Anders Behring Breivik and Oslo Blast

Norway horror: 80 die in camp shooting, 7 in blast - Yahoo! News

A homegrown terrorist set off a deadly explosion in downtown Oslo before heading to a summer camp dressed as a police officer to commit one of the deadliest shooting sprees in history, killing at least 80 people as terrified youths ran and even swam for their lives, police said Friday.

Police initially said about 10 were killed at the forested camp on the island of Utoya, but some survivors said they thought the toll was much higher. Police director Oystein Maeland told reporters early Saturday they had discovered many more victims.

"It's taken time to search the area. What we know now is that we can say that there are at least 80 killed at Utoya," Maeland said. "It goes without saying that this gives dimensions to this incident that are exceptional."

A suspect in the shootings, and the Oslo explosion that killed seven people, was arrested. Though police did not release his name, Norwegian national broadcaster NRK identified him as 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik and said police searched his Oslo apartment overnight. NRK and other Norwegian media posted pictures of the blond, blue-eyed Norwegian.

A police official said the suspect appears to have acted alone in both attacks, and that "it seems like that this is not linked to any international terrorist organizations at all." The official spoke on condition of anonymity because that information had not been officially released by Norway's police.

"It seems it's not Islamic-terror related," the official said. "This seems like a madman's work."

The official said the attack "is probably more Norway's Oklahoma City than it is Norway's World Trade Center." Domestic terrorists carried out the 1995 attack on a federal building in Oklahoma City, while foreign terrorists were responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

The official added, however, "it's still just hours since the incident happened. And the investigation is going on with all available resources."

The attacks formed the deadliest day of terror in Western Europe since the 2004 Madrid train bombings, when shrapnel-filled bombs exploded, killing 191 people and wounding about 1,800.

The motive was unknown, but both attacks were in areas connected to the ruling Labor Party government. The youth camp, about 20 miles (35 kilometers) northwest of Oslo, is organized by the party's youth wing, and the prime minister had been scheduled to speak there Saturday.

A 15-year-old camper named Elise said she heard gunshots, but then saw a police officer and thought she was safe. Then he started shooting people right before her eyes.

"I saw many dead people," said Elise, whose father, Vidar Myhre, didn't want her to disclose her last name. "He first shot people on the island. Afterward he started shooting people in the water."

Elise said she hid behind the same rock that the killer was standing on. "I could hear his breathing from the top of the rock," she said.

She said it was impossible to say how many minutes passed while she was waiting for him to stop.

At a hotel in the village of Sundvollen, where survivors of the shooting were taken, 21-year-old Dana Berzingi wore pants stained with blood. He said the fake police officer ordered people to come closer, then pulled weapons and ammunition from a bag and started shooting.

Several victims "had pretended as if they were dead to survive," Berzingi said. But after shooting the victims with one gun, the gunman shot them again in the head with a shotgun, he said.

"I lost several friends," said Berzingi, who used the cell phone of one of those friends to call police.

The blast in Oslo, Norway's capital and the city where the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded, left a square covered in twisted metal, shattered glass and documents expelled from surrounding buildings. Most of the windows in the 20-floor high-rise where Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and his administration work were shattered. Other buildings damaged house government offices and the headquarters of some of Norway's leading newspapers.

The dust-fogged scene after the blast reminded one visitor from New York of Sept. 11.

Ian Dutton, who was in a nearby hotel, said people "just covered in rubble" were walking through "a fog of debris."

"It wasn't any sort of a panic," he said, "It was really just people in disbelief and shock, especially in a such as safe and open country as Norway. You don't even think something like that is possible."

Police said the Oslo explosion was caused by "one or more" bombs.

The police official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the Oslo bombing occurred at 3:26 p.m. local time (1:26 p.m. GMT), and the camp shootings began one to two hours later. The official said the gunman used both automatic weapons and handguns, and that there was at least one unexploded device at the youth camp that a police bomb disposal team and military experts were working on disarming.

The suspect had only a minor criminal record, the official said.

National police chief Sveinung Sponheim said seven people were killed by the blast in downtown Oslo, four of whom have been identified, and that nine or 10 people were seriously injured.

Sponheim said a man was arrested in the shooting, and the suspect had been observed in Oslo before the explosion there.

Sponheim said the camp shooter "wore a sweater with a police sign on it. I can confirm that he wasn't a police employee and never has been."

Aerial images broadcast by Norway's TV2 showed members of a SWAT team dressed in black arriving at the island in boats and running up the dock. Behind them, people who stripped down to their underwear swam away from the island toward shore, some using flotation devices.

Sponheim said police were still trying to get an overview of the camp shooting and could not say whether there was more than one shooter. He would not give any details about the identity or nationality of the suspect, who was being interrogated by police.

Oslo University Hospital said 12 people were admitted for treatment following the Utoya shooting, and 11 people were taken there from the explosion in Oslo. The hospital asked people to donate blood.

Stoltenberg, who was home when the blast occurred and was not harmed, visited injured people at the hospital late Friday. Earlier he decried what he called "a cowardly attack on young innocent civilians."

"I have message to those who attacked us," he said. "It's a message from all of Norway: You will not destroy our democracy and our commitment to a better world."

NRK showed video in Oslo of a blackened car lying on its side amid the debris. An AP reporter who was in the office of Norwegian news agency NTB said the building shook from the blast and all employees were evacuated. Down in the street, he saw one person with a bleeding leg being led away from the area.

An AP reporter headed to Utoya was turned away by police before reaching the lake that surrounds the island, as eight ambulances with sirens blaring entered the area. Police blocked off roads leading to the lake.

The United States, European Union, NATO and the U.K., all quickly condemned the bombing, which Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague called "horrific" and NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen deemed a "heinous act."

"It's a reminder that the entire international community has a stake in preventing this kind of terror from occurring," President Barack Obama said.

Obama extended his condolences to Norway's people and offered U.S. assistance with the investigation. He said he remembered how warmly Norwegians treated him in Oslo when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.

Nobel Peace Prize Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland said it appeared the camp attack "was intended to hurt young citizens who actively engage in our democratic and political society. But we must not be intimidated. We need to work for freedom and democracy every day."

A U.S. counterterrorism official said the United States knew of no links to terrorist groups and early indications were the attack was domestic. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was being handled by Norway.

At least two Islamic extremist groups had tried to take credit for the attacks. Many intelligence analysts said they had never heard of Helpers of Global Jihad, which took initial credit. The Kurdish group Ansar al-Islam also took credit on some jihadist web sites.

Norway has been grappling with a homegrown terror plot linked to al-Qaida. Two suspects are in jail awaiting charges.

Last week, a Norwegian prosecutor filed terror charges against an Iraqi-born cleric for threatening Norwegian politicians with death if he is deported from the Scandinavian country. The indictment centered on statements that Mullah Krekar — the founder of Ansar al-Islam — made to various news media, including American network NBC.

Terrorism has also been a concern in neighboring Denmark since an uproar over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad six years ago.

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Associated Press reporters Bjoern H. Amland in Hoenefoss, Norway, Karl Ritter and Lou

Velvet Glove Shiraz

Oops! Forklift smashes $1M worth of Australia wine - Yahoo! News

An unsteady forklift dropped a container full of fine Australian wine worth more than $1 million, smashing most of the bottles. The winemaker says he's "gut-wrenched, shocked and numb" after the loss of his flagship shiraz.

Sparky Marquis of Mollydooker Wines lost a third of his Velvet Glove Shiraz production after the accident that destroyed all but one of the 462 cases bound for the United States. Each bottle of the Mollydooker wine sells for $200.

Marquis said Friday that when workers opened up the dropped container, "it was like a murder scene. There was red everywhere."

He said the wine was fully insured.

The accident has crippled Mollydooker's U.S. launch in September. It will also impact the wine market in Australia.

Google and malware infection on windows users

Google warns of malware infection on Windows users' computers - Yahoo! News

Google is harnessing the power of the web to alert Windows users of possible malware infections on their machine.

The malware alert was developed after the company noticed "some unusual search traffic" during routine maintenance on their data centers.

"After collaborating with security engineers at several companies that were sending this modified traffic, we determined that the computers exhibiting this behavior were infected with a particular strain of malicious software, or 'malware,'" said Google security engineer Damian Menscher in a July 19 post on the Google Security Blog. "As a result of this discovery, today some people will see a prominent notification at the top of their Google web search results."

The yellow "Your computer appears to be infected" warning will appear at the top of Google's web search results if the company finds a computer is housing a specific type of malware, along with a link that shows how to fix the issue and remove the infections.

"We hope to use the knowledge we've gathered to assist as many people as possible," said Menscher, but comments left on Google's Security Blog suggested that the warning could be more detrimental to non-savvy computer users in the future than no official warning at all.

"It's too bad that the malware folks in the world already use 'your computer appears to be infected' messages to trick people into installing malicious software," commented a user by the name of Mecandes. "Tomorrow, the bad guys will copy the format and appearance of Google's version of the message, to leverage the trust people have in Google. Perhaps Google needs something akin to the Yahoo personalized 'sign-in seal' for moments like this?”

According to a January Security Threat Report by security company Sophos, the USA is home to the most infected webpages in the world. France, Russia, Germany and China follow in second to fifth places

Penyakit Pankreas

Penyakit Pankreas, Apa itu? « Pumichi's Blog

Pak Mur. orangnya gemuk. Umur 54. Selama ini sehat-sehat saja, tetapi belakangan kedapatan kencing manis. Yang terganggu kelenjar pankreasnya, yaitu kelenjar di sekitar lambung. Ia kena penyakit pankreas, kata seorang kerabatnya. Kenapa bisa begitu?

Kelenjar pankreas tidak sepopuler lever atau jantung. Ia jarang disebut karena memang tidak sebermasalah seperti organ tubuh lain. Hanya disebut sesekali saja, meski sesungguhnya punya peran yang tidak kecil. Setidaknya untuk fungsi pencernaan.

Selain memproduksi hormon insulin, pankreas atau disebut kelenjar ludah perut juga menghasilkan sejumlah enzim. Enzim yang diproduksinya berfungsi membantu pencernaan makanan yang kita konsumsi. Ada enzim pemecah karbohidrat, selain pemecah lemak, dan protein. Dengan demikian laju metabolisme apa saja yang kita santap akan lancar prosesnya berkat kehadiran enzim-enzim pankreas.

Enzim yang diproduksi dialirkan melalui saluran ke dalam usus duabelas jari. Setelah makanan digiling dan dicampur dengan asam lambung, proses selanjutnya berlangsung di dalam usus duabelas jari sebagai kelanjutan dari lambung sebelum masuk ke usus halus, tempat sebagian besar sari makanan yang sudah diolah menjadi zat gizi yang bisa diserap oleh usus memasuki aliran darah.

Sebagaimana organ tubuh umumnya, kelanjar pankreas juga bisa terganggu fungsinya. Siapa pengganggu pankreas juga tak berbeda dengan pengganggu fungsi organ tubuh lain, yakni infeksi dan radang, selain kemungkinan oleh tumbuhnya tumor dan kista.

Setiap terjadi gangguan pada pankreas, apa pun bentuk dan penyebabnya, yang akan muncul tentu gangguan fungsi. Oleh karena fungsinya memproduksi hormon insulin dan enzim perut, gejala dan keluhan yang muncul pun seputar gangguan insulin dan enzim.

Pancreatitis

Dari sekian jenis penyakit pada pankreas, paling sering jenis penyakit meradangnya kelenjar yang ukurannya tak lebih besar dari telapak tangan anak. Penyebab peradangan pankreas tidak selalu jelas. Bisa muncul akibat komplikasi virus gondong (mumps, parotitis), gangguan batu empedu, jejas (trauma) sehabis pembedahan perut, pada mereka yang tinggi kadar lemak darah (hyperlipidemia), pada yang kelenjar anak gondoknya terlalu aktif (hyperparathyroidism), selain pengaruh obat-obatan, serta pada peminum alkohol.

Sepertiga kasus meradangnya pankreas, tak diketahui sebabnya. Mendadak saja terjadi peradangan. Berat-ringannya keluhan penyakit yang terlihat dan terasa tergantung seberapa luas peradangan dan atau infeksi mengenai sosok kelenjar ini.

Pancreatitis atau meradang dan terinfeksinya pankreas awalnya muncul dadakan (acute). Setelah seseorang pernah punya riwayat pancreatitis, suatu waktu pancreatitis-nya bisa kambuh berulang (acute relapsing).

Dan bila penyakitnya terus berulang, sehingga struktur dan fungsi kelenjarnya berubah secara menetap, akan menjadi pancreatitis yang menahun dan kemungkinan juga bisa berulang (chronic relapsing). Bisa saja terjadi, kendati sudah sekian lama mengidap pancreatitis, penyebabnya belum tentu sudah dikenali.

Muncul Mendadak

Pada orang yang tak ada turunan kencing manis, tidak ada risiko tetapi mendadak muncul gejala kencing manis atau gula darahnya tinggi, kecurigaan akan adanya gangguan pankreas harus dipikirkan seperti terjadi pada kasus Pak Mur di atas.

Pak Mur. sama sekali tidak ada risiko kencing manis. Awal gangguan pankreasnya kebetulan mengenai bagian kelenjar yang memproduksi insulin. Akibatnya, produksi insulin menurun, lalu muncul gejala diabetes.

Dan ini bukanlah diabetes sejati, melainkan diabetes akibat adanya gangguan pankreas yang biasanya sementara waktu saja pada orang yang sesungguhnya tidak berisiko diabetes.

Selain gangguan insulin, bisa sekaligus mengalami gangguan fungsi enzim juga. Oleh karena salah satu enzim pankreas bersifat menghancurkan protein, dengan adanya infeksi di sana, enzim yang tumpah akan merusak jaringan di sekitar rongga perut seperti mengenai selubung rongga perut, lempeng penggantung usus, ginjal, dan limpa. Selain itu bisa terjadi pula perlukaan pada pembuluh darah, pembentukan kista, pernanahan, dan kematian jaringan.

Perut Melilit

Oleh karena gejalanya belum tentu selalu muncul gejala kencing manis, gejala nyeri perut hebat harus dicurigai sebagai gangguan pankreas juga. Tentu bukan sekadar nyeri perut melilit biasa, biasanya disertai demam, nyerinya menjalar ke belakang, beberapa menit sampai beberapa jam, dan biasanya menetap.

Tak jarang nyeri perut berkembang menjadi kolik. Bila dibawa bergerak, nyeri bertambah hebat. Bahkan sekadar menghela napas, bangkit dari duduk sudah menambah hebat nyeri perutnya. Duduk sambil menekukkan pinggang bisa mencetuskan nyeri perut hebat tersebut. Bila terjadi perdarahan rongga perut, kemungkinan bisa sampai syok juga. Pasien bisa langsung pingsan.

Syok umumnya terjadi karena perdarahan menyeluruh di dalam rongga perut. Pembuluh darah yang terkena pengaruh enzim mengalami kerusakan jaringan oleh kerja enzim, menimbulkan perdarahan menyeluruh pada saluran pencernaan.

Syok diperburuk oleh berkurangnya kadar kalsium (Ca) jika penyebab pancreatitis-nya oleh faktor kelebihan hormon anak gondok (hyperparathyroidism).

Membaca Laboratorium

Kadar salah satu enzim pankreas, yakni amilase yang meningkat dapat dibaca dari hasil laboratorium darah. Bila ringan saja, akan kembali normal setelah sepuluh hari. Namun, bila menetap selama berbulan-bulan, bisa jadi akan membentuk sejenis kista pada pankreas (pseudocyst), kalau bukan berkembang menjadi kanker pankreas.

Selain enzim, kadar bilirubin (empedu) dalam darah ada kemungkinan ikut meningkat juga bila faktor penyebabnya ada pada saluraan empedu yang tersumbat batu empedu. Ini terjadi pada seperempat kasus.

Kemungkinan lain, kadar kalsium mungkin turun, sel darah putih meningkat tinggi. Bila dilakukan pemeriksaan pencitraan perut, mungkin tampak terbentuknya pengapuran pankreas (calcification), adanya gangguan gerakan usus (ileus), tampak sumbatan saluran empedu, selain kemungkinan selubung paru-paru bawah (pleural effusion).

Bila penyebabnya batu empedu, dalam pencitraan perut, batu empedu akan mudah kelihatan. Selain itu, kemungkinan tampak gambaran kandung empedu dan atau saluran empedu yang meradang.

Untuk melihat itu semua, pemeriksaan teropong rongga perut (laparoskopi) akan membongkar apa yang sudah terjadi di rongga perut. Bila tampak perdarahan hebat di rongga perut, tergolong di kasus berat dan buruk prognosisnya.

Terapi Penyebabnya

Selain mengatasi langsung keadaan penyakit yang biasanya tergolong gawat darurat, dengan menyedot enzim yang tumpah di rongga perut, produksi enzim pankreas perlu dikendalikan, makan sementara melalui pipa dari hidung, dan semua aktivitas cerna dikendurkan.

Ancaman kekurangan cairan segera diatasi dan untuk meredakan nyeri perutnya diberikan obat antinya. Oleh karena nyeri perut melilit sering tak tertahankan, perlu tindakan pembiusan lokal sumsum tulang untuk meredamnya, selain pemberian antibiotika untuk proses infeksi rongga perut akibat cemaran tinja di rongga perut.

Faktor penyebabnya tentu perlu dikoreksi. Batu empedu diangkat, lemak darah diturunkan, gangguan kelenjar anak gondok diatasi. Termasuk jika terjadi gejala kencing manis, perlu diberikan obat antidiabetes juga yang biasanya akan menyembuh sendiri setelah penyebab pancreatitis-nya diatasi.

Jika penyebabnya obat-obatan seperti golongan thiazide (obat darah tinggi), kortikosteroid, sulfasalazine (obat maag), jenis obat ini perlu disingkirkan agar tidak berulang menimbulkan kekambuhan. Kebiasaan minum alkohol pun perlu dihentikan.

Sudah disebut gangguan pankreas juga dapat muncul oleh kanker. Keluhan, gejala, dan tanda penyakitnya kurang lebih sama memperlihatkan sebentuk gangguan fungsi pankreas sebagaimana sudah disebut di atas.

Sekadar serangan penyakit atau gangguan lever pun, jika sampai mengganggu pankreas, gejalanya akan menimbulkan tanda menyerupai penyakit lever, yakni kulit dan kencing menjadi kuning tengguli. Gejala kuning ini muncul akibat empedu yang tersumbat alirannya (posthepatic) ketika memasuki usus duabelas jari.

Jadi kasus Pak Mur di atas yang terserang pancreatitis dadakan, sudah selesai diatasi dan sudah menyembuh. Gejala kencing manisnya sudah tidak ada lagi, sehingga obat kencing manisnya sudah tidak perlu dilanjutkan lagi.

Yang perlu diwaspadai, serangan pancreatitis bisa datang berulang. Satu yang perlu terus diperhatikan, singkirkan faktor penyebabnya. Pada Pak Mur, faktor kelebihan kadar lemak darah (hyperlipidemia) yang menjadi biang keladinya.

Nasihat buat Pak Mur, ia dilarang tetap gemuk.

Oslo Blast

An explosion hits buildings near the Norwegian prime minister's office in Oslo, causing major damage and an unknown number of casualties.

For more details: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news

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The Crowded Ngurah Rai Airport

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Christian Martinez, Tolga Cifci, and Wassim Fayad

2nd Muslim charged in whipping attack in Australia - Yahoo! News

2nd Muslim charged in whipping attack in Australia
A second Muslim man has been charged in connection with an attack on a recent convert to Islam who was allegedly whipped 40 times as a religious punishment for drinking alcohol.

Wassim Fayad, 43, was freed on bail after being charged Wednesday with aggravated breaking and entering with intent to commit an indictable offense. The same charges were laid against Tolga Cifci, 20, on Tuesday. Neither man has entered a plea.

In granting bail, Magistrate Tim Kebby ordered Fayad to stay away from the alleged victim, saying the attack was "quite particular, arising from religious motivation."

The incident has created a furor in the Australian media, reflecting the friction caused by the expanding Islamic migrant community in a country whose citizens are predominantly of Christian European background.

Australia relaxed its immigration policies in 1973 when it opened its doors to nonwhites, attracting a flood of immigrants from Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard weighed into the debate Wednesday, telling reporters there is no place for religious punishments in Australia.

"There is only one law in this country — the law of Australia. That's what binds us together and everybody has got to abide by that law," she said.

Fayad and Cifci are among four people who are accused of breaking into Christian Martinez's house on Sunday, holding him down on his bed and whipping him 40 times with an electric cord. The court was told that Martinez, a recent convert to Islam, was targeted for "religious reasons."

Islamic Sharia laws, which prohibit alcohol, recommend whipping as a punishment for several offenses.

No trial date has been set pending investigations. If convicted, the two could face up to 20 years in prison.

Martinez, 31, was allegedly whipped for 30 minutes but did not need hospitalization. Local media have reported that the alleged attackers attended the same mosque as Martinez, and administered the lashing as a punishment for going to a pub.

Cifci, a Muslim, was born and raised in Australia. Fayad's background is not immediately known, except that he is married and has six children.

In an interview with community forum MuslimVillage.com published Wednesday, Martinez said he had a drinking problem that he has been trying to overcome. He said he was drinking on the day of the alleged attack, which he said was "about some individuals, not religion."

He said one of the attackers was a friend. "I will never forgive him but I guess Allah will judge him ... and Allah can forgive him," said Martinez, who converted to Islam about three years ago.

He described Islam as a "a beautiful religion," which helped him get through his past. "I mean, I'm not perfect ... and now I believe I'm a better person because of Islam," he said.

He also said the "mainstream media" had been hounding him and had offered him money to tell his story, which he rejected.

"I feel like a victim twice over," he said.

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Online:

http://muslimvillage.com/2011/07/20/exclusive-interview-with-the-victim-of-the-sharia-whipping/

Credit payment trouble with The Alit and booking.com

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I have paid the Alit hotel via booking.com  but the receptionist said that she hasn't got the payment.  Could you clarify why this happened?
When booking the Alit Hotel through internet few days ago, the booking.com asked me to pay using credit card. I follow all the instruction and putting all my credit card details including the three secret number behind my card as a verification that the money will be deducted from my card.
So,I'd like to explain about that matter because I don't want my card being deducted twice.

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culture clash?

Oh , this pic is so funny. I am laughing hard now :)
AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com on holiday: Awful outfits, shocking poses and embarrassing parents | Mail Online

Culture clash: If ever three tourists looked out of place in a holiday snap, then this is that photo

Wahana Tornado Dufan tidak aman?

detikNews : Dufan Minta Maaf Atas Insiden Macetnya Wahana Tornado

Wahana Tornado
Pengelola Dunia Fantasi (Dufan) Taman Impian Jaya Ancol meminta maaf atas insiden macetnya wahana Tornado yang terjadi menjelang maghrib tadi tepatnya pukul 18.00 WIB. Insiden tersebut menurutnya karena masalah pasokan listrik.

"Memang ternyata ada masalah pasokan listrik," ujar Humas Ancol Sofia Cakti saat dikonfirmasi wartawan, Rabu (20/7/2011) malam.

Akibat pasokan listrik yang tergangu, lanjut Sofia, butuh waktu untuk melakukan transfer ke mesin genset. Oleh karena itu, mau tidak mau pengunjung yang sedang menikmati wahana ini harus diturunkan secara manual.

Atas insiden ini, pengelola meminta maaf. "Kita mohon maaf atas ketidaknyamanan tersebut kepada pengunjung," tukasnya.

Insiden ini ramai diperbincangkan di jejaring social Twitter. Menurut Kapolsek Pademangan, Kompol Ahmad David, pihaknya telah meminta wahana ini untuk diberhentikan sementara sampai ada pemeriksaan lebih lanjut.

"Pihak kepolisian sudah meminta operasional wahana Tornado distop dulu," ujar Kapolsek Pademangan Kompol Ahmad David, saat dikonfirmasi detikcom, Rabu (20/7/2011) malam.

David belum bisa memastikan sampai kapan wahana ini akan ditutup. Semua tergantung pada pemeriksaan di lapangan yang rencananya akan dilakukan Kamis (21/7) besok.

"Batas waktunya belum bisa ditentukan, besok kita periksa lagi," katanya.

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IPO anak usaha PT Telkom (TLKM) PT Dayamitra Telekomunikasi Juni 2012

Anak usaha TLKM IPO tahun depan - Kontan Online

Pasar modal masih menjadi pilihan menarik bagi perusahaan yang mencari dana segar. Salah satu emiten yang melirik lantai bursa adalah PT Dayamitra Telekomunikasi dengan berencana menggelar initial public offering (IPO). Jika lancar, hajatan ini akan dilakukan pada semester kedua 2012.

Hal ini disampaikan oleh Edy Irianto Presiden Direktur anak usaha PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (TLKM) yang dikenal dengan Mitratel, hari ini. Sayang Edy masih enggan memberikan rincian lebih lanjut mengenai rencana besar ini.

Harry Potter has grown so much

Harry Potter's Emma Watson will return to Brown University after Oxford stint | Mail Online

Harry Potter star Emma Watson has revealed she plans to return to America's Brown University to complete her degree - despite apparently quitting the revered place of learning in April this year.

The actress, who plays Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series - a student at wizard school Hogwarts - said that she is still enrolled at Brown, even though she will study at Oxford University in the autumn.

She said she intends to return to Providence, Rhode Island, next year to complete her studies at the Ivy League school.
Back to school: Emma Watson, seen here at the New York premiere of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 last week, says she's finishing her degree at Brown University

Emma, 21, left Brown in April this year, saying she wanted to devote her time to the final Harry Potter film and other acting opportunities.

At the time, it was said that bullying had forced her to quit, but that was strenuously denied by her spokespeople.

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Chase Carey , Rupert Murdoch, and News Corp.

Phone hacking scandal: News Corp investors demand 'doddery' Murdoch... quits... despite shares rising 6% after grilling | Mail Online

Rupert Murdoch faces a fight to keep control of his media empire after investors lined up to call for him to quit following his ‘doddery’ performance in front of MPs yesterday.

Many shareholders want Chase Carey to succeed the tycoon as chief executive officer of News Corporation amid claims that the 80-year-old doesn’t know what’s going on at the firm.

They say Mr Carey, 57, who is currently chief operating officer, is better placed to transform the company’s fortunes by drawing a line under the News of the World phone hacking scandal.

Replacement: Rupert Murdoch, being driven through London today, faces calls to stand down as News Corp CEO and be succeeded by Chase Carey, right. Shareholders say Mr Carey may transform the firm's fortunes

Confident: Mr Murdoch, seen today with copies of The Times and The Sun, said he can 'clean the mess up'

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But Mr Murdoch still has strong support from board members and yesterday’s 6 per cent rise in its share price following the select committee hearing will also steady his position.

Stock was valued at $16.25 by the end of trading in New York last night.

It was trading at $16.60 this afternoon, meaning it that since the close of the market on Monday night - the evening before the Murdochs' encounter with MPs - the price has risen 11.6 per cent.

At the end of trading yesterday, the company was worth $41.8billion.


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Charlie Sheen's replacement Ashton Kutcher strips off for Two And A Half Men billboard | Mail Online

His smiling face and confident suit-clad stroll was a staple image on the walls of the Warner Bros studios for years.

But the image of former Two And A Half Men star Charlie Sheen was made a mere memory today, as a billboard featuring his successor Ashton Kutcher was erected on the famous Burbank lot.

And the new sign for the hit sitcom is likely to draw much more attention, especially due to Kutcher's scantily clad appearance.

Is it too early to write off Rupert Murdoch as CEO

Analysis: Is it too early to write off Rupert Murdoch as CEO? - Yahoo! News

It looked like it was time for a changing of the guard at News Corp.

Rupert Murdoch appeared tired, close to the end of a remarkable corporate career. His son James came across as fresh, smart and eloquent, ready to deal with arguably the worst crisis at the global media empire.

But Murdoch senior, 80, made clear he wasn't ready to go yet.

"No," Murdoch firmly told a British parliamentary hearing on Tuesday, when asked if he would resign over the phone-hacking scandal that has rocked News Corp.

"I feel that people I trusted, I'm not saying who, I don't know on what level, have let me down and I think they behaved disgracefully, betrayed the company and me, and it's for them to pay."

He went on: "I'm the best person to clean this up."

The problem Rupert Murdoch faces is that his presumed heir is not in a position to take over. James Murdoch, 38, initially failed to deal adequately with the phone-hacking scandal at the company's News of the World tabloid, and he could be further implicated as police investigations pick up.

"I would have thought that after last night, that has accelerated the pace of change, rather than slowed it down," said Bruce Guthrie, former editor of Murdoch's Herald-Sun newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, between 2007-2008.

"I think the market will probably be looking in the short term for a non-Murdoch to take the reins, and then perhaps a Murdoch will take control again in the future," he told Australian radio. Guthrie won an unfair dismissal case against the company in 2008 and wrote a book called "Man bites Murdoch."

News Corp's board does not seem ready to strip Murdoch senior of the chief executive title -- leaving him just the chairmanship -- even though Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey is widely seen as a capable CEO replacement.

Independent directors Viet Dinh and Tom Perkins have now publicly stated that the News Corp board is united in support of the senior management team.

"In no uncertain terms, the Board and management team are singularly aligned," Dinh said in a statement on behalf of independent directors of News Corp after the hearing.

Even investors who criticized Murdoch's performance at the hearing felt it was too soon to write him off.

Murdoch called it the most humble day of his life and often looked ill at ease, rarely showing the passion and aggression on which he built his business over six decades.

He answered many questions in monosyllables and left long pauses before giving short replies. When Murdoch stumbled over answers, his son frequently tried to step in, only to be told he must let his father answer the question.

At one point, Murdoch senior admitted to being out of touch with the ins and outs of News International, the UK newspaper arm at the center of the scandal.

"James was well prepared and related his thoughts much more effectively than his father," said Keith Wirtz, chief investment officer at Fifth Third Asset Management, which owns News Corp shares.

But he said Rupert didn't look like he was about to quit.

"Rupert is News Corp, so I do not see him stepping down any time soon," said Wirtz.

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Until the phone hacking scandal exploded on July 4, James Murdoch had been expected to eventually take over from his father. But the younger Murdoch has been tainted by details that emerged on his handling of the aftermath, such as the paying off of some victims.

In the past fortnight, News Corp has lost $8 billion in market value, closed its oldest British tabloid, and lost out on its biggest ever proposed deal, BSkyB.

News Corp's stock ended up 5.5 percent on Tuesday, with Wall Street analysts pointing to a relief rally that the hearing did not uncover anything too damaging.

"James did a sensational job, he was knowledgeable and competent," said Gabelli Multimedia Funds manager Larry Haverty, whose portfolio holds News Corp shares.

"I think the hurricanes have passed with this performance, they both did a great job. I personally believe management stability is a key thing for media properties."

A long-time shareholder in Australia said the Murdochs' appearance had cleared up uncertainty over how far up the chain responsibility rested in the hacking scandal, but he remained concerned about the potential fallout.

"I certainly wouldn't look at this issue and say that that has any bearing on whether (Rupert) Murdoch should be there or not," said Angus Gluskie, portfolio manager at White Funds Management.

"It's a remarkably difficult situation, and I wouldn't be too harsh in judging how they've handled it."

A top 10 News Corp shareholder said he felt the senior Murdoch's performance was poor and called it "a big black eye," adding that appointing Carey as CEO would be "a good cosmetic move."

But he noted that would be a big snub to James Murdoch, and a message his father was not prepared to send. The shareholder spoke on condition of anonymity.

If the heir apparent baton passed to another Murdoch, former News Ltd editor Guthrie said daughter Elisabeth would be the most likely. News Corp recently bought her TV production company and she is expected to join News Corp's board.

"I would have thought Elisabeth is a better chance. Elisabeth is not as tainted as some of the other kids. She has proven herself as a businesswoman in her own right," he said.

"She is a longer-term proposition, if there is to be an interim period where Murdoch cedes control to someone else, an outsider, with the view of bringing one of the family back in again at a later stage."

Murdoch appeared to recover his spirits in the second half of the proceedings, answering questions more forcefully. He also got something of a sympathy vote from some observers after a surprise attack by a man with a plate of white foam.

"It made me think he's an old man, very frail, at the end of a long career," said Jennifer McDermott, media lawyer and partner at Withers Worldwide.

(Additional reporting by Sarah McBride in San Francisco, Georgina Prodhan in London, Rob Taylor in Canberra and Sonali Paul in Melbourne, editing by Tiffany Wu, Martin Howell and Dean Yates)
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Putin's Army

'Putin's Army' tries sexy messaging ahead of 2012 elections - Yahoo! News

It calls itself "Putin's Army," already has more than 1,200 followers on Russia's main social networking site Vkontakte, and is urging young women to "tear" their clothes off as a message to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to step up and run for president in elections that are now barely eight months off.

Neither Mr. Putin nor President Dmitry Medvedev will openly state their intentions for the upcoming polls, and some very odd things have lately been rushing into the vacuum where normal political competition might otherwise be.

No one knows who is behind "Putin's Army," but its professionally-made video of a young woman praising Putin and preparing to rip off her T-shirt has gone viral since being posted last week on the blog of Kirill Schitov, a young pro-Putin deputy of the Moscow city Duma.

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"Hi, my name is Diana. I’m a student. I’m mad about a man who has changed the life of our country," says the video's narrator, presumably the leggy blonde walking purposefully through central Moscow. "He’s a first-rate politician and a chic guy. He’s Vladimir Putin.... There are millions who adore him, who trust him.

"But there are a few who hurl dirt at him. Maybe they’re scared? Or maybe they're just weak? Because they’ll never be in his place."

The main point is to announce a contest for the best video of a woman "tearing" something for Putin, to be posted on the Vkontakte page. The winner, it says, will get an iPad 2.

The sexy messaging is the latest creative attempt to build up Putin ahead of March 2012 elections, following a superhero comic strip and James Bond-style posters. Some analysts say it could backfire, and thus may be the work of detractors. But most people attribute it to Putin supporters, possibly people associated with the rapidly growing Popular Front that he recently started.

"This video is the work of a professional team, and that doesn't come cheap," says Rustem Agadamov, author of the popular blog Drugoi. "It's similar to some other things that have been going on, and there's no doubt that such things don't happen without the authorities' approval."

But the obvious suspects vigorously deny involvement.

"We don't have the slightest idea who they are," Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said by telephone Monday. "There are a lot of strange people around."

Kristina Potupchik, press secretary of the pro-Kremlin youth movement Nashi, which has often staged demonstrations and street theater to dramatize conservative causes, says she doesn't know who did it either. "It is just one more independent project," says Ms. Potupchik. "These people clearly like Putin just as we do, that's it."

There have been quite a few people using Putin's name in dubious PR exercises lately.

Last year a group of "independent" female Moscow University students produced a risquée 2011 calendar in honor of Putin's birthday, which sold 50,000 copies. It featured the women in lingerie and was headlined "We Love You Vladimir Vladimirovich!" A full copy can be found on the blog of none other than Ms. Potupchik.

In May freelance cartoonist Sergei Kalenik posted a comic-strip on a specially created website www.superputin.ru – which has since had over 7 million hits. It cast Putin as a superhero who saves a busload of people from terrorists along with his sidekick, Dmitry Medvedev, clad in a bear costume. (An English translation of the strip is available at the site.)

Last week someone put up professionally produced posters in several Moscow bus stations that depicted Putin as James Bond, but they were quickly taken down after Mr. Peskov complained.

Alexei Mukhin, director of the independent Center for Political Information in Moscow, says that things may not be what they seem in the murky, under-the-carpet Russian political struggle currently in full swing.

"This Putin's Army video is clearly a professional work, and it may well be an effort not to promote Putin but to discredit him with his conservative and Russian Orthodox base," says Mr. Mukhin.

"Young people won't be inspired by this approach of using sex to sell, while many traditional supporters of Putin will be turned off. Also, in this video Putin is named as 'president,' and that can only be aimed at souring his relations with the incumbent president, Medvedev. No good for Putin will come of this."

Good Bye Borders!

It's bad that this famous chain book store will close. When I was in Melbourne I  and my friend once stayed whole nite in that book store. It was interesting experience spending nite and morning at Borders.
Will never forget the Melbourne's Borders things
Borders' seeks approval to liquidate, close stores - Yahoo! News

There will be no storybook ending for Borders. The 40-year-old book seller could start shuttering its 399 remaining stores as early as Friday.

The Ann Arbor, Mich.-based chain, which helped pioneer the big-box bookseller concept, is seeking court approval to sell off its assets after it failed to receive any bids that would keep it in business. The move adds Borders to the list of retailers that have failed to adapt to changing consumers' shopping habits and survive the economic downturn, including Circuit City Stores Inc., Blockbuster and Linens 'N Things.

On Thursday, Borders is expected to ask the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of New York at a scheduled hearing to allow it to be sold to liquidators led by Hilco Merchant Resources and Gordon Brothers Group. If the judge approves the move, liquidation sales could start as soon as Friday; the company could go out of business by the end of September.

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