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Chris Brown facing trial in DC court Associated Press
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WASHINGTON — Singer Chris Brown is expected to be in Washington for a hearing on the assault charge he faces. Brown is scheduled to appear Wednesday in D.C. Superior Court. Brown was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault in October, accused of hitting a man outside the W hotel. That man says Brown hit him after he tried to get in a photograph that the singer was taking with two women. Prosecutors wanted Brown in Washington to face trial. At the time it was set to start, Brown was in a Los Angeles jail after being kicked out of a rehab facility. He was released earlier this month. Brown was still on probation for a 2009 attack on singer Rihanna, his then girlfriend. No new trial date has been set in the D.C. case. He didn’t fly first class and his hotels weren’t five-star. Still, when singer Chris Brown was moved from a Los Angeles jail
to Washington for what was to have been the start of his trial on an assault charge, the cost to taxpayers was more than $4,000. The breakdown of the April trip was provided to The Associated Press as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request. The tab includes jail stays, airfare and other transportation costs. The U.S. Marshals Service, which transported Brown, said in a statement Tuesday that it uses the “safest and most costeffective means to transport” inmates. Brown is scheduled to be in a Washington courtroom Wednesday. This time, he’s out of jail, so he’ll be paying his own way. Asked in April about transporting Brown across country, one of Brown’s lawyers, Mark Geragos, called the case possibly “the single most investigated, prosecuted and expensive misdemeanor prosecution in jurisprudence.” Prosecutors wanted Brown in Washington to face trial on a charge of hitting a man outside the W hotel in October 2013. At the time,
Brown was still on probation in California for a 2009 attack on the singer Rihanna, his then girlfriend. When his trial was set to start in Washington, Brown was in a Los Angeles jail after being kicked out of a court-ordered rehab facility. Records show Brown’s trip began April 1 when he was moved to a jail in San Bernardino County, about an hour east of Los Angeles. He spent two days there before being driven to catch a plane. The cost of transportation and lodging was about $1,000, records show. From there, the Marshals Service group responsible for flying prisoners across country, sometimes called “Con Air,” took over and flew Brown to the D.C. area. That cost: $1,193. Three weeks of housing at the Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Virginia, about two hours south of Washington, cost $55 a day, the jail said.
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Tourist accommodation in Bali targets cliff
Oldman apologizes for defending Gibson and Baldwin Associated Press
NEW YORK — Gary Oldman has apologized for defending fellow actors Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin from critics of their controversial remarks about Jews and gays. “I am deeply remorseful that comments I recently made in the Playboy Interview were offensive to many Jewish people,” Oldman wrote in an open letter to the AntiDefamation League late Tuesday. “Upon reading my comments in print — I see how insensitive they may be, and how they may indeed contribute to the furtherance of a false stereotype.” During the expletive-laden Playboy interview, Oldman decried the “political correctness” that ensnared Gibson and Baldwin. Gibson delivered an anti-Semitic rant in 2006 while being arrested for drunk driving, and he later apologized. Baldwin last year was accused of using an anti-gay slur in a New York City street confrontation. Oldman said that Gibson “got drunk and said a few things, but we’ve all said those things. We’re all (expletive) hypocrites.” He said he didn’t blame Baldwin for using the slur because somebody bothered him. “Mel Gibson is in a town that’s run by Jews and he said the wrong thing because he’s actually bitten the hand that I guess has fed him, and doesn’t need to feed him anymore because he’s got enough dough,” Oldman said in the interview. In his later letter, first reported by the industry website Deadline.com, Oldman wrote, “I hope you will know that this apology is heartfelt, genuine, and that I have an enormous personal affinity for the Jewish people in general, and those specifically in my life.” Oldman’s Playboy comments had drawn a sharp response from Jewish leaders. “Gary Oldman wants Jews to ‘get over’ what Mel Gibson said. But what Gibson said, was the slogan that Adolf Hitler used to murder six million Jews,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. “(Oldman’s) comment that Hollywood is a town ‘run by Jews’ has a very familiar sinister ring to it that is the anthem of bigots and anti-Semites everywhere. That has nothing to do with political correctness,” Hier said in a statement to The Associated Press.
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Tourist accommodation growth in Bali has proliferated uncontrollably. Even, not a few investors violate the rules such as the coastal borderline, road borderline to taking advantage of the cliff.
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MANGUPURA - Tourist accommodation growth in Bali has proliferated uncontrollably. Even, not a few investors violate the rules such as the coastal borderline, road borderline to taking advantage of the cliff. Rampant tourist accommodation especially villas built on a cliff is alleged to have no permit because based on the government’s rules on spatial plan it is not allowed to build on the edge of cliff. A tourism expert from the Udayana University, Putu Anom, assessed the number of illegal tourist accommodation in Bali happened due to weak law enforcement. The government seeming to implement the regulation and mandate of the rules half-heartedly had triggered the mushrooming of illegal businesses. “If the govern-
ment is committed to enforce the rules, it should oversee the investors from the beginning like from the licensing process through the project execution. So, any fraud can be minimized,” said Anom in Denpasar. According to him, the government was not careful in issuing the building permit application so
it was often misused. As a result, some private homes were even functioned as villa accommodation. “Decisiveness is needed in the law enforcement to discipline those illegal buildings because they have clearly violated but was allowed to operate,” he said. Bali Villa Association (BVA) also observed that a lot of illegal tourist accommodations were built on the verge of cliff. Based on the spatial rules, it was not allowed to build on the edge of cliff. “The rules allow the building on cliff provided that it is twice the depth of the cliff. If there is a building on top of a cliff, probably it is not licensed because it clearly violates the rules,” said Chairman
of the BVA, Jero Mangku Wayan Suteja. He admitted that his party with a joint team would perform an inspection to Southern Badung area, such as Jimbaran and Pecatu. These areas were alleged to be filled with many tourist accommodations, either villas or hotels. “We encourage the joint team to come down to location in order to ascertain whether there are unlicensed accommodation buildings or not because today a home can even be called a villa,” he said. He added that competition among the villas was getting tougher in Bali due to the proliferation of villas, especially in the areas becoming the favorite of travelers
such as Badung and Gianyar. Even, the average annual growth had reached 10 percent. “The competition will be tighter as every year the growth of villas is getting more and more. Among the rapid growth of the villas, the most is widely seen in Badung and Ubud area,” he said. In addition, the number of villas in Bali had reached over 1,200 villas, where 700 villas were located in Badung, while the remaining scattered in Tabanan, Buleleng, Klungkung, Gianyar and other regions. Meanwhile, the illegal villas reached more than 10 percent. “Currently there is no clear rule governing the existence of villas, so many villas are not licensed,” he affirmed. (kmb27)