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Yahoo
12-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Sheppard AFB tackles aviation safety with bird control measures
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — To ensure aviation safety, Sheppard Air Force Base (SAFB), in collaboration with the City of Wichita Falls and the United States Department of Agriculture, will soon implement non-lethal methods to disperse a large flock of birds. According to a release from SAFB, the Cattle Egrets have begun roosting on private land just west of the base, but their flights passing over the SAFB airfield present strike threats to aviation safety. Community generosity fuels Stamp Out Hunger Drive success SAFB said that while strikes are usually rare, in July 2013, a single Cattle egret strike over the AFB airfield resulted in the ejection of two pilots and complete loss of a T-38 Aircraft, valued at $8,000,000. The dispersal methods are pyrotechnics and propane cannons, which will sound similar to gunfire and will take place during daylight hours, ending at sunset. For any questions, contact the 82nd Training Wing Public Affairs Office at (940) 676-1500. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Cattle encouraged by Cornish Pirates preparations
Cornish Pirates joint-head coach Gavin Cattle says the club are much better placed to assemble a squad than they were this time last season. Pirates were taken over by a local consortium in January, having seen long-term benefactor Sir Richard "Dicky" Evans' funding run out at the end of 2024. The club have already secured the signings of a number of players from the current squad, with fly-half Bruce Houston being the highest-profile departure as he heads to France. "We're creating a springboard for boys to go to pastures new where they can earn a bigger living or a better opportunity at a higher level," Cattle told BBC Radio Cornwall. "We're in a far better position than we were last year in terms of timelines and numbers of boys in terms of retention. "The club's done extremely well to give us this opportunity to go out a bit earlier, and again we're cutting our cloth to what the club needs," he added. "Ideally we'd be signing people on two or three-year deals, but we'll take it step by step. "Let's see what's happening RFU-wise and tier two-wise, let's let that settle, and I think we've just got to keep growing as a club." Coventry win extends good form Fifth-placed Cornish Pirates are nine points off second-placed Bedford with four games to go [Brian Tempest] Cattle's comments came after a 21-14 win at fourth-placed Coventry - Pirates' fifth win in six matches. Tries from Arthur Relton and Matt Pritchard put Pirates 14-0 up with five minutes of the first half to go at Butts Park Arena before Ryan Hutler crossed for the hosts just before the break. Dan Green crossed 10 minutes after the interval to level the scores before Jack Forsythe's decisive 58th-minute try for the Cornish side. The win keeps Pirates in fifth place in the Championship, closing the gap to fourth-placed Coventry to two points. "Coventry are above us in the table, so we knew it would be a tough slog; it always is coming here," said Cattle. "I thought we controlled the collision quite well; we were quite dominant in that area, which gave us a bit of time. "The attitude was there and bags today. We needed to step up, especially defensively. "All you can ask for the boys is to front up; they certainly fronted up." Related internet links
BBC News
06-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Cattle encouraged by Cornish Pirates preparations
Cornish Pirates joint-head coach Gavin Cattle says the club are much better placed to assemble a squad than they were this time last were taken over by a local consortium in January, having seen long-term benefactor Sir Richard "Dicky" Evans' funding run out at the end of club have already secured the signings of a number of players from the current squad, with fly-half Bruce Houston being the highest-profile departure as he heads to France. "We're creating a springboard for boys to go to pastures new where they can earn a bigger living or a better opportunity at a higher level," Cattle told BBC Radio Cornwall."We're in a far better position than we were last year in terms of timelines and numbers of boys in terms of retention."The club's done extremely well to give us this opportunity to go out a bit earlier, and again we're cutting our cloth to what the club needs," he added."Ideally we'd be signing people on two or three-year deals, but we'll take it step by step."Let's see what's happening RFU-wise and tier two-wise, let's let that settle, and I think we've just got to keep growing as a club." Coventry win extends good form Cattle's comments came after a 21-14 win at fourth-placed Coventry - Pirates' fifth win in six from Arthur Relton and Matt Pritchard put Pirates 14-0 up with five minutes of the first half to go at Butts Park Arena before Ryan Hutler crossed for the hosts just before the Green crossed 10 minutes after the interval to level the scores before Jack Forsythe's decisive 58th-minute try for the Cornish side. The win keeps Pirates in fifth place in the Championship, closing the gap to fourth-placed Coventry to two points. "Coventry are above us in the table, so we knew it would be a tough slog; it always is coming here," said Cattle. "I thought we controlled the collision quite well; we were quite dominant in that area, which gave us a bit of time."The attitude was there and bags today. We needed to step up, especially defensively."All you can ask for the boys is to front up; they certainly fronted up."
The Herald Scotland
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
'Was he being ironic?': King Creosote at the Albert Halls
Three stars 'Was he being ironic?' the woman beside me asked. You could understand her uncertainty. After an hour of ringing, at times joyous music interspersed with comic grumbling and daft anecdotes, Kenny Anderson, aka King Creosote,had just returned to the stage to get some things off his chest. 'These views are purely my own. They do not reflect anyone else, probably in the room … They're just mine. I'm just having a go at things,' he told us before launching into a song he's been working on since 2021, entitled Cattle, Sheep, Chickens, a slightly scattershot lyric that did suggest he was worried about fluoride in the water and 15-minute cities and in which he told us that he'd been called a tree-hugger, a far right anti-vaxxer and a conspiracy theorist in a tin foil hat. And then came Dare I Hope I'm One of the Good Guys, a list-style song that rattled through a number of, shall we say, 'controversial' characters, all of whom Anderson seemed to suggest qualified for the epithet. They ranged from Van Morrison and JK Rowling to Right Said Fred and Eric Clapton. But it may have been the mentions for Mel Gibson, Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson and Neil Oliver - 'one of the best guys' - that had my gig neighbour scratching her head. These days Anderson is still living in the East Neuk, but largely offline and off the grid. He's only using paper money and at last year's Celtic Connections he finished his performance by railing against globalisation. Clear then that he is, as they say, on something of a journey. He spent much of this evening jokily telling us he was keeping his lip buttoned or telling daft anecdotes that, he hoped, wouldn't get him 'cancelled'. Set aside the fact that criticism is not cancellation, where does this leave us? Read More At the end of a very rum evening, I guess, a head-scratching mixture of beauty and bewilderment, starting early with the support act from Keny 'KY-10' Drew on modular synth. He was accompanied by Des Lawson on Korg and UDO keyboards, with Anderson himself 'messing around at the back.' The result was 30 minutes of largely instrumental music (with some jellyfish-flavoured sci-fi voiceover) that had a lovely bubbling warmth to it. Pushing buttons and knobs, Anderson had to put his glasses on just to see what he was doing. A rather sweet human detail. I know the feeling. But, really, if you've come to see King Creosote it's because you want to hear him sing. And so the main part of the evening saw Anderson, Lawson and Drew (this time on visuals) reassemble to jump back and forth through the extensive King Creosote back catalogue, starting with Aurora Boring Alias - one of the tracks he recorded with Jon Hopkins for the Honest Words EP in 2011 - before jumping back to 2000 and Something Beginning With D. Does Anderson himself want to hear himself sing, I did wonder at times? There were moments when he stepped back from the mic, his vocal becoming a slightly muted texture in the mix. As a result Blue Marbled Elm Trees, one of the most beautiful songs on his last album I DES, doesn't quite hit home as hard as it should. But when he comes in close - on tracks like Kirby Grips, an absolutely transcendent My Favourite Girl and Bats in the Attic, the final song of the set - you fully hear the yearn and ache of that glorious keening voice. At those points the night reached for the stars. And then the encore. The Stirling audience received it politely. Maybe they were all wondering if these songs were ironic too.
BBC News
21-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Cornish Pirates 'pretty ugly' in Caldy victory
Cornish Pirates joint-head coach Gavin Cattle described his side's 27-24 win over Caldy as "pretty ugly". Pirates trailed 12-5 at the break in the Championship fixture before scoring three second-half tries as they recovered to get their third successive bonus-point victory keeps Pirates fifth in the table with five games to play."It was pretty ugly," Cattle told BBC Radio Cornwall. "We like looked like we had not a lot of energy in that first half."There was a lot of disjointed combinations in there and we expected to be a bit clunky, but we just didn't quite get that energy for whatever reason."We'll will have a look at that, but I thought the response at half-time in that aspect was better."We left some points out there to close the game, but credit to Caldy, they're a good mauling team and you can see they can play a bit as well."Callum Ridgway put Caldy in front after two minutes before Harry Hocking's try levelled the scores soon after, only for Charlie Hyde to cross midway through the half to give Caldy a 12-5 a try from Dan Hiscocks before a penalty try and a score from Alex Everett saw Pirates go 24-12 up midway through the second Hanson pulled an unconverted try back for Caldy, but Bruce Houston's penalty secured the win for the hosts before Hanson got a second try in the dying seconds."There's no doubt in my head around the hunger and the drive to do well for the shirt," Cattle added."We were just a bit clunky at times. Our backs have been executing really well on the wings, but I felt we threw a lot of missed passes."
