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Man arrested over ‘sexual assault’ on Atomic Kitten singer Natasha Hamilton LONDON - A man has been arrested over an alleged sexual assault on Atomic Kitten singer Natasha Hamilton on a train.

The chart-topping singer, 36, tweeted on 10 October that a man pushed his genitals up against her on a late night train from London Bridge to Elmstead Woods.

British Transport Police (BTP) confirmed on Friday that a 46year-old man from Wood Green was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault.

Hamilton said she thought a bag was pressed up against her “until I felt him heavy breathing down my neck”.

She managed to take a picture of the man which she posted on Twitter in the hope her 163,000 followers would help to find him.

“Honesty I am shaking a feel

so violated now! But more than anything I am so angry!! [sic],” she said.

She said she also called BTP after leaving the train.

Police said the man has been released under police investigation and they are making further enquiries.

Social media users criticised Hamilton for posting a picture of the man, saying she should leave the police to handle her complaint.

However, others said posting his picture would help prevent others from doing the same.

Women who said they had been victims of sexual assault on trains opened up about their experiences, with many congratulating Hamilton for speaking out as they had frozen in shock when it happened to them.

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Here are the worst aviation disasters in the nation’s history : - Northern Sumatra The worst disaster in Indonesia’s aviation history left 234 dead in 1997. An Airbus A-300B4 operated by national carrier Garuda Indonesia crashed in a smog-shrouded ravine in North Sumatra, just short of Medan’s airport.

“Halloween” ruled the North American box office for a second week running.

‘Halloween’ frightens off box office competition

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Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, the low-budget Universal Pictures production recounts her character Laurie Strode’s final confrontation with a masked homicidal maniac four decades after surviving his killing spree.

The movie’s return to the top spot over the three day weekend followed its $76.2 million debut last week, the second best October opening ever after “Venom.”

“A Star is Born,” the third remake of the 1937 film, placed second for a third straight week, earning $14.1 million.

Bradley Cooper, in his directorial debut, plays a hard-drinking musician in this classic tale of a star-crossed love affair with a young singer (Lady Gaga).

Sony’s Superhero flick “Venom,” which stars Tom Hardy as a journalist-turned-host for an alien creature, held its ground at third place with an estimated $10.8 million take. It has pulled in $187.3 million dollars since its smash opening four weeks ago.

“Goosebumps2: Haunted Halloween,” another seasonal offering, kept its fourth place ranking with

$7.5 million in box office returns.

Based on R.L. Stine children’s books, it follows two young friends who bring to life a dummy, played

by Jack Black, unleashing monsters on their town on Halloween night.

The only new release in the top five was “Hunter Killer,” an action thriller from Lionsgate about Navy SEALs who rescue a Russian president from a coup.

Starring Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman and Michael Nyquist, it is estimated to have made $6.7 million over the three day weekend. (afp)

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LOS ANGELES - “Halloween” ruled the North American box office for a second week running, frightening off the competition as it raked in another $32 million, according to estimates reported Sunday by industry tracker Exhibitor Relations.

Natasha Hamilton said a man sexually assaulted her on a train.

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Members of a rescue team collect personal items and wreckage at the port in Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, on October 29, 2018, after they were recovered from the sea where Lion Air flight JT 610 crashed off the north coast earlier in the day. A brand new Indonesian Lion Air plane carrying 189 passengers and crew crashed into the sea on October 29, officials said, moments after it had asked to be allowed to return to Jakarta.

Indonesian Lion Air plane crashes into sea with 188 passengers, crew

An Indonesian Lion Air plane carrying 188 passengers and crew crashed into the sea Monday, officials said, moments after it had asked to be allowed to return to Jakarta. The jet vanished from radar just 13 minutes after taking off from the Indonesian capital, plunging into the ocean.

Search and Rescue Agency spokesman Yusuf Latif said authorities were still searching for the remains of the plane, which lost contact with air traffic control around 6.30 am (2330 GMT), en route to Pangkal Pinang on the island of Bangka.

“The plane crashed into water about 30 to 40 metres deep,” he told AFP. Sindu Rahayu, directorate general of Civil Aviation at the transport ministry, said the aircraft was carrying 178 adult

passengers, one child and two babies, with two pilots and five flight attendants.

“The plane had requested to return to base before finally disappearing from the radar,” he added in a statement.

The Flightradar website tracked the plane -- which it said was a Boeing 737 -- and showed it looping south on take-off and then heading north before the flight path ended abruptly over the Java Sea, not far from the coast.

- Poor safety record Indonesia relies heavily on air transport to connect its thousands of islands but has a poor aviation safety record and has suffered several fatal crashes in recent years. A 12-year-old boy was the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed eight people in mountainous eastern Indonesia in August.

In August 2015, a commercial passenger aircraft operated by Indonesian carrier Trigana crashed in Papua due to bad weather, killing all 54 people on board. In 2014, an AirAsia plane crashed with the loss of 162 lives.

Indonesian investigators’ final report showed a chronically faulty

component in a rudder control system, poor maintenance and the pilots’ inadequate response were major factors in what was supposed to be a routine flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore. Lion Air, a low-cost airline, has been involved in a number of incidents.

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- Medan disaster A Mandala Airlines domestic flight crashed shortly after take-off in 2005 into a densely populated suburb in Medan, a city of two million on the island of Sumatra, killing at least 150 including passengers, crew and people on the ground.

- Military families In June 2015 an Indonesian military plane crashed shortly after takeoff, also coming down in a residential area in Medan, killing around 122 people on board, many of them servicemen and women and their families.

Around 20 people were also killed on the ground and several housing blocks torn apart. The Armed Forces has been beleaguered by a string of fatal accidents in recent years.

- Air Force fire In 1991, an Air Force plane crashed in East Jakarta minutes after take off when an engine caught fire, killing 135 people according to reports.

Those who died included 121 airmen, 12 crew and two people on the ground. One passenger survived.

- River crash In 1997, a Silk Air flight crashed into a river near the Indonesian city of Palembang while on its way to Singapore from Jakarta. All 104 passengers and crew were killed in what was investigated as a possible pilot murder-suicide.

- New Year’s Day crash An Adam Air plane plunged into the sea off Sulawesi island on New Year’s Day 2007, killing all 102 people on board. The airline was later banned from flying. Indonesian authorities said the pilots lost control after becoming preoccupied with malfunctioning navigational equipment.

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“Sea, ocean are our future,” President Jokowi says

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NUSA Dua - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) believes the roles and functions of oceans are crucial for human beings, so ocean preservation necessitates international cooperation.

“I am aware that our water territory is larger than the land area.

We are all aware that the world`s water territories are larger than the land territories. I and all of us are aware that the sea, ocean are our future,” President Jokowi noted in his opening remarks during the opening ceremony of the fifth Our Ocean Conference (OOC), here, Monday.

Some 90 percent of the world`s total trade by volume and over 40 percent of the total global trade by value were carried out via maritime routes. The livelihoods of hundreds of million people rely on the fishery sector.

On the other hand, oceans are facing huge challenges, including rampant crimes, such as illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities, he stated. The challenges can be addressed by establishing cooperation, he added.

The OOC 2018 is being held in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Oct 29-30

and co-chaired by Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno L. P. Marsudi and Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti.

This year`s OOC is themed “Our Ocean, Our Legacy,” as it reflects choices and actions to maintain the sustainability of the oceans` resources and to preserve the oceans` health, as a heritage that serves as a legacy for the children and grandchildren.

At least, seven heads of state and government, two vice presidents, and 36 ministers from several countries have confirmed their participation in the OOC. Among the leaders expected to be present are Prince Albert II of Monaco, President of Nauru Baron Waqa, President of the Republic of Palau Thomas E. Remengesau, President of Micronesia Peter Christian, President of New Caledonia Philippe Germain, President of Marshall Island Hilda Heine, Vice

President of Seychelles Vincent Meriton, and Vice President of the Republic of Panama Isabel De Saint Malo de Alvarado.he gathering will also be attended by representatives of 200 civil society organizations and nongovernmental organizations.

The conference will present prominent keynote speakers, such as the Prince of Wales via a video message, European Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Karmenu Vella, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway Ine Eriksen Soreide, and Visiting Distinguished Statesman at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace John Kerry.

The OOC 2018 is the first ever held in an Asian country. The first and second OOC in 2014 and 2015 were held in the United States, the third in Chile in 2016, and the 4th in Malta in 2017. The next conference after Bali will be held in Norway in 2019.(ant)

Indonesia President Joko Widodo delivers his speech before the opening of the fifth Our Ocean Conference in Nusadua, Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, on October 29, 2018. The fifth Our Ocean Conference is being held in Bali from October 29-30, 2018.

OOC demonstrates Indonesia`s commitment in facing maritime challenges: Minister

NUSA DUA - The hosting of Our Ocean Conference (OOC) 2018 has demonstrated Indonesia`s commitment to facing and overcoming various challenges on ocean-related issues, Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi stated here on Monday.

“The hosting of OOC is a great example of Indonesia`s commitment to addressing various challenges facing our ocean,” Foreign Minister Marsudi noted in her remarks at the opening of the 2018 OOC held at the Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center.

Minister Marsudi remarked

that the Indonesian government was committed to conserving the sea and continuing to maintain the sustainability of marine resources. The commitment has also been implemented in Indonesia`s foreign policy and diplomacy on the international scene.

“Indonesia has committed to preserve our oceans and to enshrine its sustainability. In recent years, Indonesia`s maritime diplomacy has been more obvious and has become an integral part of Indonesian foreign policy complementing and enhancing our active diplomacy on peace and humanitarian issues at the

regional and global levels,” she remarked.

Marsudi highlighted that the OOC 2018 hosted by Indonesia is highly strategic for several reasons, one being that the OOC 2018 is a multistakeholder meeting allowing all key players to contribute in preserving oceans. The OOC 2018 not only involved government actors but also multi-stakeholders, including the private sector, academics, non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, youth, and practitioners in the marine sector.

In addition, Marsudi explained

that the OOC 2018 is oriented towards actions to complement the measures adopted at other forums on ocean-related issues.

“For Indonesia, we will contribute to advancing the OOC cause to preserve our ocean and ensure its sustainability. Indonesia hopes that the OOC will continue to be innovative, including in developing a new mechanism that can evaluate the progress we had here,” the minister stated.

OOC 2018 is the first time Our Ocean Conference being held in Asia, and the conference will not only gather new commitments from stakeholders but

also encourage the realization of commitments submitted between 2014 and 2017. So far, the OOC has gathered over 600 commitments valued at over US$18 billion and created 12.4 million square kilometers of marine protected areas.

The 2018 OOC is one of Indonesia`s concrete commitments in implementing maritime diplomacy and the vision of making the nation a “World Maritime Axis.” This conference is expected to result in measured, real, and sustainably impacted commitments for maritime cooperation among countries.(ant)

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Padma Resort Legian Welcomes New Executive Pastry Chef

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most of the cooking-classes held by the hotel during her tenure. Chef Lara was also part of a renowned Michelin-starred restaurant in Portugal, Ocean Restaurant when she became Pastry Chef de Party under the famous Chef Hans Neuner. She now she continues her journey to

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Applying cultivation technique of Japan

Lila Antara successfully cultivates sea grapes

STRONG motivation to become a businessman at hometown has recently been showed by youth figures in Buleleng. Previously, many youths left their homeland to work in tourism service sector overseas so they were willing to take odd jobs.

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The first coral larvae to survive being frozen and then thawed by scientists are a kind of a mushroom coral (close-up of an adult coral shown with scattered greenish tentacles).

Coral larvae survive being frozen and thawed for the first time

FOR the first time, researchers have quick-frozen coral larvae and then — the tough part — safely thawed them. Swathing larvae in specks of gold and then heating them with a laser warmed the frozen coral babies in milliseconds. Thawed this way, 43 percent of 2-day-old test larvae recovered well enough to start swimming again, physiologist and cryobiologist Mary Hagedorn and her colleagues report October 24 in Scientific Reports.

This success with Fungia scutaria larvae, a colorful mushroom coral species from Hawaii, opens up much-needed conservation possibilities, says Hagedorn, of the Smithsonian Conservation

Biology Institute in Front Royal, Va. Biologists knew how to freeze coral sperm, but ice crystal damage from the process can kill bigger, fat-rich structures such as coral eggs and larvae. Being able to bank

more than sperm may help preserve coral genetic diversity for attempts to aid reefs that falter as the climate warms.

Biologists have been freezing and storing human embryos since at

least the 1980s, but the first success with any nonmammal is recent, Hagedorn says. In 2017, she, John Bischof of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and colleagues described how warming zebrafish embryos with gold nanorods let 10 percent of the embryos survive at least 24 hours after thawing.

In a procedure loosely based on the zebrafish system, researchers enveloped larvae in an antifreeze

solution with gold nanorods and froze the creatures in milliseconds with liquid nitrogen. But that wasn’t the end of the danger from ice crystals. Even during thawing, crystals can enlarge dangerously.

That’s when a laser pulse quickly warmed the gold bits and thus the frozen larvae.

“It’s a bit like making a soufflé — everything has to be perfect,” Hagedorn says. (afp)

The first vertebrates on Earth arose in shallow coastal waters

THE cradle of vertebrate evolution was limited to a zone of shallow coastal waters, no more than 60 meters deep.

In those waters, fish — the first vertebrates — appeared roughly 480 million years ago, a study finds. For nearly 100 million years, those creatures rarely strayed from that habitat, where they diversified into a dizzying array of new forms, scientists report in the Oct. 26 Science. The study resolves a long-standing mystery about where our earliest backboned ancestors arose.

Scientists have long debated whether the animals appeared first in the shallows or the deep, or in fresh or salty water. “The main problem is that the fossil record [of vertebrates] is absolutely terrible for the first 50 million to 100 million years of their existence,” says paleobiologist Lauren Sallan of the University of Pennsylvania. “And when [there are] fossils, they’re in tiny pieces. It’s hard to tell what exactly’s going on.”

So Sallan and her colleagues amassed 2,827 fossils of jawed and jawless fishes that lived between 480 million and 360 million years ago. To that database, the team added information on the environments that the creatures lived in — such as shallow coastal water, freshwater or the deeper ocean — based on both the geology of the rocks the fossils were found in and the invertebrate fossils also found in the rocks.

Then, the researchers used mathematical calculations to predict the habitats of the most ancient vertebrates, filling in those gaps on the fish family tree. Rather than living in rivers or lakes or the deeper ocean waters around coral reefs, the first vertebrates stuck to a nearshore ocean environment, Sallan and colleagues found.

The creatures stayed in the shallows for about 100 million years, acquiring adaptations before eventually occupying different environmental niches, the researchers say. Some fish gained streamlined, graceful bodies

good for fast swimming in deeper waters. Others had stronger, more armored bodies and stayed close to shore or moved into rivers or lakes.

Catalina Pimiento, a paleobiologist at Swansea University in Wales who wrote a commentary on the study in the same issue of Science, says the team’s results are “so robust.” And the find makes a lot of sense. “It’s just well-known that these coastal habitats [have supported] biodiversity,” she says, because such locations tend to offer both abundant food and shelter.

Ancient vertebrates’ diversification within those shallow waters may have been helped along by the rise of land plants during the Devonian Period, 419 million to 359 million years ago, and the subsequent increase in organic matter carried by rivers to the ocean. That resulting bonanza of food, particularly floating food, may have helped to slowly give rise to more swimmers in addition to creatures already dwelling on the seafloor.

Other recent research has also identified shallow coastal waters as a cradle of diversity, finding that about 100 million years after the first vertebrates appeared, the earliest four-footed animals arose in salty estuaries. The importance of

such biodiversity hot spots makes it particularly worrisome that they also tend to be most threatened by human activities in modern times, Pimiento says. “These are our origins, and they’re the areas we’re degrading the most.” (IBP/net)

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The earliest vertebrates, including this illustrated armored fish that lived 455 million years ago in what is now Colorado, evolved within a shallow, nearshore coastal zone.

This phenomenon starts to decrease. Evidently, the youth in the current millennial era begins to get interested in pioneering independent business in the agricultural, culinary, fashion business sectors and the daily necessities. This emerges because of the support of recent development of information technology (IT) that is very helpful in the promotion and marketing of various agricultural commodities or other products of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). It is not surprising if the emergence of youth in the world of agricultural cultivation becomes a positive trend, so the impression of agriculture being abandoned due to assumption of becoming an unfavorable business can slowly be handled.

One of the Buleleng youths that begin to look at agriculture as an independent business is Kadek Lila Antara. Since the past few years, he has cultivated sea grapes in the land of his birth at Musi village, Gerokgak.

Interestingly, the determination to carry out the cultivation of sea grapes was after working as an employee of marine cultivation in Japan. Apparently, armed with the experience of being a foreign worker in the country,

Lila managed to ‘steal’ the successful cultivation of sea grapes in Japan and is now developed at Musi village.

Met at his residence recently, Lila Antara said the cultivation of sea grapes was initiated in 2014. The optimism to develop the green algae is based on his knowledge if the prospect of cultivation is so high in the market. Moreover, the sea grapes with so many benefits are sold on the market for IDR 700,000 per kilogram.

In addition, thanks to his experience working in Japan and the mastery of the fisheries he mastered his sea grape cultivation is now growing rapidly.

“I think why Japan can do while we have the longest sea in Bali cannot. When working in Japan, I could learn this cultivation technique and by chance I stopped working and took advantage of the experience as a capital to pioneer this business (cultivating sea grapes),” he said.

Sea grape cultivation is developed by buying seedlings from Sulawesi.

Why does he bring in from Sulawesi?

It is one of the regions in Indonesia producing high quality sea grapes and the seeds have been certified. Selection of the certified seeds is based on consideration that this commodity belongs to the seaweed having the

capability of absorbing heavy metals.

After the harvest season, the sea grape can survive for seven days in normal temperature conditions. Harvested sea grapes do not need to be preserved in refrigerator to keep the taste. Meanwhile, in processing, the sea grapes do not need to be cooked.

However, it can be consumed directly.

Consumers usually no longer process sea grapes to maintain the levels of vitamins contained therein. “In addition to maintaining vitamin content, it also maintains tastes because consuming fresh sea grapes will give a sensation of exploding in the tongue because of the grain,” he explained.

Lila Antara, who is now a lecturer at Fisheries Department of Ganesha University of Education (Undiksha) Singaraja, added the fresh sea grapes have complete vitamin content and very suitable for maintaining skin health conditions. In Japan, sea grapes are processed into various kinds of fresh food preparations, such as sushi.

Meanwhile, in Bali alone, sea grape is processed into a number of modern or traditional cuisines. “In our country, it is usually processed into a typical culinary recipe with Balinese spices, so that it becomes more delicious,” he explained. (mud)

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Armed with the experience of being a foreign worker in the country, Lila managed to ‘steal’ the successful cultivation of sea grapes in Japan and is now developed at Musi village.

Swept away by strong winds

People’s house of Pejarakan severely damaged

SINGARAJA — Strong winds struck the Goris hamlet, Pejarakan, Gerokgak, on Saturday (Oct. 27) around 12:30. As a result, the house belonging to Wayan Sudiarsana, 39, was heavily damaged. Fortunately, the victim and his family managed to run out of the house, so there were no casualties in this incident.

Information collected in the field said that strong winds suddenly struck around Pejarakan village.

The strong wind then hit the victim’s house. As a result, the zinc-roofed semi-permanent house got detached from the wooden frame. High speed of the wind made the zinc sheets and wooden frames thrown far away from the location of the house measuring 5.5 times 7.5 square meters.

Inevitably, such situation made the victim and his family panicky. The victim tried to run out of the house, so there were no fatalities in the incident.

Headman of Pejarakan, Made Astawa, when asked for his confirmation said the catastrophic strong winds struck one of the residents’ houses. The incident caused severe damage to the victim’s house.

Moreover, the villager cannot stay in his house because all the roofs of his house came off due to strong winds. Temporarily, the victim and his family live in the house of his relative. Due to the incident, village government estimated the victim suffered material losses of around IDR 10 million. As planned, the data on the damage will be reported to the sub-district to be further forwarded to the Buleleng Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD).

“Indeed, the wind blew hard and lasted for a long time. One of our families is now waiting for the government’s aid to repair the house and the data will be reported to the sub-district,” he explained. (kmb38)

The house belonging to Wayan Sudiarsana, 39, was heavily damaged.

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Energy supply from Java to Bali through submarine cables

Delight to despair: Thais stunned by death of billionaire Vichai

DENPASAR - After the Java-Bali Crossing (JBC) by air cable transmission was rejected by some people, finally the supply of electricity from Java to Bali was decided through submarine cables. For this reason, PLN is again conducting a feasibility study (FS) and surely the project for the fulfillment of electricity in Bali has backed down.

General Manager of PLN Bali Distribution, I Nyoman Suwarjoni Astawa, said that recently the PLN Board of Directors had signed an MoU with the Governor of Bali where one of which contains the effort to increase the transmission capacity connecting Java to Bali. The governor directed that transmission from Java to Bali by air is not carried out, but by using submarine cables.

“Three days ago we held an FGD in Surabaya with PT PAL, expected to build a tower in the middle of the sea. Then, we also invited the experts from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) as well as the expert staff of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources on how and what technology is appropriate for building a tower on Java mainland passing the sea to get to Bali,” explained Astawa on the National Electricity Day (HLN) on Saturday

(Oct. 27) at Renon Square.

Later on, the transmission will enter Bali via a 500 KV submarine cable. The transmission just enters when it has been in the middle of the sea because in the Bali Strait there is a trench where PLN spreads its 150 KV cables with the very large risk all this time. Actually the budget of 500 KV is far more than that of 150 KV. Since 1987, PLN has installed 12 cables in the Bali Strait. Until now, it has operated four cables. “The others are damaged because of being dragged away by sea currents and got anchored, so the risk was very high,” he explained.

The cables will be spread at a distance of 1 km from Bali and then go down undersea. “So, we will install the tower in the trough of Bali Strait.

Approximately it is 40 through 60 meters deep,” he added

For this reason, PLN will reinstate a feasibility study. It takes another six months to do the feasibility study. So, the design details are expected to have been clear by 2019, while the funding can be sought after through project auctions.

He hoped whatever the way to channel energy from Java to Bali, he just wanted the electricity system in Bali can be strong. This transmission will be able to strengthen the interconnection of Java-Bali.

By that way, it can build new renewable energy (EBT) plant such as greater solar energy. Previously, the Bali system could only absorb 50 MW. With the connection, it will be able to absorb even more 100 MW150 MW. “Renewable energy must have a companion plant that can replace or subsidize any time when the EBT plant cannot operate,” he said. (kmb42)

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Members of a group of hobby divers, speleologists and accompanying staff prepare to descend into the water at the entrance tunnel during an exploration of the Janos Molnar cave system on October 2, 2018 under the Buda Hill in Budapest.

I Nyoman Suwarjoni Astawa

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Bali Zoo celebrates World Lemur Day

COINCIDING with the World Lemur Day celebrated by the world every October 27, Bali Zoo gave a special treatment to this agile lemur (Lemur catta) as a gift to celebrate the world lemur day by preparing a fruit tower composed of 10 kg of favorite fruits such as: red grape mango, watermelon, melon, banana and raisins. A total of 10 lemurs participated in the event including 6 adult lemurs and 4 child lemurs.

To enliven the World Lemur Day’s celebration, Bali Zoo invited visitors to have interaction.

“Celebration of the world lemur day can be used as a moment to increase the awareness of the community towards animals whose existence is threatened by the extinction based on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). All lemurs looked very happy to eat the fruits provided. As seen, they were very absorbed in enjoying a variety of favorite fruits,” said Emma Chandra, Head of Public Relations of the Bali Zoo. (r) Bali Zoo gave a special treatment to lemur (Lemur catta) as a gift to celebrate the world lemur day by preparing a fruit tower composed of 10 kg of favorite fruits.

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Budapest’s underwater wonderland draws divers from far and wide

BUDAPEST - Not every diver’s dream is to watch shimmering shoals of fish swim through coral reefs in dazzlingly blue seas.

For Laura Tuominen, the ultimate diving experience is not to be found in the Red Sea or the Caribbean, but in a labyrinth of spectacular underwater caves beneath the pavements of Budapest.

The Hungarian capital is already famous worldwide for its steaming hot spas and thermal baths.

But the underwater Janos Molnar cave system, named after the Hungarian pharmacist who discovered it in the 19th century, has become a hot tip for diving aficionados.

Around seven kilometres (4.4 miles) in length and previously open only to scientific expeditions, the cave became accessible to the public -- that is, qualified divers -when a diving centre was opened here in 2015.

“We are under Budapest! It’s amazing!” shouts Tuominen, a 39year-old Finnish anaesthesiologist and passionate amateur diver, as she jumps into the warm waters from a platform mounted in the narrow space at the bottom of the entrance tunnel.

She is one of a group of hobby

divers and speleologists, wearing dry suits and carrying double cylinders of compressed gas on their backs, who then descend into the gloomy waters, the light from their torches gradually fading out of view.

The group is accompanied by a diving centre staff member who directs them with the help of “guideline” cords through the maze of narrow passageways and cavernous cathedral-like chambers.

- ‘Very rare’ urban setting “It’s the only underwater cave in Budapest open to divers. Speleology is a niche market. It doesn’t have mass appeal. And our urban location makes us special. It’s very, very rare,” says Attila Hosszu, who has run the centre since it opened.

The advantage of being underneath a city is that “you don’t have to haul your equipment up a mountain or down a deep valley to get here,” Hosszu adds.

The entrance to the centre is a discreet metal door near one of Budapest’s main boulevards and just a block away from the Danube

river that separates the city’s two halves, Buda and Pest.

According to the diving centre’s website, the cave was formed many millennia ago, when the geological fault line on which Budapest is situated cracked. The ascending thermal water ate into the rock to create caves close to the surface.

“You can see amazing stalactites and stalagmites in Mexico. But you have to travel for days to get there.

Here, you just walk in and dive, it’s very exciting,” says 38-yearold Russian Irina Litvinenko after getting off the tram on her way to the centre.

Outside on the streets, the autumn wind is blustery. But inside the centre, the air is still warm and humid, making the divers sweat as they get their equipment ready.

Explorations from the 1950s began to reveal the full extent of submerged canyons, halls and passageways.

But until the diving centre opened three years ago, only scientists were permitted entry to explore or collect samples for laboratory examinations. (afp)

BANGKOK - Stunned Thais on Monday digested news of the death of billionaire Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, whose dazzling success as owner of Leicester City showered pride and prestige on the kingdom.

Vichai, 60, died when his helicopter plummeted into a car park outside the King Power stadium shortly after his side’s 1-1 draw with West Ham on Saturday.

For most of his life the publicityshy duty-free magnate, Thailand’s fifth richest man who spun billions from his King Power monopoly, was not a household name in his native county. That changed with Leicester City’s odds-defying English Premier League title in 2016, the unlikeliest of victories in the world’s most watched football league that has gone down in footballing lore.

While he continued to avoid interviews, Vichai was a regular at Leicester matches and his face -- and the King Power brand -- became synonymous across a football-mad country with the success of Thai business overseas.

Thais on Monday awoke to confirmation of his death -- an abrupt end to a global success story in a sometimes inward-looking country.

“He was an inspiration to Thais because he’s well known and very successful internationally,” Chamat Uchukanokkul, 39, told AFP as he travelled to work.

“He showed that we can do anything if we set our minds to do it.”

The well-connected businessman was renowned for his agility in picking through Thailand’s complicated politics -- backstage plotting, coups, short-lived civilian governments and legal complications.

Influential political veteran Anutin Charnvirakul described his long-time

friend as a “Big Brother” and “an idol.” “He was not a scion of a rich family but a real fighter... he became hugely successful in a short space of time,” he told AFP. “He was definitely a role model for the new generation, generous and loved by his peers.

“He bought this little football club and helped it to win the championship.

He cared.”

Leicester City were unknown to many in the Southeast Asian country before their breakout 2016 season.

But as they closed in on the title the country rallied around a Thai success story, with hundreds attending fan screenings hosted by the company, complete with free beer and food.

At King Power’s downtown Bangkok mall most staff were tight-lipped on Monday -- a sign of the sharplyhierarchical company which owns the duty-free concessions at airports and key tourist cities in one of the world’s most visited countries. But one saleswoman, who declined to be named, said she cried as the news of Vichai’s death broke early Monday.

“I’ve only worked here a year... but I felt he was kind,” she said, explaining Vichai would often walk the sales floor greeting staff as he did his rounds.

“He was a man we must admire... though his last breath is over, his reputation will be remembered forever,” Chutitorn Apichainan posted on the Leicester City official fan Facebook page for Thailand.

British police named the four other crash victims as Nursara Suknamai -- an actress and a runner-up in Miss Thailand Universe in 2005 -- and Kaveporn Punpare, both members of Vichai’s staff, pilot Eric Swaffer and passenger Izabela Roza Lechowicz. (afp)

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A woman poses for a photograph in front of a portrait of Leicester City Football Club’s Thai chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in a helicopter crash at the club’s stadium, amid flowers and tributes outside the King Power Stadium in Leicester, eastern England, on October 29, 2018.

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BUSINESS US economy grew at strong 3.5 percent rate in Q3

WASHINGTON - The U.S. economy grew at a robust annual rate of 3.5 percent in the July-September quarter as the strongest burst of consumer spending in nearly four years helped offset a sharp drag from trade.

The Commerce Department said Friday that the third quarter’s gross domestic product, the country’s total output of goods and services, followed an even stronger 4.2 percent rate of growth in the second quarter. The two quarters marked the strongest consecutive quarters of growth since 2014.

The result was slightly higher than many economists had been projecting. It was certain to be cited by President Donald Trump as evidence his economic policies are working. But some private economists worry that the recent stock market declines could be a warning signal of a coming slowdown.

They noted that Friday’s GDP report showed business investment slowed dramatically in the third quarter, growing at an annual rate of just 0.8 percent, the weakest in nearly two years, after a much stronger 8.7 percent gain in second quarter.

Analysts said the slowdown could be an indication that last December’s tax cuts, which offered special breaks for business investment, were beginning to wane. There was also concern that the slowdown could reflect adverse impacts from rising trade tariffs with businesses less reluctant to invest under the threat of a trade war between the United States and China.

Gregory Daco, chief U.S. economist for Oxford Economics, said he expects more modest GDP growth in coming quarters, citing the fading impact of the tax cuts, higher interest rates from the Fed-

eral Reserve and increasing trade tensions.

The GDP report along with next week’s unemployment report for October are the last major looks at the economy before voters go to the polls in the mid-term elections.

Mick Mulvaney, head of the president’s budget office, said in a CNBC interview that while business investment was flat this quarter, it followed several quarters when investment has been “fantastic.” He also said the administration was not concerned about the stock market sell-off this month.

“The stock market is going to go up and down,” he said. “Certainly we follow it, but we don’t use it as an indicator of where we are headed.”

For this year, economists are projecting the momentum built up should result in growth of 3 percent, the best annual showing in 13 years. But they believe the impact of Trump’s trade war with China and rising interest rates will slow growth in 2019 to around 2.4 percent, with a further decline to under 2 percent in 2020.

“I think we will see a significant slowdown, in part because economic growth has been raised to an artificially high level by the tax cuts,” said Sung Won Sohn, chief economist at SS Economics in Los Angeles. Trump in recent weeks has accelerated his attacks on the Federal Reserve for raising interest rates, contending that the higher rates by slowing the economy will work against his efforts to speed up

Asian stocks fluctuated Monday with investors still on edge after last week’s rout, with caution after another hammering for Wall Street offsetting bargain-buying.

Even a forecast-busting jump in US economic growth in the third quarter was not enough to prevent all three main indexes in New York from tanking on Friday, with the Dow and S&P 500 falling into negative territory for the year.

The US losses came after disappointing earnings reports from titans Alphabet and Amazon, which compounded concerns about rising interest rates and the China-US trade war that shows no sign of abating.

“Fears of an economic slowdown in the US proved to be premature, but investors worry that the boost from (Donald) Trump tax cuts is evaporating,” said Alfonso

In this Aug. 22, 2018, file photo trucks travel along a loading dock at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif. On Friday, Oct. 26, the Commerce Department issues the first of three estimates of how the U.S. economy performed in the third quarter.

growth through the $1.5 trillion tax cut package Trump got Congress to pass last year.

“Every time we do something great, he raises interest rates,” Trump said in an interview this week with the Wall Street Journal in which he again said he viewed the Fed as the “biggest risk” facing the economy “because I think interest rates are being raised too quickly.”

The central bank has raised rates three times this year and signaled it will raise rates one more time this year and expect to raise rates three times in 2019. Those moves are being made to ensure that tight labor markets, with unemployment at a 49-year low of 3.7 percent, and strong growth don’t trigger

unwanted inflation.

The GDP report Friday was the government’s first of three reviews of overall economic activity for the July-September period.

The report showed that consumer spending, which accounts for 70 percent of economic activity, surged at an annual rate of 4 percent in the third quarter, even better than the 3.8 percent gain in the second quarter and the best showing since last 2014.

Trade, which had boosted second quarter growth by 1.2 percentage points, shaved 1.8 percentage points off growth in the third quarter. Exports, which had surged at a 9.3 percent rate in the second quarter, fell at a 3.5 percent rate in the third quarter. Analysts had

forecast this turn-around, saying it reflected the surge in exports of goods such as soybeans in the spring as producers tried to beat the higher tariffs being imposed

by China in retaliation for Trump’s tariffs.

Another big swing factor in the third quarter was business restocking of their shelves. Inventories had trimmed 1 percentage point off growth in the second quarter but boosted growth by 2 percentage points in the third quarter.

Housing continued to be a drag, falling for a third straight quarter.

Business investment, which had surged at an 8.7 percent rage in the second quarter, slowed to a small 0.8 percent gain the third quarter.(ap)

Asian shares swing after Wall St fall, bargain-buyers add support Esparza, senior market analyst at OANDA. “Stocks have been vulnerable as the US Federal Reserve stands firm on its plans to hike one more time this year and three or four in 2019 on its path to rate normalisation. US-China relations have not improved and earning reports have started to reflect the impact of tariffs on China.”

Hong Kong edged up 0.4 per-

cent after moving between gains and losses, while Tokyo ended 0.2 percent off and Shanghai lost more than two percent. Seoul shed 1.5 percent.

But Sydney climbed 1.1 percent, Singapore added 0.5 percent, Wellington put on 0.6 percent and Jakarta was 0.4 percent down.

In early trade London rose 0.5 percent and Frankfurt added 0.6 percent. Paris was delayed because

of a technical issue.

“I still think there is room for a bit of a downside to go because I do see this as being largely a structural shift in markets,” Kyle Rodda, a market analyst at IG Group in Melbourne, told Bloomberg Television.

“The overall sentiment is still to the downside, is still quite bearish and there will be a little while for this correction to play out.”(afp)

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Trace Back the ‘Soul’ of Klungkung as Cultural Root of Bali

When mentioning the town of the art, direct attention will lead to Gianyar district. This has been very closely struck in the minds of Balinese people.

Moreover, it seems to have become ‘the soul.’ However, if asking about Klungkung district, it’s only synonymous with serombotan (assorted salads).

This cuisine is made from assorted vegetables coming with spicy sauce and grated coconut. Apparently, it does not become a good thing, just a legendary culinary icon.

Currently, the famous thing of the district adjacent to Gianyar is only the tourist attraction in Nusa Penida Islands. Due to the beauty owned, it earns a nickname as ‘the Blue Paradise Island.’ The landscape is very beautiful and the white sandy beach is very exotic. It can teases tourists to make a visit.

Every year, the visitors reach hundreds of thousands of people.

However, when looking back, not many people know about it. According to history, actually Klungkung district has a very interesting side. It is no longer a matter of natural beauty. Around the 18th century, coinciding with the era of the Kingdom of Klungkung, it was very famous for its arts as they were very well maintained starting from the dances, paintings, woven fabric to religious case. These are legacies from the Gelgel Kingdom era from the 14th to 15th centuries. After that, a number of Anglurah descendants built a kingdom in other parts of Bali and spread over all the existing districts.

In the migration, common people were also accompanied by reliable artists.

“This entourage then spread the Klungkung culture to other regions. Indeed, Klungkung was the root. Gianyar is dubbed as the district of the art originating from

Klungkung,” said a lecturer of Udayana University, Prof. Dr. A.A. Bagus Wirawan, recently. The culture previously becoming the root has now turned into twigs.

This native to Klungkung considered the change was not separated from human resources and the environment. The raising effort is not too late and there is still an opportunity. However, it depends on the leader.

According to him, the rapid tourism develop-

ment lately can increasingly be a medium to show off the true wealth. It can be juxtaposed into something sweet, but still survives.

“This leader should be able to create a network to introduce the potential of this area so people are excited to revive. For example, Kamasan painting is second to none. We should position it in order to continuously grow, in the sense of being able to produce.

Do not change the art, and please maintain

the style. It is not just a painting, but filled with philosophy. This can be ‘sold,’” he said.

People as the artist must also play a significant role in conservation. They should be able to evoke Klungkung’s true identity.

It can be started from a small thing. One of them is by using the endek as the typical product of the area on several occasions. (kmb)

Sate Lilit, Unique Menu of Balinese People

Satay … satay… do you like to eat satay? Try to taste this Balinese delicious sate lilit or twisted satay. This kind of satay does not only offer delicious taste, but also

beauty in terms of appearance and presentation. Whether being realized or not, other than requiring patience and high skills, the making of twisted satay also requires a

beautiful artistic spirit.

The process starts from concocting spices, processing the meat and then making it by twisting (sticking and twisting) on ??the bamboo satay stalk in a flat shape. During the process of making satay, it is also an opportunity to strengthen kinship because anyone can twist satay.

Twisted satay has such a distinctive taste. Moreover, the roasting process will appear so tempting. Children are easily tempted, so they really want to taste it. For those having teeth but not strong enough to chew, it will be better to eat this smooth and sticky twisted satay.

In the past, twisted satay used ingredients in the form of chicken or pork. Twisted satay is made as a means as ritual paraphernalia of mecaru (exorcism rite) to maintain

harmonious relationship between humans and nature. Now, twisted satay is also sold as a complement to local menus where in a portion it is served with rice and other delicacies.

In strategic places such as tourist attractions, the corner of the city and traditional markets are very easy to find the twisted satay merchants. Hotels, restaurants and food stalls will surely provide this twisted satay. However, the ingredients used are marine fish, such as snapper, tuna or others.

Similarly, the type of stalk used is lemongrass.

At hotels or restaurants, the twisted satay is neatly packed and the spices are adjusted to the tourists’ appetite, so that anyone can enjoy it. The presentation is also neatly arranged in order to look appealing. If you enjoy satay, it will

be better to be accompanied with special chili sauce.

How to make twisted satay?

First of all, slice the fish meat into small pieces and then refine by using a blender so that it really turns smooth. The seasonings use authentic Balinese spices such as, garlic, ginger, coriander, turmeric, candlenut, salt, coconut oil, bay leaves and optionally can be added with grated coconut.

Balinese style twisted satay has flavors that are not inferior to satay in general. When coupled with its unique appearance, it will attract more eyes to taste it. Eating twisted satay can create a unique experience during your excursion on the Island of the Gods. It will be better to taste while remaining warm after being roasted. Twisted satay is the hallmark of Balinese cuisine. (kmb)

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Trump’s ‘America First’ credo recalls WWI isolationists

WASHINGTON - World War I sparked America’s emergence as a global power, when it flexed its muscles to end the bloody stalemate in the trenches in Europe.

A century after the November 11, 1918 armistice, debate still rages over the US role in the world and the country is led by a president whose credo -- “America First” -- harkens back to that of post-World War I isolationists.

“The debate that comes at the end of the First World War is ‘Are America’s interests best served by joining international organizations like the League of Nations?’,’” said Michael Neiberg, a history professor at the US Army War College.

“Or is America best served by staying away from these organizations and pursuing its interests alone?” added Neiberg, author of “The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America.”

For Geoffrey Wawro, professor of military history at the University of North Texas, “World War I puts the United States into the mainstream of world affairs in a leadership position.”

In the conflict’s immediate aftermath, President Woodrow Wilson championed the League of Nations designed to keep the peace.

But Henry Cabot Lodge, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, saw the world body as a threat to US sovereignty and engineered a rejection of US membership by the Senate.

“Even though we retreated into isolationism, the lingering impact of US intervention is never erased because we’re just such a strong power,” said Wawro, author of “The Mad Catastrophe,” a book about the outbreak of World War I. Echoes of that Wilson-Lodge dispute can still be heard today as Trump steers a foreign policy course unlike those followed by recent occupants of the Oval Office.

- ‘A 1920s argument’ Trump has made his disdain for global institutions clear along with his antipathy to multilateral trade agreements such as NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Trump has withdrawn or announced plans to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, Iran nuclear deal, UN Human Rights Council and the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

“We will never surrender America’s sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable global bureaucracy,” he told the UN General Assembly last month. “America is governed by Americans. We reject the ideology of globalism. And we embrace the doctrine of patriotism.”

For Neiberg, “what he’s arguing is that the United States, being a great power, a great economy, a great nation, shouldn’t be involved in any of these organizations unless it makes sense for the United States.

“That’s a 1920s argument,” he said, championed by Lodge and others who “argued that the League of Nations -- which was one nation, one vote -- was a bad idea for Americans because it meant the United States and say, Ecuador, would have the same power in international organizations. “And that made no sense for a great power like the United States.” (afp)

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Last year one of its Boeing jets collided with a Wings Air plane as it landed at Kualanamu airport on the island of Sumatra, although no one was injured.

In May 2016, two Lion Air planes collided at Jakarta’s SoekarnoHatta airport, while a month earlier a plane operated by Batik Air -- part of the Lion Group -- clipped a TransNusa plane.

In 2013 a Lion Air jet with a rookie pilot at the controls undershot the runway and crashed into the sea in Bali, splitting the plane in two.

Several people were injured in the crash, although no one was killed.

Indonesia’s air travel industry is booming, with the number of domestic passengers growing significantly over the past decade, but it has acquired a reputation for poor regulation.

Last year the Indonesian air traffic controllers association revealed that the rate of take-off and landings in Jakarta allowed by state-run air navigation company AirNav was more than the airport could handle, increasing the chance of accidents.

The country’s carriers have in the past faced years-long bans from entering European Union and US airspace over their safety records.(afp)

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A file photo taken in 1916 shows a post card released by the Historial de Peronne (WWI Museum) of French soldiers wearing basic gaz masks during the First World War (WWI).

Poison gas: World War I’s weapon of terror

PARIS - On April 22, 1915, a greenish fog drifted over the battlefield north of Ypres in Belgium, choking to death some 5,000 French soldiers and heralding a new type of terror on the Western Front.

World War I saw the first widespread combat use of modern chemical weapons, starting with the 168 tons of chlorine released by the Germans over the trenches near Ypres.

Officers hoped the vomiting, suffocation and burns caused by poison gases would force troops to abandon positions in what quickly became a standoff between German and allied forces.

They also had a deep psychological impact, forcing soldiers to keep masks at the ready for fear of falling victim to a silent killer.

“Gas masks and their grotesque appearance became the ultimate symbol of a man turned into a mechanised, dehumanised phantom by modern warfare,” said Doran Cart, a curator at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.

“That had a huge impact on civilians,” he added.

The Germans’ use of chlorine prompted a chemical arms race in which scientists and military leaders worked hand-in-hand to develop more lethal weapons.

French researchers soon developed phosgene, with a more subtle “mouldy hay” odour that was harder to detect and the ability to cause suffocation hours after being inhaled.

It was quickly copied by the Germans as both sides sought agents which would seep into trenches and bunkers.

- ‘Fighting for breath’ But the most infamous -- and deadliest -- was mustard gas, in reality an oily vapour first used by the Germans in July 1917, again near Ypres.

Known as the “King of Battle Gases”, it acted by contact instead of having to be inhaled, getting through clothing to cause severe burns.

“It didn’t always kill but the burns impaired people for a long period of time and required a very long nursing,” said Edward Spiers, a professor of strategic studies at Leeds University in Britain.

“It slowed everything down. People had to try to decontaminate whole areas” before attempting to get through it, said Spiers, author of “A History of Chemical and Biological Weapons”.

Overall an estimated 90,000 people were killed by gas attacks and a further 1.2 million injured, sometimes when the poisonous clouds released by artillery shells drifted back into an attacker’s lines.

But despite the relatively small number of deaths compared with the 9.7 million soldiers killed in total during the war, the fear and suffering caused by chemical arms became symbols of a harrowing new era in modern warfare.

“I wish those people who talk about going on with this war whatever it costs could see the soldiers suffering from mustard gas poisoning,” the British nurse Vera Brittain wrote in her memoir “Testament of Youth”.

“Great mustard-coloured blisters, blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying that their throats are closing and they know they will choke”, she wrote. (afp)

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This photo taken on October 10, 2018 shows a Lion Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft at the Mutiara Sis Al Jufri airport in Palu. An Indonesian Lion Air passenger plane went missing on October 29, 2018 shortly after taking off from the capital Jakarta, an aviation authority official said, adding that a search and rescue operation is under way.

Crashed plane was airworthy: lion Air

JAKARTA - Lion Air`s Boeing 737 Max 8 flight JT 610 that crashed in the waters of Tanjung Karawang en route from Jakarta to Pangkalpinang on Monday was airworthy, the airline stated.

“The aircraft, bearing registration number PK-LQP, is a Boeing 737 Max 8. The aircraft was manufactured in 2018 and had only been operated by Lion Air since Aug 15. The plane was airworthy,” the airlines` Corporate Strategic Communications Danang Mandala noted in a statement received here on Monday.

Lion Air JT 610 crashed 13 minutes after departing from the Soekarno Hatta airport in Jakarta at 6:20 a.m. local time at coordi-

nates of 05 46.15 degrees South latitude and 107 07.16 degrees East longitude.

The aircraft carried 178 adult passengers, a child and two infants, three stewardesses on training, and a technician, in addition to the pilot Capt. Bhavye Suneja, copilot Harvino, and six cabin crews.

The pilot and copilot have six thousand hours and five thousand hours of flying time respectively.

“We are deeply concerned about

the incident and will cooperate with related institutions on the case,” he noted. A Lion Air plane, carrying 189 passengers that crashed in the waters of Tanjung Kerawang, West Java, on Monday, was considered to be a new aircraft, National Committee of Transportation Safety Head Soerjanto Tjahjono stated.

“The Lion Air JT610 flight used the latest Boeing 737 Max type,” he informed the press here, Monday.

Indonesian budget carrier Lion Air leapt from obscurity to global fame in 2011 when it ordered 230 Boeing planes worth a whopping $22 billion, the US maker’s biggest ever deal, but it has been dogged by safety issues for years.

When co-founder Rusdi Kirana was asked months later if bank loans would be needed to finance the purchase, he told reporters at the 2012 Singapore Airshow: “I am the bank.”

Founded in 1999 by brothers Rusdi and Kusnan Kirani, the

budget carrier began operations in 2000 as Indonesia’s first low-cost carrier, using a leased Boeing 737200 between Jakarta and Denpasar, capital of the resort island of Bali.

It quickly rode the crest of Indonesia’s soaring domestic air travel sector to become the country’s biggest private airline and second largest in Southeast Asia after Malaysian carrier AirAsia.

A boom in demand in the archipelago, the world’s fourth most populous nation, prompted Lion Air to go on an aircraft-buying

spree that made headlines around the world starting in 2011.

With then US President Barack Obama as a witness, Boeing and Lion Air signed the record deal on the sidelines of an Asian summit in Bali for the purchase of 29 737900s and 201 orders of the new 737 MAX, along with options for 150 more aircraft.

The orders were worth $21.7 billion at list prices, with the US aircraft maker describing it as “the largest commercial plane order ever in Boeing’s history by both dollar

The ill-fated aircraft joined the Lion Air fleet in August 2018 and had 800 hours of flight time.

The cause of the accident is still unknown and is currently under investigation, he added.

“The Adam Air and Silk Air accidents several years ago involved human factors as one of the causes. In this Lion Air case, we cannot guess as yet,” he noted.

Meanwhile, Corporate Communication Strategic Officer of Lion Air Danang Mandala remarked that the crashed Boeing 737 Max 8 plane was airworthy

and had been operated by the airlines since August 15, 2018.

The plane`s wreckage and several body parts were found floating in the sea not far from Jakarta.

The plane crashed 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta toward Pangkalpinang, Bangka Belitung Province, on Monday morning.

Lion Air has opened a crisis center at 021-80820000 and information on passengers is available at 02180820002. The airlines has promised to share the latest information regarding the incident, he added.(ant)

volume and total number of planes”.

But Lion Air soon surpassed that record when it ordered 234 medium-haul A320 planes from Airbus worth a whopping $24 billion at catalogue prices in 2013.

airlines, from flying into European airspace until 2016.

Its first deadly accident in 2004 saw 26 people killed and more than 100 injured when a Lion Air plane skidded at an airport in the central Java city of Solo, with the airline blaming bad weather and strong tailwinds.

In 2013, a rookie pilot at the controls of a Lion Air plane undershot the runway and landed in the sea off Bali, splitting the plane in two and forcing passengers to swim to safety. Remarkably no one was killed in the accident.(afp)

Indonesia’s Lion Air: record plane deals, safety woes - ‘Challenging situation’ The carrier currently operates domestic flights and a number of international routes in Southeast Asia, Australia and the Middle East. However, it has struggled with issues of safety and poor management and was banned, along with other Indonesian

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Djokovic targets top spot in Paris as Nadal returns from injury

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Mercedes’ British driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates his fifth drivers’ title after the F1 Mexico Grand Prix at the Hermanos Rodriguez circuit in Mexico City on October 28, 2018.

Medewi Beach

JEMBRANA - Medewi Beach is a beautiful rocky beach situated in west part of Bali Island which is favored by the great and long swell wave that is suitable for surf adventures. The beach is quite far from Denpasar City has been famous and many visited by local tourist including surfers from both foreign country and local. This beach is also appointed as one of the best surf points in Bali which is many demanded by surfers because of the characteristic of it wave. Medewi Beach is a panoramic beach with peaceful atmosphere and sea breeze flows to cover the entire sea shore that makes it as an ideal place for relaxation. The spectacular of sunset view is mostly presented every day that creates the romantic nuance and a fascination for tourist to visit this place.

Medewi Beach is located in Pekutatan, Jembrana Regency and Bali Province – Indonesia. This beach can be reached by any vehicles because it is favored by the good access and strategic location which is just beside of the main street from Denpasar to Gilimanuk Harbour. It is just need 2,5 hours from Denpasar City or 3 hours from Denpasar Aiport.

The best season for surfing at Medewi

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Beach is on dry season because the wind flows from the east to the west that creates the big and fat wave that is ideally for surfing adventures. On this season, the wave is usually own bog power that is suitable to go for surfing.

Medewi Beach is quite far from Denpasar City has been famous and many visited by local tourist including surfers from both foreign country and local.

This beach is one of the best surf spots in Bali because it has two surfing spots, fat waves, long swells and left hander.

It is good for intermediate up to professional surf skill and the best surfing time st this beach is middle and high tide.

Best Month for surfing are April, May, June, July and August. It features with a panoramic beach with peaceful atmosphere and sea breeze flow to cover the entire sea shore that makes it as an ideal place for relaxation. The spectacular of sunset view is mostly presented every day that creates the romantic nuance and a fascination for tourist to visit this place.

There is another famous surf spot close with this beach is called Balian Beach which is about 35 minutes away to east direction. (IBP/net)

PARIS - Novak Djokovic can complete a stunning return to world number one at the Paris Masters this week as Rafael Nadal hits the comeback trail for the first time since limping out of the US Open.

Roger Federer could also resurface in the French capital after a three-year absence, although the 20-time Grand Slam champion said a decision on his participation will be made on Tuesday.

The Swiss star won his 99th career title in Basel over the weekend but hasn’t played in Paris since 2015 due to a combination of injury and selective scheduling.

Djokovic also missed last year’s event as he dropped outside the top 10 for the first time in over a decade, but the Serb, who was lingering down at a ranking of 22nd as recently as June, arrives having won 27 of his last 28 matches.

“In both the US Open and Shanghai, I’ve played as good as ever,” said Djokovic, who claimed his 14th major championship in New York.

“So I really enjoy tennis at the moment and enjoy competing, because obviously when you’re winning that many matches you have a lot of confidence.”

However, it was just months ago

that doubts were raised over his future following a dramatic decline as he battled to recover from a nagging elbow injury.

He underwent surgery after a fourth-round loss at this year’s Australian Open but admittedly rushed his return and suffered a series of early exits that knocked his confidence.

The 31-year-old though outlasted Nadal in an epic Wimbledon semi-final before sweeping Kevin Anderson aside to claim his first Grand Slam since the 2016 French Open.

He then completed a sweep of Masters victories by downing Federer to claim an elusive Cincinnati title.

“We are very, very pleased with what was achieved in the last four, five months,” said Djokovic. “And with Rafa’s injury and him not playing China and so forth, it put me in a position to be very close to him in rankings and to fight for a year-end No. 1.

“So of course right now I’m aware of it and I’m going to give my very best to try to achieve it.”

“I do think that I’m playing at my best at the moment and I always feel like I can improve, but I feel like this is a very high level,” he added. (afp)

MEXICO CITY - Lewis Hamilton claimed his fifth drivers’ world championship on Sunday to draw level with Juan Manuel Fangio in the Formula One record books when he finished fourth behind a victorious Max Verstappen in the Mexican Grand Prix.

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Hamilton’s success – the third time he has taken the title without finishing on the race podium – elevated him to a supreme club alongside Fangio with only seven-time champion Michael Schumacher ahead of him.

He was adding the 2018 crown to his championship wins in 2008, 2014, 2015 and 2017. The 33-year-old Briton’s only remaining championship rival Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari, who needed a victory, with Hamilton outside the top seven, to keep his hopes alive, finished second.

He celebrated by executing ‘doughnut’ wheel spins for the cheering crowd before leaping out of his car and into the arms of his team.

After being congratulated by Vettel, Hamilton said: “It’s a very strange feeling right now.”

After surviving what turned into a battle of attrition at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez he added: “It was a horrible race… I really don’t know what happened.

“We were struggling both Valtteri (Bottas) and I and we had to just hang on and bring the car home.

- ‘Surreal’ “I’ve been with Mercedes since I was 13 and to complete this, when

Fangio had done it with Mercedes, is an incredible feeling and it is very surreal to me at the moment.

“I just feel very very humble, of course I dreamed about this but I never thought I’d be standing here as a five-time champion.”

Four-time champion Vettel heaped praise on his rival.

“It is not easy today but well deserved for him and I want to congratulate Lewis. They did a superb job all year. We need to stand there, accept that and send congratulations.

We would have liked to have hung in there longer, but it was not to be.”

Reflecting on his season Hamilton added: “It has been the toughest year physically, mentally and personally with everything I’m committed to, but I have amazing support.

“Mercedes and my team have just been the most incredible unit and worked to raise the bar. In my mind it is just another day of fighting and I have more races to win, it is not over.

“In my mind I have to work, go to the debrief and try to win in Brazil.

Hamilton, who started third on the grid, struggled with chronic tyre-wear after making a strong start in his Mercedes and settled for a cautious cruise

to the title without a podium finish.

Verstappen, upstaged by his Red Bull team-mate Daniel Ricciardo in qualifying on Saturday, came home 17.108 seconds ahead of Vettel after the luckless Australian pole-sitter retired with nine laps remaining.

“I didn’t sleep very well last night,” said Verstappen.

“I was very determined to win and we’ve done that – we had the right tyres and the car was working very well…

“It was a shame to lose Daniel.

We wanted two of us on the podium. A party tonight? No, I’m going home!”

A puff of smoke signalled an engine failure and his eighth ‘Did Not Finish’ (DNF) of the season while his 21-year-old Dutch tyro team-mate secured a repeat of his 2017 triumph, his second win this season and the fifth of his career. Vettel’s Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen came home third ahead of Hamilton and his Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas.

Nico Hulkenberg was sixth for Renault ahead of Charles Leclerc of Sauber, Stoffel Vandoorne of McLaren, Marcus Ericsson in the second Sauber and Pierre Gasly of Toro Rosso. (afp)

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Suarez hits hat-trick as Barcelona blow away Madrid

Mourinho praises Pogba’s penalty courage in much-needed Man Utd win

Jose Mourinho insisted he is happy for Paul Pogba to remain his penalty taker despite the midfielder missing from the spot for the second time this season in Manchester United’s 2-1 win over Everton.

Pogba at least netted the rebound after a stunning save from Jordan Pickford appeared to have punished him for a bizarre, stuttering run-up that featured 26 steps.

Anthony Martial won the penalty, after going down under a challenge from Idrissa Gueye, although Everton manager Marco Silva accused him of diving to gain the decision.

And, after Martial had scored a second to continue his recent fine form, Everton won a penalty of their own, converted by Gylfi Sigurdsson, to ensure United faced an anxious 13 minutes before the final whistle.

But a relieved Mourinho praised Pogba after the game for having the mental strength to take the 27th minute penalty. “The thing I like is the desire to take it,” said Mourinho.

“I don’t like Mickey Mouses, fragile, afraid, who go, ‘I don’t take penalties.’ I like the player that wants to take it.

“Paul wants to take them and that, for me, is fantastic. Can he improve?

I think he can. “The goalkeepers know his running, they don’t move and they are waiting for his decision, so he has to learn from that but for me the most important thing is he wants to go again.”

Silva was less pleased with United’s French connection, as he accused Martial of diving to win the penalty award from Jon Moss.

“It was not a penalty, clearly the player dived, it leaves a bad sensation.

I told the players at half-time it was not a fair result,” said the Portuguese coach. “That moment makes it easy for our opponents. You are more exposed then because you have to take more risks.”

There was no dispute about Martial’s second goal, after 49 minutes, as he gathered a short pass from Pogba and curled a superb 18-yard shot past Pickford.

But, after Bernard had rounded David de Gea but somehow placed the ball into the side-netting three minutes later, Everton finally claimed a deserved goal after Chris Smalling brought down Richarlison.

- Clean sheet ‘impossible’ Victory vindicated Mourinho’s decision to drop Romelu Lukaku from his starting line-up although the United manager, while claiming he was happy with his team’s performance, followed up with a damning analysis of his side’s current limitations.

“We are playing okay,” said Mourinho. “We are not as rock solid as I would like, we don’t have that killer instinct I would like.

“Some teams they have three chances and score three goals. Some teams without the ball, can resist and keep a clean sheet all the time. “But for us in this moment it is is almost impossible to keep a clean sheet even with the phenomenal goalkeeper we have. (afp)

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Manchester United’s French midfielder Paul Pogba has an unsuccessful shot during the English Premier League football match between Manchester United and Everton at Old Trafford in Manchester, north west England, on October 28, 2018.

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Tributes are gathered outside Leicester City Football Club’s King Power Stadium in Leicester, eastern England, on October 29, 2018 in honour and remembrance of those who died in a helicopter crash at the club’s stadium on October 27 including the club’s Thai chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.

Tributes, mourning as Leicester’s Thai boss killed in helicopter crash

Barcelona ran riot in the Clasico on Sunday as Luis Suarez scored the hat-trick that will surely spell the end of Julen Lopetegui’s time as Real Madrid coach. Barcelona were 5-1 winners, dominant at Camp Nou for all-but a 15-minute period after half-time when the otherwise hapless Madrid briefly threatened a comeback.

All the failures that have underlined their recent problems under Lopetegui were on show here, poor finishing, dreadful defending and key players performing well below par, let alone at their best.

There was also some bad luck, as Luka Modric hit the post at 2-1, while Suarez’s second was a penalty, awarded only after consultation with the Video Assistant Referee.

Philippe Coutinho had scored the first and Arturo Vidal fin-

ished a late flurry but in between the game belonged to Suarez, who terrorised Madrid and made light of Lionel Messi’s injuryenforced absence.

“We have to be proud of having the best player in the world,” Suarez said. “But we have shown that we are a great team and that we have a great coach too.”

For Lopetegui, it is now one win in six games, as Madrid stay ninth, seven points behind Barcelona, who return to the top of the table. “What we have shown today is what we have shown all season,” Casemiro said. “We have to run more, stand up more, fight more.”

This defeat was reminiscent of the 4-0 thrashing that spelt the end for Rafael Benitez in 2016. Benitez survived two more months, Lopetegui may not last the week.

Much was made of this being

the first Clasico without either Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo in 11 years but Suarez’s masterclass will mean it lives long in the memory, particularly for him, coming five days after the birth of his third child. “It makes me very happy,” Suarez said.

Jordi Alba created the opener as he zoomed past both Gareth Bale and Nacho, before finding Coutinho by the penalty spot.

It was the move’s 30th pass, the most for a goal in a La Liga Clasico in 13 seasons.

- Lopetegui motionless On the touchline, Lopetegui stood motionless. Raphael Varane clapped but his teammates looked shell-shocked.

Sergio Ramos thrashed a pass across his own box to Nacho, who hacked it to the feet of Arthur, his shot parried away by Thibaut Courtois.

Leicester City’s Thai billionaire boss was among five people killed when his helicopter crashed and burst into flames in the Premier League side’s stadium car park moments after taking off from the pitch, the club said on Sunday.

A stream of fans already fearing the worst had laid out flowers, football scarves and Buddhist prayers outside the club’s King Power stadium after Saturday’s accident in tribute to Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha -- the man they credit for an against-all-odds Premier League victory in 2016.

“The world has lost a great man,” the club said in a statement. “Leicester City was a family under his leadership. It is as a family that we will grieve his passing and maintain the pursuit of a vision for the club that is now his legacy,” it said.

A book of condolence will be opened at the stadium from Tuesday and the team has postponed its upcoming League Cup fixture against Southampton.

“Everyone at the Club has been truly touched by the remarkable response of the football family, whose thoughtful messages of support and solidarity have been deeply appreciated at this difficult time,” the statement said.

Police named the four other victims as Nursara Suknamai and Kaveporn Punpare, two members of Vichai’s staff, pilot Eric Swaffer and passenger Izabela Roza Lechowicz.

Vichai, 60, the owner of Thailand’s King Power duty-free empire, was a regular at matches who used to fly

to and from home games. The blue chopper took off from the middle of the pitch once the stadium had emptied after Saturday’s 1-1 draw with West Ham. Eyewitnesses said the helicopter appeared to develop a mechanical problem in its rear propeller shortly after takeoff.

Images showed orange balls of flame engulfing the wreckage in the car park of the stadium where just two years ago Leicester celebrated the most unlikely of Premier League title triumphs.

“Struggling to find the right words....but to me you are legend, an incredible man who had the biggest heart, the soul of Leicester City Football Club,” Leicester striker Jamie Vardy, one of the heroes of that success, posted on Instagram.

“Thank you for everything you did for me, my family and our club. I will truly miss you.... may you rest in peace... #theboss” - ‘Sense of family’ Prayers and tributes poured in from the footballing world and beyond for the jovial man many credit with bringing glory to the central English city with the miracle-making club. “He’s put Leicester on the map,” supporter Cathy Dann, 55, told AFP.

“He’s made us big,” she said, as aviation experts picked through small pieces of wreckage scattered on the stadium’s edge. Among the tributes was an image of Ganesh -- a Hindu god also seen in Thai Buddhist temples.

A minute’s silence was observed before the whistle of Sunday’s Premier League matches. “It is a family business and they have instilled this sense of family not just throughout the club but into the city as well,” Andrew Hulley, the team’s chaplain for the past seven years, told AFP. Football fans in Bangkok said Vichai had helped develop the sport in Thailand as well, bringing the Southeast Asian country greater recognition in the sporting world.

“He is an important person who has raised the bar of Thai football further,” Apichart Jitratkavee, a Leicester fan in the Thai capital, told AFP. Chamat Uchukanokkul, 39, said Vichai was “an inspiration to Thais... He showed that we can do anything if we set our minds to do it”.

Vichai bought Leicester City in 2010 and moved to chairman the following February, pouring millions into the team and becoming a beloved figure in the club and the city -- a feat rarely achieved by the Premier League’s foreign owners.(afp)

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Barcelona’s Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez celebrates a goal during the Spanish league football match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on October 28, 2018.

Still, Barca needed the help of VAR for the second. Suarez was too quick at the near post and Varane bundled him over. It was a clear penalty, which Suarez converted for his seventh goal in 11 games against these opponents. His eighth and ninth were still to come.

Gerard Pique should have headed in while a promising Madrid free-kick somehow ended with another Barca sprawl on the counterattack. The visitors were fortunate to be only two down at half-time.

Varane was taken off, with a muscle problem the club said, for Lucas Vazquez, and he was key to Madrid’s goal, his disguised pass allowing Isco to pick out Marcelo, who finished for his third in three games.

Suddenly, it was Barca making the mistakes. Ramos headed over, Modric hit the inside of the post and Isco’s finish was blocked after

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Rafinha ran into trouble.

Madrid were still nervy at the back, where Suarez acrobatically volleyed onto the post and then landed the knock-out blow. Sergi Roberto chipped a cross into the box but the ball had neither the pace nor the angle to be headed in easily. Suarez, however, generated both himself to leave Courtois stranded.

If that was a masterclass in adaptation, his third was a demonstration of finesse. Ramos was pushed off the ball by Sergi Roberto, who freed Suarez. Suarez feathered the ball over Courtois for his hat-trick.

Madrid were finished but the humiliation was not complete as Ousmane Dembele crossed for Vidal to head home a fifth.

Suarez could even have had a fourth in injury-time but Courtois saved. Five was more than enough.(afp)

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Suarez hits hat-trick as Barcelona blow away Madrid

Mourinho praises Pogba’s penalty courage in much-needed Man Utd win

Jose Mourinho insisted he is happy for Paul Pogba to remain his penalty taker despite the midfielder missing from the spot for the second time this season in Manchester United’s 2-1 win over Everton.

Pogba at least netted the rebound after a stunning save from Jordan Pickford appeared to have punished him for a bizarre, stuttering run-up that featured 26 steps.

Anthony Martial won the penalty, after going down under a challenge from Idrissa Gueye, although Everton manager Marco Silva accused him of diving to gain the decision.

And, after Martial had scored a second to continue his recent fine form, Everton won a penalty of their own, converted by Gylfi Sigurdsson, to ensure United faced an anxious 13 minutes before the final whistle.

But a relieved Mourinho praised Pogba after the game for having the mental strength to take the 27th minute penalty. “The thing I like is the desire to take it,” said Mourinho.

“I don’t like Mickey Mouses, fragile, afraid, who go, ‘I don’t take penalties.’ I like the player that wants to take it.

“Paul wants to take them and that, for me, is fantastic. Can he improve?

I think he can. “The goalkeepers know his running, they don’t move and they are waiting for his decision, so he has to learn from that but for me the most important thing is he wants to go again.”

Silva was less pleased with United’s French connection, as he accused Martial of diving to win the penalty award from Jon Moss.

“It was not a penalty, clearly the player dived, it leaves a bad sensation.

I told the players at half-time it was not a fair result,” said the Portuguese coach. “That moment makes it easy for our opponents. You are more exposed then because you have to take more risks.”

There was no dispute about Martial’s second goal, after 49 minutes, as he gathered a short pass from Pogba and curled a superb 18-yard shot past Pickford.

But, after Bernard had rounded David de Gea but somehow placed the ball into the side-netting three minutes later, Everton finally claimed a deserved goal after Chris Smalling brought down Richarlison.

- Clean sheet ‘impossible’ Victory vindicated Mourinho’s decision to drop Romelu Lukaku from his starting line-up although the United manager, while claiming he was happy with his team’s performance, followed up with a damning analysis of his side’s current limitations.

“We are playing okay,” said Mourinho. “We are not as rock solid as I would like, we don’t have that killer instinct I would like.

“Some teams they have three chances and score three goals. Some teams without the ball, can resist and keep a clean sheet all the time. “But for us in this moment it is is almost impossible to keep a clean sheet even with the phenomenal goalkeeper we have. (afp)

Paul ELLIS / AFP

Manchester United’s French midfielder Paul Pogba has an unsuccessful shot during the English Premier League football match between Manchester United and Everton at Old Trafford in Manchester, north west England, on October 28, 2018.

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Tributes are gathered outside Leicester City Football Club’s King Power Stadium in Leicester, eastern England, on October 29, 2018 in honour and remembrance of those who died in a helicopter crash at the club’s stadium on October 27 including the club’s Thai chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.

Tributes, mourning as Leicester’s Thai boss killed in helicopter crash

Barcelona ran riot in the Clasico on Sunday as Luis Suarez scored the hat-trick that will surely spell the end of Julen Lopetegui’s time as Real Madrid coach. Barcelona were 5-1 winners, dominant at Camp Nou for all-but a 15-minute period after half-time when the otherwise hapless Madrid briefly threatened a comeback.

All the failures that have underlined their recent problems under Lopetegui were on show here, poor finishing, dreadful defending and key players performing well below par, let alone at their best.

There was also some bad luck, as Luka Modric hit the post at 2-1, while Suarez’s second was a penalty, awarded only after consultation with the Video Assistant Referee.

Philippe Coutinho had scored the first and Arturo Vidal fin-

ished a late flurry but in between the game belonged to Suarez, who terrorised Madrid and made light of Lionel Messi’s injuryenforced absence.

“We have to be proud of having the best player in the world,” Suarez said. “But we have shown that we are a great team and that we have a great coach too.”

For Lopetegui, it is now one win in six games, as Madrid stay ninth, seven points behind Barcelona, who return to the top of the table. “What we have shown today is what we have shown all season,” Casemiro said. “We have to run more, stand up more, fight more.”

This defeat was reminiscent of the 4-0 thrashing that spelt the end for Rafael Benitez in 2016. Benitez survived two more months, Lopetegui may not last the week.

Much was made of this being

the first Clasico without either Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo in 11 years but Suarez’s masterclass will mean it lives long in the memory, particularly for him, coming five days after the birth of his third child. “It makes me very happy,” Suarez said.

Jordi Alba created the opener as he zoomed past both Gareth Bale and Nacho, before finding Coutinho by the penalty spot.

It was the move’s 30th pass, the most for a goal in a La Liga Clasico in 13 seasons.

- Lopetegui motionless On the touchline, Lopetegui stood motionless. Raphael Varane clapped but his teammates looked shell-shocked.

Sergio Ramos thrashed a pass across his own box to Nacho, who hacked it to the feet of Arthur, his shot parried away by Thibaut Courtois.

Leicester City’s Thai billionaire boss was among five people killed when his helicopter crashed and burst into flames in the Premier League side’s stadium car park moments after taking off from the pitch, the club said on Sunday.

A stream of fans already fearing the worst had laid out flowers, football scarves and Buddhist prayers outside the club’s King Power stadium after Saturday’s accident in tribute to Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha -- the man they credit for an against-all-odds Premier League victory in 2016.

“The world has lost a great man,” the club said in a statement. “Leicester City was a family under his leadership. It is as a family that we will grieve his passing and maintain the pursuit of a vision for the club that is now his legacy,” it said.

A book of condolence will be opened at the stadium from Tuesday and the team has postponed its upcoming League Cup fixture against Southampton.

“Everyone at the Club has been truly touched by the remarkable response of the football family, whose thoughtful messages of support and solidarity have been deeply appreciated at this difficult time,” the statement said.

Police named the four other victims as Nursara Suknamai and Kaveporn Punpare, two members of Vichai’s staff, pilot Eric Swaffer and passenger Izabela Roza Lechowicz.

Vichai, 60, the owner of Thailand’s King Power duty-free empire, was a regular at matches who used to fly

to and from home games. The blue chopper took off from the middle of the pitch once the stadium had emptied after Saturday’s 1-1 draw with West Ham. Eyewitnesses said the helicopter appeared to develop a mechanical problem in its rear propeller shortly after takeoff.

Images showed orange balls of flame engulfing the wreckage in the car park of the stadium where just two years ago Leicester celebrated the most unlikely of Premier League title triumphs.

“Struggling to find the right words....but to me you are legend, an incredible man who had the biggest heart, the soul of Leicester City Football Club,” Leicester striker Jamie Vardy, one of the heroes of that success, posted on Instagram.

“Thank you for everything you did for me, my family and our club. I will truly miss you.... may you rest in peace... #theboss” - ‘Sense of family’ Prayers and tributes poured in from the footballing world and beyond for the jovial man many credit with bringing glory to the central English city with the miracle-making club. “He’s put Leicester on the map,” supporter Cathy Dann, 55, told AFP.

“He’s made us big,” she said, as aviation experts picked through small pieces of wreckage scattered on the stadium’s edge. Among the tributes was an image of Ganesh -- a Hindu god also seen in Thai Buddhist temples.

A minute’s silence was observed before the whistle of Sunday’s Premier League matches. “It is a family business and they have instilled this sense of family not just throughout the club but into the city as well,” Andrew Hulley, the team’s chaplain for the past seven years, told AFP. Football fans in Bangkok said Vichai had helped develop the sport in Thailand as well, bringing the Southeast Asian country greater recognition in the sporting world.

“He is an important person who has raised the bar of Thai football further,” Apichart Jitratkavee, a Leicester fan in the Thai capital, told AFP. Chamat Uchukanokkul, 39, said Vichai was “an inspiration to Thais... He showed that we can do anything if we set our minds to do it”.

Vichai bought Leicester City in 2010 and moved to chairman the following February, pouring millions into the team and becoming a beloved figure in the club and the city -- a feat rarely achieved by the Premier League’s foreign owners.(afp)

LLUIS GENE / AFP

Barcelona’s Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez celebrates a goal during the Spanish league football match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on October 28, 2018.

Still, Barca needed the help of VAR for the second. Suarez was too quick at the near post and Varane bundled him over. It was a clear penalty, which Suarez converted for his seventh goal in 11 games against these opponents. His eighth and ninth were still to come.

Gerard Pique should have headed in while a promising Madrid free-kick somehow ended with another Barca sprawl on the counterattack. The visitors were fortunate to be only two down at half-time.

Varane was taken off, with a muscle problem the club said, for Lucas Vazquez, and he was key to Madrid’s goal, his disguised pass allowing Isco to pick out Marcelo, who finished for his third in three games.

Suddenly, it was Barca making the mistakes. Ramos headed over, Modric hit the inside of the post and Isco’s finish was blocked after

9

Rafinha ran into trouble.

Madrid were still nervy at the back, where Suarez acrobatically volleyed onto the post and then landed the knock-out blow. Sergi Roberto chipped a cross into the box but the ball had neither the pace nor the angle to be headed in easily. Suarez, however, generated both himself to leave Courtois stranded.

If that was a masterclass in adaptation, his third was a demonstration of finesse. Ramos was pushed off the ball by Sergi Roberto, who freed Suarez. Suarez feathered the ball over Courtois for his hat-trick.

Madrid were finished but the humiliation was not complete as Ousmane Dembele crossed for Vidal to head home a fifth.

Suarez could even have had a fourth in injury-time but Courtois saved. Five was more than enough.(afp)

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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

International

Djokovic targets top spot in Paris as Nadal returns from injury

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Mercedes’ British driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates his fifth drivers’ title after the F1 Mexico Grand Prix at the Hermanos Rodriguez circuit in Mexico City on October 28, 2018.

Medewi Beach

JEMBRANA - Medewi Beach is a beautiful rocky beach situated in west part of Bali Island which is favored by the great and long swell wave that is suitable for surf adventures. The beach is quite far from Denpasar City has been famous and many visited by local tourist including surfers from both foreign country and local. This beach is also appointed as one of the best surf points in Bali which is many demanded by surfers because of the characteristic of it wave. Medewi Beach is a panoramic beach with peaceful atmosphere and sea breeze flows to cover the entire sea shore that makes it as an ideal place for relaxation. The spectacular of sunset view is mostly presented every day that creates the romantic nuance and a fascination for tourist to visit this place.

Medewi Beach is located in Pekutatan, Jembrana Regency and Bali Province – Indonesia. This beach can be reached by any vehicles because it is favored by the good access and strategic location which is just beside of the main street from Denpasar to Gilimanuk Harbour. It is just need 2,5 hours from Denpasar City or 3 hours from Denpasar Aiport.

The best season for surfing at Medewi

Hamilton joins Fangio with ‘surreal’ fifth world title

Beach is on dry season because the wind flows from the east to the west that creates the big and fat wave that is ideally for surfing adventures. On this season, the wave is usually own bog power that is suitable to go for surfing.

Medewi Beach is quite far from Denpasar City has been famous and many visited by local tourist including surfers from both foreign country and local.

This beach is one of the best surf spots in Bali because it has two surfing spots, fat waves, long swells and left hander.

It is good for intermediate up to professional surf skill and the best surfing time st this beach is middle and high tide.

Best Month for surfing are April, May, June, July and August. It features with a panoramic beach with peaceful atmosphere and sea breeze flow to cover the entire sea shore that makes it as an ideal place for relaxation. The spectacular of sunset view is mostly presented every day that creates the romantic nuance and a fascination for tourist to visit this place.

There is another famous surf spot close with this beach is called Balian Beach which is about 35 minutes away to east direction. (IBP/net)

PARIS - Novak Djokovic can complete a stunning return to world number one at the Paris Masters this week as Rafael Nadal hits the comeback trail for the first time since limping out of the US Open.

Roger Federer could also resurface in the French capital after a three-year absence, although the 20-time Grand Slam champion said a decision on his participation will be made on Tuesday.

The Swiss star won his 99th career title in Basel over the weekend but hasn’t played in Paris since 2015 due to a combination of injury and selective scheduling.

Djokovic also missed last year’s event as he dropped outside the top 10 for the first time in over a decade, but the Serb, who was lingering down at a ranking of 22nd as recently as June, arrives having won 27 of his last 28 matches.

“In both the US Open and Shanghai, I’ve played as good as ever,” said Djokovic, who claimed his 14th major championship in New York.

“So I really enjoy tennis at the moment and enjoy competing, because obviously when you’re winning that many matches you have a lot of confidence.”

However, it was just months ago

that doubts were raised over his future following a dramatic decline as he battled to recover from a nagging elbow injury.

He underwent surgery after a fourth-round loss at this year’s Australian Open but admittedly rushed his return and suffered a series of early exits that knocked his confidence.

The 31-year-old though outlasted Nadal in an epic Wimbledon semi-final before sweeping Kevin Anderson aside to claim his first Grand Slam since the 2016 French Open.

He then completed a sweep of Masters victories by downing Federer to claim an elusive Cincinnati title.

“We are very, very pleased with what was achieved in the last four, five months,” said Djokovic. “And with Rafa’s injury and him not playing China and so forth, it put me in a position to be very close to him in rankings and to fight for a year-end No. 1.

“So of course right now I’m aware of it and I’m going to give my very best to try to achieve it.”

“I do think that I’m playing at my best at the moment and I always feel like I can improve, but I feel like this is a very high level,” he added. (afp)

MEXICO CITY - Lewis Hamilton claimed his fifth drivers’ world championship on Sunday to draw level with Juan Manuel Fangio in the Formula One record books when he finished fourth behind a victorious Max Verstappen in the Mexican Grand Prix.

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Hamilton’s success – the third time he has taken the title without finishing on the race podium – elevated him to a supreme club alongside Fangio with only seven-time champion Michael Schumacher ahead of him.

He was adding the 2018 crown to his championship wins in 2008, 2014, 2015 and 2017. The 33-year-old Briton’s only remaining championship rival Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari, who needed a victory, with Hamilton outside the top seven, to keep his hopes alive, finished second.

He celebrated by executing ‘doughnut’ wheel spins for the cheering crowd before leaping out of his car and into the arms of his team.

After being congratulated by Vettel, Hamilton said: “It’s a very strange feeling right now.”

After surviving what turned into a battle of attrition at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez he added: “It was a horrible race… I really don’t know what happened.

“We were struggling both Valtteri (Bottas) and I and we had to just hang on and bring the car home.

- ‘Surreal’ “I’ve been with Mercedes since I was 13 and to complete this, when

Fangio had done it with Mercedes, is an incredible feeling and it is very surreal to me at the moment.

“I just feel very very humble, of course I dreamed about this but I never thought I’d be standing here as a five-time champion.”

Four-time champion Vettel heaped praise on his rival.

“It is not easy today but well deserved for him and I want to congratulate Lewis. They did a superb job all year. We need to stand there, accept that and send congratulations.

We would have liked to have hung in there longer, but it was not to be.”

Reflecting on his season Hamilton added: “It has been the toughest year physically, mentally and personally with everything I’m committed to, but I have amazing support.

“Mercedes and my team have just been the most incredible unit and worked to raise the bar. In my mind it is just another day of fighting and I have more races to win, it is not over.

“In my mind I have to work, go to the debrief and try to win in Brazil.

Hamilton, who started third on the grid, struggled with chronic tyre-wear after making a strong start in his Mercedes and settled for a cautious cruise

to the title without a podium finish.

Verstappen, upstaged by his Red Bull team-mate Daniel Ricciardo in qualifying on Saturday, came home 17.108 seconds ahead of Vettel after the luckless Australian pole-sitter retired with nine laps remaining.

“I didn’t sleep very well last night,” said Verstappen.

“I was very determined to win and we’ve done that – we had the right tyres and the car was working very well…

“It was a shame to lose Daniel.

We wanted two of us on the podium. A party tonight? No, I’m going home!”

A puff of smoke signalled an engine failure and his eighth ‘Did Not Finish’ (DNF) of the season while his 21-year-old Dutch tyro team-mate secured a repeat of his 2017 triumph, his second win this season and the fifth of his career. Vettel’s Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen came home third ahead of Hamilton and his Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas.

Nico Hulkenberg was sixth for Renault ahead of Charles Leclerc of Sauber, Stoffel Vandoorne of McLaren, Marcus Ericsson in the second Sauber and Pierre Gasly of Toro Rosso. (afp)

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Trump’s ‘America First’ credo recalls WWI isolationists

WASHINGTON - World War I sparked America’s emergence as a global power, when it flexed its muscles to end the bloody stalemate in the trenches in Europe.

A century after the November 11, 1918 armistice, debate still rages over the US role in the world and the country is led by a president whose credo -- “America First” -- harkens back to that of post-World War I isolationists.

“The debate that comes at the end of the First World War is ‘Are America’s interests best served by joining international organizations like the League of Nations?’,’” said Michael Neiberg, a history professor at the US Army War College.

“Or is America best served by staying away from these organizations and pursuing its interests alone?” added Neiberg, author of “The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America.”

For Geoffrey Wawro, professor of military history at the University of North Texas, “World War I puts the United States into the mainstream of world affairs in a leadership position.”

In the conflict’s immediate aftermath, President Woodrow Wilson championed the League of Nations designed to keep the peace.

But Henry Cabot Lodge, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, saw the world body as a threat to US sovereignty and engineered a rejection of US membership by the Senate.

“Even though we retreated into isolationism, the lingering impact of US intervention is never erased because we’re just such a strong power,” said Wawro, author of “The Mad Catastrophe,” a book about the outbreak of World War I. Echoes of that Wilson-Lodge dispute can still be heard today as Trump steers a foreign policy course unlike those followed by recent occupants of the Oval Office.

- ‘A 1920s argument’ Trump has made his disdain for global institutions clear along with his antipathy to multilateral trade agreements such as NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Trump has withdrawn or announced plans to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, Iran nuclear deal, UN Human Rights Council and the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

“We will never surrender America’s sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable global bureaucracy,” he told the UN General Assembly last month. “America is governed by Americans. We reject the ideology of globalism. And we embrace the doctrine of patriotism.”

For Neiberg, “what he’s arguing is that the United States, being a great power, a great economy, a great nation, shouldn’t be involved in any of these organizations unless it makes sense for the United States.

“That’s a 1920s argument,” he said, championed by Lodge and others who “argued that the League of Nations -- which was one nation, one vote -- was a bad idea for Americans because it meant the United States and say, Ecuador, would have the same power in international organizations. “And that made no sense for a great power like the United States.” (afp)

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Last year one of its Boeing jets collided with a Wings Air plane as it landed at Kualanamu airport on the island of Sumatra, although no one was injured.

In May 2016, two Lion Air planes collided at Jakarta’s SoekarnoHatta airport, while a month earlier a plane operated by Batik Air -- part of the Lion Group -- clipped a TransNusa plane.

In 2013 a Lion Air jet with a rookie pilot at the controls undershot the runway and crashed into the sea in Bali, splitting the plane in two.

Several people were injured in the crash, although no one was killed.

Indonesia’s air travel industry is booming, with the number of domestic passengers growing significantly over the past decade, but it has acquired a reputation for poor regulation.

Last year the Indonesian air traffic controllers association revealed that the rate of take-off and landings in Jakarta allowed by state-run air navigation company AirNav was more than the airport could handle, increasing the chance of accidents.

The country’s carriers have in the past faced years-long bans from entering European Union and US airspace over their safety records.(afp)

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A file photo taken in 1916 shows a post card released by the Historial de Peronne (WWI Museum) of French soldiers wearing basic gaz masks during the First World War (WWI).

Poison gas: World War I’s weapon of terror

PARIS - On April 22, 1915, a greenish fog drifted over the battlefield north of Ypres in Belgium, choking to death some 5,000 French soldiers and heralding a new type of terror on the Western Front.

World War I saw the first widespread combat use of modern chemical weapons, starting with the 168 tons of chlorine released by the Germans over the trenches near Ypres.

Officers hoped the vomiting, suffocation and burns caused by poison gases would force troops to abandon positions in what quickly became a standoff between German and allied forces.

They also had a deep psychological impact, forcing soldiers to keep masks at the ready for fear of falling victim to a silent killer.

“Gas masks and their grotesque appearance became the ultimate symbol of a man turned into a mechanised, dehumanised phantom by modern warfare,” said Doran Cart, a curator at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.

“That had a huge impact on civilians,” he added.

The Germans’ use of chlorine prompted a chemical arms race in which scientists and military leaders worked hand-in-hand to develop more lethal weapons.

French researchers soon developed phosgene, with a more subtle “mouldy hay” odour that was harder to detect and the ability to cause suffocation hours after being inhaled.

It was quickly copied by the Germans as both sides sought agents which would seep into trenches and bunkers.

- ‘Fighting for breath’ But the most infamous -- and deadliest -- was mustard gas, in reality an oily vapour first used by the Germans in July 1917, again near Ypres.

Known as the “King of Battle Gases”, it acted by contact instead of having to be inhaled, getting through clothing to cause severe burns.

“It didn’t always kill but the burns impaired people for a long period of time and required a very long nursing,” said Edward Spiers, a professor of strategic studies at Leeds University in Britain.

“It slowed everything down. People had to try to decontaminate whole areas” before attempting to get through it, said Spiers, author of “A History of Chemical and Biological Weapons”.

Overall an estimated 90,000 people were killed by gas attacks and a further 1.2 million injured, sometimes when the poisonous clouds released by artillery shells drifted back into an attacker’s lines.

But despite the relatively small number of deaths compared with the 9.7 million soldiers killed in total during the war, the fear and suffering caused by chemical arms became symbols of a harrowing new era in modern warfare.

“I wish those people who talk about going on with this war whatever it costs could see the soldiers suffering from mustard gas poisoning,” the British nurse Vera Brittain wrote in her memoir “Testament of Youth”.

“Great mustard-coloured blisters, blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying that their throats are closing and they know they will choke”, she wrote. (afp)

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This photo taken on October 10, 2018 shows a Lion Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft at the Mutiara Sis Al Jufri airport in Palu. An Indonesian Lion Air passenger plane went missing on October 29, 2018 shortly after taking off from the capital Jakarta, an aviation authority official said, adding that a search and rescue operation is under way.

Crashed plane was airworthy: lion Air

JAKARTA - Lion Air`s Boeing 737 Max 8 flight JT 610 that crashed in the waters of Tanjung Karawang en route from Jakarta to Pangkalpinang on Monday was airworthy, the airline stated.

“The aircraft, bearing registration number PK-LQP, is a Boeing 737 Max 8. The aircraft was manufactured in 2018 and had only been operated by Lion Air since Aug 15. The plane was airworthy,” the airlines` Corporate Strategic Communications Danang Mandala noted in a statement received here on Monday.

Lion Air JT 610 crashed 13 minutes after departing from the Soekarno Hatta airport in Jakarta at 6:20 a.m. local time at coordi-

nates of 05 46.15 degrees South latitude and 107 07.16 degrees East longitude.

The aircraft carried 178 adult passengers, a child and two infants, three stewardesses on training, and a technician, in addition to the pilot Capt. Bhavye Suneja, copilot Harvino, and six cabin crews.

The pilot and copilot have six thousand hours and five thousand hours of flying time respectively.

“We are deeply concerned about

the incident and will cooperate with related institutions on the case,” he noted. A Lion Air plane, carrying 189 passengers that crashed in the waters of Tanjung Kerawang, West Java, on Monday, was considered to be a new aircraft, National Committee of Transportation Safety Head Soerjanto Tjahjono stated.

“The Lion Air JT610 flight used the latest Boeing 737 Max type,” he informed the press here, Monday.

Indonesian budget carrier Lion Air leapt from obscurity to global fame in 2011 when it ordered 230 Boeing planes worth a whopping $22 billion, the US maker’s biggest ever deal, but it has been dogged by safety issues for years.

When co-founder Rusdi Kirana was asked months later if bank loans would be needed to finance the purchase, he told reporters at the 2012 Singapore Airshow: “I am the bank.”

Founded in 1999 by brothers Rusdi and Kusnan Kirani, the

budget carrier began operations in 2000 as Indonesia’s first low-cost carrier, using a leased Boeing 737200 between Jakarta and Denpasar, capital of the resort island of Bali.

It quickly rode the crest of Indonesia’s soaring domestic air travel sector to become the country’s biggest private airline and second largest in Southeast Asia after Malaysian carrier AirAsia.

A boom in demand in the archipelago, the world’s fourth most populous nation, prompted Lion Air to go on an aircraft-buying

spree that made headlines around the world starting in 2011.

With then US President Barack Obama as a witness, Boeing and Lion Air signed the record deal on the sidelines of an Asian summit in Bali for the purchase of 29 737900s and 201 orders of the new 737 MAX, along with options for 150 more aircraft.

The orders were worth $21.7 billion at list prices, with the US aircraft maker describing it as “the largest commercial plane order ever in Boeing’s history by both dollar

The ill-fated aircraft joined the Lion Air fleet in August 2018 and had 800 hours of flight time.

The cause of the accident is still unknown and is currently under investigation, he added.

“The Adam Air and Silk Air accidents several years ago involved human factors as one of the causes. In this Lion Air case, we cannot guess as yet,” he noted.

Meanwhile, Corporate Communication Strategic Officer of Lion Air Danang Mandala remarked that the crashed Boeing 737 Max 8 plane was airworthy

and had been operated by the airlines since August 15, 2018.

The plane`s wreckage and several body parts were found floating in the sea not far from Jakarta.

The plane crashed 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta toward Pangkalpinang, Bangka Belitung Province, on Monday morning.

Lion Air has opened a crisis center at 021-80820000 and information on passengers is available at 02180820002. The airlines has promised to share the latest information regarding the incident, he added.(ant)

volume and total number of planes”.

But Lion Air soon surpassed that record when it ordered 234 medium-haul A320 planes from Airbus worth a whopping $24 billion at catalogue prices in 2013.

airlines, from flying into European airspace until 2016.

Its first deadly accident in 2004 saw 26 people killed and more than 100 injured when a Lion Air plane skidded at an airport in the central Java city of Solo, with the airline blaming bad weather and strong tailwinds.

In 2013, a rookie pilot at the controls of a Lion Air plane undershot the runway and landed in the sea off Bali, splitting the plane in two and forcing passengers to swim to safety. Remarkably no one was killed in the accident.(afp)

Indonesia’s Lion Air: record plane deals, safety woes - ‘Challenging situation’ The carrier currently operates domestic flights and a number of international routes in Southeast Asia, Australia and the Middle East. However, it has struggled with issues of safety and poor management and was banned, along with other Indonesian

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BUSINESS US economy grew at strong 3.5 percent rate in Q3

WASHINGTON - The U.S. economy grew at a robust annual rate of 3.5 percent in the July-September quarter as the strongest burst of consumer spending in nearly four years helped offset a sharp drag from trade.

The Commerce Department said Friday that the third quarter’s gross domestic product, the country’s total output of goods and services, followed an even stronger 4.2 percent rate of growth in the second quarter. The two quarters marked the strongest consecutive quarters of growth since 2014.

The result was slightly higher than many economists had been projecting. It was certain to be cited by President Donald Trump as evidence his economic policies are working. But some private economists worry that the recent stock market declines could be a warning signal of a coming slowdown.

They noted that Friday’s GDP report showed business investment slowed dramatically in the third quarter, growing at an annual rate of just 0.8 percent, the weakest in nearly two years, after a much stronger 8.7 percent gain in second quarter.

Analysts said the slowdown could be an indication that last December’s tax cuts, which offered special breaks for business investment, were beginning to wane. There was also concern that the slowdown could reflect adverse impacts from rising trade tariffs with businesses less reluctant to invest under the threat of a trade war between the United States and China.

Gregory Daco, chief U.S. economist for Oxford Economics, said he expects more modest GDP growth in coming quarters, citing the fading impact of the tax cuts, higher interest rates from the Fed-

eral Reserve and increasing trade tensions.

The GDP report along with next week’s unemployment report for October are the last major looks at the economy before voters go to the polls in the mid-term elections.

Mick Mulvaney, head of the president’s budget office, said in a CNBC interview that while business investment was flat this quarter, it followed several quarters when investment has been “fantastic.” He also said the administration was not concerned about the stock market sell-off this month.

“The stock market is going to go up and down,” he said. “Certainly we follow it, but we don’t use it as an indicator of where we are headed.”

For this year, economists are projecting the momentum built up should result in growth of 3 percent, the best annual showing in 13 years. But they believe the impact of Trump’s trade war with China and rising interest rates will slow growth in 2019 to around 2.4 percent, with a further decline to under 2 percent in 2020.

“I think we will see a significant slowdown, in part because economic growth has been raised to an artificially high level by the tax cuts,” said Sung Won Sohn, chief economist at SS Economics in Los Angeles. Trump in recent weeks has accelerated his attacks on the Federal Reserve for raising interest rates, contending that the higher rates by slowing the economy will work against his efforts to speed up

Asian stocks fluctuated Monday with investors still on edge after last week’s rout, with caution after another hammering for Wall Street offsetting bargain-buying.

Even a forecast-busting jump in US economic growth in the third quarter was not enough to prevent all three main indexes in New York from tanking on Friday, with the Dow and S&P 500 falling into negative territory for the year.

The US losses came after disappointing earnings reports from titans Alphabet and Amazon, which compounded concerns about rising interest rates and the China-US trade war that shows no sign of abating.

“Fears of an economic slowdown in the US proved to be premature, but investors worry that the boost from (Donald) Trump tax cuts is evaporating,” said Alfonso

In this Aug. 22, 2018, file photo trucks travel along a loading dock at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif. On Friday, Oct. 26, the Commerce Department issues the first of three estimates of how the U.S. economy performed in the third quarter.

growth through the $1.5 trillion tax cut package Trump got Congress to pass last year.

“Every time we do something great, he raises interest rates,” Trump said in an interview this week with the Wall Street Journal in which he again said he viewed the Fed as the “biggest risk” facing the economy “because I think interest rates are being raised too quickly.”

The central bank has raised rates three times this year and signaled it will raise rates one more time this year and expect to raise rates three times in 2019. Those moves are being made to ensure that tight labor markets, with unemployment at a 49-year low of 3.7 percent, and strong growth don’t trigger

unwanted inflation.

The GDP report Friday was the government’s first of three reviews of overall economic activity for the July-September period.

The report showed that consumer spending, which accounts for 70 percent of economic activity, surged at an annual rate of 4 percent in the third quarter, even better than the 3.8 percent gain in the second quarter and the best showing since last 2014.

Trade, which had boosted second quarter growth by 1.2 percentage points, shaved 1.8 percentage points off growth in the third quarter. Exports, which had surged at a 9.3 percent rate in the second quarter, fell at a 3.5 percent rate in the third quarter. Analysts had

forecast this turn-around, saying it reflected the surge in exports of goods such as soybeans in the spring as producers tried to beat the higher tariffs being imposed

by China in retaliation for Trump’s tariffs.

Another big swing factor in the third quarter was business restocking of their shelves. Inventories had trimmed 1 percentage point off growth in the second quarter but boosted growth by 2 percentage points in the third quarter.

Housing continued to be a drag, falling for a third straight quarter.

Business investment, which had surged at an 8.7 percent rage in the second quarter, slowed to a small 0.8 percent gain the third quarter.(ap)

Asian shares swing after Wall St fall, bargain-buyers add support Esparza, senior market analyst at OANDA. “Stocks have been vulnerable as the US Federal Reserve stands firm on its plans to hike one more time this year and three or four in 2019 on its path to rate normalisation. US-China relations have not improved and earning reports have started to reflect the impact of tariffs on China.”

Hong Kong edged up 0.4 per-

cent after moving between gains and losses, while Tokyo ended 0.2 percent off and Shanghai lost more than two percent. Seoul shed 1.5 percent.

But Sydney climbed 1.1 percent, Singapore added 0.5 percent, Wellington put on 0.6 percent and Jakarta was 0.4 percent down.

In early trade London rose 0.5 percent and Frankfurt added 0.6 percent. Paris was delayed because

of a technical issue.

“I still think there is room for a bit of a downside to go because I do see this as being largely a structural shift in markets,” Kyle Rodda, a market analyst at IG Group in Melbourne, told Bloomberg Television.

“The overall sentiment is still to the downside, is still quite bearish and there will be a little while for this correction to play out.”(afp)

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Trace Back the ‘Soul’ of Klungkung as Cultural Root of Bali

When mentioning the town of the art, direct attention will lead to Gianyar district. This has been very closely struck in the minds of Balinese people.

Moreover, it seems to have become ‘the soul.’ However, if asking about Klungkung district, it’s only synonymous with serombotan (assorted salads).

This cuisine is made from assorted vegetables coming with spicy sauce and grated coconut. Apparently, it does not become a good thing, just a legendary culinary icon.

Currently, the famous thing of the district adjacent to Gianyar is only the tourist attraction in Nusa Penida Islands. Due to the beauty owned, it earns a nickname as ‘the Blue Paradise Island.’ The landscape is very beautiful and the white sandy beach is very exotic. It can teases tourists to make a visit.

Every year, the visitors reach hundreds of thousands of people.

However, when looking back, not many people know about it. According to history, actually Klungkung district has a very interesting side. It is no longer a matter of natural beauty. Around the 18th century, coinciding with the era of the Kingdom of Klungkung, it was very famous for its arts as they were very well maintained starting from the dances, paintings, woven fabric to religious case. These are legacies from the Gelgel Kingdom era from the 14th to 15th centuries. After that, a number of Anglurah descendants built a kingdom in other parts of Bali and spread over all the existing districts.

In the migration, common people were also accompanied by reliable artists.

“This entourage then spread the Klungkung culture to other regions. Indeed, Klungkung was the root. Gianyar is dubbed as the district of the art originating from

Klungkung,” said a lecturer of Udayana University, Prof. Dr. A.A. Bagus Wirawan, recently. The culture previously becoming the root has now turned into twigs.

This native to Klungkung considered the change was not separated from human resources and the environment. The raising effort is not too late and there is still an opportunity. However, it depends on the leader.

According to him, the rapid tourism develop-

ment lately can increasingly be a medium to show off the true wealth. It can be juxtaposed into something sweet, but still survives.

“This leader should be able to create a network to introduce the potential of this area so people are excited to revive. For example, Kamasan painting is second to none. We should position it in order to continuously grow, in the sense of being able to produce.

Do not change the art, and please maintain

the style. It is not just a painting, but filled with philosophy. This can be ‘sold,’” he said.

People as the artist must also play a significant role in conservation. They should be able to evoke Klungkung’s true identity.

It can be started from a small thing. One of them is by using the endek as the typical product of the area on several occasions. (kmb)

Sate Lilit, Unique Menu of Balinese People

Satay … satay… do you like to eat satay? Try to taste this Balinese delicious sate lilit or twisted satay. This kind of satay does not only offer delicious taste, but also

beauty in terms of appearance and presentation. Whether being realized or not, other than requiring patience and high skills, the making of twisted satay also requires a

beautiful artistic spirit.

The process starts from concocting spices, processing the meat and then making it by twisting (sticking and twisting) on ??the bamboo satay stalk in a flat shape. During the process of making satay, it is also an opportunity to strengthen kinship because anyone can twist satay.

Twisted satay has such a distinctive taste. Moreover, the roasting process will appear so tempting. Children are easily tempted, so they really want to taste it. For those having teeth but not strong enough to chew, it will be better to eat this smooth and sticky twisted satay.

In the past, twisted satay used ingredients in the form of chicken or pork. Twisted satay is made as a means as ritual paraphernalia of mecaru (exorcism rite) to maintain

harmonious relationship between humans and nature. Now, twisted satay is also sold as a complement to local menus where in a portion it is served with rice and other delicacies.

In strategic places such as tourist attractions, the corner of the city and traditional markets are very easy to find the twisted satay merchants. Hotels, restaurants and food stalls will surely provide this twisted satay. However, the ingredients used are marine fish, such as snapper, tuna or others.

Similarly, the type of stalk used is lemongrass.

At hotels or restaurants, the twisted satay is neatly packed and the spices are adjusted to the tourists’ appetite, so that anyone can enjoy it. The presentation is also neatly arranged in order to look appealing. If you enjoy satay, it will

be better to be accompanied with special chili sauce.

How to make twisted satay?

First of all, slice the fish meat into small pieces and then refine by using a blender so that it really turns smooth. The seasonings use authentic Balinese spices such as, garlic, ginger, coriander, turmeric, candlenut, salt, coconut oil, bay leaves and optionally can be added with grated coconut.

Balinese style twisted satay has flavors that are not inferior to satay in general. When coupled with its unique appearance, it will attract more eyes to taste it. Eating twisted satay can create a unique experience during your excursion on the Island of the Gods. It will be better to taste while remaining warm after being roasted. Twisted satay is the hallmark of Balinese cuisine. (kmb)

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Energy supply from Java to Bali through submarine cables

Delight to despair: Thais stunned by death of billionaire Vichai

DENPASAR - After the Java-Bali Crossing (JBC) by air cable transmission was rejected by some people, finally the supply of electricity from Java to Bali was decided through submarine cables. For this reason, PLN is again conducting a feasibility study (FS) and surely the project for the fulfillment of electricity in Bali has backed down.

General Manager of PLN Bali Distribution, I Nyoman Suwarjoni Astawa, said that recently the PLN Board of Directors had signed an MoU with the Governor of Bali where one of which contains the effort to increase the transmission capacity connecting Java to Bali. The governor directed that transmission from Java to Bali by air is not carried out, but by using submarine cables.

“Three days ago we held an FGD in Surabaya with PT PAL, expected to build a tower in the middle of the sea. Then, we also invited the experts from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) as well as the expert staff of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources on how and what technology is appropriate for building a tower on Java mainland passing the sea to get to Bali,” explained Astawa on the National Electricity Day (HLN) on Saturday

(Oct. 27) at Renon Square.

Later on, the transmission will enter Bali via a 500 KV submarine cable. The transmission just enters when it has been in the middle of the sea because in the Bali Strait there is a trench where PLN spreads its 150 KV cables with the very large risk all this time. Actually the budget of 500 KV is far more than that of 150 KV. Since 1987, PLN has installed 12 cables in the Bali Strait. Until now, it has operated four cables. “The others are damaged because of being dragged away by sea currents and got anchored, so the risk was very high,” he explained.

The cables will be spread at a distance of 1 km from Bali and then go down undersea. “So, we will install the tower in the trough of Bali Strait.

Approximately it is 40 through 60 meters deep,” he added

For this reason, PLN will reinstate a feasibility study. It takes another six months to do the feasibility study. So, the design details are expected to have been clear by 2019, while the funding can be sought after through project auctions.

He hoped whatever the way to channel energy from Java to Bali, he just wanted the electricity system in Bali can be strong. This transmission will be able to strengthen the interconnection of Java-Bali.

By that way, it can build new renewable energy (EBT) plant such as greater solar energy. Previously, the Bali system could only absorb 50 MW. With the connection, it will be able to absorb even more 100 MW150 MW. “Renewable energy must have a companion plant that can replace or subsidize any time when the EBT plant cannot operate,” he said. (kmb42)

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Members of a group of hobby divers, speleologists and accompanying staff prepare to descend into the water at the entrance tunnel during an exploration of the Janos Molnar cave system on October 2, 2018 under the Buda Hill in Budapest.

I Nyoman Suwarjoni Astawa

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Bali Zoo celebrates World Lemur Day

COINCIDING with the World Lemur Day celebrated by the world every October 27, Bali Zoo gave a special treatment to this agile lemur (Lemur catta) as a gift to celebrate the world lemur day by preparing a fruit tower composed of 10 kg of favorite fruits such as: red grape mango, watermelon, melon, banana and raisins. A total of 10 lemurs participated in the event including 6 adult lemurs and 4 child lemurs.

To enliven the World Lemur Day’s celebration, Bali Zoo invited visitors to have interaction.

“Celebration of the world lemur day can be used as a moment to increase the awareness of the community towards animals whose existence is threatened by the extinction based on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). All lemurs looked very happy to eat the fruits provided. As seen, they were very absorbed in enjoying a variety of favorite fruits,” said Emma Chandra, Head of Public Relations of the Bali Zoo. (r) Bali Zoo gave a special treatment to lemur (Lemur catta) as a gift to celebrate the world lemur day by preparing a fruit tower composed of 10 kg of favorite fruits.

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Budapest’s underwater wonderland draws divers from far and wide

BUDAPEST - Not every diver’s dream is to watch shimmering shoals of fish swim through coral reefs in dazzlingly blue seas.

For Laura Tuominen, the ultimate diving experience is not to be found in the Red Sea or the Caribbean, but in a labyrinth of spectacular underwater caves beneath the pavements of Budapest.

The Hungarian capital is already famous worldwide for its steaming hot spas and thermal baths.

But the underwater Janos Molnar cave system, named after the Hungarian pharmacist who discovered it in the 19th century, has become a hot tip for diving aficionados.

Around seven kilometres (4.4 miles) in length and previously open only to scientific expeditions, the cave became accessible to the public -- that is, qualified divers -when a diving centre was opened here in 2015.

“We are under Budapest! It’s amazing!” shouts Tuominen, a 39year-old Finnish anaesthesiologist and passionate amateur diver, as she jumps into the warm waters from a platform mounted in the narrow space at the bottom of the entrance tunnel.

She is one of a group of hobby

divers and speleologists, wearing dry suits and carrying double cylinders of compressed gas on their backs, who then descend into the gloomy waters, the light from their torches gradually fading out of view.

The group is accompanied by a diving centre staff member who directs them with the help of “guideline” cords through the maze of narrow passageways and cavernous cathedral-like chambers.

- ‘Very rare’ urban setting “It’s the only underwater cave in Budapest open to divers. Speleology is a niche market. It doesn’t have mass appeal. And our urban location makes us special. It’s very, very rare,” says Attila Hosszu, who has run the centre since it opened.

The advantage of being underneath a city is that “you don’t have to haul your equipment up a mountain or down a deep valley to get here,” Hosszu adds.

The entrance to the centre is a discreet metal door near one of Budapest’s main boulevards and just a block away from the Danube

river that separates the city’s two halves, Buda and Pest.

According to the diving centre’s website, the cave was formed many millennia ago, when the geological fault line on which Budapest is situated cracked. The ascending thermal water ate into the rock to create caves close to the surface.

“You can see amazing stalactites and stalagmites in Mexico. But you have to travel for days to get there.

Here, you just walk in and dive, it’s very exciting,” says 38-yearold Russian Irina Litvinenko after getting off the tram on her way to the centre.

Outside on the streets, the autumn wind is blustery. But inside the centre, the air is still warm and humid, making the divers sweat as they get their equipment ready.

Explorations from the 1950s began to reveal the full extent of submerged canyons, halls and passageways.

But until the diving centre opened three years ago, only scientists were permitted entry to explore or collect samples for laboratory examinations. (afp)

BANGKOK - Stunned Thais on Monday digested news of the death of billionaire Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, whose dazzling success as owner of Leicester City showered pride and prestige on the kingdom.

Vichai, 60, died when his helicopter plummeted into a car park outside the King Power stadium shortly after his side’s 1-1 draw with West Ham on Saturday.

For most of his life the publicityshy duty-free magnate, Thailand’s fifth richest man who spun billions from his King Power monopoly, was not a household name in his native county. That changed with Leicester City’s odds-defying English Premier League title in 2016, the unlikeliest of victories in the world’s most watched football league that has gone down in footballing lore.

While he continued to avoid interviews, Vichai was a regular at Leicester matches and his face -- and the King Power brand -- became synonymous across a football-mad country with the success of Thai business overseas.

Thais on Monday awoke to confirmation of his death -- an abrupt end to a global success story in a sometimes inward-looking country.

“He was an inspiration to Thais because he’s well known and very successful internationally,” Chamat Uchukanokkul, 39, told AFP as he travelled to work.

“He showed that we can do anything if we set our minds to do it.”

The well-connected businessman was renowned for his agility in picking through Thailand’s complicated politics -- backstage plotting, coups, short-lived civilian governments and legal complications.

Influential political veteran Anutin Charnvirakul described his long-time

friend as a “Big Brother” and “an idol.” “He was not a scion of a rich family but a real fighter... he became hugely successful in a short space of time,” he told AFP. “He was definitely a role model for the new generation, generous and loved by his peers.

“He bought this little football club and helped it to win the championship.

He cared.”

Leicester City were unknown to many in the Southeast Asian country before their breakout 2016 season.

But as they closed in on the title the country rallied around a Thai success story, with hundreds attending fan screenings hosted by the company, complete with free beer and food.

At King Power’s downtown Bangkok mall most staff were tight-lipped on Monday -- a sign of the sharplyhierarchical company which owns the duty-free concessions at airports and key tourist cities in one of the world’s most visited countries. But one saleswoman, who declined to be named, said she cried as the news of Vichai’s death broke early Monday.

“I’ve only worked here a year... but I felt he was kind,” she said, explaining Vichai would often walk the sales floor greeting staff as he did his rounds.

“He was a man we must admire... though his last breath is over, his reputation will be remembered forever,” Chutitorn Apichainan posted on the Leicester City official fan Facebook page for Thailand.

British police named the four other crash victims as Nursara Suknamai -- an actress and a runner-up in Miss Thailand Universe in 2005 -- and Kaveporn Punpare, both members of Vichai’s staff, pilot Eric Swaffer and passenger Izabela Roza Lechowicz. (afp)

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A woman poses for a photograph in front of a portrait of Leicester City Football Club’s Thai chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in a helicopter crash at the club’s stadium, amid flowers and tributes outside the King Power Stadium in Leicester, eastern England, on October 29, 2018.

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Applying cultivation technique of Japan

Lila Antara successfully cultivates sea grapes

STRONG motivation to become a businessman at hometown has recently been showed by youth figures in Buleleng. Previously, many youths left their homeland to work in tourism service sector overseas so they were willing to take odd jobs.

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The first coral larvae to survive being frozen and then thawed by scientists are a kind of a mushroom coral (close-up of an adult coral shown with scattered greenish tentacles).

Coral larvae survive being frozen and thawed for the first time

FOR the first time, researchers have quick-frozen coral larvae and then — the tough part — safely thawed them. Swathing larvae in specks of gold and then heating them with a laser warmed the frozen coral babies in milliseconds. Thawed this way, 43 percent of 2-day-old test larvae recovered well enough to start swimming again, physiologist and cryobiologist Mary Hagedorn and her colleagues report October 24 in Scientific Reports.

This success with Fungia scutaria larvae, a colorful mushroom coral species from Hawaii, opens up much-needed conservation possibilities, says Hagedorn, of the Smithsonian Conservation

Biology Institute in Front Royal, Va. Biologists knew how to freeze coral sperm, but ice crystal damage from the process can kill bigger, fat-rich structures such as coral eggs and larvae. Being able to bank

more than sperm may help preserve coral genetic diversity for attempts to aid reefs that falter as the climate warms.

Biologists have been freezing and storing human embryos since at

least the 1980s, but the first success with any nonmammal is recent, Hagedorn says. In 2017, she, John Bischof of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and colleagues described how warming zebrafish embryos with gold nanorods let 10 percent of the embryos survive at least 24 hours after thawing.

In a procedure loosely based on the zebrafish system, researchers enveloped larvae in an antifreeze

solution with gold nanorods and froze the creatures in milliseconds with liquid nitrogen. But that wasn’t the end of the danger from ice crystals. Even during thawing, crystals can enlarge dangerously.

That’s when a laser pulse quickly warmed the gold bits and thus the frozen larvae.

“It’s a bit like making a soufflé — everything has to be perfect,” Hagedorn says. (afp)

The first vertebrates on Earth arose in shallow coastal waters

THE cradle of vertebrate evolution was limited to a zone of shallow coastal waters, no more than 60 meters deep.

In those waters, fish — the first vertebrates — appeared roughly 480 million years ago, a study finds. For nearly 100 million years, those creatures rarely strayed from that habitat, where they diversified into a dizzying array of new forms, scientists report in the Oct. 26 Science. The study resolves a long-standing mystery about where our earliest backboned ancestors arose.

Scientists have long debated whether the animals appeared first in the shallows or the deep, or in fresh or salty water. “The main problem is that the fossil record [of vertebrates] is absolutely terrible for the first 50 million to 100 million years of their existence,” says paleobiologist Lauren Sallan of the University of Pennsylvania. “And when [there are] fossils, they’re in tiny pieces. It’s hard to tell what exactly’s going on.”

So Sallan and her colleagues amassed 2,827 fossils of jawed and jawless fishes that lived between 480 million and 360 million years ago. To that database, the team added information on the environments that the creatures lived in — such as shallow coastal water, freshwater or the deeper ocean — based on both the geology of the rocks the fossils were found in and the invertebrate fossils also found in the rocks.

Then, the researchers used mathematical calculations to predict the habitats of the most ancient vertebrates, filling in those gaps on the fish family tree. Rather than living in rivers or lakes or the deeper ocean waters around coral reefs, the first vertebrates stuck to a nearshore ocean environment, Sallan and colleagues found.

The creatures stayed in the shallows for about 100 million years, acquiring adaptations before eventually occupying different environmental niches, the researchers say. Some fish gained streamlined, graceful bodies

good for fast swimming in deeper waters. Others had stronger, more armored bodies and stayed close to shore or moved into rivers or lakes.

Catalina Pimiento, a paleobiologist at Swansea University in Wales who wrote a commentary on the study in the same issue of Science, says the team’s results are “so robust.” And the find makes a lot of sense. “It’s just well-known that these coastal habitats [have supported] biodiversity,” she says, because such locations tend to offer both abundant food and shelter.

Ancient vertebrates’ diversification within those shallow waters may have been helped along by the rise of land plants during the Devonian Period, 419 million to 359 million years ago, and the subsequent increase in organic matter carried by rivers to the ocean. That resulting bonanza of food, particularly floating food, may have helped to slowly give rise to more swimmers in addition to creatures already dwelling on the seafloor.

Other recent research has also identified shallow coastal waters as a cradle of diversity, finding that about 100 million years after the first vertebrates appeared, the earliest four-footed animals arose in salty estuaries. The importance of

such biodiversity hot spots makes it particularly worrisome that they also tend to be most threatened by human activities in modern times, Pimiento says. “These are our origins, and they’re the areas we’re degrading the most.” (IBP/net)

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The earliest vertebrates, including this illustrated armored fish that lived 455 million years ago in what is now Colorado, evolved within a shallow, nearshore coastal zone.

This phenomenon starts to decrease. Evidently, the youth in the current millennial era begins to get interested in pioneering independent business in the agricultural, culinary, fashion business sectors and the daily necessities. This emerges because of the support of recent development of information technology (IT) that is very helpful in the promotion and marketing of various agricultural commodities or other products of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). It is not surprising if the emergence of youth in the world of agricultural cultivation becomes a positive trend, so the impression of agriculture being abandoned due to assumption of becoming an unfavorable business can slowly be handled.

One of the Buleleng youths that begin to look at agriculture as an independent business is Kadek Lila Antara. Since the past few years, he has cultivated sea grapes in the land of his birth at Musi village, Gerokgak.

Interestingly, the determination to carry out the cultivation of sea grapes was after working as an employee of marine cultivation in Japan. Apparently, armed with the experience of being a foreign worker in the country,

Lila managed to ‘steal’ the successful cultivation of sea grapes in Japan and is now developed at Musi village.

Met at his residence recently, Lila Antara said the cultivation of sea grapes was initiated in 2014. The optimism to develop the green algae is based on his knowledge if the prospect of cultivation is so high in the market. Moreover, the sea grapes with so many benefits are sold on the market for IDR 700,000 per kilogram.

In addition, thanks to his experience working in Japan and the mastery of the fisheries he mastered his sea grape cultivation is now growing rapidly.

“I think why Japan can do while we have the longest sea in Bali cannot. When working in Japan, I could learn this cultivation technique and by chance I stopped working and took advantage of the experience as a capital to pioneer this business (cultivating sea grapes),” he said.

Sea grape cultivation is developed by buying seedlings from Sulawesi.

Why does he bring in from Sulawesi?

It is one of the regions in Indonesia producing high quality sea grapes and the seeds have been certified. Selection of the certified seeds is based on consideration that this commodity belongs to the seaweed having the

capability of absorbing heavy metals.

After the harvest season, the sea grape can survive for seven days in normal temperature conditions. Harvested sea grapes do not need to be preserved in refrigerator to keep the taste. Meanwhile, in processing, the sea grapes do not need to be cooked.

However, it can be consumed directly.

Consumers usually no longer process sea grapes to maintain the levels of vitamins contained therein. “In addition to maintaining vitamin content, it also maintains tastes because consuming fresh sea grapes will give a sensation of exploding in the tongue because of the grain,” he explained.

Lila Antara, who is now a lecturer at Fisheries Department of Ganesha University of Education (Undiksha) Singaraja, added the fresh sea grapes have complete vitamin content and very suitable for maintaining skin health conditions. In Japan, sea grapes are processed into various kinds of fresh food preparations, such as sushi.

Meanwhile, in Bali alone, sea grape is processed into a number of modern or traditional cuisines. “In our country, it is usually processed into a typical culinary recipe with Balinese spices, so that it becomes more delicious,” he explained. (mud)

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Armed with the experience of being a foreign worker in the country, Lila managed to ‘steal’ the successful cultivation of sea grapes in Japan and is now developed at Musi village.

Swept away by strong winds

People’s house of Pejarakan severely damaged

SINGARAJA — Strong winds struck the Goris hamlet, Pejarakan, Gerokgak, on Saturday (Oct. 27) around 12:30. As a result, the house belonging to Wayan Sudiarsana, 39, was heavily damaged. Fortunately, the victim and his family managed to run out of the house, so there were no casualties in this incident.

Information collected in the field said that strong winds suddenly struck around Pejarakan village.

The strong wind then hit the victim’s house. As a result, the zinc-roofed semi-permanent house got detached from the wooden frame. High speed of the wind made the zinc sheets and wooden frames thrown far away from the location of the house measuring 5.5 times 7.5 square meters.

Inevitably, such situation made the victim and his family panicky. The victim tried to run out of the house, so there were no fatalities in the incident.

Headman of Pejarakan, Made Astawa, when asked for his confirmation said the catastrophic strong winds struck one of the residents’ houses. The incident caused severe damage to the victim’s house.

Moreover, the villager cannot stay in his house because all the roofs of his house came off due to strong winds. Temporarily, the victim and his family live in the house of his relative. Due to the incident, village government estimated the victim suffered material losses of around IDR 10 million. As planned, the data on the damage will be reported to the sub-district to be further forwarded to the Buleleng Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD).

“Indeed, the wind blew hard and lasted for a long time. One of our families is now waiting for the government’s aid to repair the house and the data will be reported to the sub-district,” he explained. (kmb38)

The house belonging to Wayan Sudiarsana, 39, was heavily damaged.

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“Sea, ocean are our future,” President Jokowi says

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NUSA Dua - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) believes the roles and functions of oceans are crucial for human beings, so ocean preservation necessitates international cooperation.

“I am aware that our water territory is larger than the land area.

We are all aware that the world`s water territories are larger than the land territories. I and all of us are aware that the sea, ocean are our future,” President Jokowi noted in his opening remarks during the opening ceremony of the fifth Our Ocean Conference (OOC), here, Monday.

Some 90 percent of the world`s total trade by volume and over 40 percent of the total global trade by value were carried out via maritime routes. The livelihoods of hundreds of million people rely on the fishery sector.

On the other hand, oceans are facing huge challenges, including rampant crimes, such as illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities, he stated. The challenges can be addressed by establishing cooperation, he added.

The OOC 2018 is being held in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Oct 29-30

and co-chaired by Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno L. P. Marsudi and Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti.

This year`s OOC is themed “Our Ocean, Our Legacy,” as it reflects choices and actions to maintain the sustainability of the oceans` resources and to preserve the oceans` health, as a heritage that serves as a legacy for the children and grandchildren.

At least, seven heads of state and government, two vice presidents, and 36 ministers from several countries have confirmed their participation in the OOC. Among the leaders expected to be present are Prince Albert II of Monaco, President of Nauru Baron Waqa, President of the Republic of Palau Thomas E. Remengesau, President of Micronesia Peter Christian, President of New Caledonia Philippe Germain, President of Marshall Island Hilda Heine, Vice

President of Seychelles Vincent Meriton, and Vice President of the Republic of Panama Isabel De Saint Malo de Alvarado.he gathering will also be attended by representatives of 200 civil society organizations and nongovernmental organizations.

The conference will present prominent keynote speakers, such as the Prince of Wales via a video message, European Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Karmenu Vella, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway Ine Eriksen Soreide, and Visiting Distinguished Statesman at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace John Kerry.

The OOC 2018 is the first ever held in an Asian country. The first and second OOC in 2014 and 2015 were held in the United States, the third in Chile in 2016, and the 4th in Malta in 2017. The next conference after Bali will be held in Norway in 2019.(ant)

Indonesia President Joko Widodo delivers his speech before the opening of the fifth Our Ocean Conference in Nusadua, Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, on October 29, 2018. The fifth Our Ocean Conference is being held in Bali from October 29-30, 2018.

OOC demonstrates Indonesia`s commitment in facing maritime challenges: Minister

NUSA DUA - The hosting of Our Ocean Conference (OOC) 2018 has demonstrated Indonesia`s commitment to facing and overcoming various challenges on ocean-related issues, Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi stated here on Monday.

“The hosting of OOC is a great example of Indonesia`s commitment to addressing various challenges facing our ocean,” Foreign Minister Marsudi noted in her remarks at the opening of the 2018 OOC held at the Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center.

Minister Marsudi remarked

that the Indonesian government was committed to conserving the sea and continuing to maintain the sustainability of marine resources. The commitment has also been implemented in Indonesia`s foreign policy and diplomacy on the international scene.

“Indonesia has committed to preserve our oceans and to enshrine its sustainability. In recent years, Indonesia`s maritime diplomacy has been more obvious and has become an integral part of Indonesian foreign policy complementing and enhancing our active diplomacy on peace and humanitarian issues at the

regional and global levels,” she remarked.

Marsudi highlighted that the OOC 2018 hosted by Indonesia is highly strategic for several reasons, one being that the OOC 2018 is a multistakeholder meeting allowing all key players to contribute in preserving oceans. The OOC 2018 not only involved government actors but also multi-stakeholders, including the private sector, academics, non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, youth, and practitioners in the marine sector.

In addition, Marsudi explained

that the OOC 2018 is oriented towards actions to complement the measures adopted at other forums on ocean-related issues.

“For Indonesia, we will contribute to advancing the OOC cause to preserve our ocean and ensure its sustainability. Indonesia hopes that the OOC will continue to be innovative, including in developing a new mechanism that can evaluate the progress we had here,” the minister stated.

OOC 2018 is the first time Our Ocean Conference being held in Asia, and the conference will not only gather new commitments from stakeholders but

also encourage the realization of commitments submitted between 2014 and 2017. So far, the OOC has gathered over 600 commitments valued at over US$18 billion and created 12.4 million square kilometers of marine protected areas.

The 2018 OOC is one of Indonesia`s concrete commitments in implementing maritime diplomacy and the vision of making the nation a “World Maritime Axis.” This conference is expected to result in measured, real, and sustainably impacted commitments for maritime cooperation among countries.(ant)

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Man arrested over ‘sexual assault’ on Atomic Kitten singer Natasha Hamilton LONDON - A man has been arrested over an alleged sexual assault on Atomic Kitten singer Natasha Hamilton on a train.

The chart-topping singer, 36, tweeted on 10 October that a man pushed his genitals up against her on a late night train from London Bridge to Elmstead Woods.

British Transport Police (BTP) confirmed on Friday that a 46year-old man from Wood Green was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault.

Hamilton said she thought a bag was pressed up against her “until I felt him heavy breathing down my neck”.

She managed to take a picture of the man which she posted on Twitter in the hope her 163,000 followers would help to find him.

“Honesty I am shaking a feel

so violated now! But more than anything I am so angry!! [sic],” she said.

She said she also called BTP after leaving the train.

Police said the man has been released under police investigation and they are making further enquiries.

Social media users criticised Hamilton for posting a picture of the man, saying she should leave the police to handle her complaint.

However, others said posting his picture would help prevent others from doing the same.

Women who said they had been victims of sexual assault on trains opened up about their experiences, with many congratulating Hamilton for speaking out as they had frozen in shock when it happened to them.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Here are the worst aviation disasters in the nation’s history : - Northern Sumatra The worst disaster in Indonesia’s aviation history left 234 dead in 1997. An Airbus A-300B4 operated by national carrier Garuda Indonesia crashed in a smog-shrouded ravine in North Sumatra, just short of Medan’s airport.

“Halloween” ruled the North American box office for a second week running.

‘Halloween’ frightens off box office competition

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Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, the low-budget Universal Pictures production recounts her character Laurie Strode’s final confrontation with a masked homicidal maniac four decades after surviving his killing spree.

The movie’s return to the top spot over the three day weekend followed its $76.2 million debut last week, the second best October opening ever after “Venom.”

“A Star is Born,” the third remake of the 1937 film, placed second for a third straight week, earning $14.1 million.

Bradley Cooper, in his directorial debut, plays a hard-drinking musician in this classic tale of a star-crossed love affair with a young singer (Lady Gaga).

Sony’s Superhero flick “Venom,” which stars Tom Hardy as a journalist-turned-host for an alien creature, held its ground at third place with an estimated $10.8 million take. It has pulled in $187.3 million dollars since its smash opening four weeks ago.

“Goosebumps2: Haunted Halloween,” another seasonal offering, kept its fourth place ranking with

$7.5 million in box office returns.

Based on R.L. Stine children’s books, it follows two young friends who bring to life a dummy, played

by Jack Black, unleashing monsters on their town on Halloween night.

The only new release in the top five was “Hunter Killer,” an action thriller from Lionsgate about Navy SEALs who rescue a Russian president from a coup.

Starring Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman and Michael Nyquist, it is estimated to have made $6.7 million over the three day weekend. (afp)

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Members of a rescue team collect personal items and wreckage at the port in Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, on October 29, 2018, after they were recovered from the sea where Lion Air flight JT 610 crashed off the north coast earlier in the day. A brand new Indonesian Lion Air plane carrying 189 passengers and crew crashed into the sea on October 29, officials said, moments after it had asked to be allowed to return to Jakarta.

Indonesian Lion Air plane crashes into sea with 188 passengers, crew

An Indonesian Lion Air plane carrying 188 passengers and crew crashed into the sea Monday, officials said, moments after it had asked to be allowed to return to Jakarta. The jet vanished from radar just 13 minutes after taking off from the Indonesian capital, plunging into the ocean.

Search and Rescue Agency spokesman Yusuf Latif said authorities were still searching for the remains of the plane, which lost contact with air traffic control around 6.30 am (2330 GMT), en route to Pangkal Pinang on the island of Bangka.

“The plane crashed into water about 30 to 40 metres deep,” he told AFP. Sindu Rahayu, directorate general of Civil Aviation at the transport ministry, said the aircraft was carrying 178 adult

passengers, one child and two babies, with two pilots and five flight attendants.

“The plane had requested to return to base before finally disappearing from the radar,” he added in a statement.

The Flightradar website tracked the plane -- which it said was a Boeing 737 -- and showed it looping south on take-off and then heading north before the flight path ended abruptly over the Java Sea, not far from the coast.

- Poor safety record Indonesia relies heavily on air transport to connect its thousands of islands but has a poor aviation safety record and has suffered several fatal crashes in recent years. A 12-year-old boy was the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed eight people in mountainous eastern Indonesia in August.

In August 2015, a commercial passenger aircraft operated by Indonesian carrier Trigana crashed in Papua due to bad weather, killing all 54 people on board. In 2014, an AirAsia plane crashed with the loss of 162 lives.

Indonesian investigators’ final report showed a chronically faulty

component in a rudder control system, poor maintenance and the pilots’ inadequate response were major factors in what was supposed to be a routine flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore. Lion Air, a low-cost airline, has been involved in a number of incidents.

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- Medan disaster A Mandala Airlines domestic flight crashed shortly after take-off in 2005 into a densely populated suburb in Medan, a city of two million on the island of Sumatra, killing at least 150 including passengers, crew and people on the ground.

- Military families In June 2015 an Indonesian military plane crashed shortly after takeoff, also coming down in a residential area in Medan, killing around 122 people on board, many of them servicemen and women and their families.

Around 20 people were also killed on the ground and several housing blocks torn apart. The Armed Forces has been beleaguered by a string of fatal accidents in recent years.

- Air Force fire In 1991, an Air Force plane crashed in East Jakarta minutes after take off when an engine caught fire, killing 135 people according to reports.

Those who died included 121 airmen, 12 crew and two people on the ground. One passenger survived.

- River crash In 1997, a Silk Air flight crashed into a river near the Indonesian city of Palembang while on its way to Singapore from Jakarta. All 104 passengers and crew were killed in what was investigated as a possible pilot murder-suicide.

- New Year’s Day crash An Adam Air plane plunged into the sea off Sulawesi island on New Year’s Day 2007, killing all 102 people on board. The airline was later banned from flying. Indonesian authorities said the pilots lost control after becoming preoccupied with malfunctioning navigational equipment.