Showing posts with label August 26. Show all posts
Showing posts with label August 26. Show all posts
Saturday, August 26, 2017
#F1 Sebastian Vettel signs new Ferrari deal for 3 years after Seb had talks with Mercedes
The four-time world champion, who was due to become a free agent at the end of the season, has agreed a new three-year deal with the team.
There are, however, likely to be performance-related clauses in the deal which would enable Vettel to leave the team before the contract’s full duration – just as he did three years ago when he left Red Bull to join Ferrari.
“To save Ferrari’s embarrassment in terms of Vettel not wanting to commit himself to the project, they will say it’s a multi-year deal but that doesn’t mean that we know absolutely everything within the contract and that Vettel will not be able to get out of that if and when he wants, because 2019 is the game,” commented Sky F1’s Ted Kravitz.
“2019 is when everything is going to be changing and that’s when all the big moves are going to be in the transfer market.”
Ferrari announced earlier this week that Kimi Raikkonen, Vettel’s current team-mate, had signed a one-year extension to stay for 2018.
Vettel has been linked with Mercedes throughout the year, although title Lewis Hamilton has expressed his doubts Vettel would be willing to accept equal status with him at the Silver Arrows.
“I think it’s highly unlikely that [Seb] will be here,” Hamilton said. “I don’t think he wants to be my team-mate.
“I know Seb doesn’t want to be my team-mate. He wouldn’t be in the position he is now in his team, in terms of how the team operates, if he was here.”
Source: Sebastian Vettel signs new Ferrari deal | F1 News
Beauden Barrett seals last-gasp win for New Zealand over Australia in thriller
The All Blacks have retained the Bledisloe Cup for a record 15th straight year, but the Wallabies have restored faith in Australian rugby. “We are learning, we are growing and that was a great growth step,” the Wallabies captain, Michael Hooper, said.
The inclusion of Rob Simmons, Tevita Kuridrani and Dane Haylett-Petty shored up the Wallabies’ fragile defence, while inside-centre Kurtley Beale defended in the front-line, avoiding some of the confusion in Sydney.
A lighting problem at the indoor Forsyth Barr Stadium delayed the kick-off by 10 minutes. At first the Wallabies stayed on the field, while the All Blacks went straight back to their dressing-room.
In a spectacular start, Australia raced to a 17-0 lead in the first 14 minutes and led 17-14 at half-time after outscoring the All Blacks three tries to two.
Wallabies full-back Israel Folau scored the first try of the game after 26 seconds after intercepting a pass and racing 60 metres to score.
Hooper scored in the 10th minute after peeling off a maul from a 15 metre lineout, equaling Jeremy Paul and Rocky Elsom as the leading Wallabies try-scorers in the forwards.
New mudslide hits Swiss town, eight hikers missing
ZURICH (Reuters) – A fresh mudslide swept into a remote mountain town in eastern Switzerland on Friday where an earlier huge landslip this week dumped rock, rubble and mud meters high and left eight people missing.
In the latest slide, a river of mud poured through tiny Bondo in the eastern Grisons canton, near the Swiss-Italian border, television images showed.
Rescuers continued their search for eight hikers from Switzerland, Austria and Germany reported missing since the initial landslide above the town on Wednesday.
Police in Grisons said the new slide hit in late afternoon and that some residents who had been allowed to return home had to be evacuated again. Nobody was injured, police said, but the slide smashed equipment that was being used to clear debris from the previous slide.
Melting permafrost due to warming temperatures is likely to be one of the factors behind this week’s disaster, said Marcia Phillips, group leader for snow and permafrost at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL).
Source: New mudslide hits Swiss town, eight hikers still missing
Teenager critical after latest Indian Ocean Dr crash north of #Perth ANOTHER ONE
The man is currently on route to hospital while emergency services assess the injuries of a 49-year-old male and 48-year-old woman, who were the occupants of the other vehicle.
It is believed the woman has non-threatening injuries to both legs.
Police said one of the vehicles burst into flames following the crash, which was reported around 3.40pm.
The crash occurred near the intersection of Indian Ocean Drive and Clover Lane, just north of Yanchep.
Indian Ocean Drive is blocked off in both directions from Yanchep Beach Road in the south to Breakwater Drive in the north and police expect it will remain that way for some time.
The crash comes just 10 days after three people, including a mother and her six-year-old son, were killed on the same road near Ledge Point.
Source: Teenager critical after latest Indian Ocean Dr crash north of Perth | Perth Now
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Tony Abbott defends drinking binge, hits out at drunks on welfare. One Drunk to Another
Former prime minister Tony Abbott has defended himself for being drunk and incapacitated on the job in 2009, while slamming welfare recipients for blowing taxpayers’ money on booze.
Mr Abbott, who admitted to passing out in his office and missing key votes following a rowdy dinner while in opposition, said his drinking binge paled in comparison to Labor’s profligate spending.
“I was sober in the morning. But our country is still dealing with the debt and debt hangover of the former Labor government’s spending binge,” he told 2UE radio on Saturday.
“That’s what we should be focused on, not the fact that Peter Costello, Kevin Andrews and I had three or four bottles of wine over dinner.”
Source: ‘I was sober in the morning’: Tony Abbott defends drinking binge, hits out at drunks on welfare
#F1 gossip: Fernando Alonso is being linked with a move to Williams for 2018
F1 gossip: Fernando Alonso is being linked with a move to Williams for 2018 – what do you make of the rumours? http://bit.ly/2euxt4r #F1
Kylie Jenner naked: KUWTK star bares all in V magazine photoshoot. 4 Pics in Post;
The 20-year-old left absolutely nothing to the imagination by ditching her bra and going topless in a series of racy images for V Magazine, The Sun reports.
Taking a leaf out of big sister Kim Kardashian’s book, the youngest of the Kardashian Jenner sisters proudly bared her breasts in the intimate images shot by photographer Nick Knight.
Posing in nothing but a sheer yellow dress, the reality star and make-up guru exposed everything for the camera.
In another equally raunchy photo, the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star again showed off her naked breasts and long legs in a black mesh dress.
Kylie transformed her image for the risque pictures, swapping her trademark black hair for a platinum blonde wig and covering the side of her face in blue glittering make-up.
“That was actually my first super nude shoot,” she told the magazine.
“I always post sexy pictures, but have never really gone nude.”
MORE: Kylie Jenner naked: KUWTK star bares all in V magazine photoshoot
Friday, August 25, 2017
#F1 #BelgianGP FP3 5pm. Quali 8pm Sat Perth WA. #F1 Blogs here;
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Daria Gavrilova into Connecticut Open final decider
In a huge US Open morale booster, Gavrilova outclassed the former world No.2 and Wimbledon finalist 6-4 6-4 to set up a title showdown with 2016 season-ending championship winner Dominika Cibulkova.
Gavrilova is chasing her maiden WTA Tour title after losing the final in Strasbourg in May to fellow Australian Samantha Stosur.
The 23-year-old will be brimming with confidence after guaranteeing herself a big rankings rise after holding her nerve to end Radwanska’s six-match winning streak in New Haven.
Source: Daria Gavrilova into Connecticut decider
Labor pledges $1.6bn funding boost for WA
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has addressed the 2017 WA Labor Conference where he has pledged to enshrine same sex marriage into Australian law and invest $1.6 billion in WA infrastructure as a GST concession.
WA currently receives 34 cents for every dollar of GST revenue it collects.
While Labor’s policy does not change the current formula, Mr Shorten says the proposed increased commonwealth funding would make up some difference.
‘Friends, the real test of leadership is whether you’re prepared to do something about it,’ Mr Shorten said. ‘It’s whether you offer a solution.’
‘I do not need a review to know that 34 cents in the dollar is a dud deal for the west.’
Source: Labor pledges $1.6bn funding boost for WA
Tributes for sports commentator Drew Morphett who has died in Melbourne
Morphett, who retired at the end of the 2016 AFL season, was found dead in his Melbourne home on Friday night.
He spent more than three decades at the ABC, becoming one of the national broadcaster’s best-known callers with his coverage of cricket, AFL and the Olympic Games.
In between stints at the national broadcaster, Morphett joined Seven Network in 1988 and called AFL games for 13 seasons.
Many footy fans recall him as the host of The Winners in the 1980s, a program that was rebooted in recent years on Fox Sports.
In covering four Olympic Games, Morphett became a specialist broadcaster in cycling, diving and hockey.
His services to broadcasting were recognised in 2014 when he received an Order of Australia Medal.
Source: Tributes for sports commentator Drew Morphett who has died in Melbourne | Perth Now
If he’ll pardon Arpaio, why wouldn’t Trump pardon those who ignore Robert Mueller?
That President Trump pardoned former Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio surprised no one who’d been paying attention. On Tuesday, he’d all but said that he was going to do so, soaking up the applause from a friendly audience at a rally in Phoenix when he broached the subject.
It being expected, though, didn’t do much to lessen the surprise at its happening. In part that was because of the timing: Dropping the news right as the most serious hurricane in half a century was making landfall in Texas late on a Friday evening. But even more because of what Arpaio was being pardoned for. Arpaio was convicted of contempt of court after being told to stop racially profiling Hispanics in his county but continuing to do so anyway — in part to bolster his reelection bid. This was a law enforcement official who was ignoring a federal court order and, as a result, was convicted of a misdemeanor.
And Trump pardoned him.
The rationale Trump offered was not complicated. It came down, essentially, to the idea that Arpaio had an honorable career of service — to his being the kind of guy that Trump respects…
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