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Monday, July 7, 2014
Prince returns for Essence’s 20th celebration Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Uttering his signature, “We are gathered here today to get through this thing called life,” Prince opened his set for the 20th celebration of the Essence Festival and showed thousands Friday why a 10-year wait isn’t a bad thing.
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As the first licks of “Let’s Go Crazy,” rang throughout the Superdome, thousands in the audience — already on their feet in anticipation — stayed there until the final rifts of “Purple Rain” left the air. It was the second time the crowd got a taste of “Let’s Go Crazy.” Earlier, he made a surprise cameo appearance during Janelle Monae’s rendition of the song. Prince closed the festival’s main stage with a litany of his hits, including “Kiss,” ‘’Raspberry Beret,” ‘’When Doves Cry,” ‘’Controversy,” ‘’1999,” and a sloweddown version of “Little Red Corvette” and “Nothing Compares to You.” Ten years ago, Prince headlined that
anniversary, reuniting with some of the players in his musical past — Morris Day and The Time, guitarist Wendy Melvoin and former protege Sheila E. The highenergy show ended with an emotional performance of Prince’s megahit “Purple Rain.” In 2014, he again ended his show with “Purple Rain,” to the delight of the crowd. Singer Lianne Le Halvas joined him in a duet on “Sometimes It Snows in April,” before New Orleans’ own Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews con-
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tributed a soaring solo. Andrews jammed the final portion of the show, which included covers of “The Bird” and “Jungle Love,” made famous by Prince associates, Morris Day and The Time and Shelia E’s “Glamorous Life.” He left the stage, telling the crowd, “Good night, New Orleans.” For at least two minutes, the stage stayed dark before the familiar strains of his signature song, “Purple Rain,” wafted through the air and his silhouette returned. “Thirty years ago today this was the sound,” he said. “You can sing if you want to.” And sing, they did.
Van Persie’s misses nearly cost Dutch at World Cup
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Red Cross: 18 dead in attacks in Kenyan coast
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McCartney returns to stage after hospitalization Associated Press
ALBANY — Paul McCartney returned to a concert stage Saturday after being sidelined for two months because of a virus, spinning out songs from the Beatles, Wings and a solo career that has spanned more than 50 years of rock ‘n’ roll. “It’s great to be back,” said McCartney, who turned 72 two weeks ago. He looked none the worse for wear, putting on a show of just under three hours with 38 songs before finishing with the three-song medley that ends the “Abbey Road” album. McCartney was briefly hospitalized in Tokyo in May because of the viral infection. The illness forced him to cancel a Japanese tour and a concert in South Korea and reschedule half a dozen June dates in the United States before resuming his “Out There” tour in Albany. Before his illness, McCartney last performed May 1 in
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Sir Paul McCartney performs with his band during the “Out There” Tour at the Times Union Center on Saturday, July 5, 2014, in Albany, N.Y.
Costa Rica. McCartney opened with the Beatles’ “Eight Days a Week.” He wore black jeans and a sky blue blazer. When he took the jacket off four songs in, he joked that it was the only wardrobe change of the evening. The crowd-pleasing show contained a mix of expected hits like “Hey Jude” and “Let it Be,” four songs from McCartney’s latest album and a generous sampling from more obscure corners of his catalog, including the Beatles’ songs “Lovely Rita” and “Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite” and Wings work such as “Another Day” and “1985.” Most of the 1980s and 1990s were passed over. He paid tribute to the two late members of the Beatles, singing “Here Today” to former songwriting partner John Lennon, which McCartney described as the conversation they never had. He began playing George Harrison’s song “Something” on the ukulele, and it built into a full band rendition. McCartney also honored another late rock star, Jimi Hendrix, with an instrumental interlude of “Purple Haze.” McCartney’s wife, Nancy, was on hand and he dedicated the song “My Valentine” to her. Perhaps one oblique reference to his absence was the new song, “On My Way to Work,” which McCartney said he hadn’t performed publicly before. During his second encore, he brought a couple from Rochester onstage after the woman held up a sign saying her boyfriend wouldn’t marry her until he met McCartney. After the man led the audience in a verse of “When I’m 64” to honor his age, he went to his knees and successfully proposed. “And he booked us for the wedding,” McCartney joked. It’s a busy year for McCartney, who marked the 50th anniversary of his first appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” this winter, which marked the beginning of Beatlemania in the United States. He has 19 U.S. shows scheduled, including one at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, where the Beatles made their final concert appearance in 1966. The other surviving ex-Beatle, Ringo Starr, is also on the road this summer.
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The photo showed a shabby district at Denpasar city. The effort of Bali government to suppress the poor population growth has not showed a result. Data of Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) of Bali, mentioned if the number of poor people in the past six months (September 2013-March 2014) increased to the tune of 2,430 people.
Growth of poor people reaches 2,430 people
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DENPASAR - The effort of Bali government to suppress the poor population growth has not showed a result. Data of Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) of Bali, mentioned if the number of poor people in the past six months (September 2013-March 2014) increased to the tune of 2,430 people. “The number of poor people in March 2014 reached 185,200 people, whereas in last September amounted to 182,770 people, so there is an increase of 0.04 percent.
We see the development of poverty in Bali is quite volatile,” said the Head of BPS Bali, Panusunan Siregar, in Denpasar. He explained the percentage
of poor people in March 2011 until September 2011 showed an increase, but in the period of September 2011 to September 2012 showed a decrease. However, the percentage of poor people in the period of March 2013 to March 2014 continued to rise. “The factors encouraging poverty rate to rise in Bali include inflation, contraction in the agricultural sector and increase in basic needs,” he said. According to him, the inflation
occurred from the third quarter of 2013 through the first quarter of 2014 reached 1.67 percent in rural areas of Bali. At the same period, the inflation also actually occurred in urban areas. It showed that people in rural areas were more susceptible to the effects of inflation than those in urban areas due to the rise of rural poverty, while in urban areas it actually fell. Meanwhile, negative growth also occurred in the agricultural sector
by 1.95 percent. At same time, there was an increase in the retail price of some basic necessities in Bali such as rice (0.90 percent), cooking oil (4.25 percent) and cayenne pepper (71.65 percent). “When viewed from the area where they live, the poor population in urban areas shows a decrease of 3,130 people. Meanwhile, the poverty rate in rural areas increased as many as 5,560 people,” he said. Continued on page 6