Rio 2016 badminton: PV Sindhu storms into Olympic final By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Published:August 19, 2016 10:53 am Shobhaa De is back, by tweeting a strange remark about P V Sindhus win, but unlike last time, has tried to cover up her act. (Source: Twitter)
While Indians cheered for PV Sindhu and the possibility of her winning the gold at the Rio Olympics, columnist Shobhaa De seemed to be setting her sights a bit lower. After Sindhu smashed her way into the badminton finals on August 18, De wrote a cheeky tweet P V Sindhu, Silver Princess?. After that rather fiasco of a selfie tweet earlier, guess how this one went down with the good people of Twitterverse.
Twenty-one-year-old Sindhu defeated Japans Nozomi Okuhara 21-19, 21-10 making for a historic win. Shell now face Carolina Marin of Spain in the finals. Everyones happy that Sindhu, and thus India, has a silver medal guaranteed now, but the obvious chant is #GoForGold and Des remark has really rubbed people the wrong way.De is now gaining more of a reputation for her irksome tweets than her novels. First for her unapologeticremark on Indias delegates to Rio Olympics, and now this.
She had previously jeered the Indian team by tweeting Goal of Team India at the Olympics: Riojao. Selfies lo. Khaali haat wapas aao. What a waste of money and opportunity.
This was met with a lot of lambasting by sportsmen including Abhinav Bindra and Virender Sehwag and the general populace alike. Not only that, ever since that tweet, wrestler Sakshi Malik has bagged India a bronze, and tweeple have been taking jibes at Des selfie remark.
De must have realised that her new silver princess tweet has further upset the cart, and it seems the author tried to salvage the situation by two new tweets. One said: Silver minted by Sindhu. Chandi ke baad Sona!!! and the other Go for gold, girl!!!
Heres her latest jabbing remark,
Oh well, too bad, because the damage was already done. Tweeple have been trolling her continuously. Sample these:
Womens 4×100m relay - Allyson Felix dropped baton - Rio Olympics 2016 slideshow
RIO DE JANEIRO A valiant effort by Allyson Felix to overcome an ankle injury that threatened to derail her Olympic dreams months before she reached Rio wasnt quite enough for her to win gold in the womens 400-meter dash on Monday night, when Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas dived at the line and won the race by perhaps half an arms length.
Miller won with a time of 49.44 seconds, to a season-best 49.51 for Felix, who grew up in Los Angeles and attended USC. Shericka Jackson of Jamaica was third in 49.85.
No one was initially sure who had won. Miller, gasping for air after holding off Felixs late surge, fell forward onto the track and rolled over onto her back. Felix sat on the track, arms clasped around her knees, as she looked to the scoreboard for the result.
The crowd at Olympic Stadium let loose a roar when Millers name was listed first, followed by Felix.
Felix won the gold medal in the 200-meter dash at the London Games four years ago and had hoped to pursue a 200-400 double here. However, a training accident that damaged ligaments in her ankle in late April led her to struggle at the U.S. Olympic trials and she didnt make the team in the 200 and so was unable to defend her title. However, she is expected to run both the 400-meter and 1,600-meter relays here.
Running in Lane 4 on a track dampened by rain that had delayed the start of several races, she made a strong surge down the stretch and appeared in position to win. But thats when Miller made her desperate and successful dive and came up a winner.
War Dogs Official Trailer 2 (2016) - Miles Teller Movie
War Dogs, a film starring Jonah Hill and Miles Teller, grossed $1.25 million at the Thursday box office, passing the Ben-Hur remake which grossed $900,000 at the previews.
Directed by Todd Phillips, Warner Bros. is estimating a $13 million opening weekend for War Dogs, based on a true story of two men who won a $300-million contract from the Pentagon to arm Americas allies in Afghanistan. Something of a bromance, War Dogs also features Bradley Cooperin a small, but memorable role.The filmsbudget was $40 million.
In comparison, Tina Feys recent war comedy, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, opened to $300,000 and went on to make $7.6 million, based on a $35 million budget. The genre is a tough one to sell, and war-based comedies have had trouble resonating with audiences in recent years, as Bill Murrays Rock the Kasbah proved last fall.
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War Dogs has received decent reviews so far it has a score of 60 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
The critically acclaimed 1959 Ben-Hur film grossed $74 million on a budget of $15 million, which was the most money spent to make a movie at that time. The remake had a hefty budget of $100 million, and multiple trackersare currently setting its opening weekend gross at a paltry $12 million on average, while the studio is being more optimistic with a $20 million estimated gross.
The remake stars Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Rodrigo Santoro, Morgan Freeman and was directed by Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter director Timur Bekmambetov.
It follows the epic story of Judah Ben-Hur, who flees his homeland after being falsely accused of treason only to come back years later to seek revenge. The film currently holds a score of 29 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
The opening estimates of Ben-Hur are worse than Universals Warcraft, which was widely considered one of the summers biggest bombs, opening to $24.2 million domestically against a hefty $160 million budget.
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Kubo and the Two Strings grossed $515,000 at the Thursday previews, ahead of what the studio expects will be a $12 million weekend.
Voiced byMatthew McConaughey, Charlize Theron and Rooney Mara, the animated film was directed by Travis Knight. Kubo was produced by Laika, the production company behind hits like 2009s Coraline and 2014s The Boxtrolls.
Kubo was produced on a $55 million budget and currently holds a score of 92 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
May 20: "Neighbors 2" vs. "Angry Birds Movie" vs. "The Nice Guys"Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne and Zac Efron return for some new fraternity high jinks -- and will face off against a 1970s-set film starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe as well as some bitter animated birds based on the popular phone game.
May 27: "Alice Through the Looking Glass" vs. "X-Men: Apocalypse"
Two big sequels with wide appeal: "Alice" is a four-quadrant movie, meaning the movie offers something for every demographic. "X-Men" is another film in the popular franchise that already has a huge following, and let"s be honest -- Marvel movies do extremely well at the box office. The box office winner may depend on which movie gets the IMAX screens.
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June 10: "Conjuring 2" vs. "Now You See Me 2" vs. "Warcraft"
This summer day marks the release of two sequels to surprisingly successful movies, while the newcomver "Warcraft" will vie for fans of the popular video game.
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July 1: "The BFG" vs. "The Legend of Tarzan" vs. "The Purge: Election Year
Two classics are hitting theaters in the prime of summer. Steven Spielberg"s adaptation of the Roald Dahl children"s book faces a giant challenge from Alexander Skarsgard"s jungle-raised man. "The Purge" franchise has consistently been a low-budget production but continued to make money at the box office -- the last film, "Anarchy," earned $72 million domestically.
Disney/Warner Bros./Universal
July 8: "Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates" vs. "The Secret Life of Pets"These light-hearted comedies target very different young audiences audiences. The former is a raunchy R-rated movie featuring Zac Efron and Anna Kendrick, while "Pets" targets family audiences in the tradition of recent Illumination hits like "Minions."
Fox/Illumination
July 22: "Star Trek Beyond" vs. "Ice Age: Collision Course"
"Star Trek Beyond" hopes to boldly go where 2013"s "Trek Into Darkness" went, with a $229 million domestic gross based on the die-hard fan base. "Ice Age: Collision Course" is the fifth movie in a well-known franchise, which has accumulated$729.6 million in revenue since 2002.
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August 12: "Ben-Hur" vs. "Pete"s Dragon" vs. "Sausage Party"
"Ben-Hur" and "Pete"s Dragon" are mostly remakes of movies that young audiences may be too young to remember, while Seth Rogen"s R-rated animated movie features a stellar cast ofJames Franco, Jonah Hill and Kristen Wiig.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Former NFL star Darren Sharper has been sentenced to 18 years and four months in prison in a case where he was accused of drugging and raping as many as 16 women in four states.
U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo sentenced Sharper on Thursday, telling him she couldn"t understand how he did what he did, since he was college educated and obviously had grown up "in one of the most loving households."
"We can never ignore the damage you inflicted on those women and society at large," she said.
Sharper had pleaded guilty in federal court in New Orleans to drugging three women so he could rape them. He also has pleaded guilty or no contest in state courts in Louisiana, Arizona, California and Nevada to charges arising from allegations of drugging and raping women.
"I would like to apologize a thousand times," Sharper said. He looked at the floor as he said, "I"m still trying to figure out why I made some of these choices. ... I lived my life right for 38 years, then I took this path."
His voice thickened and broke as he said his parents hadn"t raised him to take such actions.
Defense attorney Billy Gibbens asked leniency because Sharper"s testimony helped get "late" guilty pleas from two codefendants who will be sentenced in October.
Sharper will be sentenced next Thursday in Louisiana state court, Gibbens said outside court. He said he believes Sharper will be sentenced next month in Las Vegas, and couldn"t recall the Los Angeles sentencing date. (See full story.)
Giants: Brown confirms domestic violence chargeEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- New York Giants kicker Josh Brown has confirmed that an arrest on a domestic violence charge in May 2015 led to his one-game suspension by the NFL for violating the league"s personal conduct policy.
Speaking after practice on Thursday, the 37-year-old Brown said the woman whose wrist he grabbed in Woodinville, Wash. during a disagreement was his wife. He said the couple has since divorced.
Brown said the case was dismissed by the King County Prosecutor"s office five days after his arrest for fourth-degree domestic violence.
A spokesman for the prosecutor said in an email to The Associated Press that no charge was filed because of insufficient evidence.
Brown said he informed the Giants immediately after his arrest, and the team informed the league.
He was notified of his suspension in June. He appealed the decision and it was rejected. The league announced the suspension Wednesday.
Broncos: Siemian competing with SanchezENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Trevor Siemian, locked in a tight battle with Mark Sanchez for the Broncos" starting quarterback job, will get his turn to start on Saturday night, when Denver plays a preseason game against the San Francisco 49ers.
Sanchez, acquired in a trade with Philadelphia as a potential replacement for the retired Peyton Manning, started last week"s game.
Rookie first-round pick Paxton Lynch also is in the mix, though the bulk of his work has been with the third team.
Siemian and Sanchez have split repetitions with the Broncos first-team offense throughout training camp and with the two waging a close competition for the job, coach Gary Kubiak decided Siemian should also get a crack at starting.
Kubiak said he would like to make a decision on a starter next week but did not rule out taking more time to finalize his pick.
49ers:Kaepernick resumes throwingENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Colin Kaepernick threw dozens of passes on the side during the 49ers" joint practice Thursday with the Denver Broncos, signaling the quarterback"s return from a sore passing shoulder.
The throws were the first on the practice field in a week for Kaepernick, whose competition with Blaine Gabbert for the starting job had to be put on hold after tightness in his right shoulder forced him to rest his throwing arm.
Kaepernick also took part in individual quarterback drills and conditioning. However, coach Chip Kelly said Kaepernick would be eased back into full participation in practices and ruled him out for Saturday night"s exhibition game against the Broncos.
Panthers: OT Willie Smith signsCHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Panthers signed 29-year-old offensive tackle Willie Smith to help bolster their depth on the offensive line.
The move comes after backup tackles Daryl Williams and David Foucault have struggled in training camp and the preseason. Michael Oher and Mike Remmers are expected to be Carolina"s starting offensive tackles again this season.
The 6-foot-5, 310-pound Smith didn"t play in the NFL last season, but saw action in 15 games in 2014 with the San Diego Chargers. Smith, who played at East Carolina, has started 11 games and played in 19 since breaking into the league with the Washington Redskins in 2011.
Carolina waived injured fullback Devon Johnson to make room for Smith on the roster.
Gawker, one of the defining magazines of the 21st century, announced Thursday that its shutting down next week for reasons that are too repulsive and terrifying to think about for long. In its 14-year lifespan, Gawker published breakthrough investigations and scurrilous gossip and everything in between. It created much of the lively, ironic, emotionally labile house style of the internet. It revealed that the mayor of Toronto had been filmed smoking crack and that Politicos Mike Allen let a source write an item and that BuzzFeeds Benny Johnson plagiarized from Yahoo Answers. The fact that a billionaire could kill Gawker out of spite is a crisis, and the fact that Gawker is gone is a tragedy.
When it comes to Gawker we are conflicted out the wazoo.One Slate editor is married to a Gawker editor. One is married to a lawyer who represented Gawker in the Hulk Hogan trial. One is a former Gawker Media executive editor. None of these Slate staffers worked on this roundup.
Here are some of our favorite Gawker posts for you to read before they disappear into the Memory Furnace to be replaced by something Peter Thiel likes better.
Weavers famous mozzarella-stick stunt isnt just about TGI Fridays endless appetizer. Its about the supreme difficulty of entertaining yourself for 14 g*****n hours without being able to read a book or use the free Wi-Fi. (Though she did play with the TGI Fridays app.) Torie Bosch
Everythingpublished in Gawkers Dog column was a pure delight. Its impossible to imagine any other publication printing this spot-on but affectionate satire of both dogs and columnists, and accompanying it with such beautiful illustrations (by Jim Cooke, of course). This is a good one in which Dog explains why he doesnt wear a watch. Its not for me. Im classy, not flashy. I also dont know how to read a watch, Dog writes. I will miss Dog so much. L.V. Anderson
Coens departing editor letter is a total evisceration of the then-editor of Star, who tried to have an unflattering post removed. It is hilarious yet very fair, a burned bridge done right. Jeffrey Bloomer
Writing before the #blacklivesmatter movement took hold, Jeffersons bracing, bitter essay on George Zimmermans acquittal, on what he had experienced as a black man in America, and on what black people have to put up with every day remains powerful. Seth Maxon
Lawsons Real Housewives roundups summed up so much of what made Gawker Gawker: bitchy, exacting, exhaustive, hilarious, obsessive, and a little surreal. At their best, the recaps blurred fiction and reality so that if you didnt watch the show (and maybe even if you did), you wouldnt be quite sure what really went down and what was spun purely out of Lawsons Bravo-addled headspace. The loopy patois he concocted for the Countess LuAnn de Lesseps was mind-alteringworthy of a thread in David Mitchells Cloud Atlas. Jessica Winter
Donald Trumps hair, with its absurd, origami-like complexity, has long been an object of ridicule and speculation. Is it a wig? Is it a transplant? Is it the hide of an unfortunate golden retriever? This year, Gawker finally cracked the case, accumulating a mountain of circumstantial evidence that the persimmon-colored demagogue is wearing an awful and outrageously expensive weave, created by a specialist who worked out of his own building. This is a hilarious investigation for the ages and one of the best things Ive read this whole godforsaken election cycle. Jordan Weissmann
Cushs outrage over the revealed history of bogus synopses for the 90s cartoon Street Sharks is one of the funniest things to come from the Ghost of Internet Past. Who knows how much time (or how many takedown requests) will pass before we purge this fake history from our collective consciousness? Dawnthea Price
Perhaps the defining literary work of our time, every sentence a crystalline gem of violent beauty and power. Gabriel Roth
This little throwaway post from almost 10 years ago is so funny and great that I dont even know what to say. Heather Schwedel
Plenty of media organizations are happy to be the vessels for the stories famous and powerful people tell about themselves. Gawker never was, and we all benefitted from the existence of a place that called out and ripped apart self-serving narratives. Josh Levin
This is a little morbid, but its also an example of what made Gawker great. Even with its hearty sense of self-deprecation, rereading this today stings. Susan Matthews
Pareenes case against each of the remaining presidential candidates on the day of the New York primary was a lucid encapsulation of this dreadful political year. Seth Maxon
Snark is the revenge of the powerless. The powerful dont like it. They prefer smarm, a positive, happy view of the world, which smooths out conflict and serves to maintain the status quo. Tom Scocca makes the case against smarm and shows why we need snark in this memorable 2013 essay. Helaine Olen
This might not be the most serious or poignant of Richs writing at Gawkerat root its about trading b******s with a guy in Toon Lagoonbut it is representative of the fearless, honest, and compassionate way hes treated subjects, especially queer ones, in his time there. Richs ability to find humor and beauty in the strangest or most mundane of assignments has always impressed me, and this piece represents an early and important ethnography of a now-defining aspect of queer male life. I think of his as a crucial voice in the LGBTQ conversation, one with which Ive often agreed and just as often argued. I hope, after Gawker, we continue to hear it. J. Bryan Lowder
f**k Boston by Hamilton Nolan
Ive only lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts for a year and Im leaving in two weeks, but I quite like the place as well as the city it borders. Still, Hamilton Nolans 2013 essay f**k Bostonin which Hamilton clarifies that he also means f**k the Puritans and f**k Boston (the band)is one of the funniest things Gawker ever published. Seth Maxon
What other magazine would have let someone publish this? And yet, why not! They probably got a lot of pageviews out of it too. Gabriel Roth
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What tea do you have with your scone, jam and Cornish clotted cream?
Because it seems we"re about to see a huge decline in tea sales as younger drinkers ditch Britain"s traditional cuppa in favour of fancy flavours.
Healthier options like green or fruit tea are preferred by almost half of 25 to 34-year-olds who claim the classic tea it has too much caffeine and stains their teeth.
READ MORE: 7 places to stop those cream tea cravings
While one in three those aged 55 to 64 drink at least five cuppas a day, research by Mintel suggested just one in five of younger drinkers do.
Apparently tea bag sales plummeted 14% between 2013 and 2015 and are set to fall again by 5% this year.
But sales of green tea have gone up by 39% while herbal tea sales rose by 13%.
Mintel"s senior food and drink expert Richard Caines said: "Tea brands need to increase the appeal of their products to 16 to 34-year-olds who drink standard black tea less frequently.
"One way of encouraging more tea drinking among younger consumers is with more choice of flavours and indulgent varieties."
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Die explosive Info verpackte Amy Schumer in einem Nebensatz ihres Tweets. Eigentlich schrieb die Komikerin ber die Enttuschung, die sie mit ihrem Kollegen Kurt Metzger erlebt habe, und dass er kein Autor ihrer Sendung "Inside Amy Schumer" sei - "weil wir die Show nicht mehr machen".
TV-Autor Kurt Metzger hatte sich vor einigen Tagen in sozialen Netzwerken abfllig ber Frauen geuert, die sich gegen sexuelle Gewalt wehren. Anlass war der Ausschluss des US-Comedian Aaron Glaser aus der New Yorker Comedy-Truppe Upright Citizens Brigade. Glaser werden sexuelle bergriffe vorgeworfen. "Leute, ich hab gerade eine verstrende Nachricht erhalten", beginnt der Facebook-Eintrag vom Metzger. "Dieser Typ Jiff Dilfyberg ist ein Vergewaltiger! Ich wei das, weil Frauen das gesagt haben und das alles ist, was ich wissen muss. Egal, wer sie sind. Sie sind Frauen! ALLE Frauen sind so zuverlssig wie die Bibel! Ein Buch, das hnlich wie eine Frau, gar nicht lgen kann."
ber Twitter forderten viele Fans Amy Schumer auf, Kurt Metzger zu kndigen. Schumer hatte selbst erst krzlich in ihrem autobiografischen Buch "The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo" (Das Mdchen mit dem Arschgeweih) ffentlich gemacht, dass sie mit Anfang 20 von ihrem damaligen Partner krperlich und emotional missbraucht worden war.
"Kurt Metzger hat mich so sehr betrbt und enttuscht. Er ist ein Freund und ein toller Autor", schrieb Schumer am Mittwoch auf Twitter, und zwei Stunden spter: "Kurt arbeitet nicht fr mich. Er ist keiner der Autoren von meiner Show. Hrt bitte auf, mich ber ihn zu befragen. Er spricht nur fr sich." Dann folgte der ominse Tweet mit dem Satz, dass sie Metzger nicht gefeuert habe, weil sie die Sendung nicht mehr produzieren und gar keine Autoren mehr beschftigen wrden.
Ob Kurt Metzger blo deshalb nicht als Autor fr Schumer arbeitet, weil ihre Show momentan Produktionspause hat, blieb zunchst unklar. Kurz darauf retweetete Schumer einen Fan, der schrieb: "Du bist die Beste, und wir werden deine Show vermissen." In den Branchendienste wurde daraufhin spekuliert, dass Schumers beliebte Sketch-Show trotz bereits angekndigter fnfter Staffel wohl gecancelt worden sei.
Am Freitagmorgen Los Angeles Ortszeit bereitete Schumer den Spekulationen aber ein Ende: "Inside Amy Schumer" sei nicht gestrichen worden, so Schumer auf Twitter. "Ich toure einfach nur."
