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Thursday, March 3, 2016
Rolling Stones announce historic free concert in Havana
HAVANA - The Rolling Stones will perform a free outdoor concert in Havana on March 25, the band announced on Tuesday, a milestone event in a country where the communist government once banned the group’s music as an “ideological deviation.” The band added the Concert for Amity show - likely to be the biggest rock concert ever staged in Cuba - to a Latin American tour that had been due to end on March 17 in Mexico City. The performance will come three days after U.S. President Barack Obama is due to conclude a visit to Cuba, the first by an American president since 1928. Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro announced in December 2014 they would seek to normalize relations after more than half a century of Cold War animosity. The concert, which will be filmed, is set to take place on fields surrounding Havana’s Ciudad Deportiva, a 26-hectare (64-acre) sports complex. It will mark the first openair concert in Cuba by a British rock band, the group said. “We have performed in many special places during our long career but this show in Havana is going to be a landmark event for us and, we hope, for all our friends in Cuba too,” the band said in a statement accompanied by an image of its four current members - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood.
After the 1959 revolution that brought Fidel Castro, Raul’s brother, to power the Caribbean nation censured the group formed in London in 1962, as well as the Beatles and Elvis Presley. Fidel Castro ultimately lamented the music censorship and attended the unveiling of a statue of late former Beatle John Lennon in a Havana park on the 20th anniversary of his death on Dec. 8, 2000. “I very much regret not having known you before,” Castro said during the ceremony. At the statue on Tuesday, tour guide Julio Garcia reacted with joy to the news of the Stones’ visit, which was filtering out slowly on the island. “Los Rolling in Cuba? Wow!” he said. “We have been waiting for them here for many years.” Armando Gonzalez, 57, drove up in a blue and white Chevrolet built in 1954, before either the revolution or the Rolling Stones had tasted success. “Their music has no borders,” he said. “Now there is an opening and we will be able to enjoy them fully.” (rtr)
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EU On Brink Of Refugee ‘Humanitarian Crisis’
Europe faces a “self-induced humanitarian crisis” as thousands of refugees are caught between the border of Greece and Macedonia. The United Nations has warned that Europe is on the brink of a “selfinduced humanitarian crisis” caused by the build-up of migrants and refugees on Greece’s border with Macedonia.
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British veteran rockers The Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger sings next to band member Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts during a concert on their “Latin America Ole Tour” in Santiago, Chile February 3, 2016.
Review: Disney’s ‘Zootopia’ is wildly entertaining
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This image released by Disney shows Judy Hopps, voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin, left, Nick Wilde, voiced by Jason Bateman, second left, in a scene from the animated film, “Zootopia.” LOS ANGELES — Just when it was looking like animated animal movies had run out of anything original to say, along comes the smartly amusing, crisply relevant “Zootopia” to handily demonstrate there’s still plenty of bite left in the anthropomorphic CG menagerie.
Boasting a pitch perfect voice cast led by a terrific Ginnifer Goodwin as a righteous rural rabbit who becomes the first cotton-tailed police recruit in the mammal-centric city of “Zootopia,” the 3-D caper expertly combines keen wit with a gentle, and very timely, message of inclusivity and empowerment.
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The engaging result should easily appeal to all creatures great and small, giving this premium Walt Disney Animation Studios effort a paw up on spring break entertainment, not to mention the summer arrival of Universal’s animated “The Secret Life of Pets.” As the Zootopia Police Department’s sole bunny officer, idealistic Judy Hopps (Goodwin) discovers that breaking barriers can be an uphill climb, especially when the other cops in the force are mainly of the more imposing elephant/rhino/hippo ilk. Although intrepid Judy can’t wait to collar her first perp, Bogo (Idris Elba), Precinct 1’s gruff cape buffalo police chief, has other plans, assigning her to parking duty, where she proves her worth by writing 200 tickets before noon on her first day. But when a number of “Zootopia’s” residents abruptly go missing, Bogo gives Judy the green light to do some big time police work and she finds herself partnering up with Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), a sly, worldweary scam artist of a fox, in a 48-hour bid to crack the case. Nimbly directed by Byron Howard (“Tangled,” ‘’Bolt”) and Rich Moore (“Wreck-It Ralph”), along with co-director Jared Bush, who shares screenplay credit with Phil John-
ston, the romp serves up plenty of sharply observed satire (a DMV manned entirely by sloths is played to hilariously protracted effect) wrapped up in judicious life lessons that never feel preachy or shoehorned-in. While Goodwin and Bateman are a voicecasting dream team come true as a dysfunctional duo who learn to follow their instincts over preconceived notions, they’re joined by a nicely diverse supporting ensemble that also includes J.K. Simmons, Tommy Chong, Octavia Spencer and Shakira as a gazelle pop star who performs the film’s original song, “Try Everything,” co-written by hit-makers Sia and Stargate. Also making their lines count are Jenny Slate as a not-so-sheepish sheep who serves as “Zootopia’s” predator-averse assistant mayor and Maurice LaMarsh as an arctic shrew version of Don Corleone named Mr. Big. Visually, the “Zootopia” canvas pops — with or without the 3-D glasses — thanks to a gorgeously vibrant color palette and whimsical architectural scales orchestrated by production designer David Goetz. His work is in keeping with an all-mammal parallel universe comprised of distinct microclimates like sunny Bunnyburrow, icy Tundratown and self-explanatory Little Rodentia. (ap)
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Migrants, who are waiting to cross the Greek-Macedonian border, carry a tent, near the village of Idomeni, Greece March 2, 2016.
Food, water and shelter are in short supply for the rising number of families gathering at the border between the two countries. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says better planning and more accommodation must be provided for some 24,000 people who are stuck in Greece. A refugee stands next to a tent at a relocation camp where stranded refugees and migrants wait to cross the Greek-Macedonian border, near the Greek village of Idomeni A refugee stands near a tent on the Greece-Macedonia border “Europe is on the cusp of a largely self-induced humanitarian crisis,” UN refugee agency spokesman Adrian Edwards said. “The crowded conditions are leading to shortages of food, shelter, water and sanitation. It comes as German Chancellor Angela Merkel said clashes at Greece’s northern border on Monday showed the urgency with which the EU needs to act. Army trucks have been stationed at a railway line near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija in anticipation of more trouble after hundreds stormed the border - prompting police to fire tear gas as several migrants were nearly trampled
and one officer injured. Near Idomeni on the Greek-Macedonian border itself a tent city has grown, leading to anger among those trapped there. “Macedonian police put us here, the Greeks don’t want us back,” said Yase Qued, a 16-year-old from Afghanistan. Many refugees have been caught in Greece after Austria and other countries imposed restrictions on their borders, limiting the number of people allowed to cross. Police chiefs from Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia, meeting in Belgrade, agreed to improve the system of joint registration of refugees to unblock gridlocks in Greece. Some 131,724 refugees have crossed the Mediterranean already this year, more than in the first half of 2015, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).(rtr) 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.
Without being mediated, horizontal conflicts will steadily heat up
DENPASAR - The struggle of Balinese people related to rejection against the Benoa Bay reclamation plan continues to be inflamed. Even though various measures have been
undertaken such as demonstration, sending letters of rejection and others, the leaders of Bali and central government seem to keep silent. Though seeing such massive rejection, no leaders, either the executive or the legislative, speak up so far. One of the environmental observers, Prof. Dr. Putu Rumawan Salain, said on Monday (Feb. 29) that seeing
the silence of the leaders in Bali, he worried what Balinese people do all this time is considered to have no courage because when calling out continuously, they are considered to scream nonsense. “In principle, smart leaders must look at the situation as it is today. If this is not managed well, it means the desire of customary people is not mediated.
More worryingly, horizontal conflict can steadily heat up,” he said. Thus, the leaders of Bali are asked not to go blind and deaf, but they should be able to see the reality. In other words, no matter how small the rejection related to the reclamation plan at Benoa Bay is, it is an aspiration and should be quickly responded. This is done to
prevent undesirable things. “Our senior figures tell us it is just like the proverb ‘One rotten apple will spoil the whole barrel.’ That is, do not let Bali be broken. If the reclamation project is promising this or that, let it be in another place,” he said. Conflicts.... continued on page 2