Born on November 23, 1992, in Franklin, Tennessee, famed actress/singer Miley Cyrus is the daughter of country star Billy Ray Cyrus. She began acting at a young age, appearing on her father's television series, Doc, and in Tim Burton's Big Fish. In 2004, Cyrus landed the starring role on Disney's hit show Hannah Montana. Since then, she's starred in films like The Last Song(2010); released several successful albums, including Breakout (2008), Can't Be Tamed (2010) and Bangerz (2013); and become known for hits like "Party in the U.S.A." and "We Can't Stop."
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Best Top 5 Luxury and Expensive Cars In The World- Which Are Ought To Be Expensive
Koenigsegg CCX
Cost: 550,000
This awesome set of metal piece is engineered and unveiled in the Geneva motor show in the year of 2006. In addition, this is one of the most beautiful cars in the Forbes magazine. Awesomeness with beautiful appearance what more can you expect. Notably, this is a eco friendly car which ought to run in the bio fuel. This is blend of perfect engineering work and could gear up to 245mph. adding more to it, the body of CCX is made of Kevlar and carbon.
Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe
Cost: $ 650,000
Rolls-Royce is known for its luxury and brand and this is one luxury car you wish to own for it name. Rolls Royce has the strong impact on the people with its series of cars since 1925. The Rolls Royce phantom coupe was debuted in 2008 in an international car show. This car is featured with luxury and great automobile works which make this car a complete mi
McLaren F1 Cost: $970,000
The older it is the greater it was. this car is rocking the road at an unbelievable top speed of 240mph (386km/ph) since 1994. This tends to be the fastest and expensive car of 1994 and still on the march with its glory. This car could reach 60mph in a flash of 3.2 seconds. Seriously, even our eye sight couldn’t follow this car on the roads. McLaren is the supercar which is still in the list of top 10 luxury cars even though it was engineered before 17years.
Ferrari EnZo
Cost: $670,000
Ferrari is known for its brand and luxury for a long time. This is one of the most popular cars around the world. Probably, guys will do anything to lay their hands on the Ferrari, you bet I do. This one awesome roll on the road at a top speed of 217 mph i.e. 349 km/ph. The estimated that it could blast to a speed of 60mph within 3.4seconds. Unfortunately, this is a limited edition of only 400 and currently sold in the auctions costing 1,000,000$.
Hennessey Venom GT Spyder
Cost: $ 1.1 million
This is one of the speedy cars that you could watch rolling on the streets. Yet there is no convertible cars available in the world for it master piece. It can reach a speed of 60mph of 2.5. Pretty quick isn’t it. If you buy this car, you will have to thinks in one go, speed with luxury. It has all the things that you need to comfort you.
KimKardashian ahead of the highly anticipated two-part special “Keeping Up With the Kardashians: About Bruce” to talk abouther hugely successful video game “ KimKardashian: Hollywood,” married life with Kanye, and how the family is moving forward and dealing with Bruce’s transition. Kim beamed “it was amazing and she looked beautiful.
Nicki Minaj
Hip-hop artist and singer Nicki Minaj was born Onika Tanya Maraj on December 8, 1982, in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago, and moved with her family to Queens, New York, when she was 5 years old. Minaj's father was a severe drug addict with a long history of violence. At one point, he set fire to the family's home in a failed attempt to kill Minaj's mother. Those early struggles, Minaj has said, helped fuel her drive to rise above the life her parents knew. "I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind," she told Details magazine, "because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be. I thought, 'If I'm successful, I can change her life.'"
Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988), known professionally as Rihanna (/riˈænə/ree-an-ə),[5][6] is aBarbadian singer, actress, and fashion designer. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, her career began upon meeting record producer Evan Rogers in late 2003 through mutual friends; she recorded demo tapes with his guidance. Her tape was sent to several record labels, and she subsequently signed a contract with Def Jam Recordings after auditioning for its then-president, hip-hop producer and rapper Jay-Z. Both her debut album, Music of the Sun (2005) and its follow-up A Girl Like Me (2006) peaked in the top ten on the US Billboard 200; the former featured the commercially successful song "Pon de Replay" while the latter produced her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single, "SOS".
RITA ORA
Rita Sahatçiu Ora (born Rita Sahatçiu; 26 November 1990) is a British singer, songwriter and actress. Her debut studio album, Ora, released in 2012, debuted at number one in the United Kingdom. The album contained the UK number-one singles, "R.I.P." and "How We Do (Party)". After reaching the peak position as a featured act on DJ Fresh's "Hot Right Now", Ora became the artist with the most number-one singles on the UK Singles Chart in 2012, with three consecutive singles reaching the top position.[2] She was nominated for three Brit Awards at the 2013 ceremony.[3]
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Cute Dress
The cost of this dress has reached the value of € 13 million
The US says that China has expanded its programme of land reclamation in the South China Sea.
US officials say China has reclaimed 810 hectares (2,000 acres) since the beginning of 2014.
China claims almost the whole of the South China Sea, resulting in overlapping claims with its neighbours.
Other countries accuse China of illegally taking land to create artificial islands with facilities that could potentially be for military use.
China says its work is legal and needed to safeguard its sovereignty.
In a report, the Pentagon said that China had reclaimed 200 hectares (500 acres) in 2014 at five of its outposts in the Spratly Islands.
US officials say that another 610 (1,500 acres) have been reclaimed since then.
The report says the "ultimate purpose of the expansion projects remains unclear" but suggests the possibility that "China is attempting to change facts on the ground by improving its defence infrastructure in the South China Sea".
Images of Vietnamese-controlled Sandy Cay before 2011 (above) and in 2015 (below) (images provided by Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Also on Friday, a US think tank said that Vietnam had added eight hectares (21 acres) to its own land reclamation projects in the same group of islands.
Carey Mulligan stars as the headstrong Bathsheba Everdene in this adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s classic novel from the Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt). David Nicholls (One Day) penned the screenplay for a new take that is inevitably being held up against John Schlesinger’s 1967 version starring Julie Christie. Critics have argued it stands up to comparison, with The Evening Standard admiring Mulligan for “an outstanding performance” that is “far more intense, compelling and modern than Christie, much more intimately filmed”.
Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge and Matthias Schoenaerts co-star as Bathsheba’s three suitors; Sheen’s turn has drawn praise from The Guardian, its reviewer Peter Bradshaw saying: “His face is etched with agony and an awful kind of abject adoration, forever trying to find ways to forgive the loved one in advance for rejection.” Released 1 May in the UK and US, 20 May in Belgium and 2 July in Singapore. (Credit: Alex Bailey / Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Tomorrowland
Oscar-winning director and screenwriter Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) is at the helm of what has been called “Disney’s Brave New World”, starring George Clooney as an inventor aiming to bring down evil Tomorrowland ruler David Nix (Hugh Laurie). While most of the sci-fi adventure has been kept under wraps, Bird revealed a clip at the Tribeca Film Festival, showing Clooney’s character as a child with Laurie at the 1964 World’s Fair. The director said the theme emerged during discussions with the film’s co-writer Damon Lindelof (Lost): “We started saying, you know, ‘What happened to the future?’ When we were kids the future seemed to always be this bright, bigger thing, and the world was still a dark place back then; there were a lot of bad things happening everywhere. But there was a lot of optimism about the future, and we started going, ‘Why did that disappear?’” Released 20 May in France, 22 May in the UK and US and 28 May in Brazil. (Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Mad Max: Fury Road
Director George Miller returns to the post-apocalyptic world he created in his trilogy starring Mel Gibson – with Tom Hardy taking the lead role opposite Charlize Theron. Hardy sought Gibson’s permission before agreeing to the role, saying: “I was a little bit intimidated. Who wouldn’t be?” Released 30 years after the third film, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, it offers a new take on the central character. Miller has said, “Yes, of course it’s based on the same character that Mel played, the lone warrior in the wasteland, basically disengaged from the rest of the world. But naturally, Tom brings his Tom Hardy-ness to it. He brings another quality and the character is different.” Yet, according to Miller, the epic mythology remains the same. “It felt like going into familiar territory. It’s like returning to where you grew up.” Released 14 May in Australia and the UK, 15 May in the US and 20 June in Japan. (Credit: Jasin Boland / Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc)
I am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story
Caroll Spinney – now 81 – started performing as the Sesame Street puppet Big Bird in 1969. This feature documentary offers an affectionate portrait of the puppeteer, from his early years as a bullied teen to his career as one of US TV’s best-loved characters. Featuring hours of home-movie footage, it “charts Spinney’s run-ins with a disapproving father, the early days with Muppet master Jim Henson, the cult of Big Bird, and Spinney’s insatiable desire to continue performing well into his eighties”, according to Empire. The influence of the man on his most famous role is clear: the Herald Sun says, “The lasting lessons, the ones that continue to shape generations of children, radiate from beneath the feathers. There are the lessons of tolerance, born from the ruthless bullying Caroll faced as a teen. There are the lessons of forgiveness, born from Caroll’s reconciliation with his father whose temper and savage beatings scarred him. And there are the lessons of love, born from Caroll’s deep bond with his wife.” Released 1 May in the UK and 6 May in the US. (Credit: PR)
Spy
Writer-director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, The Heat) brings his golden touch to the world of espionage, teaming up again with Melissa McCarthy – she plays a deskbound CIA analyst who volunteers to go deep undercover and infiltrate the world of an arms dealer (played by Rose Byrne). Jude Law and Jason Statham co-star in a spoof that also works as an action thriller; The Hollywood Reporter claims that McCarthy shows the pair “how the action-hero game is played”. The actress finally takes centre stage, proving worthy to the task: according to Variety, she has “the funniest, most versatile and sustained comic showcase of her movie career in this deliriously entertaining action-comedy”. Released 21 May in Australia, 22 May in India and 28 May in Argentina. (Credit: PR)
Good Kill
A Top Gun for 21st Century warfare, Good Kill follows a former Air Force pilot (played by Ethan Hawke) who now fights the Taliban from a steel container in the desert near Las Vegas. Writer-director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca) offers a glimpse at the psychological toll endured by drone pilots, the effects of combat conducted at a distance, in this political drama. Hawke has been praised for “capturing his character's pent-up frustration, self-disgust and mounting aggression”, one of “a ‘bunch of gamers’ sitting in front of screens” replacing the square-jawed heroes of traditional Hollywood war films. While macho bravado exists in the dialogue, the action all happens hundreds of miles away, and according to The Telegraph, Good Kill is “a sophisticated, provocative and thoroughly modern war film that makes Clint Eastwood's recent American Sniper look slow to find its target”. Released 6 May in Belgium, 15 May in the US and 28 May in the Netherlands. (Credit: Lorey Sebastian)
When Marnie Was There
Released in Japan in 2014, but only just receiving a wider release, this hand-drawn animated film is potentially the last feature to be released by the legendary Studio Ghibli. Written and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and based on the novel of the same name by Joan G Robinson, it tells the story of a teenage tomboy who becomes friends with a mysterious girl called Marnie. Despite lacking the Ghibli trademarks of “walking houses, magical forest creatures or one-way trains to the spirit world”, the film still brims over with “its own unique sense of enchantment”. According to Variety, “Instead of marking what could be the end of an era, it arrives almost like a classic heirloom, uncovered and restored for contemporary eyes, a reminder of the craftsmanship and care that Ghibli always put into cel animation.” Released 14 May in Australia and 22 May in the US. (Credit: GNDHDDTK)
Slow West
Set in the 19th Century and billed as “an American Western filtered through the eyes of European filmmaking”, Slow West follows a 17-year-old boy played by Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) as he travels from the Scottish highlands to the American frontier in search of the woman he loves. Michael Fassbender co-stars as the frontiersman who accompanies him, offering protection in exchange for money. Directed and written by British film-maker John Maclean, the feature was shot in Scotland and New Zealand (standing in for Colorado); according to Village Voice, it “moves through picturesque desert plains and forests with an ominous patience that often tips the material into absurdist comedy”. Yet despite its title, the film offers up explosive action alongside the lingering panoramas. Indiewire says, “Slow-burning and simmering, Slow West knows how to kick the voltage into high gear.” Released 15 May in the US, 21 May in New Zealand and 5 June in Canada. (Credit: PR)
Thursday, May 14, 2015
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, Rolls-Royce Colours and Materials designer Michelle Lusby has just visited a purveyor of buttons. Not just any button shop. The best, a source that supplies Italy’s most revered couture houses.
“These buttons were the most ordinary things, and yet they were the most beautiful things,” the designer, 27, says. Lusby recently concluded a supplier trip through northern Italy, where she saw, touched and smelled swatches of leather and fabric, gauging their potential for Rolls-Royce’s customisation programme, appropriately called Bespoke. The button shop? It was just a detour on the way to the airport.
“You never quite know,” Lusby says. “The look, the texture and feel of them could inspire you to another application.”
Whimsy. Improvisation. Maybe a dab of humour. These are not qualities commonly associated with Rolls-Royce. With aristocrats, maharajahs,World War I officers and various personages of undisclosed net worth among its clients, the brand is best known for deep, unmistakably British stoutness and reserve. And yet the designs created by Lusby and her colleagues reflect a kind of freeform artistry rarely, if ever, expected from a contemporary car company.
A reminder came on 8 May in New York, where Rolls-Royce debuted a couture-inspired Bespoke effort based on its Wraith grand tourer, pictured above. Wearing a jasmine accent line on a coat of Andalucian White paint (the jasmine “catches the light really nicely,” Lusby notes), the car contains a silk weave in the door pockets front and rear, imparting “a certain iridescence”. Fabric welting runs atop the door panels. Stitching on the steering wheel is invisible.
A more emphatic showcase of Rolls-Royce’s playful side came at the 2015 Geneva motor show in March, where it debuted a one-off Phantom sedan, dubbed Serenity:
(Credit: Rolls-Royce Motor Cars)
The customer-commissioned vehicle evoked nothing less than aJapanese woodblock print, with delicately stitched silk flowers cascading from the headliner down the roof pillars. A marquetry masterclass played out on cherry-wood door panels, inlaid with mother of pearl blossoms. Bamboo accents heightened the Edo effect. A passerby could almost hear Madama Butterfly playing through the Bespoke-branded audio system.
(Credit: Rolls-Royce Motor Cars)
“I tend to look at natural forms for inspiration. That makes this by far the best place to be working as a Colours and Materials designer,” Lusby says. “What other brand would put silk in a car?”
Likely not Ford, builder of the Fiesta hatchback that Lusby drives to Rolls-Royce’s studios every day in Goodwood, England. “I certainly can’t afford to drive one,” she says of her employer’s wares.
A man has been convicted of sexually abusing boys at a children's home in Ayrshire after his victims came forward following the Jimmy Savile scandal.
Brian Newman, 58, from Kilmarnock, was convicted of 10 charges of indecency and sexual assault against six boys at the home during the 1990s.
He was found guilty following a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Judge Lord Glennie deferred sentence on Newman and continued bail but told him to to expect a "significant" jail term.
He also placed Newman on the sex offenders register.
Victims exploited
The trail heard how a police investigation into Newman's activities began after his first victim contacted police in 2012 amid publicity over the Jimmy Savile scandal.
The victim had been 13 when he was abused at the home between October 1991 and March 1992.
Newman had gone into his private bedroom and molested him and made inappropriate sexual remarks.
Other victims described how they got on well with Newman but were later left with feelings of confusion, shame and embarrassment after they were exploited by him.
With some boys there had been an escalation in the abuse, moving on from touching to sex acts.
Some youngsters were given sweets and cigarettes and others were subjected to threats by the care worker.
Newman, a grandfather, who previously worked in another children's home in Ayrshire during the 1980s, said he was "hands on" but denied abusing the children.
When I was 10, I believed that all Corvettes were just like the new Chevrolet Corvette Z06. They weren’t.That year, 1980, the 305 California was the newsmaker among Corvettes – and not in a good way. Created by General Motors as a way to continue selling its sports car in California as the state tightened its emissions rules, this model featured between its fibreglass fenders a wheezing 180-horsepower 5-litre V8 engine from the Biscayne sedan and a three-speed automatic transmission.Not that Californians had much to envy: the 350-cubic-inch engine found in Corvettes sold in the other 49 states churned out all of 190hp. Tthe Corvette was America’s only sports car, and that year, it was an embarrassment.
Being 10, I nevertheless wanted one rather badly – because, being 10, I hadn’t driven one, or anything else. It looked fast – unspeakably, illegally fast – and that was all that mattered. The trim and tidy Porsche 911, with which the Chevrolet has been compared countless times over the years, looked too sensible to be naughty. But the Corvette – particularly designer Larry Shinoda’s third-generation car – looked like a natural-born killer. I had seen Mark Hamill’s 1978 Star Wars follow-up, Corvette Summer, and loved it beyond common sense. It was a plain, unsubstantiated fact to me that nothing was faster than a C3 Corvette – never had been, never would be.
Mark Hamill's Stingray does its thing in the 1978 film, Corvette Summer (Credit: Warner Bros Entertainment)
I was wrong, of course. The Corvettes of my youth, including Mark Hamill’s red menace, were lame: creaky old chuffers with metal-flake paint jobs and mom-sedan mechanical bits. Without having driven either car, I would venture that the engine-donor 1980 Biscayne sedan, with whitewalls and button-tufted velour seats, was quicker off the line than the 1980 Corvette. And I’m probably right.
The 2015 Corvette Z06 is not lame. It is a monster, a barbarous mythical creature like those boulder-throwing Laestrygonians from Homer’s Odyssey. It is everything – every last inch – the Corvette I thought all Corvettes were when I was 10.
Before my stint with the Z06, I enjoyed back-to-back weeks in a Chevrolet Camaro SS with the 1LE performance package and a standard Corvette Stingray. To my surprise, I liked the Camaro more, so much so that I spent my entire week with the Stingray missing the 1LE. Why? The standard Corvette is certainly not a bad car. But with the 1LE package, the Camaro is, if you will indulge me once more, the Camaro I thought all Camaros were when I was a kid. It is raucous, cartoonish and angry. It is one of those cars that has strange effects on the driver – a swagger, for instance. I don’t normally have a swagger, but I swear the 1LE gave me one. My voice dropped by a good octave that week. Very odd. I called these physiological changes “Camannerisms”. They went away when I took delivery of the Corvette.
Even in blazing Torch Red, my manual-transmission-equipped Stingray test car felt, dare I say, a touch too civilised for its own good. It had perforated Napa leather seats and a 3D navigation system and an onboard wi-fi hotspot. It was very fast, certainly quicker and more agile than the 1LE Camaro, but it didn’t necessarily seem faster. And because I live in Los Angeles, a part of the world where appearances can matter more than reality, and where traffic citations are handed out like Halloween candy, seeming fast is more important that being fast.
The Z06 is different. For starters, it wields a 190hp advantage over the standard Stingray – as much as the 49-state 1980 Corvette produced in total. But unlike, say, the Dodge Challenger Hellcat, there is more to the Z06’s appeal than extra power. I have driven a good many fast cars over the years. There were exactly three that truly intimidated me: a 1999 Dodge Viper ACR with a huge wing, a 1981 Lamborghini Countach LP400S with six carburettors and this Corvette Z06. (OK, four if you count the terrifying, three-wheeled Campagna T-Rex, but let’s not.) Among those cars, the Z06 was both the most deserving of my fear, and the least. It was the fastest and most powerful by some margin, but also the most balanced and benign.
In reviewing the Z06 for BBC Autos, Dan Carney referred to the car as a “track-optimised variant of the seventh-generation Corvette.” It is a tidy descriptor for a superhero among supercars, and while not inaccurate, it does not capture the screaming outrageousness of Chevrolet’s achievement. I appreciate the technical challenges of building a truly quick track car, but building a great track car that is also a great road car – a car that is totally drivable on public roads yet somehow still feels comically inappropriate in such a setting – is some sort of black art. A great track car lapping a racetrack is expected; a great track car parading down Santa Monica Boulevard, its nasty, blatty bark setting off the alarms of parked cars along the way, is madness of the very best sort.
In hindsight, as much as I wanted to drive when I was 10, I am glad I couldn’t. And I am awfully glad that Chevrolet waited until I was old enough to build the Corvette of my dreams.
The decision by Senegal to send 2,100 troops to Saudi Arabia may come as a surprise to many. However, this is not the first time that the "jambars" will set foot in the kingdom.
A much smaller contingent was sent to help "protect the holy sites" of Mecca and to honour "the historic ties between the two countries" 24 years ago.
That operation ended tragically with a plane crash that killed 92 Senegalese soldiers.
The latest deployment will join a Saudi-led coalition fighting to secure the kingdom's border with Yemen.
Even so, Senegalese leader Macky Sall is using more or less the same reasons for taking troops to Saudi Arabia used then by former President Abdou Diouf all those years ago.
Except that this time, the rejection is much wider.
Senegalese forces are among the best trained in Africa
It seems that the younger generation of politicians and citizens does not buy the argument of "protecting the holy sites of Islam" being served to them.
"Why would Senegalese troops go to Yemen to fight a war that is not theirs?" is a widely shared view on social media today.
And many did not go far before making the link between President Sall's recent announcement that Saudi Arabia would invest heavily in the government development programme known as Programme Senegal Emergent 2035 (PSE), and the decision to send troops to the kingdom.
A well-known columnist went as far as saying that "the blood of the jambars will be funding the PSE".
Senegal, a majority Sunni Muslim country, is the only non-Arabic country to join the Saudi-led coalition.
