we didn’t play as well in the second half and ended

conceding a goal in a silly mistake,” Robinho said.

Paraguay’s equalizer came after Silva touched the ball with his hand while jumping to clear a cross into the area, prompting the penalty that Gonzalez converted with a firm right-footed shot into the lower right corner of Brazil goalkeeper Jefferson. Robinho had put Brazil on the board with a right-footed shot from close range after a low pass across the area by Daniel Alves.

Robinho was substituted near the end and was not available to partici-pate in the shootout. He was replaced by Ribeiro, who missed one of Brazil’s penalties. Dunga said Robinho was tired, but the veteran striker said he “wanted to stay in the match” for the shootout. Chelsea midfielder Willian also was substituted.

Dunga seemed to put some of the blame of Brazil’s loss on a viral infec-tion that affected many of the Brazilian players during the week and “limited the team’s training.” (ap)

AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack

Mexico forward Javier Hernandez (14) kicks Costa Rico de-fender Giancarlo Gonzalez, left, while going for the ball during the second half of a friendly soccer match in Orlando, Fla., Saturday, June 27, 2015. The teams tied 2-2.

Mexico rallies to tie Costa Rica 2-2 in Orlando

Japan’s Mana Iwabuchi (16) kicks

the ball against Australia’s during second half FIFA

Women’s World Cup quarter-final action in

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Saturday Jun

27, 2015.

Iwabuchi lifts Japan to semis with 1-0 win over Australia

EDMONTON — Japanese coach Norio Sasaki couldn’t resist making a joke at Mana Iwabu-chi’s expense when explaining his decision to substitute the forward in during the second half against Australia on Saturday. Iwabuchi, Sasaki said with a laugh, went from “not yet” to right now. Some 15 minutes after entering the game, Iwabuchi scored during a scramble in front in the 87th minute to secure a 1-0 victory in the Women’s World Cup quarterfinals Saturday.

ball just over the open right side of the goal.

Some four minutes later, the Australians re-sponded off a great run by Samantha Kerr, who was bowled over by Iwashimizu, who was issued a yellow card. That set up a free kick from 25 yards out. Alanna Kennedy took the kick, but curled her shot well wide of the right post. Sa-saki was pleased with how his team didn’t let down fol-lowing several missed scor-ing chances.

“I was thinking that

even if we didn’t have a goal in 90

minutes, we would certainly do that by 120

minutes,” Sasaki said. “While we do recognize the

big growth of the Australian team in this World Cup, I think the result of this match has given confidence to the Japanese players.” (ap)

Ghana FA to challenge report on World Cup money

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Bradley (32-1-1) controlled most of his bout against the previously unbeaten Vargas, but the former two-division champion was hurt by a hard right that nearly knocked him down. The fight went on as Bradley recovered somewhat, but referee Pat Russell apparently stopped the fight 10 seconds early, thinking the 10-second warning was the bell to end the bout. Bradley won 117-111, 116-112 and 115-112 on the scorecards, bouncing back from a winless 2014 — but not before a wild scare at the end.

Russell appeared to be deciding

that the bout was over by stoppage when he stepped in, and Vargas’ corner went into a wild celebration. Carl Moretti, the vice president of Bradley promoter Top Rank, went up to Russell immediately to find out what happened, and Russell said he thought the 10-second warning was the bell to end the fight.

The veteran referee was booed by the StubHub Center fans. Brad-ley acknowledged he was hurt by the overhand right, but said he would have survived the final 10 seconds.

The bout was Bradley’s first fight

at the famed outdoor ring south of Los Angeles since his 2013 brawl with Ruslan Provodnikov in which he overcame a concussion from the first round and survived a knock-down in the closing seconds to win a unanimous decision.

“I don’t have to defend any-thing,” Bradley said. “He landed a great shot, he hurt me, but I would have finished. Come on, I survived Provodnikov.” Vargas (26-1) said he could have won the fight if he had those 10 seconds. During Bradley’s in-ring interview, Vargas demanded a rematch. (ap)

LONDON - Being a member of tennis’ Big Four might be the burning ambition of many players but Stan Wawrinka is in no rush to join the ranks and redefine that club as the Fab Five. The man who belted down backhand bullets to crush Novak Djokovic’s French Open dream, thus denying the Serb a chance to complete his collection of grand slam titles, now owns two majors thanks to his success at Ro-land Garros earlier this month.

That is the same number of slams won by Andy Murray, one of the bona fide members of the Big Four, but Wawrinka cares little about being held in the same es-teem as the Scot, Djokovic, Roger Federer or Rafa Nadal. “Honestly I don’t try to compare myself to them or try to be part of a group. I just want to do the best I can in my career,” Wawrinka told Reuters in an interview on the players’ lawn at the All England Club as he looked forward to launching his Wimble-don campaign on Monday.

“I’m really happy with what I have done especially in the last two years because that is when it all started, with the two grand slams, the Davis Cup (title in 2014) and everything. “I’m really happy with my career,” added the Swiss, who had to wait almost until 29th birthday to get his grand slam breakthrough at the 2014 Austra-lian Open before doubling his haul in Paris. “For me it doesn’t matter if it’s the Big Four or Big Five or whatever, I don’t need that and I am not looking for that. I’m just trying to beat them when I play them, that’s it.”

“Beat them” he certainly did because just as he toppled the top two seeds to capture the Melbourne Park title 18 months ago, he again proved to be the dark destroyer in Paris. With much of the focus on whether Djokovic could win the one title he yearns for more than any other or whether nine-times champion Nadal could stretch his victories into double figures, barely anyone paid attention to what Wawrinka was doing with his wondrous backhand.

In fact his bizarre red and white checked shorts -- compared to everything from pyjamas to out-

of-fashion 1970s wallpaper -- got more column inches than the dam-age he was wielding with his racket. Celebrated rivals, however, had no choice but to take notice as first world number two Federer fell under his spell in the quarter-finals before top ranked Djokovic was also left dumbfounded in the final.

“I’m feeling great for sure. I’m really proud and happy the way I am doing it,” said Wawrinka, who became the first man outside the Big Four to win two slams since the quartet began their era of dominance a decade ago. “For me it’s been amazing to think that I won the Australian Open and the French Open by beating the number one and two players in the world. Playing my best match ever on clay this year in the final, that has given me a lot of confidence.”

His success in Paris means Wimbledon remains the one major where he has not reached at least the semi-finals. It is a blip that does not concern a man who has long lived by a Samuel Beckett mantra that is inked in italics on his left forearm: ‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.’

“French Open was also a slam where I didn’t reach the semi-finals before this year,” Wawrinka, whose tattoo was visible for all to see on his bare, tanned arm, said with a smile. “So, just like that I am try-ing to improve every year, trying to play better every year.

“Last year I played a really good tournament, losing in the quarter-finals to Roger playing a really great match. So this year I can still play my best tennis.”

Unfortunately for Wimbledon fans, Wawrinka’s famed shorts will not be on show when he plays ‘his best tennis’ due to the tournament’s strict all-white dress code. Alarm-ingly, he also hinted that those much-derided shorts may have had their last outing. “I don’t know yet what I am going to do with my (French Open) shorts. We’ll see after Wimbledon,” he laughed. “I’m going to take some time off tennis and then try to have a clear out. I have many (pairs) of those shorts. “It was great that I won the French Open because at least it’s a positive story for my shorts.” (ap)

BAKU, Azerbaijan — The head of the European Olympic Commit-tees says he expects Azerbaijan’s capital Baku to bid for the Olympics after hosting this month’s European Games.

Officially, the Azerbaijani gov-

ernment says it is waiting to analyse its hosting of the European Games, which close Sunday, before making a decision on an Olympic bid.

However, EOC head Patrick Hickey tells The Associated Press that he expects Azerbaijani officials

to “announce very shortly that they will be a bidder for the future.”

Bidders for the 2024 Olympics have until Sept. 15 to apply. Azerbai-jan bid for the 2016 and 2020 Olym-pics but was eliminated before the final vote on each occasion. (ap)

Wawrinka doesn’t want Big Four to become Fab Five

Azerbaijan tipped to bid for Olympics

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Timothy Bradley, left, connects with Jessie Vargas during a welterweight boxing match for the interim WBO title, Saturday, June 27, 2015, in Carson, Calif.

Tim Bradley survives weird finish, beats

Vargas for WBO beltCARSON, Calif. — Timothy Bradley got rocked in the final minute and survived a confusing

finish to beat Jessie Vargas by unanimous decision Saturday night, claiming the interim WBO welterweight title.

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The remarks were the latest salvo in Indonesia’s war on narcot-ics and came after eight drug con-victs, including seven foreigners, were put to death by firing squad in April, sparking international anger.

Head of the national anti-drugs agency, Anang Iskandar, said that many Indonesian women were languishing in prisons abroad because they were “easily tricked into drug-trafficking”.

“Do not be careless in relation-ships with foreigners,” he warned in comments to reporters in Ja-karta to mark the United Nations International Day Against Drug Abuse.

“They give gifts of plane tickets,

you have just got to know them and started dating. It is easy to be tempted, you have to be careful.”

Indonesia has faced criticism for focusing heavily on the role of foreigners in the country’s drug problems, and failing to do enough to combat official complicity in the illicit trade.

However President Joko Wido-do on Friday vowed to focus more on Indonesian security officials involved in drug-dealing and pris-ons where criminals run narcotics networks from behind bars.

He also reiterated his tough stance, saying: “Drug abuse is destroying the future generation. There is no other option than to declare a war on drugs.”

Since taking office last year, Widodo has been a vocal supporter of the death penalty for drug of-fences, rejecting clemency pleas for narcotics convicts on death row.

He says dozens of people die every day due to drugs in Indone-sia but observers have questioned his claims, and believe he is more focused on looking tough and re-gaining popularity after political missteps.

French drug convict Serge At-laoui, who was originally due to be executed in April, this week lost an appeal against his death sentence and Jakarta says he has no more legal options to avoid the firing squad. (afp)

JAKARTA - A French drug convict in Indonesia has exhausted all legal options to avoid the firing squad after losing an appeal this week, Jakarta said Thursday.

A court on Monday dismissed a bid by Serge Atlaoui to challenge the president’s rejection of his plea for clemency, typically a death row convict’s final chance to avoid execution.

Atlaoui was due to be executed alongside eight other drug offenders two months ago but won a tempo-rary reprieve after Paris stepped up pressure, with Indonesian authori-ties agreeing to let an outstanding appeal run its course.

The lawyers of the Frenchman, who was arrested in 2005 in a secret drugs factory outside Jakarta, have pledged to fight on and said they are exploring other legal routes.

However Indonesian foreign ministry spokesman Arrmanatha Nasir said that Atlaoui’s latest ap-peal was “the last legal avenue”.

“As far as I know and as far as I understand, there is no more legal avenues that can be pursued on this case,” he told reporters.

Atlaoui’s lawyers could not be immediately contacted for com-ment.

Nasir said the next step in the case would be up to the attorney-general’s office, which is in charge of executions.

The office has said that Atlaoui will not be put to death during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in Muslim-majority Indonesia, which ends in mid-July.

France has mounted a campaign to save Atlaoui and following the court decision, President Francois

Hollande said France was “doing everything” to keep him alive.

Since Monday’s decision, the Indonesian government had yet to receive any communication from the French embassy in Jakarta re-lated to the matter, Nasir said.

Atlaoui had been due to face the firing squad in April with two Aus-tralians, a Brazilian, four Nigerians and an Indonesian.

The executions sparked global anger but President Joko Widodo insists convicted traffickers must be harshly punished as Indonesia is facing a drugs crisis.

Authorities accuse Atlaoui, a welder, of being a “chemist” at the secret drugs lab where he was detained. But he has maintained his innocence, claiming that he was installing machinery in what he thought was an acrylics plant. (afp)

JAKARTA - Indonesia has set up a new team to reduce noise from mosques, an official said, as places of worship go into overdrive during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

There a re approx imate ly 800,000 mosques in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation but residents living nearby have long complained that their speakers are too loud.

Places of worship become par-ticularly active during Ramadan, which this year runs from mid-June to mid-July, when Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset and mosques blare out religious ser-mons even earlier than usual.

In a new attempt to tackle the issue, Vice President Jusuf Kalla, who is also head of a body grouping many of the country’s mosques, has formed a team to take samples of noise from mosque speakers across the country, his spokesman Husain Abdullah told AFP.

“The idea is for mosques to turn down the volume a little so that the sound can be heard only by residents in the immediate area,” he said, adding that the aim was to have a “more harmonious,

melodious sound coming from mosques”.

He said that mosques also had to ensure that the sounds they produced did not overlap with noises from others nearby, say-ing there was often a “war of the loudspeakers” between places of worship in the same area which try to outdo each other by playing sermons loudly.

The new group, set up earlier this month, had collected many samples and would send a report to the vice president, who planned to sit down with Indonesia’s top Muslim clerical body and Islamic organisations and discuss how to tackle the issue.

The new group would com-plement a previous initiative, which saw around 100 teams of technicians deployed across the country to help fine-tune mosque loudspeakers and give advice on how best to arrange speakers to reduce noise.

But Abdullah admitted regu-lating noisy mosques across the world’s biggest archipelago na-tion would be tough and called on the clerical body, the Indonesian Council of Ulema, to issue a fatwa on the issue. (afp)

AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

In this Friday, June 19, 2015, file photo, Indonesian Muslim men gather during the first Friday pray of the fasting month of Ramadan at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia has set up a new team to reduce noise from mosques, an of-ficial said, as places of worship go into overdrive during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Indonesia in new bid to muffle noisy mosques

Indonesian anti-drugs chief warns against foreign boyfriends

Indonesia says death row Frenchman has no more legal options

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s anti-narcotics chief Friday warned women in the country to be care-ful when dating foreigners, suggesting they could be tricked into becoming drug mules.

The calico cat was appointed stationmaster at the Kishi station in western Japan in 2007. Donning her custom-made stationmas-ter’s cap, Tama quietly sat at the ticket gate welcoming and seeing off passengers. The cat quickly attracted tourists and became world-famous, contributing to the railway company and local economy.

Tama, who had turned 16 in April, died of a heart failure on June 22. During Sunday’s Shinto-style funeral at the station where she served, Tama became a god-dess. The Shinto religion, indig-enous to Japan and practiced by many Japanese, has a variety of gods including animals.

In one of several portraits deco-rating the altar, Tama posed in a stationmaster’s hat and a dark blue cape. Sake, as well as watermelon, apples, cabbage and other fruits and vegetables were presented to the cat. A stand outside the station

was heaped with bouquets, canned tuna and other gifts left by thou-sands of Tama fans who came to pray from around the country.

Wakayama Electric Railway President Mitsunobu Kojima thanked the cat for her achieve-ment, and said Tama will be en-shrined at a nearby cat shrine next month.

Before Tama’s arrival, the local Kishigawa Line was near-bankrupt; and the station was unmanned as it had lost its last staff. Kojima said appointing Tama as stationmaster was initially an excuse to keep the cat at the station.

“But she was really doing her job,” he said. The rest was a mir-acle, and his company’s success story also gave hope for dozens of other struggling tiny local train lines, he said. “Tama-chan really emerged like a savior, a goddess. It was truly my honor to have been able to work with her,” Kojima said in his speech. During her

tenure, Tama had contributed an estimated 1.1 billion yen ($8.9 million) to the local economy, Kojima said.

Kojima said that when he visited Tama at an animal hospital the day before she died, the cat woke up and reached out to him with her paws, as if asking for a hug, and looked straight into his eyes. He said he told Tama to get well so they can celebrate the cat’s upcom-ing 10th anniversary as a station-master, and said the cat responded with a “meow.”

Tama is a popular name for cats in Japan, where they are consid-ered spiritual animals. The word could translate as treasure, ball or spirit.

The cat had climbed the cor-porate ladder from stationmaster to “ultra-stationmaster” and vice president of the company before receiving the additional title Sun-day of “honorable eternal station-master.” (ap)

ST. LUCIA, South Africa — A conservation group plans to move seven lions from South Africa to a national park in Rwanda, where it says the lion population was wiped out 15 years ago.

The five female lions and two males will be transferred begin-ning Monday to Rwanda’s Akagera National Park by truck and plane in a journey lasting more than 24 hours, said African Parks, a South Africa-based group that runs national wildlife parks in Africa.

Cattle herders poisoned the Rwandan park’s last lions after parks were left unmanaged following Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, according to African Parks. The group manages Akagera, a Rwan-dan park on the border with Tanzania, and seven other national parks in Africa.

Two parks in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province are do-nating the lions to Rwanda. On arrival at the Akagera park, the lions will be kept in quarantine in a large enclosure for at least two weeks before they are released into the wilderness.

Yamina Karitanyi, a senior tourism official in Rwanda, said she hopes the return of lions to Akagera will attract more visi-tors. Currently, mountain gorillas are the mainstay of Rwandan wildlife tourism.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature listed the lion as vulnerable in an update this month of its “red list” of spe-cies facing survival threats. It noted lion conservation successes in southern Africa, but said lions in West Africa were critically endangered and that rapid population declines were also being recorded in East Africa.

The conservation group cited human encroachment on lion habitats as well as a decline in lion prey as reasons for the popula-tion drop. It identified a trade in lion bones and other body parts for traditional medicine in Africa as well as Asia as a growing threat. (ap)

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A girl lays bouquets of flowers at an altar especially set up for a funeral of Tama, a cat station-master, in Kinokawa City, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, Sunday, June 28, 2015.

Cat stationmaster Tama mourned in Japan, elevated as goddess

TOKYO — Tama the stationmaster, Japan’s feline star of a struggling local railway, was mourned by company officials and fans and elevated into a goddess at a funeral Sunday.

Conservationists to move 7 lions from South Africa to Rwanda

The fire was sparked by an accidental explosion of a colored theatrical powder thrown from the stage in front of about 1,000 people, the fire agency and local media said. The powder for the one-time event called “Color Play Asia” ignited along the ground, mainly burning people’s lower bodies, said Wang Wei-sheng, a liai-son with the New Taipei City fire department command center.

Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported witnesses as saying the fire at the Formosa Water Park in New Taipei City spread quickly after powder was blown into the air.

Taiwan Premier Mao Chih-kuo announced a ban Sunday on parties that use flammable colored powder.

A total of 516 people were reported to have burn injuries as of about 11 a.m. Sunday, Wang said.

The official injury toll had risen from slightly more than 200 at midnight, because about 300 people had made their own way to hospitals. Eight people had life-threatening injuries, according to Taiwan’s Central News Agency.

The victims included four mainland Chinese and two foreign-ers. An 18-year-old from Taiwan was burned on 90 percent of her body.

Central News Agency said that police were questioning two park workers who had launched the powder as well as the party’s on-site organizer and two technicians. They may face charges of professional negligence causing serious injuries and endangering the public, it said.

The exact cause of the fire is still being investigated.Video showed rescue workers and bystanders carrying burned

and injured people on their backs, in inflatable boats and on stretch-ers to get medical treatment.

More than 400 people, many of them seriously burned, remained in hospitals Sunday after a fire spread into a crowd of spectators at a music party at a Taiwan water park, authorities said. (ap)

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BEIJING - China’s central bank said Saturday it would again reduce interest rates by 25 basis points, its fourth such cut since November as it tries to boost growth.

The benchmark interest rate would be reduced to 4.85 percent and the deposit rate to 2 percent from Sunday, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) said on its website.

The PBoC also announced that it will cut the reserve requirement ratios (RRR) by 50 basis points for commercial banks serving rural areas, agriculture and small busi-nesses.

The PBoC has now cut interest rates four times since November and this year also reduced the

amount of cash banks must keep in reserve three times, as well as using other measures to inject liquidity into the market.

The bank said the latest moves were aimed at “stabilising growth” and “to further enhance the ef-ficiency of monetary policy to (support) economic transforma-tions” and are similar to cuts made last month.

China’s economic growth has slowed, with gross domestic prod-uct (GDP) expanding at 7.4 percent in 2014, the lowest rate in 24 years, prompting the central bank to in-tervene.

The moves have had mixed suc-cess as indicators remain subdued and domestic demand low, along

with a sharp decline in foreign trade and a continued contraction in manufacturing.

On Friday Chinese stocks plunged with Shanghai dropping 8.5 percent at one point, its biggest loss in eight years, as investors that had flooded the market on margin trading -- borrowing cash to buy stocks -- ran for the door.

Chinese equities, which more than doubled in value in the year to June 12, eventually closed down 7.40 percent, or 334.91 points, at 4,192.87, its lowest point since the start of May.

“The central bank doesn’t want a panic caused by the stock rout to spread,” Shen Jianguang, chief Asia economist at Mizuho Securi-

ties Asia Ltd. in Hong Kong told Bloomberg News.

“That would lead to financial instability.”

Bank lending expanded in May and the broader money supply also grew, the central bank said earlier this month, in a sign its efforts to loosen policy to boost growth were bearing fruit.

Domestic banks extended new loans of 900.8 billion yuan ($147.3 billion), up from 707.9 billion yuan in April, the PBoC said in a state-ment.

Total social financing -- a broad-er measure of credit in the economy -- reached 1.22 trillion yuan in May, it said, up from 1.05 trillion yuan in April.

But after a slew of weak infla-tion and trade data earlier in June, analysts predicted further easing measures.

The country’s economy ex-panded 7.0 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, slumping to a post global financial crisis low, even as Beijing took steps to bolster growth.

The government has cut the an-nual growth target for 2015 to “ap-proximately” seven percent.

“The improvement in economic growth momentum is still fragile,” Yang Zhao, Hong Kong-based chief China economist at Nomura Holdings Inc., wrote in a June 26 note. “Share market sentiment has cooled.” (afp)

A legislator of the Bali House, Nengah Tamba, said that it is very ironic that Bali is unable to meet the needs for young coconut leaf independently but many supplies must be brought in from other re-gions, namely Java and Sulawesi. This happens because the supply of young coconut leaf commodity at local level has declined due to reduced production centers.

“Galungan and Kuningan feast is getting closer and every year we always lack of young coconut leaf and banana supply by local production. They are even mostly brought in from Java so that these commodities are very expensive. What will happen to Bali uphold-ing cultural customs if we are then

faced with crisis of young coconut leaf and banana so that we must depend on supplies from outside?” asked Tamba.

Tamba, who is also the Chair-man of Commission III of the Bali House, claimed to be sad and con-cerned and even felt embarrassed with the fact that Bali still lacks of vital ritual means like young coconut leaf as it is mostly brought in from Java and other regions. To him, such condition cannot be re-garded as a trivial matter for Bali.

“Suppose there is no young co-conut leaf in Java and other regions, how can we make ritual means without leaf? Must we stop mak-ing sacrifice?” said the Democratic politician from Jembrana.

The man having a concern for the preservation of customary culture and life of Hinduism in Bali asserted that it is required a serious effort in order that Bali can independently meet the needs of the young coconut leaf resembling a basic requirement in addition to groceries. To that end, the legislator of the Democratic Party of the Bali House arouses the awareness of all parties on the need of joint move-ment to plant coconut trees. “If Bali does not want to face crisis of young coconut leaf, there must be a movement to plant coconut trees en masse across Bali. If we take a look at villages in Bali, coconut trees have been old enough and are ready to be cut down for the materials of

villas,” said the incumbent legisla-tive candidate of the Bali House from Jembrana constituency.

As a people’s representative, Tamba also encouraged the provin-cial and county/municipal govern-ment to consider the issue of young coconut leaf crisis as a serious problem and needs to be addressed by government policy. “We need to make regional bylaw (Perda) on planting coconut trees and bananas as well as other plants for ritual means,” he said.

To him, this idea may seem trivial and simple but it is important to support our existence and hold holy sacrifice (yajña) and poses the necessity of Bali in the future. This small and simple idea is very visionary and vital to support and strengthen the implementation of ritual and Hindu religious life in Bali. How can we make sacrifice if

the materials such as coconut and banana do not exist in Bali, and when available it must be brought in from Java and costs expensive? Of course, this condition will threaten Bali. Moreover, it is aggravated by the increasing proliferation of land conversion and loss of indepen-dency owned by Balinese people in organizing ritual so that all ritual means are purchased without any desire to grow by their own.

“What happens if Java and Lom-bok stop supplying young coconut leaf, do we as the Hindus stop making oblation? It should be noted and prepared because it can happen that within the next ten years we will have difficulty to get young coconut leaf. If we have prepared from now on, in next ten years we will remain safe and be able to meet the needs for young coconut leaf,” he said. (wid)

Greece’s crisis deepened Sat-urday after its European partners responded to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s call for a referendum on bailout proposals by refusing to extend a critical financial lifeline after it ends on Tuesday.

The ECB is expected to play a critical role in ensuring Greek banks have the cash to open, after long queues formed at cash ma-chines across the country at the weekend on fears capital controls would be introduced in the face of Athens’ looming default on a huge IMF repayment.

Parliamentarians late Saturday voted in favour of the referendum -- a shock announcement by radical leader Tsipras after his government rejected the latest debt deal -- say-ing it involved further austerity measures that would cause “humili-ation” to the Greek people.

The referendum on July 5 will ask Greeks to say “yes” or “no” to the measures submitted by creditors to Athens on Friday at one of the final rounds of negotiations.

In a speech before parliament’s vote, Tsipras said he was confident “the Greek people will say an em-phatic no to the ultimatum” by the country’s EU-IMF creditors, but “a big yes to European solidarity”.

Angry eurozone finance minis-

ters accused Greece of “unilater-ally” breaking off talks and said they would not extend the bailout past June 30, the same day a 1.5 billion euro ($1.7 billion) payment to the International Monetary Fund falls due.

“It was not us who walked away

from the talks, it was the Greek government that walked away,” a grim-faced Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem said after tense negotiations in Brussels.

But he added: “Our door is al-ways open.”

A week of intensive talks in Brussels ended with Greece’s creditors on Friday offering Ath-ens a five-month, 12-billion-euro extension of its rescue programme, on condition it committed to fresh

reforms.Syriza has repeatedly refused to

make cuts to pensions and changes to the VAT system demanded by Greece’s debtors -- the “troika” of the European Commission, Euro-pean Central Bank and International Monetary Fund.

EU heavyweights Germany and France insisted Saturday that Greece would remain inside the 19-country eurozone, as fears grew about the future of the single cur-

rency.“Greece remains a member of the

eurozone and Greece remains part of Europe,” said Germany’s pow-erful Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, while his French coun-terpart Michel Sapin said Greece’s “destiny” was in the euro.

But with fears the crisis could spread, the ministers later met without Greece to discuss the “consequences” of a possible “Grexit” and to insist they would “preserve the integrity and stabil-ity of the euro area” Dijsselbloem said.

“We will do everything to fight against any possible danger of contagion,” added Schaeuble in an attempt to calm global markets before they open on Monday.

Frozen out of the talks, Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis left saying: “It’s a sad day for Eu-rope, but we will overcome it.”

But he added that the refusal to grant his request to extend the bailout “will certainly damage the credibility for the Eurogroup as a democratic union and I am very much afraid the damage will be permanent”.

Greece’s negotiations with its in-ternational creditors have dragged on since January, when Tsipras’s Syriza party first took power on a promise of ending austerity mea-sures demanded by the EU and IMF in return for two bailouts worth 240 billion euros. (afp)

China central bank cuts interest rate by 25 basis points

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People stand in a queue outside a bank which operates on Saturday but eventually didn’t open, in central Athens, on June 27, 2015. The European Central Bank was set to hold an emergency meeting Sunday amid mounting fears Greece’s banks will be unable to open next week, as the debt-stricken country hurtled closer towards a possible exit from the eurozone.

ECB set for Greece crisis talks as debt default looms

BRUSSELS - The European Central Bank was set to hold an emergency meeting Sunday amid mounting fears Greece’s banks will be unable to open next week, as the debt-stricken country hurtled closer towards a possible exit from the eurozone.

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Three dancers of classical Odissi dance along with three Indian musicians / vocalist on Dholak, Harmonium & Sitar performed superbly at the Bali Art Festival to the repeated applause and appreciation of overflowing Ksirarnawa Auditorium.

DENPASAR - Three dancers of classical Odissi dance along with three Indian musicians / vocalist on Dholak, Harmonium & Sitar per-formed superbly at the Bali Art Festival to the repeated applause and appreciation of overflow-ing Ksirarnawa Auditorium.

The six-member cultural troupe, led by noted danseuse, Nandini Ghosal, was deputed by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi, specifically for performing at this year’s 37th Bali Art Festival, in conjunction with the on-going Sahabat India Festival in Indonesia.

Nandini Ghosal was accompanied on stage by two other Indian dancers, Priyanka Saha and Sri-janee Chakraborty. The music and vocals were provided by Kishore Kumar Ghosh, Sukhamay Bhattacharya and Debashish Sarkar.

Nandini Ghosal is a noted exponent of Odissi dance. Besides being a dancer, choreographer & teacher, she is an accomplished actress having acted in several award-winning feature films and on television serials in India. She has performed extensively in India and abroad, including in USA, Germany, Spain, Canada & UK.

A full-fledged hour-long classical Odissi dance performance was given at the Bali Art Fes-tival on 23 June, during which they performed ‘Durga Stuti’, depicting Goddess Durga’s fight & victory over demon Mahishasura; ‘Pallavi’, rhythmic elaboration of dance with increasing music; ‘Abhinay’, acting out the story about Radha & Krishna; and, ‘Moksha’, seeking unity with God through dance.

Ghosal and accompanying artists gave an-other outstanding performance at the Bali Art Festival on 25 June in which they performed ‘Sharnkaravarnam Pallavi’ rhythmic Odissi dance and a duet with Surojit Sarkar performing Bharatanatyam dance.

Nandini Ghosal conducted a workshop at the Sanggar Langit Pancer in Kapal, Badung for the Balinese dance students, which was hugely participated in and appreciated by all. (r)

Ahead of Galungan, Bali faces young coconut leaf crisis

DENPASAR - The needs of Balinese people for young coconut leaf as a ritual means is very high. Moreover, ahead of major holidays such as Galungan and Kuningan being around the corner, the need for it will increase dramatically.

Enchanting Indian Odissi classical dance at BAF

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Franklin County Sheriff Kevin Mulverhill said late Saturday tips con-tinued to pour in and he was optimistic David Sweat would be captured, per-haps within 48 hours. “It’s going to be one of those phone calls that turns this case around,” he said.

Richard Matt — who once vowed never to be taken alive — was fatally shot Friday during an encounter with border patrol agents about 30 miles (48 kilometers) west of the prison he escaped from with Sweat on June 6. Sweat remained on the lam early Sunday, and about 1,200 searchers focused intensely on 22 square miles (56 sq. kilometers) encompassing thick forests and heavy brush around where Matt was killed.

Police hoped the solo escapee would finally succumb to the stress of little sleep, scant food and biting bugs.

“Anyone in the woods and on the run from the law so to speak is not getting a full eight hours sleep, they’re not eating well and they have to keep moving,” Mulverhill said. “He’s fatigued, tired, and he’s going to make a mistake.”

Sweat could have an even tough-er time now without someone to take turns resting with and to watch his back, Clinton County Sheriff David Favro said.

“Now it’s a one-man show and it makes it more difficult for him,” Favro said. “And I’m sure fatigue is setting in for him as well, knowing the guy he was with has already been shot.”

The manhunt broke open Friday afternoon when a person towing a camper heard a loud noise and thought a tire had blown. Finding there was no flat, the driver drove

eight miles before looking again and finding a bullet hole in the trailer. A tactical team responding to the scene of the shot smelled gunpowder inside a cabin and saw evidence that someone had fled out the back door.

A noise — perhaps a cough — ultimately did Matt in. A border patrol team discovered Matt, who was shot after failing to heed a com-mand to raise his hands.

Matt had a 20-gauge shotgun that was believed to have been taken from another cabin. The pair had apparently been relying on the remote region’s many hunting camps and seasonal dwellings for supplies.

Matt, who turned 49 the day be-fore he died, was serving 25 years to life at Clinton Correctional Facility for the killing and dismemberment of his former boss. Local residents were relieved that one killer was no longer roaming the woods, but the constant commotion of speed-ing police cruisers and helicopters pointed to the continued danger.

“Half the threat is taken care of, but obviously David Sweat is on the loose,” said Matt Maguire, who was waiting for a police escort to pick up some clothes from his house inside the search area. Maguire and his fiancee decided a week ago to stay with nearby relatives.

Sweat, 35, was serving a sen-tence of life without parole in the killing of a sheriff’s deputy in Broome County in 2002. Mulverhill said investigators believe he may be armed.

Matt and Sweat used power tools to saw through a steel cell wall and several steel steam pipes, bashed a

hole through a 2-foot-thick brick wall, squirmed through pipes and emerged from a manhole outside the prison.

While there have been no con-firmed sightings of Sweat, police said investigators saw a second set of tracks near where Matt was shot. Ultimately, how the chase ends is up to Sweat, Mulverhill said.

“If he’s willing to surrender to law enforcement then we’ll place him in handcuffs and we’ll bring him back into custody,” he said. “If he chooses to resist or he chooses not to comply, then the results are his.” (ap)

CHISINAU, Moldova — Mol-dovans were voting Sunday in local election runoffs that are being seen as a test of whether the former So-viet republic moves closer to the European Union or Russia.

The key post is for mayor of Chisinau, the capital, where pro-European incumbent Dorin Chir-toaca faces pro-Russian challenger Zinaida Greceanai, a former prime minister of the Communist Party. A low turnout in the city of one million will benefit the 59-year-old Greceanai, while a higher number

of voters will benefit Chirtoaca.“I hope we will clarify things....

and build something that is cer-tain, definitive, irreversible, for the future of Chisinau and Mol-dova,” Chirtoaca said after voting. “Residents have a great desire to see deeds and not just statements,” said Greceanai.

Runoffs were being held in 458 towns in this country of 4 million. Some 348 seats were already de-cided in the first round. Early results are expected late Sunday.

Renato Usatii, a pro-Russian

businessman, won outright on June 14 in Moldova’s second-largest city, Balti. Another pro-Russian busi-nessman, Ilan Shor, who is being probed over the disappearance of $1.5 billion from three Moldovan banks last year, also won outright in the eastern town of town of Orhei.

Moldovan officials, meanwhile, have been investigating the disap-pearance of the money from state-owned and private banks before the parliamentary election last Novem-ber. Moldova’s currency has lost 20 percent value this year. (ap)

Moldovans choose between Russia, Europe in local elections

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Zinaida Greceanai, the pro-Russian candidate for mayor of the Moldovan capital casts her ballot in a runoff for local elections in Chisinau, Moldova, Sunday, June 28, 2015.

Officers use floodlights, checkpoints in hunt for US escapee

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New York State corrections officers check vehicles along State Route 30 at the intersection with Travers Rd. in the town of Malone, N.Y. on Saturday, June 27, 2015 as the search for escaped prisoner David Sweat continues.

MALONE — Officers scouring dense and boggy woods for a surviving escaped killer took floodlights into the search area overnight, and others carrying rifles manned checkpoints and examined vehicles, opening trunks and peering into windows.

The assertion was expressed by the Regent of Buleleng, Putu Agus Suradnyana, after leading the as-sembly at the Town Park, Friday (Jun. 26).

Furthermore, the regent said that the visitors to Town Park are growing crowded. On particular days, the townspeople dominated by the entourage of family or teenagers make the Town Park a favorite place to spend leisure time. Growing visitors must be balanced with the sanitation arrangement

especially the fountain built at the edge of the pond. All this time, the awareness of visitors to maintain pond sanitation needs to be further increased. It happens because many of them dispose of plastic waste or organic waste into the pond.

Surely this condition is disturb-ing. More severely, the pond is prone to become mosquito breeding nest, mainly amid the widespread dengue outbreak lately. Unclean condition of the pond can disturb the comfort and residents will be

easily bitten by mosquito leading to dengue. “The pond stays a place to throw rubbish by visitors hav-ing less awareness. This situation is very prone to become a nest of mosquito larvae, so that it disturbs the comfort of visitors,” he said.

To prevent the pond at the Town Park from becoming the nest of mosquito larvae, said Agus, the Buleleng Sanitation and Landscap-ing Agency (DKP) is asked to clean up more frequently. Maintenance of the water circulation in the pond can

avoid puddles made into breeding nest of dengue-transmitting mos-quito. In addition, the Sanitation Agency is also requested to add aquatic plants such as lotus. It is meant to enhance the beauty of the pond and the intentions of visitors to throw rubbish into the pond can be prevented. Besides, the smaller pond must also be filled with fresh-water fingerlings. Other than beau-tifying the pond, the ornamental fish also functions to prey mosquito larvae in the water.

“We ask the Sanitation Agency to regulate the water circulation in the pond and add more water plants. Ornamental fish can also be raised in the pond, so that the mosquito eggs or larvae happening to nest in it will be eaten by fish. Thus, it will effectively eradicate the mosquito

eggs or larvae,” he said.On the other hand, Agus said

that the public facilities such as the Singaraja Town Park are an open green space continuing to be given attention in the future. To expand the green space area in Buleleng, in 2016 the arrangement will be made in the area of the Tri Yudha Sakti Memorial Park at Sangket village, Sukasada subdistrict. Aside from complying with the law, expansion of the green space is also meant to increase the public space remaining limited lately. “This green space is necessary and we have commitment to focus on the development agenda for the city. To that end, this green open space will be continuously added because indeed it remains limited,” added Agus having auto-motive hobby. (kmb38)

GIANYAR - Monkey forest is one of the favorite attractions for travelers visiting Ubud. Moreover, during school holiday season like July and August, daily visit to monkey forest can reach thousands of travelers. However, behind the crowded visitors, there are concerns affecting the condition of the Bali monkeys.

“Ahead of July, the tourist visit indeed definitely increases but

we also think if the animals get stressed when visited by many travelers. When it is so crowded, people can only see human heads, while monkeys cannot be seen,” said Operations Manager of the Monkey Forest attraction, I Nyo-man Buana.

He said that on a normal day the tourist arrival watching the Bali monkey ranges from 1,500 to 2,000. But during holiday season like July,

August to December the number of visitors can increase two-fold. “During holiday season, it almost equals to tourist visit to Tirta Empul Temple reaching 5,000 each day,” he explained.

This high tourist arrival kindles worries if it will affect the 659 monkeys currently protected in this tourist attraction. To that end, he hoped there will be a more profound study by the academician at this

tourist object. “It remains to need a study whether in July and August, the number of visitors need to be restricted or not. This worry has actually been ever revealed by the Udayana University,” he said.

He also added that a number of research results showed that regular interactions with humans have sig-nificant influence on the behavior of monkeys. For example, the mon-keys at the Monkey Forest are more

docile and lazier. However, it will change when there is interaction with thousands of people thronging the Monkey Forest. “Results of the research have indeed showed that the monkeys here interacting on a daily basis with humans become more docile and lazier. It happens because they’ve got regular meals three times a day. Besides, some visitors sometimes also give them banana,” he said. (kmb35)

Travelers increase, monkeys feared to be stressful

Pond cleanliness of Town Park maintainedIBP/Dewa Kusuma

The pond in Town Park in Singaraja Regency

SINGARAJA - Following the rampant transmission of dengue in recent years, the government of Buleleng is more increasingly intensive to eradicate mosquito nest. To optimize the eradica-tion of mosquito breeding, the Buleleng Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP) is asked to maintain the cleanliness of pond water in a number of public places in the town of Singaraja. One of them is the Town Park fountain on Jalan Ngurah Rai Singaraja. The agency is asked to clean it more frequently, so that visitors will no longer worry about being bitten by mosquitoes nesting in the pond of the surrounding area.

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The 37th Bali Art FestivalMonday, June 29, 2015

Time Place Event

11.00 Ratna Stage Art performances by Sari Yasa Troupe

14.00 Angsoka Stage Drama performances by Bakti Senang Hati Foundation, Gianyar

17.00 Ratna Stage Genggong instrument performances by Batur Sari Troupe 20.00 Ayodya Stage Innovative drama performances by Salju Group, Denpasar 20.00 Wantilan Arja parade by Tanjung Bungkak Village,

Denpasar20.00 Ardha Candra Semara Pagulingan parade by Gita

Khasta Swara Troupe, Manik Pasupati Troupe

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In this Feb. 26, 2015 photo, a full-scale mock-up of a high-speed train is displayed at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif.

SACRAMENTO, California — Travelers easily whiz from city to city on high-speed trains in many parts of South America, Asia and Europe. Since the first high-speed lines began operating more than 50 years ago in Japan, they have become an essential part of transportation worldwide.

Yet the U.S. has never built a single strech of high-speed rail, which is generally defined as accommodating trains that go at least 200 mph (321 kph). And proposals to do so have been thwarted for decades.

So what’s holding America back?For starters, a much larger land mass, longer distances between

major cities and the high cost of construction. Other factors include efficient air travel, relatively low prices for gasoline and a car-based culture.

“The challenge in America is the scale of America,” said Robert Eckels, chief executive of the Texas Central High Speed Railway, a private venture that is planning a bullet train between Dallas and Houston.

In recent decades, political pressure against bullet trains has come from conservatives who argue that such systems should acquire private financial backing and prove that their operations will at minimum be cost-neutral. It’s a burden state and federal governments do not place on other huge transportation projects such as freeways and airports.

For now, the best the country can do is Amtrak’s Acela, which reaches speeds up to 150 mph on a busy route between Washington and Boston.

In an effort to jump-start high-speed rail, the Obama administration in 2009 awarded $7 billion for projects in California, Florida and Wisconsin. Republican gov-ernors in Florida and Wisconsin rejected the funding and backed out of high-speed rail plans, sending more of those dollars to California.

The list of other proposals for faster-speed rail in-cludes: linking Las Vegas with greater Los Angeles; Chicago with St. Louis; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with Pittsburgh; Oklahoma City with Tulsa; and up-grading track on a medium-speed line between Miami and Orlando.

Despite the political resistance and financial hur-dles, two projects have moved beyond the conceptual phase. One is California’s $68 billion plan for a high-speed rail network connecting Northern and Southern California. The other is the privately financed plan in central Texas.

California’s long-term financing plan relies heavily on federal money that is unlikely to materialize in a Republican-controlled Congress. But Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown remains a strong supporter, negotiating a dedicated funding stream through a separate pro-

gram that raises money from businesses as part of an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“There are some people in California who think of high-speed rail as a mysterious, very expensive, exotic technology,” Brown told report-ers last month as Japanese Prime MInister Shinzo Abe demonstrated Japanese train technology in California.

The Texas project has received much less publicity than Cali-fornia’s, yet it could become the nation’s first operating bullet train line.

Private-public partnerships in construction may be the best way to mute political criticism as well as kick-start the projects, said Andrew Goetz, a professor and faculty associate at the Intermodal Transportation Institute at the University of Denver who studies high-speed rail.

Rail proponents argue that American companies would be among the biggest beneficiaries, arguing that the lack of high-speed rail has hurt American competitiveness. The typical U.S. business traveler spends two days of travel to attend one meeting, said Andy Kunz, presi-dent and chief executive of the U.S. High Speed Rail Association.

“We’re stuck in traffic for hours. We’re dealing with horrible airlines as it deteriorates,” he said. “The whole country is getting shortchanged by this.” (ap)

Popular elsewhere, high-speed rail remains elusive in the US

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People crowded during reconstruction on Engeline’s murder case. The Indonesian police are investigating to unearth further evidence to trace possible suspects related to the death of eight-year-old Engeline whose body was recently found buried in the backyard of her home in Denpasar, Bali.

Bali Regional Police Command Chief Inspector General Ronny Somp-ie stated on Monday (June 22) that the police had so far named Agus as the only suspect in the murder case.

The Denpasar city resort police in charge of handling Angeline’s case have questioned 28 witnesses, includ-ing two experts.

Meanwhile, the Directorate of General Crimes of the Bali regional police command has named Margriet Christina Megawe, Angeline’s foster mother as the suspect on grounds of child negligence, Sompie noted.

The police have questioned 23 witnesses, including six witnesses, in connection with the child negli-gence case.

Agus and Margriet have been interrogated in separate locations in connection with their cases and also as witnesses in each other’s cases.

According to Sompie, the police had named Megawe as a suspect based on the results of the developments in Angeline’s case following the confes-sion by Agus during questioning as a witness in the child negligence case.

Although Megawe was named as a suspect in a different case, Sompie re-marked that there was a possibility that investigations could later trace back links to Angeline’s homicide case.

On Thursday (June 11), the Den-pasar chapter of the Integrated Child and Woman Empowerment Service Center (P2TP2A) reported Angeline’s negligence case to the police.

The National Police Command has lent assistance to the Denpasar city resort police in several prelimi-nary reconstruction activities at the crime scene on Jalan Sedap Malam 26, Denpasar, in a bid to collect evi-dence to find other possible suspects in the cases.

Agus’ testimonies have so far raised doubts whether he really is the murderer.

During a latest lie detector test, Agus confessed that Margriet was the killer, according to his lawyer Haposan Sihombing.

Although it was considered to be an encouraging development, the

police will not immediately name Margriet as the suspect in the murder case of Angeline since more evidence is still required.

“Ag’s (Agus) statement is encour-aging, but the investigators will not solely rely on his statement, but we also have to find other pieces of evi-dence including collecting statements from witnesses, experts, documents, and others,” Sompie explained.

The police discovered the body of Engeline on June 10 buried in the backyard of the house of her foster mother Margriet on Jalan Sedap Malam, Denpasar, after she reported-ly went missing on May 16, 2015.

The police have arrested Agus, the helper in the house, as a suspect behind Angeline’s death.

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

Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla expressed regret on hearing about the untimely death of the eight-year-old girl.

“Indeed, we certainly are very sad that a good child has been killed so cruelly,” he affirmed in Solo, Central Java, on Thursday, June 11.

The forensics team of the Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar had found a wound on Angeline’s head believed to be inflicted by a blunt object.

“Based on the results of an autopsy, we found a wound on the right side of her head that had caused her death,” Head of the Sanglah hospital’s forensic medicine installation, Dr Dudut Rusty-adi, stated in Denpasar on June 10.

Apart from the wound on her head, he said the doctors had also found other wounds on her face, neck, hand, arm, thigh, buttocks, and legs inflicted by blunt objects, but it was the wound on her head that had turned out to be fatal.

Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa attended the fu-neral of Engeline in Tegalrejo village, Banyuwangi, East Java, on Tuesday night (June 16), the native village of her birth mother.

Thousands of people welcomed

Police still investigating Engeline’s murder case

DENPASAR - The Indonesian police are investigating to un-earth further evidence to trace possible suspects related to the death of eight-year-old Engeline whose body was recently found buried in the backyard of her home in Denpasar, Bali.

the arrival of Engeline’s body, in-cluding Banyuwangi District Head Abdullah Azwar.

“We express our deepest condo-lences to Engeline,” Minister Khofi-fah informed the newsmen.

She affirmed that the case will serve as a lesson on the importance of child protection by the state and the community.

“The role of the community is paramount in preventing a case such as Engeline’s from recurring in the future,” she noted.

The body of the second daughter of Hamidah and Rosydiq was buried after prayers were held for her at the local mosque.

The National Commission for Child Protection (KPAI) has called for an in-depth investigation into the case. “The case is not yet final, and I believe that there are persons involved who are closely linked to the victim,” KPAI Chairman Arist Merdeka Sirait stated here on Friday (June 12).

Sirait is of the viewpoint that other persons apart from Agus are involved in the case, adding that although

the victim’s family member (foster mother) had been interrogated by the police, it was likely that she may be re-questioned in connection with the case.

“We fully support the investiga-tion,” he affirmed.

Engeline was adopted by Margriet when she was still three days old and since then, Hamidah, the birth mother of Angeline never saw the child, as she was not permitted according to an agreement she had made with Margriet, according to Hamidah’s relative, Supri.

He said Hamidah and Margriet did not know each other before and had met at a clinic in Canggu where Hamidah had delivered the baby.

As Hamidah could not pay the cost of delivering her baby, Margriet offered the necessary financial help and adopted the baby.

“The baby was still three days old when she was taken away by the foster mother,” he revealed.

Former chairman of the National Commission on Child Protection Seto Mulyadi visited the scene on June 26.

The police plan to collect informa-tion from the child protection activist regarding the case.

Seto arrived at 9 a.m. local time, and he left an hour later but declined to make any comment.

He express shock on learning about the case and urged all parties, including the police, to unveil the truth behind the incident.

“I am shocked and very con-cerned. All must seriously take steps to unveil the case transparently,” he emphasized.

National Police Chief General Badrodin Haiti stated that all pos-sibilities are still open during the investigation process.

“The investigation is still ongoing, and various possibilities may still emerge that can be used to initiate further investigations by our mem-bers in Bali,” he said in Bekasi, West Java. (ant)

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

The program which was held at 09.00 – 12.00 am was begun by Tour De Hotel, the Hotel Guide brought the children to walk along the hotel to see the environment and the facilities. The treasure hunt in the middle of the tour was one of the games that make more fun. Afterward they are brought to the Rinascimento Italian Restaurant to join the main program that was Cooking Class that was led by Chef Mertana. Funny, enthusi-asm and adorable were the facial expression on their face while enjoying the process in making the Cup cake and later on making the decoration for the cup cake. The Chil-dren and the parents were really surprised when suddenly The Chef Master Henry Alexie Bloem came to meet and greet them. In the end of the program the MC arranged the Games and Doorprize.

Iva Choriati as PR Manager Patra Jasa Bali Resort & Villas said “Fun and educa-tive were the concept of our program, we intended to choose Rinascimento Italian Restaurant for it has special ambiance while The Children and The Parents could enjoy the seaview and Swimming Pool around it. It was also easier for them to access the Swimming Pool after the program and they got special offer on that day. It was a regular program of our Calendar of event and we also have prepared the special program for the next occasion.

Cup cake painting at Patra JasaKUTA - Around 50 children from

Play group till Sixth Grade at elemen-tary school around Denpasar joined the Kids Cooking Class “Shall we cook” at Patra Jasa Bali resort & villas. The participants were really excited joining at the program which was held on Sunday, 14 June 2015.

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NEGArA - Lately, the coastal area of Perancak is prone to abra-sion so that it begins to be protected by stone revetment. As a result, fishermen formerly moored their boats on the beach must temporar-ily shift theirs to another location. Based on information, the project handled by the Bali-Penida River Agency has worked it on since the end of last May. From the observa-tion on Friday (Jun. 26), the con-struction has begun to put boulders

by heavy equipment.The revetment is built at Meka-

rsari hamlet, where some homes of residents having evacuated for few years were destroyed. Headman of Perancak, I Nyoman Wijana, said that the sharecroppers have made coordination with village authority and disseminated to lo-cal residents. It includes providing an understanding and notification to fishermen commonly mooring boats on the beach installed with

revetment. “We have assembled them in relation to the mooring of their boats and appeal to them to move their boat for a while to a safer location,” he said.

According to him, the revet-ment along approximately 220 meters spreads from the fishermen settlement previously attacked by abrasion to the area of Perancak turtle conservation group. Fisher-men are required to get used to shifting their traditional boat up

to six months during the project takes place.

Local population of Perancak mostly has profession as fisher-men. Hundreds of traditional boats are always moored on the beach. A number of them must be removed because today some beaches have been installed with concrete revet-ment. Mekarsari village is the most vulnerable area to abrasion. One of the local residents currently evacu-ating previously had land of about

2,100 square meters five years ago. Now, it only remains 500 square meters. Two other hamlets, namely the Perancak and Lemodang are also the most vulnerable to the ef-fects of seawater. Total length of the beach being prone to abrasion approximately reaches 480 meters. Along this coastal area has an advantage as a turtle nesting site. Warm beach sand becomes a favor-ite place for sea turtles to make their nests and lay eggs. (kmb26)

Although some have complete identity document, not all of them are traceable. “Once in a while, some of them have no identity card and birth certificate, whereas it is the basic rights of children. As an example of this case, Engeline, does not have a birth certificate,” she explained.

In addition, crime rate stays high enough that involve children either as perpetrators, victims or witnesses. It is the result of hetero-geneous population. She said that such a problem is indeed not easy to accomplish or realize the total child-friendly city.

“Now, it depends on the role of society, how society can control the population growth, both the natives and migrants, in order to carry out the fulfillment of children’s rights,” she said.

In essence, the child-friendly city can be realized if there is a shared commitment among relevant agencies, in this case the govern-ment and society.

“It highly depends on their desire to realize the fulfillment of chil-dren’s rights,” she said. The com-mitment should be fused between the government and the public as to realize it cannot be done alone but

must be carried out together.Child-friendly city is a city that

is familiar with children, having good transportation services, the fulfillment of children’s right, hav-ing no domestic violence as well as no violence against children in the region. “That’s what I call a good and ideal child-friendly city,” she said.

However, not all regions can comply with such conditions, but at least 70 percent of the requirements for the child-friendly city can be reached, it can already have been considered good.

Masni asserted that to get the predicate of child-friendly city, the fulfillment of children’s right must be able to be realized such as their development, right to life, right to participation, right to their needs, fulfillment of basic needs such as health and education, child-friendly family, child-friendly society and there is an organization or institu-tion that provides the opportunities to develop their talents. “All the interests of children must be given priority,” she said.

She considered, in terms of fulfillment of children’s rights in education, that the Denpasar Mu-nicipality is said to have been good

Abrasion, berthing place of traditional boats shifted

Heterogeneity, challenge to realize child-friendly city

DENPASAr - Heterogeneity of population in Denpasar be-comes one of the challenges in the realization of Denpasar into a child-friendly city. “There are challenges where the condition of urban population is heterogeneous, especially related to the difficulty to track down the total number of the urbanites,” said Chairperson of the Bali Child Protection Agency (LPA), Nyoman Masni.

although it cannot be said to be per-fect. In other words, the Denpasar Municipality has been very sup-portive in that regard. In addition, there have been many opportunities for children to play and enjoy their

free time such as through art stu-dios. “The current mayor has done much for the needs,” she said.

Other than Denpasar, Masni also assessed that Gianyar has already begun to develop and can be made

into a child-friendly town. When viewed in terms of heterogeneity, Gianyar is not as bad as the city of Denpasar. However, Gianyar has already owned a declaration on the child labor-free county. (kmb42)

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A total of 519 people were injured by the fire at the Formosa Water Park in New Taipei City, according to a statement from the

city government’s health bureau. It said that 419 remained hospitalized on Sunday afternoon, about half of whom were seriously injured, in-

cluding 184 in intensive care. Apart from Taiwanese, the victims were four people from Hong Kong, two from the Chinese mainland and one each from Macau, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. The nationalities of three other foreigners were not given.

Taiwan’s Central News Agency

said that police were questioning two park workers who had launched the powder as well as the party’s on-site organizer and two techni-cians. They may face charges of professional negligence causing serious injuries and endangering the public, it said.

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Injured victims from an accidental explosion during a music concert lie on the ground at the Formosa Water Park in New Taipei City, Taiwan, June 27, 2015.

More than 500 injured as fire hits Taiwan water park party

TAIPEI — A fire on a music stage spread into a crowd of spectators at a Saturday night party at a Taiwan water park, injuring more than 500 people, including eight in critical condi-tion, authorities said Sunday.

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Author J.K. Rowling announced Friday that a new play called “Har-ry Potter and the Cursed Child” will open at London’s Palace Theatre about a year from now in the summer of 2016.

Rowling tweeted that the play explores “an untold part of Harry’s

story” and is not a prequel.The first-ever play about the

bespectacled boy wizard it is based on a new story by Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany.

The script is by Thorne, a stage and screen writer whose work includes vampire story “Let the

Right One In.” The director is Tiffany, who helmed the critically lauded war play “Black Watch” and multiple Tony Award-winning musical “Once.” The production will also feature music by British songwriter Imogen Heap.

“I’ve had countless offers to ex-tend Harry’s story over the years, but Jack, John and (producer) So-nia Friedman are a dream team!”

Rowling tweeted.Rowling has long insisted there

will be no new Harry Potter nov-els, but she has kept fans happy with spin-off works including the magical encyclopedia “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” which is set to be a film starring Eddie Redmayne.

Rowling said she thought that once audiences saw “Harry Potter

and the Cursed Child” they would agree that the stage “was the only proper medium for the story.”

Rowling’s seven Harry Potter novels have sold more than 450 million copies around the world and been made into eight success-ful films.

Tickets for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” will go on sale this fall. (ap)

NEW YORK — Rapper DMX has been arrested for failure to pay child support just as he was about to perform at Radio City Music Hall.

A spokesman for the New York City Sheriff’s Department tells WPIX-TV that the 44-year-old rapper was taken into custody Friday for several “issues out-standing.”

He said those included $400,000 worth of unpaid child support, a warrant issued by the city of White

Plains for bail jumping and a rob-bery complaint out of Newark, New Jersey. No charges have been filed in the Newark case.

The rapper’s real name is Earl Simmons. He had been scheduled to perform at the Master of Ceremony concert at Radio City.

A management company that has represented DMX did not im-mediately return an email seeking comment from The Associated Press. (ap)

LOS ANGELES — Noah Wyle and his wife welcomed a baby girl this week.

Wyle’s wife, actress Sara Wells, gave birth to Frances Harper Wyle on Monday, the actor’s spokeswoman said.

Mother and daugh-ter are doing well, and Wyle was described as being “over the moon.”

Wyle and Wells married last summer at his Santa Barbara, California, ranch. Wyle has a son and daughter from his first marriage, to Tracy Warbin.

Wyle, who gained fame in the hit medical drama “ER,” stars in TNT’s “Falling Skies,” which begins its fifth and final season Sun-day.

Wells’ TV credits include “Nip/Tuck” and “Californication.” (ap)

Harry Potter coming back, this time on stage in new playLONDON — Harry Potter is going to have a new adventure

— one that takes him from page and screen to stage.

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In this Feb. 22, 2015 file photo, Noah Wyle, left, and Sara Wells arrive at the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif. Wyle and his wife, Wells, welcomed a baby girl this week. The actress gave birth to Frances Harper Wyle on Monday, June 22, 2015, the actorâ??s spokeswoman said.

Noah Wyle, wife Sara Wells welcome baby daughter

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Rapper DMX arrested in NYC over unpaid

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