Alex Conkleton

#PositiveProactivePassion #social #technology #personalbranding #hotels #businessexcellence #innovator #Environment #imaginator #Futurologist #esoterican #Gaian

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Huge waves were seen crashing into Taiwan’s northeastern coast as Typhoon Champi approached with winds reaching 191 km/h.

The storm has killed one person so far and injured 163, forcing thousands to evacuate as much of the island shuts down.

[IN TRUMP WE TRUST @TrumpweTrust47]

Here is George Clooney’s response after Trump accused him of being a "Hollywood elite."

"Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years.

So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.

People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble?

He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people!

When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction.

He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!"

- George Clooney

actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist

[Stuart Budd @StuartBudd1]

I find it amazing that the UK, an island off mainland europe, managed to build up car manufacturing to the point where it rivalled Germany in 2016.

That was pretty good going for the UK.

Then the Brexit vote hit and killed it.

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!

It takes 2 weeks to confirm ocean sea surface temperatures and the long wait is finally over. The first day in recorded history with Nino 3.4 SST at or above 30.0°C is now officially on the record.

October 7, 2026: 30.000°C.

https://t.co/RG4UniF2Gc

[Brighton Argus @brightonargus]

Live updates as huge section of Brighton's historic West Pier collapses in storm https://t.co/cGezwBAN7h

[Cinefilia Cult @cinefiliacult]

Este era el reparto original de “Alien (1979)”, y ya de él solo nos quedan vivas Sigourney Weaver (77) y Veronica Cartwright (77).

En pocos años se nos han ido Harry Dean Stanton y John Hurt (2017), Ian Holm (2020), Yaphet Kotto (2021), y hoy Tom Skerritt.

Vaya leyendas…🥹💔💫

[Pablo Martinez (Holiness) @F1BigData]

On this day in 1989, one of the most controversial moments in history took place

Prost and Senna collided at Suzuka while battling for the title. The former retired from the race, while the latter was ultimately disqualified, handing the title to Prost

[Variety @Variety]

Tom Skerritt, who starred in the TV series “Picket Fences” and appeared in movies ranging from “MASH” to “Alien,” “Top Gun,” “A River Runs Through It” and “Ted,” has died of natural causes at 93.

https://t.co/13H8QfVBlc

[Sadiq Khan @SadiqKhan]

Stratford is one of London's best-connected transport hubs.

Adding international rail services would take that connectivity even further, linking East London and beyond directly to Europe while supporting jobs, tourism and growth.

[Alex Conkleton @Conkleton]

@TheEpicVault An unforgettable moment that retains an emotional punch.

[Epic Vault @TheEpicVault]

I believe every driver who walks away from a big crash today owes something to the weekend F1 lost Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna on consecutive days.

Senna's Williams left the track at Tamburello on 1 May 1994.

He braked hard but still hit the wall at roughly 130 mph, and a piece of suspension struck his helmet. The FIA answered with higher cockpit sides, slower corners and new car design rules.

Formula One changed forever that weekend.

[Sadiq Khan @SadiqKhan]

Brexit was the greatest act of economic self-harm in our country’s history.

I’ve calling on the government for closer ties with Europe to help businesses grow, lower costs and improve living standards.

Rejoining the EU must remain our destination.

https://t.co/gM2XGFsIDU

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

A deserving RIBA Stirling Prize winner, thanks to your public vote.

Opening the Elizabeth line remains one of my proudest achievements. We inherited a project facing major challenges, but today it supports more than 700,000 journeys a day, contributes £42bn to the UK economy and is the UK's busiest and most popular railway.

It's a powerful reminder of how important it is to dream and invest big in large-scale transport infrastructure projects.

[Pablo Martinez (Holiness) @F1BigData]

On this day in 1990, we witnessed one of the biggest controversies in Formula 1, the collision between Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost at the start of the Japanese GP
With both drivers out of the race, Senna mathematically secured his second world title

[The Standard @theLDNstandard]

London rail revolution set to see international trains run from second station within four years https://t.co/h2MBypTDIi

[Mark Elling @markelling_]

Alec Guinness was offered $150,000 for a film he called “fairy-tale rubbish.”

He walked away with about $95 million, more than anyone else in the cast.

January 1976. George Lucas sends him the Star Wars script.

Guinness is 62 and has an Oscar and a knighthood. He sees it’s science fiction and thinks it’s “simply not for me.” He calls the dialogue “pretty ropey.”

But he can’t stop turning the pages.

So he doesn’t say no. He asks for double the fee and 2% of the profits. Nobody expected the film to make money, so they agreed.

The day before the premiere, Lucas phones him. To thank him for the script changes, he offers another half a percent.

Guinness asks for it in writing.

The paper says a quarter.

He still got 2.25%.

Star Wars made over $300 million in its first run. Guinness made about $7 million right away. By the time he died in 2000, it was close to $95 million.

David Prowse played Darth Vader in the same film. He said he never saw a penny in residuals.

The case for Guinness: he hated the material but believed in the math.

The case against: he spent the next 20 years trying to get away from the role that paid for everything.

Here’s the lesson: a phone call is a promise, but only the paper gets paid.

In the video, he tells the whole story himself on Parkinson in 1977, smiling the whole time. Watch him, then decide.

Smartest man on the set, or just the luckiest?

[Michael Bradbury @MrMBB333]

STRONGEST STORM ON THE PLANET AS CHAMPI REACHES 185 MPH

Super Typhoon Champi has reached an estimated 185 MPH, becoming the strongest tropical cyclone on Earth in 2026!

The Category 5 powerhouse has intensified to approximately 895 millibars as it churns across the Philippine Sea!

Known locally as Rosal, Champi is threatening the northern Philippines with destructive winds, torrential rain and waves potentially reaching 26 FEET!

Anyone in the Philippines or surrounding islands tracking this monster storm?

#MrMBB333 #SuperTyphoonChampi #Philippines

[Sadiq Khan @SadiqKhan]

We’ve been working closely with the Government to make Stratford International station truly ‘international’ for the first time – opening up jobs, investment and tourism.

It’s time to write the next chapter in Stratford’s remarkable success story.

https://t.co/3gOfkCiPVI

[David Milner @djjmilner]

Arriving into St Pancras does make you a bit proud.

Eurostar train to the underground in about 5 minutes and unlike arriving into many airports the elegant building, bustle of the station and attractive public realm must give a great first impression of Britain.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The depth of different lakes and seas: from the beach to the deepest point of the Mariana Trench

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