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Wednesday, January 20, 2016
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Calls for boycott of Oscars grow over diversity of nominees
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In a Thursday, June 25, 2015 file photo, Jada Pinkett-Smith arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of “Magic Mike XXL” at the TCL Chinese Theatre. Calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards are growing over the Oscars’ second straight year of mostly white nominees, as Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith each said Monday, Jan. 17, 2016, that they will not attend this year’s ceremony.
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Bali expected to lure over four million tourists in 2016
NEW YORK — Amid calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards over its all-white acting nominees and Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith both announcing they would sit out this year’s ceremony, the academy’s president said it was time for major changes — and soon.
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs issued a statement promising more diversity, and quickly, after both Lee and Pinkett spoke out on Monday. In a lengthy Instagram post, Lee said he “cannot support” the “lily white” Oscars. Noting that he was writing on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Lee — who in November was given an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards — said he was fed up: “Forty white actors in two years and no flava at all,” he wrote. “We can’t act?!” In a video message on Facebook, Pinkett Smith also said she wouldn’t attend or watch the Oscars in February. Pinkett Smith, whose husband Will Smith wasn’t nominated for his performance in the NFL head trauma drama “Concussion,” said it was time for people of color to disregard the Academy Awards. “Begging for acknowledgement, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power,” she said. “And we are a dignified people and we are powerful.” She added: “Let’s let the academy do them, with all grace and love. And let’s do us differently.” The video had amassed 4.5 million by mid-Monday afternoon. Last year’s all-white acting nominees also drew calls for a boycott, though not from such prominent individuals as Lee and Pinkett Smith. Whether it had any impact or not, the audience for the broadcast, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, was down 16 percent from the year prior, a six-year low. Isaacs has made a point of presenting a more inclusive show this year. The Feb. 28 broadcast will be hosted by Chris Rock and produced by “Django Unchained” producer Reginald Hudlin and David Hill. On Saturday, Rock, unveiling a new promotion for the broadcast, called the ceremony “The White BET Awards.” The academy didn’t respond to messages left Monday. When Oscar nominations were announced Thursday, Isaacs acknowledged she was “disappointed” that all 20 acting nominees were again white and promised to “continue the conversation” on diversity. Isaacs has worked to diversify membership for the academy, which a 2012 study by the Los Angeles Times found is overwhelming white and male. (ap)
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016
DENPASAR - Over four million international tourists are expected to visit Bali in 2016, an official predicts. Head of Tourism Office of Bali Anak Agung Gede Yuniartha said on Monday that he anticipates Bali will attract some 4.2 million foreign tourists in 2016.
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However, the target number of tourist visits in Bali has not been officially announced by the local authority. The administration is now cooperating with a team from Udayana University to determine the 2016 target. “The team has started counting, using some formulas (to determine the number),” Yuniartha said. Bali Island attracted 4,001,654 foreigners in 2015. “The 2016 target could be higher,” he said. The 2015 visits might have been higher, but natural disasters, such as eruptions of Mount Raung of East Java and Mount Barujari of Lombok, slowed tourism. The volcanic ash from the two eruptions disrupted flights and the tourism sector in Bali. The global economy condition and the Paris terror attack might also have affected tourist visits to Bali, he said. Official data showed that in 2015, tourists visits in Bali were dominated by Australians (965,330), followed by Chinese (687,633) and Japanese (228,035). The remainder of foreign tourists were from Malaysia (190,317), Britain (167,527), South Korea (152,244), Singapore (146,632), US (133,701), France (131,411) and Taiwan (124,072).
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Perry sorry for saying Lady Gaga is falsely credited on song
NEW YORK — Record producer Linda Perry says she’s sorry for tweeting that Lady Gaga doesn’t deserve songwriting credit for the Oscar-nominated song “Til it Happens to You,” from the college campus sexual-assault documentary “The Hunting Ground.” Perry said in tweets Monday that Lady Gaga only performed the song credited to Diane Warren and Lady Gaga. Perry said she has Warren’s original demo and the final version changes only one line. But Perry now says she “wasn’t in the room” when the song was being written and was wrong to comment. Warren had disputed the songwriting allegation and said “Til it Happens to You” is “a special collaboration” between her and Lady Gaga. A publicist for Lady Gaga hasn’t commented. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences regulations state only the principal songwriters of a song can be nominated. (ap)
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Over four million international tourists are expected to visit Bali in 2016, an official predicts. Head of Tourism Office of Bali Anak Agung Gede Yuniartha said on Monday that he anticipates Bali will attract some 4.2 million foreign tourists in 2016.
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Creating a strategy for managing security
THROUGHOUT 2015, Bali saw criminal incidents, ranging from pick pocketing and other petty crimes to cases involving international syndicates as well as violent clashes between gangs that shook the national and international com-
munity. Although Bali is a very small island, even news of the slightest of incidents makes it to peoples’ ears internationally. Commander of the 163/Wira Satya Military Resort, I Nyoman Cantiasa, admitted that even though the general condition of Bali is quite safe, he is still concerned about crime on the island. The Indonesian miMilitary (TNI), specifically the Military Resort, will be working
in cooperation with other security forces to create new strategies for managing the security and safety of Balinese people, so that Bali can become safer than in previous years. “Coming up with security strategies needs to be done with consideration for recent developments. For example, the gang clashes that took place in Kerobokan Prison and on Jalan Teuku Umar, need to be evaluated and corrections need to
be made in terms of security,” said Cantiasa recently. It is shocking to think of what might have happened had the large numbers of weapons that were subsequently confiscated from the prison, been left in hands of the inmates. “There would quite possibly have been a massacre among fellow inmates - especially Balinese inmates. A total of 1,100 of Kerobokan’s prisoners could have become
involved in an “inter-cellblock civil war”. This would certainly shock people around the world, because the prison is after all a place that is meant to be a correctional facility for troubled people. Thanks God we were tipped off about their being such times in the prison,” he revealed. Continue to page 2 Measures ...