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‘Rango,’ ‘Puss,’‘Tintin’ earn Annienominations

Preserving GongKebyar in MundukVillage

Denpasar (Bali Post) –Ambassadors and representative from

western European Countries coordinated by US Directory General and Europe as well as Indonesian Foreign Ministry took part in Trade Tourism and Invest-ment (TTI) Bali for Western European on December 5 and 6, 2011.

During the event, there was also

a discussion among the local media, ambassadors, and the Balinese society hosted by Bali Post Media Group. The discussion entitled “Get Together with Local Media and Local Community” was held in Ketut Nadha Bali Press Building on Monday, December 12, 2011.

A massive blast at the entrance to a shrine in central Kabul where Shiite Muslims had gathered to mark Ashura left at least 30 people dead including children, an AFP photographer saw.

“A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in the Abu-Ul Fazil shrine,” Kabul police said in a statement.

A security official speaking on condition of anonymity told AFP that it was believed the bomber arrived with a group of Shiite pilgrims from Logar province, south of Kabul.

Separately, four people were killed in Mazar-i-Sharif when another blast struck a shrine in the northern city. It was not im-

mediately clear whether Shiites were targeted in that attack.

“It was an explosion not a suicide bombing. It was some explosives hidden in a bicycle,” said Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, a police spokesman for northern Af-ghanistan, adding that four other people had also been injured.

AFP PHOTO/ Massoud HOSSAINI

Afghan women cry as they look at bodies after an explosion during a religious ceremony in the centre of Kabul on De-cember 6, 2011. At least 30 people were killed in an explosion at a Kabul shrine where Shia Muslims were marking the Day of Ashura Tuesday, an AFP photographer saw. The blast came in the city centre where Shias had gathered to carry out religious rituals to mark the day, a public holiday in Afghanistan.

Ambassador from Western Europe Cooperation

Interested in farming sector

At least 34 dead in Afghan shrine blasts

Agence France-Presse

KABUL - Twin blasts at Af-ghan shrines on the Shiite holy

day of Ashura left at least 34 people dead in Kabul and the

northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Tuesday, according to police

and an AFP photographer.

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Ambassador from European countries took picture with Balinese community in the get together session and dinner held in Press

Building K. Nadha on Monday, December 5, 2011. This dinner was initiated by Vice Governor of Bali A.A. Puspayoga and hosted by CEO

of Bali Post Group ABG Satria Naradha.

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When the agricultural production,

the middlemen even set a cheap enough price. Such conditions led to substantial losses. If farmers did not want to sell their strawberry, then the crops would rot. So, they were forced to sell the strawberry at cheap price to middlemen. “Today, farmers are al-ways defeated by middlemen because the harvested strawberry was bought at very cheap price,” he said.

According to Sumadra, abundant strawberry production should be pro-cessed into products such as beverage or jelly. Sale of the processed products

farmers in addition to relying on the sales of strawberry to hotels and restaurants. “The integrated system is very appropriate to empower the

farmers. This relevant institution is assisting farmers, so it will be pro-

explained.

agriculture managed in an integrated system would ease the central gov-ernment in disbursing any assistance such as the strengthening of capital or equipment. “I have been able to ask the Ministry of Agriculture and the government assistance will be much easier to be disbursed if the agriculture is managed by an integrated system,” he added.

In separate location, the Division Head of Buleleng Horticulture Putu Oka Sastra with permission from the Head of Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency, Putu Mertha Jiwa,

Pancasari Village had processed their strawberries. The fruits of small-size and undergoing damage during the post-harvest handling were processed into raw materials for the making of ice cream. The fruits were frozen and then shipped to Malang in the form of semi-finished ingredients. Although the processing was just into

cover the cost of planting operation. “This method has been done by lo-

cal farmers and every two weeks they

to Malang for the ingredient of ice cream. These sales can cover the op-erating costs of maintaining the plant and no fruits are wasted even though they are small and scratched when harvested,” he explained. (kmb)

Tabanan (Bali Post)—The current durian harvest season does not make the farm-

ers at Timpag Village, Kerambitan, happy because pests have attacked their durian ragingly. The pests make durian seed rot and fall out. This pest attack has been going on since the past few weeks. As a result, the proceeds of durian harvest sharply drop.

The type of pests attacking the spiny fruits is unknown. By and large, the pests begin to appear when the fruit is still small. Suddenly, the durian fruit rots until reaching the seeds. “This matter has been complained by local residents. The at-tack happens when the fruit is still young,” said the Headman

added that such a pest just attacked in this season. Previously, the pests attack was not too severe.

According to Sukawahana, the pest attack happened very

man. Once attacked, the fruit turned rotten and fell down.

caterpillars. Farmers alleged if the pest attack was triggered by the rainy season. However, it could not be ascertained what kind of pest it was. “Meanwhile, farmers have not taken any action yet because they did not know what pesticide to use,” said Sukawahana.

At Timpag Village, said Sukawahana, almost every resident had a durian orchard. When the harvest season arrived, durian became a promising additional income. However, due to pest such attacks, many farmers could not enjoy maximal yields. On aver-age, the yield of durian harvest dropped by 40 percent whereas the price of durian was quite promising. Moreover, local residents had started planting durian of the latest varieties.

Sulatra, 48, a durian farmer. He said that he could not harvest his durian in his orchard maximally because many of them had fallen due to the attack. “The small fruits have rotted and fallen off,” he complained. Farmers hoped that Regency Government could come down and give assistance to farmers to care for their durian so when the harvest season came, the result could be enjoyed to the fullest. (udi)

Denpasar (Bali Posr)-An awful situation hit Saat (45) and Agus Kalim (27) last

Monday (5/12) while working at a telephone pole at Kerobokan, North Kuta. The two was then sent to Sanglah Hospital at 4 pm local time using a black pick up car with body burnt due to being

to put up a telephone pole which then hit an electricity cable causing them repelled by high voltage electricity. Saat was totally burnt while Agus got burnt on the feet, until Monday afternoon the two is still on treatment at Sanglah Hospital.

Besides them an accident also hit Kadek Hadi Susanto (31)

place at Malboro Street. According to colleague, Ketut, the in-cident happened while Hadi was trying to cut steel through its equipment yet the steel escaped due to its supporter detached. Hadi is now treated at Sanglah Hospital. (san)

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A woman is checking her strawberry plant.

To prevent farmers from being harmed by middleman

Singaraja (Bali Post)—Agriculture at Pancasari Village, Sukasada Subdistrict, needs developing with integrated farming

system. Aside from anticipating the losses of farmers due to the price trick committed by middleman, the integrated agricultural system will make the central government easier to disburse the assistance.

farmers at Pancasari were always defeated by the hands of middlemen in the harvest season.

people hospitalised

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Jakarta (Bali Post)—Government will develop

50 tourist destinations nation-wide until 2025. “This has beenstipulated through GovernmentRegulation on December 2. Wehave mapped the 50 tourist des-tinations of the country that willbe developed until 2025,” saidMinister of Tourism and CreativeEconomy, Mari Elka Pangestu, inthe National Tourism Conferencein Jakarta, Monday (Dec 5).

She said the 50 destinationswere divided into 88 nationaltourism strategic areas and 222national tourism developmentareas assessed to be potential.Government had compiled theNational Tourism Plan whichcontained in the framework andsystemic approach in terms ofnational tourism developmentincluding the development of the50 destinations. “The destinationsstipulated are spread throughoutIndonesia and will be developeduntil 2025, such as the Lake Tobain North Sumatra,” she said.

According to her, it had alsobecome the homework for theregion to gradually prepare ashort-term, mid-term and longterm plan to develop the potentialtourist destinations.

Development of the nationaltourism areas, for example,would be undertaken in Nan-groe Aceh Darussalam (NAD)Province including Nias andSimeluen; North Sumatra, in-cluding Medan and Lake Toba;West Nusa Tenggara includingLombok, Moyo, and surround-ing areas; and East Nusa Teng-gara including Komodo, Ruteng,and Flores. “So, in each regionthere will be a strategic pointof destination to be developed,”she said.

Her party advised that all

regions should begin to preparethemselves and be committed todeveloping the regional tourism.According to Mari Pangestu, thekey to success of the nationaltourism development lay in thegood cooperation and coordina-tion as well as planning.

She cited that development ofa destination should be dividedinto three stages, namely pre-project, project implementation,and post-project. Pre-projectwould consist of the preparation,planning of destination develop-ment and then each region shouldidentify the measures that wouldbe undertaken and make prepara-tion with respect to the input ofvarious parties.

After that, it was followedby preparation of proposal thatwould be initiated by centralgovernment and investors andthe making of a good design.“During the implementation, itwill be resumed with monitoringand supervision,” she said.

During the post-project, sheasked, there should be an evalu-ation in order it could become alearning material for the futureneeds. Mari exemplified thetourism development projectconducted in appropriate withthe stage mentioned above wasthe post-tsunami developmentproject at Pangandaran.

Nevertheless, the projecteventually encountered a num-ber of challenges. Some of themwere the increase of hawkers oncoastal area, the problem relatedto coastal waste environmentmanagement, energy utilization,and increasing demand for tour-ism services. “But we must beoptimistic. Let’s take the emotionand intention in the developmentof Indonesian tourism. This is anew era,” she said. (010)

This matter was revealed in theseminar regarding the prepara-tion of the environmental statusreport of Denpasar City, Monday(Dec 5) held in the office of Den-pasar Mayor.

The Head of Denpasar En-vironment Agency, AA BagusSudharsana, said that each de-velopment would be faced witha logical consequence and dilem-matic choice. On the one hand,the community needed to devel-op, while on the other hand theywere required to maintain the en-vironmental conditions from pol-lution and destruction of nature.As an illustration, he revealed the

real condition of land in Denpasaruntil 2011where the remainingforest area only left 747 hectares,rice field (2717 hectares), moor,mixed farms as well as the otherarea (516 hectares), and vacantland (967 hectares). “Indeed, theland in Denpasar needs to be ex-plored and utilized appropriatelyand correctly. However, everymeasure and policy taken shouldwisely lead to optimization andmaintain the carrying capacity ofthe environment,” he said.

Meanwhile, a consultant fromCV Sastra Design preparing theenvironmental status of DenpasarCity stated the pressure occurred

against the mangrove forests inSouth Denpasar was the concen-tration of rubbish pollution andchemical substances swept awayby the river settling and emptyingout into the mangrove forest area.Such condition was estimated toaffect the biota in the mangroveareas and the possibility of pro-gressive decline in the numberof mangrove plants in the longrun. Another pressure was thefunction conversion of the man-grove forest land for residentialarea, fish ponds and other illegalindustries along the Jalan BypassNgurah Rai with an area reaching0.4 hectare. (kmb12)

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Land conversion in the mid-

dle of increasingly higher demandfor land of settlement becomes ascourge for Bali. The IndonesianFarmers Association (HKTI) ofBali Chapter recorded that more

vanish per year. This conditionis inseparable from the unclearand indecisive rules from theexecutive and the circle of BaliHouse.

Chairman of HKTI Bali, Prof.Dr. Nyoman Suparta, said thatBali Government should havepolicy programs of Bali develop-ment regarding the utilizationof existing land. “It is requiredclear and unequivocal rules fromthe Governor of Bali and theBali House concerning landscategorized into timeless land andconserved land in order not to bedisturbed at all into other sectors,”said Suparta when contacted onMonday (Dec 5).

According to him, the agricul-tural land conversion into othersectors in Bali was averagelyquite high and had been in therange of 1 percent per year. There-fore, Bali government should ad-dress the land conversion through

some policies that could governthese concerns.

“Possibly, it will become athreat against the preservationof Bali’s nature. Not only that,the food security sourcing fromlocal production of Bali will alsobe threatened by the condition ofland conversion, especially theagricultural wetland as happenstoday,” he said.

He explained there was animpression if the regional govern-ment currently closed the eyes tosee the development on the landcategorized into timeless land.Evidently, if a building had beenalready established at particulararea, then government wouldissue the permit. It affected theexisting agricultural land areaso far.

“Another solution to make theland survive is that governmenthelps farmers with various fa-cilities,” he said. Such assistance,according to him, could be in theform of subsidies or marketingof their agricultural products. Tocover them all, the budget of agri-cultural sector of course should beincreased, so that it would surpassthe existing amount today.

Prof. Dr. I Made Kembar Sri

Budhi, a lecturer of the Faculty ofEconomics, Udayana University,previously also suggested thatgovernment should make concretemeasures such as by providingincentives for farmers to save theincreasingly declining land areain this region.

“The incentive can be in theform of purchasing the agricul-tural products during the massiveharvest and creating new technolo-gies in agriculture. This effort canmotivate farmers to continue run-ning their profession,” he said.

Maintaining theagricultural landwas an urgent problem that had tobe overcome by Bali governmentthrough government programs inadvancing the agricultural sector.“So far, theendeavorofgovernmentto promote the agricultural sectorremains in discourse. Until now,there isnoprogrambeingcapableofboosting the sector,” he said.

The impact of land conversioncould be seen from the increase inthe price hikes of food stuff likerice, vegetables and other primaryproducts. If not addressed, Baliwould become the most vulner-able region because the produc-

to the necessity. (par)

Gianyar (Bali Post) –A number of strategic places

by a number of on-the-go sell-ers starting from Ciung Wanara,Kebo Iwa Terminal, Hors Gar-den until Astina Field, causingcleanliness and disciplinaryuncontrolled as seen on Mon-day (5/12). With that, Head ofGianyar Police Civil ServicePeace and Order Section, IGede Daging, SSTP, stated adisciplinary was done by 10personnel resulting four wereconfiscated for selling above

the Astina Field pedestrian withnames Waryanto, Ahmad BekaLawan, Sugiono and a local.

have been complaining as theircomfort and cleanliness weredisturbed by those sellers,” Dag-ing explained.

Besides that, the personnelalso secured on mentally illperson, I Wayan Budiasa (31)at Banjar Tegal, Tulikup Vil-lage, Gianyar which then sentto Bangli Mental Hospital afterreceiving family’s permission.(kmb16)

Economic activities affect environment in DenpasarDenpasar (Bali Post)—

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in Denpasar. In 2011, the destruction of land and forest in Denpasar is caused by the decline

agricultural function.

Unclear rules, 800 hectares of farmland vanish per year

Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy to develop 50 tourist destinations

On-the-go sellers

News International4 Wednesday, December 7, 2011

The new six-party coalition has a mammoth 180-page deal to enact having already lost a year and a half of a four-year term.

The government must satisfy demands of the Dutch-speaking Flemish majority for devolution of further powers to Belgium’s regions, and may have to redraw a budget that economists say is based on too optimistic a growth forecast.

That will be no easy matter. Bud-get talks themselves dragged on for six weeks and only concluded at the end of an 18-hour session after Stan-dard & Poor’s had cut Belgium’s credit rating to AA from AA+.

The new government will be head-ed by French-speaking Socialist leader

Elio Di Rupo. It retained many of the ministers from the caretaker govern-ment of acting prime minister Yves Leterme, albeit in different roles.

Flemish Christian Democrat Steven Vanackere becomes finance minister and francophone Liberal Didier Reynders foreign minister, a straight job switch. The cabinet will be sworn in on Tuesday afternoon, the palace said.

Di Rupo will be the first native French-speaking prime minister of Belgium since 1979 and the first from the region of Wallonia since 1974, as well as the first son of immigrants and the first openly gay person to be premier of the country.

Agence France Presse

Australia expanded sanctions against Iran to restrict business with the coun-try’s petroleum and financial sectors as concern mounts over Tehran’s suspected nuclear weapons programme.

Britain, Canada and the United States slapped fresh sanctions last month on Iran following a UN agency report that strongly suggests the country is research-ing nuclear weapons.

The European Union followed suit by expanding a blacklist against Iranian firms and individuals, although Iran has dismissed the UN report as baseless.

Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd on Tuesday said Australia’s new measures targeted entities and individuals involved in Iran’s ballistic missile and nuclear programmes, and underlined Canberra’s mounting worries.

“The measures will also further restrict business with Iran’s petroleum and financial sectors,” he said, without going into details.

“Iran must take steps required by the UN Security Council and the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) and engage constructively with the inter-national community on its nuclear programme.”

Reuters

BEIRUT - Syria said it had conditionally ap-proved an Arab League peace plan to end eight months of unrest which threatens to drag the country to civil war and activists said at least 60 bodies were taken to hospitals in the central city of Homs on Monday.

In a letter to the League by Foreign Min-ister Walid al-Mualem, Syria rejected foreign interference and demanded the annulment of sanctions plus reinstatement in the regional bloc. In Cairo, Arab League secretary general Nabil Elaraby said “the conditions contained new elements that we have not heard before.” Arab foreign league ministers were studying the response.

Syria is facing Arab and international sanc-tions in response to its violent crackdown on pro-tests against President Bashar al-Assad. In the latest response to the sanctions, French oil major Total said it will stop production in Syria.

Syria meanwhile has retaliated against north-ern neighbor Turkey for the sanctions imposed by its former friend, imposing a tariff of 30 percent

on its imports and prohibitive duties on fuel and freight. Turkey shrugged it off, saying “common sense” should tell Syria that its own people would suffer most. In a display of muscle that could be intended to deter any idea of foreign military intervention in a crisis which has killed at least 4,000 people, the army staged an exercise with missiles, rockets, tanks and helicopters.

Top generals watched the war games and state television made it the headline news story, even as the death toll mounted. Activists in Homs said more than 60 bodies were taken to several hospitals in the city. The circumstances of their deaths were not immediately clear, they said.

Activists and residents in several neighbor-hoods reported a spate of kidnappings since Sunday, a tactic used in recent sectarian killings in the city.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said pro-Assad militia kidnapped and killed at least 34 people from anti-Assad districts on Monday. An activist in the city said at least 32 other bodies were taken to the national hospital on Monday, including both supporters and opponents of Assad.

Belgium secures government after record deadlock

Reuters

BRUSSELS - Belgium finally secured a government on Monday after record-long talks to form a coalition that promises the most profound state reform in decades and a commitment to restore the country’s finances.

Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert

A protester makes a fist as he passes the Belgian stock exchange during a march through Brussels, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011.

Syria says “would like” to accept Arab deal

Smoke rises from the city of Homs Decem-

ber 4, 2011. Picture taken December 4,

2011.

REUTERS/Handout

Australia expands sanctions on Iran

Foreign Minis-ter Kevin Rudd on Tuesday said Australia’s new measures against Tehran targeted entities and individuals involved in Iran’s ballistic mis-sile and nuclear programmes, and underlined Can-berra’s mounting worries

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Activities Wednesday, December 7, 2011 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for December 3 through 28, 2011

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

3 Dec Tumpek Landep Pasek Gelgel Temple Pedungan Denpasar Selatan Agung Pasek Temple Tangun Titi kaler Tabanan Agung Pasek Temple Silamadeg Tabanan Pasek Tangkas Temple Kediri Tabanan Kerta Temple Banyuning Barat Buleleng Dalem Tenggaling Temple Sengguan Singapadu Kawitan Arya Wang Bang Pinatih Peguyangan

Singaraja Bhujangga Weisnawa Tegalcangkring Jembrana Taman Desa Temple Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Penataran Pande Batur Jati Banjar Pandean Mengwi Dalem Pingit Temple Taro Kaje Tegalalang dadia Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada

Buleleng Batur Arya Warih Kepaon Cengolo Sudimara Tabanan Ida ratu Pande Temple Besakih Mr. Pasek Temple Toh Jiwa Tangungtiti Penataran Pande Temple Kusamba Klungkung Penataran Agung Pinatih Tulikup Gianyar

4 Dec Redite Umanis Ukir Sangah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar

7 Dec Buda Wage Uki Pasar Agung Temple Besakih Pasek Bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Gede Gunung Agung Dukuh Munggu Badung Hyang Agung Ibuwanasari Tegal Puseh/ Desa Temple Bebalang Bangli Dalem Temple Perancak Badung Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung Kekeran Langit Sading Mengwi

10 Dec Purnama Kenam Kiduling Kereteg Besakih Lingsar Temple Lombok Bebengan Tanjung Lombok Pasek Gelgel Kekeran Mengwi Dalem Putra Belingkang Benawah Gianyar Prajapati Temple Balikpapan

13 Dec Anggar Kasih Kulantir Penataran Tangkas Sukawati Dalem Lagan Temple Bebalang Bangli Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan Tabanan Gaduh Temple Sanding Dalem Gandamayu Klungkung Sanghyang Tegal Banjar Taro Kaja Tegalalang

14 Dec Buda Umanis Kulantir Pasek Tangkas Temple kaler Tabanan Gaduh Benoh Temple Ubung Denpasar

18 Dec Redite Keliwon Tolu Dalem Alas Harum Kaba-kaba Kediri Tabanan.

19 Dec Soma Umanis Tolu Puseh/Balai Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Kawitan Sakula Gotra Tegal Kepuh Kaba-kaba Kediri

Tabanan Bhujangga Rsi-Tambak Bayuh Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Lembongan Nusa Penida Batu Madeg Temple Besakih Penataran Agung Penatih Banjar Saba Penatih

21 Dec Buda Pon Tolu Catur, Buwana Sanding Tampaksiring

22 Dec Wraspati Wage Tolu Peninjoan Temple Besakih

28 Dec Buda Keliwon Gumbreg Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Puseh/ Desa Guwang Sukawati Merajan Pasek Ketewel Ketewel Merajan Pangeran Tangkas Kuro Agung Jeroan

Sading Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul Swana

Nusa Penida

HARD Rock Hotel Bali once again conducted the annual Rock ‘n Run – The 11th Chapter on 27 November 2011. A sea of Hard Rock T-Shirt runners sponsored by Reebok flocked to the Kuta Beach on bright shiny Sunday to join the fun run event.

Perfect weather greeted more than 550 runners as they gathered together to embark on this annual charity event and to “Run for someone else’s life”. At 6.30am, the 5K charity run was officially started by Camat Kuta, accompanied by Mr. Brad Calder, Executive Assistant Manager of Hard Rock Hotel Bali. After a competitive run the winners rounded the bend into Jalan Pantai to cross the finish line in front of Hard Rock Hotel Bali.

The proceeds of this year’s charity event will again be donated to help children in need of cleft lip and palate opera-tions, to bring a smile to unfortunate children afflicted with this facial disfigurement. The funds will be distributed to assist Rumah Senyum “Smile House” through Rotary Club of Bali Seminyak.

The President of Rotary Club of Bali Seminyak, Mr. Patrick Van Kampen added “It’s fantastic being here today, and seeing so many people running and walking together to help children in Bali is just amazing”.

“run for someone else’s life”

Hard Rock Hotel Bali awarded the overall winners of the event:

Female Winners1. Ms. Ayu Sukarniti - Time 21:042. Ms. Leilani Brown - Time 25:283. Ms. Aurelia Istina - Time 26:23

Male Winners1. Mr. Samgar Kamlasi- Time 16:162. Mr. Thomas Alvian Baitanu - Time 16:473. Mr. Ketut Agus Darma Putra - Time 18:39

Family Winner1. Adrian Young – Time 30:09

Wednesday, December 7, 2011 6 News

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International

-ous” levels on Monday, according to theUS embassy, which conducts its own mea-surements, while the official Xinhua newsagency said pollution was likely to reach“dangerous” levels.

By the middle of Monday afternoon,-

est in the world by passenger traffic -- hadcancelled 233 domestic and 17 internationalflights, according to its website. Another 400flights were cancelled on Sunday.

Television footage of the airport con-course showed thousands of stranded pas-sengers being turned away, or waiting aroundin hope of booking later flights if the smoglifted.

other parts of north China were closed earlyMonday due to the smog, but sections of someroads began opening throughout the day as thevisibility improved, CCTV reported.

International organisations including the

polluted cities in the world, mainly due toits growing energy consumption, much of itfrom fossil fuels.

“Coal burning is the main cause of all

Rong, an air pollution expert with Green-peace China, told AFP.

“China has more than doubled its coalconsumption in the last 10 years, so weare getting more soot in the air, as well assecondary pollutants like sulphur dioxideand nitrous oxide which also help cause thehaze.”

emit a lot of the particulates that make up thecapital’s air pollution, she added.

lengths to clean up the city’s air ahead ofthe 2008 Olympics, shutting down coal-firedpower stations and restricting the number ofcars on the roads, but air quality in the cityremains bad.

Agence France Presse

O O — An outing of luxurysportscar enthusiasts in Japan ended in anexpensive freeway pileup smashing astunning eight Ferraris, a Lamborghini andtwo Mercedes likely worth more than 1million together.

Police say they believe the accidentSunday was touched off when the driver ofone of the Ferraris tried to change lanes andhit the median barrier. He spun across thefreeway, and the other cars collided whiletrying to avoid hitting his car.

Video of the crash aired by NTV, a

smashed, bright red Ferraris cluttering thefreeway.

Even a used Ferrari in Japan can fetch100,000 or more, meaning the total dam-

age may be 1 million or more.Police declined to comment on the total

amount of damage, but said some of thevehicles were beyond repair.

NTV quoted the driver of one of thetow trucks brought in to clear the scene assaying it was the most expensive crash sitehe had ever seen.

in Yamaguchi prefecture said 10 peoplewere treated for bruises and cuts. Police say14 cars were involved altogether.

The luxury cars were all in one placebecause they were being driven by a groupof automobile enthusiasts on their way tonearby Hiroshima.

cancelled due to Beijing smogAgence France Presse

as thick smog descended on the Chinese capital, reducing isibility at one of theorld s busiest airports.

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Local authorities cancelled hundreds of flights and shut highways as thick smog descended on the Chinese capital on Sunday and Monday, reducing visibility at one of the world’s busiest airports.

Fleet of Ferraris ruined in Japan sportscar pileup

The participants of the TTI werethe Belgian Ambassador ChristianTanghe, Polish Ambassador GregorzWisniewski, Greek Ambassador Geor-gios Veis, the Secretary of EconomicsChief in Germany Embassy Dr. AndreasKleine, the Secretary of the EconomicsDivision in Norwegian Embassy TorillIversen Manvik, the head of SwedishBusiness Association Per Brandt, theHonorary Consul of Italy GiuseppeConfessa and a professor from FranceConsul Christine Cabasset.

They were welcomed by the CEO ofBali Post Media Group Satria Naradhaalong with his staff, the wife of Bali’sVice Governor Bintang Puspayoga,the Regent of Gianyar Cokorda OkaArtha Ardana Sukawati, the Regentof Bangli I Made Gianyar, and theVice Mayor of Denpasar IGN JayaNegara.

The event filled with presentationand discussion and ended with dinner.The Director of Eastern Europe andUS in Indonesia Foreign Ministry,Made J. Sastrawan, said that through

the TTI event, the consul and ambas-sador in the western Europe want toknow the chance of developing severalsectors by cooperating with the localgovernment whether it is on business,social, health, education, and others.

He also said that they come to BaliTV to know the development of themedia in Bali. “They know that Baliis well developing in terms of tourismand they gather some information thatthey could cooperate in developingfarming,” Sastrawan said.

the ambassadors and consuls were veryinterested in developing farming inBali and also power plant which use thealternative energy source. Even, somealso said that they wanted to help andcooperating in developing a city whichis environmentally friendly.

“The Swedish Ambassador EwaPolano implied that his governmentis ready to cooperate with DenpasarGovernment to create a sutainable,and environmentally friendly city,”Sastrawan said. (kmb1 )

Shiites were banned from markingAshura in public under the Taliban whoruled Afghanistan until 2001. This year,there are moreAshura monuments aroundthe city than usual including black shrines

There was no immediate claim of re-sponsibility for either of the blasts fromthe Taliban or other insurgent groupsoperating in Afghanistan.

conference on Afghanistan’s future, heldin the German city of Bonn, 10 years aftertalks there which put in place an interimgovernment after US-led troops oustedthe Taliban.

However, Pakistan and the Taliban-- both seen as pivotal to any end to thebloody strife in Afghanistan -- decidedto stay away from the talks, undermining

already modest hopes for real progress.The 10-dayAshura ceremonies, which

began on November 27 but peak on Tues-day, mark the slaughter of Imam Hussein,the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed,near Karbala by armies of the caliphYazidin 680 AD.

Tradition holds that the revered imamwas decapitated and his body mutilated.His death was a formative event in ShiiteIslam.

between Shiites, who beat and whip them-selves in religious fervour duringAshura,and Sunnis, who oppose the public displayof grief.

On Monday, at least 28 people werekilled and 78 wounded in a wave of bombattacks in central Iraq against Shiite pil-grims making their way to Karbala.

At least 34 dead...

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JAKARTA - Indonesia success-fully organized two international events this year, namely the 26th South East Asia (SEA) Games and the 19th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said.

“It`s not easy for a country to hold two international events simultane-ously. It could be very risky that both could have failed. We should take a note, we successfully organized the two events,” Yudhoyono said here on Monday in a gathering with medal-winning athletes, members of the organizing committees of the 26th SEA Games and the 19th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits.

The head of state expressed his gratitude to all parties contributing

to the success of the two events. The county`s success was thanks to good coordination and hard work, he said.

“Failure is not an option,” he said, adding that one must not think of being failed. Other coun-tries would have seen Indonesia as incapable if the implementation of the two events had failed.

Yudhoyono asked all parties to continue working hard and learn from past experiences because Indo-nesia would host an APEC Summit in 2013. The President received reports respectively from Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Andi Malarangeng representing the orga-nizing committee of the 26th SEA Games, and Minister/State Secre-tary Sudi Silalahi representing the organizing committee of the 19th Summit and Related Summits.

“Investment in the telecom-munication sector could increase economic growth in a country by three to five percent,” Minister of Information and Communication Tifatul Sembiring said at the pre-sentation of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

Pura awards here on Monday.He said according to the results

of a World Bank research the ITC had helped develop creative indus-try and contributed to economic improvement.

“Moreover now more and more local content providers have been

growing in line with the develop-ment of telecommunication and information industry in the coun-try,” he said.

He said users of social media such as Facebook and Twitter had also con-tributed to the growth of information and telecommunication industry.

“In view of the development Indonesia has now been declared as the world`s second biggest in accessing Facebook,” he said.

The performance of telecom-munication industry has now been

able to give pride especially to ICT community members in the country due to their access that has been supported by industry persons.

“That proves that the achieve-ment of telecommunication industry in Indonesia has been a pride,” the minister said. Regarding the award he said Surabaya had received an i-Utama award along with Banda Aceh, Cimahi, Denpasar, Malang, Medan and Yogyakarta.

“We gave the award to appreciate their development of ICT in a num-

ber of districts and cities,” he said.He said the ICT Pura program is a

national movement to map and count indexes and give appreciation to heads of districts and city mayors in realizing the vision and mission in the ICT.

“According to mapping next year Indonesia will be launched as Indonesia Connected,” he said.

And in 2014 the country is expected to become Indonesia Informative and in 2016 Indonesia Broadband and in 2018 Indonesia Digital, he said.

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JAKARTA - Blackberry manu-facturer Research In Motion’s In-donesia CEO will be charged with negligence after a sale last month of its smart phones turned into a stam-pede, police said on Monday.

The police said Andrew Cobham was responsible for the promotional event on November 25 in Jakarta, which attracted a crowd of about 5,000 people. Police halted the sale after dozens passed out in the crush.

“The suspect has been banned from travelling overseas. He must go through the legal process here,” said police investigator Budi Irawan.

Cobham has not been detained. The maximum penalty for negli-gence is nine months in jail.

Police also named a security con-sultant hired by RIM, an event or-ganizer and a manager of the sale’s shopping centre venue, as suspects who are likely to be charged.

RIM was offering a 50 percent discount to 1,000 people at a launch of its latest phone in Jakarta, with people starting to queue since be-fore midnight.

Indonesia is one of the fast grow-ing markets for the Blackberry, with about two million users.

The strong demand reflects boom-ing consumption among an emerging middle class in Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy, with the country having been a bright spot for a firm that capped a dismal year with a profit warning last week. There was no immediate comment from either RIM or Cobham.

Antara

TENGGARONG - Police have questioned a total of 34 people as wit-nesses in the collapse of Kartanegara bridge in East Kalimantan province.

Chief of the Kutai Kartanegara police resort Adj. Snr. Comr. I Gusti KB Harryarsana said on Monday two of the witnesses were employ-ees of PT Bukaka Teknik Utama, the bridge`s maintenance contractor.

“Until today (Monday) we have questioned 34 people in connection with the collapse of Kartanegara bridge and two of them were em-ployees of PT Bukaka,” he said.

He added however that police had yet to come to the conclusion as to whether an act of negligence might cause the collapse of the bridge.

“We are still continuing the in-vestigation process. If there is strong evidence of negligence, it is not

impossible we will conduct further investigation,” he said.

But he did not elaborate on the reasons why PT Buka Director Sofiah Balfas did not show up at the police station for questioning on Monday.

“If he did not show up after receiv-ing a first summons, we will serve a second summons on him and if he still did not show up after receiving the second summons we will serve a third summons on him,” he said.

Earlier, on Sunday, spokesman of the Kutai Kartanegara district police resort Adj. Comr. Nyoman Subrata said police had served a summons on Sofiah Balfas in connection with the collapse of the bridge.

The 700-m long bridge over the Mahakam river in East Kalimantan province collapsed at 4.30 pm last Saturday causing a number of ve-hicles to fall into the river. At least 21 people were killed and 16 others

were missing after the country`s lon-gest suspended bridge collapsed.

To reveal the causes behind the accident which also injured tens of people, the government was urged to set up an independent team of experts that could work professionally and determine the causes of the tragedy.

“Certain parties should be held responsible for the collapse of the bridge and in this case the government should set up an independent team to investigate it,” Malkan Amin of the House Commission V on transporta-tion affairs said last Wednesday.

The names of several companies have been mentioned in the media as having participated in the bridge`s construction. PT Perencana Jaya was said to have served as con-sultant on the project, PT Hutama Karya as the main contractor and PT Bukaka Teknik Utama as provider of maintenance services.

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This file photo taken on November 25, 2011 shows security personnel evacuating a man after he collapsed while queueing for discounted BlackBerry smart phones at a mall in Jakarta.

ment of telecommunication and information industry in the coun-

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He said the ICT Pura program is a national movement to map and count

Telecommunication sector contributes 12 pct to national economyAntara

SURABAYA - The telecommunication sector contributed 12 percent of Indonesia`s economy in the 3rd quarter of 2011 because of the value of its investment to give the best service for the people, a minister said.

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BEBEK MENYANYAT(Duck Curry)

OVERVIEW:Ducks waddling along the banks of the rice fields or

following the flag held by their owner (or his children) are a common sight in Bali. On festive occasions, duck is great favorite. Spiced stuffed duck baked in banana leaf is one popular recipe; this curry-like dish is another. Chicken could be used as a substitute for duck if preferred.

INGREDIENTS:1 whole duck, weighing about 2 kg8 cups coconut milk2 lemon grass, bruised2 salam leaves1 tbsp salt1 tsp black peppercorns, crushedfried shallots

SPICE PASTE:12 shallots, peeled and sliced6 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced4 red chilies2.5 cm galangal (laos), peeled and sliced2.5 cm kencur, peeled and sliced5 cm fresh turmeric, peeled and sliced2 tsp coriander, crushed3 candlenuts1 tsp dried shrimp paste¼ tsp black peppercorns, crushedpinch of freshly grated nutmeg2 cloves3 tbsp oil

PREPARATION:Cut the duck into 12 pieces and pat dry.Prepare the spice paste by grinding or blending

all ingredients except oil. Heat the oil and sauté the spice paste for 2 minutes. Add the duck, increase heat and sauté for 3 minutes, stirring frequently. Add the coconut milk and all ingredients except fried shallots and simmer, uncovered, until the duck is tender and the sauce has thickened.

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Initially gong kebyar gamelan orchestra in Buleleng was played by using the gong pacek instruments. But after gong kebyar developed and went places, the instrument changed into gong gantung.

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Just heading towards Nusa Dua, on the inter-section near the BTDC, turn right to Siligita road, follow the road, you will see a small statue on an intersection and notice the sign board to Geger and Sawangan Beach direction where it will lead you to the main road on which Bali Golf Resort Nusa Dua is located, and you’ll pass one of the newest hotel in Bali : St Regis as well. Then you’ll arrive at Geger Beach.

Geger Beach, Nusa Dua, has a thick white sand so thick and rich that an international beach games in 2008 with venues mostly held in Kuta Beach decided that Geger should ‘share’ the white sand so the volleyball players would fall on a comfy bouncy sand instead of soft brown and hard sand like Kuta Beach.

Because of the rolling surf, Geger beach is popu-lar with the surfing community. The beach is just 5 minutes away from the Nusa Dua beach resort and hotel complex, which also contains a golf course. Most of those staying n Nusa Dua have no idea of this little gem just down the road, which remains a very relaxing beach in Bali.

Geger Beach

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BUSINESSInternational

Reuters

More than a third of U.S. shoppersare already done with most of theirholiday shopping, a survey showed onMonday, signaling that retailers need tooffer bigger incentives to win sales in thefew weeks before Christmas.

of the U.S. recovery, since consumerspending accounts for about 70 percentof the nation’s economy.

About 32 percent of people surveyedbyAmerica’s Research Group said they

shopping in November. Last monthincluded Black Friday, the day afterThanksgiving when stores pulled out allthe stops on discounts to woo shoppersduring their biggest season of the year.

More than 6 percent completed most

weekend of December.The questions were asked exclusively

for Reuters as part of a largerAmerica’sResearch Group survey.

“There is very little retailers can dounless they really have some incrediblesales that force that consumer to recon-sider if they want ... to make an extrapurchase now,” saidAmerica’s ResearchGroup President Britt Beemer.

About 28 percent of people surveyedsaid they plan to take a break fromshopping, now that the Black Fridayweekend is behind them.

“Many, many consumers, when theygot those early bird specials on BlackFriday, decided that that was going tobe the big purchase for their family,”Beemer said, adding that many shop-

pers spent more than they planned onBlack Friday.

Sales during the Black Friday week-end soared to 52.4 billion, accordingto the National Retail Federation, whichsees sales for the full season up 2.8percent.

The survey also highlighted othergrievances of the post-recession U.S.consumer.

More than 43 percent of those sur-veyed said they expect the debt crisisin Europe to hurt the United States,while about 36 percent of Americanssaid political gridlock in Washingtonas the biggest problem facing the U.S.economy right now. About 27 percentworry about the rising cost of living,while about a quarter of those surveyedsee unemployment as the key issue facedby the U.S. economy.

Many shoppers said that discountchains would be their destination ofchoice to do the rest of the holidayshopping, with nearly 38 percent ofholiday shoppers planning to visit one,highlighting that shoppers remain highlyprice-sensitive.

“You have got to give them a deal thatis incredible,” Beemer said, suggestingretailers slash prices and offer deepdiscounts of 50 percent and 60 percentto lure shoppers this month.

Department stores offering uniquemerchandise also found many fans, withabout 30 percent of shoppers planning tovisit one during the rest of the season.

The telephone survey of 1,000 peoplewas conducted from December 3-4, andhas an error factor of plus or minus 3.8percentage points.

The ADB said it cut its 2012 growth forecastto 7.2 percent from the 7.5 percent predicted inSeptember for 14 East Asian economies exclud-ing Japan. It said in a worst-case scenario inwhich the U.S. and Europe slow as much as theydid in the 2008-2009 global crisis East Asiawould grow only 5.4 percent in 2012.

The Manila-based lender said it’s “cautiouslyoptimistic” about the outlook but notes that glob-al conditions have worsened since midyear.

recession in both the Europe and the U.S., rising

“The recovery in advanced economies loststeam this year and they will continue to strug-gle,” the report said. “While U.S. economicgrowth could strengthen somewhat, the eurozonewill likely fall into either a brief recession or amore severe long-term downturn.”

Emerging Asian economies are “certainly

economies, which would hurt their economicgrowth, it said.

The report covers China, Hong Kong, Tai-wan, South Korea and 10 Southeast Asiancountries.

ReutersSINGAPORE - Asian stocks and the euro fell

on Tuesday after ratings agency Standard Poor’swarned it might downgrade euro zone countriesen masse if European leaders fail to produce acredible plan to solve the region’s debt crisis at asummit later this week.

The unprecedented warning brought to a halta rally in global equities that began last week andhad continued on Monday, when the leaders ofFrance and Germany agreed a plan aimed at guid-ing the region out of its two-year-old crisis.

European stocks were expected to fall back-

much as 0.8 percent lower.“We are entering a critical stage,” said Kenichi

in Tokyo.“There are high market expectations for posi-

tive developments out of the European leaders’meeting this week and if there are any indicationsthat decisions will be pushed back it will havenegative consequences for the market.”

Oil and copper prices also retreated after theS P statement, which came late in the U.S. tradingday, while Wall Street index futures fell and U.S.Treasury yields edged down, indicating investorswere seeking safety in the dollar.

outside Japan fell 1.8 percent, with the heaviestlosses in the growth-sensitive materials sector .

Tokyo’s Nikkei share average fell 1.4 percent,while S P 500 futures eased 0.6 percent, pointingto a lower start for Wall Street after Monday’s 1percent gain.

Financial bookmakers called the FTSE 100to open down 0.8 percent, Germany’s DAX tofall 0.7 percent and France’s CAC-40 to slip 0.5

percent.S P said it had told 15 of the 17 euro zone

countries, including Germany, France and fourothers with the topAAAcredit rating, that it mightdowngrade them within 90 days, depending on theoutcome of Friday’s summit.

The warning took the sheen off a Franco-German agreement, to be put to other memberstates on Friday, to impose budget disciplineacross the currency area through European Uniontreaty changes.

The common currency eased around 0.2 percentto about 1.3370. It has steadily slipped from apeak around 1.3486 on Monday.

But traders were reluctant to sell the euro down

piece events, with the European Central Bank

Thursday and economists expecting an interestrate cut.

“In addition to a 25-basis-point cut, with hintsof further actions, we expect the ECB to provideadditional support to banks in the form of asoftening of collateral rules and more and longer

strategist at BNP Paribas in London.Such moves could support the battered euro,

which has fallen from a 2011 high near 1.50struck in May.

“You can see that the EU leaders are tryingto get their act together, but even if their plansare realized, it’s not going to improve their dire

strategist at Credit Suisse in Tokyo.The risks posed from Europe were underlined

by the Reserve Bank of Australia, which citedEurope’s woes as one of the factors in its decisionto cut interest rates by 25 basis points and leavethe door open for more easing.

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ON ON - Economic gro th in East Asia ill continue to ane in 2012 as so -ereign debt problems in Europe and an anemic U.S. economy raise the risk of a deepglobal do nturn, the Asian De elopment Bank said uesday.

Asian stocks fall after S&P downgrade warning

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People exit the flagship Tiffany & Co. store on November 29, 2011 in New York City. More than a third of U.S. shoppers are already done with most of their holiday shopping, a survey showed on Monday, signaling that retailers need to offer bigger incentives to win sales in the few weeks before Christmas.

Many Americans already done with holiday shopping

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The 10 nominees announced Monday also include James McAvoy’s “Arthur Christmas,” Owen Wilson’s “Cars 2,” Jack Black’s “Kung Fu Panda 2” and three overseas contenders: “A Cat in Paris,” ‘’Arrugas” and “Chico & Rita.”

Cast members earning voice-acting nominations for the Annie Awards include “Arthur Christ-mas” co-stars Bill Nighy and Ashley Jensen, “Kung Fu Panda 2” co-stars Gary Oldman and

James Hong and “Puss in Boots” co-star Zach Galifianakis.

Presented by the International Animated Film Society, the An-nie Awards will be handed out Feb. 4 at a ceremony in Los Angeles.

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — It’ll be a busy shopping season at next month’s Sun-dance Film Festival, whose star-studded premieres are up for grabs by potential theatrical distributors. Some premieres usually enter the independent-film show-case with U.S. distribution already lined up. But festival director John Cooper said all the premieres that Sundance announced Monday will be looking for distributors.

“I don’t think that’s ever happened before,” said festival director John Coo-per. “It makes for a much more exciting buyer’s market, I think. At least, lively.”

Among Sundance’s big-name pre-mieres: Kirsten Dunst’s wedding romp “Bachelorette,” directed by Leslye Head-land; Bruce Willis and Catherine Zeta-Jones’ Las Vegas bookie caper “Lay the Favorite,” from filmmaker Stephen Frears; Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon’s Wall Street saga “Arbitrage,” directed by Nicholas Jarecki; Sigourney Weaver and Robert De Niro in Rodrigo Cortes’ paranormal thriller “Red Lights”; and

actor-director Julie Delpy’s “2 Days in New York,” co-starring Chris Rock in a follow-up to her 2007 romance “2 Days in Paris.”

Sarandon also stars alongside Frank Langella in a second Sundance premiere, director Jake Schreier’s geriatric comedy “Robot and Frank,” which also features Liv Tyler and James Marsden.

Former “X-Files” partners David Du-chovny and Gillian Anderson both have premieres playing Sundance. Duchovny and Vera Farmiga star in Christopher Neil’s father-son story “Goats,” while Anderson is featured along with Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough in James Marsh’s Irish terrorism tale “Shadow Dancer.”

Director Spike Lee, who came to Sundance with his 2009 rock musical “Passing Strange,” returns with “Red Hook Summer,” the story of an Atlanta boy spending the summer with his grand-father in Brooklyn. Cooper said the film is a return to the same urban landscape Lee explored two decades ago in “Do the Right Thing,” with the director reprising the role he played in that film.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — The Material Girl will be taking the stage on football’s biggest night. Madonna, who has sold more than 300 million records, will perform at halftime of the Super Bowl in Indianapolis. The NFL and NBC announced Sunday during the Detroit-New Orleans game that the Grammy Award-win-ning singer will highlight the show at Lucas Oil Stadium on Feb. 5.

The show is the most-watched musical event of the year, with more than 162 million in the U.S. tuning in to see The Black Eyed Peas’ performance with Slash and Usher in Dallas at halftime of Green Bay’s Super Bowl win over Pittsburgh last February.

Madonna, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, will join such acts as Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Prince, U2, Paul McCartney, The Who and the Rolling Stones to perform dur-ing recent Super Bowls. She will collaborate with a team from Cirque du Soleil, choreographer Jamie King, and artists from Moment Factory.

Madonna, currently in the studio working on a new album, has a new film “W.E.” which she directed, wrote and pro-duced and will open nationally two days before the NFL’s sig-nature event. The Super Bowl and halftime show, sponsored by Bridgestone Americas, will be broadcast worldwide on NBC.

‘Rango,’ ‘Puss,’ ‘Tintin’ earn Annie nominations

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Johnny Depp’s “Rango,” Anne Hathaway’s “Rio,” Antonio Banderas’ “Puss in Boots” and Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin” are among movies competing for best-animated film at the Annie Awards.

AP Photo/Paramount Pictures

In this image released by Paramount Pictures, Puss in Boots, voiced by Anto-

nio Banderas, is shown in a scene from “Puss in Boots.”

Dunst, Willis, Gere, Sarandon are Sundance-bound

In this film public-ity image released by Sundance Film Festival, Chris Rock, left, and Julie Delpy are shown in a scene from, “2 Days in New York,” premiering at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

AP Photo/Sundance Film Festival, Walter Thomson

Madonna to perform at halftime of Super Bowl

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The planet is smack in the middle of what astronomers call the Gold-ilocks zone, that hard to find place that is not too hot, not too cold, where water, which is essential for life, does not freeze or boil. And it has a shop-ping mall-like surface temperature of near 72 degrees, scientists say.

The planet’s confirmation was announced Monday by NASA along with other discoveries by its Kepler telescope, which was launched on a planet-hunting mission in 2009. That is the first planet confirmed in

the habitable zone for Kepler, which already had found Earth-like rocky planets elsewhere. Twice before as-tronomers have announced a planet found in that zone, but neither has been as promising.

“This is a phenomenal discovery in the course of human history,” Geoff Marcy of University of Cali-fornia, Berkeley, one of the pioneers of planet-hunting outside Earth’s solar system, said in an email. “This discovery shows that we Homo sa-piens are straining our reach into the

universe to find planets that remind us of home. We are almost there.”

The new planet, named Kepler-22b, has key aspects it shares with Earth. It circles a star that could be the twin of Earth’s sun and at just about the same distance. The planet’s year of 290 days is even close to Earth’s. It probably has water and rock.

The only trouble is the planet’s a bit big for life to exist on the surface. The planet is about 2.4 times the size of Earth. It could be more like the gas-and-liquid Neptune with only a rocky core and mostly ocean. “It’s so exciting to imagine the possibilities,” said Natalie Batalha, the Kepler deputy science chief.

Agence France Presse

The number of rhinoceros killed in Zimbabwe parks decreased to 23 this year from 30 in 2010 as parks authorities stepped up high-tech ef-forts to track poachers, state media reported Monday. “We have just above 700 black and white rhinos and 23 have been poached this year,” Caroline Washaya, Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Author-ity public relations manager told The Herald newspaper.

“We managed to arrest 37

poachers and illegal dealers in rhino horns to date,” she added. Zimbabwe and its southern neigh-bour South Africa have been hard hit by rhinoceros poachers moti-vated by the lucrative market for the horn in Asia where it is used for medicinal purposes.

Washaya said parks authorities had been using methods such as placing tracking chips in the rhinos’ horns, or removing the horns alto-gether, to prevent poaching. “This year, a total of 100 rhinos were im-mobilised for ear notching and horn

implanting to facilitate individual identification and monitoring in the field,” she said.

Last month a US-based animal protection group, the International Rhino Foundation, launched Op-eration Stop Poaching Now to raise funds to equip rangers in Zimbabwe and South Africa with kits to better track rhino poachers.

The so-called “crime-scene kits” contain a camera, a metal detector, a GPS system, finger-printing ma-terials and sealable evidence bags, according to the Foundation.

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — Pediatri-cians are supposed to track if young-sters are putting on too many pounds — but a new study found less than a quarter of parents of overweight children recall the doctor ever say-ing there was a problem.

Does that mean doctors aren’t screening enough kids, or aren’t frank enough in these tough con-versations? Or is the real story par-ent denial? The research published Monday can’t tell, but makes it clear the message too often isn’t getting through.

“It’s tricky to say, and it’s tricky to hear,” says lead researcher Dr. Eliana Perrin of the University of North Carolina. She analyzed government health surveys that included nearly 5,000 parents of overweight children from 1999 to 2008.

Parents tend not to realize when a weight problem is creeping up on their children. When almost a third of U.S. children are at least overweight, and about 17 percent

are obese, it’s harder to notice that there’s anything unusual about their own families. Plus, children change as they grow older. The new study suggests when parents do recall a doctor noting the problem, it’s been going on for a while.

About 30 percent of the parents of overweight 12- to 15-year-olds said a doctor had alerted them, compared with just 12 percent of the parents of overweight preschoolers. Even among the parents of very obese children, only 58 percent recalled a doc-tor discussing it, says the report published Monday by the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adoles-cent Medicine.

“Many pediatricians don’t worry until children are very overweight, or until they’re much older,” says Perrin, whose team has created stoplight-colored growth charts to help doctors ex-plain when a problem’s brewing. “If we can notice a concerning trend early, we’re more likely to be able to do something about it.”

Poachers killed 23 rhinos in Zimbabwe this year: report

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An rhinoceros takes its calf to water in November 2011 in Nepal.

AP Photo/NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech

This undated handout artist rendering provided by NASA shows Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfort-ably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star.

Planet in sweet spot of Goldilocks zone for lifeAssociated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — A newly discovered planet is eerily similar to Earth and is sitting outside Earth’s solar system in what seems to be the ideal place for life, except for one hitch. It is a bit too big.

AP Photo/Tom Hughes, UNC Health Care

This undated handout photo provided by UNC Health Care shows Dr. Eliana Perrin of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill holding a stoplight-colored growth chart that helps track when children are overweight for their height.

Few parents recall doctor saying child overweight

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United, who have failed to getpast the group stage only twice in 16previous Champions League appear-ances, still need a point away to FCBasel to complete what is usually theformality of qualifying for the knock-out stages.

A win for the hosts would send

have already made sure of taking oneof the two places out of Group C.

Although unbeaten with ninepoints, one more than third-placeBasel,Ferguson’ssidehaveonlyman-

of them against rank outsiders OtelulGalati of Romania.

Theydrewhomeandawayagainst

3-3 at home by Basel earlier in thegroup, needing a last-gasp goal fromAshley Young to salvage a point.

Basel, 2-0 down at halftime inthat game, scored three times in 18almost surreal second-half minutes inaperformancewhich theirplayers stillstruggle to come to terms with.

“It is amazing when you are play-ing in front of a big crowd againstplayers you know from the televisionand a club such a great tradition andname,” said Basel striker Alexander

Frei, who scored twice in that match.“Weareproudwegota3-3drawat

Old Trafford and it will be importantfor the rest of our careers.”

Basel have won all six domesticleague games since Heiko Vogel waspromoted from assistant to coach toreplaceThorstenFink,wholeft to takecharge of Hamburg SV shortly afterthe match at Old Trafford.

Frei,Switzerland’s recordscorer atinternational level,hasscored15timesin the last 16 matches and Basel havealready amassed enough points toensure they will top the Swiss leaguewhen it stops for the winter break.

However, they are well aware thatthere is a huge gap between domesticand international football as theyfound with home defeats toAS RomaandBayernMunich in theChampionsLeague last season and to Fulham inthe Europa League the season beforethat.

INJURYWORRIESUnited are still picking up points

in the Premier League despite notplaying particularly well or scoringmany goals.

Their 1-0 win at Aston Villa onSaturday was the seventh successiveleague match in which they have

Wayne Rooney has not scored in hislast seven matches since convertingtwo penalties against Otelul Galatiin United’s 2-0 win in Romania onOct. 18.

Javier Hernandez, the 23-year-oldMexican striker, has scored four ofthose seven goals, but he sufferedankle ligament damage at Villa Parkwhich will sideline him for at least amonth, although United could haveDimitarBerbatovandDannyWelbeckavailable for selection.

“We are having a bad time withinjuries at the moment that’s why wehave a strong squad,” said Ferguson,

-nessafter thecentraldefenderwentoffafter 64 minutes against Villa.

Michael Carrick, who played well-

day, is suspended, so newly-cappedEngland defender Phil Jones, who

against Villa, could well continue in a

Despite their lack of goals, Unitedhave been defending well in theleague, conceding just once in their

-tion by Manchester City on Oct. 23.

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Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney scores against Manchester City from an overhead kick during their English Premier League soccer match at Old Trafford in Manchester February 12, 2011.

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LONDON - Clint Dempseypounced for an 85th-minutewinner as Fulham beat Liver-pool 1-0 in a dramatic PremierLeague match at Craven Cottageon Monday after a rare mistakefrom keeper Pepe Reina. Thepulsating game, in which Liv-erpool were reduced to 10 menwhen Jay Spearing was sentoff after 72 minutes, appearedto be heading for a draw whenReina spilled a shot from DannyMurphy and American interna-tional Dempsey scored fromclose range.

Fulham, outplayed in thefirst half, came back strongly inthe second but Liverpool wereon the wrong end of three deci-sions which might have helpedthem win the game.

Fulham defender PhilippeSenderos was lucky not to con-cede a penalty after 59 minuteswhen he clattered into CharlieAdam inside the box.

The officials also ruled thatLuis Suarez was offside put-ting the ball in the Fulham netwhen he looked level with thelast defender, and Spearingwas shown a red card for a foulon Moussa Dembele when he

caught the Fulham player withhis trailing leg after playing theball first.

Liverpool, unbeaten in theirprevious 11 matches in allcompetitions, came to CravenCottage seeking to equal a clubrecord run of seven successiveaway wins, which included twoat neighbouring Chelsea in thePremier League and LeagueCup. In contrast, Fulham werelooking to improve a poor homerecord in the league in whichthey had won just one of eightmatches since Liverpool won5-2 at Craven Cottage at theend of last season.

Liverpool went closest to agoal after 28 minutes when alofted shot from Jordan Hender-son beat Fulham keeper MarkSchwarzer before hitting theinside of the post and bounc-ing away. Substitute StewartDowning also hit the post forLiverpool in the second halfand Dempsey struck the cross-bar before scoring.

The win lifted Fulham to13th in the table on 15 pointsfrom 14 games while Liverpoolstayed seventh on 23 points,three behind Newcastle United.Manchester City lead the stand-ings with 38 points.

Associated Press Writer

PARIS — Barcelona team-mates Lionel Messi and Xavi

FIFA player of the year awardalong with Real Madrid wingerCristiano Ronaldo.

-ists were selected Monday fromamong 23 nominees. Messi beatBarcelona teammatesAndres Ini-esta and Xavi to win last year.

player to win the FIFA honorthree years in a row and jointhe Brazilian Ronaldo (1996,1997, 2002) and Zinedine Zidane(1998, 2000, 2003) as the onlythree-time winners of the FIFAaward, which began in 1991.

FIFA’s player of the yearaward merged last year withFrance Football’s Ballon d’Or tocreate one trophy. French mid-

Dutch greats Johan Cruyff and

Marco van Basten are the onlythree-time Golden Ball winners.

Messi has 27 goals this seasonand Ronaldo 21, with the pair tiedfor the Spanish league lead with17 apiece. They face each other inthe Spanish league on Saturday.

The winner will be announcedJan. 9 in Zurich, Switzerland.

Marta, who helped the NewYork Flash win the Women’sProfessional Soccer title lastseason, is seeking to win thewomen’s award for the sixthstraight year.

The Brazilian is up againstAmerican forward Abby Wam-

-mare Sawa, who was the topscorer at the World Cup.

The 24-year-old Messi scoredin the 3-1 win over ManchesterUnited in last season’s Champi-

league goals as Barcelona wonthe Spanish title. He has 53 goalsfor Barcelona in 2011.

United search for the right chemistry in BaselReuters

BASEL - Basel is a centre of the pharmaceutical industry and Manchester United manager

Champions League exit on Wednesday.

Late Dempsey goal gives Fulham win over 10-man Liverpool

Messi, Ronaldo, Xavi, nominated for top FIFA award

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The Iberian nation secured theirfifth title and a third in four yearsby beating Argentina on Sunday,Nadal winning the decisive point ina thrilling match against Juan Mar-tin del Potro on the clay at Seville’sOlympic Stadium.

The 25-year-old Mallorcan hasrepeatedly complained about whathe sees as an overloaded ATP WorldTour calendar and told a news confer-ence the added burden of competingin the 2012 Olympics in London,where he will bid for a second con-secutive singles gold, meant DavisCup participation was impossible.

Costa, a former French Opensingles champion who has led Spain

to two titles in his three-year stint atthe helm, said he would take a weekoff to think about his future.

“We still have what it takes tokeep fighting for the title but the real-ity is that I have doubts about what isgoing to happen now to the nationalteam,” Manolo Santana, a Spanishformer French Open, Wimbledonand U.S. Open champion, wrote inMonday’s El Mundo newspaper.

With talisman Nadal, who haswon 20 of his 21 Davis Cup singlesrubbers, stepping aside, Spain arestill likely to be able to count onworld number five David Ferrer anddoubles pair Feliciano Lopez andFernando Verdasco in 2012.

They also have a number of expe-rienced players waiting in the wingsincluding 10th-ranked NicolasAlmagro,who won three Tour singles titles thisyear, and number 27 Marcel Granollers,who won two.Adding to the uncertainty,however, is the poor form of Lopez andVerdasco, who have been the weak linkin Spain’s recent David Cup outings.

The pair suffered a drubbing atthe hands of French duo Jo-WilfriedTsonga and Michael Llodra in thesemi-finals before being trounced byArgentina’s David Nalbandian andEduardo Schwank in the final. “Itseems clear that in the doubles weare going to have to experiment withanother pair,” Santana wrote.

Associated Press Writer

FRANKFURT, Germany — WBO, IBF and WBAheavyweight championWladimir Klitschko pulled out of

on Monday after undergoing two operations in two daysto remove a kidney stone.

-seldorf.

Klitschko’spromoter,BerndBoente, saidMonday that

would have to approve it because nominally Klitschko

that date.“We hope to know in two or three days. Mormeck

is also ready to accept it,” Boente said, adding thatKlitschko was “deeply disappointed” by having to call

Klitschko had abdominal pain at his training camp inAustriaonFriday.The35-year-oldUkrainianwas taken toInnsbruck for initial treatment before being transferred toa Duesseldorf hospital. The stone was removed Saturdaybut Klitschko returned to the hospital Sunday before ascheduled television appearance.

His older brother Vitali, the WBC champion, appearedon the liveprogramandsaidWladimirwas taken ill shortlybefore the show and returned to the Duesseldorf hospital.

Dr. Peter Albers, the chief urologist at the DuesseldorfUniversityHospital, saidKlitschkowasdoingwell anddidnot have pain any longer.

“But he is very week after two surgeries and it makes

The 39-year-old Mormeck is a formerWBC andWBA

since moving to the heavyweight division in 2009. He hasa career record of 36 wins (22 KOs) and four defeats.

David Haye in July. His record is 56-3 with 49 KOs.

Associated Press Writer

ATLANTA - Secretary of State Brian Kemp says42-year-old Roy Jones Jr., a former world championin several divisions, will fight Max Alexander forthe vacant Universal Boxing Organization’s inter-continental cruiserweight title on Saturday at theAtlanta Civic Center.

The fight is sanctioned by the Georgia Athleticand Entertainment Commission, a division of theSecretary of State’s Office.

In 1993, Jones, who is 54-8 overall, won his firstworld title in the IBF’s middleweight class. In 1994he won the IBF super middleweight crown and suc-cessfully defended his title five times.

In 1996 he won the WBC light heavyweight title.In 2003, he won the WBA heavyweight champion-ship, defeating John Ruiz in Las Vegas.

Alexander is a 30-year-old cruiserweight fromCamden, N.J., with a ring record of 14-5.

WladimirKlitschko-

canceled

Roy Jones to

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Spain’s Rafael Nadal celebrates after winning his tennis match against against Argentina’s Juan Martin Del Potro and the Davis Cup Final for Spain, in Sevilla, Spain, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011.

Nadal withdrawalReuters

SE ILLA - Spain s Da is Cup future as clouded by uncertainty on Monday after orld numbert o Rafa Nadal announced he ould not be a ailable next year and captain Albert Costa said heneeded time to think about hether to stay on.

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AMG already supplies the sport with both the safety car and medical car and Mercedes motorsport vice-president Norbert Haug said there would be a technology transfer between the part-ners. “At the factory, we have been focused for some time on the challenge of 2012, and our very clear ambition to move forward up the grid next year,” said team principal Ross Brawn in a statement.

“As always, the winter development and manufacturing processes are a trade-off between time for finding performance in the factory, and time for delivering that performance during pre-season testing. “We believe that the decision to run the car at the second winter test is the optimum compromise for our design and development programme with F1 W03.”

Under new rules for 2012, cars can take part in testing only when they have passed the mandatory FIA race crash

tests. That means teams have to decide whether to maximise development and miss out on testing or get in as much track time as possible while signing off the design process earlier than they might have wished.

DELIBERATE DECISIONMercedes finished the 2011 season

fourth overall with German drivers Nico Rosberg and seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher. Rosberg has yet to win a race while Schumacher, 42, has not been on the podium since he began his comeback in 2010 after three years out.

The new season starts in Melbourne on March 18, which allows Mercedes just eight days of testing before heading for Australia. “It’s not a big problem, it’s a very deliberate decision on our part for a variety of reasons,” Mercedes team CEO Nick Fry told reporters in a conference call.

“The first one is giving ourselves the maximum amount of time to de-velop performance and because the two tests are two weeks apart, we believe we are better off spending that additional time on developing the performance side. “Most of the top teams are now very good at simula-tion,” added Fry.

“You can rest assured that before the car physically hits the track...we will have done a substantial amount of work here at the factory both rig testing the car in its entirety, rig testing parts of the car and also of course working on the driver in the simulator.”

Fry, who helped steer the Mercedes team’s predecessors Brawn GP to both 2009 titles, pointed out that Brawn had minimal testing and still came out with a world-beater. “We think the time is better invested in development rather than driving physically on the track in the first test,” he said.

AP Photo/Andre Penner

Mercedes Grand Prix driver Michael Schumacher of Germany steers his car as the rear wheel blows out at the Brazilian Formula One Grand Prix at the Interlagos racetrack in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday Nov. 27, 2011.

Mercedes leave it late with 2012 carReuters

LONDON - Mercedes will delay the track debut of their 2012 Formula One car until the second test of the season in Barcelona on Feb. 21, less than a month before the opening race in Australia, the team said on Monday. Mercedes also announced that their official team name would change to Mercedes AMG Petronas to bring in Mercedes-Benz performance brand AMG.