A performer waves a straw dragon in Dahan Village of Hancun Township in Qingfeng County， central China's Henan Province， Feb. 14， 2017. The local straw dragon dance was a pray for rain in ancient time and turned into a folk art nowadays. (XinhuaFeng Dapeng)
Actor Daniel Craig poses on stage during an event to mark the start of production for the new James Bond film 'Spectre' Adrian Peterson Redskin Jersey , at Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, southern England December 4, 2014.
James Bond will take on a sinister organization with links to his past in the next installment of the blockbuster spy series, which star director Sam Mendes said on Thursday would be called "SPECTRE".
Mendes unveiled a new cast and souped-up car - an Aston Martin DB 10 - but few other details about the 24th film in the series, that will see Daniel Craig return for his fourth outing as the dapper, martini-drinking agent.
Austrian actor Christoph Waltz would play a leading role, Mendes added, without going into more details. Most commentators assumed the sadistic villain of Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Basterds" would play the baddie.
Italian actress Monica Bellucci and French actress Lea Seydoux, who shot to fame in the erotic hit "Blue is the Warmest Color", would play "Bond girls", Mendes added at a press conference at Pinewood Studios north of London.
In a teaser description of the plot, Sony Pictures Entertainment said in a statement:
"A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE."
The title was a clear reference to the global criminal organization that Bond has battled since the first film in the series, 1962's "Dr No".
SPECTRE infamously stood for the Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.
Much secrecy has surrounded the latest outing for the Bond franchise, which has taken in more than $5 billion worldwide since its debut in figures adjusted for inflation on the trade site Box Office Mojo.
The Sony Pictures Entertainment film, scheduled for release in November next year, previously had only a working title as "Bond 24".
Along with Craig, Mendes presented returning cast members Ralph Fiennes, who plays "M" after a long turn in the role by Judi Dench, alongside Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw and Rory Kinnear.
Mendes said shooting would begin on Monday at Pinewood and that other locations would include London, Rome, Mexico City, Tangier and the Austrian alps.
Mendes directed the previous Bond film "Skyfall", which was the most lucrative in the series to date, taking in $1.1 billion worldwide.
LONDON， June 24 (Xinhua) -- Following are results on the sixth day of the Eastbourne International on Friday (prefix number denotes seeded player):
Semifinals
12-Dominika Cibulkova， Slovakia， bt Msnica Puig， Puerto Rico， 6-2， 6-1
10-Karolina Pliskova， Czech Republic， bt 11-Johanna Konta， Britain， 6-7 (5-7)， 6-3， 6-3
Quarterfinals
12-Dominika Cibulkova， Slovakia， bt 1-Agnieszka Radwanska， Poland， 4-6， 7-6 (7-2)， 6-3
10-Karolina Pliskova， Czech Republic， bt Elena Vesnina， Russia， 6-1， 6-3
11-Johanna Konta， Britain， bt Ekaterina Makarova， Russia， 7-6 (7-5)， 6-4
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For those new to horse racing there is a lot to learn, and there is a whole world of horseracing tips and do’s and don’ts that you need to learn to stay on the road to profit and to enjoy making money betting on horse racing.
One of the key things that you must understand is how any bookmaker creates his or her ‘book’ and how that may effect the way that you approach your betting. The ‘book’ is simply the term used to describe the prices that the bookmakers create on any one horse race or any potential sports activity or betting market that has been created!
So when you watch horse racing on the television and you see the chalk boards that display all of the prices on course for that race, this is the odds representation of a bookmakers book.
To the untrained eye there may seem nothing amiss, however you need to be warned that there is, so consider this one of today’s most valuable horseracing tips! Something that every single person betting on horse racing or any bet for that matter would do well to learn as quickly as possible 鈥?the dreaded overround!
To calculate any horses price back in to a percentage is very easy to do, and goes like this.
100 = The fair percentage of actual 100 % probability
A= Profit ratio of win return
B= Stake ratio required
100 Divided by (A+B) = Multiplied then by B = % Chance
If you do this calculation you will realise that any race or event when betting with the same bookmaker will show an overround figure (greater than 100).
In a four horse race, a bookmaker may choose to price up each horse at odds of 31 (4.0). In this book, were he to take equal amounts of money on each horse, he would break even, as each horse would have a 25% chance of winning. In that the five runners have combined implied “probabilities” of winning of exactly 100%, this book has no overround. Long term the bookmaker would not be in profit as there is zero profit built in to this book.
In a four horse race, a bookmaker is more likely to price up each horse at odds of 52 (3.5). In this book, were he to take equal amounts of money on each horse, he would make a profit of 14.3% on turnover.
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