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Miami Herald
4 days ago
- Business
- Miami Herald
Video: Royal Caribbean's Star of the Seas clears sea trials
With Icon of the Seas, Royal Caribbean created a new standard for megaships. It build a new class completely from scratch. The cruise line started with a blank piece of paper and considered every aspect of the design. Related: Carnival and Royal Caribbean both have this surprising extra charge In the end, Icon did bring back some features from earlier classes, like the redesigned Central Park, and the Royal Promenade, but it was a very unique ship. Now, that ship's sister ship, Star of the Seas is getting close to its first sailing. "Sailing one step closer to its debut, Royal Caribbean's highly anticipated Star of the Seas has taken to the open ocean for the first time. This week, the next combination of the best of every vacation embarked on a series of sea trials, marking a key construction milestone before the new Icon Class ship makes its way to Port Canaveral (Orlando), Florida, for its August 2025 debut," the cruise line shared on its webpage. A sea trial is a very comprehensive test. "Over 11 days, more than 2,000 experts from the naval architecture, engineering, navigation and design spaces are putting Star to the test across a wide range of technical examinations to ensure it's in ship shape," it added. "From testing how the ship moves through the open water to pushing its engine performance to the limits and more, Star's journey will cover hundreds of miles before the ship enters its final phase of construction at the Meyer Turku shipyard in Turku, Finland. Be the first to see the best deals on cruises, special sailings, and more. Sign up for the Come Cruise With Me newsletter. Royal Caribbean's Star of the Seas clears sea trials (0:45) Royal Caribbean has not shared who the godfather will be for Star of the Seas or when it will have its official naming ceremony. Because the ship is actually arriving early, it will sail three pre-inaugural sailings in August with paying passengers before its actual inaugural sailing. The cruise line shared some hype on its upcoming ship. Every Star of the Seas trip from Port Canaveral will stop at Perfect Day at CocoCay. Royal Caribbean has made it clear that it will not call Star of the Seas "The World's Largest Cruise Ship," although it's technically the same size as Icon, which has made that claim. (The Arena Group will earn a commission if you book a cruise.) Make a free appointment with Come Cruise With Me's Travel Agent Partner, Postcard Travel, or email Amy Post at amypost@ or call or text her at 386-383-2472. Copyright 2025 The Arena Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Hindustan Times
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
When Kim Namjoon said he didn't 'know a single thing about BTS': We're just people who met each other because…
BTS leader Kim Namjoon, aka RM, along with Suga, Jimin, Kim Taehyung and Jungkook will soon get discharged from the military. The BTS members, who began their military service in December 2023, are scheduled to get discharged in June this year. As BTS fans eagerly await the day when the K-pop idols will return, we take you down memory lane when they spoke about their group. (Also Read | RM has 'many things' to tell BTS ARMY when he returns as 'civilian' Kim Namjoon: 'I'll be able to talk at some point') Speaking with Weverse Magazine in 2020, Namjoon talked about how there was a time when the group debuted in 2013, he thought he knew everything about BTS. But after seven years he felt he didn't "know a single thing about BTS". When asked about how he felt about BTS in 2020, Namjoon had said, "BTS is … Well, it's really hard to tell. (laughs) When BTS started out, I thought, 'I know everything there is to know about BTS,' but now it's, 'I don't know a single thing about BTS.' In the past, I felt like I knew everything, and that anything was possible. Call it childish or ambitious. But if I were to ask myself, 'What is BTS to me?' I would say, we're just people who met each other because we were meant to." Namjoon also talked about how all seven members came together to form the group. He had said, "But it feels like the stars aligned and a startup company became a unicorn, with perfect timing and lots of smart people. Looking back, there were a lot of ironies and contradictions in this industry. I thought I figured them out one by one, and then finally understood the whole thing. But now I feel like I don't know anything at all. Anyway, to sum up: My young, reckless twenties. The events of my twenties. There were a lot of contradictions, people, fame, and conflict all tangled together, but it was my choice and I got a lot out of it, so my twenties were an intense but also happy time." Namjoon is a part of BTS, which also includes Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook. Jin returned after completing his service in June 2024. J-Hope was the next member to get a military discharge. The rest of the members will also get their military discharge this year. The group is expected to reunite this year once all members have completed their service. They performed their last concert together in 2022 at the Yet to Come event in Busan, South Korea.
Yahoo
01-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
UVU President Astrid Tuminez at funeral for husband: ‘May Jesus hold you till we meet again'
OREM — Utah Valley University's 'first gentleman,' Jeffrey Stuart Tolk, filled the nine years that he lived after he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease with vigor, humor, Christlike love for others and devotion to his wife, UVU President Astrid Tuminez, and their three children, speakers said Friday at his funeral. Tolk died Feb. 5 at age 61 after suffering a pulmonary embolism while climbing Cotopaxi, an active volcano that rises 19,347 feet above central Ecuador. It was an exercise he intentionally embraced to combat the symptoms of Parkinson's. Months earlier, he went skydiving for the first time. Tuminez, who is on sabbatical until March 31 to mourn her husband's death, spoke at the funeral at the UCCU Center on UVU's campus. She remembered the family's last trip to a remote island in the Philippines. While kayaking in the setting sun, the couple suddenly saw flying fish break the water and fly up in the air, and Tolk told Tuminez God was there and speaking to them. 'Your absence is like the sky, spread over everything,' Tuminez said at the funeral. 'I don't know how to rebuild my life, honey, but I will look to the sky daily. I will see you climbing and flying. Thank you. I love you. May Jesus hold you until we meet again.' The funeral was lyrical, poetic and emotional, and it included videos of Tolk actively pushing back against a disease that disrupts the brain's dopamine supply, making it difficult to feel good and to be motivated. Speakers honored him as 'The Incredible Tolk,' an eclectic renaissance man who was both lawyer and humorist, banker and poet, drummer and missionary, intellectual and sports fan. The funeral itself exhibited Tolk's personal range. The musical numbers varied widely, with the Latter-day Saint hymns 'Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing' and 'If You Could Hie to Kolob' interspersed with soulful performances of Queen's 'Another One Bites the Dust,' Coldplay's 'Fix You' and an Indonesian song performed by a Balinese percussion orchestra. 'Through the way he lived his life, my dad taught us that when your own mortality and your own frailty feels so starkly imminent, instead of succumbing to despair, you can instead choose to climb mountains,' said his daughter, Michal Frances Tuminez Tolk. 'His absence leaves a hole in me and in our family that will always remain, tethering us to heaven.' 'Jeff's self-discipline was an example and inspiration to all who paid attention. He showed us what courage means in real life, day to day,' said Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Elder Christofferson noted that Tolk was brilliant, humble and delighted in serving others as a disciple of Jesus Christ. 'Jeff was committed to high standards in his own life, and while not imposing them on others, he used that elevated character of his to lift and encourage others,' the church leader said. 'As he grew, so did his love and compassion, and he loved to help others shine. He was certainly determined and disciplined.' Elder Christofferson said he took comfort in the knowledge of Jeff's present place and happiness in the spirit world, because all suffering, all injustice, all hurt and pain are made right by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. 'He is the end of the human predicament, the great light of hope and happiness,' Elder Christofferson said. 'And I take joy in bearing my own witness of the reality of that resurrection, and what that means for each of us, eternal life and immortality.' Tuminez talked about meeting Tolk at Harvard, their courtship, his proposal to her on Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, and how he was capable both of studying poetry with the legendary Seamus Heaney and helping to structure credit derivatives, a complex Wall Street investment product. She thanked him for the power-couple relationship they built, having recognized him previously as her soulmate. 'As a husband, you felt amplified, not diminished by your wife's hard work, talents and accomplishments,' she said. 'I was responsible for my happiness, but you made it all possible.' When she became UVU's president in 2018, the family moved west together for her executive suite. 'Jeff believed the only true way to rise was by lifting others,' said Ryan Schill, who was with Tolk when he died on Cotopaxi. 'He gave up Wall Street for University Parkway, commerce for community, ego for egalitarianism.' Tuminez said that soon before he died, Tolk held her hand in his study. 'We looked at each other and felt the tremor of a storm, but we were not afraid,' she said. She quoted the poet Stanley Kunitz, who said, 'In a murderous time, the heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking. It is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn.' 'I am deep in the dark,' she added, 'but today I turn to the light of love and life that we built together.' Tuminez also quoted her husband's statement when he shared his diagnosis with the world in 2021, after he already had begun climbing the world's highest summits — Mt. Kinabalu in Malaysia, Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Mt. Whitney in the United States, Mera Peak in Nepal and Thorong La Pass on the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal. 'For me, nothing compares to the thrill of reaching the summit of a mountain after a long, difficult climb,' Tolk said. 'The natural beauty and stunning vistas are a big part of the thrill, but more important is the feeling of accomplishment that comes from doing something daunting and difficult. The exhilaration challenge and danger that I feel in the mountains sweep away the symptoms of Parkinson's for me, and during those precious times, under the eaves of heaven, I feel total clarity and vitality. I will keep climbing mountains.' His teenage son, Leo Tolk: 'I couldn't wish for a better father. He did everything in his power, even though that was limited by Parkinson's, and he did it all to help me, my siblings and my mom.' His oldest son, Whit Tolk: 'My dad was caring, comforting, strong, smart, but also humble and incredibly funny. As previous people have mentioned, my dad had a very dry wit, but not a mean sense of humor. We would often have competitions to see who could come up with a worse pun for a given subject, and it would always end pun-believably bad.' His daughter, Michal Frances Tuminez Tolk: 'Thinking about my dad now, my heart softens. My bones feel solid. I feel held and safe. He loved us unconditionally, and he did everything he could to take care of us. He was the ground that supported and held our family together, and I can feel the truth of that continuing even now. He was absolutely Christlike in his quiet service and care, and I pray that all of us can feel his love and allow his goodness to ripple through us into all of our relationships.' His sister, Rebecca Tolk Clark: 'I want to thank you, Jeff, for your example of being a hilarious, brilliant, humble and kind human being. I love and miss you so much, and I don't like a world with you without you in it.' His niece, Cassandra Sutton: 'We who love Jeffrey wish for him to keep climbing and keep flying.' Schill, who called him 'The Incredible Tolk' for climbing mountains with him, noted that Cotopaxi is so tall that if you look at Utah Valley's towering icon, Mount Timpanogos, you'd have to stack another Mount Timpanogos on top of it to make Cotopaxi: 'It's super extraordinary what Jeff was able to accomplish. Jeff taught me, it's not the mountains we conquer, but ourselves.' In Tolk's obituary, Tuminez asked for donations in lieu of flowers to 'Dare to Dream Philippines Foundation,' a 501(c)3 organization, by emailing dare2dreamphilippines@
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
LDS Church releases 15 new additions to revised global hymnbook
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints added 15 new hymns Thursday in the latest round of additions to its new global hymnbook. 'Hymns—For Home and Church' was first announced in 2018 when the church requested original music and feedback on current hymns from its members. The first batch of hymns was released in May 2024, and with the latest additions, there are a total of 37 released songs in the new hymnbook. The final version of the hymnbook is expected to have 450 to 500 songs. Out of the 17,000 original songs submitted by members, several were selected to be included. The church said the 15 songs added this week are 'newly submitted music, songs from other Christian faith traditions and hymns that have only been available in a small number of languages before now.' The names of the hymns are listed below: 'Close As a Quiet Prayer' 'Come, Hear the Word the Lord Has Spoken' 'Faith in Every Footstep' 'Holy Places' 'I Can't Count Them All' 'I Have Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ' 'I Know That My Savior Loves Me' 'Let Easter Anthems Ring' 'Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling' 'Standing on the Promises' 'Take My Heart and Let It Be Consecrated' 'This Little Light of Mine' 'To Love Like Thee' 'Welcome Home' 'Were You There?' The songs will be available online and on the church's apps within the day. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
