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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Metallica burns it up at start of Mexico tour Associated Press Presse
MEXICO CITY — Metallica vocalist James Hetfield had warned things could get perilous at the start of the band’s fifth tour of Mexico, saying “We’re very focused on how dangerous this show is.” The audience of more than 22,000
believed it too. Many of the fans were visibly terrified Saturday night as the band re-enacted its burn-down-the-stage performance from 1998’s “Cunning Stunts” video album. At one point a technician fled across the stage like a human torch in a Mexico City show that featured explosions, py-
rotechnics, laser lights and the odd giant coffin. Hours earlier Hetfield said the tour would cover the band’s 31 years of performing. Metallica has scheduled seven more shows at Mexico City’s Sports Palace before heading to dates in San Francisco and Edmonton, Canada.
LONDON — Enjoyed the music-packed Olympics opening ceremony? Now you can buy the album — and thousands have. The soundtrack album, which went on sale as a download minutes after Friday’s ceremony ended, has topped the iTunes album chart in Britain, France, Belgium and Spain, and has reached No. 5 in the
United States. It’s No. 5 on the overall British album chart less than two days after its release. Director Danny Boyle’s spectacular opening ceremony was a rollicking
celebration of British music. The album includes tracks from — among others — David Bowie, The Pet Shop Boys, Chemical Brothers, Dizzee Rascal, Emeli Sande, Arctic Monkeys and Underworld. Universal Music will also release an album of the London Olympics’ Aug. 12 closing ceremony, which will feature British acts including The Who.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
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Spain treble bid ends after Honduras defeat
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Poland win leaves Italy with ears ringing
Olympics ceremony album tops download charts Associated Press Writer
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Metallica’s lead vocalist James Hetfield poses at a photocall before his band’s first of eight concert performances in Mexico City, Saturday, July 28, 2012.
LONDON - Poland lived up to their billing as men’s Olympic volleyball title contenders with a thrilling opening win over triple world champions Italy on Sunday, backed by a deafening crowd of red and white clad fans at Earls Court. The Poles defeated Olympic champions the United States three weeks ago to take the World League title and the thirst for a first Olympic gold since 1976 resulted in an atmosphere louder and more intimidating than when hosts Britain made their bow at the Games earlier in the day. Italy, with every serve met by ferocious boos, did their best to silence the opposition fans by taking the first set in the Group A clash but their resistance did not last as Poland, ranked third in the world, swept home 21-25 25-20 25-23 25-14. While Italy player Emanuele Birarelli admitted the noise played a part in the defeat, Poland coach Andrea Anastasi called for calm among his team’s supporters. “In Poland we have become celebrities, we cannot go around freely any more, but it is a little bit too much, we haven’t won anything important yet,” Italian Anastasi told reporters. In Group B, fellow title contenders Brazil, Russia and the U.S. - aiming to become the first men’s team to win four Olympic golds - claimed straight-sets victories on the first day of preliminary round action. U.S. Olympic debutant Matthew Anderson took the plaudits with 18 points against 2011 European champions Serbia.
In Group A, Britain’s Games debut began with a straight-sets defeat by Bulgaria, ranked ninth in the world, while Australia also went down in three sets to Argentina. The match of the day was undoubtedly Poland’s whose every movement was greeted by chanting fans. The players asked the supporters to raise the roof and upped their own performances too with the night’s top scorer Bartosz Kurek diving under the commentator’s table at one point to try to save a point. “A lot of Polish people live in London, they love volleyball. We counted on this happening,” said captain Marcin Mozdzonek. DIGGING IN DARK
Britain captain Ben Pipes, who was up with his team mates at 0520 local time to warm up for their match, said the day was a momentous one for his side who are ranked 92nd in the world behind countries like Haiti, Oman and Nicaragua. “It was real goose bumps. We’ve built up for five years - you might as well have had a five-year tunnel down to here. We feel like we’ve been digging in the dark and suddenly we’ve cracked the light and it’s just incredible,” he said. Continued on page 6
Poland’s Bartosz Kurek celebrates after his team scored against Italy during a men’s preliminary volleyball match at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Sunday, July 29, 2012, in London.
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Balinese folklore existence worrying Bali Post
DENPASAR - A Balinese folklore conserver and lover, Made Taro, deeply concerned about the existence of Balinese folklore such as the Pan Cubling, Rare Angon, Ni Tuwung Kuning and the like that were now increasingly marginalized by the imported product of stories.
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Dizzee Rascal performs during the Opening Ceremony at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 27, 2012, in London.
As evidence, the books on Balinese folklore were getting difficult to find in bookstores because publishers rarely wanted to publish them. As worrying about the Balinese folklore that would become extinct, the founder of Kukuruyuk Studio urged the Bali Education
Agency and Culture Agency to revive the Balinese folklore as a mandatory reading material for students in elementary and junior high school. “Frankly, this makes me anxious. Today, the young people of Bali are no longer familiar with Ba-
linese folklores because publishers are rarely willing to publish them. Balinese children are more familiar with Doraemon, Sinchan, Spongebob and other imported products of stories,” said Made Taro. According to Made Taro, the popularity of Ni Tuwung Kuning and friends were obviously ‘gobbled up’ by the stories like Doraemon and other imported products that were not surely positive for the Balinese younger generation in terms of character formation. As a matter of fact, he said those Balinese folklores generally contained
very positive indigenous wisdom for the character formation of Balinese young people in the matter of attitudinal, ethical, mental and spiritual instillation. Meanwhile, the imported products of book stories were uncertainly in line with the Balinese culture. Even, some of them triggered children to become a selfish personal and hard character. “I keep longing for the revival of Balinese folklores. Before everything is gone, I hope the Bali Education Agency and Bali Culture Agency to re-discover the Balinese
folklores that have been nearly at the verge of extinction and further cooperate with the publishers in Bali to publish those Balinese folklores. To make Balinese children want to read those folklores, of course it would be much more effective if those folklores were made as compulsory reading in the local language subject. Without such an effort by the corresponding agencies in Bali, I am pessimistic if the Balinese folklores can be sustainable due to the onslaught of the increasingly unstoppable imported products,” he warned. (kmb13)