Sunday, 11 September 2016
C Ronaldo dons pink wig for playful snap with his son
Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna announce they are having a baby girl
Kris Jenner, Aunts- to-be Kim and Khloe Kardashian also took to their social media pages to share the good news.
Troops neutralize female suicide bomber in Borno state
Troops sensing the direction of approach was suspicious and abnormal, fired a shot at her and the sentry gallant sentry was proven right as she was carrying a Person Borne Improvised Explosive Device (PBIED) which exploded with a loud bang, killing her instantly and causing minor injury on 2 soldiers and a Civilian JTF assisting them.
The injured soldiers and the civilian have been treated and have continued with their duties.
In a related development, there is also very reliable information that remnants of the Boko Haram terrorists now disguise or pretend to be mad men or women in order to gain access to some locations especially in Maiduguri.
Emir of Kano acquires a white Rolls Royce phantom
ESPN’s fantasy football site isn’t working on the most important day of the season
Update: Service has been restored and ESPN provided us with the following statement:
“ESPN Fantasy is restored and we will continue to monitor. We identified a backend data access issue and resolved as quickly as possible. The issue did not impact data for teams, leagues or rosters. We sincerely apologize to all ESPN fantasy users.”
As if the rising popularity of daily fantasy sports sites aren’t giving ESPN enough to worry about this season, the fantasy sports provider’s platform has been down all day.
Today around 1pm ET / 10am PT (which is when the first round of NFL games started) ESPN’s fantasy sports platform crashed and became unreachable on the web and in their mobile app.
ESPN confirmed the outage on their Twitter about an hour after kickoff at 11am PT, and as of now (more than 4 hours later) it is still down. While ESPN’s fantasy home page is up, as soon as you click to view your league or draft a new team the site won’t load, with your browser saying that the server dropped the connection. The app is just displaying a blank page, saying that “there was an error while trying to reach Fantasy Football”.
Since today is basically a holiday for die hard fantasy sports fans, the outage hasn’t been well received. Fans typically check their fantasy team and scores every few minutes on Sunday (especially on the first day of the season), and now they have no idea how their teams are doing.
Even Claire McCaskill, the senior U.S senator from Missouri tweeted about how disappointed she is with the outage.
Seriously @ESPNFantasy this is not good. Opening day? Really? #fail
While normally customers would just head to a competitor when a service goes down, ESPN’s fantasy players are essentially locked into the platform all season since they’ve already drafted teams and joined season-long leagues.
Updated to reflect that ESPN stopped offering paid leagues last year.
Miss America 2017 is: Miss Arkansas Savvy Shields
Miss America 2017 Savvy Shields, the former Miss Arkansas, speaks to the media after being crowned at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ. THOMAS P. COSTELLO
Miss Arkansas Savvy Shields has claimed the title of 2017's Miss America .
Shields, 21, beat the competition's 51 other contestants to win the title, succeeding the outgoing Miss America Betty Cantrell .
Shields took home the crown with a jazz routine during the talent portion, which won her the preliminary talent competition earlier in the week.
Shields took home the crown with a jazz routine during the talent portion, which won her the preliminary talent competition earlier in the week.
During the question and answer portion, she was asked about Democratic presidential nomineeHillary Clinton .
"If you're trying to be leader of the free world, everything you say and do matters and all of your actions are held to a higher standard," Shields said. "Both of the contestants have done a good job, but they also need to watch what they're doing."
After her run as Miss America, Shields, 21, will return to the University of Arkansas as a senior studying art. “I want to hopefully work in a museum and teach at a collegiate level,” she said about her plans for the future.
Miss South Carolina Rachel Wyatt was the night's first runner-up.
The second runner-up was Miss New York Camille Sims. The third runner-up was Miss Washington Alicia Cooper, and the fourth runner-up was Miss Mississippi Laura Lee Lewis.
The top 15 finalists were: Kentucky; Washington; Massachusetts; Arkansas; South Carolina; Idaho; Iowa; Texas; California; Oklahoma; Maryland; New York; Tennessee; Louisiana, and Mississippi.
During a press conference after the ceremony, Shields thanked her family and fans, using a question about her Q&A portion to expand on her views about America's political climate.
During a press conference after the ceremony, Shields thanked her family and fans, using a question about her Q&A portion to expand on her views about America's political climate.
The new #MissAmerica, @MissAmericaAR Savvy Shields, thanking her family and hometown
"Our country was founded on compromise," she said. "I really think we're in a state now where both parties seem to just be yelling at each other. I hope that by the end of my year, we're starting to reward politicians on compromising instead of just defending themselves.
Afterwards, the night's celebrity judges including Mark Cuban , Gabby Douglas and Ciara praised Shields and congratulated her on her win.
"I have two daughters...I think its important for them to have role models who are confident and savvy," Cuban said, as the crowd laughed.
Ciara urged Shields to savor her big night.
"It's awesome as a woman to see you get this moment," she said. "I just encourage you to enjoy this moment, because when great things like this happen, they can sometimes pass you by."
"It's awesome as a woman to see you get this moment," she said. "I just encourage you to enjoy this moment, because when great things like this happen, they can sometimes pass you by."
Watch Ciara's and Douglas' full comments below:
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