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Friday, August 15, 2014
Celine Dion halts concerts, Asia tour Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON - Celine Dion has indefinitely halted all her show business activity and canceled her upcoming Asia tour to care for her husband as he battles ill health, the superstar said Wednesday.
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“I want to devote every ounce of my strength and energy to my husband’s healing, and to do so it’s important for me to dedicate this time to him and to our children,” Dion said on her Facebook page. “I also want to apologize to all my fans everywhere, for inconveniencing them, and I thank them so much for their love and support.” The Asia tour had been scheduled to take place later this year and included gigs in Tokyo on November 18 and 19 and in Manila on November 29.Rene Angelil, Dion’s husband, had a cancerous tumor removed from his throat in December. Since then, “it’s been a very difficult and stressful time for the couple as they deal with the day-today challenges of fighting this disease while trying to juggle a very active show business schedule, and raise their three young children,” the Facebook post said. It also said the Canadian singer turned international sensation has herself been suffering from a condition that caused her throat muscles to become inflamed, forcing her to cancel her scheduled shows in Las Vegas since her last performance on July 29. The five-time Grammy winner has performed in Sin City full-time for more than three years, wowing crowds with her biggest hits that include the theme song for the 1997 Hollywood blockbuster Titanic starring
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet -- “My Heart Will Go On.” “She still has not recovered from this condition,” the post said. In June, Angelil stepped down as Dion’s manager -- a position he had held for more than 30 years. Dion met Angelil at the beginning of her career in 1981, when she was 12 and he was 38. The couple began a relationship when Dion was 19 and married in Montreal in 1994. They have three boys, the youngest of whom are twins. It was unclear how long Dion’s hiatus would last. “Celine and family have requested that their privacy be respected at this time,” the Facebook post said. As word of Dion’s decision spread, messages of encouragement popped up on social media. “Family first xx we love you Celine xxx,” one fan, Linda Lavoie, posted on the singer’s page.
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Friday, August 15, 2014
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San Lorenzo wins Copa Libertadores for 1st time
Egypt: Israel, Hamas to extend temporary truce
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Duran Duran coming to theaters
Associated Press
NASHVILLE — Nick Rhodes is on the phone to talk about Duran Duran’s concert film collaboration with director David Lynch that’s slated for a one-night-only theatrical engagement next month. As he talks of being inspired by Lynch’s “The Elephant Man” as a teenager, he can hear another one of his inspirations nearby: Nile Rodgers on guitar. “I can actually hear him playing the guitar just down the corridor from where I am right now,” Rhodes says gleefully. Next month will mark a period of high activity for Duran Duran. Along with work to finish a new album, the British rock band will appear at the Fashion Rocks concert at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on Sept. 9 before releasing “Duran Duran: Unstaged” in more than 300 North American theaters on Sept. 10. The film is an enhanced version of Lynch’s original livestream presentation, with tweaks and enhancements to improve on the 2011 original. The “American Express Unstaged” series pairs musicians with directors who design a one-off live show that even a band as seasoned as Duran Duran was nervous about. “It literally was live live,” Rhodes said. “It was one of those moments where we all looked at each other and said, ‘Good luck, let’s see what happens.’ And it went out on the Internet just exactly as we played it, and of course there were some things that didn’t work quite as well as others, and footage that didn’t sync up in the most beautiful place
that it could have done ... so it’s had a proper polish. It’s been refined for cinema, and it looks beautiful, too. The print is fantastic.” When the group approached Lynch to oversee the initial livestream, he said he’d only consider it if it was “radically different” than the staid concert-film formula. Lynch chose to shoot the piece in black and white — like “The Elephant Man,” which Rhodes and John Taylor saw together in a Birmingham, England, theater as teenagers — and created a series of images to run over the top of the band’s performance. “There was a room filled with smoke all the time,” Rhodes said. “There was another room where there were a lot of actors doing strange things. Then he pre-prepared some
other footage which varied between sort of hand puppets and aero-planes and clocks and machinery and this footage just sort of literally was superimposed over us playing ... and I think the results are really pretty unusual.” The band is shooting for less radically different results in the recording studio where it has been cutting songs with Rodgers, who co-produced the group’s 1986 album, “Notorious.” Mark Ronson and Mr Hudson are also producing tracks. The album will be mixed next month, and Rhodes said it will be out in the first half of 2015. “I think we know where we want to be and it’s right in the center of the dance floor,” Rhodes said. “That’s what we’re aiming for together.”
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Public facilities in the tourist area of Penelokan, Kintamani all this time has never got a repair. Other than guardrail leaving porous, the paving block throughout the area is also left damaged.
Tourism facilities at Penelokan damaged Bali Post
BANGLI - Public facilities in the tourist area of Penelokan, Kintamani all this time has never got a repair. Other than guardrail leaving porous, the paving block throughout the area is also left damaged. Bangli government claimed not to have the authority to repair it because the tourism facilities were owned by Bali government.
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In this March 23, 2011 file photo, from left, Duran Duran members John Taylor, Roger Taylor, Nick Rhodes and Simon Le Bon pose together backstage before a concert at The Mayan Theatre in Los Angeles.
The Head of Bangli Public Works, Ida Bagus Wediatmika, when asked for his confirmation related to the damage of paving block said that his party had not been able to repair the paving damage. It stayed the asset of provincial government. As a result, the main-
tenance belonged to the responsibility of provincial government. Wediatmika described the paving block at Penelokan was initially funded by central government through the Ministry of Tourism. Then, the implementation was given to the Bali Government Tour-
ism Office. Since it was located in the tourist area of Bangli the county government then asked for permission to Bali government and it was permitted provided that the county government, in this case the Bangli Tourism Office, could maintain. Unluckily, the request had not been followed up by handing it over to county government. “Provincial government has not handed it over to county government. This is the problem why the arrangement of Penelokan gets hampered. As long as there is no asset handover, we cannot fix it,” he explained. Similar opinion was expressed
by the Head of Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Adnyana. When confirmed separately, he said the proposal of maintenance was already submitted in 2013, but until now his party did not get any response. So, it was the reason why he could not repair the damage to tourism facilities in Kintamani. “We cannot make any maintenance because it still belongs to provincial asset. The repair can only be made after handed over,” he explained. Meanwhile, based on observation of Bali Post, many paving blocks at Penelokan had been dam-
aged. Not just a crack, many had detached at some points. Damage to paving block at the provincial road section was alleged to have been accelerated by dense traffic. Moreover, the road was also passed through by many high tonnage trucks. In addition to paving, some guardrails installed on the edge of the cliff had been porous. Likewise, some of the decorative lampposts installed nearby the location where travelers enjoyed the natural scenery of the mountain and the Lake Batur had tilted and nearly collapsed, so that they threatened the safety of visitors. (ina)