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South Wales Argus
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- South Wales Argus
New rage room comes to Newport and we tried it out
'The Combat Zone' located in the Kingsway Centre offers a range of fun activities including airsoft, axe throwing, Nerf battles, and a rage room, and being an Argus staff member I headed straight to that rage room! Slots for the rage room were a total of 15 minutes each. We were then decked head to toe in red boiler suites and given leather gloves and protective facemasks. What happened next was absolute chaos. Weapons of destruction at Newport's new rage room (The Combat Zone) (Image: NQ) We were encouraged in a space of 15 minutes to break as many items as possible as fast as we could. Objects available to break ranged from glass bottles and tiles to household items like a flat screen TV, wooden cabinet, and even a washing machine (the flatscreen TV was our personal favourite). Staff at the rage room egged us on 'have you tried smashing it like that?' and 'remember that TV isn't your friend', which made us even more determined to embrace the chaos. A range of 'weapons' were available including metal and wooden baseball bats and hammers. Our Argus volunteer hitting a TV at Newport's new rage room (The Combat Zone) (Image: NQ) Alongside staff encouragement we were also given the option of connecting to the room's Bluetooth speakers. Rage room enthusiasts could pick whatever song they'd like to smash things to. We quite enjoyed cracking a few bottles against the wall to Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.' The experience itself cost £50 and in our eyes was worth it. A grand opening took place on Saturday May 26. Newport locals and husband and wife duo Claire and Gary Taylor 44 and 47 are the masterminds behind 'The Combat Zone.' The Combat Zone owners Claire Taylor and Gary Taylor (Image: NQ) Speaking of their first day Claire said: 'We'll we were very nervous this morning but really happy now. 'It's been absolutely amazing we've had so many people coming in that hadn't booked and brilliant interest excellent feedback so a really good morning.' Gary said: 'For me it's got to be the rage room people are going bonkers for it, and to be fair there seems to be a lot of angry people out there." Claire added: 'Come down see what we are about it's something completely new for Newport something like Newport's never seen before.'
The Guardian
27-05-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Fast-track to where? The new law opening up New Zealand to a mining boom
Kate Selby Smith strides through the undergrowth of a track on the North Island's east coast when the bush suddenly thins to reveal a hidden treasure. 'Welcome to my heaven,' she says, gesturing to a bend in the Wharekirauponga stream where a jade-green swimming hole has formed among the rocks and soft green ferns. 'Isn't it beautiful?' The fairytale grotto lies at the southern end of Coromandel forest park – a protected conservation area home to native flora and rare animals, including one of the world's rarest amphibians, the Archey's frog. Like other locals, Selby Smith brings her family to the pool to swim and explore. But she worries for its future. Further up the valley lies another kind of treasure that has attracted the interest of the government and a multibillion-dollar mining company: gold. New Zealand is embarking on a major mining expansion. A controversial new fast-track law is pushing through projects designed to spur economic growth, alarming groups who say the country's unique biodiversity and natural resources are under threat. 'That legislation is egregiously damaging … for New Zealand's environment,' says Gary Taylor, the chief executive of the Environmental Defence Society. 'It's heavily stacked against the environment and in favour of development – in all my years of working as an environmental advocate, I've never seen anything like it.' For many living in New Zealand – where a deep connection to nature is regularly cited as being an important part of personal and collective identities – the mining strategy undermines a path towards a greener future. They argue it also runs counter to New Zealand's self-image as a wild and pristine place. The country famously promotes itself to the world as '100% pure' and 'clean, green'. Yet to others, the law represents a much-needed boost to the economy. The Minerals Council chief executive, Josie Vidal, says mining is 'one of the most productive sectors in New Zealand, which translates into high wages'. The rightwing coalition government has promised to restart offshore oil and last week set aside $200m of its budget to invest in gas exploration. It plans to boost mineral exports to $3bn by 2035, at the same time it has slashed funding to conservation and climate initiatives. It has also proposed a law change to make it easier for companies to kill protected wildlife in order to pursue certain infrastructure projects. The direction marked a departure from the Jacinda Ardern-led government, which banned new offshore oil and gas exploration and promised to ban new mines on conservation land. The coalition's fast-track law – a 'one-stop shop' for infrastructure and mining projects deemed nationally significant – passed into law in 2024 amid anger that it bypasses environmental regulations, shuts out public consultation and throws a lifeline to so-called zombie projects that have been rejected in the courts and languishing for years. The government says the process will include a description of the project's impacts on the environment, which the decision-making panel must consider. Nearly 150 projects are moving through the fast-track process, including 11 gold, mineral sands and coalmining proposals. They include new mines and expansions to existing projects. Some are generating controversy, including a plan to mine iron sands off Taranaki's seabed previously rejected by the supreme court, and two mines in the South Island's west coast: a goldmine critics fear will threaten rare birds, and a coalmine on ecologically significant land. The fast-track law prompted thousands to march in protest in 2024 and nearly 30,000 public submissions on the bill. Now, targeted protests are springing up around some of the proposed mining sites, including in Selby Smith's beloved Coromandel area. Mining company OceanaGold is hoping to dig a nearly 7km tunnel 200 metres beneath the Wharekirauponga forest in Coromandel, which forms part of a large conservation estate, to mine roughly 34-45 tonnes of gold worth about $5bn. The project is an expansion of the company's existing operations in the nearby historic goldmining town of Waihi and will also include a new open-pit mine, increased storage for tailings – a slurry of ground-up rock that contains oxidised minerals and cyanide – and upgraded infrastructure. Local environment group Coromandel Watchdog – of which Selby Smith is a member – opposes the proposal and has led multiple protest actions against it. The group worries that underground mining blasts will affect Archey's frogs, who sense the world through vibrations. It is also concerned that water-dredging and rock crushing could reshape the underground water systems and release pollutants that could spread downstream, and tailings storage will leave a toxic legacy for future generations. OceanaGold rejects these concerns, saying the project will be a 'win-win'. Alison Paul, the miner's manager for legal and corporate affairs, says 'the right projects in the right place can ultimately achieve both the protection of [the] environment and economic growth'. Paul says OceanaGold's modelling shows vibrations from blasting will have a limited impact on the frogs, and the company's 600-hectare pest-control programme in the amphibian's habitat will give back to the conservation estate. Sucking out underground water to stop the mine flooding will do little damage to the natural waterways, she says, adding that should high risks develop, the company could stop its project. The tailings dams, she says, are highly engineered to withstand the forces of nature for generations to come. Furthermore, the project will bring jobs to the region and produce export income for New Zealand, Paul says. Nearly 1,000km away from Waihi, on the west coast of the South Island, another battle is playing out over Bathurst Resources' proposal to extract an extra 20m tonnes of coal from the Buller plateau over the next 25 years. As in Waihi, the proposal's advocates say it will create jobs and financial growth, while critics worry it will damage the ecologically significant area that is home to rare native species and contribute to climate change. Up the coast, in the North Island, the Taranaki community has spent more than a decade trying to stop Australian company Trans-Tasman Resources from mining 50m tonnes of iron sands from the seabed, while in the far north, Bream Bay locals are hoping to halt a project to dredge more than 8m cubic metres of sand for concrete production. But these communities may struggle to find a sympathetic ear in the government. New Zealand's mining push is being led by the resources minister, Shane Jones, an ardent advocate for extractive industry who wears caps emblazoned with 'Make NZ Great Again, drill baby drill' and once told parliament that 'if there is a mining opportunity and it's impeded by a blind frog, goodbye Freddy'. 'Over the last 10 to 15 years the extractive sector has been marginalised and become an ideological plaything,' Jones told the Guardian. '[For] those people who have sought to deify our wilderness … those days are over. 'We cannot afford to maintain that level of naivety in the face of major geopolitical challenges [and] threats to our national resilience.' New Zealand's economy suffered as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The country experienced the biggest contraction in GDP of any developed country in the world in 2024, due to high interest rates and unemployment. Rebuilding the economy is top of the government's agenda and Jones believes boosting the mining sector will create jobs, attract New Zealanders back to the country and generate GST and export royalties – though he concedes his $3bn by 2035 figure is aspirational. Martin Brook, a professor of applied geology at the University of Auckland, says mining will create well-paid jobs, feed minerals into global supply chains and leave a 'tiny' footprint. 'If any country globally can extract minerals effectively with as little environmental footprint as possible, it is New Zealand,' he says. New Zealand's unique natural environment evolved in the absence of people and predators, creating a high level of endemism. However, its species are in worrying decline, with a high proportion threatened, or at risk of extinction – one of the highest amid the global biodiversity crisis. Many of the country's fresh waterways are in a dire state, contaminated by thousands of sewage overflows, flooded with nutrient pollution from farming and blooming with toxic algae. 'It's a very fragile place,' Taylor says, adding he is concerned the stringent environmental tests that have been placed on mining companies are being whittled away through the fast-track process. 'Our environment could go materially and substantially backwards – more species extinctions, more stuffed-up landscapes, poorer freshwater quality,' Taylor says. Meanwhile, the economic benefits from mining are not certain, says Glenn Banks, a geography professor at Massey University. Fluctuating prices and demand for minerals, as well as challenges in taxing and securing foreign investment make the industry volatile. 'You get a lot of cowboys jump in on the boom and then walk away when prices aren't good,' Banks says. Back in the Wharekirauponga bush, Selby Smith pauses to reflect on the landscape around her. 'This is the crux of it: there are so few of these places left,' she says. 'If this becomes polluted from mining waste – what will we give to our children?'
Associated Press
21-05-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
ArrowXL Optimizes Last Mile Delivery and Unlocks Capacity with Descartes
LONDON and ATLANTA, May 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that ArrowXL, the U.K.'s largest and longest-established two-person home delivery and warehousing specialist, is using Descartes' route planning and execution solution to automate and optimize last mile delivery route planning. This enables ArrowXL's route planning team to plan and optimize routes for deliveries dynamically and more efficiently, unlocking transportation capacity for the organization. 'ArrowXL is focused on bespoke services centered around a customer-first approach,' said Rachel Hopkins, Chief Information Officer, ArrowXL. 'With over 40 years' experience completing deliveries for the U.K.'s leading retailers, e-tailers, and manufacturers, we manage over 2.6 million consumer deliveries annually and we're growing. We cover 100 percent of the U.K., with 98% of the country covered six days a week and the remaining 2% covered on nominated days—all from seven main hubs and eight outbases using a fleet of 250 vehicles. We offer 'Next-Day', 'Nominated Day' and 'Diary Booking' delivery appointments to customers, as well as the setting up and connection of some white goods, assembly of some furniture items, and Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) recycling and packaging removal. Managing and executing these delivery services successfully at the sheer scale that we do requires precision planning and execution. With Descartes in place, our team of planners has automated and streamlined previous manual planning processes, allowing us to optimize our vehicle usage and minimize CO2 emissions. This approach increases capacity across our operations dynamically in real-time. Since the Descartes solution interfaces between our system and our clients' systems, we provide the entire value chain with a true view of delivery capacity to take advantage of, allowing everyone to increase operational efficiency.' Descartes' cloud-based last mile delivery solution helps distribution-intensive companies improve operational efficiency and customer experience. It supports dynamic delivery requirements, including same-day delivery. The Descartes solution improves route productivity by using advanced optimization technology to reduce the distance driven per delivery, which maximizes delivery capacity and reduces costs. In ArrowXL's case, Descartes helps the company to manage deliveries efficiently where boundaries between delivery locations and team areas are unclear. Descartes also improves delivery sustainability with increased route productivity. 'We're pleased our solution is playing an important role for ArrowXL in optimizing route planning and maintaining a high-level of customer experience,' said Gary Taylor, VP Sales, EMEA at Descartes. 'ArrowXL delivers goods daily in the U.K. for some of the highest profile brands in ecommerce and on the high street. Automating route planning and helping planners to execute this function dynamically will continue to allow the business to unlock capacity, support with increasing revenue, and enable their own clients to provide more delivery slots to their customers, all of which improves overall customer experience and service levels.' About ArrowXL ArrowXL is the UK's largest and longest-established two-person home delivery and warehousing specialist. We are committed to innovation and continuous improvement - investing in technology, new services and training. Learn more at About Descartes Descartes (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG) is the global leader in providing on-demand, software-as-a-service solutions focused on improving the productivity, security and sustainability of logistics-intensive businesses. Customers use our modular, software-as-a-service solutions to route, track and help improve the safety, performance and compliance of delivery resources; plan, allocate and execute shipments; rate, audit and pay transportation invoices; access global trade data; file customs and security documents for imports and exports; and complete numerous other logistics processes by participating in the world's largest, collaborative multimodal logistics community. Our headquarters are in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and we have offices and partners around the world. Learn more at and connect with us on LinkedIn and Twitter. Global Media Contact Cara Strohack [email protected] Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements This release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws ('forward-looking statements') that relate to Descartes' route planning and execution solution offerings and potential benefits derived therefrom; and other matters. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from the anticipated results, performance or achievements or developments expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to, the factors and assumptions discussed in the section entitled, 'Certain Factors That May Affect Future Results' in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Ontario Securities Commission and other securities commissions across Canada including Descartes' most recently filed management's discussion and analysis. If any such risks actually occur, they could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations. In that case, the trading price of our common shares could decline, perhaps materially. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Forward-looking statements are provided for the purposes of providing information about management's current expectations and plans relating to the future. Readers are cautioned that such information may not be appropriate for other purposes. We do not undertake or accept any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in our expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based, except as required by law.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
ArrowXL Optimizes Last Mile Delivery and Unlocks Capacity with Descartes
LONDON and ATLANTA, May 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that ArrowXL, the U.K.'s largest and longest-established two-person home delivery and warehousing specialist, is using Descartes' route planning and execution solution to automate and optimize last mile delivery route planning. This enables ArrowXL's route planning team to plan and optimize routes for deliveries dynamically and more efficiently, unlocking transportation capacity for the organization. 'ArrowXL is focused on bespoke services centered around a customer-first approach,' said Rachel Hopkins, Chief Information Officer, ArrowXL. 'With over 40 years' experience completing deliveries for the U.K.'s leading retailers, e-tailers, and manufacturers, we manage over 2.6 million consumer deliveries annually and we're growing. We cover 100 percent of the U.K., with 98% of the country covered six days a week and the remaining 2% covered on nominated days—all from seven main hubs and eight outbases using a fleet of 250 vehicles. We offer 'Next-Day', 'Nominated Day' and 'Diary Booking' delivery appointments to customers, as well as the setting up and connection of some white goods, assembly of some furniture items, and Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) recycling and packaging removal. Managing and executing these delivery services successfully at the sheer scale that we do requires precision planning and execution. With Descartes in place, our team of planners has automated and streamlined previous manual planning processes, allowing us to optimize our vehicle usage and minimize CO2 emissions. This approach increases capacity across our operations dynamically in real-time. Since the Descartes solution interfaces between our system and our clients' systems, we provide the entire value chain with a true view of delivery capacity to take advantage of, allowing everyone to increase operational efficiency.' Descartes' cloud-based last mile delivery solution helps distribution-intensive companies improve operational efficiency and customer experience. It supports dynamic delivery requirements, including same-day delivery. The Descartes solution improves route productivity by using advanced optimization technology to reduce the distance driven per delivery, which maximizes delivery capacity and reduces costs. In ArrowXL's case, Descartes helps the company to manage deliveries efficiently where boundaries between delivery locations and team areas are unclear. Descartes also improves delivery sustainability with increased route productivity. 'We're pleased our solution is playing an important role for ArrowXL in optimizing route planning and maintaining a high-level of customer experience,' said Gary Taylor, VP Sales, EMEA at Descartes. 'ArrowXL delivers goods daily in the U.K. for some of the highest profile brands in ecommerce and on the high street. Automating route planning and helping planners to execute this function dynamically will continue to allow the business to unlock capacity, support with increasing revenue, and enable their own clients to provide more delivery slots to their customers, all of which improves overall customer experience and service levels.' About ArrowXL ArrowXL is the UK's largest and longest-established two-person home delivery and warehousing specialist. We are committed to innovation and continuous improvement - investing in technology, new services and training. Learn more at About Descartes Descartes (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG) is the global leader in providing on-demand, software-as-a-service solutions focused on improving the productivity, security and sustainability of logistics-intensive businesses. Customers use our modular, software-as-a-service solutions to route, track and help improve the safety, performance and compliance of delivery resources; plan, allocate and execute shipments; rate, audit and pay transportation invoices; access global trade data; file customs and security documents for imports and exports; and complete numerous other logistics processes by participating in the world's largest, collaborative multimodal logistics community. Our headquarters are in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and we have offices and partners around the world. Learn more at and connect with us on LinkedIn and Twitter. Global Media Contact Cara Strohack cstrohack@ Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements This release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws ('forward-looking statements') that relate to Descartes' route planning and execution solution offerings and potential benefits derived therefrom; and other matters. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from the anticipated results, performance or achievements or developments expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to, the factors and assumptions discussed in the section entitled, 'Certain Factors That May Affect Future Results' in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Ontario Securities Commission and other securities commissions across Canada including Descartes' most recently filed management's discussion and analysis. If any such risks actually occur, they could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations. In that case, the trading price of our common shares could decline, perhaps materially. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Forward-looking statements are provided for the purposes of providing information about management's current expectations and plans relating to the future. Readers are cautioned that such information may not be appropriate for other purposes. 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The Sun
15-05-2025
- Sport
- The Sun
Sickest weightlifting injuries including snap ‘like gun going off' that crowd could hear as World's Strongest Man begins
Joshua Jones, Sport Reporter Published: Invalid Date, STRONGMAN competitions see some of the world's most powerful people test themselves to the absolute limits. The sheer strength they display leaves us mere mortals absolutely baffled. 26 But, unsurprisingly, it doesn't always go to plan. And when the athletes are pushing their bodies to such extremes, the injuries can be utterly horrific. So as the World's Strongest Man 2025 rolls into Sacramento, SunSport rounds up some of the worst, most gruesome and simply disgusting injuries ever seen from the strongman stars. And please, please, please take note, this really is not for the faint-hearted… Don't say I didn't warn you… LAURENCE SHAHLAEI - LAT TEAR We will start with one that is one of the easiest to look at. Laurence Shahlaei was attempting a 446kg deadlift when his lat popped and the muscle completely ripped, forcing him to jump up and back in agony. Shahlaei reckons he could have matched the great Eddie Hall on that day but ended up with grim purple bruising across his side. 26 26 GARY TAYLOR - TYRE CRUSH During 1997's Europe's Strongest Man, Gary Taylor was attempting the 450kg tyre flip. But it all went wrong as he lost control and the tyre slipped. 26 26 26 Former homeless World's Strongest Man competitor shows his intense training as he bids for success in the USA Taylor ended up crushed underneath the tyre and was forced to retire as he was taken away on a stretcher to an ambulance on gas and air. MARK PHILIPPI - STONE CIRCLE STRUGGLES The first of two Mark Philippi entrants came in the stone circle, where strongmen had to lift a metal pole attached to a basket of stones. But Philippi had to quit when his legs buckled underneath the weight - as a woman, possibly his partner, ran over in shock. He was later spotted helped away with the biggest strapping we think we have ever seen around a knee. 26 26 MARK PHILIPPI - CRUSHED BY CAR His other shocking injury came previously when Philippi was flipping a car in the sand. But he could not hold it any longer and the car fell down on his left knee, which was folded. The car tore his patella tendon, leaving him in utter agony - and yet he managed to come back and compete a year later. 26 26 PHIL ROBERTS - SHATTERED LEG Next, we go to two injuries suffered in the concrete Atlas Stones. Phil Roberts shattered his leg at Britain's Strongest Man in 2019 in sickening scenes. Roberts needed a metal cage put around his legs and skin grafts as part of his recovery. 26 CRAIG BONGELLI - LEGS CRUMBLE Similarly, Craig Bongelli crumbled under the weight of the Atlas Stones. On his tip toes, Bongelli couldn't quite lift it up on to the plinth and suddenly he completely gave way. The rather disturbing video shows him collapsing with his legs folding underneath him and the stone almost landing on his head. Arguably the incident to watch but somehow and thankfully, Bongelli did not suffer any serious long-term injuries. 26 26 LAURENCE SHAHLAEI - RUPTURED ACHILLES Heading back to Shahlaei - and the injury that ended his career. The Brit was running with a 610kg yoke - his best record-breaking event - while competing at World's Strongest Man in 2019 when his Achilles completely snapped. Shahlaei said: 'This ended me. People heard it, it was like a gun going off. Instant pain, instantly sent to the floor like a sack of s***. I was absolutely devastated. 'It was like I was getting shot in the leg. All you can do is collapse.' 26 26 THOR - PEC WRECK You didn't think we would have a list without Hafþor Julius Bjornsson - aka Thor - on this list, did you? The Icelandic Game of Thrones giant goes in after ripping his pectoral muscle off the bone as he attempted to bench press a personal best 252.5kg during a competition at his Thor Power Gym. Thor immediately let out a yelp as he lowered the bar down and knew something was seriously wrong. Powerlifter Scot Mendelson suffered essentially the same injury during a bench press, too - but the photo of the bruising is totally shocking and barely believable. 26 26 26 EDDIE HALL 1 - CRUSHED PENIS & 'NEARLY BLEEDING TO DEATH ' And lastly, it is time for Thor's bitter rival Hall - with four of his own entries included. The worst-sounding is his crushed penis. Hall managed to drop weights down on his manhood causing serious bleeding and needing to rush himself to hospital. Hall told The Mirror in 2019: "I piled a load of heavy weights on a leg-press machine and then heard a loud thud. It had come crashing down and the weights had landed on my penis. "I nearly bled to death. It was bad. The worst ever. 'I didn't cry for help though. I just lifted them off, drove myself to hospital and got stitched up. I was back training soon enough." 26 EDDIE HALL 2 - POPPED EYEBALL Sticking with Hall, he also managed to sustain a popped eyeball during a monster leg press. He explained to JOE: "Bam! Eyeball just comes out of my face. Put the apparatus back, run to the mirror. The eyeball just came the other side of my eyelid. "F****** it was bad. We're moving it back in. Red as f***. Couldn't see out of it, but carried on with my session." 26 EDDIE HALL 3 - BLEEDING FROM EARS, EYES & NOSE The Beast went to great lengths to become the first man to deadlift half a tonne in 2016. So much so that blood vessels in his head burst as he passed out. Hall said: "My blood pressure was through the roof, up to three times what it should have been. "Your body makes you collapse to keep you alive. I barely remember the lift because of the blackout. "I woke up with a big puddle of blood on the floor. How much blood came out my face was unreal. It was coming out my eyes, nose, ears, the lot." 26 EDDIE HALL 4 - DETACHED BICEP And last but by no means least painful was when Hall managed to detach his bicep. During a boxing sparring session, he threw a left hook and knew something had happened, collapsing to the canvas in expletive-laden agony, screaming: "F***. No. I've torn my bicep. It's off. F***, f***ing sake. It's gone." Hall documented the aftermath of the injury including undergoing surgery while still awake for his YouTube channel. Ouch. 26
