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Showing posts with label 2017 at 09:11AM. Show all posts
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Saturday, November 4, 2017
Monday, October 2, 2017
Saturday, September 30, 2017
Elton Jantjies misses late penalty as South Africa draw with Australia – second draw
Jantjies had a chance to win it…
MORE: Elton Jantjies misses late penalty as South Africa draw with Australia | Sport | The Guardian
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Jaguar’s E-type Zero is a true classic with a future-proof electric powertrain; WATCH
MORE: Jaguar’s E-type Zero is a true classic with a future-proof electric powertrain | TechCrunch
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Monday, August 28, 2017
#GameOfThrones fans cringe at Jon Snow and Daenerys’ incestuous sex scene in season finale
THEIR sexual chemistry has been building all season, but Game Of Thrones fans were still left cringing as Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen had sex on the series finale as it was confirmed they ARE related.
As Sam Tarly and Bran Stark revealed that Jon is indeed the son of Lyanna Stark and Daenerys’ brother Rhaegar, nephew and niece were getting naked on a ship en route north.
Game Of Thrones fans were stunned as Jon Snow did the deed with his aunt – Daenerys Targaryen in the season finale.
One fan tweeted: “After recent discovery, I don’t think Jon Snow should be making love to Danearys,” while another squealed: “she’s your aunt, she’s your aunt, she’s your aunt.”
Of course, Jon and the Mother Of Dragons were still blissfully unaware of the true nature of their family connection when Jon knocked on her cabin door after their summit with Cersei.
The HBO show is no stranger to pushing the boundaries of family relationships with Cersei and her twin brother Jaime lovers since the first episode.
But with hopes resting on the shoulders of the King Of The North and the self-declared heir to the Iron Throne, fans were a little disturbed at the latest plot development.
“Explaining the relation of Danearys really ruined the whole sex scene,” one fan tweeted, while other fans questioned their own reactions to what could have been a popular romance.
“I feel guilty that I want their romance to happen,” tweeted one viewer, while another added the scene “looked so right but felt so wrong.”
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Typhoon Hato near Hong Kong: Hundreds of flights and other transport services cancelled
Hong Kong is bracing for Typhoon Hato, with hundreds of flights and other transport services cancelled, and schools and most businesses in the financial hub expected to be closed for the better part of the day.
The weather observatory issued its third-highest weather warning early in the morning and said Hato was expected to make landfall at around 100 kilometres to the west of Hong Kong in the afternoon.
‘If Hato edges even closer or intensifies, it will pose considerable threat to Hong Kong. The chance of issuing a higher signal cannot be ruled out,’ it said.
Streets were largely deserted and the observatory warned of serious flooding in low-lying areas as the city battened down for what could be one of its worst storms in years.
Winds intensified in the morning with the maximum sustained winds recorded at Tate’s Cairn and Waglan Island at 77 and 72km/h, with maximum gusts of 103 and 86km/h, respectively.
There will be no trading in Hong Kong’s financial markets on Wednesday morning if the typhoon signal remains at 8 or higher at 9am. Trading will be suspended for the whole day if the storm signal is still at 8 or higher at noon.
The city’s flagship carrier, Cathay Pacific, said the storm would ‘severely’ impact flight operations, with the majority of flights to and from Hong Kong to be cancelled.
Source: Typhoon Hato approaches Hong Kong
Friday, August 18, 2017
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
The Trump officials who denied Russia contact
In the months leading up to the election, Donald Trump Jr. met with a woman who he was told was a “Russian government attorney” in hopes of obtaining damaging information on Hillary Clinton, according to an email exchange he released on Twitter Tuesday.
The emails show that President Donald Trump’s eldest son believed he was receiving “high level and sensitive” information that was part of “Russia and its government’s support” for his father. The meeting, which included Trump Jr., then-campaign manager Paul Manafort and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, took place June 9, 2016…
MORE: The Trump officials who denied Russia contact – CNNPolitics.com
Friday, June 23, 2017
#F1 #AzerbaijanGP: Max Verstappen quickest in practice before crashing – REPORT
BAKU, Azerbaijan — Max Verstappen remained at the top of the timesheets for the second practice session in a row at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix as the Baku street circuit proved a tricky track to master in the low evening sun.
The second session was much closer than the first, with the top four cars split by just 0.127s. But the notable absence of championship leaders Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton from those positions underlined just how difficult it was to hook up a perfect lap.
However, Verstappen’s near perfect day was soured in the final 30 seconds of the session as he lost the rear of his Red Bull at the apex of Turn 1 and slammed into the barrier. The collision bent the rear axle on his car, no doubt destroying his practice gearbox in the process. Fortunately the team will be able to fit his race gearbox overnight without incurring a penalty.
Kimi Raikkonen was the fastest of the two Ferraris, 0.127s off Verstappen and 0.126s ahead of teammate Vettel, who struggled to get the most from his super-soft tyres around the six kilometre track.
Hamilton was left in tenth position, 1.163s off Verstappen, after failing to set a fast lap on the super-soft tyres for the second session in a row. The lack of grip between the softest compound available this weekend and the smooth Baku surface was clear to see, but Hamilton will be left thumbing through the book of racing driver excuses after being outpaced by Lance Stroll, Sergio Perez, Daniil Kvyat and Esteban Ocon.
Further proof of the circuit’s lack of grip came midway through the session when Jolyon Palmer hit the barriers at Turn 9. The incident was very similar to Sergio Perez’s mistake in first practice and once again resulted in a red flag and a suspended session as the marshals cleared his car from the narrowest section of track on the F1 calendar.
Turns 8, 9 and 10 skirt the walls of Baku’s old city and the braking point for the initial left hander caught a number of drivers out. Most were able to take to the run off area next to a rather ironically placed opticians and avoid damage, but at one stage Felipe Massa followed Vettel into the narrow patch of tarmac, creating a queue of reversing F1 cars trying to rejoin the track.
Massa ended up 11th at the end of the session ahead of Fernando Alonso, who may have taken some pleasure from finishing 12th had it not been for a gearbox failure with 30 minutes remaining. As he came down the hill from the entrance to the old city, a puff of smoke came from the right bank of his McLaren and the familiar sound of a mechanical failure resonated in the co…
MORE: Azerbaijan GP: Max Verstappen quickest in second practice before crashing – BBC Sport
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
#F1 Max Verstappen unhappy enough at Red Bull to contemplate a move to Ferrari?
WILL Max Verstappen still be at Red Bull next season? Sky F1 pundit Ted Kravitz thinks he will move to Ferrari if the Scuderia come calling given his impatience to win a world championship and Red Bull’s struggles this year.
The teenager has talent to burn — there’s no question about that — and it’s more a matter of when, not if, he will be a world champion. But car troubles continue to haunt Red Bull and it looks like he’ll be waiting longer than he wants to win bragging rights as the best driver on the F1 circuit.
Verstappen’s Canadian Grand Prix ended after just 11 laps due to a suspected engine failure, his team’s pit stop strategies allowed teammate Daniel Ricciardo to overtake him in Monaco and end up on the podium while he crossed the line in fifth and before that he failed to finish to Spanish Grand Prix.
It’s contributed to a miserable run for the 19-year-old, who described his experience in 2017 as “crap” after his Montreal debacle.
“What is going to happen to Verstappen? We hear that not only is he not happy but by extension (his father, former F1 driver) Jos is not happy,” Kravitz said in a Sky Sports F1 Facebook Live video.
“They are having heated discussions with (Red Bull adviser) Helmut Marko about what on earth is going on. Where’s this championship you promised us? And they’re looking around as well. I think we h
Source: Max Verstappen to Ferrari? F1, Red Bull, Sebastian Vettel
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
HBO Wild orgy 200 naked actors spend a week on an Australian ferry
- The Queenscliff Ferry was the used in the filming of a wild orgy for HBO
- The raunchy sex scenes were filmed last year for drama series ‘The Leftovers’
- About 160 crew members and 200 extras travelled to the Geelong area
- The episode, which premiered earlier this month, has received rave reviews
An Australian ferry was the stage for a raunchy orgy featured on HBO’s drama series ‘The Leftovers’.
The Queenscliff Ferry, south of Melbourne, housed a large crowd of naked actors for one of the hit show’s latest episodes titled ‘It’s a Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt world,’ according to The Geelong Advertiser.
About 160 crew members and 200 extras helped film the numerous sexual acts featured in the wild orgy.
The ferry was rented out for a week last year to shoot the episode, which premiered earlier this month and received rave reviews online.
Officials with Searoad Ferries told The Geelong Advertiser no complaints were received after the episode aired.
‘We leased the ferry to a reputable film company, and whether the content is salacious or not is sort of irrelevant,’ Marketing Manager Leanne Jones.
‘They were a fantastic production company to work with.’
‘The Leftovers’ stars Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, Liv Tyler, and Christopher Eccleston.
The series is based on co-creator Tom Perrotta’s book of the same name.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Dog fatally stabbed in Perth park
The owner, a 22-year-old woman, was exercising her four-year-old golden labrador off the lead in the park on Apple Blossom Drive in Mirrabooka at about 6pm.
It bounded over to a man, who allegedly crouched down and attacked it before walking away.
The labrador collapsed and was taken to a nearby veterinary hospital but it died from its injuries.
The man is described as about 180cm tall, with fair skin, in his 40s and with a light coloured beard.
He was wearing long dark pants and a light brown zip-up hoodie and was walking a small tan dog at the time.
Mirrabooka Police are investigating the incident. Any witnesses should call Crimestoppers on 1800 333 000.
Source: Dog fatally stabbed in Perth park | Perth Now
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Sunday, April 30, 2017
SPOILERS: BBC’s Line Of Duty Series Four was Brilliant TV
BETTER TO WATCH IT, Than read this LONG REPORT!
Line Of Duty has a reputation for moments of jaw-dropping, hard-hitting, drama – like throwing Jessica Raine off a tower block and amputating Thandie Newton’s hand.
But its fourth series had something even more shocking: a happy ending. Or several to be precise …
After an uncharacteristically mad, messy, opening episode, the finale of the BBC’s police corruption thriller was still stunningly ruthless and relentless but unexpectedly, positive.
All of the baddies were brought to justice (in one form or another) and (amazingly) none of the good guys from AC-12 were forced to resign or suffered a tragic demise.
On the contrary, ‘Balaclava Man’ was shot down by Supt. Ted Hastings who also cleared his name, remaining the hero of the show.
By the time we saw the innocently-imprisoned Michael Farmer had been re-united with his Nan and DS Arnott was walking again, writer Jed Mercurio had turned Line Of Duty into a cross between The Sweeney and The Waltons.
He proved yet again that Duty was (easily) our best cop show and arguably the most intelligent, enthralling, drama on British television. Apart from Poldark obviously…
Where else would you find a case that revolved around a corrupt cop with an amputated hand and some fingertips she’d cut off with a chainsaw that proved to be her undoing?
Here are 30 highlights from Series Four’s brilliant finale.
1. DCI Roz Huntley and her children moved into a hotel after she had framed her husband for murder (a killing we suspected Roz had herself committed).
‘Why aren’t you helping him?!’ her daughter complained.
‘It’s complicated,’ the scheming DCI muttered.
You could say that yes…
2. Supt. Ted Hastings lamented Nick Huntley was close to being charged by the Murder Squad, with AC-12 having been stood down by ACC Hilton.
‘She’s done it again !’ Hastings cried. ‘We had that case in the palm of our hands. She’s thrown everybody off the scent.’
The way DS Arnott rolled his eyes suggested even he agreed this hadn’t been difficult given AC-12’s disastrous investigation.
3. To compound Hastings’ humiliation, DC Desford was also now lording it over him, having transferred to AC-9 when Hastings accused Desford of being the mole/rat, and repeatedly called him ‘James’ instead of ‘Jamie’.
‘Hastings didn’t appreciate my ability,’ Desford purred. ‘Hilton does.’
Ouch !
4. ‘I’m sorry to hear about your accident,’ DS Steve Arnott’s ex-girlfriend Murder Squad DS Sam Railston commiserated, provoking Kate Fleming to step in. ‘You dumped him at the first sign of trouble. It’s a bit late for apologies!’
(Steve + Kate ! Can we call them State?)
5. Thanks to Nick Huntley’s interview, AC-12 finally realise Roz had been covering up a cut on her arm and that it might have been infected during her fatal fight with Tim Ifield.
‘The MRSA lives in the carrier’s nose,’ a doctor tells Kate Fleming. Great news.
6. ACC Hilton implored DCI Huntley to resign.
‘I’m not bent sir !’ she protested (optimistically). ‘I’m a diligent, dedicated, loyal officer. Why aren’t you backing me?!’
She was probably regretting making an enemy of Hilton by not sleeping with him before she had her stump.
7. Roz’s ludicrous lackey DC Jodie Taylor passed on the information that James Lakewell had been Michael Farmer’s solicitor and so had been aware of Farmer’s conviction for rape.
‘What does that mean exactly?’ Jodie asked.
We knew we were confused but she was supposed to be the detective. Although she didn’t look like one…
8. DS Arnott was frantically scanning CCTV footage for sightings of Roz Huntley’s car on the night Tim Ifield was murdered.
‘How you getting on son?’ Hastings asked in classic style, referring to the scheming DCI as ‘the wicked witch.’
9. Unfortunately (deliberately) Roz Huntley had headed into a huge area of woodlands where there were no traffic cameras. But Arnott deduced that at 3am the area would have been so dark that Huntley must have known where to dispose of the evidence from the killing. Ted Hastings heart swelled with pride as he watched his officers return to their desks. As did ours.
10. ACC Hilton (and the dreaded Desford) turned up at the search and ordered Hastings to leave it to the Murder Squad. ‘Don’t expect the hearing to go well ‘H’,’ he snarled. Ted was either being set up or really was the head of the network of ruthless criminals and corrupt cops.
11. As a result of the search Roz Huntley was (finally) arrested, using Jodie to trick solicitor James Lakewell into representing her for the questioning.
‘You’re the only person I trust right now,’ the steely-eyed glamourpuss purred. Thandie Newton that is, not Jodie…
12. A classic AC-12 interrogation saw DS Kate Fleming, DS Arnott and Supt Hastings presenting all the evidence discovered in the woodlands: Ifield’s rucksack stuffed with the tracksuit stolen from his flat worn by the killer to escape and female clothing stained with his blood that (Ted Hastings mused) ‘has deposits matching an individual whose DNA profile is held on the police database’, Who could it be?!
‘No comment,’ said Roz.
13. The bag also contained Tim Ifield’s mobile phone and his fingertips, which had been cut off and used by the killer to text Hana Reznikova and stop her from interrupting the (extensive) clean-up operation. Gory but ingenious to be fair.
14. Keeping the fingernails proved Huntley’s undoing. As Hastings pointed out: ‘Tim Ifield’s dying act was to claw at the murderer’s hand to capture their DNA under his fingernails. So not only do we have the murderer’s DNA. We have the exact strain of bacteria that was grown in the wound that he inflicted on his killer.’
An expert forensic scientist, truly Tim was a dedicated professional to the last.
15. Finally Roz Huntley announced: ‘I confess to accidentally killing Tim Ifield. Our children will need a parent. My husband took no part. My witness testimony was false. The evidence was planted by me a few minutes after my husband’s arrest’ (thanks to Kate Fleming). Not exactly ‘doing the decent thing’ but still…
16. Roz described the fight in Ifield’s kitchen and how after she had been knocked unconsciousness Ifield had gone to buy a chainsaw.
‘Are you telling me that one of our most experienced Forensic Investigators didn’t know that you weren’t dead?!’ scoffed Ted. At least Jed Mercurio acknowledged it was unlikely !
17. Roz revealed she had been trying to wrestle the chainsaw off him when it nicked his neck. Like Ifield she had (improbably) decided against simply calling the police and report the accident.
‘I know how hard it is to prove self-defence,’ she justified. ‘I couldn’t save his life but I could try to save mine.’ Perhaps not as noble as she thought.
18. At this point James Lakewell declared ‘a conflict of interest.’ His client Nick Huntley had been charged with the murder Roz Huntley obviously committed. ‘Am I still a police officer?’ Roz asked Hastings before then reading her solicitor his rights. Certainly unusual for a murderer…
19. ‘I think I should leave,’ gulped Lakewell hurriedly.
‘I think you should sit down fella. Or I will handcuff you to that desk.’
Ted was back in the game !
20. Just as the murder of Tim Ifield had effectively been cracked by Nick Huntley it was Jodie Taylor whose policework showed who had attacked Steve Arnott. She had traced three ‘burner phones’ from The Wire showing that just before Arnott’s arrival, Nick Huntley had called his solicitor Lakewell who then phoned ACC Hilton. Hilton then deployed Balaclava Man. Jodie had nailed Hilton, Lakewell, and ‘Balaclava Man’ !
‘Jesus Christ !’ cried Jamie Desford upstairs, reaching for his own phone.
21. Hastings informed Lakewell he was under arrest for Perverting the Course of Justice – depriving Arnott of the chance to exact revenge on the smarmy solicitor for mocking him as ‘Ironside.’
22. Lakewell revealed there were in fact several Balaclava Men, who used the threat of incriminating body parts to manipulate corrupt police officers and men like him. Lakewell doubted ACC Hilton was the ‘Top Dog’ (‘H’) mentioned in The Caddy’s dying declaration.
If he is, how come he bricks it every time a new body’s found?’ he asked not unreasonably.
23. Armed police found ACC Hilton had fled. He had been tipped off by DC Desford who then tried to smuggle Lakewell out of AC-12’s clutches by claiming he was taking him to a safe house. This chaos escalated with the arrival of (you’ve guessed it) Balaclava Man !
24. Just when you thought Hastings couldn’t get any more heroic, in the ensuing shoot out he took out Balaclava Man.
‘You got him sir !’ cooed Steve adoringly.
‘I got one of them,’ Hastings corrected him laconically like Sheriff from a Western. When Arnott made the mistake of referring to ‘the real criminals’, Hastings teased: ‘are bent coppers not criminal enough for you son?’ Classic AC-12 banter.
25. In a series of post-scripts, Line Of Duty briefly went all Waltons as we saw Steve Arnott was walking again and Michael Farmer was escorted out of prison by his grandma.
26. The dead Balaclava Man was identified as a long-term associate of Tommy Hunter – the violent criminal/sex trafficker from Line Of Duty’s first series and the golfer who had groomed Cottan to be ‘The Caddy.’
27. DCI Roz Huntley was eventually jailed (for ten years), as was Lakewell who refused to co-operate for fear of reprisals from the ‘Top Dog.’
28. Supt. Hastings said he was “satisfied ACC Hilton was H” but we weren’t so sure. Hilton certainly wasn’t ‘H’ anymore. He was found dead, slumped over a shotgun having shot himself. At least it had been made to look that way.
29. Ted Hastings ordered his photo to be taken down from senior officers whose names began with ‘H.’
30. Rows of pictures linked all the great characters in Line of Duty’s four superb series: from DCI Tony Gates, Lindsay Denton and DI ‘Dot’ Cottan to Huntley and Hilton. Not categorically identifying ‘H’ had been the only failure of the night but even this was good news in a way.
‘This is beginning to feel like a life’s work,’ Supt. Ted Hastings muttered looking over the huge board of faces – confirming he and AC-12 should be around for a few more series yet in British television’s best cop show since The Sweeney.
The best cop on British television: Supt. Ted Hastings was going to be calling everyone ‘son’, ‘fella’, or (regrettably) ‘darlin’ for some time to come
Source: BBC’s Line Of Duty Series Four was brilliant television | DailyMailOnline
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