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Monday, December 8, 2014
Beyonce, Pharrell, Sam Smith lead in Grammy nods
Entertainment
Associated Press
NEW YORK — The year’s brightest newcomer, Sam Smith; the most nominated female in Grammy history, Beyonce; and mega-producer Pharrell led the Grammy Award nominations announced Friday, with six nominations apiece. Smith’s “In the Lonely Hour,” Beyonce’s surprise self-titled release and Pharrell’s “G I R L” will compete for the coveted album of the year, along with Beck’s “Morning Phase” and Ed Sheeran’s “X,” the most streamed album on Spotify this year. The Recording Academy announced its nominees for the 57th annual show throughout the day on Friday. Pharrell earned a whopping three nominations for the top prize thanks to his production work on Beyonce and Sheeran’s albums, which means the hit-maker only has a chance to walk away with four awards when the Grammys are presented on Feb. 8. Smith is up for key honors such as best new artist and song and record of the year for his hit “Stay With Me.” Beyonce, surprisingly, was not up for song or record of the year. Her nominations include best urban contemporary album as well as R&B song and R&B performance for
“Drunk in Love” featuring Jay Z. For song and record of the year, Smith’s “Stay With Me” will battle Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off,” Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass” and Sia’s “Chandelier.” Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” is nominated for record of the year, while Hozier’s “Take Me to Church” is up for song of the year, a songwriter’s award. Azalea, the Australian newcomer, earned four nominations, including best rap album for “The New Classic,” best pop duo/group performance for “Fancy” with Charli XCX and best new artist, pitting her and Smith against pop-rock trio HAIM, English band Bastille and country singer Brandy Clark. Beck, Jack White, Usher, Drake, Jay Z, composer Gordon Goodwin and mastering engineer Tom Coyne also earned four nominations each. Eric Church and Miranda Lambert, both nominated in all four country categories, will compete for best country album, along with Clark, Dierks
Bentley and Lee Ann Womack. Sia, who also earned four nominations, had a breakthrough this year with “Chandelier” after writing songs for other singers, from Rihanna to Beyonce to Katy Perry. Smith’s six nominations include best pop solo performance and pop vocal album for his debut, “In the Lonely Hour,” one of the year’s topselling albums. The big-voiced singer will battle Ed Sheeran, Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry and Coldplay in the latter category. Pharrell’s “Happy” and John Legend’s “All of Me,” tunes that peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this year, were technically released before Grammy eligibility, so the singers submitted live renditions of the songs so they could be considered for awards. The songs didn’t earn nominations in the top awards, but the hits will compete with “Stay With Me,” ‘’Shake It Off” and “All About That Bass” for best pop solo performance.
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Beyonce performs on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif.
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Mark Wahlberg seeks pardon for 1988 assaults
Associated Press
BOSTON — Marky Mark doesn’t want a black mark any longer. Mark Wahlberg is asking Massachusetts for a pardon for assaults he committed in 1988 when he was a troubled teenager in Boston, saying he has dedicated himself to becoming a better person in his adult years so he can be a role model to his children and others. The former rapper known as Marky Mark and star of movies including “The Departed” and “The Gambler,” set to open in theaters Dec. 19, filed a pardon application with state officials Nov. 26. New England Cable News first reported on the application Thursday. In 1988, when Wahlberg was 16, he hit a man in the head with a wooden stick while trying to steal two cases of alcohol in front of a convenience store near his family’s home in the Dorchester section of Boston, the application says. He punched another man in the face while trying to avoid police, the document says. Wahlberg says in the application that he was high on marijuana and narcotics at the time, and police caught him with a small amount of pot. He also apologized for his actions. He ended up being convicted as an adult of assault and other charges, and he was sentenced to three months in jail. He said he was released after serving about 45 days. Wahlberg, 43, says in the application that he turned his life around and became a successful music artist, actor and film and television producer. He also notes he has raised millions of dollars for charity and donated his time and efforts for philanthropic causes. “I have not engaged in philanthropic efforts in order to make people forget about my past,” Wahlberg says in the application. “To the contrary, I want people to remember my past so that I can serve as an example of how lives can be turned around and how people can be redeemed.”
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Monday, December 8, 2014
No major damage in Philippine typhoon; 2 dead
Ronaldo breaks record with hat trick in Madrid win
More violence in 2nd day of Haiti protest marches
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Flights from Bali to foreign countries increase
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DENPASAR - The flights from Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport to various cities worldwide stood at 2,192 last October, or an increase of 2.10 percent, from 2,147 flights in September, stated Bali’s statistics official Panusunan Siregar. “The flights using wide-bodied aircraft flew 387,137 passengers. They were all foreign tourists who returned home after holidaying in the tourist resort province,” Siregar stated. He remarked that the October passengers increased by 3.5 percent as compared to 373,670 tourists flown in the previous month. Over the past decade, Bali,
which is Indonesia’s main foreign tourist destination, has drawn increasing number of visitors in the January-October 2014 period and has recorded 3.12 million tourist arrivals. As compared to the same period in 2013, the foreign tourist arrivals this year increased by 16.84 percent from last year’s recorded value of 2.47 million.
The data released by the province’s Tourism Office earlier revealed that a total of 3,122,893 foreign tourists visited Bali province during the period between January and October 2014, increasing by 16.86 percent as compared to that recorded in the same period last year. Based on the data, Bali received an average of 310 thousand foreign tourists every month.
Local tourism observer Tjok Gede Agung remarked that the number of foreign tourists visiting Bali had increased during the past years and was expected to grow further in the future as Indonesia implements the visa-free policy for tourists arriving from some countries such as the ASEAN countries. Indonesia has set a target to receive 9.5 million foreign tourists in 2014. The tourism ministry hopes to attract at least 3.5 million tourists from ASEAN, including 1.75 million from Singapore, 1.4 million from Malaysia, and 315 thousand from the Philippines.
Last year, the largest number of tourists arrived in Indonesia from Singapore, followed by Malaysia, Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, the United States, and Britain. In addition to Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Japan, and South Korea, China is now one of the main markets for Indonesian tourism. Data from the Indonesian Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) showed that the number of Chinese tourists visiting Indonesia in the first eight months of last year rose 25.54 percent to 412,698 over the same period in the previous year.
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The flights from Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport to various cities worldwide stood at 2,192 last October, or an increase of 2.10 percent, from 2,147 flights in September, stated Bali’s statistics official Panusunan Siregar.