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Yahoo
3 days ago
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- Yahoo
Elizabeth Forward School District elementary student wins ‘How to Be a Hero' coloring contest
11 Cares is helping to put a spotlight on everyday heroes through the 'How to be a Hero' coloring contest. The grand prize winner was an elementary school student who was inspired by her sister. 'When I first heard about it, I thought of Mady. So I thought of an idea of me and Mady. So my drawing was me helping Mady put her shoes on,' said 9-year-old Elliott Hobaugh, a student at Central Elementary in the Elizabeth Forward School District. Her drawing shows her helping her older sister, who has special needs. And thanks to her work, Elliot earned a $2,500 donation for her school. The contest was open to students in grades K-5 in western and central Pennsylvania by Edgar Snyder & Associates and The Heyward House. Download the FREE WPXI News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Channel 11 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch WPXI NOW
The Advertiser
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Advertiser
Farmer Wants a Wife to live in a horror movie disguised as a hostage drama
Welcome back to Farmer Wants a Wife, Australia's biggest agriculture-related dating show this side of the Sydney Royal. The eighth episode, titled Episode 8, starts with the promise that "all hell" will "break loose" as the show promises to deliver its long-awaited pivot to horror. If you haven't had time in your busy life to familiarise yourself with this show, I would ask what is the point of that kind of life. But I'm here to help with a recap so let's start from the beginning. FWaW (rhymes with cow) is a hostage drama where a group of young women is taken to a remote location with a weird stranger who makes them work for nothing. They have to make him like them enough that he doesn't send them away. Each Tuesday an SUV takes someone away and while they don't know where she is taken, there's another truck which leaves on Wednesday and they know it's full of sheep on a one-way journey. Several women managed to escape in the earlier episodes, causing a re-up of security measures around the respective farms.* With numbers dwindling, host Natalie Gruzlewski has "scoured the country" to find some more women for the farms, and as Episode 8 opens the new talent is being driven to the farms by the "originals", who don't let on what lies ahead. One of the newcomers is called Mady and is a police detective. She's on leave from investigating who stole the other 'd' from her name. The new contestants are confident and articulate, because they haven't been through the past three weeks having to regularly profess their devotion while watching the farmers ignore them and get with the other ladies around. The originals, who have been through this, are hardened and defensive. "I honestly think they're here to start some drama," one of the originals says on the way back to Biloela, where Farmer Corey lives, showing the development of some cynicism that will not make her a willing wifey. Tijan is in trouble as Farmer Tom's dog is pointing to her suitcase. Mady searches it for drugs, finding none, meaning Tijan has broken the prison rule of not bringing any dope back for the others. She won't last long. Farmer Thomas takes his now-four ladies to see his big tractor. Laura, who works in mining, calls it a small machine, breaking his heart. Mady and Thomas bond over not frothy brews but woolly ewes, where Mady shows him a few arrest techniques. She's really taking to this farm business. Up at Corey's farm in Biloela the jacarandas are in flower which tells us it was filmed in October-November. Corey takes the ladies, now numbering five, to see his hay shed, otherwise known as where the magic happens. One of the new ones, Chloe, tries to kill her competitors by dropping hay bales on them, and is rewarded with a date to the bowlo. Chloe turns on the flirt and Corey, who has never talked to someone this hot before, turns a bright shade of Barnaby Joyce. He's about to have a little sleep on the footpath. Tom's at another rodeo and we get flashbacks to when he dumped Emma in the previous episode. It's more exciting than anything in this one so far, that is until hell will soon break loose, all of it. The drama continues along these lines. Farmer does some stuff with new ladies, who say they like the farmer, while old ladies get unhappy about this, and say they're unhappy about this. Clarette talks about getting someone "out of the picture". Clarette has settled into her role as the presumptive fiancee, so we have to see her reaction to every little thing. It's generally the same kind of grimace whether she's happy or not; actually it's always not. Her beau, wheat farmer Thomas, makes his traditional family damper and new girl Jess tells him she's gluten-free. Will this come between them? This type of etcetera etcetera continues, hell having not broken loose. Come on! This hell is too tight. We discover the other girl on his farm, who's been there since the start, is called Rachel. Another, Annie, works as a "VIP co-ordinator". What the helly is on my telly? The post-date rituals, once subtle, are now explicit as the women face a cross-examination by those who didn't go. They boast as we watch the others' hearts breaking in real time. Suitor after suitor thinks the way to a farmer's heart is to make him talk about their relationship, and ask them for more clarity about how they feel. One does that and is later dumped. Who? All will be revealed at a farewell dinner. They're pulling out all the stops, even bought that bag of salad with the bag of crispy noodles inside. Tom dumps Tijan, the beauty salon owner who tried to herd sheep with the genius trick of standing in front of where they're running. Thomas dumps no-one, which sets off Clarette, who was hungry for blood, and she cracks the whip. "Why didn't we get a chat tonight? No tractor, no chat, no walk." It's tense for a sec but then Thomas goes to bed, no hell loose in this house, no blood on the floor. So from where will come the hellfire? The brimstone? We have only Corey left. Luckily the big fella is entirely capable of unleashing chaos all by himself. But the new girls' arrival has scrambled the mind of this wannabe root-rat and he can't think straight. He dumps Chelsea, who did not see this coming, and she has to pack her bags on the spot, through tears, with the cameras on her. And that's it. As the Toyota makes its way over the cattle grid we realise all hell has not broken loose, in fact not even a little bit of it has. Hell, whatever it is, remains contained, not under the earth's crust, but within the walls of each of these three farms, as the hostages' attachment to their captor grows more intense, and more unhinged, in direct proportion to his ambivalence towards them. * This is a recap of a TV dating show for entertainment purposes. Some of the assertions are not strictly true. Some are not even close to being true. You should not rely on this piece or its contents for relationship advice, how to vote, or family planning decisions. Welcome back to Farmer Wants a Wife, Australia's biggest agriculture-related dating show this side of the Sydney Royal. The eighth episode, titled Episode 8, starts with the promise that "all hell" will "break loose" as the show promises to deliver its long-awaited pivot to horror. If you haven't had time in your busy life to familiarise yourself with this show, I would ask what is the point of that kind of life. But I'm here to help with a recap so let's start from the beginning. FWaW (rhymes with cow) is a hostage drama where a group of young women is taken to a remote location with a weird stranger who makes them work for nothing. They have to make him like them enough that he doesn't send them away. Each Tuesday an SUV takes someone away and while they don't know where she is taken, there's another truck which leaves on Wednesday and they know it's full of sheep on a one-way journey. Several women managed to escape in the earlier episodes, causing a re-up of security measures around the respective farms.* With numbers dwindling, host Natalie Gruzlewski has "scoured the country" to find some more women for the farms, and as Episode 8 opens the new talent is being driven to the farms by the "originals", who don't let on what lies ahead. One of the newcomers is called Mady and is a police detective. She's on leave from investigating who stole the other 'd' from her name. The new contestants are confident and articulate, because they haven't been through the past three weeks having to regularly profess their devotion while watching the farmers ignore them and get with the other ladies around. The originals, who have been through this, are hardened and defensive. "I honestly think they're here to start some drama," one of the originals says on the way back to Biloela, where Farmer Corey lives, showing the development of some cynicism that will not make her a willing wifey. Tijan is in trouble as Farmer Tom's dog is pointing to her suitcase. Mady searches it for drugs, finding none, meaning Tijan has broken the prison rule of not bringing any dope back for the others. She won't last long. Farmer Thomas takes his now-four ladies to see his big tractor. Laura, who works in mining, calls it a small machine, breaking his heart. Mady and Thomas bond over not frothy brews but woolly ewes, where Mady shows him a few arrest techniques. She's really taking to this farm business. Up at Corey's farm in Biloela the jacarandas are in flower which tells us it was filmed in October-November. Corey takes the ladies, now numbering five, to see his hay shed, otherwise known as where the magic happens. One of the new ones, Chloe, tries to kill her competitors by dropping hay bales on them, and is rewarded with a date to the bowlo. Chloe turns on the flirt and Corey, who has never talked to someone this hot before, turns a bright shade of Barnaby Joyce. He's about to have a little sleep on the footpath. Tom's at another rodeo and we get flashbacks to when he dumped Emma in the previous episode. It's more exciting than anything in this one so far, that is until hell will soon break loose, all of it. The drama continues along these lines. Farmer does some stuff with new ladies, who say they like the farmer, while old ladies get unhappy about this, and say they're unhappy about this. Clarette talks about getting someone "out of the picture". Clarette has settled into her role as the presumptive fiancee, so we have to see her reaction to every little thing. It's generally the same kind of grimace whether she's happy or not; actually it's always not. Her beau, wheat farmer Thomas, makes his traditional family damper and new girl Jess tells him she's gluten-free. Will this come between them? This type of etcetera etcetera continues, hell having not broken loose. Come on! This hell is too tight. We discover the other girl on his farm, who's been there since the start, is called Rachel. Another, Annie, works as a "VIP co-ordinator". What the helly is on my telly? The post-date rituals, once subtle, are now explicit as the women face a cross-examination by those who didn't go. They boast as we watch the others' hearts breaking in real time. Suitor after suitor thinks the way to a farmer's heart is to make him talk about their relationship, and ask them for more clarity about how they feel. One does that and is later dumped. Who? All will be revealed at a farewell dinner. They're pulling out all the stops, even bought that bag of salad with the bag of crispy noodles inside. Tom dumps Tijan, the beauty salon owner who tried to herd sheep with the genius trick of standing in front of where they're running. Thomas dumps no-one, which sets off Clarette, who was hungry for blood, and she cracks the whip. "Why didn't we get a chat tonight? No tractor, no chat, no walk." It's tense for a sec but then Thomas goes to bed, no hell loose in this house, no blood on the floor. So from where will come the hellfire? The brimstone? We have only Corey left. Luckily the big fella is entirely capable of unleashing chaos all by himself. But the new girls' arrival has scrambled the mind of this wannabe root-rat and he can't think straight. He dumps Chelsea, who did not see this coming, and she has to pack her bags on the spot, through tears, with the cameras on her. And that's it. As the Toyota makes its way over the cattle grid we realise all hell has not broken loose, in fact not even a little bit of it has. Hell, whatever it is, remains contained, not under the earth's crust, but within the walls of each of these three farms, as the hostages' attachment to their captor grows more intense, and more unhinged, in direct proportion to his ambivalence towards them. * This is a recap of a TV dating show for entertainment purposes. Some of the assertions are not strictly true. Some are not even close to being true. You should not rely on this piece or its contents for relationship advice, how to vote, or family planning decisions. Welcome back to Farmer Wants a Wife, Australia's biggest agriculture-related dating show this side of the Sydney Royal. The eighth episode, titled Episode 8, starts with the promise that "all hell" will "break loose" as the show promises to deliver its long-awaited pivot to horror. If you haven't had time in your busy life to familiarise yourself with this show, I would ask what is the point of that kind of life. But I'm here to help with a recap so let's start from the beginning. FWaW (rhymes with cow) is a hostage drama where a group of young women is taken to a remote location with a weird stranger who makes them work for nothing. They have to make him like them enough that he doesn't send them away. Each Tuesday an SUV takes someone away and while they don't know where she is taken, there's another truck which leaves on Wednesday and they know it's full of sheep on a one-way journey. Several women managed to escape in the earlier episodes, causing a re-up of security measures around the respective farms.* With numbers dwindling, host Natalie Gruzlewski has "scoured the country" to find some more women for the farms, and as Episode 8 opens the new talent is being driven to the farms by the "originals", who don't let on what lies ahead. One of the newcomers is called Mady and is a police detective. She's on leave from investigating who stole the other 'd' from her name. The new contestants are confident and articulate, because they haven't been through the past three weeks having to regularly profess their devotion while watching the farmers ignore them and get with the other ladies around. The originals, who have been through this, are hardened and defensive. "I honestly think they're here to start some drama," one of the originals says on the way back to Biloela, where Farmer Corey lives, showing the development of some cynicism that will not make her a willing wifey. Tijan is in trouble as Farmer Tom's dog is pointing to her suitcase. Mady searches it for drugs, finding none, meaning Tijan has broken the prison rule of not bringing any dope back for the others. She won't last long. Farmer Thomas takes his now-four ladies to see his big tractor. Laura, who works in mining, calls it a small machine, breaking his heart. Mady and Thomas bond over not frothy brews but woolly ewes, where Mady shows him a few arrest techniques. She's really taking to this farm business. Up at Corey's farm in Biloela the jacarandas are in flower which tells us it was filmed in October-November. Corey takes the ladies, now numbering five, to see his hay shed, otherwise known as where the magic happens. One of the new ones, Chloe, tries to kill her competitors by dropping hay bales on them, and is rewarded with a date to the bowlo. Chloe turns on the flirt and Corey, who has never talked to someone this hot before, turns a bright shade of Barnaby Joyce. He's about to have a little sleep on the footpath. Tom's at another rodeo and we get flashbacks to when he dumped Emma in the previous episode. It's more exciting than anything in this one so far, that is until hell will soon break loose, all of it. The drama continues along these lines. Farmer does some stuff with new ladies, who say they like the farmer, while old ladies get unhappy about this, and say they're unhappy about this. Clarette talks about getting someone "out of the picture". Clarette has settled into her role as the presumptive fiancee, so we have to see her reaction to every little thing. It's generally the same kind of grimace whether she's happy or not; actually it's always not. Her beau, wheat farmer Thomas, makes his traditional family damper and new girl Jess tells him she's gluten-free. Will this come between them? This type of etcetera etcetera continues, hell having not broken loose. Come on! This hell is too tight. We discover the other girl on his farm, who's been there since the start, is called Rachel. Another, Annie, works as a "VIP co-ordinator". What the helly is on my telly? The post-date rituals, once subtle, are now explicit as the women face a cross-examination by those who didn't go. They boast as we watch the others' hearts breaking in real time. Suitor after suitor thinks the way to a farmer's heart is to make him talk about their relationship, and ask them for more clarity about how they feel. One does that and is later dumped. Who? All will be revealed at a farewell dinner. They're pulling out all the stops, even bought that bag of salad with the bag of crispy noodles inside. Tom dumps Tijan, the beauty salon owner who tried to herd sheep with the genius trick of standing in front of where they're running. Thomas dumps no-one, which sets off Clarette, who was hungry for blood, and she cracks the whip. "Why didn't we get a chat tonight? No tractor, no chat, no walk." It's tense for a sec but then Thomas goes to bed, no hell loose in this house, no blood on the floor. So from where will come the hellfire? The brimstone? We have only Corey left. Luckily the big fella is entirely capable of unleashing chaos all by himself. But the new girls' arrival has scrambled the mind of this wannabe root-rat and he can't think straight. He dumps Chelsea, who did not see this coming, and she has to pack her bags on the spot, through tears, with the cameras on her. And that's it. As the Toyota makes its way over the cattle grid we realise all hell has not broken loose, in fact not even a little bit of it has. Hell, whatever it is, remains contained, not under the earth's crust, but within the walls of each of these three farms, as the hostages' attachment to their captor grows more intense, and more unhinged, in direct proportion to his ambivalence towards them. * This is a recap of a TV dating show for entertainment purposes. Some of the assertions are not strictly true. Some are not even close to being true. You should not rely on this piece or its contents for relationship advice, how to vote, or family planning decisions.
The Guardian
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Night Call review – locksmith opens the wrong door in impressively twisty crime caper
Picturesque, bureaucracy-dominated Brussels is probably not on the top of many lists of cities likely to serve as a setting for an exciting crime film. But this Francophone drama just goes to prove that, given enough moody lamplit street scenes, well-designed stunts and chase sequences and a bit of imagination, any city will work. It's even more impressive a feat in that it is co-writer-director Michiel Blanchart's first feature, and yet it feels confident, inventive and as grippy as duct tape throughout. The protagonist is Mady Bala (Jonathan Feltre, displaying impressive subtlety and physical prowess), a young, independent locksmith who stays up all night on call in case he's summoned to help a customer break into their own home. In order to ensure he's not being used to commit a crime, Mady usually asks to see a callout client's ID, or at least get paid 250 euros in advance. On the night this all takes place, he lets these precautions slide for Claire (Natacha Krief), a pretty girl who shares his taste for an old chanson he hums while working, who says her money and her wallet are inside the flat. Of course, that's a big mistake and soon Mady is ensnared by a gang hunting down a stolen fortune, one led by icily efficient boss Yannick (Romain Duris), assisted by thugs Remy (Thomas Mustin) and Theo (Jonas Bloquet). The latter turns out to have just a smidge more humanity, or at least a weak spot, that gives Mady a chance to survive. Blanchart has mentioned Michael Mann's Collateral as an influence, and that's certainly evident, especially in the way the plot turns on a schlubby ordinary guy discovering the capacity within himself to fight back. He even finds the chutzpah to do a little betraying of his own when required, which adds a certain realism. Blanchart keeps the beat steady with a tight rhythm of tension and release, interspersing talky tense bits with bravura action, like a bike ride down the steps of an underground station. It's all heady enough to keep you distracted from thinking about how this could have all been prevented all this from happening if someone had just paid Mady his 250 euros right at the start. Night Call is on digital platforms from 28 April.
