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1 Category 4 Hurricane Matthew roars through Caribbean A w eekend turn tow ard the U. S. sets up potential impact along the east coast by midw eek. 2016-10-01 15:34 3KB rssfeeds.usatoday.com (9.99/10)
2 Boy, 6, Dies Days After South Carolina School Shooting A 6-year-old boy w ho w as critically w ounded in a school shooting died Saturday, days after a 14-year-old boy opened fire on a school playground, authorities said.
(6.68/10) Jacob Hall had been fighting for his life at a hospital after a bullet struck him in... 2016-10-01 16:03 2KB abcnews.go.com
3 Hillary Clinton campaign seizes on Donald Trump cameo in Playboy video Hillary Clinton's campaign Friday night is seizing on a report surfacing Donald Trump's (5.59/10) cameo in a Playboy video 16 years ago. 2016-10-01 12:28 2KB www.cnn.com
4 Pedro Sanchez Resigns As Leader Of Spain's Socialist Party : The Two-Way : NPR Spain's parliament now has until the end of October to form a new government led by (3.33/10) the Popular Party. But the Socialists w ill have to cooperate for that to happen. 2016-10-01 15:46 2KB www.npr.org
5 Newt Gingrich chastises Donald Trump over Miss Universe tweetstorm
(3.08/10) Vocal surrogate for GOP nominee’s presidential campaign turns critical follow ing "lost w eek" 2016-10-01 16:48 2KB www.cbsnews.com
6 AP-NORC Poll: Half of Trump Backers Don't Trust Vote Count Donald Trump is making the unprecedented assertion that the general election "is going (2.17/10) to be rigged," and many people w ho are draw n to his presidential campaign have major doubts about the accuracy of the Nov. 8 vote. Only about one-third of Republicans say they... 2016-10-01 14:50 6KB abcnews.go.com
7 Congo plans to delay a national vote for 2 years to 2018 Congo's electoral commission president says a national election, originally scheduled for November this year, w ill likely take place at the end of 2018 — a tw o-year delay likely to cause... 2016-10-01 16:55 711Bytes article.wn.com (2.12/10)
8 Five top trends at Paris fashion week With Paris w omen's fashion w eek coming to a climax over the w eekend, w e pick out five of the big trends so far in the spring-summer collections: 2016-10-01 16:50 4KB www.timeslive.co.za (2.05/10)
9 The long road to ‘One Week and a Day’ Israeli director Asaph Polonsky reflects on the real-life inspirations behind his debut feature as w ell as casting the Larry David of Israel. 2016-10-01 14:43 5KB www.jpost.com
(2.05/10) 10 The Shame of Fat Shaming The effects of fat shaming and stigmatizing go w ell beyond hurtful remarks. 2016-10-01 15:29 5KB www.nytimes.com (1.18/10)
11 Life Normal in Pakistani Kashmir, but Tense on Indian Side Life seems quite normal in the villages along the Pakistani side of Kashmir. But on the
(1.15/10) Indian side, villagers are spending sleepless nights in temporary shelters amid soaring tensions betw een the tw o nuclear-armed rivals. On the Pakistani side, markets and schools w ere open, shepherds... 2016-10-01 14:54 3KB abcnews.go.com
12 Pennsylvania college suspends students over blackface video A Pennsylvania college says it has suspended tw o students over an online video show ing a student in blackface lampooning the Black Lives Matter movement. Albright (1.10/10) College President Lex McMillan III... 2016-10-01 15:55 790Bytes article.wn.com
13 Talk of sex tapes take presidential campaign on sordid turn Donald Trump is encouraging voters to check out a "sex tape" featuring the former (1.08/10) beauty queen w ith w hom he's feuding. 2016-10-01 13:33 4KB abc7news.com
14 Donald Trump's cameo in softcore pornography movie unearthed Donald Trump made a cameo appearance in a 2000 Playboy video, posing – fully (1.08/10) clothed – w ith a group of models and pouring champagne over a limo. 2016-10-01 12:23 2KB www.independent.ie
15 Species likely extinct after rare frog dies in Atlanta Authorities say a rare tree frog — the last know n living member of the species in captivity — has died at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://on-ajc.com/2d8qTPQ) … Click to Continue » ... 2016-10-01 15:22 800Bytes (1.06/10) article.wn.com
16 Syrians refuse attempted relocation along Jordan border AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Syrians stranded on the border w ith Jordan are refusing to move five kilometers (3.1 miles) w est to a soon-to-be opened aid distribution center. ... (1.06/10) 2016-10-01 14:27 649Bytes article.wn.com
17 Pakistan and India exchange fresh fire as tensions rise Pakistani cinemas reportedly stop screening Indian films as new skirmishes erupt along de facto border in Kashmir. 2016-10-01 11:47 4KB mwcnews.net
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18 Government must urgently bring vulnerable Calais Jungle children to UK - Unicef The Government must "act w ith a lot more urgency" on its promise to bring vulnerable (1.03/10) children to the UK from Calais, the charity Unicef has w arned. French Pr... 2016-10-01 14:02 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 19 Forsyth school employee's comments on First Lady spark online outrage GAINESVILLE, Ga. -- A local elementary school employee is under fire for comments (1.03/10) she made on social media directed at the First Lady of the United States. 2016-10-01 11:18 1KB rssfeeds.11alive.com
20 Electric cars take centre stage at Paris auto show Electric cars look set to dominate this year's auto show in Paris, w hich opened to the public on Saturday, as the Volksw agen diesel scandal and falling battery costs persuade executives that plug-in vehicles are ready to go mainstream. ... (1.02/10) 2016-10-01 16:41 796Bytes article.wn.com
21 Turkish leader accuses EU of insincerity on visa promise ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey's president says the European Union w ants to back out of lifting visa restrictions for Turks — a key incentive offered Turkey in a deal to stop (1.02/10) thousands of migrants from crossing the Aegean Sea to Greece. ... 2016-10-01 16:28 776Bytes article.wn.com
22 Robin Williams' wife describes his last days in heartbreaking essay More than tw o years after Robin Williams' shocking suicide, the actor's w ife w rites
(1.02/10) about the medical condition she says caused him to take his ow n life. 2016-10-01 15:21 3KB www.upi.com
23 'Ash vs. Evil Dead' cast has bloody good time at MSU screening A spirited panel follow ed a late-night screening of the new season’s first episode.
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24 1950s electro Image copyright Getty Images Image caption 2016-10-01 00:00 4KB headlinenewstoday.net
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25 Agriculture Ministry introduces campaign against ‘kaparot’ ritual Performed betw een Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, the kaparot practice typically
(1.02/10) involves sw inging a live chicken over one’s head. 2016-10-01 14:33 3KB www.jpost.com
26 Angry Brazilian voters looking to upend political order SAO PAULO (AP) — In Brazil's biggest city of Sao Paulo, the leading mayoral candidate is a businessman w ho once fired people on air during a television reality show. In the country's crow n jew el city of Rio de Janeiro, the... 2016-10-01 14:27 798Bytes (1.02/10) article.wn.com
27 Clean-up Continues At Indian Point Nuclear Plant After Oil Spill Clean-up is continuing at the Indian Point Nuclear Pow er Plant in w here an (1.02/10) undetermined amount of oil spilled into a drainage canal leading to the Hudson River. 2016-10-01 12:39 1KB newyork.cbslocal.com 28 New Facility Greets Visitors to Historic Walden Pond If Henry David Thoreau w ere around today, Massachusetts officials think he'd probably be happy w ith the new visitor center at Walden Pond. The 5,680-square-foot facility
(1.02/10) pow ered by renew able solar energy officially opened its doors to the public this past w eek, part of a... 2016-10-01 12:30 1KB abcnews.go.com
29 Effort to recognize World War II spies hung up in Congress McLEAN, Va. (AP) — Spies don't w ork for fame or acclaim. But after 75 years, the men (1.02/10) and w omen w ho served behind the enemy lines in Nazi Germany and the Paci... 2016-10-01 11:34 5KB www.dailymail.co.uk
30 Deutsche Bank executives heading to U. S. in coming days -FAZ FRANKFURT, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank executives are heading to the United (1.00/10) States in the coming days to negotiate a settlement over a fine of up to $14... 2016-10-01 15:54 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk
31 Oklahoma State blocks three extra points, beats spiraling Longhorns The Cow boysâ 2016-10-01 16:52 2KB www.espn.com
32 Chinese Crossroads Highlights from a concert of traditional, contemporary and devotional music by the SCM Chinese Music Ensemble, featuring soloists on the pipa (lute), erhu (tw o-stringed fiddle), dizi (flute), and the zhongruan (round-bodied lute). ... 2016-10-01 16:32 810Bytes article.wn.com
33 Justin Timberlake shows off his fun side as he learns dance moves from a fan The 35-year-old actor and singer joined a member of the studio audience w ho taught him the move - nicknamed the shopping cart 2016-10-01 16:07 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk
34 President Obama and former Shimon Peres's son during funeral captured in moment of compassion At the funeral for Israeli President Shimon Peres on Friday, photographers took heart- w arming images of president Obama and Peres's son, Chemi Peres. 2016-10-01 16:07 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk
35 LOL! Watch how J'Something disciplines his dogs J'Something probably loves his pooches as much as he does his music. But can he be a tough guy w hen needed? 2016-10-01 16:00 815Bytes www.timeslive.co.za
36 Ugandan premiere of girl's slum-to-chess-champ story Phiona Mutesi used to forage for food in the impoverished slums of Kampala. On Saturday she attended a Disney movie premiere about her life in the Ugandan ca... 2016-10-01 15:59 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk
37 For Orchestras in the U. S., So Much Depends on Their Communities’ Fortunes On top of endemic challenges like rising costs and w eakening demand, each ensemble faces its ow n obstacles. 2016-10-01 15:53 7KB www.nytimes.com 38 'I need to see a medic': Pained Will Young calls for medical attention live on Strictly after pulling muscle during energetic jive The 37-year-old Leave Right Now hitmaker threw himself into the Jive w ith Karen Clifton, although the high energy routine led to the star dramatically pulling a muscle in his leg 2016-10-01 15:43 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk
39 Lawsuit: Lynnwood red-light camera tickets should be refunded Ian Jordan admits he drove through the intersection at 196th St. SW and 36th Ave W in Lynnw ood just as the light turned red. 2016-10-01 15:40 2KB mynorthwest.com
40 News24.com | Two children drown after Laos bridge collapse Tw o children died and three are missing after more than 50 students fell off a collapsed suspension bridge in northern Laos on their w ay to school, state-run media reports. ... 2016-10-01 15:40 663Bytes article.wn.com
41 Alessandra Ambrosio, Elsa Hosk and Taylor Hill stun at Paris Fashion Week cocktail party The likes of Alessandra Ambrosio, Elsa Hosk and Taylor Hill led the turn-out as they made a very fashionable appearance at the Americans in Paris cocktail party during Paris Fashion Week on Friday. 2016-10-01 15:38 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk
42 Guns & Politics: In Her Own Words, Hillary On Gun Control It has become abundantly clear that Hillary Clinton cannot be trusted to part w ith the truth regarding any subject, at any place, for any reason, at any time. This is because, 1) she prefers to lie 2016-10-01 23:24 9KB dailycaller.com
43 Will it be Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer for Bake Off? TV property duo being 'lined up' for presenting job Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer may be in line to fill the current presenting vacancy on The Great British Bake Off w hen it moves to Channel Four. 2016-10-01 15:14 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk
44 Photos of the week The most compelling photos from Sept. 24-30, 2016. First lady Michelle Obama gives former President George W. Bush a hug at the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture i... 2016-10-01 15:12 667Bytes article.wn.com
45 Kate flaunts her enviable curves in plunging bandage inspired swimsuit as she continues Marbella getaway The TOWIE babe displayed her incredible hourglass figure in a plunging bandage inspired sw imsuit that struggled to contain her buxom bust. 2016-10-01 15:06 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 46 Stay away from homeopathic teething remedies While a teething baby can present a challenge to any parent, experienced or not, the FDA is w arning that turning to homeopathic tablets or gels can be very dangerous to your infant's health. 2016-10-01 15:03 4KB www.digitaljournal.com
47 Daniel Singer Creates Innovative Social App Video How grow ing up in L. A. drove this young and gifted 16-year-old to create an innovative app. 2016-09-30 00:00 5KB abcnews.go.com
48 Christopher Duffley, a Blind Teen With Autism, Inspires Others With His Voice Video The YouTube sensation and podcaster is using his talents to inspire people w ith disabilities. 2016-09-30 00:00 6KB abcnews.go.com
49 12-Year-Old Creates Tools and Technology for the Visually Impaired Video Hari Bhimaraju made a periodic table tool and a prescription label reader. 2016-09-30 00:00 4KB abcnews.go.com
50 Christopher Suggs Takes Action Against Gun Violence in Kinston, North Carolina Video Meet the teenager w ho inspired his community amid rampant gun violence. 2016-09-30 00:00 5KB abcnews.go.com
51 Buddy Hield will make his Pelicans' preseason debut coming off bench Hield said he has not come off the bench since his freshman season at Oklahoma. 2016-10-01 14:57 2KB www.nola.com
52 Five matchups that will define NFL Week 4: How will Le'Veon Bell shift Steelers? Steelers RB's return highlights the slate for Week 4. 2016-10-01 14:56 5KB rssfeeds.usatoday.com
53 Andi hurt by revelation about her baby’s ‘real father’ “She is, w ithout a doubt, a good mom,” said actress Dimples Romana of her “The Greatest Love” costar Andi Eigenmann, w ho is now the subject of tabloid headlines in relation to the alleged 2016-10-01 14:48 3KB entertainment.inquirer.net
54 Julie Andrews turns 81: Her most magical moments 8 times the star w as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. 2016-10-01 14:48 619Bytes rssfeeds.usatoday.com
55 Let’s dance David Bow ie impersonator David Brighton brings his w orld-renow ned tribute show to Tel Aviv in March. 2016-10-01 14:46 1KB www.jpost.com
56 Mercedes Cabral captivates as a mail-order bride in Danish drama Mercedes Cabral portrays a mail-order bride in Frederikke Aspock’s compelling domestic drama, “Rosita,” w hich w ill be screened again at the tail end of the Danish Film Festival at the 2016-10-01 14:44 3KB entertainment.inquirer.net 57 Sunnyvale's new law limiting smoking goes into effect A law limiting the areas w here people can smoke in Sunnyvale goes into effect Saturday, officials w ith the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety said. 2016-10-01 14:37 1KB abc7news.com
58 ‘Fiercely You’ Author On Thinking Like A Drag Queen Best-selling author and motivational speaker Jackie Huba stopped by CBS2 to share a few tips from her book "Fiercely You: Be Fabulous and Confident by Thinking Like a Drag Queen. " 2016-10-01 14:33 1KB newyork.cbslocal.com
59 Steven Fales to bring 'Cult Model' to the Metropolitan Room in NY Steven Fales w ill be bringing his new show to the Metropolitan Room in New York City w ith performances in October and November of 2016. 2016-10-01 14:32 3KB www.digitaljournal.com
60 New exhibit focuses on George Washington's slaves A new exhibit at Mt. Vernon is placing the spotlight on George Washington's slaves. 2016-10-01 14:30 1KB rssfeeds.wusa9.com
61 Dana Point dad is a game-changer for sick children DANA POINT – Brenda Organiz lay in her hospital bed immobilized after her second surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from her spine. 2016-10-01 14:23 6KB www.ocregister.com
62 EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practices, fine expected By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, Oct 1 (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators plan to order Alphabet's Google to stop paying financial incentives to smartphone makers... 2016-10-01 14:21 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk
63 Obama hosted "thank-you" reception Friday for old Illinois pals WASHINGTON - With only a few months left at the White House to get everyone in, President Barack Obama on Friday night hosted a group 2016-10-01 14:14 1KB chicago.suntimes.com
64 Top 1980s soap Dynasty 'set for TV reboot' Glamorous 1980s soap Dynasty, w hich explores the trials and tribulations of a glorious w ealthy American family, is reportedly set for a television reboot. Th... 2016-10-01 14:02 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk
65 Sound and vision: what radio looks like in person As it turns out, the Bake Off and the Labour party have a lot in common “The public need to see w hat they’re paying for,” says Huw Robinson during Radio 3's instillation at the Southbank Centre. 2016-10-01 23:23 8KB www.newstatesman.com
66 Rain, Cooler Temps Persist Today, But Sunday Looks Better Show ers and potential thunderstorms w ill continue to loom until late Saturday, w ith highs in the mid-60s. 2016-10-01 13:58 1009Bytes chicago.cbslocal.com 67 Casually clad Lily-Rose Depp can't stop grinning at lunch in LA after debuting two movies in a month The 17-year-old daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis w as looking happy as she enjoyed a day off in Los Angeles on Friday. 2016-10-01 13:56 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk
68 Terrifying clowns are terrorizing children and adults across the country Dozens of sightings have occurred in more than ten states in the past month, w ith police increasing patrols and parents fearful for their children's safety. 2016-10-01 13:51 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk
69 Parental Basement Dwellers: Hillary Clinton Criticizes Bernie Sanders Voters for Having ‘Bought into False Promise’ Parental Basement Dw ellers: Hillary Clinton Criticizes Bernie Sanders Voters for Having 'Bought into False Promise' 2016-10-01 13:50 2KB feedproxy.google.com
70 Duncan Bannatyne and his stunning fiancee Nigora Whitehorn enjoy Monaco trip The 67-year-old former Dragons' Den star w as ensuring her squeezed plenty into his holiday as enjoyed a night out w ith his beautiful partner, 36, before heading to a yacht show the follow ing day 2016-10-01 13:38 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk
71 Clinton takes lead in battleground states Hillary Clinton is ahead of Donald Trump four points in Florida. Senior political w riter for FiveThirtyEight, Harry Enten, and Director of UVA's Center for Politics, Larry Sabato, discuss how the first presidential debate majorly impacted poll results... 2016-10-01 13:35 969Bytes www.msnbc.com
72 Washington Post: Dog Halloween Costumes ‘Sexist’ for Perpetuating Gender Norms The Washington Post has published a piece questioning w hether costumes w orn by dogs at Hallow een are sexist because they perpetuate gender stereotypes. 2016-10-01 13:15 1KB feedproxy.google.com
73 HBO's multilayered update of 'Westworld' is TV's next big game-changer HBO sw ings big. That has been its brand since the days of “It’s not television, it’s HBO.” Television eventually caught up, w hich meant HBO had to sw ing bigger; it is not built for, or on, a slate of solid but not spectacular show s. It is... 2016-10-01 13:05 6KB www.latimes.com
74 Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you your new debutante! Pop singer FEMME releases her debut album British Pop singer FEMME, real name Laura Bettinson released her self-funded debut album ‘Debutante’ in w hich she produced and w rote in her south London 2016-10-01 13:02 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 75 Kate Walsh and Whitney Cummings dazzle in glitzy dresses at Smile Gala The 48-year-old Private Practice star and the 34-year-old comedian looked stunning as they cuddled up for photos at the event, w hich w as held to benefit Operation Smile. 2016-10-01 12:55 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk
76 Tom Cruise steps out for dinner with mystery woman in LA The 54-year-old w as spotted leaving Asanebo Sushi restaurant w ith the brunette beauty and Michael Jackson's ex bodyguard Matt Fiddes 2016-10-01 12:54 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk
77 Customer finds card skimmer on ATM at Madison Heights 7/11 A 7/11 customer is w arning people on social media after he found a credit card skimmer attached to the store's ATM. 2016-10-01 12:51 1KB www.wxyz.com
78 Patrol vehicle involved in fatal crash was blocking traffic because of debris in road Tw o occupants w ere trapped in the pickup truck and emergency w orkers had to use a hydraulic tool to remove them. They w ere taken to Henry Ford Allegiance Health w ith minor injuries, Grajew ski reported. 2016-10-01 12:49 2KB www.mlive.com
79 Andy Murray continues bid to top world rankings in the China Open Andy Murray w ill continue his bid to overtake Novak Djokovic at the top of the w orld rankings after committing to take part in the China Open in Beijing this w eek. 2016-10-01 12:43 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk
80 Collette’s Italian connection Change of focus... Australian fashion designer Designer Collette Dinnigan w ith a mannequin modelling lingerie fashion in 2002. Her family - particularly her 2016-10-01 00:00 8KB headlinenewstoday.net
81 Ben Affleck reveals he's felt 'vulnerable' ever since having children The 44-year-old actor has admitted that he has become more sensitive and scared for the safety of his brood, speaking at a press conference for his new movie The Accountant in Los Angeles on Friday. 2016-10-01 12:29 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk
82 Math Matters This Election: Don’t Forget The Federal Judiciary “The impact that the president can have on the federal judiciary is perhaps the single most important legacy issue for any president,” says Doug Kendall, president of Constitutional Accountability 2016-10-01 21:04 3KB dailycaller.com
83 Artist's climate change murals paint dark future for planet WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — An artist's dark interpretations of w hat climate change might do to the Earth if left unchecked are on display at Clark University. E... 2016-10-01 12:19 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk 84 Pakistan Faces 'Worst' Form Of Child Labour: Report Pakistan has not conducted any child labour survey in 20 years even as the country faces the "w orst" form of child labour w here w orkers are subjected to physical and mental torture, a media report... 2016-10-01 12:16 743Bytes article.wn.com
85 Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie reach temporary custody agreement Estranged, Hollyw ood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have agreed to a temporary arrangement regarding the custody of their six, minor children. 2016-10-01 12:02 1KB www.upi.com
86 Amy Connerley talks 'Bieber vs. Timberlake' and future (Includes interview) Dancer, choreographer, singer and actress Amy Connerley chatted w ith me about her "Bieber vs. Timberlake" show, and her future plans. 2016-10-01 11:56 3KB www.digitaljournal.com
87 What's happening Atlanta: October 1st-2nd. - Story Now that fall is officially here, it’s time to get your fix of music and hair care at these events happening in metro Atlanta this w eekend: 2016-10-01 11:40 2KB www.fox5atlanta.com
88 'My relationship with the girls is more of a friendship': Brian McFadden opens up about daughters Molly, 15, and Lilly-Sue, 13 Speaking about his parenting style, the 36-year-old former Westlife star discussed the pros of being a young dad. 2016-10-01 11:40 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk
89 5 Seconds Of Summer cut a grungy figure in sunglasses and black T-shirts as they greet adoring fans at Brisbane airport They are one of Australia's most in-demand musical acts of the moment. 2016-10-01 11:38 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk
90 Transformers film set takes over Stonehenge with helicopters and explosions In a striking juxtaposition of old and new - the neolithic burial mounds became part of the Transformers film set today as helicopters soared and pyrotechnics lit up the sky above the stones. 2016-10-01 11:37 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk
91 Trump’s bizarrely bad debate performance does not disturb his fans In an interview on NBC New s , a young millennial w oman gave her assessment of the first presidential debate of 2016: Hillary Clinton seemed overly scripted w hile Donald Trump looked strong and passionate. 2016-10-01 11:37 4KB www.latimes.com
92 Between the White House and the Capitol, a Slice of California Edith Ramirez, chairw oman of the Federal Trade Commission, has brought hints of her West Coast background to an office w ith view s of the Capitol dome. 2016-10-01 11:22 4KB www.nytimes.com 93 Billionaire Mark Cuban on Donald Trump How rich is Donald Trump, really? Billionaire Mark Cuban w eighs in w ith his estimation of Trump’s true w ealth, among his other observations of the GOP candidate made from the first presidential debate audience, and beyond. 2016-10-01 11:21 828Bytes www.msnbc.com
94 Inside Venezuela’s Crumbling Mental Hospitals The state-run El Pampero Hospital in Venezuela has almost no drugs left for its tormented patients, let alone food and clothing, amid the nation’s economic crisis. 2016-10-01 11:18 5KB www.nytimes.com
95 Could you survive an extended power outage? Pow er outages affected over 7.2 million people in the US last year. Are you doing everything you can to be prepared? 2016-10-01 11:16 3KB www.deseretnews.com
96 US mood hardens as leader of ally Philippines stokes outrage WASHINGTON (AP) -- As the body count mounts in the Philippines' deadly w ar on drugs, and its combative president's rhetoric plumbs new depths, the mood in 2016-10-01 11:10 6KB mynorthwest.com
97 Ethiopian tribesmen pictured taking part in dangerous near-naked fighting ritual The images, taken in southern Ethiopia, capture members of the Suri tribe take part in a fighting ritual, at a time w hen their w ay of life is under threat. 2016-10-01 11:05 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk
98 Chicago anti-vaxxer who thought she was 'superior' changed her mind when they caught virus Kristen O’Meara from Chicago had decided against immunizing her three daughters (pictured together) after being persuaded by friends and literature highlighting its alleged dangers. 2016-10-01 11:01 4KB www.dailymail.co.uk
99 Box-Office Milestone: 'Sully' Crosses $100 Million in U. S. The movie is on its w ay to becoming director Clint Eastw ood's top-grossing title in North America behind 'American Sniper' and 'Gran Torino,' and is also one of Tom Hanks' biggest grossing films in recent times. 2016-10-01 11:00 2KB feedproxy.google.com Articles
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1 /99 Category 4 Hurricane Matthew roars through Caribbean (9.99/10) Embed
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Matthew, weakened only slightly to a Category 4 hurricane, barreled through the Caribbean on Saturday toward Jamaica and was expected to turn toward the north- northwest by day's end to set a course possibly impacting the East Coast next week.
En route, it also threatens Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas into Monday.
As of 2 p.m. ET Saturday, Matthew had maximum sustained winds of 140 mph — 17 mph shy of the Category 5 status it reached Friday. The hurricane was moving erratically, according to the National Hurricane Center, with the center drifting southward at 7 mph for a few hours and located about 400 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica. It was forecast to regain its northward trek late Saturday, eventually turning north-northwest.
"Some fluctuations in intensity are possible during the next couple of days, but Matthew is expected to remain a powerful hurricane through Monday," the NHC says.
Friday night, when Matthew roared to Category 5 status, it became the strongest Atlantic Ocean Basin hurricane since Felix in 2007, NBC reported .
The National Hurricane Center said Matthew was expected to turn toward the west-northwest later Saturday followed by a turn toward the north-northwest on Sunday.
A hurricane watch has been posted for Jamaica and portions of Haiti. The NHC said a hurricane watch could also be needed for portions of eastern Cuba by Saturday night.
AccuWeather senior meteorologist Bernie Rayno said if Matthew moves swiftly as it heads north, it has a greater chance of causing significant impact from rain, wind and flooding along much of the Atlantic coast.
"On the other hand, if Matthew's forward speed slows, it could still have significant impact on the Atlantic coast, but in a much smaller area, when compared to a fast-moving hurricane," he said.
The hurricane center's five-day forecast cone — which marks the range of the storm's possible path — includes a portion of southeastern Florida early Wednesday.
The hurricane center also warns of likely life-threatening surf and rip-current conditions over a wide area from Puerto Rico to Venezuela.
Other small-craft operators in the island’s coastal waters were told to return to port, while those in port were advised not to venture out, the newspaper reported.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott said the state emergency operations centers were active Friday. He said state officials would continue to monitor Matthew's path and urged residents and tourists to monitor the storm and have their emergency plan in place.
"While the National Hurricane Center's current forecast predicts Matthew traveling east of Florida, we all know that the track of these storms can quickly change," Scott said.
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A hurricane is classified as "major" when its sustained winds reach 111 mph. A major hurricane is a Category 3, 4 or 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. It's the first major hurricane in September in the Caribbean since Felix in 2007.
Hurricane Matthew is the fifth hurricane and second major hurricane of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season. It's now the only hurricane or typhoon on the planet.
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2 /99 Boy, 6, Dies Days After South Carolina School Shooting (6.68/10) A 6-year-old boy who was critically wounded in a school shooting died Saturday, days after a 14-year-old boy opened fire on a school playground, authorities said.
Jacob Hall had been fighting for his life at a hospital after a bullet struck him in a main artery in his leg, causing him a major brain injury due to the loss of blood. Jacob died about 1 p.m. Saturday, and an autopsy will be done Sunday, Anderson County Coroner Greg Shore said. The hospital will release more details about his death, the coroner said. Authorities say Jacob, another student and a first-grade teacher at Townville Elementary were wounded by the teenager, who had just killed his father at their home. After the slaying, the teen — who is not old enough to have a driver's license — drove a pickup truck about 3 miles down a country road, crashed at the school and started firing with a handgun, authorities said.
The wounded were struck as a door opened for recess. Another teacher who heard the first gunshot was able to get other students safely inside, Anderson 4 Superintendent Joanne Avery has said.
The teacher and the other wounded student were treated and released from a hospital.
Jacob has been surrounded by his family at Greenville Memorial Hospital since he was wounded. He has seven brothers and sisters, relatives have said.
"Jacob was going to do great things, and because of a senseless crime that nobody will probably ever really know why, that little life is cut short," his great-aunt Rebecca Hunnicutt told WYFF before his death. "Jacob is one of these kids that you'd swear was carved out of cream cheese. He is as beautiful on the inside as he is on the out. "
Authorities have not released a motive for either shooting.
The teenager was charged as a juvenile Friday with murder and three counts of attempted murder. The Associated Press typically does not identify juveniles charged with crimes.
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3 /99 Hillary Clinton campaign seizes on Donald Trump cameo in Playboy video (5.59/10) The 2000 adult video, surfaced by BuzzFeed , features the businessman in a 13-second clip in which he is seen talking to reporters and then purportedly pours a bottle of champagne over a Playboy logo on a limousine. It is not clear that it is Trump pouring the champagne, and a message left with his campaign late Friday was not returned.
The men in Trump's boys club Trump has never shied away from his association with Playboy. He appeared on the magazine's cover in 1990 , and that issue is framed and hangs in his office in Trump Tower. But the tape's surfacing comes during a week in which Trump has gone after a former Miss Universe by claiming she has appeared in a sex tape.
Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill jumped at the chance to accuse Trump of hypocrisy.
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"There's been a lot of talk about sex tapes today and in a strange turn of events, only one adult film has emerged today and its star is Donald J. Trump," he said in a statement Friday.
Trump in recent days has attacked Alicia Machado, a 1996 Miss Universe who has accused Trump of making derogatory statements about her weight back in the 1990s. The GOP presidential nominee has responded by claiming she appeared in a sex tape, though his campaign has not provided evidence.
Machado, however, has appeared in a reality TV show in Spain in which she appears to engage in a sex act under the covers with another contestant -- which some tabloids and conservative outlets have pointed to as evidence of a sex tape.
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4 /99 Pedro Sanchez Resigns As Leader Of Spain's Socialist Party : The Two-Way : NPR (3.33/10) Bill Chappell
Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) leader Pedro Sanchez resigned Saturday at his party's headquarters in Madrid.
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Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) leader Pedro Sanchez resigned Saturday at his party's headquarters in Madrid.
In a development that could give Spain sorely needed momentum on its path to forming a new government, Pedro Sanchez resigned as the leader of the main opposition Socialist Party. Sanchez had promised to step down if the party voted to end his ban on enabling a coalition conservative-led government.
The tally in Saturday's vote was 133-109; according to El Mundo , the vote was held by a show of hands, after critics dismissed the use of a ballot box as an attempt to rig the vote.
Hours of debate and procedural maneuvering preceded Saturday's vote, which also came days after roughly half of the Socialists' executive committee resigned to protest Sanchez's insistence on not working with the conservative Popular Party, the party of interim Prime Minister Mariano Roy.
The conservatives came out on top in two national elections — one last December and another in June — but by a margin that requires it to form a coalition government. With the Socialist Party withholding their 85 parliamentary seats, that proved impossible.
Spain's parliament now has until the end of October to form a new government led by the Popular Party. If that fails, Spanish voters will be confronted with their third national election in a year. A general vote will be planned for December of this year if a coalition doesn't take root.
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5 /99 Newt Gingrich chastises Donald Trump over Miss Universe tweetstorm (3.08/10) Newt Gingrich, a vocal surrogate for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, turned critical Friday, following a wildly controversial week for the Republican nominee.
“I think what Trump’s got to understand is he’s either got to sing ‘I’ve Got To Be Me’ or he’s got to learn a new song, ‘I’ve Got To Be President,’” Gingrich told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in an interview. “They’re not the same song. He’s got to become much more disciplined.”
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Gingrich -- who said he had believed Trump “had really turned a corner” with his temperament - - berated the real estate mogul for his last several days, when Trump entered into a nasty feud with former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, attacking her on Twitter and urging Americans to “check out [her] sex tape.” (There is little evidence of any such “sex tape” existing of Machado , though a Buzzfeed investigation found Trump once made a cameo appearance in an adult film produced by Playboy.)
“This last week I think has been, frankly, a lost week, a week which has hurt him, which has shaken his own supporters,” Gingrich said.
He added, referencing the tweetstorm against Machado blasted out in the middle of the night, “And you can’t tweet at 3:00 in the morning, period. There’s no excuse ever, not if you’re going to be president of the United States.”
The former House speaker warned that such mistakes would greatly hurt his chances in November.
“He’s really got to decide -- and I think it’s very important to understand this. If he’s got to be himself, then he may well not win,” he said. “If he’s willing to grow into the role of president, then he may win. In fact, I think he will win.” Clinton, who took up Machado’s defense over the last week, has attacked Trump over similar concerns .
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What kind of man stays up all night to smear a woman with lies and conspiracy theories?
When something gets under Donald's thin skin, he lashes out and can't let go. This is dangerous for a president.
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6 /99 AP-NORC Poll: Half of Trump Backers Don't Trust Vote Count (2.17/10) Donald Trump is making the unprecedented assertion that the general election "is going to be rigged," and many people who are drawn to his presidential campaign have major doubts about the accuracy of the Nov. 8 vote.
Only about one-third of Republicans say they have a great deal or quite a bit of confidence that votes on Election Day will be counted fairly, according to a poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Half the people who have a favorable opinion of the Republican nominee say they have little to no confidence in the integrity of the vote count, the poll finds.
"Trump has finally said something that that I've been thinking for years," said Jonathan Robinson, 30, a Trump supporter from Columbia, Missouri. "I don't think the votes have been counted properly for years. There's voter fraud and attempts to game the system. I don't trust it at all. "
Such fears of voter fraud are unfounded. There is no evidence it is a widespread problem in the United States. A study by a Loyola Law School professor found that out of 1 billion votes cast in all American elections between 2000 and 2014, there were only 31 known cases of impersonation fraud.
Still, among people overall, only 4 in 10 have a lot of confidence in votes being counted accurately, though an additional 3 in 10 say they're at least moderately confident.
Fifty-nine percent of those who have a favorable opinion of Trump's Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton , have quite a bit or a great deal of confidence, compared with just 29 percent of those who have a favorable opinion of Trump.
Overall, 35 percent in the poll say there's a great deal of voter fraud in American elections, 39 percent say there's only some and 24 percent say there's hardly any.
About half of Republicans, but only about one-quarter of Democrats, say they think there's a great deal of voter fraud. Also, 58 percent of those who have a favorable opinion of Trump think there's a great deal of fraud, while just 18 percent of those who like Clinton say the same.
Some Trump supporters said they are taking their cue from the candidate.
In August he made the extraordinary claim — one he did not back up with any evidence — that the election will be fixed. That assertion threatens the American tradition of peacefully contested elections and the essence of a fair democratic process.
Trump has continued to make the charge at other rallies.
In Michigan on Friday, for example, Trump urged supporters to vote and then go to a different polling place with friends and make sure "it's on the up and up. " He said voter fraud is "a big, big problem in this country" but "nobody has the guts to talk about it. "
While raising such unsubstantiated concerns about the fairness of the election, Trump said in Monday's first general election debate that he would abide by its result. Though he initially dodged moderator Lester Holt's question about accepting the outcome, Trump eventually said of Clinton, "If she wins I will absolutely support her. "
But in a New York Times interview, Trump indicated he was reconsidering that statement. "We're going to have to see. We're going to have to see what happens. We're going to have to see," he was quoted Saturday as saying.
The poll also found that nearly 8 in 10 people say they favor requiring voters to provide photo identification in order to vote, while just 1 in 10 are opposed.
"Any objection to having to show voter ID is just wrong," said Etan Markowitz, 76, a Democrat from Culver City, California, who is crossing party lines to vote for Trump. "I think there is voter fraud: people voting more than once, and early voting and absentee ballots give too many opportunities for fraud. We need extensive reform. "
Democrats worry that strict voter ID laws could lead to the disenfranchisement of poor, often minority voters who don't have ID.
While most Americans feel that new technologies have made vote counting more accurate overall, many have at least some concern about hackers interfering with the election. Forty-one percent say they're extremely or very concerned and 35 percent who say they're somewhat concerned. Fifty-two percent of Republicans and 35 percent of Democrats say they're extremely or very concerned.
The top Democrats on the House and Senate Intelligence committees say they've concluded Russian intelligence agencies were trying to influence the U. S. presidential election . On Friday, a Homeland Security Department official told the AP that hackers have targeted the voter registration systems of more than 20 states in recent months. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and requested anonymity.
Julio Carmona, a 31-year-old Clinton supporter from Bridgeport, Connecticut, asked: "If these people can go into the DNC and hack, who is to say that that can't get there and sway the vote to Trump? What if the Russians really can do something like that? "
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The AP-NORC poll of 1,022 adults was conducted Sept. 15-18 using a sample drawn from NORC's probability-based AmeriSpeak panel, which is designed to be representative of the U. S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.
Respondents were first selected randomly using address-based sampling methods, and later interviewed online or by phone.
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7 /99 Congo plans to delay a national vote for 2 years to 2018 (2.12/10) Congo's electoral commission president says a national election, originally scheduled for November this year, will likely take place at the end of 2018 — a two-year delay likely to cause... Congo commission expects presidential v ote delay to Dec 2018 article.wn.com
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8 /99 Five top trends at Paris fashion week (2.05/10) Transparency. We demand it of our leaders and institutions. Well now it is coming to your wardrobe. See-through is one of the big looks of spring- summer, dominating the week's three big, headline-grabbing shows.
Almost every dress in Maria Grazia Chiuri's debut at Dior was of gossamer lingerie tulle, while Anthony Vaccarello, toying with bad taste in his first show for Saint Laurent, sent out a line of bra-less sheer tops and a mono-boob dress that exposed one breast.
Bouchra Jarrar was more restrained and elegant in her debut for Lanvin. Even so at least two of her lingerie dresses would work as well in the bedroom as at a ball.
Newbie Neith Nyer and older stagers Carven, Rochas, Y Project, Vionnet and John Galliano at Maison Margiela all got in on the act too, while Rihanna and ID made underwear outwear.
Androgynous, genderless fashion has been in the ascendant for some time, with transgender models more present on the runways as designers blur boundaries. This week Brazilian creator Francisco Terra used four trans models in his Neith Nyer show while others turned up across the catwalks from Y Project to Koche.
Julien Dossena at Paco Rabanne evoked gender flux in a show inspired by 1960s sexual liberation, which seemed partly to have also sprung from the loins of Woody Allen's 1972 film "Everything Always You Wanted to Know About Sex".
Despite last season's 1980s retro revival, designers are far from finished with resurrecting looks from the decade of big belts, big shoulders and even bigger hair.
This time it is off-the-shoulder tops and dresses, not quite "Flashdance" but close, often pulled tight across the chest. The "one bare shoulder" look ran from floaty bohemian Chloe to Barbara Bui's shiny vinyl with variants turning up in Mugler, Wanda Nylon, Vionnet, Isabel Marant and Yohji Yamamoto shows.
It seems to be all Hedi Slimane's fault. He started the ball rolling with his final show for Saint Laurent, the now notorious love-it-or-hate-it 1980s super-bling "bat-wing" shoulders collection.
Instead of turning on such excess, his successor Vaccarello has embraced the look, or the off- the-shoulder part at least.
The sublime Haider Ackermann show Saturday was all shoulders too, bringing the focus to the hard work his models had done in the gym and pool.
Despite being the frivolity that dare not speak its name to fashion's dominant minimalist brigade, frills are back with a flourish.
Prada lovers should look away now, but frills are breaking out all over the catwalk from Anne Sofie Madsen to Andrew GN, Alexis Mabille and Lanvin to name but a few.
Even rappers favourite label Off White went all frilly.
The young Ukrainian brand Paskal used them ingeniously to punctuate its otherwise minimalist collection, making a summer bikini type top from one single frill. Japanese street avant gardist Junya Watanabe was also swept up by the trend, folding them into his jagged geometrical origami creations.
Japanese designers are a major part of Paris fashion week, with pioneers Kenzo, Yohji Yamamoto and Commes des Garcons now the godfathers of an ever-expanding brood that includes Undercover, Junya Watanabe and Anrealage.
And beyond the global brands like Issey Miyake, the country's influence on foreign designers has rarely been as strong. Japanese aesthetics and techniques are everywhere on the catwalk with three of the mosts exciting young talents Terra, Paule Ka's Alithia Spuri-Zampetti and Liselore Frowijn all citing trips to the country as the key to their collections. Braless Gigi Hadid f lashes Paris Fashion Week: Day 5 her ample cleav age in a rssfeeds.usatoday.com plunging glittering gown as she storms the runway alongside Hailey Baldwin and Karlie Kloss at Elie Saab's Paris Fashion Week show dailymail.co.uk
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9 /99 The long road to ‘One Week and a Day’ (2.05/10) ‘If people come with expectations of a drama they’re surprised by how funny it is; if they come expecting a comedy, they don’t think it will be so moving,” says Asaph Polonsky, talking about his recently released film, One Week and a Day. It tells the story of two parents whose adult son has just died of cancer, and how they cope with the first day following the shiva, the seven- day mourning period required by Jewish law.
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“It’s not about a kid dying, it’s about the people who are left behind. But it’s not about people sitting and moping, that has to come across,” says Polonsky. The movie won the Gan Foundation Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in May, as well as eight awards at the Jerusalem Film Festival last summer, including the prize for Best Israeli Feature, in a highly competitive year. In addition to its Israeli release, the movie will be shown in the US, Italy, Australia and many other countries. The sometimes irreverent movie starts out as the father, Eyal (Shai Avivi), impulsively decides to smoke what is left of his son’s medical marijuana. The problem is that he doesn’t know how to roll a joint, and has to turn to the hated neighbors’ stoner son, Zooler, for help. Tomer Kapon, who plays Zooler, won the Ophir Award for Best Supporting Actor. The idea for the movie came from two places. “A good friend of mine, when we younger, he had a girlfriend who was sick for a long time, but somehow her death came as a surprise. Me and a bunch of friends came over, and there was not much to say. Someone broke the silence by saying, ‘Do you have some of her medicinal weed left?’ I thought about the thing that is left behind. It was meant to ease the pain of one person, but it ends up easing the pain of someone else.” The other inspiration was “a eulogy that my dad wrote for his sister,” a moving description of who she was and what it meant to lose her. Polonsky wrote a character, played by Uri Gavriel, who gives just such a eulogy in the film. Polonsky wrote the first draft of the screenplay for One Week and a Day when he was studying in an intensive program at the American Film Institute. He then submitted the screenplay to the Jerusalem International Film Lab of the Sam Spiegel School for Film & Television, Jerusalem. It was accepted and he worked on the script with Hagai Levi, the creator of the television series In Treatment and The Affair, on how to bring some humor and even moments of fun to the story. Levi suggested he check out two movies that, at first glance, couldn’t be more different from One Week and a Day: Midnight Run, an action/comedy/ buddy movie about a crooked accountant and a bounty hunter (played by Charles Grodin and Robert De Niro), and Under the Sand by Francois Ozon, a mystery that is heavy on mood and atmosphere, about a woman searching for her missing husband. He watched these over and over, especially Midnight Run, which he says “is an underrated film with a perfect script,” and he wrote the scenes between Eyal and Zooler, almost as if it were a buddy movie. “What I knew in the beginning is the father is left with this bag of weed... he’s in this quicksand. He can’t get out [from under the grief]... his wife is pushing forward and keeps getting stuck. And it was really about creating this conflict between the two opposing objectives, wanting to move forward and wanting to go backwards.” Once he finished the script, he went looking for the actors who could bring it to life. Shai Avivi and Evgenia Dodina give extraordinary performances that bring out all the nuances in the characters. Aviv wasn’t the obvious choice for such a demanding, dramatic role, however. He is known mainly as a comic actor – he’s been called the Larry David of Israel. “On paper, he wasn’t the right person,” Polonsky says. But in the audition, “He brought something fresh and new. He was able to get to the character and add another level from himself.” Dodina always seemed like the right person for the role, however. “She was definitely in my mind as I was writing,” says Polonsky. Dodina, a Russian-born actress who has starred in many stage productions for such companies as Gesher and Habima, has been in many movies but has never had a film role that has allowed her to display her talent so fully before. When the two actors met and did the “chemistry read” together, “It was just wow.” They seemed like a long-married couple, and the two even went on a date in character to prepare for the film. Polonsky was born in the US to Israeli parents and lived there till he was eight, when his family returned to Israel. His mother is a Feldenkrais instructor, while his father, who works in high tech, was a movie buff who got him interested in movies of the Sixties and Seventies – such as Easy Rider, the smokefilled influence of which is evident in One Week and Day. Polonsky is married to Vanara Taing , a Cambodian- American filmmaker, and the two are developing projects together in the US and hope to start shooting a film in 2017. “One Week and a Day took me six years,” says Polonsky. “I’m working on a few different things now, because you never know what’s going to work in the end.”
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10 /99 The Shame of Fat Shaming (1.18/10) It is not easy to be fat in America, even though more than a third of adults are obese.
Donald J. Trump brought the issue of fat shaming to the fore during and after last week’s debate, when he disparaged a former Miss Universe winner who gained weight and when he said the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s emails might have been done by “somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds.”
But there also is a body of evidence showing that the effects of fat shaming and stigmatizing go far beyond such remarks, beyond the stares fat people get on the street, the cutting comments strangers make about their weight and the “funny” greeting cards featuring overweight people. It turns out that fat prejudice differs from other forms in ways that make it especially difficult to overcome.
The problems with fat shaming start early. Rebecca Puhl, the deputy director of the University of Connecticut’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, and her colleagues find that weight is the most common reason children are bullied in school. In one study , nearly 85 percent of adolescents reported seeing overweight classmates teased in gym class.
Dr. Puhl and her colleagues asked fat kids who was doing the bullying. It turned out that it was not just friends and classmates but also teachers and — for more than a third of the bullied — parents.
“If these kids are not safe at school or at home, where are they going to be supported?” Dr. Puhl asked.
The bullying problem is not limited to the United States. Dr. Puhl and her colleagues found the same situation in Canada, Australia and Iceland.
Women face harsher judgment than men, Dr. Puhl reports. The cutting remarks can begin when a woman’s body mass index is in the overweight range, while for men the shaming tends to start when they are obese. And women who are obese report more than three times as much shaming and discrimination as men of equal obesity.
Sadder still is the finding that people who are obese often share the same attitudes toward fat people as the rest of society. That, said Dr. Kimberly Gudzune of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, “is one of the things I find most challenging and unique with weight stigma.”
Fat people, she reports, actually stigmatize themselves. They shame and blame themselves for being fat and have the same sorts of thoughts about other people who are obese. “Self- loathing,” Dr. Gudzune said, “can be a prominent feature” of being obese.
The stigma continues even after a person loses weight, Dr. Gudzune and others reported. Studies found that employers, when presented with two hypothetical candidates, are less likely to hire a formerly fat person. “They think it is a fundamental character flaw,” she said.
As a result, said Alexandra Brewis Slade of Arizona State University, many formerly fat people, including many who had been prominent in the fat acceptance movement, hide their pasts after they lose weight.
There is even a stigma surrounding the way people lose weight. The only method that is likely to lead to a large and permanent weight loss is bariatric surgery. But patients who lose weight that way often hesitate to reveal it because other people often feel it is “cheating,” Dr. Slade said.
The effects of a lifetime of shame and stigma can be profound. Fat people are more prone to anxiety and depression, and weight shaming can set off rounds of binge eating and avoidance of exercise because of embarrassment at how they look exercising and wearing workout clothes.
“There tends to be this public perception that maybe fat shaming is O. K. because it will provide motivation to lose weight,” Dr. Puhl said. Instead, she adds, “it is very harmful to health.”
The situation is better than it was a decade ago, Dr. Puhl said. Now there is widespread public support for anti-bullying laws that include protection for fat children and for laws prohibiting discrimination against obese people in the workplace. But there is still a long way to go.
Even the public health campaigns meant to prevent obesity can contribute to the stigma , researchers say , because the implicit message is that anyone who really wants to — anyone who eats well and exercises regularly — can be thin. As for children, the message is that parents should monitor kids’ body mass.
If only it were only so simple, obesity experts say. Childhood obesity stubbornly resists such fixes. As adults, fat people tend to try all sorts of weight-loss programs. If they could be thin, they insist, they would be. They certainly do not want to be fat. But other people often maintain that it is within the power of obese people to lose substantial amounts of weight if they really make an effort.
Dr. Michael Rosenbaum, an obesity researcher at Columbia University, explained: “Inevitably, you get these comments, ‘I know how to cure obesity. All you have to do is eat less.’ The idea that obesity is a disease has not caught on. The idea that once you have lost weight you are cured is wrong. Obesity is the disease that keeps on giving.”
Meanwhile, “That public health message leads to people feeling it is their fault,” said Judith Matz, a psychotherapist and author. “It implies weight is a matter of willpower.”
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11 /99 Life Normal in Pakistani Kashmir, but Tense on Indian Side (1.15/10) Life seems quite normal in the villages along the Pakistani side of Kashmir. But on the Indian side, villagers are spending sleepless nights in temporary shelters amid soaring tensions between the two nuclear- armed rivals.
On the Pakistani side, markets and schools were open, shepherds escorted their goats and cows to graze, and children were seen visiting shops to buy candies during a visit Saturday by dozens of media members to the border village of Bagsar, some 166 kilometers (103 miles) northeast of Islamabad.
The two neighbors' contentious frontier includes a rugged 740-kilometer (460-mile) mountainous stretch called the Line of Control, which is heavily guarded by both sides. Since 2003, a cease-fire has largely held despite regular small-scale skirmishes. Each side routinely blames the other for starting any violence and insists they are only retaliating.
That was the case Saturday as Pakistani military officials took pains to refute the Indian version of the latest Kashmir conflict. The Indian army claims they carried out a 'surgical strike' on Sept. 29 near the village and destroyed a " terrorist launching pad" used by Kashmir-based militants.
Pakistani military spokesman Maj. Gen. Asim Salim Bajwa told visiting journalists that the Indian claim was a lie. He said Indian troops opened fire unprovoked with small arms and mortars after 2 a.m. in five separate spots along the border. Two Pakistani soldiers were killed in the barrages that continued until 7 a.m. and stopped only when the Pakistani army began retaliating, he said.
"That was simply the cease-fire violation on the LoC which was effectively and strongly punished," Bajwa said.
The Indian attack came about 10 days after a deadly assault on an Indian base in Kashmir. On Sept. 18, suspected rebels using guns and grenades sneaked into a base in Indian-controlled Kashmir and killed at least 17 soldiers.
On the Indian side, civilian officials said the frontier was largely calm but they were still not taking chances. Thousands of civilians slept in temporary shelters for the second night.
"Every year we go through these hardships. There seems to be no end to it in sight," said Mohan Lal, a villager in a shelter in the village of Khour.
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Associated Press writer Aijaz Husain in Srinagar, India contributed to this report.
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12 /99 Pennsylvania college suspends students over blackface video (1.10/10) A Pennsylvania college says it has suspended two students over an online video showing a student in blackface lampooning the Black Lives Matter movement. Albright College President Lex McMillan III... Pennsy lv ania college suspends two students ov er blackf ace v ideo article.wn.com
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13 /99 Talk of sex tapes take presidential campaign on sordid turn (1.08/10) Donald Trump is encouraging voters to check out a "sex tape" featuring the former beauty queen with whom he's feuding. Hillary Clinton's campaign is suggesting that a better rental is the adult film in which Trump himself appears. With the presidential campaign taking a sordid turn Friday, even many of Trump's supporters shook their heads, worried that their candidate's latest outburst could further hurt him among female voters already skeptical but whose support he'll badly need to win in November. The Republican nominee's a pre-dawn Twitter tirade tore into the 1996 Miss Universe, Alicia Machado, a Venezuela-born woman whose weight gain Trump has said created terrible problems for the pageant he owned at the time. Clinton had cited Trump's treatment of Machado near the end of their first debate, and Trump has spent days revisiting his complaints about Machado. "Did Crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M become a U. S. citizen so she could use her in the debate? " read a tweet Trump posted at 5:30 a.m., one in a series of attacks on her. The "sex tape" tweet apparently referred to footage from a Spanish reality show in 2005 in which Machado was a contestant and appeared on camera in bed with a male contestant. The images are grainy and do not include nudity, though Machado later acknowledged in the Hispanic media that she was having sex in the video. Muddying the waters: an explicit 2000 Playboy video with a cameo by Trump. In a short clip posted on the website BuzzFeed, Trump pours a bottle of champagne on a Playboy- branded limo on a New York street, surrounded by a gaggle of women. "There's been a lot of talk about sex tapes today and in a strange turn of events only one adult film has emerged today, and its star is Donald Trump," said Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill, adding he hadn't seen the film. Meanwhile, Trump's campaign accused the media and Clinton of colluding to set him up for fresh condemnation, to which Clinton retorted, "His latest twitter meltdown is unhinged, even for him. "Machado herself took to Facebook to say Trump's tweets were part of a pattern of "demoralizing women," calling them "cheap lies with bad intentions. " Planned Parenthood said it showed that Trump's "misogyny knows no bounds. " And Clinton said they showed anew why someone with Trump's temperament "should not be anywhere near the nuclear codes. "With less than 40 days left in the election, Trump's broadside threw his campaign into a fresh round of second-guessing the candidate's instincts and confusion about what to do next. To believers in traditional political norms, it seemed like the opposite of what was needed to win over females, Hispanics and young Americans whose support could well determine the election. Shaming Machado over intimate details from her past could be particularly risky as Trump tries to win over more female voters, many of whom are turned away by such personal attacks. It also risks calling further attention to the thrice-married Trump's own history with women. What kind of a man, Clinton asked, "stays up all night to smear a woman with lies and conspiracy theories? "Even Trump's most vocal allies seemed at a loss for words. "He's being Trump. I don't have any comment beyond that," said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a top supporter. Generally chatty and occasionally critical of Trump, Gingrich said tersely that Trump sometimes does "strange things," but that Clinton lies. "I'll let you decide which is worse for America. "But Trump's inner circle followed his lead by refusing to concede any missteps. Trump didn't mention the tweets Friday evening as he rallied supporters in Michigan. Instead, he returned to Twitter to invoke Clinton's famous ad from her 2008 campaign portraying her as the best candidate to pick up an urgent call at the White House at 3 a.m. "For those few people knocking me for tweeting at three o'clock in the morning, at least you know I will be there, awake, to answer the call! " Trump wrote.
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14 /99 Donald Trump's cameo in softcore pornography movie unearthed (1.08/10) Donald Trump made a cameo appearance in a 2000 Playboy video, posing – fully clothed – with a group of models and pouring champagne over a limo.
“Beauty is beauty, and let’s see what happens with New York,” Mr Trump says in the film Playboy Video Centerfold.
The film, obtained by Buzzfeed, featured Peruvian twins Darlene and Carol travelling across the US, and welcomed to New York by Mr Trump. Other scenes from the film feature naked women posing in sexual positions, dancing naked, touching themselves while naked, touching each other sensually, rubbing honey on themselves, taking a bath, and dressing in costumes.
The VHS cover of the video reads: “From luxuriating in a warm, soapy tub, to revelling at an exclusive night club, Carol and Darlene bare their sex appeal and lead you on a sensual journey of discovery.”
The presidential candidate has spent this week attacking Alicia Machado, a former Miss Universe, who has spoken out about how Mr Trump treated her in the late 1990s. He said she was “disgusting” and spoke of her “sex tape” — a grainy night-vision video of her having sex while appearing on a reality show.
No sex tape has emerged, but right-wing websites earlier this week reported that Miss Machado appeared in a number of online porn videos. The videos inaccurately listed under her name on porn sites around the web do not feature the former beauty queen.
He has also previously been happy to describe Paris Hilton’s sex tape as having made her “hotter,” and called on Carrie Prejean, a Miss Universe contestant, to release hers, in which no one else appeared and she had sent when she was 17 years old to her boyfriend.
But Mr Trump does not appear to be embarrassed by the Playboy film, with it being listed on his IMDB page.
In 2004 he told Playboy: “I’ve always said, ‘If you need Viagra, you’re probably with the wrong girl.’”
Yet in an effort to cultivate conservative voters, in August he signed a pledge promising to crack down on pornography if elected.
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15 /99 Species likely extinct after rare frog dies in Atlanta (1.06/10) Authorities say a rare tree frog — the last known living member of the species in captivity — has died at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://on-ajc.com/2d8qTPQ) … Click to Continue » ...
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16 /99 Syrians refuse attempted relocation along Jordan border (1.06/10) AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Syrians stranded on the border with Jordan are refusing to move five kilometers (3.1 miles) west to a soon-to-be opened aid distribution center. ...
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17 /99 Pakistan and India exchange fresh fire as tensions rise (1.06/10) | Print | E-mail
Saturday, 01 October 2016 07:47 Pakistani cinemas reportedly stop screening Indian films as new skirmishes erupt along de facto border in Kashmir.
Pakistan and India have exchanged fresh fire along the de facto border that divides the disputed region of Kashmir, the Pakistani military said, as tensions rise between the nuclear-armed neighbouring countries.
"Pakistani troops befittingly responded to Indian unprovoked firing" which started at 4:00 am (2300 GMT) and continued for four hours in Bhimber sector on the Pakistani side of the border, a Pakistani military statement said on Saturday, without mentioning any casualties.
Later on Saturday, Pawan Kotwal, a top civilian official in Jammu and Kashmir State on the Indian side, said the exchange of fire had not caused any damage.
"There was small arms fire and mortar shells fire from across the border in Akhnoor sector which lasted for around two hours (4:00 am to 6:00 am)," Kotwal told AFP news agency.
"No damage was caused. We are ready for any eventuality but it is peaceful in Jammu region. "
The skirmish came two days after India claimed it had carried out " surgical strikes " across the heavily militarised Line of Control (LoC), the de facto border in the disputed territory, on what it called "terrorist" targets several kilometres inside Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.
The rare public admission of such action sparked furious rhetoric from Pakistan and calls for restraint from the US and the UN.
Tensions remain high between the two nuclear-armed neighbours following the killing of 18 soldiers nearly two weeks ago.
"This is a dangerous moment for the region," Pakistan's Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi told AFP after meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at UN headquarters in New York.
Ban on Friday offered to act as a mediator between New Delhi and Islamabad to defuse the tensions.
In a statement to AFP, India's mission to the UN said "India has no desire to aggravate the situation", and that "our response was a measured counter-terrorist strike".
On Friday, authorities in parts of northern India said they had started evacuating villages within 10 kilometres of the border following the raids earlier this week.
Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since the two countries gained independence from British rule in 1947. Both claim the territory in its entirety.
Rebel groups have for decades fought Indian soldiers - currently numbering about 500,000 - demanding independence for the region or its merger with Pakistan.
Tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have died in the fighting.
Bollywood ban On Friday, Pakistani cinemas reportedly stopped screening Indian films in "solidarity" with the country's armed forces.
"We have stopped screening Indian movies at our cinemas from Friday till the situation improves and normalcy returns," said Nadeem Mandviwalla, whose Mandviwalla Entertainment runs eight cinemas in Karachi and the capital, Islamabad.
The Indian Motion Picture Producers' Association (IMPPA), a small filmmakers' body, on Thursday banned their members from hiring Pakistani actors. Mandviwalla and other cinema owners said the ban in Pakistan was also in response to IMPPA's move.
Indian media reported that a leader of the regional right-wing party, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena last week gave Pakistani actors 48 hours to leave India or faced being "pushed out".
The party, which was not available for comment, has regularly called for Pakistani artists to be banned from working in India.
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18 /99 Government must urgently bring vulnerable Calais Jungle children to UK - Unicef (1.03/10) The Government must "act with a lot more urgency" on its promise to bring vulnerable children to the UK from Calais, the charity Unicef has warned. French President Francois Hollande revealed this week his government is preparing to "completely, definitively" dismantle the Jungle camp near the port town by the end of the year. In the wake of the announcement, the UK reaffirmed its "crystal clear" commitment to resettle vulnerable children and also ensure those with links to Britain are brought to the country. But Lily Caprani, Unicef UK's deputy executive director, said this promise needs to translate into urgent action before those children disappear or are pushed into the arms of traffickers. Speaking to the Press Association of the progress since the Government's pledge earlier this year, she said: "Five, six months later, there are still hundreds of them there. We have seen a few brought over but there are loads that haven't been. " Calling it an "emergency" for the children in Calais, she added: "It is time to keep that promise now and turn into a reality. " Estimating there are up to 1,000 unaccompanied minors in the camp, she described the s ituation as becoming more "urgent" since the announcement and said there are rumours bulldozers could descend in a "matter of weeks". "A few months ago they bulldozed half the camp, we know children just scattered, we lost them, they went missing, they were trafficked," Ms Caprani added. "Our great fear is that is going to happen again - that we will lose these children. " With some vulnerable youngsters waiting "months, and months and months, in the camp", she said children have "given up" on the system because their cases are not being processed or given reassurances they are going to be given accommodation. "All they know is the authorities are coming to demolish the camp and that it is not going to be a safe place to be," she added. "We are really frightened for them that they will take matters into their own hands and keep trying to jump onto the backs of trucks and lorries - because they don't feel they have any option. "The thing that is so outrageous is that hundreds of them have a right to be in the UK. It just seems so wrong that children who have that right are left in complete limbo like this. " She described the camp as "no place for a child", and said it is "frequented" by people smugglers and traffickers, and those who prey on the vulnerability of children. "They tell us they are frightened," she said, revealing volunteers have reported seeing children as young as eight or nine in the camp. She said the children in Calais, who have a mistrust of the authorities, need a "solid plan" to reassure them they will be safe and their cases looked at urgently - before the bulldozers pull the Jungle down. "The Government needs to act with a lot more urgency than it is doing at the moment because the bulldozers are going to arrive and there needs to be a plan for these children as soon as possible," Ms Caprani said. She added: "Every day that goes past is another day children might be trafficked, or end up being killed. "
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19 /99 Forsyth school employee's comments on First Lady spark online outrage (1.03/10) GAINESVILLE, Ga. -- A local elementary school employee is under fire for comments she made on social media directed at the First Lady of the United States.
Facebook comments shared by someone named Jane Wood Allen sparked anger online after the she called First Lady Michelle Obama a "gorilla" and said other negative things about her appearance.
A spokesperson with the Forsyth County school system told Forsyth County News that officials were made aware of the posts on Friday morning and are looking into the situation.
"We have and will continue to address this issue with the employee next week,” the official said . “Racism and discrimination are not tolerated in Forsyth County Schools.”
An employee by the name of Jane Allen is listed as a paraprofessional at Chestatee Elementary School in Gainesville, Ga.
Several viewers shared screenshots of the racially-charged posts, though 11Alive is choosing not to publish them until we are able to independently confirm the identity of the employee.
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20 /99 Electric cars take centre stage at Paris auto show (1.02/10) Electric cars look set to dominate this year's auto show in Paris, which opened to the public on Saturday, as the Volkswagen diesel scandal and falling battery costs persuade executives that plug-in vehicles are ready to go mainstream. ...
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21 /99 Turkish leader accuses EU of insincerity on visa promise (1.02/10) ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey's president says the European Union wants to back out of lifting visa restrictions for Turks — a key incentive offered Turkey in a deal to stop thousands of migrants from crossing the Aegean Sea to Greece. ... Turkish Leader Accuses EU of Insincerity on Visa Promise abcnews.go.com
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22 /99 Robin Williams' wife describes his last days in heartbreaking essay (1.02/10) LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- More than two years after Robin Williams ' shocking suicide, the Oscar-winning actor's wife has written an essay about the condition she says caused him to take his own life.
Susan Schneider Williams ' account of her husband's final days battling what she now knows is Lewy body disease, a form of dementia, was published this week in the medical journal Neurology under the title, "The terrorist inside my husband's brain. "
Williams explained in the piece that she wanted to raise awareness and encourage research so scientists and doctors will some day be able to help others who suffer from the insidious, as-yet-incurable disease, the full effects of which Williams said she did not fully comprehend until after her husband's death at the age of 63.
"He died from suicide in 2014 at the end of an intense, confusing, and relatively swift persecution at the hand of this disease's symptoms and pathology. He was not alone in his traumatic experience with this neurologic disease. As you may know, almost 1.5 million nationwide are suffering similarly right now," the widow explained.
"Although not alone, his case was extreme. Not until the coroner's report, 3 months after his death, would I learn that it was diffuse LBD that took him. All 4 of the doctors I met with afterwards and who had reviewed his records indicated his was one of the worst pathologies they had seen. He had about 40% loss of dopamine neurons and almost no neurons were free of Lewy bodies throughout the entire brain and brainstem. ... How I wish he could have known why he was struggling, that it was not a weakness in his heart, spirit, or character. "
Among the symptoms he experienced were extreme paranoia, sleeplessness, forgetfulness and confusion. It also slowed his walk and made his hand tremor. To address the effects, he underwent countless tests, consulted numerous doctors and tried various medications, psychotherapy, physical therapy, bike riding and working out with a trainer.
"In Robin's case, on top of being a genius, he was a Julliard-trained actor. I will never know the true depth of his suffering, nor just how hard he was fighting. But from where I stood, I saw the bravest man in the world playing the hardest role of his life," his wife noted.
"Robin was losing his mind and he was aware of it. Can you imagine the pain he felt as he experienced himself disintegrating? And not from something he would ever know the name of, or understand? Neither he, nor anyone could stop it -- no amount of intelligence or love could hold it back. "
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23 /99 'Ash vs. Evil Dead' cast has bloody good time at MSU screening (1.02/10) A link has been posted to your Facebook feed.
In the decades since the low-budget horror classic “The Evil Dead” turned him into a cult film icon, Bruce Campbell has spent countless professional hours covered in fake blood and viscera. But there was something special about that first time.
"There's no acting required when you first get hit with blood,” Campbell said Thursday night to a room of young fans in Michigan State University's Wells Hall. “You're like, what the ...?”
“Ash vs. Evil Dead,” the hit TV series based on the “Evil Dead” films Campbell made with his high school friend, director Sam Raimi, begins its second season Sunday night on Starz. And in case it was ever in doubt: there will be blood. Lots and lots of it.
Royal Oak native Campbell, who plays Ash in the series, visited MSU both to promote the show and pay homage to the franchise’s roots — “The Evil Dead” was conceived in the late 1970s, when Raimi and Robert Talpert, the film’s producer, both were MSU students.
After a late-night screening of the new season’s first episode — again, very bloody — Campbell joined cast members Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo, Lucy Lawless and Ted Raimi, and developer/writer Ivan Raimi for a spirited panel discussion moderated by Detroit Free Press entertainment editor Steve Byrne.
Campbell discussed the franchise’s long road to success, why “Evil Dead” works as a TV series and the challenge of adding characters to flesh out the story.
“When you get into television you have to tell a broader story,” he said. “It can't be just Ash mumbling, talking to his disembodied hand for 10 episodes.”
The new season finds Ash and his sidekicks Pablo (Santiago) and Kelly (DeLorenzo) returning to Ash’s Michigan hometown, the fictional Elk Grove, to team with the supernaturally powerful Ruby (Lawless) and thwart demonic forces summoned by the Necronomicon. Along the way there is excessive slapstick violence — the season’s tagline is “Glory, Gory, Hallelujah.” The franchise’s trademark blend of horror and comedy is difficult to achieve, said Ted Raimi. “If you go too far one way, it's a light comedy with gore. If you go too far the other way, it's an unfunny horror movie.”
MSU film studies professor Bill Vincent, who has been teaching at the university for more than 50 years, had some of the original “Evil Dead” creators as students and has since worked on and appeared in some of Sam Raimi’s films.
“They knew more about filmmaking than I did,” Vincent told the Free Press. I could tell (Sam Raimi) was a genius when he was 19.”
Vincent half-joked that he was jockeying for a small role in the “Evil Dead” TV series. “I’m trying to persuade them that they need an old man.”
The show’s younger actors — DeLorenzo and Santiago — said they were thrilled to participate in a beloved franchise that was created as a collaboration between friends.
When another panelist asked any film studies majors to raise their hands, Santiago said, “Look to your left and your right, and make movies with those people. That's how these guys did it.”
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24 /99 1950s electro (1.02/10) The beginning famous recording of song constructed by a mechanism – a appurtenance operated by Alan Turing, no reduction – has finally been done to sound accurately as it did 65 years ago.
It’s frequency chart-topping material. The opening is wanton and a tinge reedy.
It starts with a few bars of a inhabitant anthem, afterwards a detonate of Baa Baa Black Sheep, followed by a truncated delivery of Glenn Miller’s representation strike In The Mood. (“The machine’s apparently not in a mood,” an operative can be listened asserting when it stops mid- way.)
But a easy audio lane is a landmark – a initial time that song played on a mechanism is famous to have been recorded.
It was prisoner by a BBC in a Autumn of 1951 during a revisit to a University of Manchester, where a Ferranti Mark 1 – a world’s initial commercially accessible ubiquitous purpose mechanism – was based.
The recording was prisoner on a 12-inch (30.5cm) acetate disc. But when Professor Jack Copeland of University of Canterbury in Christchurch and composer Jason Long examined a disc, they found a audio had been distorted.
It “gave during best usually a severe sense of how a mechanism sounded”, Copeland and Long wrote in a blog for a British Library. But now they contend they have easy it to how it indeed would have sounded in 1951.
The Ferranti Mark 1 might not have been a initial mechanism to have played song – that distinction, it’s been widely claimed, went to an Australian appurtenance called CSIRAC that played The Colonel Bogey Mar some months before. But no recording has ever surfaced.
The song module was created by a maths master during Harrow called Christopher Strachey, a crony of computing colonize Alan Turing, who had created a Ferranti Mark 1’s instruction primer in his purpose as emissary executive of Manchester University’s Computing Machine Laboratory.
The Ferranti had a ability to furnish an instruction called a “hoot”, that constructed brief detonate of sound durability a fragment of a second. Turing realised this could be used to furnish low- pitched notes. He dictated that this would be used to emanate alerts when a pursuit was finished and so on, yet Strachey saw a intensity to perform correct melodies.
As good as being preoccupied by mechanism programming – he would go on to turn one of a UK’s inaugural mechanism scientists – Strachey was a learned pianist.
Turing devoted Strachey adequate to leave him alone with a mechanism for a night. “I sat in front of this huge machine,” Strachey after recalled, “with 4 or 5 rows of 20 switches and things, in a room that felt like a control room of a battleship.”
There’s some brawl about what he did next. Chris Burton of a Computer Conservation Society (CCS) says Strachey wrote a module for personification draughts on a machine, and when a module consummated it played God Save a King. Others contend Strachey’s module was quite for personification music. Find out more
The outcome was wanton during best. The appurtenance could usually estimate a representation of many notes.
“It was sincerely imprecise,” says Burton.
But word widespread that a mechanism was means of behaving song and a BBC outside- broadcast group arrived after in a year to record a shred for Children’s Hour.
It’s not transparent who automatic a 3 pieces of song they recorded. A series of technicians had begun programming melodies into a appurtenance and even Strachey’s chronicle of God Save The King might have been amended.
After a recording, a university operative called Frank Cooper asked a BBC group for a copy. They cut him a chronicle of a original, and this was eventually upheld to a CCS and a unrestored chronicle was made open in 2008.
By analysing a recording, Copeland and Long realised it was personification during a wrong speed, presumably as a outcome of a recorder’s turntable using too fast as a acetate was cut.
As they knew a records a mechanism was indeed means of playing, a span were means to calculate accurately by how most a recording indispensable to be speeded adult in sequence to accurately compare a sound done by a Ferranti Mark 1. They also private unconnected sound from a recording – yet not a engineer’s voice. “It was a pleasing impulse when we initial listened a loyal sound of Turing’s computer,” Copeland and Long wrote. Now anyone can hear it in all a rather rickety glory.
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25 /99 Agriculture Ministry introduces campaign against ‘kaparot’ ritual (1.02/10) In a cartoon video featuring an outspoken rooster fighting for the release of his friends, the Agriculture Ministry has launched a campaign against the traditional kaparot ritual. Performed between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, the kaparot practice typically involves swinging a live chicken over one’s head. As an equally acceptable alternative, the cartoon rooster – and the ministry – ask that members of the public instead partake in financial kaparot, or achieving atonement by donating money to the poor.
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“Yom Kippur is a day of atonement and mutual transgressions!” the rooster yells, just as a man is preparing to swing him in the kaparot ritual. “Therefore, I stand here and say loud and clear, this year we will give kaparot in money and help those in need!” he continues, to resounding applause from chickens stacked behind bars in their cages. “Halacha [Jewish law] is on our side! Everyone is released! And every chicken will receive a release grant of a private coop in Savyon,” he jokes, referring to a wealthy Tel Aviv suburb. The video, produced by Srutonim, is part of a larger NIS 750,000 campaign to spread the message around the country, executed by the Government Advertising Agency. The campaign also includes more conservative-style messages that aim to raise awareness among the readers of the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) press, the Agriculture Ministry said. In publishing the video, the ministry expressed hopes of reaching a younger audience, who would in turn be able to influence the practices of their parents with regard to kaparot. “For centuries, the custom of kaparot has been part of our tradition on Yom Kippur,” said Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel. “In recent years, we have been putting in an effort to encourage the public to continue this important custom, yet not through chickens that are transported to slaughter, but instead by donating money. It is right two times – once from the standpoint of preventing cruelty to animals, and again by giving tzedaka to those in need.” The organization Anonymous for Animal Rights, which has for years been protesting against the kaparot ritual, welcomed the Agriculture Ministry’s effort. “We hope that this campaign is an important step on the path toward prohibiting this abuse,” read a statement from the group. “More and more Israelis understand that the chicken tortured for kaparot is the same chicken tortured for schnitzel – a chick that has undergone genetic distortion for quick growth, has been held in a stinking and filthy coop, crammed full of growth-catalyzing antibiotics, and at 40 days old, has been loaded violently onto a truck toward slaughter. Particularly on these days of reflection, it is worth pondering about the weak among us and choosing the compassionate path.”
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26 /99 Angry Brazilian voters looking to upend political order (1.02/10) SAO PAULO (AP) — In Brazil's biggest city of Sao Paulo, the leading mayoral candidate is a businessman who once fired people on air during a television reality show. In the country's crown jewel city of Rio de Janeiro, the...
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27 /99 Clean-up Continues At Indian Point Nuclear Plant After Oil Spill (1.02/10) BUCHANAN, N. Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Clean-up is continuing at the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant in where an undetermined amount of oil spilled into a drainage canal leading to the Hudson River.
Jerry Nappi, a spokesman for Indian Point owner Entergy, said the oil is not radioactive and none was observed in the river.
State environmental officials were notified after an oil sheen was observed in the discharge canal Friday morning.
Nappi tells the Journal News that the spill occurred after the cooling system for one of the turbines in a non-nuclear area of the plant malfunctioned.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo toured the plant Friday evening and said there was no reason for neighbors to be concerned about the spill.
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28 /99 New Facility Greets Visitors to Historic Walden Pond (1.02/10) If Henry David Thoreau were around today, Massachusetts officials think he'd probably be happy with the new visitor center at Walden Pond.
The 5,680-square-foot facility powered by renewable solar energy officially opened its doors to the public this past week, part of a recent $7.2 million upgrade of the Walden Pond State Reservation.
Thoreau's observations on nature while living for more than two years in an isolated cabin near the pond were published in his famous 1854 book, "Walden; or Life in the Woods. "
The new visitor center will include interactive exhibits about Thoreau, who is often viewed as a founder of the modern environmental movement.
Roughly half a million people from around the world visit Walden Pond each year.
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2016-10-01 12:30 By abcnews.go.com
29 /99 Effort to recognize World War II spies hung up in Congress (1.02/10) McLEAN, Va. (AP) — Spies don't work for fame or acclaim. But after 75 years, the men and women who served behind the enemy lines in Nazi Germany and the Pacific theater during World War II wouldn't mind some recognition. Legislation to award the spies the Congressional Gold Medal has passed the Senate and has more than 300 sponsors in the House, yet the bill is being held up by House Republicans, who recently enacted rules that require a special waiver to grant the medal to groups of people. "I would be extremely proud to get a gold medal for what we did for our country," said Frank Gleason, 96, one of the few remaining veterans of the Office of Strategic Services, the World War II-era forerunner to the CIA. "What we did was a little exciting. " The holdup frustrates a group of veterans whose numbers continue to dwindle as time marches on. "We're all in our mid 90s," said Irv Refkin, 95, who was recruited by OSS because of his German language abilities, which he used to gather intelligence. "We're not going to be here that long. " Refkin, of Hillcrest, California, said he called the office of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, to lobby for the bill, and talked to "some kid intern. " "I asked him, did he know what OSS was? He didn't know. People haven't heard of us," Refkin said. Of course, the nature of spy craft is secretive, so for many years the stories of the OSS were classified. It was formed in 1942 and at one point employed almost 13,000 men and women, recruited from all branches of the military. Famous members include actor Sterling Hayden and director John Ford, baseball player Mo Berg, chef Julia Child, future CIA director William Casey. Estimates of how many OSS members are still alive range from a few dozen to 100. Refkin recalled a mission to Germany where he had to gain intelligence on the Nazis' plans for defending against what ultimately became the D-Day invasion. Refkin, dressed as a German corporal, rode the train behind enemy lines with forged documents. He posed as an office cleaner at German headquarters in Hamburg. "Nobody looked at a corporal. You carry a garbage bag, put some smelly stuff in it, and they waive you right through," Refkin said. "Nobody pays any attention to the guy emptying the ashtrays. " Gleason's group was tasked with halting the Japanese advance into China. Gleason, who grew up in Pennsylvania coal country and knew about explosives, helped detonate bridges, railroad tracks and anything else. "We just blew stuff up left and right," he said. Patrick O'Donnell, a military historian who has written several books on OSS missions, said he has interviewed hundreds of members. They tell stories that sound almost implausible, and when he verifies them in old mission reports, "You find out that it's completely understated. " O'Donnell said the CIA traces its beginnings to the OSS, and the Navy Seals have their roots in the OSS' Maritime Unit. "They changed the face of World War II," he said. "You'd be very hard pressed to find a smaller group of individuals who made such a profound difference in the history of modern American warfare. " The recognition being sought, the Congressional Gold Medal, has been awarded to several World War II-era units in recent years, including the Native American Code Talkers, the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders and World War II members of the Civil Air Patrol. Perhaps in response, the House Republican Conference enacted a rule that prevents awarding the Gold Medal to groups of people, unless House leadership grants a waiver. A spokeswoman for the House Republican Conference did not return a call and email seeking comment on the rule. McCarthy and House Speaker Paul Ryan's office also declined comment. Since the new rule, a waiver has been granted at least once, to the civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, helped sponsor legislation in the Senate. He said he never anticipated that there would be any resistance. "It just shouldn't be this hard," Warner said. The House sponsor, Rep. Robert Latta, R-Ohio, is working on a rule change that will allow the bill to be brought to the full House this session, said his spokesman, Drew Griffin. The House recessed this week without passing the bill. Hopes for passage now rest on pushing the bill through during the lame-duck session after the election. If that doesn't happen, the whole process has to start again in the next Congress. Charles Pinck, president of the Falls Church-based OSS Society, can't believe the House has balked at the recognition. "The OSS had to fight for its creation. It had to fight for its existence. It fought the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese Army," he said. "Now it has to fight to be recognized. If there's one thing the OSS knows how to do, it's fight. " ___ Associated Press writer Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report from Washington.
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2016-10-01 11:34 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk
30 /99 Deutsche Bank executives heading to U. S. in coming days -FAZ (1.00/10) FRANKFURT, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank executives are heading to the United States in the coming days to negotiate a settlement over a fine of up to $14 billion for misselling mortgage-backed securities, the Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung reported. The potential fine, announced two weeks ago, has sent shares in Germany's biggest lender into freefall. On Friday, the stock partially recovered after a media report that the two sides were close to a settlement of $5.4 billion. The FAZ did not cite any sources for its report. Deutsche Bank did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Chief Executive John Cryan's travel plans. (Reporting by Georgina Prodhan; editing by David Clarke) German bank regulator warns of negativ e perception spiral - report dailymail.co.uk
2016-10-01 15:54 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk
31 /99 Oklahoma State blocks three extra points, beats spiraling Longhorns STILLWATER, Okla. -- Oklahoma State defensive tackle Vincent Taylor barreled his way through the guard and center and slapped Texas’ second extra-point attempt down with both hands.
On the ball’s third hop, Taylor scooped it up and began rumbling the other way. But as he was about to be dragged down from behind, the 310-pounder flipped the ball like an option quarterback to teammate Tre Flowers , who dashed all the way for the rare defensive two-point conversion.
Texas did not convert a single kick the rest of the afternoon. And behind three blocked extra points, Oklahoma State steamrolled the Longhorns 49-31 at Boone Pickens Stadium to stake its place in the Big 12 title conversation.
And warm up Texas coach Charlie Strong’s seat just a little bit more.
The Cowboys’ three blocked extra points tied for the most by an FBS team in a game dating back to least 2004, according to ESPN Stats & Information. Taylor blocked two of those extra points and fellow defensive tackle Darrion Daniels got his hands on the other. Oklahoma State’s extra-point defense ended up outscoring Texas’ extra-point offense two-to-one. The Longhorns later tried a 46-yard field goal but misfired on that, and they wound going up for two after the next and final touchdown. That attempt failed as well.
Unfortunately for Strong, his beleaguered defense wasn’t any better than his extra-point team.
Oklahoma State quarterback Mason Rudolph shredded the Longhorns for 392 yards and four touchdowns as the Cowboys finished with 555 yards of offense.
Texas came into the weekend with the nation’s No. 106 scoring defense, which, after giving up 50 in a loss at Cal two weeks ago, prompted Strong to hint that he might demote defensive coordinator Vance Bedford.
Instead, after the off week, Strong stood by Bedford and said that he “had a lot of confidence in” his defensive coordinator.
But the Longhorns’ defensive struggles seemed to only balloon in Stillwater.
Through four games, Texas’ defense has forced only one turnover and has yet to intercept a pass.
In their opener, the Longhorns seemed to have finally turn a corner under Strong when they toppled Notre Dame in overtime. But after back-to-back losses, including two consecutive miserable performances defensively, the heat could be back on Strong going into next Saturday's clash against rival Oklahoma in Dallas.
2016-10-01 16:52 Jake Trotter www.espn.com
32 /99 Chinese Crossroads Highlights from a concert of traditional, contemporary and devotional music by the SCM Chinese Music Ensemble, featuring soloists on the pipa (lute), erhu (two- stringed fiddle), dizi (flute), and the zhongruan (round-bodied lute). ...
2016-10-01 16:32 system article.wn.com
33 /99 Justin Timberlake shows off his fun side as he learns dance moves from a fan It's hard to imagine A-Lister Justin Timberlake taking a trip around his local supermarket. However, he showed that he still knows exactly how to load a shopping cart as he demonstrated some bizarre dance moves on The Graham Norton Show on Friday. The 35-year-old actor and singer joined a member of the studio audience who taught him the move - nicknamed the shopping cart. Justin looked dapper in a teal sweater underneath a blazer and dark trousers for his appearance. The British host explained to Justin - who was on the sofa with Anna Kendrick and Daniel Radcliffe: 'We all have a dance move we break out, so we are asking the audience about their signature dance moves'. 'I see cameras turning around', joked Justin. He looked rather bemused as he watched a couple of audience members demonstrate their signature moves - including 'The Sprinker' and 'The Lawnmower'. He then got on board with the feature, leaping from the stage to join a fan called Suzy for the move. 'I'll go up there,' he offered, to the delight of the crowd. 'That's your trolley. You move that arm,' instructed the audience member, and Justin sportingly obliged. The former N-Sync member, who is known for his impressive dancing, then walked along with Suzy to his track Can't Stop The Feeling. Justin and Anna were promoting their new movie, Trolls, for which they provide the voices to Brand and Poppy respectively. The film is scheduled to be released on November 4, 2016.
2016-10-01 16:07 Dailymail.com www.dailymail.co.uk
34 /99 President Obama and former Shimon Peres's son during funeral captured in moment of compassion At the funeral for Israeli President Shimon Peres on Friday, the White House photographer and the Israel Government Press Office took heart-warming images of president Obama and Peres's son. During the service in Jerusalem, Chemi Peres was seated next to president Obama. While listening to one of the speakers talk about the former Israeli president, Chemi Peres became overwhelmed with emotion. Obama looked over with empathy for Peres's son as the man covered his face, trying to hide his emotion. Obama then reached into his pocket and handed Chemi a handkerchief. The photographs were snapped by White House photographer Pete Souza and Kobi Gideon of the Israel Government Press Office. Obama also delivered a speech in honor of the former Israeli president, who served from 2007 until 2014. During Obama's eulogy, he honored Peres for his role founding Israel and his commitment in in creating peace in the Middle East, the Huffington Post reported. 'Shimon Peres reminds us that the State of Israel, like the United States of America, was not built by cynics. 'We exist because people before us refused to be constrained by the past or the difficulties of the present. And Shimon Peres was never cynical,' Obama said. He also acknowledged unfinished business of reaching pace between Israel and Palestine. 'We gather here in the knowledge that Shimon never saw his dream of peace fulfilled. 'The region is going through a chaotic time. Threats are ever present. 'And yet, he did not stop dreaming, and he did not stop working,' Obama said.
2016-10-01 16:07 Dailymail.com www.dailymail.co.uk
35 /99 LOL! Watch how J'Something disciplines his dogs Defence is one of the areas the Springboks will be hoping to sharpen up when they face the Wallabies at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria on Saturday‚ flanker Oupa Mohoje has highlighted.
2016-10-01 16:00 TMG Entertainment www.timeslive.co.za
36 /99 Ugandan premiere of girl's slum-to- chess-champ story Phiona Mutesi used to forage for food in the impoverished slums of Kampala. On Saturday she attended a Disney movie premiere about her life in the Ugandan capital. What happened in between is that Mutesi became a chess champion and the resulting film "Queen of Katwe" is a real-life tale of triumph over adversity. "It was so emotional to see the film," the 20-year-old Mutesi said at the Saturday night Ugandan premiere of the movie. "Sometimes people think that it's not real life but what they show in (Queen of) Katwe is true. The foods, the people, children working to sell corn on the street, it's all true. " Authenticity is very important to the film's renowned director Mira Nair. "Uganda has been my home for 37 years. I've been waiting to distill the vibrancy, colour, style and the life of Kampala all this time," said Indian-born Nair. "Authenticity has always been a treasure to me and this film is pure Uganda. The reaction from audiences has been absolutely rapturous: laughing, sobbing, dancing and crying. " The film, which had its global premiere at last month's Toronto Film Festival, tells the story of Mutesi, who escaped her life as a vegetable hawker when she revealed, at the age of nine, a remarkable talent for chess at an outreach programme in a poverty-stricken Kampala slum of Katwe. "Queen of Katwe" is a tale of resilience, learning and strong women who overcome the odds. "Today my heart is exploding with happiness at bringing the film home. " Nair enthused. - 'Compassion and empathy' - Academy award-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o plays Mutesi's mother Harriet, a widow trying to do the best for her children amid relentless hardship. "It's exciting to be back in Uganda to share the film with its home," the Kenyan actress said at the Ugandan premiere of the new film. "I can't wait to watch it with the local cast. Mira tells this story from the inside out with compassion and empathy for the people of Katwe. " Phiona Mutesi, portrayed in the film by 16-year-old Madina Nalwanga in her first screen role, is now a chess champion who competes internationally. The game was only introduced in Uganda in the 1970s by foreign doctors and was still seen as a pursuit only for the rich. "I like chess because it involves planning," Mutesi said last year. "If you don't plan, you will end up with your life so bad. " "Queen of Katwe" is based on a book of the same name about Mutesi by American writer Tim Crothers. It was shot in Uganda and South Africa.
2016-10-01 15:59 Afp www.dailymail.co.uk
37 /99 For Orchestras in the U. S., So Much Depends on Their Communities’ Fortunes The orchestra world’s Black Friday began on Sept. 30 with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra going on strike in the morning and ended across Pennsylvania that evening with the Philadelphia Orchestra walking out as patrons gathered for its opening-night gala. The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra musicians, who were already on strike, sent their support on Twitter. But three strikes should not be taken to mean that classical music is out.
While orchestras across the country face endemic challenges — rising costs and weakening demand, along with difficulty raising money as classical music’s place in the broader culture fades — each ensemble has its own obstacles, and its fortunes are often closely tied to its community’s. That is why some orchestras, including the mighty Los Angeles Philharmonic and the small Grand Rapids Symphony, which announced this year that it raised $40 million for its endowment, are able to thrive while others struggle.
“I think orchestras are fundamentally local businesses,” said Thomas W. Morris, who has led both the Cleveland Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Morris added that while the unions representing musicians tend to look at what their peers are paid at comparable orchestras across the country, management typically focuses on what it thinks the local area can support.
That is certainly the case in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Orchestra is one of America’s best ensembles, known even to people who do not listen to much classical music for its playing in Walt Disney’s classic “Fantasia.” Seven seasons ago its base pay was higher than at the New York Philharmonic or the Boston Symphony Orchestra, both in cities where the cost of living is substantially higher than in Philadelphia. Then the ensemble, facing a fiscal crisis, sought bankruptcy protection five years ago — betting that the ability to get rid of some of its pension obligations would outweigh any hit taken by its reputation. The musicians saw their pay cut by 14 percent, and, in the fiercely competitive orchestra world, fell behind those peers and dropped to the eighth best-paid group in the nation, where they remain, according to Adaptistration , a website that tracks orchestra compensation.
“Does it matter to us that last season our base salary was more than 18 percent less than the Boston Symphony, and over 24 percent less than that of the San Francisco Symphony?” the Philadelphia musicians asked in a statement released when they went on strike. “Yes, it does. In order for us to remain a great orchestra, we must be able to attract and retain the best players.”
(The cost of living is significantly higher in Boston and San Francisco than in Philadelphia.)
The strike action is likely to direct renewed attention to the orchestra’s decision to seek bankruptcy protection in 2011. In an email she sent to supporters of the orchestra, Allison Vulgamore, the ensemble’s president and chief executive, said, “The talents of our great musicians must be recognized while also balancing the need for the kind of careful financial stewardship that will keep the Philadelphia Orchestra strong and viable for years to come.”
The financial challenge has grown as orchestras that could once count on support from business leaders and industrialists — when the Pittsburgh Symphony was founded at the turn of the last century, Pittsburgh was a booming steel town, and Andrew Carnegie helped support the ensemble — now must struggle to raise money in a very different kind of economy.
“It used to be understood that there was a group of good community citizens, usually associated with the big companies in town who had deep ties to the community and a sense of civic responsibility,” Mr. Morris said. “Now companies are changing, they’re owned by holding companies, their headquarters are elsewhere, and CEOs move around.”
Pittsburgh’s musicians went on strike after rejecting a management proposal that they said would cut their pay by 15 percent in the first year, freeze their pensions and reduce the orchestra’s size. The chairman of its board, Devin McGranahan, said in a statement that its deficit and debt had put it on track to “run out of cash and have to close the doors” by spring.
But it has not all been doom and gloom in the orchestra world this year. The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, which had a lockout four years ago, agreed to a contract with raises this spring. The Minnesota Orchestra, which recently went through a grueling 16-month lockout , has new labor peace and new board leadership, and went on tour to Europe this summer.
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, which had a successful recent fund-raising campaign, is adding musicians to its roster at a moment when many ensembles are shrinking. Just this month a prominent arts blog asked: “ Some Of Our Orchestras Seem To Be Thriving — Is This A New Trend? ”
Still, real tests remain. The old subscription model that orchestras relied on to fill seats is on the decline as audiences now prefer to make last-minute decisions about their leisure time. Some orchestras are struggling with attendance. Cincinnati is renovating its Music Hall, and plans to reduce its capacity by roughly 1,000 seats from the 3,417 it once held.
But even in shaky economic times the unions representing orchestra musicians hold power because without players, the show cannot go on: Their product, live performance, cannot be outsourced. That has made it difficult for orchestras to curb costs.
Robert J. Flanagan, an emeritus professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business who wrote the 2012 book “The Perilous Life of Symphony Orchestras,” said that the recent labor unrest showed that the challenges facing many orchestras had not disappeared with the end of the Great Recession.
“From the point of view of the musicians, they’ve spent a long time developing their skills, so they tend to look at what people with similar skills are being paid at other orchestras,” he said in an interview. “On the management side, they’re basically stuck with what the community they’re located in is willing to pay. And those two perspectives have very little to do with each other.”
2016-10-01 15:53 By www.nytimes.com
38 /99 'I need to see a medic': Pained Will Young calls for medical attention live on Strictly after pulling muscle during energetic jive He's had plenty of practice on the stage throughout his wildly successful solo career which he founded 14 years ago. Yet Will Young struggled when he swapped the stage for the dance floor on Saturday night's episode of Strictly Come Dancing when he pulled a muscle following an energetic routine. The 37-year-old Leave Right Now hitmaker threw himself into the Jive with Karen Clifton, although the high energy routine led to the star dramatically pulling a muscle in his leg. Will and Karen's fun dance was playful with a Fifties, rock'n'roll-themed Jive to the Rock Around The Clock, which saw Will dance in a playful ensemble and dance in Converse. While the dance appeared to go spectacularly well, as Will stumbled over to a waiting Tess Daly and revealed he pulled a muscle in his leg. Looking pained as he walked to the side of the stage after which he said to the stunning host: 'I've pulled a muscle - I need to see a medic after'. A concerned Tess asked the Pop Idol star if he needed to see her medic immediately but Will was determined to wait for the comments from judges Len Goodman, Craig Revel Horwood, Darcey Bussell and Bruno Tonioli. Despite concern, the crooner awaited the comments although broke into a sweat after which he headed up to Claudia Winkleman for the post-dance chat. When he chatted to Claudia, who looked equally concerned and suggested he seek medical attention, he bravely stated: 'That's ok, no pain, no gain'.
2016-10-01 15:43 Ciara Farmer www.dailymail.co.uk
39 /99 Lawsuit: Lynnwood red-light camera tickets should be refunded Ian Jordan admits he drove through the intersection at 196th St. SW and 36th Ave W in Lynnwood just as the light turned red.
“Ran a red light by about a tenth of a second,” the Mill Creek engineer told KIRO 7 on Friday.
It wasn’t the $124 ticket that bothered Jordan as much as what he learned while researching Lynnwood’s red-light ticket program, which has been in place since 2007 and is responsible for nearly $20 million in city revenue since then.
“They have been operating a red-light camera system illegally in that city,” Jordan said.
“The authorizing ordinance that the state Legislature enacted has very specific requirements, and Lynnwood is not following those, and so Lynnwood cannot be running a camera system.”
Jordan has hired Seattle lawyer Jay Carlson to file a class action lawsuit against Lynnwood for allegedly violating RCW 46.63.170, which states: “ … cities and counties using automated traffic safety cameras must post an annual report of the number of traffic accidents that occurred at each location where an automated traffic safety camera is located as well as the number of notices of infraction issued for each camera and any other relevant information about the automated traffic safety cameras that the city or county deems appropriate on the city’s or county’s web site.”
They claim Lynnwood hasn’t provided those numbers since 2013, even when requested.
“So that’s three years that have gone by that they’ve been out of compliance with the law,” Carlson told KIRO 7.
The suit, if successful, seeks full refunds for anyone who paid a red-light ticket in the past three years.
“The proponents of red-light cameras claim this is a program to enhance safety,” Carlson said. “But it’s my belief that really what this is, is a program to raise revenue for the city of Lynnwood.”
Carlson expects to file by the end of November and estimates the suit could cost Lynnwood at least $5 million.
Julie Moore, the city of Lynnwood’s Manager of Communications and Public Affairs, told KIRO 7 in an email Friday, “The City has not had a chance to thoroughly review the documents submitted by Mr. Carlson, so we are unable to comment at this point.” 2016-10-01 15:40 By KIRO mynorthwest.com
40 /99 News24.com | Two children drown after Laos bridge collapse Two children died and three are missing after more than 50 students fell off a collapsed suspension bridge in northern Laos on their way to school, state-run media reports. ...
2016-10-01 15:40 system article.wn.com
41 /99 Alessandra Ambrosio, Elsa Hosk and Taylor Hill stun at Paris Fashion Week cocktail party The halterneck style gown featured just enough material to cover her tiny torso before the sheer lace teased the rest of her 5 ft 9 in frame. Swedish model Elsa rivalled her on the sheer front with a more layered flamenco style gown which she toughened up with thick black boots and an a-line blazer. Meanwhile, rising sensation Taylor Hill opted for a gorgeous cream gown which boasted a thigh-high split and she had no issue twirling up a storm to show it off. The plunging neckline teased her perky assets before stunning embroidery took over and gave the garment a slightly unique vibe. Lyndsey Wixon also stuck to the same colour scheme as Taylor, yet went for a more classic tasseled garment while Karlie Kloss wowed in a sheer nude jumpsuit which flared at the bottom. Model of the moment Gigi Hadid showed off her sweeter side in a glittering baby pink dress while her chic bun emphasised her outrageously attractive features. The beauty was joined by her equally genetically gifted pals Lais Ribeiro, Taylor, Romee Strijd and Lily Aldridge. Constance Jablonski decided to stand out front the pack in a Colossal Misfit logo top which she tucked in to a pair of striped trousers. And like many high profile fashion events, Anna Wintour was also in attendance. The fashion editor showed off her obvious sartorial prowess in a white and navy form-fitting dress as she mingled with an array of modelling talent.
2016-10-01 15:38 Jabeen Waheed www.dailymail.co.uk
42 /99 Guns & Politics: In Her Own Words, Hillary On Gun Control It has become abundantly clear that Hillary Clinton cannot be trusted to part with the truth regarding any subject, at any place, for any reason, at any time. This is because, 1) she prefers to lie than to tell the truth, and 2) she will say anything, do anything, to achieve her ultimate goal, and that is to become the President of the United States of America.
I correct myself, there is one thing that she can be completely depended upon to do should she achieve her goal: Hillary Clinton will take away your guns.
As with everything, we can just take an accurate look at history to determine the reliability of this one thing that Hilary Clinton can be depended upon to do as she says.
Hillary Clinton has been against the American people being able to have guns for her entire career, if one wants to call her time in the public eye a career. Many of the gun policy actions she suggested during this 30 year period were irrelevant, as when she was first lady of Arkansas and held the same non elected office in the White House, no one cared; she was just someone’s wife, no matter how she wanted to be more.
Equally ineffective would be her time as Senator from New York state, as her entire time in that office resulted in her sponsorship/co-sponsorship of four pieces of legislation, none of them having anything to do with guns. She was, in fact, a most particularly ineffective member of the US Senate, and since most of the members of this ‘world’s greatest deliberative body’ are ineffective, that is saying a lot.
While Hillary has always been a member of the far left, it wasn’t until she entered the global arena that she started expressing particular views about what she started calling “gun safety” policy. In so doing she has reached the point where she is now out gun-grabbing the most vociferous of the gun control advocates and second amendment haters, and that includes Barack Obama.
Some of the more outrageous ‘gun safety’ plans she will enact, should she be given the power include:
*Reverse gun manufacturer immunity – let them get sued
Mrs. Clinton spent a great deal of time attacking The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which is a 2005 law that “granted gun manufacturers immunity from civil lawsuits when their guns are used in a crime.” She repeatedly took on her former opponent in the presidential race, Bernie Sanders, for supporting this bill, as she said: “What about the greed and recklessness of the gun manufacturers and dealers in America?” Her instincts are wrong yet again: legal experts say that this legislation was created largely to protect privacy rights of small gun companies, as most such lawsuits against them were dismissed in courts anyway.
*Arming more people is not an appropriate response to terrorism
I’ll let this howler speak for itself: Mrs. Clinton was known to have said “Guns, in and of themselves, will not make Americans safer. We lose 33,000 people a year already to gun violence, arming more people to do what I think is not the appropriate response to terrorism. The first line of defense against radicalization is in Muslim American communities.” *Close the Charleston loophole
Hillary Clinton has spoken frequently on the “need to close the legal gap that allwed Charleston gunman Dylann Roof to buy a gun despite a prohibitive drug charge,’ a claim she repeatedly makes despite the fact that it has been proven that Roof’s permission to purchase a firearm resulted from a clerical error in his paperwork, not a practiced policy. Continuing in the error of her ways, she has been quoted as saying “A good first step is closing the Charleston loophole in our gun laws, which allows a person otherwise prohibited from buying a gun…to buy one if a background check isn’t completed within three business days. This loophole allowed the alleged Charleston shooter to buy his gun despite his prior arrest record.”
*Restraints on manufacturer liability and online sales
In her continuing tirade against companies that manufacture and sell guns, Mrs. Clinton has indicated what she means to make happen: “Let’s reverse the immunity. Let’s put the gun makers on notice that they’re not going to get away with it.” She goes even further: “I will also repeal legislation that shields gun manufacturers, distributors, dealers and online sellers from liability suits, even in cases of mass shootings.”
*Rein in the idea that anybody can have a gun anywhere, anytime
Mrs. Clinton has not shied away from harsh criticism “of gun culture in America” and has denounced “the idea that anybody can have a gun, anywhere, at any time.” She has said that “access to guns in the U. S. had grown way out of balance.” Clearly, as President, she would be the determiner of who in America could have guns or not.
* Advocated for national gun registry
As far back as the year 2000, Hillary Clinton was a “forceful advocate of creating a national gun registry.” While she has seemingly backed off that a bit, clearly for craven political reasons, there are numerous signs that a national gun registry is in our future if she is given the power to enact it.
*Balance lawful gun ownership and keeping guns from criminals
The line drawn by Hillary Clinton between law abiding citizens and criminals having guns is thinner and thinner the closer she gets to the ultimate political power. As she said in one of her political presentations: I…believe that most lawful gun owners whom I have spoken with for many years across our country …want to be sure that we keep…guns out of the wrong hands. And as President, I will work to try to bridge this divide, which I think has been polarizing.” Dog whistle, anyone?
*Get assault weapons and guns off the street
Obviously having no idea what an assault weapon is didn’t stop Hillary Clinton from speaking out against them anyway: “Gun violence was driven down in the 1990s…by getting assault weapons off the street. Now you’ve got …police forces outgunned by the criminals and the gang-bangers and assault weapons are back on the street. We’ve got to go and do what works again…having policies that will get guns off the street.” Being able to classify any gun as an assault weapon would multiply the power of an in-charge Hillary Clinton in grabbing any kind of gun she didn’t like, which is pretty much any gun.
*License and register all handgun sales
Mrs. Clinton has on numerous occasions indicated her support for a legislative proposal to license hand guns. This legislation would require anyone who wants to purchase a gun to obtain a state-issued photo gun license, As she herself said: “I stand in support of this common sense legislation to license everyone who wishes to purchase a gun.” She continued: “I also believe that every new handgun sale or transfer should be registered in a national registry.”
*Prevent unauthorized firearm use
“We need to enforce and strengthen laws against unsafe or illegal guns. Moreover, we need a renewed commitment to equal justice for all, and we must reject a false choice between justice and safety,” Hillary Clinton stated as part of her manifesto, “A New Agenda for a New Decade.” I think we all know how and to whom her brand of social “justice” is going to be applied.
*Appoint anti-gun justices to the Supreme Court
She has said she will do that so that “these judges would unwind the historic Heller decision, which affirmed for the first time the right of private citizens to keep and own firearms. As Mrs. Clinton was quoted as having said: “The Supreme Court is wrong on the second amendment and I am going to make that case every chance I get.”
This just scratches the surface of what Hillary Rodham Clinton would do to the gun-owning public were she to become President. As clear as she has made her intentions to impose such “common sense gun safety measures” as described above on law abiding Americans, she cannot be trusted to tell the truth, and thus it is even more clear that when she’s finished, there will be no second amendment and there will be no one in this nation legally owning a gun. And like Obama, she doesn’t even need any laws to enact such draconian measures, she would just use “the power of the Presidency.”
Susan Smith brings an international perspective to her writing by having lived primarily in western Europe, mainly in Paris, France, and the U. S., primarily in Washington, D. C. She authored a weekly column for Human Events on politics with historical aspects.. She also served as the Staff Director of the U. S. Senate Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism, and Special Assistant to the first Ambassador of Afghanistan following the initial fall of the Taliban. Ms. Smith is a graduate of Wheeling Jesuit University and Georgetown University, as well as the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, France, where she obtained her French language certification. Ms. Smith now makes her home in McLean, Va.
2016-10-01 23:24 dailycaller.com
43 /99 Will it be Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer for Bake Off? TV property duo being 'lined up' for presenting job They may be more familiar to television fans as the property experts behind Channel Four show Location Location Location. But Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer may be in line to fill the current presenting vacancy on The Great British Bake Off when it moves to Channel Four. Speaking of their 16-year veterans, Channel 4 sources told The Mirror : 'Kirstie and Phil have met bosses about Bake Off. Talks went well and they are waiting to hear back'. Scroll down for video And despite Kirstie, 45, initially lashing out at Love Productions for moving the successful series from BBC to Channel 4, the source revealed she, along with Phil, 46, are enthusiastic about the potential new work gig. 'Phil feels he’s definitely up for the job and he’s telling people he and Kirstie would be the perfect fit. 'They poke fun at each other and are not afraid to go along with innuendos. They can match, if not better, Mel and Sue. Kirstie is an experienced baker, which obviously helps. Mailonline has contacted representatives for Kirstie and Phil. Needless to say, there was something of a furore among fans after the BBC lost the rights to Bake Off to Channel Four, prompting stars Mary Berry, Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc to jump ship. But TV cook Mary has predicted a successful transition for the hit show, despite Paul Hollywood the only familiar face staying with the programme. Speaking at Thursday's National Reality TV awards, Mary said: 'It’s going to be different but I’m sure Paul will carry it on successfully.' She told The Sun : 'The Great British Bake Off is going to Channel 4 and I’m sure it’ll be very successful with Paul. Wait and see. 'Mel and Sue are brilliant and we had a marvellous time on the programme and that’s how it will remain.' Mary, who made her first public appearance since the announcement at London-based awards show, is said to have turned down a £7million offer to continue as a judge. The 81-year-old sported a glittering dusky pink gown and subtle necklace at the awards show, scooping the prize for Best Television Chef in the process. Announcing her decision last week, Mary said it had been a 'privilege and honour' to 'be part of seven years of magic in a tent'. The judge, who is paid £500,000 to be on the show, is understood to have turned down a £7million offer from Channel 4, the Popbitch mailout reported. In a statement, she said: 'The Bake Off family - Paul, Mel and Sue have given me so much joy and laughter. 'My decision to stay with the BBC is out of loyalty to them, as they have nurtured me, and the show, that was a unique and brilliant format from day one. I am just sad for the audience who may not be ready for change, I hope they understand my decision. 'I wish the programme, crew and future bakers every possible success and I am so very sad not to be a part of it. She added: 'Farewell to soggy bottoms.' The BBC lost the rights to Bake Off following seven series after programme- maker Love Productions struck a three-year deal with Channel 4 worth a reported £75million.
2016-10-01 15:14 Jabeen Waheed www.dailymail.co.uk
44 /99 Photos of the week The most compelling photos from Sept. 24-30, 2016. First lady Michelle Obama gives former President George W. Bush a hug at the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture i...
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45 /99 Kate flaunts her enviable curves in plunging bandage inspired swimsuit as she continues Marbella getaway She's a self confessed gym bunny who works out seven days a week. And proving her hard work has paid off, TOWIE babe Kate Wright displayed her incredible hourglass figure in a plunging bandage inspired swimsuit that struggled to contain her buxom bust. The 25-year-old stunner sizzled in the saucy cut-out one piece which she shared on Instagram with her 405,000 followers. Scroll down for video Flaunting her enviable figure, Kate simply captioned the snap with nail varnish emoji. Making sure to turn heads, the blonde bombshell wowed in the sexy swimsuit which highlighted her tiny waist with the thick banded beach number. Not worried about possible tan lines, Kate jaw-dropping look features a high thigh cut which exhibited her toned legs. The ITVBe darling kept to an ultra glam look as she teamed her poolside number with a simple gold necklace while styling her golden locks into a bouncy curl that cascaded down her shoulders. Kate's swimsuit clad posts come as she jetted off to Marbella with the rest of the TOWIE cast for her co-star Megan McKenna's birthday celebrations. The reality star has been making the most of her time in the sun as she slipped into an electric blue bikini on Friday for yet another social occasion with her pals. Pretty Kate showcased her fantastic figure in a bright blue bikini, which highlighted her slim frame. Kate's simple two-piece drew attention to her voluptuous cleavage, while the high-rise briefs emphasised her tiny waist. The bombshell added some extra height to her frame thanks to some towering, lace-up wedges. She added a touch of bling to her beachwear with a gold pendant necklace and tinted Miu Miu shades. Kate, who split from boyfriend Dan Edgar earlier this year, wore her blonde locks down in bouncy curls. The Essex native recently spilled the beans about her diet and exercise secrets in a chat with MailOnline, confessing that she works hard to stay in shape. She admitted: 'I don't really diet, I just try and eat healthy... but I love eating bad as well!' 'I try and eat healthy five days of the week so that if I want a takeaway at the weekend I can have one.' Detailing her intense fitness regime, the star said: 'I do train seven days a week and I have a personal trainer for four of those, so I train really hard too.' The blonde beauty, who joined the cast of TOWIE in October 2015, is often seen embarking on vigorous workout sessions in the park with Essex gal pals Lydia Bright and Courtney Green. Kate emphasised that her workouts are never a chore, adding: 'I love going to the gym. If I get up in the morning and go to the gym it just sets my day off straight. 'I can think straight, and it releases endorphins so I just feel so much better once I've been.'
2016-10-01 15:06 Lisa Mcloughlin www.dailymail.co.uk
46 /99 Stay away from homeopathic teething remedies While a teething baby can present a challenge to any parent, experienced or not, the FDA is warning that turning to homeopathic tablets or gels can be very dangerous to your infant's health. The FDA outlines the possible complications in using the products that can include "seizures, difficulty breathing, lethargy, excessive sleepiness, muscle weakness, skin flushing, constipation, difficulty urinating, or agitation. " Janet Woodcock, MD, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research said in a press release, according to The problem surrounding the sale of homeopathic remedies sold in retail stores like CVS, Hyland’s, including online sales, is that the ingredients in the teething tablets and gels have not been evaluated or approved by the FDA for safety or efficacy, nor is the FDA aware of any proven health benefits derived from the use of the products. When looking into the ingredients in many homeopathic over-the-counter teething remedies, consumers can see that the ingredients are indeed what appears to be safe, natural herbal products, like Calcarea Phosphorica, 12X HPUS. Chamomilla, 6X HPUS. Coffea Cruda, 6X HPUS. But it's the inactive ingredients that even have some herbalists concerned. As the And there is a whole list of these inactive ingredients in teething products and they are not what most of us would consider to be natural. Some are carcinogenic, like Sodium Benzoate, and one, Hydroxyethylcellulose, causes allergic reactions. Also, sodium Benzoate is produced synthetically and its primary use is in cosmetics. As some people might say, "That ain't natural. " The U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a public warning on Friday, September 30 on the use of homeopathic teething tablets and gels because they may pose a risk to infants and children. The FDA outlines the possible complications in using the products that can include "seizures, difficulty breathing, lethargy, excessive sleepiness, muscle weakness, skin flushing, constipation, difficulty urinating, or agitation. "Janet Woodcock, MD, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research said in a press release, according to Healio , “Teething can be managed without a prescription or over-the-counter remedies. " She went on to say that parents and caregivers should seek advice from their healthcare professional on safer remedies. The problem surrounding the sale of homeopathic remedies sold in retail stores like CVS, Hyland’s, including online sales, is that the ingredients in the teething tablets and gels have not been evaluated or approved by the FDA for safety or efficacy, nor is the FDA aware of any proven health benefits derived from the use of the products. When looking into the ingredients in many homeopathic over-the-counter teething remedies, consumers can see that the ingredients are indeed what appears to be safe, natural herbal products, like Calcarea Phosphorica, 12X HPUS. Chamomilla, 6X HPUS. Coffea Cruda, 6X HPUS. But it's the inactive ingredients that even have some herbalists concerned. As the Growing up Herbal website points out, once you look into the ingredients, "you may find that it’s not really as natural or good for your baby as you once thought. "And there is a whole list of these inactive ingredients in teething products and they are not what most of us would consider to be natural. Some are carcinogenic, like Sodium Benzoate, and one, Hydroxyethylcellulose, causes allergic reactions. Also, sodium Benzoate is produced synthetically and its primary use is in cosmetics. As some people might say, "That ain't natural. " teething remedies, Homeopathic products, Fda warning, not approved for use, Health risk not approved for use
2016-10-01 15:03 www.digitaljournal.com
47 /99 Daniel Singer Creates Innovative Social App Video Transcript for Teen Drops Out of HS to Build Social App
I know that one of them. Largest sources of satisfaction and happiness in my life apparently building I think I was attacking her native and lemon. They got it June tack. Is something that it is like understood. I can express myself and it's kind of media. To express ideas or thoughts or emotions and just like solving problems. There was one. One that is all that. I'm Daniel singer and sixteen years old and I'm from Los Angeles county. I didn't Thomas stuff follows its war in your eighth grade it is not that hard and don't use that as an excuse. He's asking him. That it is a very special boy we treat them as as the adult in the house I mean everyone that has issues from. Tech issues to other questions we always come to him. Since he was. I think 1011. And rather than phase of a child he's more as an adult. I've known Daniel for and one a saver for four years now we really hit it off got a sense of what he was working on. I was really excited to finally stead to work with him partner with him. Helped build out when Houston child is an incredibly helpful fundraising this general strategy. Anything that organic relationship just kind of Foster something. That I look to for his friendship with with the caveat that yes maybe. Each of us can learn a lot from each other and that's where the management team which should be all pointing them might be helpful. You taking. A couple different ideas. And then eventually merging together. In the valley right hero flick. There's not lot of friends my block is a mile and how long this house cost us off so if you don't have to go door to lots intent to stick because some people. The biggest reason finally come from. See lots of people I just know that there's someone stupid foolish as I wish that I can. Kitty great people. So we wanna do is get people out of the house's difference really cool places where there already and hop on and while they're there been introduced since the best people possible. The way using bond work says. Nightclubs bars are able over of ball. Either get introduced to someone who's been there or someone catches your life it's vital possibly get. As this. We'll when he pitch that hits me. I was intrigued by the idea of course. Skeptical asked no questions how that work what is the approach he really satisfied all my questions but what I cared about more. Trying to find a father is someone who wouldn't learn quickly and find new ways to. Do you use that knowledge in the next and I think that's why that's less on Daniel enough so many say all right let's do this from the first. The engine of perfected a way of working together and shipping products. Very quickly and at a very high a level of quality that route bereft. Here's a classic. Product manager mindset she looks at. How we can get this done as fast as possible and I have to engineering mindset I don't want code breaking I don't want nasty stuff going on in Iraq the tactics. And so I try to make something that scalable and work. Forever essentially when the dean of. Hardware as they came to us and said that he's voicing this time and he should go and pursue his his dreams. For us it was and I said you're as surprised and as the but you're the teacher that's what to tell us and should be yes. What this ultimately now was he was gonna get a chance to. Tended to live now this. Year of use that he's kind. Because he's going to be focus on all the things that. Entrepreneur focuses on which is thinking of building company hired talent and meaning to product out the door and he. He's successful tactic is not a game that favors people who waited. At all after their two of talking was out. I went straight to their workers so. I still have that traditional way of thinking that generally have to pursue unification and then you get started on the my racket but. He coffees me. Did this isn't to have to think than him out of school who. It was harder for my wife which is more position movement and felt he has to complete high school for me. Heisman never have me and in an infant from Los nothing that they learned in high school. Have the neither and other businesses that have been in my career. We decided that we will. Given to see drowned whenever we can for his ventures and we told them that the partners or his Brothers as world. He didn't like that very month that he understood that. The thing that really stands out is. You know whether he has the experience or not he will go after it put. Every bit of that from him into it to make it happen and having someone with that in your teen is in I've seen any unhappy and throwers and what does. Whether it's the successful financially or not that doesn't involve a loss for him with the Marines through. Not even some of these wounds. He has enough time to worry about that and his hope I can build their products. We have to people. Use the products. And shy and become. A better person I think.
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48 /99 Christopher Duffley, a Blind Teen With Autism, Inspires Others With His Voice Video Transcript for Blind Teen With Autism Inspires Others With His Voice Music brings Georgia. And she is a gift share. Example I see people of my heart for they truly are concerned with the local. On the out. Also on course for roughly a year from Manchester, New Hampshire and it's personal stand podcaster. And joining me in the studio today is my cause and great mom Christine. I would if history is against easing employment news music from plants. Since taking. It's difficult to imagine how many people. He is helping. To achieve. And understand what life is about. On the high yeah. Packaged up inspiration for. I'm always able to anybody and perfectly. It was for came to us under special circumstances. I knew that my brother was expecting a baby with his girlfriend. And prisoner was born prematurely. At twin six weeks one pound twelve. And those beginning weeks we're very cramped home and there were times that my father was told he was beneath. I period of time past time we heard knew more about what happened to Christopher. And when I called social services they told me that he was in Foster care. He wasn't looking to be a super pac man planning to do this to the right thing. Basically showed signs of loving music from the womb room I paint can you talk to action fifteen. Patty cake as his first. Kate did. It is. Gore. His Spoelstra was simple rule words. He can answer questions but you know what he was answering you just knew that was the answer to that question or meanwhile an increase school they felt that this was. Pretty significant. And it was pretty obvious to me that this wasn't something has to take him. So we had an evaluation with the evaluation payment options and insists inside. Who brought into music school in hopes that. She could help the communication. My fourth grade who is turning to comprehend things patter. Sank from season. Interesting music marry me. That Christopher was really able to communicate with us. The teacher taught in the national. What a proud man was teen being there in an auditorium was honest and veterans and gaming partners in to hear himself. Or. A meant. Okay. We went from. Singing the national hero two singing only he has heart idiot every child with that huge night. Okay. There was on trial. Place station he was crazy. This case and. Whether or not they have. Got five million views in me. So I said Wallace occur in three weeks five million views and that and June against. 22 and a half million views in one week I'm home and humbled by Elvis. And it's because of that video that we do it again. Minds here any yeah. And I loved. No room. Mr. working with Chris and 2014. Kindness. Music coach mentor files at times. Just wrong and extremely stow. Again and prepare for what's going on in his mind. Mom. Working at Chris at first is a little more challenging and has become because the way this is spontaneity isn't he just kind of says. What Evers in his mind and there's no. Filter. Which is really find. Has taught me to be a little bit more compassion and I think. In my own life to live my family and may be more compassionate with myself seated and you know addicted to gain more blunt. And it's in a helpful way. He says funny he knows how to package even you can say a joke analyze and you know and is in no way means I'm going to show you what. There. As. I see Chris arm impacting my generation. It's not just in the music then just making music he wants to advocate for people and he wants to move other people take action miners. It weighs. Policy which if you. He's delivering. Something to them it's like a special package and that might this history and and that's what's so wonderful when you can touch all sorts of different people at the same time. That's a gift. Rule home might have something of yes that's me yeah. In the rise apartment he shows us how I think he's turning to better advocate for himself. As the high caste system. He's not really great expressing his feelings that's why it's nice to have my cats to see him. Sit back listen to it added to make it sound the way he wants to see. Mission possible. Happily and today. To hear about other. Person on news. I am I part catfish and possible because. With god. All things are possible and the people later new line are people that house commission. On him. Yeah mom Marla. She's. Pressure nozzles on editing and engineering that's what he loves. He gives voice gets all control costs and his old house had his own. I try accomplishing. I am hoping for an interview sound engineer or radio station on there isn't cool. Because we want global successful. Yeah I am lightest boxes. Fighting does stop pain he has a healthy level and high. Pride and arrogance but he has this healthy sense. You know lambs could go forward without thinking. Ears and he really just thinks that he can talk to anyone it doesn't matter who it is a mean. Let's get him on the phone and he's gonna just do this everybody has. Are based on purpose for life that's. Him that's what everybody's. Does let everybody. But he sings. It's a whole experience. It's his whole being its whole body proclaiming something. Whether it's lean on me irritable in the eyes. It's. It's and in total and buying them a message and it brings them great joy and great pleasure. It really most people's hearts because they kind of get out of there itself and they realize this little boy can get through all the struggles. Minds struggles are nowhere near. And he can still have joined us and our.
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49 /99 12-Year-Old Creates Tools and Technology for the Visually Impaired Video Transcript for 12-Year-Old Creates Tools and Technology for the Visually Impaired
I mean is exploring means and that AT and Larry. Like solving problems ending challenge in the more you learn more there Ryan. I want to spread the knowledge and it's actually individually. And in many connected to that and I. And Nadine had here and cloudy drizzle and and they ate paint this on an island in Cupertino California. Tie me. Then have to mount bubbly and age hippie kid. You know is being that thing she'd be elective avenues. Is seen a lot of that giant hat. Idea on this speech indeed indeed grew you suspected of it is knowledge about the people who she's on this and include Huntsman and his she's living human movement anyway. She can command an audience and she's very comfortable about who she isn't she's twelve years old I mean that's really outstanding. This would never know that about with this thing. Like any other news he. Happy go lucky playing with friends have a normal life they yet flip side is doing things that adults. Would be amazed us through it. Kind just thrown out and that house where it's always been happening to help people. And especially individually and Harry. Perrier in paying these tools and eventually carried the can is I love learning about chemistry since chemistry so they you'll. It's hard to understand there aren't really any grateful about their which really are specific to Madden. My sister has an organization content and evening which means they get detention in Lott and that raises awareness and Matty eappen an eight million parents that's an eye. The first real kind of fed is a did pleasant experience. And then named best periodic table in teaching children eventually. Cents hobby Alan and Terry as in the element in the future and that it that says when he lands Randy and Alan nickname atomic amber and Nicholson book. CC long. The media against fox and a tonic. Information. This is a medium renting an opportunity it's the long it is it's free. It is like a wheel there is adding in Danvers and ran out. If you if you just like little sticker is. And it's and sat out loud. And then also jockey Adam while printing out though like in the CLA times the ad and if you have a history and today hit it at out. And then for the outcome in the outer most ardent Deanna and also like set out eighteen. If there's only last like low vision and they conveniently. As a lesbian aging so. That they use for anyway. With that name modern era when I had even on that that's when until it became enough people have iphone's home. This isn't huge can be issued and laughing. Where is the app I think it's simple easy and it's acceptable. Oh yeah. Yeah. But first let's First Act last year and excellent synopsis eyes there. I had. Acted Atlanta dot com is an Atlanta and the fastest electric technology and outlet that was definitely that they guest Aaron ever wine making as they had thousands. People look I. And it's lake in snowy prairies. And his sixth grade and they Angus did it should they Angus in the competence and and she was eleven at that hadn't brought. Britain and other islands an ally has sat there silently and people got him back. Heinous Harry BIQ at any cost and it's good to teach about the periodic table they are visually it. Yeah up. And went to the White House and that the. Hanging is precedent about my right to me and it can be doing something right activist. Students extreme means spying and then prove its and make sure that they inspiration. It passes and then it came. And another fake English. Me. That's always been injured and cannot project and he was like I remember this ever had this my and then out like no hidden. And then we take itself the an independent self in the past there and I was really an Indian me and I really make any impact. And that age doesn't really mattered politically it. And at least not. This diagram. We really really part of the children's and we feel really blessed and his own talked. And they did and quiet Palin looked around your engine don't just take things that sent in lake unaware of analysts weren't pet and it was a lot of Andy I think I want to keep making lightning thickness. I realize that it really does make it that friends.
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50 /99 Christopher Suggs Takes Action Against Gun Violence in Kinston, North Carolina Video Transcript for Teen Takes Action Against Gun Violence in His Small Town
Future. Yeah. I. And here. Any yeah. Rezko UV at a future president. My name is Christopher found fixing your soda and kids can Villa. Chris was always very inquisitive. He lives always. Trying to learn something new every team. Of interest to him. My had a really great the house say. Home my parents my aunts uncles grandparents were a really good support system for me. Glenn Obama always say there's nothing for he would do in case. I knew not to be true Kiffin is a very small southern town. 2014. Was kind of hard you work here and home and going through a lot of violent thing crowned the shootings in there really involving young people. Kids in police report thirty shootings in the city's so far this year seven shootings in five days there were 61 shootings in Kingston kiss and high school freshman Chris percent is doing his part to begin making it more positive difference Suggs went before the City Council with plans on using violence prevention. When us with phone call with the issues going on outside the start it contains a group trying to make Gifford Chris had been punished in the issue. Holiday in a town hall meeting in or. Stockton of that nature most of the things that we're going our gain related and I didn't want him to do anything aimed at people would perceive as a challenge to. The gains he was very Hanson in about one thing. He pressured me into allowing him to move forward and now really claim an anti. Watching this really inspirational. A list. From the cult hit people in the community who organized McCain town hall of young people are local and they petitioned. Regarding the mayor's City Council members and school board and county news. Lawyers and judges who pioneered writing table we discussed everything from cotton hosted treatment for the finish races and if nothing there. Yeah. That was this isn't anything New Zealand Bloomington yeah sure. And LogMeIn free is he doing out there and raising advantage. Here in case and we've got. Chris activity is doing unbelievable things holding a media used that town hall to adopting a street capping a vacant lots. And I know give this woman you're looking real good. Hope we push hard for beautification. When that he would have an opportunity prodigy. Who improved solved out he did a good job there. Anytime we can make connection who. Where their community we're we're going to be in Christian newscast and his is teams. Have been reportedly. Pistol at a proactive measures that are depletion response initiatives. Disappear where ward border door and cut that people ask him about the problems of you see different causes no question occurred. Base and there will. Police not just him enough to risk somebody that goes a long way. Chris have that mindset that I want to make the case and in time together used to chairmen like Chris is the McCain. He he's on softball. Earlier. What Chris has his body. And has been com is a manifestation. Of all the holds his dreams they we have this teachers in this areas as members of the community. This amazing we can come together what I've known people like you. You know you've played it passes and a talented. As a young person I know firsthand how important it means. Our planet right now that we're gonna help them and it took best of it that the world and oh yeah there's right the only GO for the Dayton. Among he'd graduated high school a year early even taken some college credit classes are raised after college I do think they return home to kids animation kit contains his throwing it sustainable and it. They continues on continues make an inmate. World climate living room when they haven't transferred to the community in power. You know we education teacher was happy to hear every day lot records. Years decades. Politically the life of former teachers students and administrators could conduct outside of the schools talk about these things. Yeah hello I can't. Volunteering you know you've been really really great Mia and we're doing admit filling in Cleveland you know made so many gifts this. Took a huge leap of faith not starter kits contains we acknowledge god and all we do you know got to hit about personal lives in about organization. We've accomplished the homeless and we have so many young people Borges. Tried to make it gives us in our community. Chris is bright young man. Within incredible future. And total amount if you read a run for mayor today I'll vote for and I think Christopher is truly what you would holly community Chad. This is my friend but he. But. I just want to encourage value and those that hear this you know Connie young person support imports and they'll make sure that you know they needed something you know Hilton out of this. It can really into worldly young birthday me so much to work thank you all.
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51 /99 Buddy Hield will make his Pelicans' preseason debut coming off bench BOSSIER CITY - New Orleans Pelicans rookie shooting guard Buddy Hield will make his preseason debut on Saturday night as a backup instead of a starter.
Hield was the sixth overall pick in this past June's NBA Draft, but veteran E'Twaun Moore, who was signed as a free agent this summer, is listed to start ahead of him in Saturday night's preseason opener against the Dallas Mavericks at the CenturyLink Center.
''I wouldn't read much into that,'' Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry said. ''The only guy that I can guarantee that's going to start this year is A. D. (Anthony Davis), he's pretty much locked out. ''We're going to move some guys around and do some things and combination of guys. Like I said, it's the first preseason game. So you might see some weird combination of guys out there. We're just trying to find out individually how certain guys fit in.''
Ask to recall the last time he could remember coming off the bench, Hield said during his freshman season at Oklahoma before he emerged into a star. A four-year player for the Sooners, Hield finished as the all-time leading scorer in Big 12 history with 2,291 career points.
''I was willing to work hard and by December I was starting,'' Hield said about starting as a freshman backup guard at Oklahoma. ''But it was an adjustment I had to make. If you don't like it, you have to work harder.''
Hield said he's fully aware that the NBA is a league where you have to stay ready and wait on your opportunity.
''Whatever coach needs me to do, I'll have to come with intensity,'' Hield said. ''I just need to be efficient and let the game come to me.''
The Pelicans' projected starting lineup against the Mavericks also includes Baton Rouge native Langston Galloway starting at point guard ahead of Tim Frazier and Alexis Ajinca at center instead of Omer Asik. Solomon Hill is expected to start at small forward and Davis at power forward.
''Anthony is not going to play a ton of minutes tonight,'' Gentry said. ''We'll have an opportunity to look at some guys that we have to make decisions on and see where they are.''
2016-10-01 14:57 John Reid www.nola.com
52 /99 Five matchups that will define NFL Week 4: How will Le'Veon Bell shift Steelers? Embed
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Don't expect the Pittsburgh Steelers to put many restrictions on Le'Veon Bell in the running back's return Sunday from a three-game suspension.
Even in his first action in 11 months, the former all-pro running back will be an integral part of reviving a Steelers offense that fell flat in a 34-3 loss last week to the Philadelphia Eagles.
Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said the team would monitor conditioning, but said, "rest assured, you're going to see Le'Veon Bell and probably a lot of him on Sunday. " How Bell fares against a Kansas City Chiefs defense tied for 24th in rushing defense might set the tone for Sunday night's showdown.
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DeAngelo Williams has been solid as a fill-in, but Bell is a more dynamic threat even after suffering a torn medial collateral ligament last November. But Bell's biggest contribution upon return might be in the passing game.
With Martavis Bryant suspended for the year, the Steelers have yet to find a suitable complement to Antonio Brown in the passing game. Even with Brown's matchups against cornerback Marcus Peters likely to be limited Sunday, Pittsburgh has to be cautious against a Chiefs defense that hauled in six interceptions last week.
Bell had 83 receptions in 2014, trailing only Brown. As one of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's most trusted targets, he could be a valuable asset both out of the backfield and in the slot. The Steelers also could keep the Chiefs on their toes by keeping both Williams and Bell in for several plays.
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Even after a three-sack performance last week against the Carolina Panthers, Griffen might not be getting his due as one of the NFL's elite pass rushers. His 26.5 sacks since 2014 put him behind only J. J. Watt, Von Miller and Justin Houston.
The Giants likely won't be taking Griffen or the rest of the Vikings' defense lightly on Monday night after last season's 49-17 drubbing. Though Odell Beckham Jr. was suspended for that game, Eli Manning was sacked four times and threw three interceptions.
Flowers, the No. 9 overall pick in last year's draft, has to live up to the Giants' lofty expectations to prevent another Manning meltdown. Ben McAdoo's quick-hit offense should help neutralize a Minnesota pass rush that leads the NFL with 15 sacks, but Flowers can't have the same lapses in pass protection that plagued his rookie year.
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Despite suffering a medial collateral ligament sprain in his left knee last week after a right ankle sprain in the opener, Wilson appears ready to go Sunday. Up against the Jets' formidable front, the Seahawks quarterback will have to be prepared to be on the run once again.
The Seahawks' offensive line is no match for defensive ends Muhammad Wilkerson, Sheldon Richardson and Leonard Williams. Wilson is a master of evading the rush, but asking him to elude linemen in his current state could prove dangerous.
Wilson likely will need to make quick decisions in the passing game while having running back Christine Michael take control. If New York can set the tone up front, however, it could be a tough go for Seattle. USA TODAY
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After Benjamin was targeted just once and held without a catch last week against the Vikings, quarterback Cam Newton said "that won't happen again. " That might be both a challenge and a warning to Trufant and the Falcons.
Benjamin said he expects Trufant to trail him throughout the game, but he offered a blunt assessment of his opposition this week. The 6-foot-5, 245-pound receiver said Trufant "can't really match up physically" at 6-foot, 190 pounds. Given Benjamin's distinct advantage when the ball is in the air, Trufant will have to close on any cushion quickly.
If the Falcons' pass rush remains lifeless, Benjamin could have more opportunities to make plays downfield and on jump balls. But the Panthers have given up the most sacks (12) through three games of any team, and starting left tackle Michael Oher has been ruled out.
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Smith sliced through the Raiders defense last season for 10 catches and 150 yards in a 37-33 loss. Even though Oakland now has a completely revamped secondary, it could have quite the challenge against the 37-year-old.
Though cornerback David Amerson has been stellar so far this season, fellow starter Sean Smith has struggled in the early going. Both Amerson (6-1) and Smith (6-3) are among the biggest at their position and have had trouble with quicker receivers.
Enter the Ravens' threat: At 5-9, Smith is a savvy route runner and can push back on larger defensive backs. His most damaging work could be done after the catch and on third downs, as Joe Flacco found a comfort zone last week with Smith working the short area.
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2016-10-01 14:56 Michael Middlehurst rssfeeds.usatoday.com
53 /99 Andi hurt by revelation about her baby’s ‘real father’ “She is, without a doubt, a good mom,” said actress Dimples Romana of her “The Greatest Love” costar Andi Eigenmann, who is now the subject of tabloid headlines in relation to the alleged “true identity” of the father of her 4-year-old daughter.
Andi’s half-sister Maxene, recently claimed in a podcast interview that Jake Ejercito is the biological father of Adrianna Gabrielle, or Ellie, allegedly based on the result of a paternity test. Andi earlier declared actor Albie Casiño as the father. “I cannot say much about the issue because it’s not my story to tell. Let’s just give that to Andi, but if you are to ask me how she is doing, I’d say that Andi is obviously hurt. The best thing about her is that she cares only about Ellie and how these events would affect the child, and not about what other people think of her,” Dimples said during a recent forum on Alzheimer’s and dementia, organized by producers of “The Greatest Love” (airs weekday afternoons after “Doble Kara”).
“Andi is okay. She’s a strong woman. You see, the Lord gives the hardest battles to His strongest soldiers,” added Dimples. “We were there [when Andi first heard of the news], and I think it helped that we were there. We were taping the pamamanhikan scene at that time. The team of ‘The Greatest Love’ is not just a family on the set, but also off-cam.”
Dimples said it was Sylvia Sanchez, the matriarch in the teleseries, who pulled aside Andi and talked with her. “Nanay Ibyang (Sylvia’s nickname) gave Andi advice. She whispered something to Andi and hugged her. As Nanay’s other children in the show, we had to step back a little. Andi knows we’re here for her,” said Dimples.
Sylvia recalled: “There was definitely sadness in Andi’s eyes, but she’s a professional so she still went to work that day and was able to deliver. I hugged her and told her not to think of anything else but her daughter because this will give her a sense of direction. I also told her to just cry it off one time and that’s it.”
The veteran actress described Andi as a “fighter.” Sylvia added: “You cannot make her do things that she doesn’t want to do. Andi is a good person.”
Experiencing symptoms
Sylvia, who plays a woman afflicted with Alzheimer’s in the drama program, meanwhile, revealed she could be experiencing symptoms of the illness in different degrees, and that she wanted to have herself checked.
In an interview with the Inquirer shortly after the lecture on Alzheimer’s and dementia by neurologist Darwin Albert Dasig, Sylvia said: “When Dr. Dasig talked about the symptoms, I got nervous because I know I’m experiencing some of them. As early as now, I want this detected. I’m scared of acquiring the illness.”
Sylvia, 41, said she would sometimes forget even the names of her children. She has four kids with husband Arturo Atayde, namely, Arjo, Ria, Gella and Xavi.
“I also don’t know if this is a side effect of having general anesthesia nine times,” she said.
2016-10-01 14:48 Marinel R entertainment.inquirer.net
54 /99 Julie Andrews turns 81: Her most magical moments A spoonful of Julie Andrews makes any movie better.
The seemingly ageless actress turns 81 today (seriously, how does she look like that?) and to honor her career we've compiled a few of our favorite Julie Andrews things.
2016-10-01 14:48 Alexandra Korba rssfeeds.usatoday.com
55 /99 Let’s dance Widely regarded as the world’s best David Bowie tribute artist, David Brighton and his band Space Oddity are bringing Bowiemania to Tel Aviv’s Hangar 11 on March 16. Brighton, who shares Bowie’s sharp nose, high cheekbones and a voice that producers once told him sounded “too much like Bowie,” brings everything from Ziggy Stardust to the Thin White Duke to Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” era of the 1980s to life.
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Brighton has been performing live concerts and making radio and television appearances worldwide as a celebrity look-alike/sound-alike since 1994. He’s performed on bills with Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Kenny Loggins, Three Dog Night, Little Richard and Barry Manilow. Brighton also enjoyed portraying George Harrison with a number of the world’s top Beatle groups, including The Stars of Beatlemania, The Fab Four, Classical Mystery Tour, and When We Were Fab. So uncanny is Brighton’s impression, he was selected by Bowie himself to portray him in a 2003 widely aired Vitell Mineral Water commercial Local fans can look forward to hearing such hits as “Space Oddity,” “Under Pressure,” “Life on Mars,” “Fame,” “Young Americans,” “China Girl,” and “Rebel Rebel.” For tickets visit www.eventim.co.il/bowie
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2016-10-01 14:46 Shawn Rodgers www.jpost.com
56 /99 Mercedes Cabral captivates as a mail-order bride in Danish drama Mercedes Cabral portrays a mail-order bride in Frederikke Aspock’s compelling domestic drama, “Rosita,” which will be screened again at the tail end of the Danish Film Festival at the Shangri-La mall tonight:
Rosita (Cabral) arrives in a snow-covered fishing village in Yutland, located at the northern tip of Denmark, where Ulrik (Jens Albinus) awaits. Like most men in the hamlet, the lonely widower is stoic and hardworking—and perpetually smelling of fish.
Ulrik lives with his son, Johannes (Mikkel Boe Folsgaard), a canning factory worker. Their humdrum life is turned upside down with the arrival of their lovely, brown-skinned newcomer, who came to marry Ulrik.
Initially skeptical of the ravishing Filipino visitor’s presence, Johannes soon finds himself drawn to the dash of sunshine and warmth Rosita brings to their windswept town. It doesn’t take long for Johannes to fall for Rosita, who relies on the young man’s English skills to communicate with Ulrik, who only speaks Danish.
Rosita shares a secret with Johannes: She works part-time cleaning ships when Ulrik, who disapproves of the idea, is at work. Her situation gets dicier when her betrothed man’s attractive son kisses her—and she reluctantly kisses him back!
But when Rosita begins rejecting the young man’s amorous advances, Johannes discloses to Ulrik that his fiancée has an 8-year-old son in the Philippines she needs to support financially. Will the heretofore undisclosed revelation stop Ulrik from marrying Rosita?
The film, which won for Aspock the best director prize at the Moscow International Film Festival last year, is a character-driven drama made more compelling by its director’s astute ability to empathetically dramatize with gimlet-eyed clarity the protagonists’ inability to communicate with each other.
Despite the paucity of lines, the film brings enlightening insight as it zeroes in on its themes depicting alienation more than the excessively romanticized Filipino diaspora and migration tackled ad nauseam in local cinema. Its dramatic scenes may be emotionally charged, but they’re never mawkish.
Albinus delivers a heartbreaking performance that reeks with desolation—you only need to gaze at his eyes to realize how lonely he is. He finds the perfect foil in Folsgaard, who challenges Albinus’ passivity. The latter is exceptional for dramatizing his character’s restrained restlessness and “measured” recklessness.
More than Albinus and Folsgaard’s dramatic achievements, however, the movie really belongs to Mercedes Cabral, whose potent presence is the fuel driving Aspock’s cinematic vehicle. With carefully calibrated thespic strokes, Cabral nurtures and brings to life a continually evolving, multilayered character.
It takes Rosita sometime to find her footing, but when she finally hits her stride, she quickly evolves into the confident woman who finally finds her voice in a strange land far away from the dust and stultifying heat of her hometown in the tropics. But, is Rosita truly better off in her ice- cold new surrounding?
2016-10-01 14:44 Rito P entertainment.inquirer.net
57 /99 Sunnyvale's new law limiting smoking goes into effect A law limiting the areas where people can smoke in Sunnyvale goes into effect Saturday, officials with the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety said. The updated ordinance prohibits smoking in all outdoor areas where food or drinks are consumed, within 25 feet of the doors and windows of buildings and within 25 feet of service areas such as bus stops. The limits also prohibit smoking at public events such as farmer's markets and on South Murphy Avenue between Washington Avenue and Evelyn Avenue, public safety officials said. Smoking is also now prohibited in all public parks as well as golf courses. The limits extend to multi-family housing properties with two or more units. At those properties, smoking is prohibited from indoor and outdoor common areas, within 25 feet of the building's windows and doors and inside units, including shared patios and balconies. Smoking continues to be the leading cause of preventable death in the U. S., public safety officials said. Secondhand smoke is the cause of an estimated 41,000 heart-disease- related and lung cancer deaths each year.
2016-10-01 14:37 (Copyright abc7news.com
58 /99 ‘Fiercely You’ Author On Thinking Like A Drag Queen NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Best-selling author and motivational speaker Jackie Huba stopped by CBS2 to share a few tips from her book, “ Fiercely You: Be Fabulous and Confident by Thinking Like a Drag Queen.”
Huba is a female drag queen who goes by the name “Lady Trinity.”
“A number of years ago I was in a dark place in my life…I stumbled upon a show called ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ and I saw these men who were creating these fierce, female bold personas and that’s the confidence and boldness that I was sort of lacking,” Huba said. “When we can get outside ourselves and become another persona it liberates us.”
Watch the video above to learn the five key ways to find your inner drag queen.
2016-10-01 14:33 newyork.cbslocal.com
59 /99 Steven Fales to bring 'Cult Model' to the Metropolitan Room in NY Steven Fales will be bringing his new show to the Metropolitan Room in New York City with performances in October and November of 2016. Fales' hit off-Broadway production "Confessions of a Mormon Boy" garnered a great deal of rave reviews, and it was followed by two subsequent shows including "Missionary Position" and "Prodigal Dad. " Other shows that Fales has been affiliated with include his cabaret act "Mormon American Princess," as well as "My Mormon Valentine" as a film. Aside from performing live, Fales also leads solo performance workshops across the country, and is the founder of the Solo Performance Alliance group on Facebook. The acclaimed actor and performer splits his career between Salt Lake City and New York City. Most impressive about Fales is that he is Greco-Mormon, especially since his great-grandfather was of Greek origin. He is a father of two college students. Throughout his career in the acting industry, Fales has performed cabaret and stand- up comedy at such venues as Joe's Pub in New York, the Laurie Beechman Theater, Birdland, Standup New York and Caroline's on Broadway. To learn more about For more information on Steven Fales, check out his His new solo cabaret and comedy show will take place at the Metropolitan Room on October 3 and 16, as well as November 13. All shows will begin at 7 p.m. Fales' hit off-Broadway production "Confessions of a Mormon Boy" garnered a great deal of rave reviews, and it was followed by two subsequent shows including "Missionary Position" and "Prodigal Dad. " Other shows that Fales has been affiliated with include his cabaret act "Mormon American Princess," as well as "My Mormon Valentine" as a film. Aside from performing live, Fales also leads solo performance workshops across the country, and is the founder of the Solo Performance Alliance group on Facebook. The acclaimed actor and performer splits his career between Salt Lake City and New York City. Most impressive about Fales is that he is Greco-Mormon, especially since his great-grandfather was of Greek origin. He is a father of two college students. Throughout his career in the acting industry, Fales has performed cabaret and stand-up comedy at such venues as Joe's Pub in New York, the Laurie Beechman Theater, Birdland, Standup New York and Caroline's on Broadway. To learn more about Steven Fales ' show at the Metropolitan Room, check out the venue's official website For more information on Steven Fales, check out his Facebook page
2016-10-01 14:32 www.digitaljournal.com
60 /99 New exhibit focuses on George Washington's slaves A new exhibit at Mt. Vernon is placing the spotlight on George Washington's slaves.
The exhibit is named, "Lives Bound Together: Slavery at George Washington's Mount Vernon". The public got its first chance to see the exhibit Saturday morning.
Curator Susan Schoelwer said the exhibit contains more than 350 artifact. She told WUSA9 over time it became apparent many tourists wanted to learn more about the lives of Washington's slaves.
"We were seeing more and more visitors coming to Mt. Vernon, asking about the slave quarters and looking at the slave quarters that we had restored many years ago," she said.
The exhibit also focuses on how Washington's views on slavery evolved with time. More than 300 slaves lived on George Washington's estate, but Schoelwer said the president became more troubled by the practice later in his life. Nancy Carter Quander was one of Washington's slaves. Her descendents visited the new exhibit and said they were happy to see Mt. Vernon acknowledge its past.
"This place [Mt. Vernon] functioned because people like Nancy tended to what needed to be tended to so he [Washington] could go off to be the father of our country. "
2016-10-01 14:30 John Henry rssfeeds.wusa9.com
61 /99 Dana Point dad is a game-changer for sick children DANA POINT – Brenda Organiz lay in her hospital bed immobilized after her second surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from her spine.
Doctors at Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital had performed the surgery before and Organiz had battled back. She walked out of the Long Beach hospital; she crossed the stage at graduation; she danced at prom.
Then in August, the 18-year-old from Cudahy noticed her right leg was heavy. She could barely write. An MRI showed the tumor had come back more aggressively and at twice the size of the previous one. Organiz is fighting to regain her mobility and to live.
A HUGE SURPRISE
Recently, she had an unexpected visitor. Organiz was told by her nurses that a man named Jim Carol from a charity called Game Changer was coming to ask her about what it’s like to be hospitalized fighting cancer.
“It’s hard because you feel lonely,” she told him. “You feel isolated.”
Carol, a Dana Point resident, told her about his son, Taylor, who had a rare and deadly form of leukemia when he was 11. He told her about how he founded Game Changer after his son received a bone marrow transplant and went into remission, and how Taylor is now a senior at Harvard. He told her how humbled and blessed he is and how he wants to help others like Taylor.
He explained that his charity is focused on helping children escape their fears by giving them something fun to focus on. Then he showed her.
“He gave me this cute little green monkey,” Organiz said. “Then he gave me a bag full of stuff including a piece of paper. All of my medication affects my eyes and I thought I read $500, but it was a check for a $5,000 scholarship. I could feel my face getting red and I was starting to cry.”
Sunday, Carol is stepping up to bring more awareness and raise funds for the charity with Orange County’s first Games and Music Festival. The event will turn Sea Terrace Park in Dana Point into 8.5 acres of fun for good, featuring YouTube gaming stars such as Captain Sparklez, Markiplier and iHascupquake.
All proceeds will go to provide computer tablets, consoles, gift bags and scholarships to children in hospitals including Miller, Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego.
The foundation has helped 8,000 terminally ill children in 30 hospitals nationwide. Since 2008, the foundation has raised $6 million. This year, Carol said, it’s on a pace to generate $6 million. BECOMING A GAME-CHANGER
But money is not what it’s about for Carol, 59, who owned a successful software company and spent his adult life working in technology. He said it’s about using his know-how to develop a new model for philanthropy.
Before his son’s condition was diagnosed as acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Carol served on the boards of charities such as the Make-A-Wish Foundation. But when Taylor became ill, his family’s world changed.
“You feel like you’re in a washing machine,” Carol said. “It was all hands on deck. The first step was getting him into remission. Then we moved to Seattle and took him to Seattle Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center.”
The Carols left Taylor’s older brother with his grandmother to finish his senior year at Dana Hills High. Their youngest child, Alyssa, went to Seattle with them, and she attended a school for siblings of cancer patients.
A worldwide search of bone marrow databases showed there was one perfect match – a German pro golfer. But to get the transplant, Taylor had to endure repeated doses of radiation to kill his bone marrow. That required him to be in long periods of isolation. Once he got the transplant, the family waited for news that the donated bone marrow had begun to grow.
“It was a celebration beyond belief,” Carol said.
But Taylor wasn’t near being healed, his father said. With no immune system, he developed huge ulcers throughout his body. Then he got shingles and swine flu.
Taylor survived, and Carol wanted to do something to give back. He created Game Changer.
“It was a father-and-son project,” Carol said. “We started with one person at a time.”
Carol came up with creative ways to raise money. He hosted electronic recycling, online gaming events where as many as 100,000 people donated, and Microsoft, X Box and Activision Blizzard donated truckloads of products.
“I was so humbled,” Carol said. “It makes me so proud of what a community can do.”
GIVING BACK
Carol reached out to CHOC to help. The hospital was where Taylor’s family learned that his white blood cell count was about 25 times what was considered normal.
“Game Changer understands the whole thing of being a CHOC family,” said Kara Noskoff, a child life specialist at the hospital. “They get what our families experience for months, even years, at a time. The consoles and video games help the children cope.”
Kamron Sohrabian. 19, of Irvine knows that firsthand. He was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma at 17. Now a freshman at Chapman University studying biochemistry and molecular biology, he gives Game Changer – which sent him scores of video games while he was in isolation – credit for making his treatment bearable. He was the first at CHOC to receive a $5,000 scholarship.
Organiz said she intends to use the $5,000 scholarship to study physical therapy once she beats cancer.
“The nurses here have made such a difference in my life,” she said. “I want to come back here and help others like me.”
Contact the writer: 714-796-2254 or [email protected] or on Twitter:@lagunaini
2016-10-01 14:23 eritchie@ocregister www.ocregister.com
62 /99 EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practices, fine expected By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, Oct 1 (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators plan to order Alphabet's Google to stop paying financial incentives to smartphone makers to pre-install Google Search exclusively on their devices and warned the company of a large fine, an EU document showed. The document, running to more than 150 pages, was sent to complainants last week for feedback. Google received a copy in April in which the European Commission accused it of using its dominant Android mobile operating system to shut out rivals. The EU competition enforcer in its charge sheet, known as a statement of objections, said it planned to tell the U. S. technology giant to halt payments or discounts to mobile phone manufacturers in return for pre-installing Google's Play Store with Google Search. The regulators also want to prevent Google from forcing smartphone makers to pre-install its proprietary apps if this restricts their ability to use competing operating systems based on Android. Google "cannot punish or threaten" companies for not complying with its conditions, according to the document seen by Reuters. The Commission's investigation followed a complaint by FairSearch, a lobby group supported by companies that want to ensure they are not disadvantaged by search engine market dominance, in March 2013. Google could face a large fine because the anti-competitive practices, which started from January 2011, are still ongoing, the document said. "The Commission intends to set the fine at a level which will be sufficient to ensure deterrence," it said. The penalty could be based on revenue generated from AdWords clicks by European users, Google Search product queries, Play Store apps purchases and AdMob's in-app advertisements. Commission spokesman Ricardo Cardoso declined to comment. Google said: "We look forward to showing the European Commission that we've designed the Android model in a way that's good for both competition and consumers, and supports innovation across the region. " Separately, the Commission, which has also charged Google of favouring its own shopping service over those of rivals, could also fine it in that case, according to a second charge sheet seen by Reuters. Google may have to rank rival comparison shopping services in the same way as its own services, the charge sheet sent in July and forwarded to its foes last week said. The document, close to 150 pages, was heavily edited, with large sections of confidential information redacted by Google. The Commission said it would decide at a later stage whether to let Google charge competitors for displaying their services prominently, with the amount corresponding to Google's operating cost or a nominal amount based on the lowest reserve price for AdWords which is currently 0.01 euro per click. (Reporting by Foo Yun Chee; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
2016-10-01 14:21 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk
63 /99 Obama hosted "thank-you" reception Friday for old Illinois pals Bowman worked with Obama on poverty issues when he was a state senator in Springfield and a U. S. senator in Washington.
“I think it was essentially a thank-you to his friends from Illinois. …He was extremely patient. Everybody had a few minutes with him who wanted it,” Bouman said.
The private reception was not on Obama’s schedule. The invites went out several weeks ago. The event was moved back a few hours because Obama was flying back from Israel, where he attended the funeral of former Israeli president Shimon Peres.
The reception menu included Chicago inspired deep dish pizza squares.
Folks were asked to check their cell phones at the door. Mrs. Obama did not attend the event.
Obama returns to Chicago next Friday for a rare weekend back in the city – and when the Cubs are at Wrigley Field for the playoffs. Obama headlines a fundraiser for House Democrats on Friday with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi; an event on Sunday for Senate candidate Tammy Duckworth and a still-in-the-works reception to benefit Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
2016-10-01 14:14 Lynn Sweet chicago.suntimes.com
64 /99 Top 1980s soap Dynasty 'set for TV reboot' Glamorous 1980s soap Dynasty, which explores the trials and tribulations of a glorious wealthy American family, is reportedly set for a television reboot. The hit drama starred Dame Joan Collins and John Forsythe and ran for nine series between 1981 and 1989. Dynasty followed the Carringtons - a one-percent family from Denver, Colorado, and their feuds with the similarly outrageously rich Colby clan. After ending more than 27 years ago it is now set for a reboot on US network The CW according to The Hollywood Reporter. The network, which is partly owned by CBS and Warner Brothers, is rebooting the show alongside creators of The OC, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, the website reports. For a time, the soap was the number one watched show in the US and was launched by ABC as a rival to prime time CBS drama Dallas. British actress Collins played s uper-bitch and champion shoulder pad-wearer Alexis Carrington in the hit US soap. The reboot would reportedly unite the Carringtons with the Colbys, who featured in their own spin-off show. The original Dynasty was picked up by BBC One during the 1980s before it was scrapped by then channel controller Lord Michael Grade.
2016-10-01 14:02 Press Association www.dailymail.co.uk
65 /99 Sound and vision: what radio looks like in person As it turns out, the Bake Off and the Labour party have a lot in common Radio 3 continues to celebrate its 70th anniversary over the next week, broadcasting live from a pop-up Perspex studio at the entrance to the Royal Festival Hall in London. There are classical music performances, retro tea dances and poetry readings in front of a general audience of visitors to the Southbank, hundreds milling past in a purling stream, some flopping to watch proceedings for a while on sofas in the lobby.
When I went to take a look over the weekend, there were (admittedly) tens of producers coming and going, careful to not trip over the thick arteries of duct-taped wires and bouquets of plugs and talk-back units. And data trucks full of engineers debating the acceptable levels of ambient noise degradation, and mixing desks with over 176 sources, and servers pulling things across networks. But it struck me that everybody else was behaving. . . precisely as they do when the radio is on in their own home. Some were listening carefully, some staring out of the window and catching every third word, some reading the paper and hearing not a jot, some mopping up spilled drinks and striking deals with toddlers.
“It’s been to Stratford for Shakespeare,” said Huw Robinson, head of Radio 3 operations, “that box.” He nodded at the flat-packed unit (“a kind of Ikea studio”), which at that moment was filled with the presenter Sarah Mohr-Pietsch introducing the Treorchy Male Choir, singing the folk song “Counting the Goats”. I noted that SMP had perfectly sculpted eyebrows and wasn’t remotely how an enraptured friend once imagined her, in an email to me: Sarah More-Peach, poss freckly and highly improper. A vg example of why radio is more interesting than telly because it allows us to dream.
These sorts of super-visible broadcast events are on the increase. “The public need to see what they’re paying for,” says Robinson, unflummoxed by the challenge. So they come to see, absorbing how radio “looks”. . . and then almost immediately it seems they mentally rearrange that information into nothing but sound again, slipping into a radio trance, free from the one great tyranny of our epoch: the moving image.
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I wonder if Tom Watson and Paul Hollywood are the same person? I have never seen them in the same room together – neither in the devil’s kitchen of Westminster, nor in the heavenly Great British Bake Off marquee. Now the Parliamentary Labour Party is being forced to shift to the political equivalent of Channel 4, and the Cake Meister is going with. As with the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn, so with Bake Of f : the former presenters have departed, leaving behind the weird, judgemental, wrinkly old narcissist claiming the high ground of loyalty to the viewers – I mean members.
Is the analogy stretched, or capable of being still more elasticised? Dunno – but what I do know is that Bake Off is some weird-tasting addictive shit! I resisted watching it at all until this season, and my fears were justified. When I took the first yummy-scrummy bite, I was hooked even before the camera had slid across the manicured parkland and into that mad and misty realm where a couple of hours is a long time. . . in baking, as in contemporary British politics. It’s a given, I know, that Bake Off is a truer, deeper expression of contemporary Britain’s animating principle than party, parliament, army or even monarch. It is our inner Albion, reached by crossing the stormy sound of our own duodenums. Bake Off is truer to its idea of itself than any nation state – or mythical realm – could ever be, and so inspires a loyalty more compelling.
I have sensed this development from afar. My not actually watching the programme adds, counterintuitively, to the perspicacity of my analysis: I’m like a brilliant Kremlinologist, confined to the bowels of Bletchley Park, who nonetheless sifts the data so well that he knows when Khrushchev is constipated. Mmm, I love cake! So cried Marjorie Dawes in Little Britain when she was making a mockery of the “Fatfighters” – and it’s this mocking cry that resounds throughout contemporary Britain: mmm! We love cake! We love our televisual cake way more than real social justice, which, any way you slice it, remains a pie in the sky – and we love Bake Of f ’s mixing bowl of ethnicity far more than we do a melting pot – let alone true social mobility. Yes, Bake Off stands proxy for the Britain we’d like to be, but that we can’t be arsed to get off our arses and build, because we’re too busy watching people bake cakes on television.
It was Rab Butler, Churchill’s surprise choice as chancellor in the 1951 Tory government, who popularised the expression “the national cake” – and our new, immaterial national cake is a strange sort of wafer, allowing all of us who take part in Paul’s-and-Mary’s queered communion to experience this strange transubstantiation: the perfect sponge rising, as coal is once more subsidised and the railways renationalised.
Stupid, blind, improvident Tom Watson, buggering off like that – his battles with the fourth estate won’t avail him when it comes to the obscurity of Channel 4. You’ll find yourself sitting there alone in your trailer, Tom, neatly sculpting your facial hair, touching up your maquillage with food colouring – trying to recapture another era, when goatees and Britannia were cool, and Tony and Gordon divided the nation’s fate along with their polenta. Meanwhile, Mel and Sue – and, of course, Mary – will get on with the serious business of baking a patriotic sponge that can be evenly divided into 70 million pieces.
That Bake Off and the Labour Party should collapse at exactly the same time suggests either that the British oven is too cold or too hot, or that the recipe hasn’t been followed properly. Mary Berry has the charisma that occludes charisma: you look at her and think, “What’s the point of that?” But then, gradually, her quiet conviction in her competence starts to win you over – and her judgements hit home hard. Too dense, she’ll say of the offending comestible, her voice creaking like the pedal of the swing-bin that you’re about to dump your failed cake in.
Mary never needed Paul – hers is no more adversarial a presenting style than that of Mel and Sue. Mary looks towards a future in which there is far more direct and democratic cake-judging, a future in which “television personality” is shown up for the oxymoron it truly is. That she seems to be a furious narcissist (I wouldn’t be surprised if either she’s had a great deal of “work”, or she beds down in a wind tunnel every night, so swept are her features) isn’t quite as contradictory as you might imagine. Out there on the margins of British cookery for decades, baking cakes for the Flour Advisory Board (I kid you not), taking a principled stand on suet, while the entire world is heading in one direction, towards a globalised, neoliberal future of machine- made muffins – she must have had a powerful degree of self-belief to keep on believing in filo pastry for everyone.
So now, what will emerge from the oven? Conference has come and gone, and amateur bakers have banged their heads against the wall of the tent: a futile exercise, I’m sure you’ll agree. Will Jeremy – I’m sorry, Mary – still be able to produce a show-stopper? Will Mel and Sue and Angela and Hilary all come sneaking back, not so much shriven as proved, so that they, too, can rise again? And what about poor Tom – will he try to get a Labour Party cookery show of his own going, despite the terrible lack of that most important ingredient: members?
It’s so hard to know. It could be that The Great British Bake Off has simply reached its sell-by date and is no longer fit for consumption. Or it could be that Tom is the possessor of his alter ego’s greatest bête noire, one as fatal in politics as it is in bakery, to whit: a soggy bottom.
2016-10-01 23:23 Laurie Penny www.newstatesman.com
66 /99 Rain, Cooler Temps Persist Today, But Sunday Looks Better (CBS) — Don’t like the persistent rain and cloudiness today? Stick around, Sunday will be better, CBS 2 Meteorologist Ed Curran says.
Showers and potential thunderstorms will continue to loom until late Saturday, the first day of October, with highs in the mid- 60s.
Sunday will be an improvement, if still mild. Clouds will give way to sunnier conditions and temperatures in the high-60s.
Things get even better later in the week, with temps in the 70s.
2016-10-01 13:58 chicago.cbslocal.com
67 /99 Casually clad Lily-Rose Depp can't stop grinning at lunch in LA after debuting two movies in a month She recently said that she 'couldn't imagine doing anything' other than acting. And fortunately, acting is certainly working out well for Lily-Rose Depp, as she debuted her two latest movies in September. So it's no wonder the 17-year-old daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis was looking so happy as she enjoyed a day off in Los Angeles on Friday. Lily-Rose couldn't stop smiling while showing off her casual style during an al fresco lunch with a friend. The budding actress was dressed down in a midriff-baring black spaghetti strap top, denim cut-off shorts and grey trainers, with a red handbag slung over her shoulder. Lily-Rose sported natural make-up to highlight her striking features, and wore her dark blonde hair in a fuss-free low bun. A few days earlier, the teen had attended a Chanel dinner in LA. As well as making her mark on Hollywood, Lily-Rose has been doing some modelling and is the face of the iconic brand's fragrance N.5 L'Eau. It's been a busy few weeks for the rising star, who recently returned from her native Paris where she attended the premiere of her film La Danseuse (The Dancer). The movie follows the life of Loie Fuller (portrayed by Kristen Stewart's ex-girlfriend Soko) and her relationship with protege and rival Isadora Duncan (Depp). Before that, Lily-Rose joined co-star Natalie Portman to premiere their film Planetarium at both the Venice and Toronto film festivals. In the movie, the pair play sisters in pre-war France who believe they can connect with ghosts. At the Toronto screening, Lily-Rose told the Press Association: 'I always wanted to have a bunch of different jobs when I was little. 'It's only in the last five years or so of my life that I really started thinking about (acting). Now that I do it I couldn't imagine doing anything else.' Lily-Rose's acting career has been going from strength to strength, and she will be reprising her role as Colleen Collette from this year's Yoga Hosers in Moose Jaws. The latest comedy-horror offering from Kevin Smith is also rumoured to see the teen's father Johnny reprise his role as Guy Lapointe. The 53-year-old has been out of the spotlight recently in the wake of his divorce from Amber Heard, which saw the 30-year-old receive a $7million settlement after claiming Johnny was abusive towards her.
2016-10-01 13:56 Iona Kirby www.dailymail.co.uk
68 /99 Terrifying clowns are terrorizing children and adults across the country Jonathan Martin, 20, was charged with wearing a mask in a public place and disorderly conduct. He was found in 'full clown costume', crouching among trees by an apartment complex, police say.
2016-10-01 13:51 Jennifer Smith www.dailymail.co.uk
69 /99 Parental Basement Dwellers: Hillary Clinton Criticizes Bernie Sanders Voters for Having ‘Bought into False Promise’ “It’s a false promise,” Clinton says in the recording, referencing Sanders’ political revolution. “But I don’t think you tell idealistic people — particularly young people — that they’ve bought into a false promise.”
The audio , which was released by the Washington Free Beacon , comes just three weeks after Clinton faced backlash for calling millions of Americans supporting Donald Trump “deplorables.”
The recording, which is from a fundraising event in February, catches the Democratic nominee calling Sanders’ supporters “children of the Great Recession” that are “living in their parents’ basement.”
“There is a strain of, on the one hand, the kind of populist, nationalist, xenophobic, discriminatory kind of approach that we hear too much of from the Republican candidates,” Clinton states.
She continues:
“Some are new to politics completely. They’re children of the Great Recession. And they are living in their parents’ basement,” Clinton adds. “They feel they got their education and the jobs that are available to them are not at all what they envisioned for themselves. And they don’t see much of a future.”
She continues, “If you’re feeling like you’re consigned to, you know, being a barista, or you know, some other job that doesn’t pay a lot, and doesn’t have some other ladder of opportunity attached to it, then the idea that maybe, just maybe, you could be part of a political revolution is pretty appealing.”
The audio, which the Washington Free Beacon reports was “revealed by hackers who breached the email account of a campaign staffer,” is making headlines after Sanders hit the campaign trail in New Hampshire on Wednesday to woo millennial voters for Clinton.
2016-10-01 13:50 by feedproxy.google.com
70 /99 Duncan Bannatyne and his stunning fiancee Nigora Whitehorn enjoy Monaco trip They became engaged in June after a whirlwind 10 month romance. And Duncan Bannatyne and his fiancée Nigora Whitehorn looked as loved-up as ever they enjoyed a glamorous trip to Monaco over the weekend. The 67-year-old former Dragons' Den star was ensuring her squeezed plenty into his holiday as enjoyed a night out with his beautiful partner, 36, before heading to a yacht show the following day. Scroll down for video On Friday night, Duncan and Nigora enjoyed a night out where the brunette beauty was clearly dressed to impress in a stunning little black dress. She showed off her perky cleavage through a racy plunging neckline, which boasted a saucy lace-up detail while he skirt clung to her figure to perfection. Giving the look a touch of sophistication was a chic gold blazer. Nigora boosted her already staggering height with a pair of teetering heels while adding in a chic choker as yet another stylish accessory. Duncan meanwhile looked dashing in a trendy jeans and blazer combination with a crisp white shirt underneath as he held his stunning girlfriend close. The next day however the duo went for a more low-key look with Nigora rocking skin-tight jeans with a distressed detailing. She wore a white chiffon top with a crossover detail while she added an injection of designer cool with the addition of a Hermes belt around her slender hips. Duncan was certainly rocking the Riviera style as he wore a cornflower blue shirt with stylish chinos while yet again holding his beautiful fiancee close. Upon their engagement, Duncan seemed to have spared no expense when it came to making the occasion one to remember, as the gruff reality star is believed to have splashed out £40,000 on the ring. The couple have been dating for approximately 10 months, after going public with their romance in July 2015. They met when Duncan visited the Harley Street Dental Clinic where Nigora worked as a 'coordinator'. Previously, she had worked as a Russian and Uzbek translator for the government and graduated with a degree in chemistry from a Russian university. Duncan - who split from his second wife, Joanne McCue, in 2011 - and Nigora have been almost inseparable since they started dating. And Nigora was even in Australia to support Duncan during his stint in the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! camp in December. Duncan has six children from his time with Joanne, and was married to first wife Gail from 1983-1994.
2016-10-01 13:38 Ciara Farmer www.dailymail.co.uk
71 /99 Clinton takes lead in battleground states Hillary Clinton is ahead of Donald Trump four points in Florida. Senior political writer for FiveThirtyEight, Harry Enten, and Director of UVA's Center for Politics, Larry Sabato, discuss how the first presidential debate majorly impacted poll results for Trump.
2016-10-01 13:35 MSNBC Live www.msnbc.com
72 /99 Washington Post: Dog Halloween Costumes ‘Sexist’ for Perpetuating Gender Norms In an article entitled “Is your dog’s Halloween costume sexist?” the Post’s business reporter Abha Bhattarai claims that the “glass ceiling appears to be firmly in place at PetSmart,” a pet store with a range of costumes for dogs.
Bhattarai bemoans that “career costumes labeled ‘male’ include firefighter and police officer, while female dogs can choose between a pink cowgirl costume and pink loofah.”
She goes on to complain that on BaxterBoo.com, an online pet store, options for female dogs include a “sweet heart nurse or French maid,” whilst the choices for male dogs include “firemen, mob boss and doctor.”
The article quotes Scott Lawrie, who hosts a podcast on “gender issues,” arguing that “it seems silly on the surface, but this is part of a larger message we’re sending, that there are certain jobs for men, and certain jobs for women.”
Bhattarai adds that because of the perceived sexism, “national retailers have begun taking steps to eliminate gender labels from their products,” with stores such as Wal-Mart, Toys-R-Us, and Amazon taking steps to ensure their products are no longer perceived as sexist.
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2016-10-01 13:15 by feedproxy.google.com
73 /99 HBO's multilayered update of 'Westworld' is TV's next big game-changer HBO swings big. That has been its brand since the days of “It’s not television, it’s HBO.” Television eventually caught up, which meant HBO had to swing bigger; it is not built for, or on, a slate of solid but not spectacular shows. It is a premium cable channel, which means it needs to bring the premium.
So when an HBO series fails — “Vinyl,” “Luck,” “John From Cincinnati” — it fails hard. But when it connects, well, hits like “Game of Thrones” and “Veep,” “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” and “Olive Kitteridge” don’t just sweep up Emmys, they change the nature of television. Push the art form up and out in a way no other network or platform has been able to do.
“Westworld” is television’s next big game-changer, a great, multilayered tapestry of action and unexpected analysis made hypnotic by creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy and a cast that includes Anthony Hopkins , Jeffrey Wright , James Marsden , Ed Harris, Thandie Newton and Evan Rachel Wood,
It isn’t just great television, it’s vivid, thought-provoking television that entertains even as it examines the darker side of entertainment.
Very, very unsettling. Something is going to go wrong, of course; something always goes wrong when the artificial becomes too intelligent. Indeed, the 75-minute premiere opens with the assumption of trouble. In a dark and futuristic space, a naked, blank-faced android named Dolores (Wood) is put back “online” so she can be asked if she has ever questioned her reality. When she says no, she is asked what she thinks of that reality and, slipping into character, she tells us.
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We enter the park, and the narrative, accompanied by the porcelain perfection of Dolores, a artistic, optimistic rancher’s daughter who sees the good in all people, including “the newcomers.”
That would be the paying guests who are there, as often as not, to engage in violent, predatory acts including torture, murder and rape, over which they need feel no guilt because their victims are not real.
“Or are they?” is the obvious next question, the premise that drives virtually every artificial intelligence narrative, “Westworld” among them. Dolores and her fellow hosts are rebooted at the end of every narrative, their memories wiped clean; when they malfunction or are no longer needed, they are put into cold storage.
But the park’s master designer, Dr. Robert Ford (Hopkins), clearly has complicated feelings about his creations and their increasing perfection. Humanity, he tells his acolyte Bernard (Wright) evolved out of mistakes; like the Zen masters who introduce a flaw into a perfect painting to create beauty, Ford believes perfection is not just meaningless but the end of meaning itself.
It is the first of many disturbingly lovely and powerful scenes between Hopkins and Wright — watching these two, separately but especially together, is reason enough for excitement. Indeed, for all its sci-fi accouterment and “Hunger Games” vibe, “Westworld” is a showcase of splendid performances. Wood, and in subsequent episodes Newton, are especially mesmerizing as they slide from machine to human and back again.
Not content with simply adding dimension to the familiar question of “What makes us human?” Nolan and Joy turn the conceit upside down and sideways. The immediate story line may tease an exploration of what would happen if the robots gained consciousness, but the real concern is how the humans lost theirs.
Westworld is a park that, like another park we know, is limited only by “your imagination;” but the imaginations that arrive seem overwhelmingly brutal and bloodthirsty. As in the film, a black- clad gunslinger plays a key role, but where Yul Brynner played a robot run amok, in the series, Ed Harris’ near identical figure is very much human, murdering and raping as he goes.
All this within a story that twists and turns with plot and intrigues with character development. And that’s why HBO, for all its missteps and flameouts, with all the increased competition, remains unique.
Having taken the lion’s share of criticism for television’s increased willingness to create worlds in which murder and torture and rape occur with alarming regularity, the network offers us a series that acknowledges the danger of such things and is prepared to explore what it all means.
Tori Amos discusses how her own experience with sexual violence inspired her song "Flicker," from the new Netflix documentary "Audrie & Daisy. "
At a Country Music Hall of Fame benefit, James Taylor, Vince Gill and Joe Walsh reflect on songs that stood out in their memories.
DJI has released the Mavic Pro -- a portable easy-to-use drone featuring a 4k camera on DJI's smallest three-axis gimbal, a video-game styled remote control and five vision-positioning cameras -- all wrapped in a small package.
The late Cuban printmaker Belkis Ayón mysteriously took her own life in 1999. The Fowler Museum will open the first Ayón retrospective in the U. S. on Oct. 2. Here, in a silent video shot in Cuba a year before her death, the artist is shown making one of her large scale collographs on a hand-cranked...
Kenneth Turan reviews "The Magnificent Seven," starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke and Haley Bennett. Video by Jason H. Neubert.
Kenneth Turan reviews "The Magnificent Seven," starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke and Haley Bennett. Video by Jason H. Neubert.
2016-10-01 13:05 Los Angeles www.latimes.com
74 /99 Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you your new debutante! Pop singer FEMME releases her debut album British Pop singer FEMME, real name Laura Bettinson released her self-funded debut album ‘Debutante’ in which she produced and wrote in her south London bedroom since 2013. FEMME has taken the self-made approach instead showcasing her talent without the backing of a major label, instead turning them down which would be considered pop suicide to any new artist but it shows that she the real deal. Pop music today is in a major crisis in manufacturing one hit wonders from reality shows like "the Voice" and "The X Factor," but without real talent these reality singers fail to further their career. FEMME on the other hand showcases that you don’t need to be with a major label but instead to have total control of your music and career is more sexy in music standards. Led by glistening new single ‘Light Me Up’, this kaleidoscopic collection takes a journey through high pedigree, female-powered pop referencing sixties girl groups, seventies disco divas, nineties chart icons and modern day bass-fiends. All channeled through FEMME's singular, modish filter. With the hype machine topping, incendiary singles 'Fever Boy', 'Gold' and 'S. O. S.' also in tow, 'Debutante' is a reminder that whether raunchy, heart-breaking, energizing or empowering, pop music should always be. She has even self-made 9 music videos for her powerful pop ballads, Light me up, Gold and S. O. S totaling over 1 100 000 million YouTube hits combined. She told the BBC "When I had those meetings it was quite obvious very quickly that, as a woman in pop music, there's a certain path and I could see that it wasn't going to be the right fit for me," she explains. "I see no reason why pop music can't be stretched and challenged. "It is a ballsy pop record but it's all about mates and strength and power so it speaks to women. "It's too easy just to bang out another song that sounds like so-and-so because it's been in the charts. " It’s been a long road for the singer as making your own album can take longer than usual if you DIY it yourself but has grown her fan base out of loyalty and personal interaction on social media. She supported Charli XCX on her US tour and her fan base exploded across the states. The fashion industry has taken notice of her and she can be spotted sitting front row at Stella McCartney listening to a FEMME song or cameoing in the Absolutely Fabulous film sipping flirtinis or dancing with Donetella Versace. Vogue declared her “Fashion's Favourite New Pop Star”, she's sound tracked catwalk shows by Stella McCartney and been invited to promote new ranges by Uniqlo, BooHoo and Adidas NEO. Her irrepressible personality has brought a fierce spark to every campaign, an uncompromising energy which shines through every track on ‘Debutante’. As she sings on 'Sirens': “You wanted a poster girl, you got me instead. " FEMME’s mere hobby turned into something more last year when she joined the band Ultraísta alongside the Radiohead producing veteran Nigel Godrich and the drummer Joey Waronker. Though Ultraísta achieved success in their native Britain she has now branched out on her own. You can purchase "Debutante" on Amazon and Itunes
2016-10-01 13:02 Robert Lang www.dailymail.co.uk
75 /99 Kate Walsh and Whitney Cummings dazzle in glitzy dresses at Smile Gala Kate Walsh and Whitney Cummings certainly brought the cheer at the Smile Gala in Beverly Hills on Friday.
The 48-year-old Private Practice star and the 34-year- old comedian looked stunning as they cuddled up for photos at the event, which was held to benefit Operation Smile.
Both of the women picked glitzy cocktail dresses for the occasion, with Kate taking the plunge in a shimmering metallic number.
Shimmering: Kate Walsh (L) and Whitney Cummings dazzled at the Smile Gala in Beverly Hills on Friday
The actress's tea-length frock was covered in sequins and boasted elaborate beaded detailing along the collar and down the front.
As well as offering a glimpse of Kate's cleavage, it also highlighted her slender waist thanks to a delicate belt, and she added a pair of bronze sandals.
The Grey's Anatomy alum wore her trademark red hair in waves, and finished off her glamorous look with frosted eyeshadow, lashings of mascara and red lip gloss.
Meanwhile Whitney was also dressed to the nines in a strapless sweetheart cut black dress which fell to her knees and was infused with silver thread that caught the light.
Congratulations: The Private Practice star presented the comedian with the Wallis Annenberg Public Service Award
Charitable: Whitney volunteered for Operation Smile during a medical mission to Hanoi, Vietnam in April
Firm friends: The 34-year-old posed with Kate, Jordin Sparks and Brooke Burke Charvet
The 2 Broke Girls creator added a pair of rose gold sandals and a dainty necklace, keeping her accessories simple and understated.
Whitney pulled her brunette locks into a braided updo and highlighted her pretty features with peach lipstick and metallic eyeshadow.
Whitney was honoured with the Wallis Annenberg Public Service Award during the event, which Kate presented to her.
Turning every head: Kate, 48, flashed some cleavage in a shimmering metallic tea dress
Keeping it classic: While Whitney dared to bare in a strapless black and silver cocktail dress, Jordin sported a burgundy number
The duo also spent some time catching up with Jordin Sparks and Brooke Burke Charvet.
The star, who spoke on stage at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel, volunteered for Operation Smile during a medical mission to Hanoi, Vietnam in April.
Whitney is currently filming The Female Brain alongside Sofia Vergara and her Undateable co- star Chris D'Elia.
Meanwhile Kate, who appeared in an episode of Undateable, can soon be seen in mystery drama series Thirteen Reasons Why and opposite Liam Neeson, Diane Lane and Michael C. Hall in Felt, which tells the story of Mark Felt.
Showing their support: Kate and Whitney posed separately on the red carpet outside the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel
2016-10-01 12:55 Iona Kirby www.dailymail.co.uk
76 /99 Tom Cruise steps out for dinner with mystery woman in LA He's been low-key about his love love since divorcing from Katie Holmes in 2012. And Tom Cruise was wearing dark glasses as he stepped out out for dinner with a mystery woman and a male pal on Thursday night in Studio City, Los Angeles. The 54-year-old was spotted leaving Asanebo Sushi restaurant with the brunette beauty and Michael Jackson's ex bodyguard Matt Fiddes. He kept it casual with a blue button pocket shirt with open collar. The Top Gun star's hair looked fairly unkempt, as he headed into a waiting SUV and drove to board a private jet in Burbank. Katie Holmes - his third wife - filed for divorce after five and a half years of marriage, they have daughter Suri together. He was also married to Nicole Kidman for ten years, before they divorced in 2001. During their marriage, the talented thespians adopted two children, daughter Isabella in 1992 and son Connor in 1995. Earlier this week, the Australian beauty revealed that with hindsight she was shocked to have married him when she was so young. She was just 23-years-old when she tied the knot with the famous Scientologist in December 1990. 'I was so young when I got married. I look back now and I'm like, "What? "' the 49-year-old star told Red magazine. Comparing herself to young pop star Taylor Swift, the mother-of-four continued: 'You look at Taylor Swift, I mean how old is she? She's 26.' 'I had two kids by the time I was 27 and I'd been married for four years. But that's what I wanted,' the Moulin Rouge beauty added. Meanwhile, Tom has Jack Reacher: Never Go Back with Cobie Smulders and Robert Knepper, coming out October 21. He also has two films due out next year - The Mummy, with Annabelle Wallis, Russell Crowe and Sofia Boutella, has a June 9, 2017 release date. His CIA drug runner movie American Made will come out September 29, 2017.
2016-10-01 12:54 Dailymail.com www.dailymail.co.uk
77 /99 Customer finds card skimmer on ATM at Madison Heights 7/11 MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. (WXYZ) - A 7/11 customer is warning people on social media after he found a credit card skimmer attached to the store's ATM.
Matt Stoddart posted the warning, along with pictures, to Facebook.
Stoddard found the card skimmer at the 7/11 on Dequindre, north of 12 Mile. He says he saw a small gap, and remembering a Reddit video, he pulled it off.
"Sometimes it pays to be paranoid," Stoddard posted.
Madison Heights police say they are investigating.
We have contacted the owner of the 7/11 for comment, but have not yet heard back.
2016-10-01 12:51 Matt Stoddart www.wxyz.com
78 /99 Patrol vehicle involved in fatal crash was blocking traffic because of debris in road BLACKMAN TWP., MI – An unoccupied patrol vehicle was blocking the left lane of traffic late Friday on I-94 because of a debris caused by a traffic crash involving a pickup truck and a tractor-trailer when a car hit the patrol vehicle, killing a man.
The pickup truck driver had lost control about 10:20 p.m. Sept. 30 while leaving southbound U. S. 127 and entering eastbound I-94. A tractor-trailer then struck the truck, pushing the truck into the median wall and throwing a bed liner and other debris into a westbound lane, according to an email from Blackman-Leoni Township public safety Deputy Director Scott Grajewski. Two occupants were trapped in the pickup truck and emergency workers had to use a hydraulic tool to remove them. They were taken to Henry Ford Allegiance Health with minor injuries, Grajewski reported.
The officer left the patrol vehicle to help "in the extrication of the original accident," according to the deputy director.
A westbound car then hit the public safety vehicle before 11 p.m., according to the Jackson County Sheriff's Office.
The 77-year-old driver went to the Jackson hospital and later died, the sheriff's office reported.
He was not buckled and was traveling at a speed that likely contributed to the crash, according to deputies.
Grajewski said the debris in the highway made it necessary to block traffic. Deputies were either on their way or already investigating another crash caused by debris at the time of the fatal crash, Grajewski said.
He said the resulting damage to the patrol vehicle was extensive.
2016-10-01 12:49 Danielle Salisbury www.mlive.com
79 /99 Andy Murray continues bid to top world rankings in the China Open Andy Murray will continue his bid to overtake Novak Djokovic at the top of the world rankings after committing to take part in the China Open in Beijing this week. Murray has targeted Djokovic's number one spot following a stellar summer, but after suffering a thigh strain in Great Britain's Davis Cup defeat to Argentina a fortnight ago he said he was in need of a rest and would take a look at his schedule. However, he has decided to play in Beijing and can close the gap on Djokovic by a healthy 1,000 points if he wins the tournament. Djokovic pulled out earlier in the week, continuing a frustrating few months for the Serbian. He suffered a surprise early exit at Wimbledon, later attributed to personal issues, while also suffering a first-round exit at the Olympics and withdrawing from the Cincinnati Open in August. He came into the US Open with lingering fitness concerns, but made it to the final where he lost to Stan Wawrinka. That has allowed Murray an unlikely sniff at the top spot and with plenty of points left before the end of the season, all of which Djokovic is defending owing to his superb 2015 form, an ascent to the summit is not out of the question before the end of the year. Murray will be the top seed in Beijing and will face Italian Andreas Seppi, ranked 94 in the world, in the first round, with the Scot winning their last seven meetings. Meanwhile, Kyle Edmund is through to the second round of qualifying after he beat Spaniard Pablo Andujar Alba 6-3 6-2 and will make the main draw if he can beat Evgeny Donskoy on Sunday. However, Dan Evans lost his qualifier for the Japan Tennis Open Championships as he was downed by Akira Santillan 6-3 4-6 6-3. 2016-10-01 12:43 Jonathan Veal www.dailymail.co.uk
80 /99 Collette’s Italian connection Change of concentration … Australian conform engineer Designer Collette Dinnigan with a mannequin modelling slip conform in 2002. Her family – utterly her immature son – has shifted her talents to another direction.
IT took a change of time zones and a plea of alighting and vital in a city where she “couldn’t pronounce a language, didn’t even know a transport names” to force conform engineer Collette Dinnigan to delayed down.
Well, arrange of.
Pinning down Australia’s character queen, as she prepared to launch her latest childrenswear partnership with bill tradesman ALDI [see breakout], there is a peace about a married mom of dual unknown to those who watched her scale to a tip of a tellurian broom trade — before she pulpy postponement a few years ago and took a family sabbatical to Rome.
It was Feb this year when Dinnigan, her transport businessman father Bradley Cocks, daughter Estella and a couple’s three-year-old son Hunter packaged adult their city home in Watsons Bay, sealed a gates of their nation chateau in Milton (three hours south of Sydney) and jetted off for a journey of a lifetime: vital fulltime in Italy for a year.
After 24 years slavishly tied to a general collections circuit, Dinnigan, 50, has some-more than warranted time divided from a blue chip conform code she built out of usually a few domestic pieces of slip sole to friends behind in 1990.
Announcing her personal “hiatus” 4 years ago — in a handwritten note to friends and business — Dinnigan explained: “I have sacrificed a lot of family time in building and progressing my business, now we wish change behind in my life with my husband, [then] nine-year-old daughter and baby boy.”
But it wasn’t until a family of 4 overwhelmed down in Rome progressing this year and, on a whim, went skiing for a week, that Dinnigan felt she had truly divided from her former life.
Collette Dinnigan during a InStyle Women of Style hold during The Star in Pyrmont. Picture: Christian Gilles Source: News Corp Australia
Sure, she had during slightest 4 projects, including a ALDI collection, still on a go as she headed overseas, yet a time disproportion has meant her days could mostly be clinging to her desired ones.
While a integrate were married in a Italian coastal city of Positano, behind in 2011, they chose Rome as their new home bottom — a confidant new universe for them both.
“We didn’t wish to go to Paris, that was kind of my second nation of chateau in a way. We didn’t wish to go somewhere where we knew how to pronounce a denunciation some-more than him. And even yet we’ve always desired holidaying there and we got married [in Italy], Rome was a place we’d usually ever been to a few times. So we thought, ‘let’s go to a place where we don’t even know a names of a streets.’ So we chose Rome, put a children into propagandize … Hunter started in September.”
Canadian-born Cocks, 43, is also holding denunciation lessons, while his mother is calm to wander a streets and markets for daily inspiration; between a peculiar Skype event with her group behind in Sydney, that is.
“We do [school] collect adult with Estella, afterwards we go to a park or we go outward Rome, horseriding or to a markets, afterwards we prepare dinner. We’ve got an unit with a good terrace, it’s usually beautiful. In summer time, it’s unequivocally sexy.”
As her 27,800 Instagram fans have followed, one enviable post after another, there have been side sojourns: exploring pencil-pine paths in Tuscany; prolonged lunches underneath olive trees in Puglia; and during slightest one outing behind to see a bougainvillea of Positano.
The family’s Euro knowledge can clearly be seen in a finer sum of Dinnigan’s latest collection for ALDI — her second (“and last,” she insists) for a bill retailer.
Young Hearts by Collette Dinnigan kidswear collection for ALDI. Picture: Hugh Stewart for ALDI Source: Supplied
“Most of it is utterly comfortable, yet there’s a somewhat European feel to it,” Dinnigan explains.
“Whether that’s a navy jacket, lined in linen, with a span of stripy shorts for when boys need to dress up, yet not be too formal. It’s like their Sunday best.”
Of course, there a flattering string dresses, pompom-trimmed ponchos and swimwear for girls, while a pyjamas are so stylish Dinnigan has asked ALDI to make a special sequence in her size.
The peculiarity fabrics and high-end pattern accommodate Dinnigan’s harsh standards, it’s a cost tab — from $14.99 to $34.99 — that should infer a many appealing to customers.
“I consider a garments are usually impossibly good value for a cost indicate they are, generally for children, who let’s face it, could grow out of it all in 3 months,” she says.
Her work gait and viewpoint might have changed, yet Dinnigan’s artistic side stays in overdrive, banking divided her pattern ideas, or tripping adult to trade fairs in Milan for some-more inspiration.
“My mind has been a whirl,” Dinnigan says.
“I keep meditative ‘maybe not this year, yet a next? That’s my problem. It’s not that I’m looking for work, it usually comes my approach and I’m a can do person.”
For now, a family’s skeleton extend to their subsequent vacation spot, or that grill in Rome they should strut to, along a city’s famous Tiber river.
“It’s unequivocally connected a family,” Dinnigan says. “We’ve detected parks together. We’ve detected opposite dishes we like. Just vital a dream.”
Fashion engineer Collette Dinnigan with son Hunter in Puglia, Italy. Picture: David Loftus Source: Supplied ALL FOR YOU, SON
Dinnigan’s second collection for ALDI — to strike stores after this month — outlines a new initial for Australia’s character black — a boys range, desirous roughly wholly by her brown- eyed, blond-haired son, Hunter.
Besides offered out in record time, patron feedback on her initial partnership with a bill tradesman dual years ago sent one message, shrill and clear, to a designer: “everybody wanted us to do boys clothes.”
Known around a universe for her delicate designs, Dinnigan says she used her “mother instinct” to blueprint out a habit of essentials for a small group in a lives: from printed T-shirts and plimsoll shoes, to hooded anoraks and tailored striped shorts.
“After carrying a boy, we know accurately what they want. They wish comfort, they like colour, they like print, they like cars, they like surfboards, they’re not into pretty; where as girls usually ride to flattering roses, flattering dresses, flattering pinkish when they’re young.”
In a personal touch, nautical motifs (from Dinnigan’s childhood spent sailing a universe on her family’s yacht) underline prominently.
But a line sketch of a lighthouse, that facilities on T-shirts and a backing of coats and jackets is a curtsy to Hunter’s beginning obsession.
“When we changed to Watsons Bay and also down nearby Milton, one of a initial things Hunter would recognize was ‘lighthouse, lighthouse.’ It was one of his initial words. So that’s really done a approach in [the collection].”
Fans will need to be discerning to seize a disdainful pieces, labelled from $14.99 to $34.99, as Dinnigan is austere this collection with ALDI will be her last.
“A lot of stores final time sole out in half an hour. Some pieces finished adult on eBay and were adult for double, infrequently triple a cost and they still sold. It’s good design,” Dinnigan insists, “not usually cheap.”
Young Hearts By Collette Dinnigan will be in stores as a special buy from Wednesday, Oct 19 exclusively during ALDI stores while bonds last.
2016-10-01 00:00 admin headlinenewstoday.net
81 /99 Ben Affleck reveals he's felt 'vulnerable' ever since having children He may play Batman and other hunky heroes. But Ben Affleck has revealed that he's felt 'vulnerable' ever since becoming a father. The 44-year-old actor – who shares daughters Violet, 10, Seraphina, seven, and four-year-old son Samuel with his estranged wife Jennifer Garner – admits that he has become more sensitive and scared for his brood’s safety. Speaking about his fears at a press conference in Los Angeles for his upcoming movie, The Accountant, on Friday, the dark-haired hunk said: 'When you have kids, what's that expression, "Your heart is outside your body. " 'All of the sudden you feel so vulnerable and this fear of a child being vulnerable is very, very powerful.' Ben said he is constantly questioning his parenting skills. 'I face dilemmas that we all do everyday about what's the right way to raise children, what's the right thing to teach them? Every moment there comes a crossroad.' The Hollywood A-lister – who plays mathematics savant Christian Wolff in the R-rated crime thriller – said his paternal duties helped him to understand the film, in which his character grows up with a tough love father who is hard on his 'different' son whose remarkable skills border on the autism spectrum. He explained: 'Here's a guy who out of love and compassion and fear for his son, actually ends up kind of brutalizing him and abusing him. 'And it's a really interesting look at what's the appropriate way to channel the intense emotions we have as parents, it's not easy. 'That's what I thought was the most heartbreaking thing about the story and it was definitely moving to me as a parent.' Meanwhile, Ben has admitted he won't let his children watch his films, especially not the upcoming movie, until they reach 25 years old. He explained: 'They're like, "When do you do a movie we can see? " They just want to know what the rating is. [I'm like] You can see this when you're 25.' The Accountant opens in theaters October 14.
2016-10-01 12:29 Bobbie Whiteman www.dailymail.co.uk
82 /99 Math Matters This Election: Don’t Forget The Federal Judiciary “The impact that the president can have on the federal judiciary is perhaps the single most important legacy issue for any president,” says Doug Kendall, president of Constitutional Accountability Center, according to USA Today .
With early votes being cast and Election Day a month away, many voters are undecided or persuadable. Yes, many are at the “flip of a coin stage.” Some asking; what does a voter do when presidential options appear so distasteful.
Get over it and consider; as of September 1, 2016, of 673 U. S. District Court judgeships 67 – or 10 percent stand vacant under President Obama. Twice as many as at this point under George W. Bush.
It’s time to begin asking the question involving more than just the Supreme Court; ask yourself what will happen to the landscape of the courts if Candidate X is in office the next 4 years?
The answers might be hypothetical, but we can make good assumptions about what particular policies or appointments will look like for the next four years in one of the choices confronting this nation.
Starting with the assumption of federal judges, knowing the Supreme Court majority is at stake, what is being recklessly bypassed is the federal bench like Appellate judges. As of September 13, 2016 Obama Federal nominees to be confirmed by the US Senate stands at 329.
USA Today in November 2013 and The Washington Post in June reported vacancies to the appellates were reaching levels not seen in decades. In fact, USA Today reported lining the federal bench with judges who enjoy lifetime tenure is “one of the most significant perks of the presidency.”
It is noteworthy at the nation’s 13 appeals courts, 10 of which had a majority of GOP appointees by the end of George W. Bush, now see judges named by Democrat presidents, seven appeals courts with two more split down the middle.
As of May all but one of the 12 DC judges were Democratic appointees. Nine named by Obama and confirmed since 2010. These federal courts, set precedents in areas ranging from national security, economic regulation, abortion, immigration, voting rights, affirmative action, gun control, gay marriage, email access of a particular candidate, and executive actions.
Today we are facing more than 10 percent vacancy of the Federal appeal’s courts and judgeships because of age; it’s time to look logically and do the math! Facing 10% vacancy, if Hillary Clinton is elected the impact on the judiciary – not just the Supreme Court will be tremendous for the next two to three decades! Just ask Senators Orrin Hatch, Mike Lee and Ted Cruz.
“At this point,” says Curt Levey, president of conservative committee for justice, “there would be very few Republicans left on the courts.”
Nominations to consider as you vote:
Hillary’s activist and liberal judges will fall in line with the agenda of those placed by Obama.
You don’t have to love Trump, but fair assumption is 7 out of 10 times he gets a strict constitutionalist – not an activist in these Appellate and District Courts.
So back to the question posed – are you willing to role the dice on a President Clinton who will appoint 0% conservative, non-activists federal judges, or roll the dice on President Trump who worst case scenario gets it right 70% of the time?
2016-10-01 21:04 dailycaller.com
83 /99 Artist's climate change murals paint dark future for planet WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — An artist's dark interpretations of what climate change might do to the Earth if left unchecked are on display at Clark University. Erica Daborn tells the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester (http://bit.ly/2cGnFEX ) that she hopes her works will help climate change doubters and deniers reconsider evidence that the planet is warming. Daborn's exhibition at the university's Traina Center for the Arts includes six large murals. One depicts the funeral for the world's last elephant. Another shows people struggling to get around as seas rise, submerging what once was dry land. The British-born Daborn says she began the project in 2010, when there was little governmental action to address rising greenhouse gas emissions and other threats. Her murals are on display through Nov. 17. ___ Information from Telegram & Gazette, http://www.telegram.com/ 2016-10-01 12:19 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk
84 /99 Pakistan Faces 'Worst' Form Of Child Labour: Report Pakistan has not conducted any child labour survey in 20 years even as the country faces the "worst" form of child labour where workers are subjected to physical and mental torture, a media report...
2016-10-01 12:16 system article.wn.com
85 /99 Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie reach temporary custody agreement LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Estranged, Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have agreed to a temporary arrangement regarding the custody of their six, minor children.
The Los Angeles Times said the voluntary deal will last until Oct. 20.
Both parties also reportedly agreed to undergo individual counseling and Pitt offered to submit to drug and alcohol testing.
Us Weekly said Jolie will temporarily maintain full physical custody of the couple's children. A therapist will supervise at least the first visitation between Pitt and the kids.
Jolie filed for divorce from her third husband on Sept. 19, ending their 12-year romance. The pair are parents to Maddox, 15; Pax, 12; Zahara, 11; Shiloh, 10; and 8-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
Pitt was previously married to actress Jennifer Aniston , while Jolie's ex-spouses are actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton .
2016-10-01 12:02 Karen Butler www.upi.com
86 /99 Amy Connerley talks 'Bieber vs. Timberlake' and future (Includes interview) Dancer, choreographer, singer and actress Amy Connerley chatted with me about her "Bieber vs. Timberlake" show, and her future plans. Regarding her plans for the future, Connerley said, "We have some really exciting things coming up with Larger Than Life! As far as my personal career is concerned, I am always pursuing work in any creative opportunity I can find. " She is drawn to pop princess Britney Spears and her music due to her stage presence, as well as her "ability to command a room of any size. " "She is always full out! I also just love what she has done for pop music over the years," she said. For aspiring dancers, singers and actors, Connerley recommended they "Train in everything. " "Say yes to opportunities that may scare you! Learn all you can from everyone you meet and ask questions. Versatility is so important in today's industry. Being open minded as a person and an artist will open more doors than you may even realize," she said. Each day, she is motivated by her belief in baby steps. "If I can take a baby step towards creating a successful career and future each day, then it’s been a good day," she said. For her fans and followers, she said, "The Larger Than Life fans have been so welcoming and supportive. It can be hard being the only woman in the company at most events, so I would like to say thank you to each and every one of you for accepting me into the LTL family. " To learn more about multi-talented entertainer Amy Connerley, check out her On being a part of the new " Bieber vs. Timberlake " tribute production at Mulcahy's Pub and Concert Hall, Connerley said, "It was awesome! I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to perform with such wonderful friends and people at Mulcahy's. I had a blast on stage, and can’t wait to do it again. "Regarding her plans for the future, Connerley said, "We have some really exciting things coming up with Larger Than Life! As far as my personal career is concerned, I am always pursuing work in any creative opportunity I can find. "She is drawn to pop princess Britney Spears and her music due to her stage presence, as well as her "ability to command a room of any size. " "She is always full out! I also just love what she has done for pop music over the years," she said. For aspiring dancers, singers and actors, Connerley recommended they "Train in everything. " "Say yes to opportunities that may scare you! Learn all you can from everyone you meet and ask questions. Versatility is so important in today's industry. Being open minded as a person and an artist will open more doors than you may even realize," she said. Each day, she is motivated by her belief in baby steps. "If I can take a baby step towards creating a successful career and future each day, then it’s been a good day," she said. For her fans and followers, she said, "The Larger Than Life fans have been so welcoming and supportive. It can be hard being the only woman in the company at most events, so I would like to say thank you to each and every one of you for accepting me into the LTL family. "To learn more about multi-talented entertainer Amy Connerley, check out her Facebook page and her website
2016-10-01 11:56 www.digitaljournal.com
87 /99 What's happening Atlanta: October 1st-2nd. - Story Posted: Oct 01 2016 09:41AM EDT
Updated: Oct 01 2016 11:40AM EDT
Now that fall is officially here, it's time to get your fix of music and hair care at these events happening in Metro Atlanta this weekend: ATLANTA - Now that fall is officially here, it’s time to get your fix of music and hair care at these events happening in Metro Atlanta this weekend: First up, the “Many Rivers to Cross” festival in Chattahoochee Hills. The event brings artist, activist and community together for a chance to heal and discuss ways to promote progressive social change in America. The music and arts festival runs through Sunday, October 2 nd , and includes a star-studded line-up with appearances from Atlanta’s own, T. I., Chris Rock, Jamie Foxx, Carlos Santana, Harry Belafonte and singer-songwriters Aloe Blacc and Goapele, who both stopped by Good Day Atlanta to chat about the event and their upcoming projects.
The event is open to all ages and tickets range between $40-$350. For more information, visit http://manyriversfestival.com/ .
Also happening this weekend, the Natural Health and Hair Summit in College Park. Presented by Natural Hair Magazine, the event offers the opportunity to meet several industry influencers and wellness seminars on holistic beauty, nutrition, fitness and mental health. It going down at the Georgia International Convention Center Saturday, between 10-7p.m. Health and wellness coach Koya Webb and Celerity chef Ahki also stopped by Good Day Atlanta to chat with Fox 5 about the event.
For more information, head to http://www.nhmsummit.com/ .
2016-10-01 11:40 FOX www.fox5atlanta.com
88 /99 'My relationship with the girls is more of a friendship': Brian McFadden opens up about daughters Molly, 15, and Lilly-Sue, 13 Last month he appeared on This Morning and expressed his regret at not 'sheltering' daughters Molly and Lilly Sue from his messy divorce with ex Kerry Katona. And Brian McFadden has once again opened up about the girls. Speaking about his parenting style, the 36-year-old former Westlife star discussed the pros of being a young dad. Scroll down for video 'I had kids when I was in my early twenties so I grew up with them. My relationship with my girls is more of a friendship, rather than just being their parent. Everything we do together is fun and there's no strictness', he told The Sun of daughters Molly, 15, and Lilly, 13. And hinting at financial turmoil, he added: 'I'm rubbish with money. I spend it until it's gone, then I make more. My kids will be well looked after for the rest of their lives, but life's too short to worry about it. 'I came from nothing, started this career with nothing and if I go out with nothing, at least I've had a f***ing blast. Brian married Kerry in 2002, but the duo split in 2004 and finalised their divorce in 2006. However their messy custody battle over the children raged on until 2008, in what became one of the most bitter celebrity breaks-ups. Last month the star, who is single after divorcing model Vogue Williams last year after three years of marriage, appeared on This Morning to talk about his regrets as a parent. Revealing that the girls 'have had it hard', he opened up about his struggle to protect the youngsters from their parents' problems. He told Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes: 'They've had it hard with me and Kerry breaking up when they were very young. 'They're such amazing kids, such amazing girls. Kids grow up a lot faster. 'In the old days, we were sheltered form problems their parents had, but these days you just can't [protect them].' Brian, who quit Westlife in 2004 before the bestselling boy band went their separate ways in 2012, also addressed rumours he and Keith Duffy were creating a Westlife and Boyzone supergroup. Explaining the nature of the Boyzlife Tour 2016, which will see him and former Boyzone hunk Keith Duffy take to the stage to tell their life stories and sing some of both bands' biggest hits, he insisted there was no chance of the other members joining forces with them. The Irish star said: 'I can't imagine Boyzone and Westlife ever doing anything together, it's more about me and Keith. We've been friends for a long time.'
2016-10-01 11:40 Jessica Rach www.dailymail.co.uk
89 /99 5 Seconds Of Summer cut a grungy figure in sunglasses and black T-shirts as they greet adoring fans at Brisbane airport They are one of Australia's most in-demand musical acts of the moment. And 5 Seconds Of Summer certainly made a rockstar entrance as they strutted through Brisbane airport in sunglasses and black T-shirts on Saturday. The popular boy-band were accosted by adoring fans, some of whom were lucky enough to score a selfie with a band-member. The boys are set to play a single gig in Brisbane on Sunday before they travel down to Sydney for two more live shows. It comes after band-member Ashton Irwin spoke about his personal rule when it comes to having sexual relationships with the group's female fans. 'Obviously there are many beautiful women who follow this band and that is awesome,' the drummer told Stellar magazine. 'But you need to take care of your actions and make sure that you are respectful all the time,' he added. Ashton is currently single, having confirmed his split from his bikini model girlfriend Bryana Holly in June this year. The couple started dating in 2015, but broke up once in November before getting back together some weeks later. Meanwhile, guitarist Michael Clifford has also spoken of his experiences, revealing that life as a rock star has made dating more complicated. 'We're so young and the thing is, (dating is) so normal. If another 20-year-old kid, Michael Clifford in Sydney, was trying to hook up with a girl he knew in high school, literally no one would give a f***.' 'It's because of this strange platform we have that people do care about it … It has taken us a while to get used to,' he continued.
2016-10-01 11:38 Monique Friedlander www.dailymail.co.uk
90 /99 Transformers film set takes over Stonehenge with helicopters and explosions Members of the public are only allowed within 10 yards of Stonehenge, strictly kept from the 5,000-year-old monument by a barrier around its perimeter. But in a striking juxtaposition of old and new, the Neolithic burial mounds became part of the Transformers film set today as helicopters soared and pyrotechnics lit up the sky above the stones. Photos from the filming of Transformers: The Last Knight show dramatic scenes in the making - as actor Mark Wahlberg was seen running across the grass at the site in Wiltshire. A rare exception has been granted to the Transformers filmmakers to get close to the ancient burial mounds, which are fully accessible to the public only four times a year at the discretion of Heritage England. Arthur Uther Pendragon, a pagan leader who claims to be a reincarnation of King Arthur, said he was 'totally against' the filming. He told MailOnline: 'It is a living, working temple. Stonehenge should be about honouring the ancestors, not Transformers. 'These were the hunter gatherers who were there thousands of years ago. They weren’t people running about with toy guns.' The ex-biker, who realised he was the reincarnation of the ancient British monarch in the 1980s, said a replica of Stonehenge in a different location should have been used instead. 'The fact is, with special effects I don't know why they need to use the real place, which of course is not only a monument but also a temple. I find it not only offensive but also unnecessary.' He also hit out at Stonehenge managers English Heritage, who he is currently taking to court for charging pagans for parking at the site, accusing them of being greedy. 'I think it is avaricious English Heritage making more money out of an ancient site. 'I just find it totally ridiculous that English Heritage are again making money out of Stonehenge, I am totally against it.' MailOnline has contacted English Heritage for comment. The Stonehenge scenes come after Transformers caused a stir when shooting at Blenheim Palace as producers decked Winston Churchill's birthplace in Nazi flags. The 2,000-acre estate was overrun with extras wearing SS uniform during filming of a Second World War scene as part of the hugely successful Transformers series. Critics have described the decision to hire out the property as highly insensitive and said the wartime leader would have been appalled. People living near the estate at Woodstock in Oxfordshire complained about loud noise as explosions and fake gunshots were heard from the set during filming. Photographs showed tanks, military vehicles and sandbag barricades surrounding the vast courtyard in front of the palace. The plot is being kept under wraps but it is thought to be based on a successful Nazi plot to invade Britain. A German anti-aircraft gun and ammunition boxes emblazoned with the imperial eagle motif were also spotted on the site. While members of the public were still allowed to roam the grounds during the day, props and equipment bearing swastikas were put up at night. Transformers: The Last Knight, released on 23 June 2017, will see the return of star Mark Wahlberg as Cade Yeager, Josh Duhamel as Lieutenant Colonel Lennox, Tyrese Gibson as Robert Epps, Stanley Tucci as Joshua Joyce.
2016-10-01 11:37 Charlie Moore www.dailymail.co.uk
91 /99 Trump’s bizarrely bad debate performance does not disturb his fans In an interview on NBC News, a young millennial woman gave her assessment of the first presidential debate of 2016: Hillary Clinton seemed overly scripted while Donald Trump looked strong and passionate.
So much for the unanimous mainstream media verdict that a well-prepared Clinton crushed a poorly-prepped Trump in their first face-to-face contest. By any standard measure, she did, of course, but to that young woman and the rest of those enthused by Trump, facts do not matter, being well-versed in economic complexities and foreign policy does not matter, being “presidential” in the traditional sense does not matter. All that matters is that, in the debate, Trump channeled their ignorant, peeved, angry petulance and directed it at a woman they loathe.
Pointing out that 90% of the things Trump said during the 90-minute debate were demonstrably false, misguided or just plain dumb is an exercise in futility. Reasoning with the Trumplings is a waste of words. Nevertheless, I’ll waste a few hundred on a short list of Trump evasions and delusions from the debate:
— Trump claimed he got Barack Obama to show his birth certificate and stopped questioning the president’s citizenship long ago. Both assertions are lies and evade the question of why the nation’s first black commander in chief should be forced to “show his papers.”
— He claimed there is no proof the Russians are responsible for recent cyberattacks and that it might just as easily be some 400-pound guy sitting on a couch. Uh, no, Donald — not unless the 400-pound fellow is a Russian hacker.
— Trump reiterated his constant excuse for refusing to show his income tax returns, insisting an IRS audit prevents it. Actually, that is not the case. He could do it anytime he wants, just as presidential candidates have done for decades.
— When Clinton noted that Trump eagerly took advantage of the 2008 housing crisis that devastated so many average Americans, he interjected, “That’s called business.”
The first debate of the 2016 presidential campaign is underway. The zingers are flying, the truths are being told, the spin is being spun and the dubious assertions are piling up. I am tracking all of that with my Presidential Debate Zingometer!
Following along as I post the results throughout...
The first debate of the 2016 presidential campaign is underway. The zingers are flying, the truths are being told, the spin is being spun and the dubious assertions are piling up. I am tracking all of that with my Presidential Debate Zingometer!
Following along as I post the results throughout...
— African American and Latino communities are in a living hell, Trump said. This is a simplistic stereotype and follows on his previous assertion that things have never been worse for blacks in America. Really? Ever heard of something called slavery? Jim Crow? When asked what he would do to improve the situation of black Americans, his prescription was “law and order.”
— Trump said the murder rate in New York City has shot up since the policy of “stop and frisk” was found unconstitutional by the courts. Wrong; it has gone down.
— He essentially said U. S. allies need to pay protection money to the U. S. or else they will be left to fend for themselves, as if Americans get no benefit from global alliances that maintain stability and peace. — Trump denied that he said climate change is a hoax perpetrated to benefit the Chinese. He did say it and apparently believes it, just as he subscribes to an array of other conspiracy theories that pass through his Twitter account.
— Weirdly, Trump said Hillary Clinton has been fighting ISIS her whole adult life. Not true, unless Clinton only became an adult 12 years ago.
2016-10-01 11:37 Los Angeles www.latimes.com
92 /99 Between the White House and the Capitol, a Slice of California Living history
Our headquarters building is on Pennsylvania Avenue in what’s known as the Federal Triangle, between the White House and Capitol Hill. It was built in the 1930s in the classical revival style and is on the National Register of Historic Places. We’re an independent federal agency whose dual missions are protecting consumers and ensuring competition across the economy.
1. Stately presence
I’m in a fourth-floor office that traditionally is for the head of the agency. I was assigned to it in 2010 when I joined as a commissioner, because my predecessor, Jon Leibowitz, who had been a commissioner on the third floor, wanted to stay there after his promotion. He had a balcony and liked the view.
When I was promoted in 2013, it was a coincidence that I was already in the chairman’s suite. I can see the Capitol building from the window behind my desk and the National Gallery from the other window. Occasionally, I can hear protests and other events taking place at the National Mall.
West Coast colors
I’m from California and wanted a warmer feeling for the office, so I had the blue walls painted cream. When I moved here, I rented a small apartment near Chinatown, a 20-minute walk from the office. In Southern California, people drive everywhere, and I often joked that we even drove to get our newspaper. I drive to work here. The job keeps me so busy that every minute counts.
By the book
I brought very few personal items with me because I had a short time to move. I was a litigator before this, and one of the things I brought to the office was a reference book on federal rules of litigation that private practitioners frequently use in California.
2. Old Glory and company The flags are reminders about our responsibility to the country and to American consumers. The F. T. C. flag was created in 1977. It showcases our seal, which was designed by Tiffany & Company in 1915 when the agency got its start. Often, when guests visit, especially from other countries, they want a photo taken with the flags. Protocol matters in Washington, even in the way flags are positioned. The American flag should be first, closest to the desk. Once they were switched when furniture was moved. A staff member walked in and immediately noticed the mistake.
3. A rare presidential visit
President Obama signed the photo of the F. T. C. building when he visited in January 2015 and announced initiatives addressing identity theft and privacy. We’re part of the executive branch even though we’re independent. It was the first time a president had visited since Franklin Roosevelt came for the building dedication in 1937. President Obama was a year ahead of me at Harvard University. He and I worked together on the Harvard Law Review as students.
Long days and working lunches
I tend to work at home in the morning because it provides quiet time and allows me to concentrate on important reading or writing. Once I enter the office, it’s one meeting after another. I grab something from the cafeteria for lunch and eat at my desk, or I might have a work-related lunch out. I often work until 7 or 8 p.m. and then work another hour or two at home.
4. Worldwide mission
Our work requires a lot of international engagement and travel. We meet with other agencies and participate in forums like the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. This spring, I was in Singapore, Hong Kong, Mexico, Toronto, Paris and Brussels. The African artwork caught my eye when I was in South Africa to see the 2010 World Cup during a personal vacation.
5. A century of service
In 2014, we marked the 100th anniversary of the passage of the F. T. C. Act with a series of events that included a centennial dinner and a talk by John Milton Cooper, the author of a biography on President Woodrow Wilson, who signed the act establishing the F. T. C. into law. The artwork commemorating the centennial recasts elements of the F. T. C. seal in vivid colors to capture how the agency has both honored its history and adapted to the changing times.
2016-10-01 11:22 PATRICIA R www.nytimes.com
93 /99 Billionaire Mark Cuban on Donald Trump How rich is Donald Trump, really? Billionaire Mark Cuban weighs in with his estimation of Trump’s true wealth, among his other observations of the GOP candidate made from the first presidential debate audience, and beyond.
2016-10-01 11:21 AM Joy www.msnbc.com
94 /99 Inside Venezuela’s Crumbling Mental Hospitals The state-run psychiatric hospital here in Barquisimeto, Venezuela , has long been a forgotten place, filled with forgotten people.
But with Venezuela suffering from a severe economic crisis, this mental institution has almost no drugs to control the afflictions tormenting its patients.
At the invitation of doctors, reporters from The New York Times visited six psychiatric wards across the country. All reported shortages of medicine, even food.
The one here, El Pampero Hospital, hasn’t employed a psychiatrist in two years. It has running water for only a few hours a day, and food is scarce. Omar Mendoza, pictured above, is one of many undernourished patients. He lost half his weight this summer and is down to about 75 pounds.
The glue that keeps this hospital in order — the sedatives, tranquilizers and medications — is nearly all gone. In courtyards, women who are functional while medicated are now curled on the floor hallucinating, crying, screaming, rocking back and forth for hours.
The doctors and nurses here are aghast at what is taking place, caught between anger and feelings of helplessness.
The nursing staff debates daily: Who gets the few remaining pills? Who is the most unstable, or suffering the most? They reduce doses, doling out pills into small metal cups with the fluidity of Las Vegas casino dealers.
El Pampero also suffers from shortages of basic personal-care and cleaning supplies. There is no soap, no shampoo, no toothpaste, no toilet paper. Patients relieve themselves in the common areas and patio area, and clean themselves only with water.
Nurses fear that patients in the men’s ward are more likely to become violent when they are unmedicated. Two of the men in this photograph murdered members of their families before their schizophrenia was diagnosed. One decapitated his mother, and the other stabbed his stepfather.
We found Cleofila Carillo crying softly under a mosquito net. The morning before, her unmedicated bunkmate had leapt on top of her, beaten her, bitten off her nose and eaten it. Doctors said she needed full reconstructive surgery, but because of the shortages, they did not have the medical supplies to perform it. All they could do was apply a bandage.
Without sedatives, nurses say, they must restrain patients or lock them in isolation cells to keep them from harming themselves. That is what happened to Raul Martínez, who was suffering a psychotic episode. A nurse tied him to a gurney.
Patients eat three times a day, but there is never enough food from the government. Members of the hospital staff solicit donations during their time off. Medical records show that over half of the patients in the men’s ward are underweight.
Clothes are also in short supply at the hospital. Many patients in the women’s ward wear only T-shirts, and few have shoes. The clothing they do have is ill fitting and threadbare. Nurses fashion belts out of surgical gloves and pieces of rope to keep patients’ pants from sliding off their slight frames.
Down the hall, Ms. Carillo’s attacker had been isolated and locked inside a small solitary confinement cell. She yelled at nurses when they asked why she had bitten off and swallowed her roommate’s nose. “It wasn’t me, I did not do it,” she repeated, claiming that she did not know what they were talking about.
When Yusmar Torres had no medication to control her mood disorder and depression, she constructed a noose out of a bedsheet and threatened to commit suicide. The staff stripped her of her clothes for safety and put her in a solitary confinement cell, where she was left for days.
There are few light moments in El Pampero, but every Friday morning, therapists put on salsa music and hold a dance for the 10 percent of patients who are stable enough to participate. Before the medicine shortages, the recreation center held weekly sewing, cooking and sculpture classes, even a farming program. One therapist said: “When patients have their medicines, they can do really complex crafts. Now they just do simple tasks.”
Mr. Martínez, who suffers from schizophrenia but has little medication, took a nap under his bed. He also suffers from depression.
The head nurse, Evila García, fed a blind patient as a stray cat roamed the women’s ward dining hall. Several stray dogs and cats live in the hospital, and the dogs often sleep with patients in their beds. Nurses worry about parasites because the animals have not had their shots and have not been dewormed, but some patients find comfort in them.
The Venezuelan government denies that its public hospitals are suffering from shortages, and has refused multiple offers of international medical aid.
Josefina Zapata, a patient suffering from psychosis and epilepsy, was in solitary confinement. She was not violent, but the hospital staff did not have the anticonvulsants she needed. The staff regularly kept her locked in this cell, on a mattress on the floor, so that when she started convulsing, she was less likely to hurt herself.
The vast majority of patients living at El Pampero have been abandoned by their families and rely completely on the state to meet their basic needs. “May God have mercy on us,” the head nurse said.
2016-10-01 11:18 By www.nytimes.com
95 /99 Could you survive an extended power outage? The problems of daily life suddenly seem small when you don't have electricity. In the event of a natural disaster, simple tasks like cooking your food , charging your phone or lighting your house become complicated.
An average of 218 million people were affected worldwide by natural disasters each year between 1994 and 2013. That's according to the report by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). Floods and droughts accounted for 80 percent of the people affected. Storms, earthquakes, and extreme temperatures accounted for the remaining natural disasters.
Power loss affects millions
The CRED report also shows a rising number of people affected by storms. The report concluded that families across the nation need to be better at strengthening emergency preparedness to lower the number of deaths and losses from natural disasters.
Power loss is a common result of ice storms, severe winter storms, hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes, but even without natural disasters, power outages are increasing across the US. In 2015, over 7,2 million people experienced power loss across the country. While most power outages last only a few hours, sometimes power is out for days.
Are you prepared?
In preparation for natural disasters and power outages, most emergency preparedness resources recommend storing food and other emergency items and an evacuation kit to last 72 hours.
But, if the power went out for a long stretch of time, what would you do with the food in your refrigerator? Could you cook your food storage? Do you have enough fuel for your cooking source?
Few solutions are out there for big families, such as the Bear River Rocket Stove. Unfortunately, it takes a week without power for families to think about their sudden inability to cook. Be prepared now for when disaster strikes.
Simple steps to prepare for emergencies
While Bear River Rocket Stoves are a serious solution for emergency preparedness, there are other simple measures that can be taken. Ready.gov suggest having at least a two-week supply of necessities including:
It’s also a good idea to keep your car’s gas tank at least three-quarters full and keep several small solar-powered lights handy for emergency situations. Small and simple steps before a disaster or power outage can ensure both comfort and survival. Planning a way to cook food without electricity is another important preparation. While propane stoves are an excellent short- term solution, a rocket stove proves invaluable providing hot meals when the power is out for an extended time.
2016-10-01 11:16 Bear River www.deseretnews.com
96 /99 US mood hardens as leader of ally Philippines stokes outrage WASHINGTON (AP) — As the body count mounts in the Philippines’ deadly war on drugs, and its combative president’s rhetoric plumbs new depths, the mood in Washington toward a key Asian ally is hardening.
Influential U. S. lawmakers are warning that the extra-judicial killings in the drug war — President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday compared it to the Holocaust — could affect American aid.
And while the Obama administration maintains that its 65-year-old alliance with the Philippines remains “ironclad,” a senior U. S. diplomat is cautioning Duterte against more anti-U. S. posturing.
“I think it would be a serious mistake in a democratic country like the Philippines to underestimate the power of the public’s affinity for the U. S. That’s people power,” Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Russel told The Associated Press.
Russel did not draw a direct comparison, but past Philippine presidents have been toppled by popular protests dubbed “people power,” including former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who was ousted in 1986.
Duterte has bristled at U. S. criticism of the drug war and repeatedly spoken about dialing back security cooperation — although he says he will maintain the alliance. This week he said that joint military exercises of Filipino and American troops scheduled for next week in the Philippines will be the last such drills.
His foreign secretary quickly said the decision was not final. Such a step would impede Washington’s plans to expand the footprint of U. S. forces in Southeast Asia to counter China.
The previous Philippine government signed an agreement to give the U. S. forces access to five Philippine military bases. That reflected Manila’s anxiety over the territorial ambitions of China with which it has competing claims in the disputed South China Sea.
“If he followed through on this pledge it would be devastating to alliance management,” said Gregory Poling, a fellow with the Southeast Asia program at the Center for Strategic Studies. “How does one sustain a military alliance if your militaries don’t exercise together?”
The Obama administration has consistently played down the significance of such pronouncements from Duterte, which have typically been walked back by other Philippines officials. On Friday, the Philippine leader said that Adolf Hitler had killed 3 million Jews and that he himself would be “happy to slaughter” 3 million addicts. More than 3,000 people have died in the crackdown on drug pushers and users since Duterte took office three months ago.
In Hawaii to meet with Southeast Asian defense ministers, Defense Secretary Ash Carter hinted at U. S. impatience with the Philippine government over Duterte’s remarks. “Just speaking personally for myself, I find these comments deeply troubling,” Carter said. A day earlier, he had described the U. S. relationship with the Philippines as “ironclad.”
The State Department has tended to parry questions about Duterte’s outbursts. Spokesman Mark Toner also described the Holocaust reference as “troubling.” However, Sen. Ben Cardin, top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, pulled no punches.
“It is reprehensible and, frankly, disgusting that a democratically elected leader is talking about the mass murder of his own people, with Hitler’s Holocaust as his inspiration, no less,” he said.
Cardin and Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, author of a law that prohibits U. S. assistance to foreign security forces that commit gross human rights abuses, took to the Senate floor this week to decry the drug war. They accused Duterte of terrorizing Filipinos through his drug war and endorsing “mass murder.”
Leahy, a senior figure on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said because of the “systemic challenges” in the Philippines it may be necessary to consider further conditions on aid until the Duterte government “demonstrates a commitment to the rule of law.”
The aid Manila gets from Washington is substantial — although it may pale next to the investment that could potentially flow from regional economic powerhouse China, where Duterte is expected to visit in October in a bid to improve ties with Beijing.
The Philippines received about $175 million in U. S. development assistance in fiscal 2015 and $50 million in foreign military financing. In 2016, it has gotten $75 million for counterterrorism and maritime security. Since 2011, it has received three decommissioned U. S. Coast Guard cutters to bolster its meager navy.
Russel said Thursday it was no surprise that senior lawmakers were looking to monitor where U. S. assistance funds were going, given the “collateral damage” from the drug war. But he added it’s premature to impose restrictions on aid.
He stressed Washington’s desire to work with Duterte. He said the U. S-Philippine relationship — rooted in a 1951 mutual defense treaty — remains very popular in the Southeast Asian country, notwithstanding Duterte’s repeated references to rights abuses committed a century ago under American colonial rule.
“All politicians have to be responsive to both the mainstream public attitude and the national security and economic interests of their country. All of that leads to continued close ties between our two countries,” Russel said.
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AP National Security Writer Robert Burns in Hawaii contributed to this report.
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2016-10-01 11:10 By Associated mynorthwest.com
97 /99 Ethiopian tribesmen pictured taking part in dangerous near-naked fighting ritual These stunning images from southern Ethiopia capture the moments members of the Suri tribe take part in a fighting ritual, at a time when their way of life is under threat. Warriors are seen taking part in the 'Donga', or stick fight, which has traditionally been a way men impress women and find a wife. They fight with little or no clothing, and the violent clashes sometimes result in death. Battles usually take place between Suri villages, which can consist of between 40 and 2,500 people. They are usually held after the rains, and there are often 20 to 30 fighters on each side, with tribesmen taking it in turns to fight one-on-one. Referees enforce a code of conduct - it is against the rules to hit someone while they are on the floor. Stick fighting is a combination of martial art, ritual and sport. As well as providing an opportunity to attract a partner, the fights aim to get young men used to bloodshed - which leaders believe comes in handy if they clash with other tribes. The Suri tribe inhabit the Omo Valley near Kibbish, and have found themselves in dispute with the Ethiopian government - in 1994 laws were passed to ban stick fighting, but the tradition lives on. Human rights groups have warned that the Nilotic ethnic group is going to be heavily affected by the construction of a new dam, and industry around the Omo river. The tribe depends on the river for its survival and way of life, and warnings have sounded that the Gibe III dam - the third largest hydroelectric plant in Africa - and cotton and sugar plantations and factories will force members to scatter. It is feared that loss of land and the ability to keep cattle will see globalisation force tribe members to give up their traditional way of life. Female members of the tribe have distinctive clay discs inserted into holes in their bottom lip, which are considered signs of beauty. To have the discs inserted, their bottom two teeth are removed before the hole is cut. The larger the plate, the more cows the girl's father can demand in dowry when his daughter marries.
2016-10-01 11:05 Dave Burke www.dailymail.co.uk
98 /99 Chicago anti-vaxxer who thought she was 'superior' changed her mind when they caught virus A staunch anti-vaxxer who admits feeling 'superior' to her friends for her beliefs changed her stance when all three of her young children were struck with a virus. Kristen O’Meara from Chicago had decided against immunizing her three daughters after going out of her way to research how it could harm them. The 40-year- old however changed her mind when her children, who were aged five and two at the time, contracted rotavirus, an illness which causes severe diarrhea, last year. Vaccines to fight the virus are given to babies at two and four-months-old in the US. Scroll down for video In a candid article for The New York Post , O'Meara said she felt 'overwhelmed' with guilt when her children were hit by the vaccine-preventable virus. 'The guilt was overwhelming. At that moment, as my husband, Frank, now 40, and I battled the horrible illness ourselves, I began to doubt the anti-vaccine stance I shared with many of my highly educated friends,' she said. O'Meara decided not to vaccinate the couple's oldest daughter Natasha when she was born in 2010 after 'scaring herself' with journals and reports which claimed it could lead to ADHD, autism and allergies. She took the same decision in 2012 after the birth of her twin daughters, Áine and Lena. As the anti-vaxxer stance grew in popularity, O'Meara, who is a teacher, was swept up in its sudden trendiness. 'I got absorbed in the anti- vax culture and secretly thought of myself as being superior to others,' she wrote. 'Parents who vaccinated didn’t have my special investigative skills. As far as I was concerned, they didn’t stop to question and were just sheep following the herd.' The mother-of-three even dishonestly claimed in a letter to her daughters' nursery that she had not vaccinated them for religious reasons. The nursery had decided not to accept children who were not inoculated to avoid the spread of illness in classes. When the whole family, including O'Meara and her husband, were struck with rotavirus, she changed pediatrician and had them put on an intense course of catch- up vaccines. She chose to share her story to deter others from adopting the anti-vaxxer point of view. 'If I can make even one anti-vaxxer think twice, speaking out will have been worth it,' she said. In an interview with Good Morning America , she conceded: 'I put my kids at risk. 'I wish that I had taken more time to research both sides. 'It was awful and it didn't have to happen because I could have had them vaccinated. I felt guilty.' Parents of young children fighting preventable conditions such as whooping cough have shared photographs and videos of their babies' plight previously in a bid to convince others to vaccinate their own families. An Australian mother's video of her five-week-old daughter struggling for breath was shared by millions last month. She was met by the fury of anti-vaxxers the world over, with many insisting they did more harm than good. Celebrity mothers, including Clueless's Alicia Silverstone, have joined the wave of parents condemning them. The actress recently came under fire for claiming that vaccines given to pregnant women could lead to their babies' being born autistic. The rising tred
2016-10-01 11:01 Jennifer Smith www.dailymail.co.uk
99 /99 Box-Office Milestone: 'Sully' Crosses $100 Million in U. S. 8:31 AM PDT 10/1/2016 by
Pamela McClintock
Clint Eastwood's Sully glided past the $100 million mark at the North American box office on Saturday, no small feat for an adult drama.
The Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow movie — avoiding the turbulence that has plagued many other 2016 fall films — stars Tom Hanks as Chelsey "Sully" Sullenberger, the real-life pilot who landed a disabled US Airways jet on the Hudson River.
Sully 's gross through Friday is $99.5 million. By Sunday, its total will be north of $105 million.
At this pace, Sully will become Eastwood's top-grossing film domestically behind American Sniper ($350.1 million) and Gran Torino ($148.1 million) with a projected lifetime gross of $125 million or more, not accounting for inflation. That's just in North America; overseas, Sully has earned an early $36.4 million for a global total of $133.4 million. (With its heroic American storyline, the movie is a tougher sell in certain territories.) Sully is also a win for Hanks in terms of box office. It will ultimately mark his top-grossing live- action film since Angels & Demons ($133.4 million) and The Da Vinci Code ($217.5 million). In terms of his recent dramas, Captain Phillips earned $107.1 million domestically in 2013, followed by $83.3 million for Saving Mr. Banks in 2014 and $72.3 million for Bridge of Spies in 2015.
Bolstered by strong reviews and an A CinemaScore, Sully is the most successful title of fall so far at the domestic box office. Aaron Eckhart and Laura Linney also star.
Eastwood's film recounts the tale of US Airways Flight 1549, otherwise known as the "Miracle on the Hudson. " The plane, piloted by Sullenberger (Hanks) and First Officer Jeffrey Skiles (Aaron Eckhart), was met with disaster minutes after taking off from New York City's LaGuardia Airport on Jan. 15, 2009, when a flock of Canadian geese disabled both engines. With no other option, Sully was forced to make a water landing on the Hudson River. All 155 passengers and crew survived, with Sully becoming an instant hero.
2016-10-01 11:00 Pamela McClintock feedproxy.google.com
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