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Friday, October 31, 2014
New Batman Affleck backs batprotection efforts
Associated Press
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich — Two of the stars of the upcoming movie “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice” have added some Hollywood heft to a Detroit-area group’s efforts to protect bats. Ben Affleck, who plays Batman in the movie; Amy Adams, who plays Lois Lane; and Zack Snyder, the film’s director, appear in an Organization for
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Bat Conservation video posted online Monday to coincide with National Bat Week. Some of the movie is being filmed in Detroit. The Detroit Free Press reports (http://on.freep.com/1tLH9Ka ) that the inspiration for the public service announcement was a National Public Radio story that Snyder heard on white nose syndrome, a fungal disease that’s devastating U.S. bat populations. Materials from the movie’s sets are being repurposed to build bat houses.
Obama’s next campaign stop: Maine
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Keanu Reeves will star in science-fiction thriller “Replicas” for Lotus Entertainment and di Bonaventura Pictures. The announcement comes on the heels of a solid reception of Reeves’ “John Wick,” which opened in second place at the U.S. box office. “Hysteria” director Tanya Wexler will helm “Replicas” from a screenplay by Chad St. John, based on a treatment developed by Ste-
pehen Hamel and Reeves. Producers are Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Stephen Hamel, Reeves, and Fundamental Films. Lotus will introduce the film to foreign buyers starting at the upcoming American Film Market. CAA is handling domestic rights. Shooting will start in the spring. Reeves will portray a neuroscientist whose family is killed in a traffic accident and will stop at nothing to bring them back — pitting himself against a government-controlled laboratory, a police task force and the physical laws of science. Di Bonaventura noted that he’s eager to work with Reeves again. “From my experience working with Keanu on ‘The Matrix’ franchise through our collaboration on ‘Constantine,’ I have always been impressed by Keanu’s ability to bring a genuine level of humanity to the sci-fi genre through his performance. I am looking forward to collaborating with Keanu once again on this unique take on what lengths a person will go to alter the past, and the implications of those actions.”
Real Madrid cruise to victory in Cup opener
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Soldiers in desperate search for Sri Lanka landslide victims
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Not creative nor innovative, Bali SMEs grow wheezily
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Friday, October 31, 2014
Jake Gyllenhaal breaks brutal news in ‘Nightcrawler’ AP Photo/Open Road Films, Chuck Zlotnick
In this image released by Open Road Films, Jake Gyllenhaal, left, and Riz Ahmed appear in a scene from the film, “Nightcrawler.”
Agence France-Presse LOS ANGELES - They spend their nights like famished coyotes, hunting fresh meat. “If it bleeds, it leads,” as one character in “Nightcrawler” says, summarizing the link between gore and breaking TV news. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, the film’s title comes from the nickname given to the kind of freelance video journalists who shoot bloody traffic accidents to sell to local TV stations. The Oscar-nominated star plays Lou Bloom, a jobless and hungry Angeleno who turns to nocturnal body-chasing across Los Angeles to survive. He lost 10 kilos for the film, released on Friday in the United States. Gyllenhaal said he and director
Dan Gilroy “talked a lot about coyotes .. in Los Angeles particularly at night, the wild animals that come down (from the hills) and are kind of surviving, even though the metropolis has taken over.” “He’s a coyote. He’s hungry,” said the actor, nominated for an Academy Award for 2005’s “Brokeback Mountain.” One cut scene had Bloom ordering a cheeseburger to eat in a fast-food restaurant, then deciding to take it out because it was 99 cents cheaper. “This is a guy who doesn’t eat much,” said the 33-year-old blue-eyed actor, who is more used to being on the other side of the paparazzi camera’s lens. The thriller, which sometimes comically satirizes our voyeuristic society, sees Gyllenhaal’s character
slowly transform into a psychopath risking his own life and others’ to shoot video with no apparent empathy, or instinct to help those he is filming. “It is supposed to be the journalist’s responsibility to capture the story, to feed the audience .. no matter what. And he’s doing nothing really that can be called illegal,” said the actor. “He didn’t commit the murders, he’s innocent. But is he?” he asked. Bloom is pushed to go ever further in his morbid journalistic race by Nina (played by Rene Russo), the TV producer he is working for, who wants the goriest possible footage. “Think of our newscast as a screaming woman running down the street with her throat cut,” she tells him at one point in the movie.
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The photo shows a woman woven Balinese traditional cloth called endek. SMEs are claimed to be the economic anchor and immune to the onslaught of financial crisis. But in reality, the existence of the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Bali has not been able to survive in the face of competition.
Bali Post
DENPASAR - SMEs are said to be an economic anchor and provide immunity to the onslaught of the financial crisis. But in reality, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Bali have not been able to survive in face of the competition. This sector tends to grow sporatically or seasonally. For example, before religious holidays such as Eid, Nyepi and Galungan, SMEs increase theri profits. However, when there are no religious holydays, their numbers decrease. Such conditions, along with lack of human resources and capital makes it even harder for them to compete. Despite this, the existence of SMEs on the Island of
the Gods, provides a real contribution to reducing unemployment. An academician from Udayana University, Dr. I Gusti Wayan Murjana Yasa, stated that SMEs including cooperatives have a huge potential, an daccount for 99 percent of the existing businesses. However, the growth of this sector is very volatile and businesses appear and disappear quickly. “There needs to be a study that maps them out, so that the obstacles and barriers hampering the advance of the SMEs can be overcome,” said
Murjana Yasa in Denpasar. According to Yasa, one of the barriers to SME development is the availability of human resources. This weakness poses a fundamental challenge to the development of SMEs, especailly when first setting up the business but also for the creative and innovative aspects of implementation. Human resources issues can be addressed through education, improving conditions from elemnetary school all the way up to university. Secondly, people needed capital. Many cheap loans were rolled out by the government, but they could rarely be accessed by the SMEs because they were unable to meet the requirements established
by the banking institution. This issue requires a clear solution so that conceptually, the SMEs and microfinance institutions are contiguous. In other words, microfinance institutions develope around people with low incomes, so that the informal relationships between banks and the SMEs had to run synergetically. He said the difficulty in accessing official financial services, has nourished moneylender businesses with high interest rates. Alonside these, there has also develloped cooperatives which could be empowered. For example, commercial banks appointed by the government to channel cheap credit, appoint a third party, namely the cooperative as a
partner to run the loan program. “The institutions which channel cheap loans should have other arms, such as cooperative providing loans to artisans for example or alternatly artisans or other goups can set up their own coops. Extending such loans should not have inflated interest rates” he said. Meanwhile, the Rector of Undiknas University, Prof. Gede Sri Darma, DBA, also considered that the difficulties faced by the SMEs in accessing bank services was not only felt in Bali. This classic problem is also experienced by SMEs thoughout Indonesia because banks are still in doubt about the track record of the average SME. Continued on page 6