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Bentley's Limited Edition Flying Spur Hybrid Odyssean Edition Adds to Company's Green Line
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James McCandless
On 7/29/21 at 7:22 PM EDT
Bentley's limited edition Flying Spur Hybrid Odyssean reflects the company's focus on sustainable materials
Bentley Motors
Bentley Motors today announced the debut of a limited edition of its new Bentley Flying Spur Hybrid. Dubbed the Bentley Flying Spur Hybrid Odyssean Edition, the company promises an even greater focus on sustainability in the materials used in order to meet the goals of its Beyond 100 sustainability and electrification initiative.
The Flying Spur Hybrid was introduced earlier this month, making it the second electric vehicle in the company's lineup after the Bentayga Hybrid. The company took inspiration from the EXP 100 GT concept car, making it the first mainstream vehicle to incorporate the ethos of Bentley's views on future luxury mobility. Inspiration was also taken from the 1955 S1 Flying Spur.

Ford rebuffed these requests during a visit to Thunder Bay Wednesday, where he met with community leaders and evacuees.
"There's a little confusion what a state of emergency is. It's not going to add any more resources. It's basically the province coming in, taking over everything," Ford said.
"There's already emergency orders put in place. So it's not holding back any resources. We will put all the resources we have. I won't spare a penny."
Ford has refused requests to call a state of emergency to address the hundreds of wildfires burning across the northwestern part of the province.(Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press)

BBC News
By Frank Gardner
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image captionThe HMS Queen Elizabeth is part of the UK Carrier Strike Group sailing through the South China Sea
China has warned the UK's Carrier Strike Group, led by the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth not to carry out any "improper acts" as it enters the contested South China Sea.
'The People's Liberation Army Navy is at a high state of combat readiness' says the pro-government Global Times, seen as a mouthpiece for the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
China has been closely monitoring the progress eastward of the Carrier Strike Group, which is currently sailing through the South China Sea en route to Japan, while accusing Britain of "still living in its colonial days".

Defiant migrants will try 'until they die' to cross English Channel and reach UK. (PA)
People living in camps on the coast of France have said they will “try until they die” to reach the UK.
Around 2,000 migrants are currently living around Calais and Dunkirk awaiting an opportunity to cross the English Channel on board small boats or via lorries.
The defiant message comes despite the Home Office targeting migrants with Facebook ads pleading with them not to make the journey.
One 16-year-old boy from Afghanistan said: “I need to go to the UK. I am ready for anything to try and get there.”

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Looks like she's being deep-sixed by the MSM.
Fossils found in rugged mountainous terrain in Canada’s Northwest Territories may give a glimpse at the humble dawn of animal life on Earth – sea sponges that inhabited primordial reefs built by bacteria roughly 890 million years ago. A Canadian researcher said on Wednesday the fossils, dating to a time called the Neoproterozoic Period, appear to show distinctive microstructures from the body of a sea sponge built similarly to a species living today called the Mediterranean bath sponge, or Spongia officinalis. If this interpretation is correct, these would be the oldest fossils of animal life by roughly 300 million years.

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Aussie pop star Jessica Mauboy added: 'That's the most magical part.' 
The Blinds: Rita is hoping to hear something special that will make her spin her chair around 
Impressed: Country music star Keith is looking for a singer who 'stops me in my tracks'
Country music star Keith is looking for a singer who 'stops me in my tracks'. 
Guy, who is returning for a third season on the coaching panel, said: 'I'm listening for a voice that leaves me no choice but to turn my chair.'
One of the singers set to perform at the Blinds is Mick 'The Mower Man' Harrington, who stuns with his rendition of Judy Garland's Somewhere Over the Rainbow.  

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TC Energy Corp., builder of the Coastal GasLink pipeline that will feed the LNG Canada plant on the coast of British Columbia, warned Thursday it may suspend “certain key construction activities” on the pipeline as it quarrels with the project’s backers over “recognition of certain costs and the impacts on schedule.”
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Calgary-based TC Energy didn’t say how much costs have increased. In early 2020, the estimated price tag for the pipeline was $6.6 billion.

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12:29 PM PDT, July 29, 2021
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Rowers win first Tokyo 2020 gold medals for New Zealand, Ireland
Xinhua
30 Jul 2021, 04:18 GMT+10
TOKYO, July 29 (Xinhua) -- The first gold medals for New Zealand and Ireland at the Tokyo Olympics both came in the rowing regatta here on Thursday.
Two-time world champions Kerri Gowler and Grace Prendergast of New Zealand came from behind to win their first Olympic gold in the women's pair competition.
The duo were part of the New Zealand team that finished fourth in women's eight at Rio 2016, and this time they bagged home a gold medal in six minutes and 50.19 seconds.
Vasilisa Stepanova and Elena Oriabinskaia finished 1.26 seconds behind to win the silver for the Russian Olympic Committee. Canada's world champions Caileigh Filmer and Hillary Janssens, who beat the New Zealanders at the 2018 World Championship, had to settle for bronze in 6:52.10, despite leading the first 1,000m.

29 July, 2021 — By Michael White
The Royal Albert Hall
“WE’VE got as many Plan Bs as will fit into our heads,” the director of the Proms, David Pickard, told me last week. And he probably wasn’t exaggerating.
When the world’s greatest music festival opens this Friday July 29, it will be welcomed with open arms as a return to normality after last year’s ghost season – running for six weeks, with 61 concerts, real live audiences, and a proper Last Night on September 11.
But, as Pickard admits, “it’s a fluid situation with a lot that could go wrong: the likelihood of artists being pinged and forced to isolate is bound to trip us up, so we live from day to day and keep our options open – which is why there are still gaps in the programme that we’ll fill in due course”.

U.S. stock markets hit new record highs, second quarter GDP rises
Lola Evans
The U.S. economy is back at its pre-pandemic level, but for how long?.
The Commerce Department reported GDP rose at a 6.5% annualized pace in the second quarter.
Wall Street rallied, with the Standard and Poor's 500 and Dow Jones hitting new record highs.
NEW YORK, New York - The U.S. economy is back at its pre-pandemic level, but for how long? U.S. investors believe it's back permanently, as stocks took off on Thursday.
The Commerce Department reported GDP rose at a 6.5% annualized pace in the second quarter, however, this was well below analysts' forecasts for 8.40 percent.

Jack Whitehall Suffered Nasty Injury While Exercising With Dwayne Johnson
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The 'Bad Education' star recalls getting X-ray after dislocating his rib while working out with his 'Jungle Cruise' co-star The Rock when they worked together on a new Disney movie.
Jul 30, 2021
Jack and Johnson exercised together while working on the new film based on the Disney ride and the "
Bad Education" star suffered a nasty injury.
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The Rock has his own gym that travels around with him called the Iron Paradise. I was invited in," the British actor told the "
Private Parts" podcast. "It's a very sacred space and very few are allowed in. I went on one exercise bike he had in the gym and he was doing the lifty one with a big chain around his neck (sic)."

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But that’s just fine for the Venezuelan-born chef whose he’s been dreaming of a chance to get his fellow Londoners to try his tasty ribs at London Ribfest and Craft Beer Festival for four years.
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“I’ve tried for years to get into ribber’s row for London Ribfest,” said Horaz, owner of Gonzalez BBQ. “London Ribfest is the biggest and best Ribfest in the country and the oldest. Being part of it is amazing. I’m so happy.”

BBC News
By Paul Glynn
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image captionThe Strokes are (left to right) Nick Valensi, Fabrizio Moretti, Albert Hammond Jr, Julian Casablancas and Nikolai Fraiture
Exactly 20 years ago today, The Strokes put out their game-changing debut album, Is This It.
The record was the catalyst for a new rock revolution throughout the noughties, sending hip skinny jeans, (p)leather jackets and Converse trainers into the mainstream in the process.
It also helped to make their native New York cool again during a tumultuous time for the city.
Here's 20 things you may not know about the LP, or may have forgotten in the haze of a hundred wild indie nights...

Strong economic data propels U.S. stocks to new highs
30 Jul 2021, 06:08 GMT+10
NEW YORK, New York - The U.S. economy is back at its pre-pandemic level, but for how long? U.S. investors believe it's back permanently, as stocks took off on Thursday.
The Commerce Department reported GDP rose at a 6.5% annualized pace in the second quarter, however, this was well below analysts' forecasts for 8.40 percent.
Nonetheless Wall Street rallied, with the Standard and Poor's 500 and Dow Jones industrials hitting new record highs.
At the close, the Dow Jones industrials were ahead 153.40 points or 0.44 percent at 35,084.33.
The Nasdaq Composite jumped 15.68 points or 0.11 percent to 14,778.26.