FUNNY: Japanese pole vaulter fails at the Olympics - but earns global fame for his penis
The agonizing moment a Japanese pole vaulter probably wished he had a smaller p***s happened just as he attempted to clear the bar at 5.3 meters. Instead of gliding over, he knocked it with his manhood.
It was a bit of an, ahem, b***s up for Hiroki Ogita, who was participating in the Rio 2016 final. His Olympic dreams were similarly crushed when his p***s smacked off the pole.
His leg initially touched the bar, leading it to wobble slightly, but ultimately it was his p***s that whacked off the pole on his first attempt. On his second try, he eventually cleared the bar but failed to make the cut for the finals after finishing in 21st place.
Ogitas pink lycra bottoms did him no favors; he was seen grimacing in pain when he fell onto the mat.
Though it was a sad moment for Ogita, the incident didnt stop Twitter from having the last laugh.
But Trump also awards outsized status to those who he sees on television, the Manafort associate said, pointing out that Kellyanne Conway, who worked for a super-PAC backing Sen. Ted Cruzs candidacy, is now at the grown-up table, working out of Trump Tower in New York.
Trump loves her. He sees her on TV, he said. Trump listens to people who go on TV.
Manafort does not usually travel with Trump, instead staying in New York trying to organize a chaotic campaign that has relied for much of Trumps candidacy solely on the reality TV personalitys ability to function as a one-man media organization as Buzzfeeds Ben Smith put it through social media and TV appearances.
Homes afire: Blue Cut fire burns houses in Cajon Pass, California/ Un incendio forestal en EEUU
Here is a list of resources, evacuation zones and closed roads from InciWeb:
MANDATORY EVACUATIONS AREAS:
East of I-15, south of Ranchero and west of Summit ValleyThe entire community of WrightwoodNorth of 138, east of Sheep Creek, south of Phelan Road and west of CalienteLone Pine CanyonSwarthout CanyonWest Cajon ValleyLytle Creek Canyon
ROAD CLOSURES
Highway 138 has been closed from Interstate 15 to Highway 2
Old Cajon Boulevard north of Devore CutoffLytle Creek @ Glen Helen
Highway 38 to Lone Pine Canyon has been closed.15 Northbound at I-21515 Southbound at Ranchero
EVACUATION CENTERS:
Jessie Turner Community Center15556 Summit Ave.Fontana
Sultana High School17311 Sultana St.Hesperia92345
ANIMAL EVACUATION SHELTER:
Apple Valley Animal Shelter (small animals)22131 Powhatan RoadApple Valley 92308
San Bernardino County Fairgrounds14800 7th St. Victorville 92395
On Aug. 16, 2017, we will celebrate 40 years since Elvis Presley died.
In 2016, however, we celebrate 40 years since the last time The King of Rock "n" Roll visited Syracuse.
Elvis, then 41, performed two sold-out concerts at the War Memorial in July 1976, giving 16,000 fans their final chances to see the legendary rocker in Syracuse. He sang many of his classics, including "Hound Dog," "All Shook Up," "I Got A Woman," "Can"t Help Falling in Love" and "Don"t Be Cruel."
The July 25 show went down in Syracuse history, thanks to a scathing review by Dale Rice, a 25-year-old education reporter for The Post-Standard.
Elvis Presley performs in concert at the Syracuse War Memorial on July 25, 1976. Clem Murray | The Post-Standard
"The s*x idol is dead!"
Printed under the headline "Fat, Puffy, Has-Been Elvis Is Outshone by His Costume," the concert review sparked what one editor later called a "firestorm of protest."
Rice opened the review with the line "The s*x idol is dead!" followed by withering jabs about Elvis" puffy cheeks, double chin and "mediocre" singing.
"The show lacked enthusiasm, and the only thing that sparkled was Elvis" costume," he wrote. "The suit featured a wide (very wide) belt that must have been designed to disguise the fact that Elvis is overweight. It didn"t help. Elvis is fat, and there"s no hiding it."
Rice was not a music critic. At the time, the newspaper didn"t employ a full-time music journalist, so various reporters from the public affairs department would be sent to cover major acts in Syracuse. Rice later said no education or city hall story ever brought him as much attention as his Elvis critique.
Fans of The King responded with outrage. Hundreds of furious letters and phone calls flooded The Post-Standard newsroom, calling Rice"s review "totally unfair," "uncalled for" and "completely wrong."
The morning the review published, angry fans managed to track down Rice"s home phone number. Rice woke up to several phone calls with "strings of expletives." He eventually unplugged his phone and went back to sleep.
Escape to Wyoming
On July 28, Rice struck back. A picture of Rice appeared on The Post-Standard editorial page with Rice"s reply to the angry fans.
"With a single review of an Elvis Presley concert I became infamous and notorious overnight. At least several hundred, maybe even several thousand, female fans (not to mention a handful of males) directed their fury at me...One phone call after another arrived at my home. They questioned. They shouted. And they swore...I don"t need a hearing aid. My vision is 20-20. I"m not jealous of Elvis, and I love my mother. I may have encroached on the fantasies many women have harbored for the last 20 years, but I still stand by my original review. I wrote it as I saw it, and the phone calls and letters have done nothing to change my mind."
Best of all, Rice ended the response by sharing his plans to escape: "If you want to get in touch with me now, forget it. I leave tomorrow for Wyoming. There, I will spend the next two weeks backpacking and mountain climbing where there"s no forwarding address."
The letters kept coming, and The Post-Standard even had to run an editorial on July 30, asking readers to "let the controversy die." The editorial promised readers all their angry letters would be saved for Rice to read when he returned from his Wyoming trip.
The War Memorial marquee tells the story - "Syracuse Loves Elvis" - as thousands of Central New Yorkers enter the second straight sellout performance by Elvis Presley on July 28, 1976. Clem Murray | The Post-Standard
Elvis leaves Syracuse on a good note
The Post-Standard sent Mike Holdridge, the newspaper"s sports editor (and avid Elvis fan), to review Presley"s second War Memorial show on July 28. Unsurprisingly, he wrote a rave.
"The "King" lives!" Holdridge wrote. "Presley was nothing less than dynamite as he crooned his way through a fine mixture of love songs and had "em rockin" in the aisles with the kind of tunes he does best."
Holdridge quoted Elvis" closing comments to the Syracuse fans: "You"ve been one of the finest audiences we"ve ever worked with." Elvis then said he"d be back "if you want me."
Elvis planned to make a return appearance at the War Memorial, Aug. 20, 1977, but never did. Presley died from a heart attack in Memphis on Aug. 16.
Dale Rice reflects, four decades later
Today, Rice works as the director of the journalism studies program at Texas A&M University. His 35-year career included jobs as a city hall reporter, education writer, capital bureau chief, business editor, features editor and restaurant critic.
"What I wrote was representative of an emphasis on journalism in the post-Watergate era," said Rice, now 65. "There was a real effort to tell what you saw as the truth, to write things the way you saw it. But I learned you can tread a bit more lightly when you are dealing with people"s heroes."
Rice stayed at The Post-Standard for six years. He saved a bundle of those angry Elvis letters and still hangs on to them, 40 years later.
"I thought someday I might write a piece that looks at fandom and the passion people carry," he said. "I can look back and really appreciate the position those fans took. I didn"t have any animosity to the people who hated me."
Today, Rice would tell those fans he "really respected their passion" for Elvis" music and dedication to him.
"They held Elvis up as someone very special, that represented more than just music," he said. "For so many of them, he represented their youth and a changing time in American society. He was an important part of their lives, and I certainly recognized that."
However, Rice still stands by his review.
"I still don"t think it was a great performance," he said. "I did not think it was a performance worthy of the audience."
Johnathan Croyle contributed to this report.
Katrina Tulloch writes music and culture stories for Syracuse.com and The Post-Standard. Contact her: Email | Twitter | Facebook
It Remake Casts Hemlock Grove Star Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise - IGN News
De makers proberen al jaren opnieuw een film te maken van de roman van King, schrijft The Hollywood Reporter. Net als in 1990, toen er een tweedelige miniserie rondom It werd gemaakt, zal ook deze remake mogelijk in twee delen verschijnen.
De Zweedse 25-jarige acteur speelde eerder in Hemlock Grove, Allegiant en recentelijk in Battlecreek.Naast Skarsgrd zullen ook Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs en Jeremy Ray Taylor rollen spelen in de nieuwe film.
Eerder zou The Revenant-acteur Will Poulter de rol van Pennywise gaan invullen. Door vertragingen in de productie, was de acteur niet meer beschikbaar.
Regisseur
Mama-regisseur Andy Muschietti regisseert de film. Eerder was er sprake van dat Cary Fukunuga de regisseur zou zijn. Hij stapte echter een jaar geleden op, vanwege een conflict met producent New Line.
De horror verschijnt mogelijk eind 2017 in de Verenigde Staten.
How to Raise an Olympian | Roz & Ashton Eaton | TEDxBend
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That, plus Usain Bolt races the semifinal of the 200 meters and Team USA"s Evan Jager races for a medal in the men"s steeplechase on Wednesday in Rio.
World record holder and defending Olympic gold medalist Ashton Eaton kicks off his Rio Games on Wednesday with Day 1 of the decathlon, the 10-event, two-day competition of speed, strength and endurance -- and athleticism and mental fortitude and everything else ... the decathlon is hard.
With all the accolades on his resume already,all that"s really left for Eaton to do is prove just how dominant he is one more time. If Eaton wins, he"d joinGreat Britain"s Daley Thompson (1980 and 1984) and the United States" Bob Mathias (1948 and 1952) as the only two-time winners in the event.
On Day 1, the decathletes will compete in the 100 meters, long jump, shot put, high jump and 400 meters. They"ll come back on Thursday to compete in the 110 meters hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and 1500 meters.
Other action on Wednesday includes the women"s 200 meters, where the reigning world champion, the Netherlands" Dafne Schippers, will face the100-meter gold medalist, Jamaica"s Elaine Thompson.
In the other final on Wednesday evening, the U.S. women have three medal hopefuls in the 100-meter hurdles.
In the morning session, American Evan Jager could bring home the first U.S. medal in the men"s steeplechase --one of the most exciting events on the track -- since 1984.Emma Coburn won the Americans" first all-time medal in the women"s event on Monday, finishing third.
Usain Bolt steps on the track one more time, this time in the semifinals of the 200 meters.
All events will be streaming live -- here"s a schedule and how you can watch them all:
Schedule for Wednesday, August 17
All times Eastern and medal events are in bold. All events broadcast on NBC and NBCSN.
TheBank of Englands plan is to keep calm and carry on buying.
The central bank said Wednesday it will deal with a 52 million-pound shortfall ($60.8 million) in an operation on Tuesday at a later date as it made no changes to its expanded 60 billion-pound quantitative-easing program. Details of these purchases will be announced when the institution publishes information on the second half of the plan on Nov. 3.
The statement came a day after the BOE failed to buy all the gilts it wanted at a reverse auction -- the first such shortfall since it started QE in 2009 -- as investors proved unwilling to part with their holdings of longer-dated bonds.
The miss may have been partly due to thin summer liquidity in longer-dated debt, or even traders being on holiday, which means Tuesdays issue may be a one-off. The European Central Bank has previously front-loaded purchases under its own QE program to avoid a shortage of available securities during the regions holiday months. While the BOEs shortfall was small compared with the total intended program, it may still be an early sign of the challenges the bank may face in expanding QE.
Challenge Seen
If they were reasonably comfortable that this was just a one-off, then the natural thing to do would be to say OK, fair enough, Ill just buy some more today and then we will move on, Pacific Investment Management Co. money manager Mike Amey said in a Bloomberg Television interview. So I think its a bit more nuanced than that. And it indicates to us that its going to be a challenge to buy these bonds.
An auction of seven- to 15-year debt on Wednesday saw offers of 4.71 times the amount needed, highlighting the particular difficulty facing the BOE in finding longer-dated gilts. They tend to offer higher yields than their shorter-dated equivalents and are in particular demand from pension companies that hold the securities to match their liabilities.
The gilt purchases are part of a package of measures designed to combat the economic fallout of Britains decision to leave the European Union. The Brexit defense, announced by Governor Mark Carney last week, also included corporate-bond purchases and the first interest-rate cut in more than seven years.
At Tuesdays operation, the central bank received offers to sell 1.118 billion pounds of gilts due in more than 15 years on Tuesday, compared with a target of 1.17 billion pounds.
U.K. government bonds pared their advance after Wednesdays auction, having earlier sent yields to record lows. The 10-year yield was down three basis points at 0.55 percent as of 3:10 p.m. London time, while the 30-year gilt yield declined nine basis points to 1.296 percent.
Yields are already extremely low so people are worried about the efficacy of this policy, whether it can really have a bite, Bloomberg Intelligence economist Dan Hanson said in an interview. The fact they havent said well make up the difference in the auction today might mean theyve got concerns about liquidity in the market and theyre just going to push the can down the road a little bit and wait until November and reassess.
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