Person with no talent voted most popular
Rino Sashihara was voted the most popular member of all-girl singing group AKB48 in the 5th annual popularity contest before 70,000 fans at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama on Saturday.
Sashihara, 20, received 150,570 votes, beating last year’s winner Yuko Oshima who garnered 136,503 votes. Sashihara already has two singles to her name and last summer, she was transferred to HKT48, AKB48’s sister group based in Fukuoka Prefecture.
Pictures of a teary-eyed Sashihara dominated the sports newspapers on Sunday. She will now stand center stage and take a lead role in the wildly-popular group’s future musical offerings and performances.
The members of AKB48 have so little talent its difficult to believe they are even popular. About the only thing they have going for them is that they are cute. There fans are a bunch of creepy middle aged men.
When rugby tour comes to Australia its time for some good ole fashion price gouging.
Major hotels are cashing in on the 30,000 British and Irish fans expected to visit Australia for the Lions rugby tour, with some charging as much as double the normal rate for rooms on the night of the Sydney Test next month.
In a welcome boost to the tourism industry in one of its quietest periods of the year, an extra 10,000 fans are expected to visit Australia, up from the 20,000 who visited when the Lions last toured in 2001.
With the tour having kicked off in Perth last week, tourism officials are planning for the increase despite the exchange rate between the pound and the dollar being far less favourable, having declined about 40 per cent in the intervening 12 years.
On the popular hotel booking site wotif.com on Friday, Four Seasons Sydney was asking $504 for a room on the night of the third Test match in Sydney, compared with $356 for the same room the previous Saturday. Grace Hotel's cheapest room on Test night was $650 compared with $460 the week before, with the Marriott Sydney Harbour demanding $519 for a room that cost $259 seven days before the match.
If can't rip-off the tourists coming to visit your country who are you going to rip-off your own country men?
Of course not.
The Droid army comes to India. Hopefully Count Dooku isn't with them.
India may soon come out with its series of robotic soldiers to man difficult war zones and save loss of lives along borders.
The move will hoist India into the next level of unmanned fighting league under a project being developed by the DRDO. The robot soliders would be equipped with a keen intelligence to detect a threat from a friend and respond to it in required manner with precision and accuracy. India’s Iron Men can then be deployed along the Line of Control (LoC) to guard Indian borders and adjoining territories.
“It is a new programme and a number of labs are already working in a big way on robotics," said DRDO chief Avinash Chander. The newly-appointed DRDO chief listed the project for development of robotic soldiers as one of his "priority thrust areas" saying that "unmanned warfare in land and air is the future of warfare. Initially, the robotic soldier may be assisting the man."
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