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Just on the news..... A knob down in Melbourne pulled up in the centre lane / 3 lanes of the highway to change a flat tyre.

Well it was only a matter of time til the inevitable happened, and he was hit......

Police issued him an $89 fine for stopping on a freeway...... And reminded people that the emergency lane exists for a purpose...... I

/rollseyes

Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek's 'Mr. Spock', dies at 83

Leonard Nimoy, famed for his portrayal of Mr. Spock on the Star Trek science fiction TV series and movies, has died after battling chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 83.

Nimoy, who had grappled with a love-hate relationship for his logical human-alien screen self, died Friday morning. His granddaughter confirmed Nimoy's death in a post to his Twitter account, @TheRealNimoy.

"Leonard Nimoy created a positive role model who inspired untold numbers of viewers to learn more about the universe. Many of those people are ardent space supporters and industry leaders today," Space Foundation Chief Executive Elliot Pulham said in a statement.

Last year, Nimoy disclosed on Twitter that he had been diagnosed with the progressive lung disease.

"I quit smoking 30 years ago. Not soon enough," he tweeted to his 810,000 followers. "Grandpa says, quit now!!"

Nimoy had other roles during a long career in TV, film and theater, and directed successful movies, wrote books, composed poetry, published photographs and recorded music. But he will be forever linked to the half-Vulcan, half-human Spock in the original 1960s "Star Trek" TV series and subsequent movies.

Known for suppressing his emotions and using strict logic to guide his actions, Spock became one of the best-known and most beloved sci-fi characters of the late 20th century.

For years, Nimoy resented that Spock defined him but ultimately came to accept that his life would be intertwined with the alien who inspired a fervent fan following for Star Trek.

His feelings were summed up in the titles of his memoirs - I Am Not Spock in 1975 and I Am Spock two decades later.

"I was involved in something of a crusade to develop a reputation as an actor with some range," Nimoy wrote in I Am Not Spock.

"I went through a definite identity crisis. The question was whether to embrace Mr. Spock or to fight the onslaught of public interest. I realize now that I really had no choice in the matter. Spock and Star Trek were very much alive and there wasn't anything that I could do to change that."

Still, he wrote that if given the choice of being any other television character, he would choose Spock.

Nimoy had often confronted Star Trek creators during the original series over their conception of Spock, and his input was responsible for many aspects of the character.

He came up with the Vulcan nerve grip that rendered foes unconscious, as well as the split-fingered Vulcan "live long and prosper" salute, which he said was inspired by a gesture he had seen worshippers make in his synagogue when he was a boy.

Nimoy signed off his tweets with "LLAP," an abbreviation of Spock's trademark phrase "live long and prosper."

RELATIONSHIP WITH SHATNER

Star Trek followed the crew of the starship Enterprise as they explored other worlds and encountered aliens. Alongside William Shatner, who played Captain James T. Kirk, Spock helped make Star Trek a cultural phenomenon.

Shatner and Nimoy sometimes had a professional rivalry but maintained a long friendship.

"I loved him like a brother. We will all miss his humor, his talent, and his capacity to love," Shatner said in a statement.

The original series was canceled in 1969 by NBC after three seasons. But it found success during syndicated reruns in the 1970s and inspired fan conventions with hordes of devotees. It jumped to the big screen by the end of the decade.

Nimoy was not thrilled about taking part in the big-budget first film Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979.

But it was a financial success, leading to many sequels. Nimoy agreed to appear in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan in 1982 only after the producers promised him a great death scene and other sweeteners.

Even though Spock "dies" at the movie's end, Nimoy returned to play the character in the next four Star Trek films, directing the third and fourth ones.

After those efforts, Nimoy branched out and directed the comedy 3 Men and a Baby, the top money-making movie of 1987.

Spock, whose father was from the planet Vulcan and mother from Earth, served as first officer and science officer under Kirk. Vulcans looked human, except for their pointy ears.

In the successful 2009 Star Trek movie, Zachary Quinto took over the role of Spock but Nimoy appeared briefly as an older version of the character.

Nimoy, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, was born in 1931 in Boston and began acting at age 8. In the 1950s and 1960s, he took a succession of roles on TV and in the movies, including Zombies of the Stratosphere. Later he hosted the TV series In Search Of... (1976-1982) and co-starred in 1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers film remake.

His everlasting renown as Spock led to quirky guest appearances on popular TV shows in recent decades, including the cartoons The Simpsons and Futurama (in which he provided the voice for his own disembodied head) and on the The Big Bang Theory, in which he was the voice of an opinionated Spock doll.

Nimoy was married twice and had two children.

Black Sea, available as a web-dl

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Bit more WHP, lighter, quieter sharper steering...
Less stable at speed, slower in the corners.
Haven't decided if I'll keep it yet, easily undone. Definitely easier to live with and quicker in a straight line.

Bit more WHP, lighter, quieter sharper steering...
Less stable at speed, slower in the corners.
Haven't decided if I'll keep it yet, easily undone. Definitely easier to live with and quicker in a straight line.

Where would we be without you Alpha,keeping us up to date with all the news,and keeping the thread at the top as well


Batching for a couple of weeks,starting the end of next week,the offers still open,come down for a couple of days,and I'll show you how the poor people live

I became an uncle for the first time on Tuesday. Also I proposed on Friday.

And today I turn 30. Boom

full day of work and the belt finally done, that was a PAIN

Getting ready to road trip down to Sydney Jambo. Should be a mad weekend !

watched Black Sea today.. pretty good.. rate it 7/10

Alan Dodd was out for the first time in his rotary turbo Mazda Rx2. After doing the usual 60ft and half track runs, the car went through for a couple of 9 second passes.

The Q80 Camaro smashes the WORLD RECORD ET and MPH during the Street Car Super Nationals event at Gateway Motorsports Park in St. Louis August 2014. The car is driven by Turky Al Zafiri and is powered by a Twin Turbo Pro Line Racing Engine with tuning by Jose Gonzales and Turbo legend Steve Petty. It was an epic weekend with the World Record going back and forth between Q80 and Frankie Taylor but in the end the Q80 Team leaves with the record with a 5.46@272 to Taylor's 5.47@263 in the quickest and fastest side by side pass in Doorslammer History!

UFC 184 results, photos: Ronda Rousey needs just 14 seconds to tap Cat Zingano

LOS ANGELES – Ronda Rousey extended her reign as UFC women’s bantamweight champion in characteristically dominant fashion, submitting Cat Zingano in 14 seconds to defend her title a fifth time.

Rousey (11-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC), 28, finished her opponent even faster than in her previous title defense, a 16-second railroading of Alexis Davis this past July. It was her 11th straight win and ninth via armbar, which she applied as Zingano (9-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC) charged her in the opening seconds of UFC 184’s headliner.

The women’s bantamweight title bout was the main event of today’s UFC 184 event at Staples Center in Los Angeles. It aired on pay-per-view following prelims on FOX Sports 1 and UFC Fight Pass. UFC President Dana White said today the event is expected to generate a live gate of $2.7 million and was trending toward success on pay-per-view.

Zingano, 32, threw a flying knee and then applied a headlock to take Rousey to the mat. But while in motion, the champion reversed position and then scrambled to Zingano’s back. At the same time, Rousey isolated the challenger’s arm, setting up a straight armbar that forced a quick tap from Zingano.

“We were expecting that she might just come out and just do something flying at me right away,” Rousey said afterward. “I originally thought I was going to check (the punch and throw a) left hook, but I just caught her instead. I was actually working on that armbar, not at that angle, but hey, it works.”

Zinging, who suffered the first loss of her professional career and overcame great personal tragedy to fight for the title, was in shock at the turns of events and struggled to contain her emotions.

“I want to do it again,” she said. “Just f-ck.

“She had my arm, and I saw her leg,” she added. “It was in, but it wasn’t in. F-ck. She f-cking won. She did it. That was a good armbar.”

Rousey’s dominance inevitably prompted the question of what was next for her career. She has only been past the first round once in five UFC fights and has never been in danger inside the UFC’s octagon.

“Honestly, I was impressed by Holly Holm tonight,” said Rousey, referring to former the former boxing champ’s successful debut in the night’s co-headliner. “I’ve always liked to test myself against that level of striking. Bethe Correia, she’s undefeated — I’d like to take that 0 away from her.”

Correia, 31, has beaten two of of Rousey’s teammates in the UFC and called repeatedly for a shot at the champ. She attended tonight’s event and said backstage prior to the event that she would do whatever it takes to secure a title shot.

With few ready-made contenders left, however, Correia might not need to press too much to get her wish.

Video Purportedly Shows 3 British Girls Thought to Be Joining ISIS

Surveillance video obtained by a Turkish news channel shows the teenage girls wearing coats and entering a bus terminal February 18th in Istanbul. The girls are thought to have traveled to the southeastern border where it's believed they crossed into Syria.

good work, how did you feel ? any busted knuckles