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Cranberries singer arrested on plane at Irish airport Agence France-Presse
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Meryl Streep (middle), Stevie Wonder (right) and Tom Brokaw are among the latest Americans tapped to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, President Barack Obama announced Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014.
Meryl Streep, Stevie Wonder get Medal of Freedom
Associated Press
BEIJING — Meryl Streep, Stevie Wonder and Tom Brokaw are among the latest Americans tapped to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, President Barack Obama announced Tuesday. The performers and former NBC anchor will join 16 others at the White House on Nov. 24 for a ceremony marking their achievements. The medal is the highest honor granted to civilians in the U.S. and honors contributions to U.S. security, world peace and cultural achievement. “From scientists who kept America on the cutting edge to public servants who help write new chapters in our American story, these citizens have made extraordinary contributions to our country and the world,” Obama said in a statement from Beijing, where the president was traveling for an economic summit. Musical theater composer Stephen Sondheim and actress Marlo Thomas will also receive the award. Choreographer Alvin Ailey, who died in 1989, will receive the medal posthumously. So will former Rep. Edward Roybal of California, who founded the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Those being honored include slain civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were killed during their work in an historic voter registration effort in Mississippi in 1964. Rep. John Dingell of Michigan, the longest-serving congressman in American history, will receive the award, as will Ethel Kennedy, the widow of former Sen. Robert Kennedy. Native American activist Suzan Harjo and former Reps. Abner Mikva of Illinois and Patsy Takemoto Mink of Hawaii are also on the list.
DUBLIN - Irish police arrested a woman reported to be Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan after an alleged assault on a flight from the United States on Monday, police said. O’Riordan, who shot to fame as the lead singer of the Cranberries in the 1990s, was detained at Shannon airport in southwest Ireland on arrival on an Aer Lingus flight from New York. Police officers “were called to meet the aircraft following an allegation of assault on an Aer Lingus female air hostess,” a police spokesman said. “A male member of An Gardai Siochana (Ireland’s police service) was also assaulted... during the course of the arrest.” The air stewardess was brought to hospital for treatment, the police spokesman said. O’Riordan, 43, was reportedly taken for questioning at a police station, before being brought to hospital for examination.
The singer and lead songwriter for the band, which sold over 40 million albums worldwide, was later released without charge. Police said an investigation into the incident is ongoing. O’Riordan’s management company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Ed Sheeran, One Direction sign up for Band Aid Associated Press
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One Direction performs during the German game show “Wetten Dass” or Bet it...? in Graz, Austria, Saturday Nov. 8, 2014.
LONDON — Stars including One Direction, Ed Sheeran, Paloma Faith and Coldplay’s Chris Martin have signed up to re-record charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas,” with proceeds going to the battle against Ebola. Bob Geldof, who founded the Band Aid movement behind the original 1984 recording, said Monday he had been inspired by the bravery of volunteer medical staff fighting the disease in West Africa. He said the song, featuring “giants of the past” and younger artists, would be recorded Saturday and should be available to download Nov. 17. The physical single will feature artwork by Tracey Emin. The original single enlisted stars including Boy George, George Michael, Bono and Sting to raise money for Ethiopia famine relief. It has been re-recorded twice, most recently in 2004.
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Salt famers getting sluggish amid discourse to encourage maritime sector
Bali Post
SEMARAPURA - Lately, the life of salt farmers is increasingly difficult to develop. Each year their number tends to diminish. The profession becoming the livelihood of coastal communities of Bali progressively slumps amidst the lack of government attention. Actually, at the moment central government is seriously working on the maritime sector to maximize the potential of marine. Formerly, the salt farming activities adequately developed as the profession worked on by coastal communities of Kusamba village, Dawan subdistrict, Klungkung. One of the central producers of stall remaining to survive is on the coastal area of Karangdadi hamlet. When visiting this location, the salt farming activity was increasingly deserted. Only a few farmers were still producing manually. One of the surviving salt farmers is Ketut Kaping. Amidst the sluggish demand, he still tried to continue the ancestral bread and butter. At his business premises looked to stand a rickety hut where he processed seawater into salt and warehouse used to stored the salt
product. “As long as the weather is hot, I still work even though the outcome is uncertain,” he said. In the east of the warehouse stood some containers used to dry out seawater having been ready to produce salt. They were neatly piled with a special black plastic. When drying, the seawater processed in his hut would produce salt after baked under the sun. He said the sluggish salt farming could be seen from the minimal coastal residents that carried out the livelihood. Formerly, hundreds of people actively involved in the salt farming so that they were divided into several groups. However, today only 15 families remained to survive. Other residents preferred to
wander to urban areas. Those who survived continued to complain about the current situation. Kaping complained about the production of native salt to Kusamba as having been dominated by directly brought in from Java. Salt product from Java could be sold for IDR 7,000 per 2.5 kg even though the flavor was incoherent. Meanwhile, the local salt product was sold for IDR 7,000 per kilogram. In such situation, surrounding people obviously switched to use the salt brought in from Java. This condition was aggravated by very minimal attention from the government. It provided no training, no capital aids nor other forms of protection against the potential of
local residents. Local government had promised to pack the salt product by local farmers, so that it would look more attractive. However, the promise was never followed up. Fortunately, the salt farmer like Ketut Kaping has regular customers from Gianyar, Klungkung and Denpasar. They are starting from the beauty product entrepreneurs to foreign travelers. His traditional salt product is best favored by foreign travelers and restaurateurs in Bali because it has a different taste and makes food taste better. Not infrequently, his salt hut was also visited by restaurateurs from Denpasar. Another salt farmer, Wayan Wati, also revealed similar opinion. They survived because there was no other choice. The life of salt farmers is in contrast to the spirit of the government to raise the maritime sector. Although it is a salt business, it has great potential to be developed. The Headman of Kusamba, Ketut
Winastra, said on Monday that condition of his residents could not thrive under current conditions. Actually, the salt production of Kusamba had export quality. Some foreign travelers from Japan and China had visited the salt production center. Then, they made a purchase in large quantities. Even, he once saw the salt processed by local resident was sent to Japan in good packaging. Even, the result of the salt packaging was once marketed back to Bali under brand name Papita salt. Actually the salt faming is one of the local potentials. However, Winastra judged the decline of salt farming was inseparable from the minimal support from relevant parties to help market and pack the salt production of local salt farmers. He worried if the threats continued to afflict farmers, the tradition of salt making owned by Kusamba residents would gradually disappear. (gik)
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Lately, the life of salt farmers is increasingly difficult to develop. Each year their number tends to diminish. The profession becoming the livelihood of coastal communities of Bali progressively slumps amidst the lack of government attention.