Wonderman [Part 1] - Latest 2015 Nigerian Nollywood Movie (English Full HD) A wonder man who plans to tackle this years Great North Run at the age of 95 has been nominated for a Best of South Tyneside award.
Legendary runner Jarra Jim - Jim Purcell - has been nominated by good friend Agnes Fenwick who believed he was deserving of the award for raising thousands of pounds for charity by regularly taking part in the big event from Newcastle to South Shields.
His charity work involves raising funds for his own charity, the JP Handicapped Childrens Trust, which has helped out countless good causes, including Epinay Business and Enterprise School in Jarrow.
The Dunkirk veteran, from Falmouth Drive, Jarrow, has taken part in the event for the past 28 years after taking up running after his wife Betty died in 1986.
Even having two knee replacement has not stopped the great-grandfather from taking part.
Llast year he even took part in the run in a wheelchair after Morrisons worker Gordon Williams offered to push him.
In her nomination Agnes said: He is a wonder man. Jim told me his life story from when his wife died about 30 years ago.
He went to watch the Great North Run to pass the time away and he thought Im sure I could do that.
So he used to slip out of the house in the dark and run around the block until he felt sure he could train properly for the Great North Run.
Jim is a real inspiration to the Great North Run and is a great favourite among the competitors and spectators.
Jim is an exception and a real celebrity.
Jim, who turns 95 later this year, said he plans to take part in the run again on September 11 and has already got his number.
He said: It is nice to have been nominated.
I would be very happy to win and add to my collection of awards. I know I am well thought of in the town.
I hope I am in good health by the time the awards come round but I am happy and I love talking to people.
I have lived a long time and I am writing a book - a series of stories I am going to call A Long Time Ago.
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Grudge Match 52: Wonder Woman vs Wonder Man A wonder man who plans to tackle this years Great North Run at the age of 95 has been nominated for a Best of South Tyneside award.
Legendary runner Jarra Jim - Jim Purcell - has been nominated by good friend Agnes Fenwick who believed he was deserving of the award for raising thousands of pounds for charity by regularly taking part in the big event from Newcastle to South Shields.
His charity work involves raising funds for his own charity, the JP Handicapped Childrens Trust, which has helped out countless good causes, including Epinay Business and Enterprise School in Jarrow.
The Dunkirk veteran, from Falmouth Drive, Jarrow, has taken part in the event for the past 28 years after taking up running after his wife Betty died in 1986.
Even having two knee replacement has not stopped the great-grandfather from taking part.
Llast year he even took part in the run in a wheelchair after Morrisons worker Gordon Williams offered to push him.
In her nomination Agnes said: He is a wonder man. Jim told me his life story from when his wife died about 30 years ago.
He went to watch the Great North Run to pass the time away and he thought Im sure I could do that.
So he used to slip out of the house in the dark and run around the block until he felt sure he could train properly for the Great North Run.
Jim is a real inspiration to the Great North Run and is a great favourite among the competitors and spectators.
Jim is an exception and a real celebrity.
Jim, who turns 95 later this year, said he plans to take part in the run again on September 11 and has already got his number.
He said: It is nice to have been nominated.
I would be very happy to win and add to my collection of awards. I know I am well thought of in the town.
I hope I am in good health by the time the awards come round but I am happy and I love talking to people.
I have lived a long time and I am writing a book - a series of stories I am going to call A Long Time Ago.
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Steph Curry MRI Reveals Grade 1 MCL Sprain In Knee
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Los Angeles Clippers point guard Chris Paul is likely to miss the remainder of the playoffs after breaking the third metacarpal in his right hand on Monday night.
Paul, who injured the hand while attempting to swipe the ball away from the Portland Trail Blazers guadGerald Henderson in the third quarter of Game 4 of their first-round series, left the Moda Center with a cast on his hand and his arm in a sling. According to a person with knowledge of Pauls situation, the Clippers do not expect Paul to be able to return in the postseason. The person spoke to USA TODAY Sports on the condition of anonymity because a final diagnosis had not yet been made.
And with that, these NBA playoffs took yet another turn for the worse.
Pauls injury came just hours after the Golden State Warriors had learned the severity of Stephen Currys right knee injury that was suffered at Houston on Sunday. The reigning MVP suffered a Grade 1 MCL sprain and will be re-evaluated in two weeks, thus giving the defending-champion Warriors every reason to wonder if they could somehow survive a potential second-round series against the Clippers without him.
Who knew Golden State would wind up looking like the lucky ones?
Not only are the Clippers now without their MVP-caliber point guard, but forward Blake Griffin appeared to re-aggravate a quadriceps injury in the Blazers 98-84 win that tied the series 2-2. The potential ripple effect of this situation could be monumental, as this was seen by many as the Clippers last, best chance to prove to the basketball world that their Paul-Griffin-DeAndre Jordan core was championship-caliber.
The answers to those questions, however, will come later. In the here and the now, the Clippers will see how far their embattled squad can go.
Paul was coming off a superb season, having helped lead the Clippers through the adversity of the Griffin incident in late December in which he broke his hand during an altercation with a member of the team"s equipment staffwhile averaging 19.5 points, 10 assists, 4.2 rebounds and 2.1 steals per game. Despite not having their All-Star forward for 47 games because of the quad injury and broken hand, the Clippers finished fourth in the Western Conference (53-29).
🎯Target Boycott: 500,000 People Pledge Not to Shop at Stores Over Transgender Bathroom Policy 👫👬
A bicyclist rides past a row of shopping carts outside a Target store on May 23, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
More than 700,000 people have signed an online pledge to boycott Target, in response to its inclusive bathroom policy. The pledge was started by the American Family Association after Target last week published a statementsaying we welcome transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity.
Before long, people on both sides of the boycott debate took to Twitter to divulge their views, tagging their tweets with the hashtag #TargetBoycott.
For more, Here & Nows Robin Young talks with Jason Bellini of The Wall Street Journal about what the debate over who can use which bathrooms has meant for businesses.
Living in the shadow of Chernobyl: Kids & adults still dwelling in contaminated areas
In the days before the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster today, workers hurriedly filled in pot holes and painted lines on the decrepit road to the destroyed nuclear station. They were getting ready for a visit by Ukraines president and memorial ceremonies at the site to mark the catastrophic incident on April 26, 1986.
Time has helped bury some of the most obvious effects of the catastrophe. Slowly the forest is breaking up the abandoned towns inside the exclusion zone; the famous Red Forest, of irradiated trees turned red by the reactor leak, has been cut down and replanted.
Radiation levels on the surface are often close to background norms, though highly contaminated patches still lurk everywhere. Next year, a giant new containment shell is due to be slid over the shattered reactor, sealing it safe for 100 years.
SLIDESHOW: Haunting Images From Chernobyl")
But as the workers spruced up the route to the worlds worst nuclear disaster zone, some affected by the accident said with the passing of time their plights were increasingly being downplayed and accused Ukraines government of trying to save money by cutting support to them.
The claims throw attention onto the fact that even 30 years on, the long-term health effects of Chernobyl remain intensely disputed.
The disaster, the worst nuclear accident in history, eventually affected 3 million people and forced the evacuation of over 300,000. The reactor was sealed inside an 18-mile exclusion zone, deemed too contaminated for people to live and known now just as the Zone.
The United Nations and the World Health Organization have found that other than the tens of thousands exposed immediately after the accident, there is no evidence to show Chernobyls leaked radiation has had a major impact on public health. The International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) has said radiation levels have fallen by a factor of several hundred and that most contaminated land has been made safe.
But some local doctors and researchers reject this, saying they have documented a growing number of long-term health issues among people living in areas close to the exclusion zone, particularly among children and arguing that even small doses of radiation over long periods is dangerous.
The level of illness is much higher than in the regions that are not contaminated, Oksana Kadun, head doctor at Ivankov hospital, the closest to the Zone. Kadun, who is helping with a European Union-funded study tracking the health of 4,000 children in contaminated areas, said she saw increased cases of respiratory problems and immune system deficiency.
Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant stands encased in lead and concrete following the accident in April 1986, that released a cloud of radiation that circled the world in Pripyat, Ukraine, July 1988.
With the contaminated regions poor and of little influence, there was little appetite to reopen the issue, Kadun said.
Few people are talking about this because nobody wants to hear it, she said.
In the villages of ginger-bread cottages strung along the plain just outside the Zone, where storks build their nests on pylon-tops and people work tiny plots of land by hand, many assume they are poisoned but say they have little way to prove it. Too poor to buy food, most grow their own and forage from ground they know is contaminated.
What we have, we use, said Anna Pogorelova, who lives with her two children in what was called the "Fourth Zone" -- an area once considered contaminated but not enough for evacuation.
In many places here, Ukraines government pays people compensation for Chernobylknown by Ukrainians as coffin money. But with the country on the edge of default, the government has been curtailing the payments for some and reclassifying areas previously deemed contaminated.
Officials have said they are making tough choices with limited resources, but those affected by the accident say the government is trying to ignore legitimate cases.
The police guard on their duty the entrance of Pripyat town four kilometers from the Chernobyl power station, March 6, 1989, three years after the nuclear disaster.
We have the impression that they would rather that we had just gone already, said Nadezhda Makarevich. Makarevich was evacuated from Pripyat, the town closest to the reactor. On the morning after the explosion, she was washing her windows. Not alerted by the Soviet authorities, she inhaled fallout, suffering radioactive burns on her lungs.
Makarevich is part of a group campaigning for the government to pay support benefits to those poisoned by the accident, as it is obliged by law.
With so many once classified as victims of Chernobyl -- the number of so-called liquidators, workers who contained the accident, is around 500,000 -- and the illnesses so long-term, those claiming Chernobyl benefits are often stigmatized as scroungers.
In the villages around the Zone, many say theyre resigned to living on contaminated ground. In any case, they say, radiation is only one of their problems.
Were not a big region, Pogorelova said. No one pays us any attention.
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Kelly Ripa Doesn"t Host "Live!" After Michael Strahan"s Departure is Announced
Michael Strahan is "looking forward" to having Kelly Ripa back on Live as the ABC star returns to the show on Tuesday after a weeklong absence.
"He never wanted any of this to happen," a source told People Magazine.
The source added that even though Strahan understood why she was mad "it was out of his control".
"He spent the last few days reaching out because he wanted her to come back."
The news comes just a day after a source close to Ripa told DailyMail.com that the star would be returning to Live alongside Strahan after a rancorous week that left her blindsided by the news that her co-host would be quitting the show and taking a job at Good Morning America.
The source told People that Strahan "was prepared to go on by himself if he had to, but he is relieved that it all worked out".
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Michael Strahan is "looking forward" to having Kelly Ripa back on Live as the ABC star returns to the show on Tuesday after a weeklong absence
A source told People Magazine that Strahan "never wanted any of this to happen". The source added that even though Strahan understood why Ripa was mad "it was out of his control"
Sources close to the ABC star confirmed Friday that she would be joining Strahan on Tuesday, just a week after she took time off from work and cancelled a planned trip to Turks and Caicos in celebration of her 20th anniversary to husband Mark Consuelos
Ripa took time off from work and canceled a planned trip to Turks and Caicos in celebration of her 20th anniversary to husband Mark Consuelos.
Her highly anticipated return comes after both sides traded blows through media after news of Strahan"s desertion was announced earlier this week.
Ripa"s absence worried bosses at ABC who are still concerned that she could "go rogue" when she returns to work on Tuesday.
According to Page Six, as of FridayRipa was still refusing to take calls from executives at the networks - still furious after learning she was being "overshadowed" by her co-anchor Strahan.
The fear is that she could "do an Ann Curry" and turn on her on-screen partner, poisoning the on-air chemistry between them for months to come.
People Magazinereported that Ripa sent an email to her staff late Friday night saying:"I wanted to thank you all for giving me the time to process this new information.
"Your kindness, support, and love has overwhelmed me. We are a family and I look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday morning. Love, Kelly."
Earlier reports suggested that Ripa could have faced a lawsuit or legal letter from ABC if she didn"t return on Tuesday.
"She could get a letter this weekend saying she"s required to turn up to work under her contract, and if she doesn"t show up, she"ll face being sued for damages, such as lost ad revenue," a source told PageSix.
Earlier reports suggested that Ripa could have faced a lawsuit or legal letter from ABC if she didn"t return on Tuesday
As of Friday,Ripa was still refusing to take calls from executives at the networks - still furious after learning she was being "overshadowed" by her co-anchor Strahan (pictured in New York City)
Multiple sources close to Ripa told DailyMail.com earlier this week that she had initially been offered that slot on GMA a few years ago, but turned it down
But an ABC representative denied the case of any legal letter saying the notion is "completely ridiculous and totally false".
ABC executives are; however, worried that Ripa will go rogue upon her return as she still wasn"t taking calls from Strahan or anyone from ABC as of Friday, according to PageSix.
Page Sixspoke to a source close to Ripa, 45, who claimed Strahan"s nonstop work commitments caused the former football star to throw "temper tantrums" at work, during which he would scream at Ripa and the show"s longtime producer, Michael Gellman.
The source added; "He acted like he was in a locker room, not a dressing room."
The source also said of the relationship between Ripa and Strahan, who by all appearances seemed to be good friends both on and off the set: "They could not stand each other, and whenever they communicated off-camera, it was always through their reps."
The network"s decision to move Strahan, 44, comes two years after he first began appearing on GMA in a limited capacity, showing up two days a week and leaving early so he could make it back to Live in time for their 9am taping.
Multiple sources close to Ripa told DailyMail.com earlier this week that she had initially been offered that slot on GMA a few years ago, but turned it down.
"Two years ago Kelly was offered Michael"s current role of contributor to Good Morning America. She turned this down as she was committed to Live and didn"t want to give less to the show that she had been focused on for well over ten years and then kept a ratings winner after Regis left," said one source close to the popular morning host.
Strahan was spotted hitting the gym with girlfriend Kayla Quick on Wednesday in New York City
Strahan broke the news that he was leaving a day after Monday"s show (above)
Saturday Night Live alum Ana Gasteyer (above) filled in for Ripa on Wednesday
"Michael then scooped up the role and started saying yes to everything ABC and Disney had to offer.
"Kelly felt that her and Michael Gelman, Live"s Executive Producer, were left to be the only two people solely focused on the show."
The source went on to say; "This began creating tensions internally as Kelly and Michael Gelman were having to work to Michael"s schedule as Live become less of a priority for him.
"Kelly isn"t shocked that he did this as she"s watched him advance his career off Live"s success for years now, she is just disgusted and angry that he did this behind her back with her bosses."
Multiple sources close to the show told DailyMail.com that the staff feel they too have been "blindsided" by a boss who made the decision to just stop showing up for her job.
"They feel like Michael"s taking the high road but Kelly"s the one who blindsided them by not showing up for work," said one source.
"The feeling is that how she"s acting is deeply selfish."
The source went on to say; "Staff are upset that she"s not there. They are pulling a double shift today while she"s left them in the lurch after her tantrum."
The program tapes the live show and a second show to air on Friday morning each Thursday.
Double duty:The program tapes the live show and a second show to air on Friday morning each Thursday. Filling in for Ripa for Thursday"s live show was another popular ABC personality - Erin Andrews (above)
Back in action: And it was Andrews who was picked to tape the second segment on Thursday, which aired Friday morning (above)
Filling in for Ripa for both tapings was another popular ABC personality - Dancing With the Stars host Erin Andrews.
Saturday Night Live alum Ana Gasteyer filled in on Wednesday and Pretty Little Liars star Shay Mitchell will guest co-host Monday.
Asource close to Ripa told a different story, saying; "Live staffers are upset. Kelly has been inundated with calls and messages from the team.
"They blame Disney management and want her to come back to work as they see her as the star of the show who also has their back."
Strahan talked about his new job during Wednesday"s Live show and then again next day during an appearance on Good Morning America.
He made a point to praise Ripa on both occasions, a wise decision given the fact that she reportedly did not hide her anger upon learning the news on Tuesday.
The New York Times revealed what happened when Strahan broke the news to Ripa, Gelman and WABC general manager Dave Davis earlier this week.
The group was informed of the meeting at the last second on Tuesday and waited 20 minutes for Strahan to arrive.
Ripa said to Davis after Strahan told them he would be leaving; "Didn"t I tell you this was going to happen? I told you two years ago this was going to happen."
Gone girl: Ripa emerged for the first time since learning he co-host was quitting on Thursday, getting into a car outside her Upper East Side townhouse with husband Mark Consuelos (above)
