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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert divorce after 4 years
Miley Cyrus to host MTV Video Music Awards
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LOS ANGELES — Miley Cyrus is twerking back to the MTV Video Music Awards as the show’s host.
The 25-year-old singer-actress revealed on her social media accounts Monday that she’s helming the Aug. 30 ceremony.
Cyrus announced the gig by posting a photo of herself in an alien costume with sandwich boards that read “MTV won’t let me perform” and “so I’m hosting this year’s VMAs.” A scantily clad Cyrus shocked audiences with a rump-shaking performance alongside Robin Thicke at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards.
Cyrus won the video of the year trophy at last year’s show and invited a young homeless man named Jesse Helt on stage to accept the trophy on her behalf. The 2015 MTV Video Music Awards will air live on MTV from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (ap)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — After years of tabloid gossip claiming marital troubles, country music’s top couple Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert announced their divorce after four years of marriage. The news was confirmed in a statement by the couple to The Associated Press, issued by their representatives Monday. “This is not the future we envisioned,” the former couple said in the statement. “And it is with heavy hearts that we move forward separately. We are real people, with real lives, with real families, friends and colleagues. Therefore, we kindly ask for privacy and compassion concerning this very personal matter.” The two multiplatinum stars came together just as their careers were hitting their peak, but the couple had to constantly deny rumors that their superstar careers were taking a toll on their marriage. Although sometimes they joked about competing against each other for awards, publicly they were constantly championing each other’s successes and there were no obvious signs of trouble when the couple appeared at the Academy of Country Music Awards together in April. Grammy-winning native Tex-
an Lambert, 31, is one of country’s music most lauded female singers with her fiery brand of sass and sincerity on songs like “Gunpowder & Lead” and “The House That Built Me.” “Boys ‘Round Here” singer Shelton, with his cheeky humor and easy likability, became a ubiquitous star as he juggled his musical and television career, as a judge on “The Voice” and a cohost of the ACMs. The 39-yearold Shelton first marriage of three years ended in divorce. “We’re a really normal couple,” Lambert told The Associated Press in 2010. “We like to back road and hunt and fish. When we’re home, we’re not in that mode. We’re not in work mode, but it’s so great to have success together. Our careers have both taken a really good step in a good direction at the same time. I just think we have a really good relationship. It’s really strong. We’re best friends, and I can’t see myself with anybody else.” But tabloids hounded the couple, in particularly focusing on their personal lives and Lambert’s weight. “There are people who literally, their only job is to make other people miserable, and that’s a terrible way to live your life,” Lambert told The Associated Press in 2014. (ap)
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Political will needed to support local entrepreneurs
Tourists passed local entrepreneurs stores at Gajah Mada Street, Denpasar City on Bali Island. The local government needs to be playing a more active role to ensure that local entrepreneurs and farmers are given the support they need to face present conditions. IBP/Wawan
DENPASAR - Prof. Dr. Wayan Ramantha, Academic from the Faculty of Economics at Udayana University, stated that the local government needs to be playing a more active role to ensure that local entrepreneurs and farmers are given the support they need to face present conditions. Local entrepreneurs he said, should not only be creating consortiums to finance their own projects, but should also be supported in getting involved in mega projects. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File
He said if there is a political will to provide such support, local entrepreneurs could benefit from investments in the region, instead of being mere spectators. “The local government should be willing to support local entrepreneurs beyond the creation of consortiums. In other words, if outsiders win construction project auctions, then the government should be approaching them to ensure ties to the local community,” said Ramantha, Tuesday.
Ramantha added that in any country, construction projects must abide by certain rules. In Bali one such rule is that new building must have Balinese ornamentation that has to be created by a Balinese craftsmen. “In such a case, whoever the investor may be, they need to team up with local colleagues which should be facilitated by the government. The government has an obligation to promote local people,” he said. Professor Ramantha acknowl-
edged that many local entrepreneurs are hampered from working on large scale projects that require advanced technical equipment, which is often a requirement for the tender. On that account, the government needs to create bridges between local entrepreneurs those who win the bids. According to him, government involvement is also needed in the agricultural sector given rampant land conversions. “Farmers who are essentially forced to convert their agricultural land into buildings, also need to be protected, so that after they sell their land they are not destitute,” he said. He went on to say that by applying the Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) system many problems can be avoided. In the case of farmers, they can offer the use of their land
to the private sector for the building a business facility. Farmers give permission to build, manage and operate the facility for a specific period of time after which the project or facility will be owned by the farmers who remain the landowners. “Even in the case of agricultural land being converted into buildings, the land itself should be included in the cooperation though BOT, so that facilities are built and operated by the entrepreneurs for a specified period of time -say 20 years. Once the contract has expired, the land is returned to the landowners /farmers, ensuring that farmers do not become even poorer after selling off their land, but instead can become entrepreneurs themselves,” he explained. Indeed, the government is not
obliged to create such a system, but according to Prof, Ramantha, if the government were to provide training to farmers about how to navigate such situations, and help bridge the gap between outside investors and local people, the entire economy would be lifted out of the sluggishness. “The government obviously does not want people to be facing troubles, therefore people should be helped,” he concluded. (kmb27) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.