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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Shreveport drummer Hoffman returning as a member of Primus
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — John Hoffman is proof that you can go home again. The Shreveport drummer is returning home now as the drummer for the legendary rock band Primus. Shreveport drummer prepares for dream audition Formed in 1984, Primus has long been a staple of the rock scene. Famous for songs like 'My Name Is Mud' and 'Jerry Was a Racecar Driver,' Primus found their own niche and multiple Grammy Award nominations to go with it. It was hard at times, but not metal and clearly not grunge. Bassist/vocalist Les Claypool described the band's music as 'psychedelic polka.' The band was so unique that, for a time, its genre title was simply 'Primus.' In October 2024, Primus drummer Tim 'Herb' Alexander abruptly left the band, stating he 'lost his passion for playing,' according to Stereogum. The band began searching for a new drummer with a national search via YouTube submissions. Over 6,200 drummers auditioned. Those auditionees were whittled down to two: Gergo Borlai and Shreveport's John Hoffman, with Hoffman getting the nod. More Entertainment news Hoffman is primarily known in the Shreveport music scene for his over 10-year stint as the drummer for local band Dirtfoot. Now, he returns as the drummer for one of the most influential bands of the late 1980s and early 1990s, being cited as an influence for bands like Korn, the Deftones, and Incubus. Hoffman already got a taste of life on the road with Primus, opening for A Perfect Circle since April 24. That tour concludes on June 7. The band then starts their first headlining tour with Hoffman on the drum kit on July 5, with a return home on July 29 at the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Market Online
22-05-2025
- Business
- The Market Online
Turning Plastic Waste into a Commercial-Grade Renewable Green Condensate
PlasCred Circular Innovations is turning plastic garbage into a commercial-grade product — and doing it in a way that challenges how we think about recycling. Lyndsay Malchuk recently caught up with President and CEO Troy Lupul, to spotlight the who, what and how it's all possible. The following is a transcription of the above video, and The Market Online has edited it for clarity . Lyndsay: The first question is, you know, your tech turns mixed plastic waste, really the things that nobody wants, into something petrochemical giants are eyeing. Now, is this just better PR for plastic or are you actually changing the game? Troy: No, we are a real game changer. What we primarily focused on in the beginning for the evolution of plastic credits, which is PlasCred, what we wanted to do is focus on plastic that will never be recycled. Stuff that'll definitely land in the landfill or incinerated or god forbid, the ocean. So, what we've been able to do is focus in on plastics that were just basically difficult, like your Tesla dashboard, your pen, your glasses, your medical waste. We really focused in on things that were not being recycled. So, it is a game changer. Lyndsay: Your process converts up to 80% of landfill bound plastics into renewable green condensate. So why hasn't anyone else done this and what's stopping the oil majors from just copying you? Troy: Well, that's a simple question. Most majors like Shell and Exxon and some of the bigger producers that make plastic as well as do crack ethane, they're not aggregators of plastic. They're not garbage people. They're not going to go out and do dumpster diving and chase. It's not in their mandate or their core competency. So realistically, they build refining capabilities. They're not into, even though they make the virgin feedstock, plastic, they're not aggregators of plastic. And that's where we've created a huge gap between the oil and gas world and the plastic world. Lyndsay: Why don't we talk about your pilot. The, the Primus pilot has been running for two years now. So what have you learned and really what steps are the next steps to scaling the operation? Troy: That's one of the expertise because we are, you know, our DNA is hydrocarbons and we're in Calgary and we've got a lot of phenomenal talent here. What we've been able to achieve is what I'm going to say, a very large pilot plant that's very scalable. And what we wanted to do is de-risk it for the investment community, is to allow ourselves to build a big enough pilot plant, which we call Primus, and then be able to scale it to the 500 barrels a day, which will be our next phase. Lyndsay: Let's talk CN Railroads, they don't usually bet on early stage cleantech, so what's the real value proposition you sold them on and really how critical is this partnership to scaling nationally? Troy: Well, when we look at plastics as a whole in North America we needed to have a backbone. And we took a page out of Jeff Bezos, logistics, logistics, logistics. And one of the unique features about CN, it's really driven by them, is the fact that, as you know, in North America, most of our goods come from the west coast, go to Chicago, go to Toronto, and there's a lot of empty sea container boxes sitting there as liabilities sitting in these yards doing nothing. So what we wanted to do is take advantage of that backhaul, and this is a crown jewel in our story. We have a competitive advantage to get huge volumes of feedstock in these empty sea containers and backhaul them. Instead of hauling an empty sea container back to Vancouver or Prince Rupert or to Newport Beach, we can actually fill it up with waste plastic, bring it to the best place in the world, which is Fort Saskatchewan to face change that feedstock into a renewable molecule. And that's a huge back haul story for CN. So CN has a been a phenomenal champion of us and we couldn't build this big of a plant without them. So, we're super excited for them as a partner. Lyndsay: You've recently actually also signed a five year agreement with a global commodities company. Now, Troy, that's big, but what happens if they like your product and they don't like your price? Are you building a business model or just hoping for a buyout? Troy: No, we are here for the long term. We have built a molecule, a renewable molecule that is repurposed back. And that's one of the things that we're doing differently, is that we are creating a renewable molecule. And by creating a renewable molecule, it can go into all these petrochemical companies around North America. We're building it and we're not making transportation fuel. We're not doing anything silly like that. All we're doing is taking the worst grade of plastic efficiently, bringing it back and taking advantage of the billions of dollars worth of infrastructure in North America that's already built and repurposing that molecule to basically go back into making other building blocks of plastic. So think of it as advanced chemical recycling. Advanced recycling that is done at a large scale, takes advantage of a huge problem. The future looks incredibly bright for us. We're super excited about building our first phase, which is Neos 500 barrel a day system. Lyndsay: This is such an innovative thing that you've done, and I'm really actually truly surprised that no one's thought about this before. The simple things like the highlighter we use, like you said, the pen, the parts of the EV cars or whatever that nobody's thinking about what happens after. Troy: The carpet you're walking on right now, your television set, these are the things that we as a human species consume every day for plastics. And I know governments are trying, but we are the real outlet. Like we needed to create this advanced recycling capability because we could throw all the legislation at it you want, and straws well, that's pretty simplified. I mean, that really doesn't move the needle. The real plastics are the things that don't get caught. We're talking like medical waste. We're talking agricultural waste. We're talking things that are ending up in the ocean. And if you look at it, we are a type of species that needs plastic. Our planes are made from it. Our cars, our computers, our lifestyle. So we need to come in with a real advanced and basically we're all we're doing is we're taking and pushing away the virgin feedstock. So instead of drilling, fracking and going after that virgin feedstock that the petrochemical companies need, we're basically offsetting that virgin feed stock, which gives a reduction in CO2 by about 92%. So that's a real impact that I can actually show you physically and also show you what we're redoing for a renewable molecule. Lyndsay: I know that we just have a little bit of time left, but we spoke a little bit about this last time off camera. I want to know what got you into this. Troy: My background is water treatment, and when I got into doing what is called removing microplastics from water, what I couldn't understand was the reject stream or basically once you remove the plastic, it went back into the water again. So why would you clean the water and send it back? And one of the things, using my own funds, I went around the world and I couldn't figure out why this was not working. And what you saw in life is that people think that you can grind plastic and reuse it. It doesn't work that way when you have cross contamination because there's so many species of plastic. So when you're sitting on a Boeing plane or an Airbus, the back of that seat plastic is so much different than your pen. Your computer screen is much different than what you have as a kid's toy. So, when you co-mingle those species of plastic, they're unrecyclable, they're just too much to sort out and grind. Whereas what we've done is we've basically have created a funnel where we can take all species of plastics no matter what we use on terra firma, and we can put that back to original Mother Earth molecule. And that happened because we've got the skillset here. We've got this incredible talent pool in our own country and in Alberta where we build these complex refineries. And a lot of it leads to, what I would say is much more complicated problems like taking sulfur out of gas, Sag-D thermal. So we took all those talents and we applied it to this problem, and that's why we've been so successful compared to anybody else in the world. A lot of petrochemical companies want a renewable molecule. They have an ethical choice. If I'm going to make billions of tons of plastic and sell it to, Ford, GM, all the automotive, medical, I need a recycling story. But I can't do that with mechanical guys. They're not big enough and the logistics isn't there. Here we've got a backbone with CN, and now we can create a renewable molecule that takes advantage of North America's infrastructure, which is billions of dollars worth of refining capacity that can offset virgin feed stock and repurpose it back into plastic again. So, think of me as an above ground oil company. I'm drilling into an above ground oil field. Lyndsay: So perfectly put. Now, you've listened, you've experienced things firsthand, and then you built that bridge, which is such a huge step for you. And I'm so happy that you were able to come on and just break this all down for us, literally. Troy: Thank you. And the goal here is we're we've got a good team. We've got good pedigree in this. We've all been into the bigger projects, but I'm super excited about this company because it does make an impact. You can actually visually see it, you can actually see different species of plastic coming out of the ocean. We can two phase that back to a renewable molecule and that's what's really gratifying. Whereas, you know, other things are kind of greenwashing, whereas here it's got a really big impact. You can actually physically see it. You can PlasCred Circular Innovations Inc. on the CSE under the ticker symbol PLAS and their website is Join the discussion: Find out what everybody's saying about this stock on the PlasCred Circular Innovations investor discussion forum, and check out the rest of Stockhouse's stock forums and message boards. 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Fashion Network
13-05-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Primus Partners releases strategy for Indian textile expansion to $100 billion in exports
India is capable of scaling its textile exports to over $100 billion within the next five years, according to management consulting firm Primus Partners' new comprehensive strategy report. The report highlights a mix of infrastructure development, labour skilling, and export diversification as key enablers for growth. The strategy proposes expanding industry capacity, promoting free trade agreements, and adopting 'Industry 4.0' to cut operational waste by around 15%, Apparel Resources India reported. It also recommends enhancing competitiveness through targeted subsidies and positioning India as a global sourcing hub amid shifting global trade alignments. In the 2025 financial year, India exported textiles worth over $36.6 billion. Primus noted that increasing the share of skilled workers to 50% will be critical and can be achieved by setting up specialised training centres across key textile clusters, especially in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities. The firm also emphasised the need to focus on technical textiles to expand India's global market share. The report identifies the textile industry as a driver of economic growth and calls for government support in scaling value-added production, improving supply chain efficiency, and adapting to changing global tariffs. If implemented effectively, the strategy could significantly strengthen India's position in the global textile market, according to Primus Partners.
Otago Daily Times
05-05-2025
- Health
- Otago Daily Times
Holy Cross celebrations
Priests and students gather outside Holy Cross College, a Catholic theological seminary in Mosgiel. - Otago Witness, 19.5.1925 COPIES OF PICTURE AVAILABLE FROM ODT FRONT OFFICE, LOWER STUART ST, OR The silver jubilee celebrations in connection with Holy Cross College, Mosgiel, were concluded yesterday. At 10am there was a solemn Mass of thanksgiving at the seminary, when all the visiting priests and prelates were present. The Mass was sung by Bishop Cleary (Auckland), and the assistant priest was Father Woods (Lawrence). The deacon was Father T. Hanrahan (Christchurch), and the sub-deacon Father Kilmeek (Marton). The music was provided by the choir of the college, and the ceremony was carried out with great solemnity. Altogether, there were 60 priests present, whilst all the students participated. How to avoid death During the past 50 years in New Zealand there has been a considerable decrease in the death rate. This decrease occurred mainly in younger years. Middle life remained much the same, while after 50 years of age the rate was greater. Amongst some of the reasons causing this decrease were increased medical knowledge; the prevention of the spread of infectious diseases; the work done among the young by the Health Department; and, finally, amongst infants in New Zealand, the work of the Karitane or Plunket Society. The three chief causes of death in later life were: heart, 20 percent; cancer, 8 percent; tuberculosis, 6 percent. These diseases were of gradual onset, and could be greatly helped, if not absolutely cured, if patients would seek advice early. Mayor tilts at Parliament Mr H.L. Tapley, Mayor of the City, has received numerous requests that he should offer himself as a candidate for Dunedin North at the general election this year, and he has now decided to comply with these requests. He will stand as an Independent Reform candidate, his view being that there should be a consolidation of the moderate political elements in the country in opposition to the extreme Labour Party. More night trains wanted At last night's meeting of the West Harbour Borough Council, Cr Fraser said he thought it was time that they had the 10.15pm train on Wednesday reinstated and also that a train was put on at 11.15 every night. During the war the 11.15 train had been taken off and, although a promise had been made that the train would be reinstated, that had never been done. Phone lines running hot The City Fire Brigade received a call at 9.45am yesterday to the new automatic telephone exchange in Dowling Street. It was found that an outbreak of fire had been caused by a Primus lamp which a workman was using on the cables in a pit underneath the two-storied concrete building. The flames were quickly suppressed with an ordinary hand extinguisher. The damage was very slight. Polio abating; still deadly The health authorities report that no further cases of infantile paralysis have been notified in the Otago health district since Thursday last. The continued improvement in the position indicates that the epidemic has at last run its course. For the past 48 hours only two notifications have been received — one from Christchurch and one from Southbridge. A Christchurch girl, 18 years of age, whose case was originally diagnosed as influenza, died after admission to the hospital. It was discovered that her case was one of infantile paralysis. — ODT, 6.5.1925 (Compiled by Peter Dowden)
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Yahoo
Metal band guitarist killed in police standoff in California
(KRON) — A gunman killed in a standoff with South San Francisco police earlier this week has been identified as the founding guitarist of the influential death metal band Possessed. Police said the gunman was Brian Montana, aged 60. On Monday, authorities said Montana became involved in a standoff with South San Francisco PD around 5:50 p.m. on the 300 block of Arroyo Drive. Over the next 25 minutes, the suspect armed himself with three different types of firearms (handgun, shotgun, and rifle) and fired at officers from different locations within the driveway while seeking cover and concealment using vehicles in the driveway and landscaping. Officers used police vehicles as cover and returned fire. Officers hit Montana in the shootout. He was pronounced dead at the scene. One resident said the incident stemmed from a dispute over tree trimmings falling into a neighbor's yard. Police haven't released information on what they believe sparked the confrontation. Montana was an original member of Possessed, a pioneering American death metal band. Although Montana left the band in 1985 — to be replaced by future Primus guitarist Larry LaLonde — the band confirmed his death in an Instagram post Wednesday. While Possessed's initial run was relatively short — they formed in 1983 and disbanded in 1987 — they are often referred to as the godfathers of death metal, according to AllMusic. After initially disbanding, Possessed has reformed on numerous occasions, most recently in 2017. 'Relations of Oblivion,' the band's first new music in decades, was released in 2019. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
