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Such condition was recognized by the team leader, I Nyoman Sang-ging, recently. For few times of making patrol in the sea, he found many violations in the conservation zone. Especially it happened to the core zone and tourism zone that should be free from any exploita-tion. However, the coral bombings

remained to happen.He said that such threat was

once found in a favorite diving site among foreign travelers in the waters of Manta Point, Jungut Batu. He asserted the violation occurred as a result of manta fish hunting. By all means, the hunting was mostly done at night. One of the Jungut

Batu residents, I Made Tono, also confirmed such a condition. He told that many fishermen did fish bombing at night in the waters of Jungut Batu.

“The bombing is very hazard-ous for the survival of coral reefs,” he said. Sangging who is also the Unit Head of Livestock, Fisher-

ies and Maritime Affairs of Nusa Penida subdistrict said that with the restricted equipment owned by patrol team, he complained about the bombings.

He acknowledged the restricted-ness of facilities and infrastructure became a serious obstacle. Nusa Penida conservation zone, accord-ing to him, was very extensive. Thus, it was quite difficult to con-duct a thorough patrol until night. Sometimes the weather around the conservation zone was erratic. It was a challenge and the task was quite risky, especially in the area of Manta Point.

On that account, his party planned to conduct a night patrol in collaboration with a number of related parties such as the Navy, Marine Police and local commu-nity. The cross-sectoral coopera-tion should be quickly realized so that the bombing at night could be suppressed. The Nusa Penida con-servation zone was inaugurated by the Minister Maritime and Fisheries Sharif C. Sutardjo on June 9, 2014. It spread across the area of 20,057 hectares with a fairly complete coastal ecosystem including coral reefs, mangroves and seagrass beds. (kmb31)

Fish bombing rampant

Sustainability of Nusa Penida water conservation zone at risk

After determined as water conservation zone, the waters of Nusa Penida are not safe from the activity threatening the marine nature conservation.

Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - After determined as water conservation zone, the waters of Nusa Penida are not safe from the activity threatening the marine nature conservation. Activities of fishermen looking for fish by coral bombing were considered to rampantly occur around the conservation zone. Lack of public awareness can harm the conservation zone and poses a bitter challenge for patrol team assigned to conduct surveillance.

Bono -- whose hits with U2 have included “Sunday Bloody Sunday” -- fell off his bicycle Sunday in New York’s Central Park as the band prepared for a week-long residency on NBC’s “The Tonight Show.”

His doctor said that Bono went through five hours of sur-gery late Sunday in which his el-bow was washed out and a bone on his arm repaired with three metal plates and 18 screws.

The 54-year-old Irish singer went back into surgery the fol-lowing day for treatment on his left hand, said Dean Lorich, an orthopedic surgeon at New York

Presbyterian hospital.“He will require intensive

and progressive therapy, how-ever, a full recovery is ex-pected,” he said in a statement first reported by Rolling Stone magazine.

Bono also suffered a fracture involving the orbit of an eye and injured his left shoulder blade, Lorich said.

In an earlier statement on Bono’s accident, U2’s three oth-er members said they expected the singer to make a full recov-ery and that the band would be playing again soon.

It is unclear how the accident

will affect future concert plans. U2 has said it is planning a tour next year, its first since its mas-sive 2009-2011 production that included more than 100 shows at stadiums and other large venues around the world.

U2’s only upcoming date is December 14 when the band is scheduled to play in Los Ange-les at the annual holiday charity concert of KROQ radio.

In September, U2 released its first album in five years, “Songs of Innocence,” triggering con-troversy by sending it for free to iTunes’ 500 million users in a promotion with Apple.

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NEW YORK — Justin Timberlake wants to make sure you have a 20/20 sound experience when you listen to music: He’s now a co-owner of the audio technology company AfterMaster Audio Labs, Inc.

AfterMaster, a subsidiary of Studio One Media Inc., announced Wednesday that the Grammy-winning pop star will join the company, which focuses on en-hancing and re-mastering audio quality. Its website showcases examples of songs pre- and post-AfterMaster enhancement, including Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off.”

“I’m thrilled to be a part of this groundbreaking company,” Timberlake said in a statement. “The first time I heard audio, post AfterMaster, I knew that I had to be a part of this company and that we had something revolutionary on our hands.”

The 33-year-old Timberlake joins the company’s founders, CEO Larry Ryck-man and chief engineer Shelly Yakus. Ryckman and Yakus launched the audio technology company QSound along with Jimmy Iovine in 1986.

“Justin is an audiophile. He really understands quality audio,” Ryckman said in an interview. “We’ve worked with the world’s biggest artists, and not all of them have a focus on audio quality on their own; they look to their producers and their engineers. Justin

loves technology, completely under-stands audio and he’s very powerful and respected in the entertainment community.”

Timberlake had last year’s top-selling album with his comeback effort, “The 20/20 Experience.” The singer, with a group of other investors, bought MyS-pace in 2011.

AfterMaster’s technology will be offered in a chip that would be embed-ded in products such as mobile devices, headphones and televisions. It will also be available in software form for computers and streaming services.

“We think this is probably the biggest breakthrough in audio,” Ryckman said. “We can take any audio and make it sub-stantially louder, clearer and fuller.”

AfterMaster software will be available for licensing on Dec. 1. Products with chips will launch early next year.

“AfterMaster takes the audio and keeps it musical and clean sounding, and takes it further than anyone’s taken it before in terms of quality, volume, size (and) depth. Everything about it enhances the audio without changing the intent of the creator,” Yakus said in an interview.

The company will announce its “first partnerships in the near future,” Ryck-man said.

AfterMaster is also launching an on-line music mastering service next month, where musicians can upload songs, receive a re-mastered version and decide to purchase it.

Timberlake becomes co-owner of audio tech company

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Bono gets five-hour surgery after bicycle accident

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NEW YORK - U2 frontman Bono underwent hours of surgery and will need intensive therapy after a bicycle accident, his doctor said Wednesday, revealing worse injuries than previously thought.

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Bali News

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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Calendar Event for November 7 through 20, 2014

7th Purnama Sasih KalimaTemple Festival at:Aci-Aci Penawung Di Pura Batmadeg-BesakihPr. Pande Bang- Ds. Camnggaon, Sukawati.Pr. Kentel Gumi- Ds. Batur, Kintamani.Pr. Pedharman Agung- Satria, Denpasar.Ngusabha Di Pura Kehen- Bangli.Pr. Segara – Br. Sasih, BatubulanPr. Desa Pemenang- LombokPr. Agung Pasek Gelgel-Ds. Sumertha, DenpasarPr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Kekeran Delod Sema, MengwiPr. Dalem Puri Agung – KintamaniPr. Dalem Agung- Br. Sekar, Nongan, KarangasemPr. Dalem Balingkang- Ds. Pinggan, KintamaniPr. Tampur Hyang Pusat/Kawitan Maha Gotra Catur Sanak- Ds. Songan,

KintamaniPr. Dalem Pulasari- Ds. Bantas, Sudaji, BulelengMr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Lebih, GianyarPr. Panyungsungan Pasek Toh Jiwa- Ds. Wanagiri, Selemadeg, TabananPamerajan Agung Pamecutan- DenpasarPr. Suranadhi- Lombok,Pr. Pucak Bukit- TampaksiringPr. Dalem Ubung Kupang- Ds. Dukuh, Panebel, TabananPr. Pasar Agung Besakih- Ds. Sebudi, KarangasemPr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Tengkulak Kaja, Kemenuh- GianyarPr. Suci- Ds. Tianyar, Kubu, KarangasemPr. Dadia Dalem Renon- Br. Kukuh, Kerambitan, Tabanan, Ds. Adat ,Andala Merta Ds. Kenangan /SP Sembilan

12th Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan/ Buda Kliwon Gumbreg

Temple Festival at:Pr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Kukuh,Marga, TabananPr. Pasek Gelgel – Ds. Kukuh, Selemadeg, TabananPr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Mambang, Selemadeg, TabananPr. Puseh+Desa- Ds. Guwang, SukawatiMr. Pasek Ketewel- Ds. Ketewel, Sukawati,Pr. Pangeran Tangkas Kori Agung- Jeroan SadingPr. Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul- Ds. Suwana Nusa Penida

17th Coma Kliwon Wariga, Temple Festival at: Pr. Gelap - Besakih

19th Buda Paing Wariga,Temple Festival at:Pr. Jati- Ds. BaturMr. Pasek Gaduh- Ds. Kayubihi,Bangli

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Bali PostBANGLI - The Association of River, Lake and Crossing Transport (Gapasdap)

of Lake Batur will propose the crossing tariff increase from Kedisan to Trunyan Pier. It was following the fuel price hike on Tuesday (Nov 18). As planned, the crossing tariff to the tourism village will be increased by 30 percent following the current fuel price hike.

Chairman of the Gapasdap, Nengah Dester, said on Wednesday (Nov 19) the proposal of crossing tariff increase would be submitted to the Bangli Transpor-tation Agency, Thursday (Nov 20). He said that he would propose a 30-percent rise. “Magnitude of the tariff increase will be adjusted to the recent fuel price hike. The proposal has been prepared and will be submitted tomorrow (Nov 20—Ed),” said Dester.

His party hoped the proposal could be immediately approved by the govern-ment. Currently the increase in fuel price had triggered the rising prices in a number of primary needs.

Obviously the increase in fuel price as much as IDR 2,000 would also trigger the high operational costs to be paid. “We just can raise the crossing tariff after the Regent Decree has been issued,” he explained.

He added that all this time, the transportation tariff by motor boat from Kedisan to Trunyan Pier was set around IDR 500,000 for 7 travelers.

Aside from proposing the increase in the crossing tariff, the increase in subsi-dized fuel price announced last Tuesday (Nov 18) also made the public transport drivers in Bangli complain. They admitted if the increase in fuel price at IDR 2,000 per liter had further increased their burden. To get around the risk of losses amidst the shortage of passenger, the transportation drivers had also raised the tariff as much as IDR 1,000 to IDR 2,000.

Suena is one of the drivers of public transportation serving the Bangli-Kinta-mani line. After the enactment of the fuel price hike, he claimed to have made an agreement among the drivers to raise the transport tariff. Previously, the transport tariff of Bangli-Kubu line set at IDR 4,000 was increased to IDR 5,000. Then, for passengers to Kintamani were charged at IDR 10,000. (ina)

“Foreign exchange earnings are able to provide a contribu-tion of 21.69 percent of the total exports of Bali reaching USD 421.50 million,” said the Section Head of the Foreign Trade Affairs, Bali Industry and Trade Agency, Putu Sutaryana, in Denpasar.

He said that eight of dozen fishery and marine products of the Island of the Gods could pen-etrate foreign markets. The most prominent product was tuna in fresh and frozen condition.

Tuna could generate income amounting to USD 63.47 mil-lion during the first ten months of 2014. It only showed a slight increase of 0.03 percent over the same period in the previous year recorded to reach USD 63.45 million.

The tuna was caught by fish-ermen and big vessels operated

by a number of companies. The vessels based at Benoa Harbor, Denpasar. However, the opera-tion areas were in the waters of Indonesia, particularly in Eastern Indonesia.

Putu Sutaryana explained the other fishery product com-modities could penetrate foreign markets with the amount of USD 11.77 million, slumped as much as 5.08 percent compared to the same period in the previous year reaching USD 12.40 million.

In addition, grouper also gen-erated USD 8.15 million but declined 7.90 percent compared to the same period last year reach-ing USD 8.85 million. Likewise, the export of live ornamental fish generated USD 2.71 million, snapper (USD 3.13 million), crab (USD 87,156) and shark fin (USD 49,540).

Two other commodities

namely seaweed and fingerlings could no longer penetrate the export market, whereas last year the two commodities were quite potential. Most fish and shrimp catch by Balinese fishermen were absorbed by the market of Japan reaching 29.62 percent, the US (22.83 percent) and Thailand (16.57 percent).

In addition, it was also ab-sorbed by the market of Singa-pore as much as 1.27 percent, Australia (6.47 percent), Hong Kong (3.37 percent), the UK (0.59 percent), the Netherlands (0.45 percent) and France (0.37 percent). Meanwhile, the re-maining 18.45 percent was ab-sorbed by some other countries around the world. Indeed, fish and shrimp caught by local fish-ermen in open water were able to compete in foreign markets. (kmb27)

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

Tuna could generate income amounting to USD 63.47 million during the first ten months of 2014. It only showed a slight increase of 0.03 percent over the same period in the previous year recorded to reach USD 63.45 million.

Export of Bali fishery declines, tuna products most prominentBali Post

DENPASAr - Bali reaps foreign exchange amounting to USD 91.43 million from the shipping of fishery and marine products during the ten-month period from January to October 2014. The result decreased 2.78 percent compared to the same period last year reaching USD 94.05 million.

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The Association of River, Lake and Crossing Transport (Gapasdap) of Lake Batur will propose the crossing tariff increase from Kedisan to Trunyan Pier. It was following the fuel price hike on Tuesday (Nov 18).

Impact of fuel price hikeCrossing tariff at Trunyan proposed to rise 30 percent

3Friday, November 21, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsFashion Friday, November 21, 2014

The campaign features television, print and digital ads, a social media push and an interac-tive Times Square billboard that lets people share “love moments.”

The new campaign, announced Tuesday, ar-rives with the retailer facing growing competi-tion from companies like L’Oreal and Estee Lauder.

There also have been a number of new faces in executive offices at Revlon over the past year or so, as the New York company has attempted to re-energize growth. Revlon Inc. named Lorenzo Delpani CEO last fall and also has changed chief financial officers and chief operating officers.

Late last year, the company said it would leave China and trim more than 1,000 jobs as part of a cost-cutting measure.

Besides its namesake brand of makeup and hair dye, Revlon also makes cosmetics under its Almay and SinfulColors brands.

Revlon shares climbed 45 cents to $33.20

in midday trading Tuesday while broader indexes also rose slightly. The stock had climbed 31 percent so far this year, as of Monday’s close.

Associated Press

MILAN — Adrien Brody has long had a flair for fashion, but don’t mis-take the beard the actor is currently sporting as a bow to trend. It’s for his latest movie role as Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in “Emperor.”

The Oscar-winning actor told a black tie gala to celebrate the 2015 Pirelli calendar that he’s “Charles V by day, Adrien Brody by night.”

“Please excuse the beard,” he added, perhaps unaware that beards have caught on in Europe’s fashion capitals.

Brody, who wore Zegna to pick up his 2003 Oscar for “The Pianist” and has walked the runway for Prada, looked stylish in a dark Dolce&Gabbana three-piece suit with tuxedo trousers.

“I like to put on a suit once in a while and have fun,” the actor said as he arrived to be master of ceremonies Tuesday evening at the globe-trotting annual gala, held for a second year in Milan.

The Pirelli calendar over the last half-century has become a highly prized cult object that counts among its recipients the Vatican, Buckingham Palace and the King of Morocco. The 2015 edition by reclusive fashion photographer Steven Meisel recreates stereotypical pinup images with top models scantily clad in latex.

This May 4, 2013 file photo released by Starpix shows

Revlon brand ambassadors Emma Stone, left, and Oliv-ia Wilde at the 16th Annual

EIF Revlon Run Walk For Women’s Cancer Research, in

New York. Stone and Wilde are featured in Revlon’s global “Love is On” marketing campaign, which was

announced Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014.

Revlon tries to turn heads with new marketing pushAssociated Press

Revlon is looking for love to spice up its brand recognition. The beauty prod-ucts maker is launching its global “Love is On” marketing campaign, hoping to regain its lofty spot in the pecking order of cosmetic brands.

AP Photo/Starpix, Amanda Schwab, File

Adrien Brody fashion forward for Pirelli calendar

AP Photo/Giuseppe Aresu

CEO Pirelli Group Marco Tronchetti Provera, fourth from left, poses with some of the models of the Pirelli 2015 Calendar by Steven Meisel, unveiled in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. From left, Gigi Hadid, Karen Elson, Candice Huffine, Isabeli Fontana and Sasha Luss.

Indonesia is a relatively new country invaded by the onslaught of the OTT applications. In some developed countries such as the USA, Germany, UK, Japan and South Korea, the OTT applications have existed since 5 years ago. Even, these countries are the origin of a variety OTT applications now used globally.

When the content developers reap tens of millions of dollars due to high interest of mobile phone users to use their applications, the telecom operators are actually get-ting crash. Then, the term ‘dumb pipe’ emerges among the telecom operators. It appears by seeing the global phenomenon experienced by the operators around the world today, where the operator’s net-work is only used to transfer bytes of data between the customer’s device and the internet.

Modestly, the term ‘dumb’ arises because the operator only provides network pipeline to meet the bandwidth needs of large cus-tomers in the direction of content providers, without having the ca-pability to direct customers to its portal or application. The success story and triumph of the mobile telecommunication industry turns into a story of collapse.

In Indonesia, the OTT appli-cations began storming around 3 years ago. The onslaught of the OTT applications, especially instant messaging category and social media, are able to put Indo-nesia in the third to fifth position as the country with the largest users.

Being unwilling to experience the same fate with the major mobile operators in developed countries, the mobile operators

in the country are trying to find a solution and reflect from the bitter experience of mobile industry in developed countries. Telkomsel as the largest operator in Indonesia with the subscribers reaching 139.3 million—based on the report in the third quarter of 2014—does not want to be arrogant.

As it does not want to be ‘a dumb pipe,’ Telkomsel tries to turn it into “smart pipe”. The entire ecosystem to survive in the future digital business consisting of the device, network and application (DNA) are worked on simultane-ously. According to the Director of Telkomsel, Alex J. Sinaga, Telkom-sel attempted to develop a digital business through a variety of new breakthroughs such as products, services and technologies.

This digital business is sup-ported by the establishment of ecosystem through three factors, namely the availability of device, reliable network and provision of varied applications. Especially for digital services, Telkomsel provides a wide range of digital services divided into six categories of product, namely digital music services, portal and social media, mobile news and directory ser-vices, mobile games and enter-tainment services, payment and banking services as well as digital advertising services.

Judging from the results of the third quarter of 2014, Telkom-sel successfully developed this ecosystem with the presence of double-digit growth in three con-secutive years. This good note, said Alex, was driven by strong growth in the digital business of 32.5 per-cent YoY, where mobile broadband

grew 32.9 percent YoY and digital services grew 28.4 percent YoY.

Data traffic also rose sharply 146.1 percent compared to the previous year. At the same time, Telkomsel managed to maintain the growth of voice services by 7.2 percent YoY and SMS as much as 2.8 percent YoY. “In the future, we are committed to providing mobile broadband services and building infrastructure on an ongo-ing basis in order to accelerate the realization of the Digital Society of Indonesia. Up to now, we have reached more than 95 percent of the total Indonesian population, built 369 cities as broadband city supported by more than 83,000 BTS where 37,000 of them belong to 3G BTS,” said Alex.

He also explained that cur-rently Telkomsel had 63.5 million data subscribers or more than 46 percent of the total customers. In addition, it currently had 35.4 million subscribers of smartphone users representing 25 percent of the total subscribers. To increase the use of mobile broadband in Indonesia, Telkomsel conducted a series of educational program entitled ‘Indonesia Holds Internet.’ The program was expected to drive the adoption of 3G smartphone by 2G customers and provide positive benefits of the internet as much as possible for the people of Indonesia.

Not only usersIn addition to educating the use

of the internet, Telkomsel also seeks to sensitize young people not only to be users of all sorts of con-tent available on the market. The VP Sales and Marketing Telkomsel of Java and Bali Region, Herry Setiawan, recently expressed that the making of content did not nec-essarily need huge funds and was not complicated. With creativity, he was confident that young people had a great opportunity to make the content industry a promising

future.Even, to raise the local content

creators among young people, Telkomsel already held Loop Kreatif Project (KePo) program in several major cities in Indonesia. Denpasar was the last city hosting the event. In the one-day event, younger generations were given training on mobile video and digi-tal writing. “With this event, we hope the younger generation is aware of the magnitude of the op-portunity to create content through simple things, like making a short film or writing a story to be sold in the digital market of Telkomsel,” he said.

GM Sales Telkomsel for Bali-Nusra Region, Gatot P. Utomo, affirmed that cellular operators could no longer just focus on tele-communications but should plunge into a digital company. In order to survive, Telkomsel also embraced many OTTs like the Facebook and Twitter, ranging from preparing some interesting data packages to the integration into the SMS and voice. Other OTT services cover-ing the Google with SMS transla-tor, Opera Mini internet package and KakaoTalk were also worked on by Telkomsel. In addition, Telkomsel also provided a carrier billing scheme that was ready to serve the purchase of application in the application stores such as Google Play and Windows Phone Store for Lumia or in-app purchase like buying a sticker on the Line.

Local content developers, said Gatot, were also taken to make cooperation by Telkomsel through an institution named Teman Dev. Teman Dev or Telkomsel Applica-tion Developer posed a program of Telkomsel to embrace the Indone-sian local application developers so as to be able to cooperate in generating creative digital in-dustries in Indonesia. Currently, dozens of applications from a variety of categories for various platforms had been available and

could be selected on the website of Telkomsel.

One of the local content de-velopers, Putu Sudiarta, admitted to have been making cooperation with Telkomsel and its parent com-pany, Telkom, for marketing the contents produced. He hoped that Indonesia began to appear as a na-tion having self-confidence in the matter of this digital application. It also covered the independency in many ways, including in mobile applications whose vendors had started to exist. “People need to love the domestically-made apps and the government must give its alignments to position Indonesia not only as consumers but also as producers of information. It is not only as the user, but also as the creator, not only shopping but also selling,” he said. (iah)

“Tens of boats are on standby in the sea at any point of time. Just in a day, 40 boats patrol the eastern Indonesian waters,” Chief of the Eastern Fleet Com-mand Rear Admiral Arie Hen-

Navy deploys 40 patrol boats to curb fuel smugglingAntara

NUSA DUA - The Indonesian Navy (TNI AL) is deploying at least 40 patrol boats in the eastern Indonesian waters to thwart fuel smuggling activities.

drikus Sembiring remarked at Nusa Dua in Bali province on Wednesday.

The boats took turns patrol-ling the waters, he noted.

The eastern part of Indonesia

with a long coastline has poten-tial oil deposits, he stated.

The Indonesian areas border-ing Timor Leste are among the areas ranked high on the list of priorities to anticipate fuel

smuggling, he pointed out.“We have committed our-

selves to securing the waters. Safeguarding the border areas has become a priority of the National Defense Forces (TNI),” he emphasized.

Secretary of the Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Special Task Force (SKK Migas) Gde

Pradnyana stated that the coastal areas are prone to fuel smug-gling activities.

Pradnyana expressed concern that the smuggling activities will result in huge losses to the state and will have an even more adverse effect as the oil and gas sector contributes up to 30 per-cent of the state income.

Indonesia besieged by foreign OTT applications (2 --End)Telkomsel turns “dumb pipe” into “smart pipe”

LOCAL content developers consider the invasion of the OTT applications a threat and challenge. Similarly, cellular operators having lived comfortably for dozens

of years by relying on SMS and voice revenues are also forced to think hard in order to survive in the cur-

rent telecommunications industry.

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Stone carving artisans also re-ceive an increase in the orders, especially the artisans making sandstone items used for temple building. One of the artisans enjoy-ing this blessing is Made Suwartika, a stone carver from Silakarang, Singapadu Kaler, Gianyar.

“Before holiday, many people are renovating or building a temple. So, my order has increased since the beginning of this November,” said Made Suwartika. Since the begin-ning of November, he already got the orders for the making of four sets of shrines and they were still in progress.

Each set of the shrine were sold at different prices. When made from the original sandstone of Silakarang, the price could reach IDR 2.5 million, while the ones made from the mixture could be cheaper.

He said that for the construction of temple or carving of house orna-ment, the buyers usually requested the sculptures made from sandstone of Silakarang. “The items made without any mixture will be durable and will harden like fossils when getting older. However, the items made from mixed materials are not like that,” he said. (nik)

A U.N. committee on Tuesday adopted the resolution urging the Security Council to refer the North’s rights situation to the International Criminal Court. It’s the first time a U.N. resolution included the idea that the North’s absolute leader Kim Jong Un could be targeted by prosecutors. Before the U.N. vote, a North Korean envoy threatened a nuclear test.

On Thursday, Pyongyang’s For-eign Ministry called the resolution’s approval a “grave political provoca-tion,” saying it was orchestrated by the U.S. though it was drafted by the European Union and Japan.

An unidentified ministry spokes-man told state media that the North’s war deterrence will be strength-ened in an “unlimited manner” to cope with U.S. hostility, which is “compelling us not to refrain from conducting a new nuclear test any longer.” His comments on the nuclear test were near identical to what Choe Myong Nam, a foreign ministry adviser for U.N. and hu-man rights issues, said at the U.N.

The North has used similar rhetoric previously when there has been increased tension with other countries.

Analysts say it’s unlikely the North will follow through on its threats to conduct a nuclear test because that would invite further international condemnation and derail efforts to attract foreign investment and aid to revive its moribund economy.

China and Russia, which hold veto power on the Security Coun-cil, will not let the council refer the North’s rights situation to the criminal court, but North Korea also knows the two countries do not want another nuclear test by Pyongyang, said Lim Eul Chul, a North Korea expert at South Ko-rea’s Kyungnam University. China and Russia voted against the non-binding resolution, which goes to the General Assembly for a vote in the coming weeks.

North Korea, however, often confounds outside analysts’ pre-dictions and doesn’t always act ac-

cording to a set pattern. Two deadly attacks blamed on Pyongyang that killed 50 South Koreans in 2010 were a surprise because they came amid relatively easing tensions with the U.S. and South Korea.

The U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies said Wednes-day the North may be restarting a plant that can reprocess nuclear fuel into weapons-grade plutonium for the first time in six years. The find-ing is based on analysis of recent commercial satellite imagery at the North’s main nuclear facility.

North Korea conducted an atomic bomb test in 2006, 2009 and 2013, each time inviting international sanctions. A fourth test would mark another defiant response to U.S.-led international pressure on North Korea to aban-don its nuclear weapons program, because that could put the country a step closer to the goal of pro-ducing warheads small enough to mount on a missile capable of reaching the U.S.

Bali Post

AMLAPURA - A total of 51 endangered green sea turtles were smuggled using a motorboat by six crews from Saseen village, Sepekan subdistrict, Sumenep Madura. As planned, those turtles would be sent to a turtle breeding on Serangan Island, Denpasar. The smuggling could be foiled after the vessel carrying the turtle got damage and should be pulled ashore.

The six crews were named as suspects consisting of Firdaus, 30, Muharram, 29, Bakri, 39, Rico, 28, Asan Arman, 32, and Arif, 23. They departed from Sesehan Beach on Tuesday (Nov 18) around 09:00 a.m. and conveyed 51 green turtles belonging to unknown sender. “We are only assigned to bring the ves-sel and paid IDR 300,000 to the destination,” said Bakri, one of the suspects secured at the Marine Police station, Kubu, Wednesday (Nov 19).

Bakri claimed not to know about the turtle owner because during the delivery he never met or commu-nicated to the owner. In addition, the turtles in the vessel had been placed before the crews got into

the vessel.Initially, he and his five friends

did not get any obstacles and could pass the surveillance of patrol at sea waters in Madura and Situbondo. When entering the waters of Kubu, suddenly the fuel pipe leaked. Bakri and his colleagues were confused to find out a safe place to repair the damage and buy fuel. “The engine is not out of order. Due to heat, it then leaked in the pipe, so that we stop the voyage while cooling down the engine,” he said.

The existence of the vessel caused the people on the beach of Nusu hamlet, Sukadana village, Kubu, to be suspicious. Commu-nity member reported the vessel to Kubu Marine Police. From the report, the patrol boat of Kubu Marine Police directly pursued and succeeded in approaching the boat. A number of completely armed police jumped out to the boat to search the entire contents of the boat.

As a result, police found 51 live green turtles on the lower deck of the motor boat. Police then asked the six crews to present the docu-ment for the entire endangered sea turtles. Unfortunately, none of the

crews could show the document. Ultimately police pulled the motor boat to the shore near the Kubu Marine Police. The six crews were directly secured at the Marine Po-lice station.

Before the police officers, none of the six crews admitted as the master or captain of the ves-sel. “There is no captain, sir. We all are workers here and paid IDR 300,000. This vessel is driven by the six of us,” replied Bakri.

All the endangered turtles were evacuated from the vessel’s deck to one of the trucks to be further conveyed to Bali Police with the six suspects. Section Chief of SAR Guidance, Directorate of Bali Marine Police, Putu Swara Dinata, admitted the turtle smuggling case had become the target of operation all this time.

Previously, a number of parties mentioned if the turtles sold in the breeding site were not the result of breeding but contraband from a number of regions. Due to their act, the six suspects would be charged with Article 21 and 40, paragraph 2, Law No. 5/1990 on protected wild-life with the threat of imprisonment for five years. (dwa)

Blessing of Galungan Feast

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Stone carving artisans also receive an increase in the orders during Galungan feast, especially the artisans making sand-stone items used for temple building.

Bali Post

GIANYAR - Galungan Feast falling in next December does not only bring in blessing to the sellers of young coconut leaf or ritual paraphernalia.

IBP/Dewa Farend

Police officers moved turtles from the boat. A total of 51 endangered green sea turtles were smuggled using a motorboat by six crews from Saseen village, Sepekan subdistrict, Sume-nep Madura. As planned, those turtles would be sent to a turtle breeding on Serangan Island, Denpasar.

Smuggling of 51 green turtles baulkedReuters

SEOUL - A South Korean court on Thursday sentenced the head

of the company that operated a ferry which capsized in April to 10 years in jail over his role in the country’s worst maritime disaster in decades.

Kim Han-sik, the chief executive of Chonghaejin Marine, was found guilty of negligence causing death and embezzlement.

His sentence was the toughest penalty handed down to anyone other than the ferry’s crew over the deaths of 304 passengers, most of them teenage children. Only 172 of the ferry’s 476 passengers and crew were rescued.

Kim apologised to the families of the victims but said last month that he was simply a paid employee of the company and the decisions that led to the disaster were made by the firm’s de-facto owner, Yoo Byung-un, media reports said.

Yoo, who was the head of the family that owned a holding com-pany at the centre of a network of business interests that included the ferry operator, was found dead in June.

The overloaded Sewol capsized while making a turn on a routine voyage to the holiday island of Jeju. The vessel was later found to be defective, with additions made to increase passenger capacity making it top-heavy and unstable.

The court found other executives of the firm to three to six years in prison for negligence and embezzlement. The officials were guilty of knowingly operating the ferry that was dangerous, and there was “considerable causal relationship” between their jobs and the disaster, the court said.

The 15 surviving crew members including the captain were con-victed last week on negligence charges and sentenced to between five and 36 years in jail.

Reuters NEW DELHI - A self-styled

Indian re l igious leader was charged on Thursday with sedi-tion and waging war against the state after a days-long siege of his sprawling compound ended in his arrest along with 450 hardcore followers.

Police evacuated more than 10,000 followers on Wednesday from the fortified compound of a bizarre cult headed by ‘god-man’ Satguru Rampalji Maharaj before capturing him late in the evening.

Rampal, as the 63-year-old former engineer is known to his followers, was shown in TV news footage gripping the bars of a holding cell. He had been wanted for ignoring more than 40 court summonses in connection with a murder case.

“I am innocent,” Rampal told reporters as he was brought out, handcuffed, from a court in the northwestern city of Chandigarh. “All allegations against me are false.”

Police used tear gas, water cannon and bulldozers to storm Rampal’s 12-acre (5-hectare) base on Wednesday, breaching resistance from a human chain of supporters outside, and men throwing stones and bottles filled with acid from its roof.

Officials said the bodies of five women and one infant had been found. There were no bul-let marks or injuries on the dead, who were sent for postmortem examinations.

Tensions rose last week after a judge ordered Rampal’s arrest over a 2006 murder case, in which he is accused of telling supporters to open fire on villagers, killing one and injuring six.

Rampal heads a sect that wor-ships the 15th-century poet and mystic Kabir, known for a mes-sage of tolerance that is followed by people of varied faiths.

He is one of an array of spiri-tual leaders in India who attract devoted followings and, in some cases, gain significant money, power and political influence.

AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

In this Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014 photo, a North Korean flag flutters in the wind atop a 160-meter (533-foot) tower in the village of Gijungdong, near the North side of the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea. North Korea threatened Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 to bolster its war capability and conduct a fourth nuclear test to cope with what it calls U.S. hostility that led to the approval of a landmark U.N. resolution on its human rights violations.

North Korea threatens to beef up military capability

Associated Press

SEOUL — North Korea threatened Thursday to bolster its war capability and conduct a fourth nuclear test to cope with what it calls U.S. hostility that led to the approval of a landmark U.N. resolution on its human rights violations.

Indian police capture cult leader,

six dead

Ferry operator chief sentenced to

10 years in jail

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BUSINESS

In rapid succession on Monday, pharmaceutical giant Actavis said it would pay $66 billion for Al-lergan, which makes the wrinkle-eraser Botox, and oilfield services

company Halliburton said it would take over rival Baker Hughes for $34.6 billion.

Times have never been riper for big deals, mergers-and-acquisitions

bankers told AFP.“A number of factors are driv-

ing M&A activity, including low-cost financing, strong equity mar-kets, more confidence in corporate

boardrooms, and an increasingly competitive deal landscape, where many organizations do not want to be left behind,” said Mark Shafir, co-head of Global M&A at Citi-group.

Jack MacDonald, co-head of Americas M&A at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, explained that companies are making strate-gic acquisitions outside their core businesses in order to accelerate growth.

“Clearly a strong correlation ex-ists between growth and valuation multiples,” he said.

Mergers and acquisitions around the world so far this year have hit $3.16 trillion, according to Dealog-ic, the highest level since the record year of 2007.

More than a third of those trans-actions have taken place in the United States.

Deals have been largest in sec-tors where the entire industrial landscape is shifting fast.

In technology, the cash-laden tech giants like Facebook, Google and Yahoo are constantly on the prowl for startups to prevent rivals from getting ahead of them.

In pharmaceuticals, generic drug makers like Teva and Mylan are challenging huge companies like Pfizer, which is suffering from the expiration of patents on flagship medications.

Nearly $384 billion in transac-tions have been recorded in the drugs sector since January, up 45.5 percent from a year ago, said Dealogic.

The number would have been bigger if AbbVie had not dropped

its $54 billion bid for Shire after the US government took action to hinder “inversion” deals focused on relocating a US company to a cheaper tax domicile like Ireland via a merger.

In telecoms, deals are being driven by cable and cellphone companies’ need to build na-tional subscriber bases as they compete to deliver entertainment content to users across different platforms.

Cable operator Comcast is buy-ing rival Time Warner Cable for 45.2 billion dollars, while AT&T is merging with Direct TV in a deal valued at 48.5 billion dollars.

The media and entertainment business has also been part of this frenzy.

Over the summer, media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox reluctantly gave up its nearly $80 billion bid to buy rival Time Warner -- the former parent of Time Warner Cable.

With rivals so hungry, some companies “do not want to be left behind,” said Shafir.

Ultra-low interest rates, the re-sult of central banks’ expansionary monetary policies, are helping to drive the takeover fever. To finance deals, companies can easily raise billions of dollars in cheap debt.

Also supporting the deals are the strong stock markets, which boost the value of the buyers and their targets.

US corporate chiefs, free of fears of another recession unlike their counterparts in Europe and Japan, are much more willing to go on the hunt, said MacDonald.

Fishermen and tourism stakehold-ers with the Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Affairs initiated an effort to rescue and preserve the coral reef at Lovina. One of the conservation efforts for the coral reef is that fish-ermen coalesced into the members of the Cipta Karya Bahari fishermen group sank 27 hexadome fish home.

The event of drowning fish home denoting the assistance from the Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Af-fairs was centered on Lovina Beach attended by the Agency Head Nyo-man Sutrisna, Wednesday (Nov 19). Besides, he was also accompanied by a legislator of the Buleleng House doubling as Chairperson of the PDI-P Faction Ni Kadek Turkini, headman

of Kalibukbuk Ketut Suka and a number of divers.

Ketut Suka accompanied by one of the fishermen, Edi Arianto, said that so far Lovina Beach was only famous as a tourist center in Buleleng with dolphin attraction as the mainstay. Other than dolphin attraction, Lovina also had coral reef garden. The area of coral reef garden approximately reached 50 hectares spreading from the Spice Dive at Kaliasem village (Banjar subdistrict) in the west to the east on Penimbangan Beach, Singa-raja. Condition of the coral reef was still very good where different types of coral grew well. However, lately the ornamental fish population in coral reef areas had started to decline.

If such condition was neglected, it could have an impact on the coral reef. To that end, a group of fishermen along with tourism stakeholders on Lovina Beach attempted to preserve the coral reef on Lovina Beach and surrounding areas.

Meanwhile, Sutrisna said the in-stallation of fish home in some coastal areas having the potential of coral reef continued to be encouraged. This effort was made by accommodating the submission of assistance propos-als by fishermen group and marine tourism players. The addition of the fish home posed an effective effort in conserving coral reef and stimulating the development of ornamental fish population. (mud)

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve policy-makers discussed a variety of economic threats at their October meeting — from turbu-lent financial markets to overseas weakness — but decided to move forward with plans to end their landmark bond buying program.

Minutes of the Fed’s Oct. 28-29 meeting released on Wednesday showed that Fed officials grappled with a number of developments, from sharp moves in U.S. stock prices to increased signs of weak-ness in such key regions as Europe and Asia. They also expressed con-cern that inflation, which has been

running below the Fed’s target of 2 percent, could drift lower because of falling energy prices and a strengthening U.S. dollar.

A number of Fed officials noted that economic growth might be slower over the medium term than currently expected if foreign economic conditions or financial markets deteriorated significantly, the minutes said. But the officials also expressed confidence that the U.S. economy was on solid footing and expected to keep improving.

The minutes cited the “some-what weaker economic outlook and increased downsides risks in Europe, China and Japan.” But it said that Fed officials believed

the impact would likely be “quite limited” on the U.S. economy, in part because they expected that the slowdown in overseas demand would likely be less severe than initially feared.

Wall Street staged a big rally af-ter release of the September meet-ing minutes as investors assumed that the Fed would delay a rate hike because of concerns about weakness overseas. However, the release of the October minutes had little market impact. Economists said the comments did not alter their expectation that the first rate hike would probably take place around June of next year.

“The timing will depend on the

data ... nothing very definitive,” said Jim O’Sullivan, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics.

The minutes showed that for a second meeting there was a debate over the language outlining the pace of interest rate hikes. Board members debated whether or not to remove language Fed officials have used since the spring that they expected to keep a key short-term interest rate low for a “consider-able time” after halting monthly bond purchases.

The Fed decided to keep the “considerable time” wording because officials worried that its removal could be misinterpreted

and cause markets to drive in-terest rates higher and harm the recovery.

Private economists do not ex-pect the Fed to begin raising interest rates until mid-2015 and nothing revealed by the discussion in the minutes was likely to alter their view.

The minutes of the Oct. 28-29 meeting were released with the customary three-week delay. At the October meeting the Fed announced that it was ending its bond buying program, which it had been gradually reducing since last December. That program was aimed at keeping long-term inter-est rates low.

Fed sees solid US economy, despite new threats

AP Photo/Richard Drew

The Wall Street entrance of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. Mega-merger fever is back on Wall Street, six years after the financial crisis, and 2014 is shaping up as a record year for takeovers in a sign of US corporate optimism.

Merger fever back on Wall StreetAgence France-Presse

NEW YORK - Mega-merger fever is back on Wall Street, six years after the financial crisis, and 2014 is shaping up as a record year for takeovers in a sign of US corporate optimism.

Bali Post

AMLAPURA - Tenganan Village or better known as Ten-ganan Pegringsingan is one of many ancient villages on the Is-land of Bali. Life pattern of the community reflects the culture and customs of Bali Aga (pre-Hindu) tradition being different from other villages in Bali.

On that account, Tenganan Village is developed into one of the objects and cultural tour-ist attractions. Tenganan Pe-gringsingan sits in the Mang-gis Subdistrict, about 17 km from Amlapura town—regency capital of Karangasem—5 km from Candidasa tourist resort, and about 65 km east of Denpasar. Another attrac-tion owned by Tenganan Vil-lage is the Mekare-kare ritual tradition or better known as ‘pandanus war.’

Mekaré-kare is the culmi-nation of a series of Ngusaba Sambah ceremonial proces-sion held in June lasting for 30 days. During a month long

procession, the Mekaré-kare event is organized for 2-4 times and each event will be accompanied with the presen-tation of offerings to the ances-tors. Mekaré-kare or ‘pandanus war’ is carried out by men from children to old people.

As the name implies, the means used are thorny pan-danus leaves cut into pieces along ± 30 cm as a weapon and accompanied with a shield which serves to fend off the attacks from the scratches of pandanus thorn conducted by the opponent. Any injuries caused by scratches of the pan-danus thorn will be smeared with herbal ingredients such as galangal, turmeric, and some others.

Mekaré-kare essentially has the same meaning as the cock-fighting usually performed by Hindus in Bali when carrying out religious ceremonies. Me-karé-kare event is always ac-companied by native gamelan music to Tenganan Village, known as Selonding.

IBP/File Photo

Mekaré-kare essentially has the same meaning as the cockfighting usually performed by Hindus in Bali when carrying out religious ceremonies. Mekaré-kare event is al-ways accompanied by native gamelan music to Tenganan Village, known as Selonding.

Mekare-kare Tradition at

Tenganan Village

IBP/Mudiarta

Fishermen and tourism stakeholders with the Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Affairs initiated an effort to rescue and preserve the coral reef at Lovina. One of the conservation efforts for the coral reef is that fishermen coalesced into the members of the Cipta Karya Bahari fishermen group sank 27 hexadome fish home.

To develop marine tourism, fishermen

sink hexadomesBali Post

SINGARAJA - Lovina Beach at Kalibukbuk village, Buleleng subdistrict is recently known as the center of tourism in North Bali. At this village, the object highlighted is dolphin attraction and snorkeling. In recent years, the underwater tourism potential with panoramic ornamental fish population and coral reefs has been started to be worked on.

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The flood-affected residential areas included Pondok Mitra Lestari and Pondok Gede Permai housing complexes in Jatiasih Sub-district, Bekasi City, Tio, a local resident, stated on Thursday morning.

Pondok Gede Permai was the worst hit as a dam burst due to the flooding, Kartono, another resident, noted.

The floodwaters in Pondok Gede Permai reached heights ranging be-tween 40 and 60 centimeters.

In the meantime, parts of Ja-karta were also hit by flash floods originating from Bogor, Jakarta, on Thursday morning.

Kampung Pulo and Bidara Cina in East Jakarta were sub-merged in floodwaters reaching a height of up to four meters.

Pancoran and Pasar Minggu in South Jakarta were inundated with waters reaching a height of nearly a meter.

The flash floods from Bogor, West Java, forced 487 inhabit-ants of Kampung Pulo and Bi-dara Cina to evacuate to higher grounds.

Of the 487 evacuees, 430 were residents of Kampung Pulo and 57 of Bidara Cina, Bambang Musyawardana of the Jakarta Di-saster Mitigation Office (BPBD) stated.

They sought refuge in the health office and mosques follow-ing floods that reached heights ranging between 30 centimeters and four meters in East Jakarta, he noted.

“Relief aid comprising food

and medicines have been pro-vided by the health office, and the BPBD is coordinating the relief efforts,” he remarked.

In South Jakarta, the floods affected some 600 households and forced 268 residents to seek temporary shelter.

In the meantime, the Nation-al Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has warned the residents of Jakarta of possible flooding that may inundate the city in the third week of January 2015.

“The floods in January 2014 were lighter than in January 2013. We hope it is much lighter in January 2015, but the people must be ready to face the worst,” Deputy of BNPB’s Emergency Management, Tri Budiarto, re-marked on Tuesday.

Reuters

JAKARTA - Indonesia on Wednesday detained 200 Malaysians found fishing illegally in its waters, as it moves to stem billions of dollars in economic losses, a senior government official told Reuters.

A crackdown on illegal fishing, which costs the vast archipelagic na-tion around $25 billion a year, kicked off this week, Cabinet Secretary Andi Widjajanto told Reuters in a rare interview.

The drive is likely to spark tension with countries in the region, as new President Joko Widodo adopts a more assertive stance on the maritime sector of Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

“The president has said our maritime sector is in a state of emergency...so we need a new, bold approach and that’s why he’s declared a war on il-legal fishing,” said Widjajanto, an expert on defence and foreign affairs.

“We are trying to send a clear message to our neighbours like Malaysia and China, which operate illegal ships in our territory, that this is not a normal situation for us.”

Widjajanto said he expected at least 300 more illegal fishermen to be detained in the next few days.

The comments follow strong rhetoric from Widodo, who called this week for foreign ships to be sunk if they were discovered sailing without permission in Indonesian waters.

“Sink 10 to 20,” the Jakarta Post newspaper reported Widodo as saying. “It would make them think,” he added, referring to illegal fish-ermen.

“But remember to rescue the onboard crew first.”Indonesia also plans to lodge diplomatic protests with the countries

involved, to pre-empt complaints over the capture of their citizens, said Widjajanto.

Indonesia aims to launch a new coastguard force in mid-December tasked with preventing piracy and illegal fishing, and safeguarding mari-time borders, the chief security minister told Reuters last week.

AntaraJAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is

investigating former energy and mineral resource minister Jero Wacik as witness in the corruption case with former lawmaker and chair-man of the Commission VII of the House of Representatives, Sutan Bhatoegana as the suspect.

Sutan Bhatoegana was charged with graft in the process of parlia-mentary debate on energy budget.

Jero Wacik is already named suspect in a related case.Both Bhatoegana and Jero Wacik are former chairmen of the Demo-

crat party of former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyno. “I am summoned by KPK to testify at the KPK building on

Thursday morning. Jero refused to say more but promised to give details after his

investigations by KPK. KPK also has schedule to question of two former lawmakers of

the Democrat faction Natassya Tara and Siti Romlah.On Wednesday, three other Democrat law makers Efi Susilowati,

I Wayan Gunastra, and Tri Yulianto, failed to appear to honor the summon of KPK for investigations in the same case.

For Tri Yulianto, the summon on Wednesday was his second. Sutan Bhatoegana was named suspect implicated by former head of

the Upstream Oil and Gas Regulator (SKK Migas) Rudi Rubiandini, who is already convicted and serving a 7 years jail term for graft case. Rudi Rubiandini said he gave Bhatoegana US$200,000 via Tri Julianto as “Idul Firi allowance” for the lawmakers of the Commis-sion VII of the Parliament.

200 Malaysians captured in crackdown on illegal fishing

Jero Wacik testifying in corruption case

REUTERS/Beawiharta

Volunteers use a paddle raft to move an elderly woman to a safe place at Jatinegara district in Jakarta November 20, 2014. Heavy rain caused flooding in some parts of the capital.

Overflowing Bekasi River inundates residential areasAntara

BEKASI - The residential areas located along the banks of Bekasi River were inundated as it overflowed its banks on Wednesday evening, around midnight.

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Secret Service arrested a man Wednesday after finding a hunting rifle, dozens of rounds of ammunition and a knife in the trunk of his car parked near the White House.

R.J. Kapheim, 41, was arrested on a charge of having an unregistered firearm, which is illegal in the U.S. capital city.

Kapheim was arrested after he approached uniformed officers and explained that someone in the state of

Iowa told him to drive to the White House. He later showed them to his car parked nearby and let officers search the vehicle. It was unclear if Kapheim had a lawyer.

The Secret Service, which protects the president and his family among oth-ers, has been widely criticized in recent months after a series of serious security breaches. In September a Texas man armed with a knife was able to climb over a White House fence and made it deep into the executive mansion. According to an executive summary of a Homeland Security review of that

incident, some officers on the White House grounds that night thought thick bushes near the building’s front door would stop the intruder. They were also surprised when he was able to walk through a pair of doors, which were unlocked.

Earlier Wednesday, Acting Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy told a congressional panel that the agency has fallen short of its goal of perfection and being in the spotlight has had detrimen-tal effects on morale and operational security, “both with potentially dire consequences.”

The news that two young French-men were among the executioners in the latest IS video this weekend was a reminder that violent extrem-ism can attract people from all sorts of environments.

One was identified as Maxime Hauchard, 22, from a village in Normandy in northern France, seen with a knife to the neck of one of the 18 Syrian prisoners decapitated in the video.

“He was a nice boy who never caused problems,” was the re-sponse of one neighbour in Bosc-Roger-en-Roumois, Jeannine, who

Reuters

BEIJING - A man with a history of mental illness stabbed and killed seven people, six of them nurses, at a sanitorium dormitory in northern China on Thursday in the latest of a string of attacks on medical workers, state media reported.

An administrator was among those killed and another nurse was seriously injured in the attack in the early hours of the morning, the official Xinhua news agency said.

A spate of attacks on doctors and nurses in the past two years has prompted the health ministry to provide better security at hospitals.

The sanitorium is in Beidaihe, a seaside resort close to Beijing favoured by senior members of the ruling Communist Party. Beid-aihe has many such institutions, which are normally used as cheap hotels or spas.

Xinhua said the former hospital was under the administration of the Beijing military region, meaning it is likely a military-run facility.

A suspect, who also worked at the sanitorium, has been detained, the Xinhua report said.

The Beijing News identified the suspect as Li Xiaolong, 27, saying he had confessed to having a history of mental illness and had received treatment in Beijing and the nearby city of Tangshan in 2006.

“It is initially understood that the suspect did not have any obvious problems with the deceased,” the newspaper said on its website.

While the Chinese government has ramped up health spending, hospitals are frequently overwhelmed with patients. Doctors are also badly paid, leading to corruption and a suspicion that staff are more interested in making money by prescribing unnecessary drugs and treatment than tending the sick.

Many other Chinese are unable to afford health care despite government efforts to provide a basic safety net, which has also prompted attacks in the past.

Ministry data shows that violent attacks directed at doctors and other health care workers in the form of beatings, threats, kidnap-pings, verbal abuse and murder reached 17,243 cases in 2010, the latest year for which such figures are available.

Jihad lures teens from unsuspected corners of France

Agence France-Presse

PARIS - For the French public, the idea is deeply jarring: youngsters from everyday back-grounds with names like Maxime, Helene and David joining the jihad or turning up in brutal Islamic State execution videos.

watched Hauchard grow up and play with her grandchildren.

“They must have drugged him,” she said.

And there was Helene, the 17-year-old who fled her Parisian life to live “under Sharia law” in Syria earlier this year against the desper-ate pleas of her parents.

In her case, the attraction seems to have been an Egyptian boyfriend who encouraged her to convert to an austere version of Islam two years earlier.

Meanwhile, the picture of a smil-ing, young David Drugeon -- the

24-year-old killed by a US drone in Syria this month -- is hard to square with reports that he was a senior bomb-maker for the Khorasan group, an Al-Qaeda offshoot plan-ning attacks in the West.

Intelligence agencies have long since given up on trying to outline a single profile for those who join the jihad. Studies find a wide mix of poor and wealthy, damaged fam-ily backgrounds and well-adjusted citizens -- the only constant being the young ages involved.

“Today, this discourse (of radi-cal Islam) manages to influence

young people from very diverse family backgrounds,” said Dounia Bouzar, director of the Centre for Prevention Against Islamic Sec-tarianism.

She recently co-authored a report examining the backgrounds of 160 families who had contacted the centre seeking help with a child’s radicalisation.

It found 80 percent of parents declared themselves atheist. Two-thirds were middle class. Almost all their children -- 91 percent -- were indoctrinated via the Internet, with some 63 percent aged between 15 and 21.

Jihadists have “refined their indoctrination techniques... to the point where they can tailor their message to completely different young people,” the report said.

The authors outlined five myths

used to convince people that joining the jihad is a good idea.

There is the image of the “heroic horseman” which works best for boys, or the “humanitarian cause” that has particular traction among young girls.

Some targets are offered the leadership and structure they lacked growing up, while others are look-ing for a real-life version of the combat experienced in video games like “Call of Duty”.

Lastly, there are those simply attracted to the thrill, danger and sense of power.

According to figures published this week by the Le Monde newspa-per, converts to Islam are over-rep-resented. Of 376 French currently in Syria and Iraq, 23 percent were raised in non-Muslim families, the paper said.

Six nurses killed in latest attack on Chinese medical workers

Man arrested near White House with gun in car

Secret Service counter assault team members stand outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. The Secret Service arrested a man Wednesday after finding a hunting rifle, dozens of rounds of ammunition and a knife in the trunk of his car parked near the White House.

AP Photo/Evan Vucci

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CAPE TOWN — Boats in the Volvo Ocean Race fleet headed for one of the most testing legs of the event between South Africa and Abu Dhabi on Wednesday with the threat of tropical storms awaiting them in the Indian Ocean.

Organizers made a late decision to place an exclusion zone leading up to the Seychelles in an attempt to steer the seven boats clear of storms early in the 6,125-nautical mile Leg 2.

Boats that stray into the zone will lose race points.

Race meteorologist Gonzalo In-fante said: “We have just started the tropical cyclone season in the south Indian Ocean and it seems like we will have plenty of this activity for this leg.”

Race management has also introduced exclusion zones past Mauritius to avoid the fleet veering too close to the east African coast where there is still a possibility of piracy attack.

In the last race in 2011-12, the entire fleet was transported part of the way in a cargo ship from the Maldives to Sharjah on the advice of maritime safety experts, Dryad. The same company has told race management that a similar measure will not be necessary this time.

Neither pirates nor cyclones concerned the skipper of Leg 1 win-ners Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, Ian Walker, prior to departure at 1600 GMT on Wednesday.

His team was forced to abandon sailing for the opening leg in 2011 after sustaining a broken mast on the first night of the race following a Mediterranean storm.

This time they had no such prob-lems and Walker’s crew led the fleet into Cape Town by a mere 12 min-utes from second-place Dongfeng Race Team of China after 25 days of sailing from Alicante, Spain.

Walker is determined to triumph in the second stage to his team’s home port of Abu Dhabi which is likely to take between 22-28 days depending on conditions.

“If you asked me if there’s one leg I want to win, this is it,” he told a news conference. “Unfortunately, there’s six other very good crews trying to stop us.”

One of those is the Spanish boat MAPFRE. Led by 2004 Olympic gold medalist Iker Martínez, it finished last in Leg 1 leading to the replacement of the fleet’s most famous sailor, Michel Desjoyeaux, of France.

His place was taken by Briton Rob Greenhalgh, whose sister Libby is competing on a rival boat, Team SCA from Sweden. The pair is the first brother-sister combination to take part in the 41-year-old event since Tanya and Edwin Visser of the Netherlands in 1989-90.

The first boat to sail out of Cape Town in winds of up to 35 knots on Wednesday evening was Team Brunel, followed closely by MAP-FRE and Team SCA.

The Swiss have never won the Davis Cup in its long history, while France have won the team trophy nine times, the last coming away to Australia in 2001.

Federer is a 17-time Grand Slam winner and currently ranked second in the world, while this year’s Aus-tralian Open champion Wawrinka is ranked fourth.

Logically they are the hot favourites -- but a dramatic weekend in London at the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals has changed the picture.

That was due to a remarkable semi-final that pitted the two Swiss players against each other and which Federer won after saving four match points in a gruelling blockbuster that lasted just short of three hours.

The duel left both players bruised and battered.

Wawrinka was distraught at let-ting slip such a golden opportunity to better, for once, his more illustri-ous countryman.

Federer was left in such pain from back spasms that he was forced to forfeit the next day the tournament final against Novak Djokovic.

If that was not damaging enough, the two Swiss stars found them-selves embroiled in an ugly spat over an incident late in the third set of their match when Wawrinka complained about noises coming from Federer’s courtside box, with

his wife Mirka being the culprit.By all accounts the two had a

long and tense set-to in the locker-room afterwards and they made their own separate ways to Lille on Monday.

Since then the Swiss players have been at pains to play down the incident appearing at a press confer-ence during which they laughed and traded jokes and jibes.

More worryingly for the Swiss though has been the state of Feder-er’s back -- an injury which has increasingly nagged him in the later years of his career.

He was unable to practice on the red claycourt that has been pains-takingly laid down inside one half of the Stade Pierre Mauroy football stadium outside Lille, until a brief 30 minutes outing on Wednesday evening.

During that stint, he looked tentative, especially on serve and Federer himself admitted he can only take it one day at a time.

“I’m making some progress. But I know I don’t have a month ahead of me to get better. I need to get better quickly. I’m trying whatever I can,” he said Tuesday evening.

The problem for the Swiss is that although Wawrinka is comfortably ranked above all the French players, after him the fall-off in the Swiss team is steep with Marco Chi-udinelli 212th and Michael Lammer

508th in the rankings.Without Federer, their chances

of winning the Davis Cup for the first time look slim, with the French boasting a strength-in-depth line-up of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Gael Mon-fils, Richard Gasquet and Julien Benneteau.

There was speculation that the Swiss team may decide not to take the risk of playing Federer on Fri-day and rest him up for Sunday and the reverse singles rubbers, hoping that Wawrinka can keep the final alive in the first two days.

In contrast, the French team’s preparation for the final has been flawless, helped by the fact that none of the team qualified for the London ATP finals.

They spent 10 days cloistered down in Bordeaux, practicing on clay, away from the spotlight.

French captain Arnaud Clement said that his team were not even considering contesting the Davis Cup final without the presence of Federer.

“We have been preparing for the last 10 days to play against a Swiss team with Federer and Wawrinka in it,” he said.

Clement said that he had yet to decide who would play the opening two singles on Friday, but Tsonga looks sure to be top choice with Gasquet slightly ahead of Monfils for the second slot.

REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

Roger Federer (R) and Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland attend a Davis Cup tennis training session at the Pierre Mauroy stadium in Villeneuve d’Ascq, northern France, November 20, 2014. France will face Switzerland in their Davis Cup final which will start on Friday November 21, 2014.

Federer fitness key to Davis Cup finalAgence France-Presse

LILLE - Roger Federer is set to defy crippling back pain and a questionable relationship with Swiss teammate Stan Wawrinka when he plays his first ever Davis Cup final against France in Lille from Friday.

AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam

Team Vestas Wind departs on the next leg of the Volvo Ocean Race from the harbor in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014. Boats in the Volvo Ocean Race fleet headed for one of the most testing legs of the event between South Africa and Abu Dhabi on Wednesday with the threat of tropical storms awaiting them in the Indian Ocean.

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BERLIN - It was only f ive years ago that Hamburg SV and Werder Bremen were locked in battle in three competitions in Ger-many and Europe with scintillating football on display in a fierce north-ern rivalry.

Fast forward to 2014 and both teams are non-

factors in the Bundesliga, instead battling just to avoid relegation and their clash in Ham-burg on Sunday could have major implications for their top-flight survival.

Hamburg needed a relegation playoff to stay in the league last season and protect their record as the only team not to have played in the second tier since the creation of the Bundesliga in 1963.

Despite spending more than 20 million euros ($25 million) in the close season to strengthen their squad with players such as Lewis Holtby and U.S. international Julian Green, they have failed to have a serious impact.

Modric is likely to be out un-til at least January and replac-ing him with Spain playmaker Isco, who has been on fine form for club and country, would add creativity in attack but might leave the defence exposed.

Deploy ing Sami Khedi ra alongside Germany team mate Toni Kroos would c rea te a more solid unit but one which might lack inspiration going forward.

“Khedira and Kroos are a pair of world champions,” An-celotti said on Spanish radio on Wednesday.

“I would like to try Isco with Kroos because he gives us a lot more quality but then we would have to sort out the defensive issue,” added the Italian.

Whatever Ancelotti decides, Real are likely to continue their imperious form at Eibar, whose entire squad is worth just over 20 million euros ($25 million), roughly as much as Real’s Por-tugal forward Cristiano Ron-aldo earns in a season.

Ronaldo has been on prolific form this season, helping Real

Reuters

LONDON - Queens Park Rangers, who have had more grounds than any other profes-sional club in England, must move again if they are to thrive as a top-class outfit, owner Tony Fernandes said on Thursday.

QPR have played at 16 known venues and have made four chang-es since 1931. They finally settled back at Loftus Road in 1963 but

with the ground currently capable of holding only 18,439 it has the lowest capacity in the Premier League.

The club have plans to move to a new 40,000-seater stadium three miles away and Fernandes said in a statement on the club’s website (www.qpr.co.uk) the move was vital if they were to compete at the top level.

“We need to move if we are to sustain a top-flight club,” he said.

“Old Oak Common is the only realistic place for us to move. It is close to our fans and our roots, with great transport links.

“QPR have been in the area for over 100 years and have a loyal fan-base.

However, the huge car dealer-ship Cargiant, the club’s former sponsor, owns 47 acres of the land and has its own plans for redevelopment, while the largely under-developed area has also

been earmarked for new rail links with a new station.

QPR say 88 percent of their fans support Old Oak as the loca-tion for the club’s new ground.

“We are delighted that so many of our fans and members of the local community share our vision for the future of both QPR and Old Oak,” Fernandes added.

“This is only the first stage of consultation and we will continue to work with the community as

we develop our plans in more detail.”

The club says the regenera-tion will deliver more than just a stadium, providing 24,000 homes, 55,000 jobs and community fa-cilities.

After a nomadic existence in their first decades, QPR first played at Loftus Road from 1917-31 but after two short spells at the old demolished White City per-manently moved back in 1963

Associated PressNICE — Formula One driver

Jules Bianchi is showing signs of

recovery following a life-threat-ening crash, and is breathing unaided after being taken out of

REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski

FSV Mainz 05’s Jairo Samperio (R) challenges Werder Bremen’s Franco Di Santo during their German first division Bundesliga soccer match in Mainz.

Former champs Hamburg, Bremen battle for top flight survival

On nine points from 11 games, former European champions Hamburg are in 17th place, above last-placed VfB Stuttgart on goal difference despite scoring just four times so far.

“We have the chance to im-prove our attacking game further in training,” said Hamburg coach Joe Zinnbauer, who took over from the sacked Mirko Slomka in September and helped them to their first away win in a year when they beat Borussia Dortmund in October.

“We now have the chances to move above Werder with a vic-tory. So we will mobilise all our strengths,” said Zinnbauer, who could be without injured defender Marcell Jansen.

For Bremen, the situation is not that different from Hamburg’s, except the 2004 Bundesliga cham-pions, who also reached the 2009 UEFA Cup final after beating Hamburg in the semi-final, have very little cash to spend.

They sacked coach Robin Dutt last month and his succes-sor, Viktor Skripnik, looks to be on the right track after he helped them got off bottom spot with two

consecutive wins in his two league matches in charge.

Bremen, now in 16th place and a point above Hamburg, are

desperate for points as the league breaks next month for the winter.

“It is clear that there a lot of emotions ahead of this game and it

will get really fiery,” said Bremen midfielder Fin Bartels. “But we cannot allow ourselves to go crazy. We have to keep a cool head.”

REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

The entrance of Saint Roch hospital where critically injured French Formula One driver Jules Bianchi has been transferred from Yokkaichi in Nice November 19, 2014. Bianchi crashed into a recovery tractor in the wet at the Japanese Grand Prix on October 5, 2014.

Bianchi out of artificial coma and taken to Francean artificial coma and repatriated from Japan to a French hospital.

Bianchi, who crashed during

last month’s Japanese Grand Prix, remains in a critical condition with severe head injuries, his parents said in a statement on Wednesday.

The 25-year-old Bianchi lost control of his Marussia car and hit a mobile crane that was inside the trackside barriers.

“Following a challenging pe-riod of neurological intensive care, we are able to announce that Jules has made an impor-tant step,” the statement from Philippe and Christine Bianchi said. “Jules is no longer in the artificial coma in which he was placed shortly after the accident, however he is still unconscious. He is breathing unaided and his vital signs are stable.”

A three-person team at Nice’s neurosurgery service will now take care of him.

“We are thankful that the next phase of Jules’ treatment can con-tinue close to home, where he can be surrounded and supported by his wider family and friends,” his parents said. “We owe the medi-cal staff (in Japan) an enormous debt of gratitude for everything

they have done for Jules, and also for our family, during what is a very difficult time for us.”

Bianchi, who was part of Fer-rari’s young drivers program, had been touted as one of the stars of the future.

At the Monaco GP in May, he secured the Marussia team’s best ever result with a ninth-place finish.

In rainy, gloomy conditions in Suzuka on Oct. 5, Bianchi’s car slid off the track and ploughed into a crane picking up the Sauber of German driver Adrian Sutil, who had crashed out at the same spot one lap earlier.

Brazilian driver Felipe Massa, who survived a life-threatening accident in 2009, called it “the worst race of my life.”

A 10-man working group was set up to review the accident and will present its findings on Dec. 3.

Following the crash, FIA, the sport’s ruling body, announced the composition of a newly es-tablished Accident Panel, which will also propose new measures to improve safety at circuits.

Real Madrid’s Luka Modric, right, is challenged by Liverpool’s Lucas Leiva during a Group B Cham-pions League soccer match between Real Madrid and Liverpool at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium

in Madrid.

Modric injury gives Ancelotti Real midfield poserReuters

MADRID - Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti faces a dilemma following an injury to Croatia midfielder Luka Modric when the leaders return to La Liga action after the international break at promoted Eibar on Saturday.

put together a run of 13 straight victories in all competitions and amass a jaw-dropping 52 goals.

“It’s going to be a unique experience with the stadium full playing one of the best teams in the world,” Eibar forward Mikel Arruabarrena told a news conference on Wednesday.

“We must respect the fact that they are some of the world’s best players but we must leave any fear behind in the dressing room,” he added.

After 11 La Liga matches, Real are two points c lear of Barcelona, who host f if th-placed Sevilla on Saturday when Barca’s Argen-t ina forward Lionel Messi will have another chance to equal or overtake the top-flight scoring record.

The record of 251 was set six decades ago by former Athletic Bilbao striker Telmo Zarra and Messi has been on 250 since netting against Eibar on Oct. 18.

Champions Atleti-co Madrid, who are four points behind Real in fourth, play at home to sixth-placed Malaga on S a t u r d a y, w h i l e t h i rd -p l aced Va -lencia are at cross-town rivals Levante on Sunday.

F o r m e r

Manchester United and Everton manager David Moyes will make his de-but as Real Sociedad coach in Saturday’s game at Deportivo La Coruna.

AP Photo/A

ndres Kudacki

New stadium vital for QPR’s future says owner Fernandes

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BERLIN - It was only f ive years ago that Hamburg SV and Werder Bremen were locked in battle in three competitions in Ger-many and Europe with scintillating football on display in a fierce north-ern rivalry.

Fast forward to 2014 and both teams are non-

factors in the Bundesliga, instead battling just to avoid relegation and their clash in Ham-burg on Sunday could have major implications for their top-flight survival.

Hamburg needed a relegation playoff to stay in the league last season and protect their record as the only team not to have played in the second tier since the creation of the Bundesliga in 1963.

Despite spending more than 20 million euros ($25 million) in the close season to strengthen their squad with players such as Lewis Holtby and U.S. international Julian Green, they have failed to have a serious impact.

Modric is likely to be out un-til at least January and replac-ing him with Spain playmaker Isco, who has been on fine form for club and country, would add creativity in attack but might leave the defence exposed.

Deploy ing Sami Khedi ra alongside Germany team mate Toni Kroos would c rea te a more solid unit but one which might lack inspiration going forward.

“Khedira and Kroos are a pair of world champions,” An-celotti said on Spanish radio on Wednesday.

“I would like to try Isco with Kroos because he gives us a lot more quality but then we would have to sort out the defensive issue,” added the Italian.

Whatever Ancelotti decides, Real are likely to continue their imperious form at Eibar, whose entire squad is worth just over 20 million euros ($25 million), roughly as much as Real’s Por-tugal forward Cristiano Ron-aldo earns in a season.

Ronaldo has been on prolific form this season, helping Real

Reuters

LONDON - Queens Park Rangers, who have had more grounds than any other profes-sional club in England, must move again if they are to thrive as a top-class outfit, owner Tony Fernandes said on Thursday.

QPR have played at 16 known venues and have made four chang-es since 1931. They finally settled back at Loftus Road in 1963 but

with the ground currently capable of holding only 18,439 it has the lowest capacity in the Premier League.

The club have plans to move to a new 40,000-seater stadium three miles away and Fernandes said in a statement on the club’s website (www.qpr.co.uk) the move was vital if they were to compete at the top level.

“We need to move if we are to sustain a top-flight club,” he said.

“Old Oak Common is the only realistic place for us to move. It is close to our fans and our roots, with great transport links.

“QPR have been in the area for over 100 years and have a loyal fan-base.

However, the huge car dealer-ship Cargiant, the club’s former sponsor, owns 47 acres of the land and has its own plans for redevelopment, while the largely under-developed area has also

been earmarked for new rail links with a new station.

QPR say 88 percent of their fans support Old Oak as the loca-tion for the club’s new ground.

“We are delighted that so many of our fans and members of the local community share our vision for the future of both QPR and Old Oak,” Fernandes added.

“This is only the first stage of consultation and we will continue to work with the community as

we develop our plans in more detail.”

The club says the regenera-tion will deliver more than just a stadium, providing 24,000 homes, 55,000 jobs and community fa-cilities.

After a nomadic existence in their first decades, QPR first played at Loftus Road from 1917-31 but after two short spells at the old demolished White City per-manently moved back in 1963

Associated PressNICE — Formula One driver

Jules Bianchi is showing signs of

recovery following a life-threat-ening crash, and is breathing unaided after being taken out of

REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski

FSV Mainz 05’s Jairo Samperio (R) challenges Werder Bremen’s Franco Di Santo during their German first division Bundesliga soccer match in Mainz.

Former champs Hamburg, Bremen battle for top flight survival

On nine points from 11 games, former European champions Hamburg are in 17th place, above last-placed VfB Stuttgart on goal difference despite scoring just four times so far.

“We have the chance to im-prove our attacking game further in training,” said Hamburg coach Joe Zinnbauer, who took over from the sacked Mirko Slomka in September and helped them to their first away win in a year when they beat Borussia Dortmund in October.

“We now have the chances to move above Werder with a vic-tory. So we will mobilise all our strengths,” said Zinnbauer, who could be without injured defender Marcell Jansen.

For Bremen, the situation is not that different from Hamburg’s, except the 2004 Bundesliga cham-pions, who also reached the 2009 UEFA Cup final after beating Hamburg in the semi-final, have very little cash to spend.

They sacked coach Robin Dutt last month and his succes-sor, Viktor Skripnik, looks to be on the right track after he helped them got off bottom spot with two

consecutive wins in his two league matches in charge.

Bremen, now in 16th place and a point above Hamburg, are

desperate for points as the league breaks next month for the winter.

“It is clear that there a lot of emotions ahead of this game and it

will get really fiery,” said Bremen midfielder Fin Bartels. “But we cannot allow ourselves to go crazy. We have to keep a cool head.”

REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

The entrance of Saint Roch hospital where critically injured French Formula One driver Jules Bianchi has been transferred from Yokkaichi in Nice November 19, 2014. Bianchi crashed into a recovery tractor in the wet at the Japanese Grand Prix on October 5, 2014.

Bianchi out of artificial coma and taken to Francean artificial coma and repatriated from Japan to a French hospital.

Bianchi, who crashed during

last month’s Japanese Grand Prix, remains in a critical condition with severe head injuries, his parents said in a statement on Wednesday.

The 25-year-old Bianchi lost control of his Marussia car and hit a mobile crane that was inside the trackside barriers.

“Following a challenging pe-riod of neurological intensive care, we are able to announce that Jules has made an impor-tant step,” the statement from Philippe and Christine Bianchi said. “Jules is no longer in the artificial coma in which he was placed shortly after the accident, however he is still unconscious. He is breathing unaided and his vital signs are stable.”

A three-person team at Nice’s neurosurgery service will now take care of him.

“We are thankful that the next phase of Jules’ treatment can con-tinue close to home, where he can be surrounded and supported by his wider family and friends,” his parents said. “We owe the medi-cal staff (in Japan) an enormous debt of gratitude for everything

they have done for Jules, and also for our family, during what is a very difficult time for us.”

Bianchi, who was part of Fer-rari’s young drivers program, had been touted as one of the stars of the future.

At the Monaco GP in May, he secured the Marussia team’s best ever result with a ninth-place finish.

In rainy, gloomy conditions in Suzuka on Oct. 5, Bianchi’s car slid off the track and ploughed into a crane picking up the Sauber of German driver Adrian Sutil, who had crashed out at the same spot one lap earlier.

Brazilian driver Felipe Massa, who survived a life-threatening accident in 2009, called it “the worst race of my life.”

A 10-man working group was set up to review the accident and will present its findings on Dec. 3.

Following the crash, FIA, the sport’s ruling body, announced the composition of a newly es-tablished Accident Panel, which will also propose new measures to improve safety at circuits.

Real Madrid’s Luka Modric, right, is challenged by Liverpool’s Lucas Leiva during a Group B Cham-pions League soccer match between Real Madrid and Liverpool at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium

in Madrid.

Modric injury gives Ancelotti Real midfield poserReuters

MADRID - Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti faces a dilemma following an injury to Croatia midfielder Luka Modric when the leaders return to La Liga action after the international break at promoted Eibar on Saturday.

put together a run of 13 straight victories in all competitions and amass a jaw-dropping 52 goals.

“It’s going to be a unique experience with the stadium full playing one of the best teams in the world,” Eibar forward Mikel Arruabarrena told a news conference on Wednesday.

“We must respect the fact that they are some of the world’s best players but we must leave any fear behind in the dressing room,” he added.

After 11 La Liga matches, Real are two points c lear of Barcelona, who host f if th-placed Sevilla on Saturday when Barca’s Argen-t ina forward Lionel Messi will have another chance to equal or overtake the top-flight scoring record.

The record of 251 was set six decades ago by former Athletic Bilbao striker Telmo Zarra and Messi has been on 250 since netting against Eibar on Oct. 18.

Champions Atleti-co Madrid, who are four points behind Real in fourth, play at home to sixth-placed Malaga on S a t u r d a y, w h i l e t h i rd -p l aced Va -lencia are at cross-town rivals Levante on Sunday.

F o r m e r

Manchester United and Everton manager David Moyes will make his de-but as Real Sociedad coach in Saturday’s game at Deportivo La Coruna.

AP Photo/A

ndres Kudacki

New stadium vital for QPR’s future says owner Fernandes

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CAPE TOWN — Boats in the Volvo Ocean Race fleet headed for one of the most testing legs of the event between South Africa and Abu Dhabi on Wednesday with the threat of tropical storms awaiting them in the Indian Ocean.

Organizers made a late decision to place an exclusion zone leading up to the Seychelles in an attempt to steer the seven boats clear of storms early in the 6,125-nautical mile Leg 2.

Boats that stray into the zone will lose race points.

Race meteorologist Gonzalo In-fante said: “We have just started the tropical cyclone season in the south Indian Ocean and it seems like we will have plenty of this activity for this leg.”

Race management has also introduced exclusion zones past Mauritius to avoid the fleet veering too close to the east African coast where there is still a possibility of piracy attack.

In the last race in 2011-12, the entire fleet was transported part of the way in a cargo ship from the Maldives to Sharjah on the advice of maritime safety experts, Dryad. The same company has told race management that a similar measure will not be necessary this time.

Neither pirates nor cyclones concerned the skipper of Leg 1 win-ners Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, Ian Walker, prior to departure at 1600 GMT on Wednesday.

His team was forced to abandon sailing for the opening leg in 2011 after sustaining a broken mast on the first night of the race following a Mediterranean storm.

This time they had no such prob-lems and Walker’s crew led the fleet into Cape Town by a mere 12 min-utes from second-place Dongfeng Race Team of China after 25 days of sailing from Alicante, Spain.

Walker is determined to triumph in the second stage to his team’s home port of Abu Dhabi which is likely to take between 22-28 days depending on conditions.

“If you asked me if there’s one leg I want to win, this is it,” he told a news conference. “Unfortunately, there’s six other very good crews trying to stop us.”

One of those is the Spanish boat MAPFRE. Led by 2004 Olympic gold medalist Iker Martínez, it finished last in Leg 1 leading to the replacement of the fleet’s most famous sailor, Michel Desjoyeaux, of France.

His place was taken by Briton Rob Greenhalgh, whose sister Libby is competing on a rival boat, Team SCA from Sweden. The pair is the first brother-sister combination to take part in the 41-year-old event since Tanya and Edwin Visser of the Netherlands in 1989-90.

The first boat to sail out of Cape Town in winds of up to 35 knots on Wednesday evening was Team Brunel, followed closely by MAP-FRE and Team SCA.

The Swiss have never won the Davis Cup in its long history, while France have won the team trophy nine times, the last coming away to Australia in 2001.

Federer is a 17-time Grand Slam winner and currently ranked second in the world, while this year’s Aus-tralian Open champion Wawrinka is ranked fourth.

Logically they are the hot favourites -- but a dramatic weekend in London at the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals has changed the picture.

That was due to a remarkable semi-final that pitted the two Swiss players against each other and which Federer won after saving four match points in a gruelling blockbuster that lasted just short of three hours.

The duel left both players bruised and battered.

Wawrinka was distraught at let-ting slip such a golden opportunity to better, for once, his more illustri-ous countryman.

Federer was left in such pain from back spasms that he was forced to forfeit the next day the tournament final against Novak Djokovic.

If that was not damaging enough, the two Swiss stars found them-selves embroiled in an ugly spat over an incident late in the third set of their match when Wawrinka complained about noises coming from Federer’s courtside box, with

his wife Mirka being the culprit.By all accounts the two had a

long and tense set-to in the locker-room afterwards and they made their own separate ways to Lille on Monday.

Since then the Swiss players have been at pains to play down the incident appearing at a press confer-ence during which they laughed and traded jokes and jibes.

More worryingly for the Swiss though has been the state of Feder-er’s back -- an injury which has increasingly nagged him in the later years of his career.

He was unable to practice on the red claycourt that has been pains-takingly laid down inside one half of the Stade Pierre Mauroy football stadium outside Lille, until a brief 30 minutes outing on Wednesday evening.

During that stint, he looked tentative, especially on serve and Federer himself admitted he can only take it one day at a time.

“I’m making some progress. But I know I don’t have a month ahead of me to get better. I need to get better quickly. I’m trying whatever I can,” he said Tuesday evening.

The problem for the Swiss is that although Wawrinka is comfortably ranked above all the French players, after him the fall-off in the Swiss team is steep with Marco Chi-udinelli 212th and Michael Lammer

508th in the rankings.Without Federer, their chances

of winning the Davis Cup for the first time look slim, with the French boasting a strength-in-depth line-up of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Gael Mon-fils, Richard Gasquet and Julien Benneteau.

There was speculation that the Swiss team may decide not to take the risk of playing Federer on Fri-day and rest him up for Sunday and the reverse singles rubbers, hoping that Wawrinka can keep the final alive in the first two days.

In contrast, the French team’s preparation for the final has been flawless, helped by the fact that none of the team qualified for the London ATP finals.

They spent 10 days cloistered down in Bordeaux, practicing on clay, away from the spotlight.

French captain Arnaud Clement said that his team were not even considering contesting the Davis Cup final without the presence of Federer.

“We have been preparing for the last 10 days to play against a Swiss team with Federer and Wawrinka in it,” he said.

Clement said that he had yet to decide who would play the opening two singles on Friday, but Tsonga looks sure to be top choice with Gasquet slightly ahead of Monfils for the second slot.

REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

Roger Federer (R) and Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland attend a Davis Cup tennis training session at the Pierre Mauroy stadium in Villeneuve d’Ascq, northern France, November 20, 2014. France will face Switzerland in their Davis Cup final which will start on Friday November 21, 2014.

Federer fitness key to Davis Cup finalAgence France-Presse

LILLE - Roger Federer is set to defy crippling back pain and a questionable relationship with Swiss teammate Stan Wawrinka when he plays his first ever Davis Cup final against France in Lille from Friday.

AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam

Team Vestas Wind departs on the next leg of the Volvo Ocean Race from the harbor in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014. Boats in the Volvo Ocean Race fleet headed for one of the most testing legs of the event between South Africa and Abu Dhabi on Wednesday with the threat of tropical storms awaiting them in the Indian Ocean.

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The flood-affected residential areas included Pondok Mitra Lestari and Pondok Gede Permai housing complexes in Jatiasih Sub-district, Bekasi City, Tio, a local resident, stated on Thursday morning.

Pondok Gede Permai was the worst hit as a dam burst due to the flooding, Kartono, another resident, noted.

The floodwaters in Pondok Gede Permai reached heights ranging be-tween 40 and 60 centimeters.

In the meantime, parts of Ja-karta were also hit by flash floods originating from Bogor, Jakarta, on Thursday morning.

Kampung Pulo and Bidara Cina in East Jakarta were sub-merged in floodwaters reaching a height of up to four meters.

Pancoran and Pasar Minggu in South Jakarta were inundated with waters reaching a height of nearly a meter.

The flash floods from Bogor, West Java, forced 487 inhabit-ants of Kampung Pulo and Bi-dara Cina to evacuate to higher grounds.

Of the 487 evacuees, 430 were residents of Kampung Pulo and 57 of Bidara Cina, Bambang Musyawardana of the Jakarta Di-saster Mitigation Office (BPBD) stated.

They sought refuge in the health office and mosques follow-ing floods that reached heights ranging between 30 centimeters and four meters in East Jakarta, he noted.

“Relief aid comprising food

and medicines have been pro-vided by the health office, and the BPBD is coordinating the relief efforts,” he remarked.

In South Jakarta, the floods affected some 600 households and forced 268 residents to seek temporary shelter.

In the meantime, the Nation-al Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has warned the residents of Jakarta of possible flooding that may inundate the city in the third week of January 2015.

“The floods in January 2014 were lighter than in January 2013. We hope it is much lighter in January 2015, but the people must be ready to face the worst,” Deputy of BNPB’s Emergency Management, Tri Budiarto, re-marked on Tuesday.

Reuters

JAKARTA - Indonesia on Wednesday detained 200 Malaysians found fishing illegally in its waters, as it moves to stem billions of dollars in economic losses, a senior government official told Reuters.

A crackdown on illegal fishing, which costs the vast archipelagic na-tion around $25 billion a year, kicked off this week, Cabinet Secretary Andi Widjajanto told Reuters in a rare interview.

The drive is likely to spark tension with countries in the region, as new President Joko Widodo adopts a more assertive stance on the maritime sector of Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

“The president has said our maritime sector is in a state of emergency...so we need a new, bold approach and that’s why he’s declared a war on il-legal fishing,” said Widjajanto, an expert on defence and foreign affairs.

“We are trying to send a clear message to our neighbours like Malaysia and China, which operate illegal ships in our territory, that this is not a normal situation for us.”

Widjajanto said he expected at least 300 more illegal fishermen to be detained in the next few days.

The comments follow strong rhetoric from Widodo, who called this week for foreign ships to be sunk if they were discovered sailing without permission in Indonesian waters.

“Sink 10 to 20,” the Jakarta Post newspaper reported Widodo as saying. “It would make them think,” he added, referring to illegal fish-ermen.

“But remember to rescue the onboard crew first.”Indonesia also plans to lodge diplomatic protests with the countries

involved, to pre-empt complaints over the capture of their citizens, said Widjajanto.

Indonesia aims to launch a new coastguard force in mid-December tasked with preventing piracy and illegal fishing, and safeguarding mari-time borders, the chief security minister told Reuters last week.

AntaraJAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is

investigating former energy and mineral resource minister Jero Wacik as witness in the corruption case with former lawmaker and chair-man of the Commission VII of the House of Representatives, Sutan Bhatoegana as the suspect.

Sutan Bhatoegana was charged with graft in the process of parlia-mentary debate on energy budget.

Jero Wacik is already named suspect in a related case.Both Bhatoegana and Jero Wacik are former chairmen of the Demo-

crat party of former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyno. “I am summoned by KPK to testify at the KPK building on

Thursday morning. Jero refused to say more but promised to give details after his

investigations by KPK. KPK also has schedule to question of two former lawmakers of

the Democrat faction Natassya Tara and Siti Romlah.On Wednesday, three other Democrat law makers Efi Susilowati,

I Wayan Gunastra, and Tri Yulianto, failed to appear to honor the summon of KPK for investigations in the same case.

For Tri Yulianto, the summon on Wednesday was his second. Sutan Bhatoegana was named suspect implicated by former head of

the Upstream Oil and Gas Regulator (SKK Migas) Rudi Rubiandini, who is already convicted and serving a 7 years jail term for graft case. Rudi Rubiandini said he gave Bhatoegana US$200,000 via Tri Julianto as “Idul Firi allowance” for the lawmakers of the Commis-sion VII of the Parliament.

200 Malaysians captured in crackdown on illegal fishing

Jero Wacik testifying in corruption case

REUTERS/Beawiharta

Volunteers use a paddle raft to move an elderly woman to a safe place at Jatinegara district in Jakarta November 20, 2014. Heavy rain caused flooding in some parts of the capital.

Overflowing Bekasi River inundates residential areasAntara

BEKASI - The residential areas located along the banks of Bekasi River were inundated as it overflowed its banks on Wednesday evening, around midnight.

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Secret Service arrested a man Wednesday after finding a hunting rifle, dozens of rounds of ammunition and a knife in the trunk of his car parked near the White House.

R.J. Kapheim, 41, was arrested on a charge of having an unregistered firearm, which is illegal in the U.S. capital city.

Kapheim was arrested after he approached uniformed officers and explained that someone in the state of

Iowa told him to drive to the White House. He later showed them to his car parked nearby and let officers search the vehicle. It was unclear if Kapheim had a lawyer.

The Secret Service, which protects the president and his family among oth-ers, has been widely criticized in recent months after a series of serious security breaches. In September a Texas man armed with a knife was able to climb over a White House fence and made it deep into the executive mansion. According to an executive summary of a Homeland Security review of that

incident, some officers on the White House grounds that night thought thick bushes near the building’s front door would stop the intruder. They were also surprised when he was able to walk through a pair of doors, which were unlocked.

Earlier Wednesday, Acting Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy told a congressional panel that the agency has fallen short of its goal of perfection and being in the spotlight has had detrimen-tal effects on morale and operational security, “both with potentially dire consequences.”

The news that two young French-men were among the executioners in the latest IS video this weekend was a reminder that violent extrem-ism can attract people from all sorts of environments.

One was identified as Maxime Hauchard, 22, from a village in Normandy in northern France, seen with a knife to the neck of one of the 18 Syrian prisoners decapitated in the video.

“He was a nice boy who never caused problems,” was the re-sponse of one neighbour in Bosc-Roger-en-Roumois, Jeannine, who

Reuters

BEIJING - A man with a history of mental illness stabbed and killed seven people, six of them nurses, at a sanitorium dormitory in northern China on Thursday in the latest of a string of attacks on medical workers, state media reported.

An administrator was among those killed and another nurse was seriously injured in the attack in the early hours of the morning, the official Xinhua news agency said.

A spate of attacks on doctors and nurses in the past two years has prompted the health ministry to provide better security at hospitals.

The sanitorium is in Beidaihe, a seaside resort close to Beijing favoured by senior members of the ruling Communist Party. Beid-aihe has many such institutions, which are normally used as cheap hotels or spas.

Xinhua said the former hospital was under the administration of the Beijing military region, meaning it is likely a military-run facility.

A suspect, who also worked at the sanitorium, has been detained, the Xinhua report said.

The Beijing News identified the suspect as Li Xiaolong, 27, saying he had confessed to having a history of mental illness and had received treatment in Beijing and the nearby city of Tangshan in 2006.

“It is initially understood that the suspect did not have any obvious problems with the deceased,” the newspaper said on its website.

While the Chinese government has ramped up health spending, hospitals are frequently overwhelmed with patients. Doctors are also badly paid, leading to corruption and a suspicion that staff are more interested in making money by prescribing unnecessary drugs and treatment than tending the sick.

Many other Chinese are unable to afford health care despite government efforts to provide a basic safety net, which has also prompted attacks in the past.

Ministry data shows that violent attacks directed at doctors and other health care workers in the form of beatings, threats, kidnap-pings, verbal abuse and murder reached 17,243 cases in 2010, the latest year for which such figures are available.

Jihad lures teens from unsuspected corners of France

Agence France-Presse

PARIS - For the French public, the idea is deeply jarring: youngsters from everyday back-grounds with names like Maxime, Helene and David joining the jihad or turning up in brutal Islamic State execution videos.

watched Hauchard grow up and play with her grandchildren.

“They must have drugged him,” she said.

And there was Helene, the 17-year-old who fled her Parisian life to live “under Sharia law” in Syria earlier this year against the desper-ate pleas of her parents.

In her case, the attraction seems to have been an Egyptian boyfriend who encouraged her to convert to an austere version of Islam two years earlier.

Meanwhile, the picture of a smil-ing, young David Drugeon -- the

24-year-old killed by a US drone in Syria this month -- is hard to square with reports that he was a senior bomb-maker for the Khorasan group, an Al-Qaeda offshoot plan-ning attacks in the West.

Intelligence agencies have long since given up on trying to outline a single profile for those who join the jihad. Studies find a wide mix of poor and wealthy, damaged fam-ily backgrounds and well-adjusted citizens -- the only constant being the young ages involved.

“Today, this discourse (of radi-cal Islam) manages to influence

young people from very diverse family backgrounds,” said Dounia Bouzar, director of the Centre for Prevention Against Islamic Sec-tarianism.

She recently co-authored a report examining the backgrounds of 160 families who had contacted the centre seeking help with a child’s radicalisation.

It found 80 percent of parents declared themselves atheist. Two-thirds were middle class. Almost all their children -- 91 percent -- were indoctrinated via the Internet, with some 63 percent aged between 15 and 21.

Jihadists have “refined their indoctrination techniques... to the point where they can tailor their message to completely different young people,” the report said.

The authors outlined five myths

used to convince people that joining the jihad is a good idea.

There is the image of the “heroic horseman” which works best for boys, or the “humanitarian cause” that has particular traction among young girls.

Some targets are offered the leadership and structure they lacked growing up, while others are look-ing for a real-life version of the combat experienced in video games like “Call of Duty”.

Lastly, there are those simply attracted to the thrill, danger and sense of power.

According to figures published this week by the Le Monde newspa-per, converts to Islam are over-rep-resented. Of 376 French currently in Syria and Iraq, 23 percent were raised in non-Muslim families, the paper said.

Six nurses killed in latest attack on Chinese medical workers

Man arrested near White House with gun in car

Secret Service counter assault team members stand outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. The Secret Service arrested a man Wednesday after finding a hunting rifle, dozens of rounds of ammunition and a knife in the trunk of his car parked near the White House.

AP Photo/Evan Vucci

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In rapid succession on Monday, pharmaceutical giant Actavis said it would pay $66 billion for Al-lergan, which makes the wrinkle-eraser Botox, and oilfield services

company Halliburton said it would take over rival Baker Hughes for $34.6 billion.

Times have never been riper for big deals, mergers-and-acquisitions

bankers told AFP.“A number of factors are driv-

ing M&A activity, including low-cost financing, strong equity mar-kets, more confidence in corporate

boardrooms, and an increasingly competitive deal landscape, where many organizations do not want to be left behind,” said Mark Shafir, co-head of Global M&A at Citi-group.

Jack MacDonald, co-head of Americas M&A at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, explained that companies are making strate-gic acquisitions outside their core businesses in order to accelerate growth.

“Clearly a strong correlation ex-ists between growth and valuation multiples,” he said.

Mergers and acquisitions around the world so far this year have hit $3.16 trillion, according to Dealog-ic, the highest level since the record year of 2007.

More than a third of those trans-actions have taken place in the United States.

Deals have been largest in sec-tors where the entire industrial landscape is shifting fast.

In technology, the cash-laden tech giants like Facebook, Google and Yahoo are constantly on the prowl for startups to prevent rivals from getting ahead of them.

In pharmaceuticals, generic drug makers like Teva and Mylan are challenging huge companies like Pfizer, which is suffering from the expiration of patents on flagship medications.

Nearly $384 billion in transac-tions have been recorded in the drugs sector since January, up 45.5 percent from a year ago, said Dealogic.

The number would have been bigger if AbbVie had not dropped

its $54 billion bid for Shire after the US government took action to hinder “inversion” deals focused on relocating a US company to a cheaper tax domicile like Ireland via a merger.

In telecoms, deals are being driven by cable and cellphone companies’ need to build na-tional subscriber bases as they compete to deliver entertainment content to users across different platforms.

Cable operator Comcast is buy-ing rival Time Warner Cable for 45.2 billion dollars, while AT&T is merging with Direct TV in a deal valued at 48.5 billion dollars.

The media and entertainment business has also been part of this frenzy.

Over the summer, media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox reluctantly gave up its nearly $80 billion bid to buy rival Time Warner -- the former parent of Time Warner Cable.

With rivals so hungry, some companies “do not want to be left behind,” said Shafir.

Ultra-low interest rates, the re-sult of central banks’ expansionary monetary policies, are helping to drive the takeover fever. To finance deals, companies can easily raise billions of dollars in cheap debt.

Also supporting the deals are the strong stock markets, which boost the value of the buyers and their targets.

US corporate chiefs, free of fears of another recession unlike their counterparts in Europe and Japan, are much more willing to go on the hunt, said MacDonald.

Fishermen and tourism stakehold-ers with the Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Affairs initiated an effort to rescue and preserve the coral reef at Lovina. One of the conservation efforts for the coral reef is that fish-ermen coalesced into the members of the Cipta Karya Bahari fishermen group sank 27 hexadome fish home.

The event of drowning fish home denoting the assistance from the Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Af-fairs was centered on Lovina Beach attended by the Agency Head Nyo-man Sutrisna, Wednesday (Nov 19). Besides, he was also accompanied by a legislator of the Buleleng House doubling as Chairperson of the PDI-P Faction Ni Kadek Turkini, headman

of Kalibukbuk Ketut Suka and a number of divers.

Ketut Suka accompanied by one of the fishermen, Edi Arianto, said that so far Lovina Beach was only famous as a tourist center in Buleleng with dolphin attraction as the mainstay. Other than dolphin attraction, Lovina also had coral reef garden. The area of coral reef garden approximately reached 50 hectares spreading from the Spice Dive at Kaliasem village (Banjar subdistrict) in the west to the east on Penimbangan Beach, Singa-raja. Condition of the coral reef was still very good where different types of coral grew well. However, lately the ornamental fish population in coral reef areas had started to decline.

If such condition was neglected, it could have an impact on the coral reef. To that end, a group of fishermen along with tourism stakeholders on Lovina Beach attempted to preserve the coral reef on Lovina Beach and surrounding areas.

Meanwhile, Sutrisna said the in-stallation of fish home in some coastal areas having the potential of coral reef continued to be encouraged. This effort was made by accommodating the submission of assistance propos-als by fishermen group and marine tourism players. The addition of the fish home posed an effective effort in conserving coral reef and stimulating the development of ornamental fish population. (mud)

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve policy-makers discussed a variety of economic threats at their October meeting — from turbu-lent financial markets to overseas weakness — but decided to move forward with plans to end their landmark bond buying program.

Minutes of the Fed’s Oct. 28-29 meeting released on Wednesday showed that Fed officials grappled with a number of developments, from sharp moves in U.S. stock prices to increased signs of weak-ness in such key regions as Europe and Asia. They also expressed con-cern that inflation, which has been

running below the Fed’s target of 2 percent, could drift lower because of falling energy prices and a strengthening U.S. dollar.

A number of Fed officials noted that economic growth might be slower over the medium term than currently expected if foreign economic conditions or financial markets deteriorated significantly, the minutes said. But the officials also expressed confidence that the U.S. economy was on solid footing and expected to keep improving.

The minutes cited the “some-what weaker economic outlook and increased downsides risks in Europe, China and Japan.” But it said that Fed officials believed

the impact would likely be “quite limited” on the U.S. economy, in part because they expected that the slowdown in overseas demand would likely be less severe than initially feared.

Wall Street staged a big rally af-ter release of the September meet-ing minutes as investors assumed that the Fed would delay a rate hike because of concerns about weakness overseas. However, the release of the October minutes had little market impact. Economists said the comments did not alter their expectation that the first rate hike would probably take place around June of next year.

“The timing will depend on the

data ... nothing very definitive,” said Jim O’Sullivan, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics.

The minutes showed that for a second meeting there was a debate over the language outlining the pace of interest rate hikes. Board members debated whether or not to remove language Fed officials have used since the spring that they expected to keep a key short-term interest rate low for a “consider-able time” after halting monthly bond purchases.

The Fed decided to keep the “considerable time” wording because officials worried that its removal could be misinterpreted

and cause markets to drive in-terest rates higher and harm the recovery.

Private economists do not ex-pect the Fed to begin raising interest rates until mid-2015 and nothing revealed by the discussion in the minutes was likely to alter their view.

The minutes of the Oct. 28-29 meeting were released with the customary three-week delay. At the October meeting the Fed announced that it was ending its bond buying program, which it had been gradually reducing since last December. That program was aimed at keeping long-term inter-est rates low.

Fed sees solid US economy, despite new threats

AP Photo/Richard Drew

The Wall Street entrance of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. Mega-merger fever is back on Wall Street, six years after the financial crisis, and 2014 is shaping up as a record year for takeovers in a sign of US corporate optimism.

Merger fever back on Wall StreetAgence France-Presse

NEW YORK - Mega-merger fever is back on Wall Street, six years after the financial crisis, and 2014 is shaping up as a record year for takeovers in a sign of US corporate optimism.

Bali Post

AMLAPURA - Tenganan Village or better known as Ten-ganan Pegringsingan is one of many ancient villages on the Is-land of Bali. Life pattern of the community reflects the culture and customs of Bali Aga (pre-Hindu) tradition being different from other villages in Bali.

On that account, Tenganan Village is developed into one of the objects and cultural tour-ist attractions. Tenganan Pe-gringsingan sits in the Mang-gis Subdistrict, about 17 km from Amlapura town—regency capital of Karangasem—5 km from Candidasa tourist resort, and about 65 km east of Denpasar. Another attrac-tion owned by Tenganan Vil-lage is the Mekare-kare ritual tradition or better known as ‘pandanus war.’

Mekaré-kare is the culmi-nation of a series of Ngusaba Sambah ceremonial proces-sion held in June lasting for 30 days. During a month long

procession, the Mekaré-kare event is organized for 2-4 times and each event will be accompanied with the presen-tation of offerings to the ances-tors. Mekaré-kare or ‘pandanus war’ is carried out by men from children to old people.

As the name implies, the means used are thorny pan-danus leaves cut into pieces along ± 30 cm as a weapon and accompanied with a shield which serves to fend off the attacks from the scratches of pandanus thorn conducted by the opponent. Any injuries caused by scratches of the pan-danus thorn will be smeared with herbal ingredients such as galangal, turmeric, and some others.

Mekaré-kare essentially has the same meaning as the cock-fighting usually performed by Hindus in Bali when carrying out religious ceremonies. Me-karé-kare event is always ac-companied by native gamelan music to Tenganan Village, known as Selonding.

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Mekaré-kare essentially has the same meaning as the cockfighting usually performed by Hindus in Bali when carrying out religious ceremonies. Mekaré-kare event is al-ways accompanied by native gamelan music to Tenganan Village, known as Selonding.

Mekare-kare Tradition at

Tenganan Village

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Fishermen and tourism stakeholders with the Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Affairs initiated an effort to rescue and preserve the coral reef at Lovina. One of the conservation efforts for the coral reef is that fishermen coalesced into the members of the Cipta Karya Bahari fishermen group sank 27 hexadome fish home.

To develop marine tourism, fishermen

sink hexadomesBali Post

SINGARAJA - Lovina Beach at Kalibukbuk village, Buleleng subdistrict is recently known as the center of tourism in North Bali. At this village, the object highlighted is dolphin attraction and snorkeling. In recent years, the underwater tourism potential with panoramic ornamental fish population and coral reefs has been started to be worked on.

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Stone carving artisans also re-ceive an increase in the orders, especially the artisans making sandstone items used for temple building. One of the artisans enjoy-ing this blessing is Made Suwartika, a stone carver from Silakarang, Singapadu Kaler, Gianyar.

“Before holiday, many people are renovating or building a temple. So, my order has increased since the beginning of this November,” said Made Suwartika. Since the begin-ning of November, he already got the orders for the making of four sets of shrines and they were still in progress.

Each set of the shrine were sold at different prices. When made from the original sandstone of Silakarang, the price could reach IDR 2.5 million, while the ones made from the mixture could be cheaper.

He said that for the construction of temple or carving of house orna-ment, the buyers usually requested the sculptures made from sandstone of Silakarang. “The items made without any mixture will be durable and will harden like fossils when getting older. However, the items made from mixed materials are not like that,” he said. (nik)

A U.N. committee on Tuesday adopted the resolution urging the Security Council to refer the North’s rights situation to the International Criminal Court. It’s the first time a U.N. resolution included the idea that the North’s absolute leader Kim Jong Un could be targeted by prosecutors. Before the U.N. vote, a North Korean envoy threatened a nuclear test.

On Thursday, Pyongyang’s For-eign Ministry called the resolution’s approval a “grave political provoca-tion,” saying it was orchestrated by the U.S. though it was drafted by the European Union and Japan.

An unidentified ministry spokes-man told state media that the North’s war deterrence will be strength-ened in an “unlimited manner” to cope with U.S. hostility, which is “compelling us not to refrain from conducting a new nuclear test any longer.” His comments on the nuclear test were near identical to what Choe Myong Nam, a foreign ministry adviser for U.N. and hu-man rights issues, said at the U.N.

The North has used similar rhetoric previously when there has been increased tension with other countries.

Analysts say it’s unlikely the North will follow through on its threats to conduct a nuclear test because that would invite further international condemnation and derail efforts to attract foreign investment and aid to revive its moribund economy.

China and Russia, which hold veto power on the Security Coun-cil, will not let the council refer the North’s rights situation to the criminal court, but North Korea also knows the two countries do not want another nuclear test by Pyongyang, said Lim Eul Chul, a North Korea expert at South Ko-rea’s Kyungnam University. China and Russia voted against the non-binding resolution, which goes to the General Assembly for a vote in the coming weeks.

North Korea, however, often confounds outside analysts’ pre-dictions and doesn’t always act ac-

cording to a set pattern. Two deadly attacks blamed on Pyongyang that killed 50 South Koreans in 2010 were a surprise because they came amid relatively easing tensions with the U.S. and South Korea.

The U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies said Wednes-day the North may be restarting a plant that can reprocess nuclear fuel into weapons-grade plutonium for the first time in six years. The find-ing is based on analysis of recent commercial satellite imagery at the North’s main nuclear facility.

North Korea conducted an atomic bomb test in 2006, 2009 and 2013, each time inviting international sanctions. A fourth test would mark another defiant response to U.S.-led international pressure on North Korea to aban-don its nuclear weapons program, because that could put the country a step closer to the goal of pro-ducing warheads small enough to mount on a missile capable of reaching the U.S.

Bali Post

AMLAPURA - A total of 51 endangered green sea turtles were smuggled using a motorboat by six crews from Saseen village, Sepekan subdistrict, Sumenep Madura. As planned, those turtles would be sent to a turtle breeding on Serangan Island, Denpasar. The smuggling could be foiled after the vessel carrying the turtle got damage and should be pulled ashore.

The six crews were named as suspects consisting of Firdaus, 30, Muharram, 29, Bakri, 39, Rico, 28, Asan Arman, 32, and Arif, 23. They departed from Sesehan Beach on Tuesday (Nov 18) around 09:00 a.m. and conveyed 51 green turtles belonging to unknown sender. “We are only assigned to bring the ves-sel and paid IDR 300,000 to the destination,” said Bakri, one of the suspects secured at the Marine Police station, Kubu, Wednesday (Nov 19).

Bakri claimed not to know about the turtle owner because during the delivery he never met or commu-nicated to the owner. In addition, the turtles in the vessel had been placed before the crews got into

the vessel.Initially, he and his five friends

did not get any obstacles and could pass the surveillance of patrol at sea waters in Madura and Situbondo. When entering the waters of Kubu, suddenly the fuel pipe leaked. Bakri and his colleagues were confused to find out a safe place to repair the damage and buy fuel. “The engine is not out of order. Due to heat, it then leaked in the pipe, so that we stop the voyage while cooling down the engine,” he said.

The existence of the vessel caused the people on the beach of Nusu hamlet, Sukadana village, Kubu, to be suspicious. Commu-nity member reported the vessel to Kubu Marine Police. From the report, the patrol boat of Kubu Marine Police directly pursued and succeeded in approaching the boat. A number of completely armed police jumped out to the boat to search the entire contents of the boat.

As a result, police found 51 live green turtles on the lower deck of the motor boat. Police then asked the six crews to present the docu-ment for the entire endangered sea turtles. Unfortunately, none of the

crews could show the document. Ultimately police pulled the motor boat to the shore near the Kubu Marine Police. The six crews were directly secured at the Marine Po-lice station.

Before the police officers, none of the six crews admitted as the master or captain of the ves-sel. “There is no captain, sir. We all are workers here and paid IDR 300,000. This vessel is driven by the six of us,” replied Bakri.

All the endangered turtles were evacuated from the vessel’s deck to one of the trucks to be further conveyed to Bali Police with the six suspects. Section Chief of SAR Guidance, Directorate of Bali Marine Police, Putu Swara Dinata, admitted the turtle smuggling case had become the target of operation all this time.

Previously, a number of parties mentioned if the turtles sold in the breeding site were not the result of breeding but contraband from a number of regions. Due to their act, the six suspects would be charged with Article 21 and 40, paragraph 2, Law No. 5/1990 on protected wild-life with the threat of imprisonment for five years. (dwa)

Blessing of Galungan Feast

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Stone carving artisans also receive an increase in the orders during Galungan feast, especially the artisans making sand-stone items used for temple building.

Bali Post

GIANYAR - Galungan Feast falling in next December does not only bring in blessing to the sellers of young coconut leaf or ritual paraphernalia.

IBP/Dewa Farend

Police officers moved turtles from the boat. A total of 51 endangered green sea turtles were smuggled using a motorboat by six crews from Saseen village, Sepekan subdistrict, Sume-nep Madura. As planned, those turtles would be sent to a turtle breeding on Serangan Island, Denpasar.

Smuggling of 51 green turtles baulkedReuters

SEOUL - A South Korean court on Thursday sentenced the head

of the company that operated a ferry which capsized in April to 10 years in jail over his role in the country’s worst maritime disaster in decades.

Kim Han-sik, the chief executive of Chonghaejin Marine, was found guilty of negligence causing death and embezzlement.

His sentence was the toughest penalty handed down to anyone other than the ferry’s crew over the deaths of 304 passengers, most of them teenage children. Only 172 of the ferry’s 476 passengers and crew were rescued.

Kim apologised to the families of the victims but said last month that he was simply a paid employee of the company and the decisions that led to the disaster were made by the firm’s de-facto owner, Yoo Byung-un, media reports said.

Yoo, who was the head of the family that owned a holding com-pany at the centre of a network of business interests that included the ferry operator, was found dead in June.

The overloaded Sewol capsized while making a turn on a routine voyage to the holiday island of Jeju. The vessel was later found to be defective, with additions made to increase passenger capacity making it top-heavy and unstable.

The court found other executives of the firm to three to six years in prison for negligence and embezzlement. The officials were guilty of knowingly operating the ferry that was dangerous, and there was “considerable causal relationship” between their jobs and the disaster, the court said.

The 15 surviving crew members including the captain were con-victed last week on negligence charges and sentenced to between five and 36 years in jail.

Reuters NEW DELHI - A self-styled

Indian re l igious leader was charged on Thursday with sedi-tion and waging war against the state after a days-long siege of his sprawling compound ended in his arrest along with 450 hardcore followers.

Police evacuated more than 10,000 followers on Wednesday from the fortified compound of a bizarre cult headed by ‘god-man’ Satguru Rampalji Maharaj before capturing him late in the evening.

Rampal, as the 63-year-old former engineer is known to his followers, was shown in TV news footage gripping the bars of a holding cell. He had been wanted for ignoring more than 40 court summonses in connection with a murder case.

“I am innocent,” Rampal told reporters as he was brought out, handcuffed, from a court in the northwestern city of Chandigarh. “All allegations against me are false.”

Police used tear gas, water cannon and bulldozers to storm Rampal’s 12-acre (5-hectare) base on Wednesday, breaching resistance from a human chain of supporters outside, and men throwing stones and bottles filled with acid from its roof.

Officials said the bodies of five women and one infant had been found. There were no bul-let marks or injuries on the dead, who were sent for postmortem examinations.

Tensions rose last week after a judge ordered Rampal’s arrest over a 2006 murder case, in which he is accused of telling supporters to open fire on villagers, killing one and injuring six.

Rampal heads a sect that wor-ships the 15th-century poet and mystic Kabir, known for a mes-sage of tolerance that is followed by people of varied faiths.

He is one of an array of spiri-tual leaders in India who attract devoted followings and, in some cases, gain significant money, power and political influence.

AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

In this Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014 photo, a North Korean flag flutters in the wind atop a 160-meter (533-foot) tower in the village of Gijungdong, near the North side of the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea. North Korea threatened Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 to bolster its war capability and conduct a fourth nuclear test to cope with what it calls U.S. hostility that led to the approval of a landmark U.N. resolution on its human rights violations.

North Korea threatens to beef up military capability

Associated Press

SEOUL — North Korea threatened Thursday to bolster its war capability and conduct a fourth nuclear test to cope with what it calls U.S. hostility that led to the approval of a landmark U.N. resolution on its human rights violations.

Indian police capture cult leader,

six dead

Ferry operator chief sentenced to

10 years in jail

3Friday, November 21, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsFashion Friday, November 21, 2014

The campaign features television, print and digital ads, a social media push and an interac-tive Times Square billboard that lets people share “love moments.”

The new campaign, announced Tuesday, ar-rives with the retailer facing growing competi-tion from companies like L’Oreal and Estee Lauder.

There also have been a number of new faces in executive offices at Revlon over the past year or so, as the New York company has attempted to re-energize growth. Revlon Inc. named Lorenzo Delpani CEO last fall and also has changed chief financial officers and chief operating officers.

Late last year, the company said it would leave China and trim more than 1,000 jobs as part of a cost-cutting measure.

Besides its namesake brand of makeup and hair dye, Revlon also makes cosmetics under its Almay and SinfulColors brands.

Revlon shares climbed 45 cents to $33.20

in midday trading Tuesday while broader indexes also rose slightly. The stock had climbed 31 percent so far this year, as of Monday’s close.

Associated Press

MILAN — Adrien Brody has long had a flair for fashion, but don’t mis-take the beard the actor is currently sporting as a bow to trend. It’s for his latest movie role as Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in “Emperor.”

The Oscar-winning actor told a black tie gala to celebrate the 2015 Pirelli calendar that he’s “Charles V by day, Adrien Brody by night.”

“Please excuse the beard,” he added, perhaps unaware that beards have caught on in Europe’s fashion capitals.

Brody, who wore Zegna to pick up his 2003 Oscar for “The Pianist” and has walked the runway for Prada, looked stylish in a dark Dolce&Gabbana three-piece suit with tuxedo trousers.

“I like to put on a suit once in a while and have fun,” the actor said as he arrived to be master of ceremonies Tuesday evening at the globe-trotting annual gala, held for a second year in Milan.

The Pirelli calendar over the last half-century has become a highly prized cult object that counts among its recipients the Vatican, Buckingham Palace and the King of Morocco. The 2015 edition by reclusive fashion photographer Steven Meisel recreates stereotypical pinup images with top models scantily clad in latex.

This May 4, 2013 file photo released by Starpix shows

Revlon brand ambassadors Emma Stone, left, and Oliv-ia Wilde at the 16th Annual

EIF Revlon Run Walk For Women’s Cancer Research, in

New York. Stone and Wilde are featured in Revlon’s global “Love is On” marketing campaign, which was

announced Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014.

Revlon tries to turn heads with new marketing pushAssociated Press

Revlon is looking for love to spice up its brand recognition. The beauty prod-ucts maker is launching its global “Love is On” marketing campaign, hoping to regain its lofty spot in the pecking order of cosmetic brands.

AP Photo/Starpix, Amanda Schwab, File

Adrien Brody fashion forward for Pirelli calendar

AP Photo/Giuseppe Aresu

CEO Pirelli Group Marco Tronchetti Provera, fourth from left, poses with some of the models of the Pirelli 2015 Calendar by Steven Meisel, unveiled in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. From left, Gigi Hadid, Karen Elson, Candice Huffine, Isabeli Fontana and Sasha Luss.

Indonesia is a relatively new country invaded by the onslaught of the OTT applications. In some developed countries such as the USA, Germany, UK, Japan and South Korea, the OTT applications have existed since 5 years ago. Even, these countries are the origin of a variety OTT applications now used globally.

When the content developers reap tens of millions of dollars due to high interest of mobile phone users to use their applications, the telecom operators are actually get-ting crash. Then, the term ‘dumb pipe’ emerges among the telecom operators. It appears by seeing the global phenomenon experienced by the operators around the world today, where the operator’s net-work is only used to transfer bytes of data between the customer’s device and the internet.

Modestly, the term ‘dumb’ arises because the operator only provides network pipeline to meet the bandwidth needs of large cus-tomers in the direction of content providers, without having the ca-pability to direct customers to its portal or application. The success story and triumph of the mobile telecommunication industry turns into a story of collapse.

In Indonesia, the OTT appli-cations began storming around 3 years ago. The onslaught of the OTT applications, especially instant messaging category and social media, are able to put Indo-nesia in the third to fifth position as the country with the largest users.

Being unwilling to experience the same fate with the major mobile operators in developed countries, the mobile operators

in the country are trying to find a solution and reflect from the bitter experience of mobile industry in developed countries. Telkomsel as the largest operator in Indonesia with the subscribers reaching 139.3 million—based on the report in the third quarter of 2014—does not want to be arrogant.

As it does not want to be ‘a dumb pipe,’ Telkomsel tries to turn it into “smart pipe”. The entire ecosystem to survive in the future digital business consisting of the device, network and application (DNA) are worked on simultane-ously. According to the Director of Telkomsel, Alex J. Sinaga, Telkom-sel attempted to develop a digital business through a variety of new breakthroughs such as products, services and technologies.

This digital business is sup-ported by the establishment of ecosystem through three factors, namely the availability of device, reliable network and provision of varied applications. Especially for digital services, Telkomsel provides a wide range of digital services divided into six categories of product, namely digital music services, portal and social media, mobile news and directory ser-vices, mobile games and enter-tainment services, payment and banking services as well as digital advertising services.

Judging from the results of the third quarter of 2014, Telkom-sel successfully developed this ecosystem with the presence of double-digit growth in three con-secutive years. This good note, said Alex, was driven by strong growth in the digital business of 32.5 per-cent YoY, where mobile broadband

grew 32.9 percent YoY and digital services grew 28.4 percent YoY.

Data traffic also rose sharply 146.1 percent compared to the previous year. At the same time, Telkomsel managed to maintain the growth of voice services by 7.2 percent YoY and SMS as much as 2.8 percent YoY. “In the future, we are committed to providing mobile broadband services and building infrastructure on an ongo-ing basis in order to accelerate the realization of the Digital Society of Indonesia. Up to now, we have reached more than 95 percent of the total Indonesian population, built 369 cities as broadband city supported by more than 83,000 BTS where 37,000 of them belong to 3G BTS,” said Alex.

He also explained that cur-rently Telkomsel had 63.5 million data subscribers or more than 46 percent of the total customers. In addition, it currently had 35.4 million subscribers of smartphone users representing 25 percent of the total subscribers. To increase the use of mobile broadband in Indonesia, Telkomsel conducted a series of educational program entitled ‘Indonesia Holds Internet.’ The program was expected to drive the adoption of 3G smartphone by 2G customers and provide positive benefits of the internet as much as possible for the people of Indonesia.

Not only usersIn addition to educating the use

of the internet, Telkomsel also seeks to sensitize young people not only to be users of all sorts of con-tent available on the market. The VP Sales and Marketing Telkomsel of Java and Bali Region, Herry Setiawan, recently expressed that the making of content did not nec-essarily need huge funds and was not complicated. With creativity, he was confident that young people had a great opportunity to make the content industry a promising

future.Even, to raise the local content

creators among young people, Telkomsel already held Loop Kreatif Project (KePo) program in several major cities in Indonesia. Denpasar was the last city hosting the event. In the one-day event, younger generations were given training on mobile video and digi-tal writing. “With this event, we hope the younger generation is aware of the magnitude of the op-portunity to create content through simple things, like making a short film or writing a story to be sold in the digital market of Telkomsel,” he said.

GM Sales Telkomsel for Bali-Nusra Region, Gatot P. Utomo, affirmed that cellular operators could no longer just focus on tele-communications but should plunge into a digital company. In order to survive, Telkomsel also embraced many OTTs like the Facebook and Twitter, ranging from preparing some interesting data packages to the integration into the SMS and voice. Other OTT services cover-ing the Google with SMS transla-tor, Opera Mini internet package and KakaoTalk were also worked on by Telkomsel. In addition, Telkomsel also provided a carrier billing scheme that was ready to serve the purchase of application in the application stores such as Google Play and Windows Phone Store for Lumia or in-app purchase like buying a sticker on the Line.

Local content developers, said Gatot, were also taken to make cooperation by Telkomsel through an institution named Teman Dev. Teman Dev or Telkomsel Applica-tion Developer posed a program of Telkomsel to embrace the Indone-sian local application developers so as to be able to cooperate in generating creative digital in-dustries in Indonesia. Currently, dozens of applications from a variety of categories for various platforms had been available and

could be selected on the website of Telkomsel.

One of the local content de-velopers, Putu Sudiarta, admitted to have been making cooperation with Telkomsel and its parent com-pany, Telkom, for marketing the contents produced. He hoped that Indonesia began to appear as a na-tion having self-confidence in the matter of this digital application. It also covered the independency in many ways, including in mobile applications whose vendors had started to exist. “People need to love the domestically-made apps and the government must give its alignments to position Indonesia not only as consumers but also as producers of information. It is not only as the user, but also as the creator, not only shopping but also selling,” he said. (iah)

“Tens of boats are on standby in the sea at any point of time. Just in a day, 40 boats patrol the eastern Indonesian waters,” Chief of the Eastern Fleet Com-mand Rear Admiral Arie Hen-

Navy deploys 40 patrol boats to curb fuel smugglingAntara

NUSA DUA - The Indonesian Navy (TNI AL) is deploying at least 40 patrol boats in the eastern Indonesian waters to thwart fuel smuggling activities.

drikus Sembiring remarked at Nusa Dua in Bali province on Wednesday.

The boats took turns patrol-ling the waters, he noted.

The eastern part of Indonesia

with a long coastline has poten-tial oil deposits, he stated.

The Indonesian areas border-ing Timor Leste are among the areas ranked high on the list of priorities to anticipate fuel

smuggling, he pointed out.“We have committed our-

selves to securing the waters. Safeguarding the border areas has become a priority of the National Defense Forces (TNI),” he emphasized.

Secretary of the Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Special Task Force (SKK Migas) Gde

Pradnyana stated that the coastal areas are prone to fuel smug-gling activities.

Pradnyana expressed concern that the smuggling activities will result in huge losses to the state and will have an even more adverse effect as the oil and gas sector contributes up to 30 per-cent of the state income.

Indonesia besieged by foreign OTT applications (2 --End)Telkomsel turns “dumb pipe” into “smart pipe”

LOCAL content developers consider the invasion of the OTT applications a threat and challenge. Similarly, cellular operators having lived comfortably for dozens

of years by relying on SMS and voice revenues are also forced to think hard in order to survive in the cur-

rent telecommunications industry.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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Calendar Event for November 7 through 20, 2014

7th Purnama Sasih KalimaTemple Festival at:Aci-Aci Penawung Di Pura Batmadeg-BesakihPr. Pande Bang- Ds. Camnggaon, Sukawati.Pr. Kentel Gumi- Ds. Batur, Kintamani.Pr. Pedharman Agung- Satria, Denpasar.Ngusabha Di Pura Kehen- Bangli.Pr. Segara – Br. Sasih, BatubulanPr. Desa Pemenang- LombokPr. Agung Pasek Gelgel-Ds. Sumertha, DenpasarPr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Kekeran Delod Sema, MengwiPr. Dalem Puri Agung – KintamaniPr. Dalem Agung- Br. Sekar, Nongan, KarangasemPr. Dalem Balingkang- Ds. Pinggan, KintamaniPr. Tampur Hyang Pusat/Kawitan Maha Gotra Catur Sanak- Ds. Songan,

KintamaniPr. Dalem Pulasari- Ds. Bantas, Sudaji, BulelengMr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Lebih, GianyarPr. Panyungsungan Pasek Toh Jiwa- Ds. Wanagiri, Selemadeg, TabananPamerajan Agung Pamecutan- DenpasarPr. Suranadhi- Lombok,Pr. Pucak Bukit- TampaksiringPr. Dalem Ubung Kupang- Ds. Dukuh, Panebel, TabananPr. Pasar Agung Besakih- Ds. Sebudi, KarangasemPr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Tengkulak Kaja, Kemenuh- GianyarPr. Suci- Ds. Tianyar, Kubu, KarangasemPr. Dadia Dalem Renon- Br. Kukuh, Kerambitan, Tabanan, Ds. Adat ,Andala Merta Ds. Kenangan /SP Sembilan

12th Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan/ Buda Kliwon Gumbreg

Temple Festival at:Pr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Kukuh,Marga, TabananPr. Pasek Gelgel – Ds. Kukuh, Selemadeg, TabananPr. Pasek Gelgel- Ds. Mambang, Selemadeg, TabananPr. Puseh+Desa- Ds. Guwang, SukawatiMr. Pasek Ketewel- Ds. Ketewel, Sukawati,Pr. Pangeran Tangkas Kori Agung- Jeroan SadingPr. Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul- Ds. Suwana Nusa Penida

17th Coma Kliwon Wariga, Temple Festival at: Pr. Gelap - Besakih

19th Buda Paing Wariga,Temple Festival at:Pr. Jati- Ds. BaturMr. Pasek Gaduh- Ds. Kayubihi,Bangli

The heavenly Holiday Inn Resort Baruna Bali is built in a traditional low-rise Balinese style, complementing its scenic setting. Order cocktails at the pool’s swim-up bar or dine on grilled specialties on the beach at ENVY, their chill-out restaurant, famous for its tagline; “food, cocktails, sunsets” apparently quite popular amongst the island’s jet-setters with its laid-back island feel.

Admire blissful views of Kuta beach or the pool and tropical gardens from your Guest room’s private balcony. The 193 rooms are completed with wireless superior internet connectivity, 32’ flat screen satellite television, CD/DVD player, individually controlled air-conditioning, direct dial telephone, mini refrigerator, in-room safe, iron & ironing board, tea & coffee making facilities as well as radio & ipod dock.

Stroll along the water’s edge to downtown Kuta’s shops and restaurants, and catch Bali ‘s romantic multicolored sunsets from the sandy beach. There’s entertainment in the teens’ room and at Rascals kids’ club, so the kids can play while you indulge yourself with a soothing massage in ocean-facing Tea Tree Spa. Enjoy the resort’s evening entertainment, and lounge at the beach front bar listening to chill-out music.

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Bali PostBANGLI - The Association of River, Lake and Crossing Transport (Gapasdap)

of Lake Batur will propose the crossing tariff increase from Kedisan to Trunyan Pier. It was following the fuel price hike on Tuesday (Nov 18). As planned, the crossing tariff to the tourism village will be increased by 30 percent following the current fuel price hike.

Chairman of the Gapasdap, Nengah Dester, said on Wednesday (Nov 19) the proposal of crossing tariff increase would be submitted to the Bangli Transpor-tation Agency, Thursday (Nov 20). He said that he would propose a 30-percent rise. “Magnitude of the tariff increase will be adjusted to the recent fuel price hike. The proposal has been prepared and will be submitted tomorrow (Nov 20—Ed),” said Dester.

His party hoped the proposal could be immediately approved by the govern-ment. Currently the increase in fuel price had triggered the rising prices in a number of primary needs.

Obviously the increase in fuel price as much as IDR 2,000 would also trigger the high operational costs to be paid. “We just can raise the crossing tariff after the Regent Decree has been issued,” he explained.

He added that all this time, the transportation tariff by motor boat from Kedisan to Trunyan Pier was set around IDR 500,000 for 7 travelers.

Aside from proposing the increase in the crossing tariff, the increase in subsi-dized fuel price announced last Tuesday (Nov 18) also made the public transport drivers in Bangli complain. They admitted if the increase in fuel price at IDR 2,000 per liter had further increased their burden. To get around the risk of losses amidst the shortage of passenger, the transportation drivers had also raised the tariff as much as IDR 1,000 to IDR 2,000.

Suena is one of the drivers of public transportation serving the Bangli-Kinta-mani line. After the enactment of the fuel price hike, he claimed to have made an agreement among the drivers to raise the transport tariff. Previously, the transport tariff of Bangli-Kubu line set at IDR 4,000 was increased to IDR 5,000. Then, for passengers to Kintamani were charged at IDR 10,000. (ina)

“Foreign exchange earnings are able to provide a contribu-tion of 21.69 percent of the total exports of Bali reaching USD 421.50 million,” said the Section Head of the Foreign Trade Affairs, Bali Industry and Trade Agency, Putu Sutaryana, in Denpasar.

He said that eight of dozen fishery and marine products of the Island of the Gods could pen-etrate foreign markets. The most prominent product was tuna in fresh and frozen condition.

Tuna could generate income amounting to USD 63.47 mil-lion during the first ten months of 2014. It only showed a slight increase of 0.03 percent over the same period in the previous year recorded to reach USD 63.45 million.

The tuna was caught by fish-ermen and big vessels operated

by a number of companies. The vessels based at Benoa Harbor, Denpasar. However, the opera-tion areas were in the waters of Indonesia, particularly in Eastern Indonesia.

Putu Sutaryana explained the other fishery product com-modities could penetrate foreign markets with the amount of USD 11.77 million, slumped as much as 5.08 percent compared to the same period in the previous year reaching USD 12.40 million.

In addition, grouper also gen-erated USD 8.15 million but declined 7.90 percent compared to the same period last year reach-ing USD 8.85 million. Likewise, the export of live ornamental fish generated USD 2.71 million, snapper (USD 3.13 million), crab (USD 87,156) and shark fin (USD 49,540).

Two other commodities

namely seaweed and fingerlings could no longer penetrate the export market, whereas last year the two commodities were quite potential. Most fish and shrimp catch by Balinese fishermen were absorbed by the market of Japan reaching 29.62 percent, the US (22.83 percent) and Thailand (16.57 percent).

In addition, it was also ab-sorbed by the market of Singa-pore as much as 1.27 percent, Australia (6.47 percent), Hong Kong (3.37 percent), the UK (0.59 percent), the Netherlands (0.45 percent) and France (0.37 percent). Meanwhile, the re-maining 18.45 percent was ab-sorbed by some other countries around the world. Indeed, fish and shrimp caught by local fish-ermen in open water were able to compete in foreign markets. (kmb27)

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Tuna could generate income amounting to USD 63.47 million during the first ten months of 2014. It only showed a slight increase of 0.03 percent over the same period in the previous year recorded to reach USD 63.45 million.

Export of Bali fishery declines, tuna products most prominentBali Post

DENPASAr - Bali reaps foreign exchange amounting to USD 91.43 million from the shipping of fishery and marine products during the ten-month period from January to October 2014. The result decreased 2.78 percent compared to the same period last year reaching USD 94.05 million.

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The Association of River, Lake and Crossing Transport (Gapasdap) of Lake Batur will propose the crossing tariff increase from Kedisan to Trunyan Pier. It was following the fuel price hike on Tuesday (Nov 18).

Impact of fuel price hikeCrossing tariff at Trunyan proposed to rise 30 percent

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Such condition was recognized by the team leader, I Nyoman Sang-ging, recently. For few times of making patrol in the sea, he found many violations in the conservation zone. Especially it happened to the core zone and tourism zone that should be free from any exploita-tion. However, the coral bombings

remained to happen.He said that such threat was

once found in a favorite diving site among foreign travelers in the waters of Manta Point, Jungut Batu. He asserted the violation occurred as a result of manta fish hunting. By all means, the hunting was mostly done at night. One of the Jungut

Batu residents, I Made Tono, also confirmed such a condition. He told that many fishermen did fish bombing at night in the waters of Jungut Batu.

“The bombing is very hazard-ous for the survival of coral reefs,” he said. Sangging who is also the Unit Head of Livestock, Fisher-

ies and Maritime Affairs of Nusa Penida subdistrict said that with the restricted equipment owned by patrol team, he complained about the bombings.

He acknowledged the restricted-ness of facilities and infrastructure became a serious obstacle. Nusa Penida conservation zone, accord-ing to him, was very extensive. Thus, it was quite difficult to con-duct a thorough patrol until night. Sometimes the weather around the conservation zone was erratic. It was a challenge and the task was quite risky, especially in the area of Manta Point.

On that account, his party planned to conduct a night patrol in collaboration with a number of related parties such as the Navy, Marine Police and local commu-nity. The cross-sectoral coopera-tion should be quickly realized so that the bombing at night could be suppressed. The Nusa Penida con-servation zone was inaugurated by the Minister Maritime and Fisheries Sharif C. Sutardjo on June 9, 2014. It spread across the area of 20,057 hectares with a fairly complete coastal ecosystem including coral reefs, mangroves and seagrass beds. (kmb31)

Fish bombing rampant

Sustainability of Nusa Penida water conservation zone at risk

After determined as water conservation zone, the waters of Nusa Penida are not safe from the activity threatening the marine nature conservation.

Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - After determined as water conservation zone, the waters of Nusa Penida are not safe from the activity threatening the marine nature conservation. Activities of fishermen looking for fish by coral bombing were considered to rampantly occur around the conservation zone. Lack of public awareness can harm the conservation zone and poses a bitter challenge for patrol team assigned to conduct surveillance.

Bono -- whose hits with U2 have included “Sunday Bloody Sunday” -- fell off his bicycle Sunday in New York’s Central Park as the band prepared for a week-long residency on NBC’s “The Tonight Show.”

His doctor said that Bono went through five hours of sur-gery late Sunday in which his el-bow was washed out and a bone on his arm repaired with three metal plates and 18 screws.

The 54-year-old Irish singer went back into surgery the fol-lowing day for treatment on his left hand, said Dean Lorich, an orthopedic surgeon at New York

Presbyterian hospital.“He will require intensive

and progressive therapy, how-ever, a full recovery is ex-pected,” he said in a statement first reported by Rolling Stone magazine.

Bono also suffered a fracture involving the orbit of an eye and injured his left shoulder blade, Lorich said.

In an earlier statement on Bono’s accident, U2’s three oth-er members said they expected the singer to make a full recov-ery and that the band would be playing again soon.

It is unclear how the accident

will affect future concert plans. U2 has said it is planning a tour next year, its first since its mas-sive 2009-2011 production that included more than 100 shows at stadiums and other large venues around the world.

U2’s only upcoming date is December 14 when the band is scheduled to play in Los Ange-les at the annual holiday charity concert of KROQ radio.

In September, U2 released its first album in five years, “Songs of Innocence,” triggering con-troversy by sending it for free to iTunes’ 500 million users in a promotion with Apple.

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NEW YORK — Justin Timberlake wants to make sure you have a 20/20 sound experience when you listen to music: He’s now a co-owner of the audio technology company AfterMaster Audio Labs, Inc.

AfterMaster, a subsidiary of Studio One Media Inc., announced Wednesday that the Grammy-winning pop star will join the company, which focuses on en-hancing and re-mastering audio quality. Its website showcases examples of songs pre- and post-AfterMaster enhancement, including Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off.”

“I’m thrilled to be a part of this groundbreaking company,” Timberlake said in a statement. “The first time I heard audio, post AfterMaster, I knew that I had to be a part of this company and that we had something revolutionary on our hands.”

The 33-year-old Timberlake joins the company’s founders, CEO Larry Ryck-man and chief engineer Shelly Yakus. Ryckman and Yakus launched the audio technology company QSound along with Jimmy Iovine in 1986.

“Justin is an audiophile. He really understands quality audio,” Ryckman said in an interview. “We’ve worked with the world’s biggest artists, and not all of them have a focus on audio quality on their own; they look to their producers and their engineers. Justin

loves technology, completely under-stands audio and he’s very powerful and respected in the entertainment community.”

Timberlake had last year’s top-selling album with his comeback effort, “The 20/20 Experience.” The singer, with a group of other investors, bought MyS-pace in 2011.

AfterMaster’s technology will be offered in a chip that would be embed-ded in products such as mobile devices, headphones and televisions. It will also be available in software form for computers and streaming services.

“We think this is probably the biggest breakthrough in audio,” Ryckman said. “We can take any audio and make it sub-stantially louder, clearer and fuller.”

AfterMaster software will be available for licensing on Dec. 1. Products with chips will launch early next year.

“AfterMaster takes the audio and keeps it musical and clean sounding, and takes it further than anyone’s taken it before in terms of quality, volume, size (and) depth. Everything about it enhances the audio without changing the intent of the creator,” Yakus said in an interview.

The company will announce its “first partnerships in the near future,” Ryck-man said.

AfterMaster is also launching an on-line music mastering service next month, where musicians can upload songs, receive a re-mastered version and decide to purchase it.

Timberlake becomes co-owner of audio tech company

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Bono gets five-hour surgery after bicycle accident

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NEW YORK - U2 frontman Bono underwent hours of surgery and will need intensive therapy after a bicycle accident, his doctor said Wednesday, revealing worse injuries than previously thought.