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1 A at the Career Highlight of Shimon Peres In an unprecedented seven-decade political career, Shimon Peres has filled nearly every position in Israeli public life. Here's a look at some of his career highlights: —Shimon Perski is born on Aug. 2, 1923 in Vishneva, then part of 2016-09-28 02:17 3KB abcnews.go.com (18.99/19) Poland. He...

2 Israel's Peres won Nobel prize but his Mideast peace dream remained elusive By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Shimon Peres, w ho died on Wednesday at the age of 93, never

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3 Police shoot Indigenous man in Cowra during 'confrontation' Police say photo being circulated on social media w as of earlier pursuit, not the shooting 2016-09-28 04:04 1KB www.theguardian.com (3.38/19)

4 SpaceX’s Elon Musk unveils plan to colonize Mars using huge, sleek spacecraft Visionary SpaceX founder Elon Musk on Tuesday unveiled his long-aw aited plan to colonize Mars w ithin the (3.19/19) century, saying he w ants to ferry a million people to the red planet in a fleet of 1,000 luxury spaceships more than three times the size of the l 2016-09-27 23:29 6KB www.presstelegram.com

5 Wells Fargo claws back part of CEO, other executive's salary Wells Fargo says CEO John Stumpf and the executive w ho ran the bank's retail banking division w ill forfeit tens of 2016-09-28 00:10 5KB (3.14/19) millions of dollars in pay as the bank tries to stem a scandal over its sales practices. www.charlotteobserver.com

6 In Trump's debate remarks, women hear sexism and bullying When Donald Trump challenged Hillary Clinton's stamina on the debate stage, Pennsylvania voter Patricia Bennett said she heard a "dog w histle" that smacked of unmistakable sexism. 2016-09-28 03:23 5KB www.charlotteobserver.com (3.12/19)

7 German consumer morale falls slightly heading into October BERLIN, Sept 28 (Reuters) - BRThe mood among German consumers w orsened slightly heading into October but remains at one of the highest levels in more than a... 2016-09-28 02:08 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

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8 Jeremy Corbyn: we will continue to make anti-Trident case Media captionJeremy Corbyn says he disagrees w ith nuclear policyLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn says he accepts his party's policy is to renew the 2016-09-28 00:00 3KB headlinenewstoday.net

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9 Indonesia evacuating tourists after Mount Barujari eruption JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities have evacuated more than 1,100 tourists after Mount Barujari on Lombok island spew ed a massive column of ash into the atmosphere and are searching for several hundred others possibly still in the area. ... 2016-09-28 03:26 856Bytes article.wn.com (2.12/19)

10 Sainsbury’s sales trip as food prices continue to fall Image copyright Getty Images Sainsbury's has 2016-09-28 00:00 3KB headlinenewstoday.net

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11 Connecticut’s first Mormon temple to serve growing church The first Mormon temple in Connecticut opens to the public this w eek and w ill soon host services for thousands of the faithful from a four-state area... 2016-09-28 04:02 3KB lasvegassun.com (2.06/19)

12 Justin Theroux reveals recipe for marital bliss with Jennifer Aniston after Brangelina split 'We appreciate each other's sense of humour, w e respect one another and w e get along,' he told Entertainment (1.08/19) Tonight. 'I know it sounds simple - but it's true!' 2016-09-28 02:45 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 13 Chemi Peres: 'Farewell to our beloved father Shimon Peres' son, Chemi Peres, led the tributes to his father outside the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv. 2016-09-28 01:35 693Bytes www.bbc.co.uk (1.07/19)

14 Alicia Machado Opens Up About Trump's Treatment of Her: "He’s Not a Good Person" "I need to share my story," the former Miss Universe said on 'The Kelly File.' "I don't think this person is the right (1.05/19) person w ho can be a president. " 2016-09-28 00:17 2KB feedproxy.google.com

15 Asian stock markets turn lower after Wall Street gains BEIJING (AP) — Major Asian stock markets w ere low er Tuesday after investors w ere reassured by trade-friendly Hillary Clinton's performance in a U. S. presidential debate w ith rival Donald Trump. ... 2016-09-28 03:26 739Bytes article.wn.com (1.02/19)

16 Striking a cord! Bostonians embrace pop-up painted pianos :: WRAL.com Bostonians are embracing the painted pianos that have popped up across the city and neighboring Cambridge in recent days. 2016-09-28 01:58 3KB www.wral.com (1.02/19)

17 Thai junta allows culture of torture to flourish, says rights group BANGKOK (Reuters) – International human rights group Amnesty International on Wednesday accused Thailand’s military government of allow ing a “culture of torture” to flourish… 2016-09-28 01:53 5KB atimes.com

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18 Noor Tagouri poses for Playboy wearing a hijab Noor Tagouri, 22, a first-generation Libyan- American from West Virginia, appears in the October issue of Playboy. She dreams of being the first hijabi anchor on US commercial television. 2016-09-28 00:51 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk (1.02/19)

19 First-Ever Baby Born Using 'Three Parent' Genetic Engineering Technique According to an exclusive report in New Scientist, a breakthrough birth occurred under the radar some five months ago. With the help of John Zhang from the New Hope Fertility Center in ,... 2016-09-28 00:16 757Bytes article.wn.com (1.02/19)

20 Postal Savings Bank of China makes flat Hong Kong debut after $7.4 bln IPO By Julie Zhu and Elzio Barreto HONG KONG, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Shares in Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC)

(1.02/19) made a flat debut in Hong Kong after the state-ow ... 2016-09-27 23:25 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

21 Labour ‘will better abbreviation propagandize plans’, pledges Rayner Image caption Ms Rayner said selection by ability w as 2016-09-28 00:00 5KB headlinenewstoday.net

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22 Two new tsars to be created as Airbus reorganisation takes shape By Tim Hepher BARCELONA, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Airbus Group Chief Executive Tom Enders plans to expand a shake-up of Europe's largest aerospace group by promot... 2016-09-28 03:27 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

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23 Pope Francis ‘concerned’ about North Korea nukes — RT News The Pope has expressed concern over instability on the Korean Peninsula and the possible impact ongoing North Korean nuclear tests could have on the w orld. 2016-09-28 01:05 2KB www..com (0.05/19)

24 Nicole Trunfio flaunts her figure in a skimpy swimsuit during LA bikini shoot She gave birth to her first son, Zion, less than tw o years ago. And, Australian model Nicole Trunfio flaunts her (0.03/19) phenomenal post-baby figure in her latest steamy beachside photo shoot. 2016-09-28 04:24 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

25 Slovak Republic - Factors To Watch on Sept 28 BRATISLAVA, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Here are new s stories, press reports and events to w atch w hich may affect Slovak financial markets on Wednesday. ALL TIMES GM... 2016-09-28 03:08 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

(0.02/19) 26 Kate Middleton and William tuck into local delicacy in Canada As the couple toured a food and w ine festival in the idyllic setting of a hilltop w inery in the Okanagan valley, British Columbia they tasted the unusual-looking 'geoduck'. 2016-09-28 00:02 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk (0.02/19)

27 The Bachelor's Steph Dixon and Olena Khamula share Instagram video singing in the car She may not have found love on The Bachelor, but Steph Dixon certainly did find a best friend 2016-09-28 04:32 1KB (0.01/19) www.dailymail.co.uk

28 Fines, foodies and Airbnb could get San Francisco closer to ‘Zero Waste’ (0.01/19) San Franciscans don’t all cheer for the Giants, stand in line for brunch or disrupt on a daily basis. We also all don’t compost, even though it’s the law. San … San Franciscans don’t all cheer for the Giants, stand in line for brunch or... 2016-09-28 04:00 5KB www.sfexaminer.com

29 Facebook is ordered to stop harvesting personal details from WhatsApp’s German users Facebook has been told by a privacy regulator to stop collecting and storing data from WhatsApp's 35 million (0.01/19) German users. 2016-09-28 03:27 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

30 Father Says NYC Suspect Was Secretive in Months Before Bombing Video Mohammad Rahami says his son has ruined the family name. 2016-09-27 00:00 1KB abcnews.go.com

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31 Madonna follows Katy Perry's lead as she posts NUDE selfie while backing presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton In the image, w hich w as posted early Wednesday morning, the veteran musician w ears an assortment of necklaces and a dazzling grill as she leans into the lens. 2016-09-28 04:29 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

32 Australia’s uncanny and dumb festivals The Henley-on-Todd Regatta ranks among the country’s quirkiest events. AUSTRALIA has no shortage of w eird, w acky or just plain crazy festivals and 2016-09-28 00:00 5KB headlinenewstoday.net

33 More UK stimulus probably needed "at some point" - BoE's Shafik LONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Bank of England Deputy Governor Minouche Shafik said she expected the central bank w ould need to pump more stimulus into Britain'... 2016-09-28 04:11 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

34 SAP to invest 2 bln euros in Internet of Things by end 2020 FRANKFURT, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Europe's biggest softw are maker SAP has earmarked 2 billion euros ($2.2 bln) for investments in products that help companies t... 2016-09-28 04:02 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

35 Jacenko poses with Francesca Packer as they go shopping at Louis Vuitton On Wednesday, Roxy Jacenko celebrated the end of her radiation treatment by heading out shopping w ith heiress Francesca Packer Barham 2016-09-28 03:58 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

36 El Niño may push CO2 levels to record high Despite the obvious changes in global temperature, some still deny the impact that humans have on global w arming. Still others even deny global w arming itself. But scientific data have uncovered 2016-09-28 03:56 2KB technology.inquirer.net

37 Pixie Lott puts on leggy display to film music video in Rio de Janeiro Pixie Lott has w asted no time jetting off to Brazil, w here she is shooting a new music video for her latest musical collaboration, Best Day of My Life. 2016-09-28 03:49 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

38 Justin Timberlake and Kate Winslet get into a fight for new Woody Allen project The 35-year-old actor and Kate Winslet, 40, filmed a heated argument scene on Tuesday in New York City. 2016-09-28 03:42 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

39 Mercury is the first planet after Earth with tectonic activity To date, Earth has been the only planet in the Solar System know n to demonstrate tectonic activity. Other planets are geologically active, but not much more than that. How ever, it now looks like our homew orld isn't alone. Smithsonian researchers c...... 2016-09-28 03:35 1KB article.wn.com 40 Brendan Rodgers urges Celtic to put the shackles on Sergio Aguero and Co Five years ago, a Brendan Rodgers meeting w ith Pep Guardiola w as stymied by an Icelandic ash cloud. Now Celtic’s manager needs Parkhead to rumble w ith volcanic intent for it to be a pleasant experience. 2016-09-28 03:27 6KB www.dailymail.co.uk

41 Lupita Nyong'o is mellow in yellow as she chats about new film Queen Of Katwe She is the star of the Queen Of Katw e. So it w as only appropriate Lupita Nyong'o w as sitting on a makeshift throne as she discussed the picture w ith fans in New York on Tuesday. 2016-09-28 03:26 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk

42 Kelly Rowland shows her silly side as she poses for selfies with son Titan in LA She gave birth to son Titan nearly tw o years ago in November. And on Tuesday, Kelly Row land, 35, w as quite the giddy mum as she carried her little one on her hip during an outing in LA. 2016-09-28 03:25 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk

43 Australian woman with Lyme disease forced to travel to Switzerland for treatment Emily Rosner, 26, from has late stage Lyme Disease, w hich has debilitated her psychically and is now affecting her cognitive function. She is travelling to Sw itzerland for life-saving treatment. 2016-09-28 03:23 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

44 UN panel says the US owes black people reparations over slavery The UN w orking group on people of African descent chairman Ricardo A. Sunga says the panel believed several models of reparations could w ork in the US context, including debt relief. 2016-09-28 03:21 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

45 Brad Pitt to miss movie premiere due to 'family situation' focus Actor Brad Pitt has said he w ill miss a premiere he w as due to attend on Wednesday because he is focused on his "family situation". Angelina Jolie filed for... 2016-09-28 03:19 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

46 BRIEF-PZ Cussons says performance for 4 months in line with expectations Sept 28 (Reuters) - PZ Cussons Plc : * AGM trading statement for period June 1 to Sept. 27 2016 * Overall performance of the group during the period has been... 2016-09-28 03:18 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk

47 John Cusack sells stunning oceanfront Malibu mansion for $10.3million The 50-year-old actor has made quite the profit on his pad, having purchased it for $2.1million back in 1999. 2016-09-28 03:15 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

48 LOOK: 6-year-old kid throws Drake-themed birthday bash https://tw itter.com/abbykillzz/status/780231192767365125?ref_src=tw src%5Etfw Who says a 6-year-old girl can't have an epic birthday party? Not Leah Saldivar. Because of her affection for 2016-09-28 03:11 1KB technology.inquirer.net

49 Ramon Ang builds $300M Davao cement plant BUSINESSMAN Ramon S. Ang is investing around $300 million to build a new cement manufacturing plant in Davao City through his privately-held Eagle Cement Corp., boosting production capacity in 2016-09-28 03:08 1KB business.inquirer.net

50 Ravishing river cruises! Don't fancy the high seas? Some of the most lovely trips to take you deep inland revealed The banks of the w orld’s great rivers are a sightseer’s dream. And there’s no more comfortable w ay to enjoy their historic, cultural and scenic highlights than aboard a river cruise ship. 2016-09-28 03:08 10KB www.dailymail.co.uk

51 How Syrian activists turned to Whatsapp to tell the world their stories Syrian activists in Aleppo are using WhatsApp, the popular messaging app, to reveal the everyday realities and struggles of living in the besieged city. 2016-09-28 03:06 4KB rss..com

52 Louise Redknapp unveils a new fashion collaboration for charity Louise Redknapp and Emma Thatcher are passionate about all things personalised in their blog this w eek, designing a name necklace in aid of the Spread Some Sunshine Charity. 2016-09-28 03:03 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

53 Have YOU had sex with your ex? Our sexpert Tracey Cox says that break-up sex is different for everyone. While some view it as a passionate w ay to bid farew ell to a relationship, others regard it as torture. 2016-09-28 03:02 6KB www.dailymail.co.uk 54 Is this the most insulting ad on television? SARAH VINE feels patronised by commercial for H&M's winter collection Has there ever been a more smug and self-satisfied TV ad than H&M’s commercial for its new Autumn/Winter fashion collection? I feel I’m being patronised to w ithin an inch of my sanity. 2016-09-28 03:01 8KB www.dailymail.co.uk

55 In the kitchen: Shishito peppers and other farmers market gems One of the great pleasures of living in Southern California is our farmers markets , a netw ork of w hat are essentially outdoor food halls, w here w e can shop for dinner, meet friends and revel in our permanent grow ing season — as w ell as, these days,... 2016-09-28 03:00 3KB www.latimes.com

56 The weird ways you're giving yourself wrinkles and spots before bedtime Experts have shed light on the surprising things people do every night before bed that are causing them to age w ithout even realising - and some of them w ill shock you. 2016-09-28 02:52 6KB www.dailymail.co.uk

57 MS Dhoni on his biopic 'MS Dhoni: An Untold Story': No villain in my life India's ODI skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, w ho keenly aw aits the release of 'M. S. Dhoni: An Untold Story' says at first he w as hesitant to give a nod to the project as he thought w hat kind of a film can be made on him 2016-09-28 02:49 3KB www.mid-day.com

58 She's in tune! Amanda Peet strikes right note in little black dress at Los Angeles Philharmonic opening gala The 44-year-old actress brought the Hollyw ood glamour on Tuesday to the Los Angeles Philharmonic's opening night gala. 2016-09-28 02:49 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

59 Computer treatment helps stroke-induced blindness A new treatment is helping people w ith stroke-induced blindness achieve major improvements in their vision. Loss of sight due to brain injury, usually from s... 2016-09-28 02:37 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

60 Duped New York Concert Audience Gives Standing Ovation to North Korean Propaganda In betw een Brahms and Rachmaninoff, the Ureuk Symphony Orchestra performs camouflaged music that praises Jong Un, the third-generation dictator. 2016-09-28 02:33 8KB www.wsj.com

61 Thriving sector Media captionIndia tries to make money from satellitesOn Monday, India sent a rocket into space w hich successfully launched eight satellites in 2016-09-28 00:00 4KB headlinenewstoday.net

62 Noem My Skollie is SA's Oscar entry Noem My Skollie has been selected as South Africa's official 2017 foreign-language entry for the Academy Aw ards. 2016-09-28 02:18 2KB www.channel24.co.za

63 Popular U. S. chain California Pizza Kitchen opens its first Asutralian restaurant in Perth Perth businessman Peter Peard, daughter Hannah and business partner Russell Hextall have brought California Pizza Kitchen (pictured) Dow n Under, officially opening on Wednesday. 2016-09-28 02:14 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

64 Britney Spears stunsas she performs for crowd at first UK gig in five years The Toxic superstar performed for a star-studded crow d at the Roundhouse for the Apple Music Festival in w hat w as her first UK gig in over five years. 2016-09-28 02:11 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

65 China's Dongbei Special Steel makes revival plan after defaults - newspaper SHANGHAI, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Dongbei Special Steel Group, the struggling Chinese steelmaker, has ironed out a business revival plan, aiming to return to pro... 2016-09-28 02:09 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

66 Kim Kardashian covers her curves in long black dress as she chat with Andy Cohen at advertising event The 35-year-old reality television star looked elegant in an ankle-skimming black dress as she w as interview ed on stage at the Girls' Lounge dinner, at Pier 60 2016-09-28 02:08 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

67 Tribal service deals could help Dakota pipeline impasse -Whiting CEO By Ernest Scheyder SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 28 (Reuters) - The chief executive of North Dakota's largest oil producer, Whiting Petroleum Corp , says the standoff... 2016-09-28 02:08 4KB www.dailymail.co.uk 68 Yeah! let's karaoke! The beauty that music affords us is to travel to a place w e are not physically at. Music soothes. It consoles. It gives hope. 2016-09-28 02:05 2KB www.news24.com

69 What happened to the â​Rainbow Nation?â​ Heritage day came and w ent this past w eekend. Did it make you pause, and think about all those amazing humanitarians that fought for years for the rest of South Africa to have a democracy? 2016-09-28 02:05 2KB www.news24.com

70 Fight at the museum: how George Lucas learned that cultural locations matter George Lucas got a surprise w hen his plans for a massive museum on Chicago’s lakefront w ere met w ith law suits. But museum locations have alw ays been a tricky proposition – and their role in cities is changing 2016-09-28 02:00 11KB www.theguardian.com

71 Hilary Duff reveals she's dating her trainer Jason Walsh The 28-year-old Disney Channel alum show ed off her toned pins in a stylish, maroon mini skirt as she stopped by SiriusXM Studios in New York city on Tuesday. 2016-09-28 02:00 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

72 Coca-Cola calls on creatives to help clean up Britain's streets and encourage people to recycle more We've all experienced it – the plastic bag w eaving betw een cars on the road, the crisp packet blow ing around in the park, a crumpled aluminum can blemishing a busy high street. Britain has a litter problem. 2016-09-28 02:00 6KB www.thedrum.com

73 Muslim leader who wants a second wife speaks of polygamy heartbreak An Australian Muslim leader searching for a second w ife - w ith the blessing of his current spouse - w rote soppy love poetry to prospective brides. 2016-09-28 01:58 1018Bytes www.dailymail.co.uk

74 Abe Clashes With New Opposition Leader Over BOJ Inflation Policy Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe locked horns w ith new opposition leader Renho over Bank of Japan policy and his economic program Wednesday, in their first parliamentary standoff since she w on a party election tw o w eeks ago. Renho, the leader of the opposition Democratic Party, described... 2016-09-28 01:47 1KB article.wn.com

75 Watch Video: Students perform life-threatening stunts on Mumbai local A commuter shot this video w hile traveling in a Mumbai local betw een Bandra and Mahim, in w hich tw o students are seen performing dangerous stunts on a CST-bound local train 2016-09-28 01:44 1KB www.mid-day.com

76 , a video streaming service, to shut down as of Nov. 30 Shomi, a video streaming service that w as launched in 2014 in Canada and w as offered as an alternative to Netflix, is shutting dow n in November. 2016-09-28 01:37 3KB www.digitaljournal.com

77 A place for pastrami in DC: ‘Top Chef’ finalist opens new eatery In a city long know n for meat and potatoes, a "Top Chef" finalist found one type of meat w as missing. Her new restaurant hopes to remedy that. (Photos) 2016-09-28 01:34 4KB wtop.com

78 Political groups seeking coveted millennials vote Many millennials are social activists, but researchers call them political dropouts. They have voted less often than any other generation in modern history. 2016-09-28 01:29 2KB abc7news.com

79 More than 9 in 10 people breathe bad air, WHO study says HONG KONG — The World Health Organization said Tuesday that 92 percent of people breathe w hat it classifies as unhealthy air, in another sign that atmospheric pollution is a significant threat to global public health. ... 2016-09-28 01:29 788Bytes article.wn.com

80 Chris Christie laughed at 9/11 memorial when he heard of traffic plaguing Fort Lee, ex-crony testifies in Bridgegate trial, but governor insists he 'had no knowledge' Christie w as “happy” w hen he learned that gridlock had overw helmed Fort Lee after its mayor refused to endorse him, David Wildstein said. 2016-09-28 01:23 3KB feeds.nydailynews.com

81 Anthony Vaccarello at Yves Saint Laurent: 1980s Kitsch and Kaboodle For his debut show at the house, the designer delved into history of the most recent, big-shouldered kind. 2016-09-28 01:17 4KB www.nytimes.com 82 'Dancing with the Stars' announces latest elimination after faceoff week The second elimination from season 23 of "Dancing w ith the Stars" w as announced, after the show 's faceoff w eek. 2016-09-28 01:01 1KB abc7news.com

83 Amber Rose squeaks through on DWTS... as 'messy' ex-governor Rick Perry is voted off It w as beauty before age on Monday’s DWTS, as ultra-conservative Texas governor Rick Perry, 66, w as voted off. Amber Rose, 32, w ho w as also in jeopardy, remained safe - but w as last to be called 2016-09-28 00:56 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

84 Tyson Foods Inc. recalls some cooked chicken nugget products Tyson Foods Inc. , a Sedalia, Mo. establishment, is recalling approximately 132,520 pounds of fully cooked chicken nugget products that may be 2016-09-28 00:54 1KB www.roundnews.com

85 Pepe the Frog designated hate symbol by ADL Beloved internet meme Pepe the Frog's latest incarnation as a symbol of w hite hate groups has landed him on the ADL's list of hate symbols. 2016-09-28 00:37 3KB www.cnn.com

86 'We kissed the whole day': Delta Goodrem talks to Fitzy & Wippa about locking lips in her steamy music video... yet remains tight-lipped about new boyfriend She's the successful Australian singer w ho has had a string of failed relationships. How ever, it seems Delta Goodrem may have found love - the lucky beau man being Wallabies star Drew Mitchell. 2016-09-28 00:34 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk

87 'Recycled Orchestra' turns garbage into gold Festering alongside mountains of stinking trash under the sw eltering South American sun, Cateura is a long w ay from the conservatories of Prague or Vienna. Y... 2016-09-28 00:30 4KB www.dailymail.co.uk

88 Saudi Arabia-Iran rivalry the stumbling block for an oil deal, analysts say Longstanding tensions betw een Saudi Arabia and Iran w ill hold OPEC back from an oil production freeze in the near term, analysts said. 2016-09-28 00:27 4KB www..com

89 Meg Ryan and Logan Paul discuss how celebrity-brand collaborations have evolved over the years During a panel at Advertising Week New York, actress Meg Ryan and social media star Logan Paul discussed how celebrity-brand tie-ups have evolved over the years and w hat the implications are for marketers. 2016-09-28 00:24 3KB www.thedrum.com

90 Barra, Ford, Snyder, Duggan to address mobility forum "New mobility. " Few phrases are as vague, undefined, a little threatening and overused by auto executives. 2016-09-28 00:18 3KB rssfeeds.freep.com

91 Chrissy Teigen beams as daughter Luna wears a chef hat in sweet Instagram photo The 30-year-old looked absolutely delighted at seeing her little girl w earing a chef hat w hile the tw o posed in a kitchen in the sw eet Instagram snap shared Tuesday. 2016-09-28 00:16 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

92 The American Spectator On the matter of the debate the other night, tell the truth. Admit it... 2016-09-28 10:28 4KB spectator.org

93 looks stunning as she arrives in LA after spending time at Milan Fashion Week The 33-year-old show ed no signs of fatigue as she made her w ay through the airport, flashing her toned tummy in the process. 2016-09-28 00:13 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

94 Tom Holland leaps on top of a car as he throws himself into filming Spider- Man The 20-year-old on Tuesday w as snapped in costume on the set of Spider-Man: Homecoming, as cameras rolled on next summer's highly-anticipated superhero film in the New York borough. 2016-09-28 00:13 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

95 Constance Siaflas deletes ALL pics of Salim Mehajer Constance Siaflas has deleted all social media images of Salim Mehajer w hile also unfollow ing him on Instagram. 2016-09-28 00:08 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 96 Smokin' Calendar Features French Firefighters Posing For Charity This w ill get you fired up for a cause. Some very shirtless firefighters from France got their Zoolander on for Le Calendrier Des Pompiers 2017, or The Calendar of Firefighters 2017, w hich w... 2016-09-28 00:08 733Bytes article.wn.com

97 Tickets on sale Sept. 29-Oct. 5: Concerts and more Vanessa Williams, Partynextdoor, Mindless Behavior, and Panic! At The Disco among new ly scheduled show s. 2016-09-28 00:07 1KB rssfeeds.freep.com

98 The World's Most Innovative Universities - 2016 By David Ew alt Sept. 28 (Reuters) - In the fast-changing w orld of science and technology, if you're not innovating, you're falling behind. That's one of the... 2016-09-28 00:02 8KB www.dailymail.co.uk

99 Today in History Today in History Today is Wednesday, Sept. 28, the 272nd day of 2016. There are 94 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 28, 1066, William the Conqueror invaded England to claim the English throne. On this date: In 1542, Portuguese navigator Juan... 2016-09-28 00:02 5KB abcnews.go.com

100 Jessica Mauboy enjoys stroll with longtime boyfriend Themeli Magripilis Jessica Mauboy, 27, perfected casual chic in a w hite off-the-shoulder top as she enjoyed quality time w ith longtime boyfriend Themeli Magripilis. 2016-09-28 00:00 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk Articles

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1 /100 A Look at the Career Highlight of Shimon Peres (18.99/19) In an unprecedented seven-decade political career, Shimon Peres has filled nearly every position in Israeli public life.

Here's a look at some of his career highlights:

—Shimon Perski is born on Aug. 2, 1923 in Vishneva, then part of Poland. He moves to pre-state Palestine in 1934 with his immediate family and later enters politics where he becomes a prot?g? of Israel's founding father David Ben-Gurion.

—In 1952, at age 29, he becomes the youngest person ever to serve as director-general of Israel's Defense Ministry. There he is credited with arming Israel's military almost from scratch and creating what is widely believed to be a nuclear arsenal.

—In 1959, Peres is first elected to the Knesset, Israel's parliament, serving almost uninterrupted until 2007. He is appointed deputy defense minister.

—In 1969, he is appointed minister of immigrant absorption, the first in a long line of Cabinet position to follow.

—In 1977, he suffers defeat while running for prime minister, losing to Menachem Begin, whose Likud party rises to power for the first time.

—In 1984, he finally becomes prime minister after tying with Likud's Yitzhak Shamir and agreeing to share the job in a rotation. As prime minister, he disentangles Israeli troops from Lebanon and rescues the economy from triple-digit inflation.

— In 1992, he becomes foreign minister in the Labor party-led government, serving under his longtime rival Yitzhak Rabin. Together they work to forge the first peace accord with the Palestinians and a peace accord with Jordan. In 1994, they share the Nobel Peace Prize with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

—In 1995, after Rabin is assassinated by a Jewish ultranationalist opposed to Israel's peace moves, Peres became acting prime minister. Just six months later he is defeated by Benjamin Netanyahu in elections.

—In 2007, he is elected president, a largely ceremonial role but one that earns him the kind of national admiration that eluded him throughout his lengthy career.

—In 2014, Peres completes his presidential term, remaining active at his peace center until suffering a debilitating stroke on Sept. 13.

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2 /100 Israel's Peres won Nobel prize but his Mideast peace dream remained elusive (5.99/19) By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Shimon Peres, who died on Wednesday at the age of 93, never realised his vision of a new Middle East built upon a 1993 interim peace deal he helped shape with the Palestinians. But Israel's elder statesman won world acclaim and a Nobel prize as a symbol of hope in a region long plagued by war fuelled by deep religious and political divisions. Peres was hospitalised following a stroke two weeks ago and his condition had improved before a sudden deterioration on Tuesday, doctors said. In announcing his passing, family members said that he did not suffer pain, and as a last act after death, he donated his corneas for transplant. "Don't forget to be daring and curious and to dream big," Peres urged first-graders at the start of the school year in a posting on his Facebook page earlier this month. The comment seemed to sum up his own credo. In a career spanning nearly seven decades, Peres, once a shepherd on a kibbutz, or communal farm, served in a dozen cabinets and twice as Labour Party prime minister, but he never won a general election outright in five tries from 1977 to 1996. "I am a loser. I lost elections. But I am a winner -- I served my people," Peres, who held the largely ceremonial post of president from 2007-2014, once said in a speech. He shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Israel's late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for a 1993 accord that they and their successors failed to turn into a durable treaty. When a far-right Jewish Israeli opposed to the peace deal assassinated Rabin in November 1995, the torch passed to Peres. But Palestinian suicide bombings that killed dozens of Israelis and an aggressive campaign by Likud battered Peres's rating and he lost the 1996 election to Benjamin Netanyahu by less than 30,000 votes. In 2000, the failure of final-status peace talks with the Palestinians and the eruption of a Palestinian uprising rife with suicide bombings further damaged Israel's left and Peres's leadership prospects. In 2005, Peres left the Labour Party to join then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new party, Kadima, which had spearheaded Israel's unilateral pullout from the Gaza Strip earlier that year. Following Kadima's 2006 election victory, Peres served as vice prime minister. FOUNDING FATHERS Born in 1923 in what is now Belarus, Peres immigrated to British-ruled Palestine with his family a decade later. Israel's founding father David Ben-Gurion groomed him for leadership. He oversaw arms purchases and manpower in the Hagana, the Zionist fighting force, before Israel's establishment. Peres is widely seen as having gained nuclear capabilities for Israel by procuring the secret Dimona reactor from France while defence ministry director-general in the 1950s. As defence minister he oversaw the dramatic 1976 Israeli rescue of hijacked Israelis at Entebbe airport in Uganda. Peres was popular in his first term as prime minister in 1984-86 as part of a power-sharing pact with Likud. He pulled troops back from Lebanon, normalised relations with Egypt and cut inflation from 445 percent a year to below 20 percent. Despite his key role in building Israel's defences, Peres never gained broad popular trust in his security credentials as Rabin, his Labour rival and former army chief, or Sharon enjoyed. Most Israelis, hardened by frequent conflict, dismissed his vision that a new age for the Middle East was dawning hand-in-hand with peace deals. He was seen abroad as an urbane diplomat but at home often as an ego-driven manipulator in domestic politics who eroded his party's identity out of a thirst for cabinet posts after election losses to Likud. Nevertheless, during his last years, the last of Israel's founding fathers saw a rise in his popularity among Israelis. He used the presidency as a pulpit for advocating peace and maintained an active public schedule, encouraging Middle East diplomacy and technological innovation. He is also known for his stewardship of the Peres Center for Peace, a non-governmental organisation focused on building closer ties with the Palestinians, improving healthcare and developing local economies. Earlier this month, after a series of health scares including a mild heart attack, Peres received an artificial pacemaker. "I feel great. When can I get back to work already? I'm bored! " he told reporters at the time. Peres wrote several books including "Entebbe Diary", "The New Middle East" and "Battling for Peace". His wife, Sonia, died in 2011. He is survived by two sons and a daughter. (Reporting by Ari Rabinovitch and Ori Lewis; Editing by Jeffrey Heller and Michael Perry)

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3 /100 Police shoot Indigenous man in Cowra during 'confrontation' (3.38/19) A man has been shot by police in the central western New South Wales town of Cowra.

The 32-year-old, identified by locals as Dennis John “DJ” Doolan, was flown to Orange base hospital where he remains in a serious but stable condition.

Police said in a statement emergency services were called to Jindalee Circuit shortly after midday on Wednesday. “On arrival officers located a man and attempted to speak with him,” the statement read. “During a confrontation, the man was shot by police.”

The ABC reported that Doolan is Indigenous and there had been a series of confrontations leading up to the shooting .

Paramedics reportedly treated Doolan for a gunshot wound to his lower back or buttock.

Assistant police commissioner Geoff McKechnie told the ABC a photo of the incident being circulated on social media was of the earlier pursuit, not the shooting.

A critical incident team will investigate the incident, including the discharge of a police firearm, before an independent review.

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4 /100 SpaceX’s Elon Musk unveils plan to colonize Mars using huge, sleek spacecraft (3.19/19) By

Sandy Mazza , Daily Breeze

Posted: 09/27/16, 8:29 PM PDT | Updated: 56 secs ago

Visionary SpaceX founder Elon Musk on Tuesday unveiled his long-awaited plan to colonize Mars within the century, saying he wants to ferry a million people to the red planet in a fleet of 1,000 luxury spaceships more than three times the size of the largest-ever rocket.

But, first, he has to find a way to reduce the cost of getting there by roughly “5 million percent,” he told reporters at the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico. More than 100,000 viewers around the world watched a streaming video of his announcement.

In perhaps the most highly anticipated space exploration announcement in recent years, Musk outlined a detailed path toward reaching his long-stated goal of making humans a multiplanetary species — a reality he believes will be achieved most quickly by first conquering Mars.

“There are really two fundamental paths,” Musk said. “One path is we stay on Earth forever and there will be some eventual extinction event. The other is to become a... multiplanet species, which I hope you will agree is the way to go.”

Ultimately, Musk hopes to sell seats on his 200-foot-tall, sleek interplanetary ships for less than $200,000 each. The rockets will each carry 42 Raptor engines than generate 28 million pounds of thrust and, ultimately, will be able to travel the solar system by hopping between planets and moons.

“I think Earth will be a good place for a long time, but the probable lifespan of human civilization will be much greater if we’re a multiplanetary species,” said Musk, who also runs electric carmaker Tesla Motors. SpaceX headquarters are in Hawthorne and Tesla has an adjacent design studio.

The rocket company launches from Cape Canaveral, where it suffered a major failure when a Falcon 9 rocket carrying communications satellites erupted into flames during a prelaunch test on Sept. 1. The company’s main priority, Musk said Tuesday, is figuring out exactly what went wrong.

SpaceX has a 93 percent success rate launching rockets, Musk said, adding that “it needs to be a lot better” before people can get on board.

Less than 5 percent of the company’s resources are devoted to interplanetary missions, he said.

“Our priority is to find what happened on the last flight,” Musk told reporters after his Tuesday presentation. “It’s incorrect to say it’s anything other than our top priority to understand what went wrong there.”

But he expects commercial launches to resume in November and, by 2024, Musk hopes to begin sending people to Mars. The first hurdle to filling the spaceship, he said, is making it appealing enough for nouveau explorers to want to spend months in transit.

“It’s got to be really fun and exciting and it can’t feel cramped or boring,” Musk said. “There will be movies, lecture halls, cabins, a restaurant. It will be, like, really fun to go. You’re going to have a great time.

“We aspire to launch in late 2024 with arrival in 2025. That’s optimistic. I would describe that as an aspiration and a lot of things need to go right” for it to happen.

Besides building the most powerful rocket ever, Musk said it must also be fully reusable with propellant production plants on Mars and the ability to refuel while in orbit.

The rocket booster responsible for delivering the payload outside Earth’s atmosphere would return to its Cape Canaveral launch pad after a launch. There, it would be loaded with propellant and sent back to space to refuel the ship.

If everything goes smoothly following the first flight there, it would take about “40 to 100 years” to achieve a fully self- sustaining civilization of around 1 million people on Mars, he said.

Musk isn’t sure how the project will be funded but, ideally, it would be a massive private-public partnership that leverages commercial interests with NASA support. The PayPal founder is investing much of his own money into the project, and seeking industry support up to $10 billion.

While NASA partnered with SpaceX on its Commercial Crew project and has hired the company to deliver payloads to the International Space Station, the government agency hasn’t committed to backing the Mars mission.

USC business professor Greg Autry, who specializes in entrepreneurship and has studied SpaceX extensively, called Musk’s presentation “bold and ambitious.”

“Even Elon admits the schedule is probably too aggressive, but he’s a master at setting impossible goals to motivate people and then pushing them to achieve what seemed like highly improbably success,” Autry said. “It’s much less complex and much more sustainable than the visions from NASA, ‘The Martian,’ or other serious models of human exploration to Mars.

“I believe he’d have a long, long line of people willing to pay $1 million to move to Mars.”

In the meantime, SpaceX is working to send an unmanned Dragon capsule to explore Mars by 2018.

Jim Cantrell, a founding member of SpaceX and now CEO of Vector Space Systems in Huntington Beach, called Musk’s vision “very feasible” and builds on 20 years of aerospace-industry Mars research.

“Where’s he going to get the money? I don’t know but I’m sure he’ll figure it out,” Cantrell said, adding that one of the biggest challenges will be human psychology.

“Getting 100 to 200 people locked in a cage for nine months (on the Mars shuttle) ... you wonder how that will work out,” Cantrell said.

Musk hopes to eventually reduce the travel time to about a month.

“One of the arguments for leaving Earth is we don’t get along very well here,” Cantell said. “We’re still going to have differences. It reminds me a little of when the Europeans colonized the New World. It’s interesting to see how a spark of an idea becomes a reality.”

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5 /100 Wells Fargo claws back part of CEO, other executive's salary (3.14/19) Wells Fargo says CEO John Stumpf and the executive who ran the bank's retail banking division will forfeit tens of millions of dollars in pay as the bank tries to stem a scandal over its sales practices.

The independent directors at the nation's second- largest bank said Tuesday that Stumpf will forfeit $41 million in stock awards, while former retail banking executive Carrie Tolstedt will forfeit $19 million of her stock awards, effective immediately. Both are also giving up any bonuses for 2016, and Tolstedt will not receive any severance or any other compensation in connection with her retirement, the bank's directors said.

The announcement comes ahead of Stump's planned appearance before the House Financial Services Committee on Thursday, where he is expected to face a bipartisan grilling similar to what he experienced last week from the Senate Banking Committee.

The San Francisco-based bank's independent directors are also launching their own investigation, hiring the law firm Shearman & Sterling to assist them.

In their announcement, the independent directors said the moves did not preclude the board from pursuing more salary clawbacks from Stumpf or Tolstedt, depending on the results of the investigation. Stumpf, as a member of Wells Fargo's board of directors and chairman of the board, has recused himself from any decisions that may come from that investigation, the board said.

"We will proceed with a sense of urgency but will take the time we need to conduct a thorough investigation," Stephen Sanger, Wells Fargo's lead independent director, said in a statement.

Wells Fargo had been under pressure from lawmakers and others to implement its executive compensation clawback provisions after the bank agreed to pay $185 million to settle allegations its employees opened millions of accounts without customers' permission to reach aggressive sales targets.

Stumpf has faced bipartisan outrage for his handling of the scandal. Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee said at a Banking Committee hearing where Stumpf testified last week that it would be "malpractice" if Wells Fargo didn't institute any compensation clawbacks. Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts told Stumpf he should resign and "give back the money you took while the scam was going on. "

Stumpf, a 34-year veteran of Wells Fargo and CEO since 2007, earned $19.3 million last year. Tolstedt announced her retirement in July and had been expected to leave with as much as $125 million in salary, stock options and other compensation before the board's announcement.

The consumer banking giant, which is also the nation's biggest mortgage lender, has fired about 5,300 employees over the sales practices. Lawmakers told Stumpf at the hearing those dismissals didn't go high enough up the chain.

Stumpf was long admired for keeping Wells — until recently — of scandal. The bank did not invest in as many toxic mortgages in the 2000s as its counterparts, and Stumpf initially declined to take bailout money from Washington before accepting it in a sign of solidarity.

He also was able to expand Wells significantly as a result of the crisis, buying up Wachovia. That gave the bank known for its stagecoach logo, which was primarily a West Coast and Southern bank, access to the lucrative East Coast and New York banking markets.

Stumpf was also well-known in the banking industry for his company's ability to sell products to customers. While quotas varied by branch size and other factors, a typical employee had to sell between 13 and 15 banking products a day — a new account, a mortgage, a retirement account, or even online banking. The targets were high even in small towns.

Federal and local authorities said Wells Fargo & Co. employees trying to meet those targets opened bank and credit card accounts, moved money between those accounts and even created fake email addresses to sign customers up for online banking — all without customer authorization. Debit cards were issued and activated, as well as PINs created, without customers' knowledge.

The Labor Department is investigating whether Wells Fargo abused its employees while driving them to meet the lofty sales targets. The bank says it has refunded to customers $2.6 million in fees charged for products that were sold without authorization.

Wells Fargo is also ending its sales-goals targets for its employees, now effective Oct. 1 instead of the earlier Jan. 1 goal. The date change appeared in Stumpf's prepared remarks, seen by The Associated Press, for his planned appearance in front of the Financial Services Committee on Thursday.

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6 /100 In Trump's debate remarks, women hear sexism and bullying (3.12/19) When Donald Trump challenged Hillary Clinton's stamina on the debate stage, Pennsylvania voter Patricia Bennett said she heard a "dog whistle" that smacked of unmistakable sexism.

"Why doesn't he just say that she needs more testosterone? " said Bennett, a 69-year-old independent from the Philadelphia suburbs who plans to vote for Clinton in November.

Across the country, Lisa Lowe, a Colorado Democrat who was lukewarm about Clinton before Monday's debate, said Trump behaved like a "negative bully. " Kris Stotler, an undecided Virginia Republican, was disappointed by Trump's jarring criticism of a former beauty queen's weight, comments Clinton forcefully condemned during the faceoff.

"It's incredibly distasteful, and it doesn't stop," Stotler, 48, said of Trump. "Even if you thought that, why would you say that? "

Bennett, Lowe and Stotler were among two dozen female voters from battleground states who spoke with The Associated Press on Tuesday. Nearly all expressed concerns with Trump's critical and often demeaning comments about women, as well as his approach toward Clinton in the debate.

The concerns were shared, too, by some women who plan to vote for Trump in November, though his supporters were more forgiving in their assessments.

"I think you'll see a different comeback from him in the next debate," said Carole Staats, a 60-year-old Republican from Lansdowne, Pennsylvania.

While Clinton has held a lead in preference polls among female voters throughout her general election contest with Trump, she aims to widen that margin as much as possible to offset her weakness with men. She also needs to urgently energize younger female voters, who have been more skeptical of the first woman nominated for the White House by a major U. S. political party.

After Monday's debate, Clinton's team believes it has all the ammunition it needs to rally women in the campaign's closing weeks.

That's due in part to strong execution by Clinton, who arrived at the debate armed with numerous past statements Trump has made about women. She was particularly assertive in calling him out for once labeling 1996 Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado "Miss Piggy" after she gained weight.

But Trump also did himself few favors. He interrupted Clinton repeatedly during the debate, at times leaning into his microphone to declare "wrong! " as she was talking. And he perplexingly stood by his criticism of Machado the morning after the debate, saying in an interview on Channel that Machado was one of the "worst we ever had" in the beauty contest he used to own.

"She gained a massive amount of weight," Trump said. "It was a real problem. We had a real problem. "

Clinton's campaign quickly lined up Machado for a conference call with reporters. The Venezuelan-born Machado, now a U. S. citizen, said she hoped her story would "open eyes" about Trump in the election.

Debby Bower, a 41-year-old Democrat who lives in the Denver suburbs, said Trump's taunting of the former beauty queen was "painful to my soul. "

"It hurts my heart when I hear the hateful, spiteful language that Mr. Trump uses," Bower said.

According to a recent Associated Press-GfK poll of registered voters, 64 percent of women have an unfavorable opinion of Trump, while 58 percent of men view the Republican nominee negatively. Women were also more likely than men to say they'd be afraid or angry if Trump is elected in November.

Among likely voters, Clinton leads Trump among women in overall support, 51 percent to 34 percent. That puts her behind the 55 percent of women President Barack Obama won in the 2012 election, according to exit polls — though Trump also trails the 44 percent of women Republican Mitt Romney carried in his losing effort that same year.

At times, Clinton has been reluctant to play up the historic nature of her candidacy or call out perceived sexism that can color how she is judged on the nation's biggest political stage. But her campaign aides showed no such reluctance in the hours after the debate, moving swiftly to cast Trump's aggressive posture toward Clinton in front of a massive television audience as no different from how women often find themselves treated by men.

"His constant interruption of her probably was reminiscent of the way a lot of women feel about bullies in their lives," said John Podesta, Clinton's campaign chairman. "I thought it was kind of unbecoming and he couldn't stop himself. "

Victoria Widergren, a Republican from Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, agreed. The 46-year-old builder and architect was planning to vote for Trump, but changed her mind after Monday's debate.

Widergren said she was particularly appalled to learn that the billionaire businessman hadn't paid contractors who worked for him. But as the 90-minute debate stretched on, she, too, grew frustrated with Trump's interruptions of Clinton, a view she said was shared by colleagues she'd spoken to after the debate.

"He just doesn't understand when to stop," she said.

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Associated Press writers Nicholas Riccardi in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Thomas Beaumont and Lisa Lerer in Raleigh, North Carolina, Kathleen Hennessey in Tysons Corner, Virginia, and AP Polling Editor Emily Swanson in Washington contributed to this report.

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7 /100 German consumer morale falls slightly heading into October (3.12/19) BERLIN, Sept 28 (Reuters) - BRThe mood among German consumers worsened slightly heading into October but remains at one of the highest levels in more than a decade, a survey showed on Wednesday, suggesting that private consumption is likely to compensate for weakening exports. The consumer sentiment indicator, published by the Nuremberg-based GfK institute and based on a survey of around 2,000 Germans, fell to 10.0 going into October. A Reuters poll had expected unchanged at 10.2. Record-high employment, rising real wages and ultra-low borrowing costs are boosting the spending power of Germans. GfK said the slight fall was linked to a prevailing sense of uncertainty linked to the threat of possible attacks in Germany and the economic consequences of Britain's vote in June to leave the European Union. "The consequences of this (Brexit) for the European and, above all, German economy are still completely unclear," GfK researcher Rolf Buerkl said. "Nevertheless, GfK confirms its forecast that a rise in real private consumer spending of around two percent in 2016 appears achievable and realistic," he added. "Consumption therefore remains an important pillar of economic growth in Germany. " A sub-index measuring economic expectations fell for the third time in a row, suggesting German consumers fear the economy will be weaker over the next few months. Data and sentiment surveys published over the summer have painted a mixed picture of Europe's largest economy. Industrial production fell the most in 23 months in July while exports unexpectedly posted their steepest drop in nearly a year, adding to evidence that manufacturing is losing momentum as overseas demand, particularly from Asia, wanes. While as German business morale hit a 28-month high this month after deteriorating sharply in August on Brexit fears. "It appears that consumers feel the German economy will develop somewhat more moderately in the coming months," Buerkl said. The GfK survey also showed that consumers' income expectations and willingness to buy remained solid at above 50.0 points, despite falling from last month. The robust German labour market has resulted in collective wage increases, which coupled with record-low interest rates, continue to encourage traditionally frugal Germans to spend. (Reporting by Joseph Nasr Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)

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8 /100 Jeremy Corbyn: we will continue to make anti-Trident case (2.14/19) Labour personality Jeremy Corbyn says he accepts his party’s process is to replenish a UK’s chief weapons – though will continue to pronounce out opposite it.

Mr Corbyn told a BBC: “Anyone’s entitled to lift an opinion on it, and they will.”

Labour’s counterclaim orator has pronounced a party’s position should not change before a subsequent election.

In his interview, Mr Corbyn also questioned either atmosphere strikes opposite supposed Islamic State were working.

In other Labour discussion developments:

Labour’s leader, who was re-elected by an increasing domain on Saturday, is anticipating to combine his celebration during a discussion in Liverpool.

But there have been rows over due changes to a inner celebration manners and on Monday Labour’s shade counterclaim secretary, Clive Lewis, was pronounced to be dissapoint during last-minute changes to a territory of his debate about Trident, a UK’s chief barb system.

Mr Lewis reportedly said later it was time for Labour to stop “picking during a scab” of a Trident policy.

Asked to explain Labour’s process on either to go forward with renewing a multibillion bruise system, Mr Corbyn told a BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg that “the position is that Parliament has voted on Trident, a existent celebration process was for renewal”, adding that he was “not a believer of chief weapons”.

The party’s counterclaim review, led by Mr Lewis, would continue, he said.

Labour was divided when MPs voted in foster of Trident renovation voted in July.

Asked either he supposed a party’s stream policy, Mr Corbyn – a longstanding CND supporter – said: “Of march we know what a celebration process is and of march we know a preference that was taken.

“Does it meant there are people in a celebration who have a dignified conflict to chief weapons, approbation there are.”

He likely problems to come for a supervision with a costs of a project, now estimated during £31bn, and pronounced he would never wish to trigger a chief explosve if inaugurated as primary minister.

Labour is joined on a need for a nuclear-free world, he added.

Mr Corbyn was also asked either he would continue with UK atmosphere strikes opposite supposed Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq. The Labour personality opposite both interventions and is a former authority of a Stop a War Coalition.

“I am not certain it’s working,” he said.

“I consider there has to be a domestic solution, that brings together everybody with a difference of IS to besiege them.”

Pressed on either he would call a hindrance to a troops action, he said: “As a Labour primary apportion we would hook each flesh we have got to move about a domestic allotment and peace.”

On holding bureau as PM he would “look during all a evidence” and confirm how to move this about, he added.

The Labour personality pronounced it had been “a really bustling year” given he was initial inaugurated final summer carrying entered a 2015 care competition as an outsider.

“It’s fun and we suffer it,” he added.

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9 /100 Indonesia evacuating tourists after Mount Barujari eruption (2.12/19) JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities have evacuated more than 1,100 tourists after Mount Barujari on Lombok island spewed a massive column of ash into the atmosphere and are searching for several hundred others possibly still in the area. ...

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10 /100 Sainsbury’s sales trip as food prices continue to fall (2.08/19) Sainsbury’s has reported a second uninterrupted entertain of descending sales, blaming descending food prices.

Excluding fuel, like-for-like sales , that frame out a impact of new store openings, fell 1.1% in a 16 weeks to 24 September. Total sales fell 0.4%.

Despite a drop, a UK’s second-largest supermarket pronounced it was stability to make progress.

Chief executive Mike Coupe pronounced he was assured a plan would capacitate it to “outperform a vital peers”.

German bonus bondage Aldi and Lidl, that have stretched fast in a UK, have been undercutting Sainsbury’s and a rivals, including Tesco, Morrisons and Asda.

The supermarket sequence has fought behind by slicing prices on a bland products rather than run promotions. This quarter, it pronounced it had cut a prices of broccoli, onions, Margherita pizza and a own-brand nappies.

Mr Coupe pronounced this plan was operative with business “consistently choosing” Sainsbury’s over a rivals. He also pronounced a £1.4bn takeover of Argos-owner Home Retail Group, that was finished during a commencement of this month, would speed adult a skeleton to concede shoppers to get their products in opposite ways.

Sainsbury’s, that already has 15 Argos stores within a possess shops, pronounced it would open 200 digital collection points in a stores by a finish of a year.

The supermarket organisation pronounced Home Retail Group’s like-for-like sales in a second entertain to 27 August, before it took over a firm, rose 2.3%.

In another try to win some-more shoppers, and amid a hazard of online hulk ’s pierce into grocery deliveries, Sainsbury’s pronounced it was expanding a exam of a one-hour grocery smoothness use in London called “Chop Chop” with orders delivered by bicycle.

The tradesman pronounced it would “give business some-more options to emporium with us whenever and wherever they want”.

Sainsbury’s has reported dual true years of descending profits, and analysts design another dump in a 2016-17 financial year.

In May, a supermarket pronounced underlying increase for a year to 12 Mar fell to £587m from £681m in a prior year.

Shares in a organisation have depressed 9% over a past 6 months.

John Ibbotson, executive of sell consultancy Retail Vision, pronounced Sainsbury’s easier pricing plan and extermination of multi-buy promotions was “distinctly underwhelming” in a stream heartless marketplace conditions, though pronounced Argos could assistance a firm.

“Argos should boost Sainsbury’s bottom line in a short-term as good as urge a internet offer and logistics capability.

“But integrating a dual firms will be time-consuming and distracting, and in a stream sourroundings Sainsbury’s can't means to take a eye off a core grocery business, even for a second,” he added.

Earlier this week, discount opposition Aldi showed it was not defence to a effects of a stability cost war, with low prices eating into a distinction margins. The organisation reported a 12% arise in sales for 2015, though pronounced handling increase had depressed 1.8%.

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11 /100 Connecticut’s first Mormon temple to serve growing church (2.06/19) Pat Eaton-Robb / AP

In this Sept. 22, 2016 photo, construction crews continue work on a Mormon temple in Farmington, Conn. The first Mormon temple in Connecticut opens to the public this week and will soon host services for thousands of the faithful from a four-state area. The new temple in Farmington reflects growing membership for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints on the East Coast.

By Emily Judd, Associated Press

Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016 | 1:02 a.m.

FARMINGTON, Conn. — The first Mormon temple in Connecticut opens to the public this week and will soon host services for thousands of the faithful from a four-state area.

The new temple in Farmington reflects growing membership for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the East Coast. Another recently constructed temple opened in Philadelphia on Aug. 10.

"Out here on the East Coast, it is a unique challenge to be a member of the church because we are so few and far between. This Hartford temple is going to be a huge beacon of hope and pillar of faith," said Randy LaRose, a church member who moved from Utah to Connecticut to serve as a chaplain at Yale University.

An estimated 27,000 congregants from Connecticut, Rhode Island, western Massachusetts, and eastern New York are to be served by the temple in Farmington, a Hartford suburb that also was the birthplace of the church's fourth president, Wilford Woodruff.

The 32,000-square-foot structure will be the 155th temple of the LDS church, but only the second in New England. The building is steeped in the history of the church and the local area, with paintings depicting Connecticut landscapes, mahogany wood surfaces and an acorn and leaf motif repeated throughout the building.

The temple opens Friday for public tours that will be offered until Oct. 22. The temple is scheduled for dedication on Nov. 20, after which only church members in good standing will be welcomed.

In Mormonism, temples are dedicated to the religion's highest forms of worship and are less common than meetinghouses, where weekly church services are offered. The Hartford temple has eight rooms related to special ceremonies known as ordinances, including a baptismal room, a sealing room where marriages are performed, and the celestial room, a space for contemplation that features a large crystal chandelier.

"In a temple the focus is on individual worship, not group worship. That's why there are many smaller rooms rather than one large hall," elder Larry Wilson said.

Drucila Maldonado, a member of the church who lives in Bridgeport, said the new temple will increase the local presence of the LDS church. She has been commuting to the Boston temple every Saturday.

"Now I'm very excited that there is a temple right here. It's so much closer for me and my three children, compared to the two-and-a-half hour drive to Boston," Maldonado said.

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12 /100 Justin Theroux reveals recipe for marital bliss with Jennifer Aniston after Brangelina split (1.08/19) 'We appreciate each other's sense of humour, we respect one another and we get along,' he told Entertainment Tonigh t . 'I know it sounds simple - but it's true!' Scroll down for video The lovebirds have been showing there's no trouble in paradise - despite rumours to the contrary - as they've most recently been seen on dinner dates in New York City. after Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Aniston's ex-husband Brad Pitt. On Thursday, Us Weekly reported the Cake actress was fleeing to New York after being 'hounded' in Los Angeles in the wake of the Jolie-Pitt rupture. Justin joined her there after wrapping the HBO programme The Leftovers, which had been filming its third and final series in Melbourne. Brad and Jennifer had married in 2000 but separated in January 2005, finalising the divorce that October. That July, Angelina and Brad had paraded their romance in a W Magazine spread called 'Domestic Bliss: Angelina Jolie And Brad Pitt At Home.' Two months later, the Horrible Bosses actress commented on the piece in Vanity Fair : 'There's a sensitivity chip that's missing.' In the years since, both Brad and Angelina admitted they fell for each other while filming their spy caper Mr & Mrs Smith, which was shot during his first marriage. Angelina told the New York Times in 2008 that she wanted to show their children the film because 'not a lot of people get to see a movie where their parents fell in love.' A couple of months later, in Rolling Stone , the Fight Club actor called Mr & Mrs Smith his favourite film of Angelina's 'Because I fell in love.' Neither Jennifer nor Justin has yet commented publicly about the increasingly vicious divorce, which has involved an FBI investigation following reports of alleged child abuse. After her own divorce from Brad, Jennifer dated famous men including John Mayer and Vince Vaughn before meeting Tropic Thunder screenwriter Justin. Jennifer and Justin began dating in 2011, having worked together on the film Wanderlust. Justin himself had carried on a 14-year relationship with costume designer Heidi Bivens that collapsed in 2011. At the time, E! claimed that Heidi had been, according to a friend of hers, '"straight-up dumped,"' though the report had qualified: 'Not to say it's Aniston's fault, maybe the timing was just terrible?'

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13 /100 Chemi Peres: 'Farewell to our beloved father (1.07/19) Shimon Peres' son, Chemi Peres, led the tributes to his father outside the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv, Israel.

Praising his father's 70 years of public service, he said he "worked tirelessly for Israel - from the first day of the state to the last day of his life".

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14 /100 Alicia Machado Opens Up About Trump's Treatment of Her: "He’s Not a Good Person" (1.05/19) 9:25 PM PDT 9/27/2016

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Jennifer Konerman

Alicia Machado joined Megyn Kelly on Tuesday's Kelly File to clear up her feelings on Donald Trump after his treatment of the former Miss Universe was once again referenced on Monday's debate.

Machado, who Trump criticized in the 1990s for gaining weight after she won the pageant, was referenced during the first presidential debate, when Hillary Clinton used Trump's remarks about her (calling her "Miss Piggy," for example) as an example of how he treats women.

Machado appeared on The Kelly File to discuss her campaigning for Clinton and her feelings about a possibly Trump presidency.

"I don’t believe that person is not the right person trying to be a president," she told Kelly.

Earlier Tuesday, Trump stood by his earlier statements about her, telling Fox & Friends it was a "real problem" when the 1996 Miss Universe gained weight after winning the pageant he owned at the time. "She gained a massive amount of weight. It was a real problem. We had a real problem. " Machado, who became a U. S. citizen recently, also appeared in a Clinton campaign ad , saying that Trump would also call her "Miss Housekeeping" and that he "harbors a deep racism. " She also tweeted her support for Clinton, saying "I'm with her. "

"The only thing I want to do is to share my story," she told Kelly. "I think I can open a few eyes. I can maybe change a few minds then I don’t think this person is the right person that can be a president. "

"I know this person and he’s not a good person," she added.

Also on Tuesday, she spoke with CNN's Anderson Cooper, telling him that in no uncertain terms, Trump "was really rude with me. He tried to destroy my self esteem. "

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15 /100 Asian stock markets turn lower after Wall Street gains (1.02/19) BEIJING (AP) — Major Asian stock markets were lower Tuesday after investors were reassured by trade-friendly Hillary Clinton's performance in a U. S. presidential debate with rival Donald Trump. ...

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16 /100 Striking a cord! Bostonians embrace pop-up painted pianos :: WRAL.com (1.02/19) Posted 1:58 a.m. today

By PHILIP MARCELO, Associated Press

BOSTON — Bostonians are embracing the painted pianos that have popped up across the city and neighboring Cambridge in recent days.

Celebrity Series of Boston placed 60 upright pianos decorated by local artists late last week. Each instrument bears a simple message: "Play Me, I'm Yours. "

And play residents and visitors have.

At historic Faneuil Hall's Quincy Market food hall on Tuesday, a group of high school students from Boston took turns singing and playing Adele's "Hello" and other pop tunes while the tourist-heavy, lunchtime crowd largely went about their day.

A few short blocks away, near a carousel along a grassy linear park, Somerville resident Zoë Madonna found a bit more solitude to play Joni Mitchell's "River" and later "Your Hand in Mine" by the Texas band Explosions in the Sky.

"It sounds pretty good," said the 23-year old accordionist for a local band playing contra dance music. "There are a few sticky keys and you can't really get a lot of sound out of it, but it's not as out of tune as it's going to be in a few days. "

The pianos, which will be available until Oct. 10, are part of a public art project by British artist Luke Jerram that's been installed in 50 cities worldwide, including London, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Munich, New York and Los Angeles.

The installation last came to Boston in 2013, and more than 500,000 people used them that year, organizers said.

Gary Dunning, president of Celebrity Series Boston, hopes the installation helps spread the "joy of live performance" and shows people that "the arts are for everyone and that all people should have the opportunity to participate. "

The pianos have been placed in all of Boston's 23 neighborhoods and around some of the region's most recognizable landmarks, from Harvard Square to the Boston Library and the gold-domed Massachusetts State House. At Fenway Park, a portrait of retiring Red Sox slugger David Ortiz graces a green-painted piano.

Locations for the pianos, as well as videos and photos people have shared from their performances are on the web at http://streetpianos.com/boston2016/.

Among the video clips is Chinese piano virtuoso Lang Lang doing a rendition of George Gershwin's Prelude No. 3 by the reflecting pool of the Christian Science church on Friday.

Members of the Boston Ballet also played music from their season opener— Le Corsaire_on Tuesday afternoon near the city's famed Common.

"Every time I see these things out, I'm amazed at the condition they're in," said Boston resident Cliff Sawyer, as he casually tapped out a melody on a piano in the busy retail district of Downtown Crossing. "Hate to say it, but some people just like to destroy stuff. It's just the way it is. "

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17 /100 Thai junta allows culture of torture to flourish, says rights group (1.02/19) By AT Editor on September 28, 2016 in Asia Times News & Features , Southeast Asia

BANGKOK (Reuters) – International human rights group Amnesty International on Wednesday accused Thailand’s military government of allowing a “culture of torture” to flourish since the army seized power in a 2014 coup.

Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha speaks during an announcement of the junta’s two-year accomplishments at Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, September 15. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

The military took power in Southeast Asia’s second-biggest economy after months of street protests against a populist government, saying it had to step in to prevent violence and restore order.

It rejects accusations of rights violations and a government spokesman said on Wednesday investigations into allegations of torture had found no evidence of any such abuse.

Since the coup, dozens of government critics have been held in military detention, although the exact number has not been released.

Amnesty International said in a report it had documented 74 cases of alleged torture at the hands of soldiers and police, and post-coup decrees had allowed authorities to detain people incommunicado.

The group cited allegations of beatings, smothering with plastic bags, waterboarding and electric shocks on detainees by authorities.

“Empowered by laws of their own making, Thailand’s military rulers have allowed a culture of torture to flourish, where there is no accountability for the perpetrators and no justice for the victims,” said Rafendi Djamin, Amnesty International’s director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

The government denied accusations of torture, said General Sansern Kaewkamnerd, spokesman in the Prime Minister’s Office.

“Our investigations into such allegations have shown no indication of torture, I have seen no indication of torture and the Thai people have seen no indication of torture,” Sansern told Reuters.

LAUNCH CALLED OFF

Amnesty International was due to hold a news conference at a Bangkok hotel to release the report.

But minutes before the event, men wearing jackets with tags identifying them as Ministry of Labour officials, accompanied by police, said the speakers could face arrest under labor laws.

In response, the organizers cancelled the launch, Omar Waraich, media manager for Amnesty International in Asia, told Reuters.

“We are here on business visas, we have an office in Thailand, we are not singling out the Thai government,” Waraich, said, adding that Amnesty had received no communication from the government on the report or the launch.

In March, the government gave soldiers powers of arrest and detention saying there were not enough police to tackle crime. Rights groups said the powers would only help strengthen a crackdown on critics.

Thailand came under fire in May at a U. N. review of its rights record with some member states expressing concern over the rights situation.

Amnesty said torture tactics were encouraged by “legal incentives”, including martial law, which the military ditched in 2015 and replaced with Article 44 of an interim constitution which gives the military similar powers to those it had during martial law, and which critics have dubbed a “dictator law”.

A junta order issued in April 2015 allows the military to detain people for up to seven days without charge.

Junta chief Prayuth Chan-ocha, who is also prime minister, has frequently defended the 2014 coup saying it was necessary to bring order back after years of on-off political unrest.

He has promised an election will be held next year.

(Reporting by Cod Satrusayang and Patpicha Tanakasempipat; Writing by Patpicha Tanaksempipat; Editing by Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Robert Birsel)

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18 /100 Noor Tagouri poses for Playboy wearing a hijab (1.02/19) 'Far too often, Muslim women are being told how to dress and behave by groups who are neither women nor Muslim,' Ismail wrote. 'For Muslim women who choose the hijab, the outward presentation of their faith makes them vulnerable to both sides of an increasingly polarizing and politicized conversation about the rights of women. 'That is why when someone like Noor Tagouri speaks out and treads new ground as an individual, she deserves the full support of the entire Muslim community.'

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19 /100 First-Ever Baby Born Using 'Three Parent' Genetic Engineering Technique (1.02/19) According to an exclusive report in New Scientist, a breakthrough birth occurred under the radar some five months ago. With the help of John Zhang from the New Hope Fertility Center in New York City,...

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20 /100 Postal Savings Bank of China makes flat Hong Kong debut after $7.4 bln IPO (1.02/19) By Julie Zhu and Elzio Barreto HONG KONG, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Shares in Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC) made a flat debut in Hong Kong after the state-owned lender raised $7.4 billion in the world's biggest initial public offering in two years, priced the deal near the bottom of its marketing range. Wednesday's lukewarm start for PSBC comes as investors remain cautious on the outlook for the Chinese banking industry, battling with mounting bad debts amid a slowing economy. Retail demand for the IPO by the last of China's big banks to go public was modest, and three-fourths of the offer was pre-sold to "cornerstone" investors - mainly other Chinese state- owned companies.. The PSBC listing marks the end of a wave that started more than a decade ago, with the IPOs of China Construction Bank Corp (CCB) and Bank of Communications Co Ltd (BoCom). With a market capitalisation of about $50 billion, PSBC ranks far behind China's "Big Four" banks, each valued at between $120 billion and $225 billion. At 0300 GMT, PSBC shares were trading at HK$4.77, a fraction above the IPO price of HK$4.76, while the benchmark Hang Seng index was down 0.7 percent. The lender had priced 12.1 billion new shares near the bottom of a range of HK$4.68-HK$5.18 per share. The portion of the offer set aside for retail investors - a key metric for judging investor interest in Hong Kong IPOs - was oversubscribed just 2.6 times, PSBC said in a filing on Tuesday, a comparatively low number. The institutional tranche was heavily oversubscribed, the bank said. The lender had counted on its extensive network of more than 40,000 branches across China and a low level of non-performing loans to attract investors. But many fund managers saw the deal as too pricey: PSBC's marketing range valued the bank at a price-to-book ratio for 2016 of 0.94 to 1.02 times, far higher than the average of 0.76 for Hong Kong-listed lenders. PSBC's deal was the world's biggest IPO since Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's $25 billion New York listing in 2014, and fee- hungry investment banks had counted on the deal to boost revenue amid a slump in new listings in the Asia-Pacific region. The 26 banks handling PSBC's offering stand to jointly earn up to $118.4 million in fees, according to the PSBC prospectus. (Reporting by Julie Zhu and Elzio Barreto; Editing by Denny Thomas and Kenneth Maxwell)

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21 /100 Labour ‘will better abbreviation propagandize plans’, pledges Rayner (1.01/19) Labour “will defeat” a government’s skeleton to enhance abbreviation schools in England, shade preparation secretary Angela Rayner has said.

In a debate to a party’s discussion in Liverpool, Mrs Rayner pronounced preference by ability “entrenches multiplication and increases inequality”.

“No child should be left out or left behind,” she said.

PM Theresa May has pronounced a anathema on new resourceful schools has been in place too prolonged and has hold many pupils back.

She says 1.25 million pupils are now in schools that are “failing, unsound or in need of improvement” and that a government’s skeleton will give each child a high-quality preparation they merit to capacitate them to go as distant as their talents allow.

Grammar schools are state secondaries whose pupils are comparison by hearing during age 10 to 11. There are now about 163 in England – out of some 3,000 state secondaries – and a serve 69 in Northern Ireland.

Under a government’s plans, abbreviation schools would be authorised to enhance and all schools in England would be given a right to request to name pupils by ability. ‘Selection is toxic’

In her initial vital debate given being promoted in July, Mrs Rayner pronounced Mrs May had constructed “no evidence” that abbreviation schools increased amicable mobility, and affianced to quarrel a proposals “with each exhale in my body”.

“Selection – or separation as it should be called – entrenches multiplication and increases inequality,” she said.

And she indicted a primary apportion if “telling angel tales” about amicable mobility and opportunity.

“Selection is toxic. It tells a crafty child they are stupid, strips a child of self-respect and embeds inequality. Every child has potential. Every child can succeed. No child should be left out or left behind.

While former Labour PM Tony Blair had talked about “education, education, education”, she pronounced Mrs May wanted “segregation, segregation, segregation”.

“And a Labour Party will quarrel it, starting on Saturday when we launch a inhabitant debate opposite some-more abbreviation schools.

“We’re going to take a quarrel to a Tories and we interest to all my Labour colleagues to assistance lead this fight. Because together, we can better this,” she told a party’s conference. Under a aphorism “education, not segregation”, Labour says it will be contacting one million residents of extrinsic seats in towns and cities such as Swindon and Norwich to prominence a party’s antithesis to expanding abbreviation schools.

The debate will also concentration on a boost in university tyro fees and a scrapping of tyro grants.

Ms Rayner also announced skeleton for a taskforce, chaired by Unison central Liz Snape, to “transform early years sustenance for each family in a 21st century”.

The shade preparation secretary pronounced each primogenitor should have a right to quality, affordable childcare and told a celebration that a goal contingency be to safeguard no child’s life chances are blighted by miss of support.

She drew on her possess personal knowledge to disagree a closure of 800 Sure Start Centres given 2010 had “shut a doorway in a faces of a children and their parents”.

“I left propagandize during 16, pregnant, with no qualifications,” she said. “Some might disagree we was not a good purpose indication for today’s immature people. The instruction of my life was set. “

“But something happened. Labour’s Sure Start centres gave me and my friends, and a children, a assistance and support we indispensable to grow and develop. They altered a lives of 3 million children and their parents.”

“Unlike a Tories, Labour will never spin a backs on a children and their families.”

Ms Rayner also pronounced Labour would move behind Educational Maintenance Allowance for students in serve preparation and upkeep grants for low and center income students.

Elsewhere on a third day of a conference, Sadiq Khan congratulated Jeremy Corbyn on his re-election and pronounced a celebration contingency concentration on stealing into government, not inner battles, in his initial debate to discussion given his choosing as London mayor in May.

“Labour in power. Not only articulate a talk, though walking a travel too. Never sacrificing or offered out on a ideals though putting them in movement each singular day,” he said.

Mr Khan – a party’s many absolute inaugurated central in England – pronounced Labour contingency use a success in London and a clever illustration on councils opposite England as a springboard behind to inhabitant government.

Meanwhile, shade health secretary Diane Abbott vowed to “renationalise” a NHS by stealing private sustenance and curbing a inner marketplace that she pronounced had “ripped” patients off.

And emissary Labour personality Tom Watson will launch an eccentric elect into a destiny of work, to demeanour into a hurdles of new record and automation.

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22 /100 Two new tsars to be created as Airbus reorganisation takes shape (1.00/19) By Tim Hepher BARCELONA, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Airbus Group Chief Executive Tom Enders plans to expand a shake-up of Europe's largest aerospace group by promoting two executives to oversee engineering and programmes as he forces through more "integration" to prepare for future competition. People familiar with the matter told Reuters the heads of the company's two remaining core divisions would get additional group-wide functions after Fabrice Bregier, head of the dominant Airbus unit, was designated as chief operating officer. Nine months after arriving from Germany's Siemens , Dirk Hoke, the head of Airbus Group's second largest division, Airbus Defence & Space, could be awarded oversight of industrial programmes across the group, the people said. Guillaume Faury, who leads Airbus Helicopters, may be responsible for engineering, the people said, asking not to be named because the reorganisation has not yet been announced. Fabrice Bregier, whose planned appointment as Airbus Group's chief operating officer, on top of his existing role as head of the jetliner unit, was reported last week, will oversee group-wide operations as Enders' no.2. Airbus Group declined comment. The latest move builds on efforts to knit together the once faction-ridden company and mark an end to what Enders described in the past as "fiefdoms" inside the group, whose products range from jetliners to satellites and choppers to fighter jets. Enders said in a letter to staff last week organisational changes would be finalised soon, adding "lean structures" and speedy decision-making were both priorities. It was not immediately clear what if any day-to-day role the overlapping business heads would play in each other's divisions, each of which faces pressing industrial challenges and can ill afford any loss of focus, according to analysts. Insiders say it is not, in the immediate term, chiefly seen as a cost-cutting exercise but that it would help prepare for a more radical modernisation relying on digital design, production and support methods that would also require some new investment. Enders recently named Marc Fontaine the company's first "digital transformation officer". Job cuts have not been ruled out, however, particularly as a result of slow demand for A380 jetliners and civil helicopters. Others say it strengthens Enders' grip after longstanding tensions with Bregier, who is expected to give up his title as chief executive of the Airbus commercial unit while remaining its president and cementing his status as likely next group CEO. (Reporting by Tim Hepher; editing by Richard Lough)

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23 /100 Pope Francis ‘concerned’ about North Korea nukes — RT News (0.05/19) “We view the situation in the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] with grave concern,” the Vatican’s Undersecretary for Relations with States, Monsignor Antoine Camilleri, told delegates at the 60th General Assembly of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The Pope, Camilleri said, supports the efforts of the international community to “revive negotiations over denuclearization” on the Korea Peninsula as Monsignor called on the IAEA to resume its “critical” role in the verification of North Korean disarmament.

Pope Francis’ representative said that any arms race tends to divert the country’s economic resources away from the poor, circumventing the government’s responsibility to increase living standards.

“To prioritize such spending is a mistake and a misallocation of resources which would be far better invested in the areas of integral human development, education, health and the fight against extreme poverty. When these resources are squandered, the poor and the weak living on the margins of society pay the price,” Camilleri noted.

North Korea’s fifth nuclear test on September 9 was universally condemned and prompted the United States, Japan, and South Korea to call for tougher sanctions at the UN Security Council. While world powers call on Pyongyang to return to the negotiating table, the North is refusing to accept the invitation and instead has shown its willingness to pursue its nuclear ambitions. Along with nuclear tests, the North has continues to showcase delivery method technologies, having launched rockets on more than 10 occasions this year.

This is not the first time Pope Francis has spoken out against nuclear weapons. Last year, as the world commemorated the 70th anniversary of America’s use of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the pontiff called for the full prohibition on nuclear weapons.

The Pope at the time said that the attacks are a symbol of people misusing scientific and technical progress and the “enormous power of humanity.”

“[The US bombing] serves as a lasting warning to humanity so that it rejects forever war and bans nuclear weapons and all arms of mass destruction,” the Pope said. US to deploy THAAD anti- missile sy stems in S. Korea ‘as soon as possible’ — RT News rt.com

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24 /100 Nicole Trunfio flaunts her model figure in a skimpy swimsuit during LA bikini shoot (0.03/19) She gave birth to her first son, Zion, less than two years ago. And, Australian model Nicole Trunfio flaunts her phenomenal post-baby figure in her latest steamy beachside photo shoot. The cover girl drew attention to her slender curves and long lean limbs by placing her hands on her waist and slightly bending her legs while posing for the camera. an advocate of an active lifestyle and works out almost every day. Nicole attributed her post-baby body to 'boxing and determination' on Instagram soon after her son's both in 2015. Nicole's one-year-old son Zion, whom she shares with husband and musician Gary Clark Junior, accompanied her on the shoot where she also modelled other swimwear outfits. While sporting other swimwear, the precious tot was seen carried on Nicole's shoulders, and looking to enjoy himself with his famous mother. The pair tied the knot in April this year after two years of dating, and frequently post loved-up pics to social media. The New York-based couple fell in love as they revelled at Coachella Music Festival in California in 2012. Even early on in their romance, she wrote on Instagram underneath an image of her planting a tender kiss on his cheek: 'Love this man, he makes me happy'.

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25 /100 Slovak Republic - Factors To Watch on Sept 28 (0.02/19) BRATISLAVA, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak financial markets on Wednesday. ALL TIMES GMT (Slovak Republic: GMT + 2 hours) ======ECONOMIC DATA======Real-time economic data releases...... Summary of economic data and forecasts...... Recently released economic data...... Previous stories on Slovak data...... **For a schedule of corporate and economic events: http://emea1.apps.cp.thomsonreuters.com/Apps/CountryWeb/#/1C/events-overview ======NEWS======GAS TRANSIT: Slovak pipeline operator Eustream will slightly lift its capacity at the Budince gas transit point to Ukraine in the fourth quarter, it said on Tuesday. Story: Related stories: CURRENT ACCOUNT: Slovakia's current account showed a deficit of 367 million euros ($411.41 million) in July after a revised surplus of 87 million euros in June, the central bank said on Tuesday. Story: Related stories: GROWTH OUTLOOK: Slovakia's central bank expects the economy to grow by 3.5 percent in 2016 before decelerating to 3.3 percent next year, it said in quarterly macroeconomic outlook on Tuesday. Story: Related stories: ======PRESS DIGEST======SLOVENSKE ELEKTRARNE: The state has revisited plans to ask the Italian firm Enel, which bought in 2006 a 66 percent share in state-owned electricity producer Slovenske Elektrarne for 839 million euros ($939.51 million), to pay additional 228 million euros, the Economy Ministry said. Enel sold half of its share in Slovenske Elektrarne to a Czech energy group EPH last year. Hospodarske Noviny, page 1 (Reuters has not verified the stories, nor does it vouch for their accuracy.) For real-time stock market index quotes click in brackets: Warsaw WIG20 Budapest BUX Prague PX Main currency report TOP NEWS -- Emerging markets News editor of the day: Jason Hovet on +420 224 190 476 E-mail: [email protected] ($1 = 0.8930 euros) (Reporting by Prague Newsroom)

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26 /100 Kate Middleton and Prince William tuck into local delicacy in Canada (0.02/19) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge tasted one of the most unusual-looking delicacies in Canada today - and tactfully pronounced it delicious. They tucked into the unmistakably phallic 'geoduck' at a food and wine festival in British Columbia. The geoduck is a giant clam with a long neck which the uninitiated often find somewhat off-putting - for rather obvious reasons. As the couple toured a food and wine festival in the idyllic setting of a hilltop winery in the Okanagan valley, they initially appeared as if there was no chance of any geoduck passing their lips. 'Presentationally they are quite challenging,' said William. But chef Ned Bell told them: 'They are getting more popular all the time.' A few stands later at the Taste of BC festival at the Mission Hill winery, they came across some geoduck prepared by Japanese chef Hidekazu Tojo - and could not resist it. However it was unrecognisable from the raw version on Mr Bell's stand, having been transformed into thinly sliced BC wild geoduck sashimi, garnished with a Miso Mustard Sauce. Scroll down for video 'There is a slightly firmer to this,' said the duchess. 'It's really unusual. I've never seen it before. It's so fresh from the sea.' Mr Bell said: 'It is an extraordinary species. You can eat the body, but you can also eat the neck raw, which is what they ate. 'It is absolutely phallic, but at end of the day it is a clam. Here on the west coast we have some of the best wild, well-managed shellfish in the world.' Their tour saw them taste an array dishes from some of Canada's most celebrated chefs. They included Mr Bell's Cured North Coast BC Wild Sockeye Salmon Tataki With Miso, Maple and BC Grown Radishes, and Chef Rob Feenie's Braised Cache Creek oxtail and caramelized onion ravioli with Hazelmere farms celeriac puree, port wine jus, shaved parmesan and extra virgin olive oil. From Chef Vikram Vij they ate Maharaja Style Coconut Curried BC Vegetable Curry With Basmati Rice and Wine marinated BC lamb popsicle. Asked if she liked cooking, Kate replied 'Yes, especially curries.' William said: 'This is amazing. It's the right level of spice for me. I'm very glad you did not surprise us with a vindaloo. I can't manage that - it's too much for me.' William also tried a Laird of Fintry single malt whisky, which William pronounced 'delicious'. He said : 'You can tell the Scottish element - there's a peatiness to it.' Kate turned down the whisky, but tried their cassis - a blackcurrant liqueur - instead, which she said was 'like sloe gin'. Earlier the couple, wearing almost identical Raybans, tried their hand cutting pinot noir grapes from the vines. Okanagan Valley is Canada's second largest wine region, and accounts for 90% of all wine produced in British Columbia.

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2016-09-28 00:02 Rebecca English www.dailymail.co.uk

27 /100 The Bachelor's Steph Dixon and Olena Khamula share Instagram video singing in the car (0.01/19) She may not have found love on The Bachelor , but Steph Dixon certainly did find a best friend. The 25-year-old has been inseparable from her co-star Olena Khamula, 23, since filming wrapped in early June. On Tuesday, Steph shared a video of the girls singing along to No Mercy's song Kiss You All Over during a night out. In the video, Steph holds the camera as she incorrectly mimes the song's lyrics as the song blasts in the background. Meanwhile, make-up artist Olena seems reluctant to get involved and simply dances in her seat and pouts her lips. Steph continues to pretend she knows the lyrics to the song by miming the next verse, but it is hardly convincing. At one point, she looks over to her friend to see why she wasn't singing along too. Olena smiles before admitting: 'I don't know the words to this song.' While Steph shared the video on Tuesday, it was likely filmed during their night out in Melbourne last week. Steph looked glamorous in a Sheike and Co silk dress and accessorised with a gold choker and hoop earrings. Olena opted for a skintight Marshe Collections multi-coloured patterned dress, and simple silver studded earrings. Both girls rose to fame on the 2016 series of The Bachelor, which concluded two weeks ago.

Patrick Dangerf ield parodies The Bachelor with f ellow AFL stars in Instagram v ideo dailymail.co.uk

2016-09-28 04:32 Kate Hutchinson www.dailymail.co.uk

28 /100 Fines, foodies and Airbnb could get San Francisco closer to ‘Zero Waste’ (0.01/19) San Franciscans don’t all cheer for the Giants, stand in line for brunch or disrupt on a daily basis. We also all don’t compost, even though it’s the law.

San Francisco sends more to the landfill now than four years ago, according to recent data. Colorful posters, stickers and kitchen pails provided by the Department of Environment and San Francisco’s trash provider, Recology, have not put us on track to reach The City’s “Zero Waste” goal by 2020. Even making black bins significantly more expensive than green and blue bins is not enough motivation. It’s time for The City to take a different approach.

“We have to wake up an audience where zero waste by 2020 doesn’t resonate as exciting,” Guillermo Rodriguez at the Department of Environment told me.

Faced with a similar problem, Seattle officials threatened to fine residents. In 2015, the city authorized its waste contractor to attach tags to any trash bin containing more than 10 percent food. A tag would cost $1 for single-family homes and $50 for apartment buildings and offices. While it only lasted months, the threat of a fine certainly got the word out about composting.

Under San Francisco’s mandatory composting law, the Department of Environment also has the authority to fine. Rodriguez told me they’re exploring this option for big apartment buildings and large downtown offices that aren’t properly composting — “folks that really have the means to be more effective,” he said.

I like the idea. Green police wouldn’t have to go through people’s trash to check for food scraps. The City could simply enforce the law’s accessibility and education requirements for building managers.

People around The City have told me their buildings don’t have green bins because they can’t find them. Too often, bins are placed away from their black and blue counterparts. There are no signs and little outreach to help new tenants and employees. Last year, I wrote about one, small bin serving 101 units at 378 Golden Gate Ave. Unfortunately, I keep finding similar examples.

Yes, some managers do a fantastic job making composting easy. Linda Corso at Cathedral Hill Apartments in Lower Pacific Heights emphasizes composting in move-in kits. Working with the Department of Environment, they fit small recycling and composting stations next to the elevator on every floor. A fine — or the threat of a fine — may motivate all managers to take similar steps.

Of course, even when green bins are available, there’s no guarantee San Franciscans will use them. The City also has to motivate residents who are simply uninterested.

“I think, in San Francisco, the rank and file aren’t as concerned with The City’s green cred as they were a few years ago, especially with the demographic shift,” Lawrence Grodeska, a former internet communications coordinator at the Department of Environment, told me. “Along with punitive measures to make sure infrastructure is in place, there also has to be innovative outreach that responds to what residents actually need, want and do.”

The City recently launched an innovative outreach campaign. After assessing San Franciscans’ awareness, knowledge and confidence in the composting program, The City launched “Real Foodies Compost.” The campaign targets new, young San Franciscans who love food, but don’t know about composting. Local foodies with large social media followings promote the campaign and teach San Franciscans how to participate.

A campaign with Airbnb may also help travelers to San Francisco learn about the law. The City should work with the site to assess how tourists may (or may not) approach composting and design appropriate responses. Simply including information about composting with Airbnb’s reminder email might increase awareness.

San Franciscans don’t all count their carbon emissions, conserve water and care about garbage. But that doesn’t mean composting can’t be as common as San Franciscans’ light jacket. To get closer to zero waste, The City must expand its efforts. It has to be as bold and audacious as the goal itself.

Robyn Purchia is an environmental attorney, environmental blogger and environmental activist who hikes, gardens and tree hugs in her spare time.

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2016-09-28 04:00 By Robyn www.sfexaminer.com

29 /100 Facebook is ordered to stop harvesting personal details from WhatsApp’s German users (0.01/19) Facebook has been ordered to stop harvesting personal details from WhatsApp's 35 million German users. The world's biggest social network bought WhatsApp two years ago for nearly £10billion in an effort to reach a younger audience. But it has been told by a privacy regulator to stop collecting and storing data from German users of its free messaging app. The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information said Facebook was infringing data protection law and had not obtained effective approval from those using WhatsApp. Facebook has vowed to appeal. 'After the acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook two years ago, both parties have publicly assured that data will not be shared between them,' commissioner Johannes Caspar said in a statement. Facebook, the world's biggest social network, bought WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock in an effort to reach a younger audience. 'The fact that this is now happening is not only a misleading of their users and the public, but also constitutes an infringement of national data protection law,' Caspar added. Facebook has its German headquarters in Hamburg and therefore falls under Caspar's jurisdiction. 'We will appeal this order and we will work with the Hamburg DPA in an effort to address their questions and resolve any concerns,' it said. The data watchdog said Facebook and WhatsApp were independent companies that should process their users' data based on their own terms and conditions and data privacy policies. EU and U. S. regulators have said they would scrutinise changes to privacy settings that WhatsApp made in August. 's data privacy watchdog said on Tuesday it had also opened a probe and had asked WhatsApp to explain what information it planned to share with Facebook and what was being done to explain to users how their data might be used.

Facebook to appeal German order on WhatsApp data dailymail.co.uk

2016-09-28 03:27 Julian Robinson www.dailymail.co.uk

30 /100 Father Says NYC Suspect Was Secretive in Months Before Bombing Video (0.01/19) Transcript for Father Says NYC Suspect Was Secretive in Months Before Bombing

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31 /100 Madonna follows Katy Perry's lead as she posts NUDE selfie while backing presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton In the clip, the 31-year-old singer is seen waking from her slumber sporting patriotic pajamas and messy bed hair, complete with popcorn and a lollipop as she declares: 'I've got some great news: This year, you can look like s*** when you vote.' Katy, an avid Hillary Clinton supporter, then walks to her polling station, passing other voters in their nightwear as she explains: 'Yep, I've briefly scanned the Constitution, and nowhere does it say that you can't just roll out of bed and come to the polls in whatever state you woke up in. 'In the name of democracy, any just-out-of-bed look is A-OK.' She then proceeds to give examples of what is acceptable, including child's onesie, hunk in kid's briefs, that free XL, T-shirt you got from your bank and covered in slime. The I Kissed A Girl Singer then spices things up a notch as she declares: 'Or, if you're like me, I sleep naked,' before ripping away her pajamas to go nude. With bars protecting her modesty, Katy grins cheekily at the camera as fellow voters gasp and a man behind her drops to the ground in astonishment. 'Yep, let those babies loose,' she booms, before a pair of police officers strolled over, with one cutting in: 'Alright, ma'am. That's enough of that.' 'No, I read the Constitution and I know I have the right to vote naked, she protests, to which the other arresting officer responds: 'Did you read it, or did you just briefly scan it?' Katy is then led to a police car, where she finds herself sharing the backseat with a buff and shirtless Joel McHale, who reacts: 'You too?' Leaning out of the window, Katy yells to the camera, before being whisked away: 'Scratch that. Gotta wear clothes. My bad. See you at the polls November 8th.' The video was released on Tuesday, and a day earlier, Katy sent out a tweet and a teaser image, declaring that she was hoping to change the world with her clip. The tweet posted alongside the still read: 'TOMORROW, I USE MY BODY AS CLICK BAIT TO HELP CHANGE THE WORLD (sic).' Katy's picture - which featured the Rise singer standing naked in a polling station with most of her body blurred out - included written text that read: 'Katy Perry votes naked tomorrow.' The Dark Horse hitmaker is a very vocal supporter of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. The US Presidential debate was broadcast on the same day as the Roar hitmaker posted her naked video still, and the star had no hesitation in tweeting her thoughts on the event, expressing her adoration and backing for the 68-year-old candidate. As of yet, it is unclear how Katy intends to 'change the world' with her actions, but she recently revealed that one of the main things she is interested in is the improvement of women's rights. Asked recently on Twitter what she wanted to hear Clinton and her Republican rival Donald Trump debate, she said: 'National security, gun control, police reform, excess incarceration and women's rights.'

2016-09-28 04:29 Ryan Smith www.dailymail.co.uk

32 /100 Australia’s uncanny and dumb festivals The Henley-on-Todd Regatta ranks among a country’s quirkiest events.

AUSTRALIA has no necessity of weird, dumb or usually plain crazy festivals and celebrations.

From vessel races on waterless rivers to automobile rallies in vehicles that are really dodgy, Skyscanner Australia takes we ringside for weirdly fun festivals in a country.

Parkes loves a King so many one internal male altered his name to Elvis by help poll. Source: Supplied

Parkes Elvis Festival, Parkes NSW

Unleash your middle Elvis Presley (we’ve all got one I’m sure!) during a 5 day jubilee of all Elvis.

Celebrating 25 years in 2017, there’s competitions for Elvis reverence artists, rock’n’roll dancing, prohibited cars, even a Miss Priscilla for a ladies to get in on a imitator act.

Board a famous NSW Trainlink Elvis Express from Sydney for a sight tour like no other with dancing and singing in a aisles all a approach to a city of Parkes.

When: January

Hot tip: Brush adult on a nonsense and jitterbug before we go and don’t forget your dancing shoes!

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Henley on Todd Regatta, Alice Springs NT

Billed as a world’s initial waterless vessel regatta it’s tough to repudiate their claim.

The regatta takes place on a dry sandpit differently famous as a perennially dry riverbed of a Todd River.

Running for 55 years, a regatta is a vital prominence on a Alice Springs amicable calendar.

Crews foe any other in handmade kayaks, sailboats, even ‘maxi yachts’, all powered by feet while well-lubricated spectators hearten them on from a riverbank.

The Battle of a Boats grand culmination sees 3 crews on-board embellished out navy, bandit and viking ships pelting any other with H2O cannons and flour bombs.

The aim is to skip rivalry ships (and, one suspects, to get as dirty as possible), all in a name of charity.

When: August

Hot tip: Grab 3 friends, build a vessel and enter a Bring Your Own Boat race

More info: Henley on Todd

You’d improved use your hammer-throw technique if we wish to win a tuna toss. Source: News Limited

Tunarama Festival, Port Lincoln SA

Held during a South Australian coastal city of Port Lincoln, differently famous as a tuna collateral of a world, Tunarama blends food (lots of seafood naturally) with play.

Over 5 days of feasting and partying, there’s competitions for prawn peeling, prawn tossing — even, keg rolling and vessel building.

But a many rarely expected eventuality is a famous tuna tossing competition.

Festival organisers tapped into a fishing courtesy tradition that compulsory fishermen to toss a days locate from a docked vessel onto a watchful truck. It has given developed into a hotly contested foe for women and men.

For a record, a biggest toss for males stands during 37.2m and for females 21.2m.

When: January

Hot tip: Practice your hammer-throw technique if we wish to plea a tuna tossing record!

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You can usually attend in a Shitbox Rally if your automobile is value reduction than $1000. Source: Supplied

Shitbox Rally, Outback

Is this a ultimate Australian road-trip? Quite possibly!

A fundraiser for a Cancer Council, teams of dual are singular to pushing a automobile that costs reduction than $1000 over some of Australia’s many barren roads.

The usually other limitation is that a automobile contingency have a stream registration (4WDs are not welcome). The some-more beaten up, uncanny and noted a car, a better.

In 2017, a 3800km lane takes teams north from Adelaide around a Oodnadatta track, Alice Springs and a Plenty Highway to Cairns over one week.

It’s all for a good means with roughly $8 million lifted in a 7 years it’s been running.

When: May/June

Hot tip: Don’t even consider about signing adult unless we have a crazy friend/brother/sister with an equally vast clarity of adventure. Mechanical skills would be useful.

More info: Shitbox Rally

The competition of Birdsville swells from 115 to 6000 for a annual event. Source: News Corp Australia

Birdsville Races, Birdsville QLD

Undoubtedly a biggest eventuality on Birdsville’s calendar given a initial foe in a 1880s, a Birdsville Races attract travellers from opposite a globe.

The little city of Birdsville, whose competition once appearance during 300 though has dwindled to 120 audacious souls, swells to roughly 10,000 during foe week.

The Birdsville Hotel is a outback town’s celebration heart as revellers comfortable adult their celebration arms for a categorical eventuality — The Birdsville Cup.

Cowboys, clowns and claypans strive for courtesy among a mud and dirt of a Simpson Desert, 1600km west of Brisbane. When: September

Hot tip: Polish your drink goggles — there’s many celebration involved!

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33 /100 More UK stimulus probably needed "at some point" - BoE's Shafik LONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Bank of England Deputy Governor Minouche Shafik said she expected the central bank would need to pump more stimulus into Britain's economy "at some point" as it adjusts to the shock of the vote to leave the European Union. "There is no doubt in my mind that the UK is experiencing a sizeable economic shock in the wake of the referendum," Shafik said in a speech she was due to make on Wednesday. The BoE has previously signalled that it was likely to cut interest rates later this year although there have been signs that the British economy did not suffer as big a hit from the Brexit vote as the central bank had expected. Shafik noted the possibility of reduced access for British companies to markets in the EU and said the uncertainty about the outcome of the "protracted process of withdrawing" from the bloc was weighing on prospects for business investment. " The fall in the value of sterling since the referendum on June 23 was helping the economy which was flexible enough to cope with the change. But the process of adjustment would be painful, she said. "That's where monetary policy can help, and it seems likely to me that further monetary stimulus will be required at some point in order to help ensure that a slowdown in economic activity doesn't turn into something more pernicious," she said. "However, the likely timing of that stimulus will depend on the continued evolution of the data over the coming weeks and months," Shafik said. "Thus far, the welcome improvement in the forward-looking indicators suggests that the slowdown may not be as sharp or as sudden as we might have feared. " She said the BoE would "learn a lot" from official data for the post- referendum period, "and that will allow us to navigate by looking out the window as well as down at our radar. " The BoE cut interest rates to a record low of 0.25 percent and announced a range of other stimulus measures in early August. It said then that most policymakers expected to cut interest rates again before the end of the year, if the economy performed as they expected. Since then, signs have grown that economy has not slowed as sharply as the BoE predicted in August but it signalled earlier this month that it was still likely to cut rates, possibly at its next meeting in November. Shafik said a balance was needed between monetary and fiscal policy as well as structural reforms. British finance minister Philip Hammond is due to announce his budget plans in November and has suggested he will approve a modest increase in public spending to help the economy as it adjusts to the Brexit vote. (Writing by William Schomberg; editing by David Milliken)

2016-09-28 04:11 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

34 /100 SAP to invest 2 bln euros in Internet of Things by end 2020 FRANKFURT, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Europe's biggest software maker SAP has earmarked 2 billion euros ($2.2 bln) for investments in products that help companies to connect everything from washing machines to cars to the Internet. The German company said it would invest that amount by the end of 2020, targeting what it estimates to be a 250 billion-euro market in the so-called Internet of Things (IoT), in which regular objects are connected to networks to send and receive data. Such functions are increasingly used in manufacturing and areas such as logistics, digital farming, drones or 3D printing. SAP sealed a deal last week to work with German car parts maker Robert Bosch to connect everything from screwdrivers to cars to the Internet, and more deals could follow. The company will launch a new product line, dubbed SAP IoT, which will combine large amounts of data from things connected to the Internet with machine learning and SAP's real-time database S/4 HANA. "It is a big and growing market and we think we can be a significant part of it," said Tanja Rueckert, SAP's executive vice president in charge of digital assets and Internet of Things. "While business and public sector entities have unprecedented access to more information and real-time feeds, they still have difficulty tying it all together," SAP said. By 2020, 21 billion IoT devices will be in use worldwide, up from fewer than 5 billion last year, research firm Gartner has estimated. Rueckert said part of the 2 billion euro investment plan would be reserved for targeted acquisitions, typically small bolt-on deals that fit in SAP's IoT portfolio. SAP said on Wednesday it had bought Italy's PLAT. ONE and Fedem Technology from Norway for an undisclosed amount. Both acquisitions will be integrated into SAP IoT. "We cooperate with Siemens, Dell, Intel , T-Systems and Vodafone among others. We talk to other partners as well. That is the direction we will continue to look at. To work with others in partnerships," Rueckert said. ($1 = 0.8932 euros) (Reporting by Harro ten Wolde; Editing by Susan Fenton)

2016-09-28 04:02 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

35 /100 Roxy Jacenko poses with Francesca Packer as they go shopping at Louis Vuitton She's been bravely battling breast cancer and has endured almost a month of radiation treatment. And on Wednesday, Roxy Jacenko celebrated having just one day of radiation to go by going shopping with heiress Francesca Packer Barham, 21. Mother-of-two Roxy, 36, shared a fun car selfie with the brunette beauty, as the pair made their way towards a Louis Vuitton store. Roxy playfully stuck out her tongue as she sat in the front seat of Francesca's luxury car, believed to be a Range Rover. With a golden glow, Roxy sat in a pretty Louis Vuitton dress featuring patterned sleeves and a zipper up the front. Meanwhile, Francesca dressed more casually in jeans and a black jumper. Roxy playfully captioned the snap: 'What hump day??' While at the store, Roxy posed for a mirror selfie wearing her dress with a bright fur jacket on top, presumably picking up the piece for her wardrobe. Earlier that day, Roxy confirmed on Instagram she has just one more day of radiation treatment left. Roxy revealed her cancer battle in July, just weeks after her husband Oliver Curtis was jailed for two years for insider trading. She later had a tumour her breast removed, which was filmed for a 60 Minutes documentary about her life. Roxy also explained her decision not to have a mastectomy, saying: 'I wasn't in the head space to make rash decisions.' This week, The Daily Telegraph reported Roxy visited Oliver at Cooma's Correctional Facility on Saturday, taking a private plane costing $6,000. Roxy's visit comes just days after she was allegedly spotted catching up with her ex-boyfriend Nabil Gazal. They were seen having dinner together in Sydney and 'appeared relaxed with each other', The Sydney Morning Herald claimed.

2016-09-28 03:58 Chloe-lee www.dailymail.co.uk

36 /100 El Niño may push CO2 levels to record high Despite the obvious changes in global temperature, some still deny the impact that humans have on global warming. Still others even deny global warming itself. But scientific data have uncovered that carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the Earth’s atmosphere is about to reach the 400 parts per million threshold this month.

Recent measurements from the Mauna Loa Observatory in found that apart from the 25-percent increase in human emissions, the El Niño phenomenon appears to be intensifying the rise in CO2 in the atmosphere, reports Engadget.

The most troubling part is that CO2 levels are unlikely to dip below the 400ppm mark for a very long time to come. If anything, it is a clear sign of how dire our situation is.

Effects of this increase in CO2 levels may not be felt immediately, but they will definitely occur later on as CO2 continues to be pumped into the atmosphere at a steady rate.

Governments need to push harder to reduce greenhouse emissions to at least minimize the impact and pave the way for lowering CO2 levels in the future. Scotland has already achieved success in this endeavor as it announced that the country has managed to lower its emissions by 45.8 percent from the 1990 level. This is also six years ahead of its 2020 plan to lower emissions by 42 percent. Alfred Bayle

2016-09-28 03:56 technology.inquirer.net

37 /100 Pixie Lott puts on leggy display to film music video in Rio de Janeiro She's finally wrapped her stint in West End show Breakfast At Tiffany's. And Pixie Lott has wasted no time jetting off to Brazil, where she is shooting a new music video for her latest musical collaboration, Best Day of My Life. The 25-year-old singer took over the slums in Rio de Janeiro for the day alongside Brazilian singer Luan Santana and Nigerian afropop singer Yemi Alade. Scroll down for video Also contributing to the project are superstar Jennifer Hudson and Chinese singer Tan Weiwei, who weren't seen on the set. Pixie put on a fashionable display in a bright floral shirt, featuring a white lace trim that contrasted with the flannel material. The starlet - real name Victoria Louise Lott - teamed her colourful top with a pair of denim cut-off shorts that made the most of her long legs. She opted for comfort, sporting a pair of bright white trainers and kept her make-up look to a minimum. Pixie styled her blonde locks in natural curls framing her face. The British beauty appeared to be getting along famously with fellow singer Yemi, who looked amazing in a patterned one-shoulder top. The look was teamed with a pair of white jeans and large gold hoop earrings. The girls appeared to be making the most of the local culture, tucking into a tasty treat and chatting to passers-by. Pixie took to social media to enthuse about her 'incredible' and 'inspiring' time in Rio. She enthused: 'What an incredible day meeting the community, talking inspiring new energy ideas the whole world can benefit from and soundchecking for tomorrow.' Pixie first came onto the scene in 2009 when she debut her single Mama Do. The singer's smash hit debut at number one and then spent an impressive 11 weeks within the top 40 before sticking 18 weeks within the top 75. Her success wasn't contained to the UK, having reached the top 40 in 11 other countries. Pixie's South American arrival comes after she enjoyed a post-show break to Ibiza following her final Breakfast at Tiffany's performance on September 17. The singer took the West End by storm in the new stage adaptation of Truman Capote's novel, a role made famous by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film. Her rendition of the Holly Golightly received mixed reviews from critics, since she first appeared at the Theatre Haymarket back in June. Reflecting on her time in the show, Pixie recently told MailOnline: 'The cast are amazing. We get on really, really well. It's quite an emotional show.' The starlet continued: 'It's intense. People don't realise how much work goes into it. 'I think people are just happy we're selling out every night. We always have a full audience.' Former Coronation Street star Georgia May Foote will succeed Pixie in the role from September 19.

2016-09-28 03:49 Kate Thomas www.dailymail.co.uk

38 /100 Justin Timberlake and Kate Winslet get into a fight for new Woody Allen project Justin Timberlake and Kate Winslet filmed a heated argument scene on Tuesday in New York City. The 35- year-old pop star and the 40-year-old Oscar-winning actress were in period costume while filming the Woody Allen 1950s drama at Coney Island. Justin donned a short-sleeved seafoam green polo shirt, cuffed khaki trousers and white sneakers for the emotional scene. Kate meanwhile wore a short-sleeved striped yellow blouse along with a below the knee orange skirt. Her short flame-hued tresses were curled around her face with strands buffeted around by the sea breeze and emotions. Justin's character Mickey Rubin appeared to be pleading with Kate's character who at one point stormed away. They also shot scenes on a pier bench in which their characters seemed to be getting along. Woody, 80, also was spotted on the Coney Island boardwalk set. He layered up with a dark green cable sweater over a blue collared shirt below a green Army jacket. He wore tan trousers, leather shoes, black glasses and a dark brown bucket hat. Justin and Kate have been filming in Coney Island recently for the film and also shot scenes earlier this month in Brooklyn. The storyline like most of Woody's films was being kept under wraps and it's only been described as a period drama set in 1950s New York. The currently untitled project will be Woody's 48th film. The feature also stars James Belushi and English actress Juno Temple and is expected to be released in 2017.

2016-09-28 03:42 Paul Chavez www.dailymail.co.uk

39 /100 Mercury is the first planet after Earth with tectonic activity To date, Earth has been the only planet in the Solar System known to demonstrate tectonic activity. Other planets are geologically active, but not much more than that. However, it now looks like our homeworld isn't alone. Smithsonian researchers c......

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40 /100 Brendan Rodgers urges Celtic to put the shackles on Sergio Aguero and Co Five

years ago, a Brendan Rodgers meeting with Pep Guardiola was stymied by an Icelandic ash cloud. For their delayed handshake to be a pleasant experience, Celtic’s manager needs Parkhead to rumble with volcanic intent. The Scottish champions were shaken by a 7-0 defeat on the opening night in Barcelona. A savage and brutal expose of the growing financial chasm between Europe’s haves and have-nots, the worry is that lightning strikes twice. At home, Celtic are a different proposition, losing just three times in 24 group games. AC Milan, Barcelona, Juventus, Manchester United and Porto all know how it feels to leave Glasgow’s east end with a bloody nose. But when the best Scotland has to offer meets England’s monied elite these days, no one speaks of a ‘Battle’ of Britain any more. Rather, the expectation is of a swift, bloodless knockout. The statistics after Barcelona were sobering. The scoreline was bad enough, but Celtic’s concession of just three free-kicks over 90 minutes was most damning of all. Manchester City pose many of the same problems. To land a punch on players like Lionel Messi and his countryman Sergio Aguero you have to catch them first. ‘Sometimes, with the top players, you simply cannot get close enough to them,’ admitted Rodgers. ‘That’s why they’re world class. ‘The reality is that you have to fight, you have to find a way somehow. The top ones move the ball so fast - but you have to make fouls. ‘You have to disrupt the rhythm or else it just becomes too easy.’ Assembled by Arab sheiks to the tune of £419million, Manchester City have the capacity to humiliate Europe’s old elite. Celtic can be under no illusions. If this is a Battle of Britain, they enter the fray armed with a set of kitchen knives. ‘You have Aguero, who is a world-class striker,’ said Rodgers. ‘He showed that at Atletico Madrid and since he’s come into the Premier league. When he’s fit, he’s world class. ‘David Silva is a world-class player, too. I always say that when you have a world-class player, they are hard to tie down because they will always find space. ‘My experience of managing against Manchester City – and my teams have always done fairly well, particularly at home – shows that when you face these guys, the world-class players always find the space. ‘What you have to try to do is negate that as much as you can and negate their influence as much as you can. ‘Raheem (Sterling) is back on track to be one of the world’s top players. He is one of the world’s top young players, but also one of the world’s leading players. ‘He’s dynamic, super-quick and has great qualities and now has a clear plan of the team he’s playing in. ‘It’s a huge task for us but Kevin de Bruyne being out helps as he’s a big, big player for them and has been so far this season. ‘We’ll see what happens. We saw some interesting aspects in the game against Swansea at the weekend so hopefully we can maximise that.’ Any weaknesses City displayed in Swansea were combed over by a 3-1 win. Beat Celtic tonight and Manchester City will make it 11 straight wins – matching the best ever start to a season since Spurs in their double- winning campaign of 1960-61. In contrast with the Nou Camp, Rodgers will instruct his team to be aggressive. To unsettle City’s wizardry and break up their flow. Yet the Celtic boss knows City are unlikely to be brushed aside. Guardiola’s teams are founded on fitness, strength and pace. Players who fail to offer what he needs are ruthlessly dealt with. Sterling strikes no one as a physical footballer, yet Rodgers holds up his former Liverpool charge as a shining example of what Celtic can expect. ‘When we first brought him into our training, all the centre halves – (Martin) Skrtel or (Daniel) Agger – tried to kick the life out of him,’ the former Anfield boss recalled. ‘But very quickly they realised you can’t. He’s actually stronger than them. ‘He has this incredible and unique power and strength. A lot of it is in his head – that’s why I know he’ll be all right in the end – but his actual physicality is immense for such a slight boy. ‘He’ll never get bullied in a game. I’ve seen many examples of it in training, to the point where the defenders wouldn’t get so close to him. Skrtel is a big guy but he would tell you. ‘Raheem would arm them off, boom, with incredible strength. If you ask Kolo Toure, he’ll tell you the same thing. He was someone so wispy, slight and fast but his strength is tremendous. You might have to try and kick him, but…’ However they do it, Celtic must find a way to compete. In contrast with their performance in Barcelona, they have to be difficult to play against. ‘To be here and to put a fight on, to get a result, that’s what it’s about,’ added Rodgers. ‘For us, it’s the passion of the crowd and the passion of the team and our players getting the opportunity to play against a top side. That will help us. ‘The qualifiers were great, I have to say, the atmosphere here in all three games — especially the final qualification game — was absolutely incredible. ‘I think for people who maybe haven’t been to the stadium for a game, it’s a different roar. ‘It’s a different noise that comes out of here. I’m really looking forward to it, the whole spectacle and the game itself.’ In the days of Martin O’Neill, Gordon Strachan and Neil Lennon, most of the giants were humbled. The home reputation was well earned. ‘There is some relevance to it,’ said Rodgers. ‘There have been 24 games here at that level, of which Celtic have won 16 and only lost three. ‘It’s an incredible record which shows you the power of the stadium and what it gives to the team. And, of course, they played against really good teams. ‘AC Milan came here all-conquering and set up that it was going to be easy and it was 2-1 (to Celtic). ‘City are on a great run and it will end at some point, and why not us being the ones to end it? That has to be the attitude.’

2016-09-28 03:27 Stephen Mcgowan www.dailymail.co.uk

41 /100 Lupita Nyong'o is mellow in yellow as she chats about new film Queen Of Katwe She is the star of the Queen Of Katwe. So it was only appropriate Lupita Nyong'o was sitting on a makeshift throne as she discussed the picture with fans in New York on Tuesday. The Oscar-winner looked radiant as she took questions from the audience at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation screening at the Robin Williams Center. The Mexican beauty, who moved back to her parents' native Kenya when she was less than a year old, looked in high spirits indeed as she fielded questions on the Disney sports film. Lupita, 33, had certainly dressed to impress in a yellow gown, which was decorated with multicoloured birds, and matching headscarf. For Lupita is playing the single mother of a Ugandan girl whose world is transformed after being introduced to the exciting game of chess. The thrilling movie is based on a magazine article and book by sports journalist Tim Crothers. And chess fans do not have to wait long to see the picture, which was directed by Indian Salaam Bombay! filmmaker Mira Nair, as it hits screens on Friday.

2016-09-28 03:26 Mike Larkin www.dailymail.co.uk

42 /100 Kelly Rowland shows her silly side as she poses for selfies with son Titan in LA She gave birth to son Titan nearly two years ago in November. And on Tuesday, Kelly Rowland was quite the giddy mum as she carried her little one on her hip during an outing in Los Angeles. The 35-year-old singer displayed her child-like side as she posed for silly selfies with Titan and a pal. Kelly displayed her feminine-athletic figure in a curve-hugging, black dress that hit right at the knee. The former Destiny's Child member kept comfortable in a pair of white trainers. The stunner accessorized minimally and kept her hair sleek and parted down the middle. While Kelly surely makes her family a priority, the former X Factor host has quite the packed schedule. The songstress is set to complete her album later this year and is currently filming a Lifetime movie with Meagan Good. Additionally, Kelly and pal Sheika Daley are working on a makeup-line called F. A. C. E. (For All Created Equal). She's also currently writing a book. In an interview with Billboard , Kelly summed up her many projects. 'My goal in my life is whenever I do these business ventures, I like to collaborate with women, so for my book, I’m actually working with my doctor. I’m very, very excited. So, music, book, movie, makeup –– 2017 is my year,' she noted.

2016-09-28 03:25 Brittany Valadez www.dailymail.co.uk

43 /100 Australian woman with Lyme disease forced to travel to Switzerland for treatment Imagine beginning your morning up in agonising pain, before spending the day vomiting, fatigued, and suffering from head-splitting migraines every waking hour. This is the horrific reality for Emily Rosner, who has late stage Lyme disease. She is bedridden most days, incredibly sensitive to light or sound, and is unable to work, let alone feed or dress herself. The 26-year-old from Sydney has spent the last three years seeing hundreds of doctors who were baffled with her symptoms and failed to diagnose her illness. As Lyme disease is not officially recognised in Australia, Ms Rosner has struggled to get adequate treatment and has been unable to work, study, or even leave her bedroom. Scroll down for video Now she and her mother Leanne White are travelling to Switzerland to undergo revolutionary treatment which could change her life. 'From when she was quite small Emily had health problems', Ms White told Daily Mail Australia. 'There has sort of been periods in her life where she had suddenly got a bit worse, such as during puberty, and then again in her early twenties. 'This last three years she's really been extremely unwell', Ms Rosner's mother added. A single mum, Ms White is her daughter's sole carer and supports her financially while taking her to appointments - all while working full time as a teacher. The struggle to work out Ms Rosner's diagnosis placed a huge financial strain on the family, who have spent tens of thousands of dollars on hundreds of appointments in the past three years. 'Because it's not recognised in Australia there is no cover for it, it's purely out of pocket,' Ms White said. On top of that there has been the mental toll of misdiagnosis, and Ms Rosner being told it's simply 'all in your head'. 'A lot of doctors as well because it's not recognised in Australia, they don't think it's real,' her mother said. 'It's very frustrating and it's crushing.' In recent months Ms Rosner's condition has deteriorated significantly, with her cognitive function the most noticeably impaired. Her mother said the 26- year-old's short-term memory is failing, and her ability to cope with hurdles is decreasing. Next week Ms Rosner and her mother will head overseas so she can undergo revolutionary treatment at a Switzerland clinic. 'We heard about this one in Switzerland, someone in one of our forums had been there and was really sick and she came home much improved,' Ms White revealed. 'It really suited us because it's a really holistic approach.' However the treatment will cost over $100,000 for three months, and while Ms White is using the equity on her home to pay for it, it's not enough. 'It is expensive, but in the end you think what's the use of having anything if you don't have your health,' Ms White said. If you would like to donate and help Ms White pay for her daughter's treatment, visit the Save Em GoFundMe page.

2016-09-28 03:23 Freya Noble www.dailymail.co.uk

44 /100 UN panel says the US owes black people reparations over slavery The United States should give African Americans reparations for slavery, UN experts said Tuesday, warning that the country had not yet confronted its legacy of 'racial terrorism'. Amid a presidential election campaign in which racial rhetoric has played a central role, the UN working group on people of African descent warned that blacks in the US were facing a 'human rights crisis'. This has largely been fuelled by impunity for police officers who have killed a series of black men -- many of them unarmed -- across the country in recent months, the working group's report said. Those killings 'and the trauma they create are reminiscent of the past racial terror of lynchings,' said the report, which was presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday. Addressing the deeper causes of America's racial tensions, the experts voiced concern over the unresolved 'legacy of colonial history, enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism and racial inequality'. 'There has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent,' the report said. Working group chairman Ricardo A. Sunga told reporters that the panel believed several models of reparations could work in the US context, including 'elements of apology' and a form of 'debt relief' to the descendants of enslaved people. Asked about the campaign and accusations that Republican nominee Donald Trump has made racially inflammatory remarks, Sunga voiced alarm over 'hate speech...xenophobia (and) Afrophobia'. 'We are very troubled that these are on the rise,' he added, without naming Trump specifically but calling on officials and 'even candidates' to watch their words. Trump and his camp have denied all racism charges. In the campaign's first debate on Monday, Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton accused Trump of launching his campaign on the 'racist lie' that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States. The UN working group visited the several US states in January before producing their final report.

2016-09-28 03:21 Afp www.dailymail.co.uk

45 /100 Brad Pitt to miss movie premiere due to 'family situation' focus Actor Brad Pitt has said he will miss a premiere he was due to attend on Wednesday because he is focused on his "family situation". Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt last week, citing irreconcilable differences, and she has asked for physical custody of the couple's six children. Pitt has narrated the new documentary Voyage Of Time from director Terrence Malick, which will have its premiere at the California Science Centre Imax Theatre in Los Angeles. In a statement, Pitt said: " Terrence's Voyage of Time is an incredibly beautiful and unique experiential Imax film for children and families chronicling the birth of time. "I'm very grateful to be part of such a fascinating and educational project, but I'm currently focused on my family situation and don't want to distract attention away from this extraordinary film, which I encourage everyone to see. " Pitt, who previously starred in Malick's 2011 film Tree Of Life, narrates a 40-minute Imax version of Voyage Of Time, which examines the origins of the universe. Actress Cate Blanchett has narrated another feature-length version of the film. The FBI said last week it was considering an investigation into an alleged altercation between Pitt and one of his children on a private plane. Several media outlets, using anonymous sources, reported that the Ocean's Eleven star was under investigation by a child welfare agency after allegedly clashing with his 15-year-old adopted son Maddox. The FBI said it was "continuing to gather facts and will evaluate whether an investigation at the federal level will be pursued". Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services said it could not confirm or deny whether it was investigating Pitt. Meanwhile, The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said it was not handling any reports or allegations into child abuse against Pitt. A spokesman for the force later said that a report of an incident on a plane involving Pitt been passed to the FBI, but refused to confirm any details about the allegations. Jolie, 41, and Pitt, 52, known collectively as Brangelina, married in 2014 after 10 years together. Jolie's lawyer Robert Offer said the actress had filed for the dissolution of the marriage "for the health of the family". In legal documents filed with the Los Angeles Superior Court, the Maleficent star asked for physical custody of the couple's children - Maddox, Pax, 12, Zahara, 11, Shiloh, 10 and eight- year-old twins Knox and Vivienne. She also filed for Pitt to be granted child visitation rights and to share legal custody of the children. Jolie is being represented by divorce lawyer Laura Wasser, who helped in her divorce from Billy Bob Thornton and has represented Johnny Depp in his divorce from Amber Heard. In a statement following news of the divorce, Pitt said he was "very saddened" and "what matters most now is the well-being of our kids". The couple first met when they played married spies in the film Mr And Mrs Smith, when Pitt was still married to Friends star Jennifer Aniston. Jolie was previously married to Thornton and British actor Jonny Lee Miller.

2016-09-28 03:19 Press Association www.dailymail.co.uk

46 /100 BRIEF-PZ Cussons says performance for 4 months in line with expectations Sept 28 (Reuters) - PZ Cussons Plc : * AGM trading statement for period June 1 to Sept. 27 2016 * Overall performance of the group during the period has been in line with expectations * Cash generation during the period also in line with expectations * In the beauty division, a poor summer has adversely affected sales of St Tropez in the UK, however sales in the U. S. have been particularly strong * Brand portfolio and new product pipeline, and a continued focus on costs, leaves group well placed to manage challenging trading conditions Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: (Bengaluru Newsroom)

2016-09-28 03:18 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

47 /100 John Cusack sells stunning oceanfront Malibu mansion for $10.3million The same year that he starred in Being John Malkovich, John Cusack splashed out on a Malibu mansion. And the 50-year-old has now parted ways with the stunning beachfront property. John has sold the impressive home for a cool $10.3million, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times on Monday. The actor has made quite the profit on his pad, having purchased it for $2.1million back in 1999, according to Variety. However John didn't meet his asking price for the three bedroom, three and a half bath home, which he put on the market in March for $13.5million. Located on the desired Malibu Road, the Spanish style home breaks the usual Malibu property mould as it is far from the standard scaled back beachy homes that usually dot the famed coastline. Instead the property has a multi-levelled design with 4,660-square- feet of living space but still is built out over the sand, something that was no doubt factored into its jaw dropping price tag. Before he offloaded the mansion, John had also listed it as available to lease for the sky high price of $75,000 a month. The star's former house certainly has a bit to offer, the biggest feature being its stunning location which ensures views from almost every room and access to one of the deepest stretches of sand beach in the area. As soon as guests walks through the doors, they are treated to this view through the enormous living room windows which stretch from one end of the house to the other. Aside from the view, the living room also has the wow factor thanks to its vaulting ceilings and open plan. While most think about spending summer in Malibu, the home is designed for those who live there all year long so there is a fireplace in the living room which you can curl up next to while listening to the waves crashing outside. The living room opens to the fully-appointed kitchen and dining area as well as a giant entertainment deck. Combined with the giant glass doors and windows, the deck provides the perfect spot to entertain and enjoy indoor outdoor living. But if that deck's not to your taste, no matter, there is two more available, one of which is off the so-called 'master level'. The master level consists of a large master bedroom complete with fireplace, an office and master bath. The en suite is very dramatic and accessed through an arched doorway with green tiles leading to a two person soaker tub. Separate from the suite, on the upper level is the two additional levels which are currently being used as a gym. According to the listing the gym can be turned into one big master suite or into two bedrooms, one of which cab have a balcony. On the bottom level is a dry sauna, another bathroom and direct access to the beach which has plenty of sand even at the high tied mark.

2016-09-28 03:15 Chelsea White www.dailymail.co.uk

48 /100 LOOK: 6-year-old kid throws Drake-themed birthday bash Who says a 6-year-old girl can’t have an epic birthday party? Not Leah Saldivar.

Because of her affection for Canadian rapper Drake, she requested her mother, Alexis Gomez, to give her a Drake-themed sixth birthday party.

Her wish came true when Gomez just threw a birthday on Sunday teeming with Drake balloons and tiny fake $100 bills. The birthday cake was emblazoned with Drake’s OVO symbol.

Gomez thought of a birthday party theme that would entertain her daughter, who is an avid fan of the “Hotline Bling” singer, Buzzfeed reported. She surprised her with an extravaganza of everything and anything about Drake.

“She loves everything about his music,” Gomez spoke to Buzzfeed . “She recently said she wanted to marry Drake when she’s older.” Amusingly, Saldivar’s favorite song is “Child’s Play,” from Drake’s 2016 album “Views.”

Gomez’s bestie Abby Marquez posted photos of the birthday bash on Twitter, which got 15,000 retweets and 24,500 likes on Wednesday. Gianna Francesca Catolico

2016-09-28 03:11 technology.inquirer.net

49 /100 Ramon Ang builds $300M Davao cement plant BUSINESSMAN Ramon S. Ang is investing around $300 million to build a new cement manufacturing plant in Davao City through his privately-held Eagle Cement Corp., boosting production capacity in anticipation of higher infrastructure spending in the country.

Bullish on Mindanao’s growth prospects, Ang announced on Wednesday that Eagle Cement would break ground for the cement project in Davao City this Oct.20.

The upcoming cement manufacturing plant will be capable of producing two million tons or 50 million bags of cement per year.

Ang – who is also currently president and chief operating officer of San Miguel Corp. – said the construction of the cement plant was in line with plans to position Eagle Cement to help support the country’s growth while strengthening its position in the industry.

Eagle Cement has identified Davao as a key growth area for the Philippines. In 2013, its power subsidiary San Miguel Global Power Holdings Inc. broke ground for a new power generation facility in Malita, Davao. The new 300-megawatt power plant, which is part of a 2,000-hectare Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA)-accredited industrial estate that SMC is building in the province, is now fully online.

Davao is also home to SMC’s beer subsidiary San Miguel Brewery Inc.’s Davao Brewery.

2016-09-28 03:08 Doris Dumlao business.inquirer.net

50 /100 Ravishing river cruises! Don't fancy the high seas? Some of the most lovely trips to take you deep inland revealed WHY PLY A RIVER? The banks of the world’s great rivers - once the main arteries of trade and commerce and the heart of several civilisations - are a sightseer’s dream. And there’s no more comfortable way to enjoy their historic, cultural and scenic highlights than aboard a river cruise ship. There’s always something to see on both beams and, since the water’s dead calm, there’s more chance of feeling nauseous watching your toothpaste water swill down the sink than while sailing. Ships that ply rivers look very different from those on the world’s oceans. Long and thin, with the proportions of a pencil case, rather than the lines of a ‘proper’ ship, the standard river vessel is just two or three decks tall, with a wide sun deck, often a small pool, and usually around 150 to 200 passengers (just right for mixing with people you like and avoiding those you don’t). You can expect to pay more than the equivalent tour by coach, but standards are high and all prices quoted (unless stated otherwise) include flights, transfers, all meals with drinks and several excursions. DANUBE DALLIANCE Starting in Budapest, the one-week ‘Gems of Southeast Europe’ cruise on the top-rated AmaSonata follows the lesser known lower Danube via Belgrade to Bucharest, known as the of the East. Your journey ends in Rousse, with its fabulous Neo-Baroque and Neo-Rococo architecture. Terrific tours: See the immense fortress at Belogradchik in Bulgaria and Vukovar in Croatia, which is supposed to have suffered the worst damage in Europe since WW II (you can still see the bullet marks in many buildings from the violent break-up of Yugoslavia). Top tip: Be on deck for the passage through the dramatic ‘Iron Gates’ where the Danube narrows as it slices through a series of magnificent gorges between Serbia and Romania. Here’s how: Cabins from £1,599pp with AmaWaterways ( amawaterways.co.uk , 0808 256 8422). LAGOON ALLURE Uniworld’s River Countess has a ten-day Italian jaunt starting with two nights in Milan, home to Da Vinci’s Last Supper, before travelling by road to Venice for a week sailing across the lagoon and along the meandering river Po. Terrific tours: As well as the cities of Padua and Verona, there are off-piste trips, such as to Chioggia, where guests visit a casoni (fisherman’s hut) to learn the art of mussel harvesting from the locals, then steam their own catch in prosecco before enjoying them on the waterfront. In Venice, after a walking tour of the labyrinthine back lanes, there’s an after-hours, crowd-free visit inside St Mark’s Basilica. Top tip: Visit the roof of Milan’s mighty gothic cathedral for close encounters with the spires and gargoyles. Here’s how: Cabins cost from £2,909pp for a seven-night cruise, two nights B&B in Milan, transfers but not flights. Valid on the cruise departing from Milan on October 21, 2016, with Uniworld ( uniworld.com , 0808 281 1125). The lead-in price for 2017 is £2,599. SCENIC SEINE Easily reached from the UK, the eight-day trips aboard one of three Viking Longships, starting and finishing in Paris, offer a new perspective on the capital, as well as Versailles, Rouen, Honfleur, Richard the Lionheart’s castle at Les Andelys, the World War II landing beaches and the rural landscapes of Normandy. Terrific tours: Monet’s garden at Giverny where you’ll see the Japanese bridge, water lily ponds and azaleas that inspired his masterpieces. Another excursion will take in World War II landmarks including the Omaha and Juno beaches, the American Military Cemetery and the D-Day Museum in Arromanches. Top tip: Don’t miss alfresco meals served on the Aquavit Terrace and lounging on the sun deck, which has an organic herb garden, a putting green and walking track. Here’s how: Cabins start from £2,145pp with Viking Cruises ( vikingcruises.co.uk , 0800 319 66 60). RHINE TIMES The Rhine is rich in history, with fairytale castles, medieval towns, historic cities and a number of pretty villages parading along its banks. Emerald Dawn’s eight-day Jewels Of The Rhine cruise starts in Holland (Amsterdam), passes through Germany and the edge of France and finishes in Basel (Switzerland). Terrific tours: In Rudesheim, board the Winzerexpress minitrain to Siegfried’s Mechanical Music Instrument Museum to see one of the world’s biggest collections of self-playing musical instruments. In the heart of the Black Forest, there’s a cooking demo in a typical, family-owned Gasthof with famous Black Forest Gateau in the repertoire. Top tip: Be on the sun deck for the stretch between Cologne and Mainz, which is arguably the most scenic section of all Europe’s waterways. Here’s how: Cabins cost from £1,795pp with Emerald Waterways ( emeraldwaterways. co.uk , 0808 115 6269). IRRAWADDY MAGIC Explore the scenic and remote Upper Irrawaddy on a ten-night journey aboard the Kindat Pandaw. Built along traditional colonial lines with lots of teak and brass, her shallow draft means greater access to the river’s remote upper reaches. She has just 18 outside staterooms, all accessed from the promenade deck. Terrific tours: The many and m agnificent temples of the ancient capital of Pagan (it has 3,000 listed monuments) and a guided bike ride through local villages. Top tip: Read George Orwell’s Burmese Days, written in his onetime home in Katha, your last port of call. Here’s how: Cabins cost from £3,460pp with Pandaw ( pandaw.com , 020 8326 5620). FINE WINE ROUTE Terraced hillside vineyards studded with quintas (wine estates) and the port city of Porto are the main ingredients of this leisurely eight-day cruise along the Douro, known as the ‘river of gold’. Terrific tours: To the pretty town of Vila Real and the 18th- century Casa de Mateus manor house — a a baroque masterpiece with beautiful gardens, as seen on the label of its famous rosé w i n e. Next best? T h e excursion to medieval Aveiro, the ‘Venice of Portugal’, surrounded by salt flats, beaches and lagoons. Top tip: Enjoy a tipple or two of port in one of Porto’s famous lodges on the Gaia side of the river. Here’s how: Cabins cost from £980pp, excluding flights, with Croisi Europe ( croisieurope.co.uk , 020 8328 1281). FRENCH CHIC Linking the vineyards and villages of Burgundy with the historic towns of Provence — including Arles, with its Roman amphitheatre, Avignon and its Gothic Palais des Papes, and the ancient temples of Vienne, plus the gastronomic city of Lyon — these waterways are also very accessible by rail for those who don’t want to fly or drive. Avalon Poetry II’s ten-night cruise between Arles and Chalon- sur-Saone starts with an overnight stay in Monte Carlo and finishes with a TGV journey to Paris for two nights. Terrific tours: Fans of the television series Disparue (Disappearance) will love Lyon, France’s third- largest city, which stands at the confluence of the Rhone and Saone. The tour includes Fourviere Hill for amazing views and the imposing Notre Dame De Fourviere, plus the old quarter with its narrow passageways and Michelin-star restaurants. There’s also (optional extra) wine tasting at the Chateauneuf du Pape vineyard, where grapes can only be hand-picked. Top tip: Have a flutter in the Casino de Monte Carlo, admiring the legendary décor as you lose your shirt. Here’s how: Cabins cost from £1,522pp, including home pick-up by private car, a night at the Fairmont Monte Carlo and two in Le Meridien Montparnasse Paris (B&B) through Avalon ( avaloncruises.co.uk , 0800 668 1801). AMERICAN QUEEN Immerse yourself in America’s Deep South in Gone With The Wind style aboard the paddle steamer American Queen, the largest of its kind in the world, as it cruises between New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz, and Memphis, home of the blues. Six decks high, and longer than a football field, the American Queen features an abundance of filigree, fretwork, antique furniture, original Tiffany lamps and mahogany panelling. Terrific tours: Optional extra excursions include the battlefields of the American Civil War at Vicksburg, described by President Lincoln as ‘the key to victory’, and the ‘white gold’ sugar fields and plantation houses along the Great River Road in Louisiana. Top tip: Take in a musical (from blue grass to country, jazz to rock ’n’ roll) in the ship’s Grand Saloon theatre, which resembles the small-town opera houses of the 19th century. Here’s how: From £2,679pp for ten nights, including seven on board the American Queen, two in New Orleans and one in Memphis (room only) with Light Blue Travel ( lightbluetravel.co.uk , 01223 568904). EPIC RUSSIA Take a 15-day, back-door view of Russia on-board the Scenic Tsar, bookended by Moscow and St Petersburg. The waterway also includes canals and inland lakes, as well as rivers, with shore time involving a mix of cities, small towns and villages and a heavy quota of churches and icons. Terrific tours: In addition to the Hermitage, there’s a private ballet performance at the Vladimir Palace, the last Imperial palace to be built in St Petersburg in an eclectic combination of architectural styles. Meet a real astronaut in Moscow’s Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics devoted to the history of space. Top tip: On Kizhi Island, don’t miss the magnificent Church of the Transfiguration with its 22 onion domes. Built entirely of wood and without a single nail, it’s a World Heritage-listed site. Here’s how: Cabins cost from £3,995 pp with Scenic ( scenic.co.uk , 0808 810 8223). VINTAGE FRANCE This must surely be a wine lover’s dream voyage. Passengers board an Aria river ship in Bordeaux and ease gently through the city on an eight-day journey linking many of the most famous vineyards. Terrific tours: As well as visits to vineyards for tours and tastings, including Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte, Cognac and Saint-Émilion, there are also samplings at a caviar estate in Libourne and a gala dinner at Château Pape Clément, with wines produced from vines that were planted in the 13th century. All guests get a chance to dine at the ship’s Chef’s Table alongside 24 guests. Top tip: Since the cruise begins and ends in Bordeaux, be sure to visit the new, architecturally striking, wine museum. Here’s how: Cabins cost from £2,295pp, which includes home-toairport transfers by private car, with APT ( aptouring.co.uk , 0800 046 3002)

2016-09-28 03:08 David Wickers www.dailymail.co.uk

51 /100 How Syrian activists turned to Whatsapp to tell the world their stories "The situation here in Aleppo is very serious. It feels like you might die in any minute," Modar Shekho, a 28-year-old nurse working in the besieged city, tells CNN via the messaging app.

More than 200 airstrikes bombarded the city over the weekend leaving over 100 civilians dead, with hundreds more injured, according to Ammar al-Selmo, the head of the Syria Civil Defense group, a volunteer emergency medical service. Despite the unrelenting attacks, people remain defiant. A handful of activists regularly post updates to secured WhatsApp conversations.

WhatsApp has become an essential communications tool in the war-ravaged country. A 2015 report prepared by global market research company TNS documented that the app has become the preferred social platform of those surveyed from the region and that of those using social media in Syria, 98% use it.

Shekho -- who says he works at a local hospital -- shares what he sees in the Aleppo Media Center's private WhatsApp group, an opposition-affiliated network of activists documenting the conflict from within the city. The group on the app currently has 154 participants including a number of medical professionals and teachers living in Aleppo along with international journalists.

Related: UN officials condemn 'barbaric' bombardment

In the conversation there are images of innocent children caught up in shelling, violent photographs of dismembered body parts and other bloody scenes.

Since the ceasefire, some residents have gone onto the streets to capture an up close view of life in Aleppo on their phones.

In one video, an ongoing airstrike can be seen in the cloudless sky above the city before the camera pans to street level. A layer of dust has caked the road and crumbling buildings are also visible. Smoke seems to hang in the air while emergency responders -- identified by their white helmets -- coordinate rescue efforts. The sound of gunshots can be heard in the distance.

In another post, a photo, a dead boy believed to be just eight days old is seen on a hospital gurney after he was taken from the ruins of his home.

"I know this picture is horrific but this is what people suffer," one of the group's participants notes.

In the days following the collapse of the ceasefire, messages in the WhatsApp group appear to be getting more desperate, more urgent.

Many within the Aleppo Media Center channel say the lack of fuel, water and intermittent access to electricity is taking its toll.

One activist, Wissam Zarqa, says he hopes that by sharing on WhatsApp, people abroad will understand the "crimes taking place. "

"Even when the internet is not that good we can use WhatsApp," explains Zarqa, a language teacher from Aleppo. "It doesn't cost a lot and even if the connection is weak, it works well. We get information usually like this. But when we can, we go (personally). "

Related: Aleppo has become a 'ghost city'

In the last two months, the situation on the ground has gotten worse, according to 33-year-old Zarqa, a teacher with the Institute of Language Studies. He and his wife returned to the city a year and a half ago.

"Today it's calmer, at least in my neighborhood, and I went out. Life goes on... Yesterday I couldn't go out to check what was happening in my neighborhood because of the heavy shelling.

"I could count 15 attacks on my neighborhood (in the last few days). It's never been like that before. Whenever I go out, it's like a different neighborhood because everywhere more damaged buildings," he says. "We try to hold on but things are getting worse and worse, that's for sure. "

A colleague of his, Mohammed Edel, a 31-year-old teacher also from Aleppo, says "the last three or four days were bloody" and for many, WhatsApp is the only way people in Aleppo can communicate and stay safe.

"We want the world to help us get our freedom by having no bombing zone," he says. "I write in the group to let the world are the atrocities of the war imposed on the civilians. "

2016-09-28 03:06 Lauren Said rss.cnn.com

52 /100 Louise Redknapp unveils a new fashion collaboration for charity We love personalisation and whether it be your jewellery, bag or jacket you can really make it your own. Jewellery is probably the most obvious choice for personalisation as it adds a unique finish to any outfit without going too OTT. We love Jennifer Meyer's initial diamond pendant for the upper end of the price scale. And Monica Vinader Alphabet letters are perfect for gifting, beautifully styled letters, again great layered or worn alone. We've also designed our 'Name Drop' necklace, £42, in collaboration with accessory brand Say What You C. You can choose silver or gold plated and 20 per cent of all sales go to Spread Some Sunshine Charity. They look great layered up or are equally as striking worn alone. Chloe has done the cutest bag charms so you can personalise your favourite tote. Or go one better than that by inscribing your initials on a bag. Boyarde, a pop artist, hand paints directly onto accessories, bags, passport holders, jackets - anything but paper - and is really taking monogramming to the next level. Rae Feather is also a brand heavily into monogramming. We're huge fans of her shoppers and have our eye on the personalised scarves and candles going into autumn. The trend for personalised fashion is getting bigger, and literally taking over our wardrobes! We discovered Hand & Lock on a recent visit to Topshop Oxford Circus and couldn't resist monogramming our khaki jackets. Hand & Lock offer a range of services that give a personalised touch to anything you wish. Anya Hindmarch was well ahead of the personalisation game, releasing a range of stickers inspired by the stickers Anya used to personalise her school textbooks. These can be added to your laptop, phone or luggage. It's a good move from a high-end designer as it makes the brand more accessible and it's a fun, unique and stylish way to personalise your fashion staples and accessories. Customise your wardrobe and make your initials your best accessory. See more personalisation inspiration on Lou & Em's fashion and lifestyle blog A Style Album.

2016-09-28 03:03 Emma Thatcher www.dailymail.co.uk

53 /100 Have YOU had sex with your ex? Quite frankly, I’ve never been a fan. Even the definition of break up sex - the last sex you have with a lover after both of you decide to call the relationship off and break up – isn’t appealing. If I’m about to split from someone who has broken my heart, why on earth would I want the torture of being sexually intimate knowing it’s all about to be taken away from me? Scroll down for video If I’m about to split from someone I now despise or really couldn’t care less about, why would I want to sleep with them one last time? Because it can be the hottest sex of all, argue fans of break up sex. If you no longer have to impress your about-to-be ex, you can let loose and have totally uninhibited animal sex that’s purely selfish. Who cares if they judge you? You’re not dating any more! Others say it’s like the day before you quit smoking: tomorrow will be painful but today you’re going to enjoy every last drag of that fag. Some simply think it’s a nicer way to end things. Do you want your last moment together to be one where you’re both sobbing your hearts out or trading nasty insults…or having great sex and one last cuddle? Break up sex is sex that’s unfettered by past or future expectations: you’re completely in the moment and that can be intensely freeing for lots of people. For most though, it’s confusing, sad, depressing and painful. Tread cautiously if you’re considering it – and make sure you’ve well and truly thought it through. WHEN BREAK UP SEX CAN BE GOOD IDEA: It’s an amicable split If your relationship has just run its course and you’re both happy to walk away, break up sex can be a genuinely sweet ‘one for the road’ way to say goodbye. Sadly, very few relationships end that way. Most involve one person wanting to leave and the other desperately trying to hang on. But if you’re one of the lucky few that are separating happily, go for it. You’ve talked through the terms of your split up One main problem with having break up sex is that you’ve set a precedent. Are you now going to be friends with benefits? If you are, how will this affect your future relationships? It’s all too easy to end up emotionally tethered to an ex you’re still sleeping with. You need closure Sometimes we have to go back to move forward. If the split was hasty and spiteful, meeting up one last time to say a more civilised goodbye can help with the grieving process. This is often when break up sex ‘just happens’. Subconsciously, you might also do it to check that you both really do want to call it quits. It’s 100 per cent your choice Don’t be emotionally manipulated into having sex ‘one last time’ with a bad-news ex who knows how to press all your buttons. In this scenario, break up sex isn’t going to do you any favours. You’ll just feel used, confused, even more emotional – and hate yourself for giving in. Sex was always your ‘thing’ In some relationships, we connect intensely on an emotional level. Others are more sexual or attraction based. If it’s the latter and you’re both emotionally mature enough to deal with the split, one last swing on the chandelier might be just the way to go. DON’T GO THERE: If you’re heartbroken over the split The end of a relationship is usually sad, especially if it was long-term: few people commit to a relationship unless they genuinely want it to work. Having sex one last time, cuddling, touching and kissing someone you still love passionately, don’t want to lose and know you won’t be with again, ever, is too much for most people to bear. If you aren’t sure what’s on offer Is it break up sex or make up sex? Are you absolutely clear on what’s on offer? You wouldn’t be the first person to mistake that lusty lunge for an attempt at reconciliation rather than one last fling. If you aren’t sure, ask! If it’s you initiating, make it clear that one time sex is all that’s on offer. If you're not sure you did the right thing leaving Break up sex confuses people. If the sex is good, the question hovering between you is: why are we breaking up? I get lots of emails from people asking if it they should reconcile with an ex because they’ve ended up having (good) sex with them. The answer to that is this: how do you get on when you aren’t having sex? Some couples are highly sexually compatible but have zero in common apart from physical attraction. Having great sex with an ex usually means the reason you broke up had nothing to do with the physical side of your relationship. Start seeing each other without sex on the table (or anywhere else) and suddenly those old problems resurface. If you know they’re bad news If you’re splitting from a lover who all your friends and family have been begging you to leave, having sex one last time can reignite the bond and makes you doubt what is a very good decision. If your partner is making you miserable, don’t hang around for seconds on anything. Walk out that door and don’t look back. It’s pity sex Having sex one last time because you feel sorry for the person you’ve just dumped is not going to do them any favours at all. They’ll see it as one last chance to convince you to stay and feel used afterward when you’re forced to admit there was no chance. You can’t help them get over you. Break up sex delays the inevitable and makes things worse. If you’re hoping it will lead to you getting back togethe r This happens in rom-coms on a regular basis. Not so regularly in real life. As I said earlier, you need more than a sexual connection to be happy long-term. Knocking their sexual socks off one last time might well remind them what a great lover you are. But sex alone is unlikely to convince them to stay if there are serious, deep-seated, unsolved emotional issues. Visit traceycox.com for more advice on sex, life and love and to purchase Tracey’s range of products

2016-09-28 03:02 Tracey Cox www.dailymail.co.uk

54 /100 Is this the most insulting ad on television? SARAH VINE feels patronised by commercial for H&M's winter collection Has there ever been a more smug and self-satisfied TV ad than H&M’s commercial for its new Autumn/Winter fashion collection? Watching it, I feel I’m being patronised to within an inch of my sanity. For those who haven’t had the pleasure, it’s set to a remake of the old Tom Jones hit, She’s A Lady, and features a selection of women doing distinctly unladylike things, such as picking their teeth and slouching on trains with their legs spread out like a man. Another shot features a model stuffing her face with chips then lolling back on the bed to reveal hairy armpits. Yet another shows a plus-size lady’s larger-than-life bosoms, followed by a close-up shot of her rolls of tummy fat as she gazes admiringly in the mirror. H&M’s stated aim is far nobler than merely flogging frocks. It says it wants to redefine what it means to be a lady; to replace the out-dated concept with an image of femininity that is — and I quote — ‘bad-ass, independent, free-willed, entertaining, opinionated and off-beat’. That’s why the ad, shot in a variety of artfully dingy venues, features what H&M claims is a representative group. These include American transgender model Hari Nef, 23, British-Ghanaian model Adwoa Aboah, 24, the founder of something called Gurls Talk — a ‘platform for discussing social justice, feminism and gender equality’. There’s also a shaven- headed Swedish artist, a muscle-bound female Thai boxer and (the admittedly gorgeous) 72-year-old U. S. model Lauren Hutton. I suppose I should be grateful that simply by purchasing a £19.99 shirt or taking advantage of a 3-for-2 offer on children’s pants I can, by association, be part of this brave new world. But I’m afraid I hate it. First, for something that aims to celebrate authenticity, this short film is about as phoney and manufactured as they come. It’s clearly been focus-grouped down to the last sequin — very possibly by a gathering of Jeremy Corbyn supporters. Second, it’s based on the totally false premise that anyone who defies convention is by definition brave and to be admired. This, of course, is rubbish. Looking different doesn’t imply daring. Some of the truly bravest people I know look very ordinary indeed. But the real problem with this advert is the way it promotes such a narrow vision of what it means to be a woman — while purporting to do precisely the opposite. Let’s face it, most normal women don’t proudly show off their wobbly bits — they do everything they can to hide them. They don’t spend their time rolling round on hotel beds showing off their underarm hair, either. They’re far too busy picking up towels, tidying bedrooms, packing lunches, soothing brows and generally holding their — and everyone else’s — lives together. And yet, this advert implies, to be anything less than alternative marks you out as an incorrigible frump. That’s why I reckon H&M will find that far from widening their clientele, it narrows it. These self-consciously alternative individuals will love it. But sensible women will do what they always do: roll their eyes in exasperation — and go to Spanish label Zara. Its founder, Amancio Ortega, has recently become the second richest man in the world. His strategy? A truly revolutionary one: selling clothes normal women actually want to wear. Real women don’t want to be told how to think by an advertising agency or a focus group. They just want a wide choice of flattering, moderately fashionable clothes at a not-too-extortionate price. Clothes such as the blue, £69.99 Zara jacket that everyone from the Duchess of Cambridge’s PA Rebecca Deacon down is wearing. What’s its appeal? It fits, it flatters, it looks like it could be without obviously trying. And it won’t break the bank. Which reminds me: there used to be a British brand that did the same sort of thing — until it became obsessed with hiring people such as Tracey Emin and Alexa Chung to star in its ads. You may have heard of it: Marks & Spencer? All credit to Prince George, three, for putting Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, 44, in his place by refusing to partake in the absurd U. S. ritual of high-fiveing. Had Mr Trudeau extended his right hand, as is proper when meeting someone for the first time, I’m sure the young Prince would have responded in kind. As it is, he gave the patronising politician exactly what he deserved WHY AMAL NEEDS TO LOOK LIKE THIS AGAIN Amal Clooney has a wardrobe to rival any A-lister — with outfits costing anything up to £5,000. But it wasn’t always so. Back when she was plain Amal Alamuddin, her clothes were far more subdued — as this 2011 photograph shows. She’s in a £250 Jaeger trench coat, £175 Russell & Bromley shoes with a £45 M&S bag. Not exactly cheap, but perhaps more suited to a serious civil rights lawyer. Clearly there are occasions when she has to dress the part of a glitzy wife; but wearing outfits that cost several times most people’s monthly mortgage payment doesn’t send a good message. There is a time and a place to show off your wealth; in pursuit of human rights for those who have suffered unimaginable horrors isn’t it. Church of England vicar Matthew Taylor took in an alcoholic down-and- out who ended up having a torrid affair with his wife. Proof, once again, that no good deed goes unpunished. BRANDED A RACIST BY MY OWN DAUGHTER! For many, the fact Ofcom has received nearly 500 complaints about Coronation Street character Eva Price’s ‘I’ve got more roots than Kunta Kinte’ line will seem absurd. At best, you could argue that since Kunta Kinte was a fictional slave in the book and TV series Roots, levity around the subject is insensitive — but racist? Surely not? In which case you don’t understand the extent to which young people today are indoctrinated into finding offence in even the most innocuous comment. The other day I was picking up my daughter from school in my Fiat 500 when we drove past another Fiat 500, a newer model in shiny black. Apropos of nothing, I said I didn’t much like it in that colour. Cue sharp intake of breath from the child, who immediately accused me of racism. Yes, that’s correct: disliking a black car is, in her world, racist. Next thing you know she’ll be banning me from wearing black on the grounds of racial appropriation. If Jeremy Corbyn is so keen to abolish the Army, why doesn’t he go to Aleppo and see for himself what happens when innocent civilians have no one to defend them? DEATH ON A PLATE I was intrigued to read in yesterday’s Mail a list of traditional delicacies that are now on the culinary critical list. These included the Aberdeen rowie, a lard- based roll which used to be a breakfast staple for inhabitants of the Granite City, childhood home of my dear husband. On my first trip to meet my prospective in-laws, and keen to please them, I actually ate one. It took about three days for my digestive system to process this impenetrable ball of fat and pastry which makes the deep-fried Mars bar look like a green smoothie. Its timely demise will add at least ten years to the average Scottish lifespan. Hillary, I’m certainly no Trump fan, but travelling first class in the diplomatic jet surrounded by fawning aides doesn’t exactly require ‘stamina’. And if you want to know about stamina in the Oval Office, ask your husband... Zoe Ball, who this weekend announced her split from husband Norman Cook, aka DJ Fatboy Slim, has reportedly told friends that she finds him ‘boring’ on account of the fact that he no longer wants to go partying every night. Zoe, you’re 45. He’s 53. Your children are 15 and six. You can’t be out snogging 20-year-olds seven days a week. Your family needs you. It’s not ‘boring’, it’s called growing up. Last week, as the nation was apparently gripped by the Brangelina break-up, pictures of the couple having a furious row last year at Legoland emerged as ‘proof’ their marriage had been under strain for some time. Nonsense. Having a row at Legoland is perfectly normal. Ninety-nine per cent of couples who take their kids to Legoland end up contemplating divorce. It’s the only sane response to that hellhole of overpriced plastic tat, hysteria-inducing sugary treats and interminable queues.

2016-09-28 03:01 Sarah Vine www.dailymail.co.uk

55 /100 In the kitchen: Shishito peppers and other farmers market gems One of the great pleasures of living in Southern California is our farmers markets , a network of what are essentially outdoor food halls, where we can shop for dinner, meet friends and revel in our permanent growing season — as well as, these days, pretty permanent blue skies. What this means, of course, is that cooking is always pretty fun here, as it doesn’t take too much to turn our own kitchens into what are essentially farm-to-table restaurants.

This week's cooking stories highlight that, as they usually do — from a series of recipes showcasing shishito peppers, to a look at what’s at those market stands right now, to a few other recipes that use market ingredients in unexpected ways. If you need more inspiration, check out some of our recent cookbook reviews or, of course, The Times’ Recipe Database.

— Amy Scattergood

Test Kitchen Director Noelle Carter considers the shishito pepper , the mild-to-hot Japanese peppers that you can find in many sushi restaurants — and, these days, in many farmers markets. What to do with them? Sure, you can grill them and dunk them in soy sauce, but maybe try some other things too.

If you secretly (or not so secretly) love Panda Express’ orange chicken , but love to cook too, why not have the best of both and make your own? Deputy food editor Jenn Harris shares a recipe from one of her favorite stories, when she cooked her way through her list of favorite fast food guilty pleasures.

Chef Marcus Samuelsson has a gift for inventive, flavorful recipes, which his recipe for salmon skewers demonstrates. Because why just toss salmon on the grill when you can douse the fish in tamarind and curry sauce, thread it with skewers and then grill it? The recipe is from Samuelsson’s cookbook, “The Soul of a New Cuisine.” His latest book, “The Red Rooster Cookbook,” comes out in October. Jonathan Gold dishes on the Jazz burger, an off-menu item at Jitlada in Thai town, a site of pilgrimage for spicy food lovers.

Lead bartender, Katie Emmerson, at The Walker Inn located at the back of the Normandie Club talks about the Malibu cocktail.

“There’s a lot of focaccia in the world and most of it is terrible," Duff Goldman says. "People need to learn about the good stuff.” The founder of Charm City Cakes shows how to make his version of focaccia.

Jonathan Gold takes you inside Donut Man, a destination doughnut spot in Glendora that specializes in doughnuts made with fresh strawberries.

Alex Straus, beverage director at EP+LP in West Hollywood, describes how to make a Kriss Kross cocktail.

Alex Straus, beverage director at EP+LP in West Hollywood, describes how to make a Kriss Kross cocktail.

2016-09-28 03:00 Los Angeles www.latimes.com

56 /100 The weird ways you're giving yourself wrinkles and spots before bedtime We all know that a lack of sleep and poor beauty regime can cause wrinkles, but experts say we all make vital mistakes before getting into bed that are wreaking havoc with our looks. Experts have shed light on the surprising things people do every night before bed that are causing them to age without even realising - and some of them will shock you. From sleeping on your side to having a yoghurt for pudding, we've called on the best experts in the business to reveal the bizarre ways you're unknowingly adding years to your face before you settle down for the night. Central heating As Carine Mudry, skincare expert and Brand Founder at EKIA, explains: 'Central heating, along with air conditioning can severely dry out your skin. The closer you sleep to a radiator, the more detrimental it may be, because the air may be hotter. 'If you already have skin conditions like eczema, rosacea or psoriasis, central heating can make them worse, disrupting the skin’s natural moisture balance. She suggests harnessing the benefits of shea butter and argan extract to soothe and reduce redness. A long, hot shower Carine Mudry explains that just like the central heating, the temperature of your shower also tends to go up during the winter months and this can wreak havoc with the skin. 'Hot showers and baths can inflame the skin, causing redness, itching, and even peeling and can disrupt the skin’s natural balance of moisture, robbing you of the natural oils, fats, and proteins that keep the skin healthy,' she said. She suggests looking for products with anti-inflammatory properties that will help restore moisture. Miss Jonquille Chantrey added: 'The normal routine of having a long shot shower or bath before bedtime can upset the normal moisture barrier of the skin. This followed by the use of a heavy moisturiser can lead to the increased risk of congestion and possible acne.' Your sleep position The most important issue around bed time is the sleep position, explains Miss Jonquille Chantrey. 'Sleeping on one side heavily and repeatedly causes significant asymmetries in the facial folds, wrinkles and sleep lines,' she said. 'It is usually easy to detect if somebody sleeps heavily on one side of their face. 'This can also cause congestion in the skin and may lead to milia and clusters of breakouts on the same side. 'It doesn’t just affect the face, the side sleeping position can also worsen décolletage lines, making these more pronounced. 'However, the worse position to sleep in is sleeping on the face, this can cause quite severe folds to form around the mouth, cheeks and eyebrows.' Having a glass of wine with dinner Christine Bailey, Nutritionist and skin expert on behalf of The Harley Medical Group, says that not only is alcohol high in sugar but can be very dehydrating, which can cause the skin to look tired and dull. She said: 'A build-up of toxins can also take its toll on the liver and our ability to cleanse. This can show up on our face making it less than radiant looking. Hydrate by drinking 6-8 glasses of water or try warm water with a little fresh lemon juice added. 'Other healthy options include coconut water, herbal teas and green tea rich in skin protective antioxidants.' Not taking your makeup off properly Corrine Morley, in- house skincare expert at Trilogy, says that cleansing your skin is one of the most important parts of a beauty routine. 'It preps your skin for all other treatments,' she said. 'The buildup of excess oil (sebum) and skin cells need to be removed to keep skin looking healthy and radiant - water alone cannot remove oil and debris. 'Nighttime cleansing is essential for nutrients to absorb and nourish the skin. Nocturnal blood flow in the skin is higher and this increases absorption of nourishing and hydrating ingredients. 'If you don’t cleanse your face before bed, not only do you leave on the grime from the day, which clogs pores and harbors bacteria, you also miss out on essential skin nutrition.' Your dinner They say you are what you eat but have you ever stopped to consider that what you're putting in your mouth could be affecting more than just your waistline? You may think that post-dinner yoghurt is a healthy pudding option, but according to experts, your post-dinner choices could be wreaking havoc with your skin and making you uglier. As Milena Naydenov - Aesthetic Therapist at 111 Harley Street - explains, yoghurt is high in sugar, which causes our skin to sag and wrinkle. Explaining it in more detail, she said: 'The refined sugar causes a process of glycation. 'This process causes the elasticity of our skin to break down, making it sag and wrinkle. Excess sugar can stimulate the development of free radicals, causing damage to our skin cells.' Christine Bailey explains why you should avoid sugary snacks later in the day, too. She said: 'Sugary snacks, sweet treats, puddings and excess carbs lead to a sudden rise in blood sugar and the production of excess insulin. This results in the production of certain growth factors particularly insulin like growth factor (IGF-1) that stimulate sebum production and exacerbate hormone imbalances, leading to spots and skin redness.' Christine says that instead of always reaching for the biscuit tin, try snacking on antioxidant and vitamin C rich fruits like berries, pomegranate and citrus fruits. 'These help protect the skin, support cleansing and the production of collagen for healthy, glowing skin,' she said.

2016-09-28 02:52 Bianca London www.dailymail.co.uk

57 /100 MS Dhoni on his biopic 'MS Dhoni: An Untold Story': No villain in my life MS Dhoni

New Delhi: India's ODI skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who keenly awaits the release of "M. S. Dhoni: An Untold Story" -- a biopic by filmmaker Neeraj Pandey -- says at first he was hesitant to give a nod to the project as he thought what kind of a film can be made on him as he doesn't have any villains in his life.

The film, which stars Sushant Singh Rajput in the title role, has been co-produced by Dhoni's longtime friend Arun Pandey.

Dhoni, who was in the capital on Tuesday to promote the film along with Sushant, Pandey and Fox Star CEO Vijay Singh, said when Pandey came to him with idea of a biopic, he first took him lightly and felt a bit hesitant.

"I didn't pay any attention to Arun when he came up with this idea first. But problem took place when he quickly came back and said that we have finalised the deal. So then I couldn't back off. I thought that making the film will take a lot of time," Dhoni said in a chat with actor and host Gaurav Kapur.

"After that I opened up and told them what I went through throughout my life. I was born in 1981 -- a time when education was given more importance than sports. The good thing was that there was not much family pressure on me. It was more time management.

"This film is informative in a lot of ways because people, who know me in Ranchi, don't know what I did in Kharagpur when I lived there for four years. After that from 2004 till now I played internationally. This movie to some extent brings everything together," he added.

Dhoni said when he was approached for the project, he thought on what context of his life the film will be based on.

"Initially I was thinking what context they will make the movie on. There is no villain in my life. So it's mainly about decision making and be humble in your life," he said.

Asked whether he feels pride to be idolised by many or feels the pressure, Dhoni said: "It's the pride factor more than pressure because I have always believed in taking control of things patiently.

"To me taking it positively is more important than taking it as a pressure. I always felt great about the fact that I come from a small city and I got a lot of love and affection there. "

"M. S. Dhoni: The Untold Story", which will release in 4,500 screens in India and around 1,000 screens abroad on Friday, will showcase Dhoni's life from his childhood days till the 2011 Cricket World Cup.

However, Dhoni, 35, said that there should not be a sequel to the film as it will be "very controversial".

"I don't think we should think about a sequel as it will be very controversial. After 2011 there were only controversies and nothing else (in my life). Nothing else is there. There will be only villains in it," Dhoni said.

The film also stars Anupam Kher, Rajesh Sharma and Bhumika Chawla.

2016-09-28 02:49 By IANS www.mid-day.com

58 /100 She's in tune! Amanda Peet strikes right note in little black dress at Los Angeles Philharmonic opening gala Amanda Peet brought Hollywood glamour to the Los Angeles Philharmonic's opening night gala on Tuesday. The 44- year-old actress hit the right note in a little black dress for the concert and gala at downtown's Walt Disney Concert Hall. Amanda showed her lean legs in the short dress that featured a ruffled top. The Whole Nine Yards star had her dark hair pulled back and wore just a hint of natural looking makeup. Amanda completed her look with black heels and her sparkling blue eyes added a pop of colour. The New York City native has been married since 2006 to Game Of Thrones showrunner David Benioff, 46. They have a nine-year-old daughter Frances, six- year-old daughter Molly and one-year-old son Henry together. Megan Hilty, 35, was the lady in red for the gala event. The Broadway star wore an off-the-shoulder, floor- length red gown. Don Johnson, 66, looked dapper in a black suit alongside wife Kelley Phleger in a matching black dress. Oscar-winning actor Christoph , 59, also was in attendance and looked sharp in a dark blue suit. John C. Reilly, 51, and wife Alison Dickey also showed their support for the progressive Los Angeles-based orchestra. Gustavo Dudamel, 35, has been the music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since September 2009.

2016-09-28 02:49 Paul Chavez www.dailymail.co.uk

59 /100 Computer treatment helps stroke-induced blindness A new treatment is helping people with stroke-induced blindness achieve major improvements in their vision. Loss of sight due to brain injury, usually from stroke, affects around a third of stroke survivors In these types of brain injury, partial blindness in the visual field - the area in which objects can be seen in peripheral vision when the eyes are focussed on a central point - occurs due to a disruption in the connections between the eyes and the visual processing areas of the brain. Now researchers have developed a new computer-based treatment designed to improve speed and effectiveness of eye movements to help compensate for this vision loss, which gets results in a matter of weeks. Professor Arash Sahraie, head of the School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen who led the study, said: "This type of sight deficit can be massively debilitating for those affected by it. "Patients report a loss of confidence in their own ability to navigate the environment that can then manifest itself in the form of withdrawal from daily life. "This is why it's important to develop techniques to help patients to improve as much as they can and this compensatory technique is yet another step forward in providing help and therapy for these patients. "We have developed the research into an accessible treatment that can help patients achieve major improvements in their vision within about two to three weeks. The therapy is adaptive and can tailor the treatment programme according to the needs of the individual. "Our study found that this treatment can improve what remains of the partially sighted patients' vision by training them to better detect objects in their visual field. " Research on the new NeuroEyeCoach treatment was published in the academic journal Biomed Research International.

2016-09-28 02:37 Press Association www.dailymail.co.uk

60 /100 Duped New York Concert Audience Gives Standing Ovation to North Korean Propaganda The violinists leaned into every note during a recent orchestra performance of “Footsteps.” Portrayed as a traditional Korean folk song, the staccato march and crashing cymbals roused the audience at the New York City concert hall.

Few recognized the music for what it really was—an inspirational ode to Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s third- generation dictator and nuclear-arms provocateur. “Step, step, step, the footsteps of our General Kim,” goes one lyric. “The whole nation follows as one, step, step, step.”

Among the surprised were Peter Howard, a cellist in the Ureuk Symphony Orchestra. He learned the subject of the piece only after he performed it Thursday in Manhattan, sprinkled among the Brahms and Rachmaninoff. “That’s not too great, is it?” he said. Turns out another song at the Ureuk Symphony Orchestra concert last week praised the Kim family dynasty, which has kept an iron grip on North Korea for decades, and a third piece called for a unified Korea under the rule of Pyongyang.

“I wasn’t sure what all the music meant,” Mr. Howard said after the performance. “It just seemed kind of militaristic.”

Natalie Rogers, a 65-year-old classical music aficionado from Manhattan, said she was puzzled by the stern, well- dressed Korean men sitting in view of her third-row balcony seat during last week’s performance.

They were Ri Yong Ho, North Korea’s foreign minister, and his associates who were in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. A day later, Mr. Ri delivered a speech at the U. N. that promised to advance North Korea’s nuclear threat.

“I was wondering who they were,” said Ms. Rogers, a performance-anxiety coach, after she learned.

North Korea and its sympathizers are conducting a long-running campaign to have people view the country as more than an isolated, brutal police state, say experts on the regime. In the U. S., the pursuit is so subtle, many participants don’t know they have been recruited.

Catherine Fisher, a 69-year-old Lower East Side resident, said she didn’t know the provenance of the Kim-family songs performed by the Ureuk orchestra but could see herself humming along.

“It was very uplifting,” said Ms. Fisher, a costume designer. “You felt very satisfied like, ‘Oh my God, that felt really good.’ ”

The Ureuk Symphony Orchestra is led by conductor Christopher J. Lee, of Teaneck, N. J., a frequent visitor to Pyongyang who appears regularly in North Korean media under his Korean name Ri Jun Mu.

Mr. Lee, 73 years old, supports North Korea’s nuclear-arms and missile programs on his personal Facebook FB 1.08 % page and in blog posts, including one that applauded the rogue nation’s nuclear test earlier this month. “It was a morning where the cheer for a unified Korea was exceptionally loud and clear!” Mr. Lee wrote in Korean.

Reached by phone, Mr. Lee, who was born in South Korea and moved to the U. S. in 1972, deflected questions about performing music in support of North Korea. “I don’t care about South or North,” said Mr. Lee, who added he wanted a reunified Korea.

Calls to the North Korean Permanent Mission to the U. N. in New York weren’t returned.

North Korea state media say study groups in countries from Sweden to Mexico to Nigeria pore over the ideas of Mr. Kim, his father, Kim Jong Il, and grandfather Kim Il Sung. These groups, given breathless coverage in North Korea, portray the nation as a plucky underdog, a beacon of hope to people they describe as victims of U. S. imperialism.

Musical performances in Manhattan, enemy territory, are particularly prized pieces of propaganda back home. The Ureuk orchestra—named for a sixth- century Korean musician—has been staging shows in New York City three or four times a year for more than a decade.

The group charges from $30 to $50 for an evening of music that typically starts with classical stalwarts such as Tchaikovsky or Mozart, before moving on to Korean orchestral pieces with such titles as “Our Pledge,” “Triumphal March” and “My Motherland,” three paeans to North Korea. The nonprofit orchestra brings in about $30,000 a year, according to Internal Revenue Service filings.

Ureuk holds its performances at the Merkin Concert Hall of the Kaufman Music Center, just blocks from Lincoln Center, the Juilliard School and Carnegie Hall. The Kaufman center rents the hall to the Ureuk symphony, as it does to other performance groups, center spokeswoman Joan Jastrebski said: “As a nonprofit, Kaufman Music Center cannot and does not support, condone, or endorse political agendas.”

The Ureuk concert at Merkin Hall in February was timed to mark the birthday of Kim Jong Il, one of North Korea’s biggest holidays, known as the “Day of the Shining Star.”

The concert was hailed as a propaganda victory by Pyongyang’s state-run Korean Central News Agency, which described the U. S. audience as “mesmerized.” The performance “represented the revolutionary careers of the peerlessly great men who exalted the dignity of the country and the nation before the world,” the North Korean news agency said.

The U. S. concerts allow North Korea to brag, “We’re a cultural powerhouse, and Kim Jong Un is respected,” said Adam Cathcart, an expert in North Korea history at the University of Leeds in the U. K. and a conservatory-trained cellist.

Some audience members, particularly Korean-Americans, seem to know what the Ureuk symphony is up to, including Maria Yoon, a 45-year-old filmmaker who visited Pyongyang two years ago. She shrugged off any judgment about the songs praising North Korean leaders.

“Rhythmically, I liked the Korean songs more,” she said. The North Korean music, performed without lyrics or explanation, remains camouflaged to most of the Ureuk symphony’s audience, though some of the musicians have gotten wise.

Violinist Samantha Gillogly said she learned the secret from a colleague just before playing the Ureuk symphony’s New York concert in April, which coincided with the “Day of the Sun,” the birthday of Kim Il Sung.

Performing songs that praised dictators made her uncomfortable, Ms. Gillogly said, but she concluded she had a professional obligation to do the job. “The art on its own does not hurt anyone,” she said.

Trumpet player Arthur Zanin said he knew Mr. Lee frequently traveled to the Korean Peninsula but didn’t know exactly where. At an Ureuk concert last year, he played the first movement of Franz Joseph Haydn ’s trumpet concerto before performing “My Motherland.”

Mr. Zanin acknowledged he knew little about the song or its composer. But, he said, he had “a pretty good idea just looking at the title of the piece.”

2016-09-28 02:33 Jonathan Cheng www.wsj.com

61 /100 Thriving sector On Monday, India sent a rocket into space that successfully launched 8 satellites in one go.

The categorical purpose of a launch that took place during a Sriharikota space centre off India’s eastern coast, was to put into circuit SCATSAT-1, a satellite that will assistance continue forecasting. Five of a other satellites that were on house are foreign, from a US, Canada and Algeria.

In Jun India launched 20 satellites in a singular mission, a many in a story of a country’s desirous space programme. Seventeen of those were foreign.

Monday’s launch takes a series of unfamiliar satellites launched by India to 79. This has warranted a nation some-more than $120m (£92m). And India’s space group has already cumulative deals to launch dozens some-more unfamiliar satellites. Good news

This is good news for a nation that has mostly faced critique for spending income on a space programme when it has problems like misery and craving to tackle.

AS Kiran Kumar, authority of a state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), says a group is perplexing to make a operations some-more cost-effective.

“We will be means to maximize a earnings by creation use of a additional space accessible in a car while we are rising a satellites we make for a inhabitant requirements,” he says.

India’s ability to launch mixed satellites in a singular goal has also put it on organisation balance in a tellurian market.

Many private companies are building satellites that they need for their operations, yet many can't means to launch these independently. So they need to piggyback on missions from agencies like Isro that have launch facilities.

“The need for launches is flourishing exponentially worldwide, essentially given of new companies that are formulation to launch whole blurb constellations [groups] of satellites, where a singular association competence need to launch anything between 24 to 648 satellites,” says Susmita Mohanty, arch executive of Earth2Orbit, a association that has been assisting negotiate launch deals between India’s space group and private firms. ‘Fairly complex’

Another thing that could be creation India an appealing tender is a magnitude of a launches and a ability to accommodate deadlines.

“So distant we have been means to accommodate a time mandate of a customers,” says Mr Kumar.

India now skeleton to have as many as 12 launches a year, a gait that’s some-more than doubled given 2015.

Still, removing unfamiliar satellites on house is not simple.

“It’s sincerely formidable to get a unfamiliar blurb association to launch on a rocket built by a supervision space agency,’ says Ms Mohanty. “There are regulatory hurdles, contractual, authorised and trade control complications.”

And of march there’s foe too, not usually from other space-faring countries yet also increasingly from private firms like Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

So distant India has usually been rising tiny and light unfamiliar satellites, regulating a PSLV, that has turn a many arguable launch vehicle, with 36 uninterrupted successful launches so far.

“In this weight category there are not too many operators,’ says Mr Kumar.

“In a heavier weight category there are many, for instance Europe’s Ariane rocket has determined itself and from a new lot there is SpaceX, yet even they have not supposing many opportunities for such tiny satellite operators.” Heavy advantage

But rising heavier satellites is where a large income is, that is because many players are even shortening a cost of their rocket launches to bag some-more deals.

India has been rising complicated satellites on a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) yet so distant it has usually been used for domestic satellites.

In new months though, there have been queries from unfamiliar companies for launches on a GSLV.

If India can successfully start holding some-more complicated satellites to space, it could unequivocally glow adult a position in a marketplace that’s value billions of dollars.

2016-09-28 00:00 admin headlinenewstoday.net

62 /100 Noem My Skollie is SA's Oscar entry Cape Town - The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) announced on Tuesday that the feature film, Noem My Skollie , has been nominated as South Africa's official selection to the 89th Annual Academy Awards (Oscars) in the category for Best Foreign Language Film Award.

"We are proud that after a rigorous judging process, Noem My Skollie, is nominated as the official selection for the 89th Annual Academy Awards. This is indicative of the role that the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) plays in empowering, and transforming the film industry by taking South African stories from our streets to the world, " says NFVF CEO Zama Mkosi.

Competition this year for the coveted nomination to represent South Africa was intense. This is a remarkable achievement for Daryne Joshua’s first feature film. To date the film has been seen by over 32 000 people in South Africa.

" Noem My Skollie’s great box office performance has now been crowned with the nomination as South Africa’s entry into the Oscars, we are extremely proud to have been part of getting this amazing film on to SA screens and are excited about the continued potential in our market and on the global stage”, says Mario Dos Santos, Chief Executive Officer, Ster Kinekor Entertainment.

" Noem My Skollie has been a project close to our hearts and M-Net and kykNET are incredibly proud of every single person who has brought this authentic South African story to life,” says Jan du Plessis, Director: M-Net Channels. “What makes it even more special, is that this moving film is the work of a first time director and that the story is rooted in the true-life experiences of the screenwriter. It’s a film the world needs to see.”

The film tells the story of a young man in 1960’s Cape Town who ends up in jail and barters his skills as a storyteller in order to avoid being forced into the number gangs. It is based on the life of the scriptwriter John W. Fredericks who is now 70 years old.

This is a heart-lifting story of redemption that sends the audience on an action filled roller coaster with a massive emotional impact. It is a film that delves with great authenticity into the culture of the coloured people of the Western Cape but it is a film for all South Africans to enjoy regardless of colour, creed or language.

The film is currently on circuit.

See the trailer here: READ NEXT: Noem My Skollie review

2016-09-28 02:18 www.channel24.co.za

63 /100 Popular U. S. chain California Pizza Kitchen opens its first Asutralian restaurant in Perth A popular U. S. pizza chain has made its Australian debut on the shores of Western Australia. Perth businessman Peter Peard, daughter Hannah and business partner Russell Hextall have brought California Pizza Kitchen Down Under. They opened their first restaurant at the Hillarys Boat Harbour on Wednesday, with plans to expand across the country. 'As we were Perth locals, it made sense to us. It's a great starting place for brands, I believe Hungry Jack's and Nando's started here in Perth [when they came to Australia],' Ms Peard told Daily Mail Australia. 'We believe there is a lot of similarities between California and Western Australia - the lifestyle, the coastline and the culture. 'We are opening three in Perth and expanding Australia-wide. 'Our aim is to have stores Australia-wide in five years. Unlike a traditional franchises we're looking to partner with people in different states.' Ms Peard said the restaurant would be bringing the Californian taste but using local produce to emulate the menu. 'Instead of importing the California Pizza Kitchen recipes we will produce them all locally,' she said. 'We go directly to the markets ourselves and source all the produce. 'For instance, in the U. S. they have hearth-roasted halibut but we don't have halibut so we use swordfish... from off the back of Rottnest [Island].' But despite the name, Ms Peard insists California Pizza Kitchen is much more than just pizzas. 'They're 25 per cent of menu. There is lot of seafood and steaks,' she said. 'Australia is really big on our meat and our seafood and we've really taken on that in Australia.' The new restaurant seats about 370 people over 900 square metres.

2016-09-28 02:14 Louise Cheer www.dailymail.co.uk

64 /100 Britney Spears stunsas she performs for crowd at first UK gig in five years She has been wowing audiences in Las Vegas for the last two years. But it was London's chance to witness the pop perfection of Britney Spears as she hit the stage in the capital on Tuesday night. The Toxic superstar performed for a star-studded crowd at the Roundhouse for the Apple Music Festival in what was her first UK gig in over five years. Scroll down for video Hitting the stage to kick off a hits packed set, the mother-of-two looked sensational in a plunging green snake-skin style leotard. She whipped her iconic blonde locks around as she strutted her stuff in a pair of leather thigh-high boots alongside a series of scantily-clad dancers. A string of celebs turned out to witness the star's show, including new dancing Daisy Lowe and Laura Whitmore, who are currently showing off their moves on Strictly Come Dancing. Undoubtedly ready to pick up some tips from the acclaimed performer, Daisy, 27, looked sensational in a faux-fur lined biker jacket while Laura, 31, made a statement in skin-tight leather trousers. Daisy - who topped the leader board with her captivating waltz on Saturday night's episode - donned a sheer lace bralet under her statement outerwear. And opting for comfort, she wore a a pair of skinny blue jeans and converse trainers while tying a printed scarf around her neck for an extra touch of trendiness. Her fiery red lips complemented her porcelain skin, while her brunette mane fell messily beside her. And it was most certainly a mid-week Strictly reunion as her competitor Laura teamed her shaggy outerwear with statement leather trousers and boots. A brown satchel bag was casually slung across her body, while her blonde mane was centre parted and fell slightly past her shoulders. Meanwhile, former Made in Chelsea star Millie Mackintosh looked in high spirits as she attended the event in a chic blazer and barely-there make-up. Rita Ora also turned heads in a unique blue tweed co-ord set which flaunted her enviable legs. Her 'wet look' blonde locks were styled in curves, while her contoured cheekbones complemented her deep plum pout. Stateside singing sensation Bebe Rexha looked pretty in pink in a skin-tight dress, which she teamed with beige thigh-high boots and a matching cap. Georgia May Jagger put on a grunge display with a satin bomber, tiny leather skirt, tights and boots. The model's locks were dip-dyed at the end in different hues of purple. Designer Henry Holland looked typically stylish while Nick Grimshaw flaunted his style credentials in an over-sized camp print shirt. Others at the event were Olly Alexander of Years & Years, Lara Stone and Roxie Nafousi. Britney is performing in association with the Apple Music Festival which sees ten high-profile stars, including the likes of Alicia Keys, Chance The Rapper and Michael Buble, perform intimate shows in London to a small gathering. 2016-09-28 02:11 MailOnline Reporter www.dailymail.co.uk

65 /100 China's Dongbei Special Steel makes revival plan after defaults -newspaper SHANGHAI, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Dongbei Special Steel Group, the struggling Chinese steelmaker, has ironed out a business revival plan, aiming to return to profit and slash leverage ratio in three years' time, the Economic Observer reported on Wednesday, citing unidentified sources. According to the plan, made at an internal meeting on Sept. 20, Dongbei Special Steel aims to make a profit of 300 million yuan ($44.98 million) in 2018 on total revenue of 35 billion yuan, while reducing debt- to-assets ratio to below 60 percent, the newspaper said, without giving comparative figures. Dongbei Special Steel, owned by the Liaoning provincial government in China's northeast rust belt, said on Monday it had defaulted on a one-year bond, marking the firm's ninth default this year. Calls to the company's media department for comment were not answered. Earlier on Wednesday, a Chinese bond supervisory body said the unlisted steelmaker will be penalized for failing to release financial data on time. Dongbei Special Steel is seeking government support for its debt restructuring plans, and will improve its operation, as part of efforts to turn the company into a special steel maker with global competitiveness by 2020, the article said. ($1 = 6.6695 Chinese yuan) (Reporting by Samuel Shen and Nathaniel Taplin; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)

2016-09-28 02:09 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

66 /100 Kim Kardashian covers her curves in long black dress as she chat with Andy Cohen at advertising event She's known for showing off skin in her daring fashion looks. But Kim Kardashian was uncharacteristically demure in a long black dress as she joined Bravo bigwig Andy Cohen to speak at an advertising event in New York City on Tuesday evening. The 35-year-old E! star looked elegant in an ankle-skimming black dress as she was interviewed on stage at the Girls' Lounge dinner, at Pier 60. Kim even hid her famous cleavage beneath a turtle neck, although she was careful to still showcase her curves in the sleeveless outfit at the event, which was about raising the visibility of women in advertising. The 5ft 3in star of Keeping Up With The Kardashians traded her regular towering pair of shoes for chunky snakeskin boots. Her midriff was on show in the draping dress, which gathered around a metallic ring. The beauty was immaculately made-up, with neatly defined brows and contouring emphasising her pretty features. She added a nude lip and wore her glossy chestnut locks loose and in a centre parting. Meanwhile, Housewives mastermind Andy looked sartorially on point in a grey two-piece suit and brown brogues. Kim was without husband Kanye West, who was on stage in Grand Rapids, MI as part of his Saint Pablo Tour. On Saturday he was performing at Taylor Swift's home town of Nashville, Tennessee and played Famous - the controversial track over which he fell out with the country star - three times. Meanwhile Kim took to Snapchat alongside the Bravo host, showing off their outfits as well as some comedy filters.

2016-09-28 02:08 Dailymail.com www.dailymail.co.uk

67 /100 Tribal service deals could help Dakota pipeline impasse -Whiting CEO By Ernest Scheyder SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 28 (Reuters) - The chief executive of North Dakota's largest oil producer, Whiting Petroleum Corp , says the standoff over the $3.7 billion Dakota Access pipeline could be solved by giving economic opportunities, including supply and delivery contracts, to the Standing Rock Sioux and other Native Americans. Thousands of protesters from all over the world have joined with the Sioux to oppose the pipeline, which would transport oil within half a mile of tribal land in North Dakota. Federal regulators temporarily blocked construction of the pipeline earlier this month under the Missouri River, mollifying opponents but irking the fossil fuel industry. The Standing Rock Sioux say the pipeline's construction would destroy tribal burial sites. They also worry that any future leaks would pollute their water supply. Jim Volker, Whiting's CEO, said those concerns would be best addressed through economic opportunities, including contracting with American Indian-owned firms for water hauling and other oilfield service needs across oil-producing regions. "We as an industry like to see them provide those services," Volker said in an interview on the sidelines of the Independent Petroleum Association of America's OGIS conference in San Francisco. "It does provide a better standard of living for them. It does provide a direct tie to the energy business and makes them and their tribal leaders more inclined to want to have more energy development. " When fully connected to existing lines, the 1,100-mile (1,770 km) pipeline would be the first to carry crude oil from the Bakken shale directly to the U. S. Gulf. The project is being built by the Dakota Access subsidiary of Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners LP. Contracts between Native American-owned firms and oil and natural gas producers are not uncommon on reservations. Indeed, the MHA Nation, whose members live on a reservation in western North Dakota where about a third of the state's crude is pumped, requires oil producers operating on their land to contract with American Indian-owned businesses. But the requirement cannot apply outside the reservation's borders and many oil companies, Whiting included, do not have oilfield service and supply contracts with a large number of Indian-owned firms. Dave Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux, said he appreciated the suggestion from Volker, but that his opposition to the pipeline has little to do with economics. "It's going to be very difficult for us to allow this line to come through just because some indigenous- owned company may benefit," Archambault said in an interview. "If this pipeline goes through, we will be the first to pay the cost. " Dakota Access first contacted the Sioux about the pipeline in October 2014 and continued reaching out to the tribe through March 2016, according to a report from the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. Volker, who has worked at Whiting for more than 30 years, said he was sensitive to the tribe's concerns that construction of the Dakota Access pipeline would disturb ancestral burial sites and other historical areas. "I wouldn't want necessarily a pipeline to go through the cemetery where all my relatives are buried," he said. But he added that he expects the situation to be resolved by November. "I'm pretty sure there will be a pretty good resolution to this. " Volker called a move last week by the owners of the Dakota Access pipeline to buy more than 6,000 acres of land adjacent to the line's route a "pretty good move. " Federal oil pipeline regulators do not have authority over private land and cannot block construction on it. "It just increases the odds that things get done," he said. The Dakota Access pipeline would, if finished, help North Dakota oil producers transport their product to refiners and other customers cheaper and faster. Volker said he estimates the pipeline would cut the differential for North Dakota oil - that is, the extra cost needed to get the oil to market due to its distance - from about $8.50 per barrel to around $5.50. Federal regulators are expected to rule soon on whether the pipeline's construction can proceed, though the Standing Rock Sioux and environmental groups have vowed to oppose it. (Editing by Matthew Lewis)

2016-09-28 02:08 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

68 /100 Yeah! let's karaoke! You know in the midst of all the negotiations we have engulfed ourselves in. The battling economic growth, the slowly dismantling in leadership skills in the politics of this county. Some of this is evident through the eruption of the civilian voice through protests by the students, of which is the order of the day and news lately! One needs to take a breather from. One certainly needs to live a little. And what’s the best way to do it other than through music!

The beauty that music affords us is to travel to a place we are not physically at. Music soothes. It consoles. It gives hope. It inspires. It brings you to life by taking you away from all you are going through. It has the power to numb pain. It is a form of escape from reality, to a reality, perhaps, personally envisaged.

One of the best ways to do this is karaoke! Universe bless whoever came up with this idea of karaoke. Once in a while, if not often, everyone ought to go do karaoke! Go sing your heart out! It’s such a beautiful thing. And the best part about it, is that, you don’t even have to be a good singer! You can take your shower vibes there! Lol. It’s not about the next idols vibes! We not trying to discover anyone but you! The vibes are about letting the cat out of the bag! Sort of speak.

And also for the better of it, you finally understand the power of the mic! You finally get to conceptualize the power ‘stars’ have! The big, celebrated human beings who stand there holding the mic. Of course, the talented ones sell millions of records. But that is certainly not the point. The point is you to understand the pleasure you forfeit by not karaoking!

You feel in control when holding the mic. You feel a certain sufficient amount of liberty. Expression at its best. So this spring, don’t deprive yourself of fun. Go karaoke and take a break! I promise, you shall come back to a standstill universe, still asking the same questions! You won’t miss out!

2016-09-28 02:05 www.news24.com

69 /100 What happened to the â​Rainbow Nation?â​ “There are many persons ready to do what is right, because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move – and he in turn, waits for you.” Marian Anderson

Heritage day came and went this past weekend. Did it make you pause, and think about all those amazing humanitarians that fought for years for the rest of South Africa to have a democracy? People who sacrificed their personal freedoms and comforts so that all South Africans could strive for equal opportunity.

Their struggle was for equal OPPORTUNITY – not equal entitlement, that is the very opposite of their struggle. South Africa stood as a shining example of new beginnings and a true rainbow nation. The key though, is opportunity. And each individual has a responsibility to themselves, society and future generations to stand up and grab that opportunity. Not destroy it. Not tear it down. Not trash it in protest against opposition parties – forgetting the fact that the existence of opposition parties representing different cultures, beliefs etc. was the very purpose of the fight for Democracy.

It’s not enough to complain about society - that is made of individuals such as you and I. Every South African has the individual right – and responsibility – to reach out and passionately embrace the opportunities we have. They will not come to you though; you have to go to them. More and more, the world over, governments and economies are failing the people on an astronomical level. But government only has as much power as its citizens, composed of many societies – composed of individuals, like you and I, allow them.

It isn’t the easy option, and an increasing level of fear seems makes it even harder to be an individual that takes the first step forward. Now is the time for the nation to take back the opportunities that so many fought for, and TOGETHER, the people will dictate how a government will operate.

“Be the change in the world you want to see.” – Gandhi I hope we can, South Africa, the beloved nation.

2016-09-28 02:05 www.news24.com

70 /100 Fight at the museum: how George Lucas learned that cultural locations matter Planting a museum in the parkland along Chicago’s waterfront seemed as natural an act, for most of its history, as planting a tree there. That city’s breathtaking waterfront parks are host to the Art Institute of Chicago , the Field Museum, the Shedd Aquarium, and the Museum of Science and Industry – a solid majority of the city’s premier cultural institutions.

It came as little surprise that George Lucas and other backers then chose a lakefront site for his proposed Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Yet in 2016 their proposal prompted fierce opposition and a lawsuit from a local nonprofit group, Friends of the Parks, that eventually sent the museum all the way to California in search of a home.

Less than two months later, the desired location for the Obama Presidential Library was announced – in lakefront Jackson Park. Friends of the Parks won’t be filing a lawsuit against this proposal – but they are once again opposed. Times have changed.

Across the ocean there’s a very different museum shift underway, as the London Design Museum, which opened in 1989 in a former Banana ripening warehouse along the Shad Thames, has just completed a move to the former Commonwealth Foundation building in bustling Kensington. The Design Museum’s director, Deyan Sudjic, said: “When the museum opened on the Thames in 1989, it was a classic piece of dockland dereliction. By the time we left it had come to life as a place where people lived, worked and came to enjoy the riverside setting.”

For all of the dubious attention attracted by the “ Bilbao Effect ” theory – the idea that an iconic cultural structure can rechart a city’s fortunes and public image, as with as Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim – a more prosaic, and arguably more important aspect of museum location has received little attention: not which citya museum is built in, in but where in that city. Locations that would once have seemed inevitable, such as Chicago parkland, are hugely contentious in the 2000s, while locations previously unthinkable in that year – an abandoned lumbermill in Bilbao, or, say, a disused warehouse on the Thames – are now commonplace.

Like any search for a home, these issues often reveal as much about their tenants as about real estate, and the way they have shifted over time sheds considerable light on the evolving character of museums themselves.

The contemporary museum’s antecedents – in the palace and the temple – are clear in the museums along Chicago’s lakefront, all emblematic of City Beautiful trend that pervaded urban planning in the turn-of-the-century United States. There’s hardly an American art museum built during this period that wasn’t neoclassical in style and located in a park or directly adjacent to one; these pastoral quarters were designed to offer contemplative settings and a contemplative remove for the chaos of inner-city commerce.

While these museums had their separate backers and supporters, a real cluster emerged by the 1930s close to the Chicago Loop, an aspirational acropolis officially labeled the “Museum Campus” since 1998.

When George Lucas’s original aim to establish the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in San Francisco’s Presidio fell through, he looked to move into this esteemed neighbourhood. The museum is designed to contain a wide range of materials, both from Lucas’s own cinematic work and his substantial art collection.

The city of Chicago greeted this proposal enthusiastically, with Mayor Rahm Emanuel offering a plot of land near the Chicago Bears stadium, Soldier Field. Its progress was initially easy – the Park District Board approved a 99-year lease , the City Council approved the proposal – but then the museum hit a substantial roadblock rooted in the ambiguous legal status of museums on public land. Friends of the Parks, a Chicago nonprofit group, took rapid objection. As a press release read : “Chicago’s citizens are witnessing an aggressive assault on their public parks, led by the current Administration’s desire to exploit the city’s greatest natural open space assets for development.” They filed a lawsuit in November 2014, claiming the proposal violated public trust laws by granting civic land to a private organisation. The city’s efforts to dismiss the suit failed in February when District Court Judge John Darrah ruled the museum proposal to be “not for the benefit of the public but will impair public interest in the land”.

Amid this impasse, Mayor Emanuel proposed an alternate lakefront location, involving demolishing part of the McCormick Convention Center, but state budget disputes rendered it unviable.

In June, Lucas, tiring of this effort, announced that the museum would no longer be considering Chicago as a location. “No one benefits from [Friends of the Parks] continuing their seemingly unending litigation to protect a parking lot,” he said. “The actions initiated by Friends of Parks and their recent attempts to extract concessions from the city have effectively overridden approvals received from numerous democratically elected bodies of government.”

Museums, and their locations, have changed much in the last century. There has been a turn away from bucolic sites and mock temples. Museums built in the mid-20th century were as likely to turn up in busy town centres, like the and the Whitney in Manhattan, or the Museum of London’s brick-stove-like Barbican location. The notion of a “cultural campus” became a deliberate strategy, animated by the idea that the most logical neighbours of cultural facilities were similarly minded. These grew in Berlin’s Kultuforum, in Fort Worth, in Houston, and countless other locations.

The nature of the museum’s role began to change. G Stanley Hall, a turn-of-the-century psychologist, wrote about American museums in the age of Chicago’s lakefront boom, characterising them as “an esoteric and aesthetic mausoleum of pictures, open on certain days of the week to a few people”. In the age of the rising blockbuster exhibit and substantial efforts to increase ticket sales, museums were recast as mainstream tourist attractions brimming with auditoriums and event spaces, rather than destinations for occasional jaunts for the elite.

Such shifts had a real impact on museum architecture in the burgeoning days of the “starchitect”. The starchitect’s favourite creation was surely the museum, rising out of so many locations in the 80s and 90s. As one eminent among their number, Michael Graves, commented at the Architectural League of New York in 1986: “I think this is a moment in history where we have to realise we’re not just building Kunsthalles or picture galleries. We’re building institutions that have places for discussion, places for study, and a social climate as well as a climate in which to see painting and sculpture.”

The museum as a multimedia complex became commonplace, with theatres, shops, public spaces, obligatory.

There was the early Centre Pompidou in Paris, and soon the crystal-cluster works from the likes of Santiago Calatrava, Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and Zaha Hadid. This age of extravagant construction paradoxically saw a leap in previously unthinkable downmarket repurposing.

The rise of warehouse and other industrial spaces is a fascinating example of established and new museums following the lead of galleries whose occupation of industrial spaces was often a direct response to the fusty confines of traditional museums. Soon museums were seeking a similar edge. The Guggenheim SoHo was a failed initial effort to open a branch in a hip gallery district at almost precisely the point those galleries had been engulfed by luxury shopping. The Whitney relocation from the stuffy Upper East side to the Meatpacking District was a more successful instance of the same gambit, but a remarkable case of a museum chasing rather than attracting the frisson of a neighbourhood.

Several decades into industrial adaptive use, some museums are now leaving those locations they helped repopulate and heading back to city centres. The London Design Museum’s opening in a neglected warehouse area was a bold choice in 1989; now it is simply routine. Over time its surroundings grew vibrant, and its collection too large for its home. Their search for a new home was revealing.

After helping to restore the Shad Thames to a lively condition, they sought a location more easily accessed by public transport and closer to other attractions – but not so close as to be dwarfed by one. As Sudjic commented: “Initially we talked to the Tate about buying a strip of land behind the Turbine Hall, but we were not sure that the 5 million people a year who go to Tate would come and see us on the same visit.” Eventually they settled on a more novel relocation: the traditional fabric of Kensington. It involved another reuse, but instead of a 1940s banana ripening warehouse, it was the 1962 former home of the Commonwealth Institute. The relocation, enabled by a John Pawson renovation , tripled their size, but its significance was greater than simply adding space.

Sudjic continued: “Moving to Kensington does give us synergies with the other museums in the area, and with the Royal College of Art. It’s a chance to grow our audience by offering them more and it will bring life back into what was once a thriving high street. In the 19th century Kensington was the Hoxton of its day, the place successful artists built their studios. In the 1960s it was at the heart of fashionable London.”

The concept of the museum as a standalone destination, magnetic enough to overcome any difficulty in access or absence of nearby attraction, has not quite faded: the Lucas Museum may end up somewhere dramatically remote – an island in San Francisco Bay has been mentioned. Yet imperatives of both city planners and curators have been inclining towards urban convenience, and towards similar neighbours in easily accessible locations, which might well be convenient industrial brownfields or refurbished buildings, high streets, historic lakefronts, or active downtowns. At the same time, in the choppy wake of Bilbaomania a museum cannot always rely on subservient authorities to steamroll opposition: the Obama Library has been more fortunate than the Lucas Museum but the mixed receptions to both have made clear that a new museum will not always be received as a gift-wrapped treasure.

There’s been a continued rise in the clustering of museums across the world, from the Broad Museum’s opening near the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and the Walt Disney Concert Hall, to the rise of the West Bund Cultural Corridor in Shanghai. These districts have often absorbed the lesson of Lincoln Center and other flawed predecessors, taking care that museum districts don’t just contain museums, but a variety of other urban uses. Some hermits persist, but that occasionally unsociable creature of the museum is lately seeking out the one thing it’s spurned in the past: company.

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2016-09-28 02:00 Anthony Paletta www.theguardian.com

71 /100 Hilary Duff reveals she's dating her trainer Jason Walsh She plays fashionable, young book editor Kelsey Peters on popular TV Land series Younger. And Hilary Duff certainly looked the part as she arrived at SiriusXM Studios in New York City on Tuesday to promote the show. The 28-year-old put her best foot forward in a chic outfit which highlighted her toned pins. Hilary wore a long-sleeved, navy blue and white turtleneck top with thumb holes, that she wore tucked into her skirt. The styling showed off Hilary's toned stomach, and she teamed the patterned top with a form-fitting, maroon leather mini skirt. The mother-of-one finished off the trendy look with a pair of chic, black ankle booties, otherwise keeping her accessories simple. She wore her long, blonde tresses in a side part, and styled in soft waves, while showing off bold eye make-up and pink lipstick. The Lizzie McGuire alum was quite the fan of prints on Tuesday, also sporting an eye-catching, fuzzy, animal print jacket as she made way her inside the studios. Hilary also toted a stylish, black leather clutch, looking to be in good spirits as she flashed a wide grin. The outing comes after Hilary all but confirmed her new relationship with her personal trainer, Jason Walsh. Speaking with Rosanna Scotto on Good Day New York , Hilary gushed: 'We’ve known each other for a really long time and he’s a great guy and we have a lot of fun together - it’s nice to have that excitement in my life.' But then the blonde beauty tried to play it coy as Rosanna commented that she was 'back in a relationship, soft of.' Hilary merely threw her hands up in the air, to which the host quipped: 'I could tell, you're bushing - you've got a little something.' She and the trainer had been spotted holding hands as they shopped in the SoHo district on Saturday. Hilary was previously married to retired professional ice hockey player Mike Cromie, with whom she shares four-year-old son Luca. The Younger star and Mike split in January 2014, with Hilary later filing for divorce in February 2015. They had tied the knot in 2010.

2016-09-28 02:00 Kayla Caldwell www.dailymail.co.uk

72 /100 Coca-Cola calls on creatives to help clean up Britain's streets and encourage people to recycle more We've all experienced it – the plastic bag weaving between cars on the road, the crisp packet blowing around in the park, a crumpled aluminum can blemishing a busy high street. Britain has a litter problem.

To help combat what it has called a "blight" on the landscape, Coca-Cola is calling on creatives to help it come up with a behaviour-changing campaign to encourage people to litter less and recycle more as part of The Drum's Do It Day event.

Recognising that soft drinks packaging is too often part of the litter found on the street, the drinks giant wants to create an execution that will inspire consumers into adopting a more environmentally friendly approach.

On November 10, Do it Day will see some of the world's biggest advertisers enlist creative and tech talent from the UK, US and beyond to solve real-world problems in just 24 hours. The ambitious initiative will be preceded by Plan It Day tomorrow (29 September), when creative teams will pitch their ideas to the brands involved and they will in turn decide which concept to attempt in one day at Do it Day.

Liz Lowe, corporate responsibility and sustainability manager at Coca-Cola Great Britain, says the winning project will need to "get consumers to reduce the carbon footprint of the drink they have in their hand and then recycle the packaging afterwards," adding that the group has always been mindful that it has a "big responsibility," around the issue.

"Everyone hates it, it is an absolute blight on the landscape and everyone agrees with that. We want to do our bit to be part getting government, civil society, offices, cities, ordinary people to try and tackle it because I don’t think it’s any one part of society’s issue alone, I think it’s everybody’s issue. "

As part of its Do it Day push, the beverage maker will be looking for creatives to come up with an execution which is engaging, fun and avoids being "finger-wagging" in order to help tidy up the UK’s streets.

A multi-pronged approach

The challenge the brand has set falls in line with Coke's commitment to the development of a 'circular economy', which explores how product materials and packaging can be cycled back into supply chains. A "crucial" part of this, according to Coca-Cola, is improving its recycling rates and encouraging positive behaviour change among its consumers.

Litter has many well-publicised environmental, economic and social costs, and Coca-Cola has noted that some estimates place the price of clearing it up at around £750m per-year to UK taxpayers.

Over the past few years the brand has worked with local authorities, shopping centres, airports and football clubs to introduce recycling facilities. It's also established a presence at big events like the Royal Highland Show, The Rugby World Cup and Hyde Park's British Summer Time to bring an element of "gamification" to the process.

Additionally, the firm collaborates with a range of national groups including Keep Scotland Beautiful and Keep Britain Tidy, of whom it has been an official partner for decades. Thanks to a survey conducted with the former, it found that littering isn't down to a narrowly defined demographic in society, noting that 62 per cent of 45 to 54-year-olds in the north admitted to dropping rubbish. Meanwhile, in partnership with Keep Britain Tidy, it carried out supporting research around trying to understand why younger people litter and found four influencing factors that impacted their decision to drop litter including: personal influence, objects influence, social influence and environmental influence.

So, in order to get consumers to change their ways, Lowe believes that the company will need "a really multifaceted and multi pronged approach. "

"It is a really tough brief because I don’t think anyone has really cracked how can we change people’s behaviour. You need to address it on many, many levels from education and schooling right through people’s lives. "

Another group Coke works closely with is The Hubbub Foundation, which creates quirky sustainability campaigns in order to spark change among consumers.

Lowe points to the organisation's 'Neat Streets' drive as a notable example of how creatives can disrupt and emotionally engage people to alter their behaviour – from placing talking burping and sneezing bins in small neighbourhoods to encouraging individuals to use their chewing gum to create art that reveals messages about the impact of litter.

"We want really fun stuff to engage and disrupt people’s chemistry, I think that’s the direction we would love to see the guys at Plan it Day getting really exited about," Lowe says.

When quizzed on how the unique format of the event will differ from Coca-Cola's usual creative processes, she asserts: "I think the whole idea of Plan It Day and Do it Day means you just get so many brains in one room and so many different perspectives. You don’t know who you’re getting, you don’t know what experience they’ve had and they’ll be coming from entirely different viewpoints within the industry.

"I think that’s really refreshing, just to get people who’ve not worked in our business before coming with a very fresh set of eyes.

"A great idea can come from anywhere. "

Think you've got what it takes to help Coca-Cola devise a behaviour-changing campaign to encourage people to litter less and recycle more? Then sign up for Plan It Day here and help The Drum prove that marketing can change the world.

2016-09-28 02:00 Rebecca Stewart www.thedrum.com

73 /100 Muslim leader who wants a second wife speaks of polygamy heartbreak t’s always very very devastating.' brought to you by a smitten boy who would rather talk to you all night than go, suited, to a dinner uptight ' 'There are ways to deal with it. I didn't have any relationship with those people... I snapped out of it, I became a better person, a stronger person'. 2016-09-28 01:58 Daniel Piotrowski www.dailymail.co.uk

74 /100 Abe Clashes With New Opposition Leader Over BOJ Inflation Policy Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe locked horns with new opposition leader Renho over Bank of Japan policy and his economic program Wednesday, in their first parliamentary standoff since she won a party election two weeks ago.

2016-09-28 01:47 giova article.wn.com

75 /100 Watch Video: Students perform life- threatening stunts on Mumbai local In

spite of numerous warnings stunts on Mumbai local trains carry on unabated. A commuter shot this video while traveling between Bandra-Mahim, in which two students are seen performing dangerous stunts in a CST-bound local train.

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After mid-day got access to the video, it contacted Deputy Commissioner of Police, GRP Deepak Devraj. After going through the video, we will try to identify these students. If they are found to be minor, they will be sent for counselling, or else will take necessary action as per law," he said.

Also Read: Mumbai: RPF 'welcomes' daredevils on trains with garlands

Many youth have lost lives in recent years while performing deadly stunts on Mumbai, while some have had to have their legs amputated.

Video: Youth perform dangerous stunts in women's compartment of Mumbai local

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2016-09-28 01:44 By Suraj www.mid-day.com

76 /100 Shomi, a video streaming service, to shut down as of Nov. 30 Shomi, a video streaming service that was launched in 2014 in Canada and was offered as an alternative to Netflix, is shutting down in November. Shomi made the Rogers ended up spending an estimated $75 million to $105 million on the service. The loss will be booked in the quarter ending on September 30, while Shaw wrote down that it incurred an accounting charge of around $38.5 million for its part in the venture. In a statement A spokesperson for Shomi said that over 19,000 titles and 118 exclusive TV series is available. David Asch, Shomi's senior vice president and general manager, said they were grateful that Canadians invited them into their living rooms and they took them with them on their mobile devices. Asch added that within the last few years, the business climate and online video marketplace have changed and that the business became more challenging to operate than they expected. He said this was why they've decided to close. Rogers is The service, which is backed by Canadian communications companies and , was offered as an add-on for Shaw and Rogers' Internet and cable subscribers. It was also offered as a standalone subscription to others. However, Shomi has not been able to sustain itself, hence the reason for it shutting its doors. Shomi made the announcement that they were closing on its websites. It said that existing customers can continue to use the service until November 30. New customers are not able to register for an account. Rogers ended up spending an estimated $75 million to $105 million on the service. The loss will be booked in the quarter ending on September 30, while Shaw wrote down that it incurred an accounting charge of around $38.5 million for its part in the venture. In a statement released two days ago, Rogers thanked customers who subscribed to Shomi. It added that at the end of November, Shomi will go dark. A spokesperson for Shomi said that over 19,000 titles and 118 exclusive TV series is available. David Asch, Shomi's senior vice president and general manager, said they were grateful that Canadians invited them into their living rooms and they took them with them on their mobile devices. Asch added that within the last few years, the business climate and online video marketplace have changed and that the business became more challenging to operate than they expected. He said this was why they've decided to close. Rogers is expected to reach out to certain customers and offer them various premium experiences that they may be interested in trying.

2016-09-28 01:37 www.digitaljournal.com

77 /100 A place for pastrami in DC: ‘Top Chef’ finalist opens new eatery WASHINGTON — It’s not easy to impress the palates of Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons and the other judges on Bravo’s “Top Chef.” But in the most recent season of the Emmy- winning show, D. C. chef Marjorie Meek-Bradley did just that with one simple dish: milk bread.

“It’s honestly like a mix between a King’s Hawaiian roll and brioche. It’s made with a little bit of brown sugar, which gives it the sweetness, and there’s quite a bit of butter in there,” Meek- Bradley said.

The rolls are then steamed before they’re baked, resulting in a soft and moist texture.

The executive chef at Ripple and Roofers Union whipped out her milk bread recipe a few times while competing on the show, and now she’s making it widely accessible for D. C. diners at her new fast-casual spot, Smoked & Stacked in Shaw.

There, the focus of the menu is pastrami served on milk bread.

Meek-Bradley says the idea for her new concept came to her while she was on “Top Chef.”

“We had a fast-casual challenge and my mind went straight to pastrami and milk bread,” she said.

Only, she had to go with something else since she could not make pastrami in a day. However, when she came back to D. C. after filming Season 13, the opportunity to open an eatery with ownership presented itself, and Meek-Bradley jumped.

“It’s kind of been an adventure, but it’s been really cool. It’s a different side of things than I’ve done before,” she said.

Case-in-point: When I came in for the interview, Meek-Bradley was taking orders and running the cash register after an employee called out sick. At Ripple and Roofers Union, she’s mostly behind-the-scenes.

Pastrami, which is simply brined, smoked and steamed brisket, shows up on the menu in a number of places — from the restaurant’s New Yorker breakfast sandwich (pastrami, fried egg, comté cheese and hot pepper jelly) to its signature Stacked sandwich (pastrami, milk bread, slaw and dijon).

“It’s just a really nice, kind of salty, smoky … it’s a little bit like beef-ham,” Meek-Bradley said about the meat that she cures, smokes and steams in-house.

Meek-Bradley, who lived in New York for a few years, says she wanted to open a pastrami-focused eatery because it’s not easy to find in the D. C. area, compared to her former home.

“I love pastrami, I love breakfast sandwiches, which is the other thing we feature here, and felt like there are not a lot of options in D. C. There are definitely some great ones, but not in this part of town,” she said.

Smoked & Stacked is the latest in a streak of new restaurant openings near the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Buttercream Bakeshop, All Purpose, Espita Mezcaleria, The Dabney and Columbia Room all opened this past year. “I figured if there’s a hole, why not fill it?” Meek-Bradley said about her restaurant’s unique offering.

If pastrami isn’t your thing, there are other options at Smoked & Stacked, such as the Cali Girl (cured salmon, fried egg, avocado and alfalfa sprouts), Something’s Missing (gluten-free bread, scrambled eggs and sautéed greens) and the Chicky Chick (smoked chicken, lettuce, tomato, onion and mayo).

You can definitely catch a glimpse of Meek-Badley working her magic in the kitchen and dining room at Smoked & Stacked, but the odds of seeing her again on “Top Chef” are still up in the air.

“It was such a good experience. There’s a side of me that says, ‘Absolutely not.’ But there’s a side of me that hates to lose,” she said.

Smoked & Stacked is open daily for breakfast and lunch at 1239 9th Street NW.

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2016-09-28 01:34 Rachel Nania wtop.com

78 /100 Political groups seeking coveted millennials vote Many millennials are social activists, but researchers call them political dropouts. They have voted less often than any other generation in modern history. With Tuesday being National Voter Registration Day, coming on the heels of the first presidential debate, there were several events across the Bay Area geared towards the prized voting bloc. At the College of Marin, Nancy Anaya registered but is unhappy that the first time she'll ever cast a ballot, the choices are Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. She says she's not swayed one way or another and that's a challenge for both presidential candidates. There are nearly 76 million millennials, Americans between the ages of 18 and 35. They are a powerful voting bloc. Jack Davis, a senior at Dominican University, watched Monday night's debate and is on campus to encourage his classmates. "It's really important that people take the opinions they have on social media and talking with friends and take it to a vote and make something change for real," he said. ABC7 Political Analyst Carla Marinucci says millennials are the big question mark in this election. "So much is at stake here for the future of America, foreign relations, domestic issues, yet less than half of the millennials eligible to vote are expected to vote in this election," she explained. "Neither party or candidate has been appealing to me so far," said one potential voter. Millennials came out big for Barak Obama. But will they show up this November? At Cal, voter registration was brisk. Monday night's debate was a motivator for Richard Yuh. "I thought both candidates were strong," he said. We'll learn in November if millennials decided to be part of that change. For full election coverage, click here

2016-09-28 01:29 (Copyright abc7news.com

79 /100 More than 9 in 10 people breathe bad air, WHO study says HONG KONG — The World Health Organization said Tuesday that 92 percent of people breathe what it classifies as unhealthy air, in another sign that atmospheric pollution is a significant threat to global public health. ...

2016-09-28 01:29 system article.wn.com

80 /100 Chris Christie laughed at 9/11 memorial when he heard of traffic plaguing Fort Lee, ex-crony testifies in Bridgegate trial, but governor insists he 'had no knowledge' New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was “happy” and “laughed” at a 9/11 memorial event when he learned that gridlock had overwhelmed Fort Lee following its mayor’s refusal to endorse his reelection, his former crony at the Port Authority testified Tuesday.

David Wildstein recalled in Newark Federal Court that he and his boss, Bill Baroni, bragged to the New Jersey governor about their political retaliation scheme during a “relaxed” conversation at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2013 — the third day of the intentional traffic tieups on the George Washington Bridge.

Wildstein has pleaded guilty for his role in implementing the closure of the toll lanes that jammed traffic in the town and is testifying under a cooperation agreement with the feds against Baroni and former Christie staffer Bridget Kelly.

“Governor, there’s a tremendous amount of traffic in Fort Lee this morning,” Wildstein recalled Baroni telling Christie. “You’d be pleased to know Mayor (Mark) Sokolich is very frustrated he can’t get his phone calls returned. Nobody is answering his phone calls.”

Two more Chris Christie cronies knew about Bridgegate plot

Wildstein said Christie replied, “I imagine he wouldn’t be getting his phone calls returned.”

Baroni then told Christie that Wildstein — who used the pseudonym Wally Edge while working as a political blogger — was monitoring the slowdown. “I’m sure Mr. Edge would never do anything political,” Christie said before cracking up, Wildstein said.

The government introduced photos of the trio gabbing at the World Trade Center, smiling and laughing.

Wildstein said he and Baroni were thrilled.

Bridgegate star David Wildstein says he served Christie alone

“This was our one constituent,” Wildstein said, referring to Christie. “I was pleasing my one constituent. I was happy he was happy.”

Kelly had predicted the governor was “going to love it” during preparation of the plan, Wildstein said.

On Tuesday, the Republican governor maintained he knew nothing of the scheme.

“I want to be really clear: I have not and will not say anything different than I’ve been saying since January 2014. No matter what is said up there, I had no knowledge prior to or during these lane realignments,” Christie said, according to The Associated Press.

2016-09-28 01:23 Stephen Rex feeds.nydailynews.com

81 /100 Anthony Vaccarello at Yves Saint Laurent: 1980s Kitsch and Kaboodle The neon YSL suspended from a crane over the inner courtyard of the 17th-century hôtel particulier, like a giant branded moon over a building site, lit the way to the first big show of the last big week of the women’s wear spring season: Anthony Vaccarello ’s debut at Saint Laurent.

Its fluorescent light cast a nightclub glow on the raw concrete arches that lined the walkways, illuminating the worn paving stones and the boarded-up windows and doors of the former-abbey-turned-French-armed- forces-ministry-turned-soon-to-be-YSL- headquarters.

Well, that’s how it goes these days. The present confronts the past and transforms it into the future. Or so one hopes, anyway. It doesn’t always work out like that.

Sometimes the present stumbles over the past and falls flat. Which was it at Saint Laurent?

A purposeful pratfall and a hop to the side. Mr. Vaccarello dove into the YSL of the 1980s for his introductory effort, eschewing the usual tropes of safari suiting, gypsies and Mondrian in favor of the big-shouldered, shirred, asymmetrical, metallic Saint Laurent of the later years (plus some Le Smokings, given a streetwise slant with the sleeves lopped off; transformed into a jumpsuit; or rendered in a slick, square-shouldered tuxedo over skintight denim).

Like many designers of his generation — he is in his mid-30s — Mr. Vaccarello is fascinated by the decade that defined his youth, and he revisited it in a stream of thigh-high, one-shouldered, single-leg-o’-mutton-sleeved, breast-baring dresses in leather, lace, Lurex and leopard spots. Also one Amazon-at-the-disco moment with leather skirt and rhinestone pastie.

This had the advantage of avoiding some of the worst Saint Laurent clichés, and to a certain extent almost seemed to pick up where the last show by his predecessor, Hedi Slimane, left off, albeit in a less stylized, precious way — though Mr. Vaccarello declared ignorance of Mr. Slimane’s work for the brand.

Certainly, he did not take Mr. Slimane’s approach to merchandising the runway, disguising a broad array of options under an attitude of grunge. Instead, he offered one idea, and he offered it a lot. But a disembodied striped sleeve strapped across the torso like evening armor and worn over a white tank top and slouchy black trousers aside, he didn’t refine that idea to the point where it becomes an abstraction: the kind of garment that transcends its own origins to demand reassessment. He just repeated it. Free the nipple can be politics or it can be kitsch. Mr. Vaccarello purposefully made it into the latter.

Speaking before the show, Mr. Vaccarello said he was drawn to the 1980s because that’s the period of YSL that cool girls today source in vintage stores, and then customize and make their own. But there’s a reason those 1980s pieces ended up in resale shops as opposed to preserved for posterity. No joke.

This kind of denatured homage has become something of a rite of passage among new designers at heritage houses. Now that he’s done it, perhaps Mr. Vaccarello, who has a signature way with leather and a quiet conviction, can get past the obvious, start mining the essence and move on.

One designer who could tell him about the importance of learning from your own history is Olivier Theyskens, erstwhile crown prince of Parisian fashion, who after a tumultuous tour through three other brands (Rochas, Nina Ricci and Theory) and some time in the wilderness has returned with his first namesake collection since 2001: older, wiser and the better for it.

His signatures were all there — hook-and-eye closures on fluted leather or python minidresses; fluid jackets; Jane Eyre silhouettes (for governesses at the Hard Rock Academy anyway); boned bustiers and hip-slung trousers; even two ball gowns trailing wisps of gothic romance — but they had the serenity that comes from not needing to be a buzz-making machine anymore. Liberated from place or decade, they were simply good clothes, beautifully made. It was enough.

2016-09-28 01:17 By www.nytimes.com

82 /100 'Dancing with the Stars' announces latest elimination after faceoff week The second elimination from season 23 of "Dancing with the Stars" was announced Tuesday and the couple going home is: Rick Perry and . The former Texas governor had scored just 23 out of 40 in his performance of the Paso Doble, tying him at the bottom with fellow Texan Vanilla Ice. But the rapper was granted immunity, leaving Perry's neck on the chopping block for the elimination show. With six couples granted immunity on Monday, six were in jeopardy in the results show. At the end it came down to the final three: Amber Rose/; Terra Jole/Sasha Farber and Rick/Emma. After the elimination, Perry told host Tom Bergeron that he appeared on the show because he wanted to learn to dance for his daughter's upcoming wedding. "My daughter's getting married the 15th of October, but I can promise you I will look good on the dance floor for you. "He added he also joined the show to promote causes to help veterans, in particular a group he is involved with called Advance the Colors

2016-09-28 01:01 abc7news.com

83 /100 Amber Rose squeaks through on DWTS... as 'messy' ex-governor Rick Perry is voted off It was beauty before age on Monday’s DWTS, as ultra-conservative Texas governor Rick Perry, 66, was voted off. Talk show host Amber Rose, 32, who was also in jeopardy, remained safe. Rick’s elimination was part of a two hour show, in which the couples’ performances from last night were appraised. Amber’s J. Lo-themed ‘Big Booty’ salsa on Monday didn’t win against former Maureen McCormick, 60, but they both remained in the race. Bruno Tonioli said of Amber’s dance: ‘That is not a salsa love’ while Julianne Hough decided it made her feel ‘a little uncomfortable’. Surprisingly Len Goodman quite liked the raunchy routine, but said it was ‘more hip hop than salsa’. Amber, a former stripper, had scored 25 while the former Brady Bunch actress whooped her booty with 28. ‘Amber came out and had a solid performance, it was great, but then Maureen came out and it was a proper salsa, she had underarm turns, great footwork, that’s what gave her immunity,’ said Julianne. Rick had been bottom of the pack for a while, he had failed after a paso doble against 90s rapper Vanilla Ice. The former presidential hopeful had been branded ‘not very artistic’ with his movements by Bruno. Bruno also called it ‘messy’ and ‘too angular’. The two men tied with 23 points but Len gave the round to Vanilla Ice and Witney Carson. ‘It was a much more full on, passionate paso doble,’ he decided. Indycar driver James Hinchcliffe, 29, had danced against another athlete – scandal laden Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte, 32. James had received 29. ‘He seems to have this natural understating of what is required…the footwork could have been better, but overall a very strong performance,’ said Bruno. Bruno said Ryan had ‘stood around’ too much during the dance – which reaped only 25. ‘Cheryl is stunning and he’s not doing anything,’ giggled Bruno. ‘It looked like she was dancing around a lamppost,’ he added. Terra Jolé, the first little person to appear on DWTS, had been praised for her ‘frame’ and ‘head positioning’ by Carrie Ann. Her Viennese Waltz scored 30 but her opponent, NFL star Calvin Johnson won with 32. ‘I was overwhelmed with joy watching Calvin and Lindsay,’ said Julianne. Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez, 16, had scored 31 for her tango with Valentin Chmerkovskiy, 30. ‘Great intensity,’ remarked Carrie Ann. That won her the round against 80’s TV actress Marilu Henner, 64, who scored 28 with . ‘She got nervous, and she stopped breathing and she became brittle,’ said Carrie Ann. The show was prepared by performances from Country duo Georgia Line, who played their lovesong H. O. L. Y. and their most famous hit Cruise. Kenny “Babyface" Edmonds’ jive with Allison Holker was also critiqued. The R&B king’s dance had scored 25: ‘It just needed to be a little bit sharper in the feet and legs,’ remarked Len. The 66-year-old had marginally lost out to country singer Jana Kramer, 32, and former underwear model Gleb Savchenko, 32. ‘Full of sharp kicks and flicks and everything I like to see,’ said Len, as they scored 26. Indy pop band Fitz and the Tantrums also appeared – to play their new single Hand Clap. DWTS vets Maksim and Val also performed a segment from their touring show. DWTS continues next week on ABC.

2016-09-28 00:56 Ross Mcdonagh www.dailymail.co.uk

84 /100 Tyson Foods Inc. recalls some cooked chicken nugget products Tyson Foods Inc., a Sedalia, Mo. establishment, is recalling approximately 132,520 pounds of fully cooked chicken nugget products that may be contaminated with hard plastic. The food was produced on July 18, 2016. The recalled product 5-lb. bag containing “Tyson FULLY COOKED PANKO CHICKEN NUGGETS” has a “Best If Used By” date of July 18, 2017 and case code 2006SDL03 and 2006SDL33.

The 20-lb. bulk packages shipped for institutional use in Pennsylvania, containing “SPARE TIME Fully Cooked, Panko Chicken Nuggets, Nugget Shaped Chicken Breast Pattie Fritters With Rib Meat” with a production date of July 18, 2016 and case code 2006SDL03 are also recalled. The plastic material found by customers is ranged in size from 21mm in length and 6.5mm in diameter and may have come from a round, hard plastic rod used to connect a plastic transfer belt. Plastic is not detectable during production in the factory. Consumers who have purchased these products are urged not to consume them. Consumers with questions about the recall can contact Tyson Foods’ Consumer Relations at (866) 328-3156. Tyson Foods Inc. is the world's largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork., one of the 100 largest companies in the United States.

2016-09-28 00:54 Written by www.roundnews.com

85 /100 Pepe the Frog designated hate symbol by ADL Recent appropriations of him as Adolf Hitler, a Klansman and numerous racist caricatures have earned him a spot in the Anti-Defamation League's database of hate symbols.

"Once again, racists and haters have taken a popular Internet meme and twisted it for their own purposes of spreading bigotry and harassing users," Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO said in a statement. "These anti-Semites have no shame. They are abusing the image of a cartoon character, one that might at first seem appealing, to harass and spread hatred on social media. "

It wasn't always this way for Pepe, who first appeared on the internet in 2005 in artist Matt Furie's "Boy's Club" cartoons.

In 2008, a comic of Pepe with his pants at his ankles while urinating, captioned "feels good, man," spread through online community 4chan, according to KnowYourMeme .

His bemused smirk was made for the internet, and a meme was born.

Pepe was manipulated over time to capture the range of the human experience, including Sad Frog, who was often paired with the phrases" Not Good Man," "Feels Bad Man," or "You Will Never... " to Smug Frog, Angry Pepe, Keith Haring Pepe, even Rare Pepes in the form of trading cards in an effort to cash in on the mania.

A decade later he had solidified his place among "normies" in mainstream internet circles, becoming one of the biggest meme on Tumblr in 2015.

The good times couldn't last.

As the meme proliferated in venues such as 4chan, 8chan and Reddit, criticized as a breeding grounds for all manner of inflammatory imagery, a subset of Pepe memes came into being that centered on racist, anti-Semitic or other bigoted themes, the ADL said.

A "campaign to reclaim Pepe from normies" was underway, an anonymous white nationalist told the Daily Beast in May 2016 ,

The 2016 US presidential campaign exacerbated the phenomena, drawing in Republican nominee Donald Trump.

After Hillary Clinton said most of Trump's supporters were in a "basket of deplorables," Donald Trump Jr. shared an altered version of the movie poster of "The Expendables" on Instagram. It showed Pepe among Trump Senior and other conservative figures labeled "The Deplorables. "

The Clinton campaign fired back with a post, " Donald Trump, Pepe the frog, and white supremacists: an explainer " on why "that cartoon frog is more sinister than you might realize. "

Not all Pepes are sinister, the ADL said.

The designation does not apply to all Pepe memes because most of them are not bigoted in nature, the ADL said.

"The mere fact of posting a Pepe meme does not mean that someone is racist or white supremacist," the group said.

"However, if the meme itself is racist or anti-Semitic in nature, or if it appears in a context containing bigoted or offensive language or symbols, then it may have been used for hateful purposes. "

2016-09-28 00:37 Emanuella Grinberg www.cnn.com

86 /100 'We kissed the whole day': Delta Goodrem talks to Fitzy & Wippa about locking lips in her steamy music video... yet remains tight-lipped about new boyfriend She's the successful Australian singer who has had a string of failed relationships. However, from her chat with Nova's Fitzy & Wippa on Wednesday, it seems Delta Goodrem may have found love with Wallabies star Drew Mitchell. It was the 31-year-old's giggles and obvious discomfort on-air that may have given the secret away. Scroll down for video

2016-09-28 00:34 Kate Hutchinson www.dailymail.co.uk

87 /100 'Recycled Orchestra' turns garbage into gold Festering alongside mountains of stinking trash under the sweltering South American sun, Cateura is a long way from the conservatories of Prague or Vienna. Yet the township which grew out of Paraguay's largest dump is gaining an unlikely reputation as a hothouse for musical talent -- and for its youth orchestra that plays instruments made from discarded rubbish. "The world sends us garbage. We send back music," said Favio Chavez, leader of the "Recycled Orchestra," during a recent visit by the group to Los Angeles. Chavez hit upon the idea of using trash to make music 10 years ago. Orchestra members, impoverished children from Cateura, play violins fashioned from oven trays and guitars made from dessert dishes. One cello is made from an oil barrel with wooden spoons and a stiletto heel for tuning pegs, while a discarded x-ray serves as the skin for a drum. The orchestra provides the youngsters an outlet and an escape, a chance to transcend the squalor of their slum through the music of Mozart, Vivaldi and even Sinatra. "In the beginning, it was difficult to play, but Favio helped me learn over time. From Favio, I have learned to be more responsible and value the things I have," 10-year- old violinist Celeste Fleitas told AFP. Cateura, a shantytown of 40,000 people on the outskirts of the capital Asuncion, is one of the poorest communities in South America. - Gang violence - The destination for more than 1,500 tons (three million pounds) of waste each day, the community has no safe drinking water and little access to electricity or sanitation, so disease is rife. Impoverished slum-dwellers -- many just children themselves -- rummage through the dump on the floodplains of the Paraguay River for scraps they can sell. Illiteracy is rampant, and the children of the township often fall into drugs, gang violence and delinquency. Chavez, a musical prodigy who was directing his church choir by the age of 11, came to Cateura as an environmental technician in 2006 and started a youth music school. He knew shop-bought instruments were beyond the means of villagers whose shacks are worth less than a violin, so he approached carpenter Don "Cola" Gomez to make one out of debris from the dump. It worked, and soon Gomez was manufacturing cellos, guitars and even double basses. The orchestra caught the eye of Paraguayan filmmaker Alejandra Amarilla, the ex-wife of former LA Lakers basketbal player Steve Nash, who began filming the young musicians in 2010. Amarilla uploaded a short clip of the orchestra to YouTube in 2012, hoping to secure crowdfunding for what would become "Landfill Harmonic," a theatrical documentary being released across the US this month. Within days, millions of people around the world had seen the footage, and donations poured in as the youngsters were catapulted onto the world stage. "Landfill Harmonic" follows the children -- many of whom had never left the slum -- as they embark on a tour of the world's music halls, playing for European royalty and even Pope Francis. - 'Brighter future' - Co-director Brad Allgood told AFP he wanted audiences to go away feeling inspired and motivated by Chavez's idea that you have to be dedicated, willing to work hard and be a team player. "There is one line in the film that stands out for me, which is where he says 'To have nothing is not an excuse to do nothing'," the Los Angeles-based director told AFP. The orchestra has opened for heavy metal group Metallica, jammed with Stevie Wonder and Megadeth and spawned copycat projects across the world. Toby Armoa, 15, has been a member for four years, practicing his saxophone fashioned from a drainpipe, bottle tops and coins for two hours every day. "The community has changed a lot, because now kids are thinking about finishing school and staying away from drugs. Now they want to have a brighter future," he told AFP. The "Recycled Orchestra," which is building a music school in Cateura, has given the community a newfound respect for the importance of education and the sanctity of childhood. "Before, kids would stop studying or they'd have to go to work but now education has become an important aspect of the community," Chavez said during the orchestra's Los Angeles trip. "They may have fallen into drugs or other vices if this opportunity had not been there," he added. "Music is a powerful force not only for the musicians. It unites people. It transcends linguistic barriers. "

2016-09-28 00:30 Afp www.dailymail.co.uk

88 /100 Saudi Arabia-Iran rivalry the stumbling block for an oil deal, analysts say Longstanding tensions between Middle Eastern rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran will hold OPEC back from an oil production freeze as the oil group meets in Algeria Wednesday, analysts said, underscoring geopolitical complexities within the group.

The meeting comes at a crucial juncture for oil prices that have witnessed a pronounced downturn amid an economic slowdown, excess supply from traditional producers as well as competition from shale producers in the U. S. A section of the market has hoped for a compromise between Saudi Arabia and Iran although conflicting objectives will likely ensure barriers to any agreement are high.

"The relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran are just so, so poor I can't see any scenario under which Saudi Arabia would cut without Iran freezing and Iran has said so consistently that they just will not freeze until they reach pre-sanctions levels," BMI Research 's oil and gas analyst, Emma Richards, told CNBC recently.

Iran is producing 3.6 million barrels of crude oil a day —under its 4 million barrels a day target, making it OPEC's third largest oil producer after Saudi and Iraq.

The two countries, contended BMI Research, were vying for religious and regional political hegemony, facing each other through proxy conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon and Bahrain.

"We're talking about a long-term i.e. 1,400-year chasm between the Sunni side and the Shia side. OPEC has only been around for 60 years so what we're looking at now is the greatest chasm between the Sunni side of OPEC and the Shia side of OPEC," Stephen Schork, Editor of the Schork report told CNBC's " Squawk Box ".

With Saudi's economy under siege from the prolonged slump in oil prices, there was no reason why the oil giant would cede market share if Iran did not commit to a compromise, said Schork.

This was particularly true as a newly-emboldened Iran that was fresh out of sanctions "has some pretty aggressive hegemonic designs over the region," Schork said.

Oil prices were flat on Wednesday in Asia after falling in the last session after Saudi Arabia dashed hopes of a deal this time. Benchmark U. S. crude oil was trading around $44.65 a barrel while European Brent was around $46 a barrel midday in Asia.

After mixed signals by various countries in the weeks leading up to the meeting, Saudi energy minister Khalid al-Falih al- Falih finally doused expectations of a deal on Tuesday when he said differences in opinions between OPEC countries were narrowing but that he didn't expect an agreement from the meetings on Wednesday.

Most analysts were already expecting as much, shrugging off the next OPEC meet as nothing more than rhetoric. A CNBC oil survey found 65 percent of respondents saying no OPEC agreement was likely.

"We are always a little skeptical of announcements like these. There has been a consistent pattern over the last few months of OPEC ministers attempting to 'talk up' prices with comments about a potential output freeze deal being close. But historically most of these comments have proved to be unfounded," wrote Capital Economics economist Simon Macadam in a note published on Monday.

There may still be an upside nonetheless, should a surprise deal come about, which would be a boost to prices.

Fifty-two percent of respondent in CNBC's survey said if producers could strike a deal, there would be a meaningful effect on crude prices.

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2016-09-28 00:27 Huileng Tan www.cnbc.com

89 /100 Meg Ryan and Logan Paul discuss how celebrity-brand collaborations have evolved over the years During a panel at Advertising Week New York, actress Meg Ryan and social media star Logan Paul discussed how celebrity-brand tie-ups have evolved over the years and what the implications are for marketers.

Paul, whose wacky videos have garnered him more than 9m followers on Vine, millions of YouTube views and 6.5m Instagram followers, has worked with a number of big brands since entering the spotlight roughly three years ago. He starred in a campaign for Hanes in 2014, and last year fronted a social campaign for Dunkin’ Donuts to promote the coffee chain’s app. Recently, he partnered with Bic Razors for the brand’s ‘#SmoothUp’ campaign.

He also submitted a video called ‘ Paranormal Snacktivity ’ to Doritos’ ‘Crash The Super Bowl’ contest last year, and while the video didn’t end up winning, the ad has more than one million views on YouTube.

During the panel, Paul told the audience that every single piece of branded content he has done has “demolished,” which he joked has led him to employ a “hard to get” strategy when it comes to working with brands since so many have reached out to him.

“They’ve got to align with my goals as an entertainer and also my voice,” he said. “As long as brands just trust me and let me do my thing, [they] will get the views and the exposure. If I’m organic and I can grow as a creator because of my branded content, that’s amazing.”

Commenting on today’s frenzied ad landscape where brands are employing everyone from A-list celebrities to up-and- coming influencers to star in campaigns, Ryan said that the deals of today are a far cry from what she experienced when she first became famous in the ‘80s and ‘90s.

“When I first started out, you wouldn’t be caught dead doing a commercial in America. So it’s a radical difference. This is such a new world for me,” she said, adding that in the ‘90s, actors were accused of being sell-outs if they went to a country like Japan to star in a commercial.

While Paul said that having to include things like ‘#ad’ in sponsored posts can be a red flag for some of his fans, he said the awkwardness surrounding that issue can be overcome if followers feel as though the videos are still authentic despite being branded.

"It's rough cause it is sort of a turn-off," he said. "But you can get over that. If your content is good, then you’re fine. "

2016-09-28 00:24 Minda Smiley www.thedrum.com

90 /100 Barra, Ford, Snyder, Duggan to address mobility forum "New mobility. " Few phrases are as vague, undefined, a little threatening and overused by auto executives.

For the next two days, political leaders, General Motors CEO Mary Barra, Ford Chairman Bill Ford, transportation ministers and urban visionaries will convene at the World Mobility Leadership Forum at the Westin Metropolitan Airport. They will exchange views, experiences and ideas that could put some meat on this conceptual skeleton.

Gov. Rick Snyder and Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan are to lay out reasons why more of the development and deployment of autonomous and connected vehicles should happen here.

While most suburban and rural residents won't be abandoning their cars, SUVs and pickup trucks in the next decade, those living in large cities will have more choices that will make it easier to get around without a personal vehicle.

In July Uber gave customers 62 million rides, while Lyft drivers completed 14 million rides.

John Zimmer, cofounder and president of Lyft, recently estimated that by 2021 over half the rides Lyft provides will be on autonomous vehicles.

But the heaviest use of these services comes in cities like New York, Boston, Washington, D. C., San Francisco and Chicago, where there are high concentrations of people between 20 and 35 packed in high-density city neighborhoods.

What about metro Detroit?

"Our volume of rides in the Detroit area has grown tenfold in the last year," said Emily Castor, director of transportation policy at Lyft and one of Wednesday's speakers. "Lyft is more successful in low-density cities like Detroit and Phoenix. "

But one of the objectives of conferences like this is to find ways to integrate ride-sharing, bicycling, public transportation and private car ownership into a more efficient and cost-effective transportation system.

It's known as the "first mile/last mile" problem. If people don't have any other way than walking from home to a business or subway station, or from work to that station, they more likely will choose to drive and bear the cost of parking.

"For example, earlier this year we started a pilot program in Centennial, Colo., a suburb south of Denver, where the city subsidizes all Lyft rides within a limited radius of Denver’s new light-rail system," Castor said. "We believe that over time the city of Centennial will find that subsidizing those rides will cost a lot less than paying for a fleet of buses that may only be fully occupied for a small fraction of the day. "

She did not offer specifics when asked how close Lyft is to deploying fully autonomous vehicles in its service fleet. This month, Uber began using 20 autonomous Ford Fusion hybrids on a limited number of routes in Pittsburgh.

Lyft has worked with General Motors, which owns about 9% of the ride-sharing company, and Cruise Automation, which GM also acquired this past spring, testing a small number of self-driving Chevrolet Bolt EVs in San Francisco and Scottsdale, Ariz.

2016-09-28 00:18 Greg Gardner rssfeeds.freep.com

91 /100 Chrissy Teigen beams as daughter Luna wears a chef hat in sweet Instagram photo Her deep love of cooking has been well-documented, especially in her best-selling cookbook Cravings. So on Tuesday, model Chrissy Teigen couldn't help but smile proudly at seeing five-month-old daughter Luna sporting a chef hat. The 30-year-old was simply beaming as she looked down at her baby girl, captioning the picture: 'I have dreamed of this day!' Chrissy dressed casually in the picture, sporting a long-sleeved, black T-shirt, with the sleeves rolled up to just below her elbows. She coupled the top with light wash jeans, sporting her long, caramel tresses pulled back into a sophisticated bun. Her little bundle of joy wore a ruffled, pastel-colored dress, along with the unbelievably cute chef hat. Chrissy gazed down at her little girl in the shot, while standing in front of a cast iron skillet on the stove in the kitchen. A collection of cookbooks as well as glasses and a spread for fondue could be seen in the background of the sweet snap. Chrissy has long gushed about her love of cooking, sharing photos on her blog and social media, and penning a bestselling cookbook. Gifts for the model even come themed to that passion, with Chrissy freaking out back in December when husband John Legend surprised her with a massive, Parmesan cheese wheel for table-side serving (priced upwards of $1,000). And husband John gets in on the cooking fun as well, with Chrissy featuring some recipes of his in the book, such as his breakfast sandwiches. The happy couple, who tied the knot in September 2013, welcomed daughter Luna Simone - their first child together - in April of this year. The couple were spotted on Tuesday night catching a departing flight at Los Angeles International Airport. Chrissy looked runway ready in black skinny jeans with ripped knees, tall black boots and a long black coat over a dark grey crewneck shirt. John got the memo and also was dressed in black with matching T-shirt, leather jacket, jeans and sneakers.

2016-09-28 00:16 Kayla Caldwell www.dailymail.co.uk

92 /100 The American Spectator On the matter of the debate the other night, tell the truth. Admit it. You were underwhelmed. Somewhere inside of your cranium you did not get the spectacle you anticipated. I understand.

After Hillary’s coughing spells, after her wobbly display at the 9/11 ceremony in New York City (she almost fell face forward on the running board of her van), after her admission to pneumonia and all the rumors that admission gave rise to, you had expected something highly dramatic. Perhaps the COUGH would return. Perhaps she might pass out under Donald Trump’s relentless barbs, possibly to be wheeled out on a gurney. Or perhaps you thought Donald might explode or go into a wild rant. Well, it did not happen. Both debaters pretty much played to form. Both were highly disciplined, one being a billionaire who has made it mostly on his own and the other having survived in public life for at least 45 years with no jail time.

Some observers thought Hillary won. Over at CNN Anderson Cooper’s panel of experts — it seems they have thirty or forty on stage at any given time — were exultant for Hillary, though there were the usual two holdouts, the indispensable Jeffrey Lord and Kayleigh McEnany. Also CNN’s pollsters came up with similar findings, 62 percent for Hillary and 27 percent for Donald. Though the rest of the polls nationwide and in the battleground states found for Donald. At CNN both those on stage and those polled seem to confuse the workings of their hearts with the workings of their brains, perhaps even the workings of their gall bladders. Certainly those observers who rely on their brains noted early on that Donald had things under control. As he has done for weeks he was talking directly to the American public through he awkward stage prop of Hillary. He would start up the economy from its measly growth rate of barely 2 percent. He would get Americans working again. He would tear up trade agreements that favor crony capitalists and foreign governments. He would prevent companies from leaving America unscathed. Hillary had been a part of this system for decades. She was a standpatter and defender of the status quo. She had revealed bad judgment.

Hillary’s response was that Donald had used bad language in public, lacked the proper “temperament” to be president, and favored the rich whom she would hit with higher taxes to pay for her giveaways. That last line about the rich is a bit much given the fact that Hillary is the creature of Wall Street, Hollywood, and large donations. Whereas Donald relies on mostly modest donations. Oh, yes, and her needling him on his “temperament” — who was the last presidential candidate to be attacked for his temperament? Does the name Ronald Reagan come to mind?

In these early exchanges the other night Hillary spoke of her experience, of her knowledge of the system, of her years as a professional politician. That was not wise when you think of the audience beyond the stage in Hempstead, New York that thinks the country “is on the wrong track.” The majority of those voters want change and increasingly Donald is their candidate.

Perhaps Hillary did not notice it because Donald talks like an ordinary American rather than a standard-issue politician, but he was talking to America and she was talking to official Washington. Official Washington claimed he “missed opportunities.” He could have done more with the Wall, Obamacare in free-fall, immigration and immigrant criminals, terrorism, and Benghazi. He should have done more with her errant emails, the Clinton Foundation, her mishandling of classified documents. He could have cited her lies to Congress, the FBI, and how FBI Director James Comey has contradicted her on her lies.

Well, let me say as a fellow who is himself preparing to debate these very issues October 18th in London before the Spectator of London’s forum, you cannot overwhelm your audience. You cannot bring your audience to confusion. You can only give them so much to think about. For September Donald gave his audience quite enough. There are two more debates for him to outline the full case against Hillary. As for Hillary she has made her case. She has more experience governing than Donald. Another way of putting it is she is part of the problem. America is, as the pollsters say, on the wrong track.

The other night Donald Trump appeared to be every inch a president.

2016-09-28 10:28 R. spectator.org

93 /100 Miranda Kerr looks stunning as she arrives in LA after spending time at Milan Fashion Week She had just stepped off a long haul flight from Europe. But Miranda Kerr looked absolutely stunning on Tuesday as she arrived in Los Angeles. The 33-year-old showed no signs of fatigue as she made her way through the airport, flashing her toned tummy in the process. Scroll down for video Miranda was sporting a black and silver ruffled blouse which exposed a sliver of her flat stomach, teamed with skinny jeans. The model also wore chunky heeled black boots, a matching choker necklace and a simple belt. Miranda pulled her chestnut brown hair into a sleek ponytail and finished off her glamorous airport look with coral lipstick and large sunglasses. The previous day, the Australian beauty had been putting on a dazzling display at Milan Fashion Week. Miranda turned every head as she showed off two gorgeous plunging dresses at the Koradior show. It had been a whirlwind trip for the former Victoria's Secret Angel, who had arrived in Italy just that morning. Miranda has had continued success in the modelling industry since parting ways with the lingerie giant in 2013. However she recently admitted that she never expected to become a catwalk queen. 'It's kind of weird - I never took modelling very seriously,' she said during an interview with Stellar magazine . 'I never really had that desire to be a model.' 'I am very content with just having one, but I am definitely open to the possibility of having more.'

2016-09-28 00:13 Iona Kirby www.dailymail.co.uk

94 /100 Tom Holland leaps on top of a car as he throws himself into filming Spider- Man Meet the new king of Queens: Tom Holland. The 20-year-old was snapped in costume on the set of Spider-Man: Homecoming, as cameras rolled on next summer's highly-anticipated superhero film in the New York borough on Tuesday. And while Holland was a long way from his native London, he couldn't have been more comfortable, even snapping selfies from Gotham which he subsequently posted to his Instagram page. Scroll down for video 'First night in Queens and it feels like home already,' said the up-and-coming star - who emerged from an initial pool of 1,500 hopefuls to play Peter Parker and his web-slinging alter ego. On Tuesday, the emerging talent was busy at work filming, including a scene in which he was perched atop a car fighting off a foe. During breaks in shooting, the actor was seen removing his mask and relaxing in a chair. He probably needed every bit of rest he could get after a grueling Monday that consisted of a physical shoot on the streets of New York City. Holland is in the Big Apple after the Marvel production on Friday migrated north from Georgia, where he was filming the expected blockbuster for much of the summer at Pinewood Studios. Perhaps the most telling incident in Peach State - about Holland and his ability to handle great power and great responsibility - didn't even come while cameras were rolling on the film, but rather a children's hospital the actor visited while in his superhero costume. Holland showed off a shot from his visit on his Instagram page, in which he was posed alongside a little boy, along with a sweet message to the young patients at the facility. 'Meeting you all today was such a wonderful experience and you’re all such little inspirations,' the rising star wrote. 'We’re proud of you and we hope to be back soon and thank you for having us Egleston Children’s Hospital.' With the coveted silver screen persona, Holland - who first donned the blue and red suit in Captain America: Civil War - is the latest member of a webbed fraternity that also includes Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield and Nicholas Hammond. The Jon Watts-directed film, which co-stars Robert Downey Jr., Michael Keaton, Zendaya and Marisa Tomei, hits theaters July 17, 2017.

2016-09-28 00:13 Daily Mail www.dailymail.co.uk

95 /100 Constance Siaflas deletes ALL pics of Salim Mehajer They were rumoured to have been dating after she attended his sister's wedding last month. Now it seems there may be trouble in paradise for Constance Siaflas and Salim Mehajer. Earlier this week, the Kim Kardashian look-a-like deleted all social media images of the former Auburn deputy mayor while also unfollowing him on Instagram. Scroll down for video The unusual move comes after Salim shared a throwback image of himself and his estranged wife, Aysha Learmonth, which he captioned the post with an emoji with large love hearts in its eyes. Two weeks ago, Constance shared a cryptic post to her Instagram account, as she gave either herself or her followers some advice on how to achieve happiness. 'Everyday is a new day,' she began the caption, adding: 'Make it count. Don't look at how many steps there are to climb. 'Look at why your climbing, and what you are climbing for. I hope you make it to the top (sic),' she concluded, while including the hashtag 'Be happy for others'. Around the same time, Salim shared a short video and flashback photo of his younger self posing with his former partner. Despite the regular posts in relation to Aysha, it is not know whether the pair have rekindled their relationship. Salim recently visited a neurosurgeon at the Royal North Shore hospital to undergo back surgery. The couple married in August 2015 in a self-proclaimed 'wedding of the century', amid much fanfare and controversy. The pair have been estranged for the past few months, amid claims Aysha packed her bags and left the couple's mansion in Lidcombe, Western Sydney, in March to stay with family in the NSW Illawarra region. Following their alleged split, a nine-month order was taken out by police on Aysha and her brother-in-law Ben Miller's behalf. Salim is now able to speak to Aysha and approach her, after the apprehended violence order taken out on her and her brother-in- law's behalf was changed. The controversial property developer is also not allowed to walk into an address in Sydney the beautician often goes to. This order also applies to his contact with Ben and Ben is to stay at least 100 metres away from his home in the Illawarra area.

2016-09-28 00:08 Bianca La www.dailymail.co.uk

96 /100 Smokin' Calendar Features French Firefighters Posing For Charity This will get you fired up for a cause. Some very shirtless firefighters from France got their Zoolander on for Le Calendrier Des Pompiers 2017, or The Calendar of Firefighters 2017, which w...

2016-09-28 00:08 system article.wn.com

97 /100 Tickets on sale Sept. 29-Oct. 5: Concerts and more

Most tickets available at www.ticketmaster.com, www.livenation.com, www.aeglive.com or www.ticketweb.com. Additional charges might apply.

Vanessa Williams: 8 p.m. March 9, MotorCity Casino, $35-$70.

SPSC Boo Bash with the Killer Flamingos: 8 p.m. Oct. 28, Royal Oak Music Theatre, $32-$37.

Partynextdoor & Jeremih: 7 p.m. Nov 27, the Fillmore Detroit, $29.50-$64.

The Head and the Heart, Band of Horses and the Strumbellas: 6 p.m. Dec. 1, the Fillmore Detroit, $35-$65.

Joel McHale: 8 p.m. Dec. 3, MGM Grand Detroit Event Center, $59.50-$69.50.

Rubblebucket: 8 p.m. Dec. 7, the Shelter, $15.

Mindless Behavior: 7 p.m. Dec. 10, the Fillmore Detroit, $30-$50.

“The Nutcracker”: 7 p.m. Dec. 10, Michigan Theater, $45.

Joe Louis Walker: 7 p.m Jan. 7, the Magic Bag, $25.

Panic! At the Disco with Misterwives and Saint Motel: 7 p.m. March 10, Palace of Auburn Hills, $29.50-$59.50

Daya: 6:30 p.m. March 28, the Shelter, $20.

Sebastian Maniscalco: 7 p.m. May 19, Fox Theatre, $39.75-$59.75.

Glykeria with Kostas Karafotis: 7 p.m. Nov 20, Motor City Casino: $60-$100.

Kacey Musgraves: Nov. 26, Caesar’s Windsor, $25 Canadian and up.

2016-09-28 00:07 Compiled by rssfeeds.freep.com

98 /100 The World's Most Innovative Universities - 2016 By David Ewalt Sept. 28 (Reuters) - In the fast-changing world of science and technology, if you're not innovating, you're falling behind. That's one of the key findings of The Reuters 100: The World's Most Innovative Universities. Now in its second year, the list ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and help drive the global economy. Unlike other rankings that often rely entirely or in part on subjective surveys, Reuters relies exclusively on empirical data such as patent filings and research paper citations. Our 2016 results show that big breakthroughs - even just one highly influential paper or patent - can drive a university way up the list, but when that discovery fades into the past, so does its ranking. According to our findings, consistency is key, with truly innovative institutions putting out groundbreaking work year after year. No university does that better than Stanford University, which once again tops the Reuters 100. Decade after decade, Stanford's students and faculty consistently innovate. Companies founded by Stanford alumni - including Hewlett Packard and Google - have not only become household names, but have upended existing industries and been the cornerstone of entirely new economies. A 2012 study by the university estimated that all the companies formed by Stanford entrepreneurs generate $2.7 trillion in annual revenue, which would be equivalent to the 10th largest economy in the world. Stanford held fast to its first place ranking by consistently producing new patents and papers that influence researchers elsewhere in academia and in private industry. Those are key criteria in the ranking of the world's most innovative universities, which was compiled with data from the Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters. It's based on a methodology that focuses on academic papers (which indicate basic research performed at a university) and patent filings (which point to an institution's interest in commercializing its discoveries). The three highest-ranked universities on our list share Stanford's record of consistent innovation. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (ranked #2) were behind some of the most important innovations of the past century, including the development of digital computers and the completion of the Human Genome Project. Harvard University (ranked #3), is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and has produced 47 Nobel laureates over the course of its 380-year history. But look further down the list and it's clear that innovation is a fickle thing. Take the case of Carnegie Mellon University, a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When Reuters published its inaugural ranking of the world's most innovative universities in September 2015, CMU ranked #56. But in 2016 the university fell out of the top 100. How did such a big change occur? The high quality of a Carnegie Mellon education hasn't changed: It's still regarded as one of the top universities in the United States, and its computer science program is often considered the best in the world. But in 2015 CMU's ranking got a big boost from a few blockbuster patents that are now more than a decade old. One such patent, which described new biocompatible polymers that can be used in human patients for applications such as wound repair, was frequently cited by outside researchers as "prior art" in their own patent applications. It received 27 citations in 2008, more than any other CMU patent that year. But in subsequent years its influence dropped. Since Reuters' methodology only considers citations within a recent window of time, the 2016 ranking no longer includes this patent from 2008 and citations to it - and as a result CMU's big discovery doesn't have the same effect on its score. The university didn't do anything wrong to cause it to drop off the list, that's just the nature of innovation. One discovery can cause a sudden leap forward, and have an outsized impact on the world. Meanwhile, some universities saw significant movement in the other direction, including, most notably, the University of Chicago, which jumped from #71 last year to #47 in 2016. Other list-climbers include the Netherlands' Delft University of Technology (#73 to #44) and South Korea's Sungkyunkwan University (#66 to #46). While individual universities move up and down the ranking, the regional breakdown remains largely the same year over year. The United States continues to dominate the list, with 46 universities in the top 100; Japan is once again the second best performing country, with nine universities. France and South Korea are tied in third, each with eight. Germany has seven ranked universities; the United Kingdom has five; Switzerland, Belgium and Israel have three; Denmark, China and Canada have two; and the Netherlands and Singapore each have one. The highest ranked university outside the U. S. is the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, or KAIST, ranked #6. (KAIST placed first on Reuters' recently published list of Asia's Most Innovative Universities. Click here for details: (http://reut.rs/2doAoNP)). Established in 1971 by the Korean government, KAIST was modeled after engineering schools in the United States, and initially funded with a multimillion-dollar loan from the United States Agency for International Development. Most major courses are taught in English, and the university maintains strong links to the U. S. academic community. The most innovative university in Europe is KU Leuven, ranked #9, a Dutch-speaking school based in Belgium's Flanders region. Founded in 1425 by Pope Martin V, it is the world's oldest Catholic university, but its modern mission is comprehensive and advanced scientific research, and it operates autonomously from the church. To compile its ranking of the world's most innovative universities, the IP & Science division of Thomson Reuters began by identifying more than 600 global organizations - including educational institutions, nonprofit charities and government-funded labs - that publish the most academic research. Then they evaluated each candidate on 10 different metrics and ranked them based on their performance. (Click here(http://reut.rs/2dphIc7) for the full methodology.) Careful observers might note a few differences between how non-U. S. schools ranked on Reuters' regional innovation lists, Asia's Most Innovative Universities and Europe's Most Innovative Universities (http://reut.rs/2d6nMc1), and how they rank on the global innovators list. An institution's relative ranking may change from list to list, since each ranking is dependent on summarizing 10 indicators and comparing that with others in a specific population; when that population changes, individual rankings might change as well. Furthermore, the global list is restricted to institutions that filed 70 or more patents with the World Intellectual Property Organization during the five-year period examined by Thomson Reuters. The cutoff for regional lists is just 50 patents, allowing a more in-depth view of the most active institutions within a limited geographic area. Of course, the relative ranking of any university - or whether it appears on the list at all - does not provide a complete picture of whether its researchers are doing important, innovative work. Since the ranking measures innovation on an institutional level, it may overlook particularly innovative departments or programs: a university might rank low for overall innovation but still operate one of the world's best medical schools, for instance. And it's important to remember that whether a university ranks at the top or the bottom of the list, it's still within the top 100 on the planet. All of these universities produce original research, create useful technology and stimulate the global economy. (Editing by Arlyn Tobias Gajilan and Alessandra Rafferty)

2016-09-28 00:02 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

99 /100 Today in History Today in History

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 28, the 272nd day of 2016. There are 94 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Sept. 28, 1066, William the Conqueror invaded England to claim the English throne.

On this date:

In 1542, Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrived at present-day San Diego.

In 1787, the Congress of the Confederation voted to send the just-completed Constitution of the United States to state legislatures for their approval.

In 1850, flogging was abolished as a form of punishment in the U. S. Navy.

In 1914, the First Battle of the Aisne (AYN) during World War I ended inconclusively.

In 1928, Scottish medical researcher Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the first effective antibiotic.

In 1939, during World War II, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a treaty calling for the partitioning of Poland, which the two countries had invaded.

In 1958, voters in the African country of Guinea overwhelmingly favored independence from France.

In 1967, Walter E. Washington was sworn in as the first mayor-commissioner of the District of Columbia.

In 1976, Muhammad Ali kept his world heavyweight boxing championship with a close 15-round decision over Ken Norton at New York's Yankee Stadium.

In 1989, deposed Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos died in exile in Hawaii at age 72.

In 1991, jazz great Miles Davis died in Santa Monica, California, at age 65.

In 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat signed an accord at the White House ending Israel's military occupation of West Bank cities and laying the foundation for a Palestinian state.

Ten years ago: Al-Qaida in Iraq's leader, in a chilling audiotape, called for nuclear scientists to join his group's holy war and urged insurgents to kidnap Westerners so they could be traded for a blind Egyptian sheik serving a life sentence in a U. S. prison.

Five years ago: The Obama administration formally appealed a federal appeals court ruling striking down a key provision of President Barack Obama's health care law requiring Americans to buy health insurance or pay a penalty. (The U. S. Supreme Court later upheld the individual mandate.)

One year ago: President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin, meeting at the United Nations, agreed to discuss a political transition in Syria but remained at odds about what that would mean for Syria leader Bashar Assad's future. Former prison worker Joyce Mitchell, who'd helped two murderers escape from a maximum-security lockup, said she regretted her "horrible mistake" as she was sentenced in Plattsburgh, New York, to up to seven years behind bars. Trevor Noah debuted as host of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central. Catherine E. Coulson, 71, an actress best known as the quirky Log Lady in the TV series "Twin Peaks," died in Ashland, Oregon. Frankie Ford, 76, a rock 'n' roll and rhythm and blues singer whose 1959 hit "Sea Cruise" brought him international fame at age 19, died in Jefferson Paris, Louisiana.

Today's Birthdays: Actress Brigitte Bardot is 82. Actor Joel Higgins is 73. Singer Helen Shapiro is 70. Movie writer- director-actor John Sayles is 66. Rock musician George Lynch is 62. Zydeco singer-musician C. J. Chenier (sheh-NEER') is 59. Actor Steve Hytner is 57. Actress-comedian Janeane Garofalo (juh-NEEN' guh-RAH'-fuh-loh) is 52. Country singer Matt King is 50. Actress Mira Sorvino is 49. TV personality/singer Moon Zappa is 49. Actress-model Carre Otis is 48. Actress Naomi Watts is 48. Country singer Karen Fairchild (Little Big Town) is 47. Country musician Chuck Crawford is 43. Country singer Mandy Barnett is 41. Rapper Young Jeezy is 39. World Golf Hall of Famer Se Ri Pak is 39. Actor Peter Cambor is 38. Writer-producer-director-actor Bam Margera is 37. Actress Melissa Claire Egan is 35. Actress Jerrika Hinton is 35. Neo-soul musician Luke Mossman (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats ) is 35. Pop-rock singer St. Vincent is 34. Rock musician Daniel Platzman (Imagine Dragons) is 30. Actress Hilary Duff is 29. Actor Keir Gilchrist is 24.

Thought for Today: "Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection, the self-acceptance that gives life. It is the oldest and strongest hunger in the world. But hungering is not enough. " — Sherwood Anderson, American author and poet (1876-1941).

2016-09-28 00:02 By abcnews.go.com

100 /100 Jessica Mauboy enjoys stroll with longtime boyfriend Themeli Magripilis She was faced with rumours of a breakup just recently, after failing to post any loved-up vacation snaps. But from pictures taken in Sydney's Paddington on Tuesday, Jessica Mauboy and her longtime boyfriend Themeli Magripilis looked stronger than ever. The 27-year-old singer-songwriter, who stunned in a chic off-the-shoulder top, could not hide her affection for her partner of eight years. Scroll down for video Taking to the streets of Paddington, Jessica perfected casual chic in a white off-the-shoulder top that featured a slight plunging neckline. Teaming the look with light wash denim rolled up at the ankles, the singer-songwriter coordinated with a pair of simple white trainers. Accessorising with delicate silver jewellery and two-toned sunglasses, Jessica was seen carrying an abstract oversized jacket in her left hand. Looking to have just had a fresh blow-dry at Valonz Haircutters in the trendy Eastern Suburbs, the popular personality highlighted her natural beauty with a minimal makeup palette. Meanwhile Themeli, cut a casual figure in a charcoal T- shirt, beige shorts and coordinating Nike sneakers. The couple appeared stronger than ever, hand-in-hand, with Jessica gazing affectionately at her beau. The outing comes after Jessica confirmed to The Sunday Telegraph that things are going from strength to strength with Themeli. In fact, the Darwin-born beauty said Themeli would be relocating from the Northern Territory to Sydney to be with her after eight years of enduring a 4000km long-distance love. 'Out of all the moments we have had together it was a realisation that yes, I am going to be with him for the rest of my life, whether or not I have the ring,' she confessed. 'I know deeply how amazing he is, how he is with my family and they are with him. And he's so hot. 'The eight years we have been together, oh my gosh, we've spent months together but living under the same roof, it will be a whole other life. He knows me and I know him'. The Sapphires star met the Northern Territory-based soccer player on a cheeky night out more than eight years ago. 'I was dared to walk across the room through the crowd in a club and pinch his bottom... I did the clamp and ran,' she told Show + Tell's Katie 'Monty' Dimond. Jessica later asked a friend for his number and texted saying: 'I really think this could work, how about you?'

2016-09-28 00:00 Kristy Johnson www.dailymail.co.uk

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