The last variant from Ford’s updated Falcon range being
introduced in Australia next year has been revealed. The variant is the
2015 Ford Falcon Ute, and it’s been revealed in its XR6 performance
guise.
The car-based utility joins the regular Falcon and Territory in
Ford’s ‘FG X’ range of rear-wheel-drive sedans, SUVs and utes, which
will see production through to the end of 2016 when Ford Motor Company finally winds up its Australian production.
Like the sedan, the new Falcon Ute comes with a locally-developed
4.0-liter inline six as standard. The engine develops just over 260
horsepower and can be paired with either a six-speed manual or six-speed
automatic. Leaf-spring suspension is used at the rear to help with any
heavy loads.
Singer Beyonce Knowles (R) and rapper Jay-Z
attend American Eagle Outfitters Celebrates The Budweiser Made in
America Music Festival during day 2 at Los Angeles Grand Park on August
31, 2014, in Los Angeles, California. Michael Buckner/Getty Images
PARIS – An emotional Beyonce was in tears as she and
husband Jay Z wrapped up their “On the Run” stadium tour Saturday night
in Paris, where the duo said they got engaged years ago.
The performers told the audience at Stade de France that Paris was
also where their 2-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy, was conceived.
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Beyonce and Jay Z in Havana
“We love Paris. It’s special to us because we got engaged here and this is where baby Blue was conceived,” the rap star said.
Jay Z set the internet gossip mill aflame during Friday night’s performance of the show.
The rapper allegedly changed some lyrics to his Magna Carta Holy Grail song “Beach Is Better,” reports MTV.
Fans are alleging that he ad-libbed the line “cause she pregnant with
another one.” So far, representatives for the couple have not addressed
the rumors.
Beyonce and Jay Z were married in 2008.
Nicki Minaj joined Beyonce onstage for their collaboration,
“Flawless,” which excited the crowd of nearly 80,000. Beyonce and Jay Z
off kicked the three-hour show with “’03 Bonnie & Clyde.” They also
performed the hits “Crazy In Love,” ”Single Ladies,” ”Big Pimpin,” ”Dirt
Off Your Shoulder” and “Drunk In Love.”
“I’m your biggest fan. I love you,” a teary eyed Beyonce, 33, said
looking to Jay Z, 44. He replied: “Greatest entertainer in the world. I
love her. She’s my wife.”
The Saturday night concert mirrored the sentiments from last month’s MTV Video Music Awards, where a teary Beyonce was joined onstage by Jay Z and Blue Ivy, amid the numerous rumors surrounding their marriage.
The Paris show was being filmed for an HBO special to air in September.
Beyonce and Jay Z kicked off the “On the Run” tour in June
At
a concert on Friday in Sydney, Australia, the acclaimed rapper called
out a pair of fans for not standing up at the show. One had a prosthetic
limb, and the other was in a wheelchair.
Oh,
Kanye. The acclaimed rapper/self-described Steve Jobs/newly minted
Kardashian, who once rapped, “They tryna put me on the schoolbus with
the space for the wheelchair,” halted a concert on Friday night after
discovering that several audience members weren’t standing up to honor
their Lord and Savior.
The setting was the Qantas Credit Union Arena in Sydney, Australia, and West reportedly
announced, “I can’t do this song. I can’t do this show until everybody
stand up… Unless you got a handicap pass and you get special parking and
shit. ‘Imma see you if you ain’t standing up, believe me, I’m very good
at that.” Then came the foot-in-mouth moment. Most of the fans got up
and boogied, but soon West spotted a pair of concertgoers who’d remained
in their seats, and refused to continue the show until they stood up
and danced like the rest. One of those two singled-out fans raised a
prosthetic limb, thereby proving that she did in fact “get special
parking and shit,” to which West replied, “Okay, you fine.”
West then homed in on Fan No. 2, who was still seated. He stopped
performing the tune “The Good Life” and declared, “This is the longest
I’ve had to wait to do a song, it’s unbelievable.” The crowd was
reportedly trying to clue Kanye in to his epic blunder, with the entire
section making wheelchair signals with their arms. But to no avail. West
sent his bulky bodyguard Pascal Duvier into the crowd to confirm that
the seated fan was, in fact, in a wheelchair. When it was confirmed,
West said, “He is in a wheelchair? It’s fine!”
Many fans tweeted their disapproval:
You can watch video of the wacky incident below:
Now in the interest of fairness, West has treated some
handicapped fans well in the past. At the below concert, he generously
gave his microphone to an audience member in a wheelchair.
What do you think about Kanye's attitude, is he God?
Floyd Mayweather tops the list by a wide margin with C. Ronaldo and
Lionel Messi Ranked 2nd and 4th respectively, but Mayweather remains
the only boxer in the top ten (Manny Pacquiao comes in at 11).
The rest of the list is made of of men from the realms of football,
basketball, golf, tennis, and American football, with Americans making
up 60% of the rankings.
Top 10 highest paid athletes in the world 2014 includes
1. Floyd Mayweather (Boxing/USA) – $105 million (£64.5m)
2. Cristiano Ronaldo (Football/Portugal) – $80 million (£49m)
3. LeBron James (Basketball/USA) – $72.3 million (£44.5m)
4. Lionel Messi (Football/Argentina) – $64.7 million (£39.8m)
5. Kobe Bryant (Basketball/USA) – $61.5 million (£37.8m)
6. Tiger Woods (Golf/USA) – $61.2 million (£37.6m)
7. Roger Federer (Tennis/Switzerland) – $56.2 million (£34.6m)
8. Phil Mickelson (Golf/USA) – $53.2 million (£32.7m)
9. Rafael Nadal (Tennis/Spain) $44.5 million (£27.4m)
10. Matt Ryan (American Football/USA) – $43.8 million (£26.9m)
In so many developed and even developing countries and territories,
there are lanes for pedestrians, lanes for bicycles, others for
motorcycles, tricycles and another for other types of vehicles like
cars, buses, trucks etc, but do you know that there's a place in China
that boasts a different type of lane altogether ? Probably, you never
knew before. This city has a lane for Smartphone addicts i.e. those that
have their (e)y(e)s glued to their Smartphone's screen always, yes, i
mean always.
According to QQ.com, the cellphone lane at the
bottom was spotted in a place called Foreigner Street in Chongqing city,
one of the five major cities in China. The sidewalk was most likely
painted for everyone's safety, because, if there's distracted driving,
there's also distracted walking, as perfectly demonstrated by the woman
in the video below.
Engadget also made mention of an experiment that the National
Geographic performed earlier this year, in July to be precise. The
society stenciled "NO CELLPHONES" on one-half of a DC sidewalk and
"CELLPHONES: WALK IN THIS LANE AT YOUR OWN RISK" on the other half. So,
what's the result ? National Geographic found out that the people
actually glued to their phones didn't even notice the markings at all.
Isn't it hilarious ? Extremely...
Even though there is a city
that has a sidewalk lane for phone addicts in China, there are still
thousands of cities that doesn't have, so please be very careful where
you use your phone. Don't chat, text or use your phone without paying attention when on the main road. We can only enjoy our smartphones when we are safe and in good health.
Same
thing in Britain. In order to provide more protection to cellphone
users, the authorities wrapt cushions around poles on side walks. The
aim is to serve as a protective measure and prevent mild accidents to
phone users in case they bump on them while texting.
124
people have so far been rescued alive from the rubble of the building
said to be a guest house for foreign followers of the church. The building collapsed as construction work was going on to raise the 2-storey building to a five storey building.
"It’s now 40 dead,” NEMA southwest coordinator Ibrahim Farinloye, told AFP by text message.
Ambassador Peter Carter Leslie
The
British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Peter Carter
Leslie, slumped and died Tuesday from a possible heart attack on arrival
at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
The
deceased who arrived Lagos on United Airlines Flight UA143 at 3.50 pm
local time slumped in the avio-bridge while he was alighting from the
aircraft.
We gathered that officials from British High Commission
and the Port Health Services tried to resuscitate him with oxygen but
the effort failed.
“We have an incident here. The UK Deputy High
Commissioner who just arrived this afternoon on a United Airlines flight
just slumped as he was coming out of the aircraft and died. He is being
evaluated at this moment,” an informed source told our press.
Nobody
knew the cause of the death or if he was sick onboard the aircraft, but
a worker with one of the aviation handling companies disclosed that he
saw the gathering of officers from the high commission who kept mum and
looked solemn, before he learnt about the tragic incident.
We
learnt that as the deceased was leaving the aircraft, he started gasping
for breath and needed oxygen which was brought to resuscitate him but
failed to recover.
Efforts to get the confirmation of the British
High Commission in Lagos and Abuja, as well as the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, proved unsuccessful yesterday, as calls to the commission and
the ministry were unanswered.
However, a letter written by the
Federal Ministry of Health Port Health Services, which was signed by
Doctors E.E. Ukatu and Abdullai, and was made available to us by airport
sources, stated: “The Port Health Services was called today (2/9/14) by
a FAAN (Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria) medical nurse at about
4.07 pm from the D arrival screening point to see a passenger (the
deceased) said to have arrived onboard a United Airlines flight from
Houston, Texas.
“It was reported that after disembarking, the passenger was observed to be clutching his chest and asking for help.
“In the course of examination, he was asked if he was Asthmatic, and he said ‘MAY BE’.
"On
examination, he was found to be pale, in respiratory distress (gasping
for breath), his pulse was rapid and thready. Based on his response to
the question if he was asthmatic, a Ventolin inhaler was administered,
but was not effective, as the patient was restless and threw off the
inhaler to the floor. He was placed on the left lateral position and at
the same time, oxygen was called for.
“Efforts were made to
administer oxygen, while a second doctor was called and suction applied
via a suction machine to clear the airway. “Subsequently, the
patient suffered a cardio-pulmonary arrest; the radial and carotid
pulses were no longer palpable and patient was observed to be cyanosed.
Attempts at resuscitation proved abortive. Pupils were fixed and dilated
and patient was certified dead at 4.26 pm.”
