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Father’s Day 2017 Quotes: Top 10 Best Sayings for New Dads

These words of wisdom will bring a tear to Dad's eye.

Father’s Day 2017 Quotes: Top 10 Best Sayings for New Dads

Ruth E. Renkel
"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance."

Fanny Fern, Fresh Leaves
"To her, the name of father was another name for love."

Clarence Budington Kelland
"My father didn't tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it."

Pam Brown
"Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song."

Anne Geddes
"Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a Dad."

Umberto Eco
"I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by the little scraps of wisdom."

Sigmund Freud
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."

"A father is neither an anchor to hold us back nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way."

"A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grown."

Jim Valvano
"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me."

Premier League fixtures 2017/18

Reigning champions Chelsea and runners-up Tottenham will go head-to-head at Wembley in the second week of the Premier League season.

Premier League fixtures 2017/18

The new campaign gets under way on Saturday 12 August with Antonio Conte's Chelsea hosting Burnley in their first fixture three months after winning the title by seven points ahead of their London rivals.

The Manchester and Merseyside derbies are scheduled to take place on the same weekends. Manchester City visit Old Trafford and Everton travel to Anfield on December 9, with the return fixtures pencilled in for April 7.

All eyes will be on Arsenal this season after Arsene Wenger's decision to stay and the Frenchman will be fired up for their third game when he takes his Gunners to Liverpool on August 26.
Jose Mourinho's Manchester United will take on West Ham in their opener at Old Trafford, while neighbours City and Pep Guardiola head to new boys Brighton.

Championship winners Newcastle welcome Spurs at St James' Park on the first day and Huddersfield, fresh from their play-off win, face a trip to the capital when they play Crystal Palace.
Premier League fixtures 2017/18 - click on your club
Arsenal
Bournemouth
Brighton
Burnley
Chelsea
Crystal Palace
Everton
Huddersfield
Leicester
Liverpool
Manchester City
Manchester United
Newcastle
Southampton
Stoke
Swansea
Tottenham
Watford
West Brom
West Ham
Opening day fixtures:

Arsenal v Leicester City
Brighton and Hove Albion v Manchester City
Chelsea v Burnley
Crystal Palace v Huddersfield Town
Everton v Stoke City
Manchester United v West Ham United
Newcastle United v Tottenham Hotspur
Southampton v Swansea City
Watford v Liverpool
West Bromwich Albion v Bournemouth

Final day fixtures:

Burnley v Bournemouth
Crystal Palace v West Bromwich Albion
Huddersfield Town v Arsenal
Liverpool v Brighton and Hove Albion
Manchester United v Watford
Newcastle United v Chelsea
Southampton v Manchester City
Swansea City v Stoke City
Tottenham Hotspur v Leicester City
West Ham United v Everton

Sky Sports, the home of Premier League football, will show 126 live top-flight games in 2017/18 and mobile users will once again be able to see in-game goals and match highlights.

We expect to bring you details of the first batch of Premier League fixtures - those to be shown live on Sky Sports in August and September - at the beginning of July.

N.B. student takes home prize in Google doodle contest for Canada 150

A nine-year-old boy from Lower Coverdale, N.B. is bringing back some money for his school after being named a grade group winner for the Doodle 4 Google Canada contest.

Wesley Babin, 9, was in Toronto on Tuesday as one of four finalists in the nationwide competition which featured entries from kindergarten to Grade 12.

The submissions were divided up into four grade groups — kindergarten to Grade 3, Grade 4-6, Grade 7-9 and Grade 10-12 — and a winner was chosen from each group. Babin was told he was the winner of the Grade 4-6 group prior to Monday.
During his trip to Toronto, Babin was able to appear on TV before visiting the Art Gallery of Ontario where the national winner was announced.

Though he didn’t win the national prize, Babin still earned a $5,000 technology award for his school as well as a Google Chromebook for himself.

“It’s really exciting,” said Babin in a phone interview when asked how he felt being a winner out of more than 11,000 students.

Babin’s Google doodle was a 3D media sculpture inspired by technology made from bicycle gears and metal gadgets he found lying around the house. He also told Global News he even snagged a few trinkets from his father’s shop.

He told Global News last month he wanted to become a mechanical engineer someday.

His mother Denise said Tuesday that her son has been building things for a while.

“Wesley’s been doing those types of little sculptures for the last two years now,” she said. “So this is not new to us as a family. He’s been doodling and creating little sculptures for years.”
It’s not yet known how the technology award will be spent, but because they have such a small school, Babin’s mother says they will consult the school population to decide where the money will go.

Though the school knew Babin was a finalist, only the principal was able to know he was one of the grade group winners.

Babin said when his friends found out he was a finalist, he got some mixed reactions.

“Some of them didn’t care and some of them were really excited,” he said.

Babin’s design, along with the other two grade group winners, will be featured in the Doodle 4 Google gallery online.

Students across the country were asked to redesign the Google logo for Canada’s 150th birthday with the theme centred on the question, “What I see for Canada’s future is…”

London high-rise fire leaves multiple people dead, dozens injured and missing

LONDON — A number of people were killed, at least 50 injured and many others missing on Wednesday as a fire ripped through a high-rise apartment building in west London where residents had long warned of the potential risk of a catastrophic blaze.

LONDON FIRE

A thick plume of smoke could be seen for miles around, while witnesses reported people jumping from open windows near the top of the 24-story building after being trapped by the advancing flames.

Hundreds of other residents, many who had been asleep when the blaze broke out shortly before 1 a.m., were forced to flee down dark and smoky stairwells. The building, which is located in a poverty-stricken pocket of one of London’s wealthiest neighborhoods, was engulfed within minutes, said locals.

“It was like a horror movie, smoke was coming from everywhere,” said building resident Adeeb, who hobbled down nine flights of stairs on crutches with his wife and three children.

Adeeb, who declined to give his last name, said there had been no alarms, and that he only learned of the fire when his daughter woke him.

Forthcoming Ocean discharges new tune "Lens" highlighting Travis Scott - listen here

The singer put out two versions via 'blonded RADIO'

Frank Ocean releases new song 'Lens' featuring Travis Scott - listen here

During Frank Ocean’s four years away — between Channel Orange and Endless — we barely heard anything from the ex-Odd Future member.

Yet, since releasing the visual album and departing from Def Jam, fans have been treated to an actual album, Blonde, and numerous new singles.

Both ‘Chanel’ and the Tyler, the Creator and Jay Z collaboration ‘Biking’ debuted on the singer’s Beats 1 radio show ‘blonded RADIO’ earlier this year.

Ocean has since played a brand new collaboration titled ‘Lens’, spinning two versions of the song, the second featuring Travis Scott. Listen here on iTunes or below via YouTube.

Whether a new album is coming remains unknown, but thanks to the consistency of new music, fans remain hopeful a fourth album could be coming soon.

Meanwhile, Ocean has announced a string of live dates, including a headline set at Lovebox festival in London later this Summer.

Chelsea beats Tottenham 4-2 in FA Cup semi-final thriller, with Nemanja Matic stealing the show

Hopes were high for a classic FA Cup semi-final between the Premier League's best two teams, and Chelsea and Tottenham did not disappoint.

The Blues earned the right to progress to the final with a 4-2 win over Spurs, who twice came from behind with brilliant goals of their own but could not cope with Chelsea's attacking juggernaut.

There were stunning goals galore, but Nemanja Matic — who is by no means a regular goal scorer — stole the show with an absolute piledriver to seal the victory

You're going to want to see that from another angle...

Amazed? You're not alone. Check out team-mate Kurt Zouma on the bench.

The scoring was opened by Willian, whose wonderful free kick beat Hugo Lloris to his left, but Spurs striker Harry Kane equalised with a delightfully intelligent flicked header.

A penalty gave Chelsea the lead back, before Christian Eriksen expertly found Dele Alli, who finished with aplomb to level things up at 2-2.

With the game in the balance, Eden Hazard swept a goal through a sea of legs to get the lead back before Matic sealed the deal.

Chelsea and Spurs will continue their battle for the title in earnest, while Manchester City and Arsenal will tonight play in the second semi to see who faces the Blues in the FA Cup final in May.

Video of United Airlines Passenger Creates Furor in China, Too

BEIJING — A day after the forced removal of a passenger from a United Airlines flight provoked a social media furor in the United States, a similar outcry followed in China, after state-run news outlets here described the man as being of Chinese descent.

Video of United Airlines Passenger Creates Furor in China, Too

The man’s name has not been released, but another passenger on the flight on Sunday said he had complained of being singled out because he was Chinese.

By Tuesday evening, the hashtag “United forcibly removes passenger from plane” was the most popular topic on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, garnering more than 270 million views and more than 150,000 comments. Many Chinese social media users accused United of racism, while others called for a boycott.

The outrage was furious and sustained, with internet users calling on United to apologize for its treatment of the man, who was dragged from his seat by security officers after refusing to be bumped from an overbooked flight from Chicago to Louisville, Ky.

The episode was prominently displayed across the Chinese news media on Tuesday. CCTV, the state broadcaster, showed photos of the passenger’s bloodied face above the word, “Savage!” People’s Daily, the ruling Communist Party’s flagship newspaper, scolded United for failing to condemn the man’s treatment.

United has said that the passenger and three others were selected to be removed from the flight after no one accepted the offer of a voucher to leave voluntarily. The other three passengers left without incident, the airline said. United’s chief executive, Oscar Munoz, apologized for “having to re-accommodate these customers,” called the episode “upsetting” and said the airline was conducting a review.

The controversy threatened to hurt United’s revenue in China, where the airline began flying in 1986 and has steadily built a loyal customer base. As of last May, United had 96 departures a week to cities in mainland China and Hong Kong.

Wang Guanxiong, 40, an angel investor in the technology industry in Beijing who travels frequently to Silicon Valley, said he would never fly on United again.

“Why did they choose an Asian out of so many passengers?” he said in a telephone interview. “Obviously Asians are the minorities.”

People’s Daily said it was “gravely disappointing” that the airline had “mentioned nothing of the violence against the Asian passenger.”

The Chinese news media often highlights episodes of violence and racism directed at people of Chinese descent overseas as evidence of what it considers the hypocrisy of Western democracies on human rights issues.

Some of the online discussions took on political overtones, with commentators saying the incident exposed deeper problems in American society. “Where are the human rights the democratic countries have been advocating?” a Weibo user wrote.

Others said the episode showed that people of Chinese descent in the United States faced rampant discrimination. “In the United States, Asians are often discriminated against,” one Weibo user wrote. “If it were a Muslim or black person, they wouldn’t have acted this way.”

Zhang Zishi, a student from the coastal province of Shandong who lives in Britain, started a petition on the website of the White House calling for a federal investigation into the case, using the hashtag #ChineseLivesMatters. The petition has nearly 25,000 signatures.

“I’ve learned from the media that there is a lot of racism in the United States,” Mr. Zhang, 18, said in a telephone interview. “I feel that Chinese people are treated unfairly.”

Joe Wong, a popular Chinese-American comedian, was among those urging a boycott of United. “Many Chinese who have faced discrimination are unwilling to speak out because of their pride,” Mr. Wong wrote on Weibo. “Because of this attitude, neither mainstream Western media nor the public pays much attention to discrimination against Asians.”

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Children interrupt BBC News interview

Children interrupt BBC News interview - BBC News

There was an unexpected distraction for Professor Robert Kelly when he was being interviewed live on BBC News about South Korea. But he managed to keep his composure and complete the interview successfully.

Adele confirms marriage to Simon Konecki: 'I've found my next person'

Talk Has It Adele got married — and, throughout the end of the week, the Grammy champ affirmed it.

Adele confirms marriage to Simon Konecki: 'I've found my next person'

As a component of her Australian stadium visit, Adele hit Brisbane Cricket Ground Saturday and sincerely talked about her separation number, Someone Like You, and how she attempted to reaccess the feelings that laid the foundation for the record. Amid that dialog, the 25 craftsman affirmed her marriage to her long-term accomplice, business visionary and humanitarian Simon Konecki.

"I was trying to remember how it was I felt at the beginning of the relationship that inspired that record, because as bad as a breakup can be, as bitter and horrible and messy as it can be, that feeling when you first fall for someone is the best feeling on earth and I am addicted to that feeling," she told the crowd. "Obviously, I can't go through with those feelings because I'm married now. I've found my next person."

The affirmation arrives weeks after Adele — who brought home five Grammys including melody of the year, record of the year and collection of the year — alluded to Konecki as her "better half" in her Grammys acknowledgment discourse. "Grammys, I welcome it," the powerhouse vocalist said in the wake of showering commendation on Beyoncé."The Academy, I love you. My manager, my husband and my son, you’re the only reason I do it."

Adele takes melody, record and collection of the year at Grammy Awards

Adele and Konecki were first introduced in 2011 yet stayed under the radar until the vocalist broke the news of her pregnancy on her own website in 2012. They now share a 4-year-old child, Angelo, who Adele revealed to USA TODAY is "the fundamental reason I've grown up."

Of Konecki, Adele stated:"I've had boys all my life, and it's so much better if you have a man. Boys are insecure; they can't keep up with me. When you have a proper man, it's different. Nothing fazes him. I love him."

You know when you were a kid and had a stuffed animal that you absolutely loved?

I had more than a couple that my folks couldn't separate me from, regardless of where we went. There was only something about the plushy critters that brought me so much euphoria and satisfaction - and that is precisely what this lovable seal experienced in the wake of accepting one of its own.

At the point when guardians at the Mombetsu Land fascination in Hokkaido, Japan, gave this seal a little, stuffed adaptation of itself, here's the response they got.