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A man reacts as he walks with flowers towards the North Korean Embassy in Beijing Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s mercurial and enigmatic longtime leader, has died, North Korean state media announced Monday.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dead, son hailed as heir Reuters

SEOUL - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died of a heart attack while on a train trip, state media reported on Monday, sparking immediate concern over who is in control of the reclusive state and its nuclear program.

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A tearful television announcer dressed in black said the 69-year old had died on Saturday of physical and mental over-work on his

way to give “field guidance” - a reference to advice dispensed by the “Dear Leader” on his trips to factories, farms and military

bases.

Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-il’s youngest son, was named by North Korea’s official news agency KCNA as the “great successor” to his father, which lauded him as “the outstanding leader of our party, army and people.”

Little is known of Jong-un who is believed to be in his late 20s and was appointed to senior political

and military posts in 2010.

KCNA news agency said the elder Kim died at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday (2330 GMT on Friday) after “an advanced acute myocardial infarction, complicated with a serious heart shock.” Kim had suffered a stroke in 2008, but had appeared to have recovered from that ailment.

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Gubernur Pastika attend mediation Dauh Puri, DenPost

The mediation trial for the lawsuit of Bali Governor, Made Mangku Pastika against Bali Post was held in Denpasar High Court on Monday, December 19, 2011. Mangku Pastika come himself to the court around 9 am. The trial was closed for public and was led by the head of Denpasar Court, John Piter Purba, S.H., M.H., the trial was lasted for one and a half hour.

The trial was using caucus system where each side was called separately by the mediator. Based on the information, the mediator will make report to the court. During the trial, the governor was accompanied by his lawyers, Drs. Ketut Ngastawa, S.H., I Nyoman Sumantha,

S.H., Simon Nahak, S.H., and I Made Djaya, S.H, and also the spokesman of Bali Government, Ketut Teneng.

“I am sorry we cannot give any information about the material of mediation because it is very classified,” said one of the lawyer, Simon Nahak. Regarding the system of the mediation, he said that it has been agreed by both side.

Pastika was also giving comment on the trial. He stated that he cannot say anything about the process. “I cannot state anything except about press freedom,” he said. The Governor explained that the lawsuit was not an effort to restrain the freedom of press.

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Governor of Bali Made Mangku Pastika giving a statement after meet with mediator on the case of Governor Bali vs Bali Post on Monday, December 19, 2011.

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Bali News Ahead of Christmas and In three years New Year, fuel stock ascertained secure Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Pertamina ensures that fuel supply in Bali towards the year-end of 2011 will be in safe condition. By the year-end and entering the New Year 2012 which are identical with the holidays and increasing fuel consumption is ascertained to have no negative impact.

Retail Sales Representative of Pertamina for Bali-NTB Region, B. Indra Lesmana, recently said in Denpasar that in facing the turn of the year, the fuel supply like gasoline and diesel fuel would be in secure condition. Distribution of fuel from depots to filling stations had no constraints.

Pertamina had been ready to meet the fuel demand of the public during the turn of the year until a week after the New Year 2012. “So far, Bali includes in the secure region. The increased fuel demand does not lead to undesirable things,� he said.

Based on the data of Pertamina for Bali-Lombok Region, the diesel fuel stock in Bali per December 15, 2011 UHDFKHG NLOROLWHUV ZLWK WKH FRQVXPSWLRQ UDWH RI 1,019 kiloliters per day. Meanwhile, the Premium gasoline reached 22,393 kiloliters with the consumption in Bali reaching 2,193 kiloliters per day. Kerosene amounted to NLOROLWHUV ZLWK FRQVXPSWLRQ DW NLOROLWHUV SHU GD\ Then, stock of Pertamax gasoline came to 890 kiloliters with a total consumption of 39 kiloliters per day, so it was enough for consumption up to 22 days. Pertamax Plus JDVROLQH DPRXQWHG WR NLOROLWHUV ZLWK FRQVXPSWLRQ RI 8 kiloliters per day and was enough up to 78 days.

In the meantime, regarding the worries about many ‘rogue’ petrol stations taking the opportunity at such moments, he said it would highly depend on the operator.

According to him, so far the filling station business had a very promising prospect especially for the management of retail outlets that had Pasti Pas (certain and exact) certificate. Petrol stations with the certificate were believed to have some advantages. “Unfortunately, not all petrol stations in Bali have had thr Pasti Pas certificate. Among the 178 petrol stations, only 105 outlets that have had this certificate,â€? he said. He further added that petrol stations with the certificate would be able to provide services with assurance and certainty to community and there would be no fraud in fueling. Vehicle users would obtain fuel with assured quality and quantity, friendly service and comfortable facilities. Âł%XVLQHVVSHRSOH ZKR KDYH KDG FHUWLÂżFDWLRQ RU WKH ORJR RI 3DVWL 3DV ZLOO GHÂżQLWHO\ KDYH PDQ\ DGYDQWDJHV EHFDXVH LW ZLOO not only raise the prestige of their business, but also gives EHQHÂżW WR FRQVXPHUV VR WKDW LW ZLOO KDYH D SRVLWLYH LPSDFW RQ the increasing earnings for the outlet owner,â€? he said.

He said that consumers tended to choose the petrol stations that actually refueled exactly. Not surprisingly, the old petrol stations had small turnover and one of the causes was that they had not had a Pasti Pas certification.

Pertamina would also provide a greater margin of profit for petrol station entrepreneurs meeting the certification. In other words, the employers of petrol station with certification could feel the direct economic impact. “So, there is a small possibility of cheating because they certainly do not want to take risks with the Pasti Pas certificate acquired,� he concluded. (bit)

139,455 dog bite cases happen in Bali Denpasar (Bali Post)

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To fulfil VAR stocks, every regency/city stocked

it as well besides the Bali Province. As noted at 13th December 2011 the VAR total that are supplied UHDFKHG YLDOV ZKHUH IRU WKH SURYLQFLDO DJHQF\ IRU %XOHOHQJ -HPEUDQD %DQJOL .OXQJNXQJ .DUDQJDVHP *LDQ\DU 7DEDQDQ %DGXQJ 'HQSDVDU and Sanglah Hospital 850. With this it is hoped those who got bitten will get the vaccination straight away. (san)

Singaporean and Hong Kong used clothes attract customers Semarapura (Bali Post) –

Although all this time fashion trend has been new but it doesn’t close any possibilities for used clothes to be in the market as seen at Semarapura Art Market, klungkung, last Sunday where imported clothes from Singapore and Hong Kong became everyone want and giving a lot of

SURÂżW IRU VHOOHUV A number of stands with ‘import used clothes’ signs on were attacked by buyers. The sellers were most non %DOLQHVH OLYLQJ DW 6HPHEDXQJ *LDQ\DU 2QH VHOOHU 0XVOL admitted the items were sold out and mostly were bought by those who live in villages at East Bali area. (kmb20)

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The seller of used clothes from Singapore and Hong Kong

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The ďŹ shermen are on their way to the sea. The waters in the southern region of Tabanan and Badung continued to be besieged by rubbish and it disturb the ďŹ shermen and visitors.

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Sea besieged by rubbish, DFWLYLWLHV RI ‍ۋ‏VKHUPDQ DQQR\HG Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Complaints about rubbish did not only happen on mainland. At sea, the rubbish had become a frightening scourge. Since the past few weeks, the waters in the southern region of Tabanan and Badung continued to be besieged by rubbish, particularly plastic. These conditions interfered ZLWK WKH ÂżVKLQJ DFWLYLWLHV RI ÂżVKHUPHQ DW VHD Besieging of plastic rubbish at sea was getting more serious since the recent rainy season.

Other than disturbing fishermen, the rubbish also made the marine scenery change into being vile. “The sea looks like a plastic garbage dump. Along the waters can be seen a pool of junky rubbish,� complained Chairman of the Fishermen Association of Indonesia (HNSI) of Tabanan, Ketut

Arsanayasa, Sunday (Dec 18).

The man having the nickname of Saddam explained the piles of garbage at sea was known when he was going to sea with a number of fishermen. According to him, a row of the plastic rubbish was seen floating along the coast of Tabanan to Canggu, Kuta. Consequently, the fishing nets that should contain fish were filled with rubbish. “They

are mostly consisting of plastic rubbish,� he complained again.

According to him, such condition was quite disturbing fishermen. Even, his fishing nets were sometimes damaged as stuck fast with rubbish.

Aside from disturbing the nets, the plastic rubbish was also feared to harm the coral reefs.

More hazardously, the plastic rubbish could threaten the eco-

system of fish. “This rubbish is very hazardous. If consistently neglected, fishermen will be confused as besieged by the rubbish,� he said. According to Saddam, the presence of such rubbish was triggered by the rainy season.

The rivers flowing into the sea carried waste materials and reached the middle of the sea.

This man invited all concerned parties to handle the rubbish, especially plastic. He added that the land area being clean from rubbish had to be followed by cleaning up the rubbish in the ocean. Considering, the sea had

become the field providing sustenance for fishermen. If the sea was polluted by waste, of course the fish catches would decline sharply.

Saddam also hoped that government could respond to the complaints of fishermen, especially through socialization on the hazard of waste in the ocean. By doing so, the action of disposing rubbish into the river could be eliminated. “These complaints must be responded by government. At least, there is socialization regarding the hazard of plastic waste flowing into the ocean,� he concluded. (udi)

major constraint for farmers taking the Simantri program because the village would face water crisis in the dry season. If the water in the reservoir ran out, residents should purchase water for IDR 75,000 per their cattle could only survive. As be brought back. Paing said that it got into the biogas tube, so the tank from Tukadabu, Kubu. IroniAmlapura (Bali Post)— The integrated agricultural man- a result, their cattle looked thin ZDV YHU\ GLIÂżFXOW IRU IDUPHUV WR JHW gas could not be used for cooking cally, the Simantri 041 reservoir agement system (Simantri) 041 and Suarta admitted that one the fodder. Since it just rained, the grass or turned on so far. “It should be had leaked, despite just completed had not grown yet. As a result, the UHSDLUHG ÂżUVW ,WV FRZ GXQJ PXVW last October. Two months after the Project at Tegallanglangan, Abang cows died.

According to Suarta, the cow was share-breeder should purchase their EH GUDLQHG DQG WKHQ UH¿OOHG ZLWK completion, the reservoir sizing Subdistrict, Karangasem, has not been so promising. This happened alleged to be not strong enough when fodder in the form of elephant grass new cow dung. Indeed, it is quite 6 meters by 9 meters had leaked. because at the barren village the taken to graze. So far, the 22 cows and for IDR 5,000 per bundle. Price complicated,� said Sudana.

Suarta had reported it to get an imMoreover, the cowshed was built mediate repair. However, the conVKDUH EUHHGLQJ JURXS KDG GLIÂżFXOW\ their calves had never been grazed or of the grass was quite expensive, to feed their cattle during the dry WDNHQ WR D ÂżHOG WR ÂżQG RXW WKHLU RZQ so the share-breeders or ranchers near people’s house and about one me- tractor establishing it, said Sudana, season. According to the Group feed. Instead, they were just tied in taking the Simantri program were ter from the Simantri reservoir project carried two cans of waterproof, but Head of Simantri 041, I Wayan their colony cowshed. “Other than be- HVWLPDWHG WR JHW QR EHQHÂżW Âł0RVW valued at IDR 96 million. The reser- only one can was used to polish the Suarta, the local breeders had dif- ing skinny, perhaps the mother cows fortunately, the selling price will be voir was not given a lid, so residents reservoir. Meanwhile, another can were shocked and not strong enough equivalent to the expenditure for living near the yawning reservoir were was brought back. “As soon as it ÂżFXOW\ WR ÂżQG IRGGHU very worried as it could harm their ZDV FRPSOHWHG ZH KDYH ÂżOOHG LW During the dry season, their to cross the river, so that one of them fodder purchase,â€? said Paing.

Sudana also acknowledged that children and domestic animals like with four tanks of water purchased cattle were forcibly fed with cracker ÂżQDOO\ GLHG ´ KH VDLG A cow share-breeder, Wayan biogas produced by cow dung of Si- dogs, chicken and goats. “Goats can from Tukadabu. When we just used or dried grass or leaves and it was given during the period of green Paing, and a land owner where the mantri was ineffective. The tube of still jump from the Simantri cowshed a little of the water, it has even fodder crisis. Fodder of dried grass cowshed located, Nengah Sudana, cow dung was not placed correctly project,â€? said Sudana. ran dry. The reservoir has leaked Meanwhile, Suarta said that clean whereas it was just completed,â€? and leaves were indeed not so nu- admitted that their group share-bred by the installer. As consequence, tritious. However, they expected 22 cows. Later, two of them would during the heavy rains, the water or drinking water for cattle was the revealed Sudana. (013)

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Czechs, world leaders mourn Vaclav Havel Associated Press Writer

PRAGUE — Thousands of Czechs paid tribute to Vaclav Havel on Sunday, braving cold and snow at the spot where the leader of the peaceful anti-communist revolution rallied protesters.

Mourners, some of them too young to remember 1989’s “Velvet Revolution,” met at downtown Wenceslas Square, where Havel once spoke before hundreds of thousands of people expressing their outrage at the repressive communist regime.

They jangled their keys to make noise as anti-communist demonstrators did, sang the national anthem and observed a minute of silence for the playwright-turned politician, who died Sunday.

“His legacy will be that ‘truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred,’” Havel’s former adviser Tomas Sedlacek told the crowd, quoting Havel’s revolutionary motto.

Barbora Rubova, born two years after the end of the repressive communist regime, said it was important to show her respect to the man who helped kick off the fall of the Iron Curtain and served as president of Czechoslovakia, and later the Czech Republic.

“He laid foundations of democracy for us all,” she said.

A black flag flew over Prague Castle, the presidential seat, while many Czechs stood in line to have a chance to light candles to remember Havel. “Mr. President, thank you for democracy,” read a note placed at the monument to the revolution in downtown Prague.

Others visited his villa to lay flowers and light candles. Josef Klik, a 67-year-old, was among the mourners.

“He is an unforgettable person who contributed to the fall of communism,” Klik said. “And after that, he remained a moral authority for ordinary people.”

Bells tolled from cathedrals and churches across the country at 6 p.m. Prague archbishop Dominik Duka, who spent some time with Havel in a communist prison, said Havel “knew what it meant to lose freedom, be denied dignity, what is repression and imprisonment.”

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People surround St. Wenceslas statue at Wenceslas square in Prague, Czech Republic, on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011, to pay tribute to former Czech President Vaclav Havel who has died early morning Sunday at his country seat in Hradecek, some 100 kilometers north-east from Prague. He was 75.

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, shakes hand with the U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta after giving a joint press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011.

Afghans negotiating longterm US presence: Karzai Agence France Presse

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday that his government is negotiating the terms of a long-term US presence in his country that could involve US troops.

The United States is withdrawing 10,000 troops this year, leaving 91,000 on the ground into next year.

Another 23,000 are due to leave by the end of September.

That will mark the end of the “surge” ordered by President Barack Obama in late 2009 in a bid to reverse the Taliban insurgency, defeat Al-Qaeda and speed up an end to the war, with some 68,000 US forces left on the ground.

“We are negotiating with the United States towards an enduring

partnership,” Karzai said on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS.” “That may bring about the presence of some US troops in Afghanistan for the duration of the agreement that we reach, with support to Afghanistan, with training and equipping the Afghan forces.”

But he cautioned that troop levels would depend on the specifics of any agreement reached.

The US-led international coalition has “been able to provide in the past 10 years political stability

to Afghanistan,” Karzai said.

But he stressed that the US and Afghan governments have been unable “to provide the Afghan people with their individual personal security. That is yet to come.”

Karzai, interviewed from Kabul, also said he could not hold peace talks with the Taliban unless the insurgents produce a verifiable authorized representative.

The September assassination of Afghan peace negotiator Burhanuddin Rabbani “brought us in a shock to the recognition that we were actually talking to nobody, that those who came in the name of the peace process were assassins, were killers, were terrorists rather than negotiators,” he said.

Egypt’s military, activists vie for public support Associated Press Writer

CAIRO — Egypt’s ruling military and the revolutionaries who demand they immediately step down battled for a third day in the streets — and competed fiercely for the support of a broader public that has grown tired of turmoil since the fall of Hosni Mubarak 10 months ago.

The generals appear to be winning the fight for the public, despite a heavy-handed crackdown on protesters around Cairo’s Tahrir Square using a roughness that rivaled even that of Mubarak’s widely hated police force.

Before dawn Monday, security forces mounted a charge and cleared hundreds of demonstrators away

from the area, according to videos posted on the internet. Earlier, a man died in custody, a lawyer said.

The protesters have tried to drum up Egyptians’ anger at the military by spreading videos and photos of military police savagely beating young men and women to the ground with sticks and truncheons — and the resonant scene of a woman in a conservative headscarf being stripped half naked by soldiers who stomp on her chest.

But so far their efforts to win public sympathy don’t seem to be gaining traction in the face of the military’s campaign to depict the crowds of hundreds in the streets as hooligans and vandals, not the idealistic activists who succeeded in bringing down

Mubarak. At least 10 protesters have been killed and 441 others wounded in the three days of violence, according to the Health Ministry.

“The military has failed in everything except for its stunning success in making people hate the revolution, its history and its revolutionaries,” prominent columnist Ibrahim Eissa wrote in an editorial in the independent pro-revolution newspaper, Al-Tahrir.

Led by a general who served for 20 years as Mubarak’s defense minister, the military has been methodically seeking to discredit the revolutionaries, accusing them of illegally receiving foreign funds and being part of a plot hatched abroad to destabilize Egypt.

AP Photo/Nasser Nasser

Egyptian protesters clash with riot police during clashes near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011.

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Grand Whiz Kuta Inaugurated

The end of year, occupancy reaches 70 percent IBP

KUTA - After a year in development, Grand Whiz Kuta officially operated on Monday, December 19, 2011. The inauguration of this hotel were done by Chairman of supervisory board of PT. Intiland Development, Cosmas Batubara and witnessed by Head of Badung’s Tourism Department Tjokorda Raka Darmawan on Monday, December 19, 2011.

According to CEO of PT. Intiwhiz International Moedjianto Soesilo Tjahjono accompanied by owner of Grand Whiz Kuta Sutrisno Winata, the tourism prospect in Bali is very promising. He optimistic that tourism stakeholders will get many benefit from the prospect.

He also stated that Grand Whiz Kuta will give new experience for tourists and business people that travel to Bali during their stay in this hotel.

This three star hotel consists of 134 rooms which differentiated to several types of room, such standard, junior suite, and deluxe.

Moedjianto stated that until this end of year, the room occupancy of the hotel already reach 70 percent. He hopes in the next eight years, this hotel will gain break even point. ‘’We calculate that the BEP will reach around eight years maybe less because the location and the room prices are very competitive,’’ he said.

With this hotel, there are 3 hotels that being operated by Intiwhiz until end of year, two others are Whiz Semarang and Whiz Yogyakarta. Moedjianto targeting there are 60 hotels will be build in the next five years.

Meanwhile on this year only, there are 19 hotels still in process. ‘’Around IBP/Ist. 2013, there will be many hotels that we build should be ready to operate,’’ he Managements of PT. Intiwhiz International and PT. Intiland Development inaugurated Grand Whiz Hotel Kuta, Monday, December 19, 2011. explained. (kmb18)

Temple Ceremony Calendar Event for December 3 through 28, 2011 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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, 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.

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ÂżFDWLRQ Âł7KHUH LV D ELJ SRVVLELOLW\ WKDW a power struggle may happen. “It’s likely the military will support From page 1 Kim Jong-un,â€? he added. “Right now there will be control wielded over the South Korea, still technically people to keep them from descending at war with the North, placed its into chaos in this tumultuous time.â€?

Kim Jong-il’s sister and her hustroops and all government workers on emergency alert but Seoul’s band have also been promoted to Defense Ministry said there were no important political and military posts, signs of any unusual North Korean creating a powerful triumvirate ready troop movements and President Lee to take over the family dynasty that has Myung-bak called for people to carry ruled North Korea since its founding after World War Two. on with their normal lives.

Experts say Jong-un has the inLee held talks with President Barack Obama over the telephone as the telligence and leadership skills that United States is the main guarantor of would make him suitable to succeed South Korea’s security. Seoul was also his father. He is also reported to have due to hold talks with government of- a ruthless streak that analysts say he would need to rule the country. ÂżFLDOV LQ 7RN\R ODWHU LQ WKH GD\ There is likely to be an enormous “Up until tonight, if anybody had asked you what would be the most outpouring of emotion over Kim’s likely scenario under which the North death in North Korea, where the counKorean regime could collapse, the try’s propaganda machine turned him answer would be the sudden death of into a demi-god. His funeral will be Kim Jong-il,â€? said Victor Cha, a Ko- held on December 28.

On the streets of Seoul however rea expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies think-tank in the death of a man whose country had threatened to turn South Korean Washington. “And so I think right now we’re in FDSLWDO LQWR D ÂłVHD RI ÂżUH´ UDQJHG IURP that scenario and we don’t know how indifference to over-joyed. “The whole earth should celebrate it’s going to turn out.â€?

The White House said President it as much as Christmas,â€? said Kim %DUDFN 2EDPD KDG EHHQ QRWLÂżHG RI Ok-tae, a 58-year old pastor. “I am not at all afraid. I don’t see the reports of Kim’s death and it was closely monitoring and in touch with any likelihood of North Korea lashing out unexpectedly.â€?

South Korea and Japan.

Kim was the unchallenged head The United States was committed to stability on the Korean peninsula as of a communist state whose economy well as to its allies, the White House fell deep into poverty during his 17 years in power as he vexed the world press secretary said.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshi- by developing a nuclear arms program hiko Noda told ministers at a special and missiles aimed at neighbors Japan security meeting to prepare for the un- and South Korea.

North Korea, which tested a nuclear expected, including on border affairs, Japan’s top government spokesman device in 2006 and again in May 2009, said.China, North Korea’s only major is seen as one of the greatest threats to regional security. ally, has yet to comment.

In 2010, the secretive North unMarket players and regional powers will be on edge over what might veiled a uranium enrichment facility, happen next in the isolated state, giving it a second route to make an whose collapsing economy and bid atomic bomb along with its plutonium to become a nuclear weapons power program.

Cha said communication between pose major threats to northeast Asia.

Asian stocks and U.S. index fu- China, the United States and South tures fell, with South Korean shares Korea was vital. “Because these are the three key tumbling as much as 5 percent, and the dollar gained after the announce- players when it comes to instability ment. The Korean won fell 1.8 per- in North Korea.And the Chinese have cent.Kim Jong-un was at the head been reluctant to have any conversaRI D ORQJ OLVW RI RIÂżFLDOV PDNLQJ XS tions on this,â€? he said. “Now the situation really calls for the funeral committee, indicating he would lead it, and a key sign that he it. It will be interesting to see how much the Chinese will be willing to had taken, or been given, charge.

But there will be enormous ques- have some sort of discussion.�

The North has repeatedly threattions over how much credibility the younger Kim has, since he is only in ened to destroy the conservative govhis late 20s and has had little time to ernment of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, who ended a decade prepare for the role. ³.LP -RQJ XQ LV QRW \HW WKH RI¿- RI IUHH ÀRZLQJ DLG WR WKH 1RUWK DIWHU cial heir, but the regime will move in WDNLQJ RI¿FH LQ )HEUXDU\ It also has a reputation for prothe direction of Kim Jong-un taking center stage,� said Chung Young-Tae vocative external action in response to internal pressures. at the Korea Institute of National Uni-

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From page 1 As the form of his support to the freedom of press is by holding press conference every month and can be covered by all media in Bali. “Is

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In this Friday, Dec. 16, 2011 photo, a member of the Iraqi Army waves an Iraqi ag after a ceremony signing over Camp Adder, near Nasiriyah in Iraq, the last United States base in the country, to the Iraqi Air Force.

Iraqis celebrate US exit, but worry for future Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD — Even as Iraqis celebrated the departure of the last American troops Sunday, the dangers left behind after nearly nine years of war were on full display. Politicians feuded along the country’s potentially explosive sectarian lines and the drumbeat of deadly violence went on.

The last U.S. convoy rumbled out of Iraq across the border into Kuwait around sunrise under a shroud of secrecy to prevent attacks on the departing troops.

When news reached a waking Iraqi public, there was joy at the end of a presence that many Iraqis resented as a foreign occupation.

In the northern city of Mosul, pastry shop owner Muhannad Adnan said he had a swell of orders for cakes — up to 110 from the usual 70 or so a day — as families threw parties at home.

Some asked him to ice the cakes with inscriptions of “congratulations for the end of occupation,� he said.But the happiness was shot through with worries over the future. “Nobody here wants occupation. This withdrawal marks a new stage in Iraq’s history,� said Karim al-Rubaie, a Shiite shopowner in the southern city of Basra. But, he said, “the politicians who are running this country are just a group of thieves.� “These politicians will lead the country into sedition and civil

war. Iraq now is like a weak prey among neighboring beasts.�

In the morning, a bomb hidden under a pile of trash exploded on a street of spare car parts stores in a mainly Shiite district of eastern Baghdad, killing two people and wounding four others. It was the latest in the near daily shootings and bombings — low-level but still deadly — that continue to bleed the country and that many fear will increase with the Americans gone.

Violence is far lower than it was at the worst of the Iraq War, in 2006 and 2007, when Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias preyed on Iraqis around the country in a vicious sectarian conflict that nearly turned into complete civil war. But those armed groups still remain, and there are deep concerns whether Iraqi security forces are capable of keeping them in check without the help of U.S. troops.

Iraq’s military chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Babaker Zebari said Sunday that his troops were up to the task of uprooting militant groups. “There are only scattered

terrorists hiding here and there and we are seeking intelligence information to eliminate them,�

Zebari said. “We are confident that there will be no danger.�

Equally worrying, the resentments and bitterness between the Shiite majority and Sunni minority in this country of 31 million remain unhealed. The fear is that without the hand of American forces, the fragile attempts to get the two sides to work together could collapse and even turn to greater violence.

In an escalation of the rivalry, the main Sunni-backed political bloc on Sunday announced it was boycotting parliament to protest what they called Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s attempts to monopolize government positions — particularly those overseeing the powerful security forces. The bloc has complained of security forces’ recent arrests of Sunnis that it says are “unjustified.�

The Iraqiya bloc warned that it could take the further step of pulling its seven ministers out of al-Maliki’s coalition government.

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An asylum seeker who survived the sinking ship wears an oxygen mask as he rests at a hotel where they are detained in Blitar, East Java, Indonesia, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. The Indonesian Navy headquarters have deployed two warships and a helicopter to support the search and evacuation of the victims of the Middle East immigration boat which went down in Prigi waters, Trenggalek sub-district, East Java.

PALU - A low explosive bomb is found in a traditional market in Palu Selatan subdistrict on Monday morning, the province`s Chief of Mobile Brigade Unit Ahmad Subarkah said here on Monday. “It is an assembled bomb with low explosives,� he said adding that the bomb was found by the local people around 05.30 in the morning in front of a traditional market with specialty of selling pork meat.

The market itself was located near three churches in the area, Ahmad said.

According to information, the market had been hit by bomb earlier in 2005 causing eight casualties and injuring tens of people.

Meanwhile, Chief of Palu city`s Police Precinct OfďŹ ce Ahmad Ramadhan said the characteristic of the recently found bomb was similar to the pipe-bomb that was found in Poso district sometime ago.

He said the police was still gathering information about the actors behind the bomb terror.

RI navy sends out warships and helicopter to Trenggalek Antara

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Navy headquarters have deployed two warships and a helicopter to support the search and evacuation of the victims of the Middle East immigration boat which went down in Prigi waters, Trenggalek sub-district, East Java.

Navy information chief Commodore Untung Suropati said in Jakarta Sunday that the two warships, KRI Untung Suropati-372 and KRI Oswald Siahaan-354, are from the Eastern Fleet Command (Koarmatim). “Besides, we had also sent out a

Navy helicopter,� he added.

Up to Sunday morning, 33 of the 215 crew members have been found and for the time being provided shelter at the PPN (Nusantara Fish Port) at Prigi port.

The passengers of the ship were thought to be Middle East

immigrants heading for Australia. Some of them may have been Afghans and Turks. Up to Sunday afternoon, hundreds of passengers were still missing.

The East Java National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) said it did not know the exact number of the passengers because of the lack of a passenger manifest.

But it was said that more than 200 passengers who had been rescued were on board when the boat left the Middle East a year before.

Very bad weather and high waves had been posing serious obstacles to seeking and evacuating the victims.

The BKPM had warned the evacuation of the high waves in the Prigi coastal area. “The waves have reached a height of 0.5-2.5 meters besides heavy down pours. This is a very dangerous condition for shipping, especially small boats,â€? an ofďŹ cial of the meteorology, climatology and geophysics station in Surabaya Eko Prasetyo said.

He said the waves in the East

Java waters had been increasing from 0.3-1.3 to 0.5-3 meters in height.

However, Eko said, because of that the waters north and south of East Java also have hard rain, under which condition it became extremely difďŹ cult to evacuate the victims quickly.

Especially that the sea south of East Java in the Pacitan-Trenggalek area had been owing at a rate of 5-25 centimeters per second, from to west to east, and slightly to the south or the middle on the high seas.

Three men named suspects for slaughtering orangutans Antara

SAMARINDA - Three men had been named suspects for allegedly slaughtering Orangutans in Kutai Timur district, East Kalimantan, an ofďŹ cial said. “The three men are employees of PT CPS a palm oil plantation company in the area. Another suspect is still being sought,â€? Chief

of Criminal Unit at Kutai Timur district`s police precinct Sugeng Subagyo said here on Monday.

Sugeng said an earlier investigation indicates the slaughter took place in an area of PT CPS in Muara Calong on May 27 2011. “One of the suspects threw a spear and hit the stomach of the Orangutan. Afterward, the other suspects killed Orangutans with a

sharp knife,� Sugeng said adding that after killing the Orangutans, the three suspects buried the carcasses near the area.

The alleged orangutan killings reportedly took place from 2009 to 2010 in Kutai Kartanegara District, East Kalimantan Province. Kalimantan or Borneo Orangutans (Pongo Pygmaeus) are often considered as a pest by plantation companies

operating there.

Last December 1, the police had arrested two employee of PT SRS, also a palm oil plantation company, in relation to allegedly killing Orangutans.

It is estimated that around 50,000 to 60,000 orangutans are left in the wild, 80 percent of them in Indonesia and the rest in Malaysia.

Of the total number, about 7,300

orangutans are to be found in Aceh Darussalam and North Sumatra provinces, and many others in Central, West and East Kalimantan provinces. The Borneo orangutan and Sumatran orangutans are classiďŹ ed by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) as Endangered and Critically Endangered respectively, with their population down by 91 percent since 1900.

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Bali Today New Year celebration Occupancy in Ubud hotels rising BT UBUD Towards the ew ear 0 , the hotel occupancy rates in the Ubud ampong of artists, Gianyar egency began to rise, including the increase in room reservation. However, such an increase is not li e the condition in 0 0. Average occupancy until the mid December is 3 percent, said hairman of the Indonesian Hotels and estaurants Association PH I of Gianyar hapter, Dewa Arimbawa, recently.

It was indicated by the increase in room reservation before the New Year, but the condition was unlike the reservation on the last Eid feast day. Such declining reservation was kindled by the global crisis afflicting the U.S. and Europe. “Other than affecting the room reservation, it is also ascertained to have an impact on the level of hotel occupancy,� he explained.

Foreign tourists who visited

Ubud in the New Year’s holiday season came mostly from Europe, Asia, Australia and America. “The hotels themselves usually offered the package of New Year’s Eve Dinner and a number of performing arts,� he said.

Meanwhile, aside from the occupancy rate of the hotels and restaurants, a number of tourist attractions such as Tirta Empul, Monkey Forest, Sukawati Art Market, Goa Gajah and other attractions were

expected to draw more tourist arrivals by the end of the year and on welcoming the New Year 2012.

So far, the Sukawati art market seemed to have show off an LQFUHDVH LQ WUDIÂżF RI WRXULVW YLVLW though the visit was not so high. “Yes, the increase looks apparent, probably the most crowded will be three days before the New Year 2012,â€? said Chief of the Sukawati Art Market, I Nengah Namaartawa. (kmb)

Tourists shopping in the art market of Goa Gajah area in Gianyar regency. Towards the New Year 2012, the hotel occupancy rates in the Ubud kampong of artists, Gianyar Regency began to rise, including the increase in room reservation. However, such an increase is not like the condition in 2010.

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The inaugural Asian Surfing Championships Awards were held on Saturday evening December 17th at the Wave House on Sentosa Island in Singapore to honor the Asian region’s first professional surfing champions, Singapore’s VXU¿QJ FKDPSLRQV DQG WR FHOHEUDWH the media partnership of the ASC with the Outdoor Channel for 2012.

The event was attended by over 100 PHPEHUV RI WKH $VLDQ VXUÂżQJ FRPmunity and various media.

It was a historical landmark in the progression of Asian surfLQJ DV LW ZDV WKH ÂżUVW WLPH WKDW $VLDQ VXUÂżQJ FKDPSLRQV KDYH EHHQ crowned as a result of competing in a multi-country and multi-event SURIHVVLRQDO VXUÂżQJ FRPSHWLWLRQ circuit. The 2011 Asian Surfing Championship circuit saw a total of 9 events held in four countries, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Thailand.

22-year-old Made Raditya Rondi from Bali Indonesia took top honors as the champion in the Open Division, having won the Quiksilver Thailand Surf Competition in Phuket last September, the Rip Curl Surf & Music Festival in Bali in October, and just last week the

Billabong Cherating Pro in Malaysia. He is also the runner up on WKH &RFD &ROD ,QGRQHVLDQ 6XUÂżQJ Championship tour for 2011.

7KH VLJQLÂżFDQFH RI ZKDW KH KDG achieved was evident in his acceptance speech, as he said, “Thank you very much for this award, as this is one of the biggest honors of my life so far, and I’ll always remember this. I want to say thanks to my sponsor Billabong and the ISC and ASC crews for making this all happen, and I hope that next year VXUÂżQJ FDQ JURZ LQ $VLD VR ZH FDQ make more contests. Should be lots of fun‌thank you!â€?

Unfortunately 2011 ASC Longboard Champion Arip Nur Hidayat from West Java Indonesia was not present to receive his award, as he was attending his brother’s wedding, but he was acknowledged in absentia with a around of applause.

Hidayat is also the 2011 Indonesian Longboard Champion.

In the Women’s Division it was Yasnyiar “Bonneâ€? Gea from Sumatra Indonesia who received the ASC Women’s Champion award, having competed in all six women’s events and having won three of them. She thanked her sponsor Billabong, her IDPLO\ WKH $VLDQ VXUÂżQJ FRPPXnity and the ASC for their support

in making it possible for her to be able to surf and to win this award.

Gea is also 4-time and current Indonesian Women’s Champion.

Decha Sithidej is now Thailand’s ÂżUVW VXUÂżQJ FKDPSLRQ KDYLQJ ZRQ the Master’s Division (over 35 years RI DJH RI WKH $VLDQ 6XUÂżQJ &KDPpionships. It has only been in the last several years that Thailand has EHHQ UHFRJQL]HG DV KDYLQJ D VXUÂżQJ community, and it has grown rapidly as a result. In his acceptance speech, Sithidej was liberal in his praise of WKH $6& IRU WKHLU VXSSRUW RI VXUÂżQJ in Thailand, saying “Thanks to Tipi Jabrik and Tim Hain at the ASC for helping and supporting us in Thailand, without them this wouldn’t be possible. Also big thanks to the crew at Quiksilver Thailand and to Joob DW 6XUÂżQJ 7KDLODQG IRU WKHLU GHGLFDtion and support. This award is only possible because of all of you, and I’m so proud to represent Thailand DV WKH ÂżUVW VXUÂżQJ FKDPSLRQ ´ After the ASC champions had been called up together on the stage for a group photo, ASC Media Director Tim Hain took the microphone and called on Mr. Kevin Sim from Multichannel Asia to receive a placard in appreciation of the ASC and Outdoor Channel agreement for 2012.

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Loving U dersea Nature through photography There are two things to consider in ta ing undersea pictures. irstly, it is related to the time limit in diving, and then the ob ects must be willing to move closer to the photographer. These matters were conveyed by eith Ellenbogen, a lecturer of photography in The ew School for Design, ew or ity, in the International Undersea or shop held in the Indonesia Institute of Arts ISI Denpasar recently.

In the one-day workshop held in the Latta Mahosadi Building of ISI Denpasar, Keith explained the GLI¿FXOWLHV DQG FKDOOHQJHV IDFHG in taking the undersea pictures.

On that account, Keith who is also a photographer presented various images he had taken from various parts of the world, both Southeast Asia and part of other continents.

Such a workshop was unique enough because it offered the integration of marine conservation and artistic color or patterned textures derived from nature. It

was intentionally highlighted in order to become a learning opportunity for students majoring in photography, especially that of ISI Denpasar, where students could learn about photography from the expert who was working in the field. In addition, the workshop was also very good for communicating the environmental issues to students through visual narratives-based conservation.

Rector of ISI Denpasar, Prof.

Dr. I Wayan Rai S, highly appreciated the implementation of

the workshop as an attempt to make the photography courses go international. Meanwhile, the Head of Photography Study Program, I Komang Arba Wirawan, hoped the workshop could give lessons to love the natural environment through the undersea photography.

The activities were also accompanied with the introduction of a German-graduated photographer named Wiendi Winata who briefly presented his portfolio.

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UDANG PANTUNG KUNING

(Lobster in Yellow Sauce) OVERVIEW: A real gourmet treat from Bali, this could also be made with huge prawns. In Bali, coconut chunks are roasted directly on charcoal, then the charred skin scrapped off and the flesh grated for making the coconut milk.

INGREDIENTS: 4 sml lobsters, weighing about 500 gr each or 1 kg large prawns 5 cups water 2 lemongrass, bruised 2 fragrant lime leaves 4 cups coconut milk few drops white vinegar fried shallots to garnish SPICE PASTE: 5 red chilies, seeded and chopped 3 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped 7 shallots, peeled and chopped 5 cm fresh turmeric, peeled and chopped 5 cm ginger, peeled and chopped 4 candlenuts 1 ½ tsp coriander ½ tsp dried shrimp paste toasted 1 sml tomato, peeled and seeded 2 tbsp oil 1 ½ tbsp tamarind pulp 1 salam leaf 1 lemon grass, bruised PREPARATION: Prepare spice paste by grinding or blending all ingredients except oil, tamarind, salam leaf and lemongrass. Heat oil, add spice paste and all other ingredients. Cook over moderate heat for about 5 minutes, then cool.

Wash lobsters and leave whole. Bring water to the boil, add lobsters and simmer for 15 minutes. Remove lobsters, plunge in iced water for 1 minutes, then drain and remove meat. Return shells to the pot of water, keeping lobster meat aside.

Add spice paste, lemongrass, lime leaves and vinegar to the water with the shells and simmer until 4 cups of stock remain. Add coconut milk and simmer for 10 minutes. Strain stock and return to pan. Add lobster and simmer for 1 minute. Serve garnished with fried shallots and accompanied by white rice.

Helpful hints: if using prawns instead of lobster, peel the raw prawns and put prawns shells 4 cups of water. Simmer for 5 minutes, then combine this stock with coconut milk, prawns and all other ingredients, simmering until cooked. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

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Water Sport Activities IBP

Marine Sports are the exciting and fun seawater activities with great challenge for everyone who joins this sport. It offers variety of marine post activities from motorize until the manual one. It is one of the great seawater adventures in Bali giving the fantastic experience from every activity like Jet Ski, Banana Boat, Fly Fish, Snorkeling, Parasailing, Diving, Fishing, Glass Bottom Boat and Turtle Island Tour.

The Marine Sport Packages are also available with attractive choice of sport activities and competitive prices.

Blue sea water without wave is the best venue for water sport activities. Bali own the beautiful place with the long white sandy beach located in Tanjung Benoa as a Marine Sport Center. It is located right in the Bali’s Peninsula, south part of the island and about 25 minutes drive from Bali’s International Airport. It is just a step from Nusa

Dua, the elite resort area in Bali and featured by an easy way to reach it. Below are some water sport activities that you can try while you holidaying in Bali: - Parasailing activity will bring you to the exciting experience by hook your self in airborne for a second and you will get free to enjoy the amazing view of the island from the over head. Beautiful scenery of the sea water is easily found by ying like a bird with string more then 100 meter up makes this activity really unforgettable memory in our life. You can get Parasailing Adventure right now as your choice during your vacation in Bali Island.

- Snorkeling is a fantastic marine activity to over view the beautiful panorama of coral, colorful ďŹ shes and other unique marines life. This adventure will bring you the exciting experience with professional snorkeling guide who guide you the right snorkeling spot point. It

will take about one hour to explore and view beautiful underwater life which is completed safety equipment.

- Riding a motorized sea vehicle will get different experience and the fresh sea breeze will swirl your hair.

Fun riding on the blue water with the combination of jet Drive Power up to 700 cc and personal water craft will result pure excitement.

- Gathering Banana Boat ride is the most enjoyable experience. It thrills for all and feels like kids ride over the ocean with blue seawater and big long soft marshmallow. It is a fantastic group game on the seawater which bring you to the exciting experience on your vacation in Bali.

- Water Ski is one of the exciting Marine Sport Activities by gliding on the seawater at Tanjung Benoa Beach which is famous with Bali Marine Sport Center. This adven-

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ture uses water ski board and pulled by the power boat to surround the beautiful white sandy beach area.

- Fly Fish is the newest marine sport activity by riding a at rubber boat which is pulled by a speed boat. It flies to dash against the wind sweeping that it real y on the seawater. It is a great adventure by ying like ďŹ sh jumping on the seawater with high boat speed.

- The tour will use the Glass Bottom Boat to explore the submarine of Benoa sea and stop for 15 minutes to observe the colorful ďŹ shes of under water and just seat down on the boat you can see many kinds of ďŹ shes from the bottom glass. The journey will be extended to Turtle island where the local people take care and grow the turtle up. Get this place by boat and see the beautiful of white sandy beach.

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BUSINESS Eurozone to pursue crisis action, Fitch doubts outcome Reuters

BRUSSELS - The euro zone will tackle its debt crisis this week by offering more cash to the IMF and longterm liquidity to banks, while moving WRZDUG WLJKWHU ÂżVFDO UXOHV DIWHU UDWLQJV agency Fitch cast doubt on its capacity to respond decisively. “We all know that Europe has not been able to convince markets that its governance set-up and its measures against the crisis were enough,â€? Italian Deputy Economy Minister Vittorio Grilli said in a newspaper interview published Sunday. “More integration and more effective instruments are needed.We are not yet there,â€? he told Il Sole 24 Ore. In Singapore, spot silver fell two percent to $29.08 an ounce early Monday amid a broad retreat in commodities and equities in reaction to the warning by Fitch that it might downgrade France and six other euro zone countries.

The euro also fell in Asia on concern about progress toward resolving the euro zone’s debt crisis. The euro was down 0.3 percent at $1.3004.

Euro zone leaders agreed on December 9 to write into national constitutions a rule that budgets have to be balanced or in surplus in structural terms. If they are not, automatic corrective measures would follow.

Such rules would sharply limit government borrowing, bring down debt and, euro zone politicians hope, help restore market trust in the sustainDELOLW\ RI SXEOLF ÂżQDQFHV But constitutional changes will take a year or more and markets want reassurance now that money invested in euro zone debt is safe, especially after banks were asked to accept a 50 percent loss on their Greek bonds in October as part of a second bailout of the country which sparked the debt crisis.

European leaders have belatedly insisted that the Greek case was unique and did not set a precedent.

To address market concerns that they do not have enough money to SUHYHQW WKH FULVLV IURP HQJXOÂżQJ ,WDO\ and Spain, euro zone leaders brought forward by one year to July 2012 the launch of their 500 billion euro permanent bailout fund.

ECB President Mario Draghi told Monday’s Financial Times that euro zone politicians needed to move fast to make the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) operational, as any delay would end up raising the cost.

Euro zone leaders also agreed to offer 150 billion euros in bilateral loans

WR WKH ,0) WR UDLVH LWV FULVLV ÂżJKWLQJ capacity. Up to 50 billion euros more might come from non-euro zone European countries and possibly more from outside Europe.

(XUR ]RQH ¿QDQFH PLQLVWHUV ZLOO discuss at a Monday teleconference the GUDIW WH[W RI WKH QHZ HXUR ]RQH ¿VFDO FRPSDFW VR WKDW LW FDQ EH ¿QDOL]HG E\ WKH HQG RI -DQXDU\ (8 RI¿FLDOV VDLG There are still doubts about this scheme. Germany’s Bundesbank said last week it would only contribute if non-euro zone and non-European countries did too and the level of outside commitment is not clear.

Ministers will also discuss Monday the voting method in the euro zone’s permanent bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM).

Leaders decided on December 9 to abolish unanimity in ESM voting to prevent small countries blocking major decisions.

Finland objects to the change, because to accept it the Finnish government would have to have a two thirds majority in parliament, which it does not have.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble tried to show his backing for the permanent bailout mechanism in an interview published Monday, by saying his country may pay its full contribution to the mechanism next year. “It is clear that the sooner and the more paid-in capital the ESM has, the PRUH LW JDLQV WUXVW RQ WKH ÂżQDQFLDO PDUkets,â€? regional paper Rheinische Post Duesseldorf quoted him as saying. “My priority is to create trust.â€?

Leaders will decide in March if the combined lending capacity of the temporary fund, the 440 billion euro EFSF, and the ESM, should be capped at 500 billion euros, or raised by the amount already spent by the EFSF. “It is clear that in the short term, to ÂżJKW WKH FULVLV RI WKH VLQJOH FXUUHQF\ the bailout instruments, such as the EFSF and ESM funds, must be reinforced,â€? Italy’s Grilli said.

Italy’s austerity budget, vital for Rome’s attempts to get its accounts in order and do its part to try to save WKH HXUR IURP FROODSVH HQWHUV LWV ¿QDO stretch this week with unions still on the warpath.

Market response to the December 9 summit has been cool, mainly because of the reluctance of the European Central Bank to step up euro zone bond purchases and declare its readiness to do so.

Saudi prince invests $300 million in Twitter Associated Press

DUBAI — Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal says he and his investment company are investing a combined $300 million into the microblogging site Twitter.

Alwaleed said Monday the joint investment with his Kingdom Holding Company represents an interest in investing “in promising, highgrowth businesses with a global impact.�

Twitter allows users to send short messages of up to 140 characters. It has been instrumental in connecting protesters and relaying on-theground developments during this year’s Arab Spring uprisings.

Alwaleed’s KHC is a major shareholder in Citigroup and holds stakes in other large stakes in other western giants, including Apple and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.

Online holiday spending rises 15 percent Reuters

Consumers spent $30.9 billion toward online purchases during the current holiday season, a 15 percent increase from the year-ago period, as shoppers took advantage of free shipping and other online deals, according to comScore. comScore also said spending has reached a crescendo for this season and will begin to slow as Christmas nears.

Sales surpassed $1 billion on four days during the work week of December 12-16, said comScore, a FORVHO\ ZDWFKHG :HE WUDFNLQJ ÂżUP “Free shipping is undoubtedly one of the most important incentives for consumers and has become a key driver of online buying activity over the past few years,â€? comScore Chairman Gian Fulgoni said

in a statement. comScore said “Cyber Mondayâ€? has become the top-ranked shopping day for the second year in a row. &\EHU 0RQGD\ LV WUDGLWLRQDOO\ WKH ÂżUVW 0RQGD\ DIWHU 7KDQNVJLYLQJ ZKHQ HPSOR\HHV UHWXUQ WR RIÂżFHV DQG purchase items with their work computers.

J.C. Penney and other department stores, including Kohl’s Corp and Macy’s, used Facebook a lot more this year to attract online shoppers.

J.C. Penney released its Black Friday deals on Facebook, allowing customers to browse the promotions, create shareable wish lists and send tips to friends.

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Holiday Christmas shoppers and others walk down a busy shopping street in Antwerp, Belgium, on Sunday Dec. 18, 2011. Consumers spent $30.9 billion toward online purchases during the current holiday season, a 15 percent increase from the year-ago period, as shoppers took advantage of free shipping and other online deals, according to comScore.

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‘Batman’ star Bale tries to visit China activist Associated Press Writer

BEIJING — “Batman” star Christian Bale, in the midst of promoting a film he made in China that some critics have called propaganda, was physically stopped by government-backed guards from visiting a blind activist living under house arrest — with a CNN crew in tow to record the scuffle. CNN posted footage of the confrontation on its website Friday.

The run-in and publicity is likely to cause discomfort in China’s government-backed film industry, which hopes Bale’s movie “The Flowers of War” will be a creative success at home and abroad. The star’s actions are sure to focus attention on the plight of Chen Guangcheng, guarded around the clock by burly, aggressive security men who have blocked dozens of reporters and fellow activists trying to see him in the past.

Bale was to leave China on Friday and his representatives could not immediately be reached for comment. Bale, who won a best supporting actor Oscar for last year’s “The Fighter,” traveled Thursday with a crew from CNN to the village in eastern China where Chen, the blind lawyer, lives with his family in complete isolation. They were stopped at the entrance to Dongshigu village in Shandong province by unidentified men.

The video footage shows Bale asking to see Chen, with a CNN producer providing interpretation, but being ordered by one of the guards to leave. He then asked why he was unable to pass through.

The guards responded by trying to grab or punch a small video camera Bale was carrying.

“What I really wanted to do was to meet the man, shake his hand and say what an inspiration he is,” Bale was quoted as saying by CNN. Chen’s case has been raised publicly by U.S. lawmakers and diplomats, including Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, all to no response from China.

CNN said Bale first learned of Chen from news reports when he was in China filming “The Flowers of War,” China’s official submisAP Photo/Andy Wong sion this year for best forIn this photo taken on Monday, Dec. eign language film Oscar.

12, 2011, English actor Christian “Chen Guangcheng is a Bale speaks to journalists during newsworthy figure ... and an interview on the red carpet as as such it is in the interest he arrives for an event of the Zhang of CNN’s global viewers Yimou-directed new movie “The to hear from him,” CNN Flowers of War” in Beijing, China. said in a statement.

AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures, Daniel Smith

In this image released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Jared Harris portraying Professor James Moriarty, left, and Robert Downey Jr., portraying Sherlock Holmes, are shown in a scene from “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

Downey dips, ‘Sherlock’ slips with $40M debut Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Sherlock Holmes is facing his worst enemy: declining crowds at theaters as this year’s domestic movie attendance dips to the lowest in 16 years. Robert Downey Jr.’s sequel “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” debuted on top with a $40 million weekend, off 36 percent from the first installment’s $62.3 million opening two years ago, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The first movie opened over Christmas weekend, one of the busiest times for movie theaters. Distributor Warner Bros. predicts the “Holmes” sequel, which pits Downey’s detective against archrival Professor Moriarty, will make up the lost ground over the holidays.

“The pattern is different,” said Dan Fellman, the studio’s head of distribution. “What you can put in the bank those nine days before the official Christmas

play time, that’s the difference between our opening with a bigger number on Christmas day and opening early this time. At the end of the holiday period, we should be in the same place.”

The “Holmes” sequel opened in six overseas markets, including the detective’s native Britain, and took in $14.7 million to bring its worldwide total to $54.7 million. After two previous weekends that were Hollywood’s

worst of the year, overall business was down again, about 12 percent lower than the same weekend in 2010 as Hollywood struggles to interest audiences in its big year-end releases.

Paul Dergarabedian, an analyst for box-office tracker Hollywood.com, estimated that the number of tickets sold domestically in 2011 will come in below 1.3 billion. That would be the lowest attendance since 1995, when admissions totaled 1.26 billion.

Domestic attendance in modern times peaked at 1.6 billion in 2002 and has been on a generally decline since.

“These low-attendance numbers are taking the gas out of the tank,” Dergarabedian said. “All the momentum we had kind of came to a dead stop.”

Madonna inks Interscope deal, new album in January Reuters

NEW YORK - Madonna inked a deal with Interscope Records that will allow the label run by Jimmy Iovine to release the albums that were originally contracted to Live Nation Entertainment under an ambitious deal that appears to be shrinking in scope.

She plans to release her first album for Interscope next month, first studio album in five years.

A source familiar with the deal’s terms said it could be worth between $20 million and $40 million for Madonna and Live Nation combined.

Madonna walked away from a 24year relationship with Warner Music

Group to sign a broad $120 million 10-year deal with Live Nation Entertainment that encompassed touring, ticketing, merchandise, digital assets and three albums.

At the time Live Nation executives had privately predicted its Madonna deal was a sign of a change in the struggling recorded music business that would eventually make traditional music labels irrelevant. It also signed hip-hop artist Jay-Z and rockers Nickelback to similar multi-year so-called ‘360 degree deals’.

But Live Nation’s concert and ticketing business has been hit by the wider economic downturn and sources said the company needs major labels after

all to get the marketing and distribution heft required to promote major artists like Madonna and Jay-Z. Since Live Nation did the deal with Madonna in October 2007 its shares have fallen more than 60 percent. In Feb 2010 it closed its deal to merge with the world’s large ticketing company Ticketmaster after a year-long regulatory inquiry.

Madonna is kicking off her Interscope relationship with an album set for release in the last week in January ahead of her upcoming halftime appearance at the Super Bowl on Feb 5. The 53-year old singer also plans to release her new movie ‘W.E’ on Feb 3.

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Delhi’s air as dirty as ever despite some reforms Associated Press Writer

NEW DELHI — A decade ago, plans for a metro and clean-fuel buses were hailed as New Delhi’s answer to pollution. But air in the Indian capital is as dirty as ever — partly because breakneck development has brought skyrocketing use of cars.

AP Photo/Saurabh Das

In this Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011 photo, India Gate, the war memorial, is seen through haze in New Delhi, India. A decade ago, plans for a metro and clean-fuel buses were hailed as New Delhi’s answer to pollution.

US breakthrough in live cancer cells Agance France Presse

alized medicine,” said lead author Richard Schlegel, chairman of the department of paUS researchers said Monday they have thology at Georgetown University’s Lombardi discovered how to keep tumor cells alive in Comprehensive Cancer Center. the lab, generating buzz in the scientific com“The therapies would be exactly from munity about a potential breakthrough that their tissues. We would get normal tissue could transform cancer treatment. and tumor tissue from a particular patient Until now, scientists have been unable to and specifically match up their therapies,” make cancer cells thrive for very long in the labo- Schlegel told AFP. “We are really excited ratory in a condition that resembles the way they about the possibilities of testing what we can look and act in the body. Doctors have largely do with this.” relied on biopsied tissue that is frozen or set in The method, described in the online ediwax to diagnose and recommend treatment. tion of the American Journal of Pathology, The advance has sparked new hope that borrows on a simple method used in stem someday doctors may be able to test a host of cell research, experts said. Lung, breast, cancer-killing drugs on a person’s own tumor prostate and colon cancers were kept alive for cells in the lab, before returning to the patient up to two years using the technique, which with a therapy that is likely to be a good match. combines fibroblast feeder cells to keep cells “This would really be the ultimate in person- alive and a Rho kinase (ROCK) inhibitor that allows them to reproduce.

When treated with the duo, both cancer and normal cells reverted to a “stem-like state,” Schlegel said, allowing researchers to compare the living cells directly for the first time. The two elements have previously been used separately in stem cell research, according to Yale University pathology professor AFP Photo/Sandy Huffaker File illustration photo shows a dish of stem cell cultures in a lab. US David Rimm, who researchers said Monday they have discovered how to keep tumor wrote a commentary cells alive in a lab, generating buzz in the scientific community about that accompanies the article. a potential breakthrough that could transform cancer treatment.

Citywide pollution sensors routinely register levels of small airborne particles at two or sometimes three times its own sanctioned level for residential areas, putting New Delhi up with Beijing, Cairo and Mexico City at the top of indexes listing the world’s most-polluted capitals.

Sunrises in India’s capital filter through near-opaque haze, scenic panoramas feature ribbons of brown air and everywhere, it seems, someone is coughing.

“My family is very worried. Earlier, the smoke and dust stayed outside, but now it comes into the house,” said 61-year-old shopkeeper Hans Raj Wadhawan, a one-time smoker now being treated for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the Delhi Heart and Lung Institute. “I can see the air is bad again, and I can feel it in my chest.”

New Delhi could lay some of the blame on its own success. Its recently minted middle class

adds 1,200 cars a day to the 6 million on roads already snarled with incessantly honking traffic.

Generous diesel subsidies promote the use of diesel-powered SUVs that belch some of the highest levels of carcinogenic particles, thanks to their reliance on one of the dirtiest-burning fuels and low Indian emissions standards.

“The city has lost nearly all of the gains it made in 2004 and 2005,” said Anumita Roychowdhury, executive director of research at the Delhi-based Center for Science and Environment.

New Delhi has undergone head-spinning expansion as Indian economic reforms in the 1990s ushered in two decades of record growth. Once a manageable capital of 9.4 million where cows, bicycles and bullock carts ruled the road, New Delhi today is a gridlocked metropolis and migrant mecca now home to 16 million.

6FLHQWLVWV ‫ۋ‬QG DQVZHU WR supernova riddle Agence France Presse

The discovery of a supernova only hours after its explosion has probably solved a longstanding mystery on the origin of the brightest known phenomena in the Universe, scientists reported Wednesday. On August 24, scientists witnessed the spectacular eruption of light and energy thrown off by the birth of SN 2011fe, the brightest and -- at a mere 20.9 million light years away -- closest-to-Earth supernova in over 25 years.

One light year is the distance that light travels in 365 Earth days, about 9.46 trillion kilometres or 5.87 trillion miles. “We caught the supernova just 11 hours after it exploded, so soon that we were later able to calculate the actual moment of the explosion within 20 minutes,” said Peter Nugent of the US Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and lead

author of one of two studies, both published in Nature.

“With this close-up look, we found things nobody had dreamed of,” he said in a statement. Brightness thrown off by the violent stellar blast of type 1a supernovas is the yardstick for measuring distances across space.

This was crucial in this year’s Nobel Prize winning discovery that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating and not slowing down, as once thought. Up to now, astronomers had advanced three competing scenarios to explain the origin of 1a supernovas, rare events that only happen once every couple of hundred years in a galaxy such as our own.

In all three, a so-called white dwarf -- an ageing star in decline -- steals matter, and energy, from a companion star until the white dwarf explodes in a flash a billion times brighter than our Sun.

The host galaxy of the supernova SN 2011fe, the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), is seen before the supernova’s explosion by the Hubble Space Telescope (R).

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Manchester City’s David Silva, right, celebrates after scoring a goal against Bayern Munich during their Champions League group A soccer match at the Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England, Wednesday Dec. 7, 2011.

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LONDON - David Silva restored Manchester City’s two-point lead in the Premier League with a 1-0 win over Arsenal on Sunday after Wayne Rooney had helped Manchester United go top with a lightning header. Silva’s 53rd-minute tap-in at the far post from close range, after Wojciech Szczesny parried a fierce shot by Mario Balotelli and Sergio Aguero nodded on the rebound, condemned the Gunners to a 1-0 defeat in an end-to-end thriller at the Etihad.

While Arsenal proved tough nuts to crack in freezing Manchester, where the Londoners posed a constant threat, United were 1-0 up after just 52 seconds at promoted Queens Park Rangers thanks to Rooney’s diving effort.

Michael Carrick followed up his England team mate’s 12th league goal of the season with his first in nearly two years for United to settle the scoreline at 2-0. City have 41 points from 16 matches, with United on 39.

Tottenham Hotspur kept up the pressure, beating Sunderland 1-0 at White Hart Lane to take third place on 34 points with a game in hand on the leaders. Roman Pavlyuchenko grabbed the winner in the 61st.

Chelsea, who drew 1-1 at relegation-threatened Wigan Athletic on Saturday, fell to fourth on 32 points with Arsenal fifth on 29 and ahead of Liverpool, 2-0 winners at Aston Villa, on goal difference.

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AS Roma put recent internal problems behind them and won 3-1 at Champions League contenders Napoli, who are struggling to compete on two fronts. An early own goal by Napoli goalkeeper Morgan De Sanctis put Roma on course and Pablo Osvaldo added the second just before the hour. Marek Hamsik pulled one back before Fabio Simplicio completed the scoring.

Andrea Ranocchia’s second-half goal gave Claudio Ranieri’s Inter their ¿IWK ZLQ LQ VL[ OHDJXH JDPHV DW Cesena, although they were somewhat lucky as the Sea Horses had most of the play and chances. Parma scored WZLFH LQ WKH ODVW ¿YH PLQXWHV WR GUDZ 3-3 with Lecce, Genoa beat Bologna 2-1 and Catania overcame Palermo 2-0 in Sunday afternoon’s other games.

Juventus are on 33 points, two DKHDG RI $& 0LODQ ZKR EULHĂ€\ went top with a 2-0 home win over Siena on Saturday, and Udinese.

Lazio have 29 and Inter 23. Quagliarella, who has a knack of scoring spectacular goals, last hit the net against Chievo on Dec 19 last year but shortly afterwards suffered a knee ligament injury which ruled him out for the rest of last season. “This is the cherry on the cake,� the Italy international told Juve’s website (www.juventus.com). “It hasn’t been easy in the last months but I’ve always felt I had the backing of the coach and the team.�

Alessandro Del Piero was given a rare start this season for Juventus who needed only four minutes to break the deadlock and Pepe turned in Paolo De Ceglie’s low cross at the far post. DomiAP Photo/Massimo Pinca nating the game, Juve missed a hatful of chances before Quagli- Juventus midďŹ elder Claudio Marchisio, left, kicks the ball past arella headed in from a corner Novara’s Francesco Marianini during a Serie A soccer match at the Juventus stadium in Turin, Italy, Sunday, Dec.18, 2011. with 15 minutes left.

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Thorpe dismisses comeback concerns Reuters

MELBOURNE - Five-times Olympic champion Ian Thorpe has dismissed concerns about his underwhelming return to the pool as “premature�, after disappointing at another meeting in Italy over the weekend.

7KRUSH ÂżQLVKHG WK IDVWHVW RYHUDOO in the 100 meters freestyle at the Italian Winter Open in Riccione, then 10th in the 200m, with times well short of what he would need to qualify for the Australian team at the Olympic trials in March. “It’s important that I race, whether it’s a good result or a bad result, I have to keep racing at this stage,â€? the 29year-old was quoted as saying by The Australian newspaper on Monday. “But whether it’s the 100 or the 200, racing still feels unfamiliar to me. It doesn’t feel like I know how to do it yet. But I race again in three weeks (at the Victorian titles), and each time I

race, things come back. I’m happy with how I raced. “I don’t look at where I come in the race. I look at the time, how fast it is. I watch it, I critique my race after it but I have no control of what the others are doing. It’s not a concern now, maybe later, but now it’s too premature.�

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National head coach Leigh Nugent also warned against writing off the swimmer nicknamed “Thorpedoâ€?. Âł)RU DQ\ SXEOLF ÂżJXUH OLNH ,DQ HYeryone has an opinion,â€? Nugent said. “Often most of them are ill-informed, so we’ll just keep doing what we are doing. “We’re not looking for a result now, ÂżUVW RI DOO LWÂśV DERXW PDNLQJ WKH WHDP then looking for a result in London, which is a fair way off yet.â€?

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Amir Khan reacts after losing against Lamont Peterson during the Capital Showdown: Khan v Peterson WBA/IBF World light-welterweight title bout at Washington Convention Center on December 10, in Washington, DC.

Khan loses appeal over Peterson loss Agence France Presse

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Khan was penalised two points by referee Joe Cooper for pushing -- charges that the Englishman denied.

But on Sunday the International Boxing Federation (IBF) said they were happy with the decision taken by the referee. “We found no discrepancies that would affect the outcome or the result of the fight,�

IBF championships chairman Lindsay Tucker was quoted by the BBC. “We decided not to order

an immediate rematch on the basis of the fact that in the rules, if the referee feels that it’s a foul, then that’s his call to take a point. He did warn Khan several times before he actually WRRN WKH ¿UVW SRLQW ´ Khan said after the majority decision defeat in Washington that he felt robbed of a rightful triumph and has put his plans to move up to the welterweight UDQNV RQ KROG XQWLO KH FDQ ¿JKW D rematch against the American.

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Khan for pushing in the seventh and 12th rounds and those SURYHG WKH GLIIHUHQFH LQ D ÂżJKW where two judges saw Peterson a 113-112 winner and the third gave it to Khan 115-100. “It was like I was in there against two people, the referee and Lamont,â€? Khan said. “I had to push him away because he was coming in so low with his head. There was nothing I could do. It was either push him away or get headbutted.â€?

Tigana insists China move not about money ÂŁ200,000 ($313,000) a week. “I have been lucky to coach in England and Turkey, and this will be an incredible adventure -- another culture, Former Fulham and Monaco boss Jean Tigana said another nationalityâ€?, Tigana said at a news conference in Sunday his move to coach Chinese Super League side Shanghai. Âł0\ FKRLFH LV QRW ÂżQDQFLDO LW LV IRU VSRUW DQG OLIH ´ Shanghai Shenua was not about money but about “sport and lifeâ€?.

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The signing of Anelka, 32, was by far the biggest coup IRU &KLQDÂśV VFDQGDO KLW 6XSHU /HDJXH ZKHUH 6KHQXD ÂżQished 11th last season. “He is a quality player he will be an advantage to the club,â€?, Tigana said of the ex-Arsenal and Real Madrid man.

Tigana played alongside French football great Michel Platini for the national side and went on to coach at Lyon, Monaco, Fulham and Besiktas. He quit his job at Bordeaux in France in May after a disappointing run of results.

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McLaren Formula One driver Jenson Button of Britain drives during the first practice session of the Brazilian F1 Grand Prix at the Interlagos circuit in Sao Paulo November 25, 2011.

Silverstone’s ‘masterplan’ gets planning approval SILVERSTONE has received planning permission for its ‘masterplan’, the latest stage in its major revamp programme.

Recent years have seen the track layout heavily revised, and a new pit and paddock complex constructed between Club and Abbey, where the start/finish straight is now located.

The masterplan stage will see the addition of a new business park, technology park, education campus, three hotels, plus new spectator and leisure facilities.

Richard Phillips, managing director of Silverstone Holdings Ltd, hailed the planning

approval as a major moment in the circuit’s history.

“We are delighted with the outcome and approval of this planning application - this is the most important initiative that Silverstone has taken in its 60-year history as the Home of British Motor Racing,” he said.

“This planning will help maintain Silverstone’s position as a leading global centre for sport, leisure, education and technology and retain its position as a world-leading motorsport destination.

“I would also like to take this opportunity to thank both

Aylesbury Vale and South Northamptonshire Councils, for the way in which the two

planning authorities have worked together on this application.”

McLaren will have its new car ready for the first test of 2012, after the team confirmed on Monday it will be launched on 1 February.

With tougher crash test regulations in place for next year, allied to a two-week wo-week gap g between the first and second test, it had been expected that a number of outfits could choose to delay the launch of their new cars to make the velopmen time. most of extra development Laren’s an However, McLaren’s announcement that the MP4-27 will be ready forr the open opening test at Jerez, which takes uary 7-10 place from February 7-10, means the team follows Ferrari and Red Bull Racing in opting to get running as early as possible. Mercede Mercedes GP is the only frontrunning outfit so far to reveal that it is deliberately missing the first test to instead launch its new car at the second test at Barcelona, which runs from February 21. Team principal Ross Brawn said earlier this year that he had no qualms about that decision.

“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,” he said. “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.”