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7 hours ago
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Collingwood star 'happy', says new contract coming soon
Star Collingwood ruck Darcy Cameron wants to stay at the Magpies and hopes his manager can sort out a new deal "soon". Despite being contracted until the end of 2026, Cameron is hot property. A report on SEN WA last week linked the 29-year-old to West Coast, suggesting the Eagles are highly interested in luring Cameron. Rebuilding West Coast are in desperate need of a quality ruck, so a move for Cameron would make sense. Originally from Albany in Western Australia, Cameron is in career-best form after placing second in Collingwood's Copeland Trophy last year, only behind superstar Nick Daicos. Asked if he wanted to remain at Collingwood, Cameron replied: "Of course I want to stay. "Very happy at the Pies," the premiership star told AAP. "My manager's in constant conversations with people around here and I'll let them sort that out. "They're such a good team. "We'll let them do the work and hopefully we can sort something out soon." Veteran big man Mason Cox made way for last Friday night's clash with Hawthorn, as Cameron instead received help in the ruck from Tim Membrey and Brody Mihocek up forward. Defender Billy Frampton also stepped in for Cameron at some centre bounces, as Collingwood demolished the Hawks by 51 points. "It was still pretty much the same game time, same amount of ruck time," Cameron said. "It was just asking a bit of Tim Membrey and Brody Mihocek, then Billy Frampton for some bounces. "They all do a good job, and they (Hawthorn) don't have a second ruck either." Premiership favourites Collingwood (10-2) have an extended break before facing Melbourne in the King's Birthday match at the MCG.
ABC News
12 hours ago
- General
- ABC News
Noongar artist Denzel Coyne on how learning to carve wood helped him heal
Denzel Coyne shows his young daughter how to throw a kylie, or boomerang, he made from jarrah wood. A descendent of a Stolen Generation survivor, the Noongar man with connections to Menang and Goreng Country started learning to make traditional Indigenous artefacts for the first time as an adult. Once he had begun, there was no looking back. On Menang Country in Albany, Western Australia, Coyne spends his days carving, sanding and polishing everything from shields to spears. "It helps me escape my past traumas, it helps me heal." It's a sense of healing, through reclaiming culture, he wants to offer other descendants of Stolen Generation survivors, as well as people who have experienced similar struggles. For Coyne, those struggles began with deeply painful early years. "At a very young age, I lost my mother, tragically. Someone murdered her when I was seven years old," he said. "I struggled without having my mother there to nurture and show me love. "From there, my dad basically raised the four of us by himself; me and my siblings. "Dad was part of a Stolen Generation and unintendedly, a lot of the Stolen Generations traumatic events and life's challenges and stuff like that was sort of passed down in a lot of ways." His dad later went to prison, Coyne said, and he was moved to a house where he was abused. As an adult, he struggled with drug and alcohol addiction, doing several stints in jail. But when he became a father, his outlook began to change. "I think I needed a daughter to change my direction in life, really help me look at life in a whole new light." He was still in the grips of addiction, when Denzel said he was given an ultimatum. "Go to rehab, or I wouldn't be able to take my daughter home," he said. "That day was one of the hardest days of my life. I knew what I had to do." It was during the rehab program that an Aboriginal instructor began teaching Coyne, and the rest of the men's group, how to carve artefacts. "He wanted us to do some tactile learning, something that we can take away from that program, and to help uplift us when we're in a sad time," Coyne said. "Maybe if we didn't have that, I might not have stuck around, I just feel it was so important." On the other side of rehab, Coyne has started his own business, Born Wirn, and is carving out commissions for traditional artefacts. "It means tree spirit," he said. "I bring out the beauty and the grain of the wood and the grain represents the years of the wood, his spirit." Coyne is continuing to refine his skills, borrowing artefacts to study, and calling friends to share what knowledge they can. He strongly believes he is being guided by his ancestors as he learns. Coyne has also encouraged his partner, Noongar woman Penelope Williams, to take up the women's side of the business. For the most part, she was teaching herself. "He couldn't show me because it was woman side of things, but I think he trusted that I would be able to do it, so I got out there and then I started making them," Williams said. "I was in juvenile detention and that's where I learnt woodwork and wood burning, that has really helped me starting this. "When I first made my first one, I was so proud, I couldn't believe that I did it. "And the connection that I feel to my culture while making them, it's hard to describe, but I know making this stuff has helped heal my spirit." The process has prompted the couple to teach their hard-earned skills, holding workshops and talks with school groups and even at a hospital. "I think we could help lots of people, you know, just heal," Williams said. "We're giving them knowledge and culture that was taken." For Coyne, the work keeps him concentrated and connected. "I feel connected, spiritually, mentally," he said. "The whole process, it just gives me so much."
Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
National Job Corps 'pause' will affect nearly 800 in Albany
ALBANY – The abrupt announcement of a 'pause' of Job Corps operations across the country will be a big blow to Albany, where the current 510 students and nearly 300 staff members are looking at being off the campus by the end of next week. On Friday morning all web pages related to Turner Job Corps had been scoured, replaced with a single entry that appeared on all pages titled 'Beyond Job Corps,' giving referrals to other options including the U.S. Department of Labor's CareerOneStop, federal Pell grants and the military. The Labor Department has told Job Corps locations to have students and staff 'transitioned' off campus by June 6. Job Corps provides free residential education and job training program for students ages 16-24. 'It's very devastating,' Albany City Commissioner Jon Howard, in whose Ward 2 the sprawling center is located, said. 'Those are people that are going to have to find somewhere to go and to find jobs. That's not as easy as people think, especially for those that are homeless. I'm depressed and sad it's happening.' Of the student contingent, 19% are listed as housing-insecure or homeless, placing them in a potentially precarious position. Howard said on Friday afternoon that he was reaching out to city staff to determine if there is anything that it can do on an emergency basis to assist those who are in need of a place to stay. Coming on the heels of the announcement two weeks ago of the layoff of 535 workers at the Georgia-Pacific container board plant in Early County, the news is grim, state Rep. Gerald Greene, R-Cuthbert, said. 'It's another shock in southwest Georgia,' he said. 'With the closing of the Turner Job Corps … that organization has been there for a long time and it has had great success for a lot of individuals. It really is a blow for the Albany area and the region, and it's going to affect us again.' After hearing about the announcement Thursday evening, the legislator said he has been in touch with Dougherty County officials as well as the Albany Area Chamber of Commerce.. 'We've got to find out what's going on and see if there's anything we can do other than say we support them,' Greene said. 'We need to see how we can support them and be effective. We've just got to get together with our chamber folks and county and city and see what we can do.' The number of students and employees affected in such a short timeframe is especially concerning, Greene said, especially with the closing coming so unexpectedly and with so little time to prepare. State officials were completely caught off guard by the Department of Labor's announcement. 'We have a lot of individuals who are going to end up in a bad posture,' Greene said, 'especially those homeless individuals. We have no place to house them at this particular time.'
Yahoo
a day ago
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Saturday Squawkbox II
squawkbox@ Will Big 'Mc' Donald Trump set a nutritional example for Americans by abandoning cheeseburgers for salads, fresh fruit and veggies? Amen, squawker, who noted the trash picker-uppers missed a few thousand spots in Albany. Mayor Hubbard was the only local politician who tried to get the city cleaned up. Since she's been out of office, nothing. These people who live like pigs treat the public property like pigs. They should be made to stay in their sties. To the MAGA nuts squawker who think Biden was so horrible: How is your 401k doing? If we could harness Trump's economic performance so far and sell it to Six Flags, they could have the most scary ride in roller coaster history. And we could all just about break even on our retirement accounts. Talk about covers of Bob Dylan songs: How about 'Mr. Tambourine Man' by the Byrds. That was a good one. Also Nirvana doing David Bowie's 'The Man Who Sold the World.' There are thousands of them. Christians shouldn't take lectures about family values from a convicted felon who has children by multiple women, paid hush money to a porn star, stole from a children's charity, lied about a pandemic that killed thousands of people, sent a group of thugs to the Capitol to overturn an election and has filed for bankruptcy six times. That Man Without a Family Donald Trump, our True President, has shown himself to be the perfect man for the job. He's cutting out waste, jump-starting the economy and has instilled fear in the enemies of democracy. See what we've been missing the last four years? Maryland's 24/7 work zone speed cameras issued 48,000 tickets in two months. Time for Georgia to use these to protect workers. Mr. Fletcher, in reading your editorial, it seems that you blame all of the troubles between the races on whites. That's just wrong. I've been mistreated by blacks in positions of authority just because of the color of my skin. That door swings both ways. Welcome back to Albany, Demi Davis. I can't wait to see how you fare as the director of 'Little Women.' I'm sure you'll hit a home run. A friend was complaining to Carlton about getting help at Lowe's. Carlton said if they don't help me within two minutes, I pick up a chainsaw and try to start it. Usually results in more help than I need. Why aren't there a bunch of transgenders fighting to participate in men's sports? To the MAGA nut squawker who thinks Biden was so horrible: How is your 401k doing? If we could harness Trump's economic performance so far and sell it to Six Flags, they could have the most scary ride in roller coaster history. And we could all just about break even on our retirement accounts. Elon Musk owns only 12.8% of Telsa. Dear liberals: The other 87.2% is owned by companies funding your 401ks. I just read in the AJC where one in four adults in America owes a college debt. That is insane. People are getting degrees, or trying, from these online and for-profit schools. Many of those degrees are almost worthless.
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a day ago
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Saturday Squawkbox
squawkbox@ If you are upset about Alice Coachman potentially closing, I beg you to stop voting for crooked pastor commissioners who promise more government-funded handouts. These characters are a main reason you can't get a higher-paying job and why so many families have to move their children away. Their behavior scares away new businesses, new jobs, as well as law enforcement recruits. Janis Joplin with Pig Pen singing Bobby Bland's 1961 hit 'Turn on Your Love Light' with the Grateful Dead is my No. 1 cover song. These athletic scholarships are great, but how many academic scholarships have these schools produced? I thought the idea of schools was to produce academic excellence, not collage sports players. Reading in the Squawkbox that APD is too busy with higher priorities to protect rights of old folks: (1) Please list the low-priority laws APD is no longer enforcing so I too might break them with impunity and a clear conscious. (2) If hoodlums, murderers, thieves and child-abusers take priory time, should they not pay the APD salaries rather than the law-keepers who are neglected and taxed for it? 'Goyim [non-Jews] were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world only to serve the people of Israel,' – Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. This perspective by so many Israelis creates anti-Semitic feelings. Republicans want you to think they're reducing the debt by cutting Medicare and Medicaid. They're not. They're adding to it by giving more tax cuts to billionaires. Turn off Fox and read a newspaper. That Man Without a Family How can northwest Albany, with every food chain in America on every corner, have no Popeye's? Best fried chicken out there. Even the store on South Slappey needs an update. What!? Monkees' 'I'm a Believer?' That's a Neil Diamond song. How in the world do you expect two widely divided groups to talk to each other, Mr. Fletcher, when their ideologies are on opposite sides of the spectrum? One wants entitlements; the other already feels entitled. End results … we've got two groups whose only concern is for their own wants and their own people. Picture AOC and remember no species on earth lets the dumbest lead the pack except Democrats. Outstanding article about the young man who lost his arm — and almost his life — in an auto accident after graduation. Parents here allow their kids to host graduation parties with little or no supervision, and then when something like this happens they want to blame it on law enforcement, the city/county, anyone but themselves. When will these people doing balloon releases be charged with littering? That is exactly what this is. Politician buzzwords: Be mindful of when you hear a politician say the have a 'laser-focus' on an issue. Translation: It's screwed up. Now that you know it, I want you to know it, too. I'm not going to really do anything to fix it, but I want you to know I am looking for someone in the other party to blame.' More tweets of outrage to follow.
