“These guys got on and they just couldn’t handle the pace after 48 hours, which to me is a bit un-Australian,” Cam said. “Have a go!”
Nine teased the controversy in promotions ahead of the season launch, no doubt fueling viewer interest.
Adding spice to the MKR recipe was a new judging line-up: Manu Feildel, who has been with the show for all 11 previous seasons, has been joined by Nigella Lawson, with former MasterChef judge Matt Preston set to join from the second round.
The new Masked Singer panel (from left): Mel B, Abbie Chatfield, Dave Hughes and Chrissie Swan.Credit:Network 10
and-while Spicks and Specks made its long-hoped-for return last year with the original line-up of Adam Hills, Alan Brough and Myf Warhurst, this is the first season to have been recorded in front of a live audience since their reunion after a 10-year absence .
There was also another first for the ABC show: it screened an ad, or at any rate a snippet of one, to showcase guest contestant David Novak of the band Polish Club singing a cheesy duet for Domino’s Pizza.
With the shows staggered across the early evening – The Block and MKR started at 7pm, The Masked Singer at 7.30 am Spicks and Specks at 7.40 – competition for viewers was fierce.
MKR grabbed 767,000 viewers nationally to finish second of the reality shows on the night, though there were a couple of caveats. The unmasking segment of The Masked Singerbroken out as a separate program in the ratings figures, beat it, with 791,000 viewers nationally.
Long-term MKR host Manu Fieldel has been joined by Nigella Lawson.Credit:Seven Network
And while the main section of The Masked Singer finished well behind MKR with 689,000 viewers, it still won in the crucial metro markets (522,000 to MKR‘s 503,000).
The Masked Singer was, however, down significantly on last year’s launch, when it opened with 642,000 viewers in the five capital cities in overnight ratings (later boosted to 709,000 after catch-up viewing).
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MKRby contrast, was up on its last season in 2020, when it pulled just 498,000 metro viewers for its launch episode.
Spicks and Specks, meanwhile, drew 672,000 viewers nationally and 449,000 meters. That was a long way down from last year’s relaunch, which was watched by 953,000 nationally and 665,000 viewers in the five mainland capital cities alone.
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One of New Zealand’s most respected scribes has called for Scott Robertson to replace Ian Foster as tensions reach breaking point across the Tasman following the All Blacks’ 26-10 defeat to the Springboks over the weekend.
“It’s time to ring Scott Robertson, tell him to be waiting with his hand-picked assistants and for him and Jason Ryan to get on with rebuilding a legacy that is in danger of being horribly tainted if there is no definitive action taken,” wrote Gregor Paul in the New Zealand Herald.
“There is nothing now that can happen to convince anyone in New Zealand – anyone who knows the game – that the All Blacks are going to miraculously improve without a total and brutal cleanout and reset.
“Confidence has been shattered, all hope lost and it would be madness for New Zealand Rugby to do anything other than get out the check book, pay off the termination fees and usher in a new era.”
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Calls for Scott Robertson to replace Ian Foster are becoming deafening after the All Blacks slumped to their third straight defeat. Photo: Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images
The strong column comes after the All Blacks slumped to a 24-year first, as the nation slumped to its third straight defeat after previously losing their first home series in 28 years.
The 16-point loss, which was also their fifth defeat from six Tests, will see New Zealand drop to a historic low of fifth when World Rugby updates their rankings.
But, as was pointed out, it was not just the scoreboard that revealed the grim picture, it was the nature of the All Blacks’ defeat.
Foster’s side barely fired a shot.
It took until midway through the second half to get inside the Springboks’ 22 meter line and, for much of the game, they were suffocated by a rush defense that forced errors from the usually highly skilled New Zealand backs.
Malcolm Marx was the chief disrupter for the All Blacks, as the Springboks hooker, playing his 50th Test, regularly got on the ball and turned it over.
Malcolm Marx was awarded player of the match for his stunning breakdown work against the All Blacks. Photo: Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images
The All Blacks only made two real chances.
The first they bombed after some Beauden Barrett brilliance from his own goal-line ended in a terrible forward pass from flanker Akira Ioane near halfway.
The second chance saw Shannon Frizell slam the ball down out wide after Caleb Clarke crashed the Springbok defence, before brilliantly being tackled from behind by a diving Damian Willemse.
“In their defining hour, their day of reckoning, the All Blacks barely fired a shot,” wrote Liam Napier for the New Zealand Herald.
“Mbombela Stadium exploded at the seams with 45,000 screaming South Africans forming a sea of green; a piercing atmosphere. The locals sure had plenty to shout about, too.
“In that white hot cauldron, among the swarming Springboks, on their first venture to South Africa in four years, the All Blacks failed to cope with the relentless aerial and physical assault on their senses.
“It wasn’t the All Blacks were intimidated. It wasn’t they were caught off guard, either. The Boks stuck to their unimaginative kick-heavy, forward-dominated blueprint and executed it to perfection. The All Blacks knew it was coming – and still had few answers.”
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The All Blacks barely fired a shot against the Springboks in their Rugby Championship opener. Photo: Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images
Some of the more colorful writing came from Jamie Wall.
“Here we go again. Another All Black loss in 2022, the third in four tests, another week of mounting pressure on the coaching staff and the people that put them there. The loss was another extension of the gaping wound that is the national side, now festering with pus and infection, stinking to high heaven of defeat and desperation,” Wall wrote for Radio New Zealand.
In his post-match interview, Foster described the defeat as “probably our best performance of the year”.
“We’re bitterly disappointed but I felt it was our most improved performance this year,” Foster said.
“Some of the areas we really shifted our game forward. In a game dominated by defense we defended well but our timing was out a little bit in terms of the attack so we’re going to have to go and have a look at that. There’s a few players over here for the first time feeling the pressure that comes from this type of team.
“We’re pretty excited about the next challenge of playing at Ellis Park for a trophy.”
Wall said that “seems somewhat laughable considering it was the heaviest defeat to the Springboks since 1928.
“But really, the sad truth is that he might be right.
“However, if that’s all there is to brag about, then the labeling of this test shows just how delusional this side is about the way they are playing. As if it wasn’t already, this is a serious crisis that is only going to get worse before it gets better.”
New Zealand’s coach Ian Foster looks ahead of the Rugby Championship international rugby match between South Africa and New Zealand at the Mbombela Stadium. Photo: AFPSource: AFP
Long-time rugby writer Marc Hinton quite rightly pointed out that there was nothing shocking about losing to the Springboks, but he added the heavily one-sided nature to the defeat was concerning. After all, the All Blacks did beat the Springboks 57-0 in 2017 — a match which included eight players in the 23 from the weekend’s 26-10 loss.
“This was a limited, painful and at times gormless performance from an All Blacks side that has completely lost its mojo, its confidence, its rhythm and, to be frank, its wherewithal,” wrote Hinton for stuff.
“Ian Foster’s coaching tenure now hangs by a slender thread after his All Blacks proved patently ill-equipped to handle a superb display of high-intensity rugby from the world champion Springboks.
“The South Africans started and all-but finished this Rugby Championship opener, in front of a passionate, seeing crowd of over 43,000 at Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit, with players being driven off the field in medi-carts, but in between they applied a massive knockout blow to these reeling All Blacks with a 26-10 victory that was every bit as one-sided as it sounds.
“It is no disgrace to lose to a side of the caliber of this South African outfit. Plenty have over the years, and plenty more will too in days to come. But to go down so decisively, and largely fail to apply anything resembling sustained pressure on their opponents for so much of this one-sided contest, well, it spoke to how far this All Blacks side has plunged.”
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NZRU CEO Mark Robinson (L) has come under fire for overseeing the All Blacks’ struggles on and off the field. Photo: Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images
Meanwhile, the South African media basked in their team’s glory, but highlighted that this was the most “convincing winning margin in the professional era” over the All Blacks.
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“They may have failed to keep the All Blacks tryless in a Bok win for the first time since the Wellington success in 1998, but the 16-point buffer was by far their most convincing winning margin in the professional era,” wrote Khanyiso Tshwaku on news24.com
“It wasn’t pretty – seldom is the Bok way of rugby – and it is said that only a mother could love how they go about their business.
“However, they earned the love of not just the 42,387 who packed into the giraffe-propped nation, but the entire country. “It was aggressive. It was physical. It was faultless and flawless in every sense.”
Craig Ray, writing for DailyMaverick.co.zasaid the Boks were “dominant, emphatic, claustrophobic and clinical.
“The Springboks have seldom, if ever, dominated an All Black side so comprehensively. Despite a 26-10 final scoreline, the tourists were lucky it was not a lot worse.
“New Zealand hardly had any ball, they lost the aerial battle, they were destroyed on the ground and smothered when they did try to launch attacks.
“All Blacks coach Ian Foster’s time in charge is now surely measured in hours, not days.”
New Zealand’s fly-half Beauden Barrett (2nd R) attempts to get away from star center Lukhanyo Am (2nd L) at the Mbombela Stadium on August 6, 2022. Photo: AFPSource: AFP
Brendon Nel, writing for SuperSportinstead focused attention on the marvelous Springboks.
“You could sense it walking into the stadium. The electricity in the air. The nerves, the tension. So many of us who have arrived at these games before – in places across the world – know there simply is no thing as a bad All Black team. They may be wounded, but they are dangerous. And before the naysayers take out another knife for the now-inevitable demise of Ian Foster’s coaching stint with the All Blacks, let’s say it fairly – This was a magical Springbok performance,” Nel wrote.
He continued: “This was a night that Nelspruit had been waiting for. There weren’t just one or two heroes, but an entire team.This was a night where the ghosts of the past were laid to rest, where the passion and pride in Springbok rugby showed that while there may be those who relish writing them off across the world, those who have turned Springbok-hating into a sport, nothing can stop the heart of a Springbok.”
An Adelaide massage therapist charged with sexually assaulting two female clients indecently recorded up to 200 other women at a beachside clinic, a court has heard.
Key points:
The 35-year-old man has been charged with sexually assaulting two clients at his massage clinic
Police say they have taken statements from a further 13 women and found more than 700 images on his phone
He has been refused home detention bail
The 35-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared in the Port Adelaide Magistrates Court charged with seven sexual offenses against two alleged victims at the clinic in Adelaide’s western suburbs.
He today applied for home detention bail on the grounds he was not a risk to the community and would not flee the country.
But prosecutors opposed bail, saying the “sheer number” of potential victims was substantial and police had taken statements from a further 13 women.
Magistrate Paul Foley heard that 10 of those victims had made a complaint of indecent assault and three of those would be coupled with an indecent filming charge.
The court heard there were a further three victims of indecent filming.
Prosecutors told the court police had identified 721 indecent images on the man’s phone that related to between 150 and 200 women — many of whom were face-down on the massage table in various stages of undress.
“The offending appears to be extremely widespread and obviously serious,” prosecutor Brevet Sergeant Nicholas Fatchen said.
Marie Shaw QC, appearing for the man, submitted most of the allegations against her client were for indecent filming – a charge considered a less serious criminal offence.
She said he had the presumption in favor of bail, could be tracked electronically, could work from home selling solar parts and was not a flight risk.
Home detention bail denied
“He’s a 35-year-old man with no previous convictions … he’s never been in prison before,” Ms Shaw said.
“There’s no basis to suggest he would reoffend and there’s no basis to suggest he’s a flight risk.”
Ms Shaw added it would take three years before the case could be finalized at trial.
But the prosecutor said the charges were serious, as the man faced three rape charges, which would attract a prison sentence if guilty.
He said the prosecution had a strong case against the man and feared he would flee back to his home country as he was not an Australian citizen.
“He has a very strong incentive to flee,” he submitted to the court.
He also said if the man was given a “pass out” from home detention bail, he could run into potential victims, given the sheer number of them.
“There’s a significant risk he would run into various victims. I’m not suggesting he would seek them out, but the safety and protection of the victims is paramount,” he said.
Magistrate Foley denied the man’s home detention bail, saying the charges were too serious.
The party had pushed to include a measure in their climate and health care package that passed the chamber Sunday that would place a $35 cap on insulin for those on Medicare and with private coverage.
However, the Senate parliamentarian decided that extending the cap to the private market was not compliant with the rules of the reconciliation process, which Democrats used to pass the legislation with a simple majority vote.
Democrats kept the provision in the bill anyway, but Republicans on Sunday raised a point of order that led to a vote that limited the $35 cap to Medicare beneficiaries only. The final vote was 57-43, with seven GOP senators joining all members of the Senate Democratic Caucus on the vote — but a 60-vote threshold was needed to keep the private market provision in place.
The seven GOP senators who supported the provision were Susan Collins of Maine, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, John Kennedy and Bill Cassidy, both of Louisiana, and Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both of Alaska.
Long-standing mission
Democrats have long sought to reduce the price of insulin, which has skyrocketed over the years though it only costs a few dollars to make. That has forced some Americans to ration the medication, sometimes with fatal consequences.
President Joe Biden called for the $35 cap in his State of the Union address in March, and Democrats included it in their sweeping Build Back Better package, which passed the House last fall before stalling in the Senate.
This year, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia pushed a bill that would limit the cost of insulin to $35, as did Collins and Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire in a bipartisan effort. Neither has advanced.
More than 37 million people in the US have diabetes — more than 1 in 10 Americans — though not all are aware of it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 7 million people rely on insulin.
About a fifth of those who take insulin and have health coverage through large employers pay more than $35 a month for the medication, according to an analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation. More than a quarter of people with Affordable Care Act policies and nearly one-third of those insured through a small employer pay more than that threshold.
The success of Guilty Gear Strike relies heavily on its community, as it is an online fighting game. Unfortunately, if there aren’t enough players on the servers, you might be forced to wait for a player to join your match. The game is relatively new and has faced competition from Nickelodeon All Stars and Multi Versus.
Furthermore, the only reliable number for a player base comes months after a game is released. In the beginning, every game will have a huge high, but after the first month, that number usually falls. Several factors other than how fun a game is will contribute to the fail. Some players join the game because of the hype, others just try it out, and many more decide they don’t like it. After the first month, games usually experience dramatic drops.
Initially, Guilty Gear Strike saw tens of thousands of players, peaking at almost 31,000. Since then, the number of active players has steadily declined.
How many people play Guilty Gear Strike?
According to SteamCount and SteamCharts, the average number of players per day is 1,822.
According to steamspy, 500,000 to 1,000,000 players own Guilty Gear Strike, but their peak is similar to the average of SteamCount and SteamCharts at 1,862 a day. Considering how many likely own the game on steam, that’s a pretty low number, but the consoles seem to be doing worse.
Console manufacturers keep that kind of information secret, so it’s harder to tell how many players are active. According to Eventhubs, YouTuber Rooflemonger calculated the most popular characters on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 and inadvertently revealed fewer console players than PC players.
Will Guilty Gear Strike increase your player count?
Guilty Gear Strike is actually doing a lot to help increase its popularity. Some updates solve problems and balance the issues, as well as promises for future features. One very important feature that is coming soon is cross-play.
Cross-play has been a huge ask by the community and would most likely be a great way to bring players back. This is because cross-play gives more opportunities for gamers to play with friends on other devices. This will increase the chances that someone will play Guilty Gear Strike with friends and possibly give the game a second wind.
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Soon, MultiVersus plans to release ranked play, driving players away from Guilty Gear Strike. Companies can’t know exactly how to attract players, but as long as the player count is low, they normally do whatever they can to attract new players.
Anne Heche has had a tumultuous career and personal life, and her recent car crash – which saw her intubated at a hospital after suffering severe burns – is the latest in a long line of controversies that have plagued her through the years.
While it’s been reported the actress, 53, is in a “stable condition” and her family and friends have asked for “thoughts and prayers,” it’s also emerged she made some worrying comments shortly before the crash that left her “lucky to be alive.”
Heche is a talented actress, but has also made plenty of headlines because of her personal life.
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Anne Heche’s relationship with Ellen DeGeneres
In the 1990s, Heche was an up-and-coming actress, notably receiving a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series in 1991 for her work on Another World – but it was her relationship with Ellen Degeneres that made her tabloid fodder.
Heche and DeGeneres, 64, were together from 1997 to August 2000, and at one point, they even said they would get a civil union if it became legal in Vermont. The pair have never given a clear-cut reason for their break up, though at the time of the split, a source told the DailyNews“The relationship just ran its course … It wasn’t working.”
A statement from the actresses to the publication says: “Unfortunately, we have decided to end our relationship. It is an amicable parting, and we greatly value the 3½ years we have spent together. We hope everyone will respect our privacy through this difficult time .”
Hours after the breakup, it was reported an incoherent and babbling Heche was taken away in an ambulance to hospital after she knocked on a stranger’s door in central California.
“I’m not crazy,” Heche told abcnews later of the incident. “But it’s a crazy life. I was raised in a crazy family and it took 31 years to get the crazy out of me.”
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Anne Heche and Ellen DeGeneres at the Volcano premiere in Hollywood in 1997, which Heche says contributed to her being blacklisted from Hollywood. (Getty)
Twenty years on from the split, Heche gave rare insight into her relationship with the former talk-show host to Page Sixclaiming many Hollywood studios were unimpressed by the fact they were two women in a romantic relationship, and that she felt like “patient zero in canceled culture.”
“This wasn’t a long-term love affair. This was a moment in my life when I was given the glory of being able to stand up for what I believe in and have since I was a kid,” Heche said of the relationship .
Heche’s claims are unsurprising given the fact DeGeneres herself has been open about the career slump she faced after coming out in 1997via an episode of her sitcom Ellen and again on the cover of TIME magazine. that year, Ellen was canceled after much backlash (although ‘The Puppy Episode’ won an Emmy and a Peabody Award), and a viewer discretion for ‘adult content’ was placed before each episode of the final season, despite the fact Ellen‘s content was quite tame compared to other popular shows at the time.
Oscar winner Laura Dernwho played the pivotal character Susan, an out lesbian who helped DeGeneres realize she’s gay in ‘The Puppy Episode’, told vulture in 2019 there were bomb threats on-set throughout shooting the storyline, and that she also lost work and needed a “full security detail” after episode aired.
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All the stars who have come out
Heche said she felt blacklisted by Hollywood, especially after she took DeGeneres as her date to the red-carpet premiere of volcano in 1997, something she said she did because it was “about living in loving-kindness” – but she ultimately paid the price for it.
“I didn’t do a studio picture for 10 years. I was fired from a $10 million [approx. $13 million] picture deal and did not see the light of day in a studio picture,” Heche said.
In that same interview with Page SixHeche revealed Harrison Ford is her personal hero because he stood up for her against Hollywood executives who seemingly did not want her for her role in Six Days, Seven Nights (1998) anymore after her red carpet appearance with DeGeneres.
DeGeneres notably went on to marry Australian actress Portia de Rossi, and Heche married cameraman Coleman Laffoon in 2001. The couple divorced in 2009, and share a son. Heche reportedly left Laffoon for her Men in Trees co-star James Tupper, with whom she shares another son. The couple were together from 2007 to 2018.
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Allegations of sexual abuse against Don Heche
Heche has maintained that from when she was a toddler to when she was 12, she was raped and molested by her father, Don Heche, who was a Baptist minister and church organist. Don Heche died in 1983.
speaking to abcnews in 2001, Heche claimed her father “raped me, he stuck his d–k in my mouth, he fondled me, he put me on all fours, and had sex with me.”
“I think it’s always hard for children to talk about abuse because it is only memory. I didn’t carry around a tape recorder … I didn’t chisel anything in stone … Anybody can look and say, ‘Well how do you know for sure?’ And that’s one of the most painful things about it. You don’t,” she told the publication.
Heche’s father gave her genital herpes and, after he passed away from HIV/AIDS, Heche was afraid she had contracted that from him too.
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Anne Heche and ex-husband Coley Laffoon in 2004. (Getty)
Heche’s mother, Nancy Heche, is often estranged from her daughter. Nancy has been vocal about how she believes homosexuality is a sin and, following her husband’s death (he died from HIV/AIDS complications but Nancy says he died from “homosexuality”), became a Christian therapist and motivational speaker who lectured across the United States about “overcoming sexuality” – but that’s not the reason for their estrangement.
In her 2001 book call me crazy, Heche claimed that when she did get genital herpes as an infant, Nancy insisted it was nappy rash and refused to take her to the doctor. Heche also claimed their estrangement from her is a result of a confrontation surrounding her claims of sexual abuse suffered at the hands of her father from her.
Nancy was outraged by Heche’s allegations in her memoir, responding at the time, “I am trying to find a place for myself in this writing, a place where I as Anne’s mother do not feel violated or scandalized. I find no place among the lies.” and blasphemies in the pages of this book.”
I made told New York Times in 2009 of Nancy: “My mother’s had a very tragic life. Three of her five children are dead, and her husband is dead. That she is attempting to change gay people into straight people is, in my opinion, a way to keep the pain of the truth out. People wonder why I am so forthcoming with the truths that have happened in my life, and it’s because the lies that I have been surrounded with and the denial that I was raised in, for better or worse, bore a child of truth and love. My mother preaches to this day the opposite of that core of my life. It is no mistake that she still stands up against love. And one wonders why I’m not rushing to have her meet my children.”
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Of Heche’s four siblings, three are deceased – her sister Susan, from whom she was estranged, died of brain cancer, sister Cynthia died as an infant of a heart defect, and brother Nathan died in a car crash before his high-school graduation, though Heche believes it was suicide, something Nancy disputes.
Heche’s one remaining sibling, Abigail, has said the actress’ claims about their father are untrue.
Per PeopleAbigail said after the release of call me crazy: “It is my opinion that my sister Anne truly believes, at this moment, what she has asserted about our father’s past behaviour; however, at the same time, I would like to point out that Anne, in the past, has expressed doubts herself about the accuracy of such memories.”
“Based on my experience and her own expressed doubts, I believe that her memories regarding our father are untrue. And I can state emphatically, regardless of Anne’s beliefs, that the assertion that our mother knew about such behavior is absolutely false,” Abigail said .
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Where Anne Heche is now
Heche has starred in a number of projects over the years – her latest film role was as Tammy in 13 Minutesand on television, she was a contestant in Season 29 of Dancing with the Stars. She’s also been cast in a recurring role in the upcoming show the idol.
Most recently, Heche has been working with Heather Duffy on the podcast Better Together, where they “celebrate friendship, and we believe that we can create more joy in the world by sharing our stories, stumbles, and triumphs” with special guests to affirm the notion that humans are “better together.” It was on this podcast that Heche “joked” about drinking days before her crash.
Heche has been open about her challenges with her mental health, and in 2001 while promoting call me crazyshe opened up about how, when she was younger, she created the “Fourth Dimension,” a fantasy world to which she mentally retreated to feel safe amid the sexual abuse from her father.
“I drank. I smoked. I did drugs. I had sex with people. I did anything I could to get the shame out of my life,” Heche has previously said.
Heche has since said she has left the Fourth Dimension and her alter ego, Celestia – the daughter of God and half-sister to Jesus Christ who had contacts with extraterrestrial life forms – which she initially created to feel safe, behind.
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Golf legend Nick Faldo was reduced to tears and barely able to speak as he signed off on his 16-year career commentary in an emotional live TV segment.
The six-time major winner is leaving CBS and the Golf Channel and plans to focus on running his Montana farm and other business.
Faldo, 65, was a blubbering mess as he attempted to give his final address sitting alongside fellow CBS analysts Jim Nantz, Ian Baker-Finch and Frank Nobilo after the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club
“I blew it,” he said, struggling to compose himself. “I was already…”
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Faldo wept before finally stringing an emotional sentence together: “So I was on a boat in Ireland… They gave me a call and said, ‘How would you like to sit next to Jim Nantz?’ I literally fell out of the boat. I really did. That was 2006, and here we are, 16 years later.”
Australian Baker-Finch and New Zealander Nobilo paid tribute to Faldo before the Englishman uttered an emotional final line.
“I’m a single child and at 65 I found three brothers, thank you,” he said.
Meanwhile South Korean Kim Joo-hyung fired a stunning nine-under par 61 to win the Wyndham Championship, his first US PGA Tour title, and secure his spot in the season-ending playoffs.
Kim’s outstanding effort at Sedgefield Country Club, where the 20-year-old played the first nine holes of the final round in eight-under, capped a remarkable week that opened with his quadruple bogey eight at the first hole on Thursday.
“It’s definitely a week I’ll remember forever,” Kim said after his 20-under total of 260 gave him a five-stroke victory over fellow South Korean Im Sung-jae and American John Huh.
“I can’t believe it — I’m speechless right now,” Kim said, his emotions finally showing after a round in which he looked in supreme control.
“I’ve worked really hard to get to this point,” he said, his voice cracking. “Just walking off that 18th green, just thinking about the behind the scenes work.
“It was a hard day. I didn’t know golf was this stressful,” added the player who goes by the nickname Tom in a nod to his childhood love of Thomas the Tank Engine.
Cameron Percy was the best-placed Australian, finishing tied eighth, nine shots off the lead.
Queensland police have been kept busy over the weekend dealing with juvenile crime across the Gold Coast and Brisbane.
Key points:
Seven teenagers have been arrested after two separate vehicle thefts on the Gold Coast at the weekend
Chief Superintendent Craig Hanlon said the offending was “unsophisticatedly coordinated”
A police officer suffered a suspected broken nose after he was allegedly punched by a 13-year-old girl
One of the incidents involved six teenagers who allegedly stole a Land Rover and a BMW from a home at Carrara and a Range Rover from Southport.
Gold Coast Chief Superintendent Craig Hanlon said the BMW was tracked to Pimpama where the tires were deflated by road spikes.
“The offenders then jumped into the other stolen vehicle and Polair [police helicopter] tracked it to Mount Gravatt and Carindale in Brisbane,” he said.
“We deployed tire deflation devices again; the vehicle was disabled.”
A dog squad officer tracked the teenagers who were found hiding in nearby residences.
“What they do is drive one [vehicle] and when it gets disabled they jump into another one.”
Two 15-year-old Pimpama boys, a 15-year-old Runaway Bay boy, a 17-year-old Marsden boy, a 15-year-old Peranga boy, and a 14-year-old Oxenford boy have been charged with one count each of burglary and two counts each of unlawful use of a motor vehicle.
Five of the juveniles will appear at Brisbane Children’s Court today while the sixth teenager will appear at the Brisbane Children’s Court on August 12.
Teenage girl arrested
In a separate incident on Saturday, Gold Coast police said a Lexus was stolen in Surfers Paradise and was tracked to a home in Miami where a 15-year-old girl was arrested while a 14-year-old girl remains outstanding.
Chief Superintendent Hanlon said the number of juveniles committing repeat offenses was increasing.
“What we are seeing is the number of juvenile offenders is decreasing, but we talk about that 10 per cent. They’re the 10 per cent that commits almost 50 per cent of the crime,” he said.
“We focus on that 10 per cent and they target vulnerable kids, who are disengaged with family, and bring them into their web and they will then commit offenses with them.
“We’ve got to make sure that the main offenders may need to be treated differently to those people who are fringe dwellers that are not doing the main offending.”
Officer punched
Chief Superintendent Hanlon said one of his officers was recovering in hospital with a suspected broken nose after he was allegedly punched by a 13-year-old girl in Surfers Paradise overnight.
“They weren’t committing offenses. We were just concerned about their wellbeing,” he said.
“For some unknown reason, one of the 13-year-olds has punched the officer.
“He’s been transported to Pindara Hospital and she’s been charged with serious assault of a police officer.”
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) on Sunday called for federal assistance as the city takes in migrants bussed north by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R).
“@GregAbbott_TX used innocent people as political pawns to manufacture a crisis,” Adams tweeted Sunday.
“New Yorkers are stepping up to fix it — that’s our city’s values,” he added. “But we need the federal government’s help — money, technical assistance and more.”
Abbott says he is bussing migrants to New York City and Washington, DC in protest of President Biden’s immigration policies as border encounters reach record levels.
The first bus destined for The Big Apple arrived on Friday. Adams’s office blasted Abbott upon the bus’s arrival.
Adams reportedly traveled to the Port Authority bus terminal on Sunday to greet an arriving bus.
“This is horrific, when you think about what the governor is doing,” Adams said at the terminal, Politico reported.
The outlet reported that Adams said some of the families wanted to go to other locations but were forced on the bus.
“Our goal is to immediately find out each family’s needs and give them the assistance they want,” Adams said, according to Politico.
Abbott said in a statement on Friday that New York City, along with Washington, DC, was “the ideal destination for these migrants, who can receive the abundance of city services and housing that Mayor Eric Adams has boasted about within the sanctuary city.”
“I hope he follows through on his promise of welcoming all migrants with open arms so that our overrun and overwhelmed border towns can find relief,” Abbott continued.
DC Major Muriel Bowser (D) in mid-July requested the National Guard’s help as her city also received bussed migrants.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin turned down Bowser’s request, with a defense official saying Austin determined deploying the guard would “negatively impact the readiness” of the force.
The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment on Adams’ latest request for federal assistance.
According to a post on Naver, Samsung will launch its first foldable tablet on the same day as the Galaxy Tab S9 (via SamMobile). If the company sticks to its current schedule, that could happen in just half a year, around January or February 2023. Details are still scarce, unsurprisingly, but the mere idea that we’re this close to seeing a foldable tablet could put the rumor mill into high gear.
Of course, Samsung has already shown multiple prototypes of a large slate that folds into a smaller form in different ways — it even named at least two of these, hinting that they could be the commercial names for these technologies. The Flex S is what most will probably think of when imagining a large table that has to fold into a more portable form—in this case, folding in opposite directions to create an S or Z shape. The Flex G, in contrast, has two flaps that fold on top of each other, resembling a squished G instead.
The rumor doesn’t mention which direction Samsung will go, but the Flex S style is definitely more impressive to look at and probably more practical since you can use the tablet even while folded. This tablet could be called the Galaxy Z Tab or Tab Z, depending on whether it’s true that Samsung is considering dropping the Z branding. Whichever way it goes, this tablet will definitely be the talk of the town next year, presuming it does launch as rumoured.
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