Three more people have come forward to lodge complaints against a massage therapist and personal trainer accused of raping and sexually assaulting two of his clients in regional Victoria.
Police allege Michael Allwood, 62, raped and sexually assaulted two women during a massage at his business in Maryborough, about 170 kilometers northwest of Melbourne in the Central Goldfields, on January 15 and June 29 this year.
Maryborough massage therapist and personal trainer Michael Allwood.Credit:Facebook
Allwood was arrested and charged last Wednesday following a raid of his business, Massage by Michael of Maryborough Victoria and Personal Training 1 to 1, but was later released on bail.
He appeared in Bendigo Magistrates’ Court on Monday morning charged with two counts of rape and one count of sexual assault.
The court heard that at least three other complainants had come forward to provide statements to police since the 62-year-old’s arrest but no information on the nature of the allegations was provided.
Images shared on Facebook suggest Allwood ran his personal training and massage business out of a converted garage at a home on Majorca Road and advertised massages from $10.
Images of Allwood’s business in Maryborough. A massage table can be seen in the corner, separated from the gym by a curtain.Credit:Facebook
Photographs of the cluttered space show exercise machines and equipment on stained foam gym tiles and a massage table in a corner, separated from the exercise area by a curtain.
On his business’s Facebook page, Allwood, who claims to be certified in several massage techniques, offered strength training, pilates classes, surgery recovery exercises, and neck and full-body massages.
MINNEAPOLIS – A man is dead and another man is in custody after deadly shooting inside a downtown Minneapolis apartment Sunday night, which involved a gun that was tossed onto the rooftop of the WCCO-TV building next door.
Minneapolis Police are on the @WCCO rooftop where a gun was thrown, potentially from the neighboring apartment complex. We saw officers standing on a balcony looking downwards in this direction. pic.twitter.com/twpfWvw4Fc
Officers arrived at WCCO at about 8 pm, while other officers were seen at the Artistry on 10th apartment building — located on the 1000 block of South Marquette Avenue — standing on a balcony that overlooks WCCO’s rooftop. A resident confirmed with WCCO at about 8:45 pm that the apartment building had been put on lockdown.
The gun does appear to have blood on the pistol’s slide. It’s kind of weird to listen to scanner traffic talk about us – and hear officers talk back from our very rooftop.
MPD Public Information Officer Garret Parten says the relationship between the shooter and victim is not clear at this point, and there was no sign of forced entry in the apartment.
“There has to be a better way to settle disputes than pulling out a gun,” Parten said.
This is the 56th homicide of the year in Minneapolis, and the second that occurred in the city on Sunday.
Check back for more details in this developing story.
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Eleven suburbs have joined the $1m median house price club as values continue to climb in Perth.
While other states are seeing house prices fall, Perth has lagged behind most of the other capitals.
It means despite rising interest rates and cost of living pressures, the housing market in WA has soared in the past year.
Six of the 11 suburbs recorded more than 20 per cent price growth during the 2021-22 financial year, according to the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia.
Marmion, Mount Hawthorn, North Perth, Fremantle and Kensington had their median house prices tip above $1.1m at the end of June.
Gwelup, Booragoon, Karrinyup, Leederville, Iluka and Como reached $1m or more.
The top suburb is Marmion, which now has a median price of $1.27m — an increase of 32 per cent in the past year.
REIWA president Damian Collins said people had started to gain confidence in WA’s strong economy and property market, which had translated into more sales at the top end.
“All of these suburbs have had medians hovering below $1m for quite some time,” he said.
“It is impressive to see the demand for houses in these suburbs hold strong throughout the 2021-22 financial year, now placing them in Perth’s luxury market.”
Mr Collins said Perth’s premium market was attracting a lot of interest from buyers leading to strong price growth.
“If you are considering selling in one of these suburbs, now would be an opportunistic time to capitalize on this demand,” he said.
REIWA predicts house prices will continue to rise in Perth for some time.
“Given Perth has a housing shortage, the cheapest median house price of any capital city in the country, a growing population and strong economy, we anticipate house prices to continue to rise as we enter the back end of 2022,” Mr Collins said.
“As more suburbs reap the benefits of our strong market conditions, Perth’s million-dollar club is likely to continue to grow over the next 12 months.”
Have you ever heard of a “Dystopian Document Thriller”? Nope? That’s because an indie game called ‘Papers, Please’ invented it. In the same way that Death Stranding made walking exhilarating (depending on who you ask), developer Lucas Pope turned checking border crossing papers as an immigration inspector at a border checkpoint for the fictional communist country of Arstotzka into something much deeper than the task itself. In fact, it’s a socio-political commentary on communist police states (technically, communism is stateless) and the human condition.
The communist state of Arstotzka has just ended a 6-year war with neighboring Kolechia and reclaimed its rightful half of the border town, Grestin.
Your job as immigration inspector is to control the flow of people entering the Arstotzkan side of Grestin from Kolechia. Among the throngs of immigrants and visitors looking for work are hidden smugglers, spies, and terrorists.
Using only the documents provided by travelers and the Ministry of Admission’s primitive inspect, search, and fingerprint systems you must decide who can enter Arstotzka and who will be turned away or arrested.
In Papers, Please, you’re tasked with making difficult decisions that straddle the moral and ethical line, determining the outcome of not only individuals, but entire families attempting to gain passage through the checkpoint. I know, all pretty heavy stuff, right? Oh, and if you don’t properly check papers and accidentally admit enough people who aren’t supposed to cross (smugglers, spies, and terrorists), then your character suffers the consequences if you know what I mean.
Why would you want to play this in a game then? Well, as with anything else that challenges our critical thinking faculties, it requires you to do just that, making it incredibly fun or at the very least, intriguing on a new level.
If you’d like to see the development process Lucas Pope implemented to port the game over to mobile, you can check out his blog post. There was also a short film made of the concept the game employs, and you can watch the video below to see his journey with all of its ups and downs during the creation of the game.
I actually happened upon it via this clip from YouTuber ThatGuyGlen who has loads of entertaining gaming history videos on his channel. Truth be told, the only thing more interesting than playing the game and experiencing it directly is the story of how Lucas came about the idea for it and began building it out, so I would encourage you to take a look!
Heather Rae Young highlights growing baby bump in sleet blue jumpsuit alongside husband Tarek El Moussa
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Heather Rae Young showed off her baby bump in a pair of snaps she shared to her Instagram on Sunday.
The 34-year-old reality television star donned a sleet gray jumpsuit that clung tightly to her curves and growing stomach while posing with her husband Tarek El Moussa, 40.
She walked in chunky white-and-gray sneakers and covered up in a white sweater top.
Getting ready for another baby: Heather Rae Young showed off her baby bump in a pair of snaps she shared to her Instagram on Sunday featuring husband Tarek El Moussa, 40
Heather’s husband donned a light blue t-shirt and black jeans. I have stood in white Vans.
His gelled black hair was combed up and off to the right, and a thin beard sprinkled his jaw.
In the first photo, Tarek joked that he was going to take a bite out of Heather’s ear.
She captioned the snaps, ‘Still pinching myself that this is actually happening [blue heart emoji, angel emoji, butterfly emoji]. Feeling that pregnancy glow and loving every moment of it. I should be feeling flutters and him moving around very soon and I just can’t wait for that feeling [hearts, blushing emoji].’
Tight: The 34-year-old reality television star donned a sleet gray jumpsuit that hugged tightly to her curves and growing stomach
Together again: ‘Finally reunited!!! Kissing and loving on his baby boy,’ captioned the Selling Sunset star after Tarek returned from a trip. ‘@therealtarekelmoussa I missed you so much’
Tarek responded to the star’s post by putting three heart emojis in the comments section.
The duo are back together after El Moussa recently returned from Cabo, during which Young said she had separation anxiety.
Taking to Instagram, Young, who’s currently pregnant with their first child, shared a snap of Tarek fondly pressing his head against her baby bump.
‘Finally reunited!!! Kissing and loving on his baby boy,’ captioned the Selling Sunset star. ‘@therealtarekelmoussa I missed you so much.’
Party time! Hours later, Young returned to Instagram to unveil her glammed up appearance of ella as she made her way to the launch party for fellow influencer Stassie Karanikolaou’s collaboration with Booby Tape
Glam: For the event, Young rocked a long, blonde ponytail and highlighted her growing bump in a black lace dress with long-sleeves. She finished off the look by slipping her feet into a pair of strappy heels with an open toe
Young recently revealed that she’d been ‘separation anxiety’ while Tarek was experiencing away in Mexico with his two children and other close family members.
The Anaheim native hung back at their Orange County home after her doctor advised her against traveling to Mexico while pregnant.
Sharing a lovely beach photoshoot of the couple on her Instagram, she noted that this was the ‘longest time’ they’d been apart.
‘Missing my best friend while he’s away in Cabo with the kids and our families so I’m going through photos that I love of us. This is the longest we’ve been apart since we’ve been together so I’m maybe getting a little separation anxiety,’ she wrote.
He’s honest to his players, honest to his fans, honest to his assistants and searingly honest to the media when he fronts the cameras each week.
Now, with Hinkley’s contract nearing the end of his tenure, will Port Adelaide deal in honesty as well as its senior coach has over the journey?
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If it is time to part ways – and every week suggestions keep bubbling away that it could be – how do Port Adelaide and Hinkley come to terms on a respectful way to end a partnership that has lasted nearly a decade?
Hinkley has to this point dismissed any links with the vacant Greater Western Sydney senior coaching job, let alone North Melbourne’s, and as he said after last Saturday’s loss to Collingwood, “I’ve had a habit of being true to my word”.
Speak to those in and around Port Adelaide, however, and the narrative appears to have shifted.
Where once Hinkley was a guarantee to be coaching the club in 2023, chances to categorically declare that (and there have been plenty) have been passed up in recent weeks.
Hinkley has bristled at questions surrounding his future and understandably was upset at club supporters who stuck a ‘Sack Hinkley’ sign on club property.
Regarding Hinkley’s future, the general belief is that any conversation would have to be initiated or at least welcomed by him – There is simply too much respect between Hinkley and the club for it to get ugly.
The Giants and Leon Cameron proved this year there’s merit in avoiding ‘the long goodbye’ and coming to a somewhat mutual agreement to end things before the fallout becomes too arduous.
Last year, the same situation was faced by Collingwood and Nathan Buckley, with a decades-long partnership ending as cleanly as it possibly could’ve given the length of the relationship.
Cameron’s scenario, in particular, shares echoes with Hinkley.
“The Leon Cameron example sits really heavily,” Gerard Whateley observed on AFL 360 this week.
“Leon went to a final series, won a final, he goes into the last year of a contract where they start poorly and it’s over. You do have to weigh that up.
“I hope if they’re going to do it they do it early enough because he’s a godsend for North Melbourne or the Giants. Don’t do it so late that everything else is done.”
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As things stand, it will all be done in the postscript of 2022 – any possibility of a home Showdown send-off being announced ahead of time are remote, mostly because Hinkley and the club itself seem undecided on what the best move is heading into next year.
From all reports, Hinkley still has the players, while injuries and close losses have made the ladder situation perhaps an unfair reflection on where the side is at.
Still, the reality is Port Adelaide lost its first five matches, recovered, and now has lost four of its last five games.
There have been considerable declines in several key statistics, including points for (from sixth in 2021 to 15th), points from turnovers (sixth to 13th), inside 50 differentials (fifth to 10th) and contested possession differentials (fourth to 10th).
Winnable games against Essendon and Adelaide will close out the season and all focus is on the final fortnight, but it’s hard to imagine the results won’t have at least some influence on how the club sees itself heading into next year.
Also as big a question for Port Adelaide would have to be: If Ken goes out, who comes in?
Perhaps the easy first option would be Alastair Clarkson, but the Power are a few meetings behind North Melbourne and Greater Western Sydney in that race already.
The Power could easily appeal to Clarkson’s sense of coming full circle given the four-time premiership coach spent a couple of years there as an assistant coach, including their run to the 2004 premiership under Mark Williams.
Clarkson understands what it means to represent Port Adelaide, much like Hinkley has learned in his time at the club.
Then there’s the likes of Adam Kingsley, Ashley Hansen and Adem Yze, who lead a pack of assistant coaches just waiting for their opportunity to lead an AFL side, with Craig McRae a prime example of how well such a move could work.
Speaking on Monday, club president David Koch insisted post-season deliberations will not center squarely on Hinkley, but did nothing to suggest the winds of change won’t be sweeping through the club this off-season.
“It’s not just about one individual person. It’s the whole program. Turn it around or watch out,” he told FIVEaa.
“Because every single person’s role will be assessed at the end of the year, as we do each year. But this year is more important than ever and we are not afraid to make change. We have made plenty of changes.
“We have got to win games and we know that is what we exist to do.
“We will be making those hard decisions at the end of the year across the entire program to make us better next year.”
Whatever happens next deserves to happen on Hinkley’s terms, such has been his incredible contribution to the club for such a long period of time.
And if anyone is truer to their word about their belief they’re the best person to take Port Adelaide forward or to hand over the reigns, it’s Hinkley.
“If we want to have diversity of food supplies, then I think we do have to have a capacity to produce it here,” he said.
Even the future of Australia’s mighty $49 billion agricultural sector is looking shaky. Thanks to climate change, production of major export commodities such as wheat, beef, dairy and sugar will fall as much as 19 per cent by 2050, the Climate Group’s report found.
To address food insecurity, La Trobe University and CSIRO have joined forces to propose the Australian Food Innovation Center (AFIC), which would function as a research, development and innovation lab to help industry devise improved agricultural crops that are high-yield, disease- resistant and more water-efficient.
As an example of the kind of work AFIC would do, La Trobe Institute for Agriculture and Food has worked with global beverage giant PepsiCo to create a new oat “genome blueprint” that contains 2000 newly discovered genes made free to oat breeders and biotechnologists that will assist in breeding drought- and heat-resistant oat crops to reduce supply instability.
So far, the Victorian government has committed $1.5 million to AFIC, but this is a fraction of the $300 million to $400 million Bacic says is needed from state and federal governments to set it up. He estimates the center would add $100 million a year to Australia’s food exports and create up to 30 new food manufacturing facilities in its first decade.
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“It’s such a critically important thing for Australia because without food, we’re in trouble,” Bacic said.
Bacic is the latest voice to join a growing chorus of business leaders and industry heavyweights calling for more investment in local food production. Agribusiness Elders chief Mark Allison says it could be a $300 billion opportunity.
A commitment to “make more things here in Australia” has been a key pledge in Anthony Albanese’s pitch to win government.
Manufacturing jobs in the 1960s made up 25 per cent of the workforce; now that’s about 6 per cent. A 2020 report by think tank Australia Institute pointed out that the COVID crisis made the “strategic importance” of local manufacturing “more obvious”.
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Human remains were again found in Lake Mead, the country’s largest reservoir that continues to shrink amid a decades-long drought, officials announced Sunday.
According to the National Park Service, someone made the discovery at the park’s Swim Beach in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, on the Nevada side, around 11:15 am Saturday. This marks the fourth time since May that human remains were found in Lake Mead, where water levels continue to recede at historic levels.
With the help of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s dive team, park rangers responded and set up a perimeter to retrieve the remains, the NPS said.
Officials have said the reservoir’s water levels are so low they could hit “dead pool” status, which means that the water is too low to flow downstream.
The minimum water surface level needed to generate power at the Hoover Dam is 1,050 feet, according to the US Bureau of Reclamation. Anything below that is considered an “inactive pool,” and a “dead pool” exists when the water level hits 895 feet, according to the federal agency.
Satellite images released last month by NASA show side-by-side comparisons of Lake Mead, one taken on July 6, 2000, and the other more than two decades later on July 6 of this year.
Images released by NASA show the water loss at Lake Mead, Nevada as of July 3, 2022 from July 6, 2000.
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A result of the diminishing water level is that bodies and human parts have been emerging.
On May 7, human skeletal remains were found near the lake’s Callville Bay, according to the National Park Service. The discovery came a week after the decayed body of a man was found stuffed in a steel barrel near the reservoir’s Hemenway Fishing Pier, more than 20 miles from Callville Bay, according to the LVMPD.
On July 25, human remains were also found at Swim Beach.
Officials launched an investigation into the most recent discovery on Saturday, and the Clark County Medical Examiner has been contacted to determine the cause of death.
ABC News’ Julia Jacobo contributed to this report.
Elon Musk has said US politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has “great taste in lipstick” in an apparent reignition of his feud with the New York Congresswoman.
The Tesla CEO made the remark on a podcast called full-sendin which several co-hosts made comments about the 32-year-old politician’s appearance.
Two of the co-hosts called AOC “attractive,” then another said the New York Democrat was “all right,” the new york post reports.
Musk then chimed in, saying, “Yeah, great choice of lipstick I think. Great taste in lipstick, I mean, that’s my observation. That’s a genuine compliment.”
Musk then added, “Tell me I’m wrong,” before sipping an alcoholic seltzer and laughing alongside the podcast hosts.
AOC’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Musk’s remarks.
The world’s richest man has a history of sparring with Ms Ocasio-Cortez.
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In April, the politician tweeted: “Tired of having to collectively stress about what explosion of hate crimes is happening bc some billionaire with an ego problem unilaterally controls a massive communication platform.”
Musk responded: “Stop hitting on me, I’m really shy.”
Ms Ocasio-Cortez then said that she’d been referring to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg – not Musk – then deleted the tweet.
She later posted a screenshot of her back-and-forth with Musk with a shrugging emoji and the caption: “Like I said, ego problems.”
Then in May, she said she was looking to ditch her Tesla Model 3, which she bought in 2020 for commutes between her New York City district and Washington DC She said she was looking to buy a car from a company that uses union labor.
“At the time, it was the only EV [electric vehicle] that could get me from New York to Washington on like one, or one-and-a-half charges,” she said of her Tesla. “I would love to switch.”
Musk, meanwhile, posted a Twitter poll asking his followers whether they have more trust in billionaires or politicians.
His followers chose billionaires – and Musk dared Ms Ocasio-Cortez to run the same poll with her own followers.
The Tesla CEO recounted the exchange on last week’s podcast episode, saying that Ms Ocasio-Cortez “was like coming after me or some bulls**t, I don’t know”.
“She was saying billionaires are evil and you’re a billionaire therefore you’re evil,” Musk said. “And I was like, well you’re a politician.
“People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones,” he added.
This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission
We are living in a golden age of indie filmmaking where anyone, anywhere in the world can upload a short that they shot over a weekend and it can be seen by thousands, if not millions of people.
Never before has there been this level of accessibility in art—particularly in filmmaking—where venues like theaters are nearly, sadly, being rendered obsolete. It is truly a fortunate time to be a movie enthusiast or aspiring filmmaker. Once you’ve got the story, the only real questions that remain are in regards to the tools one uses to tell that story. For some, those tools are all about preference. For most, though, the tools chosen come down to money. A studio can afford to shoot Thor 8: Tho-reckoning in front of a greenscreen on a big stack of ARRI Alexas, but you and your mates probably can’t even make rent. With that in mind, here are five of the best camera and kit options around $1000 (recommended buying used where possible) for the hard-budget independent filmmaker, advised as with much difficulty, by filmmakers who were once on a hard budget.
Blackmagic Pocket 4K
The best all-around choice on this list is the Black Magic Pocket 4K. It shoots in 4K (and everyone seems to give a shit about that now for some reason), is lightweight, compact, has decent internal storage, shoots multiple formats for workflow and ease of editing/color grading, has a very simple and intuitive interface , and works great with adapter rigs which provides an enormous range of cheap lens options. I’m hard pressed to find a major fault with this camera, but using it, I did notice that its lightweight build makes it very easy to break. Especially when attached to something like a large antique zoom lens, the body is susceptible to bend and break unless supported with some sort of rod rig or the hands of a willing AC. Even that, though, is hardly a fault. I dropped it on its ass and it was fine.
Nikon D780
For a DSLR option, the Nikon D780 is getting a lot of praise lately. It is a full-frame camera, which shoots great 4K and 1080. The autofocus system is also getting a lot of attention, it being applied from one of Nikon’s mirrorless systems and allowing quicker, more accurate coverage, particularly for moving subjects. One complaint about this camera is that it has poor internal stabilization which also requires a crop. Another is that if you’re shooting in 4K, it can only shoot up to 30fps, which is great if you’re shooting a narrative feature, but maybe less great if you’re Ty Evans and are in love with smooth, drawn- out, slo-mo sequences. But then, it can shoot 1080 at up to 120 fps, and Ty was shooting slo-mo on a VX, so whatever.
Canon C300
The Canon C300 is a great choice for a semi-compact workhorse of a cinema camera with a beautiful Super 35mm Dual Gain Output and an EF lens mount, which means it can take a wide array of Canon lenses, which are very cheap and common, cutting down on your budget. That being said, Canon accessories are generally pretty cheap, so that probably won’t be much of an issue. Another worthwhile feature of this camera is the long list of workflow simplification features such as the proxy recording option, which is becoming more commonplace in prosumer cinema cameras, but where those functions have been buggy in other options, the workflow of the Canon C300 is done well. A couple of faults: they aren’t built very tough—or at least, they don’t feel very tough. One filmmaker explained that they are susceptible to even the lightest taps and impacts, which makes it a bit less trustworthy when shooting handheld or in diverse settings.
Panasonic Lumix GH5 Mirrorless
The GH5 is a great option for getting the job done cheaply, quickly, and discreetly. With the GH5, one can shoot professional-looking video in diverse workable formats without drawing attention, which is a major appeal for many documentarians, lifestyle shooters and creeps. This camera is also able to shoot 4K at a higher fps than the Nikon D780, and without cropping the image. While this camera has popular complaints about workflow issues when inputting into a viewer or editor program (as well as the battery life not being exceptionally long), when in use, those complaints are largely outweighed by the number of features and options they’ve crammed into the camera. Despite its flaws and ugliness, for the price point, it is probably the most versatile and dependable camera on this list.
Blackmagic Design Micro Cinema Camera
Currently listed brand new at under $1000, the Blackmagic Micro Cinema is a solid, if limited option. The camera has an excellent Super 16mm sensor and supports 1080 video up to 60 fps, which ain’t too bad. The cam is able to record in Cinema DNG Raw for heavy lifting in post-production, or a more compacted codec like ProRes, and is compact enough to throw on a rig for POV or car mounted shooting. Some downsides: it doesn’t shoot 4K, it doesn’t have as many features built-in as the other options on the list, and it has a reputation among our surveyed filmmakers for being a bit of a problem child in terms of factory quality control. More than one has experienced the camera breaking down, or even arriving malfunctioning, which is no fun. If you get your hands on one that actually works, it’s a good option for straightforward, no-frills, professional shooting.
Honorable Mentions
1.The iPhone 13 2.Any GoPro 3.Canon Rebel EOS SL3 4. Canon GL2 (with a fisheye) 5. Sony HVR-HD1000U
