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Bono, Clooney, Kardashian part of allstar campaign for AIDS
NEW YORK — Would you like to spend quality time with George Clooney as he showers you with compliments? How about walk a red carpet with Meryl Streep or visit the set of “Game of Thrones”? They are all possible: Bono is a launching an all-star campaign featuring “once-in-a-lifetime experiences” that can be won after donating at least $10 to his organization (RED), which raises funds to fight AIDS. The campaign kicks off Tuesday to coincide with World AIDS Day, which is Dec. 1. And Bono isn’t just the face for the movement: The U2 frontman will go on a bike ride with one donor — a year after he was seriously injured in a bike accident in New York’s Central Park that forced him into surgery. Jimmy Kimmel is dedicating his Tuesday late-night show to the campaign. He and Olivia Wilde will host (SHOPATHON), a tongue-incheck play off of home shopping, and the special episode will feature celebrity guests like Tom Brady, who is offering one donor a chance to learn how to pass a football, and Shaquille O’Neal, who will take a photo with a winner for his or her 2016 holiday card. And Kimmel is offering himself up, too: He is willing to give someone’s kid “the talk.”
“There’s no age limit — if you have a 45-year-old kid, I’ll explain it to him, too, as long as the parents are OK with it. I’m happy to do the job,” said Kimmel, who appears in a promo video for the campaign with Scarlett Johansson and Barry Manilow. Other “experiences” that can be
earned after donating on Omaze. com/RED include a contour makeover with Kim Kardashian; a portrait painting by James Franco; or attending a University of Texas at Austin football game with alum Matthew McConaughey. Entries close on January 21, 2016. “Even though red is the color of emergency, there’s a sort of optimism about the whole campaign and a kind of defiant humor. We have always had that, but the (SHOPATHON) will really take it to another new level,” Bono said. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will match every dollar raised up to $20 million. (ap)
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Singer Pink exercises with students from PS 242 Young Diplomats Magnet Academy at the launch of UNICEF Kid Power on Monday, Nov. 30, 2015, in New York.
Pink named UNICEF ambassador in fight to end child hunger Trailblazing pop star Pink saw firsthand severely malnourished children during a recent visit to Haiti as a part of a UNICEF program to provide therapeutic food packets to children in need. The singer, whose given name is Alecia Moore, was named a UNICEF Ambassador on Monday to help promote a new effort to encourage physical activity in young children in the United States and at the same time raise money for nutritional, vitamin-rich peanut paste to be delivered to hungry children all over the world. “I got to watch mommas learning how to feed it to their kids,” Moore said during a phone interview from California. “And within a week, you can see the difference in these children. It brings them back to life. It’s amazing.” Moore is the national spokeswoman for the UNICEF Kid Power Band, which is a child-friendly fitness band that encourages exercise through an interactive app. Kids can earn points by doing things like taking 12,000 steps a day or completing a goal. Moore, who has a 4-year-old daughter with her husband Carey
Hart, said the trip to Haiti strengthened her passion for UNICEF’s project. She visited Port-au-Prince this summer, where she saw children who came back from the brink of starvation because of these food packets. “When you get to see it with your own eyes and you see that something works, then it’s a lot easier to get behind and advocate for it and try to make other people aware of it,” she said. The Kid Power app also teaches children about the countries and cultures they are helping and they can unlock special videos and messages and track their progress online. “They found a brilliant way, and a fun way, to get kids here involved and empowered and motivated,” Moore said. “And they are also turning them into global citizens and they get to be hands-on.” The Grammy-winning singer is a natural role model for a program that encourages physical activity and exercise. Her concerts are full of high energy choreography, including flying through the air on wires over the crowds or spinning from large silk ribbons like a Cirque du Soleil dancer. (ap)
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The tail of AirAsia QZ8501 passenger plane is seen on the deck of the Crest Onyx ship after it was lifted from the sea bed, south of Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan in this January 10, 2015 file photo. Faulty equipment and the crew’s “inability to control the aircraft” led an AirAsia A320 to crash into the Java Sea last year, killing all 162 people onboard, a report said on Tuesday.
GIVEN the massive amounts of revenue that are generated through tourism, this sector has become a priority for national development. After oil, gas, coal and palm oil, tourism yields the next greatest contributions to the GDP. Minister of Tourism Arief Yahya recently stated that the amount of foreign exchange earnings through tourism is projected to double in the next five years, reaching as much as IDR 280 trillion. This amount would account for 8 percent of the GDP and employ 13 million people. If this year we received 10 million tourists and IDR 11 billion worth of foreign exchange earnings, by 2019 we could be seeing 20 million tourists and foreign exchange earnings of some IDR 22 billion,” said Arief Yahya. Yahya also said that in order to have world class tourism in Indonesia, the five elements of the ABGCM (academics, business, government, community and media) need to work together. If these five elements coordinate effectively, we can easily achieve the target of attracting 20 million foreign tourists and 275 million domestic tourists by the end of 2019. “It is very possible to reach this goal,” he said. Continue to page 2 Diversity ...
AirAsia plane crash caused by faulty component, crew action
JAKARTA - Faulty equipment and the crew’s “inability to control the aircraft” led an AirAsia A320 to crash into the Java Sea last year, killing all 162 people onboard, a report said on Tuesday. Flight QZ8501 went down in stormy weather on December 28, during what was supposed to be a short flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore. The crash of the Airbus A320200 triggered a huge international search, with ships and aircraft from several nations involved in a lengthy hunt that was hampered by strong currents and bad weather.
The bodies of 56 victims were never recovered. In their final report into the accident released Tuesday, Indonesia’s official National Transportation Safety Committee said a major factor was a fault with a system that helps control the rudder’s movement. Cracked soldering in the component caused it to malfunction and
send repeated warning messages to the pilots. When they received the fourth warning, the pilots pulled circuitbreakers on one of the aircraft’s computers, removing power from the faulty system in a bid to reset it. But in doing so, they also turned off the plane’s autopilot. “Subsequent flight crew action resulted in inability to control the aircraft,” said the report. The plane went into a “prolonged stall condition that was beyond the capability of the crew to recover”, it said. It added the flight data recorders
did not indicate the weather had affected the aircraft. The report said the faulty component, the Rudder Travel Limiter, had suffered 23 problems in the past 12 months, citing maintenance records. A minister previously described how the plane climbed fast and then went into aerodynamic stall, losing lift, before it went down, while an investigator said the warning alarms were “screaming” as the pilots desperately tried to stabilise the aircraft. Investigators had also revealed that the French co-pilot, Remi
Plesel, was at the controls of the AirAsia plane in the moments before it crashed, rather than the more experienced pilot, Captain Iriyanto, who had around 20,000 hours of flying time. News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.