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Friday, November 14, 2014
Rihanna teases new music at Virginia military base WASHINGTON — Rihanna won’t say when she plans to release new music but she is confident about what it sounds like. “I can’t give you any hints of when it will drop. It’s going to be great, that’s all I’m going to tell you and I’m excited about it,” said the singer at a meet-and-greet Wednesday with fans at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The critic she is worried about is herself. “I try to battle myself and outdo everything I’ve done and that’s been
the hardest thing to do. You start overthinking things at times,” she confessed. The 26-year-old typically has released albums in November in the past but wouldn’t comment on that. She just said, “I can’t wait for everybody to hear (the music) little by little. ... little by little. I can’t wait.” Rihanna also brought along her
new men’s fragrance, “Rogue Man,” her first for guys. “I feel like what better way to get these people excited than to get them something nice, to smell good. They’re running around all day working hard. And, you know, the guys are sexy. They need to smell sexy.” She also joked about not having a “rogue man” of her own, saying with a wink, “hopefully I’ll find one here today on the base.” Rihanna performed at the Concert For Valor: Saluting America’s Veterans in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
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Mandy Moore checks into Fox’s Nicki Minaj apologizes ‘Red Band Society’ for Nazi imagery in video
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Agence France-Presse
NEW YORK — Mandy Moore has stepped back into the spotlight with a recurring role on Fox’s “Red Band Society.” Moore, a singer-actress known for her pop hit “Candy,” plays Dr. Erin Grace, the new chief of surgery. She had worked at the hospital, but took a year off to work with Doctors Without Borders. She had also dated Dave Annable’s character, Dr. Adam McAndrew, and her promotion is one that he was gunning for. “Red Band Society” (airing Wednesdays at 8 p.m. EST) follows the doctors and their long-term teen patients at a children’s hospital. “I’ve been brought in to sort of stir it up on the adult side,” said Moore in a recent interview. Moore was approached about the show before the part was written. She “loved everything” about the pilot episode. “I really thought it was such a unique tone from everything else on TV right now,” she said. The 30-year-old, known for films like “A Walk to Remember” and “Saved!” wanted a job in television. “I think it’s the most enticing medium for an actor out there right now,” she said. Moore is also known for her music. She said she’s been recording and hopes to release something early next year. “The music industry has changed so dramatically in the last couple of years. It’s a different mechanism in terms of how to put music out there and in what capacity. Having the freedom of no record label and none of that expectation is really nice on a creative level.”
NEW YORK - Hip-hop star Nicki Minaj apologized Tuesday and denied any Nazi sympathies after she came under criticism for imagery that resembled the Third Reich in a video. The video for “Only” is an animation that depicts the singer enthroned at a Greco-Roman building with red-and-white flags on the columns similar to the Nazi German flag -- except with a symbol for Minaj instead of a swastika. Tanks and troops stand at attention, evoking images of Adolf Hitler’s rallies. The song also features fellow stars Drake, Lil Wayne and Chris Brown. Minaj, who this weekend hosted the MTV Europe Music Awards in Glasgow, Scotland, responded that the inspiration for the video was in fact the cartoon series “Metalocalypse.” The singer wrote on Twit-
ter that both the producer and a person overseeing the video, whom she described as a close friend, were Jewish. “I didn’t come up (with) the concept, but I’m very sorry (and) take full responsibility if it has offended anyone. I’d never condone Nazism in my art,” she wrote. The Anti-Defamation League, which combats antiSemitism, earlier called the video “deeply disturbing” and noted that it was released on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 night of attacks on Jews across Germany and Austria. “This video is insensitive to Holocaust survivors and a trivialization of the history of that era,” said the group’s national director Abraham Foxman. Foxman issued a new statement to welcome Minaj’s apology. “We hope that she will take further steps to educate herself and her fans about who the Nazis were and why we should never take genocide or the Ho-
Number of farmers in Bali slumps Profession as farmer is increasingly not demanded as a livelihood. Most residents of Bali prefer to work in trade, restaurant and accommodation sector.
Bali Post
DENPASAR - Profession as farmer is increasingly not demanded as a livelihood. Most residents of Bali prefer to work in trade, restaurant and accommodation sector. The Head of Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, Panusunan Siregar, said the number of residents who worked in the agricultural sector in August 2014 amounted to 528,506 people. This figure decreased quite significantly compared to the condition in February 2014, amounting to 61,663 people or a decrease of 10.45 percent. “The quite significant decline in the number of workers of the agricultural sector possibly becomes the driving factor to the increase in the unemployed population,” Siregar said. It was said, the decline in the number of agricultural workers was inseparable from the influence
of season. In reality it was also supported by the decrease in agricultural production. Nevertheless, condition of the employment, either in relation to the level of unemployment or the working population was inseparable from the performance of the existing economic sector. “The number of people working in each sector indicated the capability of the sector in absorbing the employment,” he said. Based on the major occupation, explained Siregar, most Balinese people were working in trade, restaurant and accommodation sector totally reaching 658,312 people or 28.97 percent of the total working population. Contri-
butions of working population in this sector slightly increased compared to the same month in the previous year, amounting to 6.76 percent. “Social service sector and the industrial sector also play an important role in absorbing labor. Residents who work in the social service sector in August 2014 amounted to 393,056 people. Meanwhile, the people who work in the industrial sector in August 2014 amounted to 316,598 people,” he explained. He explained that Balinese working in formal activities reached 1,083,622 people (47.68 percent) and 1,189,010 people (52.32 percent) worked in informal activities. “This can mean that the majority of Balinese population still relies on informal activities,” he said. Mentioned, the percentage of population working in formal sector in August 2014 increased com-
pared to August 2013 amounting to 47.65 percent and in February 2014 amounted to 41.91 percent. Based on these figures, it could be said that the quality of labor had developed and quite fluctuated among the status of employment. “Based on their occupation, totally 985,146 people are working as laborer or employee. This number has increased absolutely over the same month in 2013 reaching 984,541 people, but declined slightly in 2013 which amounted to 43.91 percent,” he said. Director of the Center for Business Economic Data Analysis, Faculty of Economics and Business, Udayana University, Dr. Sudjana Budhi, stated the development of tourism business had an impact on the land needs, which automatically caused the people’s economic base mostly lived in the agricultural sector became
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desperate, even marginalized. “Bali needs to develop local community-based eco-tourism business. Strategic approach by involving people as the owner of the tourism industry will certainly be able to resolve the conflict of interest occurred between the local community in the agricultural sector and the development of tourism business itself,” he said. Strategic development of the community-based tourist destination where local people as the owner, recognized Sudjana Budhi, had run in many countries, including Thailand, Australia, and several African countries. “The decline in the role of local communities in the agricultural sector is done through a democratic process, where local community lies inside it as the management of the tourism industry itself,” he concluded. (kmb27)