Strictly Come Dancing star Vito Coppola told Ellie Leach to ‘stop laughing’ at him as she gave a glimpse into their latest time together. The pair are currently preparing for their next stint in the ballroom as the BBC One dance contest reaches the semi-final stage. Former Coronation Street star Ellie and her professional dance partner Vito were seen back in the ballroom on Saturday night which wasn’t just the quarter-finals but also the Musicals week special. The actress and the Italian professional dancer performed a quickstep to the song Belle from Beauty And The Beast. The dance saw Ellie and Vito secure a score of 36 from the judges which at the end of the show left them in second place on the leaderboard behind Layton Williams and Nikita Kuzmin who scored the first perfect score of the 2023 series. READ MORE: BBC Strictly Come Dancing’s Nikita Kuzmin ‘fights tears’ as he sends ‘don’t’ message to Layton Williams and to fans READ MORE: Read more of today’s top stories from the Manchester Evening News But the leader board didn’t matter too much over the weekend as all of the four remaining couples automatically made it through to the semi-final after Nigel Harman had to pull out of the show and the rest of the series at the eleventh hour due to suffering a rib injury which saw him end up in A&E. Ellie and Vito are now set to perform Cha-Cha to the Bette Midler version of ‘Mambo Italiano’, and a Couples’ Choice dance to a Dua Lipa medley in the penultimate week of the compeittion with a week to go until the grand final on Saturday, December 16. But in between their rehearsals, Ellie took to Instagram to show the pair travelling in car. She captioned the pos, featuring a video of her dance partner: “Here he is. Number one most dramatic person I’ve ever met.” In the clip, Vito was holding on to his head before it was confirmed he was nursing a headache. He suddentl said: “I have to call my grandmother,” before relaising Ellie was filming him. The actress, know for playing Faye Windass in ITV’s Corrie, asked “why” to which he said: “I have to call my grandmother to cure my of my headache.” Ellie then shared another clip of Vito facetiming his beloved relative, alongside which she typed: “So glad you’re cured of your headache.” Then in the final clip, Vito said “I feel much better,” as Ellie started laughing. “I really felt ill before,” he added before Ellie said: “No, guys. He felt ill because we’ve just been for a walk outside and it’s cold outside. Now we’re in the car and it’s nice and warm, so he’s warmed up and feels better now.” But throughout her explanation, Vito disputed her claims and said: “No, I had a headache. It’s an Italian thing and if you have people like my grandmother… she cures you. She does all the praying and stuff that only she know and now I feel better.” Ellie did mock her to which he jokingly snapped: “You think this is a joke. This is actually a real thing… It’s a south Italian thing. So thank you, Nonna.” Vito then doubled down when he reshared the video to his own Instagram Story and typed: “You think I am joking but it’s true…I actually feel much better. Grazie Nonna.”
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January 6th Footage Shows Protestors Peacefully Entering, Leaving and Making Police Smile (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Anthony Scott
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, House Speaker Mike Johnson released the first batch of January 6th footage that is accessible to the general public on the Committee on House Administration website. Johnson, in a post on X, shared, “To restore America’s trust and faith in their Government, we must have transparency. This is another step towards keeping the promises I made when I was elected to be your Speaker.” He continued to write, “This website will be updated continuously with thousands of hours of footage.” As of right now, Rep. Johnson has released over 90 videos that range anywhere between 20 seconds to 10 minutes long. Most of the footage shows protestors peacefully walking into the Capitol. WATCH: Literally every BLM and Palestinian protest has been more violent and dangerous than the three-hour tour of the Capitol that patriots were given on January 6. pic.twitter.com/vdxGBnKJCP — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) November 17, 2023 Footage captured by surveillance cameras near the Capitol’s west staircase shows one officer smiling while interacting with protesters. Some protesters even gave the same officer a friendly tap on the shoulder. LOOK: WATCH: New J6 Video Shows Protesters Peacefully Interacting With Police and Even Making Them Smile @gatewaypundit pic.twitter.com/cfyLi90kFN — Anthony Scott (@AnthonyScottTGP) November 17, 2023 Still trying to see the violence inside the Capitol Building. Still looking hard. pic.twitter.com/LRyoD2UH0n — Simon Ateba (@simonateba) November 17, 2023 At one point, officers were seen even shaking hands with the protesters. Capitol officers were giving handshakes to the patriots walking peacefully through the Capitol on January 6th. pic.twitter.com/GZmhhx3psJ — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) November 17, 2023 When protesters left the Capitol, they walked out peacefully too. WATCH: J6 Protesters Peacefully Leave The Capitol In A Single File Line pic.twitter.com/zbVzGksOqq — Anthony Scott (@AnthonyScottTGP) November 17, 2023
The “crazy idea” that Sainz’s victory made reality – DirtFish
Everything was turned upside down at the dawn of the current decade. When Covid-19 ground everything to a halt, it gave some of us in our otherwise hectic sport a moment for pause. An opportunity to think outside the lines, rather than press on relentlessly, carried by the sweeping tide of the next deadline to hit. Sven Quandt had been doing Dakar rallies for a long time. He’s overseen the Mitsubishi factory effort with the legendary Pajero. With his own X-Raid outfit, he won the Dakar six times as a team manager. But Quandt also knows his portable power: Varta, the German battery manufacturer, was once the family business and he’s had multiple stints on the company’s supervisory board. Batteries on the Dakar, where endurance is key? Surely this was a nonsensical idea. “At the time when everything was down, we had this crazy idea,” Quandt told DirtFish. “Audi really wanted to do it. We joined forces together and I think we made something spectacular.” Crazy, maybe. But Quandt stops short at calling it mad. “It was not mad. It was calculated. But yes, there are always some things that we cannot calculate,” he admits. Years one and two were fraught with technical issues. And then there was the equalization formula: more than once Audi received technical breaks to find more power to match the petrol-powered beasts in T1+. Quandt’s lobbying after the previous edition has clearly done the trick. “I was sure we could win, we had a good EoT and I think the EoT everyone saw was really good because it was fight until more or less the last stage.” Only once all rally could Sainz breathe easy: the final stage, when the last of the chasing pack fell by the wayside. Sébastien Loeb’s Prodrive Hunter was quick but had finally suffered one reliability problem too many. The script had finally flipped; the Audi persevered through reliability at last. “We had some problems in the last two years and now we have an incredible team, incredible bunch of people, one team for everybody; you could see it even on the driver’s side,” said Quandt, referencing another major strength of the Audi squadron. As Sébastien Loeb was left to forge his path alone, without an experienced team-mate to help him in a time of need after Nasser Al-Attiyah packed up and went home early, the other RS Q e-trons of Stéphane Peterhansel and Mattias Ekström forged a protective bubble around Sainz. In the latter phase of the race the remaining crews shepherded Sainz, pulling up to help change any punctures that struck the lead car. Teamwork helped. But so did having the 61-years-young Sainz leading the way, as Quandt admits. “His condition was so incredible that I must say, this at the end made it,” he said, full of praise for the now four-time Dakar winner. “His positive thinking on the first day already, he came here with a smile; he’s always normally moaning and doing this…he was so positive! That was what it was, in the end. I can tell you, his whole attitude is, I’m winning.” Sainz clearly knew how to motivate his troops, to make Audi believe its radical project would get the send-off it so desperately craved. He preserved Audi’s long-term reputation of embarking on a new adventure and succeeding by defying convention, not following it. But, as El Matador admits, he wasn’t entirely assured of the outcome. “Of course, during this road you doubt,” said Sainz. “But at the end, hard work always pays off.”
Blizzard pulls Diablo Season 2 trailer that got almost everything wrong, its fumbled sums stunlocking this streamer with laughter
Diablo 4’s Season of Blood drops tomorrow. In the run-up, the game’s social media accounts have been in overdrive—dropping trailers, explainer videos, memes, all that good stuff. One such video, however, came and went like a vampire in the night.
As spotted by PCGamesN, a video promising to explain “the best quality-of-life changes coming with Season of Blood” was pulled from Diablo 4’s official Twitter account earlier this week after it… didn’t do that. It’s gone now, but the internet’s collective all-seeing eye has immortalised it forever.
“Let’s observe what we have here,” says seasoned Diablo 4 YouTuber and streamer Raxxanterax, barely able to contain his laughter before he gets into the muck of it. First up, the screenshots of the Nightmare Dungeons, headlined with a proud Before and After, were actually in reverse. Comparing it to a wrap-up of a recent developer livestream, the Season of Blood’s dungeon map is actually the one contained under the “Before” tab.
There’s some other nitpicks, like how the horse comparison doesn’t show much of anything in the way of differences (although we do know we’re getting some major horse buffs). The real star of the show here, however, is this screenshot.
There’s, uh, there’s a lot to unpack here. First off, 40% of 1,000 is 400. 1,000 multiplied by 400 is 400,000 experience points, which is probably not the current bonus, unless I’ve missed something. What’s more likely is that it’s 1,000, plus a 40% bonus, which is… still not 1,040. Hm.
Then there’s that bottom equation. Assuming the intention here is (1,000 x 1.2) x 1.2, the result of that is 1,440, not 1,400. That’s because you’re essentially taking 20% of 1,200 (240) and slapping it on top of 1,200. It seems like the napkin maths here assumed it was the same as 1,000 x 1.4, which isn’t the case, or we wouldn’t be here.
So let’s correct things based on what makes sense. The top sum should be 1,000 x 1.4 (which is the same as adding 40% of 1,000). That equals 1,400. The bottom sum should be (1,000 x 1.2) x 1.2, which equals… 1,440. Technically an improvement, but not something to write home to Lorath about.
This mind-prison of multiplication gets Raxxanterax nearly cry-laughing at the end of it all. “Blizzard,” he says in between breaths. “I’m trying to build some hype for your new season, but you’re making it real hard.”
Granted, the scuff itself is understandable—errors get made in first drafts all the time, especially when deadlines and time pressures come into play. What’s more surprising is how this got past the usual approvals processes. I’ve reached out to Blizzard for comment, and I’ll update this article if I get an answer back.
Chrysler’s Crazy 1956 Scissor Windows
Why would Chrysler adopt such a strange door-glass arrangement on its 1956 hardtops? That’s an interesting story, to us anyway.
When both Buick and Oldsmobile (Olds Holiday above) added four-door hardtops to their product lines for 1955, it sent the Detroit carmakers into a tizzy. Turns out that yes, buyers did want the sleek look of a pillarless hardtop and the practicality of a four-door in a single package. Sales of the new body style soared at the two GM divisions. Naturally, the rest of the automakers rushed straight to the drawing board to develop their own four-door hardtops for 1956 so they could cash in as well.
There were a few technical challenges involved, among them getting the side glass to stow completely inside the rear door with the glass fully rolled down—a must to provide the desired wide-open, pillarless look. (Obstacles included the kickup at the rear wheelhouse.) Ford, the Chevrolet and Pontiac divisions, and American Motors all adopted their own creative approaches to the problem, with varying degrees of success (aesthetically and otherwise). But for us, perhaps the most imaginative solution came from the Chrysler Corporation.
The Chrysler engineers were given an additional handicap: They were ordered to use the same roof panels as the four-door pillared sedans. (One-piece roof stampings require large, expensive dies.) Hobbled by that restriction, Chrysler couldn’t modify the roofline or daylight opening to alter the size and shape of the rear side glass to fit inside the door.
So, reaching outside the box for a solution, the engineers divided the glass iinto two sections. The window regulator was then redesigned so the rear section would roll down in tandem with the front section, the rear inside the front, using a scissors-like motion. It may look crazy, but if it works, it’s not so crazy.
Above we see the scissors glass in the rolled-up position—the rear pane looks like a conventional vent window, more or less. For 1957, the Chrysler Corporation’s body shells were completely redesigned with proper accommodations for a four-door hardtop, and the two-piece glass arrangement was no longer necessary. The odd but clever scissor windows proved to be a one-year deal. But we’ve recorded it here for prosperity: Check out the video below, courtesy of historian and author Jeff Stork. Thanks, Jeff!
1956 DeSoto Firedome Hardtop Sedan 
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