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BBC Sport reports, that Barton will be available for selection to Newcastle manager Chris Hughton for his side's trip to West Brom on 5 December.
Sorry, Eddie Vedder, you're not welcome in San Francisco this week.
Well, the arms race is escalating.
The Seattle Seahawks decided to ban California residents from buying tickets to Sunday’s NFC Championship Game at CenturyLink Field (FOX, coverage begins at 5:30 p.m. ET). Well, for all those hoping that maturity would somehow work its way into the forefront, keep waiting.
One San Francisco radio station, LIVE 105, has decided to ban all Seattle bands from its airwaves in the days leading up to the game.
Got a hankering to hear some Soundgarden? No dice, you’re out of luck.
Alice in Chains? Nah, son!
Campaigners opposing a new housing development on Harlow Hill say they fear residents already feel defeated by plans to build.
The Save Harlow’s View campaign group is encouraging residents to lodge objections to Yorkshire Water’s planning application for nine homes after they submitted new plans last month.
The property development arm of Yorkshire Water’s parent company Kelda Group is known as Keyland Developments and have put forward new plans to build nine homes on the site of the former Yorkshire Water facility.
This comes months after Keyland withdrew intitial plans for 13 homes following a huge backlash with over 200 people objecting to the proposals.
The Save Harlow’s View campaign group is now supported by Mike Brockhurst, a renowned local hiker who runs the popular Walking Englishman blog.
He said: “We think that everyone in the area just thinks ‘what is the point it is going to happen anyway’.
“There is a real feeling among people who live in the Harlow Hill area that the west of Harrogate is being swallowed up by the town.
The latest plans have attracted more than 30 objections on Harrogate Borough Council’s planning website. Sketches show nine homes, ranging from two bed terraces to a five bed room detached on the site.
Peter Garrett, Managing Director of Keyland Developments Ltd, said; “The original application was withdrawn for technical planning issues which have now been resolved. We have been working closely with the Council on the revised scheme, which is significantly smaller than the original proposal.
It’s been a tough go for Bar Crudo, my vote for the best casual seafood restaurant in the city.
As many know, on Nov. 30, three staffers — chef-owner Mike Selvera, sous chef Carina Lampkin and waiter Gracie Sholl — were sharing a cab home when they were broadsided by a hit-and-run driver.
Sholl was killed, Lamkin was seriously injured and Selvera suffered internal bleeding and underwent surgery for a broken jaw.
Because this place is so personal and has only 30 seats, the staff was decimated. However, I visited recently and found that the food was as good as ever, from the lobster salad on coins of beets and a flurry of delicate greens, to the warm mussels in a roasted tomato broth with linguica, garlic and roasted tomatoes.
Every combination is pristine, and the crudo is amazing, but then so is the chowder, beef crudo (four little mounds each with different toppings), and the tuna confit with asparagus roasted red peppers capers and manchego.
The kitchen is so tiny that only one hot dish is offered a night. On my visit, it was a boned trout flavored with thick slices of garlic and lemon, topped with asparagus, sturdy cooked greens and roasted fingerling potatoes.
Because of the limited kitchen space, no desserts are offered, but there is a cheese plate to finish up the wine or the Belgian beer, and truffles for those who want a bite of something sweet.
Located at the top of the Stockton Tunnel on Bush, Bar Crudo a charming, highly personal restaurant. Despite the tragedy, it thrives. It’s one of those special places that are so rare, but so right.
If you haven’t visited, it would be a great time to check it out.
Bar Crudo, 603 Bush Street (at Stockton), S.F.; (415) 956-0396.
As the cold snap continues Hastings has been issued with a warning to expect ‘heavy snow’ this evening (Thursday, January 31).
According to the forecaster there is a 90 per cent chance of ‘heavy snowfall’ in Hastings from 10pm.
The Met Office said there is a 60 per cent chance of a sleet shower at 6pm which will turn into heavy snow by 10pm.
The Met Office added Bexhill will be hit by heavy snow at 9pm.
There is also a 90 to 95 per cent chance of heavy snow in Rye from 9pm to 11pm.
Menomonee Falls police are asking for the public's help in identifying a woman who stole luggage from the TJ Maxx retail store on Falls Parkway.
According to police, at around 1 p.m. Aug. 8, the suspect left the store with a blue rolling suitcase without attempting to make a payment.
If anyone can identify the woman or if any agency has had similar incidents, they're asked to contact Menomonee Falls Officer Brooks at 262-532-8700 and reference case number 18-022473.
The American Council on Exercise (ACE) is a nonprofit fitness certification, education and training provider with more than 50,000 certified professionals who hold more than 53,000 ACE certifications. ACE Tests contains the materials that will help you prepare to that exam. Features include: over 200 test questions, various tips for passing the exam, statistics for every test taken, easy to use interface, free updates.
PreTest is the closest you can get to seeing the test before you take it.
SnapCalc does the math for you.
This app is for school use: Do not download unless you have a Minecraft: Education Edition subscription and an Office 365 Education account.
Upward Mobility presents our National Clinical Mental Health Exam Prep app, with over 300 review questions designed to help you study for the NCMHCE exam administered by the National Board for Certified Counselors.
YORK City manager Martin Foyle hailed highly-rated teenager Adam Boyes as a “future star” after his first senior goal helped fire the KitKat Crescent club to within a point of safety.
Boyes, 18, opened the scoring in last night’s 2-1 home victory over Forest Green, with an own goal by visiting ’keeper Terry Burton doubling City’s advantage after Richard Brodie’s strike had cannoned back off the crossbar.
Forest Green’s Marcus Palmer grabbed a late consolation but the Minstermen went on to claim maximum points and now know they need only a draw from either of their last two games – at Weymouth on Friday night or Lewes on Sunday – to ensure Blue Square Premier survival.
Foyle, though, is not relaxing yet, saying: “When we are mathematically safe, I will allow myself a smile.
About Boyes’ contribution last night, the City boss added: “I’m absolutely delighted for him.
“He’s a young boy learning the trade and, even though he’s probably not strong enough yet to play in the front line, he works very had on the right or left and deserved his goal.
Boyes and fellow wide man Adam Smith swapped flanks during an entertaining encounter at KitKat Crescent and Foyle admitted afterwards that 4-4-2 is his favoured formation.
He said: “I’ve always been a 4-4-2 man. Sometimes you need to change things if you are a bit weak in certain areas to shore things up and we got a few results at the right time playing a different way even if there were a lot of draws.
“But I do like 4-4-2 if you have wide players willing to work.
City moved up a further place to sixth-bottom last night after leapfrogging Barrow in the table.
The victory also means Woking are now down with Weymouth, Barrow and City contesting the final relegation place.
Lancashire tourist chiefs are bracing themselves for an influx of Tolkien fans as long-awaited film, ‘The Hobbit’ hits cinemas this weekend.
J.R.R Tolkien’s son John, who was studying for the priesthood, was evacuated from Rome to Stonyhurst College in Lancashire during the Second World Ward and it is belived the countryside which encompasses the stunning Ribble Valley and Forest of Bowland areas were Tolkien’s influence for Middle Earth - the setting for the novel.
J.R.R Tolkien, his wife and other children regularly stayed at a guest house in the grounds of Stonyhurst College during this time and is believedhe worked on the Lord of the Rings in a classroom on the upper gallery of the college.
A number of names which occur in The Lord of the Rings are similar to those found locally, including Shire Lane in the village of Hurst Green and the River Shirebourn which is similar to the name of the family which built Stonyhurst.
Anna Izza, Communications Manager at Marketing Lancashire said: The effects of the film in terms of tourism are likely to be felt throughout the coming year.
Marketing Lancashire’s visitor website www.visitlancashire.com has sections dedicated to Lancashire’s literary links and includes information about the Tolkien Trail and J.R.R Tolkien’s association with Stonyhurst College.
Readers can also download a copy of the Tolkien Trail, a five and a half mile circular walk starting and finishing at Hurst Green, from the website to follow in the footsteps of the curious Bilbo Baggins.
Anna said: “Reward yourself with lunch fit for a Hobbit at The Shireburn Arms at Hurst Green and the start and finish of the trail.
Nathan Scott, a film and television composer, arranger and conductor whose credits include composing music for the TV classics "Dragnet" and "Lassie," has died. He was 94.
Scott, the father of jazz saxophonist and composer-arranger Tom Scott, died Saturday of age-related causes at his home in Sherman Oaks, said his daughter, Linda Colley.
In a four-decade career that began on radio in the early 1940s, Scott launched a six-year post-World War II stint at Republic Pictures as a composer, arranger and conductor on films starring actors such as Gene Autry, Rocky Lane, Roy Rogers and Bob Steele. That included composing the music for the John Wayne sea picture "Wake of the Red Witch."
In 1952, Scott left Republic and began working on TV's "Dragnet" as the arranger for composer Walter Schumann, who wrote the famous dum-de-dum-dum theme for the popular Jack Webb police show.
Scott did the arrangements for all of the "Dragnet" episodes until the end of its run in 1959 and composed the scores for about half of the episodes.
As a freelance composer, he worked on series such as "Have Gun-Will Travel," "My Three Sons," "Rawhide," "The Twilight Zone," "The Untouchables" and "Wagon Train."
Scott also wrote the theme music for Richard Crenna's 1964-65 dramatic TV series "Slattery's People." And from 1963 through 1972, he composed the music for all but four episodes of "Lassie."
"He was a craftsman of the highest order," said Jon Burlingame, who interviewed Scott for his 1996 book "TV's Biggest Hits: The Story of Television Themes From 'Dragnet' to 'Friends.' "
Scott also was a big influence on his two-time Grammy Award-winning son.
"There was always a room in our house where these dramatic piano chords were being played as my father was busy composing music," Tom Scott said of his childhood years.
"He was so great with melody and harmony in particular," he said. "I can still hear them in my head, and some of those things I've incorporated into my music."
Born in Salinas, Calif., on May 11, 1915, Scott majored in music at UC Berkeley.
After graduating in 1939, he headed to Hollywood, where he was hired by NBC initially as a parking lot attendant.
In 1942, he became the West Coast music director of the new Blue Network (the predecessor of ABC) but was inducted into the Army later that year.
During the war, he played trombone and wrote music for the Air Transport Command Band in Long Beach and later worked with the Armed Forces Radio Service.
Scott's wife Margery died in 1995.
In addition to his two children, he is survived by his second wife, Frances; and two grandchildren.
A celebration of his life is pending.
11:24 AM.From overblown rhetoric to subtle discourse, Belgium's Valentijn Dhaenens uses his Big Mouth to explore the manipulative power of words.
The Russian President, Vladimir Putin told the Kremlin that their mission had been accomplished and it is now time to focus on peacetalks.
Russia entered the Syrian civil war last September, and its bombing campaign helped the Syrian government forces to recapture territory from rebel groups.
But it has been accused by Syrian activists and human rights groups of targeting moderate opposition groups and causing significant civilian casualites.
Berlin based journalist Lucian Kim has been covering Russia and its role in eastern europe and the middle east for two decades.
How can we attract skilled, creative and entrepreneurial people born in other countries? How can our 'seventeenth region' - the more than 600,000 New Zealanders living abroad, be a greater national asset ?
Julie Fry is a consulting economist who divides her time between New York and a family farm near Motueka. She has worked on migration policy issues since the early 1990s, designing programmes and advising agencies including The Treasury, Te Puni Kōkiri, and HM Treasury in London.
She has written a book with Hayden Glass called, Going Places, which argues that we could do significantly better if we changed some of our policies.
More than 25 million children are out of school in Pakistan, which has the second lowest literacy rate in the world. Seema Aziz is Pakistan's most successful businesswoman, founder of a high-end fashion business. She's also the founder of CARE Pakistan, which runs 450 schools around the country, educating 195 thousand children. Her aim is to reach one million. She talks to Kathryn Ryan about her belief that access to schooling is the country's biggest opportunity.
It's not what you say but how you say it that matters. From Socrates to Martin Luther King and Osama bin Laden, Belgium's Valentijn Dhaenens pays homage to oration by using the best speeches of all time to show the power of words, for both good and evil.
His one-man show 'BigMouth' makes its New Zealand debut at Auckland Arts Festival 2016.
Gavin Ellis discusses the media merry-go-round that keeps spinning with the resignation of NZME's CEO Jane Hastings. She achieved the integration of the New Zealand Herald and The Radio Network but failed to bring about a promised IPO and website paywall. What does the changing of the guard mean?
The welcome prospect of seeing Nicolas Cage return to the kind of prestige vehicle befitting an Oscar winner goes unrealized in "The Runner," a hollow, listless political drama that could have been a contender.
Set in the aftermath of the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the film stars Cage as an idealistic Louisiana congressman whose senatorial ambitions are derailed when one of his extramarital dalliances catches up with him.
Tossed out by his relentlessly driven wife (Connie Nielsen doing her best Lady Macbeth), he goes about rebuilding his personal post-Katrina life with the support of his former consultant (Sarah Paulson).
Directed and written by producer Austin Stark, this first feature is clearly going after the smart redemptive dramas that Sidney Lumet and Alan J. Pakula were making in the '70s and '80s.
But in Stark's hands, the plodding film goes awfully heavy on script exposition and all too light on character depth, leaving Cage and company — including a smartly cast Peter Fonda as his been-there, done-that alcoholic dad — to come up with their own complexity.
Although Cage's performance errs a bit too much on the side of achingly stoic, it nevertheless feels genuine. "The Runner" may not have taken him to the place he needed to be, but at least he's headed in the right direction.
MPAA rating: R for language, sexual material.
Though our Beauty 101 series has mostly focused on cosmetics thus far, today, due to popular demand, we're going to focus on our readers hair concerns. And away we go!
When do people wash it? How often? How am I always the only person ever walking around with wet hair? Does everyone but me use a blow dryer?
It takes my hair about eight hours to dry naturally and it's super thick and curly, so blow drying it is always really difficult. I have no idea what to do with it. Halp!
Hairstyles for thin/fine hair! Hair in general!
Styling fine, limp and straight hair.

BBC Sport reports, that Barton will be available for selection to Newcastle manager Chris Hughton for his side's trip to West Brom on 5 December.

Sorry, Eddie Vedder, you're not welcome in San Francisco this week.

Well, the arms race is escalating.

The Seattle Seahawks decided to ban California residents from buying tickets to Sunday’s NFC Championship Game at CenturyLink Field (FOX, coverage begins at 5:30 p.m. ET). Well, for all those hoping that maturity would somehow work its way into the forefront, keep waiting.

One San Francisco radio station, LIVE 105, has decided to ban all Seattle bands from its airwaves in the days leading up to the game.

Got a hankering to hear some Soundgarden? No dice, you’re out of luck.

Alice in Chains? Nah, son!

Campaigners opposing a new housing development on Harlow Hill say they fear residents already feel defeated by plans to build.

The Save Harlow’s View campaign group is encouraging residents to lodge objections to Yorkshire Water’s planning application for nine homes after they submitted new plans last month.

The property development arm of Yorkshire Water’s parent company Kelda Group is known as Keyland Developments and have put forward new plans to build nine homes on the site of the former Yorkshire Water facility.

This comes months after Keyland withdrew intitial plans for 13 homes following a huge backlash with over 200 people objecting to the proposals.

The Save Harlow’s View campaign group is now supported by Mike Brockhurst, a renowned local hiker who runs the popular Walking Englishman blog.

He said: “We think that everyone in the area just thinks ‘what is the point it is going to happen anyway’.

“There is a real feeling among people who live in the Harlow Hill area that the west of Harrogate is being swallowed up by the town.

The latest plans have attracted more than 30 objections on Harrogate Borough Council’s planning website. Sketches show nine homes, ranging from two bed terraces to a five bed room detached on the site.

Peter Garrett, Managing Director of Keyland Developments Ltd, said; “The original application was withdrawn for technical planning issues which have now been resolved. We have been working closely with the Council on the revised scheme, which is significantly smaller than the original proposal.

It’s been a tough go for Bar Crudo, my vote for the best casual seafood restaurant in the city.

As many know, on Nov. 30, three staffers — chef-owner Mike Selvera, sous chef Carina Lampkin and waiter Gracie Sholl — were sharing a cab home when they were broadsided by a hit-and-run driver.

Sholl was killed, Lamkin was seriously injured and Selvera suffered internal bleeding and underwent surgery for a broken jaw.

Because this place is so personal and has only 30 seats, the staff was decimated. However, I visited recently and found that the food was as good as ever, from the lobster salad on coins of beets and a flurry of delicate greens, to the warm mussels in a roasted tomato broth with linguica, garlic and roasted tomatoes.

Every combination is pristine, and the crudo is amazing, but then so is the chowder, beef crudo (four little mounds each with different toppings), and the tuna confit with asparagus roasted red peppers capers and manchego.

The kitchen is so tiny that only one hot dish is offered a night. On my visit, it was a boned trout flavored with thick slices of garlic and lemon, topped with asparagus, sturdy cooked greens and roasted fingerling potatoes.

Because of the limited kitchen space, no desserts are offered, but there is a cheese plate to finish up the wine or the Belgian beer, and truffles for those who want a bite of something sweet.

Located at the top of the Stockton Tunnel on Bush, Bar Crudo a charming, highly personal restaurant. Despite the tragedy, it thrives. It’s one of those special places that are so rare, but so right.

If you haven’t visited, it would be a great time to check it out.

Bar Crudo, 603 Bush Street (at Stockton), S.F.; (415) 956-0396.

As the cold snap continues Hastings has been issued with a warning to expect ‘heavy snow’ this evening (Thursday, January 31).

According to the forecaster there is a 90 per cent chance of ‘heavy snowfall’ in Hastings from 10pm.

The Met Office said there is a 60 per cent chance of a sleet shower at 6pm which will turn into heavy snow by 10pm.

The Met Office added Bexhill will be hit by heavy snow at 9pm.

There is also a 90 to 95 per cent chance of heavy snow in Rye from 9pm to 11pm.

Menomonee Falls police are asking for the public's help in identifying a woman who stole luggage from the TJ Maxx retail store on Falls Parkway.

According to police, at around 1 p.m. Aug. 8, the suspect left the store with a blue rolling suitcase without attempting to make a payment.

If anyone can identify the woman or if any agency has had similar incidents, they're asked to contact Menomonee Falls Officer Brooks at 262-532-8700 and reference case number 18-022473.

The American Council on Exercise (ACE) is a nonprofit fitness certification, education and training provider with more than 50,000 certified professionals who hold more than 53,000 ACE certifications. ACE Tests contains the materials that will help you prepare to that exam. Features include: over 200 test questions, various tips for passing the exam, statistics for every test taken, easy to use interface, free updates.

PreTest is the closest you can get to seeing the test before you take it.

SnapCalc does the math for you.

This app is for school use: Do not download unless you have a Minecraft: Education Edition subscription and an Office 365 Education account.

Upward Mobility presents our National Clinical Mental Health Exam Prep app, with over 300 review questions designed to help you study for the NCMHCE exam administered by the National Board for Certified Counselors.

YORK City manager Martin Foyle hailed highly-rated teenager Adam Boyes as a “future star” after his first senior goal helped fire the KitKat Crescent club to within a point of safety.

Boyes, 18, opened the scoring in last night’s 2-1 home victory over Forest Green, with an own goal by visiting ’keeper Terry Burton doubling City’s advantage after Richard Brodie’s strike had cannoned back off the crossbar.

Forest Green’s Marcus Palmer grabbed a late consolation but the Minstermen went on to claim maximum points and now know they need only a draw from either of their last two games – at Weymouth on Friday night or Lewes on Sunday – to ensure Blue Square Premier survival.

Foyle, though, is not relaxing yet, saying: “When we are mathematically safe, I will allow myself a smile.

About Boyes’ contribution last night, the City boss added: “I’m absolutely delighted for him.

“He’s a young boy learning the trade and, even though he’s probably not strong enough yet to play in the front line, he works very had on the right or left and deserved his goal.

Boyes and fellow wide man Adam Smith swapped flanks during an entertaining encounter at KitKat Crescent and Foyle admitted afterwards that 4-4-2 is his favoured formation.

He said: “I’ve always been a 4-4-2 man. Sometimes you need to change things if you are a bit weak in certain areas to shore things up and we got a few results at the right time playing a different way even if there were a lot of draws.

“But I do like 4-4-2 if you have wide players willing to work.

City moved up a further place to sixth-bottom last night after leapfrogging Barrow in the table.

The victory also means Woking are now down with Weymouth, Barrow and City contesting the final relegation place.

Lancashire tourist chiefs are bracing themselves for an influx of Tolkien fans as long-awaited film, ‘The Hobbit’ hits cinemas this weekend.

J.R.R Tolkien’s son John, who was studying for the priesthood, was evacuated from Rome to Stonyhurst College in Lancashire during the Second World Ward and it is belived the countryside which encompasses the stunning Ribble Valley and Forest of Bowland areas were Tolkien’s influence for Middle Earth - the setting for the novel.

J.R.R Tolkien, his wife and other children regularly stayed at a guest house in the grounds of Stonyhurst College during this time and is believedhe worked on the Lord of the Rings in a classroom on the upper gallery of the college.

A number of names which occur in The Lord of the Rings are similar to those found locally, including Shire Lane in the village of Hurst Green and the River Shirebourn which is similar to the name of the family which built Stonyhurst.

Anna Izza, Communications Manager at Marketing Lancashire said: The effects of the film in terms of tourism are likely to be felt throughout the coming year.

Marketing Lancashire’s visitor website www.visitlancashire.com has sections dedicated to Lancashire’s literary links and includes information about the Tolkien Trail and J.R.R Tolkien’s association with Stonyhurst College.

Readers can also download a copy of the Tolkien Trail, a five and a half mile circular walk starting and finishing at Hurst Green, from the website to follow in the footsteps of the curious Bilbo Baggins.

Anna said: “Reward yourself with lunch fit for a Hobbit at The Shireburn Arms at Hurst Green and the start and finish of the trail.

Nathan Scott, a film and television composer, arranger and conductor whose credits include composing music for the TV classics "Dragnet" and "Lassie," has died. He was 94.

Scott, the father of jazz saxophonist and composer-arranger Tom Scott, died Saturday of age-related causes at his home in Sherman Oaks, said his daughter, Linda Colley.

In a four-decade career that began on radio in the early 1940s, Scott launched a six-year post-World War II stint at Republic Pictures as a composer, arranger and conductor on films starring actors such as Gene Autry, Rocky Lane, Roy Rogers and Bob Steele. That included composing the music for the John Wayne sea picture "Wake of the Red Witch."

In 1952, Scott left Republic and began working on TV's "Dragnet" as the arranger for composer Walter Schumann, who wrote the famous dum-de-dum-dum theme for the popular Jack Webb police show.

Scott did the arrangements for all of the "Dragnet" episodes until the end of its run in 1959 and composed the scores for about half of the episodes.

As a freelance composer, he worked on series such as "Have Gun-Will Travel," "My Three Sons," "Rawhide," "The Twilight Zone," "The Untouchables" and "Wagon Train."

Scott also wrote the theme music for Richard Crenna's 1964-65 dramatic TV series "Slattery's People." And from 1963 through 1972, he composed the music for all but four episodes of "Lassie."

"He was a craftsman of the highest order," said Jon Burlingame, who interviewed Scott for his 1996 book "TV's Biggest Hits: The Story of Television Themes From 'Dragnet' to 'Friends.' "

Scott also was a big influence on his two-time Grammy Award-winning son.

"There was always a room in our house where these dramatic piano chords were being played as my father was busy composing music," Tom Scott said of his childhood years.

"He was so great with melody and harmony in particular," he said. "I can still hear them in my head, and some of those things I've incorporated into my music."

Born in Salinas, Calif., on May 11, 1915, Scott majored in music at UC Berkeley.

After graduating in 1939, he headed to Hollywood, where he was hired by NBC initially as a parking lot attendant.

In 1942, he became the West Coast music director of the new Blue Network (the predecessor of ABC) but was inducted into the Army later that year.

During the war, he played trombone and wrote music for the Air Transport Command Band in Long Beach and later worked with the Armed Forces Radio Service.

Scott's wife Margery died in 1995.

In addition to his two children, he is survived by his second wife, Frances; and two grandchildren.

A celebration of his life is pending.

11:24 AM.From overblown rhetoric to subtle discourse, Belgium's Valentijn Dhaenens uses his Big Mouth to explore the manipulative power of words.

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin told the Kremlin that their mission had been accomplished and it is now time to focus on peacetalks.

Russia entered the Syrian civil war last September, and its bombing campaign helped the Syrian government forces to recapture territory from rebel groups.

But it has been accused by Syrian activists and human rights groups of targeting moderate opposition groups and causing significant civilian casualites.

Berlin based journalist Lucian Kim has been covering Russia and its role in eastern europe and the middle east for two decades.

How can we attract skilled, creative and entrepreneurial people born in other countries? How can our 'seventeenth region' - the more than 600,000 New Zealanders living abroad, be a greater national asset ?

Julie Fry is a consulting economist who divides her time between New York and a family farm near Motueka. She has worked on migration policy issues since the early 1990s, designing programmes and advising agencies including The Treasury, Te Puni Kōkiri, and HM Treasury in London.

She has written a book with Hayden Glass called, Going Places, which argues that we could do significantly better if we changed some of our policies.

More than 25 million children are out of school in Pakistan, which has the second lowest literacy rate in the world. Seema Aziz is Pakistan's most successful businesswoman, founder of a high-end fashion business. She's also the founder of CARE Pakistan, which runs 450 schools around the country, educating 195 thousand children. Her aim is to reach one million. She talks to Kathryn Ryan about her belief that access to schooling is the country's biggest opportunity.

It's not what you say but how you say it that matters. From Socrates to Martin Luther King and Osama bin Laden, Belgium's Valentijn Dhaenens pays homage to oration by using the best speeches of all time to show the power of words, for both good and evil.

His one-man show 'BigMouth' makes its New Zealand debut at Auckland Arts Festival 2016.

Gavin Ellis discusses the media merry-go-round that keeps spinning with the resignation of NZME's CEO Jane Hastings. She achieved the integration of the New Zealand Herald and The Radio Network but failed to bring about a promised IPO and website paywall. What does the changing of the guard mean?

The welcome prospect of seeing Nicolas Cage return to the kind of prestige vehicle befitting an Oscar winner goes unrealized in "The Runner," a hollow, listless political drama that could have been a contender.

Set in the aftermath of the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the film stars Cage as an idealistic Louisiana congressman whose senatorial ambitions are derailed when one of his extramarital dalliances catches up with him.

Tossed out by his relentlessly driven wife (Connie Nielsen doing her best Lady Macbeth), he goes about rebuilding his personal post-Katrina life with the support of his former consultant (Sarah Paulson).

Directed and written by producer Austin Stark, this first feature is clearly going after the smart redemptive dramas that Sidney Lumet and Alan J. Pakula were making in the '70s and '80s.

But in Stark's hands, the plodding film goes awfully heavy on script exposition and all too light on character depth, leaving Cage and company — including a smartly cast Peter Fonda as his been-there, done-that alcoholic dad — to come up with their own complexity.

Although Cage's performance errs a bit too much on the side of achingly stoic, it nevertheless feels genuine. "The Runner" may not have taken him to the place he needed to be, but at least he's headed in the right direction.

MPAA rating: R for language, sexual material.

Though our Beauty 101 series has mostly focused on cosmetics thus far, today, due to popular demand, we're going to focus on our readers hair concerns. And away we go!

When do people wash it? How often? How am I always the only person ever walking around with wet hair? Does everyone but me use a blow dryer?

It takes my hair about eight hours to dry naturally and it's super thick and curly, so blow drying it is always really difficult. I have no idea what to do with it. Halp!

Hairstyles for thin/fine hair! Hair in general!

Styling fine, limp and straight hair.