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Randy Meisner, founding member of the Eagles and singer of 'Take It to the Limit,' dies at 77.

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ABC News ditches English name of famous city in favour of description in indigenous language

• ABC uses local Maori name for Wellington in New Zealand 
• Has been ABC policy in Australia for over two years

The ABC has been praised for using a local indigenous place name during the coverage of the Women's World Cup.

Coverage of the 1-1 draw in Wellington, New Zealand, between the United States and the Netherlands on Thursday afternoon was accompanied by the place name 'Te Whanganui-a-Tara', in the Indigenous Maori language. 

The phrase, which is what Wellington was originally called, literally translates as the 'great harbour of Tara'.

Tara was the son of a famous Maori navigator called Whatonga sent down from the Mahia Peninsula by his father to explore southern lands for their people to settle.

'Love seeing the ABC using te reo Māori for the placenames in their FIFA coverage!', tweeted  Andrew Macfarlane, Australia Correspondent for Television New Zealand's 1NewsNZ.

It is not clear if this is an ABC policy for all foreign locations. 

Foxtel are playing Dr. Strangelove. Peter Sellers playing three roles. The Doomsday Machine.

And Tony Bennett.

Gina knew she had to share

Here is the altered mural I mentioned above.

Re-imagined by AI

My cardiologists waiting room features a 32in TV screen playing a huge tank of tropical fish and sharks, like a massive aquarium.

Donna arrived home from work early one day and found her husband, Glen, in bed with another woman.

“That’s it!” she shouted, “I’m leaving and I’m not coming back!” 

“Wait honey,” Glen pleaded, “Can’t you at least let me explain?” 

“Fine, let’s hear your story,” Donna replied. 

“Well, I was driving home when I saw this poor young lady sitting at the side of the road, barefoot, torn clothes, covered in mud and sobbing,” explained Glen. 

“I immediately took pity on her and asked if she would like to get cleaned up. She got into the car and I brought her home.

After she took a shower, I gave her a pair of the underwear that doesn’t fit you anymore, the dress that I bought you last year that you never wore, the pair of shoes you bought but never used and even

gave her some of the turkey you had in the refrigerator but didn’t serve to me.” 

“Then,” Glen continued, “I showed her to the door and she thanked me.

As she was walking down the step, she turned around and asked me, ‘Is there anything else your wife doesn’t use anymore?'”

My Nigerian uncle is moving house.

I was raised Presbyterian, and my maternal grandfather was an elder of the local church. My wife was Catholic. When our kids started Catholic primary school, I was invited by the priest to become a member of the parish council, even though I was not Catholic.I took a brief evening course and was confirmed into the Catholic religion by the then Archbishop of Melbourne, Archbishop Little. Later, when I was unemployed, the local priest gave me work in the parish, introducing computers into a number of parish activities. The pay from that work fed my family for a few months until I obtained more full time work. I haven't attended church for a number of years, but the same priest, now retired from parish work, conducted the memorial when my wife died.

Not sure where to put this.

Could this be what things are coming to here as well?

Cost and shortage of accommodation - mobile homeless.

Why not move it half a mile either way?