The Saints Row reboot is once again nicely showing off what it means to be a Saints Row game.
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A new gameplay overview trailer for the upcoming Saints Row reboot has dropped that gives a really detailed look at what all you will be facing when it comes to taking over Saint Ileso. Just like the previous games, you will be able to purchase shops to expand the Saint’s influence throughout the city.
You can find all of this in the trailer below. Buckle up, because it is certainly a wild ride.
First, you’ve got the several factions that you will be facing off with. Seeing as this is a Saints Row game, it’s not even slightly a surprise that one of the factions, The Idols, dress up like they are at an EDM concert. The fact that some of them wear helmets like they are in Daft Punk is just the cherry on top.
Of course, no game like Saints Row is complete without a police presence. Turns out The Marshalls privatized the local police force and have more than enough “defense technology” to pose a legitimate threat.
One of the nicest touches to this trailer is that you are shown a nice piece of property that is said to be “on 3rd Street”. Longtime fans of the series will definitely take notice of that as throughout the original series, the gang was specifically referred to as the 3rd Street Saints. It’s a nice call out and reminder that this reboot was made with the upmost love.
The Saints Row reboot will be out Aug. 23, for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. We will most certainly bring you plenty of guides when the game launches, so be sure to be here.
LMont Dozier was not a man much given to discussing the mystical art of songwriting and inspiration. You might have thought he would be. There’s certainly something extraordinary about the sheer quality of the songs he wrote with Brian and Eddie Holland in the 60s and early 70s: Baby Love, Nowhere to Run, Stop! In the Name of Love, Reach Out I’ll Be There, Heatwave, I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch), Band of Gold, You Can’t Hurry Love, You Keep Me Hangin On and Bernadette among them – a catalog that meant Holland-Dozier-Holland stood out even amid the riches of songwriting and production talent assembled at Motown. There’s a fair argument for calling this collection of songs the greatest in the history of pop.
And it wasn’t just that these songs were hits – they were the kind of hits that became indelibly imprinted on the brain of anyone with even a passing interest in pop music. But Dozier took a very prosaic attitude to it all, presenting himself not as the genius he clearly was but as a man who’d simply worked hard, “banging on that piano”. “There’s no such thing as writer’s block,” he contended a few years before his death. “That’s just being lazy. That’s just something you put in your own head. ‘I don’t feel it today’ – that’s bullshit.”
Perhaps that was just the attitude one developed in the hothouse hit factory environment of Motown where, Dozier recalled, songwriting sessions could last for 18 hours straight and founder Berry Gordy was given to announcing “so-and-so needs a hit because they’re going out of town and they need something right away”. The more successful the label got, the more Gordy seemed to pile on the pressure: in 1965, at the height of Motown’s golden age, he issued an edict: “We will release nothing less than a Top 10 product on any artist. Because the Supremes’ worldwide acceptance is greater than the other artists, on them we will release only No 1 records.”
‘No such thing as writer’s block’ … Holland-Dozier-Holland with Smokey Robinson. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
It was a challenging environment to which Dozier and the Holland brothers responded in the most incredible fashion. Each of them had started out as a performer in Detroit before being brought together by Gordy. Dozier thought they worked so well together because of their shared background in the church and a mutual love of classical music. They were, by all accounts, as determined and tough as their boss, and not above provoking the artists they worked with in order to get the best out of them. Diana Ross fled the sessions for Where Did Our Love Go in tears: she hated the song, which Dozier just maintained gave her vocal “the attitude it needed to become a big hit”. Their relationship with Marvin Gaye was also frequently volatile, the singer feeling provoked by the trio deliberately writing songs in a key he felt was too high for him, in order, Dozier said, “to be a little more imaginative, reach up to a falsetto ”.
However much trouble their methods caused around Hitsville USA, you couldn’t argue with the end result. Holland-Dozier-Holland were skilled at drawing out performances of starting intensity from artists. Listen to Levi Stubbs’ voice on the Four Tops’ Standing in the Shadows of Love. Or his cry of “Just look over your shoulder!” on Reach Out (I’ll Be There). Or the 1971 single You Keep Running Away, where the singer’s agonies – “Just look at me, I’m not the man I used to be / I used to be proud, I used to be strong” – chafe against the ebullience of the music backing. Meanwhile, the Supremes may have been painted as Motown’s poppiest and sweetest group, but there’s a genuine desperation about Ross’s lead vocal on You Keep Me Hangin’ On that is startlingly powerful when combined with the music’s churning relentlessness, the pounding drums, the one- note morse-code guitar.
Holland-Dozier-Holland’s songs occasionally contained a darker undercurrent than was immediately apparent. Martha and the Vandellas’ wonderful 1967 single Jimmy Mack was inspired when Dozier attended a songwriting ceremony in New York where the mother of the songwriter Ronnie Mack – who had died aged 23 from cancer – accepted an award on his behalf for the Chiffons’ He’s So Fine. It takes on a noticeably different hue if you consider that the subject of the Martha Reeves’ pleas to return might be dead.
Standing in the shadows of love … Lamont Dozier Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Although never overtly political, Motown’s golden age played out against a backdrop of turmoil in America, much of it connected to the civil rights movement. And without ever making it explicit enough to harm their commercial chances, Holland-Dozier-Holland frequently seemed to be sending out coded messages to their black American audience. As the writer Jon Savage subsequently noted, the tense, Bob Dylan-influenced Reach Out (I’ll Be There) “offered advice and sustainability to communities… under extreme duration.” Martha and the Vandellas’ Nowhere to Run, meanwhile, presents itself as a love song but in reality it was inspired by the state of America. Dozier later said its claustrophobic atmosphere had more to do with seeing tanks on the streets in the wake of riots and teenagers being shipped off to Vietnam than with romance.
Immediate, accessible pop music that is emotionally impactful and rich with meaning: it was an incredible trick to pull off, but Holland-Dozier-Holland did it again and again. It wasn’t enough to save their relationship with Motown. Promised and then denied their own sub-label, and angry about the way money was distributed in the company, they first went on a go-slow, then left entirely in 1968. The ensuing litigation went on for years, and forced them to use a pseudonym – Wayne-Dunbar – when writing for artists on their own labels, Invicta and Hot Wax.
They had more hits – Freda Payne’s Band of Gold; Give Me Just a Little More Time by the Chairmen of the Board – maintaining the same breathtaking standard that they’d kept at Motown. But Dozier became disillusioned: he claimed the Holland brothers passed on the chance to sign both Funkadelic and Al Green, and their rejection of the latter pre-empted his decision to leave, and another lawsuit. He pursued a successful solo career as a performer: 1973’s gorgeous Take Off Your Make Up and the following year’s Trying to Hold Onto My Woman suggested songwriting powers undiminished by the break-up of the partnership, and the Afrocentric 1977 album track Going Back to My Roots enjoyed a long afterlife thanks to multiple cover versions. Somehow his friendships with both Berry Gordy and the Holland brothers survived the legal disputes: “Business is business,” he shrugged, “but love is love.”
Lamont performing solo in 2009. Photograph: Paul Morigi/WireImage
He moved to London in the 80s and kept writing: he was behind Alison Moyet’s 1984 hit Invisible, and collaborated with Mick Hucknall, who one suspects couldn’t believe his luck, on a string of tracks for Simply Red. Sometimes he dealt in material that is reminiscent of the classic 60s Motown sound, such as the Four Tops’ Loco in Acapulco or Phil Collins’ Two Hearts. None of it was ever likely to supplant Holland-Dozier-Holland’s 60s output in anyone’s affections, but clearly his hitmaking touch was intact.
In his later years, he has dabbled in musical theatre, taught courses at the University of Southern California and seemed happy to give interviews in which he reflected on Holland-Dozier-Holland’s peerless achievements; the pressure they’d worked under at Motown; the havoc it had wreaked on their personal lives; the way they’d come up with this song or that song. Ultimately, however, every interview seemed to come back to the same unassuming theme. “It was blood, sweat and tears,” he told the Guardian in 2015. “We just worked and worked … until we came up with things.”
As we get down to the elimination stage for many head-to-head leagues, your choice of captain, point of difference players and trade selections are more important than ever.
Lone Scout addresses the big questions ahead of round 22.
Is Tapine a sell? – @ben_jorritsma
At this stage Joseph Tapine is only set to miss round 22, and with the Raiders basically in must-win territory it’s likely they’ll bring the influential prop back as soon as he is physically able. So unless you think holding him this week will cost you victory in a head-to-head league, I’d be holding him. He is an excellent Fantasy middle this year and hasn’t scored under 50 since round 10, if you remove last week’s injury-caused 26.
What should I do with just the one trade left? – @andyyreid
Ideally you’d want to hold it for if one of your big guns gets injured in the next week or two and you need to replace them. But if you’re playing head-to-head and facing the prospect of being eliminated from a league this week, then you have to use it and give yourself the best chance to keep your season alive. That extra trade won’t be much use if you have no game to play next week.
Who should I buy between Cook and Grant? – @cami.chickolo
Definitely Cook. He averages 69 points across his last five games, compared to Grant who averages 56.2 across the same period. Over the season Cook also averages eight points more per game than his Storm counterpart. He is the best option if you have the money.
Who should I trade Booth to with no extra money in the bank? – @ryan.saward
If position doesn’t matter, then I think the best players available at or below Booth’s price of $301k this week are Jaeman Salmon or Cooper Johns. Salmon looks set to have a starting spot in the halves for the remainder of the regular season, with Nathan Cleary suspended until the finals and Jarome Luai not expected back until then either, and he’s good value at $298k. The job security isn’t as good for Johns ($285k), but it’s likely Jahrome Hughes will face at least a few weeks on the sidelines with his shoulder issue.
If Booth was your only hooker and you need to bring in another one, then your options are extremely limited with Zac Woolford ($274k) the only starter available in that price range.
Who should I trade Hughes out for? – @crowleydarby
If you have a little bit of extra cash to use on player just over Jahrome Hughes’ price of $571k, then I like the look of Nat Butcher ($574k) who has an average of 56 over his last three games and has locked down a starting spot in the Roosters’ pack. Ben Hunt is a decent option as well at $578k and is your best pick if you need a HLF replacement. If you want to make a trade and also save some cash, consider Tyson Frizell ($538k) or Josh Curran ($547k).
Who are the best PODs going into H2H finals this week? – @vianello_arlo
It depends greatly on your budget, but here are my leading point of difference (POD) options who are selected by less than 5 percent of all teams:
Jayden Brailey ($609k) – The fact that he missed the first 16 weeks of the season through injury means Brailey has been forgotten about by almost everyone and is owned by 0.5 percent of teams. He comes off consecutive scores of 55 and 60 and is playing 80 minutes for the Knights.
Hudson Young ($713k) – The Raiders back-rower remains in just 1.34 percent of teams despite boasting a past five-game average of 52.8 points. Past issues with his job security from him – which is a big reason most Fantasy players have stayed away from him – appear to no longer be a problem, with Young playing 18 games this year.
Ryan Matterson ($721k) – The riskiest of these options given his injury history and uncertainty around his minutes right now, but he’s also a Fantasy gun on his day. Matterson is owned by just over four percent of teams and has scored over 60 points in six games this season.
Who’s the best captaincy choice this week? -@brendanb20
Rabbitohs lock Cam Murray is in fine touch and should have a busy day in the middle against a strong Eels pack on Friday night. While he set up three tries on his way to 94 points last week, his side’s dominance meant he also only made 35 tackles, which is below his normal defensive output. You could also go with Nicho Hynes, who comes up against the 15th-placed Wests Tigers and could rack up some good attacking numbers. The Sharks’ halfback has scored over 60 Fantasy points is each of his last seven games from him.
Is Dylan Brown a must-have with Moses out? – @tyson_dempsey
Brown is a good Fantasy player, but far from a must-have, especially with signs pointing towards Mitchell Moses possibly returning from his finger injury in the next fortnight, ahead of what was initially indicated. Brown is likely to be a nice scorer over the next couple of games while Parramatta’s chief playmaker, as he was last week with 81 against the Sea Eagles, but with trades at a premium, bringing him in shouldn’t be a priority.
When a loved one dies, there is a lot of practical, organizational things that need to be done.
Clearing out their home and deciding what to do with all their stuff can be a very daunting and emotional task.
Olivia (name changed for privacy) found the experience somewhat overwhelming when she first helped her father downsize following her mother’s death, and then again after he died less than a year ago.
“[It is a] mountain of stuff that you have to work through,” the 40-year-old Sydneysider said.
“Even though my parents’ didn’t have a load of stuff, they still had a lifetime of stuff.”
Olivia says she was lucky because she didn’t have any arguments with her two brothers about who got what of their parents’ possessions, but it was still tough to know how to dispose of a house full of things.
“My parents had furnished their home with antique furniture that a relative of my dad had brought out from England when they arrived in Australia,” she says.
“That furniture had a lot of sentimental value to my dad, [but] it’s not the kind of furniture that any of us kids would have.”
Lynette Brigden runs a business that helps families deal with a lifetime of stuff when someone dies or needs to downsize and move into care.
She says it’s always going to be an emotional experience and can be overwhelming.
“You just can’t keep everything,” she told Philip Clark on ABC’s Nightlife program.
“You have a whole house full of stuff and most people can’t absorb that into their house, because they’ve already got a whole house full of stuff. So you do have to be a bit brutal.”
Here are some tips on how to go about packing up a lifetime of stuff.
Start in one room and make piles
There are businesses that you can use to help you pack up a parents’ home, if that’s affordable and accessible to you.(Pexels: Ivan Samkov)
Ms Brigden’s first tip is to start to pack up an area of the house that doesn’t get used too much, something like a spare bedroom or office is a great place to start.
Go through everything in the room and make a decision with every item, placing them in a pile to keep, sell, give away or send to the tip.
Olivia says her mother’s advice, after dealing with her grandmothers’ possessions, was to move through the non-sentimental things quickly, stuff like cutlery, toiletries and linen and so on.
“Because the longer you leave it, the greater attachment you get to things that you otherwise wouldn’t have had attachment to,” she says.
How quickly you have to go through everything will depend greatly on your situation.
When Olivia was helping her father downsize, they had a long time to go through everything and work out what to do with it. But when he died, the retirement home needed his accommodation from him to be free within two weeks, meaning Olivia and her brothers from her had to move fairly quickly.
Does anyone want brown furniture?
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When you’re making your piles you might have to put more in the give-away pile than you want to.
“I’ve just donated a deceased estate and it had a lot of brown furniture and I ended up giving a lot of it away,” Ms Brigden says.
“People are happy to take the brown furniture if it’s free.”
Fashion in furniture comes and goes, and generally people will only want your grandad’s old dining table if it’s in really good condition.
However, to avoid tip fees and reduce the amount of stuff that ends up in landfill, Ms Brigden recommends giving as much of the old furniture items away for free as you can.
She recommends using local area Facebook Groups, Gumtree or sites like Street Bounty to list what you have to give away.
Opshops and charities will often take good quality items of furniture, clothing, some books and kitchen items, but they will only want things in very good condition and they may not take everything you want to give them.
Old bed frames can often be donated, but old mattresses are best off sent to recycling.
Ms Brigden says donating books to a street library can be a great way to give those books a new life.
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One of the piles Ms Brigden always makes is the garage sale pile, which can be a relatively easy way to make some cash from unneeded possessions.
You can also list items for sale online on places such as Facebook Marketplace, Gumtree, eBay and so on, if you have the time and capacity to do that.
Nightlife talkback caller, Mark, says he struck it lucky when he went through the boxes of stuff his grandmother left behind.
“I inherited a Phantom comic collection, which I recently was able to sell for $1,300,” he says.
“My advice would be to go through everything and do some internet research.”
Another option that might work, says Ms Brigden, is to get someone from an auction house to come and go through the house to help you work out what might sell, or send photos of items to an auction house and ask for valuation.
But often the really important items are the ones that hold no monetary value, but still mean the world to you.
Olivia says the most valuable things she kept are pieces of her mum’s writing.
“There’s a card, there’s a couple of articles my mum wrote, there’s some emails. Re-reading those, they’re so strongly in her voice it brings her back.”
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a state permit to construct the first freshwater, offshore wind turbine facility in North America was appropriately granted for the Icebreaker project in Lake Erie.
The Icebreaker project proposes to build six turbines eight to 10 miles off the Lake Erie coast, near Cleveland. The demonstration project would generate 20.7 megawatts of electricity, with a potential to expand if successful.
At issue before the court was whether the Ohio Power Siting Board followed the law in granting the permit.
Ohio Justice Jennifer Brunner wrote the majority opinion. Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor and Justices Patrick F. Fischer, R. Patrick DeWine, Michael P. Donnelly and Melody Stewart joined her opinion of her.
Justice Sharon Kennedy dissented.
Brunner, a Democrat, and Kennedy, a Republican, are running for Ohio Supreme Court chief justice in this November’s election. O’Connor is retiring due to age limits in the judiciary.
With the Ohio Supreme Court approval, theLake Erie Energy Development Corp., which is called LEEDCo and is developing the project, has additional security to market the power to potential customers, the company said in a statement Wednesday, shortly after the Supreme Court decision was released.
A third of the power is under contract with the City of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. LEEDCo can now focus on marketing the remaining two-thirds.
There isn’t yet a date for when construction will start, as LEEDCo was waiting in court, said Will Friedman, president and CEO of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority.
“LEEDCo will need some time to regroup, market the power and determine next steps. We could not advance the project in any way while the Supreme Court case was pending,” he said. “Even though we prevailed today, it’s been a detrimental delay for over a year. With certainty received from the Court, we can now focus on marketing the remaining two-thirds of the electricity it will produce.”
Icebreaker is projected to have a $253 million local economic impact and create more than 500 jobs, according to the company.
The case ended up before the court after two Bratenahl residents opposed the project.
One described herself as a birdwatcher who learned to swim in Lake Erie before she could walk. She was concerned about the killing of birds and bats by the turbine blades. The other resident enjoys birding, boating and swimming in Lake Erie. They argued that the state hasn’t received enough data on whether the project poses significant harm to birds and bats.
At one point, Murray Energy Corp., a coal company that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2019 and sold off its assets to American Consolidated Natural Resources Inc., was paying for expert testimony and the Bratenahl residents’ legal fees in the case.
But Brunner wrote that the board collected the necessary research to allow Icebreaker to begin construction, while also requiring more data before the company can operate the turbines.
“Rather than requiring Icebreaker to resolve those matters before issuing the certificate, the board determined that the conditions on its grant of the application were sufficient to protect birds and bats and to ensure that the facility represented the minimum adverse environmental impact,” Brunner wrote.
Kennedy, on the other hand, wrote that the board held the project to a lesser degree of scrutiny because it is a first-of-its-kind demonstration project. State law does not make exceptions for demonstration projects, and the board failed to gather the required data regarding the environmental impacts, including its impact on aquatic and avian wildlife, before issuing the certificate, she stated. If more relaxed standards should apply to demonstration projects, that decision must be made by the legislature, she wrote.
The Siting Board made over 30 conditions for Icebreaker to follow, including monitoring wildlife activity before and after construction from April 1 through Nov. 15 each year. Before construction, radar must be installed on a barge. The board also is requiring collision mitigation technology to be installed before turbine operations can begin.
The Supreme Court, in the majority decision, noted the board cited many scientific studies about birds and bats flying near and off the shores of Lake Erie, including studies of bird fatalities at 42 land-based wind farms in the Great Lakes region and bat fatalities at 55 land-based wind farms. The board also cited evidence that the location of the turbines would not likely impact the habitat of nesting birds and roosting bats because of its distance from the shoreline.
Brunner wrote that when appealing the board’s decision, the Bratenahl residents had to demonstrate the board’s decision was “so clearly unsupported by the record as to show misapprehension, mistake or willful disregard of duty.”
She wrote that the residents did not provide enough evidence to justify overturning the board’s decision.
Brunner wrote that Icebreaker, by being a demonstration project, is not exempt from information requirements about the danger to wildlife. However, she stated the lack of precise knowledge should not prevent the board from issuing the certificate if conditions are added that require the company to continue to study and report its environmental impacts.
“We have upheld the board’s practice of imposing conditions on wind-farm construction certificates,” the opinion stated, referring to the court’s 2012 opinion in the Buckeye Wind LLC project in Champaign County.
In the statement released by Icebreaker developer LEEDCo, Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb says renewables such as Icebreaker Wind bring “a great opportunity to grow the wind industry locally as well as provide access to renewable energy for businesses and residents of Cleveland and the region. This project has always been a win-win for our economy and for our environment. Let’s position ourselves to be a leader, not a follower, to other states.”
Friedman, of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, said by one estimate, there will be $70 billion in the offshore wind business pipeline in the US by 2030.
“Other states are nipping at our heels to attract offshore wind and its economic benefits,” Friedman said. “We don’t want to squander this opportunity and let 15 years of work slip away to other states eager to capture market share.”
Ohio has no choice but to embrace the energy transition to meet the state’s power needs, said LEEDCo Board Chairman Ronn Richard, who is also CEO of the Cleveland Foundation, noting Intel’s decision to build the world’s largest computer chip factory near Columbus includes a commitment to power 100% of its operations with renewable energy. Other companies in Northeast Ohio and throughout the state have also set ambitious renewable targets, he said.
“This decision will create jobs, attract talent from outside our region and retain the best and brightest minds from right here in Ohio,” Richard said. “It also shows that we’re committed to improving health outcomes for Ohioans by cleaning up the air we breathe and the water we drink. It’s our hope that LEEDCo can now resume selling the remainder of the power and turn this dream into a reality.”
Wednesday’s decision is likely the last legal hurdle for Icebreaker, after years of hearings and appeals with the Siting Board. This included a requirement, since removed, that the operation of the turbine blades be curtailed from dusk to dawn between March 1 to Nov. 1 each year to mitigate the killing of migrating birds and bats. Icebreaker officials celebrated that win, saying the requirement was a poison pill that would make the demonstration project financially unviable.
The Siting Board made many decisions under former Chair Sam Randazzo, who opposed renewable energy in his earlier career as an energy lobbyist, and ultimately resigned from the Siting Board and Public Utilities Commission of Ohio after the FBI searched his Columbus home during its investigation into the alleged $60 million corruption scandal involving FirstEnergy and former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder. Randazzo hasn’t been charged by the feds and he claims he didn’t break any laws in relation to FirstEnergy.
Canon has officially partnered with Japanese toy company Takara Tomy to produce two “robots in disguise” Transformer toys that take the shape of the EOS R5.
spotted by TFormers and TheVerge, Takara Tomy is set to release a pair of Transformer toys that take the shape of Optimus Prime of the Autobots and Refraktor of the Decepticons. Refraktor might at first seem like an obscure character to pick to go alongside the Autobot leader Optimus Prime, but according to Transformers lore, the Decepticon is a combination of three separate robots named Spectre, Spyglass, and Viewfinder, which fits nicely into the idea of it hiding as a Canon camera.
Takara Tomy indicates that it works in tandem with various companies annually to produce fun collaboration products and in the case of Transformers, it works particularly hard to make sure that they not only function as toys, but also look the part of whatever original product they are trying to mimic.
This year, the company’s toys are being produced in collaboration with Canon and the result is an 80% scale model of the company’s full-frame mirrorless R5. Takara Tomy says that the camera body and lens can be removed like the actual camera, although as a toy it cannot actually take any pictures.
When not in the robot state, the toy looks strikingly like the Canon R5 and it is particularly impressive that the body and lens can be separated and still look like the R5 and 24-105mm that they were modeled after.
The lens cap that looks strikingly similar to the one found on Canon’s actual cameras can be removed and used as a shield.
Both robots come with a small camera that each can hold when in their “transformed” state. Optimus Prime ships with a tiny EOS R5 while Refraktor comes with a three-part camera that mimics the original concept of the Decepticon that, as mentioned, is made up of three separate robots.
The two Transformers are scheduled to be released in Japan on February 25, 2023 and pre-orders for each (Optimus Prime and Reflektor) are currently open between August 10 and September 28 for 19,800 yen, or about $150. Takara Tomy has, unfortunately, not made any mention of an international release.
After 14 years together, Lance Armstrong and his longtime girlfriend Anna Hansen have tied the knot.
The disgraced cyclist, 50, announced they said ‘I do’ in France in a touching post showing their nuptials on Tuesday.
‘Best. Day. Ever. Married the love of my life @annahansenarmstrong. So special having our kids there as well,’ Lance began in the caption.
Just married! After 14 years together, Lance Armstrong and his longtime girlfriend Anna Hansen have tied the knot
‘It was an evening full of laughter and plenty of joyful tears. Anna, you have been my absolute rock the past 14 years and let me be clear, I would not have survived them without you.
‘I am so proud of the couple we have become – It took us doing the work, the really hard work, and I am so glad that we did. I love you immensely and will always be here for you and our family. I’d be remiss if I didn’t think our best bud aka “Reverend” @chad_mountain for officiating the ceremony.
‘As well as the great @lizkreutz for making sure these beautiful memories were captured. Hope you are all having an excellent summer – I sure as hell am.’
Lance and Anna have been engaged since 2017 and share daughter Olivia Marie Armstrong, 11, and son Max Armstrong, 13. The cyclist also has son Luke, 22, and twin daughters Grace and Isabelle, 20, with his ex-wife Kristin Richard, whom he was married to from 1998 to 2003.
Soulmates: The disgraced cyclist, 50, announced they had said ‘I do’ in France in a touching post showing their nuptials on Tuesday
Forever and ever: The post captured their magical nuptials
Gone! Images captured Lance and his bride exchanging vows
The images, which were taken at Chateau La Coste in France, captured the newlyweds in nearly every stage of their special day.
Anna wore a gorgeous white dress with lace detailing and a small arrangement of flowers in her hair.
The couple beamed from ear to ear as they exchanged vows before sharing their first kiss as man and wife.
They also enjoyed a glass of wine as they took pictures in the vineyard.
The bridal party included their children, and Lance tagged his son Luke and daughter Grace in the images.
Aww: ‘Anna, you have been my absolute rock the past 14 years and let me be clear, I would not have survived them without you,’ Armstrong gushed in his post
Here comes the bride! The post also appeared to capture the couple’s first look
Longtime love: The newlyweds were together for 14 years before finally walking down the aisle
Lance announced their engagement in 2017, posting a photo of them at Lake Austin as Anna showed off her new ring.
‘She said….. YES!!!!’ I have captioned the elated snap.
Lance has been romantically linked to a number of celebs in the past.
He was previously engaged to singer Sheryl Crow, and also dated the likes of fashion designer Tory Burch and actress Kate Hudson. He was also linked to Ashley Olsen in 2007.
Sealed with a kiss! Lance beamed as he kissed his bride
Suits him! Armstrong was looking smart in a black suit with white rose attached to the lapel
She said yes! Lance announced their engagement of her in 2017, posting a photo of them at Lake Austin as Anna showed off her new ring
Former flame: Armstrong was previously engaged to singer Sheryl Crow; pictured 2005
Armstrong was the only cyclist to ever win seven consecutive Tour de France titles between 1999 and 2005 but lost it all following a doping scandal.
Years of cover-ups and denials finally caught up with Armstrong in 2012 when a United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) investigation found Armstrong had used performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career.
He was stripped of all of his achievements from August 1998 onwards, including his record seven Tour de France titles, and handed a lifetime ban from the sport.
The former factor: Armstrong dated the likes of fashion designer Tory Burch (L) and was married to Kristin Richard from 1998 to 2003 (R)
Embroiled in controversy: Armstrong was the only cyclist to ever win seven consecutive Tour de France titles between 1999 and 2005 but lost it all following a doping scandal; pictured winning stage 17 of the Tour de France in 2004
The elected star not to contest doping charges brought against him, dismissing proceedings as a ‘witch hunt’ and claiming he did not feel the process was a fair one.
Armstrong returned from cancer to dominate the Tour between 1999 and 2005 but fiercely denied allegations of doping until coming clean in an interview with Oprah Winfrey in January 2013.
During that interview, Armstrong admitted taking banned substances – including EPO – to help win the Tour de France.
He latter admitted he ‘wouldn’t change a thing’ about the episode, adding: ‘We did what we had to do to win.
‘It wasn’t legal, but I wouldn’t change a thing – whether it’s losing a bunch of money, or going from hero to zero.
‘It was a mistake, it led to a lot of other mistakes. It led to the most colossal meltdown in the history of sport. But I learned a lot.’
Turtle Wax Trans Am Series leader Nathan Herne has denied suggestions his team, Garry Rogers Motorsport, is cheating its way to a championship win.
Suspicions were raised by rival competitor Jon McCorkindale following the most recent SpeedSeries round at Queensland Raceway in which all three races were won by Herne.
The Ford Mustang he drove, and identical cars out of the same stable, exhibited roof flexing at high speed.
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Nathan Herne’s car exhibiting roof flex (44 Photography)
It is thought that the flexing of the roof gives the cars an aerodynamic advantage over the less popular Chevrolet Camaro and Dodge Challenger.
“Spot the difference,” wrote McCorkindale on social media, with a side-by-side image of his and Herne’s car.
“[Don’t worry] I love the innovation Garry Rogers Motorsport, but we are watching you.”
The roof flexing does not appear to be limited to the Garry Rogers Motorsport-run Ford Mustangs, but is more pronounced.
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The issue of roof flexing has long been known, with imagery suggesting the problem has persisted as far back as the first round of this year.
The theory goes that depressing the roof allows a greater volume of air to go over the rear wing and thus creates more downforce.
speaking on The Driver’s Seat podcast with ex-Supercars driver Steven Johnson and co-host Matthew McKelden – another Trans Am competitor – Herne went on the defence.
Jon McCorkindale raised suggestions on social media, implying Garry Rogers Motorsport might be cheating (Daniel Kalisz)
He explained that the flexing was first discovered in Lochie Dalton’s car after it broke a roof strut. The team then went out of its way to replicate the fault on the sister cars.
While the Garry Rogers Motorsports cars exhibit severe roof flexing, Herne said no rules have been broken.
“We have done it since Phillip Island and it’s never been a problem,” said Herne.
“It has been brought up in the category before. Technical delegates have never had a problem with it. I think Jon [McCorkindale]who posted it and brought it all to light, he had a bit of a rough weekend.
“I’m not a big fan of the way he went about it. At the end of the day, if you have a problem with another competitor’s car, go to technical delegates, go to the category managers, talk to them about it, get them to investigate it.We don’t need all this crap on social media, putting an asterisk on top of the two cars fighting for the championship really.
“But on the same token as well, I do see where everyone is coming from with it. At the end of the day, it’s Trans Am, not NASCAR, it’s not like we’re racing around Daytona. Granted, it may give us maybe half a kilometer an hour down the straight at a maximum, to be honest, and with rear aero you honestly don’t know if it helps or it doesn’t.
“It’s sort of something to mess with the other competitors’ heads and just a bit of a show to say we’re looking at everything on these cars. It is what it is.”
Cars torn up in Trans Am race start
When posed with the scientific theory behind the supposed aerodynamic advantage, Herne replied, “I’m just a driver.”
Trans Am is a parity-based formula, meaning each car should be identical and be capable of achieving the same result.
The Mustang, Camaro and Challenger were all wind tunnel tested in the development of the formula before being distributed.
The roof flexing is thought to have happened after the homologation process.
Asked whether the perceived cheating was a bad look for the category, Herne doubled down on his assessment and commended his team for finding the loophole.
“At the end of the day, that car is 100 per cent legal,” said Herne.
“You can go through the rule book and there’s nothing wrong with it. You’re entitled to an opinion, that’s fair enough.
“The reason we get paid at GRM is to produce the fastest race car and to produce the fastest race car, you go through the rule book and you do whatever you do in the rule book to make the fastest race car.”
Ben Grice’s Ford Mustang (44 Photography)
With the discovery and subsequent furore, Trans Am organizers could soon outlaw the roof trick.
A statement released by category management on Wednesday confirmed technical delegates would be investigating the matter with Motorsport Australia.
“The rule book is made from what the category already knows,” said Herne.
“If someone comes through and finds a loophole and their cars are faster the next two rounds because of it and then the rule gets changed, that is what it is. It’s motorsport, it’s the sport we’re in.
“At the end of the day, [A mechanic] was the one who found it. He needs a pat on the back for finding something so small; it has obviously kicked up a bit of a stink and it’s played in the heads of the other competitors, which is good, it’s exactly what we want. It’s brought more attention to the category.
“While yes, it might not be positive light and some other competitors might be chucking up a stink and saying ‘Oh, GRM is winning this because they’re doing this and they’re cheating and blah blah blah’ and all that hoo- he has.
Lochie Dalton’s car exhibited extreme roof flex (44 Photography)
“At the end of the day, we had enough on the other competitors that that roof, whatever it might have been gaining, even if it does make a gain, when it does suck in it’s not a smooth surface.
“People saying the reason we have got the mickey on them is because of the roof is absolute crap. But at the end of the day we’re here to try to build the fastest race car and that’s what we have done.
“If the rule gets changed for next round, we’ll tighten the roof strut and that’s it, we’ll be done with it. At the end of the day, it’s the only way for the category to move forward, is to be shown there’s a hole here in the rule book, fix it, and that’s what we have done.”
Herne leads the Turtle Wax Trans Am standings over teammate Owen Kelly, 912 points to 893, with one round remaining.
The 2022 season comes to a close at Sandown on September 16-18 as part of the SpeedSeries program.
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A 19-year-old Aboriginal man’s death would likely have been prevented if multiple state authorities had not failed to arrange a life-or-death medical appointment, according to the WA state coroner.
Key points:
Mr Yeeda, 19, died of heart failure while in custody at the West Kimberley Regional Prison near Derby in 2018
He had an ongoing heart problem but a referral for him to see a cardiologist was not followed up on
The WA coroner says Mr Yeeda’s death was likely preventable but multiple organizations missed opportunities to get him medical help
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this story contains an image of a person who has died.
Mr Yeeda, whose first name is being held for cultural reasons, died on May 3, 2018 at the West Kimberley Regional Prison near Derby.
The Miriuwung Gajerrong man was six weeks away from being released when he died from rheumatic heart disease after a game of basketball at the facility.
“He was looking forward to life,” said his mother Marlene Carlton, who released a written statement through the National Justice Project.
“He wanted to do his time so he could come out and live with his dad on a station and work with horses.”
According to the state coroner’s findings released this week, Mr Yeeda had rheumatic heart disease and had a referral to see a cardiologist about getting heart surgery.
However, an appointment for Mr Yeeda was never made.
Surgery likely would have prevented death
Based on an inquest held in September, the WA coroner concluded the young man would likely have been told he needed urgent heart surgery if he had made the appointment.
“If Mr Yeeda had undergone aortic valve replacement surgery, it is likely that his death would have been prevented,” a summary statement from the coroner said.
The WA coroner has found Mr Yeeda’s death would likely have been prevented if not for failings in the health and justice systems.(Supplied: National Justice Project)
The coroner added that the WA Country Health Service bore the ultimate responsibility for the referral not being actioned, while the Department of Justice missed an opportunity by not having a computer-based tracking system to make sure urgent prisoner referrals were not missed.
“The WA Country Health Service feels deeply for the deceased’s family,” a spokesperson for the service said.
“While we can never replace their loss, we are working closely with all concerned on the recommendations outlined by the coroner.”
The Department of Justice said it acknowledged the findings of the coroner.
“All deaths in custody are taken seriously and systems and processes will be reviewed in light of the coroner’s recommendations,” the department said in a statement.
WA Cardiology also missed a number of opportunities to assist, according to the coroner.
The service has been contacted for comment.
Coronar’s recommendations
The coroner recommended that the Department of Justice work together with the country health service to improve the exchange of information about the status of referrals, and address tracking system delays created by a lack of resources in the department.
The third and final recommendation was for the department to investigate the feasibility of creating a list that would alert prison officers if an inmate was unfit for sport or work.
Mr Yeeda had been in custody for about one year when he died, having been taken into the facility on May 5, 2017.
He required regular medication and monitoring for heart damage he experienced as a young child, when he had rheumatic fever.
He had surgery for an aortic valve repair when he was a child but it was not a cure for his rheumatic heart disease.
Mr Yeeda was supposed to have monthly penicillin injections but was occasionally resistant to having them.
Arrangements for Mr Yeeda to have heart surgery had previously been made in 2015, but those surgeries were canceled because consent had not been provided by him, or on his behalf.
“However, the fact that there had been no past consent did not mean there would be no future consent,” the coroner wrote.
According to the findings, Mr Yeeda had agreed on December 5, 2017 to see the visiting cardiologist but the appointment was not made.
He died about five months later.
Ms Carlton said her son’s death should have been prevented.
Concerns about racism, lack of cultural care
“There was a lack of communication between the prison and me – if anything happened to him, they should have called me, but they didn’t,” Ms Carlton said.
“There should be a better system to monitor their [the inmates’] health, and they need people in the prison who understand Indigenous culture and health [requirements].”
George Newhouse, the principal solicitor and director of the National Justice Project, said more needed to be done to ensure culturally safe health care in prisons.
“The coroner has failed to address the systemic racism in WA’s justice and healthcare systems which led to Mr Yeeda’s death,” Mr Newhouse said.
Professor Juanita Sherwood, a Wiradjuri woman and board member of the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives, said prison staff should have followed national guidelines for managing rheumatic heart disease.
“These guidelines are easily accessible, and prison and health staff should have known better because we all know it’s a big issue for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities that needs to be managed well,” she said.
“The lack of treatment and follow-through reveal a negligent treatment of Mr Yeeda.”
An OnlyFans model who fatally stabbed her boyfriend in Miami was arrested in Hawaii on Wednesday and is expected to be charged with second-degree murder, authorities said.
In a statement, the Hawai’i Police Department said a warrant was issued for the arrest of Courtney Clenney, 26, alleging second-degree murder with a deadly weapon.
Clenney was taken into custody in the killing on April 3 of Christian “Toby” Obumseli while in rehabilitation for substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder, said her lawyer, Frank Prieto, confirming comments first reported by The Miami Herald.
Courtney Clenney and Christian Toby Obumseli.christianvstoby via instagram
She was being held at the East Hawai’i Detention Center and was expected to make a first appearance in local district court Thursday, the department said. She will eventually be extradited to Florida.
The 11th Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s office said it would announce charges Thursday in connection with Obumseli’s slaying.
The Miami Police Department has previously described Obumseli’s death as a domestic violence-related incident that involved a physical altercation and ended with a stabbing.
In a statement, Prieto, who has previously described the couple’s relationship as “clearly toxic,” said he was “completely shocked” at Clenney’s arrest because of “the clear evidence of self-defense in this matter.”
“Obumseli attacked her and choked her that evening,” he said. “Courtney had no choice but to meet force with force.”
A lawyer for Obumseli’s family did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A cousin of Obumseli has previously said the family has “no cause to believe that this was a case of self-defense,” adding: “Toby was raised by a very strong family, with strong morals, strong values. He does not come from that.”
Clenney appeared on OnlyFans under the name Courtney Tailor and has 2 million followers on Instagram.
Tim Stelloh is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.
