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Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Beyonce offers female empowerment themes at Philly show PHILADELPHIA — Beyoncé sang her usual hits, changed multiple times and hit high notes at the Budweiser Made In America music festival in Philadelphia.
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She also pulled more than ever from her Destiny’s Child catalog, interpolated inspirational words from Maya Angelou and UFC fighter Ronda Rousey and told the feverish audience near the end of her 90-minute set : “I am so, so happy to celebrate my birthday with y’all.” Beyoncé, who turned 34 on Friday, headlined the first night of her husband’s two-day music festival held on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Though Jay Z didn’t join the pop diva onstage Saturday night, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams’ presence was felt. Sporting a light pink leotard and red knee-high boots, Beyonce kicked off her set with a slow rendition of “Crazy In Love.” It eventually hit its normal tempo, but later she wove in “Bootylicious.” And throughout her set,
the audience watched her energetically perform “Say My Name,” ‘’Jumpin’ Jumpin’” and dance slickly to lyrics from “Independent Women Part I.” “Where my survivors at?” she yelled before performing “Survivor.” “Shout-out to my girl Kelly, I love you. My girl Michelle, I love you,” she said. “If you survived bad relationships, if you survived illnesses. When it gets tough, that’s when you work harder.” Beyonce offered words of encouragement and empowerment, per usual, to the crowd of screaming fans. She took it to a new level when a background dancer moved beautifully to the words of Angelou’s classic “Phenomenal Woman” in between songs, and the audience screamed loudly as recent words from Rousey blasted from the speakers about girls who fall under the category of “do-nothing chicks.”
“The kind of chick that just tries to be pretty and be taken care of by someone else. That’s why I think it’s hilarious if my body looks masculine or something like that. Listen, just because my body was developed for a purpose other than (sleeping with) millionaires doesn’t mean it’s masculine,” said Rousey , who also appeared on the large screen. “There’s not a single muscle on my body that isn’t for a purpose, because I’m not a do-nothing (chick).” Beyonce also performed hits like “7/11,” ‘’Ring the Alarm,” ‘’Run the World (Girls),” ‘’Flawless,” ‘’Halo,” ‘’Love on Top” and “Drunk In Love.” She changed into a bedazzled Philadelphia Sixers shirt before singing “Feeling Myself,” and she closed her set with the upbeat “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It).” Other performers at the Made In America on Saturday included Modest Mouse, Nick Jonas and Meek Mill. The Weeknd will headline the festival Sunday. (ap)
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EU sets new quotas for states for asylum-seekers
BRUSSELS - Germany and France would take nearly half of the 120,000 refugees to be relocated from frontline states under a plan by European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker, a European source said Monday. According to Juncker’s proposal for mandatory quotas for EU states which is set to be unveiled Wednesday, Germany would take 31,443 and France 24,031, to relieve the burden on Greece, Italy and Hungary, the source told AFP. Spain would take 14,931 under the plan, the source said. French President Francois Hollande confirmed in a press conference on Monday that France would take 24,000 refugees over two years. Europe has been spurred into action by public outrage over pictures of the body of Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi, who drowned with his brother and mother while the family were crossing from Turkey to Greece last week. Juncker is due to formally announce his plan for the relocation of 120,000 refugees in his EU State of the Union speech on Wednesday. But many states including Hungary are opposed to quotas, and an earlier Juncker plan for the mandatory relocation of 40,000 refugees was rejected by EU member states at a summit in June. At the time they agreed to take in 32,000 on a voluntary basis. (afp)
Kristen Stewart, Nicholas Hoult get emotional in ‘Equals’ VENICE, Italy — The movie business: What’s love got to do with it? For director Drake Doremus, everything. The American filmmaker behind troubled-love stories “Like Crazy” and “Breathe In” is back with “Equals,” a science-fiction romance that puts Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult into a future society where emotions — messy, disruptive things — have been genetically suppressed for the good of humanity. Their characters, Nia and Silas, develop feelings which blossom into a secret love that shakes their identities and endangers their lives. Doremus — a self-declared romantic — says the film grew from wanting to explore “a world where love is not essential to human beings ... and whether love will always find a way or whether it won’t.” “Cynically finding my way to hope, really,” the director said Saturday at the Venice Film Festival, where “Equals” is one of 21 films competing for the top Golden Lion prize. Stewart shares her director’s passion for feelings,
and thinks the film’s anti-emotional society isn’t too far from our own. “There are aspects of our world that are entirely subdued,” Stewart said during an interview a few hours before the film’s red-carpet world premiere. “Why can’t we be a little f------ crazy some of the time? Why can’t we just feel unabashedly? “Even if you’re a little bit crazy, even if you make mistakes, OK, fine — at least you’re living.” Even so, Stewart acknowledges making this film was “daunting.” She and Hoult are onscreen much of the time, often in close-up, and must bare their emotions with subtle conviction. “I was really scared of it,” she said. The story “was so simple and so basic that it could have been absolute trite, messy nothing — or it could be everything. It could be the most moving emotional experience.” “Equals” has a screenplay by Nathan Parker — who also wrote low-budget lunar hit “Moon” — and is the first film Doremus has shot from a finished script rather than developed through improvisation.
He rehearsed the actors for a week before filming, an experience Hoult said he found liberating. “Often in a script you’ll see (that) your character cries,” the actor said. “And you turn up on the set that day and you think, everyone knows I’m meant to cry now. And it’s suddenly so much pressure. “Drake doesn’t do any of those things. He’s like, just be — and be vulnerable and honest.” The result is a sleek, subdued film that won praise from some viewers in Venice but left others cold. (ap)
Kristen Stewart poses for photographers at the photo call for the film Equals at the 72nd edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015.
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In this Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015 photo refugees, children, women, men, who have arrived by train from Salzburg, Austria, wait on a platform at the central station in Munich, Germany. More than 10000 migrants have arrived in Germany over the past weekend.
Boosting capital spending
Presidential instruction sparks debate
APPARENTLY, President Joko Widodo recently instructed Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung to disseminate a circular to all ministries, agencies and local governments stating that the disregarding of
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particular policies regarding the usage of government budgets will not be libel to criminal prosecution. Many circles have been discussing the pros and cons of this presidential statement aimed at generating capital spending over the next five months. Basically the circular states that certain things related to public policy, including administrative errors
will be dealt with through administrative processes rather than through the court system. An interesting debate ensued on the topic, during a discussion entitled “Administrative Errors Might Not Be Criminalized” held in Denpasar last week. Continue to page 2 Interesting ...