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MANDO-pop king Jay Chou is officially off the singles market. Taiwanese-Australian model Hannah Quinlivan walked down the aisle with him in Yorkshire, northern England, last weekend, sending social media and the Internet into a frenzy.
It was reported that the keywords “Jay Chou marries” were searched 520 million times on Chinese social network site Weibo on the day of his nuptials at Selby Abbey — a church dating back to the 11th century — last Saturday.
The 36-year-old Taiwanese musician, dubbed the “Asian King of Pop” exchanged vows with Quinlivan, 21, at the church before hosting a party that featured both symphony and rock band performances at the 300-year-old Castle Howard.
Taiwanese media reports that Chou has a special place in his heart for the United Kingdom. His love affair with the country started in 2006 when contemplating a location for his Twilight’s Chapter Seven music video, inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
He eventually decided on the EU country, saying: “Where else is the best to film a detective story other than the UK?”
Chou has three more music videos featuring scenes from Edinburgh and London, and the UK left a further imprint on the musician when he was in the capital city to promote The Green Hornet in 2011. The flick, co-starring Seth Rogen and Cameron Diaz, was Chou’s Hollywood debut.
He has since made London his holiday destination a few times with his mother and Quinlivan. The couple is expected to stay on in the UK as Chou waits to start filming for Now You See Me: The Second Act — a thriller co-starring Michael Caine, Daniel Radcliffe and Morgan Freeman.
Chou’s love life began with Taiwanese starlet Vivian Hsu in 1999 before moving on to Jolin Tsai (2002-2003) and then news anchor and host Patty Hou for a brief year over 2005 and 2006. Chou dated Quinlivan for four years before tying the knot.
The pair reportedly met when Quinlivan was working part-time at a fashion store partly owned by the singer. They got closer after Chou encouraged her to learn to play the piano.
Chou told the media he does not remember having any big arguments during the courtship. He was quoted as saying: “My mental age is about the same as Quinlivan and we just get along like children.”
Another Taiwanese heart-throb who is off the market is actor Nicky Wu, or Wu Qilong, who married Chinese actress Cecilia Liu Shishi in China.
Wu broke the news himself through a Weibo announcement on Tuesday. He posted their marriage certificate, wedding rings and a line which read “Relishing the blissful moment”. Liu reposted the same message on her page, adding: “We are very happy.”
Wu, 44, and Liu, 27, paired up in China’s 2011 time-travel drama Scarlet Heart, which was a hit across the mainland, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. The former member of Taiwanese boy band “The Little Tigers” back in the 1980s was previously married to Chinese actress Ma Yashu in 2006 but they divorced in 2009.
SINGAPORE (Sept 21): Tata Group’s Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines (SIA) are proposing to invest a total of Rs 250 crore (S$50.9 million) in their Indian joint venture Vistara, otherwise known as Tata SIA Airlines.
The latest joint investment decision, by way of a rights issue, was approved by Vistara’s board of directors earlier this month.
According to an online news source, Visatara’s board has also approved a hike in the annual remuneration of its CEO, Phee Teik Yeoh, to S$800,000 for FY17 from S$665,000 in the previous year.
Phee – who is currently on deputation to Vistara from SIA – is remunerated by SIA, and the amount is reimbursed to SIA by Vistara, adds the source.
The airline commenced operations in Jan 2015 and will be expanding its fleet from 11 to 13 next month, with plans to exceed its target of 20 aircraft by June 2018.
India’s aviation industry saw the easing of its 5/20 rule this year in June – which results in airlines needing only 20 aircraft or 20% of capacity in India to launch overseas flights, instead of an additional five completed years of operations previously.
Vistara previously announced it has plans to feature South Asian nations among its first international destinations. It is also said to be in the midst of negotiating commercial partnerships with foreign airlines.
Sapura Energy active, up 2.98% on plan to dispose 50% stake in unit to Austrian group | The Edge Markets
KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 12): Sapura Energy Berhad rose 2.98% in active trade at mid-morning today after the company said it is disposing a 50% stake in its unit Sapura Upstream Sdn Bhd to OMV Akteingesellschaft (OMV AG), signalling it is opting for a stake sale rather than an IPO avenue to pare down its debts.
In a filing to Bursa Malaysia this morning, Sapura Energy said it had entered into a Heads of Agreement (HOA) with OMV AG for the transaction.
Sapura Energy said OMV AG is one of Austria’s largest listed industrial companies with group sales of €20 billion.
It said that in upstream, OMV AG has a strong base in Romania and Austria and a balanced international portfolio, with the North Sea, the Middle East & Africa and Russia as further core regions.
2017 daily production stood at approximately 348,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (“boe/d”), it added.
On the rationale of the deal, Sapura Energy said the strategic partnership will comprise its portfolio of commercially viable gas assets offshore Sarawak, its acreage in new markets in New Zealand, the Gulf of Mexico and Australia, and it will benefit from Sapura Energy’s in-house capabilities.
“OMV AG’s existing global core regions offer new market opportunities for upstream and for Sapura Energy’s services segment,”it said.
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People like to spout this phrase all the time saying that the only people worried about privacy are criminals and someone up to no good. Is that the case though?
The definition of privacy that I like best is The right of an individual to choose what personal information is given to who and when. That is, I can choose to tell my wife about a rash on my butt, but wouldn't necessarily like my coworkers to know about it. It's not like I have to hide it, but I'd prefer only some people know.
People hide things all the time. Why do people have curtains? So they can choose when someone can see into their house, and when they can't. Why do people dress in dressing rooms instead of in the aisles at the store? Why do we have an issue when a stranger asks our daughter's name, where do we live, and what's her favorite candy?
It's a proven fact that there are more strangers than people you know. While there may be some percentage of complete strangers who will treat your private life with the same care and diligence as a close friend or family member would, another segment of those strangers won't. Another segment of those strangers will not just be careless with your data, they'll use it specifically against you for their benefit (identity thieves for example).
Unless you have some sort of list of who are the good people and who are the bad, there's nothing wrong with playing it safe and keeping your information to yourself. In fact, it's quite irresponsible to offer private information to just anyone.
Have you ever heard of a wrongful conviction case? That's where someone went to jail for a crime they didn't commit. Sometimes it's an innocent mistake, but sometimes politicians and prosecutors are under so much pressure to make someone pay that they're not very careful about who actually goes to jail.
What about all those victims of con artists or identity thieves? Did they do something wrong? Most of the time, the answer is no, but they still found their information used against them.
There are the people who leave product boxes for their new plasma TV out at the curb who come home one day to find that their house has been broken into and the TV (and other things) are gone. Or maybe they kept the family up-to-date with their vacation cruise and similarly came home to a ransacked house.
In all these cases, no one did anything wrong, but because the bad guys knew too much, they were able to victimize innocent people.
Here is a set of some of the better retorts I've come up with. Note that in none of these cases have you done anything wrong so you have "nothing to hide", but you will (or should) keep it hidden anyway:
People don't come with forehead labels like "honest person", "hardworking citizen", "serial killer", "stalker/rapist", "kind fatherly gentlemen", "child abuser", or "con artist". If they did, it would be easy to tell who to be honest with and who to keep information from or lie to outright. The fact is that you don't have to have done something wrong to draw the attention of a sick, evil, twisted person.
Every piece of information you give to someone who wants to hurt you makes it easier for them to do it. Since you can't tell the difference between "Just a nice guy" and Mr. "Wants to cut you into little pieces and keep you in a jar on his mantle", you are putting yourself and your family in danger every time you are free and loose with information.
Everyone has the right to let personal past mistakes be buried forever. If you long ago dated someone who eventually became a widely publicized serial killer, chances are you'd prefer people didn't know about it. Or let's just say that you became pregnant as a teen (or got someone pregnant), but lost the baby. It's a painful personal matter and no one's business. There are a probably a million other examples of things that you would rather not share and because they hurt no one and nothing (other than you), there's no reason why you should.
Corrupt lawyers, jealous co-workers, ex-lovers may all be motivated to paint you as someone you're not. With the right kinds of data, they can make you look like you are biased, predisposed, violent, or anything else for that matter. Most importantly, they can make you look guilty of something when you're not just because they proved that you lied about something, hid something, or flustered and confused you. The important factor here is that they have something to gain by bringing you down and there's no sense in handing them the knife they use to stab you with.
With enough tidbits of data, it's possible to know far more about you than you originally intended. Businesses will use this data to profile you and exploit your weaknesses for money
Large organizations (businesses, government) are, by definition, full of people. Some are nice, some are not. Even worse, information they hold has a habit of leaking away to even more people you don't know. When you give information to organizations like these, you have no idea how many people or what kind of people will end up in possession of it.
Most dangerous is the possibility of the various little bits of information being combined into a larger pool of data about you. With enough tidbits of data, it's possible to know far more about you than you originally intended. Businesses will use this data to profile you and exploit your weaknesses for money (e.g., the payday loan market). The government will use it to assess your worth and adjust your freedoms accordingly (think of the no-fly list or the Japanese internment camps of WWII).
Let's say your father WAS a famous serial killer or you have a little-understood disease. Though your whole life, you've tried to be open about it hoping people wouldn't hold it against you, but you learned the hard way what ignorant fear will make people do (ex. Ryan White). After years of bullying and vandalism, you move to a new town and change your name hoping to start a new life.
Now, can we agree that there are tons of cases where fully innocent people with "nothing to hide" can, will, and should keep information private from friends, family, neighbors, and even police? Yes? Good.
Make sure you never, EVER let yourself say you have nothing to hide and if you ever hear someone else say it, slap them (or more specifically, share this page with them).
The Geek Privacy Principle: an argument for why you should choose to keep information to yourself most of the time.
Ever heard someone say they have Nothing to Hide? Learn why that's such a bad thing and what you can say in response when you hear it.
Data Abuse - Companies buy and sell all kinds of data about you from the foods you like to the color of your hair to the names and ages of your kids.
RFID - Radio Frequency IDentification - Companies are beginning to use tiny radio transmitters on products and in clothing to track your movements and add it to their profiles on you for marketing purposes.
>> Large organizations (businesses, government) are, by definition, full of people. Some are nice, some are not.
I’ve just finished reading an old book by George Soros. In it he mentions that he behaves differently depending on his role. As a hedge fund manager, he is amoral and coldly calculating. As a philanthropist, he goes out of his way to spend his time and money to help people in need, even calling on his old contacts in various governments and taking risks with his personal safety.
In other words, just because your nice harmless neighbor John Doe could be trusted to look after your little girl when you have an emergency, does not mean he will not specifically write an ad or create sales-copy to target your emotional weak points to make you buy his employer’s products while he is at work.
Another quite common retort is “If you’ve got nothing to hide, then please show me all your passwords, biometric data, tell me where you keep your money at home, how to open your strongbox etc.
The most basic principle of privacy is to be able to choose who knows what about you and when. The Geek Principle describes why you should choose by default not to share information.
Do you say "I have nothing to hide" or do people you know say it to YOU? Read this tutorial about why no one should ever say they have nothing to hide again.
Sometimes you are required to give away information to be able to get service, but you know the company has no real need of your data other than to share and sell it. In these cases, having a personalized alias comes in handy.
Date for 2014 Oscars up in the air (updated) | The Gold Knight - Latest Academy Awards news and insight
Because of a calendar gridlock, Sundays in February are not available to the Academy. Every four years the Winter Olympics takes up three Sundays and the first Sunday is typically reserved for the Super Bowl. In 2014, the winter games from Sochi, Russia, are Friday, Feb. 7, to Sunday, Feb. 23. The big football game, numbered XLVIII, is Sunday, Feb. 2.
That leaves the Academy to choose a Sunday in January or March 2. UPDATE (3/25/13): The Academy announced the ceremony date: March 2.
The Academy could move the ceremony from a Sunday night, but that seems unlikely. The most recent Oscars ceremony on a Monday was the 70th Academy Awards on March 23, 1998. And ABC would not want to counter program against the Olympics or football, typically ratings juggernauts.
The Academy typically announces its next Oscars date in March or April during the prior year. If it is going to stake a claim on a January Sunday, the nonprofit organization may need to announce its date sooner.
The Gold Knight - Latest Academy Awards news and insight: Date for 2014 Oscars up in the air (updated)
I swung by the Topgolf Orlando project yesterday for a progress check and everything seems to be on schedule. Topgolf is still reporting an "early fall" opening so I expect them to open the doors and those amazing hitting stalls in the next few weeks.
The opening comes right before the busy holiday season and Topgolf Orlando, no doubt, will be in fine form with a well trained staff by the PGA Merchandise Show in late January 2018.
Currently under construction in front of Topgolf is the Andretti Indoor Karting & Games, an amazing facility with high-speed electric karts on a multi-level, banked turn track, as well as a ropes course with a zip line, VR racing simulators, laser tag, bowling, theater and restaurant and bar.
The Guru loves oceanside courses, yet, oddly enough, there aren’t that many in my home state of Florida. You’ve got lots of layouts near the ocean, but really only a precious few directly on the ocean.
That’s why I’m so excited about the re-opening on October 12, 2017 of the Ocean Course, a Jack Nicklaus Signature Design, at Hammock Beach Resort in Palm Coast, about 28 miles south of St. Augustine.
If the date sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because it marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Matthew, which wreaked havoc on the Ocean Course. High winds and storm surge from hurricane made the course almost unrecognizable.
Now, following an extensive 12-month restoration project, the Ocean Course is returning better than ever.
Staying true to Nicklaus’ design, the Ocean Course restoration and enhancement encompasses the re-grassing of all fairways, greens and rough with the salt-tolerant Platinum Paspalum, and the reconstruction of each tee box, bunker and green.
“By replacing Bermuda grass with salt-tolerant Platinum Paspalum, we will now offer golfers one of the purest surfaces in the game,” says Brad Hauer, director of golf at Hammock Beach Resort. “And, in addition to improved playing conditions for golfers of all levels, the views of the Atlantic Ocean are simply incredible.”
The Ocean Course’s dune line, which is more than a mile long, continues to be carefully restored to state conservation specifications. Newer and stronger dunes are forming, which offer greater environmental protection while also offering golfers some of the most stunning ocean panoramas on the East Coast.
Renowned for its six Atlantic Ocean-hugging holes and finishing stretch dubbed “The Bear Claw”, the Ocean Course is challenging, fun and oh so photogenic. Originally opened in 2000, the Ocean Course has multiple tee settings and plays as short as 4,100 yards and as long as 7,201 yards from the back tees.
Once the Ocean Course re-opens, the resort will be able to double its efforts to introduce young players to the sport through its Family Fairways Program. Designed to bring families together through golf, the daily program provides special rates for adults and juniors along with complimentary club rentals for children from 3:00 p.m. until close.
Guests are invited to be among the first to play the Ocean Course during the Grand Reopening Weekend, starting on October 12. It will feature several events, dining and entertainment. Golfers can also register to win a weekend at the resort by visiting the Ocean Course’s countdown page.
Starting this fall, Hammock Beach Resort is offering golfers a JUST GOLF PACKAGE with rates starting at $179 per person, per day. The package includes one round on the Ocean Course, one round on the Conservatory Course and $20 daily breakfast credit. Pricing is based on midweek, two-night stay with four people sharing a deluxe three-bedroom villa. Rates, which are subject to availability, do not include taxes and service fees.
HammockBeach Resort has everything the Guru likes in a golf resort with challenging and drop dead gorgeous golf, luxurious, spacious accommodations, superb amenities like multiple restaurants and bars, a spa and fitness center and a terrific golf director who knows what golfers like.
Laying on my couch this weekend watching the PGA Championship and U.S. Women's Amateur, I had a few minutes during commercials to write down some of the things that annoy me about golf these days.
1. I absolutely love Topgolf, but the golf media should please stop saying it'll bring more Millennials to golf. Noshing on upscale appetizers and copping a buzz from fancy cocktails before you hit some electronic golf balls is not really golf.
2. Enough already with dumb ideas like high-top golf shoes, golf sandals and track pants. Hey folks, we're supposed to be playing golf not shooting hoops or hangin' at the beach.
3. Hey LPGA and USGA, please stop having 12 and 13 year olds compete in your major championships. It just seems so sad to see these whippersnappers beat the heck out of your pros and college golfers.
4. Hello LPGA! Stop with the dress code. These are grown women. If Lexi Thompson, Belen Mozo and Paige Spiranac want to work out and wear form fitting clothing on the golf course, what's wrong with that. What you should outlaw is all of the boring outfits many players wear during tournaments.
5. Speed up play on the PGA Tour. Enough with the six hour rounds. My gosh, I've seen scramble tournaments with beer swilling participants play faster than some of these guys.
6. Attention PGA Tour, LPGA Tour and any other professional tour. Please don't use golf courses that have ridiculous false fronts on greens. I despise seeing golfers hit the green and have the ball roll off 20 yards back into the fairway.
7. Leave Tiger Woods alone, golf media. I know he's worth millions of clicks and viewers, but let the man live in peace till he decides to tee it up again. And puh-leeze don't run that mug shot again.
8. Hey PGA Tour, try to find more players like John Daly and Beef Johnston to counteract all of the lifeless robots playing on Tour.
9. At professional tour events, please instantly remove any fan that yells "Baba Booey", "Cheeseburger", "Mash Potatoes", "in the hole", "you da man", etc. Especially "you da man" (that's so 1990s)
10. Hey adult fans (kids are ok), please stop trying to hand slap PGA Tour players as they walk from one hole to the next. It just seems so sad to see adult jock sniffers be so desperate.
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Arsenal FC continue their pursuit of Schalke winger Julian Draxler, a move which might define the outcome of this season for the Gunners.
Julian Draxler has been linked with Arsenal since the summer. Although the rumours died down back then as Arsene Wenger landed Mesut Ozil, but the German international has once again been on the headlines in this transfer window with reports strongly linking him with a move to the Emirates.
There are no doubts that Arsenal and Arsene Wenger realize the need of a big name signing in this window in order to sustain their title challenge this season. The Gunners have made a fantastic start to their campaign, both domestically and in Europe, but general consensus is that the squad is still now strong enough to compete with the likes of Manchester City and Chelsea in the long run. Arsenal have a brilliant chance of ending their silverware draught this season and one or two signings in this window will increase their chances of doing so.
The Gunners have already lost the lead at the top of the table as Manchester City displaced them, and with an intimidating fixture list awaiting them in February and March, the Arsenal fans will be hoping that the club is able to do the right business before the deadline day. Draxler remains Arsene Wengerai??i??s top priority, but the main stumbling block in this deal is Schalkeai??i??s unwillingness to sell him midway through the season. Arsenal certainly have a better chance of signing him in the summer when his release clause comes into the picture, but the Gunners are believed to be desperate to push through for a move in this window itself. Landing him and a striker in this window could be the difference between lifting the title this season for the London club.
The 20-year-oldai??i??s transfer was initially looking unlikely following his injury, which was expected to keep him out for a long period. But Arsenalai??i??s pursuit of the winger received a major boost yesterday when Dr Hans-Wilhelm MA?ller-Wohlfahrt insisted that Draxler will be back in action in a week. For those who remember Dr Hans-Wilhelm MA?ller-Wohlfahrt, also helped in conducted Mesut Ozilai??i??s medical for the Gunners before his move to the club in the summer.
*Dr MA?ller-Wohlfahrt who gave Draxler all clear to resume playing in week, also conducted medical for Mesut Ai??zil’s transfer to Arsenal. (DT)
Recent reports suggested that Arsenal have dispatched delegations to Germany to negotiate this move. Schalke are believed to be unwilling to part ways with the young German and are haggling over the transfer fee with the London club. Moreover, it was also reported that their decision to sell Draxler in this window might depend on their ability to sign Lewis Holtby from Tottenham Hotspur. The German club are unwilling to let go of Draxler without a proper replacement.
Holtby, who has had limited opportunities at Tottenham, is also looking to change his club in order to gain regular first team action. But his agent suggested that it is up to Spurs to agree a fee.
“My feeling is he’ll leave but it’s not in our hands. Spurs have to agree first. We hope to find a solution in the next 2 days” ai??i?? Holtbyai??i??s agent was quoted in the press.
Considering how inadvertently Daniel Levy helped Arsenal in signing Mesut Ozil in the summer, if a similar episode takes place in case of Julian Draxler it might outrage a few Spurs supporters out there.
The Arsenal squad has been stretched a lot recently with injuries to a lot of key players. Theo Walcottai??i??s absence for the rest of the season could turn out to be a big blow, while Aaron Ramsey is also set to miss out for few weeks. Jack Wilshere has also struggled with his fitness, while Flamini has now been suspended. Draxlerai??i??s ability to play through the middle as well as a wide-man will provide good cover for Arsene Wenger during this tough fixture list.
Whether Arsenal will be able to finally get their man remains in doubt, but they are certainly doing their best to push through this move in this window, but either way, the outcome of this will have a massive impact on the Gunnersai??i?? current season. Meanwhile SkyBet has also suspended betting on Draxler’s future destination.
Arsenal are continuing to pursue Schalke forward Julian Draxler find out more on #SSN with all the latest transfer news
But despite such persistence from Arsenal, Schalke remain in control of this transfer saga and the German club have maintained their stance of refusing to sell him at the moment. Schalke chief Horst Heldt insisted that Draxler will remain at the club this season in a recent interview.
“I am very sure that Julian will play in the second half for us – and probably beyond.” – Heldt said.