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2 Supercar is a term used most often to describe a high-end ‘exotic’ automobile. To qualify for the title it has to be a very expensive, fast or powerful car with a sleek and eye-catching design. A limited number of these high-priced models are made by most of the renowned companies each year. There is a lot of hype around these cars and billions of people make their way to auto shows for their public viewing. This week we bring you the details on the best supercars of 2015.
Starting us off is the well-appointed Aston Martin designed for last S ye year’s James Bond movie, Spectre. This luxurious car was unveiled to the public on December 4, 2014 by Sam Mendes and Barbara Broccoli, the directors of the action-packed movie. The car is a two-door coupe gr grand tourer. It has continued Aston Martin’s longstanding tradition as the starring car in the James Bond 007 movie. The DB10 was built sp specifically for Spectre, and only 10 units were made. Aston Martin’s officials stated, “The DB10 gives a glimpse to the future design direction for the next generation of Aston Martins.”
The Mercedes Benz AMG GTS is the second supercar to be developed from the ground up by the company after the SLS AMG. It features excellent driving dynamics, thoroughbred motorsport technology and chic styling. It is powered by a 4.0-litre V8 biturbo engine that produces an imposing 503 horsepower. It has a top speed of 310 km/h and can accelerate from 0 km/h to 100 km/h in just 3.8 seconds. The car’s practicability and comfort is also noteworthy. It is equipped with an easily reachable luggage compartment as well as high levels of comfort on long journeys.
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The 2015 Aston Martin Vanquish is equipped with a new V12 engine making it the most powerful GT production engine in the history of Aston Martin. The engine produces a whopping 568 horsepower and helps this ultra-luxurious supercar accelerate from 0 km/h to 100 km/h in just and 3.6 seconds. It is so awesome that Aston Martin does not call it a grand h an tourer, but a ‘Super Grand Tourer’. The Vanquish is also equipped with m enhanced eight-speed automatic transmission. Its body is curved from aerospace engineered carbon-fibre which gives it exceptional rigidity and finely honed agility. This epic car also features a state-of-the-art infotainment system with buttons.
The Ferrari 488 GTB was launched on February 3 2015, and is one of the most stunning supercars you will ever set your eyes on. It is set to be the rreplacement of its equally beautiful predecessor, the Ferrari 458. A sizeable 3.9-litre engine that produces a whopping 661 horsepower powers it. It is e equipped with an automatic dual-clutch 7-speed F1 gearbox, carbon-ceramic brakes, a twin-turbocharged V8 engine and can accelerate from 0 km/h to 200 km/h in 8.3 seconds. Additionally, it can achieve a top speed in excess of 330 km/h (205mph). Its intelligent gear system features Variable Torque Management, which helps effortlessly unleash the engine’s colossal torque.
Since inception, the Audi R8 has always been striking. That was maintained at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show when Audi unveiled its 2016 Audi R8 V10. The car c is dazzling. It is powered by a V10 engine that can accelerate from km to 100 km/h in just 3.2 seconds. Just like the McLaren 675 LT, the 0 km/h V has a top speed of 330 km/h (205mph). The car promises to be R8 V10 im impressive on both the race track and the road. Head of development at Audi says, “With the new Audi R8, our engineers are bringing accumulated racing expertise from the race track onto the road. No other model of ours evokes more dynamic emotion.”
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Q: Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? A: He’s all right now Q: What did the toy store sign say? A: Don’t feed the animals, they are already stuffed Q: Why did the boy bring a stick of butter to the wedding? A: He heard you should toast the bride and groom Q: What was the pessimist’s blood type? A: B-negative Q: What happened when two silk worms had a race? A: They ended up in a tie Q: What do you call a sleeping bull? l A: A bull-dozer Q: What do you get when you cross a snake and a pie? A: A pie-thon Q: What did the judge say when the skunk walked into the court room? A: Odour in the court
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Walt Disney was fired from the Kansas City Star because his editor felt he “lacked imagination and had no good ideas.”
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Steven Spielberg was rejected by the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts multiple times.
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As a child, Albert Einstein had some difficulty communicating and learning in a traditional manner.
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Colonel Harland David Sanders was fired from dozens of jobs before founding his famous fried chicken empire.
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Vera Wang became an editor at Vogue, but was passed over for the editor-in-chief position before she started her design career.
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Thomas Edison’s teachers told him he was “too stupid to learn anything”.
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JK Rowling was a single mom living off welfare when she began writing the first Harry Potter novel. The novel was rejected by a dozen publishers.
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Vincent Van Gogh sold only one painting, ‘The Red Vineyard’, in his life, and the sale was just months before his death.
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After Harrison Ford’s first small movie role, an executive took him into his office and told him he’d never succeed in the movie business.
10. Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr Seuss, had his first book rejected by 27 different publishers.
Pocket Frogs
Pet Shop Story
My Dragon
My Horse
Egg Baby
Pocket Frogs lets you create, discover and experiment with more than 35,000 frogs. The best feature of this app is that it can be played online and offline. You have the option of customizing and creating different habitats for your frog. You have to fulfill the challenges to be rewarded and unlock stages. You can even create your own breeds by mating two different frogs or trade your frogs.
Pet Shop Story allows you to create your own pet shop. You can pet dogs, chickens, kittens, birds and more. You can even cross breed your pets by mixing two breeds and create your unique pets. You need to complete goals to upgrade your shop and gain more customers. The app has amazing reallife-like animations and graphics that can make you addited to it.
My Dragon virtual pet app comes with a beautiful and an engaging interface. You have to choose your dragon pet and raise it to reach further in the app. You have to feed, play, make it sleep and dress it up. Your dragon has to perform certain tasks so you can expand stables and create space for other pet dragons. You can even customise to create your own dragon. The basic app download is free, however you can purchase packages, space and other necessities from in-app purchases.
Pet your horse for it to be strong and sturdy. The My Horse app gives you a realistically simulated featurefilled experience. The app has many 3D interactive activities to learn from so you can choose from different breeds and create your stable. You have to register your horse in competitions and tackle the world championship to raise your horse to be a hero. The app has an ‘in-game’ camera, which allows you to click pictures of your horse on the go. Gain recognition by visiting your friends’ stable and looking after their horses. You can purchase additional features from in-app purchases.
Egg Baby is an addictive virtual pet app. The app has various cute eggs to pick your favourite. You have to gain coins by keeping your egg healthy and clean. The app has a wide range of costumes to make your egg look adorable and amusing. You can even play games with your egg to give it company, else it can die due to loneliness. Your egg can hatch six different animals that you have to raise in your backyard. The more you take care, the better gifts you get. You can buy utilities such as a bigger backyard and extra coins through in-app purchases.
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Get your weekly dose of unusual and funny news from across the globe! Roald Dahl 100 Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall is to be patron of Roald Dahl 100 — a year of global celebrations marking 100 years since the birth of Roald Dahl. The Duchess began her new role with a visit to London’s Southbank Centre, which has just launched an interactive experience, The Wondercrump World of Roald Dahl, created in partnership with the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, and featuring archival treasures from The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Great Missenden. Her Royal Highness had a special tour of the Wondercrump experience. The Duchess then joined Miss Honey from Matilda on the stage in the Clore Ballroom, where Her Royal Highness read a chapter from The BFG to an audience of children. Her Royal Highness concluded her visit by meeting a number of ‘Friends of Roald Dahl 100’, including his publishers, the producers of the two hit stage musicals inspired by Dahl stories, the team behind the forthcoming The BFG movie, official biographer Donald Sturrock, representatives of the Reading Agency, Literature Wales, the National Literacy Trust, Wales Millennium Centre, the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity and Jude Kelly, Artistic Director of Southbank Centre, and her team. ROALDDAHL.COM
Food Frankenstein Designer burgers have been a food fad staple for a couple of years now — with chains such as Dirty Burger and Shake Shack offering heavily indulgent and Instagramready treats. People have also enjoyed mucking about with burgers, from the delicious-sounding mac-andcheese burger to the bizarre ramen burger. Sushi has gone from a posh dinner out to a lunchtime staple — and people are always finding new ways to consume it, firstly in burritos and now in weird burger hybrids. Skim Instagram and you’ll find thousands of pictures of a strange but inevitable new food trend — with all the greasy indulgence of a burger encased in fat, sticky, opulent grains of rice. Restaurants and food fanatics all over the world have been creating their own take on the Sushi Burger. Chefs craft the rice into the dome shape of a burger. It is sometimes left just-cooked, sticky and fresh, and sometimes fried for ease of eating. Also included are traditional sushi components, like raw fish, ginger, seaweed and wasabi, but with a burger shop twist — so some versions include steak meat and pickles, while others include a big, juicy burger patty. Above all else, however, it looks impossible to eat, once picked up it would leave you with dropped rice and sticky fingers. TELEGRAPH.CO.UK
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Un-bee-lievable luck Hopes, dreams and hard work which started at a lemonade stand have propelled Mikaila Ulmer to incredible success. She has landed a multi-million dollar deal with Whole Foods to sell her ‘Bee Sweet’ lemonade in 55 of their US stores. The young entrepreneur uses the mint, flaxseed and honey lemonade recipe she inherited from her great-grandmother, and gives a portion of her products to foundations that rescue bees. She calls herself a ‘Bee Ambassador’ and first found fame with her product on the show Shark Tank, where she secured a $60,000 investment from the show. Mikaila thought up the idea for the lemonade when she was just four years old, when after she was stung twice, she investigated why they sting and was intrigued by their integral role in the ecosystem. “I didn’t enjoy the bee stings at all. They scared me,” she said in an interview, “But then something strange happened. I became fascinated with bees. I learned all about what they do for me and our ecosystem. So then I thought, what if I make something that helps honeybees and uses my great granny Helen’s recipe?” The entrepreneur took part in local competitions until she landed a place on Shark Tank. Since then, she’s served lemonade to Barack Obama, was a part of Google’s Dare to be Digital campaign, and has won several awards including the African American Harvest Foundation Story Changer award. And how does she have time to balance her schoolwork and her booming business? “I work on the business after school, after I do my homework, and on weekends and during spring breaks,” Ulmer said. “There are not too many times when I feel stressed.” TELEGRAPH.CO.UK
Speed building This inventor has come up with a house that can be built in minutes, but is it the future or the answer to the housing crisis all over the world? A footage on the internet shows the homes can be one or two storeys and will arrive on the back of a lorry. Within seconds of the foundation arms hitting the ground, the walls and windows go up, while the floors and roof slot into place. Russian engineer Dahir Semyonov thinks his house on wheels is the solution to the housing crisis and says it comes with all modern conveniences. The walls of the house are lined with insulating material and it is equipped with an autonomous generator, water tank and gas supply. Although with a price tag of between €350,000 and €450,000 it seems be a little pricey for a starter home. But you do get the choice of whether or not to have a ballroom or a balcony. MIRROR.CO.UK
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6 It might not be the same device for every location, you may prefer to keep a diary at home but jot down notes on your phone while you’re on the go but just being able to write stuff down when you think about it is key. A sheet of paper, a calendar and a white board, anything where you could write things down as they cross your mind keeps stress at bay. The pleasure of crossing those tasks off once you’ve done them gives you a sense of accomplishment and this way nothing slips through the cracks. Keep a calander pinned in your room or your study table, mark important stuff in that, make sure you take a look at it often so you remember stuff and give yourself enough time to get it done. Once you write things down, you free up mental space to concentrate on the work you are doing rather than worrying about forgetting something that needs to be done.
Write down and makw mental note of your top three tasks to get done for the day. Everything else will fall into place once those tasks are picked.
By finding places that are easy to get to for all the things you use most often, you spend less time dreading doing things and more time actually doing things. It also keeps things from getting lost and keep clutter in check. The single, simplest thing you can do to stay organised is to put things away immediately after using it. That way you always know where everything and anything is so you’ll never waste time looking for something.
Put in a little effort. Actually, put in a lot of effort when necessary. Once you’ve made a schedule, then you can organise what you have to do and when you can do it. Staying organised is not all a breeze. It requires that you work hard with recognition that when you work harder, you can enjoy your clutter-free life later. As an experiment, worker harder when you feel like giving up.
Do whatever you can to get rid of stuff. Less stuff means less clutter. Find a place to get rid of your things. Maybe give some stuff to friends who would make more use of it than you or donate your extra belongings. As an experiment, choose one space in your room to purge. Go through shelves, drawers and boxes. Everything you find that you don’t need, set aside. Make a pile of things to maybe keep, which you can go through later, and a pile of things to discard now. Then find a way to kick those things out the door.
If you are a visual person colour-coding your various lists and calendars will minimises the time you spend looking at them. This works especially well when you are in school: Dump every class syllabus into Outlook, and then colour-code every class period (blue for paper due, yellow for quiz, red for test, etc). It takes a while to set up, but then for the rest of the semester you only have to glance at Outlook to get a clear idea of what kind of week you are going to have. You can do this on your phone or with a pen and paper too.
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Test your problem solving skills by completing this puzzle in the least possible time.
Key to last week’s puzzle.
Help Leslie find more books for Max by finding all the words given below in the puzzle. BOMBING SORROW BOOK PERIL CEMETERY STEAL FEAR HOPE WAR TRIAL TIME DEATH ENDURANCE FICTION PAIN
What it’s about: Liesel is separated from her parents and is forced to live with her adoptive parents Rosa and Hans during WW2 in Germany. Hans and Rosa have been hiding a Jew named Max in their basement. When Max is very sick, Liesel finds a way to cheer him up by putting herself in a lot of danger.
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In this game, it’s the task of the other players to find out what the secret word is. To help them, you give them sample sentences. The catch? You replace the word with ‘coffeepot’. For instance, if the secret word is car, you might give these clues: I don’t like when people hit my coffeepot. Faster coffeepots are cooler than slower coffeepots. 1.
Selena Gomez is 23 years old. She was born on 22nd July 1992 in Grand Prairie, Texas, United States.
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The star was named after Selena, the famous Tejano singer who died three years after her birth. Now we know why she can sing like a nightingale.
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She grew up observing her mother rehearsing for theater productions. Before Wizards of Waverly Place, she played minor roles in Spy Kids, Walker Texas Ranger, and Barney and Friends.
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Selena voiced Steve Carrell’s daughter in Horton Hears a Who, but she never got to meet him. She was the voice of all 90 of the Mayor’s daughters in the movie.
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She loves dogs and owns quite a few of them. Out of these, Baylor, Chip Willy, Fina and Wallace were adopted from an animal shelter.
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Selena was discovered by Disney in a nation-wide casting call.
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Selena and Disney star Demi Lovato were BFFs and met on the sets of Barney and Friends. Both young stars went on to co-host a YouTube show Demi and Selena Show but the show didn’t continue for long.
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She received a Mickey Mouse charm necklace as a gift from Disney Channel.
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This young star loves fashion. She has her own clothing line which she started in 2010. She insisted on using eco-friendly material and the tags have inspirational quotes on them.
10. Selena appeared in a few episodes of Hannah Montana as Hannah’s rival, Mikayla. 11. In 2009, Selena became the youngest UNICEF Ambassador in the history of the organisation. 12. Selena is a huge fan of Cheryl Cole and wishes to record a duet with her. 13. Selen’s album A Year Without Rain was released in September 2010. 14. The star surely has some weird tastes which she shares with Snooki. She loves pickles and wants to invent a pickle flavored gum. 15. Selena’s band members are Greg Garman, Joey Clement, Ethan Roberts and Dane Forrest. 16. Selena’s favourite movie genre is horror. 17. Selena’s favourite fruit is mango. 18. As hard as it is to believe, Selena was bullied in the elementary and middle school. She said, “It makes you a stronger person to turn your cheek and go the other way.” 19. She starred as Grace in Monte Carlo which was released in October 2011. 20. She voices the character Mavis in Hotel Transylvania films. SOURCE: HUFFINGTONPOST.COM
The sentences you generate can be quite amusing. Others will have lots of fun trying to guess the secret word. Older children can try their hand at making their own sentences.
Each person participates by adding one word at a time. You can help guide the story by providing words that help progress the storyline. If stories seem to meander for too long, you can set a certain number of rounds or add one sentence, rather than one word, at a time.
Select three random nouns. Then, imagine a superhero based on the words. For instance, the words banana, hurricane,and dirt might inspire a creature who looks like dirt on the ground. Because of his camouflage, he can blend in anywhere there’s a bit of earth. But don’t step on him! He can fly around villains like a hurricane of soil, confusing and containing them until the police arrive. The only way to stop him is to use a banana. His phobia of the fruit causes him to run away from anything banana-related! What superheroes can you invent?
Everyone sit in a circle, then pick one person to start by saying the first word that comes into their head. The next person has to instantly say the first word that word makes them think of. The game goes on around the circle.