17 of History’s Most Rebellious Women
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Saturday, August 19, 2017
Honor of International Women’s Day. Photos: 17 of History’s Most Rebellious Women
Reports of shooting in southern France
Spanish media is reporting three armed people got off a train at the station before opening fire.
There are reports one person has been arrested.
More to come.
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FATHER and daughter kicked off flight for talking: CLIP;
Eric and Whitney Miller had just boarded the flight to St Louis after a six-hour delay when they were asked to leave because the crew “felt threatened” by their behaviour, Fox News reported.
In a Facebook post, which has since been removed, Whitney wrote that the pair were removed after 15 minutes of sitting in their seats and were “humiliated” for getting kicked off the plane.
The incident was caught on video by another passenger a few rows back. While it doesn’t show the initial conversation between Whitney and her father, it shows their interaction with flight crew as they’re being told they have to leave the plane.
After asking the Millers to leave their seats, a crew member mentions getting the police involved, prompting Eric to say: “You are going to call the police?”
Then, Whitney can be heard asking: “What did we do wrong? Why are we getting kicked off the plane?”
Eric then says: “This is the most loathsome experience I can actually say I’ve indulged in 70 years of flying on an aeroplane. This is absolutely incredible.
“We have a conversation, you’re threatened and we are going to have to leave after spending 12 hours in this airport waiting for this plane to leave. Absolutely shameful.”
Whitney’s post said she and her father were privately discussing the “awful travel experience and customer service” of the airline, which prompted them to be removed from the flight.
The passenger who filmed the video, Jocelyn Praia Gonzalez, said on Facebook the Millers “did not deserve this at all”.
“You hear his reaction? Still classy after all the attacks Frontier gave them both. Never again!” she said.
MORE: Frontier Airlines: Man, daughter kicked off plane for ‘disrespectful remarks’
#Perth girl Holly Young was trackside at Usain Bolt’s final race
Ms Young, 23, was spotted trackside at Bolt’s final race of his career at the IAAF World Championships in London last week.
It comes less than five months after the pair enjoyed a romantic four-day trip to Germany, which Young documented with loved up photos on social media.
Bolt hosted a live chat for Young’s 24,000 Instagram followers, at the time, showing off his dance moves and signature pose.
They will have more time to spend together now that Bolt has retired from sprinting.
The pair met at Crown Melbourne earlier this year, before Bolt flew Ms Young to Germany so they could spend time together.
Ms Young, 23, works as a sales executive for her family company Sportsbettingmax.com.
Bolt is the highest-paid athlete in the history of the sport, earning $42 million in one year.
Source: Perth girl Holly Young was trackside at Usain Bolt’s final race | Perth Now
Two whales frolic for the crowd at #Perth’s North Beach
Photographer Stewart Allen, 53, of Ocean Reef, captured the moment on Friday afternoon as dozens of people stood along the cliffs between North Beach and Waterman to watch the whales frolic for more than two hours.
“The pair of whales I saw, which seemed to be a mother and calf, were in no rush and were lolling around and doing lots of fin-slapping,” Allen, who used a drone to photograph the whales, said.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions said several southern right whales had been spotted along the metropolitan coast this week as they headed home to southern waters.
“They’ve been feeding in warmer waters off Geraldton and now they’re heading home,” she said.
“It is a bit late in the season for them to be here (off Perth) but it’s not uncommon.”
She said many of the female whales would be pregnant but were still offering comfort to their calves from last season.
She warned people to stay away from the whales and not approach them as the threatened species had special protection under the Wildlife Conservation Act.
She said the whales species had a reputation for being temperamental.
VIDEO: Two whales frolic for the crowd at Perth’s North Beach | Perth Now
Dick Gregory, cutting-edge satirist and uncompromising activist, dies at 84
The comedian Dick Gregory rose to national prominence in the early 1960s as a black satirist whose audacious style of humor was biting, subversive and topical, mostly centered on current events, politics and above all, racial tensions. His trademark was the searing punchline.
“A Southern liberal?” he once said. “That’s a guy that’ll lynch you from a low tree.” Another: “When I get drunk, I think I’m Polish. One night I got so drunk I moved out of my own neighborhood.” On segregation: “I know the South very well. I spent 20 years there one night.”
Mr. Gregory, 84, died Aug. 19 in Washington. His son, Christian Gregory, announced the death on Mr. Gregory’s official social media accounts. The cause was not reported.
His expert timing and bold humor — often pulled from the day’s headlines — inspired the careers of comedians such as Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.
Mel Watkins, a journalist and scholar whose books include “On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy,” said that Mr. Gregory broke the mold among black comedians by employing political satire at a time when audiences expected black performers to do minstrel skits in baggy pants and outsize shoes and use slapstick humor.
“He was the comic that made white America aware of the fact that African American comedians were perfectly capable of satire,” Watkins said. “He was sharp. He was urbane. He smoked a cigarette on stage. He was very calm in demeanor but very outspoken in what he said. … He brought in current political and social issues into his comedy — which was astounding to most white Americans at that time. It was during a time when blacks were considered incapable of doing this.”
Mr. Gregory was hired at the country’s most prominent clubs — from the Blue Angel in New York to the hungry i in San Francisco. He was a guest on “The Tonight Show” with Jack Paar and “The Merv Griffin Show.” He made more than $12,000 a week at his peak.
Darryl Littleton, a comedian and author of “Black Comedians on Black Comedy,” said that Mr. Gregory was among the first black comics to gain recognition for incorporating political barbs into his routine.
Littleton said Mr. Gregory, along with white comics Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl, “were all chopping at the same tree and nobody was really doing social commentary and breaking down barriers like those guys. What a lot of guys do now echoes what those three guys did back then.”
Source: Dick Gregory, cutting-edge satirist and uncompromising activist, dies at 84 – The Washington Post
Spain: police say reports missing boy has been found are false
El País reported on Saturday that Julian Alessandro Cadman had been located in hospital. However, Catalan police denied the report in a tweet from its English language account.
Julian, who has dual British and Australian citizenship, became separated from his mother during the chaos on Las Ramblas on Thursday.
Theresa May, the prime minister, spoke about the case after Julian’s grandfather Tony Cadman, a British man living in Australia, appealed for information .
May said on Friday that British authorities were urgently looking into reports of a child believed missing, who is a British dual-national, but did not name him.
Cadman said Jom, his daughter-in-law, had been injured in the attack in Las Ramblas and that she was in a serious but stable condition in hospital.
He left Sydney on Friday to travel to Spain.
It has been reported that the boy and his mother previously lived in Kent. Cadman posted a picture of Julian wearing a uniform from a British nursery school.
Source: Spain attacks: police say reports missing boy has been found are false | World news | The Guardian
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#PERTH Women’s gridiron players ditch skimpy uniforms to tackle full-contact league
For many of the players, the Gridiron West Women’s League represents their first real opportunity to take part in the American-born sport.
The new format games will be played with nine-a-side, under International Federation of American Football (IFAF) rules and regulations.
It is not the first time a women’s gridiron league has been launched in Australia.
The Ladies Gridiron League was launched across the country in 2015, mirroring America’s Ladies Gridiron League, in which players wear skimpy outfits…
Death toll from mudslide and flooding reaches 441 in Sierra Leone. 600 still missing
The death toll from a mudslide and flooding that struck Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown has reached 441, the government said on Saturday.
“Four hundred and forty-one corpses (were) buried as at yesterday,” the deputy minister of information and communication, Cornelius Deveaux, told AFP, adding that the number of missing was “still being calculated.”
A tally of deaths, issued on Friday by the Red Cross, had stood at more than 400, with around 600 others listed as missing.
At Connaught Hospital, morgue worker Mohamed Sinneh Kamara gave a slightly higher toll than the minister’s.
“We buried 50 more bodies on Friday. We have so far buried 450 corpses,” he told AFP. “Most of the bodies were found decomposed and families were not allowed to identify (them).”
He added: “We’re receiving calls from disaster-hit communities every three to four hours about a corpse found in a drainage or under a collapsed building.”
Source: Death toll from mudslide and flooding reaches 441 in Sierra Leone | SBS News
Train station evacuated in southern France
Police in the southern French city of Nimes have arrested a man unlawfully carrying a pistol into a train station, but say he is not linked to the attacks in Barcelona.
After an evacuation and police operation at the train station on Saturday night, the historic city quickly returned to normal, with police returning to their posts.
A national police spokesman said the operation began when a passenger alerted police to a man with a weapon. Police quickly found and arrested him, said the spokesman, who was not authorised to be publicly named.
The spokesman said the man has no apparent connection to Thursday’s attacks around Barcelona, about 380km southwest of Nimes. French authorities increased checks of its border with Spain after the attacks, and one suspect is believed at large.
AAP
Source: Train station evacuated in southern France
Unwavering Trump voters say they will not miss Steve Bannon
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s firing has been met with a collective shrug by some of President Donald Trump’s most committed supporters who argue the controversial nationalist became an obstacle to the administration’s agenda.
In interviews in multiple cities this weekend, Americans who voted for Trump said Bannon’s departure on Friday was the removal of an unnecessary distraction for the Trump presidency, while others saw his role as largely inconsequential and possibly overblown.
Many expected Trump to stay the course without him.
“Bannon was becoming too big of a story and taking the spotlight from President Trump,” Bob Janda, a 67-year-old small business owner, said in a bar in Chicago. “When that happens, your days are numbered. I think Trump will be fine.”
At the same bar, Frank Cardone, 67, pointed out that Bannon had a brief tenure in Trump’s inner circle, having joined the Republican businessman’s presidential campaign as its chief…
Source: Unwavering Trump voters say they will not miss Steve Bannon
Trio to be charged with engaging in terrorist attack over Melbourne mosque arson
Three men are expected to be charged with engaging in a terrorist act, Victoria Police say, following an “extensive investigation” into arson attacks on a Melbourne mosque in 2016.
A 29-year-old man from Meadow Heights, in Melbourne’s north, was arrested late last night.
It will be alleged that the man and two others, who are currently in custody and awaiting trial for planning a terrorist act on Christmas day 2016, caused a serious fire at the Imam Ali Islamic Centre at Fawkner, two weeks earlier, on December 11, 2016.
The three will be charged with engaging in a terrorist act and the two men in custody will also be charged with the same offence in connection at an earlier fire at the centre on November 25, 2016.
Attacking a place of worship is a serious crime, said Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Ian McCartney.
“It is clear that these arson attacks were designed to intimidate and influence those that attend this mosque and the wider Islamic community,” he said.
“These actions have no place in our society.
“Individuals or groups who think they are above the law when it comes to this type of intimidation should think again.”
All three men are expected to be charged later today and they face a maximum penalty of life imprisonmen
NRL Storm minor premiership win over Knights, Roosters beat Tigers, Sharks down Cowboys: round 24 stats
The Storm secured the NRL minor premiership with a 44-12 hammering of the Knights, while the Roosters sneaked home 22-18 against the Tigers and the Sharks defeated the Cowboys 26-16.
Storm claim minor premiership after belting Knights
Melbourne has officially sealed the minor premiership with fill-in half Brodie Croft firing the Storm to a 44-12 win over Newcastle.
Stepping into the shoes of rested Queensland and Australian playmaker Cooper Cronk, the 20-year-old Croft was a stand-out, scoring three tries and setting up another two in front of 16,001 spectators at the Knights’ home ground.
The Storm moved to 40 points, six in front of second-placed Brisbane, locking up first spot and assuring they will lift the JJ Giltinan Shield.
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