gstar28 casino login NoneSimon Harris swaps politics for dad duties as he gets in Christmas spiritNioka Steakhouse is opening at 1 Honeysuckle Drive next week. Login or signup to continue reading Friday, December 13, owner Michael Hope, of Hope Estate, confirmed yesterday. The menu has been released, and it's an impressive one. Starters include olives and Guindilla peppers with grissini, chicken liver pate with Borettane onions and crusty bread, and duck and pistachio terrine. Small plates? Think bresaola with tomato, horseradish, beetroot, pistachio crumb, saffron mayo and pecorino romano; seared scallops with cauliflower cream, chorizo crumb, salmon roe and smoked extra virgin olive oil; prawn and white fish cappelletti with lobster bisque; and Sicilian-style grilled octopus with olives, potato, tomato and chilli, to name a few. Large plates include the braised Angus beef tortelloni with pancetta, carrot, sage and beef stock reduction; oven-baked spatchcock with charred baby capsicum, pumpkin puree, chimichurri and stock reduction; a 12-hour smoked beef brisket with colcannon potato, heirloom tomato, chorizo compote and red wine jus; a fillet of Aquna Murray cod with pasta fregola, tomato, lobster bisque and braised fennel; duo of duck breast and confit leg Sheppard's pie with celeriac, baby pear and black truffle jus gras; and a range of vegetarian and "from the garden" options. Hope Estate executive chef Anthony Fullerton has a keen interest in dry-aged beef and has been working with the Hope family to develop their Black Angus cattle. Michael Hope's son, Jonno, turned his attention to cattle farming in 2019 to utilise the spent grain from the family's brewery. The business soon branched out to the 530-hectare Nioka Farm, located at the foothills of the Barrington Tops in the Upper Hunter Valley. The cattle are grass-fed on the farm and then transported to the pastures adjacent to Hope Estate at Pokolbin, where they spend 120 days being fed spent grain from Hope Estate's brewery and distillery production. Prime cuts are then dry-aged in Hope's custom-made dry-ageing facility. The steakhouse was originally meant to open at Hope at Honeysuckle (Newcastle's former maritime centre) but has instead found a home at the former Hope Estate at The Landing. If visitors ask me where they should eat while they are in Newcastle, Nagisa Japanese Restaurant always gets a mention. The quality of the food, the extensive wine list, the friendly and professional service, the consistency ... it makes for a memorable dining experience. Last month the Yamba family hosted a celebratory 20 th anniversary lunch at Nagisa (which spilled over into their neighbouring Honeysuckle restaurant, Âpé Yakitori Bar). There was a Taiko drum performance and a large sake barrel, and the many guests were served a selection of 20 canapes to represent each of the 20 years the restaurant has been open. To the Yamba family and Nagisa staff past and present, congratulations on two decades of dining excellence in Newcastle. I heard from Rob Fonti last week, letting me know his Belmont restaurant, Salina, is still open for business (despite being on the market). It also has a new summer menu. New dishes include the homemade chocolate gelato, Pina Colada gelato and mango granita; lamb loin fillet with spinach, roast capsicum, goat's cheese, pear and lentil salad, broccolini and walnut salsa; fish of the day fillet with prawn, asparagus, peas, feta and risoni salad and sun-dried tomato tapenade; and the buffalo mozzarella with prosciutto, peach, avocado, pomegranate and grilled ciabatta. You can drop by for a Prosecco and a pizza in the rear garden courtyard, too. Rob says there has been "a good amount of interest and a couple of close offers, but not enough to seal the deal". The restaurant is listed for sale through Raine and Horne Newcastle. Teppanyaki fun I stopped by Fukusui Japanese Teppanyaki Restaurant at Warners Bay last week for a birthday dinner, having previously dined there a decade or more ago, and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The restaurant relies on word of mouth, and it's obviously working. It was sold out on a Tuesday night. The chef was in fine form at the grill, flicking scrambled egg here and there and spinning utensils at his hip like a Wild West cowboy, entertaining us with his facial expressions alone. Kids love it, and the food is very good. Try the plum-flavoured jelly sparkling wine in a can. It's an interesting experience. The Oceane Hotel is opening at 29 Honeysuckle Drive "soon", according to its social media pages. Details are hard to come by. 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There's another Kelce about to enter the mediasphere. Kylie Kelce is starting a podcast. On Monday, Kelce, the wife of former Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman and current ESPN analyst Jason Kelce, announced she is starting a new show, "Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce," which will debut on Thursday, December 5. Produced by Wave Sports and Entertainment, which also produces the popular "New Heights" podcast featuring Jason and Travis Kelce, "Not Gonna Lie" will drop new episodes every Thursday. "Listen, I'm just as shocked as you that I'm starting a podcast, but if everyone's going to be talking about me and my family, you might as well hear it from me." Kelce said in the YouTube trailer for her show. We're so used to seeing Jason and Travis in the spotlight, and Kylie and Donna Kelce, the brothers' mom, have also been increasingly in the public eye since last year. That's not to mention Taylor Swift. The reactions to Kylie Kelce's announcement contained a mix of congratulations and people complaining that another Kelce was going to be talking to them. NBC/Getty Images "I am obsessed with the fact that Kylie Kelce is making her own podcast cause she got so annoyed with people talking about her family and decided 'fine. We can talk, but you'll hear it from the source. so shut up.' GO QUEEN @nglwithkylie ," one person said . "Riding the coat tails of her husband.... Not cool," a second person countered. "You guys sound bitter. Good for her! There’s this novel idea that I’ve come up with.. if you don’t want to hear her or the Kelces anymore, don’t listen," another person said. "Just have her replace @tkelce couldn’t be more annoying!" said someone who is apparently not fond of Travis. "Love it!!!" a fifth person added. While we're happy for Kylie, we also want to acknowledge this isn't the most important announcement she's made lately. Over the weekend, she and Jason announced they were expecting their fourth child, a girl. Their previous three children were also girls. Related: Jason Kelce's Wife, Kylie, Announces Business Move

Minnesota hunters registered 120,675 deer after the third weekend of the firearms deer season, up 6% from 2023, but down 4% from the five-year mean, or average, the Department of Natural Resources reported Tuesday, Nov. 26. Deer Season A opened Saturday, Nov. 9, and ended Nov. 17 in 200- and 300-series deer permit areas (DPAs) and continued through Nov. 24 in 100-series DPAs, which are mainly in the northern and northeastern part of the state. ADVERTISEMENT The Season B firearms deer season in 300-series DPAs opened Nov. 23 and continues through Sunday, Dec. 1. The firearms deer harvest by region after 16 days was as follows: According to Todd Froberg, big game program coordinator for the DNR at Whitewater Wildlife Management Area in Altura, Minnesota, the harvest really only increased in the Northwest, Northeast and Central regions during the rest of the 16-day season and then in the B season in the southeast part of the state. The 200-series DPAs only had the nine-day season, and there is only one DPA in the southwest region open during the ongoing B season, Froberg said. The cumulative harvest to date, which includes archery, firearm, early antlerless, youth and special hunts, was 153,390 deer, the DNR said. That’s up 3% from 2023, but down 6% from the five-year average and down 8% from the 10-year average. Cumulative tallies by region were as follows: In related deer hunting news, Minnesota archery hunters as of Tuesday had harvested 23,047 deer, Froberg said, up 12% from last year. Crossbows, which are legal for all archery hunters in Minnesota, are making up a greater percentage of the archery harvest, Froberg says. ADVERTISEMENT “Crossbows are making up 47% of (the) archery harvest,” he said. “For crossbow-specific harvest, we are up 24% compared to last year’s crossbow harvest. Vertical bow harvest is up 4% compared to last year’s vertical bow harvest.” Minnesota’s muzzleloader opens Saturday, Nov. 30, and continues through Sunday, Dec. 15. Archery season continues through Dec. 31. The DNR posts regular harvest updates, both statewide and by DPA, on its website at dnr.state.mn.us/mammals/deer/management/statistics.html.TAMPA, Fla.—A Florida engineer was given a four-year prison term for helping the Chinese regime collect intelligence on Chinese dissidents, such as practitioners of the persecuted faith Falun Gong. The man, Li Ping, is a naturalized U.S. citizen who had worked for Verizon for 30 years. He had acted on behalf of a Chinese intelligence official in the United States for more than a decade, according to court filings. In addition to the prison sentence, U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday also granted prosecutors’ request for a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release. “It’s bitterly disappointing and upsetting to American citizens” that someone would come from a foreign country that’s a hostile power, take advantage of things such as the U.S. public school system, and then work with that hostile power, Merryday said at the hearing. Li’s lawyer, Daniel Fernandez, in part, blamed the Chinese intelligence official for using Li for the illegal acts, saying that his client felt “betrayed.” Li attended high school and college in China before coming to the United States three decades ago. While in high school, he befriended a student who later became a Ministry of State Security officer, according to a filing that his lawyer submitted. The two kept in touch over the years and met whenever Li visited his family in China. The officer, along with others from the ministry, took care of Li’s mother at his request. Through the officer, Li became acquainted with a second officer from the ministry, a connection that led to requests that crossed the legal line, according to court documents. One of his earliest tasks involved tracking a lawsuit that Falun Gong practitioners planned to mount against Chinese state officials. Six days later, in August 2012, Li wrote back thanking the officer for his help during Li’s China trip a month prior, then shared biographical details of a lawyer in St. Petersburg, Florida, who had written for a Falun Gong-related blog, prosecutors said. Li told the officer that the attorney had lent his wife Falun Gong books, the filings state. Prosecutors noted that Falun Gong practitioners “both in China and abroad are of particular interest to the PRC [People’s Republic of China] government because of Falun Gong’s advocacy of ideas deemed subversive to the PRC government.” In the following two years, Li supplied information about two Israeli authors of a Falun Gong children’s book and a Falun Gong practitioner in California who had protested in the state’s Chinese Consulate. The officers also sought training applications that Verizon used for new employees, publicly available information regarding several politicians, and surveillance and hacking technologies, court filings show. Prosecutors said the Chinese intelligence officials also asked Li about the U.S. government’s wiretapping capabilities, telling him they needed the information to learn how to bypass U.S. companies’ cybersecurity defenses. One of the most recent instances cited was dated in June 2022. But even if Li could find the information through open source, the prosecutors said, it was nevertheless valuable given the internet restrictions in China. Further, Li’s Chinese handlers “simply may not understand how to find property, vehicle, or other information about U.S. persons,” they wrote in a memo that described Li’s actions as a “willful, decade-long criminal conduct.” As a “cooperative contact,” they wrote, Li had “aided Chinese intelligence services in both undermining the United States and suppressing political dissent.” The judge at the hearing sided with prosecutors in issuing a heavier sentence to deter future would-be actors. Li, who has a net worth of around $5.5 million with 12 rental properties and more than $30,000 in passive income each month, had made a calculation in doing what he did, and the exact consequences are still not known, Merryday said. He made the analogy of “shooting into a crowd of people but turning your head away when pulling the trigger.” “It’s astounding that you did this at all,” Merryday said. Li’s lawyer, after the hearing, said the outcome was “disappointing” but that he was “not surprised.” “I can’t defend his conduct,” he told The Epoch Times, but he insisted that Li hadn’t transmitted anything significantly harmful. The prosecutors rejected the argument. The Chinese authorities are using a “death by 1,000 cuts approach” against the United States, Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Marcet said at the hearing. The Chinese regime “is not going to show all its cards,” he said, but Li was a small piece of the puzzle—he was playing a part. Merryday has ordered Li to voluntarily surrender himself to the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Florida’s Sumter County by Jan. 8, 2025. 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Arkansas receiver Andrew Armstrong said Tuesday that he is entering the NFL Draft. Later in the day, a school spokesman told reporters that Armstrong will skip the Razorbacks' bowl game. The destination isn't yet known. Armstrong led the Southeastern Conference in both receptions (78) and receiving yards (1,140) but caught just one touchdown in 11 games this season. His catches and yardage were both second-most in Arkansas history behind Cobi Hamilton, who had 90 receptions for 1,335 yards in 2012. "It's been a journey for the books and I wouldn't trade it for anything because it has made me into the man I am today," Armstrong said of his Razorbacks tenure in a social media post. "... I will never forget all the moments that were shared here in Fayetteville." Armstrong played two seasons at Texas A&M-Commerce before transferring to Arkansas ahead of the 2023 season. In two seasons with the Razorbacks, he caught 134 passes for 1,904 yards and six scores. --Field Level Media

An influencer and her husband were arrested after they tried to hire a couple to kill an internet rival. Though her husband was acquitted, the influencer received the maximum sentencing. In October 2024, social media influencer Ashley Grayson received 10 years in prison for murder-for-hire. In August 2022, the 35-year-old asked a woman, whom she had worked with before, to fly to Dallas to discuss a “business opportunity.” The next month, the woman and her husband flew in to meet with Grayson. The influencer and her husband then propositioned the couple to kill her ex-boyfriend, an internet rival, and a woman who had criticized Grayson online. At the time, she offered the couple $20,000 for each murder. On September 10, 2022, the woman Grayson had hired recorded a video call in which the influencer confirmed that she wanted her internet rival killed immediately. She even offered an extra $5,000 for the killing to be done within a week. Grayson’s tension with her internet rival, who resides in Mississippi, began in 2021 after she started an online business that was similar to Grayson’s. Grayson ineligible for parole In July 2023, a grand jury indicted Grayson and her husband for the murder-for-hire plot. Though her husband was acquitted, Grayson was found guilty. In October 2024, the influencer was sentenced to the maximum penalty and received 10 years in prison. Once free, she’ll have three years of supervised release. Since her case was federal, she will not be eligible for parole. Attorney Reagan Fondren said in a statement that although it was fortunate nobody was hurt, the case was the result of a ‘senseless rivalry.’ “This was a twenty-first century crime where online feuds and senseless rivalries bled into the real world,” Fondren said. “The defendant tried to hire someone to murder a woman over things that happened exclusively on the internet. Related: “Fortunately, no one was physically hurt in this case, but the victim and her family still felt a severe and emotional impact as the result of the defendant’s actions. The proactive response from the investigating agencies and our prosecutors prevented an even more serious crime from occurring.” Just recently, a YouTuber was also arrested after she attempted to murder a rival . Though the victim survived, the YouTuber watched him bleed and told him, “I’ll just wait for you to die.”

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