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Monday, November 11, 2013
Venezuelan is the new Miss Universe
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Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW — A 25-year-old Venezuelan who appears on TV in her country and is an accomplished flamenco dancer is the new Miss Universe. Gabriela Isler was crowned Saturday night in the pageant at a sprawling exhibition hall on Moscow’s outskirts.
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Miss Universe 2012 Olivia Culpo, from the United States, right, places the crown on Miss Venezuela Gabriela Isler during the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013.
In the excitement just after the announcement, the tiara fell off Isler’s head as she was being crowned by Miss Universe 2012, Olivia Culpo of the United States. Isler caught the crown laughing. Patricia Rodrigues of Spain was the runnerup. The panel of judges was led by American rock musician Steven Tyler. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro congratulated Isler on Twitter, calling her title a “triumph” for Venezuela, a country that has now won three of the last six Miss Universe pageants. In fact, Venezuela has won more major international beauty competitions than any other nation, and beauty pageants rank alongside baseball as the country’s most-followed diversion, one that transcends social class and normally insurmountable
political divisions. A whole industry of grooming schools, plastic surgeons and beauty salons has emerged to prepare young women for the thousands of pageants that take place each year around the country in schools, army barracks and even prisons. Venezuela has managed to keep its beauty queen industry flourishing, despite economic problems have worsened in recent weeks as inflation touched a twodecade high of 54 percent and shortages of basic goods like toiled paper and milk have worsened.
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Property sector highly in demand in Bali
Sacha Baron Cohen spices up newly televised awards Associated Press Writer
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Now that the Britannia Awards are televised, viewers can see Sacha Baron Cohen knock an 87-year-old woman out of her wheelchair. Cohen “accidentally” pushed the woman’s wheelchair off a stage as he accepted an award for excellence in comedy during Saturday’s ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The stunt played perfectly into the newly televised show, which is set to air Sunday on BBC America. The Britannia Awards come just two weeks after the refurbished Hollywood Film Awards drew some of the same celebrities, but there can never be enough Hollywood awards shows. Networks love the star power, stars adore the accolades and fans delight in the spectacle. “There are more than 35 Hollywood awards shows on prime-time TV,” said Tom O’Neil, founder and editor of awards website GoldDerby.com. “They’re the ultimate reality show because we get to witness our cultural gods be winners and losers just like the rest of us.” The Britannia winners were announced in advance, but who doesn’t want to see a barefoot Julia Roberts present an award to George Clooney, or watch filmmaker Judd Apatow playfully pick a fight with Sean Penn? Besides Cohen and Clooney, Kathryn Bigelow, Idris Elba, Benedict Cumberbatch and Ben Kingsley accepted awards from the Los Angeles branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. The Britannia Awards were established in 1989 but the ceremony didn’t make its TV debut until last year. “One of my goals was to increase the talent profile of the channel, and awards shows are a natural way to do that,” said BBC America general manager Perry Simon, who joined the network three years ago. The ceremony was modified to make it more TVfriendly, he said, including “adding more spontaneity.”
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Property sector has become the target of capital owners in the country, including foreign investors. Too rapid investment growth in the property sector in recent years should be alerted. Bali Post
DENPASAR - Property sector has become the target of capital owners in the country, including foreign investors. Too rapid investment growth in the property sector in recent years should be alerted. Moreover, the construction of property either in the form of house, hotel and shop has gone too far.
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Salma Hayek, left, Sacha Baron Cohen, center, and Isla Fisher pose together at the 2013 BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013 in Beverly Hills, Calif.
“If it is not set up properly, it has a great potential to disrupt the nature. Moreover, a number of green belts in Bali have been violated to meet the interests of property business. If this condition is ignored, Bali can turn into a concrete jungle. Such conditions will cause the tourist arrival in Bali
to reduce,” said an economic and SMEs observer of Bali, Ida Bagus Kade Perdana. According to him, the provincial and county government should expressly apply to the spatial planning so the preservation of Bali’s nature would be still well maintained. Qualitatively, the growth of invest-
ment in property sector did not give welfare to Balinese people. “The benefits are more enjoyed by the outsiders,” he said. Rector of Undiknas University, Prof. Dr. Gede Sri Darma, DBA, also admitted that Bali was afflicted by land purchase and selling business for the development of property sector. Even, the business was no longer deeply involved by local developers but also by foreign investors. “Without immediately handled, the effect of the phenomenon is that Balinese people will only leave in a name because no Balinese people
have assets in their home region. Then, they will lose their identity or uniqueness of Bali,” he said. He said the impact of the unstoppable land purchasing and selling business would affect the difficulty of maintaining the culture of Bali. Moreover, a number of properties in Seminyak and Kerobokan tourist area were owned by foreigners. “However, in the notary is mentioned the name of local people or it just borrows the name because foreigners cannot own 100 percent of property in Bali,” he said. He admitted that most secure and beneficial investment was in
property business, compared to saving money in banks, bonds, mutual funds and stocks. Moreover, in the midst of European crisis that had not recovered and the exchange rate of rupiah continued to worsen, so foreign investors would prefer to invest in Bali. “The government must be decisive in carrying out the spatial planning policies of Bali, including that Balinese people must have principles, not to sell their property assets to outsiders, although bargained at very expensive price and seeming hypocritical,” he said. Continued on page 6