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USA Today
17-07-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
A lot of newcomers to Jacksonville Jaguars' 2025 training camp roster
With Jacksonville Jaguars' training camp nearing, who are the newcomers to the 2025 roster? With Jacksonville Jaguars' training camp nearing, who are the newcomers to the 2025 roster? When there is a leadership change and a new general manager takes over, roster turnover is expected. But even knowing that's the case, James Gladstone made quick work over the last few months when it came to overhauling this roster. For one, the Jaguars are the only team in the NFL that didn't re-sign one of their own unrestricted free agents. In addition to that, Gladstone made 15 outside free agent signings, along with some veteran roster cuts--and a trade--as well. Then, of course, there were the nine draft picks made, along with 22 undrafted free agent signings. In total, on a 91-man roster with the IPP exemption for Louis Rees-Zammit, the Jaguars have 46 new players on this year's team compared to last. That's over half of the roster. As a result, the Jaguars will enter the 2025 season with one of the youngest rosters in the NFL. The Jaguars' rookies will report for training camp on July 19th, and the veterans will report a few days later on July 22nd. The first practice will be July 23rd. Here is a look at the new additions to this year's roster, along with what each player's jersey number is. Jacksonville Jaguars free agent signings Jacksonville Jaguars draft picks Jacksonville Jaguars UDFA signings
Winnipeg Free Press
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
The monster lives
Four theatre grads from Calgary in an ogre-green Volkswagen Bus oozed into Winnipeg, intending to improvise a fairy tale in Old Market Square. It was 12 years BC — Before Cube. 'There was no Cube. It was a circle stage in the middle of a field there,' recalls Ryan Gladstone, who first visited the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival with Monster Theatre in July 2000. Supplied Monster Theatre drove to Winnipeg 25 years ago in a borrowed VW Bus. Supplied Monster Theatre drove to Winnipeg 25 years ago in a borrowed VW Bus. Monster didn't know what would come of Fairy Tale: A Choose Your Own Adventure Play. Dressed as goblins, sea creatures and big, bad wolves, journeying through mystical forests and vast deserts, Gladstone, Katherine Sanders, Jen Kelly and Charlotte Mitchell performed daily to sparse but enthusiastic crowds, earning so little from the 'pass the hat' system that they sustained themselves on chickpea curry from street vendors and two-dollar highballs from the King's Head Pub. The company left town satisfied, but disappointed to not score a review in the newspaper. But the day after the festival ended, as they gassed up the VW, they noticed a photo of Mitchell hamming it up on the front page of the Free Press, leaving 'children in stitches.' With that bit of validation, the bus headed west, but along the way, a rope came loose, sending their props flying: somewhere between Winnipeg and Saskatoon, a blue foam head the size of a refrigerator must have given a farmer quite the fright. 'We like to imagine that someone found it,' Gladstone says. Twenty-five years after its first breaths, Monster is still alive and well, with Gladstone and company bringing four productions to this year's fringe: the bar-down comedy Hockey Night at the Puck and Pickle; the drunken insurance-investigator tale of No Tweed Too Tight; Til Death: The Six Wives of Henry VIII, starring Tara Travis; and Riot, which features Gladstone and his brother Jeff as thespian nemeses in the story of two duelling productions of Macbeth taking place across the street from one another. MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS It's alive: Monster Theatre company members (from left) Tara Travis, Jeff Gladstone, Ryan Gladstone and Jonathon Paterson are bringing four shows to this year's fringe. MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS It's alive: Monster Theatre company members (from left) Tara Travis, Jeff Gladstone, Ryan Gladstone and Jonathon Paterson are bringing four shows to this year's fringe. Some of the company's other previous shows in Winnipeg included last year's Erika the Red; Jesus Christ: The Lost Years (2006, 2018); The Canada Show (2001, 2006, 2017); and Juliet: A Revenge Comedy (2019, 2022), which earlier this year enjoyed an off-Broadway run at the Soho Playhouse. Formed after its founders graduated from the University of Calgary's BFA acting program, Monster's name was inspired by their teacher, Keith Johnstone, who explained the difference between monsters and demons while discussing Shakespeare's Iago. 'Demons are smooth and attractive on the outside, but have a cruel and twisted heart. But monsters are the opposite: strange and bizarre on the outside, but they always have a good heart,' Johnstone said. That became a guiding principle for the company, which found its niche in alternate mythologies and revisionist musicals about historical, literary and nationalistic symbols after a brief foray into the tamer world of kids fringe in the early 2000s. 'We sang a song called The Maginot Line, about the Nazis moving into France and stuff. No swears or anything,' Gladstone told the Free Press in 2009. 'Then we sang a version of It's a Small World in a minor key, like a creepy thing. We started going on about how the Disney Corporation has lawyers everywhere and they're watching your kids.' SUPPLIED Juliet: A Revenge Comedy was last here in 2022 Juliet: A Revenge Comedy was last here in 2022 Monster was more at home in the pub, as evidenced by the lasting appeal of Puck and Pickle. Every four years, the company rewrites the topical material to keep the show's 230 short scenes — all taking place during a televised hockey game — fresh. In 2013, ahead of the Sochi Olympics, Monster did Canada v. Russia; in 2017, the home team took on the U.S. 'We were going to do Sweden this year, but we decided, 'No, it's still America,'' says Gladstone, who stars alongside Jon Patterson. (Look out for references to Sam Bennett's rough-housing, an orange-haired president and Connor McDavid's buzzer-beating Four Nations Cup clincher). Gladstone, 48, who also teaches at Vancouver Film School, credits the Winnipeg fringe as a launching pad and testing ground for brand new and more experienced companies, with audiences who push creators to repeatedly up their game when they make a return visit. 'When you talk about living the dream, I think it's the ability to think of an idea for a show, to make it a reality and to bring it to audiences,' he says. 'I found an old journal from 2001 with a list of shows I'd love to do some day.' There are still some ideas without a checkmark beside them — monsters yet to be unleashed. A theatre troupe whose members came up together through the Manitoba Theatre for Young People is running it back where it all started for this year's fringe. After last year's cloning comedy House of Gold earned a spot on the short list for the Harry S. Rintoul Award for best new Manitoba play, Brighter Dark Theatre will stage its latest twisty offering at MTYP's mainstage (Venue 21), where just over a decade ago they bonded during young-company productions of Legally Blonde and The Pirates of Penzance. Starring Thomas McLeod, Dane Bjornson and Alanna MacPherson, with their former teacher Teresa Thomson directing, Third Party is 'MTYP all the way down,' says McLeod, who wrote the script. But the story isn't exactly child's play. Inspired in part from a real-life vehicular collision experienced by the playwright, Third Party stars Bjornson as 'a himbo, alpha-male finance guy' who crashes the car belonging to his wily girl-boss partner (MacPherson, MTYP's Blue Beads and Blueberries), triggering a phone call with hard-boiled insurance adjuster Marty Fink (McLeod), who makes it his mission to poke holes in an already leaky relationship. 'He approaches his job like a Poirot, Columbo or Benoit Blanc,' says McLeod, who works by day as a legal writer and has a degree in English literature. Third Party is 'really influenced by Winnipeg's reputation for being car-dependent,' McLeod says. Brighter Dark's isn't the only production with a noirish hue: new local company Mad Tom Theatre's The Show Must Go On (Venue 3) follows a high school theatre group whose production of Macbeth is bedevilled by an incompetent detective and a cunning saboteur. From Australia, Racing Sloth Productions is stopping in with 2 Magic Rubies, 1 Private Eye: A Dirk Darrow Investigation, with magician Tim Motley (last year's Barry Potter) bringing his psychic detective back to the fringe with a tale based on a story by Dashiell Hammett. Sundays Kevin Rollason's Sunday newsletter honouring and remembering lives well-lived in Manitoba. Ben WaldmanReporter Ben Waldman is a National Newspaper Award-nominated reporter on the Arts & Life desk at the Free Press. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Ben completed three internships with the Free Press while earning his degree at Ryerson University's (now Toronto Metropolitan University's) School of Journalism before joining the newsroom full-time in 2019. Read more about Ben. Every piece of reporting Ben produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
ABC News
15-07-2025
- Business
- ABC News
Property prices in Gladstone rebound after bust
Proximity to beaches, a bigger house and a pool, without the premium city price tag. That was what inspired Brisbane mortgage broker Stevie Gera to pack up her family and move to the industrial city of Gladstone in central Queensland. "To achieve that anywhere remotely close to Brisbane, we would be needing to increase the mortgage by a good $300–400,000 to get what we wanted, and we weren't willing to do that," Ms Gera said. The median house price in Gladstone, a city known for its boom-and-bust cycles, has risen by more than 74 per cent in the past five years, according to Cotality data supplied to the Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ). Its most recent quarterly data from March revealed the annual median house price was $520,000, while units now fetched $335,000. That is an increase of more than 97 per cent for units since 2020. In 2012, Gladstone was undergoing an LNG (liquefied natural gas) construction boom, and property prices soared. But the work dried up, and by 2018 most homes were selling at a loss. It fuelled the perception of Gladstone as a boom-and-bust city, and some banks still consider it a high-risk lending location, subjecting borrowers to stricter lending conditions. However, Ms Gera said she had noticed through her work as a broker that this was shifting. "A lot of them [lenders] have taken Gladstone off that high-risk postcode register and they just see it as any other location," she said. Alicia Williams has sold homes in the region for more than a decade. "Gladstone's always been a boom-and-bust town, until I would say just before COVID it started to find its own feet and it started to find a sustainable path forward," she said. "We've got a lot of different industry now, which has been diversified over the years." Ms Williams said in her agency in June, the average four-bedroom two-bathroom home was selling for about $580,000. She said in the past two years, there was also significant interest from interstate investors, especially from Sydney and Melbourne. REIQ zone chair for Gladstone Celina Solis is a fourth-generation local who lived through the region's tumultuous crash. She said seeing the area thriving once more was heartwarming. It is a similar situation in other regional centres across Queensland, with significant growth in Bundaberg, Rockhampton and Townsville. "All these regional cities are going so well because more people are realising, 'Hey, I can come here and work and get a really good job … get a property with a shed, pool, four or five bedrooms for a reasonable price point,'" Ms Solis said. She said for Gladstone, people were attracted to the family-friendly lifestyle and the draw of well-paid jobs. Ms Gera and her husband chose Gladstone because they already had an investment property there, so they had visited before and liked the region. Her three children, aged six, eight and 16, were initially apprehensive, but she said the slower pace and larger family home had been life-changing. However, Ms Gera said prospective buyers should consider their health care needs before moving. South Gladstone resident Tracey Mullens agreed. She bought in the city after finding it impossible to find a rental in Brisbane with a yard for her children and wheelchair accessibility for her husband. "We started looking and the circle kept getting bigger and bigger until we got to Gladstone," Ms Mullens said. She said while moving was a necessity at the time, her family struggled to find reliable support workers, and it was a challenge to travel for health care. Ms Mullens said she planned to move back to outer Brisbane when it was financially possible.
See - Sada Elbalad
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- See - Sada Elbalad
Kenneth Branagh, Lily Gladstone Added to Cast for "The Thomas Crown Affair" Remake
Yara Sameh Academy Award winner Kenneth Branagh and Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone have joined Michael B. Jordan in Amazon MGM's reimagining of the heist thriller "The Thomas Crown Affair." Additionally, Charles Roven has come aboard to produce the movie via his Atlas Entertainment banner. The veteran producer was behind last year's remake of "Road House" for the studio. Jordan is not only starring in the heist feature but also directing as well as producing it with his Outlier Society banner. The company's Elizabeth Raposo is also producing. The original Thomas Crown, made by United Artists in 1968, starred Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway and involved a man who organizes bank robberies for sport but meets his match when he falls for (or maybe not) the insurance investigator hot on his tail. The 1999 remake starred Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo. Sources say the action of the reimagining is taking place in Europe while still keeping the art thieving theme. Production begun Monday in London, and the project just added Black Panther star Danai Gurira to its call sheet. Taylor Russell is also in the cast. Jordan is playing the billionaire with the art-loving sticky fingers, while Gurira will play Jordan's confidante, and Russell is the suave private detective. Character details for Gladstone and Branagh are being kept under the umbrella. Amazon MGM has set a March 5, 2027, theatrical release for the romantic thriller. Drew Pearce wrote the script for "Thomas Crown" after a previous draft was written by Wes Tooke and Justin Britt-Gibson, which was based on the original movie. Patrick McCormick and Toberoff Productions' Marc Toberoff will also serve as producers. Alan Trustman, who wrote the original 1968 movie, is an executive producer. Branagh won the Oscar in 2022 for original screenplay for his film personal drama "Belfast", which also earned him nominations for directing and for best picture. He already had five previous Oscar nominations under his belt. As an actor, he appeared in Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" and will next be seen opposite Ryan Reynolds in "Mayday". Gladstone became the first Native American to be nominated for an Academy Award for best actress, thanks to her starring role opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon". The role also earned her the 2023 Golden Globe for best actress in a drama motion picture, the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Award for female actor in a leading role, best actress of 2023 by the New York Film Critics Circle, and the National Board of Review. Gladstone appeared in Hulu's limited series "Under The Bridge" in another role that earned her various accolades, an Emmy, SAG, and Indie Spirit Award nominations among them. She can currently be seen in Andrew Ahn's "The Wedding Banquet" for Bleecker Street. read more New Tourism Route To Launch in Old Cairo Ahmed El Sakka-Led Play 'Sayidati Al Jamila' to Be Staged in KSA on Dec. 6 Mandy Moore Joins Season 2 of "Dr. Death" Anthology Series Don't Miss These Movies at 44th Cairo Int'l Film Festival Today Amr Diab to Headline KSA's MDLBEAST Soundstorm 2022 Festival Arts & Culture Mai Omar Stuns in Latest Instagram Photos Arts & Culture "The Flash" to End with Season 9 Arts & Culture Ministry of Culture Organizes four day Children's Film Festival Arts & Culture Canadian PM wishes Muslims Eid-al-Adha News Israeli-Linked Hadassah Clinic in Moscow Treats Wounded Iranian IRGC Fighters News China Launches Largest Ever Aircraft Carrier Sports Former Al Zamalek Player Ibrahim Shika Passes away after Long Battle with Cancer Videos & Features Tragedy Overshadows MC Alger Championship Celebration: One Fan Dead, 11 Injured After Stadium Fall Lifestyle Get to Know 2025 Eid Al Adha Prayer Times in Egypt Business Fear & Greed Index Plummets to Lowest Level Ever Recorded amid Global Trade War News Flights suspended at Port Sudan Airport after Drone Attacks News "Tensions Escalate: Iran Probes Allegations of Indian Tech Collaboration with Israeli Intelligence" Videos & Features Video: Trending Lifestyle TikToker Valeria Márquez Shot Dead during Live Stream Technology 50-Year Soviet Spacecraft 'Kosmos 482' Crashes into Indian Ocean
West Australian
04-07-2025
- Business
- West Australian
Green hydrogen powers back up with major funding
A major green hydrogen project has secured federal backing days after one of the biggest proposals to produce the clean fuel fell over. The Commonwealth financial support for the Hunter Valley facility will allow it to make the switch from hydrogen made with gas, a fossil fuel, to renewable energy. Funding of $432 million for the Orica facility was allocated under the federal government's Hydrogen Headstart program, which provides credits for the manufacture of the clean fuel. The $2 billion grant program, delivered by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, aims to build scale across green hydrogen production and so drive down costs over time. Australia wants to become a global leader in green hydrogen to power heavy industry and long-haul trucks, and to produce green metals such as iron - all key to meeting global decarbonisation targets and tackling climate change. But the fledgling sector has struggled to find its feet. One of the biggest proposals in the nation, Gladstone's $14 billion Central Queensland Hydrogen Project (CQ-H2), was officially scrapped this week after the state government withdrew its support. Federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen acknowledged the headwinds faced by the renewable hydrogen industry but said his government was rising to the challenge. "It's in the hard basket, not the too hard basket," he told reporters on Friday. The failed Gladstone project was a disappointment, Mr Bowen said, pointing a finger at the Queensland government rather than private sector investors. Queensland Treasurer David Janetzki has described the Gladstone project as "speculative in nature" and said he "didn't want to see the precious taxpayer dollar tipped into it". The federal incentives for the Hunter Valley project will go towards a 50 MW electrolyser powered by renewable energy on the Kooragang Island site, capable of producing about 4700 tonnes of green hydrogen each year to support regional jobs in low-carbon industries. Hydrogen is used to make ammonia, important in fertiliser production, so the shift to a clean fuel will allow Orica to cut emissions from its ammonia facilities. It will also open the region to opportunities to export clean hydrogen and ammonia. Clean Energy Council general manager of advocacy and investment Anna Freeman applauded the government's commitment to getting "complex and challenging" renewable hydrogen projects off the ground. "We urgently need to drive down the cost of this renewable fuel to support Australia's decarbonisation plans," Ms Freeman said.
